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In response, an adviser to London mayor Boris Johnson, Daniel Moylan, said if true, it is "sadly short-sighted".
Known as "Boris Island" because of Mr Johnson's backing, it was one option being considered by the Airports Commission on how to expand airport capacity in the UK.
An official announcement is expected on Tuesday.
"Airports policy has been stalled for nearly five decades, ricocheting like a billiard ball between Heathrow and Gatwick," said Mr Moylan, aviation adviser to Mr Johnson.
"We have only one opportunity to break out of that but it seems the Commission has taken us back to the same old failed choice."
He added that the final decision would rest with the government. "The key question now is whether the Airports Commission will play much of a role," he continued.
Earlier, the Financial Times reported that Whitehall sources had confirmed the "Boris Island" plan would be ruled out.
It would have led to the development of a four-runway airport on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary.
The commission, led by Sir Howard Davies, was set up by the government to consider ways of expanding the UK's airport capacity. Its final report is expected next summer, after the general election.
The decision to eliminate Boris Island as an option would leave the commission with three alternatives: Adding a third runway at Heathrow, lengthening an existing runway at Heathrow, and a new runway at Gatwick.
Sir Howard Davies' decision is unlikely to surprise many people.
A few months ago he told me that the Thames Estuary scheme had much higher hurdles to jump over than its competitors at Heathrow and Gatwick.
He said the construction challenge was "massive", and that he was concerned about the impact on the environment, the cost of getting 150m passengers to and from the site (you would have to build new roads and rail lines), and the effect it would have on Heathrow, which may have to close.
For several months now he has been analysing the detail and in the end he has decided it's not worth all that cash.
So now the focus is very much on Heathrow, which boasts two of the three schemes on the Airports Commission short-list.
Expanding Heathrow is a politically toxic idea. The whole point of setting up a Commission was to delay any decision until after the general election.
It's just possible that the politicians will be pressured into declaring a favourite before then.
"By excluding the Thames Estuary airport option, the Airports Commission has made the right choice on the basis of robust evidence", said Chris Richards from the manufacturers' organisation the EEF.
Before the decision about "Boris Island" emerged, the CBI business lobby group said that a single, larger-hub airport where passengers can transfer to a range of destinations was "critical" to the UK's long-term economic growth.
The CBI urged the commission to ensure its decision "maximised links across the UK" and made the "best use of existing capacity".
"While no-one can predict the future of air travel, the track record shows that it tends to be hub airports that deliver the new connections to emerging markets that we desperately need," said CBI deputy general Katja Hall.
Heathrow said this meant that the CBI backed its expansion but Gatwick said hub capacity could be achieved by switching some traffic to its airport, freeing up space at Heathrow.
The Anglian Sovereign covers Orkney and Shetland but was sent to shadow the escort of a cargo ship to Lewis after it ran aground on Monday night.
The incident came just days after the Western Isles' tug, Anglian Monarch, was withdrawn from coastguard duties.
Other UK emergency towing vessels were withdrawn last year.
In October, the UK government agreed to short extensions to the contracts for the hire of two vessels for Scotland following a campaign by local authorities and politicians.
The funding package for the Anglian Monarch ended at the weekend and at midnight for the Anglian Sovereign.
Talks are still going on between the UK government and the oil and gas industry about how future cover for the Northern Isles might be provided and funded.
Shetland Islands Council convener Sandy Cluness had described the withdrawal of the Anglian Sovereign without a deal being finalised as a "disgrace".
However, MP Alistair Carmichael has told BBC Scotland that the vessel will stay on duty to allow an agreement to be reached.
Lenford Whyte, 38, chased Jonathon Coulthurst, 36, after an argument at a Liverpool retail park on 22 August.
Mr Coulthurst, a rigger in the North Sea, now suffers physical problems and stress, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Whyte, of Goswell Street, Liverpool, was jailed for five and a half years after admitting wounding, possessing a bladed article and criminal damage.
The court heard words were exchanged between the pair as Whyte's vehicle approached a junction behind a car driven by Mr Coulthurst's partner - with the couple's seven-year-old son in the back.
Both men stepped out of their vehicles and "pushing and shoving" took place outside the Hunts Cross Shopping Centre, the court heard.
CCTV footage captured Whyte collecting the sword, with a 2ft blade, from his boot and running towards Mr Coulthurst.
He waved the sword in front of members of the public before inflicting a wound in Mr Coulthurst's chest.
Whyte then drove off and later dumped the sword near a block of flats.
On sentencing, Judge Foster said: "It was clear that you are the aggressor in the conversation and in the altercation, and of course then escalated matters by getting a very intimidating weapon, which you wielded with menacing effect and eventually used it to jab - really stab - the complainant in the chest."
Paul Wood, defending, said Whyte, who suffers from a "recurrent depressive disorder", had been a victim of assault himself in the past.
He said his client accepted his actions were "foolish" and he was "very sorry" for the attack.
The defendant had problems with cannabis use but it was not suggested as a cause of the offence.
The 30-year-old has been heavily linked with Hearts as the Tynecastle club's current head coach Robbie Neilson nears a move to MK Dons.
Cathro previously worked with Dundee United and Valencia and is now part of Benitez's backroom team at St James' Park.
"Ian is a great coach," said Benitez of the Scot.
"We don't have any official approach. We are happy with him and we will continue with that. He is a young coach, he has some experience and has a great future.
"The media is telling me Hearts will come, but it depends on the head coach they have at the moment if he goes or not. That is football. It is just speculation."
Neilson left Hearts' training ground on Thursday afternoon having met with the players and used an unusual tactic to evade the waiting media pack.
One of the backroom staff left the training ground wearing a Robbie Nielson mask before picking up the man himself around a corner.
Working under director of football Craig Levein, Neilson led the Tynecastle side to the Scottish Championship title and promotion in 2015. Their first season back in the top-flight ended with a third-placed finish and a place in the Europa League qualifiers.
And victory over Rangers on Wednesday took Hearts second in the Premiership.
Cathro, who never played at professional level, began working at Dundee United during Levein's reign at Tannadice.
He became the assistant manager of Portuguese club Rio Ave in 2012 and followed manager Nuno Espirito Santo to Valencia in 2014, helping to secure a fourth place La Liga finish in his one season in Spain.
Lubitz, 27, is suspected of deliberately crashing the plane in the Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Officials in Duesseldorf said the investigation to this point had revealed no clue to any motive.
So far, DNA strands of 80 of the victims have been found.
Duesseldorf public prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said that "several years" before Lubitz became a pilot he "had at that time been in treatment of a psychotherapist because of what is documented as being suicidal".
But he added: "In the following period, and until recently, further doctor's visits took place, resulting in sick notes without any suicidal tendencies or aggression against others being recorded."
No specific dates were given. Lubitz enrolled in training with Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings, in 2008 and became a pilot in 2013. He was diagnosed with a serious depressive episode in 2009 and received treatment for a year and a half, media reports say.
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Lufthansa said Lubitz's medical records were subject to doctor-patient confidentiality and it had not had any knowledge of their contents.
A spokeswoman for the German health ministry said doctors could break confidentiality if it was thought the patient represented a danger to other people.
Mr Kumpa added: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot said beforehand that he would do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession."
Mr Kumpa said: "We have not found anything in his surrounding [environment] - be it personal or his family or his professional surrounding - that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation."
There had been some media reports that Lubitz had problems with his vision, possibly a detached retina.
But Mr Kumpa said there was no documentation on any eyesight problems that were caused by an "organic illness".
There has also been widespread speculation about Lubitz's romantic life.
One unconfirmed report has suggested his long-term girlfriend was pregnant, while an ex-girlfriend revealed that he vowed last year to do something memorable.
"One day I'm going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember," she quoted him as saying.
Flight 4U 9525 crashed near the French Alpine village of Le Vernet on 24 March, flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
The cockpit voice recorder suggested Lubitz crashed the plane deliberately after locking pilot Patrick Sondenheimer out of the cockpit.
Capt Sondenheimer is heard banging on the door, screaming, "Open the damn door!"
The data recorder, which tracks the plane's altitude, speed and direction, has not yet been found.
Lufthansa board chairman Kay Kratky on Monday warned it may have been too badly damaged and may not be sending signals.
Bad weather has halted helicopter flights to the site, forcing investigators to get there on foot.
An access road to the remote site is being dug by a bulldozer to provide all-terrain vehicles with access to the area and could be completed by Monday evening.
A support centre for victims' families has been opened at a hotel in Marseille, from where Germanwings plans to provide counselling and visits to the crash site.
In Germany, a 100-strong task force is investigating the crash. While 50 police work on the murder inquiry, the others are obtaining DNA samples to help identify victims' remains.
An official memorial service for those on board flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf will be held on 17 April in Germany's most famous church - Cologne Cathedral - in the presence of President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The study, commissioned by Liverpool City Council, said the move from Goodison Park could take up to 50% of the 130-acre Walton Hall Park.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said the report is an independent investigation into the potential impact and "in no way a plan or an agreement".
Campaigners said the report ignored the "major" issue of traffic and parking.
A spokesperson for the Save Walton Hall Park group said "not a lot of the park will be left to improve" if 40 to 50% was lost to the stadium development.
Everton has been in talks with Liverpool City Council to collaborate on a new stadium since June 2013.
Mayor Anderson said: "I can state that, at this time, no plans have been presented to us by Everton FC, but clearly it would be irresponsible of us to allow anyone to come to us with any proposal, for anywhere in the city, without us first taking a full and in-depth look at the situation."
The feasibility study, conducted by consultancy firm Volterra Partners, said the proposed stadium could accommodate 50,000 fans and remaining green space "would be upgraded".
It reported 30,000 sq m (323,000 sq ft) of leisure and retail space could be created if Everton moved to the park, originally opened to the public in 1934.
The scheme could also include university facilities for sports, a school and a bigger health practice.
The study added current facilities could also be provided as part of the redevelopment, including the leisure centre, children's play area and sports pitches.
A Save Walton Hall Park spokesperson said
"We will have a generation of children who will never live and play in local parks and green space. They will live in a concrete jungle.
"The report looks good on paper [but] in the real community they do not always work."
The 41,000-capacity Goodison Park is one of the oldest football stadiums and has been the home of Everton since it opened in 1892.
Their local rivals Liverpool revealed plans in April to increase their stadium's capacity at Anfield from 45,500 to almost 59,000.
Police said the accident happened at about 12:10 on the A697 near to Greenlaw.
The man was badly hurt and has been taken to the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment.
Inquiries into the full circumstances of the incident are ongoing and anyone with information has been asked by police to come forward.
The Egypt Football Association (EFA) has awarded the points to Al Makasa, who arrived to play the game.
The EFA has added that it will also deduct three points from Zamalek at the end of the season.
The sanctions mean Zamalek are now in effect 27 points behind league leaders Al Ahly, who have a game in hand.
Security concerns meant that the game could not be played as originally planned on Saturday, which is Christian holiday in Egypt.
Both teams asked for the match be played in midweek as they felt it was also too soon after two Coptic Christian churches were attacked on 9 April.
However the EFA refused that request and scheduled the game for Sunday.
Zamalek's largest and most passionate supporters group the Ultras White Knights have released a statement on social media demanding Mansour's resignation.
They blame the chairman for the clubs problems and have asked fans, ex-players and everyone from Zamalek to 'save the club from Mansour'.
Fans of the club are disowning the club with one tweet saying "this is now Mansour and his sons' club and no longer Zamalek."
Another fan added "we need who stop this man and save our club."
Former Egypt international Mido, who also played and coached the club, is also concerned at what is happening at Zamalek.
"Fighting and winning is the only way to end your suffering, I can't understand why they wanted to postpone the match," he tweeted.
It is not the first time that Mansour has courted controversy.
In 2015 he withdrew the team from the league over referees before going back on that decision.
He also has a reputation for sacking coaches who fail to impress - none of the last five permanent bosses have lasted more than 17 matches.
Sunday's forfeited match should have been a second game in charge for Portuguese coach Augusto Inacio after losing his first on Monday 2-0 to Enppi.
The body was found at a property on Carlton Road, Bordesley Green, at about 23.30 BST on Friday.
The man is yet to be formally identified but police said he was believed to be a 34-year-old from the Yardley area, reported missing on Thursday.
They said they believed the 11 people arrested were known to the man.
They are: Five men aged 45, 33, 28, 24 and 23, four women aged 50, 41, 25 and 19 and two boys, both aged 15.
A post-mortem examination is yet to take place.
West Midlands Police called on anyone who saw the man's car - a white Toyota Yaris registration FM64 PHU - in and around Carlton Road in the last two days to come forward.
The car was found about a mile away in Adderley Road on Friday.
Det Insp Warren Hines said: "We are currently treating his death as suspicious and we took swift action to arrest 11 people at the scene - who we believe were known to the man - on suspicion of his murder."
Saturday's 1-0 loss at relegated Alloa means the Easter Road side have collected a mere four points from their last seven Championship games.
Falkirk, six points ahead in second place, visit on Tuesday.
"You look for responses and there's a lot of big characters in the dressing room and at times like this we need them to shine through," said Stubbs.
Stubbs said he was "surprised" by a "disappointing performance" at part-time Alloa, adding: "We need to move on very quickly.
"I'm glad we've got a big game that can pick us up."
The former Everton defender also insisted he would have no difficulty lifting his players for the match against Falkirk, who have played two more games in the league.
"The players have pride and that pride has been dented," Stubbs told BBC Scotland.
"But they know it's just a matter of time before it changes again.
"There's a lot of quality in the dressing room and that's what give me the confidence to know that as well losing a few games you can very easily win a few."
Hibs finished a distant second behind Hearts last year only to fall against this season's champions Rangers at the semi-final stage of the play-offs.
Failing to overhaul Falkirk would mean two legs against Raith Rovers, with the Bairns waiting in the semi-final to decide who meets the 11th-placed side from the Premiership.
"Obviously, we would like to finish second," said Stubbs. "How important that is, I don't think anyone can tell.
"We had it last year and it didn't necessarily point to us having a better opportunity to get promoted.
"Some will say not having that break can work in your favour and it's another chance to build momentum."
Hibs lost the League Cup final to Ross County last month and will be back at Hampden on Saturday for a Scottish Cup semi-final with Dundee United.
"Our priority is promotion," said Stubbs. "It has been from the beginning.
"But we have an opportunity to get to another major final. Our attention is on Falkirk first, then we look forward.
"I can't emphasise this strongly enough; we have, potentially, a very exciting end to the season.
"While that's in front of us, we're going to be doing our upmost to make that possible."
Simmons left the Ireland job in 2013 after six successful years to take charge of his native West Indies.
But last September the 53-year-old former Test opener was dismissed, with Joel Garner taking temporary charge.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board said Simmons would assist head coach Lalchand Rajput on technical issues.
As well as the four-day Intercontinental Cup matches, Ireland will play Afghanistan in five one-day internationals and three T20 games, all in Greater Noida.
Under Simmons, Ireland qualified for the 2011 and 2015 World Cups, achieving wins over Test nations England, West Indies and Zimbabwe.
The Windies appointed ex-Australia batsman Stuart Law as Simmons' full-time successor last week.
Prof Rafael Bengoa was speaking after a health summit in Belfast.
The panel put a set of principles to politicians who now have until 26 February to agree them.
If the politicians reach consensus they will underpin the work of the panel as they design a new model for health.
Health Minister Simon Hamilton described Wednesday's discussions as "very constructive".
The SDLP and the Ulster Unionists have questioned the timing of the summit, just months before an election.
Arlene Foster's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the four other main parties took part.
The DUP Health Minister Simon Hamilton announced the panel members in January.
The panel consists of two local doctors, two health service managers originally from Northern Ireland and two international experts.
It is chaired by Prof Rafael Bengoa, who is regarded as a worldwide expert on health reform and is also a former health minister for the Spanish Basque Country.
The panel was suggested by Sir Liam Donaldson in his 2015 report, which said there were too many hospitals in Northern Ireland and expertise was too thinly spread.
It highlighted duplication and called for a simpler, more efficient system.
Ross Morgan, 25, was watching the Ipswich v Norwich play-off match on television at home on Saturday when Paul Anderson equalised.
In his excitement, Mr Morgan jumped and put a fist-sized hole in the ceiling.
After he tweeted a photograph of the damage, Ipswich winger Anderson offered to foot the bill.
Salesman Mr Morgan, from Wetherby, near Leeds, said he was "shocked" at the gesture.
"I only sent it to him because I thought he might have thought it was funny," said Mr Morgan. "Then he replied saying he'd pay for it. I was pretty shocked by that. It's a great gesture from him.
"I'm 25 years old but footballers who play for your team are still your heroes. It was really good of him."
Mr Morgan said he was watching the game with four friends at the rented home he shares with his girlfriend.
"I wasn't too happy because they'd [Norwich] just scored but then when Ando scored I just lost it," he said.
"I went for a fist pump while jumping up at the same time. The next thing I knew I had gone through the ceiling."
Mr Morgan said he is unsure how he will react if Ipswich beat Norwich on Saturday to reach the Championship play-off final at Wembley.
"l really don't know what I would do. Maybe the TV would go through the window. I'd really love to go to Wembley."
Managing Editor Will Dana apologised to readers and "all of those who were damaged by our story and the ensuing fallout".
The November 2014 article described a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house in 2012.
A four-month police investigation found no evidence that the incident occurred.
However, police chief Timothy Longo said that did not mean "something terrible didn't happen" to the student known as Jackie.
When the story was published, it prompted student protests and a renewed national debate about sexual violence at US college.
The Columbia School of Journalism report, commissioned by Rolling Stone, described the article as "a story of journalistic failure".
Written by journalist Sabrina Erdely, the 9,000-word article A Rape on Campus relied on Jackie as the sole source to tell the story of an alleged rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.
Subsequent investigations by other reporters and Ms Erdely herself identified errors in the reporting of the piece.
The Columbia School of Journalism report said the magazine failed to use "basic, even routine journalistic practice" to verify the details after Ms Erdely failed to contact the alleged attackers.
"The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking", and there were "systematic failures" at the magazine, the report said.
The report went on to suggest that the article had undermined work to stop sexual violence as it "spread the idea that many women invent rape allegations".
Mr Dana described the report as "painful reading", and said the magazine was committing itself to a series of recommendations in the report.
He apologised to all those affected by the story, "including members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and UVA administrators and students".
"Sexual assault is a serious problem on college campuses, and it is important that rape victims feel comfortable stepping forward," he added.
"It saddens us to think that their willingness to do so might be diminished by our failings."
Ms Erdely also apologised in a statement released alongside the report.
Columbia said that Jackie had declined to answer questions for the report and that her lawyer said it "is in her best interest to remain silent at this time."
Former Olympian Goodwin, 26, says he quit athletics "more than a year ago" to focus on American football and therefore stopped giving Usada his whereabouts for testing.
However, a Usada spokesperson told BBC Sport Goodwin submitted his whereabouts for the first quarter of 2017.
Usada therefore attempted to test him on 17 January, resulting in a missed test - his second whereabouts failure - while the body conducted an out of competition test on Goodwin in his capacity as a track and field athlete on 12 May.
Goodwin's first whereabouts failure occurred when he failed to submit his fourth quarter 2016 filings by the deadline.
His third failure came when he did not supply his second quarter 2017 filings in time.
Under the whereabouts system, athletes must specify where they will be for one hour a day, seven days a week, for three months in advance, as well as where they will be training each day.
A missed test or filing failure constitutes a whereabouts failure and any combination of three breaches in a 12-month period is considered an anti-doping violation.
For Goodwin, who finished 10th in the long jump at London 2012 and has played in the NFL as a wide receiver since 2013, this has resulted in a one-year ban from 1 April 2017, the date of his third whereabouts failure.
In a statement, Goodwin said: "I discontinued all practices associated with competing in track and field, including submitting my whereabouts information.
"It appears that because I did not inform Usada of my plans, my name was inadvertently included in their 2017 testing pool."
Usada says Goodwin, who missed out on selection for Rio 2016 at US trials in July last year, has still not informed it in writing as required that he would like to retire from athletics, despite "multiple opportunities over months" to do so.
As an elite track and field athlete he was therefore entered into the world athletics' governing body (IAAF)/Usada registered testing pool.
"He sometimes filed his whereabouts, he was tested and he never informed us - despite being told in writing and through on-line education that he needed to inform us - that he wished to retire or otherwise not participate in the sport," said a Usada spokesperson.
Usada says Goodwin submitted a whereabouts form in the second quarter of 2017 and it conducted an out of competition test in May.
"We always ensure athletes are aware that we are the organisation conducting the tests," said a Usada spokesperson. "We are not involved with the NFL drug testing program."
Usada added they confirmed Goodwin's first whereabouts failure with him and, as with all such cases, notified him in writing that he was still in the registered testing pool.
"What is disappointing is that he was informed he needed to either provide his whereabouts and be available for testing or retire from the sport if he was no longer competing," said Usada.
"He had multiple opportunities over months to do this and was well educated on these procedures but he chose not to do either, and as a result was not able to be tested.
"This is clearly not ideal for us from a testing standpoint."
Goodwin will not be subject to a ban under NFL rules, the 49ers say.
The NFL is not a signatory of Usada or the World Anti-Doping Code and has its own performance-enhancing substances policy.
Goodwin was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 2013, playing 49 games in four seasons before signing a two-year deal with the 49ers in March 2017.
In a statement, the 49ers said: "Marquise informed the organisation some time ago that he has no intentions of competing in track and field and has been entirely focused on his football career for more than a year."
"We have been in touch with the League office regarding this matter, and understand that Marquise will not be subject to discipline under the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances as a result of Usada's decision."
Goodwin, who won the Diamond League event in Birmingham in June 2016, added he has never failed a test and has always been "compliant with each and every protocol and policy" during his competitive athletics career.
Thirty five firefighters attended the BMW Mercedes garage in Woodham Road, Barry at 17:15 BST on Wednesday.
A wall and roof of the building collapsed and the five vehicles inside were all damaged.
A spokeswoman for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "The fire has been extinguished now, but it is expected to smoulder overnight."
The cause of the fire is believed to be accidental at this stage.
The former NBA player is travelling as a private citizen.
"I'm just trying to open the door," he told reporters at Beijing airport, en route to the reclusive state.
He made headlines after befriending North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on previous trips to Pyongyang in 2013 and 2014. Mr Rodman has called him his "friend for life".
The US state department said it is aware of his visit.
"We wish him well. But we have issued travel warnings to Americans and suggested they not travel to North Korea for their own safety," said US Under Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, according to Reuters news agency.
"My purpose is to actually see if I can keep bringing sports to North Korea, so that's the main thing," Mr Rodman told reporters.
It is unclear whether he will also bring up the detention of US citizens in the country.
US and North Korean tensions have intensified under President Donald Trump, who has said he fears a "major, major conflict" breaking out between the two countries.
However, the president has also said he would be "honoured" to meet Mr Kim, in the right circumstances.
Speaking at the airport on Tuesday, Mr Rodman said: "I am pretty much sure that he [Trump] is happy with the fact that I am over here trying to accomplish something that we both need."
When asked about Mr Rodman's North Korea visits in 2013, Mr Trump called the ex-basketball player "smart".
"You look at the world, the world is blowing up around us. Maybe Dennis is a lot better than what we have," Mr Trump told Fox News.
Mr Rodman had been a contestant on Mr Trump's reality TV show The Celebrity Apprentice that same year.
In 2014, Mr Trump flatly dismissed rumours that the pair might travel to North Korea together.
Mr Rodman endorsed Mr Trump's presidential campaign.
The former Chicago Bulls star also once encouraged former US President Barack Obama to "pick up the phone and call" Mr Kim, emphasising that the two leaders both liked basketball.
His trips have been referred to as "basketball diplomacy" in the US press.
He has offered invites to the country to many well-known figures, from US media mogul Oprah Winfrey to director Seth Rogen, who co-directed the controversial 2014 comedy The Interview about assassinating a North Korean leader.
In 2014, he told luxury lifestyle magazine DuJour he had approached the US government for support but was rejected.
He also implied the US - then under the Obama administration - may not let him return home if he went to North Korea again.
He has previously broken down in tears during TV interviews, saying he has had death threats over his trips, which have been condemned by human rights activists.
Although at one point he did tweet Mr Kim to ask if he would "do me a solid and let Kenneth Bae loose" - referring to a US-Korean missionary who served two years of a 15-year jail term for trying to overthrow the government.
Mr Bae later thanked Mr Rodman for raising public awareness of his case.
On Twitter on Tuesday, Mr Rodman said his latest trip was being sponsored by a company that provides digital currency for the marijuana industry. He wore fully branded clothes to the airport.
A previous trip to the country was sponsored by a betting company.
The incident happened about 1600 GMT on Sunday before a flight departure.
A spokesperson for the airport said passengers were on board while waiting for aircraft to be de-iced.
The flight was the 1445 GMT Amsterdam service.
Passengers were offloaded and the flight was cancelled.
A spokesperson for Easyjet said:
"EasyJet can confirm that flight EZY6773 from Belfast to Amsterdam on 20 November was cancelled due to a technical issue resulting from an airport vehicle accidentally hitting the aircraft during boarding.
"The safety and wellbeing of our passengers and crew is always easyJet's highest priority.
"The Captain kept the passengers informed and they were given the option of being rebooked onto the next available flight or obtain a refund.
Passengers were offered meals and hotel accommodation if they needed it.
The company apologised for any "inconvenience caused."
Donald Trump launched a war on two fronts, opening up a Twitter blitzkrieg on a "weak and effective" Republican grandee, amid an establishment revolt at his hostile takeover of their party, even while his left flank is harried by Hillary Clinton. His campaign released a 30-second ad, titled Dangerous, depicting his Democratic election opponent as too feeble to be president. At a rally in North Carolina, President Barack Obama said Trump was not even fit to get a job at 7-Eleven. The crowd lapped it up like one of the store's Slurpees. Obama also sniffed his own hand to make fun of a radio host's claim that he smells of sulphur. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said the FBI was investigating the hack of his emails, published by WikiLeaks.
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Blind, 24, who agreed a four year deal, was in United coach Louis van Gaal's World Cup squad and can play at left-back and as a defensive midfielder.
The latest transfer brings the Old Trafford club's summer spending total to over £143m on five permanent deals.
"I cannot wait to work with Van Gaal at the biggest club in the world," Blind told the club website.
"It is a real honour to sign for Manchester United. I have been at Ajax since I was seven years old and I will always have very fond memories of the club and of my time there."
The United manager added: "I am delighted Daley has signed for the club. He is a very intelligent and versatile footballer that can play in many positions.
"Daley is a great reader of the game, he has played under my philosophy over a number of years and he will be a great addition to the team."
Blind, the son of ex-Netherlands international Danny, worked his way up through the youth system at the Dutch club giants and helped them win four league titles.
He has won 19 caps and scored his first goal for his country in a 3-0 victory against hosts Brazil in the World Cup third-place play-off in the summer.
Last week, United broke the British transfer fee record by spending £59.7m to bring midfielder Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid.
The 20-time league champions have also bought left-back Luke Shaw, midfielder Ander Herrera and Di Maria's Argentina team-mate Marcos Rojo. this summer.
In addition to the permanent signings, United have agreed a £6m one-year loan deal with Monaco for Colombia striker Radamel Falcao.
It was the hosts' fourth win in five National League games as they consigned Wrexham to a first defeat in nine.
Disley's drive amid sloppy Wrexham defending from Nathan Arnold's assist gave them Paul Hurst's men the lead at the break.
The hosts went on to deny Gary Mills' side's increasingly desperate attempts to equalise.
The Mariners went close to adding a second when Rob Evans had to hack another Disley shot off the line and Patrick Hoban headed against the crossbar.
Wrexham's best chance was an overhead effort from Connor Jennings, which was cleared off the line by Evan Horwood.
Grimsby boss Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"As I said, going into the game they were the form team and hadn't conceded a goal in the last six. We managed to put that to bed pretty early. Overall I think it's a deserved win.
"I thought we played very well first half. I think that's the best we've played for a very long time and I said that to the players.
"Training hasn't been great in truth on Thursday and Friday. When it mattered the players produced a performance which we've been asking from them."
The county confirmed Adelaide Strikers are looking for a second overseas player after a knee injury ruled out West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard.
Vince, 24, is one of a number of English players "under consideration".
"A tournament like that would be great exposure for him ahead of the T20 World Cup," Hampshire's director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent.
Vince, who was the leading run-scorer in the T20 Blast domestic competition last season, scored 41 off 36 balls on his England T20 debut against Pakistan in Dubai on Thursday.
India is set to host the World Twenty20 in March.
"The Big Bash would be a wonderful opportunity if that were to come through for him," White added. "Adelaide Strikers have shown an initial interest in James.
"Others have also been touted, but James is certainly on their list of people they're looking at.
"If they're looking for a top-order player who's a very good fielder and also a leader, with a good cricketing brain, then he fits the bill."
Hampshire's links with the South Australia franchise have been forged through their former Australia coach Tim Nielsen.
A number of players have been attached to the Elite International Cricket Academy at Hampshire's Ageas Bowl, playing club cricket around England.
The new initiative aims to improve prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare for cancer patients in Scotland.
An action plan covering the next five to ten years has been drawn up, including funding for new equipment.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the strategy was "a blueprint for the future of cancer services in Scotland".
The Beating Cancer: Ambition and Action plan lists more than 50 steps being taken, including £50m towards radiotherapy equipment and support for staff recruitment and training.
It will also see £9m spent over five years to improve support for cancer patients and their families through link workers and charity groups, and £7.5m for improvements in surgical treatments.
Diagnosis is also being targeted, with £5m to reduce inequalities in screening uptake and £10m to support quick access to diagnostics for people who suspect they have cancer.
Ms Robison said: "Cancer services have come a long way over the past ten years, with cancer mortality rates down 11%, however we know more needs to be done.
"Through this strategy we are aiming to reduce health inequalities and improve the experience of and outcomes for people with cancer across Scotland.
"A cancer diagnosis is a daunting prospect for those affected and their families, which is why it is vital that we support people throughout their journey, right from detection through to aftercare."
The plan was welcomed by a wide range of cancer research and support groups.
Gregor McNie of Cancer Research UK said: "The continued focus on early diagnosis is vital - funds to make sure all patients get the diagnostic tests they need should ensure they are treated without delay.
"Overall, the commitments outlined in this strategy are good news for patients, and we'll closely monitor their implementation to make sure they become a reality."
Janice Preston of Macmillan Cancer Support said: "We urgently need cancer support to be built around the needs of the individual, and look forward to working with the Scottish government to look in detail at how the ambitious measures outlined in the plan will be achieved.
Scottish Labour also welcomed the Scottish government taking "action on cancer", but equality spokeswoman Jenny Marra said the plans had been "delayed by over a year".
She said: "The facts show that the performance of the government on cancer simply has not been good enough. We have seen declining performance on cancer waiting times, worrying trends in screening and diagnosis, especially in poorer areas.
"While we welcome many of the initiatives in this report, there is little here to address the underlying issues of public health, and health inequalities, both of which are directly linked to cancer."
A total of 10 people - all arrested on Monday - now face preliminary charges ranging from armed robbery to kidnapping and handling stolen goods.
Those brought before an investigating judge on Friday include the alleged "mastermind", reports say.
Kardashian West was held at gunpoint and tied up by robbers while staying at an exclusive flat in Paris in October.
The TV reality star was attacked while her bodyguard looked after her sister at a nightclub. The gang stole €9m (£8m; $9.5m) of jewellery, including a diamond ring valued at about €4m.
Four people were placed under investigation on Thursday, including a man - named as Yunice A, 63 - accused of robbing Kardashian at gunpoint and leaving her bound and gagged.
The suspects brought before a judge on Friday include a 60-year-old believed to be the mastermind of the plot, French media report.
Police have been investigating whether the gang was tipped off that the star's bodyguard was not at the residence at the time of the robbery.
Although there has been no trace yet of Kardashian West's missing jewellery, police did recover an estimated €300,000 worth of items during raids on Monday.
Russia's athletics federation was this week provisionally suspended from international competition, including the Olympic Games, for its alleged involvement in widespread doping.
Coe said action needed to be taken against Russia or there were "unlikely to be many tomorrows for athletics".
"It was the toughest sanction we had," Coe wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations council members voted 22-1 in favour of Russia being banned after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".
Coe, who became president of the sport's world governing body in August, said the crisis had been "a horror show" but accepts that the IAAF should have done more to stop doping.
"The best way to protect clean athletes is to be unflinching in our commitment to them, and not just in words," added Coe.
"We have to create structures that are always in their corner and here none of us come out very well - including my federation.
"The architecture of anti-doping has failed them. Were the walls too high in many of our organisations to properly investigate abuses? Almost certainly 'yes' has to be our uncomfortable answer."
The 2013 world champion missed out on an Olympic medal at Rio 2016.
The 28-year-old finished fourth, losing out to British teammate and then house-mate Vicky Holland for the bronze medal.
"The disappointment from Rio has made me determined to do better next time," Stanford said.
"It could come down to me and Vicky competing for a medal again. Hopefully this time it will be for two medals and not just one."
The Gold Coast Commonwealth Games start on 4 April 2018 and organisers decided to re-structure the triathlon event.
The distances in the event now consist of a 750m swim, 20km bike and 5km run instead of the Olympic distances which are double in length.
Swansea-born Stanford admits the different distances will be a disadvantage to her.
"In Glasgow, you had a situation; a lot of the smaller countries were lapped out especially in the swim," Stanford added.
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"I think they are hoping by shorting the distance, they will make it more competitive.
"I really enjoy the sprint distance but I think I am better suited to the Olympic distance.
"It will be really different and throw up a few different challenges but exciting all the same."
Stanford missed the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow because of a stress fracture in her left ankle.
The former Under-23 World Champion wants "nothing more" than to achieve success in the Gold Coast Games.
"I was devastated to miss out last time in Glasgow due to injury," said Stanford.
"The Commonwealth Games has always been on my radar, even before the Olympics.
"So it has always been a lifelong ambition of mine to represent Wales on that stage
Stanford will begin her World Triathlon Series campaign in Yokohoma, Japan in May as the preparation process begins for qualification for next April's Commonwealth Games.
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Wales wing Alex Cuthbert grabbed the final score while Steve Shingler also crossed in his 22-point haul.
Nick Williams, Blaine Scully, Sion Bennett, Kris Dacey, Willis Halaholo and man-of-the-match Matthew Morgan scored the other home tries.
Meanwhile, Ian McKinley and Angelo Esposito both crossed for Treviso.
It was a much-needed return to form for the Welsh side who had not won in the Pro12 since Boxing Day.
There was little sign of them cutting loose in the first half, however, despite an early 25-metre charge from Williams and a late close-range corner effort from Scully.
McKinley, Treviso's Irish fly-half, danced over for a try while half-back partner and former Osprey Tito Tebaldi added the conversion to his two penalties.
The second half was virtual one-way traffic as the Blues came out firing on all cylinders, running the ball from their own 22.
Shingler, Bennett and Dacey all crossed inside ten minutes, Dacey finishing off after a spectacular solo run from Morgan, and Shingler converted them all to seal the result.
Esposito pulled a try back with Tebaldi converting, but it was only a temporary hold-up to a dominant Cardiff Blues second-half performance.
Cuthbert's blistering break-out from defence put Halaholo over, Morgan strolled over unopposed and Cuthbert got on the scoresheet himself with a 35-metre run in the final move, to rousing applause from the Cardiff faithful.
Man of the match Matthew Morgan told BBC Wales Sport:
"We knew they were going to be tough first half, we had to wear them down and keep hold of the ball second half and it paid off, the rewards came.
"The coaches gave us permission to go out and just play from our own 22 which I wasn't complaining about, it worked and we had a couple of tries from it.
"Great response from Alex Cuthbert (to criticism of his Wales performance), he just kept his mouth shut and got on with it, to prove what a great player he is, I couldn't be more chuffed for him.
"We just have to keep chipping away (in mid-table), a big game up in Edinburgh next week, another tricky side and they're not going to go away for the full 80 minutes."
Cardiff Blues: Matthew Morgan; Alex Cuthbert, Willis Halaholo, Steve Shingler, Blaine Scully; Gareth Anscombe, Lloyd Williams (capt); Rhys Gill, Kristian Dacey, Taufa'ao Filise, George Earle, Jarrad Hoeata, Macauley Cook, Sion Bennett, Nick Williams
Replacements: Matthew Rees, Corey Domachowski, Scott Andrews, James Down, Kirby Myhill, Tomos Williams, Garyn Smith, Tom James
Treviso: Luca Sperandio, Andrea Pratichetti, Michael Tagicakibau, Tommaso Allan, Angelo Esposito, Ian McKinley, Tito Tebaldi, Federico Zani, Luca Bigi, Tiziano Pasquali, Filo Paulo, Dean Budd (capt), Marco Lazzaroni, Francesco Minto, Robert Barbieri.
Replacements: Davide Giazzon, Matteo Zanusso, Jody Rossetto, Jean Francois Montauriol, Roberto Santamaria, Giorgio Bronzini, Andrea Buondonno, David Odiete.
Referee: John Lacey (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Sean Gallagher (IRFU), Gareth Newman (WRU)
Work on removing the Temple Circus roundabout near Temple Meads station has started.
Marvin Rees said the work will bring "greater simplicity" to the road network.
Drivers going through the area said they expected traffic "chaos" as a result.
The works are part of the Temple Gate project which aims to improve travel connections with Bristol Temple Meads station, the nearby enterprise zone, a new campus for Bristol University and the Bristol Arena.
Travelwest says the current road layout "acts as a significant barrier for people moving between Temple Meads, the Enterprise Zone and the wider city".
The existing roundabout will be removed to be replaced with a "simplified junction", providing better bus, cycle and pedestrian links.
Lane closures for site investigations begin today, with the main works starting next month to autumn 2018.
The works come as existing major roadworks to build the £216m Metrobus public transport system are not expected to be completed until the end of 2017.
Meanwhile, major redevelopments nearby are planned over the next few years.
The new Temple Quarter Campus for Bristol University will house a "digital innovation hub" and is expected to open in 2021, while Bristol Arena could still open in 2020 despite fears it may be scaled down or scrapped.
Mr Rees insisted: "We are convinced our transport team have learned lessons from the works done in the city centre.
"We will bring greater simplicity and be less vulnerable to the lockdown we get when one part of the network goes wrong."
Bristol City Council said the work has been scheduled to avoid overlap with other major roadworks, and "as far as possible two lanes of traffic will be kept open on Temple Gate during peak hours to keep traffic moving".
The 22-year-old was diagnosed with MND three years ago, making her the youngest person in Scotland with the terminal disease.
MND, which usually affects people over 50, gradually makes gripping, walking, talking and swallowing extremely difficult - and eventually impossible.
It kills about a third of people within a year and more than half within two years.
Lucy tells the BBC Scotland documentary MND and the 22-year-old Me that it is like being "slowly paralysed".
As the condition progressively takes hold she worries that her "hilarious personality will slip away".
Over the past three years she has had to deal with using a wheelchair more as she can no longer walk unaided, but losing her voice holds new fears for the self-confessed "chatterbox".
"If I did lose my voice it would be the worst thing for me," she says.
"I could cope with everything else, just not losing my voice.
"I don't think I'd be able to handle that because most people know me for my weird-ass laugh."
Lucy, from Garmouth in Moray, first started experiencing difficulties with her balance and co-ordination at a summer camp in the US.
Her friends say she kept falling down and was slurring her words.
When she returned home she had a strange limp and was referred to a neurologist, who eventually diagnosed MND.
Lucy's father Robert says: "He just started talking matter-of-fact saying 'it's a terminal illness, no cure, you've got about three years to live'."
MND, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), occurs when specialist nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, called motor neurones, stop working properly.
It is a relatively rare disease, affecting up to 5,000 adults in the UK at any one time.
Lucy says: "I am the youngest [in Scotland] living with MND.
"So it's not as if I can ask a granny or grandpa how they have dealt with it, or a mother or father, because it's completely irrelevant.
"There was no-one my age who I could really talk to."
So after her diagnosis, Lucy moved back from Glasgow, where she had been studying, and tried to make sense of her condition.
She wrote a bucket list of things she wanted to do, started publishing online blogs and began raising money to help the search for a cure for MND.
So far, she has raised more than £120,000, some of which is going into studying zebra fish at the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research in Edinburgh.
"Unlike me this amazing little fish can rebuild its motor neurones even after its spinal cord has been damaged," she tells the documentary.
At the moment there is no known cure for the disease.
Lucy adds: "There is so little promise for people with MND. I've even heard it referred to as death sentence.
"I hate it when people say 'death sentence'. It gets me so mad."
Her mother Lydia says: "It is just acceptance that you cannot do anything about MND at the moment.
"It is just a waiting game to see how long we have got her for really, but hopefully they can find a cure or help that will be in time for Lucy."
In very rare cases, such as the cosmologist Stephen Hawking, people can live with the disease for decades.
He has famously spoken via a voice simulator for 30 years.
In preparation for the possibility that she might need similar technology, Lucy visited the voice bank in Edinburgh to record her speech.
However, due to the effect the disease has already had, the technicians sought to blend Lucy's voice with that of her older sister Laura.
"I genuinely don't think I'll get to that point where I'll need it," Lucy says.
"But if I am wrong I'll still have my voice to use and mum and dad will still have to listen to me."
Despite travelling the world ticking off items on her list and raising thousands for charity, Lucy admits that it has become very tiring and she no longer goes out very much.
A visit to renowned portrait photographer Rankin at his London studio brought home to her how much MND had changed her life.
Paisley-born Rankin, who has photographed celebrities from Madonna and Kate Moss to the Queen, has also created many images showing the "defiance, strength and vitality" of people with terminal illnesses.
He tells the documentary: "Obviously I am dealing with a really young girl who is facing something that she should not be facing."
Viewing the images created by the photographer is an emotional moment for Lucy, reminding her of her old self before the illness.
Rankin says: "It is a very revealing, a very tough thing to do, because she is looking at a photograph and she can see what she could be."
Lucy says: "When I saw the photographs I cried because it was like me before I was diagnosed - before my life really changed.
"In that moment I realised that up until that moment I'd seen myself as two different people.
"There was the Lucy Lintott who was adventurous, fun-loving, crazy and clumsy - I suppose the more perfect one of the two.
"Then MND Lucy who is terminally ill and needs people to live really.
"It just overwhelmed me that I was still the Lucy of before.
"It allowed me to mould myself back together and realise I'm still the same person and that only parts of me have changed."
MND and 22-year-old Me is on BBC Two Scotland on Tuesday 1 August at 21:00 and will be on the iplayer afterwards.
This half of the season is a really long stretch, five races back to back and then a short break before the World Championships and Olympic test event, so it was really good to get some rest in at home while I could.
The Christmas break never seems long enough but I managed to get some good relaxation and family time in around training, which was much needed.
We left again for Europe on 31 December, which meant spending New Year's Eve in Munich with the team. The staff need not have had any worries about us athletes staying out late, I think we were all asleep well before midnight. Apparently the fireworks were good!
Last week the World Cup was in Altenberg, the track I won gold on last year, and because of that I had very high expectations of myself going into the week.
Altenberg has a reputation as the most technical course on the tour, and there is one particular corner called the 'Kreisel' which athletes find quite scary.
It's a full 360-degree corner with four big pressures and the potential to hit the roof in any that you don't steer just right. I'm no stranger to the roof myself, having crashed there more than once in my earlier years!
The other reason it's so challenging is it's not just a matter of navigating it safely, but the idea is also to generate speed as you go.
Because the Kreisel falls in the middle of the course, it's really important to carry as much speed from the top as you can through to the last few corners below it, so you have to try and do just enough to be safe without overdoing it and slowing yourself down too much.
As it happens, Kreisel went quite well for me but I made a mistake in an earlier corner on my first run that cost me some time. In the end I finished sixth which, considering the mistake, I was happy with.
I also managed to produce the two fastest pushes which gives me confidence that I'm in good shape as we get closer to the World Championships.
Recently the World Championships were moved from their original venue in Sochi, Russia, to Konigssee, Germany, following the publication of the second part of the McLaren report.
Historically, I haven't had my best results in Konigssee, but I trained well there last year and I feel I'm due some luck there. There's definitely an element of luck in our sport, with it being outdoors in winter, there's obviously the weather that can play a huge part.
In all three races of the season so far we have had snow during the runs, and in Lake Placid I unfortunately got the worst of it, but you just have to hope that at some point the luck will even out.
The snow has followed us here to Winterberg too where we have the next race on Sunday, which also doubles as the European Championships.
We arrived on Sunday and for the first training day I just watched other people slide, rather than sliding myself.
Sometimes I find that watching sleds come past and seeing the shapes the sleds make in the corners as they come past actually helps show me what is happening on the track and how the ice is behaving as much as if I was sliding.
With it being another race in Germany, the home team will be at a big advantage but I'm feeling good about the track and excited to race here.
This track has a very different personality to Altenberg. It is much more subtle, and starts slowly, but then the speed sneaks up on you in the last few corners and you can be doing around 130kph before you know it!
A spokesman for Longleat in Wiltshire said a number of Humboldt penguins had died after contracting the avian strain of the disease from mosquitoes.
Avian malaria cannot be passed on to humans but the park has decided to close Penguin Island to visitors.
Darren Beasley, head of animal operations, said: "Our team of keepers are absolutely devastated."
The safari park, which is home to a colony of captive-bred Humboldts, has said it will release further details of the number of penguins affected on Wednesday.
"Despite the best efforts of our team and with expert advice from other collections, we have still been unable to save a large amount of these incredible and popular aquatic birds," said Mr Beasley.
"We have taken the decision to close Penguin Island to visitors in order to give our team additional space and time to care for our remaining birds and to allow the heartbroken keepers time to get through this terrible experience."
Originally from South America, the breed is normally found around coastal areas of Peru and Chile.
Humboldt penguins are now officially listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which means they are at immediate or imminent risk of becoming endangered.
Arsenal scored early in the second half when winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's angled shot on the rebound clipped Coloccini's heel and went into the net.
The hosts had earlier seen striker Aleksandar Mitrovic sent off in the 16th minute for a rash challenge on Gunners midfielder Francis Coquelin.
Newcastle failed to register a single shot on target in the entire contest.
Arsenal have not lost at St James' Park in the league since December 2005 and have won their last eight games against Newcastle, scoring 21 goals and conceding just six.
Newcastle boss Steve McClaren has still to to taste victory in the Premier League after four matches at his new club.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described his side's start to the season as "very average" before this game and although the Gunners secured three points at St James' Park their strikers continue to misfire.
After Mitrovic's 16th-minute dismissal, Arsenal dominated possession in the final third of the pitch but were unable to turn that superiority into goals.
Theo Walcott's best effort was to lift a chance he should have scored over the crossbar while substitute Olivier Giroud made little impact when he came on.
With the transfer window set to close on Tuesday, Arsenal's supporters will be hoping Wenger has a goalscorer lined up from somewhere.
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Newcastle signed Mitrovic from Anderlecht for £13m in the summer and the Serbia international arrived with a reputation as a volatile player.
McClaren had already said that the 20-year-old must show more "emotional control" after yellow cards in his first two Premier League games.
After Mitrovic's senseless high tackle on Coquelin, the former England manager's words will need to be much tougher than that.
McClaren felt the sending off was "harsh" and "clumsy" but he cannot afford to be playing matches with 10 men and at the moment Mitrovic looks like a red card waiting to happen.
This is supposed to be the season that Arsenal graduate from top-four regulars to title contenders.
At the moment it's hard to build a compelling case that they will rival teams like Manchester City, although it is still very early days.
Wenger was pleased with the way in which his side "kept our nerve" and described their display as "mature and intelligent".
It's an old cliche that champions have to win ugly but if Arsenal have serious ambitions on the top prize they should be breezing past a 10-man Newcastle side.
Newcastle boss Steve McClaren told BT Sport: "All we could do is show spirit and fight and they were magnificent. What a crowd as well. It was a harsh red card. It was more clumsy and he stood on his foot. I just felt early on there were too many yellows and it was a rod for the referee's back."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told BT Sport: "We were always on top. We were mature and intelligent and the win was important so maybe we were a bit cautious. They toughened the game up, they decided from the start to make it very physical but we kept our nerve."
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BBC Radio 5 live's Danny Mills: "On the balance of play, Arsenal have probably deserved to win. It's three points, and the style of this performance will be forgotten about if Arsenal continue to improve. But do they have the out-and-out cutting edge to challenge for the title? I think Arsenal are going to struggle this season."
There was widespread mockery when official figures showed gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 26% in 2015.
That was three times the previous estimate.
The distorted figure was the result of multinationals using Dublin as a centre for financing and taxation operations.
Their operations involve flows of billions of dollars, which are captured by GDP measurement, but have little impact on the real economy.
When the figure was published last year, economist Paul Krugman described it as "leprechaun economics".
The Financial Times said it was on a par with the works of James Joyce and Flann O'Brien.
Now the Central Statistics Office (CSO) says that GDP and GNP "no longer provide a sufficient understanding of the domestic economy".
It said it will now produce a measurement known as adjusted gross national income (GNI), which will subtract the retained earnings of global firms that have their headquarters in Dublin.
It will also adjust for the depreciation of categories of foreign-owned domestic capital asset, such as intellectual property rights.
The changes were recommended in a report by an expert group chaired by the Governor of Ireland's Central Bank.
It made a total of 13 recommendations, including the need for better communications by the CSO.
The GNI measure will be phased in by the end of 2018.
A similar number of employers, polled for City and Guilds, said the levy, aimed at boosting apprentice numbers, would encourage them to hire more.
Some said they would cut training budgets to pay it.
The government said the levy would "give millions a step on the ladder of opportunity".
From April, employers with wage bills of more than £3m will be required to put 0.5% of their payroll into the levy to fund apprenticeships.
The aim is to double spending on apprentices in England, resulting in three million new apprenticeships. .
From May, employers will be able to draw vouchers from the levy to fund apprentices.
The City and Guilds skills group polled 500 senior decision makers from a range of organisations about the impact of the impending changes to the apprenticeship system.
The results showed:
The survey also showed 87% of employers were struggling to fill vacancies, with 29% agreeing this was true of apprenticeship places.
Overall, 47% felt the levy was a good way to get employers to pay for training, 43% said it gave them more control and 34% believed it would improve quality.
City and Guilds managing director Kirstie Donnelly said lack of awareness of the new system was "a cause for concern".
"We still have a hill to climb in convincing people about the benefits apprentices can bring to business."
Ms Donnelly said it was vital for government to communicate with "less enlightened businesses to help them see the huge potential benefits apprenticeships can bring".
She called for parity of esteem between academic and professional and technical education, with more impartial careers advice and "a follow-through on the promise to create a new UCAS-style system for apprenticeships".
A Department for Education spokesman said the levy would boost economic activity and improve skills.
"Employers are at the heart of our apprenticeship reforms and have been working with us since 2013 to create the apprenticeship standards and ensure they are high quality and deliver the skills that they need.
"We have also published a detailed levy guide for employers and an online calculator that enables them to understand how much levy they will pay and how they could use their digital funds to pay for training in future," said the spokesman.
The spokesman said the government would support employers in using funds from the levy for apprenticeships, while the DfE and Skills Funding Agency was working with employers to create apprenticeships across all sectors.
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Mr Miliband called the prime minister's refusal to take part unless the Green Party was involved a "pathetic excuse".
He said he would debate with "anyone invited by the broadcasters".
But Mr Cameron said the Labour leader was "chickening" out of facing the Greens and all "national parties" must be represented.
The exchanges came after Mr Miliband, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage urged broadcasters to press ahead with televised debates before the 7 May poll even if Mr Cameron refuses to take part.
The three leaders have written to Mr Cameron saying it would be "unacceptable" for the prime minister to refuse to appear, saying an empty podium should be provided in his absence.
In response, the BBC, Sky News, ITV and Channel 4 said they "remain committed" to staging debates before the poll on 7 May.
Raising the issue in Parliament, Mr Miliband said Mr Cameron had argued back in 2010 that it would be "feeble" for any party leader to walk away from the debates but was now threatening to do just that.
A high stakes poker game in which the ultimate prize is power - that is what the row about TV leaders election debate has now become.
The players at the table are not just the nation's party leaders but also the bosses of the country's biggest broadcasters.
Watching and waiting are highly paid lawyers who know that this may end up being resolve by a judge and not by the court of public opinion.
The question is - will anyone blink before it gets to the court-room?
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"It is not for him, it is not for me, it is not for any party leader to decide who is in the debate," he said. "It is up to the broadcasters, that is the country we live in.
"I think he does protest too much. He has run out of excuses, he is running scared of these debates and in the words of his heroine Margaret Thatcher 'he is frit'".
Mr Cameron said Mr Miliband wanted "to debate having a debate" because he did not want to talk about the economy and other issues.
He said he was keen to defend his record during the campaign, suggesting he would support the idea of two debates, one a head-to-head encounter between him and Mr Miliband and another in which all "national parties" were represented.
"The more time he and I can spend on television and in the television studio, the happier I will be," he said.
But Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who was sitting next to the prime minister, was heard shouting "excuses, excuses" as Mr Cameron answered one of Mr Miliband's questions.
In identical letters to Mr Cameron, Mr Miliband, Mr Clegg and Mr Farage called for a repeat of the 2010 debates - the first ever leaders' TV debates in a British election - and insisted they "not the property of the politicians".
They wrote: "I believe it would be a major setback to our democratic processes if these debates were not repeated in 2015 because of one politician's unwillingness to participate."
The added: "Therefore, if you are unwilling to reconsider, the three party leaders who have committed to participate will ask the broadcasters to press ahead with the debates and provide an empty podium should you have a last-minute change of heart."
Under plans put forward by the BBC, Sky News, ITV and Channel 4 in October, the pre-election live TV debates would include the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP.
Mr Cameron would take on Labour leader Mr Miliband head-to-head in one debate, another would feature Mr Cameron, Mr Miliband and Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg, and a third would also include UKIP's Mr Farage.
The suggested schedule is for debates on 2 April, 16 April and 30 April, ahead of the general election on 7 May.
Mr Farage said the BBC would be "within its rights", under the terms of its editorial guidelines, to stage a debate without Mr Cameron and providing an empty podium would be "entirely appropriate".
"If David Cameron chooses not to turn up that is his hard luck," he told the BBC News Channel. "My guess is that if the broadcasters hold firm, Mr Cameron will buckle and say yes."
Lord Ashdown, who is leading the Lib Dems' general election campaign, urged broadcasters to "stick to their guns" or else he feared the impetus for the debates would "ebb away".
He told Sky News: "You just can't let the prime minister or anybody else basically hold the country and our democracy to ransom by saying no."
But Green Party leader Natalie Bennett said she backed Mr Cameron's stance and said it was in the interest of the three other leaders to help persuade broadcasters that her party should be included in one of the debates.
Ms Bennett said ITV had not yet made a final decision and she hoped to hold talks with the broadcaster in the near future.
"Staging the debates without the prime minister might score a point but would not serve the public, who rightly expect the political parties and the broadcasters to find a format that is acceptable to all concerned," she wrote in a letter to the trio.
"If you indicated that you were open to the inclusion of the Greens, then I feel sure that ITV would respond."
John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, said that having "nailed his colours to the mast" over the Green Party's participation, it would be difficult for Mr Cameron to shun the debates if they were invited.
The three debates in 2010 were watched by a total of 22 million people, and they have been cited as one reason for the increase in turnout at the election, which rose for the first time since 1992.
While the debates were a "good test of political leadership", Prof Curtice told the BBC that they had dominated the campaign and "not necessarily succeeded in reaching out to more marginal voters".
The SNP and Plaid Cymru, which have more seats in Parliament than either UKIP or the Green Party, also say they should be represented in any series of debates.
SNP deputy leader Stuart Hosie said: "The idea that the SNP, bigger than UKIP and the Lib Dems combined in terms of membership, should be excluded from debates which are broadcast into people's homes in Scotland is just simply quite unacceptable."
In a statement, the four broadcasters said: "The debates played an important role in informing millions of our viewers in 2010 and we will continue to work with all the parties to ensure that they happen again in 2015".
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and YouTube are proposing a separate digital debate, which they suggest could reach up to 55 million internet users. They have invited the Greens, UKIP, the Lib Dems, Labour and the Conservatives to take part.
Jordan Sinnott gave Alty the lead from a free-kick but Danny Livesey levelled, heading in Jordan Williams' corner.
Andy Cook gave Barrow the lead with a solo effort and almost scored again but Ben Tomlinson headed in after visiting keeper Tim Deasy parried his effort.
James Lawrie scored a consolation off the post after Damian Reeves' lay-off.
Altrincham remain in the National League's relegation places in 21st place following the defeat, while Barrow stay in 15th after winning their second consecutive league game.
Tolson was placed in temporary charge of Alty for the rest of the season following Lee Sinnott's dismissal on Wednesday after five years in charge of the club.
The advisory warns citizens to not get involved in protests and avoid crowds.
It comes after two black men were shot dead by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, and five officers were killed at a protest in Dallas.
Some 90% of the Bahamas population is black, according to the CIA.
The advisory comes as the country, a former British colony, celebrates its Independence Day holiday, on 10 July, a time when many locals travel abroad, including to the US.
The statement, issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tells citizens to "exercise appropriate caution", especially in cities affected by "tensions... over shootings of young black males by police officers".
"In particular young males are asked to exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police. Do not be confrontational, and co-operate," it says.
"Do not get involved in political or other demonstrations under any circumstances and avoid crowds."
The US regularly issues travel advisories for Americans visiting other countries, but it is rare for nations to issue warnings for their citizens travelling to the US.
United dominated early on, Thibaut Courtois producing a fine one-handed save to keep out Anthony Martial.
David de Gea saved well from Nemanja Matic's header before Jesse Lingard's fine turn and shot put United ahead.
Costa rescued a point in the 91st minute after rounding De Gea following Cesc Fabregas' pass.
United were moments away from moving to within four points of the top four when Costa scored his seventh goal in eight games.
Chelsea, who lost defender Kurt Zouma to a serious injury, remain 13th in the table.
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This will feel like a defeat for United after a bright start and a wonderful goal to give them the lead in what was an entertaining draw between two teams struggling for form.
Apart from the late equaliser, Louis van Gaal's side produced a display full of positives after recent criticism about the team's style and reports linking former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho with the United job.
They started well and offered more zip and energy than their cumbersome hosts.
Courtois' flying save to keep out Martial's curling attempt was excellent, while United forced 10 corners before the end of the first half.
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The visitors looked set for a rare win over Chelsea when Lingard displayed terrific balance and agility to break the deadlock with a sublime spin and shot inside the area.
However, United backed off after scoring and invited pressure, Costa pouncing from close range after a terrific Fabregas pass.
Instead of closing the gap on fourth place to four points, they now find themselves six points adrift.
De Gea was at his magnificent best to keep out a thunderous attempt by Branislav Ivanovic and then Fabregas as Chelsea surged forward in the final quarter in search of an equaliser.
When Costa blazed over the bar after a free-kick it looked all up for the hosts.
Yet for the second league home game in a row, they rescued a point in stoppage time.
Hiddink's sixth draw in eight league games in charge leaves the defending champions seven points above the relegation zone with 13 games remaining.
This was Chelsea's first game back at Stamford Bridge since captain John Terry announced he was set to leave at the end of the season.
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There was no mention of Terry leaving in the captain's programme notes and Blues fans will still be hoping he may yet extend his stay.
They chanted his name throughout as Terry produced an assured performance at the heart of the defence, while he was denied a penalty when his goal-bound shot at the end of the first half struck the arm of Daley Blind.
Terry's importance to the team was underlined by Zouma's nasty-looking injury, the France international landing awkwardly on his right knee after volleying the ball away.
Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink:
"I am happy with the reaction of the team. Manchester United did a good job in the first half and in the beginning of the second, they are not an easy team to beat.
"But we deserved a point. We dropped too far back after the first 20 minutes when they dominated us but later on we closed a little more.
"They made a beautiful goal - without good marking from our side - but after I think the team reacted very well."
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal:
"I feel we didn't reward ourselves with a victory because we were the better team. Until the last quarter we played very well and could have scored more goals. But you have to control the game better and we did not do that.
"It isn't a lack of concentration it is not being composed when you are defending. When we have the ball we have to keep the ball.
"You need to give the right pass at the right moment and we did not do that [before Chelsea scored]. Chelsea are a very good team and you play like we played and don't reward yourself, it is frustrating."
Both teams are in Premier League action on Saturday at different times of the day. While Chelsea entertain struggling Newcastle United (17:30 GMT), Manchester United travel to Wearside to face relegation-threatened Sunderland (12:45 GMT).
Match ends, Chelsea 1, Manchester United 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 1, Manchester United 1.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Daley Blind.
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ander Herrera replaces Juan Mata.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United).
Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Chelsea 1, Manchester United 1. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.
Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) header from very close range is just a bit too high. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Manchester United. Memphis Depay replaces Jesse Lingard.
Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Juan Mata (Manchester United).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Jesse Lingard.
Chris Smalling (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Chris Smalling (Manchester United).
Foul by Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United).
John Obi Mikel (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Manchester United. Matteo Darmian tries a through ball, but Wayne Rooney is caught offside.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jesse Lingard (Manchester United).
César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Manchester United. Morgan Schneiderlin replaces Marouane Fellaini.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Matteo Darmian with a cross.
Attempt blocked. John Terry (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Cameron Borthwick-Jackson.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by César Azpilicueta with a headed pass.
Substitution, Chelsea. Pedro replaces Nemanja Matic.
Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cameron Borthwick-Jackson.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Michael Carrick.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Daley Blind (Manchester United).
A further 19 servicemen were rescued. Some have been flown to Moscow for medical treatment.
All of those killed were conscripts, with some reports giving the age of the youngest victim as just 18.
Investigators are examining whether repairs carried out on the building in 2013 are linked to its collapse.
An investigation into possible negligence has been launched.
The soldiers, who were stationed at a paratrooper training camp, had just gone to bed when the wall fell down and parts of the roof caved in.
Russia's defence ministry has been quick to announce generous compensation payments for those affected, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
But the barracks collapse will be a political blow for Mr Putin, she says, as he has invested heavily in modernising the military and burnishing its image.
The 302ft (92m) long aircraft, which is part plane and part airship, nosedived after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire on 24 August.
No-one was injured in the accident, but the cockpit was effectively destroyed.
The auxiliary landing system has "airbags" which are stowed during flight, Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said.
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It is one of a number of changes which have been made since the crash when Airlander climbed to an excessive height because its mooring line became caught on power cables, an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report found.
"We had to look at how you stop 35 tonnes of airship coming down and squashing that composite flightdeck area," programmes director Nick Allman said.
"It will give us no drag [and] no change in how the aircraft flies normally."
As the craft comes in to land air from inside the craft's body will inflate the airbag feet in "about 15 seconds".
"What we've done is put in 63 changes - some to the aircraft but most to process, procedure, and training - so that sort of event is extremely unlikely to ever happen again," Chris Daniels from HAV added.
The company said the repairs and changes were now complete and, following "an extensive test phase", it is hoped Airlander will take to the skies again by the end of April.
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Once applied, the formula dries to form a film that "mimics the properties of youthful skin", Nature Materials reports after a series of small trials.
At the moment it is being explored as a commercial cosmetic product.
But the US scientists say their "second skin" might eventually be used to deliver medicines and sun protection.
The team from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have tested their prototype product on a handful of volunteers, applying the formula to their under-eye bags, forearms and legs.
The polysiloxane polymer was made in the lab using molecules of silicone and oxygen as the building blocks.
Although it's synthetic, it's designed to mimic real skin and provide a breathable, protective layer.
According to the researchers, the temporary film locks in moisture and helps boost skin elasticity.
They performed several tests, including a recoil test where the skin was pinched and then released to see how long it takes to ping back into position.
As skin ages, it becomes less firm and less elastic and so performs less well in this sort of test.
Skin that had been coated with the polymer was more elastic than skin without the film. And, to the naked eye, it appeared smoother, firmer and less wrinkly.
The researchers, who have a spin-off company that could eventually market their patented formula, say the film is essentially invisible, can be worn all day without causing irritation and can withstand things like sweat and rain.
But more studies are needed before then. The polymer would also need safety approval from regulators.
Dr Tamara Griffiths of the British Association of Dermatologists says bags under the eyes are caused by the protrusion of fat pockets associated with ageing.
While entirely natural, some people see it as undesirable and seek ways to reverse it - sometimes resorting to surgery.
Dr Griffiths said: "The results [with the polymer film] appear to be comparable to surgery, without the associated risks. Further research is needed, but this is a novel and very promising approach to a common problem. I will follow its development with interest."
Prof Robert Langer, who led the work at MIT, said: "Developing a second skin that is invisible, comfortable and effective in holding in water and potentially other materials presents many different challenges.
"It has to have the right optical properties, otherwise it won't look good, and it has to have the right mechanical properties, otherwise it won't have the right strength and it won't perform correctly.
"We are extremely excited about the opportunities that are presented as a result of this work and look forward to further developing these materials to better treat patients who suffer from a variety of skin conditions."
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With more than half a million people in the UK dying each year, the funeral industry makes about £2bn in annual revenues, according to market research company Ibis World.
Nearly 1,500 businesses employ 20,105 people, and industry revenue is expected to grow by 4.7% by the end of 2014, as increased competition for burial space is slowly pushing up the price of cremations.
With such a large and lucrative market, it's no surprise that tech firms have been eyeing up the death care and funeral industry.
Your Last Will, for example, is an iPhone app that lets anyone create a last message for loved ones in the form of a "video will", to be viewed after death.
You create and upload a private video will and are then issued your own QR code - a kind of smartphone readable bar code - which you give to a trusted confidant who is likely to outlive you.
After your death, your confidant signs in to the app using the specified QR code and receives an email containing a link to your last message video. This link is automatically sent to your chosen list of recipients.
The company acknowledges that "in most countries video wills cannot replace written wills", but for an additional fee, Your Last Will does provide the opportunity to have your video submitted for legal review in what it describes as "an easy process".
"Death is obviously an unpleasant but unavoidable part of life and it's much easier to leave a last message or last will via video than in the traditional way, which involves a lawyer and witnesses," Wolfgang Gabler, chief executive and founder of Your Last Will, told the BBC.
He believes technology will continue to influence death care in the UK and across the world.
"There will be many new businesses around this theme in the near future. I already met with other start-ups that are working on other issues of life and death," he says.
"Our goal is to make it really easy and comfortable for people dealing with this important subject."
Some firms are more creative with their ideas. Celestis, for example, is a US-based company that uses rocket technology to blast human remains into space.
The first "memorial spaceflight" took Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary to the stars in 1997.
Since then, the company has added a variety of options. A simple Earth orbit service will cost $4,995 (£2,930), but something more fancy, such as a lunar orbit, will cost $12,500.
And in 2016 the Voyager service will truly go where no-one has gone before.
Using solar sail technology - which uses radiation pressure from the sun as a means of propulsion - to power the flight, the idea is that the craft will travel on indefinitely into deep space.
Appropriately enough, the remains of Gene Roddenberry and his wife Majel, and James Doohan who played Scotty in the series, are part of the crew on this continuing mission.
Once the remains have been launched into the stratosphere loved ones can track the deceased in real time with live satellite feeds on the Celestis website.
Biographies may also be uploaded and DVDs of the launch are available as part of the package deal.
"We don't think of our services as an expensive novelty, with prices beginning at $1,000 and the average cost of a funeral in the US reaching $8,000," Celestis founder Charles Chafer told the BBC.
"But rather, we offer a compelling tribute for someone who has longed to travel in space as their final wish.
"We do believe that as humanity becomes a multi-planetary species we will take all of our rituals and memorials with us, including our funeral and memorial services, not as a solution to reduced available space on Earth but as part of a natural evolution."
Technology is also being used in less bombastic ways, with some individuals paying for funerals with bitcoins, the digital crypto-currency.
One user of popular news aggregator Reddit described last year how he paid for his grandmother's funeral with the currency.
Kadhim Shubber, who writes for Bitcoin news site CoinDesk, is not surprised a funeral has been paid for with bitcoins, particularly as the currency is already being used in healthcare in various parts of the world, including London.
"On the whole we find that committed bitcoiners are keen to pay in bitcoin wherever they're able. Already there are doctors in California and elsewhere who accept bitcoin payments for privacy reasons and a private practice in London does too," he says.
The traditionally conservative funeral business is certainly becoming more technology aware, the National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) believes.
"There is an increasing number of apps being used by funeral directors, and the NAFD has an arrangement with a company providing apps to our members," a spokesman said.
"The vast majority of members have websites, so there is a growing number of ways funeral directors can reach and inform the public."
For example, the NAFD's free online obituary service, Forever Online, enables relatives and friends to inform everyone of a bereavement via the internet, complementing the usual newspaper announcements.
While "smart funeral software" from the likes of Cemneo is on the increase, the NAFD, which represents 80% of all funeral homes in the UK, says it has yet to see the swathes of new funeral and death-care-focused start-ups that Your Last Will's Mr Gabler believes are on the horizon.
"Bereaved families are becoming more involved with funerals - how they should be conducted and the content of the ceremony - and there is a lot more personalisation of funerals than there has been previously.
"So the vast majority of funerals are still arranged face-to-face between the bereaved families and the funeral director," the spokesman said.
It seems that for the time being, funerals will remain relatively traditional.
But it may not be long before many of us are booking funerals on our smartphones, watching pre-recorded "wills" on our tablets, and blasting loved ones into space, quietly monitoring their ashes orbiting the earth on our smart TVs, instead of visiting a dreary graveyard.
Mersane Warria, 37, is talking to officers. She has not been charged.
She was found at her home with stab wounds, alongside the bodies of the eight children. A coroner is due to conduct post-mortem examinations.
The victims were aged 18 months to 14 years. Police have not said how they died. The eighth child was her niece.
Confirming the arrest, Cairns Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said: "The 37-year-old mother of several of the children involved in this incident has been arrested for murder overnight and is currently under police guard at the Cairns Base Hospital."
Identified by the local media, Ms Warria remains in a stable condition in hospital recovering from stab wounds.
"She is awake and lucid and able to speak," Detective Inspector Asnicar said.
"At this stage we're not looking for anybody else - we're comfortable that the community at large is safe," he added.
Police found a number of weapons at the scene, including knives, which are being examined.
The bodies were reportedly discovered by the mother's 20-year-old son arriving at the home on Friday morning.
Police have dismissed reports the family had been investigated by social services saying it was "not a problem house".
Memorials have sprung up outside the home in the Manoora district of Cairns.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement it was an "unspeakable crime".
These were "trying days for our country", he added.
The deaths come just days after the siege of a cafe in Sydney which ended with the gunman and two hostages dead.
A health tribunal has found 70-year-old Sutcliffe no longer needs treatment for any mental disorder.
In 1981 he was convicted of 13 murders and seven attempted murders and given 20 life sentences.
He was transferred to Broadmoor in 1984 after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Before he was moved to the high security institution in Berkshire, the killer spent three years at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight.
The BBC understands that transferring Sutcliffe to prison could save up to £250,000 a year.
Sutcliffe, a former lorry driver from Bradford, now calls himself Peter Coonan.
Plans for his transfer emerged earlier in August and he is thought to have been moved to Frankland prison in Durham on Wednesday.
Commenting on the transfer, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "Peter Coonan will remain locked up and will never be released for his evil crimes.
"Decisions over whether prisoners are to be sent back to prison from secure hospitals are based on clinical assessments made by independent medical staff.
"The High Court ordered in 2010 that Peter Coonan should never be released. This was upheld by the Court of Appeal.
"Our thoughts are with Coonan's victims and their families."
Between 1975 and 1980 Sutcliffe preyed on women across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire. Most were mutilated and beaten to death.
He was caught in January 1981 when police found him in his car with a woman working as a prostitute.
They discovered Sutcliffe had a fake licence plate and weapons including a screwdriver and hammer in the boot.
Wilma McCann, aged 28, Leeds, October 1975
Emily Jackson, aged 42, Leeds, January 1976
Irene Richardson, aged 28, Leeds, February 1977
Patricia Atkinson, aged 32, Bradford, April 1977
Jayne McDonald, aged 16, Leeds, June 1977
Jean Jordan, aged 21, Manchester, October 1977
Yvonne Pearson, aged 22, Bradford, January 1978
Helen Rytka, aged 18, Huddersfield, January 1978
Vera Millward, aged 41, Manchester, May 1978
Josephine Whittaker, aged 19, Halifax, May 1979
Barbara Leach, aged 20, Bradford, September 1979
Marguerite Walls, aged 47, Leeds, August 1980
Jacqueline Hill, aged 20, Leeds, November 1980
The former Cambridge United and Welling player spent two seasons with Wrexham before joining Chester in June 2016.
Hudson, 25, has joined Craig Harrison's side following his release by National League club Chester earlier in May.
"As soon as I knew he [Harrison] was interested I told him myself I was interested in coming over and playing for him," Hudson said.
Part of the reason for the improved performance is down to having to write off fewer bad loans.
Gerry Mallon, the chief executive of the bank, said the results were positive.
He said he believed the Northern Ireland economy was showing signs of improvement.
"The economy is still on the fragile side, but it's clearly recovering," he said.
"I think we are at the stage where we foresee a good long-term profitable stretch ahead of us."
The boy band will visit towns and cities across the country between December this year and January 2014.
Magazines and TV Screens will start on Saturday 14 December at Oxford's New Theatre.
The tour will be made up of 18 dates including a matinee show at London's Hammersmith Apollo
The Carry You singers will perform new material on the tour.
Union J formed in 2012 after both individual artist George Shelly and group Triple J were rejected from the X Factor before creating a band.
The four piece's debut single, Carry You, debuted at No. 6 in the Official UK Charts.
Talking about the tour they said: "The thing we love most about music is performing and we are so excited to get out on the road for our first ever tour. Playing our album to fans will be brilliant."
Josh from the band told more than one million Twitter followers that he is "sooo excited" for the tour to start.
The band, who finished fourth in last year's X Factor, recently signed a book deal to record their journey so far.
Tickets for the tour go on sale at 9am on Friday, 14 June. Prices will range between £22.50 and £29.50 depending on the venue.
December 2013
Saturday 14 Oxford New Theatre
Sunday 15 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Monday 16 Sheffield City Hall
Wednesday 18 Plymouth Pavilions
Thursday 19 Brighton Centre
Saturday 21 O2 Apollo Manchester
Sunday 22 Bournemouth BIC
Monday 23 Hammersmith Apollo (Matinee)
Monday 23 Hammersmith Apollo
Saturday 28 Newcastle City Hall
Sunday 29 Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Monday 30 O2 Apollo Manchester
January 2014
Friday 3 Ipswich Regent
Sunday 5 Bristol Colston Hall
Monday 6 EchoTwo at Echo Arena Liverpool
Tuesday 7 Glasgow Clyde Auditorium
Thursday 9 Blackpool Opera House
Friday 10 Birmingham NIA
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Yet in late November 2011, outdoor clothing business Patagonia did exactly that, taking out a full page in the New York Times, explaining the environmental costs of manufacturing the item, and asking people to think twice before they bought one.
It has done a similar campaign - asking people to buy only what they need - around the same time each year since. And almost in direct correlation its sales have kept rising, with this year expected to be the most profitable in the Californian firm's 45-year history, with predicted sales of $750m (£495m).
Telling people to buy less seems to have spurred them to do the exactly the opposite.
Patagonia's chief executive Rose Marcario rejects this, arguing that its campaigns have made like-minded people want to shop there, and alongside a wider distribution network, has helped it to gain market share.
For her, the company's growth is proof that its view of capitalism - taking its impact on the planet as seriously as the financial metrics - can work.
Patagonia guarantees its clothes for life, and offers repairs "at a reasonable charge" for normal wear and tear - it estimates it'll do 40,000 individual repairs this year.
It also invites people to share stories of their favourite old items on its blog, and helps customers swap or recycle clothing. And since 1985 it has given 1% of its revenues each year to environmental groups, amounting to around $70m so far.
Businesses can be a "positive agent for change," insists Ms Marcario.
"For us it's not a contradiction. We want people to buy better quality, durable goods, and at the end of their lives recycle them," she says.
The US firm is one of a small number of clothing companies actively countering the proliferation of cheap wears, where new collections delivered weekly, or in some cases daily, has helped fuel a seemingly insatiable desire to buy more stuff.
The fact that many of the items are so cheap - a £10 top or £20 dress - makes it easy to buy stuff, increasingly items of clothing we don't actually need, and then just as easily discard after they have been worn a couple of times, or even never.
This year, in the UK and the US, consumers are expected to spend more than ever before on clothing and accessories, £53.5bn and $274.8bn respectively, according to market research firm Mintel.
Such overconsumption is taking its toll on the environment, with UK government agency Wrap calculating that some £140m worth (350,000 tonnes) of used clothing goes to landfill in the country every year.
But are companies - which clearly benefit the more we buy - really the ones to try and push the change?
Kate Fletcher, professor of sustainability, design, fashion at the London College of Fashion, is sceptical.
She notes it's "canny" for businesses to try to give their products more meaning.
"People are looking for values in products," she says. "It's a response to an absence of need. Companies have seen a gap and are setting out a different sort of purpose which fills those needs."
As part of her research Ms Fletcher has spent time studying the clothing people hang on to, and found they're rarely garments designed to be durable, but ones they've become attached to.
And she also notes that buying one meaningful durable item doesn't stop people buying more.
"People have an infinite capacity for every more meaningful garments," she says.
Nonetheless, she believes making people more aware of the effort and resources that go into making clothing would help to provide greater respect for them, and make people less inclined to discard them.
It's something that Carin Mansfield, founder of clothing brand Universal Utility, is trying to do.
Walking into her minimalist, small four-storey shop, In-ku, on a central London side street, with white washed walls and just a few garments hanging on hooks on each floor, is a complete contrast to the busy, crowded shops just a few steps away on Tottenham Court Road.
The clothes she makes are inspired by old workwear. Pre-washed so they won't shrink further and slightly crumpled, the loose fitting garments are sewn precisely, with all raw edges hidden.
Her three London-based machinists make each garment individually, rather than parts of the whole such as in a factory, and are paid per item of clothing, rather than by the hour.
It means there's no economy of scale, and Ms Mansfield says that to create garments in this work intensive way "you've got to be a slight maniac".
She spent two decades working like this as a wholesaler, including a 10-year collaboration with Comme des Garcons, but rejected an offer from the Japanese fashion label to make her clothes under licence, after seeing the samples and realising it just wasn't possible to scale up her work without significantly compromising the quality.
Instead she set up the shop, where each item costs an average of £500. To make sufficient profit, she should charge between £800 and £900, but she says it's "hard enough" to sell them at their current price.
Explaining why the clothes cost so much is difficult she says, adding that sometimes you sound too much like you're trying to sell them, and the vast majority of customers aren't interested.
After two years in business, she takes a small salary, but is not in profit. But she says she's okay with the fact she hasn't made a fortune.
"Making something of quality that is appreciated is worth lots more in the end," she says.
Tom Cridland, founder of his eponymous menswear brand, makes trousers, t-shirts and sweatshirts that are guaranteed for 30 years. He is adamant that it is possible to make durable, higher quality items profitably.
On both his sweatshirts and trousers - which cost £55 and £89 respectively - he makes a decent profit, and sales totalled £250,000 last year. He says he's transparent about his costs because he wants to encourage other fashion retailers to do the same.
The brand is just two-years-old, meaning that it's too early to tell if the items really will last for three decades.
The idea, he says, was initially a way for him to try and get exposure for his company in a crowded marketplace, and has resulted in what he says is a "more gimmicky" brand than he originally envisioned.
But he says it's also persuaded him of the merits of sustainable fashion for customers and the planet.
"It's fair to expect obsolescence in terms of trendy items, but not when you're selling a white t-shirt."
The Winifred engine, which began its working life at the Penrhyn Quarry in Bethesda, has been restored by Bala Lake Railway.
Railway enthusiast Mr Waterman performed the re-launch at Llanuwchllyn Station on what is the engine's 130th anniversary.
Winifred will now be used to pull people in carriages rather than slate.
Allardyce, 60, has guided the Hammers to eighth place in the top flight before Wednesday's trip to Southampton.
"I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more," said Allardyce. "That's not trying to criticise any other coaches.
"But there is only Arsene Wenger who has done it longer than me. I'm just as good as everybody at this stage."
Arsenal boss Wenger has been in charge since September 1996, with Allardyce first managing in the Premier League with Bolton in 2001.
Allardyce was under heavy pressure at Upton Park a year ago after a run of bad results and criticism of his style of play, but has turned their fortunes around.
His criticism of Manchester United's "long-ball" tactics in the 1-1 draw at the weekend led to United boss Louis van Gaal defending his style of play with documents in his news conference on Tuesday.
West Ham face another Dutchman on Wednesday in the form of Saints boss Ronald Koeman and Allardyce, who has managed Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn and West Ham in the Premier League, believes he deserves respect for his record.
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He said: "They may well have gained more experience by managing abroad, like Louis van Gaal, Ronald Koeman and people like that, but in this country, with the experience they've got, I don't think there is any coach that would be in that position [of being more sophisticated than me].
"That comes from the amount of time you do in the job, how much experience you gain in the job and how much knowledge you strive for on a regular basis to keep the cutting edge.
"The cutting edge is what's new in football, what's the next level, where is it going to be, how can you find it, how can you implement it into your club?
"I've always been that way inclined. I've never stood still and it's probably why I am still here managing in the Premier League for the last 13-14 years."
In 2010, while manager of Blackburn, Allardyce said he would be able to take charge of the biggest clubs in Europe.
"I would be more suited to Inter Milan or Real Madrid," he said.
"It wouldn't be a problem for me to manage those clubs because I would win the double or the league every time.
"Give me Manchester United or Chelsea and I would do the same, it wouldn't be a problem."
After a string of saves from Lee Grant before the break, United made the breakthrough when substitute Anthony Martial swept home a curling shot.
It appeared to be a fatal blow to a Stoke side who had rarely threatened.
But when De Gea failed to hold Glen Johnson's shot and Jon Walters' follow-up came off the bar, Allen poked in.
Paul Pogba rattled the bar with a header as United mounted a late siege on the Stoke goal, but Mark Hughes' side clung on to the point that takes them off the bottom of the table.
Stoke have still won just once this season, but this result far outshines August's 4-0 EFL Cup win at Stevenage.
Hughes' side briefly looked like they could be overwhelmed after conceding the opening goal, but they recovered their composure to take the final opportunity that came their way.
Johnson's shot from the edge of the area took a slight deflection, but De Gea appeared to be caught between pushing the ball away and catching it and ultimately did neither.
The Spanish goalkeeper is one of the few United players whose stock has risen in the turbulent post-Sir Alex Ferguson era at Old Trafford, but he was not allowed to forget his rare error as Allen - who had missed his side's best chance until that point - pounced.
Stoke's resilience was rewarded and the visitors will go into their league meeting with bottom side Sunderland after the international break with renewed confidence.
Jose Mourinho's arrival in the summer was seen as a guarantee of improved results at Old Trafford, but his side are three points behind the total collected by predecessor Louis van Gaal at the same stage last season and are five off current leaders Manchester City.
However, the attacking style of football - the half of United's tradition that some feared Mourinho would fail to deliver - is began to re-emerge in a performance the Portuguese described as United's best of the season.
Wayne Rooney, on the bench for the second league game running, watched on as his team-mates prospered in his absence in the first half.
With Ander Herrera sitting deeper, Pogba was free to push into an advanced position and his determination and vision set up a great chance for Zlatan Ibrahimovic after only two minutes, before the Frenchman slid a shot wide at the end of another incisive move.
Pogba's enthusiasm occasionally got the better of him as he was tempted by increasingly ambitious long-range efforts, but he kept demanding the ball and came within inches of a dramatic winner.
While his improvement continues, the February 2014 decision to grant Rooney a lucrative contract until the end of 2018-19 season is likely to come under increasing scrutiny.
After Jack Butland broke his ankle on England duty in March, Stoke conceded 33 goals in 13 games, winning just one.
But in Grant, they may have found some to keep the gloves warm until Butland - who hopes to begin training next week - returns.
The 33-year-old signed on loan from Derby in August, and his start in last weekend's draw against West Brom was his first in the league since January.
But he produced a string of superb first-half saves to keep Stoke level, getting down sharply to deny Ibrahimovic one-on-one and then plunging to his right to turn away Jesse Lingard's effort from close in.
Allen's late goal might grab the headlines but it would have been a mere consolation but for Grant's heroics at the other end.
Stoke manger Mark Hughes: "I'm really pleased with the performance we put in today. We had a good game plan and executed to the letter.
"You have to play well to get anything from Old Trafford. We were solid and looked dangerous on the break.
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"Joe Allen was immense for us today. He has got great energy and awareness and sees things earlier than most people.
"When you come to places like Old Trafford your keeper has to have a good day and that happened. He saved many number of shots. He's a good keeper, a good character, and we're pleased he's with us.
"We're more like the Stoke that we know we can be. We've got players back, continuity at the back so that's helping us. We've found a form and a mix of players which will help us short term, if not long term."
Manchester United travel to rivals Liverpool after the international break. The teams meet at 20:00 BST on Monday 17 October. Stoke play Sunderland on Saturday 15 October.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, Stoke City 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, Stoke City 1.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City).
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Joe Allen.
Substitution, Stoke City. Phil Bardsley replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Lee Grant.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Substitution, Manchester United. Memphis Depay replaces Ander Herrera.
Goal! Manchester United 1, Stoke City 1. Joe Allen (Stoke City) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City).
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Wilfried Bony.
Substitution, Stoke City. Jonathan Walters replaces Marko Arnautovic because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) because of an injury.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Attempt blocked. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Attempt blocked. Eric Bailly (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Attempt blocked. Daley Blind (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
Goal! Manchester United 1, Stoke City 0. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney replaces Juan Mata.
Attempt missed. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Juan Mata.
The mission involving the Lancaster Bomber from 617 Squadron was later immortalised in The Dam Busters film.
Its bombs destroyed the Möhne Dam in Germany's Ruhr Valley on 17 May 1943.
Auctioneers said interest in what they described as "one of the most important items from World War Two" had "exceeded expectations".
According to JP Humbert Auctioneers, based near Silverstone in Northamptonshire, the button was pressed by Pilot Officer John Fort on board Lancaster bomber ED 906 AJ-J, which was piloted by David Maltby and was the fifth aircraft to attack the Mohne Dam.
It sold for £39,500 at the "Dambusters Collection" auction earlier.
The button and other items from the plane had been given to the Hydneye House school museum by Squadron Leader David Maltby, whose father was the headmaster.
When the school closed a former pupil acquired the items.
They included four large marbles, which also went under the hammer. that were used by bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis in the development of his weapon.
The marbles fetched £18,500 while an altimeter went for £6,200.
The altimeter was specially fitted at eye level to bomber ED932 AJ-G, piloted by Guy Gibson, to aid in low-level flying on approach to the doomed Möhne Dam.
A cockpit blackout blind from Gibson's plane sold for £640.
Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said: "We anticipated global interest in these evocative and iconic pieces of 20th Century British history and I am pleased to report that interest exceeded expectation."
Gray, 24, has scored 23 league goals this season - 21 of them coming since a £9m move from Brentford in August.
McCormack, 29, has netted 21 times in the Championship for struggling Fulham.
Judge, 27, scored 14 goals in 38 league games for Brentford before suffering a season-ending injury on Saturday.
The Republic of Ireland international broke his leg in the win at Ipswich, which will rule him out of Euro 2016 in France this summer.
"It has been Alan's most productive season and he has been talismanic for us," Brentford head coach Dean Smith told BBC Radio London.
"I am really pleased he has been recognised for what he has been doing. It is going to be hard for whoever has to pick between those three players.
"Whoever wins it is going to deserve it."
The Football League Awards ceremony will be held in Manchester on Sunday.
Championship Player of the Year: Andre Gray (Burnley), Alan Judge (Brentford), Ross McCormack (Fulham)
League One Player of the Year: Nicky Ajose (Swindon), Bradley Dack (Gillingham), Romaine Sawyers (Walsall)
League Two Player of the Year: Ricky Holmes (Northampton), Kemar Roofe (Oxford), Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers)
Young Player of the Year: Lewis Cook (Leeds), Moussa Dembele (Fulham), Rico Henry (Walsall)
John Davies was 94 when he died in Great Yarmouth earlier this month.
He served in World War II, when he was stationed in North America, Africa and India, but his funeral on Wednesday was due to be poorly attended.
A Facebook post has suggested people pay their respects "to see this gentleman on his final journey".
He lived his final years at The Gables care home in Gorleston, Norfolk, where deputy manager Julie Hayes remembered him as a "real gentleman".
"He hated TV, he called it the fools' lantern, but would write poetry and sing to us while wearing his top hat," she said.
Mr Davies had two brothers and two sisters, who all pre-deceased him, and never married.
"He had quite a tragic life," added Ms Hayes.
"He was supposed to meet his proposed wife in Malta, but then he was stationed in North Africa, so he missed his wedding.
"He never knew what happened to her.
"He also never got over the death of his brother, who was also in the RAF and was just 19 when he was killed in the war."
A message about his death and forthcoming funeral was posted on a serviceman's forum earlier this month, where it was spotted by Mick Smith.
He reposted the plea on his own page on Friday, after noticing it was getting "little attention". It has since been shared more than 700 times.
"I've got friends in Great Yarmouth in the services and ex-services and so the message spread like a bush fire," said Mr Smith, of Newmarket, Suffolk.
"We've heard from RAF veterans' organisations who have said they will send standard bearers, it's really heart-warming."
Mr Davies was born and bred in Burgh Castle, near Great Yarmouth, and left school at 14 to work on a poultry farm for seven shillings a week.
He remembered the Regal Cinema being built and watched the first film shown there, The Private Lives of Henry VIII.
Aged 15, he walked to London - sleeping in a haystack en route - to join his brother, Arthur.
He was a hotel chef in the capital before and after World War II, and later a maintenance engineer at The Star Hotel in Great Yarmouth until his retirement.
He continued to work into his mid-80s, running a market stall selling CDs in aid of the Caister Lifeboat.
Mr Smith has helped organise an escort of bikers, who will ride with Mr Davies' coffin from Great Yarmouth to Gorleston.
"Someone with such a distinguished service record for this country should be given a really good send-off," he added.
"I hate it when you hear about carers attending a funeral and there being a four or five people there, I think that's so sad.
"People like him built this country."
Police said the incident happened at about 13:45 in Elmbank Street.
A spokeswoman for the force said the injured pedestrian was taken by ambulance to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
His condition is unknown.
Grieg laid off 50 people in March this year, and has now said its salmon processing factory will not be reopening.
Regional director Sigurd Pettersen said the operation was losing the company money and it would have been too expensive to try to turn it around.
The company's WildWaters smoked salmon was an award-winning range.
Worcestershire has six constituencies and has Herefordshire has two.
Partial and full elections are at Worcester City Council and Herefordshire Council, respectively.
Polls opened at 07:00 BST and close at 22:00. Follow the latest from the counts in both counties here. Or, for the latest from the constituencies here.
The Fenland buildings are dated to 1,000-800BC, towards the end of Britain's Bronze Age. If we were to go back to that time, what other buildings could we have seen?
By 1,000-800BC Egypt's New Kingdom, which produced such magnificent monuments as the temples of Karnak and Abu Simbel, was already over. The Giza pyramids were over 1,000 years old.
The pharaoh Sheshonq of the 22nd dynasty added some embellishments to the Karnak complex at the time of the Must Farm buildings. As Raiders of the Lost Ark viewers will remember, he is also said to have looted the treasures from Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem - which would no doubt have been an impressive building too.
Wear and tear have been less kind to the brick monuments of Mesopotamia and other parts of the Near East than to the stones of Egypt. But outstanding monuments would have included the lofty ziggurats ascending to the sky, like that of Ur, constructed in the early Bronze Age and rebuilt many times.
Travellers to Greece would have been able to see the sizeable buildings erected by the Mycenaean civilisation - which had collapsed some 200 years before, although no-one is sure why.
The best-preserved of these are the great "beehive tombs" of Mycenae, particularly the so-called "Treasury of Atreus".
And in Britain, as in many parts of Europe, the monuments of the Neolithic period which preceded the Bronze Age would still have been prominent, as indeed Stonehenge still is today. The stones were set up in the form in which we know them before 2,000BC.
The crash happened on Mountain Road near Trimsaran in Carmarthenshire just before 23:20 BST.
One boy is at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, and the other was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital Wales.
The road remains closed while investigations are carried out. Police have seized a second vehicle which was present at the scene.
Any witnesses are asked to contact Carmarthenshire Roads Policing Unit on 101.
Government Senator Fiona Nash revealed she is a UK citizen by descent because of her Scottish-born father.
Australian politicians are not allowed to hold dual citizenship.
The saga has gripped Australian politics for five weeks, forcing dozens of MPs to make statements about their citizenship status.
Ms Nash is deputy leader of the National Party, the junior partner in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's governing coalition.
Like Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who is a New Zealand dual citizen, Ms Nash said she would continue in her position until the High Court clarifies a section of Australia's constitution.
She said she had legal advice that she had not breached rules.
Four other politicians will also have their eligibility tested in court as early as next week:
Mr Joyce sits in the lower House of Representatives, where Mr Turnbull's government has only a one-seat majority.
If any government MPs in the lower house were to be ruled ineligible, it would trigger a complex process that could threaten Mr Turnbull's hold on power.
On Thursday, Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan was forced to deny he was a British citizen, but his case will not go before court.
Keith Gregory, 63, of no fixed address, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody until an appearance on Thursday.
Gainsborough's The Morning Walk, part of the permanent British Paintings exhibition, was damaged on Saturday.
The painting has been removed from display until it is restored.
The 18th Century work depicts couple William Hallett and Elizabeth Stephen walking through a woodland landscape.
Dr Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery, said The Morning Walk was one of Gainsborough's "most famous" works.
He told the BBC: "It has all the dreamy, beautiful feathery brushstrokes of Gainsborough.
"When people think of Gainsborough, The Morning Walk may well be one of the first pictures that comes to their mind."
Gallery conservators are assessing the next steps of a conservation effort to restore the work.
Mr Gregory refused legal representation at the court hearing.
Meetings have been scheduled with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, he said.
The Nafta agreement came into effect between the three countries in 1994.
Mr Trump has called it the worst trade deal the US has ever signed.
The White House website says that if Canada and Mexico refuse to accept a renegotiation of Nafta that provides a "fair deal" for American workers, then the US will move to withdraw from it.
Speaking at a ceremony to swear in senior White House staff, Mr Trump said he would also talk with Mr Pena Nieto about immigration and border security in a meeting that the White House says will take place on 31 January.
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"Mexico has been terrific. The president has been really very amazing," he said.
"I think we are going to have a very good result for Mexico, for the United States, for everybody involved."
No date has been given for a meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Trudeau.
Mr Pena Nieto's office said on Saturday that the Mexican leader had called Mr Trump to congratulate him.
The Mexican president "reiterated the strategic priority of bilateral ties... and expressed his interest in maintaining an open dialogue," a statement said.
Mr Pena Nieto has faced criticism in Mexico for lacking a clear plan of action to deal with President Trump's threats, which include building a massive border wall at Mexico's expense and slapping a tax on Mexican imports.
Protests were held on Friday outside a Ford showroom in Mexico City after the car company cancelled an $1.6bn (£1.3bn) plant it planned to build in Mexico.
In February the secretary of state for communities and local government gave the go-ahead for Route 39 Academy to set up at Steart Farm, Bideford.
The decision overruled a previous rejection by Torridge District Council, and the advice of a planning inspector.
Acting principal Jordan Kelly said the school had a "huge amount of support".
"I hear a lot of people saying to me 'I wish this school was open when my kids went to school'", Mr Kelly said.
More than 100 parents and pupils from the academy attended the meeting on Friday, where councillors decided not to launch a judicial review into the government's decision.
Deputy leader of Torridge District Council James Morrish said the council's solicitor estimated that a judicial review would have cost the council between £30,000 and £50,000.
"And that's a huge amount of money for a very small authority like Torridge", he said.
Route 39 Academy, which was opened by a group of local parents in September 2013, is temporarily based in an old school in Clovelly, and has plans to expand to accommodate 700 pupils.
The proposed site is located within the North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and currently has a farmstead and camping and caravan park.
Under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, applicants can appeal against local planning rejections to the secretary of state, who may intervene in cases of more than local significance.
The world number two from Northern Ireland needs victory in the Masters to become only the sixth player to have won all four major titles.
McIlroy's closing 69 came after rounds of 72, 73 and 71.
"It wasn't quite good enough - I gave a decent account for myself and will come back next year and try again," he said.
McIlroy felt he still had a chance of claiming a first green jacket if he could match, or better, his lowest score in the Masters, a 65 in the first round having seemingly set himself on course for victory in 2011.
However, after making a birdie on the par-five second, he three-putted the fourth from 95 feet and had to scramble to save par on the next two holes.
Birdies on the eighth, 13th and 16th ensured McIlroy broke 70 for the first time this week and he refused to blame a limited schedule this year, caused by a rib injury, for his performance.
McIlroy finished on three under and six shots behind winner Sergio Garcia.
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"It wasn't quite as adventurous as previous Masters have been for me," added McIlroy.
"I didn't get too high with some really low nine-hole scores, but I didn't shoot any nine-hole scores that were in the 40s. It was quite a consistent, steady Masters for me.
"I felt like I had an opportunity on Saturday to shoot something in the mid to high 60s which would have got me closer to the lead and I didn't quite do that."
McIlroy is the only player to have finished in the top 10 in each of the last four Masters.
They have won all five games in the Qualifiers to secure a top-flight place for the first time since 2005.
Beaumont told BBC Radio Manchester four players have agreed moves with three or four more signings being considered.
"We've got signings which we've not announced yet because it is just not appropriate to do so," he said.
"We will be spending next year's full salary cap no matter what."
Before the Super 8s, Leigh won a third Championship title in a row after losing just one game during the season.
However it was not the smoothest start to the campaign with head coach Paul Rowley resigning 10 days before the season started, to be replaced by Neil Jukes.
"Paul Rowley chucking his towel in early doors was probably the best thing that could have happened to the club in hindsight" added Beaumont
"Jukesy has stepped in, I knew he could do the job, he's done a great job and the people that were unsettled last year moved on and we brought in players we thought could do the job.
"We set the players a little target at the beginning of the campaign that if we could get through without the Million Pound Game I'd take them all away and we'd match that game in the sun, and that's what is what we're going to do."
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Wayne Keightley, 42, of Rutland Street, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, had already been convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Leicester magistrates sentenced him to 10 weeks prison and banned him from keeping a pet for three years.
The RSPCA, which brought the case, said Gypsy was left "terrified and in pain" but was now recovering well.
Keightley claimed the female Staffordshire bull terrier fell as he tried to escape a gang who had broken into the flat.
He said he threw a vase through the second floor window before jumping himself and breaking his ankle.
His trial earlier this month heard he told paramedics at the scene he had been drinking and had taken drugs.
The defence insisted Keightley had been a "dog lover all his life".
District Judge Tim Daber said: "Thankfully the injuries seem to be superficial, but it was the result of quite an horrific act, for whatever reason that act was committed."
Keightley was jailed for a further four weeks after activating a suspended sentence for knife possession.
The index gained to 51.5 last month, from 49.6 in August, driven by a jump in new orders. A reading above 50 signals growth.
The data sent the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average higher.
The data came as other surveys showed weak manufacturing readings for Europe, the UK and China.
The ISM survey "will boost hopes that some of the recent slowdown in economic growth was just a summer phenomenon", said Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics.
But a separate survey by Markit suggested manufacturing activity fell to a three-year low in September.
The Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) for manufacturing activity fell to 51.1 from 51.5 in August, indicating that growth in the sector is slowing.
The PMI measure for the third quarter was also at a three-year low.
Markit chief economist Chris Williamson said the US PMI reading indicated weakness in the sector was likely to be affecting the wider economy.
"Economic growth... looks to have slowed further from the 1.3% annualised rate seen in the second quarter, possibly even stagnating," he said.
Weak overseas demand saw new orders for exports slip at their fastest rate in 11 months.
Earlier, eurozone PMI figures had shown that the downturn in the manufacturing sector there had eased slightly in September.
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The tape purports to carry a conversation with a newspaper owner in which they discuss actions that would be mutually beneficial.
Mr Netanyahu was questioned by police last week in two different cases.
On Sunday he repeated that "nothing's going to come" out of the inquiry.
The details of the conversation on the audiotape were carried in a report on Channel 2 television and the Haaretz newspaper.
They claim that the second person on the tape is Arnon "Noni" Mozes, the publisher of the Yedioth Ahronot newspaper.
Channel 2 and Haaretz allege that on the tape Mr Netanyahu offers Mr Mozes a deal under which the circulation of the competitor daily Israel Hayom would be limited in return for more favourable coverage of the PM in Yedioth Ahronot.
It was unclear when the purported conversation took place, although Haaretz said it may have been several months ago.
Haaretz said that Mr Mozes had also been questioned last week.
Israeli media have covered the story widely and say there has been no response so far from Mr Netanyahu or Mr Mozes.
Mr Netanyahu did speak on Sunday, before the Channel 2 report aired.
The Jerusalem Post reported him as telling his Likud party ministers: "To my dismay I cannot provide details. What I can tell you today, now that I know what this is about, and I will tell you this with full confidence: nothing will be found because there is nothing.
"What we do have here is wrong, incessant pressure that media elements are applying on law-enforcement officials. They're blowing balloons and hot air is coming out of them, one by one. It will be the same in this case."
Mr Netanyahu, 67, was twice questioned last week, on matters referred to as Case 1000 and Case 2000.
Case 1000 is said to concern the alleged acceptance of "improper gifts" worth thousands of dollars from businessmen.
There have been no official details at all on Case 2000.
Opponents of Mr Netanyahu had called for an investigation into his affairs following a series of scandals in recent months - none of which has resulted in charges.
Tzipi Livni, of the Zionist Union, said on Saturday that Mr Netanyahu had "lost the moral authority to be prime minister" and "must decide if he wants to be an oligarch or a prime minister", the Jerusalem Post reported.
Netanyahu denies wrongdoing ahead of investigation
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Israeli media have reported the existence of an audiotape that is increasing pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing an inquiry into corruption allegations.
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Assembly Tory leader Andrew RT Davies said although devolved, health was one of the main election issues for voters.
"Wherever you go across Wales people raise the issue of the NHS, and Labour are running the NHS in Wales," he said.
Labour responded saying that Tory sums on the NHS "simply don't add up".
Mr Davies said Welsh Conservatives would protect health spending and introduce a cancer drugs fund.
He defended his party's decision to campaign on an area of policy that was not controlled in Wales by Westminster.
"(Labour leader) Ed Miliband has used the example of 'compare and contrast', and I think it is perfectly reasonable to point out we don't have a cancer drugs fund here in Wales and some of the most disappointing ambulance response times on record," he said.
"There is a real dilemma for voters in May. Do they want to vote for the Conservative party who want to protect health spending or do they endorse a party who have drastically cut health provision in Wales?"
But Welsh Labour's Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething accused the Conservatives of wanting to privatise the NHS.
"The Tories have had three opportunities in the campaign so far to rule out privatising the NHS and they have refused to do so" he said.
He added: "This election is a clear choice between a Labour government that would invest in the NHS to train an extra 1000 doctors, nurses and front-line staff, or a Tory government that would introduce a tablet tax for sick people and privatise health services."
Elsewhere on the campaign trail on Monday, Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams was promising better rural health care while visiting target seats in mid Wales.
Ms Williams said her party wanted to invest in cottage hospitals and community care.
"An urgent care centre in Montgomeryshire is essential if we are to relieve pressure on A&E departments and cut waiting times," she said.
Plaid Cymru accused its rivals of neglecting the economy of north Wales.
Party leader Leanne Wood said: "Every community has a stake in making our country a success and it is time the north of Wales got the investment and vision it deserves from governments in Cardiff and London."
UKIP's leader in Wales Nathan Gill was campaigning in Brecon and Radnorshire.
Meanwhile Labour has promised more powers for Wales over transport, energy and assembly elections in its manifesto launched in Manchester on Monday.
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Javad Zarif said that the Maersk shipping company, which charters the vessel, had been ordered by an Iranian court to pay damages to a private firm.
The Maersk Tigris was seized in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday with 24 crew on board.
The United States has sent a military vessel to monitor the situation.
Maersk said the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel was in an international shipping lane when it was detained.
But Iranian authorities noted that it had been in the country's waters.
Speaking in New York, Mr Zarif said Iran respected the rights to freedom of navigation in the Gulf.
"The Persian Gulf is our lifeline," he added.
He dismissed speculation that the move was linked to the ongoing conflict in Yemen, where the US has deployed an aircraft carrier group.
The crew of the ship are mostly from Eastern Europe and Asia, with one British national on board. Maersk said they were safe and "in good spirits".
A spokesman for the Danish foreign ministry told AFP it was "following the situation closely" and had been in contact with Maersk.
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Developers had earlier won an appeal against an Aberdeenshire Council decision to reject the proposal.
Lawyers for local residents Nicola Brown and Edna Booth argued in the Court of Session that the Blackdog works could pose a danger to health.
But Lady Smith said the earlier appeal had been considered legally.
The substation development at Blackdog is just a few miles from the American tycoon's Menie estate and golf course.
Mr Trump claims the wind farm development would spoil the view from his complex.
By driving a sped-up version of natural selection in the lab, the method has created new enzymes for industrial catalysts, household detergents, and even to make rocket fuel from sugar.
The €1m (£0.8m) prize is awarded biennially and Prof Arnold is the first female winner in its 12-year history.
It recognises developments that "change people's lives for the better".
The Technology Academy Finland, which presents the prize, said the deliberations began in November 2015 but that "there was only one outstanding candidate".
Prof Arnold, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), spoke to the BBC before travelling to Helsinki for Tuesday's ceremony.
She said the "basic concept" of using evolution to create better enzymes emerged from her laboratory more than 20 years ago.
"Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time. And I figured out that this should be the algorithm for forward design, for making new biological code that is useful to humans," Prof Arnold said.
"I came in… from basically nowhere. That research was being done by biochemists and protein scientists - molecular biologists. And I was a chemical engineer.
"I basically knew nothing about the field. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it, because I would have known how hard it was."
With her engineering background, Prof Arnold wanted to make new, useful, problem-solving proteins. So she took her cue from the way nature does the same thing.
"I looked at it and said, well, nature didn't actually design enzymes... How does this happen? You make mutations randomly, you look through a large number of things for the ones that have the properties you're interested in, then you repeat the process.
"And you iterate, accumulating beneficial changes over multiple generations - pretty much like we've done for cats, dogs, cows, chickens, you name it."
But instead of breeding animals, the directed evolution process works directly with small stretches of DNA and the proteins they encode.
It is now used in laboratories worldwide and has produced many valuable enzymes, including one used in manufacturing Januvia, a popular drug for type 2 diabetes, which would otherwise be produced using heavy metals.
"They replaced a chemical process with an enzymatic process, thereby completely eliminating toxic metals that were needed... and getting solvent waste reduction of 60%," said Prof Arnold.
"We're talking tonnes of material."
Directed evolution has also produced catalysts that allow industrial chemicals and fuels to be made from renewable sources.
Prof Arnold is a leading proponent of this such "green" chemistry and has co-founded a company, Gevo, that works in this area.
"Isobutanol is not a natural product, but we evolved an enzyme that makes it possible to convert plant sugars to this precursor to jet fuel," she said. "So this company is producing jet fuel from renewable resources."
Previous winners of the Millennium Technology Prize have included British computer pioneers Stuart Parkin, whose research radically expanded the capacity of computer hard drives, and Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web.
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The 165km stage came alive at the end as crosswinds split the peloton before Matthews held off Edvald Boasson Hagen.
Froome leads by 18 seconds over Italy's Fabio Aru and 23 seconds over France's Romain Bardet with five stages to go.
Marcel Kittel was dropped early on a bad day for his Quick-Step team after Dan Martin lost time on the leaders.
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The German sprinter was looking for his sixth stage win but Matthews' Sunweb team pulled hard to distance him, with the Australian also winning the intermediate sprint to move 29 points behind Kittel in the green jersey points classification.
Ireland's Martin was caught behind a split on the run-in to Romans-sur-Isere and dropped to seventh overall as Britain's Simon Yates moved up to sixth and extended his lead in the best young rider's white jersey competition.
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Matthews, who also won Saturday's stage 14, initially tried to leave Kittel behind by getting in a breakaway group during a frantic start after the roll-out in Le Puy-en-Velay.
Those attempts failed but with the category three climb of Cote de Boussoulet coming early in the stage, Sunweb upped the pace and Kittel was soon visibly struggling, also lacking the help of key team-mate Philippe Gilbert, who pulled out before the start through illness.
The green jersey leader never looked like bridging the gap as Sunweb ruthlessly drove on over the second and final climb of the day and down onto flatter terrain.
An unchallenged Matthews took 20 points at the intermediate sprint before his team-mates then also helped rid the front group of sprint rivals Andre Greipel and Nacer Bouhanni as high winds split up the peloton inside the final 20km.
The final drag saw BMC's Greg van Avermaet go early but Matthews had enough power to pass him and deny a surging Boasson Hagen and John Degenkolb on the line.
Kittel rolled home easily within the time limit and still has stage 19 and the final stage in Paris to target victory. But as the form rider and with perhaps the form team in the race, Matthews could snatch a green jersey that had looked safe.
Kittel's struggle had a disastrous knock-on effect for Quick-Step later in the stage as Julien Vermote and Zdenek Stybar dropped back to help their sprinter but also never made it back.
It meant two of the most impressive riders of the Tour so far were not present when Martin slipped behind the other favourites, leaving an exhausted Jack Bauer to try in vain to bridge the gap.
As a result, Martin - who has been battling a back injury since a crash involving Richie Porte on stage nine - lost 51 seconds and perhaps his chance of finishing on the podium.
"I didn't have great legs today and the team was suffering," Martin told ITV4. "We put a brave face on it at the start but we've had a few people sick."
Aru was also briefly caught behind a split but managed to recover, while South Africa's Louis Meintjes ended up in the same group as Martin and now trails Yates by nearly four minutes in the best young rider classification.
Spain's Alberto Contador also dropped out of the top 10, while New Zealand's George Bennett - who started the day 12th overall - was forced to abandon through illness partway through the stage.
Wednesday's stage 17 sees the race tackle two 'hors categorie' climbs, including the famous Col du Galibier, as the Tour finally reaches the Alps.
As the first of only two mountainous stages remaining, expect Froome's rivals to attack the Team Sky rider and try to claim the yellow jersey.
Stage 16 result:
1. Michael Matthews (Aus/Sunweb) 3hrs 38mins 15secs
2. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Dimension Data) Same time
3. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo)
4. Greg van Avermaet (Bel/BMC)
5. Christophe Laporte (Fra/Cofidis)
6. Jens Keukeleire (Bel/Orica)
7. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto Soudal)
8. Tiesj Benoot (Bel/Lotto Soudal)
9. Maciej Bodnar (Pol/Bora)
10. Romain Hardy (Fra/Fortuneo-Oscaro)
General classification after stage 16:
1. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) 68hrs 18mins 36secs
2. Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana) +18secs
3. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +23secs
4. Rigoberto Uran (Col/Cannondale-Drapac) +29secs
5. Mikel Landa (Spa/Team Sky) +1min 17secs
6. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +2mins 02secs
7. Dan Martin (Ire/Quick-Step) +2mins 03secs
8. Louis Meintjes (SA/Team UAE Emirates) +6mins 00secs
9. Damiano Caruso (Ita/BMC) +6mins 05secs
10. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +6mins 16secs
Perry's agent Tim Hancock said the writer, who was also behind Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M'Lord?, had died at his home on Sunday after a short illness.
He said he had "never met anyone... with as big a heart as Jimmy".
Ian Lavender, who played Private Pike in Dad's Army, said Perry's death was "the end of an era".
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Hi-de-Hi! actress Ruth Madoc said: "He was my great, great friend... he will be sorely missed.
"He understood comedy, and the comedy that he produced and wrote will stand the test of time. Lots of generations to come will love it still."
Shane Allen, BBC controller of comedy commissioning, said Perry's shows would be remembered for many years to come.
He said: "Jimmy Perry is a Goliath of British comedy writing. He was behind some of the longest running and most loved sitcoms on British television spanning the 60s, 70s and 80s."
In a tweet, comic Jack Dee said: "RIP Jimmy Perry. Amazing contribution to British telly. Watched Dad's Army only yesterday. Still as funny as when I watched it as a kid."
Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall and comedian Miranda Hart were among the other stars to take to Twitter to pay their respects to Perry.
In his writing, Perry drew upon his own experiences of being in the Home Guard during World War Two and as a Redcoat at Butlin's holiday camp.
Perry devised Dad's Army alongside producer David Croft and the pair also went on to create It Ain't Half Hot Mum, about an Army entertainment troupe during the war.
Dad's Army ran from 1968 for 80 episodes over nine years and the character Private Pike was based on Perry himself.
"He has been a part of my life for such a long time, half of an amazing partnership," Ian Lavender added.
Roy Gould, who worked as a production manager on Hi-de-Hi and You Rang M'Lord? said Perry was meticulous in his attention to detail.
"Jim always researched the material very, very, very well. In rehearsal and on location, Jim would have the script in his hand and make sure that everything was going absolutely right. He never left anything to chance," he told the BBC.
'Allo 'Allo! actress Vicki Michelle tweeted a photograph of herself with Perry, and wrote: "So sad we have lost #JimmyPerry a brilliant comedy writer & true gentleman. He leaves us such a legacy."
Perry also wrote some of his theme tunes, penning Holiday Rock for Hi-de-Hi! and winning an Ivor Novello Award in 1971 for the Dad's Army theme Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?
It is now the subject of criminal investigation and a parliamentary inquiry. Here is a guide to some of the institutions and key figures in the story.
Nama was established in December 2009 by the Irish government to address the serious problems that arose in Ireland's banking sector as the result of excessive property lending. It is effectively a "bad bank" responsible for recovering the value of problematic loans made by other Irish banks.
Nama had previously paid about £1.1bn to Irish banks for the Northern Ireland loans, that originally had a value of £4.5bn.
The name given to Nama's sale of loans taken by Northern Ireland property developers. The portfolio contained about 850 properties and development land, mostly in Northern Ireland but also in the Republic of Ireland and Britain. In January 2014, nine bidders from around the world were asked to come forward with proposals - two of them being Cerberus and Pimco.
The New York investment firm that bought the entire Northern Ireland loan portfolio from Nama, completed the deal in June 2014, for what is believed to have been about £1.3bn.
An international law firm, with offices in the US, Dublin, London and Paris. Cerberus says it engaged the firm as its lawyers for the Project Eagle sale.
The Irish independent politician who first made claims in the Irish parliament that a Belfast law firm had £7m in a bank account "reportedly earmarked" for a Northern Irish politician after the Nama NI property deal.
The Belfast law firm named by Mick Wallace in connection with allegations about the £7m in a bank account "reportedly earmarked" for a Northern Irish politician. The BBC found that the £7m in an Isle of Man bank account was intended to facilitate payments to non-lawyers or deal fixers. Tughans were employed by Brown Rudnick to work on behalf of Cerberus.
The Isle of Man account was controlled by Ian Coulter, who at the time was a managing partner at Tughans. The firm said he had "diverted" the money into the account without the knowledge of other senior staff. It said the payment was retrieved and Mr Coulter left the firm in January.
He was alleged at the assembly's Nama inquiry by loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson to be one of five people who was to receive a payment upon completion of the deal.
A Nama Northern Ireland adviser appointed in 2010. He had been involved in trying to set up the sale of the property portfolio to another US investment firm, Pimco and according to evidence in the Dáil stood to be paid £5m. Mr Cushnahan had resigned as advisor in November 2013, before the eventual sale to Cerberus.
He was alleged at the assembly's Nama inquiry by loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson to be one of five people who was to receive a payment upon completion of the deal.
Another Nama NI adviser and at the time, chairman of the Housing Executive. Both he and Frank Cushnahan were recommended for appointment to the Nama NI advisory committee by the then Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson.
A loyalist blogger who made several allegations about the Nama loan sale as he gave evidence to a Northern Ireland Assembly inquiry into the deal.
He told Stormont's Finance Committee that DUP leader Peter Robinson was among five people set to receive a payment upon completion of the Nama deal - an allegation that Mr Robinson has rejected.
Jamie Bryson first came to public prominence during loyalist protests against Belfast City Council's decision in December 2012 to limit the number of days that the union flag flies from the city hall. It had previously been flown all year round.
Some of the demonstrations resulted in violence.
Earlier this year, Mr Bryson was found guilty of taking part in unlawful public processions as part of the widespread demonstrations. He received a six-month suspended sentence.
Although he was not involved in violence, a judge said the unlawful marches caused disorder at a "very tense and sensitive time".
He previously stood as an independent candidate in the 2011 local government election, receiving 167 votes in North Down.
Northern Ireland's first minister, who was alleged by Mr Bryson at the assembly committee's Nama inquiry to be one of five people set to receive a payment upon completion of the Nama deal.
DUP leader Mr Robinson rejected the allegations as "scurrilous and unfounded".
A Belfast accountant alleged by Mr Bryson at the assembly committee's Nama inquiry to be one of five people set to receive a payment upon completion of the Nama deal.
A property developer alleged by Mr Bryson at the Stormont finance committee's Nama inquiry to be one of five people set to receive a payment upon completion of the Nama deal.
A US investment firm that had considered acquiring the NI Nama portfolio but, according to evidence given to an Irish Parliament committee, pulled out of the tender bidding process after discovering that Frank Cushnahan was in line for a £5m payment after the sale.
The professional body responsible for regulating the activities of solicitors in Northern Ireland. Tughans made the Law Society aware of Mr Coulter's departure in January and they had been investigating since then. After five months, it has called for any evidence about the sale of Nama's NI loan portfolio to be given to police and said it would co-operate with any police inquiry.
The Kilmona Group intends to build around 300,000 sq ft of office space, spread across four blocks.
Some residents in the adjacent Markets area have objected to the scheme, saying it will overshadow their homes and add to car parking problems.
The Kilmona Group owner, Paddy Kearney, told the council the scheme will represent an investment of over £50m.
He said the scheme is already on the shortlist of a potential occupier who requires 125,000 sq ft by early 2018.
It is understood that HM Revenue and Customs may be considering the development as they consolidate most of their Northern Ireland operations onto a single site.
The scheme will consist of a 14-storey block adjacent to the station, a 10-storey block fronting onto East Bridge Street and two three-storey blocks fronting onto Stewart Street.
Members of the Markets Development Association said they objected to the scale of the development.
Sinn Féin members on the planning committee voted against the scheme.
Stephen Blaney, the architect of the project from Coogan & Company, said the approval "sends a very positive message to the international investment community".
He added: "The design creates a new entry point for Belfast city centre and will be of a quality and size to attract the most demanding of international and domestic occupiers."
Jonathan Alan Smith, known as Johnny, was discovered by police at a flat on Middleton Road at about 16:10 BST on Wednesday following concerns about his welfare.
A post-mortem examination revealed the 44-year-old died from a single stab wound to the chest.
Police said they are unsure at this stage if anyone else was involved.
Det Insp Lewis Hughes, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We were initially called by a concerned neighbour who said they had not seen Johnny for a few days and were worried.
"At this moment in time, we do not know what has happened to him or whether a third party was involved in his death."
"Johnny was last seen in Chadderton town centre on 11 May and I would ask anyone who may have been in contact with him either that day or up until his death, to contact us."
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The Mercedes driver is "energised and excited" before the new season, which he starts as favourite after two consecutive world titles in 2014 and '15.
"Now it is just to see where I can go, into the unknown," the Briton said.
"I don't know how far I can go, how long I will go on in F1."
The 31-year-old added: "I am going into a new chapter in my life and I will see where it takes me."
The first race of the season is in Australia on 20 March.
Hamilton said that he was motivated by "my love for the sport and cars; my love for wanting to be able to take the car to the edge, to the unknown, to an area most people can't".
He added: "Those who said I would not succeed, and not amount to anything, I am going to continue to prove them wrong and smile in their face as I do so."
It is nearly five months since Hamilton clinched the 2015 title at the US Grand Prix last October but he said he still found it hard to come to terms with the fact that he had equalled the title tally of his hero Ayrton Senna.
"I still pinch myself every day to think I used to go home from school and put the video in and watch Ayrton and now I have matched him in a similar amount of races in terms of results," Hamilton said.
"But he still has more poles than me so I still have more targets in that sense."
However, Hamilton, who first won the drivers' championship in 2008, said he was not motivated by trying to match the achievements of specific drivers who have won more titles than him.
"People have said: 'Do you want to match Sebastian Vettel or Michael Schumacher?' he said. "That was never a goal for me.
"I don't know how long I will be as good as I have been. But that's the exciting thing about life; you don't know what's around the corner so I will give it everything I have got."
Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg, who has been beaten into second place in the past two years, said: "There's a cool battle with Lewis coming up again.
"It is a challenge I really look forward to, to try to beat him more often than not, somehow.
"Realistically, it is going to be tough because he has been better the last couple of years. He is the favourite but it will be a great battle and that's what I enjoy."
The German, who said his confidence had been boosted by a strong run of form at the end of last season, expects a tougher challenge from Ferrari this season.
"At the moment Ferrari look like the biggest threat and it is a serious threat because they are very, very close," Rosberg said.
"I hope we are still in front. For sure, we will be challenging for wins at least but let's wait and see."
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff says the team had "reduced" the number of rules they impose on their drivers in defining the acceptable limits of their battle.
This is partly because they have no choice following the introduction of severe restrictions on what teams can tell their drivers over the radio, and partly because they feel they can be trusted to fight on track without too much interference.
"We entered the season with a little more confidence without losing the plot," Wolff said.
"The current narrative is about the rivalry between Nico and Lewis. We understand it can get a little controversial because they are fighting for the drivers' title.
"They equally understand the spirit in the team. I have no doubts it is going to be OK this season, with a few hiccups now and then."
Rosberg's contract with Mercedes runs out at the end of 2016, while Hamilton is starting a new three-year deal.
"Nico is part of the family and we have not started any discussions elsewhere," Wolff said.
"We owe it to our driver to open up these discussions with him before talking to anyone else and understand where he sees his future. We have kept it as little away from him now so he can concentrate on the championship."
Asked whether he was interested in rising star Max Verstappen of Toro Rosso, Wolff said: "In F1 nothing is out of the question. I rate Max and I like (his father) Jos but they are contracted to Red Bull for quite some time and I like the two boys in Red Bull Racing as well (Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat).
"You need to be realistic about potential candidates but Nico is my number one priority at the moment. I am going to find out what he wants and then look elsewhere."
Police Scotland said the incident was reported at about 17:30.
Members of the coastguard are involved in the search.
Tens of thousands are being killed every year for their ivory tusks, which are illegally bought and sold by criminals around the world.
Leaders from across the world have met in Johannesburg in South Africa to discuss the future of the ivory trade, amongst other things.
Many people believe that the ivory trade is largely responsible for the world's declining elephant numbers.
Read Newsround's guide below to find out more about the ivory trade, the devastating impact it has had on the world's elephant populations and what has been decided in South Africa.
Then, take the quiz at the end of this guide and see how much you've managed to remember.
Elephants are extremely important to the places where they live.
They help to shape the landscape. When they trample through forests and undergrowth, they create clearings, making space for new plants and trees to grow.
They also help to spread seeds, which may be too big for smaller animals or the wind to carry. Seeds are left on the ground in elephant dung and they can then grow into new plants in new places.
They also bring a lot of money to areas of Africa for tourism, as people come to the continent to see these amazing animals.
Elephants are a vital part of the range of animals and plants that Africa has to offer. It is important to protect this variety of life, known as biodiversity.
However, the ivory trade is causing the number of elephants in the world to decrease, as many elephants are illegally killed by poachers for their ivory tusks.
Ivory is the hard, white material that some animals' teeth and tusks are made from. It is not only found in elephant tusks, but also in some other animals like hippopotamuses and some whales.
For hundreds of years, ivory has been considered a valuable material.
It has been used to make things like jewellery, combs, piano keys and religious ornaments.
Even today, people like to buy ivory products for a number of different reasons.
For example, some may want the items for a religious or decorative purpose, while others consider ivory ornaments as a symbol of importance in society.
The ivory trade is the name given to the buying and selling of ivory.
Currently, there is an international ban on buying and selling it across borders, but it is allowed inside certain countries.
Some ivory that is bought and sold may be legal, like old ivory from many years ago before the ban. Many see this kind of ivory trade as acceptable.
However, poachers are killing healthy wild elephants in order to steal their tusks too. This is illegal and means the number of elephants in the world is decreasing very quickly.
There are different opinions about whether or not the ivory trade should be allowed.
Some countries believe they should be able to trade legal ivory because they can use the money to pay for elephant conservation projects and other positive things.
Many other countries believe the ivory trade should be banned completely in order to save elephants, as having any ivory trade at all encourages criminals to continue poaching.
Some countries have even burned all their ivory to show how determined they are to stop it being sold.
A count of Africa's elephants published in August 2016 found that nearly one in three has disappeared over the past seven years.
Many experts are worried that unless we do something to address the problem of elephants being killed for their ivory, there is a very real danger that elephants could die out completely within our lifetime.
Killing elephants for their tusks like this has now led to them becoming under threat. They are being killed faster than new elephants are being born, meaning numbers are going down.
In 1989, in order to protect these animals from being killed for their ivory, a ban was introduced on buying and selling ivory to different countries. It helped the numbers of elephants in the world to go up again.
But since then, the illegal ivory trade has not stopped. Poachers are still killing elephants for their tusks and the ivory is being sent around the world by networks of criminals. It is often mixed in with legal ivory so that people can't tell the difference between the two.
There are many things that are being done to try and protect these animals from being killed for their tusks.
Experts follow and monitor elephants, using devices like tracking collars, so they can look after them by watching what they're up to and where they're going. National parks and conservation areas hire rangers to patrol the parks on foot and keep poachers away.
Countries also work together to stop poachers smuggling ivory across their borders.
One of the ways they do this is to try to find this ivory and confiscate it. They do this using sniffer dogs and other detection methods, like scanners.
However, it is difficult to manage, as the ivory trade takes place across many different countries and continents. Criminals are also becoming more crafty so it becomes increasingly difficult to catch them.
There are other factors that are threatening elephant populations too. For example, human beings taking the land where elephants live in order to farm and develop it. However, poaching remains one of the greatest threats facing these animals.
Many believe that the future of the ivory trade may well decide the future for the planet's elephants, which is why the world was watching the discussions in Johannesburg so closely.
One of the main issues discussed in South Africa was whether or not it should be made completely illegal in every country to buy and sell ivory.
Some of the suggestions made at the meeting were accepted, but some weren't. It has always been difficult to get everybody to agree on the best way to protect the planet's elephants.
There were proposals put forward by the countries Namibia and Zimbabwe that would have allowed them to continue ivory trading in their countries, but these were rejected. This was seen by many elephant conservationists as a positive step.
However, a proposal put forward by others at the meeting to increase the protection of Southern African elephants was rejected. This would have meant that no trade would have been allowed at all, so conservationists are disappointed that this didn't happen.
Earlier in the conference, calls to close domestic ivory markets that were encouraging poaching and the illegal ivory trade were approved. But countries aren't legally forced to stick to this, so it remains to be seen what effect it will have. For example, Japan said this proposal would not apply to them.
For now, the world - and the world's elephants - will have to wait and see what effect the outcome of the meeting will have.
See how much of this guide you've managed to remember by taking this quiz.
Former appeal court judge Dame Janet Smith will also consider whether the BBC child protection and whistle-blowing policies are fit for purpose.
Police are investigating allegations TV star Savile sexually abused some 300 young people over a 40-year period.
Meanwhile, a BBC poll has suggested its reputation as a trusted organisation has been damaged amid the scandal.
The telephone survey of more than 1,000 British adults by Comres, on behalf of BBC Radio 5 live, found that 45% of those asked agreed that the corporation was "trustworthy".
When a similar study was undertaken in 2009, 62% of people felt the BBC was a trusted source.
Nearly two-third of adults polled also felt the BBC's reputation had suffered "lasting damage", however 62% agreed the BBC is still a national institution of which they are "proud".
At a Scotland Yard briefing on Operation Yewtree, the Met's criminal investigation into the allegations, Metropolitan Police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe described the pattern of alleged behaviour that had emerged as "pretty awful".
When asked why no action had been taken against the DJ and TV presenter for almost 50 years, the police commissioner said people had relied too much on Savile's reputation, and his word that he had done nothing.
Mr Hogan-Howe added he had been "shocked" by the claims.
Police have reported an increase in the number of people coming forward with claims of abuse since the Savile claims began to emerge earlier this month.
The head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Peter Davies, said the response from the public had been unprecedented.
Separately, former BBC governor for Wales Sir Roger Jones has said he had suspicions about Savile more than a decade ago.
Sir Roger, who is also a former UK chairman of the BBC's charity Children in Need, said he had heard of rumours about Savile from staff working for the charity in London.
He said: "I think we all recognised he was a pretty creepy sort of character.
"When I was with Children in Need we took the decision that we didn't want him anywhere near the charity and we just stepped up our child protection policies - which again would have put him at risk if he tried anything."
But Sir Roger said he was unable to take the matter any further.
"If you're going to go on the attack and make claims against him then you'd need evidence, hard evidence that simply wasn't there," he said.
Scotland Yard said it was following about 400 lines of inquiry as part of the investigation into claims that Savile, who died last year aged 84, abused hundreds of young girls and some boys.
The BBC has set up several inquiries in the wake of the scandal.
Dame Janet previously led the Shipman Inquiry, which examined the activities of serial killer GP Dr Harold Shipman.
She will gather evidence from people who have made allegations about being sexually abused by Savile on BBC premises or while on location for the corporation, and from those who claim they raised concerns either formally or informally about his activities.
She will also look at "the extent to which BBC personnel were or ought to have been aware of unlawful and/or inappropriate conduct by Jimmy Savile on BBC premises or on location for the BBC".
In a separate inquiry former Sky News head Nick Pollard is already examining whether there were BBC management failings over a Newsnight investigation into Savile abuse claims that was shelved last year.
Another review will examine sexual harassment policies at the BBC.
As part of police inquiries, ex-pop star Gary Glitter has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of sex offences.
Glitter, 68, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was arrested at home and questioned at a London police station on Sunday before being released on bail until mid-December.
The former glam rock star is the first person to be arrested in connection with the Metropolitan Police's Savile abuse investigation.
Meanwhile, Mr Hogan-Howe also said officers would speak to the Labour MP Tom Watson this week about his claim in the Commons that in the past a child sex ring had operated with links to Downing Street and Parliament.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to look into Mr Watson's allegations.
And devastating rains such as in Britain's worst winter in 2013-14 may be less likely in the decades ahead.
Work by the Met Office has calculated the odds of particular weather scenarios striking in future years.
The computer simulations-based study, in journal Nature Climate Change, finds that milder winters and drier summers will also become more likely.
The work draws on a major analysis, known as UKCP09, released back in 2009 which offered projections of the future British climate divided into 30-year periods.
This new research instead provides a more detailed focus by giving projections for winters and summers in each individual year from now until the end of the century.
The aim is to take more account of the fact that Britain's weather is notoriously variable - fluctuating for natural reasons year to year regardless of human-induced climate change.
The authors of the research looked only at data from England and Wales; the analysis did not take into account Scotland or Northern Ireland.
A parallel goal is to make clear that a trend to warmer temperatures does not mean that extremes of cold or rainfall are made impossible - instead, weather that seems to buck the prevailing remains on the cards, if less likely as the century progresses.
The 2009 study had suggested that the country faced a future of milder, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers - and the Met Office faced fierce criticism when shortly afterwards Britain was suddenly plunged into the bitterly cold winter of 2009-10.
Met Office scientists acknowledge that there was confusion in the public mind about the "apparent contradiction" of hearing a 30-year projection for milder winters only to endure the reality of ice and snow.
The authors of the new study hope that coming up with odds for different scenarios for weather in individual seasons will more useful.
The paper says that the new approach has two advantages: "First, it allows fair comparisons with recent weather events, for instance showing that recent cold winters are within projected ranges.
"Second, it allows the projections to be expressed in terms of the extreme hot, cold, wet or dry seasons that impact society, providing a better idea of adaptation needs".
Some key conclusions from the study include:
A co-author of the report, David Sexton, said that basing the projections on 30-year averages, as in the UKCP09 study, risked giving the impression to people that those weather conditions would apply to every single year.
"When I talk to people, they remember the hot summer of 2003 or the wet winter of 2013-14 and they know they were extreme seasons - people can make tangible links to those impacts, they mean something to them personally, and the 30-year averages don't make sense to people in the same way."
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"There are scenes that contradict Islam and the Bible, so we decided not to show it," Juma Al-Leem from UAE's National Media Centre said.
Director Darren Aronofsky's film stars Russell Crowe as the ark-building Biblical figure.
Paramount Pictures recently admitted the movie takes "artistic licence".
"It is important to respect these religions and not show the film," Mr Al-Leem told the Associated Press.
A separate statement from Al-Azhar in Egypt, one of Islam's most revered religious institutions, said it objects to the film because it violates Islamic law and could "provoke the feelings of believers."
The film, which is thought to have cost more than its $125m (£78m) to make, received negative reactions following test screenings across the US.
The movie also prompted controversy among conservative Christians, leading Paramount to add a disclaimer to marketing material that artistic licence had been taken with the retelling of the story.
There are differences between Biblical and Qu'ranic interpretation of Noah, referred to in Arabic as Nuh, but both mention the flood and his vessel saving a pair of each animal species.
Many children's films and cartoons have told the story in Islam without showing his face.
Other Muslim countries have said it is unlikely censors will approve the Hollywood blockbuster.
Mohammad Zareef from Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors said they tended to steer clear of films with a religious theme, adding: "We haven't seen it yet, but I don't think it can go to cinemas in Pakistan."
In Tunisia, Culture Ministry spokesman Faisal Rokh said there had not been any requests from local distributors to show the movie, but they did not usually screen films featuring a prophet.
There were riots and demonstrations in the country in October 2011, after a private television station screened the animated film Persepolis, which includes a portrayal of God.
The head of the TV station was later fined 1,200 euros after being convicted of an "attack on the sacred".
Saudi Arabia and the Gaza Strip do not have any cinemas, but one theatre manager in the West Bank said it has ordered Noah.
"The fact that some countries in the region prohibit it makes it the more fun to watch," said Clack Cinema manager Quds Manasra.
She added: "The production is magnificent, the story is beautiful."
Hollywood's depiction of religion have provoked controversy before, including Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ, which shows the crucifixion of Jesus.
It was screened across much of the region, but it was not shown in most cinemas in Israel and parts of the Gulf.
Jake Melia admits murdering Mark Mason, 48, next to the Rhyl store last October but three other alleged members of the same drug gang deny murder.
Prosecution witness Stephen John Jones said the victim was involved an attack on two rival gang members.
He told Mold Crown Court Mr Mason's death was a result of retaliation.
Mr Jones, who was working for the Pensarn Crew, said Melia and defendant Jamie Davies, 21, were getting "tooled up with knives" to get revenge after they had come under attack earlier that day.
The jury heard father-of-two Mr Mason used drugs and was involved in selling for another gang.
Mr Jones lived at a Rhyl "safe house" which was used by the Pensarn Crew gang to supply heroin and cocaine.
The day before Mr Mason's death, the victim asked Mr Jones if the Pensarn Crew would be working at The Cob - an area of land near Rhyl's Marine Lake - the following day.
"I told the lads I was working for, there might be a bit of trouble the next day," Mr Jones, 43, originally from Wrexham, told the court via video link.
"I was working for the Pensarn lads and I didn't want to see them get done in."
The court heard Mr Davies and Melia, both from Liverpool, went out to sell drugs at The Cob and they left carrying fishing rods with them, which the prosecution say was a cover.
When they returned, Mr Jones told the court he knew something had happened as their clothes were wet and muddy.
They said they had been in the river and had been attacked by two guys in balaclavas with machetes and knives, jurors were told.
"I don't think they were injured. They seemed a bit shook up. They thought it was Mason," he told the jury.
He told the court they then spoke to others on the phone and left with a knife each.
"I was going to go with them to help them - but I was not planning on murdering someone," Mr Jones told the court.
"I did not go - they said that they had it under control."
After the alleged murder, Mr Jones told the court he was asked to take money and personal belongings from the safe house in Wellington Road and meet Melia and Mr Davies.
Fellow defendants Anthony Baines, 31, and Mark Ennis, 31, both of Liverpool, were also with them - and Mr Jones told the court Mr Davies said he had slashed the victim's face.
Mr Jones told the jury he heard Melia said something like "we got him good". Mr Mason was stabbed 22 times.
He added Mr Baines, who the jury heard was Mr Jones' "boss", and Mr Ennis was "dead quiet, very withdrawn".
Mr Jones called the police on 4 November, eight days after the attack and said: "I don't agree with murder."
Mr Davies, Mr Baines and Mr Ennis all deny murder. The trial continues.
Best, 33, was reported to have a tight calf but the Ireland management are confident the hooker will resume training on Thursday.
"The medics feel like he should be fine and ready to go for Thursday," said Ireland's skills coach Richie Murphy.
"He was a little tight in the calf at the end of training yesterday."
Murphy described Best's absence from Tuesday's session as precautionary, although the Ireland captain will need to prove his fitness on Thursday when the team for the Scotland game will be announced.
Simon Zebo looks certain to remain at full-back with Rob Kearney again ruled out by the hamstring injury that forced him to miss the 58-15 win over Italy.
Eoin Reddan and Cian Healy, who also missed the Italy game, will be in contention to feature against the Scots after resuming training this week.
Prop Healy was ruled out against Italy with a hamstring issue while scrum-half Reddan was sidelined with a calf problem.
"Eoin Reddan returned to training on Tuesday. Cian Healy trained Monday and Tuesday as well," added Murphy.
Ireland could well field the same starting XV as against Italy should Best come through his fitness worry, with the return of Leinster duo Healy and Reddan potentially bolstering resources on the bench.
Firefighters helped free Alexys Brown from the lift at Emmadale Close, Weymouth, on Thursday, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Aster Group said it would assist the police investigation "any way we can".
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) also confirmed it was investigating.
The coroner's officer said a post-mortem examination would be carried out next week and an inquest would follow.
A spokesman for Astor Group said: "We're sorry to learn of a death at one of our properties at Emmadale Close, Westham, yesterday and our thoughts are with the little girl's family at this difficult time."
Due to the ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the death, he said it would be inappropriate to comment further "at this stage".
Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Christine James, said news of Alexys' death had come as a "total shock" to the "tight-knit" community.
She added residents were likely to "rally round and do what they can to help".
Dorset County Council said it had not installed the lift at the property.
A spokeswoman for the authority said the lift involved was commonly known as a "through floor lift" and enabled someone with a physical disability to access upper floors, where stairs cannot be used.
The two-storey house has a disabled ramp outside.
Mrs Williams, who had fought for the new inquest into her son Kevin's death in the 1989 football tragedy, had been suffering from cancer.
Kevin was one of 96 Liverpool fans who died as a result of a crush during an FA Cup match at the Sheffield stadium.
Mrs Williams made her last public appearance on Monday at the annual Hillsborough memorial service at Liverpool's Anfield stadium.
At an inquest in 1991, jurors heard that Kevin and 94 others were dead by 15:15, a verdict which Mrs Williams never believed and, as a result, she refused to accept his death certificate from the coroner.
She tracked down witnesses, one of whom suggested Kevin uttered the word "Mum" at about 16:00.
Her calls for a fresh inquest were rejected by attorney generals and the European Court of Human Rights.
But following the publication of The Hillsborough Independent Panel's report in September, a further appeal by the families of the victims to quash the verdicts was upheld.
Mrs Williams, who said she "was never going to give up", travelled to the High Court in December to hear the ruling, despite being terminally ill.
Pete Weatherby QC, Mrs Williams' barrister, said she had had "a quiet determination [and was] a tremendous force who didn't understand defeat".
Kevin Robinson, the former chairman of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, described her as "an absolutely fantastic lady in every way".
Bishop James Jones, who chaired the Hillsborough Independent Panel, said she was "a woman of remarkable courage and determination, [who] had a strength and an energy that flowed from her love for Kevin."
By Judith MoritzNorth of England correspondent
Anne Williams did not train as a solicitor, but to chat to her, you would think she had been practising law for years.
The housewife and mum from Liverpool became a de facto expert in the British legal system to find out the truth of what happened to her son Kevin.
Anne was incensed by the coroner's assessment that Kevin had died by 3.15pm on the afternoon of the disaster and for more than 20 years, pieced together his last moments, finding the people who tried to help him.
The publication of the Hillsborough Independent Report changed everything for Anne.
By then suffering from terminal cancer, she was brought to the High Court in her wheelchair to see the original inquest verdict of accidental death quashed.
Afterwards, grinning from ear to ear, she said: "I thought they're wearing me down, but I'll wear them down before they wear me down. And I've actually done it!"
Whenever I met Anne I was struck by her quiet dignity, fierce determination and conviction.
She knew that she may not live to see the new inquest, but when it begins, there will be many there who feel indebted to her.
Mrs Williams, who lived in Chester, had been cared for during her illness at the home of her brother Danny and his wife Sandra in Birkdale, and is survived by two children.
Her solicitor Elkan Abrahamson said she had been "a loving mother, not just to Kevin, but also to Michael and Sara, [who would] continue to draw support and strength from her example".
Kenny Dalglish, who was manager of Liverpool on the day of the Hillsborough disaster, said her death was "really sad but for her a release from her suffering and a chance to see her boy again".
"I am sure Kevin will be telling her how proud of her he was [and] our thoughts and prayers are with her family," he said.
A spokesman for Liverpool FC said: "Anne may not have survived to see ultimate justice for her son, but her actions have played a significant part in ensuring that 96 families have moved closer to Hillsborough closure."
The Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, Steve Rotheram, who campaigned for the inquest verdicts to be quashed, said her "passing is a painful reminder of the families' long and arduous fight for justice".
"Kevin's last word before he died was 'Mum' - Anne's relentless pursuit of justice for her son personified the unyielding bond of a mother's love for her child.
"She was an inspiration to thousands of women across Merseyside and Britain," he said.
In Liverpool, flowers with messages of sympathy were left at the recently unveiled Hillsborough Memorial on Old Haymarket and at the flag at the Town Hall was lowered to half-mast as a mark of respect.
Liverpool City Councillors held a minute's silence before starting a meeting at 17:00 BST.
Mayor Joe Anderson said Mrs Williams had been "an inspirational person whose determination and conviction played a significant role in exposing the cover-up over Hillsborough".
Reportedly one of the richest men in the world, the 59-year-old Guzman has escaped from two maximum security jails.
The first time, he was on the run for 13 years. During this time, he married a young Mexican woman, Emma Coronel, on her 18th birthday.
Guzman was recaptured in February 2014 while he was spending time with Ms Coronel at a Mexican beach resort.
In July 2015, he escaped again but this time only managed to stay free for six months before being recaptured.
On Sunday, US Spanish-language TV channel Telemundo broadcast an interview with Ms Coronel in which she spoke about her life with Guzman.
Here are five things we have learned from that interview.
A day after Guzman was captured, an article by Sean Penn appeared in Rolling Stone magazine recounting how the actor met the drug lord while the latter was in hiding.
The two were put in touch by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
Messages between the two published by the Mexican authorities reveal that Guzman wanted his life to be documented in a film.
But Ms Coronel said that idea was not prompted by the meeting with the actors, but rather went back years.
"Ever since I've known him, he's been talking about this.
"More than anything he wants to tell his side of the story, how things really are and not how they have been portrayed."
Ms Coronel first met Guzman at a party on a ranch in 2006.
Ms Coronel, then 17, was dancing with her boyfriend when the drug lord caught her eye and "coquettishly smiled" at her, she recalled.
"He filled me with a lot of confidence, as a friend," she recalled about their first meetings.
"I've never seen him lose his cool or get angry with anyone," she said.
It is a perception which apparently was shared by Kate del Castillo.
In messages released by Mexican investigators, Guzman tried to re-assure the actress she would be safe if she came to see him in his hideout.
"You're the best thing in the world. I will look after you like after my own eyes," Mexico's most wanted man wrote last year.
"I am so moved that you tell me you'll look after me, no one has ever looked after me," Ms del Castillo responded.
Asked what attracted her to Guzman, who is 26 years older than her, Ms Coronel said that it was "his way of talking which won my heart".
"He didn't give me big presents or great things," she recalled.
"He wins people over by the way he acts," she said. "He is friendly, he greets everyone and speaks to them."
Ms Coronel dismissed media reports which said her wedding to El Chapo had been a lavish affair attended by high-ranking Mexican politicians.
"Only my family came and the people from the ranch [where the wedding was held]. It was a small affair," she said.
"I've never seen him with any politicians," she added.
According Ms Coronel, the couple did not travel anywhere for their honeymoon either, although this may have been due more to the international arrest warrant than to Guzman's desire for a low-key relationship.
Asked by Telemundo's Anabel Hernandez what Ms Coronel made of the messages Guzman had exchanged with actress Kate del Castillo, she said: "I didn't think anything."
"At no point have I been jealous of Kate," she added. "I admire her work."
Ms Coronel has also seemed unfazed by allegations that her marriage is void.
Prison authorities turned her back from the gates of Altiplano jail, where her husband is held, saying there was no documentary evidence Guzman had divorced his previous wife.
Throughout the interview, Ms Coronel stressed time and time again that her husband was "an ordinary guy".
She said that he was "very intelligent" but that he had had little schooling and that "he had learned from the knocks of life".
"He acts like any normal person," she insisted.
Quizzed whether she knew what Guzman did when she married him, she said "no".
"In fact, I'm not convinced he traffics drugs," she told Telemundo despite Guzman's confession that he did in a video released by Rolling Stone magazine.
Ms Coronel said that video was not meant to be made public and "should have been edited".
"I don't know where they get that he is bloodthirsty, even a rapist," she said of accusations levelled against her husband by US and Mexican prosecutors.
"It seems very unjust to be saying such outrageous things bout him," she added.
"He does not care at which table he sits, he eats anything, he's just normal."
Francis Paul, the secretary-general of the National Olympics Committee of Kenya (Nock), Pius Ochieng, Nock's vice chairman, and a third man, Stephen Soi, are being investigated for theft, abuse of office and neglect of duty.
The officials are blamed for a series of problems facing Kenya's athletes.
They have made no comment.
Bail for Mr Paul and Mr Ochieng was set at $2,000 (£1,530). Mr Soi had already been released from police custody for medical reasons and his bail will be set on Wednesday.
The charges against them have not been finalised and the police have a further 21 days to investigate before the men next appear in court.
The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in the capital, Nairobi, says that athletes have complained about kit going missing, as well as poor travel and accommodation arrangements for the Olympics.
There have also been complaints that officials took friends to Rio de Janeiro at the expense of coaches being able to travel.
Team captain Wesley Korir, who is also an independent MP, has been outspoken about the problems.
He said that the athletes had been put through "hell" while staying in poor accommodation after the Olympic village was closed.
Our correspondent says that the situation has become known as "the Rio fiasco".
President Uhuru Kenyatta has called for an investigation into what went wrong.
Kenya came 15th in the Olympic medal table, winning 13 medals overall, including six golds.
Michael Nosiama, 31, was found guilty of hitting the boy at Failsworth School in Oldham in April 2015 after becoming agitated by his disruption in class.
A National College for Teaching panel was shown footage of an "angry" Mr Nosiama "goading" the pupil and making "violent physical contact".
It said he was a "continuing risk" and banned him from teaching for life.
Mr Nosiama had taught at the Greater Manchester school for four months before the incident.
He was not present at the hearing but had said in written evidence that he "struck [the boy - referred to as Pupil A] in self-defence".
However, the panel rejected this claim saying Mr Nosiama's actions were "aggressive" and "deliberate".
It found the teacher had "deliberately invited Pupil A outside for the altercation" and "provoked the incident for the purpose of Pupil A being potentially excluded," it said.
The prohibition order states "due to the serious and violent nature of this case" and the failure of Mr Nosiama to develop "any insight into his behaviour", he can never reapply to teach.
Women who attend comic book conventions, many dressed as their favourite comic characters, are tired of being manhandled as they pose for photographs. And they're sick of having their geek credentials questioned.
Once a world mainly inhabited by so-called "fanboys," nowadays half of Comic-Con's 130,000 attendees are female. And if a woman chooses to dress as her favourite superhero or villain, that can mean some skimpy outfits. It's not just Wonder Woman who fights crime in a tiny bodysuit and stilettos.
"You get a lot of harassment when you're in costume," says Brittany Fonseca, who attended the event dressed as Rogue from X-Men, in a green and yellow bodysuit she sewed herself.
"What are you doing in costume? You're just trying to get attention. You don't know anything about that character. Why are you here? You're not a real geek - get out of here."
Ms Fonseca says she also gets a lot of positive feedback on her costumes, a practice known as "cosplay", and that most people are friendly and ask for photographs with her out of respect for her creativity.
It's common at Comic-Con for male and female cosplayers to be photographed in the crammed halls of the San Diego Convention Centre.
"All of the effort that we put into sewing and dying and painting, walking in the boots and high heels, it's all an expression of how much we love the content and the characters," she says.
"The fact that we still do it even though there's all these, shall we say social obstacles, is really a credit to how much we love the comics and the characters."
So why do women dress in costumes? Despite the groping tales and irritation at having their geek credibility questioned, women overwhelmingly described the experience as "empowering."
And the serious cosplayers at Comic-Con have more costume changes than Rihanna or Madonna during a concert.
Luna Lanie, 20, dressed as Suicide Squad's Harley Quinn, the bubbly and psychotic Batman super-villain. Throughout the four-day convention, she plans to also dress as Rikku, from the Final Fantasy X-2 video game and also as Katarina, an assassin in her favourite video game League of Legends.
She makes all the costumes herself. As Harley Quinn, armed with a baseball bat, sequined red and blue "booty shorts" and ripped fishnet stockings, she was mobbed by fans asking for photographs.
"I didn't have a lot of friends in high school so I just played video games. It was an escape from reality. So this is what I think Cons are: you become someone else to escape every day life, the grind of 9-to-5 working jobs and school. So it's a fantasy outlet," she said.
That phrase is often tweeted and published on social media groups for cosplayers. But women say the online attention to their cause has not translated into change in the non-virtual world.
While manhandling is not the norm and most fans are respectful, the problem is pervasive enough that the men who grope are widely known as "con-creepers."
Lauren Bregman, a corset maker dressed as Emma Frost "if she were a punk rock anarchist," says she thinks people are used to making lewd comments anonymously online and forget that the characters they see in corsets and bodysuits have real women inside them.
"I've never been grabbed but I had people with selfie sticks taking up-my-skirt pictures at Dragon Con last year," she said. "People get nasty online because there's the anonymity thing and it's reflecting how people behave in real life."
Like most women we spoke to, Ms Bregman did not report the incident.
Con-creepers are certainly not the majority of fans, but plenty of women who attend conventions have at least one creeper story. They say men treat them like they're asking for it because of their costumes. Comic-Con says 130,000 people attended the event in 2014 and that 44% were women.
Women say the disrespect is tied in with the question of nerd credibility. As so-called geek culture becomes more mainstream, it's become common to quiz both men and women about their credentials and boasting is a given.
The late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien, who is broadcasting live from the convention, boasted that he knows more than any fan and even took a "Comic-Con citizenship test" on his show answering questions like: "Wolverine's claws are made of which metal?"
The answer is adamantium. He got it right.
Nerdist writer Amy Ratcliffe, who is an authority on Star Wars, thinks there has been a pop culture shock for some fans as their sci-fi and fantasy worlds become beloved by a broader audience.
"I think part of it is a little gatekeeping," she said. "There's a little 'should we be protecting our territory?' - and instead of doing that or talking about it they go more towards demeaning women sometimes."
Ms Ratcliffe says women need to get better at standing up for themselves and assert that they don't need to prove their fandom.
"I used to be more shy, but they are micro-aggressions and they add up."
Mr McGurk was hit on the Mullydoo Road, close to the Greencastle Road junction, at about 15:00 GMT.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the accident to contact them
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The 28-year-old Colombian recalls vividly the acid attack five years ago that left her with burns to her face, chest and hands, and cost her the use of her left eye.
"You never imagine that it can happen to you."
Acid-throwing is more usually associated with violence against women in countries such as Bangladesh or Pakistan, but current trends suggest the risk of women being disfigured and blighted by acid might actually be higher in Colombia.
The Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine registered 55 such attacks in 2010 and 42 in 2011.
A further 22 acid attacks have been reported so far this year.
According to Ms Hernandez, who belongs to a local acid-survivors group, the real number is much higher.
"We know of many cases that were never reported because of threats, because of fear," she told the BBC.
"Since the year began, there have been more than 100 cases. There are women burned with acid across the country."
By comparison, it is estimated that more than 150 women have acid thrown on them every year in Pakistan, whose population is nearly four times that of Colombia.
And according to the Dhaka-based Acid Survivors Foundation, Bangladesh, which has a population of 165 million compared with Colombia's 47 million, saw 84 attacks in 2011.
Colombia's armed groups involved in the long-running internal conflict have never hesitated to resort to sexual violence as a mechanism to control or punish the population.
But the country is just starting to come to terms with the problem of acid attacks as a particularly insidious form of gender-based violence.
"The aim is to harm, not to kill. And to harm somebody for the rest of her life," said Ms Hernandez, who blames her former husband for her plight.
"He wanted us to get back together but I refused. So he used to call me, to threaten me. On the day of the attack he followed me."
Her husband did not throw the acid himself, she said, but pointed her out to hired attackers.
Gina Potes was attacked in her home 15 years ago.
"When they threw acid at me they also told me: 'It is your fault for being so pretty'," she told the BBC.
"So I think the main reason (for the attack) was envy, jealousy."
To this day, the 35-yeara-old former beautician does not know who assaulted her.
The acid attack on Ms Potes, if not the first, was relatively rare until a few years ago.
More recently, the authorities have also seen a rise in muggings where acid is used as a weapon.
Acid attacks on two young children have given further cause for concern.
Neither Ms Potes nor Ms Hernandez has seen her attacker prosecuted, much less jailed.
The turning point for Ms Potes was eight months ago when she saw another assailant go unpunished. That is when she decided to set up the survivors' group.
"The truth is you always report the crime and nothing ever happens," she said, citing impunity as one of the main reasons why acid attacks are on the rise.
Ms Potes is convinced that the real scale of the problem would never have come to light if she had not decided to speak out.
But she also blames the Colombian media.
"They don't try to educate people, they only care about sensationalism and don't think about the consequences of how they deliver the news," she told the BBC.
"They might be talking about how disfigured women are fighting because there is no justice, and right away they explain how people can get hold of acid... for only 2,000 pesos ($1/70p).
"And so every time an attack is reported on the news you can tell there will be another one a few days later," she said.
Changing the way the issue is portrayed in the media is, therefore, one of the aims of the group.
But they are also fighting for better medical care and work opportunities for acid survivors, as well as for a reform of the penal code.
Under current Colombian legislation, dousing a woman in acid is a "personal attack", a crime punishable with a maximum of 10 years in prison but one that qualifies for parole.
That is a far cry from the punishment victims believe is needed to deter them.
Data published by the Home Office shows 303 people died in fires in 2015-16, a 15% increase on the previous 12 months.
Fire services in Cambridgeshire and Cumbria had the highest fatality rates.
Fire Service Minister Brandon Lewis said there had been "a long term downward trend" in fire deaths.
The figures show that in 2015-16 fire services across England attended around 162,000 fires - an increase of 7,000 from the previous year.
From these incidents, fire services recorded 303 fire-related fatalities, which is 39 more than in the previous 12 months.
The number of people dying in fires across England had been steadily falling over the past three decades, with the number of fire related fatalities being 22% lower than in 2005-06.
The Home Office says the rise in the number of deaths is due to an increase in the number of accidental fires taking place in people's homes, along with an increase in the number of fatal fires involving aircraft. The Shoreham air show disaster in 2015 led to 11 such fire related deaths.
The BBC has also found that there are wide geographical variations in the fatality rate for primary fires, which are classed as being the most serious kind.
Last year, the fire and rescue services in Cambridgeshire and Cumbria had the highest fatality rates with 25 deaths occurring for every 1,000 primary fires.
In comparison, the England average was seven deaths per 1,000 fires.
Cameron Matthews, the Secretary of the Cambridge Fire Brigade's Union, described the figures as "heartbreaking".
"Its just not right that we now in effect have a postcode lottery.
"Here in Cambridgeshire we've had some of the highest percentage cuts in the country to our budget. We've lost experienced firefighters and it is quite clear that the government's cuts are now resulting in lives being lost."
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We have not made any cuts impacting on our frontline service to date and so no correlation can be made.
"The number of fire deaths does fluctuate year on year but always remains in low single figures. We have the fifth lowest number of dwelling fires in the country out of all fire and rescue services and that is a good, positive story."
Data compiled by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2015 showed that the number of firefighters across England had fallen by 14.7% over the previous decade whilst fire service response times had also risen over the past six years.
The Home Office strongly refuted the claim that the rise in fire-related deaths is attributable to cuts in funding.
Brandon Lewis, Minister for Policing and the Fire Service said any death in a fire was a "tragedy".
He said: "There has been a long term downward trend in both fires and fire deaths for many years, recently reaching historically low levels."
Bus and Vermijl have signed three-and-a-half-year deals, while McGugan will stay until the end of the season.
Filipe Joaquim Melo Silva has joined from Moreirenses for an undisclosed fee, subject to clearance.
The 25-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half-year contract at Hillsborough.
Bus, 22, has played six games for Romania's Under-21 team and scored 10 goals in 19 games this season.
The transfer of Bus, who has also had loan spells at four other Romanian sides, is also subject to international clearance.
Vermijl, 23, made one appearance for Manchester United this season.
The Belgium Under-21 international played the full 90 minutes of the Old Trafford side's 4-0 defeat by MK Dons in the League Cup.
McGugan, 26, made seven appearances during a loan at Hillsborough earlier in the season.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's Slovenian defender Dejan Kelhar has signed a deal to stay at Hillsborough until the end of the season.
The 30-year-old joined arrived on a short-term contract in August after leaving Red Star Belgrade in the summer.
He ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament soon after joining Wednesday and has yet to play for the club.
Kelhar has six international caps and has also played for Turkish side Samsunspor and Cercle Bruges in Belgium.
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A high number of key Premier League and European matches were won by the favourite team in the third week of this year.
In that week, leading teams including Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham, and in Europe, Barcelona and Real Madrid, all won.
In lunchtime trading, the company's shares were down 3.3%.
William Hill also said it had extra costs of £20m from the introduction of a new "point of consumption" tax and a higher tax on gaming machines.
That helped to send operating profit for the 13 weeks to March down by 19% or £16m.
Betting in its 2,360 shops fell by 4%, but online betting rose by 16%, while mobile gaming rose by 48%.
Betting at the important Cheltenham Festival in March was up by 29%.
Over the year, the company closed around 100 shops and changed the way it staffs the outlets.
James Henderson, chief executive of William Hill, said: "Operating profit benefited from the changes we made to the staffing model in April 2014 as well as from the reduction in costs driven by shop closures".
He also said the betting firm had not yet made up for the football loss.
Earlier this year, William Hill had attempted to take over online rival 888 for more than £700m.
The offer was rejected and talks failed after what 888 called a "significant difference of opinion".
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Some of the 20 protesters daubed graffiti on Shire Hall in Gloucester in what they called an act of "civil disobedience".
Councillors later rejected calls to halt construction until the contract between developers and the county council had been investigated.
Protesters pledged more "direct action" until the contract was cancelled.
Work on the Javelin Park incinerator near Gloucester was set to begin after Gloucestershire County Council voted to allow Urbaser Balfour Beatty to build the plant in 2015.
A motion laid down by Labour councillor Lesley Williams for the full council meeting on Wednesday accused the contract as having been "plagued by mismanagement".
She called on the Conservative-led administration to halt all work on the incinerator site until the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had finished its investigation and commit to an "immediate independent review of the contract".
Protesters gathered outside Shire Hall before the meeting, with members of the Rising Up group saying they "recognised people have to resort to civil disobedience".
Martin Large, from Stroud, said: "I asked a question last March about the benefits of the incinerator and the councillor said he did not need to reply.
"If he is unable to explain what the benefits are in a full council meeting, then I have to take non-violent direct action."
Police said no arrests were made.
Councillors from across party lines have criticised the incinerator plans, describing the technology as out of date and likely to reduce to recycling rates.
Nigel Riglar, from the county council, insisted the new facility "saves taxpayers over £100m, makes enough clean electricity to power 25,000 homes and reduces carbon emissions by 40,000 tonnes".
A spokesperson for the CMA confirmed it is considering a complaint about the incinerator contract.
The incinerator is due to be operational in 2019.
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The trio were trying to persuade the Surrey SW party to back a candidate from the National Health Action Party against Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
The group include the local party secretary and a member for 46 years.
After telling the BBC they backed a "progressive alliance", a Labour spokesman said: "These individuals are no longer members of the Labour Party."
The three are Kate Townsend, secretary of the South West Surrey Labour Party, executive member Steve Williams, and Robert Park.
The trio believed National Health Action Party candidate Louise Irvine had a better chance of beating Mr Hunt in the seat than Labour's official candidate, David Black.
The Labour Party nationally has said it will have nothing to do with so-called "progressive alliances", which sees other parties standing aside to avoid splitting the anti-Tory vote.
But Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas has urged left and centre-left parties to get together to prevent "a massive Tory landslide".
Senior Lib Dems Sir Vince Cable and Sarah Olney were recorded suggesting their support for a Labour candidate - but leader Tim Farron slapped down the move, insisting there would be "no deal, no pacts, no coalitions".
Theresa May, meanwhile, has repeatedly warned that a vote for any party other than the Conservatives would be for a "weak and failing Jeremy Corbyn propped up by a coalition of chaos".
In SW Surrey, Kate Townsend told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday that it had been a difficult decision to back a rival candidate.
"It's not easy to not support Labour and it really is a hard decision to have to make, but what sort of long-term damage can we do in South West Surrey that doesn't already exist?" she said.
"We never win - we've never got any hope of winning - so we might as well fight to make it so that next time we vote, my vote actually matters."
Mr Williams added: "I've no doubt whatsoever that the majority of local Labour Party members in South West Surrey in the next election will be supporting Louise Irvine and people will be knocking on doors."
Announcing his suspension on Twitter, he said: "Expelled from Labour Party after 46 years of continuous membership for trying to unseat Jeremy Hunt. When will Labour get the wake-up call?"
Susan Ryland, the Greens' candidate for SW Surrey in 2015, said her party would not be fielding a candidate this time. "There's a clear consensus amongst campaigners in South West Surrey to stand a single progressive candidate against Jeremy Hunt.
"I'm pleased to announce that the local Green Party will be stepping aside and throwing our support behind Dr Louise Irvine."
But UKIP candidate Mark Webber said Mr Hunt's "massive" 28,500 majority is unassailable by the progressive alliance. "The left simply don't have much traction at all in that part of the country, even if they band together."
Labour said that under its rules, "a member of the party who joins and/or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour Group or unit of the Party or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member, subject to the provisions of part 6.I.2 of the disciplinary rules".
Following expulsion, the trio will also be ineligible to be readmitted to the party for at least five years, a spokesman said.
As part of their inquiry into the issue across the country they will study the labour market in the south of Scotland.
The committee will look at the role access to finance, infrastructure and government support plays in supporting key employment sectors.
It will take evidence from a range of organisations from across Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders.
Pete Wishart, who chairs the committee, said: "We have come to Dumfries today because it is important that sustainable employment is for the whole country and not just the major cities in the central belt.
"Our previous report found that the historic decline in population remains a modern issue for some western and rural areas.
"We want to understand how this will affect businesses and employment opportunities in the south of Scotland."
He said he was keen to hear from local businesses about the challenges they faced in attracting employees and remaining competitive.
"We will also be hearing from local government and Scottish Enterprise about what can be done to attract new employers and develop the local economy," he added.
The committee meeting is being held at the Easterbrook Hall in Dumfries.
The local authority in the Borders has also been told it would probably be "disproportionate" and "unnecessary".
Police Scotland withdrew its service across most of the country in 2014.
It has prompted claims in the Borders of a "marked increase" in parking problems but it now looks unlikely that will see a return of wardens.
The introduction of Decriminalised Parking Enforcement (DPE) in the region has been debated for some time.
A survey found that the public perception that parking problems were common had heightened in recent years.
However, it would cost the council about £200,000 to set up DPE and would initially run at a loss of about £15,000-a-year.
A report said that one option for funding could be via existing off-street pay and display parking which runs at a surplus of about £36,000 per annum.
The study warned that if DPE proved successful its losses could actually increase due to a reduction in income.
It concluded that it would not be the best way forward at the moment.
Instead, it suggested that increased enforcement from Police Scotland should be sought in "hot spots" like Galashiels, Hawick, Peebles and Selkirk.
An inspection of signage and an investigation of the costs of a disc-based parking system are also being considered.
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The 22-year-old, on loan from Cardiff City, has scored six goals in 18 appearances for County this season.
He said he was aware of the approach before the 0-0 FA Cup second round draw with Argyle.
"I've heard there's been interest as well but it's not for me to be dealing with that so I've left it for someone else to deal with," he said.
"I'm not surprised because if any striker's scoring goals they're going to get interest.
"But it's not down to the player to be dealing with it - it's down to someone else to deal with it for them because all I want to do is concentrate on scoring goals for Newport each week.
"I don't think it has affected me. Once I step over that line everything goes away outside football. Nothing distracts me."
Newport face Plymouth in a replay on 21 December with a trip to face Liverpool in the third round at Anfield awaiting the winners.
Before then, bottom-of-the-table County face Morecambe at Rodney Parade on Saturday in a key League Two match.
"To get out of the bottom is the main thing," added Healey.
"We need to go into Saturday knowing we are going to beat Morecambe, which we should do and crack on from there.
"We're one of the best sides in the league when we get going, so it's just a matter of getting that first win and getting the momentum going."
The group said an 11.8% rise in underlying pre-tax profits in the year to the end of April showed "continued momentum" for the Apex brand.
It attributed the performance to strong trading across its nine-hotel portfolio and new room openings.
The company runs four-star hotels in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
Its turnover last year rose by 7% to £61.3m, while underlying pre-tax profit climbed to £10.3m.
Apex said it invested more than £16m during the financial year.
It added 134 rooms to its stock by opening an Apex in Glasgow in September 2015 and extending its Apex City of London hotel.
A new 177-room Apex hotel is due to open in Bath this summer.
Apex chief executive Angela Vickers said: "Key to our success is our ongoing commitment to providing a guest experience that rivals that of global brands, distinguishing Apex Hotels in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
"As we move into 2017 our robust financial results are testament to this and demonstrate our continued momentum in the development of the Apex brand and expansion of the portfolio."
She added: "It is important for us to continue investing in our existing portfolio and we are planning further bedroom expansion at Apex Temple Court in London as well as refurbishment totalling £6m across our City of London, Grassmarket and Dundee hotels.
"In 2017 we will continue to look at other opportunities to extend and complement our existing portfolio."
The two men became involved in a personal row during Wednesday's event, accusing each other of misleading the public over EU powers.
Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg said he was on a mission to reverse "myth-making".
Mr Farage said his rival had "gone for me" rather than dealing with issues.
During the bad-tempered hour-long debate, Mr Farage accused Europhile Mr Clegg of "wilfully lying" over Brussels' powers over the UK, while Mr Clegg claimed the UKIP leader was peddling "dangerous fantasies".
Opinion polls suggest Mr Farage, who wants the UK to leave the EU, was more successful in persuading viewers of his case.
Asked on BBC Breakfast whether "his man", Mr Clegg, had won, Mr Cameron replied: "I didn't have a dog in the fight, as it were."
The prime minister summarised the debate by saying: "Nick thinks there's nothing wrong with Europe and we shouldn't have a referendum, and Nigel thinks there's nothing right with Europe and we should just get out and leave. They're both wrong."
Mr Cameron has said he will renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU before holding an in/out referendum in 2017, if the Conservatives win the next general election.
"That's what Britain needs and it's what people want: a proper choice but real change in Europe and that's what these European elections should be about," he said.
He said Mr Farage did not "recognise the fact that we've got to trade and compete in Europe".
"The problem with the UKIP view is it's sort of: 'Stop the world, I want to get off, Britain can't succeed.' It's deeply pessimistic. I'm very optimistic," Mr Cameron added.
By Ben WrightPolitical correspondent, Brussels
The BBC debate was the second Farage-Clegg confrontation to be held in as many weeks.
YouGov's snap poll gave it to Mr Farage by 68% to 27%, while a poll by ICM/Guardian found 69% of people watching thought the UKIP man had come out on top.
On BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show, Mr Clegg said he did not feel damaged by this verdict, adding: "I'm delighted we had the debate. I would do it every day of the week if people were up for it."
He added that he intended to overcome "20 years of myth-making" about the EU, insisting: "It's a marathon, not a sprint. This debate is going to continue."
The deputy prime minister said it was "extraordinary" that Mr Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband had declined to take part.
During the debate, Mr Farage distanced himself from Mr Clegg and other "career politicians", who he said were too willing to accept orders from Brussels.
But, on Jeremy Vine, Mr Clegg said that, like himself, Mr Farage had attended an "expensive" London school and had been a member of the European Parliament since 1999, making him a career politician.
He said: "He must explain why that kind of background makes him some kind of Sid Vicious character."
Appearing on the same programme, Mr Farage responded: "I spent 20 years in business. I've lived and breathed and worked in the real world and there's almost nobody left in frontline politics with that experience of the commercial world."
He also criticised his opponent's debating style, saying: "Nick Clegg made the mistake that career politicians have been making over the last few years. He decided, rather than dealing with the issues, to go for me and to go for UKIP's ideology, to paint us out as somehow to be mad, ranting conspiracy theorists, when all we want to do is govern our own country.
"That line of argument by Clegg turned people against him."
Mr Clegg kicked off Wednesday's debate - hosted by David Dimbleby - by accusing his opponent of foisting a "dangerous con" on the public by arguing for Britain's exit from the EU, telling the audience in the BBC's radio theatre that "if it sounds too good to be true, it is".
Mr Farage said he did not want Britain to be part of an "expansionist" EU foreign policy, claiming that the EU wants its own "army and navy".
The pair traded verbal blows over the percentage of British laws made in Brussels and argued over the effects of immigration.
Towards the end of the debate, the UKIP leader issued a warning about the rise of far-right parties in Europe, saying: "I want the EU to end but I want it to end democratically. If it doesn't end democratically I'm afraid it will end very unpleasantly."
He used his closing statement to make a pitch for votes in May's European elections, saying: "I would urge people - come and join the people's army. Let's topple the establishment who got us into this mess."
Mr Clegg, in his closing remarks, promised "real remedies for the way the world is today, not dangerous fantasies about a bygone world that no longer exists
"And that is why I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that we remain part of the European Union because that is how we protect the Britain we love."
Speaking on BBC One's Question Time, Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said: "Farage, to give him credit, is a very effective, if demagogic, debater."
He also said Mr Clegg deserved "a lot of credit for showing the bottle to go out and debate".
The SNP said it believed in "positive engagement" with the EU and an independent Scotland would have "a seat at the top table in Europe".
Plaid Cymru said it wanted a "strong voice" for Wales in Brussels and it was concerned that Wales could be "pulled out of the EU against its own will and its own interests".
The woman, in her 20s, was assaulted as she was walking along Rope Walk in Ipswich on 25 February.
Ipswich Crown Court heard George-Hari Constantinescu and Danut Gheorghe, both 30, had prowled the streets for almost an hour before they attacked her.
The pair denied the charge but were found guilty following a trial.
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In a statement read at court, the victim said she still has nightmares about the attack and now lives in fear.
Sentencing, Judge Rupert Overbury described the men as "predators" and said their actions were "callous".
He said every woman should be able to "walk in every street, in every town, without the fear of being attacked".
The court heard the men had decided to have sexual activity with a woman "whether or not she accepted" that night.
When their advances had failed in clubs and venues around the town, they then spent 50 minutes trawling Ipswich looking for a young woman, it was heard.
They spotted their victim and "hunted her", attacking her when she was walking along Rope Walk between 03:10 and 03:30 GMT.
Constantinescu and Gheorghe grabbed her, covered her mouth and dragged her into a nearby car park.
They used what the judge described as "unnecessary violence" on the victim, who fell unconscious during the attack which lasted several minutes.
Constantinescu and Gheorghe abandoned her, leaving her half naked and with significant injuries to her face and neck which required hospital treatment.
The court heard they attempted to evade CCTV cameras on their way back into town, and in the days after they attempted to change their appearance and looked at flights to flee the country.
The pair were arrested after Suffolk Constabulary released CCTV images.
A British Medical Journal report into non-emergency operations in England, suggests the overall risk of death from such planned procedures remains low.
But it shows "unacceptable" variation in survival rates through the week, a leading body of UK surgeons says.
The government says it is committed to safe care for patients at all times.
Researchers from Imperial College London gathered data from all non-emergency surgery undertaken by the NHS in England in 2008-11.
Looking at some 4 million operations they found more than 27,000 deaths within a month of surgery, putting the average risk of death at 0.67%.
The researchers say they are concerned about the significant variation over the week, with the risk lowest for surgery carried out on Monday and then increasing with each subsequent day to peak at the weekend.
The paper shows people who have their operations on Friday are 44% more likely to die than those who have a procedure on Monday.
Professor Antony Narula, of the Royal College of Surgeons, who was not involved in the research, said: "It is not acceptable that there should be such a wide variation in the mortality rates following elective surgery, according to the day of the week the operation takes place."
The researchers say the findings may be due to a poorer quality of aftercare at the weekend, when people who have their surgery later in the week need it most.
Dr Paul Aylin, lead author of the study said: "The first 48 hours following a procedure is most critical and when things can go wrong, such as bleeding and infections. If you don't have the right staff, this is likely to contribute to things being missed.
"If I were a patient I would take comfort from the fact the overall death rate is low, but if I were to have an operation towards the end of the week I would be interested in whether the hospital had the appropriate services to look after me throughout my recovery, including at the weekend."
He says the higher risk of death could be due to fewer doctors, nurses and many non-clinical staff being available on Saturdays and Sundays.
And the study suggests the risk of dying was higher still for surgery conducted over the weekend - 82% greater than on Monday - though the researchers caution only a minority of planned operations currently take place on Saturdays and Sundays.
Previous research looking at emergency procedures shows people are at greater risk of death if admitted during the weekend.
But this is the first large study to look at planned operations, ranging from high-risk procedures such as heart bypass grafts to routine hernia repairs.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: "Whilst this research once again highlights the NHS's weekend malaise and makes for concerning reading, it unfortunately doesn't identify a new problem, but rather a failure to address an issue that has repeatedly been highlighted in the past...
"It is a shame that, despite the publication of hundreds of pages worth of reports and recommendations, so little action has been taken to actually address the problems identified."
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England, said: "We have established a forum to develop viable financial and clinical options to help our NHS provide more comprehensive services seven days a week."
Ministers and Heathrow have signed a "strategic partnership" agreement to identify business opportunities from the planned third runway.
The Welsh Government claim it will create up to 8,400 new skilled jobs and boost the Welsh economy by £6.2bn.
But the Welsh Conservatives said the deal had no "tangible commitments".
A third Heathrow runway will be Europe's largest privately-funded infrastructure project and create significant growth opportunities.
Plaid Cymru criticised Welsh Labour support for the third runway project in 2016 without getting anything back in return, while the Scottish Government had reached a "memorandum of understanding" which included £200m in construction spending.
The UK government said in October 2016, after years of delay, that building a third runway at Heathrow, Europe's largest privately-funded infrastructure project, was its preferred option for expanding airport capacity in the UK.
Under the partnership, Heathrow and the Welsh Government agreed to hold a summit on 5 July in Cardiff to help Welsh businesses seek contracts at the airport.
The Welsh Government also said that airlines wishing to operate a route from Wales to Heathrow would be eligible to bid for a proposed £10m Heathrow Route Development fund.
The fund, paid for by Heathrow, is due to be available for five UK domestic routes and is due to start from 2021.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the partnership "opens the door to explore a wide range of new opportunities, particularly for our existing supply chain companies that have the experience and expertise to support infrastructure projects at Heathrow".
But Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Conservative leader, said the announcement "is a case of the Welsh Labour Government joining the party after last orders with no strong and tangible commitments like those secured by counterparts in Scotland".
Plaid Cymru's transport spokesperson, Jonathan Edwards, said: "Heathrow should be congratulated on having superior negotiating skills to the First Minister of Wales.
"The Scottish Government secured a commitment from Heathrow to reduce landing charges for all airlines operating services from Heathrow to Scotland, and a £200m commitment on construction related spend in Scotland. No such commitments for Wales."
Cardiff Airport is keen to explore opportunities with Heathrow after the new runway is operational, chief executive Deb Barber said.
The annual report for the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust says it spent £3.3m on placements outside the area in 2014-15 compared with £800,000 in 2013-14.
It says this was due to the increasing demands placed on the services.
The trust said it had been taking steps to cut the use of out of area beds.
Patients are sent out of the counties when no suitable mental health beds are available.
The annual report is going before the trust's annual general meeting.
Michael Scott, chief executive at the trust, said: "By taking a number of steps, including the opening of new 12-bed ward at Hellesdon Hospital and investing almost £1m into our community services, we have been able to reduce the number of Norfolk patients in out of area beds down to six today."
The trust annual report says it spent £24.8m on temporary pay, 15% of the trust's total pay bill and £8m higher than the previous year.
The majority of this money was spent to cover vacancies and ensure safe levels of staffing in wards.
The trust said it was trying to "reduce the level of spend and increase our recruitment of key frontline staff".
The mental health trust for Suffolk and Norfolk, which has a budget of £212m, has also found itself with a year-end deficit of £3.7m.
A report to its AGM said it had planned to have a surplus of £1.9m at the end of 2014-15.
A report to the trust said the major reason for the deficit was spending on temporary staff and out of area placements.
The incident happened at St Mary's Catholic Church in West Street on Wednesday.
It was reported that a glass bottle containing a flammable liquid was thrown at the front door of the church.
This did not ignite and no damage was caused to the door or the property. Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident to contact them.
Announcing the overhaul, state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the report's "shocking detail" could not be ignored.
The report found widespread over-breeding, unnecessary euthanasia and cruelty to the dogs.
It also said it was likely that the use of live animals to bait racing dogs was widespread in Australia.
Ms Palaszczuk told parliament on Tuesday that the government would work immediately to "clean up" the state's greyhound racing industry.
"This industry has dismally failed those animals it relies on for considerable profit," she said.
Among the most concerning information in the report by Alan MacSporran, QC, she said, was that between 2003 and 2013 about 30% of the 24,231 pups bred for racing were not named or registered with Racing Queensland, which implied they had been killed.
Racing Queensland Chief Executive Officer Darren Condon has been stood aside on full pay and given five days to explain why he should not be sacked. Neither Racing Queensland nor Mr Condon have yet responded to the government's overhaul.
The MacSporran report also found that many animals were treated cruelly or killed if they lost too many races.
In April, 55 greyhound carcasses were found dumped in a wildflower reserve on the coast of Queensland.
Police and animal authorities investigated the find as part of a joint taskforce established by the state government following an expose by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in February into the practice of "live baiting" within the racing industry nationwide.
The ABC broadcast contained disturbing footage of greyhounds chasing live pigs, possums and rabbits around tracks.
Three other Australian states - NSW, Victoria and Tasmania - have also launched inquiries into greyhound racing.
Announcing his report on Monday, Mr MacSporran said the industry had failed systematically to assess and manage how animals were treated by trainers and racers.
He said the fact trainers had not hidden the "barbaric" treatment of animals "tells its own story".
The report said members of the public were reluctant to tell authorities about the animal cruelty they had witnessed, "and as such, very few members of the industry are implicated".
The government has accepted the report's recommendation to establish an Integrity Commission that would, among other things, oversee appropriate treatment of the animals.
A separate entity would manage racing's commercial aspects.
Queensland All Codes Racing Industry Board Chairman Kevin Dixon said on Monday Racing Queensland fully supported that recommendation.
The inquest ruled Aram Aziz, 32, unlawfully killed Joy Small, 24, their son Aubarr, two, and three-year-old daughter Chanara in Leicester.
Their bodies were found in her flat in Mowmacre on 12 February last year.
Aziz was found hanged at a birdwatching hut at Watermead Country Park in Leicestershire the day before.
At the first hearing, Coroner Catherine Mason, at Leicester Coroner's Court, ruled that Aziz had committed suicide.
Mrs Mason was told that in a note Aziz had left by his body he asked for the bodies to be buried in the Islamic way.
The note said: "I killed myself... Please keep our corpses together."
That note lead officers to the flat on Jersey Road where they found three bodies and a second note.
It said: "So I began by killing Joy and then killing the children by Aubarr and then Chanara and finally myself."
At a second inquest held immediately after the hearing into Aziz's death, Mrs Mason recorded unlawful killings verdicts for Ms Small, Aubarr and Chanara.
Mrs Mason heard that there was a history of domestic violence in the couple's relationship.
Aziz had previously threatened to kill Ms Small if he found her with another man.
He had been convicted of battering and was given a harassment order by police.
The hearing was told that there were missed opportunities in the way agencies dealt with the "vulnerable" family.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that Leicestershire Police had contact with the family on at least eight occasions between 2006 and 2010.
Focusing on police handling of four of incidents in 2010, the IPCC said that while its investigation found no failings amounting to misconduct, it did identify the need for learning by some individual officers in relation to domestic abuse.
IPCC Commissioner Amerdeep Somal said: "Some appropriate steps were taken by police to help Joy Small at different times.
"This included their proactive actions to install an alarm at her address.
"However some incidents could have been handled and recorded better.
"The high risk assessment rightly applied to Ms Small by officers should have meant her being referred to an independent domestic violence advisor, but... this did not happen."
At the inquest, it was not revealed how Ms Small and her two young children died.
Julie's Greenroom will be aimed at preschool children and feature a cast of puppets learning about performing arts.
Netflix said it would be available on the streaming service worldwide in early 2017.
The show will feature celebrity cameos from Alec Baldwin, Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban and Idina Menzel.
Netflix said "Ms Julie" and her assistant Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello) will bring the performing arts to a new generation of kids known as the Greenies.
Dame Julie said: "This project represents the fulfilment of a long held dream to educate children about the wonder of the arts."
The actress is best known for her roles in films including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
It is the second programme to be produced for Netflix by the Jim Henson Company.
Vocabulary building show Word Party is also being made available on the platform next month.
The series, which will have 26 short episodes, will follow four baby animals as they learn new words.
Netflix also announced a new children's animated original series Beat Bugs will be available from 3 August.
The show is inspired by the music of The Beatles and will feature appearances from Pink, James Bay, Regina Spektor and James Corden.
The unbeaten American was incredibly game, standing up to some brutal assaults by the champion, who now has 17 knockouts from as many fights.
But after Breazeale was floored for a second time in the seventh, the referee waved the fight off.
Joshua's mandatory challenger is New Zealand's Joseph Parker.
Fellow Briton David Price is another viable option.
Joshua, who won Olympic super-heavyweight gold at London 2012, told Sky Sports: "It's been tough.
"I only had two weeks off after my last fight and got straight back in the gym. I can have a nice little break for once and come back with recharged batteries."
The 6ft 7in Breazeale held a height and weight advantage over Joshua and was unbeaten in 17 pro fights, although he had fought nobody of note.
In his previous contest, he had been knocked down by Amir Mansour and was well behind on the scorecards when the 43-year-old was forced to retire with breathing problems.
The opening round did not produce much in the way of action, although Breazeale was stiffened by a sharp left hook, which did not bode well.
He was in all sorts of trouble in the second, sent reeling by a huge right hand and just managing to make it through to the end of the round.
But in the third, Breazeale demonstrated he was nothing if not game, firing back when Joshua appeared to have him where he wanted on the ropes.
The challenger was on unsteady legs again in the fifth after Joshua landed with a vicious left hook and the challenger finally fell under a fusillade of punches in the seventh.
Breazeale clambered to his feet but was down again a few seconds later, persuading the referee to call a halt to proceedings.
It was only the second time Joshua, 26, had gone past three rounds - he was also taken seven rounds by fellow Briton Dillian Whyte last December.
Joshua won the title with a second-round knockout of American Charles Martin in April.
Asked when Joshua will next return to the ring, promoter Eddie Hearn said: "November. We like the Joseph Parker fight, that's the mandatory, we'll have to deal with that at some point, whether that's November, December or whether that's March, April that's a good fight."
He said Wladimir Klitschko, 40, was also "a fight we'd love as well, but I'm always reluctant to make a fight of that magnitude in November".
"He needs a long rest," Hearn added. "He needs to go and be a young boy, go and sit on the beach with his mates and mess around. It's been absolutely relentless."
Joshua remains on a collision course with Manchester's Tyson Fury, who faces a rematch with Klitschko in October.
Fury, 27, was supposed to have put his WBA and WBO titles on the line against Klitschko on 9 July but injured his ankle in training.
Joshua said: "I was really looking at Tyson Fury. I hope he gets better soon, as I was hoping to get that sometime in the winter if everything went well.
"We're going to have to reschedule that and look at other opponents like Parker if he's vacant or anybody else that the people want.
"I need to rest. I'm tired. I'm working hard. And now I can get some rest and recharge my batteries and start afresh again."
Liverpool's Price was knocked out twice by American Tony Thompson in 2013 and also by Germany's Erkan Teper last year, but both men subsequently failed drugs tests.
The 32-year-old Price, a former Olympic bronze medallist, continued to rebuild his career with a second-round knockout of Vaclav Pejsar last month.
Another potential opponent for Joshua is fellow Londoner and former heavyweight world champion David Haye.
Haye, 35, continued his comeback with a second-round stoppage of a badly overmatched Arnold Gjergjaj last month.
The WBC champion is Deontay Wilder but Joshua's team are likely to keep their charge away from the hard-hitting American for as long as possible.
"I'm in a good position, Joshua added. "Wilder, Fury, Haye, Any one of them, and they all want me."
David Moyes was passing through Philadelphia as part of a holiday and accepted the offer to visit Wilson and the youth players at Philadelphia Union's academy.
"He was shocked by the level of understanding they had for the Premier League and the leagues in Europe," Wilson said.
The knowledge comes from access to television coverage, but also a growing enthusiasm for, and commitment to, the game.
Wilson used to visit the United States during the close seasons of his playing career, often helping Bobby Clark, the former Aberdeen goalkeeper who is now one of the leading college coaches in America.
He has seen the game grow, to the point where it is now among the leading participation sports in the US and routine MLS games will see 45,000-seat stadia sold out.
Philadelphia Union are one of the newer franchises, having earned their place in the top-flight in 2010, but the recruitment of Wilson as the academy director last year was a reflection of the club's ambitions.
The owners - Keystone Sports & Entertainment - want the club to develop world-class players through their academy, and handed the direct responsibility to Wilson when they offered him the opportunity to leave Rangers and emigrate.
Wilson was the Ibrox club's academy technical director and reserve team coach, but Rangers were also still in the midst of one of their recurring periods of upheaval, so the chance seemed too good for Wilson to turn down.
"I [had been] able to see first-hand the rise of the game over here," Wilson said. "Portland sell out 45,000 nearly every game, Seattle the same.
"Our stadium holds 18,000 and just about every game it's full, so there's something going on over here."
Iain Munro, the former Dunfermline, Dundee, Hamilton, St Mirren and Raith Rovers manager, was in charge of the coaching programmes for younger children, but it was Wilson who was tasked with building the structures, setting the values and vision, and developing the coaches for the academy.
Having helped lead the Scotland Under-20 team to the World Cup finals in Canada in 2007 and the Scotland Under-19 side to the European Championships in Poland the previous year, when they lost the final 2-1 to Spain, Wilson was considered "one of the world's leading experts in youth soccer development" according to Philadelphia Union when they appointed him.
He would never be so boastful, but Wilson is highly considered enough in his field to have been invited to speak at the recent Soccerex panel in Barbados with Dermot Drummy, Chelsea's head of international coaching, and at the Aspire conference in Paris.
Philadelphia's academy was also voted the best on the east coast by US Soccer, despite only being one year old.
Moving to work in America has provided an opportunity to put all of his theories into practice, but also allowed Wilson to expand his horizons.
He is now in charge of 30 coaches and 60 youth academy pupils, 50 of whom are educated at a local school. Wilson oversees a sports psychology department, an athletic training programme, video analysts, and sports scientists, all of which are typical at the academies of leading European clubs.
"The owner really wants us to learn and challenge ourselves, so I've been fortunate to visit academies in all corners of the world," Wilson said. "I've been to Dortmund and Schalke, and AZ in Holland, Feyenoord, we have a partnership with Hoffenheim, and I've been to Bayern.
"Facilities are not at the same level as they are back home. That needs to improve, as does the overall standard of coaching, but in terms of the sheer volume of players, my catchment area is a 75-mile circle, and there are 11m people in there. That's twice the size of Scotland."
Wilson has settled in Philadelphia, although still misses many aspects of Scottish life and British football, but his family still pine for elements of home. He has watched events unfold at Ibrox with a sense of sadness and regret, since he knows the individuals still working in the youth set-up and the extent of their efforts.
He is heartened, though, by the recent academy set-up established by the SFA, under Mark Wotte's guidance, to refocus youth development.
"It's a great job, but it's difficult for my family to settle here," Wilson said. "I was born and brought up in Glasgow, and lived there until I moved here. You miss some of the cultural stuff. I was going to say you miss the Old Firm game, but there's not been one since I left.
"Our academy played Red Bull recently and it reminded me of when our academy played Celtic, the rivalry, but not to the same extent.
"I can see when I worked with the Scottish national team that we weren't resourced anywhere like the boys are resourced just now, and we had some great success with the group.
"When I was a younger coach growing up through the system, they used to say, 'we know what to do, we just don't do it, we don't have the resources'. That's not the case now, we have the structures in place and they're starting to bear some fruit."
The casualty was cut free from the wreckage by fire crews from Dingwall and Invergordon.
There are no reports of any other casualties in the accident which happened at about 16:30 at Alness.
Police Scotland said the A9 was closed with diversions in place through Alness between the Dalmore and Milnafua junctions.
Three fire appliances attended the scene of the crash which involved a BMW and a van.
The PSNI said its officers have taken part in the Pride festival before, but this is the first time they have paraded in uniform.
Three PSNI vehicles will also be on the streets bearing a Pride message.
Signs on the vehicles read: "Policing with Pride - Hate Crime is Unacceptable - To Stop It, Report It."
Serving officers will take their places in the annual march next Saturday and will also be involved in a number of other festival events, including the Pride Picnic.
"Pride is an important series of events for those in the community who identify as being LGB+T," said Dep Chief Constable Drew Harris.
He aded that the PSNI "sees this as an opportunity not only to show its support for these members of our communities but also to highlight that hate crime, in whatever form, is wrong and the importance of reporting it".
"Hate crime should not be tolerated and victims should be encouraged and feel confident that when they contact police that their concerns will be taken seriously and responded to appropriately."
The chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, Anne Connolly, said: "It's a very sad reality that homophobic and transphobic hate crime continues to be committed in our society.
"This is not an issue for the police alone to deal with but as they are often the first point of contact, the message and service provided by the PSNI is critical.
"I welcome the fact that officers will be parading at Pride in their uniform for the first time ever, demonstrating the diversity among PSNI officers and staff and PSNI support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people across our community."
The 'Policing with Pride' liveried PSNI vehicles will also be used at Pride events in Newry and Londonderry.
Martin Gilbert, of Aberdeen Asset Management, is to focus on client relations and marketing.
Keith Skeoch of Standard Life, will lead on running operations and investments.
The share of responsibilities reflects the merger being forged from a stronger position for Standard Life.
Aberdeen Asset Management, which has been led by Mr Gilbert since 1983, has been in a weaker position since emerging markets declined, and £100bn has since been withdrawn from its management.
Once merged, the company - which has yet to choose its name - will have around £660bn under management, of which £357bn is the most recent figure for Edinburgh-based Standard Life.
The statement issued by both companies explains that a committee of the two chief executives, along with the chairman and deputy chairman, will handle questions arising out of joint leadership.
This is partly to reassure investors and clients that the merged company has clear direction and avoids conflicts. The two men said they have been friends for decades, and go fishing together.
As co-chief executive officers (CEOs) they will share responsibility for core parts of the chief executive role, including the executive committee, developing strategy and objectives and monitoring performance. They will also share communications and the integration programme after the merger takes place.
Keith Skeoch is to have individual accountability for day-to-day running of the business, including investments, pensions and savings, the joint ventures Standard Life has in India and China, operations, finance, human resources, risk and regulation.
Martin Gilbert will lead on international activities, client engagement and business development, marketing and corporate development.
Sir Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Standard Life and of the proposed combined group said: "I am delighted that we have announced these clear accountabilities for the Co-CEOs in the combined business.
"Both boards have thought carefully about the key responsibilities and believe that the proposals play well to Keith's and Martin's respective leadership strengths.
"This blend of complementary skills and experience will serve the company well".
Following the referendum vote in favour of Brexit, he said all regional and farm funding should continue, and an extra £9bn a year would be available.
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill has said politicians must work together "to heal the divisions" created by the campaign.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has also called for party and public unity.
In Thursday's referendum 52.5% of voters in Wales backed Leave, compared with 47.5% supporting Remain.
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Monmouth MP Mr Davies - a prominent name in the Leave campaign - said he was "more than happy" to work with the Welsh Government to ensure Wales did not lose any funding when the UK left the European Union.
He told BBC Radio Wales it could result in even more money coming to Wales.
"We pay £19bn [a year] into the EU, we get about £10bn back at the moment," he said on Saturday's Good Morning Wales programme.
"We first of all make sure the money that was going into structural funds and CAP [the Common Agricultural Policy] continues.
"Then we look at the net £8.5-£9bn that's left over and ensure anything that's spent in Britain is 'Barnettised' so that Wales gets 5%."
The Barnett formula is used by the UK Treasury to share any extra money for public spending between the four UK nations.
Mr Davies added that he was "very open-minded" about a quick departure from the EU if the other 27 member states wanted it.
"I was campaigning to get out of the European Union, and if they want to help us out by speeding things up then that's great."
Meanwhile Clwyd West MP David Jones, a fellow Tory who led the Vote Leave Cymru campaign, said the UK Government could give Wales structural funding beyond 2020, when the current EU grant deal runs out.
The former Welsh Secretary said with the prospect of countries such as Serbia and Macedonia aiming to join the EU, it was doubtful Wales would still have qualified for aid anyway.
As the result of the referendum sank in, Mr Gill told BBC Wales that "the nation, Wales and the UK, feels divided".
He said it was the job of politicians to create "calm debate and conditions" for exiting the European Union.
Mr Gill also said it was important that the UK Government set out a "clear vision" on Brexit, and he praised David Cameron for making what he described as the "honourable decision" to stand down.
On Friday, Mr Jones called for unity, adding that it would now be "more difficult to attract investment into Wales and keep jobs in Wales".
But Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies - who campaigned for Brexit - accused him of continuing the Remain camp's "Project Fear".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said she would speak to Mr Jones as talks begin on how to pull the UK out of the EU.
Meanwhile former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley has called for a second vote on the matter - possibly via a general election - once the Brexit terms had been negotiated, calling for the devolved governments to be involved in those discussions.
He claimed on BBC Radio Cymru that people who voted to leave the EU were unclear as to what they were voting for, and the change of prime minister itself justified a fresh election.
Plaid Cymru AM Adam Price also joined calls for another poll. He tweeted: "I accept mandate for leaving EU, but final agreed terms of exit (Norway, Switzerland or no single market) should be put to 2nd referendum."
Following a long, and sometimes bad-tempered campaign, much of the emphasis is now on trying to heal the wounds inflicted during the debate.
But since Wales is a net beneficiary of EU funds, the focus is also on ensuring promises made during the campaign that the poorest areas would not lose a penny are kept.
Leanne Wood said she would speak with Carwyn Jones to pull together and present a united front as discussions begin on how to pull the UK out of the European Union.
Mr Jones insists he should be part of the top team carrying out those negotiations, but it is unclear whether that will happen.
The ferry operator revealed the attacks took place on consecutive days at Wemyss Bay on the Clyde coast.
The bridge crews of the MV Argyle and MV Bute were subjected to an intense green light at about dusk on 31 March and 1 April.
CalMac said the attacks on the crews were "utterly irresponsible".
Both ferries had been operating the service from Rothesay.
The use of lasers on ferry crews would be an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act and Police Scotland have confirmed officers have started an investigation.
CalMac service director Robbie Drummond said: "I cannot emphasise enough how dangerous such utterly irresponsible behaviour is.
"As well as posing an issue of immediate harm to our crews, these actions are illegal and an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act. They also have the potential to jeopardise the safety of passengers on board and, ultimately, the vessels.
"That may be blunt, but it is absolutely a fact and we condemn the actions of this reckless person or persons in the strongest terms."
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland added: "We can confirm that Police Scotland is investigating these incidents, which are utterly reckless. Thankfully, no-one was injured during these incidents.
"Those who carry out this type of act should be aware of the danger that they pose."
The prospect of securing the world's first tidal power station off the shores of Swansea Bay is seen by many green organisations as pretty momentous.
There is cautious optimism that an independent review of the economic viability of the scheme - set to be decided upon by the end of the year - will give a thumbs up.
The £1.3bn lagoon could generate enough clean energy from the ebb and flow of the tide to satisfy 11% of electricity consumption in Wales.
It is claimed that would save about 236,000 tonnes of carbon being emitted each year, boosting efforts to combat climate change.
It is perhaps ironic then that addressing environmental concerns could be one of the next big hurdles the Swansea project faces.
Although planning permission has been secured, it has yet to be issued with a marine licence from the body in charge of the environment, Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
Developers Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) say they have been involved in an "exhaustive year of scrutiny" over the likely impact on fish.
The effect the development could have on birdlife, marine mammals and tiny invertebrates living in silt in the bay and the rivers that flow into it are also a consideration.
A further five lagoons planned for the Severn estuary, north Wales and Cumbria could ultimately provide up to 10% of the UK's domestic electricity needs.
There are some who believe the environmental impact of each should be assessed before the first is given the go ahead.
Others though point to the fact that climate change is generally agreed to be the greatest threat to nature conservation and clean energy schemes like the lagoons should be prioritised.
The company believes it can enhance the environment around its lagoons and is prepared to spend millions of pounds to that effect.
As it awaits with baited breath the results of Charles Hendry's review, I have been speaking to some of the environmental voices - and TLP.
Peter Morris, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)
The WWT has nature reserves at Llanelli but also at its headquarters at Slimbridge on the Severn estuary, which Mr Morris describes as a "huge motorway service station" for migratory birds from Africa and the Arctic.
On the Swansea lagoon he said they were "cautiously very excited about it".
"We need green, renewable power, we need lots of it and need to find ways to get it," said Mr Morris.
"The Severn estuary out of all estuaries in the world has one of the highest tidal ranges, it's huge. If you're going to build tidal power anywhere, why not here?"
He believes the Swansea project could be "the cradle" of renewable energy to save us from climate change and global warming.
But it could be "an environmental disaster if you get it wrong".
For that reason, WWT would want the roll-out of lagoon projects to proceed with caution - over an eight-year period - to properly study the impact on fish, birds and the creatures in the mud they feed off.
"If we go too quickly you don't learn the mistakes in advance," he said.
David Clubb, director of Renewable UK Cymru
Mr Clubb said it was a once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity, and a similar vision was needed to Victorian infrastructure pioneers like Brunel.
"It's too big an opportunity to pass up, not just for Swansea but Cardiff, Newport and all of those areas of deprivation in the valleys, as well as the low carbon and green energy that would be produced," he said.
Mark Lloyd, chief executive of the Angling Trust and Fish Legal
The organisation represents angling clubs and people who fish in England and Wales and is not convinced.
Mr Lloyd believes as well as fishing in the rivers around Swansea and Neath, salmon and sea trout fishing in the Usk could be affected.
He said the lagoon was "expensive and unproven technology" while he claims the environmental modelling is based on more fast-flowing rivers in Norway.
"We know anecdotally fish swim around for a long time out in the Severn estuary, going back and forth on the tide in this very sediment-rich water - and we know they have to wait for a long time for enough flow in these south Wales rivers to go back upstream.
"You shouldn't carry out a giant experiment like this using public money in such a sensitive environment, which is so delicate and with so many threatened species in it.
"Swansea only works from an economic point of view if you build all the other lagoons as well. If you build all the other lagoons you have a very big environmental impact with a lot of unknown consequences, not just on fish."
Mark Shorrock, chief executive of Tidal Lagoon Power
The developers are confident they have a strong environmental case, and that bird life could even benefit from the lagoon.
"We think we've been able to evidence very, very clearly that there will be negligible impact on fish, but that hurdle is still to come. We need the marine licence," said Mr Shorrock.
There has been computer modelling of how often a trout or salmon swims into Swansea bay, the chances of it encountering a turbine and getting struck.
"You couldn't have more robust fish data by perhaps the top five fish scientists in the UK.
"We've been asked to run some pretty huge assumptions - for example that the fish will encounter turbines for 24 hours a day, even though the gates are shut for 10 hours a day and they can't swim against the ebb tide. Even then we're still showing nigh on negligible impact on fish."
He said they had support from sea anglers, with the belief that the lagoon's hard rock breakwaters - replicating the sub-sea area around Mumbles pier - would help provide an increasing habitat for lobster and crab, and hatcheries for sea bass, herring and pollock.
Once the lagoon is in place, he believes birds will use the inter-tidal areas - and the British Trust for Ornithology will be tracking species like curlew, shell duck and dunlin.
It would be 15 months after the start of energy production at Swansea lagoon before the developers would look to start building one in Cardiff - and in that time more than four years of data would have been gathered.
"The fundamental key point of tidal lagoon is that it doesn't really impact [upon] nature," said Mr Shorrock.
"You have an inter-tidal area which still washes in and still washes out. This isn't about a Severn barrage with a division between freshwater and saltwater and mankind frankly not knowing what it's messing with.
"We understand the model pretty accurately - how much inter-tidal will be lost if we build a breakwater on it; there's a very strong case that ultimately lagoons are not just going to create more inter-tidal but also create more protectors.
"It's a very harsh environment. The Severn makes it harder to live in than The Wash of the Humber. We're hearing quite a lot of people saying we think birds will start using the areas inside the lagoons more because it will be less energetic, less extreme in its variations."
There are currently six projects, with the eventual hope for a network of nine lagoons across the UK by 2030, which it is claimed could lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide of 136 megatons.
"Our vision is that Wales will play an enormous part in delivering the Paris Agreement and it will do that in delivering Swansea, Cardiff, Newport and Colwyn Bay tidal lagoons," said Mr Shorrock.
Tidal lagoons - the economic arguments
An international team is working on a £2m project to develop versatile robots to help look after older people in care homes or sheltered accommodation.
The robots will offer support with everyday tasks, like taking tablets, as well as offering companionship.
Academics say they could alleviate pressures on care homes and hospitals.
Researchers from Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire will assist in building personal social robots, known as Pepper Robots, which can be pre-programmed to suit the person they are helping.
It is hoped culturally sensitive robots will be developed within three years. The programme is being funded by the EU and the Japanese government.
Prof Irena Papadopoulos, expert in trans-cultural nursing, said: "As people live longer, health systems are put under increasing pressure.
"In the UK alone, 15,000 people are over 100 years of age and this figure will only increase.
"Assistive, intelligent robots for older people could relieve pressures in hospitals and care homes as well as improving care delivery at home and promoting independent living for the elderly.
"It is not a question of replacing human support but enhancing and complementing existing care."
She added: "We are starting with care homes and with people who are semi-independent living in sheltered housing, but we do believe that in the future the robots would become acceptable for people to have in their own homes."
Pepper Robots are manufactured by Softbank Robotics and already used in thousands of homes in Japan.
Amit Humar Pandey, the company's chief scientist, said the firm wanted to create a world where robots co-exist with humans in harmony, for a smarter, healthier, safer and happier life.
It is hoped the new robots will help improve the well-being of their charges by providing entertainment and enabling them to connect better, through smart appliances, with family and the outside world.
They will communicate through speech and with gestures, be able to move independently and pick up signs the elderly person is unwell or in pain.
Similar robots are already being used in hospitals in Japan to perform tasks such as lifting patients and serving food
In the final year of the project, the robots will be tested at Advinia Healthcare care homes in the UK.
The company's executive chairman Dr Sanjeev Kanoria said it was keen to revolutionise the care of the elderly by supporting hard-working care staff.
"Robots can support care workers by helping to reduce errors in medication and assisting them with advanced technology to help vulnerable residents, live safer independent lives in care homes and at home."
Thought to have been bequeathed to the museum by an anonymous donor, the Cartier ring was reported missing to the police in 2011.
The loss was revealed with the publication of museum's annual accounts where its cost has been written off.
A spokesperson said it was museum procedure to report losses five years after discovering a missing piece.
The ring was not on public display when it went missing, the museum said.
A spokesperson said: "The ring was found missing from its proper location by British Museum staff in August 2011.
"British Museum procedure, as agreed by trustees, requires the ring formally to be reported as lost five years after the initial discovery of its absence.
"The museum has since reviewed its security and collections management procedures and dedicated significant investment to improved security across the estate."
The fire - a continuation of a blaze in October - broke out at the retired colliery at Daw Mill, near Nuneaton, at around 20:30 GMT on Wednesday.
Eyewitness Peter Wardley said smoke "filled the area" and there was a "strong smell of burning coal".
Police closed the B4098, but it has since reopened.
The Coal Authority said it suspected the fire, thought to be at the bottom of the pit, had reacted to Thursday's high winds.
"The road was closed because of poor visibility," added Carl Banton, from the authority. He said emergency services had not been able to access the mine but the fire had died down overnight.
"The colliery has a history of spontaneous combustion," he added.
Prospective owners Harworth Estates said it had suspended demolition work at the site.
A spokesperson said it had also withdrawn 16 staff from the site as a safety precaution.
"Demolition works have been suspended until the fire has stabilised," he said. "Staff will remain offsite until the all-clear has been given by the Coal Authority for them to return."
The colliery closed on 22 February as a result of another underground blaze, which left hundreds of miners out of work.
It was one of the last deep mines in the country and was owned by UK Coal.
Work intended to prevent further fires is being carried out at the site. This includes filling the shafts with limestone and plugging them with clay to starve the flames of oxygen.
The Coal Authority said this work should be completed by January.
Tourists fill the visitors' shop while next door in the factory, machines that resemble cement mixers and wheels churn rivers of white and brown chocolate.
It is hard to believe that a brutal civil war is raging in Syria just three miles away from a factory that specialises in producing boutique chocolates.
It is also hard to reconcile the apparent peace and tranquillity of this area with the fact that so-called Islamic State - or Isis - is believed to control parts of Syria that border Israeli-occupied Golan.
The chocolate factory takes its name from Karina Chepelinski, a chocolatier originally from Argentina.
Her husband, Gyora Chepelinski, who is also the chief executive officer of De Karina, told the BBC the border had been quiet for the decades leading up to the outbreak of the civil war.
"All we can do is rely on our defence forces and carry on making chocolate," Mr Chepelinski added.
Territory encompassing most of the Golan Heights, approximately 500 square miles, was captured by Israel in the last stages of the so-called Six Day War of 1967.
Israel effectively annexed the land in December 1981 when it officially extended Israeli law and government to the Golan.
The "border" between Israeli-occupied land and Syria is now the 1967 ceasefire line that is enforced by the United Nations.
The Golan Heights - profile
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Leading Israeli politicians have expressed concern about what could happen in the event of a possible future victory in the civil war by Syrian president Bashar al Assad.
Assad has been heavily supported by Iran and, in particular, the Islamist militants funded and backed by Tehran, Hezbollah. Hezbollah has vowed to destroy the state of Israel.
Earlier this year, the Israeli National Infrastructure Minister, Yuval Steinitz, warned: "I'm afraid that the price of a victory [by the Syrian regime] against Isis would be an Iranian military presence on our northern border.
"This would be a real danger to us. The world's shock over Isis's barbarity and the wish to defeat it causes it to ignore the Iranian threat and Hezbollah's character."
Paul Barel lives and works on the Moshav Yonatan, an agricultural community of about 350 people. It specialises in raising cattle and producing animal feed.
The village lies in south-eastern Golan just four miles from the ceasefire line. On the other side, so-called Islamic State is believed to be fighting Assad's Hezbollah-backed forces.
But Mr Barel believes that Iran and Hezbollah present the gravest threat to Israel's security.
He said: "Iran worries me more than anything else even Isis. Why? Because Iran is a government and a government with a lot of money, a lot of backing, a lot of people, and they're close to us. They have their technology, even nuclear technology that threatens not only the whole world but especially Israel."
Of the 30,000 or so people in Israel-occupied Golan, fewer than half - about 14,000 - are Jews. The rest are mainly Druze Arabs, who straddle the 1967 ceasefire line.
But Israel believes a small number of Syrian Druze are being used in sporadic attacks against Israelis in the Golan Heights by Hezbollah.
Security analyst Miri Eisin, a former colonel in Israeli intelligence, told the BBC: "It already worries us that Hezbollah has already gone from Lebanon to the Golan Heights and we're already seeing that in today's day and age.
"It has taken time. So there's no question whatsoever that the presence of Iranians, not just in Syria in general but specifically on the Israeli-Syrian border looking towards Israel, is very dangerous.
"In the last three years we've seen the Hezbollah troops as they've been fighting for Bashar al Assad in Syria come to the northern Golan Heights and hooking up with the Druze of Syria, sending Druze to fight in Israel, planting bombs on the Israeli-Syrian border.
"That has nothing to do with the Syrian civil war. That's part of Hezbollah's war against Israel."
For many in the West as well as the Middle East, IS remains the most immediate threat. Concern about the growing influence of Iran is now being felt across the region, but particularly in the Golan Heights.
The Chairboys were without an away league win since 9 February until Pierre thundered the ball into the roof of the net after Brad Halliday failed to clear a corner.
Paul Hayes gave the visitors an early lead, lifting a sixth minute penalty over Will Norris after Roberts was penalised for a challenge on Pierre.
The U's were then kept at bay by an inspired performance by Wycombe goalkeeper Jamal Blackman.
He parried an effort from substitute Uche Ikpeazu, before producing two superb stops in a matter of minutes to twice deny U's defender Mark Roberts.
Luke Berry lifted a freekick narrowly over and Blackman was called into action again to save Blair Adam's effort at his near post,
He was finally helpless to Cambridge equalising on 87 minutes, George Maris converting the rebound after Ikpeazu's effort hit the inside of the far post.
But Wycombe had the final word five minutes into added time.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 1, Wycombe Wanderers 2.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 1, Wycombe Wanderers 2.
Goal! Cambridge United 1, Wycombe Wanderers 2. Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal following a corner.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Roberts.
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) header from very close range is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Blair Adams.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Garry Thompson.
Goal! Cambridge United 1, Wycombe Wanderers 1. George Maris (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Attempt blocked. Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Anthony Stewart.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Max Clark.
Attempt blocked. Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Blair Adams.
Attempt missed. Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Blair Adams.
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Blair Adams.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Paris Cowan-Hall.
Attempt saved. Blair Adams (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Paul Hayes.
Attempt missed. George Maris (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers).
George Maris (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Leon Legge (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
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Twelve drivers from the RMT union have walked out on the first of three strike days planned on Southern services.
The RMT claimed Southern had been forced to admit they were cancelling trains despite a promised full service.
Southern said there were cancellations following non-availability of crew owing to sickness and a rota mistake.
"There have been one or two cancellations this morning involving the non-availability of train crew, but these have arisen from one case of sickness and a train crew rostering error," a Southern spokesman said.
Southern has been in a long-running dispute over guards' roles on trains with the RMT, which represents conductors and 12 drivers, and Aslef, the main train drivers' union.
Aslef had planned three days of strike action this week but called off the stoppages for talks to take place.
The RMT continued with the walkouts after it said it was banned from negotiations.
As the 12 RMT drivers continued with the action, union leader Mick Cash called on Aslef to respect RMT picket lines, mounted at sites including the Barnham, Brighton and Selhurst depots.
Southern told the BBC all Aslef drivers crossed picket lines.
The RMT claimed it had seen a "positive response" to the protests but did not comment further.
Aslef said it could not comment on any ongoing Southern dispute while talks were under way.
Mr Cash said: "RMT is a recognised union for drivers on Southern and it is disgraceful that we have been carved out of the current talks process set up by the TUC and the government. That is a kick in the teeth for our members.
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Before taking the job in 2011, O'Neill approached the former Northern Ireland captain and Celtic manager for advice.
In a wide-ranging interview on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme, he said: "I did speak to Martin before I took the Northern Ireland job.
"[I] got a little bit of guidance from him on that."
"I don't have many mentors or people where I would pick the phone up for advice, but I suppose Martin would be high up the list."
O'Neill was reflecting on a remarkable year, in which he led Northern Ireland to qualification for the reach Euro 2016 finals in France.
He said that, as a boy, he was inspired to choose Martin as his confirmation name because Martin O'Neill was skippering Northern Ireland at the 1982 World Cup.
Earlier this month, the pair were named joint winners of the Philips Irish Sports Manager of the Year award, for having guided their teams to next summer's European Championships.
And Michael O'Neill was named coach of the year at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards after his remarkable year.
But his life could have taken a very different turn after the end of his long career as a player that included stints with Newcastle United, Dundee United, Hibernian and Wigan Athletic.
As he moved towards retirement, he had one eye on football management and another on a more traditional career.
He ended up spending five years working as a financial adviser.
O'Neill, who now lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two daughters, says this time spent working in a "proper job" has been a valuable asset in his footballing life.
"I've benefited from working outside football in terms of finance but also in dealing with people in the general workplace," he said.
O'Neill started out as a player at Irish League club Coleraine while he was studying for his A-levels, but it was a legal wrangle years later that would inspire him to return to his books.
"When I was at Dundee United I had a contract dispute where I saw the other side of football - at that point in time I turned back to my education," he said.
"I studied at the Open University and then did the professional qualifications at the Chartered Insurance Institute which enabled me to become a financial adviser.
"I worked firstly in Glasgow for a financial services company then went to Ernst and Young for three years as a financial consultant.
"I also worked in a start-up company, and at that time I also started to coach after doing my coaching badges."
Like Martin O'Neill, Michael had shown early promise as a Gaelic footballer, but he said he was never torn between the two sports.
He played Gaelic football at school in Ballymena, County Antrim, and "a little bit for the Antrim county minors".
But "it always played second fiddle for me," he said.
"My father is a big GAA man - he played for St Gall's and he hurled for Antrim and Ulster as well.
"He was a very good hurling goalkeeper, but I was never brave enough, or stupid enough, to play hurling, to be honest!"
In 2006, O'Neill got his first managerial job at Brechin City in Scotland before moving to a full-time role at Dublin club Shamrock Rovers two years later.
He guided them to their first League of Ireland title in 16 years as well as a lucrative run in the Europa League, with glamour ties against the likes of Juventus and Tottenham Hotspur.
He says his financial experience helped to put both "relatively modest" clubs on "a sound financial footing".
"It's OK to be successful, but the important thing is for the club to remain strong and stable," he said.
"That was probably the biggest plus point of Shamrock Rovers, because we won two league titles in three years and went to the Europa League group stages.
"When I left the club, they still had more than one million euros in the bank, whereas at that stage before, any team that had success in the League of Ireland typically went bust a year later."
Police say the bodies of nine women and four men were found washed up on a beach in Johor state early on Tuesday.
Those on board were thought to be illegal migrants or workers from Indonesia, they added.
Thousands of Indonesians work illegally in plantations and other industries in Malaysia.
They often risk dangerous sea journeys to bypass border controls when they enter Malaysia or return home.
District police chief Rahmat Othman said he believed up to 35 people could have been on board the boat, and a search and rescue operation was under way.
An Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters that "ID cards from Indonesia" were found on the bodies of the 13 victims.
Accidents off Malaysia's coast are relatively common as illegal migrants try to find work in the relatively affluent country.
It is also a key transit hub for asylum seekers fleeing unrest in their own countries, such as in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Mr Devenney resigned from the DUP after being suspended amid claims he had brought the party into disrepute.
On Friday, the Ulster Unionist Party released a statement welcoming Mr Devenney into its fold.
However, on Monday, the Londonderry Sentinel reported that Mr Devenney had decided against joining the UUP.
The paper quotes Mr Devenney as saying: "Over the weekend further discussions ensued. As a result of those discussions there were a number of issues that, I felt, we could not find agreement on.
"I have now had the opportunity to consult with a number of individuals in the broad unionist family and, while appreciating the friendly engagement with the UUP, have decided that I will remain as an independent in the local council, going forward."
Mr Nesbitt said:
"I met Maurice Devenney at his request some weeks ago. At that time, he was clear in what he wanted.
"When we met again on Saturday, I sensed he was less sure.
"I note he makes reference to a number of unresolved issues but that is news to me."
Most of the posts have been shared out between the two biggest parties, the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin.
The executive was formed after independent unionist MLA Claire Sugden was appointed as justice minister.
Last week, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers warned there would be fresh assembly elections if the justice post was not filled.
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) are forming an opposition.
The posts have been shared out using a system called D'Hondt, in which ministerial posts are allocated according to parties' representation in the assembly.
Under this system, the DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP and Ulster Unionists would have been entitled to nominate. However, the SDLP and UUP declined to nominate a minster and are, instead, forming the first formal opposition in the assembly.
Ms Sugden said that while it would be a huge challenge, she felt she was "up to" the job of justice minister - a job that had been turned down by the Alliance Party.
"This is an opportunity for me, not only for me, but for the people of my constituency and the people of Northern Ireland," she said.
"I am a progressive person, I do look forward to working with my executive colleagues."
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The Sinn Féin ministers are:
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Ms Sugden, 29, an assembly member for East Londonderry, succeeds Alliance Party leader David Ford as justice minister.
Shortly after her appointment, the DUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster said: "This is a good day for Northern Ireland, the people will have a government in place today."
She added: "Martin [McGuinness] and I are delighted that Claire has agreed to be the new justice minister for the new mandate."
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Mr McGuinness, who formally nominated Ms Sugden, said that even though the independent MLA had sat in what he called "the naughty corner" in the assembly, he had been impressed by her.
"She is a very progressive young woman, someone who I think clearly understands the need to be a minister for everybody within our community."
However, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt described Ms Sugden's appointment as a "corruption of the Good Friday Agreement".
"With one seat in the assembly, you get a seat at the executive table," he said.
"No wonder the Ulster Unionist Party opposed the devolution of policing and justice."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood also said Ms Sugden's appointment was a corruption of the d'Hondt voting system for the Northern Ireland Executive.
He added: "It's very clear to our electorate that this is a position for which no nationalist need apply."
Announcing that his party would be going into opposition, Green Party leader Steven Agnew said it was no secret that he had previously taken part in discussions about accepting the justice post.
"We were very clear that we would only serve in government if we felt we could progress our agenda, if we thought we could achieve more in government than out of government," he said.
"But I think the reality was our agenda was completely different from the DUP's and Sinn Féin's, which is why I'm delighted that myself and Claire Bailey will be in opposition."
For the first time since the establishment of the assembly in 1998, Northern Ireland has a DUP education minister.
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Claire Sugden will not have too far to look for a controversial issue in the world of justice.
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One challenge faced by the new agriculture minister, Michelle McIveen, will be to balance the executive's push for growth of the agri-food industry, without compromising environmental protections.
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He had been in hospital for about 10 days before his death late on Thursday.
As a young man, he had fought against the Japanese during World War II, and with the French against the North Vietnamese in the 1950s.
He led a 15-year CIA-sponsored secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War and, when it was lost, led tens of thousands of his people into exile.
Thousands of ethnic Hmong are expected to attend his funeral in Fresno, California.
"He'll be remembered as a great general, a great warrior, a great Hmong soldier," his friend Charlie Waters told AFP news agency.
However the response from the Laos government was muted. "He was an ordinary person, so we do not have any reaction," a government spokesman was quoted by AFP as saying.
Gen Pao was a controversial figure, deeply loved by many Hmong - an ethnic minority in Lao that complains of persecution - for his insistence on freedom from foreign domination.
Former Central Intelligence Agency chief William Colby once called Gen Pao "the biggest hero of the Vietnam War".
But critics say that by allying himself with the US, Gen Pao caused his people untold suffering - something that he himself recognised.
"I lost 17,000 men, almost 10% of the total Hmong population. The Hmong sacrificed the most in the war and were the ones who suffered the most," he said at the Heritage Foundation think tank in 1987.
Americans who first came into contact with him found a man skilled in warfare and with the charisma necessary to sustain a dangerous, 15-year operation in support of the US against the North Vietnamese.
The CIA airline, Air America, carried Gen Pao and his fighters across the country.
Laos' forgotten Hmong
On the ground, he and his men disrupted Vietnamese supply lines and engaged in pitched battles to try to stave off the Vietnamese-backed communist victory in Laos.
When that effort failed in 1975, Gen Pao led many thousands of Hmong into what are now well-established exile communities in the US.
The Central Valley of California, Minneapolis and cities throughout Wisconsin have a Hmong presence of an estimated 30,000-40,0000.
In his later years, Gen Pao was accused of leading rebellions or sponsoring subversion against the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.
In 2007, he was charged along with nine others with plotting to use AK-47 rifles, missiles and mercenaries to overthrow the Lao government. Charges against him were later dropped.
He was regarded by some as an exiled head of state.
"He's the last of his kind, the last of the leadership that carries that reverence that everyone holds dear," said Blong Xiong, a Fresno city councilman and prominent Hmong-American.
"Whether they're young or old, they hear his name, there's the respect that goes with it."
BBC News website readers have been sending in their reaction to the news. Here is a selection of their comments.
General Vang Pao is our greatest leader and will remain this way. He was our beacon of hope and is the very reason why we are here in the US, our land of opportunity. He will forever be missed and no one will be able to replace him in our hearts, mind and community. He was a much loved leader that led his people. He wasn't one to be above anyone, but rolled up his sleeves and challenged our everyday struggles with us. He is a great hero that - even though was considered "exiled" - was truly not because his people followed him to the very end. Mao Lee, Fresno, California, US
I cannot believe that there can be any celebration of someone who supported the US and the CIA in Vietnam/Laos. Your note that as a Community Leader he worked as a security guard at a supermarket in the USA says it all. The US should still be damned for the horror that they exercised on Vietnamese (and US) people in the Vietnam war - and in Laos and Cambodia. Mike, Cape Town
It's a tragic loss for the Hmong community. A historic Hmong leader has passed away. Neng Vang, St Paul, Minnesota, US
General Vang Pao will always be regarded as the Hmong people's saviour of the war. He negotiated our freedom from what would be certain death for many of us in Laos. It is too bad that young people, like me, will never fully understand the extent of his courage, and the charismatic nature of this man. I just wished that he had done more for the young people here in the US. Maybe now that the only "leader" we have known is gone, maybe the Hmong community can finally understand that a divided community is not as strong as one that is unified. I certainly hope his death will cause unification and not further separation. Gregory Yang, Merced, CA, US
I met Vang Pao once in the refugee camp at Loei when he and Jerry Daniels were engineering the translocation of the entire tribe to America against the wishes of Congress. The visionary leadership at that point has become, and deserves to be, legendary. He could have just joined his relatives in Missoula but he stayed and engineered the future of hundreds of thousands of his people with craft and brilliance. With Jerry dead in 1984, the Hmong people have lost the last of the pair which worked together and alone created their destiny. I feel so proud to have met a man of his stature, may he be at peace in the presence of the Lord. Dan Pride, I.C.E.M Evacuation Officer Ampur Loei
As we heard the news, my parents were crying. They couldn't sleep last night and they told me that they don't know what is going to happen to the Hmong people now that General Vang Pao is gone. He has been the father figure for the Hmong people and this is going to be a very hard time for our community. Our community leaders will meet together and get this funeral done first and then we will talk about what we are going to do next. Pao, St. Paul, MN, US
General Pao was the last of the Nationalist leaders from the Vietnam era. Men like him fought the Japanese and anyone else that wanted to dominate their country. We, in the US, could not tell the difference between a nationalist and a Communist. So we supported Catholics to rule a country of non-Catholics and other such stupidities. General Pao and the loyalty of his people is a good story with a semi-tragic ending in that most are far from home, the worst hell on earth for a nationalist. Mike Reid, Sheridan, Oregon, US
Uniquely, in the democratic world, Britain's political leaders have to face a baying mob of their opponents every week, as they debate questions on every conceivable issue. They all hate it. They all fear it. But even those like Tony Blair and David Cameron, who have questioned the point of having to take part in a weekly pantomime, or Punch and Judy show, admit that it serves a purpose. It keeps them honest. Rightly or wrongly, the half-hour session at mid-day on a Wednesday, when the Commons is sitting, is seen as a test of a leader's ability to lead. As Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn will get six questions to the prime minister in which to make his mark.
The new Labour leader knows all about Prime Minister's Questions. He has witnessed it hundreds of times and asked a few questions himself over the years. But always from the safety of his regular seat on the back row of the Labour benches. Moving forward four rows to the front bench is a few small steps, but will be one giant leap for a man who has never stood at the despatch box before. It is certain to be a nerve-shredding experience.
Mr Corbyn is a seasoned public speaker, used to thinking on his feet, but he will never have faced an audience as hostile as this before with his performance placed under so much scrutiny. The biggest challenge might be making himself heard above the baying, cackling wall of sound coming from the Conservative benches. Speaker John Bercow could be in for a busy session. Mr Corbyn has been chatting to predecessor Ed Miliband about how to handle it and plans to get advice from veteran left-wing firebrand Dennis Skinner, according to Channel 4's Michael Crick.
A stumbling performance would be bad for Mr Corbyn. But he could probably get away with it. What would be worse - far worse - is laughter. Sir Menzies, now Lord, Campbell, a seasoned front bench performer, never really recovered from becoming the butt of a joke the first time he asked Tony Blair a question as Liberal Democrat leader. "It was a real bear garden," Lord Campbell told The Daily Telegraph. "They smell blood in the House of Commons so if you make a mistake or two they're trying to get you."
A full-throated attack on David Cameron on inequality, welfare cuts, the banks and the Tories' friends in City hedge funds is what many on the left have been yearning for. And - in the supercharged atmosphere of the Commons bear pit, where reasoned debate and nuance takes a back seat to theatre - it could work. Alternatively, Mr Corbyn could attempt to take the moral high ground, deploying his mild-mannered, deeply serious style to wrongfoot the prime minister. Bookmakers are taking bets on what he will ask David Cameron, with migrants and refugees favourite at 4/7, followed by trade union rights (4/1), global poverty (10/1) and EU membership (14/1). He has said PMQs is too confrontational and he will refrain from "repartee", focusing instead on serious issues.
The temptation will be to go for the jugular. He has plenty of ammunition. The prime minister used to ridicule Ed Miliband over his economic policies and links to the trade unions, suggesting he was a throwback to the strife-torn 1970s. Mr Corbyn will be an even bigger target. The prime minister may go easy on him for fear of appearing too arrogant and condescending. But don't be surprised to see a few old tricks coming out, such as asking Labour MPs to put their hands up if they support their new leader on policy issues such as Trident and Nato.
There are those that claim PMQs is a terrible advert for British politics. Foreign observers regard it with a mixture of amusement and horror. In contrast to most legislative chambers around the world the British House of Commons is not a semi-circle. It was deliberately set up for confrontation, with rows of opposing benches. And yet, despite complaints about its rowdy nature, it is the most watched political event of the week. It is the one chance ordinary, back bench MPs get to question the prime minister directly, to hold the government to account. OK, many of the questions are handed to them by party managers - and many of the answers are not answers in any recognisable sense of the word. But PMQs still delivers telling moments by the bucket load and occasionally a genuinely new policy revelation. It is also great theatre.
Mr Corbyn has suggested that he would like other Labour MPs to have a turn at asking the questions, as part of the process of democratising the Labour Party. It is not clear whether he will be allowed to do this by Speaker John Bercow. Shadow business secretary Angela Eagle, who is also First Secretary of State, effectively his second-in-command, will take Prime Minister's Questions when he is unavailable. The new Labour leader has crowd-sourced the questions for his first appearance - receiving more than 40,000 emailed suggestions from supporters. This might turn out to be a shrewd move - David Cameron will find it harder to dismiss questions from the public. Crowd-sourcing has been tried before, by Douglas Carswell, now UKIP's only MP but then a Tory backbencher, who asked for suggestions from bloggers for the first question to ask new prime minister David Cameron in 2010.
Most had a low-key start and there have been few slip-ups. In 2010, Ed Miliband went on the attack over government plans to scrap child benefit for higher-rate taxpayers. Mr Cameron had some pre-prepared lines, accusing him of being "the trade unions' man" and said he's "not red, it's Brown" but the new Labour leader was judged to have acquitted himself reasonably well. In 2005, David Cameron said he would support Tony Blair on some aspects of his education policy, knowing that many Labour MPs were against it - and he managed to score a big hit with his own side with a jibe at the Labour prime minister, gesturing towards him and saying: "He was the future once." Iain Duncan Smith would have a torrid time at PMQs during his brief tenure as Tory leader, with commentators calling his performances wooden, and focusing on his tendency to develop a frog in his throat at key moments. But his first PMQs, in which he chose to split his six questions into blocks of three, on Afghanistan and the NHS, passed without incident.
Prime ministers have answered questions in Parliament for centuries but fixed time-slots were only introduced in 1881 after the election of William Gladstone. Backbench MPs were initially responsible for most of the questioning. Margaret Thatcher began the convention of prime minsters being expected to answer questions on every conceivable issue without advanced warning. Before she came to power in 1979, prime ministers would routinely hand difficult questions over to cabinet colleagues or admit their ignorance by promising a further statement. Tony Blair moved to the existing half-hour weekly format, from two fifteen minute sessions a week. The baying, shouting and hurling of abuse has been a feature of life in the Commons for centuries. Many thought it would disappear when television cameras were admitted to the chamber in 1989 but, if anything, it has become even more rowdy.
If an MP wants to ask a question, they have to enter the name on the Order Paper. The names are then shuffled and pulled out of a hat (not literally, of course). The Speaker will call on the MPs to ask their questions in alternating fashion, with an MP from the opposition benches usually being followed by one from the government side. MPs who are not lucky enough to be selected can bob up and down in their seats in an attempt to catch his eye. The opposition leader always gets six questions, which he or she can ask in blocks of three if they want, and the next largest party is normally granted two questions. At the moment this is the SNP.
"PMQs was the most nerve-racking, discombobulating, nail-biting, bowel-moving, terror-inspiring, courage-draining experience in my prime ministerial life, without question. You know that scene in Marathon Man where the evil Nazi doctor played by Laurence Olivier drills through Dustin Hoffman's teeth? At around 11.45 on Wednesday mornings, I would have swapped 30 minutes of PMQs for 30 minutes of that."
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Ali Price and Tim Visser crossed as the Scots built up a 15-3 half-time lead.
Ross Ford went over twice early in the second period before Damien Hoyland dived in for his first Scotland try, emulating Price's feat.
Michele Campagnaro and Angelo Esposito claimed second-half tries for Italy, who also had Dean Budd and Abraham Steyn sin-binned.
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Townsend's side, which featured a late change as Ryan Wilson started at open-side flanker instead of the injured John Hardie, continue their tour against Australia in Sydney next Saturday.
Fiji in Suva are Scotland's final opponents in a summer series that allows new coach Townsend to assess his pool of players.
Scotland were in control of the game for large parts but it took the former Glasgow coach's new side until just before half-time to kick on and build a game-winning lead.
Finn Russell and Tommaso Allan had exchanged penalties in a match that was rendered brutally hard by the much-mentioned humidity in Singapore.
There was never any doubt Scotland would seize the game by the throat sooner or later, with captain John Barclay doing more than most to make that happen.
Barclay was excellent and had some important men around him, with Ben Toolis enjoying a pleasing first start and Hoyland making a promising reappearance after a year in the wilderness.
Scotland had all the ball and whatever creativity existed in the Test for the first half hour belonged to them.
It did not amount to points but it drained Italy - shorn of Sergio Parisse and the class he brings - of energy and hope.
Conor O'Shea's team were one-dimensional and well beaten, with both of their tries coming when the game was a dead duck.
Italy's discipline was poor at the start and it got steadily worse. They conceded nine penalties in the opening half, the end of which saw Scotland hit them with two blows that had them reeling.
First, Allan Dell spilled the ball backwards in the tackle only for it to land in Price's hands and the scrum-half whipped around the outside to score.
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On the stroke of the break, Visser stretched the lead after fine work in the air by Hoyland and a delicious dink over the top by Russell.
The Harlequins wing ran on to get Scotland's second try and in Russell's brief absence with a blood injury, the versatile Duncan Taylor banged over the conversion.
Scotland's lead at the break was 12 points and a couple of minutes into the new half it was 19 when Ford mauled his way over from close range.
Russell converted and then Italy were made to pay for further wretched discipline when debutant Budd, the second row, was binned.
In a relative blink, Ford scored again, with Russell's ambition at the heart of it. The fly-half linked nicely with the hooker and Ford had no trouble eluding a jaded Italian defence.
Having started his evening with two tries in 108 caps across 13 years, he had now doubled his total in six minutes.
With the game now won at 27-3, Townsend emptied his bench bit by bit, saving some of his key men for Sydney.
Italy got a consolation score when one of those Scottish replacements, Magnus Bradbury, spilled the ball into the hands of the Italy back-row Maxime Mbanda, who offloaded to Campagnaro to score the try.
Their respite was brief. They lost another man to the bin in 71 minutes, replacement Steyn walking for dumping Henry Pyrgos illegally, and that made them increasingly vulnerable.
Within two minutes, Taylor sent Hoyland clear up the right wing and he went over for a first Test try, which Peter Horne converted.
The last act belonged to Italy and a try from their right-wing Esposito - a disappointing end to the game for Townsend and his team on an otherwise decent start to his reign.
Italy: E Padovani, A Esposito, M Campagnaro, T Boni, L Sarto, T Allan, E Gori (capt); A Lovotti, L Bigi, S Ferrari, M Fuser, D Budd, F Minto, M Mbanda, R Barbieri.
Replacements: O Gega, F Zani, P Ceccarelli, A Van Schalkwyk, A Steyn, M Violi, C Canna, T Benvenuti.
Scotland: D Taylor, D Hoyland, M Scott, A Dunbar, T Visser, F Russell, A Price; A Dell, R Ford, WP Nel, T Swinson, B Toolis, J Barclay (capt), R Wilson, J Strauss.
Replacements: F Brown, G Reid, Z Fagerson, R Harley, M Bradbury, H Pyrgos, P Horne.
The Royal Holloway study was small and looked at just two species - but it highlights, say scientists, the pressing issue of plastic waste in London's great waterway.
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the curse of litter.
It wants public support to stop plastic from getting into the Thames.
The PLA has teamed with other groups, including the charity Thames21, to ask people to "Do The Right Thing" and make sure any rubbish they have goes securely into a bin.
"This is not just a problem along the river; it's affected by litter from across London," explained the authority's environment manager, Tanya Ferry.
"So you might discard plastic near Buckingham Palace or Selfridges but if it gets into the drains, those drains could potentially discharge into the Thames and carry those plastic pieces with them."
The PLA has 16 barges positioned on the river to catch floating debris. Called "passive driftwood collectors", these devices are increasingly catching plastic, not fallen tree branches.
Some 400 tonnes of rubbish are being caught annually, and while that mass has stayed fairly stable over time, its volume has shot up, indicating that discarded plastic is on the rise.
Thames21's army of volunteers have been clearing the foreshores regularly for 10 years. They have noticed the change that is occurring.
"In the early days, it was a huge mixture of stuff - metalwork, old fridges and supermarket trolleys," said the charity's CEO Debbie Leach.
"We've dealt largely with these bigger items, and now what we find is that it is the plastic that keeps coming back - water bottles, carrier bags and, amazingly, cotton wool buds. We find millions of the plastic sticks all over the foreshore."
On the day of the launch of the campaign, Bank of America employees had volunteered to clean up exposed muds at Greenwich.
They were having to dig deep to get to the shopping bags, which had been buried in many centimetres of sediment.
Of course, much of the plastic debris is not being caught or deposited on foreshores, and is simply sweeping out to sea to add to the well-documented problems of waste in our oceans.
The litter that does stick around will eventually be broken down into small fragments and fibres by waves and UV light. Some of this will hang in the water column; some will get into the bed of the river. And it is this micro debris that can be ingested by fish.
The Royal Holloway study examined common flounder and smelt from Erith and the Isle of Shepey.
The flounder, which are bottom-feeders, had the most fibre in their gut. Up to 75% of these flatfish had plastic in them. The smelt, which swim in the water column, were contaminated in a fifth of cases.
"And we also know from some of the other work we've done on Chinese mitten crabs at Chelsea Bridge that they have knots of plastic fibres in their stomachs," said Royal Holloway's Dr Dave Morritt.
"So that's crabs and two species of fish. And those plastics seem to be a range of things, and include nylon, acrylic, polythene and cellophane."
As well as the PLA and Thames21, the campaign is backed by Totally Thames, the Environment Agency, Thames Tideway Tunnel, the London Wildlife Trust and the RSPB.
It will be running a series of YouTube videos over the next 12 months to explain the issues to Londoners and the capital's millions of visitors.
These videos will be presented by the explorer Paul Rose, a recognisable figure from the many documentaries he has made for the BBC about the marine environment.
Paul wants everyone to "take ownership" of their waste, and not - as he says he sees often - to try to stuff rubbish into over-full bins.
"Put it in your pocket and take it home," he said.
"I spend my life diving and supporting ocean science in the world's last wild places. And everywhere I go, whether it's diving in the Northwest Passage, as I was two months ago, or the Selvagem Islands, as I was last week - we take water samples, and they've always got plastic in them. We never take a sample that hasn't got plastic in it.
"It's so hard to get the message across, but we have a great opportunity here to get people to understand this global problem."
The PLA says it is talking to the riverside London Boroughs about getting them to join the campaign.
"The point about bins being emptied frequently enough so that people are not sticking stuff in so that it immediately blows out - that's really important to get the boroughs on-side with," said authority chief executive Robin Mortimer.
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Josh Carson's late header rescued a point for the Blues at Windsor Park after Adam Foley fired the Ports into a shock lead with seven minutes left.
Paul Heatley and Colin Coates struck for the champions at Stangmore Park as the leaders moved nine points clear.
Cliftonville drew 1-1 with Glentoran and Glenavon beat Ballinamallard 3-0.
Linfield's slim hopes of catching Crusaders at the top look to have evaporated after David Healy's men failed to beat the league's basement club.
Foley stunned the home support with a lobbed effort that beat Roy Carroll on 82 minutes, but substitute Carson headed an equaliser in stoppage-time to salvage a point.
The home side were guilty of missing chances throughout the match but Niall Currie may be disappointed not to walk away with all three points after Carroll's excellent stop denied Stephen Garrett making it 2-0.
Healy was sent from his touchline to the stands late on for arguing with the match officials on a frustrating night for the Blues boss.
Portadown, on the other hand, finally stopped the rot after a miserable run of six straight defeats.
A couple of first-half headers from Heatley and Coates ensured Crusaders made it six league wins in a row.
Heatley found himself unmarked to convert Jordan Owens's flick to the back post before Coates expertly finished off a pinpoint cross from Jordan Forsythe.
Cormac Burke pulled one back for the Swifts but it was not enough to stop the Belfast club stretching their winning run on the road to seven games.
Nobody at Crusaders will dare admit the title race is over, but nine points clear with as many games left to play looks like an unassailable advantage at this stage.
Cliftonville were unable to bounce back after last week's defeat to Ballinamallard as they drew 1-1 with Glentoran in an entertaining game at Solitude.
Curtis Allen headed the away side into a first-half lead before Daniel Hughes struck an equaliser to avoid back-to-back defeats for Gerard Lyttle's side.
The Reds are now only four points clear of fourth-placed Coleraine, who have a game in hand.
Andrew Hall fired Gary Hamilton's side into an early lead, calmly slotting the ball home to punish the Mallards defence for not clearing their lines.
Mark Sykes added a second on 85 minutes before Greg Moorhouse wrapped up a convincing three points for the Lurgan Blues.
The 22-year-old has been added to the squad for two one-day internationals, on 21 and 28 August in Colombo and Dambulla, and a Twenty20 match in Pallekele on 6 September.
It means the South Australian will miss the rest of Yorkshire's season.
Head scored 390 runs in eight limited-overs games for the Tykes.
"Travis is a long-term prospect for Australian cricket in all formats," said national selector Rod Marsh. "We think he will benefit greatly from working in the conditions we have here in Sri Lanka.
"He will arrive here a few days earlier than the other ODI players so he can take the opportunity to work with the Test team as they prepare for the third Test."
The main body of the Australia tour party are preparing for the third Test against Sri Lanka, which starts in Colombo on Saturday, the visitors having already lost the three-match series.
Head has got the call following a successful time with Yorkshire including a brilliant 175 on his One-Day Cup debut against Yorkshire, in which he hit the Tykes' highest-ever score in 50-over cricket, as well as making 54 on his Tykes first-class debut.
Yorkshire now lose him not only for this Thursday's T20 Blast quarter-final against Glamorgan at Cardiff, but Finals Day too, should they make it, as well as as the rest of the One-Day Cup, in which Yorkshire have been paired with a quarter-final at Canterbury against Kent on 18 August.
He will also miss the final six matches of their County Championship run-in, starting with this Saturday's Roses match match against Lancashire at Old Trafford. But the Tykes, chasing a third successive title, are permitted to bring in an overseas player replacement.
"Travis is undoubtedly a real talent and has much to offer the game," said Yorkshire director of cricket Martyn Moxon. "Although the timing is not ideal, it affords an opportunity to another member of the playing group and our focus is firmly on Thursday's T20 quarter-final against Glamorgan in Cardiff."
Regulations prevent Yorkshire from recruiting a T20 and One-Day Cup replacement.
Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, pleaded guilty to dishonestly making false representations when he appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court.
District Judge Michael Snow told Pierre White Jr he was "not an honest man".
Pierre White Jr is expected to be sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 8 December.
The Court was told Pierre White Jr asked to borrow his ex-girlfriend's credit card to buy food and requested the card to be unblocked.
The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate, who gave his address as a hotel in Corsham near Bath, then made several unauthorised purchases to the sum of £2,500, including during a visit to an Apple Store.
Prosecutor Robert Chambers said the woman later received an email from her bank about a "high volume of transactions".
When confronted, Pierre White Jr told her he had been accidentally overcharged at a store, the court heard.
He then claimed he needed the card to be unblocked because he had been arrested and needed to pay bail.
The woman accused Pierre White Jr of having a "drug habit" and claimed she had never been in a relationship with him.
But defence barrister Carl Newman said the pair had been in a relationship and she had given Pierre White Jr the card to make purchases in the past.
The judge said Pierre White had been given the card voluntarily but couldn't "suggest he was given permission to go straight to the Apple Store".
Boro sit second in the Championship, behind Burnley, and could go top if they beat the Millers.
"I think it could be the most difficult game we have between now and the end of the season," Karanka told BBC Tees.
"It is the game where everybody thinks that we have three points in our pockets - it's a big mistake."
Rotherham sit 22nd, three points adrift of MK Dons and safety, but with back-to-back wins against Sheffield Wednesday and Brentford.
"Rotherham have won their last two games so for me now they are a different team," the 42-year old Spaniard continued.
"With their new manager [Neil Warnock], the team has character and the team is motivated now.
"They are playing at home and they are playing for their lives to stay in the Championship next season.
"So for me the biggest mistake is to believe it is going to be an easy game - for me it could be the most difficult game."
Prior to Warnock's arrival, Rotherham had lost eight of their last 12 league matches and Karanka says their turnaround in form is no accident.
Karanka added: "Sheffield are not at the top of the table but they are fighting for their play-off positions, they have a really good squad and Rotherham beat them away.
"They beat Sheffield, they beat Brentford a couple of days before - it is not a coincidence. It is because they are more motivated."
Andrew Morgan, from Rhondda Cynon Taf council, says infrastructure projects should be accelerated in light of the Brexit vote.
A total of £1.1bn of EU funding in Wales is yet to be allocated.
The money is due to be invested between now and 2020.
But a withdrawal from the EU before then would cut the spending round short.
Leave campaigners say the UK government would make up the shortfall, however there has been scepticism from the first minister who says he does not trust the Treasury to make up any shortfall.
EU structural funds are managed by the Welsh European Funding Office, which is based in Merthyr Tydfil, and is part of the Welsh Government.
Much of the funding yet to be allocated is for the most economically-deprived communities across north and west Wales, and the south Wales valleys.
Mr Morgan called for the decision-making and systems governing EU funds to be speeded up.
He said: "The Welsh European Funding Office moves far too slowly.
"It is a drawn out process and if we are being told that European funding is at risk they really have got to go all guns blazing.
"I would hope that the Welsh Government will put pressure on the Welsh European Funding Office to get these projects started as soon as we can.
"If there is a downturn in the economy then these projects could create secure construction jobs."
The council leader said his officials were now working with a greater degree of urgency on a number of EU-funded town-centre regeneration schemes.
The body which monitors EU spending in Wales meets for the first time since the referendum on Friday. It will be chaired by the Welsh Government's finance secretary Mark Drakeford.
One Vote Leave campaigner, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, said the focus should be on "outcomes, not spending money for the sake of it".
He said: "Qualification for structural funding is not a badge of honour, it's a reflection of the relative poverty of those in areas who meet the criteria, and after three successive rounds of funding that money has clearly not been put to good use."
A spokesman for the Welsh Government said: "We are determined to maximise the EU funds allocated to Wales for the benefit of our people, communities, businesses, universities and colleges.
"Where there is scope to accelerate draw-down of EU funds, we will aim to do just that.
"The protection of jobs, businesses and communities and the delivery of our programmes in Wales is hugely dependent on the timescale for leaving the EU and we need early clarification from the UK government of that timescale.
"We have also called for a guarantee from the UK government that every penny of EU funds to Wales is safe."
The State Department said it had found the project, which was blocked by former US President Barack Obama, to be in the US national interest.
The 1,180 mile (1,900km) pipeline will carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas coast.
While announcing the approval President Trump called it a "great day for American jobs".
"TransCanada will finally be allowed to complete this long overdue project with efficiency and speed," Mr Trump said in the White House Oval office, joined by TransCanada officials and contractors.
TransCanada, a Calgary-based company, called Friday's decision "a significant milestone".
Chief executive Russ Girling, who stood behind Mr Trump at the White House, thanked him and said his company is "very relieved and very eager to get to work".
Mr Trump signed an executive order only days after taking office in January, designed to speed up final approval of the $8bn (£6.4bn) pipeline.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recused himself from the matter because of his previous role as chief executive of ExxonMobil.
The permit was signed by an undersecretary of state for political affairs, career diplomat Tom Shannon.
In denying the project in 2015, former Secretary of State John Kerry wrote that it would neither spur economic growth, nor help the US achieve energy independence.
He said it would threaten environmental damage by allowing "a particularly dirty source of fuel" to enter the US.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was "very pleased" with the pipeline announcement from the White House.
The project will be a benefit to both countries, he said, noting the US was seeking a partner to provide a "stable and reliable" source of energy.
"Canada will be that partner," Mr Trudeau said.
Making oil from the bitumen-rich Canadian tar sands is a messy and expensive business - separating the oil from the sand requires huge amounts of water and heat, and environmentalists say the process causes about 17% more greenhouse gas emissions than standard oil extraction. So how is green-lighting the XL pipeline to bring this oil to the Gulf Coast now serving the US national interest - when two years ago President Obama said it didn't?
Back in 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Obama administration was "inclined" towards approval based on an assessment of environmental and economic impacts. For several years Mr Obama remained conflicted over the project, torn between opting for dirty-but-secure Canadian oil over cleaner-but-vulnerable Middle Eastern sources.
In November 2015, global warming gave Mr Obama a way out of the dilemma. Just a month before the key Paris climate meeting, John Kerry wrote that "moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combating climate change." Mr Obama scrapped XL, and it helped persuade the world to sign the Paris Climate Agreement.
But the new administration has made clear that jobs and infrastructure top climate change as priorities. In January President Trump asked the State Department to re-assess the project and they found that the economic argument made sense. Mr Trump, struggling with healthcare reform, is very keen for a "win" on infrastructure and jobs, and the pipeline fits the bill.
However, completing the pipeline is not a foregone conclusion. The low price of oil makes XL (which stands for 'export limited' and not 'extra large') extremely expensive, while land rights and environmental objections may delay it for years.
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TransCanada still needs approval of the pipeline's route through the US state of Nebraska.
Mr Trump offered to call the governor of the state later today.
An evaluation by the US state department was required, because the pipeline crosses an international border.
TransCanada says the pipeline will create 13,000 jobs over two years, but opponents argue the vast majority of these jobs will be short-term work in the construction phase.
During the presidential election, Mr Trump embraced the idea that the pipeline would create American jobs.
He also signed a memorandum requiring Keystone to be built using American steel.
However, the White House later said this requirement would only apply to future applications, not projects already being built, such as Keystone.
A mandate to use US steel would not only have been more expensive for TransCanada, but could have led to US authorities being sued by the World Trade Organization.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said earlier this month: "Since this one is already currently under construction, the steel is already literally sitting there, it would be hard to go back."
The company said that roughly half the steel would come from US manufacturers.
Environmental groups criticised the decision, saying the potential damage from a spill is not worth any profit.
"This dirty and dangerous export pipeline would run right through America's heartland, threatening our water, our land, and our climate - all to pad the profits of a foreign oil company," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, from the League of Conservation Voters.
The project is expected to carry more than 800,000 barrels of heavy crude per day from Canada's Alberta province to the Gulf of Mexico.
More than 50,000 people are expected to flock to this year's Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, which starts on Wednesday.
Council officials said the event would allow hundreds of millions of people to see Gullane from around the world.
There will be no public parking at the course. A free park and ride will get people to the event and a free bus from North Berwick Railway Station.
Jonathan Brown, East Lothian Council's tourism projects officer, said: "It's massive for us. We spend a lot of money and effort promoting East Lothian as a golf destination but when something of this size comes, its massively important for us.
"Not only are we looking at £1.8m spent by the visitors but also the fact that hundreds of millions of people across the world will see this on TV and especially in America where it will go out live on NBC.
"The four days are obviously massively important to us in bringing those 50,000 people to East Lothian but we look at it as a far longer term investment for us in that there is a massive legacy from an event like this."
Robert Dick, captain of Gullane Golf Club, said: "It's a fantastic opportunity to impress. We are delighted and thrilled to have the event coming here.
"We want to make this week the best possible week for everybody, for the players, spectators and the members."
The hosts led 12-7 at half-time courtesy of Mills' boot while Chris Ashton scored Saracens' try.
After the break Mills and Alex Lozowski traded penalties before Worcester's fly-half added two more.
Schalk Brits' late score put pressure on Worcester but Mills had the last say from the tee and secured the victory.
Worcester's start was a positive one as they dictated much of the opening half and kept hold of possession well. Mills missed his opening attempt at goal but from thereon he found his range.
Warriors dominated much of the possession and field position in the first 40 minutes and took advantage of Saracens' uncharacteristic ill-discipline.
The fly-half pushed his side into a 9-0 lead before Ashton pounced on a kick through from Lozowski and the latter added the conversion.
At 12-7 in the hosts' favour, history indicated that Saracens would mount a strong second-half comeback but in fact, after Mills and Lozowski had traded penalties, Worcester took charge.
Mills made Saracens' continued infringements prove to be costly and they kept their composure.
With seven minutes to go Saracens' pack drove over and Brits dotted down, yet the final say of the game went to Worcester's match-winning fly-half.
Victory pushes Worcester five points clear of Bristol at the bottom of the table, while Saracens have to be content with second position.
Worcester director of rugby Gary Gold: "I'm proud of the guys as they had to take in a lot of information in a short space of time. As long as we showed fight, the result wasn't as important.
"We didn't want to do anything flash and there wasn't anything scientific in our tactics but we needed to shore up our defence.
"It'll prove to the boys that they can do it but the issue is whether we are able to repeat it and it's not a one-off, as we have to play many of the good teams in the Premiership in our remaining fixtures."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "It was very disappointing but all credit to Worcester, who pressurised and harassed us throughout.
"Our set-piece was very poor, particularly in the first half, as we couldn't gain a platform.
"We chased the game too early, our discipline was bad and they kicked very well to keep us on the back foot."
Worcester: Adams; Heem, Olivier, Willison, Humphreys; Mills, Hougaard; Bower, Singleton, Schonert, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Vui, Lewis, Faosiliva.
Replacements: Bregvadze, Johnston, Alo, Cavubati, Mama, Baldwin, Lamb. Howard.
Saracens: Gallagher; Ashton, Tompkins, Barritt (capt), Ellery; Lozowski, Wigglesworth; Barrington, Brits, Du Plessis, Rhodes, Hamilton, Fraser, Burger, Wray.
Replacements: Saunders, Lamositele, Figallo, Flanagan, Brown, Spencer, Malins, Bosch.
Referee: Tom Foley.
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The offer, which allows Orange and EE customers to get two cinema tickets for the price of one on Wednesdays, was launched more than 10 years ago.
The company said that customers' viewing habits had evolved and it was "time to move on", with the promotion ending on the last Wednesday in February 2015.
EE was created from the merger of the UK businesses of T-Mobile and Orange.
"Orange Wednesday launched over a decade ago and at its peak was a massive success and an iconic promotion," the company said in a statement.
"After 10 great years our brand has changed and our customers' viewing habits have also evolved so it's time to move on.
"That's why the final credits will roll for Orange Wednesdays at the end of February 2015. We're working on new customer entertainment rewards and we'll provide more detail soon."
With more and more people watching films on their tablets, phones and TVs at home, the number of people using the Orange Wednesday deal has declined.
It is thought that EE could not reach a commercial agreement with the cinemas.
The education secretary told MSPs he would amend the terms of reference of the inquiry to "clarify" its remit.
He said including abuse in non-residential settings would make the inquiry take much longer.
A bill was also introduced at Holyrood removing any time bar on people seeking damages over childhood abuse.
The probe into the nature and extent of abuse of children in care in Scotland is expected to last four years.
The inquiry has been dogged by problems from the outset, with the original chairwoman, Susan O'Brien, quitting the post in July complaining of government interference - a charge rejected by Mr Swinney.
A second panel member, Prof Michael Lamb, also resigned claiming the inquiry was "doomed".
Mr Swinney said he was confident that the inquiry did not need a third panel member to replace Prof Lamb, although he said experts could be called in from time to time to assist Lady Smith and Glenn Houston.
The remit of the inquiry has also been an issue, with survivors' groups claiming some abusers could be "let off the hook" if children's' organisations, clubs and local parish churches are not specifically included in the probe.
Earlier in the month, Mr Swinney told MSPs that he was "considering" expanding the remit, and said he had discussed this with Lady Smith.
However, he told MSPs that he had concluded that the inquiry should focus solely on "in-care settings", which had always been the government's intent.
He said: "It is clear that there is not unanimity on this issue across survivors - some are strongly in favour of no change, and others are strongly in favour of extensive change.
"It has always been the government's intention that the abuse of children and young people in care is to be taken into account, wherever it occurred, and I want to put that matter beyond any doubt. I have consulted Lady Smith and I have amended the Terms of Reference to clarify this point.
"That is the only change I intend to make to the remit of the Inquiry."
Scottish Labour's Iain Gray said: "Many survivors have pursued a wider remit for the inquiry because they believe it unjust that most survivors of abuse will not be caught by the scope of the inquiry at all."
He then asked Mr Swinney: "The cabinet secretary has clarified the remit today, but will he confirm that he has not extended it, that he has not brought any survivors into his ambit who were not in his view already included?"
The education secretary replied that "I confirm Mr Gray's point".
He said he had to ensure the inquiry had a remit that was "deliverable within a reasonable timescale", and had "concluded there is a clear distinctions between in-care settings and non in-care settings".
Mr Swinney said "terrible crimes" had been committed in other settings, such as day schools and youth groups, but said criminal behaviour should be referred to the police and would be "energetically pursued through the criminal courts" where evidence exists.
Mr Gray later said that the "refusal to widen the remit" of the inquiry was a "mistake" which would "leave survivors feeling let down".
Mr Swinney told members that the question of redress for victims was actively being explored, with a formal consultation to be carried out.
A bill has also been introduced at Holyrood to remove the limitation period for people to seek damages over personal injuries resulting from childhood abuse.
Mr Swinney said: "This government made a clear commitment to lift the three-year limitation period that constrains survivors of child abuse from taking civil actions. Some 18 months on, following detailed consultation on this complex area of law, I am pleased the legislation to deliver that is now published."
The deputy first minister rejected claims there had been interference with the probe, saying he was "determined" the inquiry would be independent.
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Bale, 26, set up the winning goal as Wales edged past Northern Ireland in Saturday's last-16 tie in Paris.
Friday's quarter-final - only Wales' second at a major tournament - will be against Belgium or Hungary, who play on Sunday at 20:00 BST.
"Similar to qualifying, get one win and the confidence grows. We just want to ride the wave," said Bale.
"We know we've had difficult games but we've battled [against Northern Ireland], shown our team spirit and passion."
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Hungary caused one of the biggest upsets of the tournament so far by finishing top of Group F, ahead of Austria and quarter-finalists Portugal.
They are six places higher than Wales in the world rankings in 20th place, though they would be seen as a kinder draw than a Belgian side second in the standings.
However, Wales are unbeaten in their past three meetings with Belgium and claimed a notable 1-0 victory against Marc Wilmots' side in a Euro 2016 qualifier in Cardiff in June last year.
"I can't choose. Hungary have been very good this tournament," said Bale.
"We've watched the whole tournament, we probably know a bit more about Belgium as they have been in our last two qualifying groups.
"Either game, no matter who we play, will be difficult.
"You don't get to the quarter-final of a major tournament with luck.
"You have to be a very good team to get there and we know, no matter who we play, it's going to be a difficult game, but we will be ready for it."
Wales were made to toil for their second-round win at Parc des Princes by an obdurate Northern Ireland team, who defended stubbornly and had most of the rare chances in a tight encounter.
There was an outpouring of joy and relief on the Welsh bench at the final whistle, and the players were joined by their children as they celebrated on the pitch.
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Bale's three-year-old daughter Alba was one of the first to scamper on to the field, and she was embraced by her ecstatic father as he revelled in Wales' first win in the knockout stages of a major tournament.
"The feeling after was difficult to describe, very happy, very emotional," said Bale.
"To be able to share it with my daughter and my family was emotional for me.
"I haven't seen them for four or five weeks.
"An amazing experience that I will never forget. Our ambition is to keep fighting on and win every game we play."
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said the attack was "a message to Iran" over the country's support for Syrian president Bashar al Assad.
The majority of dead were Iraqi pilgrims, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Observatory put the death toll at 74, but the figure was not confirmed.
The blast wounded 120, according to Iraq's government. According to the Observatory, the attack consisted of a roadside bomb detonated as a bus passed, and a suicide bombing.
It took place near the Bab al-Saghir cemetery, which houses Shia mausoleums. Sunni militants often target Shias but attacks in the capital are uncommon.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Liberation of the Levant Organisation) is a new group formed from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (previously al-Nusra Front) and four smaller factions.
A nationwide truce in Syria, brokered by Russia, Turkey and Iran, took effect on 30 December after talks in Kazakhstan, but sporadic attacks continue.
There have been two rounds of talks, with another planned next week.
Damascus is mostly under the control of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but rebel groups are present in outlying districts of the city.
In January, a double suicide bombing in the Kafr Sousa district of the capital killed at least 10 people. The then-named Jabhat Fateh al-Sham said it was behind that attack.
The group is excluded from the peace talks and its mainly north-western bases have been regularly targeted by the Syrian army and its Russian allies.
So-called Islamic State is another Sunni extremist group that controls significant areas of Syria. Its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul is currently under attack from Iraqi government forces and their allies.
More than 300,000 people have been killed and 11 million others displaced since the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011.
There were 16,426 convenience stores at the end of last year, a rise of 21%.
The fastest rate of openings was among the "big four" supermarkets.
However, the growth in the convenience sector appeared to have peaked with many towns seeing a decline in the numbers of such stores.
Research by the Local Data Company found that in each of the years from 2011 to 2015, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrison's and Asda opened convenience stores at a far faster rate than they did larger store formats.
Morrison's sold its M Local chain last year.
The research concluded that the convenience market has become saturated in many areas, with more stores than shoppers needed.
Meanwhile, convenience stores trading under the umbrella of a symbol group have come under pressure.
Symbol groups, such as Londis and Mace, are alliances that allow small retailers to improve their buying power and increase spending on marketing.
There has been consolidation among these types of retailers as well as store sales and closures.
Londis and Mace saw a reduction in their number of stores as they faced growing competition from the likes of Aldi and Lidl.
Independent convenience stores have proved more resilient, even when discount rivals have opened up, often because they can rely on loyal local shoppers.
"The way people shop has changed which has impacted the large superstores sales, which has been further impacted by convenience formats of the same supermarkets alongside the discounters and the symbol groups," said Matthew Hopkinson, director at the Local Data Company.
The sector is likely to see further changes in the future, he added.
"Last week's announcement of the launch of Amazon's new grocery service will be an interesting one to watch as it has the potential to compete with not just the supermarkets, but the discounters and the convenience stores."
Mr Hopkinson pointed out that online sales had not yet shaken up food shopping in the same way as in some other sectors.
However, he added: "Perhaps Amazon will be the catalyst to change this and if it does then we will see some retailers under significant pressures over the next five years."
Lancashire Police confirmed it is "looking" at an allegation Cat Smith, MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood, filed improper expenses.
The shadow minister for Women and Equalities, Ms Smith said she would be "exonerated".
The claims have been made by blogger Guido Fawkes - real name Paul Staines - who said "anomalies" raised questions about her spending.
But in a statement Ms Smith said: "I utterly deny the allegation that my election expenses broke the law.
"If the police do decide to investigate I will fully cooperate with their inquiries, including giving them full access to all my financial records from the General Election campaign."
She added: "I am confident that no case will be found and I will be fully exonerated."
Lancashire Police said: "We have received a complaint and we are in the early stages of looking into the matter to establish whether there is anything to substantiate the allegations being made.
"At this stage we are not in a position to offer any further comment."
Elizabeth Stokes was jailed for four-and-a half-years in 2014 for attacking John, 71, after wrongly believing he was having an affair.
Now the order banning her from contacting him has been lifted at Gloucester Crown Court.
Mr Stokes said he had forgiven his wife and fully recovered from his injuries.
The pair from Cheltenham will be able to visit each other under supervision of the probation service for the next two years before possibly being allowed to live together again.
During the hearing, Mr Stokes said: "I honestly believe her when she says she is very remorseful about what happened.
"She realises she made a terrible mistake.
"We want to carry on with our marriage and our relationship as soon as possible and I honestly believe it will work and things will be better in the future."
She said: "I had been suffering from stress for a long, long time. Of course, I am sorry for what I did."
Mrs Stokes was released from prison on parole on 26 October.
She was cleared of attempted murder in July 2014 but found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
At her trial, Gloucester Crown Court heard her son had been killed in a car crash a year before the attack and her first husband was "an abuser and philanderer".
Mr Stokes was attacked as he made his way back to their bed from the toilet in the early hours of the morning.
At the trial, Judge Jamie Tabor said it had been a deliberate and planned ambushing and she had put her sewing scissors in the bedroom in readiness for the attack.
A kitchen knife was also found in the bedroom and there had to be suspicions about why that was there, he added.
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Cafe Sekander-owner Jahed Ali, 39, of Wavertree, was found guilty of breaching ten fire safety regulations in his Allerton Road eatery.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the living quarters could only be accessed by crawling through a stair panel which was spotted during a fire inspection.
Ali pleaded guilty to all offences.
Judge Andrew Menary QC told Ali he had put his staff at "extraordinary risk" and had used "underhand methods to try and hide what you were doing".
The court heard fire officers first visited the restaurant in 2012 and found staff has been sleeping in rooms on the second floor.
The only escape route was down a narrow staircase and the fire risk was so great Ali was served with an immediate prohibition notice, the court heard.
He said he would block off access to the rooms.
On subsequent visits by fire officers he claimed the rooms were only used for prayers and resting, the court heard.
But on a visit to the restaurant in April of last year officers discovered a panel behind which was a space leading to the stairs and rooms Ali had been told to stop using.
Guy Keen from Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were shocked. Clearly he's understood the prohibition notice. He's understood the seriousness of it.
"But he's decided to conceal it (the rooms) from us."
As he was sentenced Ali, of Bonchurch Drive, collapsed in the dock and had to be helped by court officials.
Surrey Police confirmed a property in Oxshott was burgled last weekend.
John Terry is reported to live in a seven-bedroom property in a half-acre country estate in the county.
A spokesman for Surrey Police said: "We can confirm that a burglary took place at a property in Moles Hill, Oxshott, overnight 25/26 February."
Thieves are said to have forced their way into the house and escaped with valuables while the 36-year-old Chelsea player was away with relatives, including his wife Toni, according to reports in the Sun.
There is a fear that Alun Wyn Jones, who with Charteris formed Wales' first-choice lock partnership at the World Cup, could also miss the tournament.
Ospreys captain Jones has had surgery on a toe he dislocated in training.
"I had an operation on Friday and, according to the surgeon, it went OK. They said I was looking at four months [out]," Charteris said.
With Dragons captain Charteris and Jones missing for the 24-18 defeat to Australia on Saturday, Wales coach Warren Gatland opted to start with Bradley Davies and the recalled Ian Evans at lock.
The versatile Ryan Jones can also play in the second row as well as the Osprey's preferred back-row spot.
Alun Wyn Jones injured his toe in training while Charteris picked up his injury, a similar wrist problem to the one Wales centre Jamie Roberts suffered in July 2010, in Wales' bronze medal play-off defeat by Australia at the World Cup in New Zealand.
Charteris, 28, will also miss the remainder of the Dragons's Amlin Challenge Cup campaign.
Jones, 26, is now expected to miss the rest of the Ospreys's Heineken Cup fixtures - and Gatland fears he will miss Wales' Six Nations opener against Ireland in Dublin on 5 February.
He allegedly made the remark to L/Cpl Craig Roberts' relatives shortly after viewing his body in a mortuary.
L/Cpl Roberts, L/Cpl Edward Maher and Cpl James Dunsby collapsed in the Brecon Beacons on one of the hottest days of 2013.
Criminal charges will not be brought over the deaths.
In a family statement read to the hearing by her lawyer, 24-year-old L/Cpl Roberts' mother Margaret questioned why her son, from Penrhyn Bay, Conwy, was "sent up there in that heat".
Family members said they later visited Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, where they asked a commanding officer whether the timing of the march could have been changed.
"He replied, 'there would be too much paperwork'," the family statement added.
"We were so angry with this answer. We were being told that the march wasn't cancelled to save on paperwork."
It was one of the hottest days of the year on 13 July 2013, with temperatures expected to hit 27C (80.6F). The soldiers were carrying 49lb (22kg) rucksacks on the 16-mile (26km) march.
The inquest, being heard in Solihull, West Midlands, is expected to last for up to four weeks and to examine risk-assessments, briefings and the amount of water given to soldiers before they set off.
Det Con David Gilbert, of Dyfed-Powys Police, told the inquest course information showed several soldiers were pulled off the march because of the heat.
The tracking data of those who died was also able to show exactly where they succumbed to conditions.
At 15:36 BST, L/Cpl Roberts activated his personal "man-down" beacon showing he was in trouble, and was found 25 minutes later.
L/Cpl Maher, had set off on the same route at a slightly different time, but at 16:10 his tracker showed he had also stopped. He was not found for another 45 minutes, and was "not breathing". He was about 1,000 yards (914m) from the finishing line.
Cpl Dunsby was on a different route. At 16:10, he was noted as not making any progress, and at 16:52 he was found by directing staff.
Both L/Cpl Roberts and L/Cpl Maher died of hyperthermia, while Cpl Dunsby died of multiple organ failure as a result of hyperthermia.
Between 12:14 and 16:53, at least nine soldiers were recorded as having problems with the heat, including Cpl Dunsby, L/Cpl Maher and L/Cpl Roberts.
Earlier in the hearing, Cpl Dunsby's widow said her Afghan veteran husband was a qualified medic who knew well how to approach a training exercise, and the importance of drinking enough water.
The soldiers' families have been told any "factual failings" could feature in the coroner's conclusion, if uncovered.
Louise Hunt, senior coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, said: "It's important this inquest is both prompt, effective and independent and involves the families.
"It's also important that the full facts are brought to light, culpability and discreditable conduct exposed and suspicion of deliberate wrongdoing is allayed."
In 2014, a pre-inquest hearing was told the soldiers died from overheating.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to bring gross negligence manslaughter charges, in July 2014.
1953 - US President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech to the United Nations. The president foresees the creation of an organisation to control and develop the use of atomic energy.
1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is set up as autonomous body under the UN.
1970 - Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), signed by 188 states, comes into force. The IAEA is given the specific role of defining and inspecting safeguards.
1986 - World's worst nuclear power station accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine. The IAEA investigates and reports on the immediate consequences. In the longer term IAEA teams study the effects of the disaster on the environment and health.
1991 - In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the IAEA's Iraq Action Team begins inspecting suspect sites in Iraq under the terms of a UN Security Council resolution. It aims to "uncover and dismantle Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme".
1994 - North Korea, which joined the agency in 1974, withdraws its membership after a lengthy dispute over IAEA inspections of its facilities. But it signs a pact with the US, agreeing to halt work on nuclear weapons and allowing IAEA inspections in exchange for oil aid and two light-water reactors.
1998 - Iraq Action Team withdraws from the country after the IAEA says it is unable to exercise its "right to full and free access" to Iraqi sites.
1999 - IAEA sets up its Emergency Response Centre, following a serious incident at Japan's Tokaimura facility.
2001 - IAEA assists as decommissioning of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant begins.
2002 November - IAEA's Iraq Action Team resumes work under its new name, the Iraq Nuclear Verification Office, after Iraq agrees to the unconditional return of weapons inspectors.
2002 December - North Korea expels IAEA inspectors and removes surveillance equipment from its nuclear facilities.
2003 January - North Korea pulls out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
2003 June - IAEA team arrives in Iran after reporting that Tehran has failed to meet its obligations under the NPT.
2003 November - IAEA passes resolution censuring Iran for its nuclear programme, but stopping short of recommending sanctions. An earlier IAEA report said Iran had been secretly enriching uranium and producing plutonium.
2003 December - Iran signs an agreement to allow tougher inspections of its nuclear facilities.
Libya's foreign minister says the country will cooperate with the IAEA.
2004 March - IAEA adopts resolution condemning Iran for keeping some of its nuclear activities secret; the resolution stops short of threatening UN sanctions.
2004 June - IAEA report credits Iran with opening up its nuclear programme to inspections but says key issues remain unresolved.
2004 September - IAEA passes resolution calling on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme. Iran rejects proposal claiming its programme is for peaceful purposes only.
2004 November - Iran agrees to suspend uranium enrichment programme in a deal with three European countries.
2005 June - IAEA board unanimously approves a third term for incumbent head Mohamed ElBaradei.
2005 August - IAEA adopts resolution urging Iran to halt work on processing uranium for enrichment. The move came after Tehran restarted uranium conversion.
2005 September - IAEA finds Iran in non-compliance with nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
2005 October - Nobel peace prize is awarded jointly to the IAEA and its director, Mohamed ElBaradei.
2006 February - IAEA votes to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities. Iran removed IAEA seals from nuclear equipment in January and said it would resume fuel research.
2006 October - IAEA says a North Korean nuclear test threatens the international treaty to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
2007 February - IAEA says Iran is continuing and expanding uranium enrichment in defiance of UN Security Council demands that it suspend these activities.
2007 March - Mohamed ElBaradei visits North Korea, saying the country is positive about rejoining the IAEA.
2007 April - IAEA says Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant and has started up more than 1,300 centrifuge machines.
2007 May - Mohamed ElBaradei says Iran could develop a nuclear weapon in three to eight years if it so chooses.
2007 June - IAEA inspectors visit North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex for first time since being expelled from the country in 2002.
2007 July - IAEA inspectors verify shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon reactor.
2007 July - Iran allows IAEA inspectors to visit the Arak nuclear plant.
2007 September - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attacks Mohamed ElBaradei for urging caution in the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme after he says that force should only be used as a last resort and that lessons should be learned from the war in Iraq.
2007 October - Iran refuses to allow IAEA inspectors unlimited access to its nuclear sites.
2007 November - IAEA says Iran has supplied transparent data on its past nuclear activities but little information on its current work. US responds to IAEA report by vowing to push for further sanctions against Iran.
2008 January - Mohamed ElBaradei visits Tehran. Iran agrees to clarify all outstanding questions over its nuclear activities within a month.
Mr ElBaradei warns that Pakistan's nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists. Pakistan rejects his remarks, insisting that its nuclear weapons security is "foolproof".
2008 February - Multiple source documents submitted to IAEA suggest Iran may have continued secret work on nuclear weapons after 2003, the date US intelligence posited work may have ceased.
2008 May - IAEA says Iran withholding information on nuclear programme which remains "matter of serious concern". It says Iran is operating 3,500 centrifuges that enrich uranium at its plant at Natanz.
2008 June - IAEA inspectors visit Syria to examine building attacked by Israel and subsequently demolished. The CIA says it was nuclear reactor under construction.
2008 August - IAEA backs nuclear deal between India and the US that would allow the Nuclear Suppliers Group to trade sensitive nuclear materials to India despite its not being a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
2008 September - North Korea accuses US of failing to fulfil its part of a disarmament-for-food deal and says it plans to reactivate Yongbyon complex.
2008 October - North Korea bans IAEA inspectors from entering Yongbyon plant.
2009 September - Iran reveals that it has started work on building a second uranium enrichment plant, near Qom to the south of Tehran. It says the plant is open for IAEA inspection.
2009 October - IAEA brokers draft deal under which Iran is given option of sending its enriched uranium abroad to be turned into fuel.
2009 November - Iran refuses to accept international uranium enrichment offer. IAEA passes resolution condemning Iran for developing secret enrichment site and calls on it to freeze the project immediately. Iran responds defiantly, vowing to build 10 more enrichment plants.
2009 December - Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano succeeds Mohamed ElBaradei as IAEA secretary-general.
2010 February - IAEA publishes new report raising serious concerns over Iran's nuclear programme.
2010 March - IAEA head Yukiya Amano accuses Iran of refusing to cooperate.
2010 June - UN Security Council rejects Tehran's proposed fuel swap deal and votes in favour of fourth round of sanctions against Iran.
2010 July - Long-serving IAEA Deputy Director Olli Heinonen announces resignation. He led investigations into Iran and Syria as head of the safeguards department since 2005.
2010 September - IAEA report shows Iran is balancing co-operation with limits on UN inspectors' access to key plants and information, raising fears that it could be building weapons capability.
2010 December - Iran accuses the IAEA of sending foreign agents to spy on its nuclear programme.
2011 February - The IAEA says it has received new information on "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear programme that raise "further concerns" about Iran's activities. It urges Iran to co-operate fully with its investigations, saying it has not done since 2008.
2011 March - Tsunami knocks out power and cooling systems at Japan's Fukushima power plant, triggering world's worst radiation crisis in 25 years.
2011 June - An IAEA ministerial declaration puts the onus on nuclear power operators to ensure that safety standards are met in the wake of the core meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
The IAEA votes by a majority to report Syria to the UN Security Council over claims of an undeclared nuclear reactor. The structure, which Syria says was a non-nuclear military site, was destroyed by Israel in 2007.
2011 July - Yukiya Amano says the world's reliance on atomic power will continue to grow, despite the Fukushima plant meltdown, because many countries believe nuclear power is needed to combat global warming.
2011 November - An IAEA report highlights information suggesting that Iran has carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device".
2012 February - IAEA inspectors report "positive" talks with Iranian officials during an inspection of three Iranian nuclear facilities, but fail to gain access to a key military site.
Hayes has recovered ahead of schedule from a hamstring injury picked up in the defeat to Inverness Caledonian Thistle on 15 February.
"He's been training the last few days. He's trained brilliantly as well," McInnes said.
"He looks ready to go and I'm delighted to have him back."
The Dons can move within one point of Premiership leaders Celtic with victory at Firhill, and McInnes knows a win is crucial in order to keep the pressure on Ronny Deila's faltering side.
"We're not daft, we all know the importance of winning and that's all we're looking for.
"I don't buy into all this psychological stuff, outside pressures and all the rest of it.
"For me it's just the game and we put enough demand on the players to win each and every game anyway. We want the players to play the way they train and hopefully we can be good enough on the night to win the game."
McInnes feels the form some of his players have displayed this season deserves consideration from Scotland manager Gordon Strachan.
With international friendlies against the Czech Republic and Denmark at the end of the month, McInnes believes two Aberdeen players in particular should be in the running for a call-up to the Scotland squad.
"I think there are a couple of lads there who have got a real case with their recent form. I know Mark Reynolds has been involved before, Peter Pawlett, Ryan Jack, but I think coming into that now are Kenny McLean and Graeme Shinnie.
"I hear others getting mentioned and pushed and quoted to be in the squad and I think everybody's maybe got a case for that but I look at those two certainly (for selection).
"Shinnie and McLean have been outstanding for me. They're in a team at the top end of the league, performed well in Europe and the improvement in them is clear."
John Concannon, 71, has dementia and hearing difficulties and went missing on Tuesday 10 November.
He was last seen getting off a bus in the Lenamore Road area of Derry, near the border with County Donegal.
Mr Concannon's son, Edward, said it would be the first Christmas the family has had without him.
He said his father went missing because he got on the wrong bus.
"It's a bus that he never took before and with dementia coming just all of a sudden, he didn't know where he was, he was confused and he didn't know where to go," Mr Concannon said.
"That's why we're currently finding it very hard to find him because he doesn't know where he is and we don't where he is and we're trying to get into the mind of a man who's not in his own mind."
Mr Concannon said his father looked distressed when last seen, with his hands on his head, because he is partially deaf and is "scared of being knocked down" by traffic.
"I just can't stand to think about that, your own father's going through a very scary time and we can do nothing to support him," he said.
"The weather when he went missing was the worst of the year - it was raining every day and he's anaemic, he feels the cold twice as much as we do.
"It's really tough, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy."
John Concannon is described as being 5ft 6in tall, of medium build and with grey hair.
He was wearing a black and grey beanie hat, a black coat, checked shirt and navy trousers when he went missing.
Ch Insp Alan Hutton said the PSNI and Garda (Irish police) have been working closely to try to find Mr Concannon and have carried out searches on land and waterways.
"We are also are very appreciative of the contributions of a civilian community search team that has assisted," he said.
"The information we have at this stage suggests a search area on and close to the border at Lenamore Road and across into Dundreen and Drumadooey.
"We will be renewing the searches and will be using specialist search facilities.
"In the meantime, our thoughts are with the Concannon family. They are going through a lot of uncertainty at a time of year when families like to be together."
Beginning the day on 129-2, Colin Ackermann (89) and Mark Cosgrove (39) got Leicestershire going after rain had stalled progress on the opening days.
Tom Wells (46) and Clint McKay (66) hit lower-order runs before Kent's Matt Hunn (3-110) closed the innings.
Klein then dismissed Sean Dickson, Joe Denly, Sam Northeast and Will Gidman to leave Kent 227 runs behind.
With only one day left to play, a first win of the County Championship season seems unlikely for Leicestershire, but it was a heartening day nonetheless for the ninth-placed Division Two side.
After their batsmen had piled on the runs, Klein's left-arm swing bowling impressed, with the South African claiming figures of 4-48 before veteran Darren Stevens (54 not out) steadied the innings with his 75th first-class half-century.
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BBC and ITV asked to make a programme about life in Cardiff Bay in the run up to the 2016 assembly election.
Presiding officer Rosemary Butler said it was a "fantastic opportunity" but Labour said the request came at "very short notice" and could be disruptive.
Earlier this year the assembly refused a James Bond film access to the Senedd debating chamber.
Dame Rosemary wrote to the four party leaders in October saying broadcasters wanted to film in and around the assembly, and possibly follow AMs in their constituencies.
She said it was an opportunity to promote the assembly, but wanted the approval of all parties.
She asked for responses as soon as possible but, in another letter on Monday, said: "On this occasion, and for various reasons, we were not able to secure unanimous approval and we will therefore advise BBC Wales and ITV Wales that the project will not be proceeding."
Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black said: "Once again we see the evasive Labour party shutting down transparency and scrutiny in the National Assembly."
A Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said: "We certainly didn't turn it down."
The Welsh Conservatives said they supported the idea too.
A Tory spokesman said: "At a time when boosting engagement with politics in Wales should be paramount, we are disappointed to hear unanimous support could not be agreed upon."
A Labour spokesman said: "It was felt that the proposal came with very short notice, lacked detail and would potentially cause significant disruption to the day to day work of members, staff and to assembly business during an extremely busy period."
A similar BBC documentary, Inside the Commons, took viewers behind the scenes in Westminster this year.
The assembly has opened its doors for new S4C drama Byw Celwydd, due to be broadcast in January.
The car company is being sued by a US dealer who says it encouraged dealerships to lie about monthly car sales.
FCA said it had not yet been served with the lawsuit, but that the "claim is without merit".
FCA's stock price fell 5% in New York and 7% in Milan on Thursday.
The dealer, Napleton Automotive Group, accused FCA of racketeering and fraud.
The lawsuit claims an FCA official offered the president of Napleton $20,000 (£13,881) in exchange for falsely reporting the sales of 40 new vehicles.
The suit also alleges FCA sales were reported at the end of the month and then backed out of the next day in order to avoid starting the warranty timetable.
Napleton said FCA's practices harmed its dealerships in Illinois and Florida.
On 5 January, FCA reported 2.2 million cars were sold in 2015 - a 7% increase in sales from 2014, that the company said was driven by demand for Chrysler Jeeps.
The lawsuit said: "FCA has every reason to continue to be opaque about this issue as it would not be helpful for the truth to come to light at the same time as FCA may be pursuing mergers and other business opportunities."
FCA's chief executive Sergio Marchionne said last year he supported consolidation in the car industry. He has encouraged General Motors to consider a merger with Fiat Chrysler.
Winchester Crown Court heard Peter Bialek was twice the drink-drive limit when he drove into a private ball - attended by 300 people - at a farm near Nether Wallop in Hampshire.
The 66-year-old, from Salisbury, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and furious driving.
Three people suffered serious injuries in the crash on 3 October.
Bialek was also banned from driving for two years and ordered to pay £750 court costs.
One victim, a 65-year-old woman, suffered a fractured ankle, her husband sustained three broken ribs and a 22-year-old woman had cuts to her legs.
The court heard that Bialek and his wife, who had not been drinking, decided to leave the event at 23:00 GMT but their car had been blocked in.
When his wife was unable to manoeuvre out of the space, Bialek took the wheel and careered 20 metres into the marquee, the court heard.
Charles Gabb, defending, said after Bialek stopped the car, he was dragged from the driver's seat and attacked.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Teare said: "I have given considerable weight to your qualities as a human being, I accept that you are in every other respect a good man but the court has to balance the consequences of your actions that night and the injuries caused to over 20 people, three of whom suffered serious injuries, the effects of which will be with them for some time."
After the hearing, PC Stephen Johnson of Hampshire Constabulary said: "Bialek chose to get behind the wheel that night, despite having consumed alcohol.
"His reckless act of driving into the marquee left many people injured, some seriously, and could have been much worse.
"The sentence given today should serve as a reminder that driving whilst under the influence can have catastrophic consequences. It really is not worth the risk."
The event is understood to have been organised to raise money for a village hall and other charities.
Bialek, of London Road, entered guilty pleas to three counts of GBH without intent and a charge of causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving at a hearing last month.
The Welsh Music Publishers and Composers Alliance (WMPCA) claims the Performing Rights Society (PRS) changes cost the Welsh music industry £1.2m.
The campaigners said incomes from airplay had fallen by 85% since BBC Radio Cymru was classed as local radio.
A BBC spokesperson said it was "watching developments".
The prospect of a new royalty collection group representing Welsh musicians was first raised in 2010.
It followed changes in PRS payments which the WMPCA said led to a fall in royalties paid to Welsh artists from £1.6m in 2007 to £260,000 in 2009.
In December a group of musicians withdrew permission for BBC Radio Cymru to play their music for one day in protest at the lack of progress in resolving the dispute.
The WMPCA said it was concerned at the changes which it said treated BBC Radio Cymru as a local radio station paying 55p per minute of airtime, claiming it once paid the equivalent of £7.50 per minute.
Campaigners said composers and publishers in Wales would remain full members of PRS and would still receive royalties from the society for other rights, such as international use and live performances.
But UK broadcasting rights for around 50,000 musical works across a range of genres and periods would be assigned to an independent agency to be created in November, seeking higher rates of payment than under PRS.
Gwilym Morus, who is responsible for transferring the broadcasting rights from PRS to the new agency, said it would safeguard an important source of income for the Welsh music industry.
"It's incredible to realise the amount of music that's out there, and it's testimony to how productive composers and authors in Wales have always been," he said.
"It's clear that the new agency is the best way of ensuring that the industry can continue to be just as productive in the future, safeguarding incomes for individuals and companies, large and small alike.
"It means that we can be paid a fair price for our work, while continuing to receive the other PRS royalties."
Sain, Fflach and Ankst are among the major Welsh music publishers said to be joining the agency, along with artists such as Bryn Fon, Caryl Parry Jones, Gai Toms, Gwyneth Glyn and Meic Stevens, and bands including Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog, Yr Ods and Yr Angen.
The alliance plans to hold a meeting at the National Eisteddfod at Llandow, Vale of Glamorgan, on Friday at 16:00 BST to promote the initiative.
It was urging musicians to register with the new agency by mid-September to beat the annual deadline for renegotiating royalty payments.
A BBC spokesperson said: "We are aware that discussions are on-going between the PRS and the Musicians Alliance and, in the best interests of our audiences, we will be keeping an eye on any developments."
Referee John Busby inspected the playing surface at the Wham Stadium on Tuesday and the match was called off at approximately 17:50 GMT.
A new date is yet to be announced.
Ahead of Tuesday's other fourth-tier games, Accrington were 19th in the table, four points above the relegation zone, while Cambridge were 13th.
The Stornoway-based crew was training in the area where the whale was spotted west of Lewis earlier this week.
It was thought the whale was entangled in rope, or another object.
Members of British Divers Marine Life Rescue were later able to reach the whale by boat and found it to be swimming strongly and healthy.
The RNLI lifeboat was launched on the County Down lough on Thursday night.
A group of five men had got in to difficulty on a seven-metre yacht and were escorted back to safe water. No one was injured.
Seven others were rescued by the RNLI after becoming stranded on islands on the lough on Wednesday.
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He swore at an umpire, insulted British number one Johanna Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong and made a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child.
Nastase, 70, will not be accredited for ITF events until 2019.
He was also fined $10,000 (£7,700).
Grand Slam tournaments are not included within the sanction, nor the respective ATP or WTA Tours, as they lie outside the jurisdiction of the ITF.
The ITF adjudication panel said his comment about Serena Williams' unborn child was racially insensitive, adding that he made advances of a "sexual nature" towards Keothavong.
Nastase said his comments were intended as a joke and had been misinterpreted.
WARNING: Some people may find the language below offensive
During the Fed Cup in April, Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about former world number one Williams and her pregnancy. Nastase then turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: "Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?"
Former world number one Nastase also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.
The following day before play had even started, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of his comments about Williams, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks "stupid".
Later, after Konta and Keothavong complained of calling out from the crowd in the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language.
He then called both Konta and Keothavong "a bitch" multiple times, as well as swearing at them.
Nastase was sent off after the incident that left Konta in tears and her match suspended. Romania went on to win the play-off.
The key ITF findings
He had been provisionally suspended in April, and has 21 days in which to appeal against ITF sanctions.
Both Wimbledon and the French Open subsequently announced that they would not be extending their customary invitations to him to attend their events.
Nastase, who won the US Open in 1972 and the French Open the following year, has said he would quit tennis if he was banned.
Speaking to BBC Sport earlier in the year, he defended his comment about Serena Williams, saying: "For me, it's not racial. Somebody in England thinks it is."
Nastase said he abused Konta and Keothavong as a member of the crowd - that he was no longer acting as captain, having been sent off.
When asked whether he regretted his behaviour, Nastase replied: "Of course - but just understand, I was upset. Of course I would not say that if I was not upset."
The Deal or No Deal host claimed he has suffered "deep distress and public humiliation" because of the scandal.
He alleges that Mark Dobson, a HBOS manager who was jailed, helped destroy his business called Unique Group.
Mr Edmonds's lawyers have written to Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of HBOS owner Lloyds, seeking payment.
Two former employees at HBOS's Reading office were part of a £245m loans scam that cheated small business customers by insisting that they use a specific turnaround firm.
The HBOS managers were then compensated with bribes including cash and prostitutes. They were eventually jailed along with four other people involved in the scam.
Lloyds subsequently set up a £100m fund to compensate 64 victims of the fraud.
Mr Edmonds's lawyer Jonathan Coad, from Keystone Law, said he would be pressing for half that amount to go to his client.
"We expect half of the £100m to go to my client, and we expect Lloyds will have to increase their provision substantially," Mr Coad said.
Lloyds has said it would increase the amount of compensation if a review found that to be necessary.
The letter to Mr Horta-Osorio says that Mr Edmonds' "reputation as a successful business entrepreneur was destroyed by humiliating media coverage of the collapse of his business empire".
Mr Edmonds confirmed that his lawyers had sent a letter. He said: "I am now trusting that Mr Horta-Osorio is true to his word and ensures that I am 'fairly, swiftly and appropriately' compensated for both the destruction of my businesses and the significant damage to my reputation.
"If he is not, then I will pursue my claim against Lloyds via the courts."
His lawyer said Mr Edmonds had litigation funding in place should legal action proceed.
Lloyds said last month it would start making compensation offers to HBOS fraud victims in May, with payments expected to begin in June.
Mulder impressed in the Desert T20 earlier this month, where he was the competition's leading wicket-taker.
Table-toppers Ireland will be at full strength for the game with second-placed Afghanistan in Greater Noida.
Ed Joyce, Niall O'Brien, Tim Murtagh and John Anderson are named in the 14-man squad after missing the Desert T20.
"While we haven't been at our best in limited-overs cricket in recent times we have a great record in the Intercontinental Cup, where we've won all our four games taking full points," said Ireland head coach John Bracewell.
"Young Jacob Mulder was the standout bowler in the T20 and the selectors felt he deserved his opportunity in the longer format.
"With the conditions in India likely to be spin-friendly, his leg-spin gives us added variety which could be so important."
Ireland will also play three T20s and five one-day internationals against Afghanistan, all in Greater Noida.
The Irish will prepare for the games with a 10-day training camp in the United Arab Emirates, where they will play the hosts in two ODIs on 2 and 4 March.
Pace bowler Boyd Rankin is being rested for the matches in the UAE, but will join the squad during the camp to prepare for the Afghanistan games.
Cricket Ireland also confirmed that top-order batsman Nick Larkin had ruled himself out of the running for a place in the Ireland ranks for the time being.
"After a lengthy period of discussion between Cricket Ireland and Nick Larkin, the player has finally clarified that his focus right now is on advancing his career with the NSW Blues in Australia," said Ireland performance director Richard Holdsworth.
IRELAND SQUADS
ICC Intercontinental Cup v Afghanistan
William Porterfield, John Anderson, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Gary Wilson, Craig Young
ODI squad v UAE
William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.
ODI squad v Afghanistan
William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.
T20 squad v Afghanistan
William Porterfield, George Dockrell, Josh Little, Jacob Mulder, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Greg Thompson, Stuart Thompson, Lorcan Tucker, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.
Fixtures
Ireland v UAE, 2 March (ODI)
Ireland v UAE, 4 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 8 March (T20)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 10 March (T20)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 12 March (T20)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 15 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 17 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 19 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 22 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 24 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 28-31 March (Intercontinental Cup)
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The match saw Royal Kituro run in 56 tries and 38 conversions to Soignies' lone drop-goal - which equates to more than four points a minute on average.
The problems began for Soignies in the run-up to the game when the referee failed to turn up on time.
The away team's coach and most of the players then left, assuming the game was off.
However the referee did eventually appear, more than an hour after the scheduled kick-off, and the game went ahead.
The 16 Soignies players still available seemingly did not compete in protest.
Soignies president Guy Calomme described the result as "catastrophic", while a Kituro spokeswoman said Soignies "didn't really play".
Footage of the game shows the away team allowing the opposition to run past them uncontested and repeatedly touch down under the posts.
The away team were effectively forced to play and gain the 'loser's point', rather than forfeit the match and earn no points at all.
And despite Royal Kituro's hammering of Soignies, the losers still sit above the Kituro in the league by one point.
Soignies occupy third place in the table, although they now have a points difference of minus 264.
They found, when malaria parasites enter the bloodstream, they alter their plan of attack if they face competition from other strains of the infection.
However, it means they have less resources left to spread the disease.
Malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes, kills about one million people every year.
The scientists found the malaria parasites focus on producing cells that replicate quickly to cause infection, rather than cells capable of being taken up by a feeding mosquito and spreading the disease.
Since malaria infections usually consist of multiple, competing strains of the parasite, this attack strategy is the best way to beat the competition, the scientists said.
However, it means the parasites pay a high price, as they therefore have fewer resources left to spread the disease.
Laura Pollitt of Edinburgh University's school of biological sciences said: "Our results explain a long-standing puzzle of parasite behaviour.
"We found that when parasites compete with each other, they respond with a sophisticated strategy to safeguard their long-term survival.
"They opt to fight it out in the bloodstream rather than risk everything on the chance of infecting mosquitoes in the short term."
The research, published in the American Naturalist, was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council.
Officers were contacted at 07:15 BST on Friday by a woman who reported concern for Peter and Sylvia Stuart, of Weybread, near Diss, who had not been seen since 28 May.
Their Mill Lane home and the surrounding area were searched and the body, believed to be 75-year-old Peter Stuart, was found at 19:15.
Police have launched a murder inquiry.
Suffolk Fire Service crews are also at the scene assisting police in searching nearby streams for Mrs Stuart.
Det Ch Supt Simon Parkes, from Suffolk Police, told a news conference in Weybread that the body was found about 30ft (9m) from the Stuart's home.
"Clearly, we consider Peter the victim of a crime. We urgently need to find Sylvia. We are hugely concerned for her safety," he said.
"The motive as to why Peter was killed is a matter of speculation."
The officer added the body was fully clothed but he could not comment on how long it had been in position before it was discovered.
"We are treating this as a murder inquiry and as a missing person investigation as we continue to search for Sylvia," he said.
"We are currently carrying out a number of inquiries to find out exactly what has happened and would continue to ask anyone with information to come forward.
"We are particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have seen anything suspicious in this area of Weybread between Saturday 28 May and today and would ask anyone who can help to call us."
The village of Weybread is made up of about 200 homes covering about 2,500 acres (1,011 hectares).
Graham Gibbs, chair of Weybread Parish Council, said: "It has been a big talking point in the village. Nothing like this happens in Weybread, although I suppose everyone says that."
Huddersfield beat Reading 4-3 on penalties after a 0-0 draw at Wembley Stadium in Monday's Championship play-off final.
It is the first time the Terriers have been in the top division since 1972.
The parade is due to leave the John Smith's Stadium at 17:40 BST and arrive in St George's Square by 18:20.
Some roads are to be closed in the town from 12:00.
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David Wagner and the first team squad are to travel from the stadium via Northumberland Street.
In St George's Square the team are to be presented on a stage to the assembled crowd.
Success in the play-off game will be worth a minimum of £170m to the club and there will be other benefits to the town.
Steven Leigh, of the Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce said: "The cash injection into the football club and the economic benefit to the local economy to the tune of £50m to £60m per annum will be tremendous for local business.
"The global exposure is a unique opportunity for the town to attract inward investment on an extraordinary scale."
Dean Hoyle, Huddersfield Town chairman, said: "When I took over in 2009, it has got harder and harder. Every year we are competing with some real big boys.
"But with an open mind it can be achieved, though I never thought it would be possible. It proves dreams can come true."
The 2017-18 Premier League season - complete with Huddersfield Town - starts on 12 August.
There will be coverage of the victory parade on BBC Radio Leeds and BBC Look North.
First Minister Alex Salmond announced details of his 2012/13 plans in the Holyrood chamber.
The government will bring forward 15 bills in all.
The SNP administration wants a referendum on independence to be held in autumn 2014. However, much of the detail has still to be worked out.
The Scottish government's legislative programme includes;
1. Referendum Bill
2. Budget Bill
3. Procurement Reform Bill
4. Bankruptcy Bill
5. Better Regulation Bill
6. Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Bill
7. Landfill Tax Bill
8. Adult Health & Social Care Integration Bill
9. Children and Young People Bill
10. Post-16 Education Reform Bill
11. Forth Estuary Transport Authority Bill
12. Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill
13. Victims and Witnesses Bill
14. Tribunals Bill
At-a-glance: Scottish legislative programme 2012/13
Negotiations on the process surrounding the vote are continuing between the Scottish and UK governments. The bill is expected to make its way through parliament and gain Royal Assent in November next year.
At this stage it is not known how many questions voters will be asked.
Among the 14 other bills being put forward are the Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill, which could introduce same-sex marriage to Scotland.
Mr Salmond says there will be a "conscience" vote in the parliament, where MSPs will be able to vote freely, and he insisted no part of the religious community would be forced to hold same-sex weddings in churches.
The announcement was made in the wake of a government consultation on the issue, which produced a record 77,508 responses.
Also included in the programme are measures to make more free early learning and childcare available.
The first minister said the Children and Young People Bill would include a promise of 600 hours "free early learning and childcare provision".
This guaranteed pre-school nursery care is for all three and four-year-olds, and looked-after two-year-olds. It represents a 125-hour increase on current provision.
Mr Salmond also announced that £18m will be spent on "high-quality, co-ordinated and accessible" support for families.
The Criminal Justice Bill will reform the system for investigating and prosecuting crime in Scotland, following Lord Carloway's review of Scots Law which recommended the abolition of the requirement for corroboration.
The legislative programme, announced in the week MSPs returned from their summer recess, includes two bills setting out the Scottish government's proposed replacements for stamp duty and landfill tax - the Scotland Act handed powers over these to Holyrood from 2015.
Other legislation is being focused on the integration of health and social care; improving support available for victims and witnesses; reforming post-16 education and to bringing bankruptcy law into the 21st Century.
By Brian TaylorPolitical editor, Scotland
Day One of the new parliamentary term at Holyrood.
A chance for the lieges to survey the modest, replacement Holyrood hostelry - already nicknamed Margo's Bar in honour of the independent member from Lothian.
Opinion is divided upon that topic (the boozer, that is, not Margo) with sporadic muttering from disgruntled media members at the opening hours of the new facility in Queensberry House.
Anything else dividing opinion? Not much really. Just the small matter of the dissolution of the Parliamentary Union of 1707.
We have been debating that particular topic so long and so earnestly that there is a danger of historic moments passing us by like the idle wind which we regard not. Today was such an historic moment.
Mr Salmond said: "The new parliamentary session promises to be a pivotal one in the history of this country.
"Work will get under way in earnest on the Referendum Bill, laying the groundwork for Scotland's most important decision in 300 years.
"With the powers we do have, we have managed to secure free university education, offer the best free early learning and childcare package in the UK and guarantee a training opportunity to every 16-19 year old who is not already in education, employment or training.
"We are also investing in creating jobs and strengthening the economy - bringing forward more than £300m of capital spending between 2008-2010, supporting 5,000 jobs, and announcing just a few weeks ago a further £105m.
"Any plan to support growth should focus on immediate public sector capital investment and over this year and the next two, we will switch over £700m of spending from resource to capital."
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said Mr Salmond no longer had anything to offer Scotland, other than "a referendum he continues to dither over".
'Out of ideas'
She said: "The first minister has an overall majority, what an opportunity to change Scotland for a generation - to radically overhaul education, to set our NHS on a new footing.
"If he'd been prepared to be radical, we'd have been prepared to work with him. But when it comes to the big issues, which actually affect peoples' lives, the poverty of his ambition borders on destitution.
The Holyrood debate on the 2012/13 legislative programme continues on Wednesday afternoon. If you want to view it as it is happening, and later on demand, go to our Democracy Live website.
"This legislative programme was largely an uninspired mix of re-announcements and technical bills which show a government out of ideas."
Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said the legislative programme was from a government that had "run out of steam, run out of ideas and which fails to live up to the ambitions of Scotland's people".
She added: "It is a programme that seeks to create the illusion of activity through a plethora of policies but which somehow contrives to be somewhat less than the some of its parts.
"It is the programme of a government that has been reduced to a single overriding goal - to break Scotland away from the rest of the United Kingdom."
The leader of the Scottish Lib Dems, Willie Rennie, said: "The big missed opportunity today is that of Scottish Water. By changing Scottish Water into a public benefit corporation, which firmly remains in the public sector, there is the potential to release a £1.5bn windfall.
"This money could be used to finance the shovel-ready projects the SNP never tire of shouting about. This would create jobs the length and breadth of Scotland."
Scottish Green Party leader Patrick Harvie said the two "highest profile bills" - on the independence referendum and same-sex marriage - had received the "strong support" of his party.
He explained: "The introduction of the Referendum Bill will signal the beginning of the most important period of recent Scottish history - the debate about the future of our country. That debate must engage with the competing visions of the kind of country we want to become.
"The bill to allow same-sex marriage is an important part of that agenda. It will continue Scotland's progress toward a modern, inclusive and progressive society that values equality and diversity."
And Scottish Secretary Michael Moore said he welcomed the first minister announcing plans for a Referendum Bill.
He added: "It is high time we sorted out the referendum process and got on to the real debate about Scotland's future."
Last September, the Wimbledon winner and current BBC Sports Personality of the Year said he would donate £50 every time he hits an ace on court.
His donations were added to by his sponsors, tennis associations and fans.
Murray created the scheme following the repercussions of the conflict in Syria and said: "It's amazing that we've been able to raise so much."
The Dunblane-born star, who led Britain to Davis Cup glory last year, added: "I remember watching the news last summer and deciding I wanted to do something to help some of the millions of children whose lives have turned upside down by the situation in Syria.
"I'm very grateful to my sponsors and fans for their help in this - I couldn't have done it without them. I know how hard Unicef are working to support these children, and millions of others around the world and I'm proud to have been able to help."
Murray's sponsors Standard Life and Under Armour, along with the Lawn Tennis Association and The Association of Tennis Professionals, matched every £50 donation from the tennis star, and Standard Life employees also participated in fundraising.
Unicef said the donation will allow the organisation to provide over 16,000 children with blankets.
David Bull, Unicef's UK Executive Director, said: "All of us here at Unicef UK are incredibly grateful to Andy for his continued support. Almost five years into the conflict, Syria remains one of the most dangerous places to be a child and millions of children have lost loved ones, homes and schools.
"Their world has been turned upside down by the conflict and humanitarian needs are becoming ever more urgent. The support of Andy, his fans and the wider tennis community will help us provide support for children who have lost so much."
It follows an admission by some of Britain's biggest construction firms that they defamed workers and infringed their rights.
Unions say hundreds of members could be in line for damages that could amount to tens of millions of pounds.
The companies have issued an unreserved apology.
Details of what trade unions call a construction industry blacklist emerged in 2009 following a raid on the premises of The Consulting Association in Droitwich by the Information Commissioner's office.
It uncovered a list of more than 3,000 names and reference cards that included allegations against workers linked to their political views, competence, trade union membership and industrial relations activities.
In a submission to the High Court the firms, which include Balfour Beatty, Carillion and Costain Group, accepted that construction companies had provided much the information and had used it to vet workers seeking employment.
The companies accepted that the vetting information system "infringed workers' rights to confidentiality, privacy, reputation and latterly data protection".
The companies offered an "unreserved apology" for their part in operating the system, for any adverse employment consequences and for the distress and anxiety caused to workers and their families.
The Unite union said that the admissions meant hundreds of workers were now on the verge of securing damages.
Unit assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail said: "The admissions from the blacklisters and the damages for the blacklisted are an important step on the road to justice in righting that wrong."
The construction union UCATT described the news as a "massive breakthrough" and "a highly significant step forward in the battle for blacklisting justice".
Maria Ludkin, GMB national officer for legal and corporate affairs, said: "The fact that the companies have acknowledged the distress and anxiety caused to workers and their families now gives us a firm basis to make sure members are given the very substantial compensation they deserve, and that the true nature of the secretive Consulting Association is known."
"Even though it has taken years of fighting in the High Court, the companies have now acknowledged that they infringed workers' rights to confidentiality, privacy, reputation and data protection, which is an important battle to have won," she added.
Despite the admissions, the firms continued to defend cases where they claimed there was no link between the vetting system and the loss of employment and where the losses being claimed were unsubstantiated.
The defendants in the case include Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Keir, Lang O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska and Vinci.
The case is expected to be heard in the High Court in May 2016.
Police were called to the cemetery at about 20:00 on Thursday after reports of a man lying injured.
He was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where his condition is unknown.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said the cemetery had been closed off to allow an investigation of the area to take place.
But while you may want to drag them through the courts, your chances of winning - for now - are probably nil.
That's the result of an important Supreme Court judgement which has underlined the long-standing legal principle that police cannot be sued for negligence because they have a special position in public service and under the law.
If a barrister bungles your case, you can sue. If a firefighter turns off a building's sprinklers amid an inferno, you might have a case for damages.
But you can't take on the police in the same way - which is just what the family of Joanna Michael have tried and failed to do.
Ms Michael was 25 when she was murdered by her former boyfriend in her home in St Mellons, Cardiff.
In August 2009, Cyron Williams broke into her home after learning she had a new man in her life. Williams bit her ear, threatened to kill her and took the other man into his car.
She dialled 999 from her mobile - but her call went through to the wrong control room - Gwent rather than South Wales Police.
She said Williams had threatened to kill her - but by the time patrolling officers from South Wales Police were on the case, the call had been downgraded, giving them an hour to get to the scene.
Around 15 minutes later, Joanna Michael was dead. When Williams returned to her home, she made a second 999 call. Gwent's control room heard her screams. Williams stabbed the mother-of-two to death and he is now serving a life sentence for murder.
Since then, the two police forces have apologised for their mistakes - but they can't be sued for negligence damages which could go towards supporting Ms Michael's children.
And it all comes down to a long-standing legal shield that was created for the police in the wake of allegations of blunders and bungling by detectives on the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
The last woman to be killed by Peter Sutcliffe before his 1981 arrest was Jacqueline Hill, a student at Leeds University.
Her mother sued West Yorkshire Police, arguing that her daughter would have still been alive if the investigation had followed up the existing clues leading to the serial killer.
But in a 1988 ruling, the Law Lords said that the police could not be held liable because the public interest lay in protecting the police from negligence claims.
Why? Because, quite simply, they wouldn't be able to police properly if they were constantly looking over their shoulder waiting for the next writ to be thrown at them.
Chief constables would shift all of their resources into tactics designed to avoid ending up in court, rather than trying the best for the whole of the community.
The principle that the police owe no duty of care to specific people remained largely untouched until 1998, when the European Court of Human Rights intervened in a case called Osman.
An obsessive teacher had stalked his former pupil, Ahmet Osman, and eventually killed his father, Ali.
The family argued successfully that the Metropolitan Police had breached Mr Osman's right to life because the force had all the information it could ever have needed to deal with the threat.
That ruling had a profound impact on the police. Chiefs have since developed a complex methodology for assessing risks. They even send formal letters known as "Osman warnings" to people who they suspect may face a risk to their life. Here's a model Osman letter.
Stephen Lennon, the former leader of the English Defence League, is one such recent recipient.
But the law around Osman only goes so far - and Wednesday's Supreme Court judgement underlines that.
In the lead judgement, Lord Toulson said the law is clear that the only person who is to blame for harm is the person who caused it.
He ruled that even if the police could be reasonably aware of a threat to life, that does not mean they have an immediate duty of care to that specific individual which overrides everything else they must do.
Does the door remain open for another challenge? Two of the seven Supreme Court judges ruled in the family's favour. Lord Kerr and Lady Hale said that if any case crossed a high bar for suing the police for negligence, then it would be the death of Joanna Michael.
That means that in the past decade three of our most senior judges - the other being the late Lord Bingham - have argued that the police should, sometimes, face the music. So the pendulum may be on the turn towards making the police liable.
Nicholas Bowen QC, represented the family in the challenge. He said: "There is now a fundamental disagreement at the highest level as to whether it is in the public interest for the police to retain their long standing protection from legal liability when they know of an imminent threat to a particular individual and have the means to protect them but unreasonably fail to safeguard someone from the risk of serious harm or death.
"As the two dissenting [Supreme Court] justices found, it does seem anomalous and arbitrary to find that if the call handler uses positive language and expressly promises a prompt attendance there is liability - but if it is implicit in the interchange but not spelt out that the police are coming rapidly, there is no remedy.
"We will consider taking the case to Strasbourg and feel strongly that the correct approach is in Lord Kerr and Lady Hale's powerful dissenting judgments."
There has however been a legal victory of sorts for Joanna Michael's family. The Supreme Court says they can still sue under human rights law for a breach of a right to life. That won't lead to a great deal of compensation - that's not how the system works. Refuge, the campaign group against domestic abuse, also hopes this secondary victory will give hope to other bereaved families.
But for now, Strasbourg or not, anyone else who thinks the police must pay for letting them down should know this: finding the police liable for negligence is the legal line that still can't be crossed.
On Wednesday, dozens of lawmakers staged a walk-out ahead of a second attempt to swear in newly elected pro-independence lawmakers.
On the surface, the row is over the oath lawmakers have to take.
But it has brought to the fore the deep divisions between those who accept and those challenging Chinese control.
Hong Kong has been governed under the "one country, two systems" principle since it was returned to China in 1997.
It means that Hong Kong enjoys certain freedoms not granted to mainland Chinese, but crucially its leader is selected by a mostly pro-Beijing committee.
But in September, two members of the new political party Youngspiration were elected to the LegCo.
They identify themselves as "localists", a movement which objects to what followers see as a gradual encroachment of mainland China in Hong Kong politics and culture.
These Youngspiration MPs are at the more extreme end of that, and want total independence for Hong Kong.
So they decided they could not swear the oath in its current form, which is this:
"I swear that, being a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, I will uphold the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, bear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and serve the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region conscientiously, dutifully, in full accordance with the law, honestly and with integrity."
Last Wednesday, when Sixtus Leung, 30, and Yau Wai-ching, 25 were being sworn in, they altered the oath to reflect that they do not accept Hong Kong as a territory of China. They swore while saying it and provocatively mispronounced China.
They pledged allegiance to the "Hong Kong nation" and held up a banner that said "Hong Kong is not China".
Amid a furore in the LegCo chamber, their oaths were deemed invalid by legislative officials, and the swearing-in was put back a week.
The government launched an unprecedented legal attempt to delay Mr Leung and Ms Yau's swearing in until a judicial review.
On Tuesday, the High Court rejected the request for a delay, paving the way for them to be sworn in on Wednesday. But it did agree to a judicial review.
However, on Wednesday dozens of pro-Beijing lawmakers staged a walk-out before Mr Leung and Ms Yau were sworn in, demanding that the duo apologise for "insulting our motherland".
One of them, Holden Chow, told the BBC: "(Mr Leung and Ms Yau) have really gone too far. They actually provoked a lot of Hong Kong people. And also they are simply provoking all Chinese people so they do owe us an apology."
In retaliation another lawmaker threw pieces of luncheon meat at those walking out.
With them gone, there weren't enough lawmakers in the room for the oaths to take place.
It's unclear when the swearing in will now take place.
Mr Leung called the walk-out "stupid".
"I am not surprised that the government will put a lot of focus on both me and Yau Wai-ching but I think their action is a bit over (the top)," he told the BBC.
The BBC's Danny Vincent in Hong Kong says the two members of Youngspiration remain defiant but also appeared genuinely nervous about the possibility of losing their seats.
In 2014, mass pro-democracy street protests erupted, with thousands taking the streets for weeks demanding fully democratic elections for Hong Kong's leader.
The Umbrella Movement, as it came to be known, was led by young people who wanted their voices heard.
After the mass demonstrations failed to win any concessions from Beijing, some of those protesters instead entered mainstream politics, to try to enact the change they wanted through constitutional means.
But some took a more hardline view, fearing that Beijing was tightening its grip and influence over Hong Kong and wanting to preserve Hong Kong's unique culture and freedoms.
In the last elections, a handful of those youth protesters, including both pro-democracy and pro-independence voices, won seats in the LegCo.
George Black, who reportedly earned close to £170,000 a year, is expected to leave by the end of 2014.
Mr Black, 61, took responsibility for some of the preparations for the Commonwealth Games but also had to deal with the impact of tight council funding.
The process to recruit his successor will now get under way.
Mr Black has been with Glasgow City Council - and its predecessor before the current local government structure took effect - for more than 20 years.
Before his move to Glasgow, the qualified accountant worked for the Hydro Electric Board and several other councils.
In a note to staff, Mr Black said: "I have worked at a senior level in Glasgow for over 20 years and have witnessed first hand the improvements in the city.
"However, much still remains to be done and I believe now is the right time for a new chief executive to manage the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
"It has been a great privilege to have been chief executive at such an exciting time and I have been fortunate to have had the support of so many dedicated colleagues."
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson said: "I want to thank George for his exceptional work on behalf of the city."
It added inspectors found HMP Hewell was unacceptably dirty, there were high levels of assaults and some staff appeared to lack motivation.
The inspection in November 2012 identified "significant concerns", the HM Inspectorate of Prisons report said.
The jail said "decisive action" had been taken.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said much of the jail "provided an unsafe and degrading environment".
He said: "Managers at a local and national level need to be very clear that the current level of performance is not acceptable, and ensure that effective and robust action is taken."
HM Inspectorate of Prisons said 35% of prisoners on the closed side and 42% on the open side said it was easy to get drugs, which was much higher than in comparable jails.
There had been 94 reported prisoner-on-prisoner assaults at the closed site in six months before the inspection, which was significantly higher than at other similar jails, the report said.
But the inspectorate also said prisoners were generally positive about relations with staff, disciplinary processes were generally well managed and the quality of learning, skills and work activities was good.
The National Offender Management Service, on behalf of the prison, said the jail had been through a significant period of restructuring and change.
The service's chief executive officer, Michael Spurr, said: "At the time of the inspection the prison's performance was below acceptable standards although the new governor was working hard to address the deficiencies.
"Since the inspection we have strengthened the management team."
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform charity, said: "This is a damning report into a dirty, dangerous and drug-ridden prison, where cleaning materials are difficult to get hold of, but alcohol is readily available."
She was trying to straighten her car while parking at St Nicholas Church in Ipswich when she "shot forward" into a stationary vehicle.
The woman seriously injured her leg and foot and was taken to hospital after the accident at 18:15 BST on Tuesday.
Freddy Ferguson, an insurance worker who was passing by, said it happened "out of the blue".
He was able to apply first aid to the woman until the emergency services arrived.
"I saw it happen as the lady was trying to straighten up while parking," he said.
"One of her legs was out of the car and I think somehow her other foot hit the accelerator and she shot forward hitting the other car at full speed.
"It was quite spectacular. The woman was clearly in shock.".
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In the everyday world, when an object is pushed, it accelerates in the same direction as the force applied to it; this relationship is described by Isaac Newton's Second Law of Motion.
But in theory, matter can have negative mass in the same sense that an electric charge can be positive or negative.
The phenomenon is described in Physical Review Letters journal.
Prof Peter Engels, from Washington State University (WSU), and colleagues cooled rubidium atoms to just above the temperature of absolute zero (close to -273C), creating what's known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
In this state, particles move extremely slowly, and following behaviour predicted by quantum mechanics, acting like waves.
They also synchronise and move together in what's known as a superfluid, which flows without losing energy.
To create the conditions for negative mass, the researchers used lasers to trap the rubidium atoms and to kick them back and forth, changing the way they spin.
When the atoms were released from the laser trap, they expanded, with some displaying negative mass.
"With negative mass, if you push something, it accelerates toward you," said co-author Michael Forbes, assistant professor of physics at WSU.
He added: "It looks like the rubidium hits an invisible wall."
The technique could be used to better understand the phenomenon, say the researchers.
"What's a first here is the exquisite control we have over the nature of this negative mass, without any other complications," said Dr Forbes.
This heightened control also gives researchers a tool for exploring the possible relationships between negative mass and phenomena observed in the cosmos, such as neutron stars, black holes and dark energy.
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PC Neil Doyle, 36, died following an attack in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of 19 December last year.
Andrew Taylor, 29, Christopher Spendlove, 30, and Timmy Donovan, 30, are on trial for murder at Liverpool Crown Court.
The three men also deny wounding with intent and causing grievous body harm.
Police officer Michael Steventon, who was attacked alongside PC Doyle, said Mr Taylor had approached their group and repeatedly addressed PC Doyle as "officer".
He said Mr Taylor, a football agent and former Forest Green Rovers player, had made him feel "unsettled" believing the defendant had "an issue".
The court heard the disturbance broke out after the two groups met in the city's Seel Street just before 03:00 BST.
Mr Steventon said: "Mr Taylor arrived and immediately addressed Neil Doyle and asked him if he was having a good evening.
"He finished the sentence with the word 'officer', 'are you having a good evening officer'. It was directed at Neil Doyle. He kept repeating things to that effect.
"As you can probably imagine it's a bit unsettling when someone approaches you when off-duty and identifies one of you as a police officer but at the same time, I thought it would be a throwaway thing, that would just go away."
He added that Mr Taylor was "very persistent".
"It was a bit intimidating. It wasn't in a friendly way it was in an intimidating manner.
Mr Steventon said he did not believe PC Doyle had known the defendant.
The court earlier heard Mr Taylor walked into a police station after seeing media reports detailing the death of PC Doyle.
The officer died after suffering an injury to an artery in his neck, which led to bleeding over the surface of the brain.
In a police interview the following day, Mr Taylor told officers that PC Doyle had been "ultra aggressive" and "intimidating" towards him after the two groups met after leaving separate bars.
He admitted striking the officer in self defence in his initial interview, but later denied it, saying that he had been mistaken.
Nicholas Johnson QC, prosecuting, said: "It appears to be the present position of all the defendants that none of them admit striking Neil Doyle."
The trial continues.
Yahoo is in the process of selling its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools to Verizon.
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Its main assets will be a 15% stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba and a 35.5% stake in Yahoo Japan.
Five other current members of the Yahoo board also won't be on the board of the new firm.
Ms Mayer is expected to remain with Yahoo's core business.
Verizon's deal for Yahoo's core internet assets came under renewed scrutiny last month after the Yahoo disclosed one of the largest known data breaches in history.
Verizon is examining the impact of the data breach and there is speculation that the deal may not go through.
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 mindset to solve.
Think Professor Branestawm meets Heath Robinson meets James Joyce, with a dose of Duchamp and Fischli & Weiss thrown in for good measure.
And then add some of the issues of today, from fake news to the nodal nature of the internet, and hopefully a picture starts to emerge in your imagination of what you might encounter when viewing a Helen Marten sculpture.
She wants to jolt you, provoke you; throw you off balance.
Things are not quite what they seem, objects don't conform to our expectations, awkwardness abounds.
At least, it does to begin with. But once you tune in to her way of thinking, and start to understand that the artist is not trying to fool you, but to take you by the hand and show you something new, you begin to see the beauty of her work.
Her attention to detail is extraordinary, the materials she makes (has made) exquisite.
This is not like so much contemporary conceptual art, which consists of a weak one-liner of little significance. Marten's sculptures are formally substantial and intellectually rigorous: they are made to last, in every sense.
Her father is a chemist. She is an alchemist. We are the beneficiaries.
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Security officials said that Yusuf Dirir was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car.
Three workers from the Transport Ministry also died in a separate drive-by shooting on Saturday.
The attacks in the capital city came as a number of people were killed in clashes between al-Shabab gunmen and government troops in southern Somalia.
Police said that Mr Dirir had been killed when gunmen in a minibus blocked his route and sprayed the car with bullets.
"He was a man that has long served his country and wanted to see a united Somalia," said speaker of parliament Mohamed Osman Jawari.
Local media said that another MP had also been wounded in the incident and was in hospital.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the killings are the latest in a string of assassinations of politicians in the war-torn country.
Islamist militants from the al-Shabab movement shot dead Abdullahi Qayad Barre near the presidential palace in February by opening fire on his car.
At least five MPs were murdered last year and the group has said that it will continue to target MPs.
In another development, al-Shabab clashed with government troops early on Saturday in Awdigle district and Mubarak village, south of Mogadishu.
At least 17 people have reportedly been killed but the death toll has not been confirmed.
"We did not sleep last night because they exchanged shells and gunfire throughout the night," resident Afrah Hussein told Reuters news agency.
Al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, was pushed out of Somalia's capital by African peacekeeping forces in 2011.
But since then, the group has carried out a series of gun and grenade attacks to try to overthrow the government and impose its strict version of Sharia law.
The debate was led by Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray, who said Brexit negotiations should fully involve all of the UK's devolved administrations.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to explore all the options for securing Scotland's place in Europe.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants the Scottish government to be "fully engaged" in the Brexit talks.
Ms May has described some of the proposals to keep Scotland in the EU as "impracticable" but has offered to listen to any options the first minister comes forward with.
However on the same day as the Westminster Hall debate, Attorney General Jeremy Wright underlined that "all of the UK" would be leaving the EU, also dismissing the idea that Holyrood could have some form of "veto" over Brexit.
Leading the debate in the second chamber of the Commons, Mr Murray said Scots had voted "overwhelmingly" to remain in both the EU and the UK at recent referendums, in 2016 and 2014 respectively.
He said: "The destination for me and the Scottish Labour Party, and the Labour Party as a whole, is to make sure that Scotland's position in the UK is assured, but that we don't lose sight of the advantages that we get from the European Union.
"Those are the two mandates the Scottish people have given us, and to disregard one mandate for the other would be wrong."
The Edinburgh South MP said he wanted to explore the potential implications of powers over areas such as agriculture, fishing and air quality being returned to the Scottish Parliament from Brussels.
He also said it was essential that any talks fully involved the Welsh and Northern Irish governments and the London Assembly.
A number of SNP MPs took part in the debate, with several underlining that the option of Scottish independence was also "on the table".
Ian Blackford said that "the people of Scotland have spoken", noting that Scots voted 62% in favour of remaining in the EU.
He added: "The UK might be leaving, but for us in Scotland, our future remains as a European nation.
"If it becomes clear that Scottish independence is the best and only way to achieve that, then that is an option that Scotland has to have. If the Scottish parliament judges that a referendum on independence is now the best option for Scotland's continued place in Europe, then the Scottish government has a duty to act.
"The UK we voted to stay in in 2014 no longer exists. Independence could be the best option to provide security for our economy and society. Independence would not be about Scotland wanting to leave, but to stay with what we have currently."
Fellow SNP MP Patrick Grady added that it would be "democratically unacceptable for Scotland to be taken out of the EU against its will".
And Glasgow South MP Stewart McDonald had strong words for the Leave campaign, likening Brexit to "political suicide".
He said: "The Brexit masochists have utterly ruined politics and turned it on its head. And I and my colleagues won't allow my country to bear the brunt of that. Because on the back of a Brexit vote that Scotland did not vote for, the political establishment here in London's behaviour and response has been shambolic."
Brexit minister Robin Walker, speaking for the government, said he had voted Remain, but said the decision had now been taken and had to be respected.
He said: "We should no longer be talking in terms of leavers and remainers. It is the responsibility of all of us to secure the best possible outcome in the interest of all UK citizens. We all need to work together.
"There is certainly respect for Scotland's position, and the first minister, and the fact that the prime minister broke a reshuffle to go up to Scotland to meet with the first minister is a sign of that respect.
"I'd like to repeat my personal commitment to fully involving the devolved administrations in the preparations for the complex task ahead of us.
"There can be no doubt we are working towards securing the best possible deal for the whole of the UK, and in order to achieve this we need to work openly and collaboratively with the devolved administrations at official and ministerial level."
Sinclair scored twice in the Champions League play-off first-leg rout, which all but secured Celtic's place in the group stage.
"I wouldn't say it was easy, I think we made it look easy," said Sinclair, who scored the second and third goals.
"I think every game is so hard and, just the way we played tonight, it probably looked like it was easy."
Own goals by Evgeni Postnikov and Igor Shitov and a James Forrest strike helped towards a comfortable win for Brendan Rodgers' side ahead of Tuesday's second leg in Kazakhstan.
"It was a great night," Sinclair said. "The boys did unbelievable. The scoreboard shows how well we did.
"We got the fifth, but we wanted more and we kept going for the sixth.
"As players, we love these nights. These are the nights you want to play in. The atmosphere's unbelievable.
"We've come such a long way. The team's gelled very well. The gaffer's brought in a couple of new players and I think we'll be ready."
Shitov was credited with Celtic's fifth goal after Leigh Griffiths' shot deflected into the net off the defender.
But Griffiths said: "I'm going to claim it until somebody else tells me otherwise. Until somebody officially confirms it wasn't my goal, I'm going to claim it."
Griffiths set up Sinclair's second goal against the Kazakh side they also beat in the third qualifying round last season and Forrest's low strike and said: "It's a great scoreline for us.
"Last year, we struggled to overcome this tie. It was a last-minute penalty that put us through, but now you see the team's flying. It's a whole different team now. We look forward to Tuesday.
"Anything can happen in football, we've given ourselves a great chance, but the game over there will be a difficult game to play in. We're 90 minutes away from the promised land.
"Hopefully, we go over there and get the job done. Having a clean sheet going over there with a five-goal lead, you would think we're almost there."
The Scotland striker was also pleased at the news international team-mate Stuart Armstrong is close to signing a new Celtic deal.
"We all know what kind of player Stuart is," Griffiths said of the midfielder. "It's a great boost and we want to keep our best players here.
"Stuart seems happy here and we hope the contract gets signed sooner rather than later."
Bradley Parker, 19, and Daniel Maston, 18, from Burstwick, died when their Vauxhall Corsa collided with a Land Rover Defender on Newfield Lane, near Lelley.
Mr Maston was driving the car when it crashed at about 14:40 on Sunday.
Hull FC said Mr Parker's name would feature on the club's new strip as a mark of respect.
Mr Parker, from Burton Pidsea, a former Hull FC under-16s captain, left the side earlier this year to start an apprenticeship course.
The Super League club said in a statement: "A talented hooker, he excelled from a young age captaining his school rugby team, helping South Holderness to the Year 11 National Cup Final.
"He also went on to captain East Hull and Hull FC's scholarship side, before his performances earned him international recognition with the England Youth squad.
"On behalf of everyone involved at Hull FC, we would like to pass on our deepest sympathy and condolences to the families involved in this tragic incident, and Brad's contribution to the club from a young age will never be forgotten."
A vigil has been held at the scene of the incident by the family and friends of the two men.
The 69-year-old driver of the Land Rover suffered minor injuries.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The 19th-placed Brewers, one of the favourites to go straight back down to League One, are three points clear of the relegation zone after 19 games.
Clough told BBC Radio Derby he has mixed feeling about their progress.
"We would have taken it at the start of the season but we think we have played better than that," he said.
"For the chances we have created we haven't scored enough goals."
This week the 50-year-old passed 12 months as Brewers manager in his second spell in charge and said it had been a "good year".
He added getting to the stage they are at is no mean achievement given their budget and standing in their first season in the second tier of English football.
"We knew we would not be first choice on a lot of players' lists for where they wanted to play in the Championship," Clough added.
"Hopefully come January, and if we manage to stay up in the summer, that [signing players] will become an easier task.
"In the first 19 games people have seen us play and I think we have played a little bit better than people anticipated.
"If we can replicate the first 19 games and have 44 points after 38 games that would be a very good target and would gives us eight games to get to 50 points."
Clough had just over 10 years at the Brewers during his first stint, but left to take over as Derby County manager in January 2009.
The money was awarded as the region's hospitals were granted Biomedical Research Centre status, in what has been described as a "landmark moment".
It will be used to drive forward research into cancer, respiratory disease and other serious conditions.
Millions of people will benefit, the region's NHS trusts said.
In April, Greater Manchester became the first English region to gain control of its health spending as part of an extension of devolved powers.
Jon Rouse, chief officer of Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the body overseeing the devolution of the region's £6bn health and social care budget, said the funding was "hugely welcome".
"The new partnership approach under devolution means that we have both the opportunity - and the means - to combine the talents of people from a whole range of areas to benefit our population," he said.
He added that the grant was "recognition" that Greater Manchester can combine clinical skills with the best research and academic talent "to take huge steps in improving the health and wellbeing of our people".
The grant was awarded by the National Institute for Health Research following a joint bid from Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, in partnership with The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Trust, Salford Royal NHS Trust, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust.
Sir Mike Deegan, chief executive of the central Manchester trust, said the £28.5m award would help find "new ways of preventing, predicting and treating some of the major causes of premature death and disability".
"Bringing together our research expertise has only been made possible by the unique connectivity which devolution provides."
They show that in 2014/15, businesses in the Belfast council area received £85m, more than twice as much as any other council.
That included support for large expansions by firms like Citibank and PwC.
The lowest amount of grant aid went to Causeway Coast and Glens, which received £2m.
Belfast also saw the highest number of jobs created at 2,678.
Ards and North Down had the lowest number of jobs created at 286.
The highest levels of grants and job creation were concentrated in the main commercial and industrial areas of Belfast, Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon and Mid Ulster.
Derry and Strabane is fifth in terms of grants awarded and jobs created.
Full breakdown of figures:
The Local Government Association wants councils to be given control of careers advice to ensure teenagers "pursue the right course for them".
A report for the LGA suggests the teenage dropout rate costs the country £814m a year.
The government said its reforms were ensuring teenagers gained vital skills.
The LGA commissioned the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion to analyse the latest figures which were for the year 2012-13.
The researchers combined dropout and failure figures on A-levels, apprenticeships and further education courses to give a total of 178,000 16 to 18-year-olds not completing their courses.
Of these, 92,000 students withdrew from schools, primarily from AS and A-levels; 24,200 did not complete apprenticeships or training courses and an estimated 61,900 withdrew from FE courses.
The teenagers at greatest risk of dropping out were apprentices, with a quarter not finishing, suggest the figures.
The authors note success rates both for AS and A-levels and FE courses have improved in recent years, with 16% of students dropping out of further education, 9% from individual AS-levels and 5% from individual A-levels.
This has contributed to a long-term fall in the total number of drop-outs, of 30% since 2006-7, they add.
Despite this they calculate 12% of all government spending on post-16 education and skills goes on "uncompleted" courses.
"For the young person it means coping with uncertainty and a sense of failure and with hard decisions about what to do next.
"For schools, the exchequer and the taxpayer there is the cost of providing education that does not result in a positive outcome."
The LGA says the current centralised approach to post-16 education does not allow schools and colleges to help teenagers find the right courses.
"Local councils, colleges, schools and employers know how to best help their young people and should have devolved funding and powers to work together to give young people the best chance of building careers and taking jobs that exist locally," said Cllr David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board.
The Association of Colleges said the reasons for young people not finishing their courses were "complex".
"Sometimes they get a job and therefore leave education," said AoC chief executive Martin Doel, but he agreed poor careers advice was a problem.
"This report shines a light on failing careers advice in this country.
"We would like to see the establishment of careers hubs in every local area supported by schools, colleges, universities, local councils, employers and Jobcentre Plus to ensure everyone has access to the high-quality impartial advice they deserve."
The government said its new independent careers and enterprise company would boost collaboration between schools and employers and give young people access to high quality advice and opportunities.
"We are reforming academic qualifications and vocational education to ensure young people get the knowledge and skills that they need to move into a job, apprenticeship or to continue their education," said a Department for Education spokesman.
The spokesman said the government had ring-fenced £7.2bn to ensure an education or training place for all under-18s, adding that the number of young people not in education, employment or training was at its lowest recorded level.
Around 300 people walked from the primary school to the harbour on Saturday afternoon.
An online petition against the proposed closure of the site has gathered more than 4,000 supporters to date.
The RNLI, which wants to provide lifeboat cover from nearby Eyemouth, has said it is about having the "right assets in the right place".
A court in Palma ruled that the 50-year-old sister of King Felipe must stand trial in a case involving her husband's business dealings.
If found guilty, she could face a maximum of eight years in jail.
Princess Cristina has denied knowledge of the alleged embezzlement scam that also involves her husband and 16 other defendants. They all deny the charges.
The case was launched in 2010 and has become highly symbolic of perceived corruption among Spain's elites, including the royal family.
Last year, King Felipe stripped his sister and her husband Inaki Urdangarin of their titles, the Duke and Duchess of Palma de Mallorca.
Princess Cristina now lives in Switzerland, but remains the sixth in line to the Spanish throne and is the first member of the royal family to go on trial.
The princess's lawyers argued that as public prosecutors had refused to press charges against her, the counts should be dismissed.
But the three judges agreed to continue with the prosecution using the evidence filed by the the anti-corruption group, Manos Limpias, meaning "Clean Hands".
The charges relate to the real estate company Aizoon that she owned with her husband, a former Olympic handball medallist.
She is accused of making personal use of Aizoon funds for paying for clothes and dance lessons for the couple's children as well as work on the couple's Barcelona mansion, which reduced the firm's taxable profits.
Her husband is alleged to have used the non-profit Noos Institute sports foundation he ran as a vehicle to win falsely inflated contracts from regional government bodies, before channelling the money to personal accounts via tax havens.
Noos is alleged to have received more than €6m (£4.4m; $6.5m) of public money, most of it from the Balearic Islands and Valencia regional governments.
If found guilty, Mr Urdangarin could face 19 years and six months in jail.
Hearings into the case will resume next month in Palma.
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Having opted to bat, Australia were reduced to 4-4 after four overs, Kiwi left-arm spinner Leigh Kasperek taking 3-2 in her first 12 deliveries.
All-rounder Ellyse Perry struck 42 from 48 balls as Australia mustered 103-8.
But Rachel Priest hit 34 from 27 balls and Susie Bates 23 as the Kiwis reached their target with 22 balls to spare.
"I am sure if we play the way we are, we can win it," said Bates. "If things go our way, we can win it. But we are not looking too far ahead."
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The Australians, winners of the last three tournaments, were also beaten by the Kiwis in their opening group match of the 2014 World T20, but this was only their fifth defeat in 22 matches in the history of the event.
Edinburgh-born Kasperek, who appeared for Scotland against Ireland in the 2007 European Championship aged 15, claimed wickets with consecutive deliveries in her first over, both hoicked to the leg-side ring.
Perry had struck the only six of the Australia innings but was given out lbw with the final ball of the 17th over, when replays suggested it was missing the leg-stump.
In reply both New Zealand openers hit sixes, Bates with a glorious drive over long-off, as they raced to 58 in the eighth over before both departed in the space of 10 balls.
New Zealand, runners-up in the first two Women's World T20s, have now won three of their four WT20 meetings with Australia and maintained their 100% record in this year's event, having also beaten Sri Lanka and Ireland.
With only the top two in the five-team groups progressing, Australia next play on Thursday in Delhi against Sri Lanka, who have also won one and lost one thus far.
The man argued that circumcision would be in accordance with his religious beliefs.
But the boys' mother, who is separated from their father, disagreed.
At a Family Court hearing in Exeter, Mrs Justice Roberts said the boys, who are six and four, should first reach an age where they can make the decision for themselves.
The man had argued that it would be "in the children's best interests to allow them to be circumcised" in accordance with his "Muslim practice and religious beliefs".
His former partner "opposes that course until such time as the children have reached an age where they are competent to give consent to such a procedure," the judge added.
"There is no guarantee that these boys will wish to continue to observe the Muslim faith with the devotion demonstrated by their father, although that may very well be their choice.
"They are still very young and there is no way of anticipating at this stage how the different influences in their respective parental homes will shape and guide their development over the coming years."
Mrs Justice Roberts said she was deferring that decision "to the point where each of the boys themselves will make their individual choices once they have the maturity and insight to appreciate the consequences and longer-term effects of the decisions which they reach."
Millwall took the lead in the 33rd minute when Cooper bundled home a corner from close range - seconds after play was halted when Coventry fans threw tennis balls on to the pitch in protest at the club's owners.
The opening goal sparked Coventry into life following a dull opening half an hour that lacked any clear-cut chances.
The home side should have been level by half-time when Farrend Rawson put a header over the bar in the 39th minute, while Marcus Tudgay's curled effort went just over a minute later.
Millwall could have doubled their lead in the 54th minute when Lee Burge was beaten to the ball after racing out of his goal, but Morison's shot was deflected wide.
Despite Coventry's efforts to get back into the game, Morison eventually doubled Millwall's lead in the 79th minute by tapping in the rebound from Fred Onyedinma's shot.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Coventry City 0, Millwall 2.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 0, Millwall 2.
Jodi Jones (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shane Ferguson (Millwall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Attempt missed. Vladimir Gadzhev (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
George Thomas (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Williams (Millwall).
Substitution, Millwall. Shane Ferguson replaces Jed Wallace.
Substitution, Coventry City. Vladimir Gadzhev replaces Andy Rose.
Goal! Coventry City 0, Millwall 2. Steve Morison (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal.
(Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Hand ball by Farrend Rawson (Coventry City).
Jodi Jones (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nadjim Abdou (Millwall).
Foul by Farrend Rawson (Coventry City).
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Stuart Beavon (Coventry City).
Jake Cooper (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Lee Gregory.
Farrend Rawson (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Gregory (Millwall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Jodi Jones.
Byron Webster (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stuart Beavon (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Byron Webster (Millwall).
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces Marcus Tudgay.
Attempt saved. Lee Gregory (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Tony Craig (Millwall) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Farrend Rawson.
Attempt blocked. Steve Morison (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is high and wide to the left.
Attempt missed. Andy Rose (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Nathan Clarke (Coventry City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Second Half begins Coventry City 0, Millwall 1.
Substitution, Millwall. Nadjim Abdou replaces Ben Thompson.
First Half ends, Coventry City 0, Millwall 1.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Attempt saved. Lee Gregory (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
The fish were found dead in the water at the weekend. It is thought that there have been two separate kills in the river.
In 2013, almost 5,000 fish were found dead after the river was polluted in a farm incident.
Ian Kittle, secretary of the Inler Angling Club, said it was devastating news.
"We are devastated, especially after the last fish kill in 2013," he said.
"The river was starting to recover and we had been busy restocking it. This incident is not as bad.
"But at the same time, we have lost juvenile fish and more. Our resident brown trout are dead and we also found a large sea trout that had been coming up from the lough to spawn."
Mr Kittle said he was first made aware of the fish kill on Friday evening.
There appeared to have been two separate kills, he said. One is upstream parallel to the Belfast Road, Comber. A lot of the dead fish are at the lower end of the river, under the new Comber bypass bridge.
A government department is investigating.
The gunner, 23, based at Suffolk's RAF Honington, vanished a month ago after a night out in Bury St Edmunds.
Officers have been scouring hedgerows and ditches between the A134 and A143 on the town outskirts.
Meanwhile, a retired police chief has said foul play cannot be ruled out as detectives continue to investigate a possible sighting of Mr Mckeague.
Suffolk Police said on Monday they were looking at a suspected sighting by a driver on the Hollow Road Industrial Estate.
The person in light clothes was spotted less than an hour after Mr Mckeague was last seen on CCTV walking alone and eating fast food in Brentgovel Street at about 03:20 BST on 24 September.
Police said a man in a black T-shirt with white writing on, who Mr Mckeague spoke to in Pizza Mama Mia on the morning he disappeared, has now been traced and spoken to.
Colin Sutton, a former Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector who worked on the Milly Dowler case and other high-profile inquiries, told BBC Radio Suffolk officers needed to focus on where Mr McKeague was last seen.
"His last sighting shows him going into an area where his only logical and reasonable way out is back past the same camera again," he said.
"You never give up hope in these cases, but the longer it goes on the more I would fear for what happened."
Officers are continuing to appeal for anyone who may have seen him in the early hours of 24 September and anyone who may have seen him since, or anyone with information about his whereabouts, to come forward.
It is thought the airman, originally from Dunfermline in Fife, intended to walk home to the base.
Air, ground and dog searches have already been made around Bury and the routes out of it.
The planet Saturn has 62 moons around it and Dione is the fourth largest at around 700 miles wide.
The space probe was almost 300 miles away when it captured the shots.
Cassini has been touring Saturn for 11 years and sending images back.
But these pics of Dione are extra special - they're the last the space probe will send of this moon.
Next year the probe will head through Saturn's rings and the year after it will be made to self-destruct.
The Dumfries record producer's hits My Way and Glows, with David Guetta, are part of the fan vote at Fiorentina.
The successful song will be played every time the team from Florence scores a goal at home games.
Voting closes on Saturday with the winning tune ready to be used for the first time on Sunday.
Excalibur Steel UK Limited said its plans for the business were based on "re-engineering" the way it is run.
Excalibur is one of two possible buyers, the other is Liberty House.
Unions are concerned about job losses at the Tata plants, which include the country's biggest steel plant at Port Talbot in south Wales.
More than 4,000 people work at that site.
The current owner, India's Tata Steel, said this week it would begin looking at what prospective buyers of its loss-making UK business are prepared to offer after receiving letters of intent.
Tata is hoping for a quick sale.
It has connected with 190 potential bidders for the Port Talbot site, which is the biggest in the UK.
Tata has not publicly set a deadline for any deal, but has made it clear it cannot sustain its £1m-a-day losses indefinitely and does not want to prolong the uncertainty for workers and customers.
Excalibur said the reorganisation would be necessary as the current business was run as part of a far larger one, which had other plants in Europe.
It said in a statement: "The opportunity for greater efficiency involves evolving from a highly functional centralised business model, with significant fixed costs and overheads.
"This arises because the existing arrangements are based on a pan-European structure. Excalibur's proposals will see a migration towards leaner autonomous sub-business units. In the event Excalibur is successful in acquiring Tata's UK steel assets, this will inevitably take some time to achieve.
"Potentially this could affect up to 1,000 jobs across the entirety of the operation."
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community union said this was "worrying" for steelworkers, who were already facing uncertainty: "We have had no discussions with Excalibur about additional job losses.
"We await to see the details of their plans for the business and any implications for jobs."
The UK government has previously said it will consider taking a stake in any rescue plan for Tata's Steel's UK assets, which also include sites at Llanwern, Shotton and Trostre.
Wheater, 26, lost his place behind the stumps to Lewis McManus in June after former coach Dale Benkenstein was critical of a poor over rate.
He has since scored two County Championship centuries for the side.
"We've got to concentrate as a unit on staying up in Division One first," Wheater told BBC Radio Solent.
"That takes priority and then we will have a chat (about his role in the team) from there.
The former Essex player joined Hampshire in 2013 to take up the chance as a first-choice wicketkeeper.
Benkenstein, who left Hampshire by mutual consent in July, said too many extras and a poor over rate were behind the decision to replace Wheater with McManus.
He returned as a batsman after missing one game, striking a maiden first-class double century against Warwickshire before adding 102 in the current County Championship match against Nottinghamshire.
"All I can do is put runs on the board and run around like a headless chicken in the field," Wheater said. "It will be a question of sitting down and having an honest conversation and asking the coaching outfit where they see me and where I see Hampshire.
"There's no point having that conversation now as there's still a lot of cricket left to play this season."
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) came up with a total of £131m, based on estimates from 7,123 shops in England, Scotland and Wales.
The findings, seen by BBC Radio 4's You and Yours, show an average annual loss per store of £2,605.
Retailers say the police response is inadequate, with one store owner installing bicycle chains on fridges.
"It is possible that some companies have previously underestimated theft levels in their business," the ACS admitted to the BBC.
But it added: "A lot of businesses have seen their theft levels double."
Some of the Association's members are seeing lots of items stolen in one go.
That would help explain the discrepancy with government data.
While shoplifting in England and Wales is at its highest level on record, with a 5% rise last year to 349,296 reported incidents, those official figures do not reflect the value of goods stolen.
After losing £12,000 to theft last year, Coventry shopkeeper Paul Cheema told You and Yours he had resorted to desperate measures.
"One man took 32 packs of bacon and 20 packs of cheese," he said.
"So we put bicycle chains and doorbells on our fridges so every time a door opens an alarm sounds.
"We're also using social media to post pictures of suspects."
West Midlands Police told the BBC: "We take reports of shoplifting seriously and our figures show that we solve more than 50% of reported incidents in Coventry."
But Mr Cheema claims the police lack the resources to deal with the problem.
Some 71% of retailers surveyed by the ACS also said they were dissatisfied with the response of police to reports of theft.
"These guys have got inner coats and inner pockets, they do what they need to do," said Mr Cheema.
"There's a bigger picture behind this. They are not just nicking this amount of food to eat at home.
"Are the police to blame? There's only a few officers for the whole of this area. The government needs to do more to support local businesses."
ACS Chief Executive James Lowman shares the concerns of his members.
"Police forces are de-prioritising shop theft as they have so many other challenges. We think that's the wrong priority.
"Shop theft, for the most part, is either part of organised crime or due to alcohol and drug addiction. That's why it's really important that police do intervene."
The National Police Chiefs' Council defended its members' record on crime and urged shop owners to do more.
"We recognise the importance of listening to all businesses," the council's lead for business and retail crime, Craig Mackey, told You and Yours.
"A new National Business Crime Reduction Hub will work closely with all forces and businesses to reduce crime.
"We encourage all businesses to sign up to the their local policing Twitter accounts," he added.
The Home Office said it was also working with retailers to tackle the problem.
"Retail crime harms businesses, consumers and communities and has no place in a Britain that works for everyone," a spokesman said.
He added: "It is for individual forces to decide how to allocate resources."
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Father-to-be Dean Clay, from Chandler's Ford, put on an accumulator bet and correctly predicted the outcome of 14 games over the weekend.
His win rested on a draw between Burnley and West Bromwich Albion, which came in while he was playing golf.
"I was on the 14th fairway when I heard a little bleep and saw it was 2-2 and about 20 minutes to go. My head went into a bit of a mush after that."
Thirteen of the games had been played on Saturday, but the decider was played on Sunday.
The 48-year-old Chelsea fan went to play golf as he was too nervous to watch the game.
"I played quite nicely at the start," he said, "but I was getting some updates.
"When it went to 2-0 to Burnley I thought 'well that's that then'.
"Then I saw West Brom had equalised right on half time."
After news of the draw Mr Clay, 48, left his phone in his bag.
"I just couldn't look at it anymore as it was injury time at that point."
He was on the 16th green when some friends who were aware of his bet "came rushing over jumping up and down".
He said: "Then I realised I'd won."
He went to the clubhouse where he needed a "stiff drink and a sit down".
He thought he had won £69,882 but when he walked into the betting shop on Monday he was told he had also won a bonus, making his total winnings £92,944.
"It's lucky that my wife and I were standing near the counter," he said, "as I think we both would have hit the deck at that point."
The Clays have a baby due in July and are in the process of buying a new home.
Mr Clay said: "The timing couldn't be a lot better."
East Lindsey District Council is building four new huts near Queen's Garden Square in Mablethorpe.
It is also removing 15 chalets on the South Promenade which are in poor condition and selling off the plots to the public with a 20-year lease.
All other council-owned beach huts in the town will be repainted.
The scheme was approved by the district council's planning committee.
Councillor Craig Leyland, portfolio holder for the economy, said: "Beach huts remain an important part of the seaside experience on our coast and the investment we're making in the new huts will mean they remain so for many years to come."
Osman Ali, 24, of Corbett Street, has been charged with six counts of raping a child under 13.
His arrest came after a report of child sexual exploitation was made on Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police said.
Mr Ali has been remanded into police custody and is due to appear before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court later.
The Indomitable Lions took the lead at the end of the first half when Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa scored his first international goal.
Australia's captain Mark Milligan equalised from the penalty spot in the 60th minute after Alex Gersbach was brought down inside the box.
The draw makes it very unlikely that the African champions will progress to the next round.
They face Germany in their final group game in Sochi on Sunday while Australia play Chile at the same time in Moscow.
The Cameroonians have to beat the reigning world champions and hope other results go their way.
The Daily Mirror reported how a hacker demanded money in return for not publishing hacked emails between Beckham and PR adviser Simon Oliveira. Police are investigating.
The details of the emails have since been published by the British press.
A spokesman for ex-England captain Beckham, 41, said the emails were "hacked", "doctored" and "private".
The hacker is understood to be from Eastern Europe or one of the former Soviet republics.
Through a lawyer, the hacker approached Doyen Sports, which is based in Portugal and is a sister company of Doyen Global, the sports and entertainment agency co-founded by Mr Oliveira.
Doyen Sports was given a clear indication that the individual had hacked "other sports agencies and sport accountancy firms".
Those close to Beckham, the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star, said the individual was connected to the website Football Leaks - the sporting equivalent of whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.
Doyen Sports refused to pay and informed Portuguese police, who opened an investigation into the matter early last year.
Police in Portugal have confirmed to the BBC they are investigating a case related to Football Leaks.
It is understood the hacker passed his material to European Investigative Collaborations, a network of journalists, who spent several months digesting it, before distributing it to several European websites last week.
Tony Gallagher, editor-in-chief of the Sun newspaper, came across the allegations about Beckham last Friday evening on social media.
The newspaper printed the details of the emails on Saturday.
Emails Beckham had allegedly written appeared to reveal his frustration at missing out on a knighthood in 2013 and his irritation that other celebrities had received honours.
One allegedly said: "It is a disgrace to be honest and if I was American I would of got something like this 10 years ago."
There were also financial details of his work with the children's charity Unicef, of which he is an ambassador.
Beckham has not commented personally, but a spokesman for the star said: "This story is based on outdated material taken out of context."
Unicef said it could not comment on the emails, but in a statement said: "As well as generously giving his time, energy and support to help raise awareness and funds for Unicef's work for children, David has given significant funds personally."
The remains of Sgt David Harness Blakey, along with those of two others who have not been identified, were found in Thiepval in November 2013.
Sgt Blakey, from Gateshead, who served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was 26 when he died on 1 July, 1916.
He was reburied, alongside the other two, at Connaught Cemetery in Thiepval.
The first day of the World War One battle was the bloodiest in the history of the British Army, with 20,000 men killed and 40,000 captured or wounded.
Following the discovery of the remains during a road-widening project, Sgt Blakey was identified via a home-made metal identity tag.
It is rare for fallen WWI soldiers to be identified from their tags, as they were commonly made from paper or compressed fibres, which rapidly decomposed.
Sgt Blakey is only the fifth in 10 years to be named using personal items.
The married father-of-three was born in Gateshead and became a miner before he enlisted in January 1915.
He rose to the rank of Sergeant and was serving with D Company, 11th Battalion, when he died, along with scores of others at the edge of Thiepval Wood.
In December 1916 he was awarded the Military Medal for "bravery in the field".
Following an appeal for family members, three generations of them attended the reburial.
Great-granddaughter Jackie Coleman said: "David's memory has been kept alive in our family since he went missing.
"This is a very special and fitting end to our search for him and one we will always treasure."
The two unknown soldiers, one from the Royal Irish Rifles and another from the Cambridgeshire Regiment, were also reburied.
It follows Friday's ransomware attack on NHS computers which affected 13 health bodies in Scotland.
There are fears of more cyber attacks as people begin work after the weekend, although few have been reported so far.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that patient confidentiality had not been affected.
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme she said she expected computer networks "by and large" to be up and running on Monday morning, but urged organisations to follow government guidance and take appropriate security steps.
"The Scottish government has been coordinating a process over the weekend of contacting round about 120 public sector organisations to make sure that these messages have got out there strongly, but obviously private sector companies are potentially vulnerable as well," the first minister said.
"I think there is a concern that as people switch on their computers on a Monday morning we may see more impact from this virus, but we will be continuing to work as hard as we can to minimise that."
Across Scotland, the security breach disrupted GP surgeries, dental practices and other primary care centres.
Eleven area health boards were affected, as were NHS National Services and the Scottish Ambulance Service.
The impact of the breach was especially felt in NHS Lanarkshire, where doctors at acute hospital sites had to rely on pen and paper to process some patients.
The virus is known as Wanna Decryptor or WannaCry. It locks users' files and demands a $300 (£230) payment to allow access.
Ms Sturgeon said no patient data had been lost in the ransomware attack.
"One thing that is very important to stress is that there is no evidence that there has been any patient data compromised, so patient confidentiality hasn't been affected, but of course there will have been an impact on patients with some appointments cancelled," she said.
An investigation is under way to identify the cause of the attack and ministers are to convene an extraordinary meeting of the National Cyber Resilience leaders' board on Tuesday to review the response to the breach.
Ms Sturgeon said she was not aware of any ransoms being paid over the cyber attack but said that will be part of the police investigation.
A "range" of Windows operation systems are used by the NHS in Scotland and Ms Sturgeon said there is regular investment in cyber security.
She added: "We invest heavily in cyber resistance. The Scottish Government, in the NHS, invests round about £100m a year. NHS boards will collectively invest a similar amount.
"We expect systems, by and large, to be up and running today, obviously there will be ongoing work to learn lessons about what has happened."
Microsoft has said the cyber-attack - which has hit 150 countries since Friday - should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake-up call".
It blamed governments for storing data on software vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers.
Some impact from Friday's attacks was still being felt on Monday morning.
The Scottish Prison Service said its email systems and website were down for a period of time as work was carried out to make them safe. They were later restored.
In the Borders, services at Hawick Health Centre were affected for a short time but are now running as normal.
NHS Highlands urged patients to attend appointments as planned. Problems with the radiology system in the Western Isles was affecting staff's ability to share images with mainland health boards.
GPs in the NHS Tayside area were among those hit by problems on Friday.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, Dr Andrew Cowie from Hawkhill Medical Centre in Dundee, said: "They haven't got everything up and running yet, so it's going to be a bit of a difficult day.
"Incredibly, the NHS Tayside engineers have been in here for more than 20 hours over the weekend.
"We've lost all the data from Friday because we've gone back to the back-up on Thursday night, but we're able to see patients perfectly normally this morning."
Prof Bill Buchanan, an expert on computer security and cybercrime from Edinburgh Napier University, has warned that more investment is needed to stop systems being vulnerable to future attacks.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "It is a large and complex infrastructure in the NHS and it is very difficult to defend.
"But really we need to start to invest in proper cloud-based systems which can lock down every computer that connects into the main network.
"We now have to realise that we have critical industries such as energy, transport, education, and they need to be as robust as anything you would find in the finance sector."
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The Scottish government, Police Scotland and Rape Crisis Scotland have launched a public awareness campaign on the way people behave during rape.
"I Just Froze" aims to educate those who will sit on juries in rape cases to give a better understanding of the way victims may act.
The Audi trio led the championship going into the penultimate race of the series in China, where third place was enough to secure the title.
It is 43-year-old McNish's first world title in his 25-year career.
"I've been waiting on this since 1985," said McNish. "I feel massively proud of what we've achieved this year."
The Dumfries driver is now the first British sports car world champion since Derek Warwick won the title in 1992.
I had three cracks at a world championship in karting, finishing third once, and that one hurt because I was close but no cigar. To finally crack it, it's third time lucky
Reigning champions Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer, the only team that could deny them the title, finished first in Shanghai in the other Audi.
But McNish, Kristensen, from Denmark, and Frenchman Duval had a 40.75-point lead going into the race, with only 52 points available in the final two legs of the series.
The Toyota of Nicolas Lapierre and Alexander Wurz, who had started first on the grid, came second.
McNish and his team-mates had qualified fourth but did enough to secure the title.
They have won three races in their R18 e-tron quattro - including Le Mans - and been runner-up on three occasions in the seven events so far.
"I had three cracks at a world championship in karting, finishing third once, and that one hurt because I was close but no cigar," said McNish.
"In Formula One, there wasn't really an opportunity, so to finally crack it, it's third time lucky.
"We came out of the blocks fighting at Silverstone and we had a really good run, especially at the Circuit of the Americas, which was a turning point for us because it allowed us to come here and drive a very conservative race.
"But right now, I've a massive warm feeling inside - and a very wet backside because of Mr Wurz pouring champagne down my back."
Toyota duo Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre, who had appeared for some time as if they would win the race, were forced to settle for second by 16 seconds to Fassler, Lotterer and Treluyer.
McNish and his crew would have finished fourth but for the second Toyota, driven by Anthony Davidson, Sebastian Buemi and Stephane Sarrazin, retiring from the lead in the penultimate hour when a bolt in the right-front suspension sheered.
Officers have identified the girl, found at Orrell Water Park in Wigan early on Saturday, as Ellen Higginbottom.
She had been reported missing on Friday after she failed to return home from Winstanley College, where she studied.
Greater Manchester Police said some of Ellen's friends had told them she had been last seen at the nature reserve.
Police said a post-mortem test concluded her death was caused by "multiple wounds to the neck".
Her disappearance was "extremely out of character", police have said.
Det Supt Howard Millington appealed for information, saying: "We have a clearer picture of what may have happened to Ellen, but we are still piecing together her exact movements in the lead-up to her death.
"Someone out there knows who did this, or they know it was them, and we will not stop until we find them and bring them to justice."
Police previously said there was a report two young women were followed by two men in the area on Thursday.
"Attacks of this severity are thankfully incredibly rare, but that in itself makes this all the more shocking," said Det Supt Millington, adding that "things like this don't happen in Orrell".
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George North's try and five Leigh Halfpenny penalties gave Wales a handy 20-6 half-time lead, with Jean-Marc Doussain and Jules Plisson replying for France.
The second half was more closely fought but Louis Picamoles' sin-binning proved costly for France.
Soon after, Wales captain Sam Warburton stretched out an arm to score and seal victory for the defending champions.
Wales coach Warren Gatland had been so infuriated by their 26-3 loss in Ireland he had warned his players that some might be playing their last Test if they underperformed again.
But they responded magnificently, especially the two veterans at prop, Adam Jones and Gethin Jenkins - named man of the match, who scrummaged like demons against a hefty French front row.
If England can do Wales a favour by ending Ireland's unbeaten run on Saturday, the defending champions know they will travel to Twickenham in the next round with their fate still in their own hands.
Wales had suffered a setback before kick-off with lock Alun Wyn Jones, who captained the British and Irish Lions to victory in the third Test against Australia last summer, pulling out with a foot infection.
Wales were already without Jones's fellow Lion Jonathan Davies and Scott Williams, both centres, which saw North switched from wing to midfield.
But the biggest change by Gatland had been the decision to relegate 82-cap Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips to the bench in favour of Rhys Webb, winning his fifth cap.
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While Gatland's side had won the previous two meetings between the sides, Wales had not won three in a row against Les Bleus since 1970-72 meaning the current crop have now equalled another record of that great side.
If Wales had any pre-match nerves, Halfpenny settled them with an early penalty before the full-back chipped ahead for North to score a try.
France full-back Brice Dulin got there just ahead of the Welshman, but was accidentally clattered by Doussain and the ball went loose for North to pounce.
Halfpenny missed the conversion but made amends with four more penalties before the break.
Doussain replied with one of his own but missed a sitter in front of the posts, so fly-half Plisson took over the kicking duties to add a second French penalty.
France were unlucky not to have claimed a try when Pascal Pape was up quickly on Rhys Priestland, but the ball went forward off his arm as he tackled the Wales fly-half.
Yannick Nyanga gathered the loose ball and sent it on to Yoann Huget, who skipped around Jamie Roberts to touch down only to be called back.
France coach Philippe Saint-Andre responded to the one-sided first half by replacing the misfiring Doussain with Maxime Machenaud at half-time.
Plisson had a chance to reduce the deficit early in the second half but was wide with a long-range attempt at the posts.
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The visitors did improve, though, and only a last-ditch tackle by Priestland brought down Mathieu Bastareaud short of the line.
Referee Alain Rolland lost patience with the number of collapsed scrums and took the unusual step of sending a prop from each side to the sin-bin - Jenkins and Nicolas Mas.
When Picamoles infringed at a ruck nine minutes later, as well as getting involved in a scuffle with the Welsh pack, Rolland also brandished a yellow card at the France number eight.
Wales took immediate advantage as Roberts blasted through midfield, allowing Warburton to pick up from the ruck and stretch over.
Halfpenny added the conversion to seal victory and send Wales in good heart and good form towards what could be a crucial clash away to England on Sunday, 9 March.
Wales: Halfpenny, Cuthbert, North, Roberts, L. Williams, Priestland, Webb, Jenkins, Hibbard, A. Jones, Charteris, Ball, Lydiate, Warburton, Faletau. Replacements: Hook for Halfpenny (70), Biggar for Priestland (70), M. Phillips for Webb (70), James for Jenkins (70), Owens for Hibbard (56), R. Jones for A. Jones (70), Coombs for Ball (70), Tipuric for Lydiate (70).
Sin bin: Jenkins (50).
France: Dulin, Huget, Bastareaud, Fofana, Bonneval, Plisson, Doussain, Domingo, Szarzewski, Mas, Pape, Maestri, Nyanga, Lauret, Picamoles, Debaty. Replacements: Fickou for Bastareaud (70), Tales for Plisson (63), Machenaud for Doussain (41), Forestier for Domingo (63), Mach for Szarzewski (63), Vahaamahina for Maestri (63), Debaty for Nyanga (50), Chouly for Debaty (62).
Sin bin: Mas (50), Picamoles (62).
Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Touch judges: John Lacey (Ireland) & Dudley Phillips (Ireland)
TV: Graham Hughes (England)
Mark Lafferty, 53 and his partner Adeline Clark, 41, brandished a knife and forced their way into the house in Baillieston last December.
They robbed a woman of £35 - then made their way upstairs and repeatedly stabbed a man and his elderly father.
The pair claimed they were elsewhere at the time but were found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The injured men were able to flee the house in Loancroft Place.
Lafferty and Clark, from Barlanark in Glasgow's east end, were convicted of attempting to murder 71-year-old Dennis McCowan and his son, Mark, 46.
They were also convicted of assaulting Christine McCowan, 68.
In evidence Mr McCowan senior described seeing Lafferty standing over his son's bed with a blade above his head in the attic of his house, and threw him downstairs.
The retired garage owner was then attacked by Clark who stabbed him in the chest and demanded cash.
Mark McCowan said he would have been "chopped up" if his father had not intervened.
Lafferty was remanded in custody ahead of a full committal hearing next week, while Clark was granted bail.
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The carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and other Russian ships are passing through the English Channel on their way back to Russia from Syria.
A Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS St Albans, was dispatched to meet it as it neared British waters.
The Ministry of Defence said the ships would be "escorted all the way".
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "We will keep a close eye on the Admiral Kuznetsov as it skulks back to Russia; a ship of shame whose mission has only extended the suffering of the Syrian people.
"We are man-marking these vessels every step of the way around the UK as part of our steadfast commitment to keep Britain safe."
The Admiral Kuznetsov, the only carrier in the Russian navy, is being accompanied by a nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser - the Pyotr Velikiy, and a salvage tug.
The Kuznetsov carrier group passed through the Channel last autumn on its way to the Mediterranean.
It joined around 10 other ships off the coast of Syria during Russia's bombardment of what it said were anti-government rebels in Syria.
The Ministry of Defence said that at 12:30 BST on Wednesday, the returning Russian ships were off the coast of Dover.
A Navy spokesman said the British craft were deployed to "provide reassurance to the nations which border the North Sea and English Channel".
He added: "Remaining at a respectful distance, but keeping the Russian warships clearly visible, Royal Navy sailors keep watch on every movement through their binoculars and use state-of-the-art radars to track the course and speed of the ships as they pass close to the UK."
Commander Chris Ansell, the commanding officer of HMS St Albans, said the task demonstrated the navy's commitments to protecting the UK's waters.
He said: "As an island nation, the security of the seas around our coastline is vital and this sort of task is routine business for HMS St Albans and the Royal Navy, which stands ready at all times to protect UK territorial waters."
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Kyle McVey's superb 11th-minute volley put Carrick ahead only for Sammy Morrow to level the tie a minute later.
Steven McCullough's deflected free-kick restored Carrick's lead before half-time and two second-half Declan 'Fabio' O'Brien goals sealed their victory.
O'Brien's second came from a penalty after Mark Scoltock's red card.
It was Institute's fourth successive defeat in the end-of-season play-off.
McVey hammered Carrick ahead with a magnificent left-foot volley from the edge of the area but Michael McCrudden set up Morrow to level with a close-range finish within a minute.
Carrick were ahead again on 25 minutes as McCullough's free-kick clipped Institute's defensive wall and looped past keeper Marty Gallagher.
Rangers keeper Brian Neeson kept his side ahead with a superb stop to deny Niall Grace just before the interval.
Grace went close again as he headed just over the crossbar following the resumption but as Carrick began to take control, McCullough clipped the Institute woodwork before O'Brien cut inside from the left touchline and unleashed a delightful curling shot past Gallagher from 25 yards on 72 minutes.
The game was up for Stute six minutes from time when O'Brien cheekily chipped a penalty to the net after Scoltock had been sent off for hauling down the Dubliner.
I was most definitely not in France, although I could see it off in the distance, across the English Channel, and was clearly close enough to pick up its mobile signals.
Instead I, along with dozens of reporters and camera operators, was milling around a parking lot at the base of the white cliffs of Dover, waiting for UK Independence Party head Nigel Farage to arrive.
That this was the location Mr Farage chose to give a speech on his party's immigration policy was by no means an accident. The famed cliffs, towering over the coastline of the region, were labelled England's "glittering breastplate" by British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy - a majestic barrier protecting the islands at their closest point to the European mainland.
Now, Mr Farage says, that barrier has been breached - and his country is being overrun by a flood of unassimilated new arrivals.
As any veteran of American-style politics knows, good visuals and a compelling narrative are as important to a campaign event as what a candidate actually, you know, says.
Ever since the days of Ronald Reagan, political advance teams and consultants in the US have obsessed over how their events are stage-managed - the backdrop, the imagery, the process, every minute detail.
For Mr Farage, the setting could not have been better. The execution, however, was decidedly low-tech - quaint even, by American standards. Mr Farage strode out of his car at 11:00 and stood in front of a line of placard-carrying supporters, as a cover was pulled to reveal a lorry-sized campaign poster on the immigration issue.
The image was of those guardian cliffs, surmounted by giant escalators.
"Immigration is three times higher than what the Tories promised," the sign read. "UKIP: The only party you can trust to reduce immigration."
After the unveiling, Mr Farage gave a short speech.
"Immigration goes right to the heart of the public's disillusion with politics and politicians," he said. "It is all about trust."
He pledged that his party would bring about a "return to normality", setting a cap on immigration to the UK at 30,000 per year. (For the first nine months of 2014, that number topped 260,000.)
He accused Prime Minister David Cameron of falsely claiming the Conservative Party has an immigration policy. "To pretend they do is a wilful deceit," he said.
After Mr Farage's speech, I spoke with one of the placard-carrying entourage, Steve Heather, who is a resident of the nearby town of Deal. He said he had voted for both Labour and the Conservatives in the past, but has grown disillusioned with establishment positions on issues like immigration and membership in the European Union.
"It's the same old tired politics from the same old tired politicians," he said. "We need a message of change in this country, and I believe UKIP will do that."
Mr Farage must hope that there are more voters out there like Mr Heather - not only for the good of his party, but for his future as an elected politician.
Mr Farage himself is a candidate for office from the south-eastern coastal constituency of South Thanet. He pledges to resign from UKIP leadership if he loses. This marks the sixth time Mr Farage has run in a general election. In 2010 he garnered 17% of the vote in a race in Buckingham against the sitting speaker of the House of Commons. Five years earlier he tried in South Thanet and received just 5%.
His opponents this year are Conservative Craig Mackinlay, Liberal Democrat Russ Timpson and Labour's Will Scobie, who in a recent issue of the New Statesman says that UKIP is trying to gain a foothold in the more remote regions of the UK.
"If you look at the other UKIP target seats they are, more often than not, places cut off transport-wise, and serviced by rickety, unreliable and overpriced rail services," he writes. "Divisions - between Britain and Europe and between London and the rest of the country - are what UKIP thrive on."
This could be a defining election for Mr Farage's UKIP. Just last year, it received the most votes in the European Parliamentary elections - the first time in more than 100 years that a party other than the big two won the most seats in a British nation-wide election.
But can that support translate into gains where it counts, in the British Parliament?
UKIP is currently polling in the mid-teens, which puts it in a position to be a spoiler in many races but a favourite in few. The party needs to finish first in many of the constituencies it's targeting to have real power in Westminster.
This raises another interesting takeaway from Tuesday's seaside event. In the US, one of the roles of a presidential nominee is to boost the chances of down-ticket candidates running under the party's banner. The success of candidates is measured not just by their victory, but also by their congressional "coat-tails".
Tuesday's UKIP event was held in South Thanet's neighbouring Dover constituency, and its nominee, David Little, was in attendance.
Not once during his speech did Mr Farage mention his party's local candidate by name. When Mr Farage and Mr Little posed with the cliffs in the background, one photographer shouted "Just Nigel", and Mr Little dutifully stood aside.
After another round of photos and interviews, Mr Farage headed into a nearby restaurant, the Coastguard, where he ordered a coffee - not beer, despite his reputation as a dedicated drinker. The venue proved too small for the pack of media, leaving reporters crowed outside and television cameras pressed against the windows - the stuff that would cause an experienced American political advance team to break into a cold sweat.
After his refreshment, Mr Farage left the way he arrived - in the back of a black SUV, which began the curvy journey up from the shoreline.
Several moments later, Mr Little popped out of the restaurant and looked around.
"Is Nigel gone?" he asked.
Former Cardiff South and Penarth MP Alun Michael told BBC Wales he was one of the people who helped create modern Cardiff.
The Labour peer had also been chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control.
Its general secretary Robert Smith said Lord Brooks had saved the board from bankruptcy by relocating it from London to Cardiff after a costly legal battle.
Boxer Michael Watson won damages of £400,000 after suing the board for negligence over brain injuries he suffered in a fight with Chris Eubank in 1991.
Mr Smith said Lord Brooks was "a great boxing man and a great person" who would be sadly missed in the sport.
The former council leader had also been the agent for former Prime Minister James Callaghan, who had been a Cardiff MP.
Mr Michael, now South Wales police and crime commissioner, said: "Jack Brooks played a key role in developing Cardiff into the real capital city that it genuinely is nowadays."
He said he had been "driven by wanting this to be a city in which people could be respected, could have an opportunity of having a career and a job and a way in life".
The stations include Okehampton, Heavitree Road in Exeter, St Ives and Bude.
A senior officer told BBC News it was a "grave threat to community-based policing".
The force's annual budget of £284m is expected to be cut by £54m over the next five years.
The unnamed officer said: "This a grave threat to community-based policing that is bound to badly damage our engagement with neighbourhoods as we lose some of our most visible presence."
Andrew White, chief executive for the police and crime commissioner, said: "Both the commissioner and chief constable are clear - given the choice they always prefer to spend money on police officers rather than bricks and mortar.
"For some months we have been considering how best to reduce our estate, to reduce costs and create income whilst still maintaining an effective base for operational policing."
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner said none of the sites were currently open to the public and the closures or lease surrenders would make revenue savings of at least £1.053m a year.
Analysis: Simon Hall, BBC South West home affairs correspondent
These would be dramatic cuts and sweep away many decades of policing presence in Devon and Cornwall.
What is proposed illustrates the pressures on senior officers as they attempt to deal with unprecedented cuts to their budgets.
This was the decision no-one wanted to take, but ultimately the commanders felt they had no option.
Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer said: "As a force we face challenging budget reductions set by the government and the subsequent need to reduce our workforce.
"It is only right that we review our estates and only keep those buildings that are not in need of significant modernisation and those needed to ensure we can continue to deliver a professional police service.
"We are not removing ourselves from our communities, we are being more efficient and organised around where we base our people to ensure we continue to deliver the best service we can."
The force, which covers the largest geographical police area in England, is expected to lose another 500 officers due to the cuts, which would see numbers reduced to 2,500 - down from 3,500 in 2010.
Devon and Cornwall Police will shortly begin a public consultation on what areas of policing should be cut.
The details of the force's spending reductions will be revealed in the days after the Comprehensive Spending Review at the end of November.
His position will also be backed by Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls and Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.
The Scottish government wants to keep the pound in a currency union if there is a referendum "Yes" vote.
SNP ministers said the Westminster parties were bullying Scotland.
Mr Osborne will set out his detailed position this week, with Mr Balls and Mr Alexander expected to follow in the days to come.
Deputy Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the UK government's position did not bear scrutiny, adding that failure to do a deal on the currency in the event of a "Yes" vote in the 18 September referendum could leave Westminster with all UK debt.
Meanwhile, Alistair Darling, leader of the Better Together campaign to keep the Union, accused the Scottish government of making a "reckless threat".
The Scottish government has set out a plan to retain the pound and the services of the Bank of England, in the event of a "Yes" vote, which it said would be in the best interests of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Until now, Mr Osborne has said such an agreement would be "unlikely", but a formal ruling out of such a move would pile huge pressure on the Scottish government's currency plan, said BBC political correspondent Tim Reid.
Answering questions at a Downing Street news conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister David Cameron, said: ''I think it would be very difficult to justify a currency union post-independence."
Ms Sturgeon told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the UK government had given its clearest sign yet that it was losing the argument.
"We've gone, in under a week, from David Cameron's love bombing, back to bullying and intimidation," she said.
By Tim ReidPolitical correspondent, BBC News
George Osborne has suggested that a currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK is highly unlikely.
But I understand he is going to go further this week, suggesting that a formal currency union with the rest of the UK will be ruled out.
That is a hugely significant point in the referendum campaign for both sides, because the currency of a new independent Scotland - should voters vote that way in the referendum - would be fundamental, arguably one of the biggest decisions a government could take.
If the UK government is ruling out that formal currency union, the possibility of the SNP carrying on the next seven months saying that it will have that currency union seems a pretty difficult case for it to make.
The Scottish government has described this as a bullying attempt by the Westminster establishment and First Minister Alex Salmond has already claimed that the former Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, suggested that what the UK government says now and what it says after a referendum may be two different things.
One other question that arises is that the Scottish government has suggested previously that if Scotland were not allowed to go into that formal currency union, it may not pay its share of the UK's debt.
That would make it a difficult proposition for the UK government as well.
"It is a bluff, because if this was to be the position of the Westminster government then it would put them in a position that's at odds with majority public opinion in Scotland, it would put them at odds with majority public opinion in England.
"It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments and it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt."
The Scottish government has said Scotland should meet a fair share of the cost of servicing UK Treasury debt, but that "assets and liabilities" went together.
Ms Sturgeon said that, no matter what Westminster said now, the reality would be very different if Scotland voted "Yes".
Responding to the comments, Mr Darling said: "The nationalist threat to default on debt if they don't get their way on currency is reckless.
"The impact of Alex Salmond's default would be to say to the world that we cannot be trusted to honour our debts. The result would be higher interest rates for Scots on mortgages and credit cards."
The former UK chancellor added: "One thing is certain - the only way to guarantee to keep the UK pound as our currency is to vote to keep Scotland a strong part of the UK."
Scottish economic commentator Bill Jamieson said Mr Osborne's intervention raised a series of questions, including whether it was within the chancellor's gift to make such a ruling.
He said: "This is a very fluid situation with a UK general election coming up next year and I would suspect that any decision on currency sharing would be a matter for the Westminster parliament, rather than a Conservative or coalition chancellor."
The referendum will see voters in Scotland asked the Yes/No question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
The bid to combine Bouygues Telecom and Vivendi-owned SFR would create the largest mobile phone service provider in France.
The merger would leave only three mobile phone companies in France.
Rival firm Altice, which owns French cable TV operator Numericable, has also made an offer for SFR, but has not said how much it has offered.
Bouygues Telecom and SFR are France's second and third largest mobile phone companies. Their merger would mean they would overtake Orange to become the largest mobile phone company in France.
Before the deal can go ahead, competition regulators in both France and the European Union will need to approve it. A similar offer by Telefonica for E-Plus in Germany has already raised competition questions in Brussels.
Industry analysts said the Bouygues offer reflected a broader trend of consolidation among mobile phone operators on the European continent.
There are currently 150 mobile phone companies across Europe. In the United States, there are just four.
French mobile phone customers have benefited from lower prices since the arrival of mobile operator Free Mobile into the market seven years ago.
But market analysts said price cuts were all but certain to come to an end if the Bouygues takeover went ahead. They added this could cause the government to think twice about letting the SFR deal go through.
Bouygues said the deal would help it invest in infrastructure and protect jobs, helping to boost the ailing French economy.
"They're very much positioning it as the benefits this would bring in terms of the economy and jobs," said Kester Mann, an analyst at CCS Insight.
Dario Talmesia, principal analyst at Informa Telecomes and Media, added Vivendi would view the offer from Bouygues as "the most appealing one", but added: "The safest one is Altice."
He added: "What's happening in Germany can be a good indicator of what can be happening in France and the rest of Europe."
Laurence Perry, 76, of Wistaston, said Cheshire East Council told him to remove the ornament within seven days.
Mr Perry, who said the gnome's bottom "lights up" at night, added: "I've not told him... I don't want to upset him."
The council said such objects "could easily" distract motorists, as first reported by the Nantwich News.
It said it had received a complaint and while the authority did "not wish to spoil people's fun", there was "a safety issue here".
The gnome, which was placed at the junction by Westfield Drive, was bought for Mr Perry for Father's Day.
He said he thought most people were "very appreciative" of the work of a group of volunteers, but "one or two people... take exception to what we do".
Green-fingered Mr Perry added: "I shall probably remove him on Friday because that's when his seven days are up.
"But I want to find him a little home on my gatepost at home, so I'm sure he'll like that."
Mr Perry said he would not fight the council's decision.
"I've been in business all my life... and you come across these things and you just let it go over your head in the end, so it doesn't upset me," he added.
Cheshire East Council said "such objects could easily cause a distraction to motorists and other road users, leading to an accident".
A spokesman added: "We received a complaint about these ornaments which, while seemingly harmless, are designed to attract attention and light up at night.
"Therefore, we have to take steps to have them removed in the interests of road safety and the safety of pedestrians."
It was reported that two flags were removed from the hall on the Brookmount Road some time between 01:00 and 09:00 BST on Saturday.
Police said it was the latest in a number of incidents where flags have been stolen from the hall.
They are treating it as a hate crime and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
They were detained in an industrial zone. A further 154 Central Asians were arrested in a separate raid, Russian media report.
Russia increasingly relies on cheap labour from Central Asia, where many families depend on migrant earners.
But the issue of migration has fuelled social tensions.
Of the 236 people detained on Dorozhnaya Street, 100 were found to have illegal status, a Russian migration official later told Interfax news agency.
Among items confiscated during the raid were an improvised pistol, five cartridges, two daggers and what appeared to be two stolen cars. Police also said they had discovered an illegal cafe at the site.
The 154 Central Asians detained on Lyublinskaya Street, in the south-east of the city, were found in an abandoned building, police told Interfax, without giving details.
Millions of Uzbeks, Tajiks and Kyrgyz people have migrated to Moscow and other parts of Russia in recent years, in search of work.
Often poorly paid and badly housed, they are predominantly Muslim, creating tensions with central Russia's mainly Orthodox Christian population, and they frequently face discrimination. Moscow's lack of mosque space is a particular sore point.
Russian officials have also voiced concern about the involvement of migrants in crime, such as the trafficking of heroin from Tajikistan. On Wednesday, 80kg of what appeared to be heroin were found aboard a train travelling from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, to Moscow, Russian police said.
Nick Jones, 42, had been working on his Audi outside his home in Sandy Lane, Addington, on Friday, Kent Police said.
Keira Hammond, who found him when she returned home, said Mr Jones was happiest when working on his car.
Emergency services tried to revive him, but he was declared dead at the scene.
Ms Hammond said she called out to her partner.
"He didn't answer and that was when I realised the car was on top of him," she said.
"I ran and tried to lift up the car and obviously I couldn't and I tried to use the jack, but I couldn't get it work."
She said Mr Jones was a "heath and safety professional who was so safe with his car".
"He wouldn't have cut corners," she said.
"We are all in absolute shock."
Mr Jones, who worked as a process safety engineer at ADM in Erith, was a skilled mechanic, said Ms Hammond.
His death is not being treated as suspicious, a police spokesman said.
Arrests for sexual offences on the network have also increased by 36% since 2015.
The "Report it to stop it" campaign has been re-launched as police estimate 90% of people still do not report offences.
The Mayor of London encouraged Londoners "to speak up and report unwanted sexual behaviour".
New figures released by Transport for London (TfL) show annual reports of sexual offences have doubled from 1,023 to 2,087 in 2015/16 after the project began.
Siwan Hayward, TfL's Head of Transport Policing, said: "Our new 'Report it to Stop it' film builds on our previous campaign's success and encourages victims to come forward and report anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.
"No matter how insignificant they feel it may be, every report is taken extremely seriously by police and investigated so the offender can be caught and brought to justice."
More than 250 indigenous leaders met in Uluru to discuss how to best recognise Australia's first inhabitants.
Crucially, they rejected the idea of constitutional recognition - an idea that was criticised as merely symbolic.
Instead the delegates called for a constitutionally enshrined "voice" in parliament and a path to a treaty.
The statement - called the Uluru Statement from the Heart - came after three days of talks at the First Nations Convention.
"Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people," it said.
"Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future," it said.
"We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish."
The convention said it would only accept "substantive constitutional change and structural reform" that was not simply a statement of acknowledgment.
"It will have a more practical impact on Aboriginal people's place in the democracy," Cape York leader Noel Pearson told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The statement called for a treaty and said a commission should be established to supervise the process and engage in "truth-telling about our history".
Australia is the only Commonwealth country that has never signed a treaty with its indigenous people.
The recommendations will be delivered to Australia's political leaders, who will decide whether to hold a national referendum. Mr Pearson said he hoped the referendum could take place within the next 12 months.
The summit was scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of a historic vote that allowed indigenous Australians to be included in a national census.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten declined invitations to the meeting, not wanting to influence discussions.
Tasmanian delegate Michael Mansell said he hoped the process would help end indigenous disadvantage in areas such as imprisonment, employment and education.
"Hopefully in the next 10 years things can turn around for the better," he told the BBC.
On Thursday, seven delegates from the states of Victoria and New South Wales abandoned the summit over fears it was focusing too much on constitutional recognition.
"We as sovereign First Nations people reject constitutional recognition," Victorian delegate Lydia Thorpe told reporters.
"We do not recognise occupying power or their sovereignty, because it serves to disempower, and takes away our voice."
Ulster led for most of the match after Andrew Trimble's 21st-minute try.
But Sebastien Taofifenua battled over to edge the French club ahead eight minutes from the end.
Ulster conceded a penalty try, with Sean Reidy sin-binned for tackling a man without the ball, before winger Blair Connor got the third score.
The pressure will now be on Ulster to beat Exeter in their next Pool 5 fixture on Saturday as another defeat would effectively end their hopes to making the quarter-finals.
They were under considerable pressure in the early stages and trailed to an early Ian Madigan penalty.
But skipper Trimble found a great angle to take Ruan Pienaar's pass and charge through for the opening try midway through the first half.
Jackson converted and added a penalty to give Ulster a 10-3 interval advantage.
Madigan reduced the gap with a second penalty early in the second half and Lionel Beauxis and Jackson traded kicks to leave Ulster 13-9 up.
That is how it stayed until the 73rd minute when a home penalty into the corner set up a five-metre line-out and Taofifenua scored from the driving maul.
Bordeaux were then awarded a penalty try when Reidy's early tackle denied replacement scrum-half Baptiste Serin a score and Beauxis slotted the conversion.
At 21-13 down, Ulster declined a kick at goal when a penalty might have earned them a losing bonus point.
And, to rub salt in their wounds, Brisbane-born winger Connor broke away for the home side's third try seconds before the final whistle.
Ulster's Operations Director Bryn Cunningham: "I am stunned at the moment as at half-time I thought we were in the driving seat. We should have been more out of sight.
"The second half was noting short of atrocious. I am absolutely gobsmacked at how we played to be honest."
Bordeaux-Begles: J Buttin; A Ashley-Cooper, J Dubié, R Lonca, B Connor; I Madigan, Y Lesgourgues; J Poirot, C Maynadier, V Cobilas, J Marais, C Cazeaux, L Jones, H Chalmers, L Goujon.
Replacements: O Avei, S Taofifenua, M Clerc, T Palmer, M Tauleigne, B Serin, L Beauxis, M Talebulamaijaina.
Ulster: J Payne; A Trimble (capt), L Marshall, S Olding, C Gilroy; P Jackson, R Pienaar; A Warwick, R Best, A Ah You, A O'Connor, F van der Merwe, I Henderson, C Ross, S Reidy.
Replacements: R Herring, K McCall, R Kane, P Browne, R Wilson, P Marshall, J Stockdale, R Lyttle.
Gayle flicked in the opener after fine play from Matt Ritchie on the break.
Burton quickly levelled when Lloyd Dyer slotted in Jackson Irvine's cross.
But Diame showed great strength to go through on goal and coolly slot the away side's second, and the Magpies just about edged a calmer second half.
Ritchie and Gayle both missed decent chances to extend Newcastle's lead, while Lucas Akins did blaze a great chance over the bar for the Brewers, who also had a late spell of pressure.
But Newcastle, who move four points clear of second-placed Brighton prior to the Seagulls' evening kick-off against Birmingham, had their extra quality up front to thank for their victory.
The Brewers had a daunting task trying to contain the team with the best away defence, best away points tally and most goals scored on the road.
They were unfortunate to trail at the break, and could easily have been ahead had Magpies defender Paul Dummett not made a wonderful last-ditch clearance.
But ultimately, with Jonjo Shelvey dictating play from midfield, Newcastle's extra quality told in the final third to ensure the hosts remain in 21st position, having one just once in their last eight league matches.
Burton boss Nigel Clough:
"A couple of errors in the lead-up to their goals has cost us, but apart from that I thought our lads were outstanding today, in everything that they did.
"Their effort and honesty shines through to us, but alongside that today they played with quality.
"We have put two great performances together in the last four days and got no points, and I think that will change in the second half of the season."
Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez told BBC Newcastle:
"We have shown the team is strong enough and showed that we have confidence in ourselves. This is really good for the future.
"Now, we enjoy Christmas, our fans will be happy and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I'm really pleased, they can spend time with their families and watch the table and enjoy."
Match ends, Burton Albion 1, Newcastle United 2.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 1, Newcastle United 2.
Attempt missed. Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Tom Naylor following a corner.
Attempt missed. Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jamie Ward with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Jamaal Lascelles.
Attempt saved. Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lloyd Dyer.
Attempt saved. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Burton Albion. Will Miller replaces Matthew Palmer.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Yoan Gouffran replaces Matt Ritchie.
Offside, Newcastle United. Isaac Hayden tries a through ball, but Mohamed Diamé is caught offside.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Kyle McFadzean.
Attempt missed. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Chris O'Grady with a headed pass.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Jamie Ward replaces Lucas Akins.
Attempt missed. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Chris O'Grady.
Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Jamaal Lascelles.
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by DeAndre Yedlin.
Attempt blocked. Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United).
Foul by John Brayford (Burton Albion).
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Second Half begins Burton Albion 1, Newcastle United 2.
This month the NFL and RFU unveiled a partnership for the home of English rugby to stage at least three regular-season games over a three-year period.
The Rams will play the first of those against opponents yet to be decided.
Also as part of the 2016 International Series, the Jacksonville Jaguars will return to London for a fourth consecutive year to play at Wembley.
The NFL's scheduling formula will see St Louis face the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants or Washington at Twickenham in south-west London.
At the national stadium in the north-west of the capital, the Jaguars will face Indianapolis Colts on 2 October, and Wembley will also be the venue for the Cincinnati Bengals' first game in London, against the Washington Redskins on 30 October.
Wembley hosted three NFL matches during 2015, with October's fixture between the Buffalo Bills and the Jaguars played in front of an 84,021 crowd.
London will also play host to regular-season games at Tottenham's new stadium from 2018.
Fans have been gathering outside the singer's London and Oxfordshire homes following his death on Christmas Day.
Amid the tributes, tales of his philanthropy have emerged - including how he funded a couple's IVF treatment.
The 53-year-old's publicist thanked "those who, rightly, have chosen to celebrate his life and legacy."
Michael secretly paid £15,000 for a stranger's IVF treatment, former Deal or No Deal producer Richard Osman revealed.
Osman, who now co-presents Pointless, tweeted: "A woman on 'Deal Or No Deal' told us she needed £15k for IVF treatment.
"George Michael secretly phoned the next day and gave her the £15k."
There was "no more fitting tribute than the many, many kind words that have been said", Michael's publicist said.
Other stories of the star's benevolence, including a £50,000 Sport Relief donation, have emerged on social media.
In a string of tweets celebrating the singer's music and humour, comedian and author David Walliams said the star had supported his 2006 cross-Channel swim to the tune of £50,000.
The woman who received IVF treatment was later named as Lynette Gillard, 38, from Bolton, whose partner Steve Davies had appeared on Deal or No Deal in 2008.
She told the Telegraph: "For many years I wondered who would have been so generous and now I know. What more can I say other than 'Thank you George'."
At the time, Mr Davies had told the Manchester Evening News: "Thank you is not enough. It restores your faith in humankind.
"All the bad news you read about and then something like this happens."
Michael's donations ranged in scope from major charities and appeals to individual acts of kindness.
The proceeds from sales of Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, his 1991 live duet with Sir Elton John, were donated to HIV and children's charities, including the Terence Higgins Trust.
It tweeted: "Thank you to George Michael for all he did for the LGBT community and to educate about HIV. RIP George."
Wham! royalties from Last Christmas went to Ethiopian famine relief efforts, while the founder of the children's helpline charity Childline, Dame Esther Rantzen, said Michael had donated royalties from the song Jesus to a Child to the cause.
"He really wanted to keep his help secret, it was an intensely personal gift," Dame Esther told BBC News.
"It meant we could answer more children."
She said Michael, who donated about £2m to Childline over the years, "completely understood" the importance of helping children.
Children's charities were also at the fore when he donated each year to Capital Radio's appeal.
Former presenter Mick Brown tweeted: "Every Easter at Capital when I was on air with Chris Tarrant for help a London child, George would call in at 3.30pm with a £100,000 donation."
The star's mother died of cancer in 1997 and in 2006 he played a free concert at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, for NHS nurses to thank them for their care.
He also gave his time to Macmillan Cancer Support, as one of their ambassadors.
Alongside major charities, individuals on Twitter shared their accounts of his kindness.
Journalist Sali Hughes said: "I wrote in a piece ages ago about a celeb I'd worked with tipping a barmaid £5k because she was a student nurse in debt. Was George Michael."
And Emilyne Mondo said he had worked anonymously at a homeless shelter where she volunteered.
Michael's partner Fadi Fawaz, says he found the singer dead when he went to his home in Goring on Christmas Day.
He told the Telegraph: "We were supposed to be going for Christmas lunch.
"I went round there to wake him up and he was just gone, lying peacefully in bed. We don't know what happened yet.
"George was looking forward to Christmas, and so was I. Now everything is ruined.
"I want people to remember him the way he was - he was a beautiful person."
Michael's music has been climbing the charts since his death.
On iTunes, Ladies & Gentlemen became the number one album and Careless Whisper went to 12 in the singles chart.
Hull, 20, was two shots off the lead going into Sunday's final round, but 18-year-old Ko finished one stroke ahead on 12 under par to add the title to last year's Evian Championship.
Hull, whose previous best major result was a tie for seventh at the 2014 ANA Inspiration, shared second place with South Korean Gee Chun.
"I can't wait for the next tournament," said Hull. "I am happy because I played some great shots on the back nine.
"I feel like I know I can play well under pressure, making birdies when I'm down. I have done that today and I am proud of myself.
"But Lydia hit a great shot into the last and she should be proud of herself."
Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn was fourth on 10 under, while overnight leader Lexi Thompson of the United States was a shot further back in fifth.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew was six under after three days but her challenge was derailed by a costly eight at the par-three second hole, with the 46-year-old finishing on three under in a tie for 32nd place.
"It was always my dream to play on the LPGA," said world number one Ko, who started the final round one shot behind Thompson.
"For these amazing things to be happening is unbelievable, but it also motivates me to work harder."
BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter:
"Ko's victory provided her with back-to-back majors. At just 18, the New Zealander is an astonishing sportswoman and she needed a birdie at the last to claim the title.
"A brilliant approach meant a mere tap-in was enough to emerge from a pack that included Hull, who joined the clubhouse leaders with a nerveless birdie putt on the final green.
"It wasn't quite enough, but still provided the best major finish of her career."
He decried "extraordinary" foreign interference in his country's affairs and December's election.
Regional leaders have been unsuccessfully trying to persuade Mr Jammeh to hand over power to Adama Barrow, who won the polls.
The move comes after Nigeria deployed a warship to put further pressure on Mr Jammeh to step down.
Regional bloc Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, has prepared a Senegal-led force but maintains that military intervention would be a last resort.
In his televised announcement, Mr Jammeh said "any acts of disobedience to the laws The Gambia, incitement of violence and acts intended to disturb public order and peace" are banned under the state of emergency.
He said security forces were instructed to "maintain absolute peace, law and order".
Earlier, the National Assembly passed a motion condemning what it called the "unlawful and malicious interference" of the African Union and the country's neighbour, Senegal, in The Gambia's affairs.
Mr Barrow, a property developer, is meant to be inaugurated as the new president on Thursday. His spokesperson expressed shock and sadness at the declaration, says the BBC's Umaru Fofana in Banjul, the capital.
It is remains unclear if a curfew is being imposed, our correspondent says.
Mr Jammeh initially accepted the election results but then decided he wanted them annulled after the electoral commission admitted some errors, although it insists this did not affect the final outcome.
The Supreme Court is unable to hear the challenge until May because of a shortage of judges, and Mr Jammeh has said he will not step down until then.
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At least three Gambian ministers, including the foreign minister, have resigned in recent days. Thousands of Gambians have also fled to Senegal, and further afield to Guinea-Bissau, amid fears of violence.
BBC Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo says the Nigerian warship is being deployed to put on a show of strength rather than to launch an attack.
A military source says that the vessel - the NNS Unity - is currently sailing off the coast of Ghana.
Senegal is leading Ecowas' standby regional force and is also preparing its ground troops ahead of Thursday's deadline.
The Gambia's small army is not expected to put up a fight in the event of an intervention, but even if it did, its forces would be quickly overrun, our security correspondent says.
In the December polls, Mr Barrow won 43.3% of the vote compared with Mr Jammeh's 39.6%. A third candidate, Mama Kandeh, got 17.1%.
Yahya Jammeh seized power in the tiny West African country in 1994 and has been accused of human rights abuses, although he has held regular elections.
The African Union has said it will no longer recognise Mr Jammeh's authority after his term ends. Mr Barrow is currently in Senegal.
There has been an outpouring of grief over the death of Mr Barrow's eight-year-old son - and many Gambians on social media have been changing their profile photos to his image to show their sympathy.
Habibu Barrow died in hospital after being bitten by a dog on Sunday at his aunt's house in Fajara, a coastal resort near Banjul. He was mauled by the dog and sustained a head injury.
Many residences in Fajara, an upmarket area, have security dogs to ward off intruders.
Mr Barrow was unable to attend Monday's funeral as he intends to remain in neighbouring Senegal until his return on Thursday for his swearing-in. But his second wife Sarjo, Habibu's mother, was there along with her two other children.
Since Mr Jammeh announced he was contesting the vote on 9 December, Mr Barrow, a devout Muslim with two wives, moved his children to stay with relatives for safety.
It is hoped the US technology could become an easier way of screening people for a condition called Barrett's oesophagus, which can lead to cancer.
Unlike current imaging techniques, the device can be used while the patient is conscious and takes only a few minutes.
The device has been tested in a small number of patients so far, Nature Medicine reports.
Although researchers at Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston say the device has potentially wide application, it could be particularly useful for Barrett's oesophagus where many people do not realise they have it, but there is no easy way to screen for it.
In those with the condition, the cells in the lower gullet become abnormal due to chronic acid reflux, which puts them at a higher risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus.
Doctors can screen those at risk using an endoscope - a flexible tube containing a tiny video camera - but this is unpleasant and usually has to be done under sedation.
The new device is contained in a capsule about the size of a multivitamin pill connected by a thin wire.
Within the capsule is a rapidly rotating laser tip which emits infrared light that is then reflected back from the lining of the oesophagus.
The image doctors see on the screen is a 3D landscape showing far more microscopic detail than can be seen with endoscopy.
When the patient swallows the capsule it is carried down the oesophagus in the same way any piece of food would be then once it reaches the stomach it can be pulled back out using the wire.
Images are taken the whole time the device is moving up and down the gullet and the whole process takes a matter of minutes.
Testing the equipment in six patients known to have Barrett's oesophagus and seven healthy volunteers, the researchers said the images clearly showed the cellular changes that occur in those with the condition.
Prof Gary Tearney, one of the research collaborators, said the technology is cheaper than endoscopy and avoids the need for sedation, specialised equipment or special training.
And the microscopic detail shown in the images means a biopsy can be avoided.
"The images produced have been some of the best we have seen of the oesophagus," says Prof Tearne, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.
"We originally were concerned that we might miss a lot of data because of the small size of the capsule, but we were surprised to find that, once the pill has been swallowed, it is firmly 'grasped' by the oesophagus, allowing complete microscopic imaging of the entire wall."
Prof Tearney added that the device could help doctors work out who is at risk and detect cancers at potentially more treatable stage.
Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, a specialist on Barrett's oesophagus at the Cambridge Cancer Centre, said: "It is elegant technology. The downside is that you will have to endoscope anyone with suspected Barrett's as you will have no way of sampling and detecting dysplasia [abnormalities] with this technology."
An engineer by training, she had been working in the oil industry.
But now she has left all that behind.
When we met up in the city of Adana in southern Turkey, she had just fled across the border from the Syrian city of Aleppo after a mission with rebel forces that went wrong.
Two male colleagues who were acting as her minders, were killed.
At the end of June she joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and was given a particularly dangerous role to fulfil.
As a woman she has able to move more easily around the streets of Aleppo than the men.
"Lots of women are working with me and we do a lot of spying work," she says.
"We usually check the locations of regime people [military forces] and check where would be the best points to locate the Free Syrian Army.
"We also spy on high-ranking people in the government so we can help the FSA arrest and capture them."
In the midst of all this, she speaks on the phone with her family every day to reassure them she is fine.
"I wonder why I am not afraid of being shot through the head," she says pointing to her forehead.
"But sometimes when you face death, you lose your fear."
Thwaiba Kanafani is one of a growing number of Syrians without any previous military experience who have joined the rebels.
There is a special training programme based in Turkey at secret camps run by the Turkish military, she says.
"The Turkish people are really helping us. Lots of people are getting training in those camps."
"The training is really professional. You can only sleep four hours a day.
"You have to climb mountains, you get weapons training. It's hard work."
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are also reported to be providing assistance for what has been described as a secret nerve centre for military aid and communications for the Syrian rebels.
This is reported to have been set up in Adana.
None of these countries has confirmed the existence of the base.
Separately, Syrian opposition sources have told the BBC they have been called to meetings with foreigners in Istanbul in recent weeks to discuss recruiting volunteers from different cities in Syria to staff an "operation room" in Turkey.
The aim is to co-ordinate and plan rebel actions and the supply of weapons.
Turkey has denied supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels.
The failure of the United Nations to reach agreement on how to resolve the Syrian crisis seems to have spurred a number of countries to step up unilateral assistance to rebel forces.
It has been reported in recent days that US President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead for covert help to be provided, although it is not clear what kind of assistance is being considered.
On Friday the British government confirmed it would provide more communications equipment to the rebels next month.
The rebels themselves have been asking the international community for many months for much more sophisticated weapons, including portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
This, they believe, would turn the tide of the conflict decisively in their favour.
At the moment helicopter gunships and fighter jets of the Syrian armed forces are able to carry out frequent attacks on rebel positions and tanks are being used in all major operations.
But so far countries backing the rebels have been reluctant, fearing the consequences of such weapons getting into the hands of jihadi groups now operating inside Syria.
Two-year-old Jacob Jenkins reportedly stopped breathing for 30 minutes after swallowing the fruit on Friday.
Parents Abigail Wilson and David Jenkins chose to turn off his life support on Wednesday, at the moment well-wishers released balloons.
A Pizza Hut spokeswoman said it had "removed grapes from the menu with immediate effect".
The firm was "devastated to learn of Jacob's tragic death", she said, and added the Hartlepool Hut would be closed on Thursday as a "sign of respect".
Jacob was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he was put into an induced coma.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of yellow balloons were released on Seaton Carew seafront in his honour.
A statement on a fundraising page set up in support of his family announced his "heartbreaking" death.
"Baby Jacob gained his Angel Wings at 7PM tonight. The exact time everyone set off their yellow balloons in Hartlepool and far beyond," it said.
The page has raised more than £9,000 toward's the toddler's funeral costs.
Audio:What to do if your child is choking
Source: St John Ambulance
Joanne Thompson, who set up Millie's Trust after her nine-month-old daughter choked to death on shepherd's pie, said choking incidents can be difficult to prevent.
She said: "A lot of people don't understand the dangers of just simple foods, or that children can pick things up off the floor... you've got to be vigilant all the time.
"Things like this happen, they're accidents and it doesn't matter how much effort you put into making sure your children are safe, unfortunately just like Jacob, this was a complete a tragic accident."
Iain Johnstone, a consultant in paediatric intensive care at the Great North Children's Hospital, in Newcastle, said a number of factors make youngsters susceptible to choking.
He said: "Toddlers are at an age when they pick things up and put them in their mouths.
"They also have smaller airways than adults - narrowing as they go down, like a funnel.
"Unfortunately, a grape is the perfect shape and size to block the airway and cause choking."
Tributes have been left to the toddler on a Facebook page set up in his memory.
Jaki Rutherford said: "Gone too soon little Jacob, sleeping with the angels, thinking of your mam, dad and all your family xx"
Nikki Jones said: "Cannot imagine the pain his whole family must be feeling, such a tragic end to what was meant to be a simple family meal. RIP little one x"
Sharon Mitchell said: "R.I.P gorgeous little man. Sweet dreams. Thoughts are with his family at this very sad time. Fly with the Angels xx"
The McIlvanney Prize - previously known as the Scottish Crime Book of the year - was presented at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.
Brookmyre took the £1,000 prize for his novel Black Widow.
The other short-listed authors were Doug Johnston, Val McDermid and ES Thomson.
Judges described Brookmyre's novel as being "like watching Olympic diving", adding: "Just when you think the plot can't twist again, it takes a new turn. Even the twists have twists."
William Mcilvanney, who died last year, is regarded by many as the founder of tartan noir, a particularly Scottish style of gritty crime writing.
His brother, renowned sports journalist Hugh McIlvanney, presented Brookmyre with the inaugural award.
Sharp, 22, was second in her heat, running in 2:01.41 to advance, as American Alysia Johnson Montano and Kenyan defending champion Pamela Jelimo also all comfortably qualified.
"I just tried to concentrate on my race. I am in great shape," said Sharp.
"I have to thank my coach. He has prepared me so well and I have really grown as an athlete."
Sharp, who was chosen to represent Team GB ahead of four other British athletes who had run faster qualifying times, said the crowd had inspired her.
"I came to watch a couple of nights ago to get used to the crowd but I don't think anything can prepare you for it," she said.
"I had this ringing in my ear because the crowd was so loud but it was good because it made me forget everything else."
In March, Jacques Rudolph's men will visit Taunton to play a two-day match against Somerset. The format of the game is yet to be decided.
The Somerset game will be followed by home matches against Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire.
The first-class season starts with a three-day fixture against Cardiff MCCU also at the Swalec Stadium.
Glamorgan will fine tune their preparations before the County Championship campaign with a two-day match at home to Nottinghamshire in early April.
Their first County Championship clash sees them travel to Northamptonshire.
The club have announced admission for all three preseason games in Cardiff will be free of charge for spectators.
GLAMORGAN 2017 MARCH/APRIL FIXTURES
March 23-24: Somerset - Taunton.
March 27: Gloucestershire - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
March 28-30: Cardiff MCCU (first class) - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
April 2-3: Nottinghamshire - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
April 7-11: Northamptonshire (Specsavers County Championship) - The County Ground, Northampton.
April 14-18: Worcestershire (Specsavers County Championship) - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
April 21-25: Leicestershire (Specsavers County Championship) - Fischer County Ground, Grace Road.
April 27: Gloucestershire (Royal London One-Day Cup) - The Brightside Ground, Bristol.
April 30: Surrey (Royal London One-Day Cup) - The Swalec Stadium, Cardiff.
Robert and Christianne Shepherd, aged six and seven, of Horbury, West Yorkshire, died from carbon monoxide poisoning in October 2006.
Neil Shepherd told Wakefield Coroners' Court he was "paralysed by guilt" over their deaths.
He sobbed as he described his "perfect son" and "feisty, loving" daughter.
The children were staying at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel with their father and stepmother when they complained of feeling unwell, the inquest heard.
They were found dead the following day by a maid and Mr and Mrs Shepherd were found in a coma.
Post-mortem tests revealed carbon monoxide levels in Robert and Christianne's bloodstreams were 56.8 and 60.7% respectively - levels above 50% are fatal.
An inspection of the boiler found it had been incorrectly installed and a safety cut-off device had been deliberately short-circuited.
Mr Shepherd said: "I firmly believe my children would be here today if Thomas Cook had carried out an inspection of those boilers."
Torbay-born Moore, 22, has joined on a 28-day loan while McCoulsky, 19, will be at Plainmoor until mid-January.
Manager Kevin Nicholson hopes the strikers will arrest Torquay's poor form, which has seen the side not win for seven matches in all competitions.
"The boys that are here already need to see this as a challenge now," Nicholson told BBC Sport.
"They've had my backing the whole time I've been here and I will do everything in my power to help them improve as people and players and help us get the results we should be getting."
Moore, who has spent time at Yeovil Town, has scored six goals for the National League leaders since joining from Norwegian Premier League side Viking FK in January.
Highly-rated youngster McCoulsky made his Bristol City debut in their EFL Cup defeat by Hull City in October.
"Kieffer's proven at this level and higher, he's a very hard-working guy and the chance for him to come here, play some football and push some of our lads was something that he wanted to do," added Nicholson.
"Shawn is a young boy with bags of pace and bags of energy, he's been knocking on their first-team door for a little while."
The woman's body was found in August 1974 on a heath at Cockley Cley near Swaffham in Norfolk.
Rope and a plastic found at the scene suggested connections with Dundee.
Twelve students in Dundee trawled through local newspaper archives, which police said resulted in "a couple" of new lines of inquiry.
The woman was found wearing a 1969 Marks & Spencer pink nightdress, while post-mortem examinations concluded she was aged 23-35, had given birth and was from central Europe.
The body was wrapped in a plastic cover bearing the National Cash Registers (NCR) logo which links it to Dundee, where the computer firm employed hundreds of people in the 1970s.
Jute rope, used to tie up the plastic, was also believed to have been manufactured in Dundee.
Psychology and forensic biology students at the city's Abertay University spent April looking for stories about the case and reports of other missing people or murders and attacks in the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph from January 1973 to January 1975.
Dr Penny Woolnough, course tutor, said: "It's a really valuable way for students to put into practice what they learn on their course.
"They've submitted their findings to the police and now it's in their hands."
A Norfolk Police spokesman said: "The students' work has generated a couple of leads, which detectives from the major investigations team are now following up.
"At this stage of this part of the inquiry, it's too early to say how important these leads will be."
It follows a report by the Head of Internal Audit at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department of Education.
She said the claims were distinct from those made by safety expert Paul Scott.
He had claimed he was bullied.
Ms Nί Chuilίn said: "The Head of Internal Audit in the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) and Department of Education has completed a report setting out a range of serious allegations and concerns in relation to the leadership, management and the overall culture within Sport NI.
"I have today written to the chair and board members of Sport NI, and asked for an urgent meeting with the members of the board of Sport NI to urgently consider the report of the Head of Internal Audit and to hear their response to the issues that have been raised by their staff.
"I will be making no further public comment on this issue until I have the opportunity to hear from Sport NI, considered their response and decided on the best way forward.
"I would also wish to make it clear that these allegations are distinct from those which were raised by another member of Sport NI staff at the CAL (Culture, Arts and Leisure) Committee on 30 April and which are the subject of another investigation process."
On 30 April, Mr Scott told Stormont's Culture, Arts and Leisure committee that he was put under "undue pressure" to approve plans for the new Casement Park Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ground by officials from the minister's department.
He also said he had made a complaint of bullying against them.
He said it was made in December 2014.
Mr Scott said he raised a complaint of bullying and harassment against DCAL officials, with the chief executive of Sport Northern Ireland.
He also said he made a formal protected disclosure to the board of Sport NI, where he is safety compliance unit manager.
The chief executive of Sport NI, Antoinette McKeown, was suspended from her role earlier this year.
Last month, she turned up at a Stormont committee where two of her Sport NI colleagues were giving evidence about the stadium.
She sat in the public gallery as the officials spoke to the Culture, Arts and Leisure (CAL) committee.
John McCormack drove for a further 30 miles in the articulated lorry after hitting the vehicle on the A9.
Perth Sheriff Court was told there were three children in the car at the time of the incident.
The 46-year-old was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work and banned from driving for two years.
Prosecutor Rebecca Kynaston said motorists heading north near the House of Bruar shopping complex saw McCormack driving straight towards them.
She said: "To their horror they saw the lorry coming south. He was on the wrong side of the road.
"They managed to get off the road onto the verge.
"The lorry missed them, but unfortunately it continued on and a couple with three children in their car weren't so lucky."
Ms Kynaston said that the lorry hit the offside of the car and scraped along it.
She said: "One might have hoped that would bring this to an end. The impact was forcible and bent the truck onto the wheel.
"Police managed to pull over the lorry further down the A9. This had been going on for quite a few miles."
McCormack, 46, from Kilmarnock, admitted driving dangerously on the wrong side of the road on 11 April last year.
He also admitted failing to stop after an accident, and driving a vehicle which posed a danger due to its condition.
Defence solicitor David Holmes said McCormack had decided to stop driving in the wake of the incident.
He said: "He has no recollection of the accident or how it could have taken place.
"He remembers sneezing and that's as far as it goes."
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "He has no recollection of what happened but was aware of a sneezing episode prior to the crash.
"Five vehicles had to take avoiding action.
"To go into the other carriageway of the main trunk road north, it doesn't take much imagination to work out what could have happened."
The music company Warner/Chappell had claimed the rights to the song but earlier this year a judge ruled that the lyrics could be used without the need to pay royalties.
A group of artists and filmmakers had sought to claim back the money collected by the firm over the years.
The terms of the agreement have not been revealed.
Warner/Chappell is thought to have made $2m (£1.3m) a year by charging every time the song was used in a film, television episode, advertisement or other public performance.
It acquired the copyright in 1988 but a judge ruled it was only granted for specific arrangements of the music, not the song itself.
In a statement the company said: "While we respectfully disagreed with the court's decision, we are pleased to have now resolved this matter."
The lawyer for the artists, Mark Rifkin, told Reuters he was pleased with the agreement but did not give any further details.
The tune was composed by two Kentucky sisters in 1893.
Mildred and Patty Hill called their version Good Morning To All, which later evolved into the song that is popularly sung at birthday parties around the world.
Offensive words and symbols were painted on the buildings between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
The Conservative office in West Mount Street was vandalised with the word "scum", a swastika and the letter "Q" in white spray paint.
The letter "Q" was also painted on the door of the Labour party office in nearby Rosemount Place.
Ross Thomson, Scottish Conservative candidate for Aberdeen South, said he believed the "Q" was intended to stand for quisling, or traitor.
"Once again we see the ugly side of nationalism on display," he said.
"People should engage in healthy democratic debate but attempts like this to try and intimidate and bully political opponents are utterly disgusting."
A Police Scotland spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and asked anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area to contact them.
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The barrier is made of sand banks and water trenches.
It was announced last summer after 38 people were killed on a beach by a gunman said to have trained in Libya.
Tunisia's defence minister said the second phase of the project would involve installing electronic equipment with the help of Germany and the US.
Security forces said the defences - which aim to make the border impassable by vehicles - had already helped to reduce smuggling.
"Today we finished closing it off, and this will help us protect our border, and stop the threat," said Defence Minister Farhat Horchani on Saturday.
More than 3,000 Tunisians have left to fight with the Islamic State (IS) group and other Islamist militants in Syria and Iraq but Mr Horchani said many had since returned to join the group in Libya.
Libya has been beset by instability since the overthrow of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and currently has two rival governments.
IS took control of Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown, last year.
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The 24-year-old from Runcorn became Britain's first champion in the event's 17-year history when she won in 2016.
Coxsey needed to finish ninth or higher to guarantee back-to-back titles, but took gold in the penultimate event of the season in Mumbai.
Japan's Miho Nonaka finished second, with compatriot Akiyo Noguchi third.
Sport climbing - which includes bouldering - is one of five new sports confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The San Francisco-based firm disclosed the investment in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
AirBnB did not comment on how it would use the funding, but is expected to expand its operations globally.
It has grown rapidly since its launch in 2008, and currently operates in 65,000 cities worldwide.
The firm, which does not publish its sales figures, makes its money by enabling homeowners to rent out their homes.
It takes a 3% cut of each booking and a 6% to 12% service charge from guests.
It made its first profit in the second half of 2016, and will continue to be profitable this year on an underlying basis, according to media stories.
They also reported that the firm had no plans to list its shares on the stock market in the near future.
AirBnB has been diversifying and recently began offering users new services, such as tailor-made city tours and exclusive experiences with local experts.
However, it has also faced criticism over claims it is driving up rents and contributing to housing shortages in some cities.
In December, under pressure from MPs, the firm said it would block hosts in London from renting out homes for more than 90 days a year without official consent.
It is also facing tougher regulations in New York, Berlin and Barcelona.
The accommodation site lets people rent out their properties, often at prices undercutting hotels and traditional Bed and Breakfasts.
It was started by university friends Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2008 to help pay the rent on their San Francisco flat.
As the site expanded into more and more cities, helped by the use of professional photographers, it attracted backers including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Ashton Kutcher.
In total it has raised more than $3bn from investors and it is now the second most valuable start-up in the US after Uber, which is valued at about $70bn.
The arrests were made between the evening of Friday 26 December and the early hours of Saturday. Those detained were aged between 17 and 25.
Thirteen of the suspects were bailed at the scene to appear at Coleraine police station at a later date.
Two were taken into custody but later released pending further inquiries.
The family-owned firm, formally known as AP Moller-Maersk, will focus on its transport and logistics business.
The energy division is to shrink its global reach and focus more on the North Sea, where it has expertise.
That division has around 800 employees based in Aberdeen, working both on and offshore.
The company employs 88,000 people and operates across 130 countries, with turnover of more than $40bn (£31bn).
Work will continue on existing energy projects, including some of the biggest projects in the UK offshore sector. But the company signalled that new investment commitments may be low, particularly in tankers and drilling.
Maersk Oil has been operating in the UK central North Sea sector for 11 years, and is a partner in some of the biggest developments during that time, including the Golden Eagle.
From a small country perspective, Maersk looks like a giant. So it is uncomfortable for Denmark that the giant has been weakened in both legs.
Shipping has been hit by sharp reductions in rates for containers - a notoriously volatile market. That is partly due to a downturn in trade, and also to the extra tonnage added to the world container fleet.
Hanjin Shipping, the seventh-biggest in container transport and based in South Korea, recently filed for bankruptcy. It is struggling to find the finance to offload cargo from its ships, worth several billion pounds.
Maersk's energy business faces problems which are at least as deep as shipping, due to the fall in the price of oil. The company's strategic review speaks of finding "solutions" including joint ventures, mergers or spinning off companies for separate listing. The vagueness of the plan makes it look like an intention to exit as much of that sector as possible, and shipping is clearly the priority.
The North Sea presence may be one part of the energy division that is retained, as the technology involved is an area of expertise. That's unless a buyer can be found.
Breaking up the 112-year-old conglomerate is a reversal of the strategy under which Maersk Line grew to have a fleet of 590 ships, plus 500 smaller service ships. It was guided by its chairman Maersk McKinney Moller, who remained active in the company until his death four years ago, aged 98.
It is operator of the Culzean gas field development, which is one of the biggest in UK waters for 25 years. It is expected to meet 5% of Britain's gas demand after it comes on-stream, scheduled for 2019.
Its other production is from Denmark, Qatar, Kazakhstan, the US Gulf of Mexico and Algeria. Exploration and development activities are also under way in Angola, Kenya, Ethiopia, Greenland, Brazil, Kurdistan, and the huge Johan Sverdrup field being developed in the Norwegian North Sea.
Michael Pram Rasmussen, the chairman, said in a statement: "Separating our transport and logistics businesses and our oil and oil related businesses...will enable both to focus on their respective markets. Both face very different underlying fundamentals and competitive environments."
The oil, drilling, offshore services and tanker divisions face moves towards joint ventures, sales and stock market floats over the next two years. Profits in that division have recently come in well below expectations.
The company's strategy states: "Maersk Oil will adjust its current strategy to focus its portfolio in fewer geographies to gain scale in basins, particularly in the North Sea, where it can leverage its strong capabilities within subsurface modelling, well technology and efficient operations. Maersk Oil will aim to strengthen its portfolio through acquisitions or mergers.
"Further, Maersk Oil will mature existing key development projects, while keeping exploration activities and expenses at a low level. While the strategic focus will be reflected in a disciplined capital allocation, investments in strategic projects already sanctioned or under development will continue as planned.
"Maersk Drilling, Maersk Supply Services, and Maersk Tankers will continue to optimise their market position and operation with the existing fleet and order book. Additional investments in the group's offshore service businesses and Maersk Tankers will be limited."
Denmark's Sydbank estimated the value of the logistics business at, very roughly, £23bn. Its central estimate for the energy division was close to £13bn.
Matthew and John Hargreaves admitted participating in a fraudulent business, while Jean Hargreaves admitted engaging in an unfair commercial practice.
The trio, from Knutsford, Cheshire, sold the product at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells, Powys, in 2013.
The two men got 18 months in prison and Jean Hargreaves received a six month sentence, suspended for two years.
Sentencing the three, Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins said: "You put personal greed ahead of public safety."
Merthyr Crown Court heard the family made £3.4m from the venture - a figure disputed by defence counsel - with John Hargreaves, 69, playing a leading role until handing over to his son, Matthew, 44, in 2010.
Jean Hargreaves, 71, was said to have played a lesser role than her husband and son.
Powys council's trading standards team launched a three-year, £400,000 investigation into the three after tests on the products at the agricultural show showed the hydrogen peroxide levels were "harmful".
The council's investigations led them to 30 victims across the UK, including one who required hospital treatment.
Investigators found the three had tried to sell the whitener at about 150 venues, including shopping centre, as well as online.
The council said numerous unsubstantiated and false claims were discovered on banners at the Royal Welsh Show, including claims the product was "ideal for any age group" and was "used by leading dentists throughout the UK and Europe".
The product was 11% hydrogen peroxide. It is legal for anyone to treat themselves with an over-the-counter kit, provided it contains less than 0.1% hydrogen peroxide. A dentist can legally use 6%.
Excessive levels of the chemical compound can cause blistering, burns and other damage.
Prosecutor Mark Wyeth QC said the whitening had "harmful levels of hydrogen peroxide, thereby putting at risk the health of anybody who happened to buy this product".
The court heard the family would change the name of the company they operated under and dissolve businesses in order to evade unhappy customers and the authorities.
The father and son's involvement stretched from 2007 to 2015, while Jean Hargreaves' crime was carried out between 2013 and 2015.
The family have refused to disclose where the whitener was manufactured, as well as the supply chain.
Mr Wyeth said since the broadcast of BBC's Fake Britain programme featuring the Hargreaves was broadcast, Walsall council had discovered Matthew Hargreaves was still trading in teeth whitening products.
The court heard John Hargreaves, who accepted a caution in 2007 for selling similar teeth whitening products at Manchester Airport, used his wife to "provide a layer of protection against investigation".
It was also told the two men had aspirations of producing even stronger products with hydrogen peroxide content of 22-38%.
Sukhdev Garcha, defending Matthew Hargreaves, said he played a subordinate role but had accepted his actions and expressed remorse.
Representing John Hargreaves, Amos Waldman said: "His involvement reduced towards the end - he effectively retired. He accepts entirely he was dishonest."
Anthony Barraclough, defending Jean Hargreaves, said: "This lady would never have condoned the sale of dangerous chemicals. She has been devastated by all of this."
Jean Hargreaves was disqualified from being a company director for five years while the two men were banned for 10 years.
Magma Structures had been a preferred bidder for part of the site, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed it would not move in.
Conservative council leader Donna Jones said it was a "disappointment".
The MoD said a centre of excellence was being created on the site by BAE Systems.
Ms Jones: "It is a disappointment they haven't moved in yet, it is for financial reasons with the cost of the relocation of the company into that ship hall."
Magma Structures is currently based at Trafalgar Wharf in Portsmouth and is a manufacturing company.
Mark Lancaster, minister for defence personnel and veterans, said Magma Structures was not using the site "after a review of its business needs".
It will be leasing office space within the naval base, he said.
The government also announced a centre for excellence for minehunter vessel maintenance is to be created at the site.
HMS Brocklesby is due to be moved to the facility on Wednesday for maintenance.
These activities had previously been carried out elsewhere at the base.
Magma Structures confirmed it would not be moving to the site.
When BAE moved shipbuilding from Portsmouth to Scotland the government said it would not let the city sink into economic recession.
We had the prime minister personally endorsing a £100m city deal, the hosting of Britain's own Americas Cup team in Portsmouth and even its own minister.
But since the election it has been a lot quieter.
Such portrayals posed a "significant health hazard that requires appropriate regulatory control", researchers said.
YouTube videos of songs in the top 40 singles chart were examined by the University of Nottingham study.
The British Board of Film Classification started putting age ratings on online pop videos last year.
The research, in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, said girls between the ages of 13 and 15 were the most exposed to cigarettes and alcohol in videos.
Using pollsters YouGov, researchers asked 2,068 11- to 18-year-olds and 2,232 over-19s whether they had seen the videos, taken from the chart between 3 November 2013 to 19 January 2014.
The average viewing percentage across the 32 music videos was 22% for the younger group and 6% for the elder.
Trumpets, by Jason Derulo, and Blurred Lines", by Robin Thicke, had some of the highest number of tobacco references, while Timber, by Pitbull, and Drunk in Love, by Beyonce, contained the most alcohol-related content, according to the study.
"It is well established that young people exposed to depictions of tobacco and alcohol content in films are more likely to start smoking or to consume alcohol, but the effect of imagery in other media, including new online media such as YouTube music videos, has received relatively little attention," research author Dr Jo Cranwell said.
Her research calculated the number of "impressions" - any verbal or visual reference - of alcohol or tobacco imagery in the videos.
When Dr Cranwell extrapolated the data to estimate the overall affect on the British population, she concluded the 32 videos were responsible for 1,006 million impressions of alcohol and a further 203 million of tobacco.
"If these levels of exposure were typical, then in one year, music videos would be expected to deliver over four billion impressions of alcohol, and nearly one billion of tobacco, in Britain alone," she said.
"Further, the number of impressions has been calculated on the basis of one viewing only, however, many of the videos had been watched multiple times, so this number is likely to be much bigger."
Here are a selection of lyrics from Beyonce's Drunk in Love that reference drinking and smoking:
Paid-for placement of tobacco products in music videos is prohibited by the Advertising and Promotion Act 2002, but this law does not apply to videos produced outside the UK.
Last year, it was announced that online music videos would now get age ratings in the same way films do, following a government pilot.
Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music will send videos to the British Board of Film Classification before putting them on YouTube and Vevo.
At about 20:25 GMT on 10 January, a Honda Civic and a Mitsubishi Shogun collided at the junction of Hastings Road and Buckland Road.
The driver and front seat passenger of the Honda died at the scene while two rear seat passengers were injured.
One of these, 21-year-old Abubaker Hussein Mohamed, of Leicester, died as a result of his injuries on Tuesday, police said.
The fourth man remains in hospital in a stable condition.
Police have renewed an appeal for witnesses.
A man and a woman, travelling in the Mitsubishi, were also injured. The man was later released from hospital but the woman is in a critical but stable condition.
Lawn Tennis Association chief executive Michael Downey said it was time to "seize the moment" and capitalise on Andy and Jamie Murray's success.
"We must create a lasting legacy with a purpose-built plan for Scotland," Downey added.
Mel Young, chairman of sportscotland, hopes for increased participation.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Andy Murray, 29, ends 2016 top of the men's singles rankings after winning Wimbledon and the ATP Tour finals this year.
Older brother Jamie, 30, and Brazilian doubles partner Bruno Soares are the current world number one men's doubles team.
And the Murrays' fellow Scot Gordon Reid, 25, is top of the wheelchair tennis men's rankings, having won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2016.
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Downey said: "This unprecedented investment will make tennis more accessible, bringing certainty of play to a climate that sees on average 200 days rain a year and in a country that is under-resourced versus the rest of Britain and other European nations when it comes to the number of covered tennis courts per capita."
Young confirmed that half of the £15m will come from sportscotland and the rest from the LTA and will "have a transformational impact on Scottish tennis".
Tennis Scotland chairman Blane Dodds said the funding would prove crucial to the future success of the sport in Scotland.
"This is what we all have been working towards to deliver an appropriate and ambitious legacy so the whole country benefits from the performances of our three world number ones: Gordon Reid, Jamie Murray and Andy Murray," he said.
It was a result that ranks alongside the Ashes victories of recent years, with England showing incredible character to come back from their heavy defeat in the first Test in Ahmedabad.
After that result, and taking into account the 3-0 defeat against Pakistan in the UAE earlier in the year, few could have predicted England would leave Nagpur with a series victory.
People will ask what happened between that match in Ahmedabad and the victory in Mumbai in the second Test.
First of all, England brought Monty Panesar back into the team and he gave them more balance.
Then Kevin Pietersen changed.
After two skittish and nervous innings in the first Test, he responded with a magnificent 186 in Mumbai. Alastair Cook also scored lots of runs and it became apparent that England had better spinners than India.
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I'm sure that has never been said before and it hurt the home side. They were puzzled and worried by it and many people are calling for a review into their domestic structure because of it.
England lost the toss in Mumbai, but once they had shown they could win the hard way, it gave them the belief to do the same in Kolkata in the third Test.
They preyed on India's insecurities, but we must also be mindful that the hosts played poorly. They have got a number of issues to address following this series - like the futures of their star player, Sachin Tendulkar, their captain Mahendra Dhoni and their coach Duncan Fletcher.
Australia visit India early in 2013 and that will be a fascinating contest because we will see how they respond, and also what Australia have got because this will have been a wake-up call for them too.
Cook will return home from his first tour as Test captain a very happy man. He has proved that the captaincy would not detract from his performances - as he did in one-day cricket - and he has earned the respect of all his players with his runs.
"There is a mild irony that Duncan Fletcher didn't trust Graeme Swann when he was England coach and was never sure how valuable Monty Panesar really was. These two have been invaluable for England. Even when Panesar was wicketless in patches, he gave his captain control. They've both had terrific tours, as has Jimmy Anderson, and we saw glimpses of Steven Finn in Kolkata. On the batting side, Cook was immense and Pietersen played one brilliant innings in Mumbai."
England still have some areas they need to think about when they tour New Zealand in March, but they are good issues.
I hope they let Nick Compton have an extended run as opener in conditions that are more suited to run-scoring because he has battled hard at the top of the order in India.
Then there is the number six position to think about, with Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Eoin Morgan all wanting that spot.
People might also want England to consider playing two spinners in future - after the performances of Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar - but that is unlikely in places like New Zealand, Australia and at home.
There are always areas to improve, but England will be happy. I think the 2005 Ashes victory was as good as anything when you consider the personnel in the Australia team.
Players like Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Ricky Ponting played in that series, but the way England played in India, and the character they showed, means this can be ranked alongside such achievements.
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Consultant Peter O'Keefe, 49, was suspended from University Hospital of Wales in 2012.
In August, an independent inquiry panel dismissed Mr O'Keefe, after finding his "standards of behaviour in the workplace constituted gross misconduct".
He was entitled to appeal under official procedures.
The 21-year old academy graduate, whose deal starts on 1 July, made 27 appearances last season as the Sky Blues were relegated from League One.
Chris Stokes, Lee Burge and Dion Kelly-Evans have already new deals with Coventry this summer.
The club will be playing in English football's fourth tier for the first time in 58 years next season.
Officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, were killed in Hattiesburg city, said police spokesman Lt Jon Traxler.
Local media say that both men died from their injuries in the hospital on Saturday night.
Four people have been arrested over the killings, ending a manhunt of several hours.
Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said that 29-year-old Marvin Banks and 22-year-old Joanie Calloway had both been charged with two counts of capital murder.
Cornelius Clark, 28, was arrested later and charged with obstruction of justice, the Mississippi Highway Patrol said, according to the Associated Press.
Mr Strain said that Curtis Banks, the younger brother of Marvin Banks, had also been charged with being an accessory to the crimes. It's not clear what warranted those charges.
Mr Strain told The Associated Press that Marvin Banks had tried to escape in a police car after the shooting.
"He didn't get very far, three or four blocks and then he ditched that vehicle."
According to his mother, Mary Smith, Mr Banks has mental problems in addition to a drug addiction. She said that her son smoked "spice" daily and had been hearing voices ever since he was attacked and hit in the head with a pipe several years ago.
She told AP that she has no doubt that Marvin killed the officers and said he looked high in photos after his arrest.
"You could tell something was wrong with him," she said, speaking on the steps of the courthouse, where she had come to find out more information about her sons' arrest. "I hate it for these families that he wasn't in his right mind."
The shootings took place after one of the police officers pulled over a car on Saturday, local reports say.
"All I know right now is that there was a traffic stop and someone started shooting at them and both of the officers were struck," Lt Traxler told AP.
The number of shots and who fired them were still under investigation, he added. He did not explain why the car had been pulled over by police.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday that the officers' deaths "is made even more tragic by the fact that, on the day they were killed this past Saturday, the country began observing Police Week - a time when we pause to remember and honour the more than 20,000 law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line of duty".
The incident comes after the killing of a New York police officer last week. Brian Moore, 25, was shot in the head while attempting to question a suspect from his police car.
In December, two officers were shot dead in their car in New York by a man who then committed suicide.
The latest shootings come amid heightened tensions in the US over the police's use of force. Riots erupted in Baltimore earlier this month after the death of a 24-year-old black man in police custody.
Six officers have since been charged over the death of Freddie Gray.
Gold Coast Titans were fined £93,500 (150,000 Australian dollars) for incidents involving three players, with St George Illawarra Dragons and Newcastle Knights charged £62,300 (A$100,000) each for single cases.
The clubs have until Friday to respond.
"These are the heaviest fines proposed by the game for concussion breaches," said NRL chief Todd Greenberg.
"That it how seriously we take it - we are not going to allow player safety to be put at risk through breaches of the concussion rules."
All of the incidents occurred in third-round matches last week, with the Titans' fine relating to English former St Helens back-rower Joe Greenwood, Kane Elgey and Ryan Simpkins during their win over Parramatta Eels on Friday.
The Dragons were fined for an incident involving Josh Dugan in a win against Cronulla on Sunday, while the Knights were sanctioned after Brendan Elliot picked up a head injury during a defeat by South Sydney Rabbitohs on Saturday.
Elliot did not have a head injury assessment (HIA) and played on after suffering a blow, but was removed in the second half following a second knock to the head.
Dragons coach Paul McGregor said Dugan suffered a jaw injury and not a head injury, while Knights coach Nathan Brown said Elliot was cleared of concussion by the on-field trainer.
The Gold Coast Titans said in a statement: "The club will await the formal breach notice details, then assess the incidents and respond to the NRL with the specified timeframe."
The club added they would make no further comment until "the process has been completed".
Newcastle Knights are being sued by former player James McManus over the club's handling of his concussions that resulted in the 31-year-old's retirement last year.
Greenberg also warned that further sanctions such as points deductions and the loss of accreditation for officials could follow monetary fines for any club that breaks the rules.
NRL concussion protocols state a player must not return to the field if they exhibit symptoms of a loss of consciousness, seizure, memory impairment, balance disturbance (ataxia) or if they fall to the ground without taking protective action.
"In the majority of cases we see strong compliance with the league's concussion rules but it appears that this did not happen at the weekend in some matches and we cannot stand by and allow player safety to be put at risk," added Greenberg.
"Where we believe the rules have been breached we will take action - and we would hope that these breach notices will serve as a warning to all clubs."
In 2016, the US supreme court upheld a £700m settlement between the NFL and retired players who had suffered concussion-related injuries.
In January World Rugby criticised Northampton Saints for their treatment of a head injury sustained by Wales wing George North.
The sport has also made moves to reduce the risks of high tackles, following earlier changes to the way concussion is managed.
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Jo's Trust want to raise awareness of cervical cancer prevention as well as extending its support network to women diagnosed with the disease.
Only 77.3% of women in Northern Ireland take up their cervical screening invitation, according to the charity.
The figure drops to 72% in the Belfast Trust area.
Buses across Belfast will carry adverts calling for women in the city to take up their screening invitation.
January also sees the launch of the first face-to-face support group dedicated to women who have been through a cervical cancer diagnosis in Northern Ireland.
Robert Music, director of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said: "The screening programme saves 5,000 lives each year in the UK yet almost a quarter of women in Northern Ireland are not being screened.
"Through research commissioned by the charity we have found several barriers to cervical screening uptake including misinformation, confusion, a lack of convenient appointment times from GP surgeries (especially for working women) as well as embarrassment and fear of the procedure which all contribute to a lower uptake.
"This is why we are running adverts on the side of Belfast buses - both to stress the importance of cervical screenings but also to raise awareness of the charity as an information resource.
"We urge all women in Northern Ireland to make a cervical screening test a priority and get in contact with us if they have any concerns."
Top seed Williams won the first set 6-4 and was a tie-break away from defeating the 26th seed when they came off.
After a two-and-a-half hour delay, Williams converted a fifth match point to win 6-4 7-6 (12-10) in Paris.
The American, 34, aiming for her 22nd Grand Slam title, was joined in the next round by older sister Venus.
Venus's match against France's Alize Cornet was stopped at 2-1 because of the rain but the 35-year-old came back to seal a hard-fought 7-6 1-6 6-0 win.
Serena had dropped just five games in her first two matches at Roland Garros, but faced a tougher test against the French number one.
Each player held their serve in the opening set until Williams edged ahead in the 10th game by taking her third break point.
Neither could gain an advantage in the second set, with Mladenovic thumping down an ace in the rain to set up a tie-breaker.
When the match finally resumed on Court Philippe Chatrier, Mladenovic led 5-3 in the decider - and spurned a set point at 9-8 - before two wayward forehands saw Williams through.
"It was very difficult, she played really, really well," Serena said. "She forced me to bring out my best tennis."
She will play in the fourth round against Ukraine's 18th seed Elina Svitolina, who won 6-4 6-4 against 2008 champion Ana Ivanovic.
British number two Aljaz Bedene and top seed Novak Djokovic were set to play later on Chatrier.
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The little girl, aged between eight and 10, was found a few weeks ago in a forest in Uttar Pradesh.
Doctors said she could not communicate and displayed "monkey-like" traits.
A senior police official told BBC Hindi she had been playing with a pack of monkeys and imitating their behaviour when police went to rescue her.
The little girl was spotted by villagers in the Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary, on the Indian border with Nepal.
The police official, Suresh Yadav, said the monkeys attacked his squad when they arrived to take her away.
Doctors said she was malnourished when she was brought in, with long hair and nails, and wounds on her body.
She was also unable to communicate but would screech and initially walked on all fours.
Her condition is said to be much better now, however, and in the long term she is expected to be handed over to child welfare agencies and other medical specialists to slowly reintroduce her to the world.
The hospital's chief medical officer, DK Singh, told BBC Hindi that although she was still in hospital, she would be transferred to the Lucknow Medical College once she had been given a clean bill of health so that she could get better medical care.
Local District Magistrate Ajaydeep Singh has also visited the girl in hospital and has named her "Forest Durga", a reference to a Hindu warrior goddess.
Many in India are comparing the little girl to Mowgli, the character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book who was raised by wolves. It is not clear, however, how long the little girl has been living in the forest.
The visitors led 1-0 at half-time from Kallum Higginbotham's smart finish.
But when MacDonald pulled down Ross Draper and was sent off after 55 minutes, Greg Tansey's equaliser from the spot changed the game's dynamic.
Draper flicked home after a corner to put Caley ahead before Danny Williams wrapped up victory three minutes later.
The win lifted Inverness 11 points clear of Kilmarnock in 11th place with four games to go, to all but end any lingering fears of dropping into the play-offs.
But the visitors, who remain four points adrift of Hamilton ahead of their game against Dundee United, will have cause to regret Conrad Balatoni's disastrous back-pass, which effectively forced MacDonald into bringing Draper down for the game-changing penalty.
Kilmarnock appeared fortunate to escape an early red card when Miles Storey tried to outmuscle Mark O'Hara and went to ground, but referee John Beaton waved away the Inverness striker's claim.
The visitors' first real threat saw Greg Kiltie's powerful shot from distance off target, while a Storey burst for the hosts saw Williams, playing in a more offensive role, bend an effort away from MacDonald, who did well to save.
Gary Warren and Williams both had decent opportunities before Draper wasted a great chance, waiting for the ball to drop after a corner but only clipping the post with MacDonald racing towards him.
Tansey was fortunate to escape a red card when he blatantly pulled Kris Boyd back after already being booked.
Against the run of play, Kilmarnock pounced with a wonderful goal just before half-time.
Kiltie found Higginbotham on the left edge of the area. Tansey allowed him to cut inside and he curled a wonderful shot right-footed into the far corner
Kilmarnock seemed to be on course for a morale-boosting result until Balatoni tried to roll the ball back to MacDonald, Draper nipping in and Tansey confidently dispatching the penalty after Conor Brennan replaced the departed MacDonald in goal.
Despite that, a wonderful curling long range free-kick from Boyd nearly eased Kilmarnock ahead but his effort smacked off the post and Rory McKenzie was off target with the rebound.
Josh Meekings nodded wide with the goal gaping before Kilmarnock failed to clear an out-swinging corner and Draper knocked home from close range.
Williams tucked home his first of the season after a good passing move to increase the hosts' advantage.
Kilmarnock tried to mount a late comeback, Julien Faubert clipping the bar while Boyd was twice narrowly off target, but a self-inflicted defeat may prove costly for their hopes of avoiding that relegation play-off.
Stuart Lubbock, 31, died at the entertainer's former home at Roydon, Essex on 31 March 2001.
Post-mortem tests found he had suffered severe internal injuries indicating sexual assault and his bloodstream contained ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol.
Essex Police said they were committed to establishing how Mr Lubbock died and how he received his injuries.
A new investigation began in 2006 and remains ongoing.
Assistant Chief Constable Gareth Wilson of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate said: "I am convinced that somebody knows exactly what happened to Stuart, and so far they have not shared this information with us.
"Ten years have now passed since his death and maybe those people who have harboured this information since 2001 may feel the passage of time may make it easier for them to now come forward and tell police what they know."
Three-year-old Thendara Satisfaction, known as Jagger, is understood to have collapsed and died after returning home to Belgium on Friday.
Police in Belgium are investigating and a full toxicology report is expected next week.
The husband of Jagger's co-owner said: "I can only hope it wasn't an act of jealousy by another competitor, but just a lunatic."
Jagger, who came second in his class at Birmingham's NEC on Thursday, is owned by Belgian Aleksandra Lauwers and Leicester-based breeder Dee Milligan-Bott.
Mrs Lauwers's husband Willem said the couple was "devastated" by the death.
"My wife has to go and give a statement to the police tomorrow and we'll see what happens," he said.
"We're quite successful and that can of course make people jealous," he said.
He said CCTV from the NEC was being analysed, but the number of dogs and members of public at the event could make it very difficult.
Co-owner and breeder Dee Milligan-Bott said she could not believe another exhibitor was responsible.
"We compete week-in, week-out against each other and we have one thing in common, we all love dogs," she said.
"I think and hope it was a random act by someone who hates dogs, an opportunist.
"We've had support from fellow competitors from all over the world. These are people I compete against and many of them have been in tears."
Mrs Milligan Bott said a post mortem conducted by the vet had showed Jagger had been poisoned and a full toxicology report was expected to reveal more next week.
"We should have been celebrating this week, but we haven't been," she said.
The Kennel Club, which organises Crufts, said it was unclear what had happened but it would support the police in their investigation.
"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of Jagger's death and our heartfelt sympathies go out to his owners," a spokesperson said.
"We are in contact with the owners and will do all we can to support them at this sad time."
TV presenter Clare Balding tweeted: "Everyone at #Crufts2015 horrified at death of Irish Setter Jagger."
Extensive work, including construction of a new roof, will be carried out.
The total cost has yet to be be confirmed by the royal household but it will be published next week.
A spokeswoman said there had previously been no running water and the couple had paid for all internal furnishings.
She added asbestos was removed and an overhaul of the electrics was carried out.
Prince William and Catherine's London apartment was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was the home of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon.
The princess remained there after their divorce and lived there until her death in 2002.
The living space was last refurbished in 1963.
A spokeswoman for the couple said: "This is the duke and duchess's one and only official residence. It is here that they plan to stay for many, many years to come.
"We also had to take into account the fact that Kensington Palace is a scheduled ancient monument, and all elements of the refurbishment had to be agreed with English Heritage.
"The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid privately for all the internal furnishings, including carpets and curtains.
"They were also at pains to ensure that the specification is not extravagant."
The 2016 PGA Championship winner posted six birdies and an eagle to head a strong field after the first PGA Tour round of 2017.
American trio Jim Herman, Justin Thomas and Ryan Moore are tied second after scoring six-under rounds of 67.
Scotland's Russell Knox is tied 19th on two under, after carding four birdies and two bogeys in his 71.
World number one Jason Day started with a three-under round of 70, with world numbers three and five Dustin Johnson (69) and Jordan Spieth (72) one ahead and two behind respectively.
Rathlin Energy had wanted to drill a 2,700-metre borehole at Ballinlea, between Ballycastle and Bushmills.
However, it said delays in securing planning permission meant it "could not justify further work" on the site.
Its five-year licence was due to expire next January, but the firm said it had already given notice of termination.
The company has held the onshore licence since 2008 to drill in what is known as the Rathlin Basin, a geological area that stretches from Ballycastle in County Antrim to Limavady in County Londonderry.
The borehole it had planned would have been the second one to be drilled in the area by Rathlin Energy.
During their initial explorations they found a small amount of crude oil.
Rathlin Energy chairman David Montagu-Smith said it wanted to drill a second well to evaluate the results obtained from the first one.
He said the "immediate cause" of its decision to quit was the "length and complexity of the process for securing planning permission for the second exploration well".
"We submitted a planning application for the second well in June 2013 and, regrettably, we have no sense of knowing when there will be a determination of the application," he said.
"The business of oil exploration in Northern Ireland, a region with little past history of the industry, was always going to be a technical challenge, and the risk of disappointment very high.
"It is therefore particularly regrettable that, notwithstanding the encouraging signs of oil we have found at Ballinlea, we are not going to be able, for reasons which have nothing to do with geology or our technical operations, to continue our work."
He added: "After all the work we have done, including a significant investment in the local economy, we very much regret that the conditions needed to support the development of oil and gas potential do not currently appear to be present in Northern Ireland."
Campaigners opposed to the drilling of the second borehole said they feared it might lead to extraction using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
HMS Artful, a 97m-long (318ft), 7,400-tonne, nuclear-powered vessel, is one of seven being built by BAE Systems.
A commissioning ceremony took place at Faslane naval base on the Clyde in Scotland where the submarine became Her Majesty's Ship.
The vessel, built in Barrow, moved to the naval base in 2015 to complete its sea trials.
The first two submarines in the Astute class, HMS Astute and HMS Ambush, have already completed deployments in the Mediterranean and Middle East.
Four others - Audacious, Anson, Agamemnon and the yet to be named seventh - are in various stages of construction.
They are capable of circumnavigating the world without the need to resurface.
The Aids Healthcare Foundation also named gay dating app Grindr in a series of posters in the US.
It said that location-based dating apps had become a "digital bath house" for sexually transmitted infections because they facilitated casual sex.
The foundation is based in Los Angeles.
Posters are currently up in Los Angeles, and there are plans to display them in New York, Miami and Florida.
"Mobile dating apps are rapidly altering the sexual landscape by making casual sex as easily available as ordering a pizza," said Whitney Engeran-Cordova, a senior director at the AHF.
"In many ways, location-based mobile dating apps are becoming a digital bath house for millennials wherein the next sexual encounter can literally just be a few feet away—as well as the next STD."
However, lawyers acting for Tinder say the group has its own agenda.
"These unprovoked and wholly unsubstantiated accusations are made to irreparably damage Tinder's reputation in an attempt to encourage others to take an HIV test offered by your organisation," they said.
Fifteen clubs, mainly from the Greater Shankill area, are featured on the mural in Woodvale which is supported by a range of agencies.
They are all part of Suicide Awareness and Mental Health Initiative (SAMHI), a group set up following the deaths of a number of young men in north and west Belfast last year.
Clubs from both sections of the city have been working together on a cross-community basis, with football serving as the platform for people to express themselves.
A tool kit of resources is also being developed that will assist teams in getting players to open up about any mental health concerns.
Brian Kirker of 22nd Old Boys FC from the Shankill area, is one of the football clubs involved in the initiative.
He explained the background to the project which is supported by various agencies including Extern, Lifeline, Hope For Youth NI, Samaritans and Childline.
"When we set up SAMHI, it was on the back of three deaths in local football, two in the Greater Shankill area and one from the Falls area of west Belfast, all young footballers," he said.
"It affected everyone massively and there was a surge of opinion in the local area.
"The mural is in Woodvale and Woodvale FC is a club that has been affected, it is also situated in a very noticeable location.
"Stephen Paul from Lower Shankill FC, myself, Joe Donnelly from TAMHI (Tackling Awareness of Mental Health Issues) and Roberta Coates from Extern got together to set up Suicide Awareness and Mental Health Initiative.
"It was about doing something regarding the local teams coming together, featuring the various agencies.
"It would be great if one of the murals went up in all of the areas of Belfast - it could be boxing clubs, it could be gaelic football clubs, etc."
Joe Donnelly, a manager with TAMHI, said he had worked with the various football teams to pull together the application for funding for the mural from Belfast City Council.
"The mural is amazing, it is colourful and is sending a powerful message to the Greater Shankill," he said.
"Thirteen west Belfast clubs are looking to do something similar, it is inspiring communities to say we are in this issue together - a big sign of hope."
Mr Donnelly said a tool kit of resources to help the football clubs in north and west Belfast was "at an advanced stage of development".
Figures released in November of last year indicated a significant increase in the number of recorded deaths by suicide in north and west Belfast.
Mr Donnelly said it was a "massive issue" and that the "platform of sport is the ideal opportunity to break down stigma around the issue and engage with young men".
This theme is picked up on by Mr Kirker who said it was "nigh impossible to get men to talk about their feelings", but that football could help.
He said the clubs had already used keyrings and wristbands to get the message across and that the tool kit would provide additional support.
"We (the initiative) are trying to put together a toolkit that we can use on a regular basis, it will have examples of how people deal with mental health and the various agencies that can help," he added.
"I have family members who are managing mental illness, it is very personal.
"It is something I am happy to talk about now, but a couple of years ago I would not have been able to talk about it."
Mr Kirker said that one of the clubs in west Belfast it had forged alliances with to promote the issue of "positive mental health" was Belfast Celtic Young Men, Ladies and Cubs from Turf Lodge in west Belfast.
The chairman of the Belfast Celtic club, Micky Reilly, said two members, former under 19 player Daniel Morris and vice-chairman Paul McCullough, had taken their lives.
"It still affects us to this day, we continue to think of them and promote suicide awareness," he said.
He welcomed the mural and the concept of the tool kit.
"We have given out leaflets door to door in the Upper Springfield area and other estates in west Belfast to raise awareness," he said.
"I think the tool kit is a brilliant idea.
"The thing is this affects everyone no matter what your religious background is."
Anthony Fuggle, 57, of Sutton, taught at Colet Court, the junior division of St Paul's Preparatory School in Barnes, south-west London.
Mr Fuggle has been charged with 11 offences of making indecent images of children and six counts of possessing indecent images of children.
He is reported to have resigned from his post after his arrest in September.
He will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on 20 June.
Mr Fuggle is the first person to be charged under Operation Winthorpe, which was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate allegations of historic sexual abuse and misconduct at St Paul's and Colet Court.
Voters are choosing whether to move Turkey from a parliamentary republic to a presidential one, boosting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.
Some three million people are eligible to vote outside of Turkey, almost half of them living in Germany.
But political rallies have been blocked in several countries.
This has caused a bitter row between Turkey and its European neighbours, with President Erdogan accusing the Dutch and German authorities of acting like Nazis.
In Switzerland, a rally in support of the "no" vote was held in Bern on Sunday, drawing thousands - including Kurdish demonstrators.
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The Turkish foreign ministry - which has summoned Swiss diplomats in Ankara, demanding legal action - says the protest was organised by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK is designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the US, but not by Switzerland.
Two days earlier, the Swiss authorities had announced they were investigating allegations of spying against Turkish citizens living in Switzerland who were critical of the Turkish government.
Despite the tension, voting began Monday at airports and border gates in Turkey, as well as in Turkish diplomatic missions in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Denmark.
In Germany, voters were divided over the vote.
Ayfer Inci-Pekoz, who was handing out flyers in support of "no" in Berlin, told the Associated Press news agency : "This referendum scares me. I think if Erdogan wins it will further erode democracy in Turkey."
But Senol Akkaya said people in Germany "almost feel guilty" if they support "yes".
"There's this obsession in Germany now, that if you're for Erdogan, it automatically means you're anti-democratic," he told AP.
Ercan Yasaroglu said the referendum had caused tensions within the Turkish community, and between Germans and Turks - reducing it to a test of loyalty to their adopted homes.
"Democracy means also to tolerate the opinions of your opponents," he said. "We've all done a pretty bad job at this recently. Let's try to focus again on what we all have in common, on our humanity, and on building bridges instead of tearing them down."
Voting will start in other countries in due course, with eligible voters able to cast their ballots at 120 missions in 57 countries.
All voting outside the country will end on 9 April, with the main referendum vote taking place on 16 April in Turkey itself.
He was targeted by a man who'd walked into a burger joint and fired at him several times from close range with a handgun.
The 38-year-old rapper was affiliated with former G-Unit artist Spider Loc, who was discovered by Suge Knight.
His 2011 track Gangsta Luv was based on LA's gang culture and has been watched more than 250,000 times since it was released.
The shooting in Palmdale, about 35 miles (56km) north of Los Angeles, happened with about 15 people inside the restaurant, where the rapper was eating lunch.
"It appears to detectives... that this was not a random shooting," said the LA County Sheriff's Department.
It identified the person shot inside the fast-food restaurant as 38-year-old Habeeb Ameer Zekajj, who is also known as Big Paybacc.
His YouTube videos include Gangsta Luv and I'm Frum Gangstaz.
Comments posted on social media after Zekajj's death paid tribute to him.
"Rest in peace", the hip-hop website Global Grind said on its Twitter page.
Sheriff's deputies found Zekajj with multiple gunshot wounds and detectives say they are still looking for the gunman.
Jessica Jefferson, a woman who identified herself as the rapper's girlfriend, told local television station CBS2 that he had three children.
"He's a good rapper, and he has so many followers and people who stand behind him. He really is a good, solid person," Jefferson told the station.
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Sam Cross is also in the men's 12-strong squad with Luke Treharne a travelling reserve.
Jasmine Joyce is the only Welsh player to make the GB Women's line-up.
"To have rugby sevens on that stage is only going to help grow the game," Davies told BBC Sport.
"For the audiences who don't get to watch rugby as often as some of us do, it is really going to catch the eye.
"The more people that know about rugby the better, and in terms of a worldwide spectacle, the Olympics is the best event for it.
"It goes without saying that winning Olympic gold, silver or bronze would be special.
"I am looking forward to the whole experience, being part of Team GB, it is nice to join the boxing team, the athletics team, I am looking forward to that."
Wing Luke Morgan suffered a knee injury that ruled him out of contention for rugby's return to the Olympics.
Wales and Cardiff Blues centre Cory Allen also misses out.
Megan Jones, an England Sevens player who attended a Welsh language school, is a travelling back-up for the women's team.
Great Britain sevens men: Mark Bennett (Glasgow), Dan Bibby (Putney), Phil Burgess (Farnborough), Sam Cross (Newport), Alex Davis (Bristol), James Davies, (Carmarthen), Ollie Lindsay Hague (London), Tom Mitchell (Wandsworth), Dan Norton (Bristol), James Rodwell (Cotteridge), Mark Robertson (Galashiels), Marcus Watson (Weybridge).
Great Britain sevens women: Claire Allan (Ealing), Abbie Brown (Exeter), Heather Fisher (Birmingham), Natasha Hunt (Gloucester), Jasmine Joyce (Haverfordwest), Katy McLean (South Shields), Alice Richardson (Worcester), Emily Scarratt (Leicester), Emily Scott (Corringham), Danielle Waterman (Bristol), Joanne Watmore, (Chester), Amy Wilson-Hardy (Poole).
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The 20-year-old, who fights for Meadowbank Boxing Club, has won through to the finals of next month's Scottish Boxing Championships, where he'll face Jack Turner of Hayfield Boxing Club, which is based in the Gorbals.
And, despite professional offers that might turn the head of many a young boxer, his focus is clear.
"I'm already getting noticed," he told BBC Scotland. "But I've got the right people around me keeping me grounded and they'll guide me down the right path and then obviously, when the time is right, we'll get a good offer and we'll take on the world."
Before global domination, next month's national finals await and the chance to retain his Scottish bantamweight title.
Success will take him to the British Elite Championships in May and, from there, further chances to accumulate Commonwealth Games qualifying points.
"I won the championships last year and I just want to win it again this year and then just push on from here and qualify and get over to the Gold Coast and get to these Commonwealth Games," said McGregor.
"It's 100% my aim. It's all that's on my mind every day in training. Obviously I take each fight as it comes, but what's in my head 24/7 is the Commonwealth Games."
McGregor was too young to compete in his home Commonwealth Games in 2014, but it inspired him to pursue his dream of competing four years on.
"I was on a young achievers' team and we got to go to the athletes' village in Glasgow for a week, just to experience the whole thing, so it's not a shock to us if we get to the go to the Gold Coast next year."
McGregor has also been part of the GB boxing programme for the past two years and says he's "improving all the time".
He admits the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 is also on his mind, but it's the Gold Coast that's occupying all his thoughts at the moment.
Making the Scotland team isn't his sole aim.
"I believe I'll medal," he says confidently.
While McGregor might be tempted to turn professional after the Commonwealths, following the example of the likes of Charlie Flynn and Josh Taylor, the same can't be said of John Docherty, from Bryon Boxing Club in Aberdeen.
The 19-year-old is also part of the GB boxing set-up, but he's on the podium programme, which means he's training full-time down in Sheffield with the GB squad.
"It's tough going," Docherty admitted. "I live in Montrose, but I'm down in Sheffield Monday to Friday every week.
"But it's massive for me. I've been moved up from podium potential to podium, so I have people thinking that I'm good enough to go to the Olympics. I've just got to go and qualify now."
Doherty also missed out on Glasgow 2014 because of his age, but the following year, he competed at the youth Commonwealth Games, where he won a gold medal and views the "senior Games" as a crucial stepping stone towards the Olympics.
He'll defend his Scottish middleweight title next month against Darren Johnstone, of Forgewood Boxing Club in Motherwell.
Retaining the title will take him to the British Championships, where he won a silver medal last year.
Qualifying for the Gold Coast will set him up nicely as he looks to realise that Olympic dream and a trip to Tokyo.
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Lee McGregor had a choice to make - bow to the money or chase a Commonwealth Games medal.
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The 34-year-old was released by AFC Wimbledon shortly after scoring a penalty in their fourth-tier play-off final victory over Plymouth in May.
He asked managers to "hit me up on WhatsApp" in his post-match interview.
Gareth Ainsworth is the boss to have heeded the call for the 16-stone man, who has 143 career league goals.
The cult hero, who counts Gillingham, Northampton and Barry Town among his various former clubs, admits himself that he is not the "typical footballer size-wise".
But his physique has made one of the most recognisable English players outside the Premier League.
It has also led him to being known worldwide as the strongest man on the video game 'Fifa', as well as prompting him to release his own 'Beast Mode' clothing line.
Ainsworth told the club website: "Bayo has had a phenomenal career and still has plenty to offer, not just on the pitch but also in the changing room because of his character and real leadership qualities.
"He's kept himself fit over the summer and joins the squad at a perfect time just as we're heading out to France for a pre-season training camp which will help everyone get to know each other better and enable us to put more plans in place for the year ahead."
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The French Football Federation said it will not select Benzema, who has not played for Les Bleus since November.
He is being investigated for his part in an alleged plot to blackmail France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena.
"All I can say is the player is upset and distraught. He wanted to be there," said former France midfielder Zidane.
The FFF said its decision to not select Benzema took into account "the ability of players to work towards unity" and that "athletic performance" was important but not an "exclusive criterion".
"We all know what a player he is and what he can contribute," added 43-year-old Zidane, who was part of the France team that won the 1998 World Cup on home soil.
"You need all your strongest players to go as far in the competition as possible."
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Both clubs will be attempting to win the competition for the first time.
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The rapturous reception is not for one of the platinum-selling classics from his days with The Commotions in the 1980s. Instead, the crowd are cheering for Like A Broken Record, the opening track of his excellent but considerably lower-selling 2010 album.
"Thanks," says the singer-songwriter. "Always nice when the new songs are as popular as the old ones."
In fact everything Lloyd Cole plays over a two-hour set at Ustanova Kulture Palilula is devoured ravenously by an audience which has long been starved of live music like this.
Much of Belgrade beats to the pulse of British bands from the 1980s - blasting from shops, cafes and taxis. Street vendors and record shops offer locally-pressed vinyl copies of all the era's big albums for two or three pounds.
But seeing the acts in the flesh has been tricky since the breakup of Yugoslavia - thanks to conflict, international embargoes and economic woes.
Now things are changing. The economics of the music industry and Serbia's shift towards the European Union are playing into the hands of local listeners.
Lloyd Cole was just one of a considerable list of respected international acts who made their first visits to Belgrade in 2013. Beyonce opened her world tour at the city's main arena. Depeche Mode played an enormous outdoor show. And Green Day played at the foot of the city's ancient riverside fortress.
"I hadn't been getting offers here before - or, at least, not workable offers," says Lloyd Cole on the day of his show.
The singer admits there is a delicate balancing act for someone with his current profile - respected but not million-selling, although current album Standards has caused a considerable critical stir.
Income from touring has become vital to artists who can no longer rely on royalties from record sales. But travelling to a country where there is no audience waiting to buy tickets would be a costly mistake.
"There's a whole block of the world that starts somewhere near where the old iron curtain used to be and goes all the way to Japan that I've almost never been, and from a selfish point of view, I'd be excited to try to go to new places."
"Realistically, my chances of getting to those places would be dependent on me actually having some kind of re-emergence, which strangely seems to be happening right now."
But in Belgrade it is not just about the revival of a particular artist. Many of those for whom music is a passion are celebrating the re-emergence of their city on the international musical map - and what that means for their country.
Valentina Macura promoted Lloyd Cole's show as part of October's inaugural Festival Parallel - and says the renewed popularity of Belgrade as a tour stop has enormous symbolic significance. It indicates the decline of insular, nationalist attitudes which championed locally-made "turbo folk".
"Depeche Mode was a huge band for people in Belgrade and Serbia. When they came, and all of those countless thousands of people went to see them, it felt like after 10 years, we won!"
Valentina believes the range of touring productions coming to Belgrade shows that the city is finally recovering - culturally at least - from the isolation of the Milosevic era.
"The country is opening up - it has been for the past decade. But it's very important not just to have the big names coming, but to have artists who are a bit less commercial and more quality."
John Lydon's Public Image Limited certainly fit that description - they sparred with an enthusiastically abusive crowd in the garden of the Student Cultural Centre. Mark Lanegan - of Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age - has become a regular visitor, as has veteran singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet.
Peter Gabriel was another 2013 Belgrade debutant - making a late booking at the city's arena after a date in Croatia's capital Zagreb fell through.
His long-time guitarist David Rhodes says there are certain perils to playing in parts of the world which have not previously been fixtures on the circuit.
"Sometimes you're just not the right act to play and at the last minute the promoter will say: actually I can't afford to have you come out this far. Then you have to turn back and find something else to do!"
David Rhodes has become a frequent visitor to Serbia thanks to his involvement with the band Balkanopolis. And he says the changes in the country's international standing have come at just the right time to pick up musicians keen to expand their touring horizons and income.
"Generally artists will be pushing further east. Promoters will only put things on if they think they can make some money out of it, and artists will then come so that they can make a bit of money too.
"And I guess it's quite easy, once the promoters see it happening with a couple of people, that will then attract more and hopefully the scene will expand."
Serbia's promoters are also hoping for a little high-level help. Valentina Macura says she would like the government to provide "better conditions" for putting on events involving international artists - with tax breaks and help with sponsorship.
As it happens, the government has started to wake up to the fact that big-name gigs could be a way of attracting more overseas visitors to Belgrade - further rehabilitating Serbia's image.
Prime Minister Ivica Dacic says he has asked the country's new Minister of Culture to look into ways of attracting more international touring artists.
"It all greatly contributes to the strengthening of the position of our country. There is still much work to do, so that when you say Serbia, the first thing you think of is Novak Djokovic or the Exit Festival or the fact that the best nightlife is happening here - and not to think of Serbs as war criminals."
The past couple of decades have been turbulent both for Serbia and the international music industry. But now both sides are ready to give each other what they need. It could be the re-birth of a beautiful relationship.
Mills won gold in Rio with her partner Saskia Clark sailing in the 470 class.
But the 28-year-old from Cardiff is seeking a new challenge and will experiment with the FX class.
"I think this next year's a good opportunity for me to try something else just to keep it fresh and, in a years' time, I can make a decision of where I want to go," said Mills.
"I've been sailing in the 470 class now for 10 years. It's such an amazing boat and I've learnt so many amazing sailing skills from it.
"The new boat is a lot faster quite a different challenge. I'm really excited to try something new."
The FX is a two-person boat and is one of the five sailing classes open to women in the Olympics.
"We have a national competition coming up in November and that'll be my first opportunity racing that boat," Mills added.
Mill's sailing partner Saskia Clark was one of several British athletes who had their medical records leaked earlier this month.
The records showed Clark was given a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to treat her asthma during the Beijing and London Olympics.
TUEs allow banned substances to be used for medical reasons.
"For us in sailing it's not a massive factor. There aren't many TUEs in sailing aside from something like an asthma inhaler," said Mills.
"We aren't even that aware of what even people could take and get a TUE for. It's something that needs to be under scrutiny to make the process better and to make sure all the athletes are happy.
"I've spoken to Saskia and she totally relaxed. It's hard for us to even comprehend that it would be an issue because in sailing there's so much going on. Fitness is a huge part of it but there are 50 million other things we have to worry about."
They include £9.1m plans at Silverstone motor racing circuit, Northamptonshire, and a £16.8m project at the former BBC studios at Alexandra Palace in London.
The six proposals will each receive hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Heritage Lottery Fund chairwoman Dame Jenny Abramsky said the projects were "hugely deserving" of support.
The Silverstone project is to preserve its motor racing heritage, while the Alexandra Palace scheme is to restore and re-open the BBC studios' Victorian theatre.
There is also a £12.2m bid to transform the last surviving ship from the Battle of Jutland in World War I, HMS Caroline, into a visitor attraction in Belfast's Titanic Quarter.
A £9.8m project would develop a new archive centre documenting Cornwall's heritage at a historic brewery in Redruth.
Some £10m is required for the redevelopment of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Plans to restore and open 800-year-old Auckland Castle in County Durham to the public are also put at £10m.
The castle has a collection of paintings by 17th Century Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbaran.
Former motor racing champion Sir Jackie Stewart welcomed the financial backing for the proposals at Silverstone, where he won the British Grand Prix in 1969 and 1971.
He said: "This grant is hugely important as a first step in helping the British Racing Drivers' Club and Silverstone to ensure that the heritage of British motor sport can reach a far wider audience than before and cements its importance for future generations."
Dame Jenny added: "From Cornish tin mining, to the development of motor racing and the history of broadcasting, these projects all reflect a real desire to tell the stories of important aspects of the UK's heritage and as such we felt they were hugely deserving of the Heritage Lottery Fund's support."
Rory McKeown's cross-shot hit the bar as Southport made a confident start, but after the break the visitors took control.
Kevan Hurst tested Craig King's handling with a decent effort just after the break, but there was little the Southport goalkeeper could do to deny the 31-year-old's superb volley with 18 minutes remaining.
The victory, which ended a three-match winless run for Guiseley, leaves Southport 10 points off safety with only six matches to play.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Southport 0, Guiseley 1.
Second Half ends, Southport 0, Guiseley 1.
Louis Almond (Southport) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Jake Cassidy.
Substitution, Guiseley. Adam Boyes replaces Jordan Preston.
Jordan Preston (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Alex Purver replaces James Wesolowski.
Substitution, Southport. Jamie Allen replaces Declan Weeks.
Goal! Southport 0, Guiseley 1. Kevan Hurst (Guiseley).
Substitution, Southport. Andrai Jones replaces Richard Brodie.
Substitution, Southport. Liam Hynes replaces Jim Stevenson.
Second Half begins Southport 0, Guiseley 0.
First Half ends, Southport 0, Guiseley 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The comedy series, which stars Larry David as an exaggerated version of himself, last aired an original episode in 2011.
Speaking about the show's five-year absence, David joked: "In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, 'I left, I did nothing, I returned'."
An official return date for the new series has not yet been confirmed.
The commissioning of a new series is the first major programming decision by Casey Bloys, who took over as president of programming at HBO last month.
In a statement, he said: "We're thrilled that Larry has decided to do a new season of Curb and can't wait to see what he has planned."
The show, which premiered in 2000 and stars David in a fictionalised version of his own life, is HBO's longest-running scripted comedy series.
The actor, who also co-created comedy series Seinfeld, has maintained a high profile in the US since Curb Your Enthusiasm was last broadcast, parodying Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live and recently appearing on NBC variety show Maya and Marty.
13 January 2017 Last updated at 09:22 GMT
The format of the tournament will now also change and instead of going into groups of four the 48 teams will be placed in groups of three with the top two teams in each group qualifying for the next round of knock-out games.
FIFA have said that the tournament will still be only be 32 days long and the eventual winner will still only have to play 7 games to be crowned champions.
There have been many people for and against these changes but it is hoped that adding more teams will give England, Northern Island, Scotland and Wales a better chance of qualifying.
They will hand over another third next Wednesday, with the remainder due to be surrendered in a fortnight's time.
The weapons are to be stored at 26 locations around the country.
After five decades of war and years of negotiations, the government and the country's biggest rebel group sealed the agreement last year.
There are 7,000 rifles and pistols to be handed over before the Farc - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - can become a political party.
Farc leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, who is better known as Timochenko, announced the handover on social media on Wednesday.
Government sources and the UN confirmed that the weapons had been surrendered.
Farc rebels have until 20 June to hand over all their weapons - a deadline that was extended from an original date of 30 May.
This has been one of the most awaited moments of the implementation of the peace process in Colombia.
So far no photograph or video of a fighter handing over a weapon to a UN mission member has been seen. It is uncertain if there will be such picture. Still, with the verification of the UN, the disarmament of the largest guerrilla group in Colombia is finally taking place.
They need to get it over and done with so they can focus on the next step for their organisation: entering Colombia's political life, as civilians, with their own political party that they plan to launch by August this year.
How will they fare and how much support will they have from the Colombian people? Many do not like the Farc, even without arms. But most will value the fact that they will not use them any more to push for their political goals.
The decades-long conflict between rebel groups, state forces, paramilitaries and drug gangs killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced more than seven million.
The peace deal was initially rejected in a referendum, then reworked and implemented. Since it came in to force the national army has been granted access to areas that were once occupied by the Farc and former rebels have been rejoining civilian life.
But in a move that threatened the process, a rebel was arrested in contravention of the deal's terms. President Juan Manuel Santos put the arrest down to "confusion" and the man was released.
For his efforts to reach peace with the Farc, Mr Santos was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Advocate Depute Alex Prentice QC told the jury of eight men and seven women that no further evidence would be led by the Crown.
Mr Whyte is accused of acquiring Rangers by fraud. He denies the charge and another under the Companies Act.
A total of 17 witnesses have given evidence so far - including Sir David Murray, Walter Smith and Ally McCoist.
During the conclusion of the prosecution's case, Mr Prentice made a number of changes to the charges faced by Mr Whyte, including the date of the alleged fraud.
Locations were also deleted from the charges along with a number of individuals said to have been "representatives" of Mr Whyte.
Mr Prentice concluded: "With that, I formally close the Crown case."
Jurors were then sent away for the day as legal discussions took place.
The trial, before judge Lady Stacey, continues.
Glenn Murray put the Seagulls in front from the penalty spot after Kalvin Phillips was sent off for handling on the line midway through the first half.
Despite dominating, the hosts only sealed victory with Tomer Hemed's late penalty after Lewis Dunk was fouled.
Leeds defended resolutely but rarely troubled the division's best defence.
Brighton, who go two points ahead of second-placed Newcastle, were top of the table at the same stage last season following a 21-game unbeaten run at the start of the campaign.
The Seagulls eventually missed out on automatic promotion to the Premier League, finishing third on goal difference behind Middlesbrough and champions Burnley.
However, Chris Hughton's men are now eight points clear of Reading in third, and three of their remaining four league games this month are against teams in the lower half of the division.
Their task against Leeds became easier when midfielder Phillips blocked Dunk's goalbound effort with his arm and Murray stepped up to smash home his 12th league goal of the season - all of which have come at home.
The striker, on loan from Bournemouth, had more opportunities in a one-sided first half, heading just wide and seeing his looping effort tipped over by visiting goalkeeper Rob Green.
Brighton were made to wait until the 83rd minute to add to their tally when Kyle Bartley tangled with fellow defender Dunk in the area - Israel striker Hemed sending Green the wrong way from the spot.
Fourth-placed Leeds had won five of their previous six Championship games before their visit to the south coast, but could drop out of the play-offs if results go against them on Saturday.
Brighton manager Chris Hughton:
"I am delighted with the result and the performance.
"The only negative was that there was too big a gap between the first goal and the second. Anything can happen and in that period we didn't create more opportunities.
"In the last four or five games we have not been at our best but we have kept picking up results."
Leeds boss Garry Monk:
"I'm frustrated. Brighton are a very good side but had we kept 11 men on the pitch it could have been different.
"Brighton deserved to win, but we didn't do ourselves justice.
"It was a tough night and we didn't make it easy for ourselves."
Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Leeds United 0.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Leeds United 0.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Stuart Dallas with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Shane Duffy.
Attempt missed. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Sam Baldock.
Foul by Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Charlie Taylor (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leeds United. Liam Cooper replaces Pontus Jansson because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jiri Skalak replaces Anthony Knockaert.
Delay in match Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) because of an injury.
Foul by Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Leeds United 0. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Brighton and Hove Albion. Lewis Dunk draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Kyle Bartley (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Attempt saved. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross.
Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Tomer Hemed replaces Glenn Murray.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Substitution, Leeds United. Stuart Dallas replaces Souleymane Doukara.
Foul by Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Lewis Dunk tries a through ball, but Shane Duffy is caught offside.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Solly March.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March replaces Jamie Murphy because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Jamie Murphy (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross.
The collision was on the A923 Coupar Angus Road.
The road has been closed in both directions between the Lochee roundabout and Dunsinane Industrial Estate.
The 33-year-old former Wigan Warriors and Hull FC man was a free agent having been released by Widnes Vikings last month.
"I'm really grateful that Castleford have given me the opportunity to get back in to the game," he said.
"I'm here till the end of the season and it's my opportunity to prove myself and my capabilities."
Tickle has not played in Super League since being assaulted outside a nightclub in Manchester in November.
Ellen Yianni, 29, from Hounslow, south-west London, had been acting as a "medic's buddy" during the site clearance near Basildon in 2011.
Her solicitor claimed she was assaulted, wrongly arrested, held for several hours in poor conditions and "maliciously prosecuted".
Essex Police declined to comment.
Civil liberties law firm Hodge Jones & Allen, which represented Ms Yianni, said she had tried to climb a scaffolding tower at the entrance of Dale Farm because she "felt scared" of riot police below.
She was grabbed by two officers, who pulled her from the scaffolding and threw her down a steep ramp, where she was hit by a shield to the back of the knees, it said in a statement.
She was later arrested for refusing to remove a scarf from her face, which the law firm claimed she was wearing because it was cold - not to conceal her identity.
"She was then held for several hours in a police van without access to food, water or her antidepressant medication, and once brought into custody at Basildon police station and interviewed, was held for a further five hours without being allowed a phone call to inform friends of her whereabouts," the statement continued.
It added that, in its view, Essex Police committed a breach of the Data Protection Act by releasing her name, age and address on its website when she was charged but had yet to appear in court.
It claimed this resulted in "a stream of threats and abuse via Twitter".
In January 2012, Southend Magistrates' Court dismissed the charge that she failed to remove a face covering.
Ms Yianni attended the hearing with her boyfriend Jonathan May-Bowles, who was jailed for six weeks for attacking media tycoon Rupert Murdoch with a foam pie at the House of Commons in July 2011.
Hodge Jones & Allen said its claim included the contention that stress and anxiety caused by police had exacerbated Ms Yianni's mental health condition.
It said Essex Police did not admit liability but had settled the claim, agreeing to pay Ms Yianni £15,000.
The claim: The Migration Watch think tank says that between a quarter and half a million refugees and their dependants could come to the UK from 2020 onwards after acquiring EU citizenship.
Reality Check verdict: We could not find clear evidence to support this figure. It is very difficult to predict what future migration flows will look like, as they depend on a number of factors. It can also take a number of years for refugees granted asylum in EU countries to acquire citizenship and apply for EU passports. We don't know how many people granted asylum in the stated period will go on to become citizens of another EU country.
Of these, 333,350 were granted refugee status, subsidiary protection status, temporary protection or the right to remain on humanitarian grounds.
A report from Migration Watch, which wants to reduce levels of immigration to the UK, claims that between 240,000 and 480,000 refugees could move to the UK from 2020.
This figure includes family members who they say may travel with them but excludes "any future arrivals who might be granted asylum in other EU member states".
Migration Watch bases its estimates on the Eurostat data available for 2015 and the first three months of 2016. This shows that, in that period, roughly 460,000 migrants were granted asylum or humanitarian protection in EU countries.
However, they also claim that of those applicants already in the EU still waiting for a decision, "an additional 508,000 people will be granted asylum, bringing the total number granted refugee status in EU countries to 968,000 for 2015 and the first quarter of 2016 alone".
They calculate this on the current Eurostat data available on the recognition rate - or percentage of successful asylum claims - which is about 52%. However, it is not clear that this would remain the same.
Dr Nando Sigona, senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham and expert in migration, said that it was wrong to assume the same rate of success for pending cases. This is because more straightforward cases, like asylum applications from Syrians, tend to be decided on more quickly.
"Eurostat data shows that the acceptance rate of asylum claims particularly in some countries (e.g. Italy) is decreasing," he added.
This aside, to arrive at the figure of between 240,000 and 480,000 of the 968,000 coming to the UK from 2020, Migration Watch have made a number of other assumptions.
Firstly, they say that "each person granted asylum is likely to be followed by between four and eight family members".
They base this on a "leaked estimate from the German authorities". By assuming that four family members would follow 968,000 people, they calculate that the total inflow to Europe could be as high as 4.8m people.
We contacted the German government, who could not confirm the figures for the number of family members likely to join refugees in Europe. We do know that some other EU countries, like Denmark, are tightening the rules on family reunification and have extended the length of time that migrants can apply for family members to join them from one year to three.
Secondly, Migration Watch assume that the English language, availability of low-skilled jobs and existing migrant communities were a pull factor for refugees and migrants living in other parts of the EU.
The Migration Observatory research team at Oxford University previously concluded that these were indeed pull factors for some EU migrants.
However, as Dr Sigona points out: "Making assumptions about what recognised refugees will do after five years in a wealthy country is baseless. Secondary migration often happens immediately or if there is a major disruption. One could assume after five years that refugee families are more or less integrated where they are."
Thirdly, they claim that between 5% and 10% of these 4.8 million refugees could choose to come to the UK after acquiring EU citizenship. This brought them to the figure of between 240,000 and 480,000 people.
In their report, they say this percentage was mainly chosen for "illustrative purposes", though they also cited research showing that between "a third and half of the Somalis granted asylum in the Netherlands have relocated to the UK".
We found a study suggesting that the Dutch-Somali community in the UK varied between 10,000 and 20,000 between 1998 and 2002 - roughly around one-third of the Dutch-Somali population living in the Netherlands at the time.
However, according to official figures released by Eurostat, Somalis only represented 2% of the approximately 330,000 asylum seekers granted protection in EU member states in 2015. In 2014, 4% of the 185,000 people granted protection were Somali.
We could not find any other clear evidence to support this 5-10% figure, though Migration Watch say the EU's resettlement programme for refugees and current levels of migration from southern Europe were also factors which they considered.
Lastly, Migration Watch say that refugees could begin to arrive in the years following 2020. They base this on refugees granted asylum needing at least five to six years to becomes EU citizens and get an EU passport, which would allow them to live and work in another EU country. We also don't know yet how many refugees granted asylum in the stated period will eventually go on to acquire citizenship of another EU country.
As previously mentioned here, this can take up to six to eight years in Germany and asylum seekers have to fulfil a number of conditions before being accepted.
Robert McNeil, from the Migration Observatory research team at Oxford University, said: "We simply do not know how many people may come to the UK in future because it is dependent on an enormous number of different factors. The numbers put forward in this report are speculating about what may happen in the future."
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
The Club Crews will also help those who have lost friends, received unwanted attention or are feeling emotional.
The pilot project is being run by Best Bar None, the national scheme to raise standards on licensed premises, and the alcohol education charity Drinkaware.
It will run at three Glasgow venues - SWG3, The Garage and The Cathouse.
Crew members will work in pairs at these large venues, which cater for more than 500 customers.
They will introduce themselves to people who are queuing to enter and let them know that they are on hand to help.
As each club fills up, crew members will work with management, security and bar teams to ensure customers have a good time.
They will also routinely check areas such as toilets and stairwells and offer practical support such as tissues, water or first aid to anyone who has had too much to drink.
Elaine Hindal, chief executive of Drinkaware, said the Club Crew initiative would help young people have a good time safely over the festive period.
"We know this scheme can work well to help reduce the number of young adults experiencing vulnerability through alcohol on a night out," she said.
"The trained Drinkaware Crew can bring a new dynamic to venues, which means people in vulnerable situations have someone who is there to spend as much time as is needed, to make sure they are looked after and that they can either enjoy the rest of their night or get home safely."
Jonathan Dawson, operations manager at SWG3, said he was delighted to be part of the pilot scheme.
He said: "It is vital for me to put the welfare of our customers at the centre of our operation and I feel that the crew adds to and augments what we already have in place.
"It gives me an extra layer of service and safety. We want our customers to come and have a good time and, most importantly, to get home safely."
Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety added: "The new Club Crews are another Scottish first for our thriving night-time economy, which is so successful due to the high quality of venues.
"This festive season will be exceptionally busy and the new Drinkaware Crews will complement existing safety measures over that period and going forward."
As well as the Club Crews, Glasgow also runs Nitezones over the festive period where wardens ensure taxi rank queues are orderly and move quickly.
Glasgow's Street Pastors also offer help to anyone who is lost or vulnerable in the city centre at night.
In the Great Rift Valley palaeontologists have discovered some of the earliest evidence of man's ancestors.
In the present day, Kenya's ethnic diversity has produced a vibrant culture but is also a source of conflict.
The Islamist militant Al-Shabab movement, active in Somalia, has also been launching a growing number of attacks in Kenya, including the 2013 Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi and the 2015 attack on Garissa University College in northwest Kenya.
Other pressing challenges include high unemployment, crime and poverty. Droughts frequently put millions of people at risk.
Population 42.7 million
Area 582,646 sq km (224,961 sq miles)
Major languages Swahili, English
Major religion Christianity
Life extpectancy 57 years (men), 59 years (women)
Currency Kenya shilling
President: Uhuru Kenyatta
The son of Kenya's founding president, Uhuru Kenyatta took up his father's mantle to become head of state in April 2013, despite facing charges of crimes against humanity over election violence five years earlier.
Mr Kenyatta, ranked by Forbes as the richest man in Kenya, was born in 1961 shortly after the release of his father Jomo Kenyatta from nearly 10 years' imprisonment by British colonial forces, and two years before Kenya's independence.
Educated in the United States at the elite Amherst College, where he studied political science and economics, he is viewed as the top political leader of Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu, who make up some 17% of the population.
However, he also appeals to Kenyans from different ethnic backgrounds, able to mingle not only with the elite he was born into but also with the average Kenyan, cracking jokes using local street slang.
He is seeking re-election in the presidential election due in August 2017.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Kenya at 90th (out of 180 countries) in its 2014 global Press Freedom Index. A controversial new system of media regulation introduced in 2013 has drawn protests from media organisations and human rights groups.
A handful of major players dominate the industry. One of them, Nation Media Group, has extended its operations to neighbouring countries.
Television is the main news source in cities and towns. The spread of viewing in rural areas has been slower, hampered by limited access to mains electricity. A switchover to digital TV is under way.
Many Kenyans have embraced social media. Facebook is said to be edging out email as a preferred mode of communication.
Some key dates in Kenya's history:
c 3.3 million BC - Evidence of some of the earliest human tools have been found in Kenya, suggesting that it was the cradle of humanity from which descendants moved out to populate the world.
1895 - Formation of British East African Protectorate, which becomes crown colony of Kenya - administered by a British governor - in 1920.
1944 - Kenyan African Union (KAU) formed to campaign for African independence. First African appointment to legislative council.
1963 - Kenya gains independence. Opposition groups are stifled and the country survives ethnic tensions and a coup attempt. Multiparty elections are allowed in 1991.
1998 - Al-Qaeda operatives bomb the US embassy in Nairobi, killing 224 people and injuring thousands.
2007 - Disputed general elections are followed by deadly violence.
2009 - Kenya says that at least 10 million people, or one third of the population, are in need of food aid. The government mobilises the military to distribute food, water and medicines to areas hit hardest by drought.
2011 - Kenya intervenes in conflict in Somalia and subsequently suffers several apparent reprisal attacks, including the 2013 massacre at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi and the 2015 attack on Garissa University College in the northwest.
On Sunday a driver screaming "God is great" in Arabic ran down pedestrians in Dijon, injuring 11, two seriously.
It came a day after police shot dead a man in Tours after he attacked them with a knife, also shouting "God is great".
Mr Hollande urged the French on Monday not to panic.
The man who carried out Sunday's attack was arrested after targeting pedestrians in five different parts of the city in the space of half an hour.
He is said to be "apparently imbalanced" and to have spent time in a psychiatric hospital.
The lives of the two people seriously injured in Dijon are not said to be in danger.
Witnesses told police the driver, aged around 40, had also said he was "acting for the children of Palestine", an unnamed source close to the investigation told AFP news agency.
A spokesman for the interior ministry told French TV he believed the attacker had been acting alone.
The driver has been known to police for minor incidents dating back 20 years, he added.
The prosecutor in Dijon said the attacker had a long history of mental illness and the incident was not linked to terrorism.
Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister, tweeted (in French) to express his "solidarity" with the victims.
In Saturday's incident, a man stabbed three police officers in the city of Tours before being shot dead.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told French TV the man had been "very unstable".
Anti-terrorism investigators have opened an inquiry into the attack.
France has the largest number of Muslims in western Europe - estimated at between five and six million.
There have been a number of "lone wolf" attacks by Islamists in recent years.
Antiretroviral drugs were reportedly administered to the baby in California just four hours after birth.
The unidentified nine-month-old child is now said to be HIV negative.
It is the second such case after an HIV-positive Mississippi infant brought into remission following early treatment was reported in 2013.
"This is a call to action for us to mobilize and be able to learn from these cases," Johns Hopkins University paediatrics specialist Dr Deborah Persaud said at a Boston medical conference.
No trace of the virus can now be found in the infant's blood or tissues, the doctor revealed.
Dr Persaud said the nine-month-old child is still receiving a three-drug anti-Aids cocktail, while the three-year-old Mississippi child stopped receiving antiretroviral treatments two years ago.
"Really the only way we can prove that we have accomplished remission in these kids is by taking them off treatment and that's not without risk," Dr Persaud added.
Both children are reported to have been born to mothers infected with HIV, which weakens the body's immune system.
The human immunodeficiency virus has infected more than 34 million people worldwide, researchers estimate.
Bowling with superb skill and control, Broad removed Stiaan van Zyl, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers as South Africa struggled to 137-4, trailing England by 166.
Earlier, England stuttered from 179-4 overnight to 303 all out.
Nick Compton fell 15 runs short of a comeback century as Morne Morkel took four wickets in the morning session.
England are in a strong position to push for only a second win in 16 away Tests, although a battling unbeaten 67 from opener Dean Elgar will give South Africa hope of achieving parity in the first innings.
But the tourists will return half an hour earlier than scheduled at 07:30 GMT on Monday - with further overs lost on day two after a rain-affected first day - knowing that quick wickets will expose the South African tail-enders.
In the absence of England's usual senior bowler James Anderson, Broad had to step up to the mark - and just as in his match-winning spell against Australia at Trent Bridge, he thrived on the responsibility.
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Recalled opener Van Zyl lasted just two balls before he left a delivery that seamed in sharply and rocked back his off stump.
Captain Amla - enduring the worst slump of his illustrious career with no fifties in his past 10 innings - edged a superb delivery with a hint of away-movement to leave the hosts 14-2.
De Villiers led South Africa's recovery, putting on 86 with the gritty Elgar, but fell one ball short of his half-century when Broad induced him to poke a leg-cutter through to Jonny Bairstow.
That brought the out-of-form Faf du Plessis to the crease, and he managed just two runs from 19 deliveries before he missed a sharply turning delivery from Moeen Ali and was bowled.
England's optimism will be tempered by the knowledge that they could be in an even better position if several key moments had gone their way.
Amla was twice reprieved - first when he appeared to get a faint edge behind off Broad having scored one but England declined to review, then when Bairstow dropped a much thicker edge off Chris Woakes when he had added one more run.
De Villiers was on 12 when he gloved a back-of-a-length ball from Steven Finn to Ben Stokes at gully, but the third umpire ruled that the catch had not carried despite the fielder appearing to get his fingers underneath the ball.
And - perhaps most crucially - Elgar was given a life on 58 when Stokes hit him on the pad and England again spurned a review. Had they used one, the not-out decision would have been overturned.
"It's something we have to sharpen up on, but Alastair Cook thought the batsman hit it," said Broad afterwards. "We need to work on our communication, which is something [former wicketkeeper] Matt Prior was good at."
Earlier, resuming on 179-4, England lost an early wicket when Stokes was caught at gully trying to pull Morkel for 21 - continuing a poor run with the bat which has seen him make just 129 runs from his last 12 innings at an average of 10.75.
Compton, unbeaten on 63 overnight, played slowly but with commendable application to hold the innings together, and he and Bairstow briefly steadied the tourists with a stand of 51.
But Compton's dismissal - caught behind pulling Morkel - triggered a familiar collapse as England lost four wickets for 20 runs in the space of 29 balls.
Morkel - outshining the other South African bowlers with his superior pace and bounce - had Moeen caught behind for a duck and then removed Woakes lbw first ball.
Bairstow - still searching for his maiden Test century - then fenced Kyle Abbott to second slip, and it was left to Broad and Finn to guide England towards a respectable total with a counter-attacking last-wicket partnership of 36.
England's Stuart Broad: "It was great to get us up to 300. We'd have liked a few more but we don't know how this wicket is going to play.
"Moeen got a few balls to turn and our leg-cutters gripped so if the pitch continues to deteriorate batting could get harder on days four and five.
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special: "It's a slow, low pitch with a bit of nibble for the bowlers.
"People are having to work very hard for their runs. England did well this morning. Bairstow was positive and scored quite quickly and then Broad played some shots to get England to a working total on this surface.
"South Africa are a wobbly batting side and their confidence is down after their tour of India. Broad bowled beautifully with a great length and line and he got the two big fish of Amla and De Villiers."
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City of London Police said a claim for life insurance was made in May, and it was reported the mother had died in a car crash in Zanzibar.
Police said the woman was contacted in Canada by officers and asked to return to the UK.
The 45-year-old was arrested in Birmingham.
The woman and her son, 18, from Walsall, were questioned on suspicion of fraud by false representation and have both been bailed until April.
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The son's guardian, 24, from Walsall, was also interviewed under caution.
Blackwell, 25, was placed in a coma with bleeding in his skull after his 10th-round defeat at London's Wembley Arena on 26 March.
"No that's me done," the Briton tweeted after being asked on the social media site if he would be making a comeback.
"I can't put my friends and family and self through that again."
Blackwell wants to stay in the sport in some capacity and said he holds "no hard feelings" towards Eubank Jr as he continues his recovery.
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The opener smashed seven sixes and 11 fours in his 54-ball 110 as Notts posted 227-3, their highest T20 total.
Derbyshire, attempting a record T20 run chase in England, fell short on 222-5 despite Wayne Madsen's unbeaten 86.
Kevin Pietersen suffered a recurrence of a calf injury as his Surrey side beat Middlesex by 15 runs at The Oval.
Yorkshire won by 29 runs to inflict a third straight defeat on Birmingham Bears, while Hampshire suffered their second defeat in two nights as Essex cruised to a seven-wicket win at Chelmsford with six overs to spare.
There was little indication of the drama to come at Trent Bridge when Madsen removed Alex Hales and Samit Patel with the final ball of the first over and the first ball of the third to leave Notts 19-2.
Brendan Taylor survived the hat-trick delivery and went on to make an unbeaten 67 in a Notts record third-wicket stand of 153 while playing the support act to Wessels.
Wessels, 31, already held the county record for the highest score in T20 cricket, the 97 he made against Durham in 2015.
Derbyshire needed eight off the final two balls to win but England bowler Jake Ball held his nerve as the visitors had to settle for equalling their highest score in the format.
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Surrey's victory over Middlesex was overshadowed by Pietersen's troublesome calf.
The former England batsman passed a fitness test on the injury - suffered while making 52 on his return against Essex on Wednesday - and strode to the crease following the fall of Jason Roy.
The 37-year-old defended his first ball off the back foot and turned down a single, running out Aaron Finch for 40 off 22 balls in the process.
Middlesex captain Brendon McCullum generously allowed Roy to return as a runner but, clearly hampered, Pietersen scooped an easy catch to Toby Roland-Jones off Steven Finn to depart for four.
Surrey captain Gareth Batty told BBC Radio London: "It caught us off guard because Kev had got through the fitness test, no problems at all. It wasn't on our radar and then unfortunately it went pop."
Batty said it is "unlikely" Pietersen will be fit for Surrey's game against Hampshire at Southampton on Sunday.
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Leicestershire suffered a two-run defeat on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method after rain cut short their pursuit of 166 against Northamptonshire Steelbacks.
Leicestershire, who went into the game with the only remaining 100% record in the T20 Blast, restricted the defending champions to 165-8 at Grace Road.
However, rain forced the players off with Leicestershire 107-3 with 5.3 overs remaining.
Only eight overs were possible in Cardiff after a delayed start before Glamorgan's game with Sussex was called off, while the West Country derby between Somerset and Gloucestershire at Taunton and Lancashire's visit to Worcestershire were abandoned without a ball being bowled.
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British troops began landing on the islands in the South Atlantic on 21 May 1982.
The Hampshire town, which is home to the Falklands Veterans Foundation, has hosted a national commemoration service and parade every five years since 1997.
A civic procession and a service at the town's Falkland Gardens was followed by a parade through the High Street.
The march past was led by the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Collingwood.
The mayor of Gosport Linda Batty, Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire Rear Admiral Iain Henderson and First Sea Lord Sir Philip Jones took the salute.
Falklands Veterans Foundation chief executive Derek "Smokey" Cole, who served on board HMS Intrepid, said: "Gosport has a very special place in the hearts of veterans and their families, because many of those who served in the conflict lived there, and the town's military facilities played a crucial role in supporting the Falklands campaign - including supplying and arming the taskforce."
The 1965 and 1967 episodes star William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, the first two actors to play The Doctor.
They are among more than 100 instalments which were not retained by the BBC.
The announcement was made on Sunday at Missing Believed Wiped, an event held at the British Film Institute (BFI).
The BFI, based in London, has been working with broadcasters and film collectors to recover missing recordings of many different television series.
Television programmes only began to be routinely recorded in the late 1950s. Previously, they were broadcast live.
Even when it became possible to make recordings, video tape was so expensive that most transmission tapes were wiped, so they could be re-used.
In the 1970s, the BBC commissioned a report by the historian Lord Briggs. His findings prompted efforts to improve the archiving of television programmes.
Although original transmission tapes did not survive, programmes were transferred on to film for broadcasters abroad and it is these prints that the BFI sometimes recover.
Doctor Who was sold all over the world in the 1960s.
The latest two episodes to be found were in the private collection of a retired broadcast engineer, Terry Burnett, who bought them at a school fete in Hampshire in the 1980s.
Mr Burnett had no idea the BBC did not have the recordings - it was only when he mentioned them casually in conversation to Ralph Montagu, head of heritage at Radio Times, that their significance was recognised.
Airlock is the third episode of a four-part story called Galaxy Four, transmitted in the autumn of 1965.
Hartnell is accompanied by Peter Purves, later a presenter on the children's series Blue Peter, and Maureen O'Brien, now better known as a novelist.
The plot involves the desperate attempts by the Drahvins, a race of cloned females, to escape a planet which is about to explode. The story also marks the only appearance in the series of tiny robots known as the Chumblies.
The other re-discovered episode is the second part of The Underwater Menace, from early 1967.
It sees a mad scientist attempting to restore Atlantis by draining the ocean into the Earth's core.
Patrick Troughton, in only his third appearance as The Doctor, was apparently unimpressed with the production.
In a recent biography, his son Michael says he argued with the director Julia Smith - who went on to become the original producer of EastEnders - complaining bitterly about the "ridiculous costumes and make-up of the fish people".
Innes Lloyd, who produced The Underwater Menace later admitted, "it did look like something from a '50s American 'B' movie".
The find makes only a modest dent in the number of missing episodes, with 106 instalments broadcast between 1964 and 1969 still being sought.
Among other items recovered and shown at Sunday's event were Emergency Ward 9, a play by Dennis Potter, and a comedy sketch featuring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Among those killed in the MSF-supported al-Quds hospital was one of the city's last paediatricians, MSF said.
Local sources have blamed the Syrian government or Russian war planes, but there has been no official comment.
Monitors say attacks by both sides left 34 dead and dozens wounded on Thursday.
Violence in Syria has intensified in recent days, despite a partial truce.
The upsurge in violence comes amid reports that the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, is gearing up for a major offensive in Aleppo.
The escalation has threatened to derail the UN-brokered peace talks, which resumed last month.
On Wednesday, the UN envoy to Syria urged the US and Russia to intervene "at the highest level" to save the talks.
"MSF-supported hospital in Aleppo destroyed, at least 14 patients and staff killed, toll expected to rise," MSF tweeted on Thursday.
It said that the hospital was well known locally and had been hit by a direct air strike on Wednesday.
"We condemn the destruction of the al-Quds hospital, depriving people of essential healthcare," the charity added.
An activist at the scene, named as Zuhair, told the BBC that buildings around the hospital were also hit.
"It was an air strike by two rockets, heavy rockets from [a] Russian air strike," he said.
"Near the hospital one building on five floors just crumbled and just crashed down and we don't know how many dead will be under these ruins."
The civil defence agency, which is staffed by volunteers, said the hospital and surrounding buildings were hit by four consecutive air strikes.
Rami Abdurahman, head of the monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, named the paediatrician killed as Mohammed Wasim Moaz, 36.
He told the BBC that Mr Moaz was the last paediatrician in the rebel-held part of Aleppo and another was to be sent on Thursday to take his place.
The Observatory said rebel rocket fire on government-held areas on Thursday had killed 14 civilians while attacks by pro-government forces on rebel neighbourhoods had killed at least 20 people.
The two-month-old "cessation of hostilities", which brought at least a relative lull to some parts of Syria, is indeed "hanging by a thread" as the UN mediator Staffan de Mistura put it.
One of the reasons why it is now at death's door was reflected in the fact that from the outset it was not called a ceasefire or even a truce, because several factions were excluded, including not just the Islamic State militants but also the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
Nusra fighters are present in almost all combat zones, and are mixed up with other groups such as Ahrar al-Sham that Russia is now pressing to have added to the international terror list.
That has meant that hostilities have continued and intensified in many areas, with the government able to claim its attacks are legitimate.
Now state forces are reported to be building up in Aleppo as violence escalates there, raising fears that a long and costly all-out battle for the contested city may be looming.
That would put paid both to the lull and to the Geneva peace talks, prompting the UN envoy to urge the US, Russians and others to press their clients on the ground to ease off, so that stalled negotiations have a chance of resuming.
Syrian state news made no mention of the hospital attack but also said that rebel shelling had killed at least 14 civilians in government-held areas in the north of the city.
Over the past week, more than 100 civilians have been killed in renewed bombardment by both rebel and government forces in Syria's largest city, according to the UK-based Observatory.
Speaking on Wednesday after briefing the UN Security Council on the peace process, the envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, warned that the fragile cessation of hostilities agreed in February could collapse "at any time".
He said that over the past 48 hours an average of one Syrian had been killed every 25 minutes and one wounded every 13 minutes.
For the peace talks in Geneva to succeed, he added, hostilities would need to be reduced to the levels immediately following the February agreement.
Calling on the US and Russia to co-operate, Mr de Mistura said the legacies of both President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin were linked to the success of the peace process in Syria.
More than 270,000 people have been killed since Syria's bitter civil war conflict erupted in 2011 and millions have been forced to flee.
Daniel Graham was attacked by up to six people "in full view" of the passengers on a bus and pedestrians in East Dulwich early on Saturday, they added.
It is believed he was chased down a hill after a mass brawl at a party.
The 14-year-old was attacked in a supermarket car park nearby. A boy of 13 has been bailed until late March.
Police said Mr Graham had been at a party at Dulwich Hamlet football club on Friday night.
About 70 youths were ejected from the clubhouse when the celebrations turned rowdy, witnesses said.
Mr Graham, from Peckham Rye, left the party and ran down Dog Kennel Hill before boarding a stationary 176 bus.
But when he realised he was being followed, he got off the vehicle, police said.
He was then stabbed several times in the street at 0020 GMT.
He managed to board the bus again, at which point passengers rang for an ambulance, but he died in hospital two hours later.
Separately the 14-year-old victim, whose identity has not been given, was found at a hospital where he was seeking treatment for a gunshot wound to the leg.
He remains in a stable condition.
"East Dulwich is a busy area on a Friday night and I am sure that many people witnessed both incidents," said Det Ch Insp Dave Manning of the Metropolitan Police.
"I need to hear from any of the passengers on the 176 bus or any pedestrians who were in the vicinity to come forward."
He is the fourth teenager to be murdered in London in 2011.
Rowan Fitzgerald, aged seven, and pedestrian Dora Hancox, 76, died in the crash in Coventry in October 2015.
Kailash Chander, 79, a former mayor of Leamington Spa, is charged with causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving.
He is due at Coventry Magistrates' Court on 7 September.
His employer, Midland Red (South) Limited, has been charged with two offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
The firm is also due to appear in the court on the same day.
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When the crash happened, Rowan, of Leamington Spa, was on the upper deck with his grandparents and his cousin, an eight-year-old girl who was seriously hurt.
He was described by relatives as "an adorable caring person who gave so much love to anyone he met".
Ms Hancox was a was a lollipop lady in Coventry and Nuneaton and had dedicated many years of her life as a foster carer for Coventry social services, her family said.
Five other people required hospital treatment after the crash in Trinity Street on 3 October.
The bus hit a number of cars and a lamppost before crashing into the open supermarket.
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Ford's team have endured an inconsistent season, with the weekend loss to Newcastle the latest low point.
However, he says his side can recover to reassert themselves in Europe, having also previously lost to English rivals Wasps in the group stage.
"The excitement of playing the best team in Europe in a hostile environment is why you play the game," Ford said.
"Do I believe we can win? Of course I do. I can't wait to see them play."
Ford admitted to being "upset" and "angry" after the defeat to Newcastle and says the pain of defeat has given his players an edge ahead of Sunday's re-arranged fixture.
"Toulon are a fantastic side, but that is the fixture I would want," he told BBC Points West.
"One with a bit of fear and one where we have to play well, prepare well and have to play well as an individual for us to have a chance of winning.
"If we can go to Toulon and perform well and get a win, then we can quickly change the momentum we are on."
Ford, whose side reached the Premiership final last season, added: "I'm looking forward to seeing the reaction of the players. They'll be three or four million watching on French TV and 15,000 live.
"It'll be great to go out and say 'Bath rugby are back'. If we win, we have to back it up. Consistency is key. It will be huge for confidence, but it does not last long - you have to back it up."
Ford also highlighted the importance of having club captain Stuart Hooper return from a back injury.
"You need as many leaders as you can get and he is the best leader I've worked with. To have him back this weekend is fantastic for the club," he said.
However, forward Dave Attwood's absence with a neck injury will be a blow to the team.
"Unfortunately, he will be out for a while and we are going to miss him," Ford said. "He's got a bulging disk which is sitting on a nerve and they need to release that.
"It's sad to lose Dave, but we've got young, big pups chomping at the bit to get some game time."
Dean Cronin, 41, and Daniel Gordon, 28, both from Cardiff, were behind a campaign which saw luxury cars being stolen from driveways across south Wales, the city's crown court heard.
Both pleaded guilty to conspiring to handle stolen goods.
Cronin was jailed for three-and-a-half years and Gordon for 20 months.
South Wales Police said houses were burgled for the car keys inside, and vehicles were driven off while their owners were sleeping upstairs.
But the buyers on seven occasions were police officers, who were building a file of evidence against the pair.
Between June and November, 2016, Cronin and Gordon sold vehicles worth £110,000 to officers for just under £5,400 - including a Mercedes GLA worth £31,000, for just £1,200.
The vehicles had been stolen from places including Cathays and Llanishen in Cardiff, Penarth, in Vale of Glamorgan and Caerphilly.
Det Insp Dean Taylor said: "Dean Cronin and Daniel Gordon headed up an organised crime group which was behind a relentless campaign of crimes across the region.
"They created the market for stolen vehicles and in doing so they inflicted misery and the trauma of being the victim of a burglary upon lots of people.
"The cars which they sold on would have been stripped down for parts or cloned which means they would continue life on our roads as unregistered, illegal and therefore unsafe vehicles."
He said investigations were ongoing to secure convictions for "the burglaries which fuelled their illegal operation".
Politician Madeleine Albright and Mayim Bialik said they "stand ready" to register, in defiance of the new President.
"I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later my family was Jewish," Ms Albright - the first woman to be named Secretary of State - tweeted on Wednesday.
"I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity." The tweet gained tens of thousands of likes.
Her comments come as rumours continue to circulate about an executive order which would announce extreme vetting, a refugee ban and a ban on arrivals from seven countries, said to include Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
But there has been no mention of a register of American Muslims in recent months - something Mr Trump said he would "certainly implement" in an interview in 2015, but later distanced himself from.
A number of people vowed to stand in solidarity with America's Muslim population after Mr Trump's election in November, but Ms Albright's tweet appears to have inspired others to speak out - including Ms Bialik, who stars as Amy Farrah Fowler in the hit series The Big Bang Theory, one of America's most popular sitcoms.
"I'm Jewish. I stand ready to register as a Muslim in #solidarity if it comes to that," she wrote.
Later, the outspoken Trump critic added: "If we're registering people who you think are a threat, register white males too, since most serial killers & mass shooters are white males."
It has been reported that the President will be announcing his new executive order on Thursday.
"Look, the president has talked extensively about extreme vetting," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said, promising "more action this week".
Many, including Ms Albright, a Czech immigrant, are highly critical of the move - which is rumoured to mean the US would accept no Syrian refugees.
"There is no fine print on the Statue of Liberty," she tweeted. "America must remain open to people of all faiths & backgrounds. #RefugeesWelcome."
Mr Trump previously spoke of banning any Muslim from entering the United States.
The accident happened in Glenburn Road, East Kilbride, at about 10:30. The vehicle struck a kerb, causing it to tip over.
Emergency services attended but the man died at the scene. There were no other vehicles involved.
A road closure is still in place between Castleglen Road and Glenburn Road.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service is trying to establish what caused the blaze in Maindee at about 02:45 BST on Thursday.
Crews from Maindee, Duffryn, Malpas, Cwmbran and New Inn attended the incident.
No-one was injured.
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Shantall Singh complained to Tramlink saying she thought she would die when a driver "sped" around the bend near Sandilands station on 31 October.
On 2 November, the company replied saying it would "fully investigate".
Tram operators Firstgroup said it was "not appropriate to comment" as investigations continue into the crash.
One woman and six men were killed, and more than 50 people were injured, when the tram derailed in Croydon on Wednesday.
Ms Singh told BBC London some of the tram's passengers were flung to the side of the carriage as it went around the corner.
"There was a guy on my left hand side and that guy ended up on me and pinned me to the corner of the tram," she said.
"As the tram went around the bend at the junction between Lloyds Park and Sandilands the driver from my point of view missed the bend or he was going too fast. I thought I was going to die and leave my two-year-old son. I do hope this matter will be looked into because I am left with a fear for travelling in the tram."
"We are sorry to hear of this unfortunate incident and we would like to reassure you that we will be fully investigating this. There are a couple of trams it could be and to identify the driver and to view the CCTV from the tram we need to have these details as soon as possible."
She emailed Tramlink customer services to say she hoped they would investigate as "I am left with a fear for travelling in the tram".
In Tramlink's response, the company said it was "sorry to hear of this unfortunate incident" and would check CCTV to find out what happened.
Another person who was on the same tram wrote on Facebook that it had "lifted onto one side at 40mph" as it went round the corner.
When asked by BBC London about the emails, Firstgroup said it was "working with... authorities to provide assistance to the ongoing investigations".
"Clearly, previously reported incidents will form part of those investigations," the company said in a statement.
It is understood the same driver was not involved in both incidents.
Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Logan, 52, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, and Robert Huxley, 63, who all lived in New Addington and Donald Collett, 62, Phil Seary, 57, Mark Smith, 35, from Croydon died in the crash.
Investigators have said the Wimbledon-bound tram was travelling at a "significantly higher speed than is permitted" as it entered a tight bend before flipping on to its side and sliding.
The driver of the tram is on bail after being arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
Swedish forward Ola Toivonen gave mid-table Toulouse the lead before defender Kamil Glik equalised with a header.
Mbappe, 18, put Monaco ahead with a first-time shot and winger Thomas Lemar made it 3-1 after Nabil Dirar's cross.
Second-placed Paris St-Germain face third-placed Nice on Sunday (20:00 BST).
With four games of the season left, Monaco are within sight of being crowned champions of France for the first time since 2000.
Their next game is at home to Serie A leaders Juventus in the Champions League semi-final first leg on Wednesday (19:45 BST).
Match ends, Monaco 3, Toulouse 1.
Second Half ends, Monaco 3, Toulouse 1.
Attempt missed. Issiaga Sylla (Toulouse) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Monaco. Jorge replaces Thomas Lemar.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by François Moubandje.
Óscar Trejo (Toulouse) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Thomas Lemar (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Óscar Trejo (Toulouse).
Attempt missed. Falcao (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Valère Germain with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Thomas Lemar (Monaco) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by João Moutinho.
Substitution, Monaco. Valère Germain replaces Kylian Mbappe.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Alban Lafont.
Attempt saved. Kylian Mbappe (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Attempt saved. Nabil Dirar (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Corner, Toulouse. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Attempt saved. Dodi Lukebakio (Toulouse) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Kylian Mbappe (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrea Raggi.
Substitution, Toulouse. Issiaga Sylla replaces Ola Toivonen.
Attempt missed. Thomas Lemar (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.
Falcao (Monaco) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Offside, Toulouse. Andy Delort tries a through ball, but Ola Toivonen is caught offside.
Offside, Monaco. João Moutinho tries a through ball, but Kylian Mbappe is caught offside.
Substitution, Toulouse. Dodi Lukebakio replaces Jimmy Durmaz.
Goal! Monaco 3, Toulouse 1. Thomas Lemar (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nabil Dirar.
Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nabil Dirar.
Attempt blocked. Kamil Glik (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Nabil Dirar (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Thomas Lemar following a corner.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Tongo Doumbia.
Attempt blocked. Thomas Lemar (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Falcao (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Óscar Trejo (Toulouse).
Substitution, Toulouse. Martin Braithwaite replaces Somália.
Foul by Falcao (Monaco).
Issa Diop (Toulouse) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Monaco. Andrea Raggi replaces Benjamin Mendy.
Offside, Monaco. Kamil Glik tries a through ball, but Kylian Mbappe is caught offside.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Jimmy Durmaz.
Benjamin Mendy (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Benjamin Mendy (Monaco).
Somália (Toulouse) wins a free kick on the right wing.
On average, they have received increases of 7.2% over the past year, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).
That figure exactly matches the rise in house price in 2016, as measured by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
However the industry body said the number was "an exaggeration".
In the previous year estate agents, surveyors and valuers received average rises of 6.5%, according to the Rics survey.
Earlier this week, ONS figures showed that average UK wages grew by 2.6% in the year to December.
However the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) said not all residential agents would have received such a generous rise.
"40% of what they earn is commission, so that's success-related," said Mark Hayward, NAEA managing director.
"Their basic salary, I'm pretty sure, will have remained the same."
Most agents charge sellers a percentage of the sale price, so fees tend to rise in line with house prices.
However the NAEA said fees had typically dropped over the last year, from 1.2% of the sale price, to 1.1%.
The survey, conducted by Rics and the recruitment firm Macdonald and Company, showed that the average salary of a property professional is £52,362.
In London the average salary is £61,141.
The survey of over 8,000 Rics members also revealed a large gender pay gap among those who work in the industry.
On average, male agents earn more than £11,000 a year more than females, a fact that Rics described as "disheartening".
The NAEA said there was a 50-50 gender split in residential sales and lettings, and that pay was the same.
The move comes three years after Allison rejoined Ferrari as part of a restructuring plan to improve the team's performance.
The first car designed under his control won three races in 2015, but Ferrari's revival has stalled this season, with no wins so far.
Mattia Binotto has been promoted to chief technical officer.
His previous role was as head of Formula 1 power-units.
Allison, 48, was also at Ferrari as head of aerodynamics during the dominant Michael Schumacher era of 2000 to 2004, before moving back to the Renault team, where he was deputy technical director when Fernando Alonso won consecutive titles in 2005 and 2006.
He is one of the most highly regarded engineering leaders in F1 and is likely to be of interest to a number of other teams.
He said in a statement issued by Ferrari: "During the years I spent at Ferrari, at two different stages and covering different roles, I could get to know and appreciate the value of the team and of the people, women and men, which are part of it.
"I want to thank them all for the great professional and human experience we shared. I wish everybody a happy future with lots of success."
Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said: "The team would like to thank James for his commitment and sacrifice during the time spent together, and wishes him success and serenity for his future endeavours."
Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne has recently been conducting a review of the operational practices of the team, including consulting engineers on all levels, in an attempt to inject more creativity into the team.
This has included a restructuring of the internal workings of departments across Ferrari.
Allison's next destination is yet to be decided but his reputation is such that he would be of interest to most teams.
McLaren were keen to sign him at the start of 2013, but he ultimately turned them down to go back to Ferrari.
And the Enstone-based Renault team, where Allison has worked on three separate occasions, is undergoing a major rebuilding programme following the French company's buy-back of the operation from former owner Genii Capital, which ran it as Lotus from 2012-15.
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Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, was arrested in Busua, west Ghana, on Saturday.
The bodies of Sian Blake, 43, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four, were found in their London garden on Tuesday.
British police said they were going through the process of extraditing Mr Simpson-Kent back to the UK, but were not sure how long it would take.
Ghanaian police said Mr Simpson-Kent would not be deported from the country until British officials requested extradition.
The BBC's Sammy Darko, at a police news conference in Accra, said British police rejected the accusation that they had been slow to act in the case, and said they had acted quickly.
The family were first reported missing on 16 December.
Mr Simpson-Kent was arrested in a coastal area popular with tourists and had been cutting a coconut when armed police surrounded him.
BBC correspondent Alastair Leithead, who is in Ghana, said: "Around 10 police officers went down to the beach where he was spotted hiding amongst some rocks and the police, who were all armed, called out to him.
"He gave himself up and they found that he had a knife on him, but he didn't use it in a threatening way.
"He was then taken to a nearby village where police thanked the people who had informed them he was in this area."
Mr Leithead said the arrest involved Met and Ghanaian Police as well as officers from Interpol.
Mr Simpson-Kent had been spotted by a fisherman swimming in a remote cove, but it was a cafe owner who raised the alarm after recognising the image circulating of him on social media.
Mr Simpson-Kent, the children's father, arrived in Ghana on 19 December, with the country's police force becoming involved in the hunt for him on Thursday.
Ghanaian Police had initially been sent to the Cape Coast in the south of the country - where the extended Simpson family is from - as well as to other parts of the Atlantic shoreline.
Ms Blake and the couple's sons had not been seen at their south-east London home since 13 December and a missing persons inquiry was launched on 16 December, after the NSPCC had raised concerns about their welfare.
The Met Police spoke to Mr Simpson-Kent on 16 December, but that was the last time he was seen.
A subsequent search of the family home in Erith, south east London, on 5 January uncovered three bodies in the garden.
The actress and her two sons had died from neck and head injuries, post-mortem tests revealed.
Ms Blake's sister Ava Blake spoke last week about the deaths.
She said: "It's my nephews more than anything. My brother is angry. My cousins are angry.
"They are angry about Sian, but the boys have devastated us. We have lost a generation. We can never replace them."
Ms Blake, who had motor neurone disease, had played Frankie Pierre in 56 episodes of EastEnders between 1996 and 1997.
The Met has been criticised over delays in its investigation and is being investigated by the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Rowland Phillips' squad will face Japan after just over a month in camp preparing for August's World Cup in Ireland.
"The Japan match gives us a good chance to see how much we have improved," he said.
Wales have been drawn against New Zealand, Canada and Hong Kong in Pool A.
A report for the Department of Environment and Climate Change (Decc) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions would be similar to home-grown gas but lower than imported gas or coal.
Shale gas could benefit the UK, through energy security and jobs, Secretary of State Ed Davey told the Royal Society.
Greenpeace said low carbon renewables were a better way to meet energy needs.
The new report, by Decc chief scientific advisor Prof David MacKay and Dr Timothy Stone, senior advisor to the Secretary of State, looked at the potential greenhouse gas emissions from the production of shale gas in the UK.
It concluded that the net effect would be "relatively small".
Prof MacKay told BBC News: "The emissions from shale gas in the UK will be similar to those of liquefied natural gas.
"And secondly, as with any fossil fuel reserve if you put extra fossil fuel into play, if you don't also have global climate policies then we think it's credible that global cumulative emissions could increase.
"So we think it's essential that shale gas use should be accompanied by continued global climate policy action."
In a speech to the Royal Society, Ed Davey responded to the findings.
He said: "Gas, as the cleanest fossil fuel, is part of the answer to climate change, as a bridge in our transition to a green future, especially in our move away from coal.
"We have to face it: North Sea gas production is falling and we are become increasingly reliant on gas imports. So UK shale gas could increase our energy security by cutting those imports.
"Home-grown gas, just like home-grown renewables and new nuclear, also provides jobs for our people and tax revenues for our society."
He added that regulation to protect the local environment must be followed "to the letter".
However, Leila Deen, energy campaigner at Greenpeace, said Mr Davey was "endorsing the use of a fuel that remains highly polluting, damages our countryside and scientists say must be largely left underground".
"The solution to our energy problems is still a roll-out of high-tech low carbon renewables which would be incentivised by supporting the clean energy target in the Energy Bill, but Davey is currently blocking it."
Concerns over extraction of natural gas from shale have centred on the risk of small earthquakes and the potential impact on water supplies.
There has also been debate about the impact of the technology on meeting greenhouse gas targets.
A US government laboratory says the much talked about "pause" is an illusion caused by inaccurate data.
Updated observations show temperatures did not plateau, say National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) scientists.
The warming rate over the past 15 years is "virtually identical" to the last century, they report in Science.
Dr Thomas Karl of NOAA, who led the new analysis, said: "We would hope that it would inform the general public that the temperature today really is continuing to warm."
Commenting on the study, Dr Ed Hawkins, climate scientist at the University of Reading, said: "This suggests that the much-discussed recent slowdown in global temperatures is far less pronounced than previously thought."
The idea of a global warming "hiatus" arose from questions over why the trend of warming temperatures appeared to be stalling recently compared to the later part of the 20th Century.
Various explanations have been put forward, including changes in volcanic and solar activity, and ocean currents.
The new analysis corrects for ocean observations made using different methods as well as including new data on surface temperatures.
Dr Peter Stott of the Met Office Hadley Centre said the results "still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods" and "global temperatures have not increased smoothly".
"This means natural variability in the climate system or other external factors has still had an influence and it's important we continue research to fully understand all the processes at work," he said.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global average temperatures have increased by around 0.05C per decade in the period between 1998 and 2012.
This compares with an average of 0.12 per decade between 1951 and 2012.
The new analysis suggests a figure of 0.116 per decade for 2000-2014, compared with 0.113 for 1950-1999.
"The IPCC's statement of two years ago - that the global surface temperature 'has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years' - is no longer valid," said Dr Karl, the director of Noaa's National Climatic Data Center.
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The film is set against the real-life backdrop of the Holodomor - when millions of Ukrainians were starved to death in the early 1930s as Soviet leader Joseph Stalin stripped them of their produce to force farmers into collectivisation.
Bitter Harvest follows two lovers, artist Yuri (Max Irons) and his childhood sweetheart Natalka (Samantha Barks), who are separated in the struggle against Soviet oppression before Yuri attempts a dangerous journey back home.
Tamer Hassan, who's played Khal Forzo in Game of Thrones and starred opposite Danny Dyer in The Football Factory, plays Russian soldier Sergei, intent on destroying a swathe of Ukrainian villages.
We asked the film's stars what they took away from the experience.
The actors had no knowledge of the Holodomor before joining the film - and they're not alone.
Tamer: "I'm probably one of the 95% of the world not knowing about the Holodomor - which translated means 'death by starvation'".
Samantha: "The fact the Holodomor wasn't something I knew about - the reason I didn't know about this and so many people don't is because it was kept under wraps until 1991 (when the Soviet Union collapsed). It's completely shocking."
Max: "Stalin's closing of the Ukrainian border was so effective, nobody knew."
Tamer, best known for playing villains such as the head of Millwall's hooligan firm in The Football Factory, had his work cut out playing Stalin's Russian enforcer Sergei.
Tamer: "Every movie needs a villain and he's definitely the worst I've ever played.
"He's the antichrist, he's a cold-blooded mass murderer, he's a paedophile.
"You want to know why he's doing what he's doing, none of us are born evil. He witnessed his mother being murdered in a church. There's a little bit (in me) that wanted the audience to feel sorry for him or love him, even for a millisecond."
The movie was a labour of love for the Ukrainian filmmakers.
Tamer: "It's still happening today, history repeating itself. Hollywood doesn't make films like this anymore, the movie industry is no different to real estate. But for Ian Ihnatowycz, the lead producer, and director George Mandeluk, who are Ukrainians whose families suffered in the Holodomor, they're very passionate about putting this story out. It's a gift to their people.
"We were very lucky to be able to film in Ukraine at the historical sites where it all happened. We had an amazing Ukrainian cast and crew. You feel it when you're there. There was a lot of goodwill behind the movie."
Note to self - never stand behind a horse.
Tamer: "We were using circus horses, not stunt horses, they were working these horses to the bone.
"I don't blame the horse, we became friends! But I walked behind the horse. It stamped on my foot and kicked back and severed my cartilage. The X-ray was a horseshoe print on my foot!
"I went to the hospital, the consultant said: 'We'll have to put it in plaster, operate and you'll have to have six weeks off. I said: 'I'm an actor, we don't have those luxuries!' So I went back to set, put my boot on and within two or three hours my foot would swell out, I was in excruciating pain and trying to act at the same time. They had to cut me out of the boot. So anyone who wants to be an actor, don't, it's not that glamorous and it's painful!"
It's all about the love.
Max: "What drew me to it was the love story - two people struggling with their reality. People are suspicious of love stories in films if they appear manufactured but this one is beautiful. When we hear testimony from the people who survived, love is the driving force in their quest for survival. That's what you see with Yuri and Natalka. Love that pushed them to endure that cold a little bit more, to walk that little bit further."
Feeling the weight of responsibility.
Samantha: "You want to be as truthful and honour that story as much of you can but obviously that's a pressure because it's a huge, huge part of history that's been kept under wraps for so long."
Max: "Ukraine's relationship with Russia is difficult, safe to say for hundreds of years there's been a very determined effort to dilute Ukrainian national identity and we see that again today. The more voices the Ukraine can have the better."
And finally - Max, what's it like having Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack as your mum and dad?
Max: "We don't talk about acting that much thank God because that would be horrible! They didn't try to put me off, the advice they gave me most was there will be good days and there will be bad days. That's an actor's life and prepare yourself emotionally, financially, spiritually for that. But then when they saw I was serious about it, they let me get on with it."
Bitter Harvest is released in UK cinemas on 24 February.
Athletics' world governing body has banned Russia's athletics federation over claims of state-sponsored doping.
But the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 athletes, including two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, have taken their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
The Olympics start on 5 August.
Russia was suspended from global track and field events by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in November 2015.
That followed the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that showed a culture of widespread, state-sponsored doping, with even the secret services involved.
The country's sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, has since apologised for the fact cheating athletes were not caught by Russia's anti-doping systems but stopped short of admitting the scandal had been state-sponsored.
Should Russia's athletics federation remain banned, the IAAF has said a handful of the country's athletes could compete in Rio as "neutrals" if they meet a number of criteria, including being repeatedly tested outside their homeland.
However, there have been calls for the country to be given a total ban from the Olympics and Paralympics following the publication of the McLaren report.
That found evidence Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the "vast majority" of summer and winter Olympic sports.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would wait for Thursday's judgement from Cas before announcing any sanctions.
IOC president Thomas Bach said the findings of the McLaren report were an "unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games".
The images had appeared in an internal training session, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
Assistant Chief Constable Debbie Ford said: "The fact that we believe these images have been used again is totally unacceptable."
GMP apologised in June for using a "distressing" photo of Hillsborough.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans died as a result of the disaster at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield football ground.
Ms Ford added: "I have written to the families of the Hillsborough victims to apologise for the distress this may cause them.
"I have also taken steps to prevent this from happening again, which includes suspending work around the super recogniser programme until 2017 while the necessary measures are taken to remove any inappropriate images."
The photograph that led to GMP's apology in June was used on a poster advertising for 'Super Recognisers', who are skilled at picking out faces in a crowd.
GMP said it accepted that the use of images from the Hillsborough disaster was "totally inappropriate".
It said staff were told that "using these images in any format is prohibited".
Louise Brookes, sister of Andrew Brookes, who died in the Hillsborough disaster aged 26, said in June she was told the photograph showed one of the pens where the fatal crush occurred.
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People have been asked to stay in their homes.
Some schools are closed and thousands of flights have been cancelled.
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The pair join 33 other riders in Friday's opening round, with the top 20 after that contesting the medals.
London 2012 gold medallist Maher picked up just one time fault on Tic Tac, while Skelton had five on Big Star.
"I feel my horse is jumping better as each day goes on," said Maher.
Great Britain exited the team competition in the first round earlier this week, and Maher added: "Myself and Nick are trying to redeem ourselves.
"We really believed that we could come here and put in a good performance for the team, and things just didn't go our way. It just wasn't meant to be.
"We had to come out and keep pushing, and the deal today was that we made the cut. We both got the job done."
It says the forthcoming election and accompanying political uncertainty will hold business back from investing.
Growth will also be constrained by worries about the eurozone and the Ukraine conflict, EY Item Club says.
The 2.4% figure undershoots forecasts issued by the Bank of England, the CBI and the International Monetary Fund.
Last week, the Bank's chief economist, Andrew Haldane, said he was downbeat over the UK economy because of weaker global growth, low wage growth and financial and political risks.
He said interest rates should remain low to avoid long-term economic stagnation.
Peter Spencer, EY Item Club's chief economic adviser, said: "The forecast for GDP growth is still relatively good. What has changed is the global risks surrounding the forecast and the headwinds facing investment by firms.
"The UK's export outlook continues to look dreadful. The glimpse of economic rebalancing that we saw in the early part of this year has turned out to be a false dawn.
"Looming political uncertainty risks denting corporate confidence - the question now is how will these risks play out? I expect caution to become the order of the day."
He also said the Bank of England was unlikely to rush to raise borrowing costs in the face of falling commodity prices and low wage growth.
The report predicted inflation would remain low. It is currently at a five-year low of 1.2% and is likely to average 1.3% in 2015, EY Item Club said.
The Bank of England's most recent forecasts predict GDP growth of 3.5% this year and 3% next, while the IMF says it will be 3.2% followed by 2.7% and the CBI 3% and then 2.7%.
US officials say Vladimir Putin has made a terrible choice, which will leave his country in a much weaker position.
But this is a critical test of Obama's leadership too, one that will demonstrate how much clout the US has in the world.
Secretary of State John Kerry is flying to Kiev to meet leaders there, and the US is trying to co-ordinate an international response to put pressure on President Putin.
But senior administration officials have pretty much ruled out military intervention.
President Obama's critics are accusing him of acting too slowly and, once again, allowing someone to trample all over his "red lines".
On Friday evening he warned that there would be "costs" to Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Hours later the troops moved in. The US now says there are more than 6,000 Russian troops occupying Crimea.
It's been suggested he has a problem of credibility, and that has encouraged Putin.
Certainly the West seems ill-prepared for this escalation of the crisis, which they should have seen coming - as I wrote when the protests were at their height. It was obvious Putin would not give up easily.
But you can overdo the Obama factor.
It's worth remembering that Putin went to war in Georgia when George W Bush was in the Oval office, and no one thought he was a peacenik.
But Bush obviously thought better of fighting another nuclear power over a former part of the Soviet empire.
Senior administration officials have reacted furiously to the suggestion that Obama's past behaviour has encouraged Putin.
They say the Russian leader's policy in Ukraine has failed; he has no game, and all he has left is the use of hard power. They say the world should be blaming him, not Obama.
We are going to see a lot more moves over the coming days, with the US trying to co-ordinate an international squeeze on Russia.
The first point of pressure is the June meeting of the G8 in Sochi. The US, Canada and the UK have cancelled meetings preparing for it. The "off ramp" - the offer to help Russia back down - is a plan to send international monitors to make sure ethnic Russians are safe. This is hardly going to appeal to Putin.
It is worth remembering that Crimea was a part of Russia from 1783 onwards and in the early years of the Soviet Union it was an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. Khrushchev gifted it to Ukraine in 1954.
Now Putin wants it back. To withdraw would be a failure and a humiliation for him.
The problem for Obama is that an economic squeeze takes a long time to work. Putin may not mind the diplomatic pressure at all - he seems to enjoy tweaking the noses of Western leaders.
It is easy to see how the situation could get very much worse - and it is not clear how Obama would react to a deepening of the crisis.
It's still not clear that it's ready for a sell-off of the UK government stake, but that's what it's getting anyway.
You might, meanwhile, be missing another point that the £45bn bail-out nearly seven years ago was not (back then) intended to turn a profit.
It was intended to save the bank. And it did. Our expectation of profit on our investment followed later.
Back then, there was a chance that the whole jingbang could have gone the way of the £12bn raised from shareholders the previous spring - up the Swanee, or down the Gogar Burn.
With the first tranche of sales now under way, because the financial investment arm of the Treasury says "it would be appropriate", this is being seen by RBS as an opportunity to underline how much else has changed.
It's less than half the size it was, in assets - down from £2.2 trillion to £945bn. (That's still quite big.)
It's core capital ratio (the main measure of its buffer against losses) has risen from a reckless 4% to 12.3%, continuing to rise in line with the demands of regulators.
When it crashed, it had nearly 200,000 employees in 51 countries. At the last count, it was 109,200, while aiming to cut to only 13 countries, only to serve its UK and Ireland core. Six years ago, the UK accounted for 48% of RBS activities: that's now 80%.
A positive reading of the share price has it on an upward trend. But not if you look at the last three years, when the share price has been stubbornly stuck around 20% below the break-even price for the UK taxpayer's £45bn.
For all that the half-year results last week sought to get the dirty laundry out in the open, there's lots that still needs to be sorted through, and that uncertainty has kept the share price depressed.
Much of that known unknown is the litigation looming on the 2008 rights issue, with the question of whether shareholders were knowingly misled by Fred Goodwin and his top team about the true state of RBS's vulnerability.
Much to the disappointment of the current management, they have recently failed in their attempt to remove Mr Goodwin from proceedings.
That's only going to complicate their case, and bring back unhappy memories, in a case which carries an estimated legal bill for RBS of £42m.
Meanwhile, customer sentiment to RBS is not looking good. The half-year results show that the opinion surveying of customers suggests Scottish customers have a much dimmer view of their bank than those who bank under its NatWest brand in England and Wales.
Asked if they trust their own bank to "do the right thing", there was a two percentage point deficit in Scotland in April to June, and a 48 point positive south of the Border.
Would they recommend the bank to a friend? The RBS count in Scotland was 10 points into the red during the second quarter, while NatWest was ten points to the good.
RBS in Scotland was in more negative territory with business customers. That relative weakness, when set alongside NatWest, emphasises that the RBS brand remains troubled, even with its own loyal customers.
But George Osborne is pressing ahead anyway, with a sale of more than 5% of the bank to institutional investors, at well under the break-even price.
The plan appears to be that this will start a process which itself improves confidence, the share price reflects that with an upward rise, and further tranches of shares are subsequently offloaded.
One question is: why is it now appropriate? The first condition of a sale is that it provides the taxpayer with value for money. It's not clear how a sale at the current price does so.
When asked on BBC Radio Scotland, Treasury minister Harriet Baldwin's answer was, to paraphrase: because the governor of the Bank of England said it's time to start reducing public ownership, so that capital can be more efficiently allocated.
Then: why now? The first week in August doesn't seem the most liquid time to be diving into the market, when traders are diving into distant pools, on holiday. But we're told there was healthy demand all the same.
Another question is: how fast and how long will this process be? How much of a stake is George Osborne wanting to sell this year - a year which he has already pronounced will be the biggest ever year for privatising UK government assets - surpassing even Margaret Thatcher in her "selling off the family silver" heyday.
And yet more: is there any protection planned for RBS as a significant national asset - one that represents around a quarter of UK business lending, and a much higher proportion in Scotland?
Could the government structure the sale to ensure that it retains a stake with which to keep control in Britain (and the headquarters in Scotland)? Would it want to?
And if RBS is to be returned to the stock market in private hands, then it becomes vulnerable to takeover and to break-up. While the UK government has held around 80% of it, these have not been questions to trouble us. And remember that it didn't take TSB long after parting with Lloyds to find itself under Spanish ownership.
So is there any UK government policy on protecting RBS, including its vital role in supplying finance to UK business?
Indeed, is there any Scottish government policy on that? It has been - over the seven years on - uncharacteristically reticent about what went wrong at RBS, or what should happen to it now.
• Update: The SNP's deputy leader, Stewart Hosie, has agreed that RBS shares should be sold off by the UK government, but warned against the tax-payer being "short-changed" instead of "getting every penny back".
He said: "It is to be welcomed that RBS is moving from government ownership back into the private sector, however it should not be on the cheap."
He added the sale had to be open and honest. "Right now, there is some very real concern that the chancellor is trying to cut and run".
Zohore's three-year extension was announced shortly before Friday night's 2-0 defeat against Newcastle.
The 23-year-old had been at Cardiff City Stadium hours earlier than team-mates in order to put pen to paper.
"He's been at the ground since half past four so no wonder he's knackered," said Warnock.
The Bluebirds boss added: "I'm disappointed about that.
"He shouldn't have been in until half six, and the game should have come first really.
"It was something I wasn't aware of and it won't happen again."
The loss against promoted Newcastle was Cardiff's final home game of the season, with the Bluebirds' campaign coming to an end away at Huddersfield next weekend.
There has been speculation the game against the Magpies could also have been Peter Whittingham's final match at the Cardiff City Stadium.
Cardiff's longest serving player is out of contract at the end of the season and was given a warm ovation from the home fans as he was substituted during the second half against Newcastle.
As one of the club's top earners, Whittingham would have to take a pay cut if he signs a new deal, and Warnock has said the club will resume negotiations at the end of the season.
"We're talking all the time. I'm seeing Peter next week and I'm hoping to see a few of the other lads," Warnock added.
"We've managed to get Zohore over the line and now we're working on certain other players we feel can contribute for next season.
"We need quality in the forward line and find more goals, apart from that, it looks like an exciting time.
"I don't think there is a Brighton or Newcastle in the league next season so it will be very even.
"Even though we're not spending a lot of money, I think with what we've got and four or five additions, we can be up there.
"The bookies will have us just below halfway but you never know, if you get a team spirit like Brighton.
"It took them three years but we haven't got three years - at least I haven't - so we've got to conjure four or five new signings and give it a go."
She became the fourth contestant to be eliminated from the live shows on Sunday.
When referring to the messages she had received from internet trolls, Chloe said: "I just don't understand why they don't have jobs.
"Why are you not writing about the war? Or recent epidemics? Or politics?"
However, despite the online abuse, Chloe has insisted giving up social media would be the "worst thing she could do".
She has also complained about stories written about her in the media, claiming she has felt like a "target".
"The press allegations were horrible," she said. "I don't understand how things can be printed if they have no verification or sources."
There was one story which particularly offended Chloe.
"Apparently I attend orgies on a regular basis," she explained. "I had never heard of an orgy before. I thought that was an abbreviation for organic food.
"I was waking up every morning, thinking, 'what horrible story will be printed about me?'
"Every time someone writes something derogatory or cruel or unkind, which has no factual basis, why don't they donate £1 to charity?"
Chloe has insisted she has "no regrets" about going on the X Factor because it made her a "stronger person".
While her time on the reality show is over, the model believes she will remain in the public eye.
"I did have a career before this which I had to put on hold and I will be returning to," she said.
"I really want to say you haven't heard the last from me."
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Lionel Messi scored his 500th Barcelona goal in the 92nd minute at the Bernabeu to send the visitors top of the league, although Madrid have a game in hand.
It was only Barca's second win in five games, having lost in the Champions League quarter-finals to Juventus.
"It will be tight until the end," said Enrique.
Barcelona are level on points with Real Madrid, but hold the better head-to-head record after a 1-1 draw at Nou Camp earlier in the season.
"These are demanding games that require maximum physical and mental preparation." added Enrique, who will leave the club at the end of the season.
"The fact that we made it 3-2 in the 92nd minute makes it a gargantuan morale booster."
Messi's last-gasp goal came with Real, down to 10 men after Sergio Ramos was sent off, going in search of their own winner.
Real have not won La Liga since 2012 but boss Zinedine Zidane feels, with a game in hand, the title remains in his side's hands.
"I'm not saying we lost our heads but with the scores level and with 10 men, we pushed very high up and that's dangerous, so we've paid for it in the end," said the ex-France midfielder.
"I'm not going to blame my players. We always try and win the game and we just didn't manage it today.
"We've lost three points and we're disappointed because over the course of the game we didn't deserve to lose."
Temidayo Joseph, 16, died at Basildon Hospital after he was found hanging at his home in South Ockendon on 21 August, 2014.
An inquest in Chelmsford heard he had been speaking about the death of Mr Williams just days before his death.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
Area Coroner for Essex Eleanor McGann said it seemed he was trying to work out how Mr Williams had died 10 days beforehand and it went "horribly wrong".
He was a "happy boy" and his death was a "tragic accident", she said.
After the hearing, Temidayo's father Vincent said: "He was a very good boy, with a very good character. We don't know what happened.
"I loved him so much, I have lost a good friend."
It was the kind of game in which it is difficult to pick out much of a pattern of how either side will look to play, but it did offer a few clues as to how they are shaping up.
Both teams will need to be better defensively than they were last season if they are to have any aspirations of winning the title this time around and, if you were to just go off Sunday's game, that does not appear to be the case.
But I have been involved in plenty of matches like that myself, where your tactics end up going out of the window as what starts out as a tight and technical battle ends up wide open with both teams going toe to toe on the attack.
They are exciting to be involved in and to watch, but they are not always a true reflection of a team and, in this case, I don't think it showed us how Arsenal or Liverpool will defend this season.
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What we saw was how strong Liverpool now look from an attacking perspective and, like Arsenal, they are going to score a lot of goals this season.
The other thing that impressed me about the Gunners was the character they displayed. At 4-1 down, things looked pretty bleak and the fans were on their backs, but they responded pretty well.
They did not pull it back to 4-4 but they made the scoreline respectable, rather than it being an embarrassment.
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Arsenal turned the tables on Liverpool in the first half by pressing them high up the pitch, and it worked - that is how they got their opening goal.
But the Gunners fell apart at the start of the second half and the easy option would be to put that down to their young centre-halves, Calum Chambers and Rob Holding, who were playing because of injuries to Laurent Koscielny, Per Mertesacker and Gabriel.
Of course they missed their first-choice defenders, every team would, but I think it is unfair to completely blame Chambers and Holding for their defeat, mainly because they were not that bad.
With Liverpool's attacking players running at them from all angles the way they did, it would have been a tough game for any defence.
For Chambers and Holding, it was not just their inexperience that made it hard for them as much as the fact they had never played together in a competitive game before.
The only positions I genuinely think need a relationship are centre-halves. Yes, you could say the same about players who are up front together but, while you might not score as many goals if you don't have an understanding, it is not going to cost you goals.
At the back, it can cost you the game if you are unsure of who is doing what.
Liverpool also had issues defensively, mainly involving their left-back Alberto Moreno, who gave away the penalty Arsenal missed and was also at fault for their first goal.
Moreno was probably lucky the game went the way it did, because otherwise there would be far more focus on him.
But we should remember that their whole team played pretty poorly in the first half, not just him.
They came out in the second half and decided to go for it, and were very clinical. They stuck away every chance they had.
Arsenal had the same approach when they put Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Santi Cazorla on after an hour, threw everything at Liverpool and pulled a couple of goals back.
Liverpool wanted to defend and protect what they had but they could not ignore the opportunities they were getting at the other end and had to keep on attacking, which made it such an exciting game.
When they did come forward, they looked like a real force and another plus for Jurgen Klopp is the depth in his squad that allowed him to bring Emre Can and Divock Origi off the bench in the second half.
I have tipped Liverpool to finish in the top four, and this performance was an example of why I think they will make it. It is no disgrace to be beaten by them, because they will beat a lot of top teams this year.
Arsenal fans were clearly disappointed by the result but I think they will have to accept that, while they are going to win a lot of games this year, they are also probably going to lose more than usual because the Premier League is getting stronger and the number of sides challenging for the Champions League places has increased.
What does not help the Gunners at present is that, out of all the leading English clubs, they are the only ones where, if they go behind like they did on Sunday, some of their supporters turn on the manager.
In some ways, Wenger has made a rod for his own back there because some of their fans see their team's problems as being very obvious and avoidable, and down to him.
Their injuries at centre-half are the latest example, because the fans want to know why experienced cover has not been brought in, and it is the same with their lack of an out-and-out striker as back-up to Olivier Giroud, that meant Alexis Sanchez played down the middle against Liverpool.
I do sympathise with the way the Arsenal supporters feel but, if that is going to be how they react to setbacks all season, it will have an effect on the team.
It is especially obvious because of the positivity that fans of the likes of Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and both Manchester clubs have about their managers right now.
Arsenal's players - and Wenger - will have to keep dealing with it the way they did on Sunday, but I suppose it is nothing new to them, because it has been happening for the past three or four seasons.
Jermaine Jenas was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
The result preserved Bradford's unbeaten home record but they had to settle for a point against a Charlton team who played the four minutes of stoppage time with 10 men after defender Patrick Bauer was sent off for a second yellow card.
In the first meeting of the clubs since they were both in the Premier League 15 years ago, Charlton gave the Bradford a defence a torrid time in the first half, hitting the post, seeing a shot cleared off the line and having a penalty appeal turned down.
The penalty appeal came in the ninth minute as Bradford defender Nathaniel Knight-Percival wrestled for the ball with the visitors' dangerous Northern Ireland international striker Josh Magennis.
Three minutes later Magennis saw his angled shot hit the far post and rebound to safety after running on to a pass from strike partner Nicky Ajose, while he also had a shot cleared off the line by Bradford right-back Stephen Darby after taking a pass from Lee Novak.
Bradford's best first-half chance was in the 37th minute when Nicky Law supplied a through pass for Jordy Hiwula, but goalkeeper Dillon Phillips came quickly off his line to block the shot.
The home side had the better of the second half with Hiwula again having their best chance. Mark Marshall played him through on goal in the 59th minute, but he was again denied by Phillips.
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Match ends, Bradford City 0, Charlton Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Bradford City 0, Charlton Athletic 0.
Foul by James Meredith (Bradford City).
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Hanson (Bradford City).
Jorge Teixeira (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Second yellow card to Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) for a bad foul.
Marc McNulty (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Brandon Hanlan replaces Jordan Botaka.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Dillon Phillips.
Substitution, Bradford City. Filipe Morais replaces Mark Marshall because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Jordan Botaka (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Jorge Teixeira (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Substitution, Bradford City. Marc McNulty replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila.
Attempt missed. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Jorge Teixeira.
Attempt saved. Lee Novak (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Johnnie Jackson replaces Nicky Ajose.
Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City).
Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the right.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Andrew Crofts (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicky Law (Bradford City).
Lee Novak (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt saved. James Hanson (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Meredith (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Andrew Crofts (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Josh Cullen.
Attempt saved. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Tommy Robinson and his friend had been in the London department store on Monday when they were declined help.
Selfridges said the staff member was suspended for violating company policy.
A spokesman said everyone was welcome in the store "regardless of political opinion".
However, they said the staff member, who is expected to return to the shop floor this week, would not face any further action.
After the incident the pair were offered a complimentary meal.
The spokesman said: "If something happens against company policy you need to investigate it.
"The assistant has worked for Selfridges for seven years with an unblemished record and he accepts what he did was wrong."
It will be the eighth Central Belt expansion of the Aberdeen-based partnership in only five years.
Three branches will be branded under the Aberdein Considine name from next month.
Ireland's legal office will become the partnership's main office in the city.
The combined business will employ 360 staff, with turnover of more than £21m. It offers a wide range of legal, property and financial services.
A&S Ireland was founded in 1985, specialising in private client legal work, and moving into estate agency.
It has two partners and 20 employees, all of whom will transfer to the expanded firm.
Gavin Crowe, one of the A&S Ireland partners, indicated that one of the attractions is the scale a larger firm can bring to providing services online.
"As estate agency continues to evolve in the digital age, this merger will give Glasgow clients a significant new player both online and 'on the ground'," he said.
The bottle was released in the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 and found by a woman on a beach in Amrum, Germany.
Inside a postcard asked that it be sent to the Marine Biological Association of the UK, where the bottle was returned.
The association in Plymouth said the bottle was one of some 1,000 released as part of marine research.
The research, looking at ocean currents, was carried out by George Parker Bidder, who went on to become MBA president from 1939 to 1945.
Inside each bottle was a postcard that promised a shilling to anyone who returned it.
An old English shilling was sent by the association to retired postal worker Marianne Winkler, who found the bottle in April during her holiday to the German island, about 310 miles (500km) away from the UK.
The association said it was waiting to hear whether it was a world record for the oldest message in a bottle found.
The existing world record for the oldest message in a bottle is 99 years and 43 days, found west of the Shetland Islands in July 2013.
One inmate described the UK's largest women's jail in north London as "a very scary place for a first-time prisoner".
Intimidation is rife and staff are hampered by the poor design of the prison.
There were also reports of inappropriate behaviour by male prison officers, the inspectors found.
The prison's design, which was intended to produce an atmosphere more like a hospital than a prison, was recognised as a failure in the 1980s as its lack of traditional wings or landings, and a maze of corridors, means warders have difficulty monitoring inmates'.
Nigel Newcomen, deputy chief inspector of prisons, said: "Holloway remains an extremely difficult prison to run safely and effectively."
Managers and staff were hampered by the "unsafe and unsatisfactory design of the prison" and "the lack of strategic direction and effective operational management within the women's prison system in general", he said.
"Unless both are confronted and dealt with, Holloway will continue to drain its managers and struggle to meet the needs of the women it holds."
Inspectors found 57% of women said they had felt unsafe in the prison, with bullying consistently raised as a concern, limited intervention by staff, and inmates having little confidence that these issues would be dealt with effectively if reported.
Some inmates "reported unwanted attention from male staff", including concerns about "male night staff observing them through hatches", the inspectors said.
Michael Spurr, Chief Executive Officer of the National Offender Management Service (Noms), said: "Holloway presents a challenging physical environment, but staff work extremely hard to provide as extensive a regime as possible."
A total of 220 recommendations for improvement were made after the full unannounced inspection of the prison, which holds about 450 women, in April.
The singer joins Sir Elton John, Alicia Keys, Calvin Harris and Robbie Williams on the bill at London's Roundhouse next month.
The 1975, OneRepublic, Bastille, Michael Buble and Chance the Rapper will also headline the annual festival, which is now in its 10th year.
The event begins on 18 September and runs to the end of the month.
It will be Spears's first UK concert since 2011, when she was on her Femme Fatale tour.
"I'm so excited to go back to London, which is a special place for me to visit. It's going to be a great party," she said.
The announcement came as US network Lifetime confirmed it was making a two-hour biopic about the singer, to air next year.
The 10 performances at the Apple Music Festival will also be made available live and on-demand to Apple Music members.
"Over the past decade, the festival has brought the biggest and best artists from all over the world to London and into the homes of millions of music fans," said Apple's Oliver Schusser.
"This year's Apple Music Festival builds on that incredible legacy and we couldn't be more excited to have another amazing line-up to celebrate our 10th birthday."
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North Wales PCC Winston Roddick said he was responding to the "prevalence and escalation" of that type of crime.
A summit on child sexual exploitation will be held in St Asaph on 14 May.
He added: "I have acted after we saw from the incidents at Rotherham and other parts of the country a staggering amount of child sexual abuse."
Details of the proposal are outlined in the PCC's police and crime plan.
The measures, including cuts salaries, were announced last week. Many public workers have not been paid in months.
On Monday the federal government froze Rio's accounts ordering the state to pay millions of dollars in unpaid debt.
The demonstrators, mostly firefighters, police and prison officers, spent three hours inside the assembly chamber.
During the occupation some wrecked windows, doors and offices.
Assembly Speaker Jorge Picciani called the protest "an affront to the democratic rule of law unprecedented in the political history of Brazil".
Both the state of the city of Rio de Janeiro have been struggling with a long-standing financial crisis because of a drop in global oil and commodity prices.
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The state declared a financial emergency ahead of the Rio Olympics earlier this year saying it did not have the funds to provide security for the Games and to finish a metro line.
Governor Luiz Fernando Pezao said that unless the austerity measures were approved by the state assembly, he could not guarantee that workers would receive their full salaries next year.
With tax revenues dropping, Rio has already made sharp budget cuts.
Mr Pezao said he would travel to the capital Brasilia to negotiate with the federal government.
The messages appeared on the account of Andy Bell, a vice-president of Carlisle United, on Tuesday but were soon deleted.
Mr Bell claimed his Twitter account had been hacked.
The club branded them "disrespectful" while the official supporters' club called on him to provide evidence he had been targeted.
They were published on the same day the Hillsborough inquests ruled the 96 people were unlawfully killed in the stadium tragedy in April 1989 as Liverpool took on Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final.
The first message read: "Don't mention the Heysel Stadium disaster!" - a reference to the deaths of 39 people in Belgium in 1985 in the build-up to the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus.
Minutes later, a second said: "Were you involved in a stadium disaster that wasn't your fault? Call us now and get the compo you deserve!"
In a statement published on the club website, Mr Bell said "it appears severing ties will help preserve the positive reputation that Carlisle United have forged in the local and wider community."
Describing it as a "difficult decision", he added he would withdraw his business's sponsorship of the club at the end of the season while remaining a fan. He has now deactivated his account.
Carlisle United Official Supporters' Club had described it as a "sick incident" while the club said it in "no way supported or condoned" the messages.
Arlene, 15, was last seen being driven away by Howard in the early hours of the morning after attending a disco in Bundoran, County Donegal in 1994.
Patricia Quinn denied she was in a relationship with Howard and said they were just friends.
However, under questioning, she said he slept in her bed when he stayed over.
She told Belfast Coroners Court: "He wasn't interested in me. He was interested in young girls in uniforms."
Ms Quinn's daughter, Donna, had been friends with Arlene since they were young children.
On the night in 1994 that the teenager disappeared she had been to a disco in Bundoran with Donna Quinn, her boyfriend and Robert Howard.
Arlene's body has never been found.
Howard has always been the prime suspect in the case despite being acquitted in 2005.
At the time the jury were not told he was already serving a life sentence for the murder of Kent teenager Hannah Williams.
The 71-year-old died in prison last year.
Starting the third day on 140-2, the Black Caps were 419 runs behind after David Warner hit 253 for the hosts.
Taylor almost matched the Aussie's tally, hitting an unbeaten 235 as his side reached 510-6, 49 runs behind.
Kane Williamson scored 166 - his fourth century this year - and shared a third-wicket partnership of 265 with Taylor.
The pair took their side to 352 before Australia finally made a breakthrough, with Josh Hazlewood snaring Williamson, caught by Mitchell Johnson at mid-on.
Following Williamson's departure, Brendon McCullum contributed 27 runs to an 80-run partnership with Taylor before being bowled by Mitchell Marsh.
BJ Watling (one) and Doug Bracewell (12) also came and went as Australia responded in the evening session, but Taylor remained unmoved, passing his previous best Test score of 217 and reaching 5,000 Test runs in the process.
Australia, who lead the three-match series 1-0, look set to be without batsman Usman Khawaja for the final Test in Adelaide after he injured a hamstring.
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Parts of Hokkaido in Japan were covered in snow as deep as 1.8 metres high after a massive winter storm hit the area.
In a small place called Rausu Town some people's houses were completely submerged in snow and could not leave their homes for days.
Some of Japan's soldiers have been to help clear the snow from houses and roads in the worst affected areas.
Around 200 schools have closed in the area, and 100 train services have stopped.
No-one has been seriously hurt because of the bad weather, and roads are beginning to re-open again.
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Fred McClenaghan shot Marion Millican at a laundrette in Portstewart, County Londonderry, three and half years ago.
The defendant, from Broad Street, Magherafelt, has already pleaded guilty to her manslaughter but the prosecution refused to accept his plea.
The court heard it was no accident, but "murder, pure and simple".
Mrs Millican, who was a married mother of four children, had begun a relationship with 52-year-old Mr McClenaghan after splitting from her husband in September 2009.
However, she ended the new relationship in December 2010, and was in the process of a reconciliation with her husband, just months before she was shot dead.
Mr McClenaghan killed her with a shotgun on 11 March, 2011, after confronting her as she sat having lunch with a friend in the laundrette where she worked.
In his opening address to the jury, a prosecution lawyer said it was the Crown's case that "the accused was motivated by his anger at Marion Millican ending their relationship".
"That he equipped himself with that shotgun, went to her place of work, and in a frame of mind, informed only by his anger at her, caused by her rejection of him, and his treatment of her, deliberately shot her, killing her.
"We say this is murder, pure and simple," the lawyer added.
The court also heard that during police interviews Mr McClenaghan remained mostly silent, although his solicitor did hand in a prepared statement, which was read to detectives.
In the statement, the defendant said: "It was my intention to kill myself... and that Marion would witness my suicide."
It further alleged that he "did not intend to harm" Mrs Millican.
"Marion's death was accidental, and I am truly sorry," Mr McClenaghan's statement added.
The jurors were told the pair's brief relationship had been peppered with "episodes of violence".
They also heard that in the months before her death, Mrs Millican was warned by police of a death threat from Mr McClenaghan, after he told counsellors of his intended suicide, and of his plan "to kill my girlfriend and then myself".
On the day of the shooting, the accused was filmed on CCTV entering the laundrette armed with a shotgun. He went to the kitchen where he confronted Mrs Millican and her friend Pamela Henry.
Mr McClenaghan was alleged to have grabbed the victim and demanded she come with him to talk, but she refused, fearing she would be "bundled into a car".
At this point Mr McClenaghan fired one shot into the ground between Mrs Millican and her workmate. Mrs Henry then ran and locked herself in a toilet before escaping from the building and raising the alarm.
The defendant claimed that while he was holding the shotgun, Mrs Millican grabbed it and they both struggled with the weapon, falling to the floor.
Mr McClenaghan said as they struggled he told Mrs Millican "to let go of the gun, but she didn't... the gun then went off".
The court heard the victim "sustained a significant chest wound" as a result of the shooting.
She was discovered by another friend, Gillian Johnston, when she called into the laundrette while walking her dog along Portstewart promenade.
The court heard Ms Johnston "saw the body lying on the floor and saw blood".
Mrs Millican's husband and Mrs Henry's husband went to the scene of the shooting, before the police and paramedics arrived.
The trial continues.
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Lee, 23, played in three Tests against New Zealand in June, starting two and coming off the bench in the third.
Scarlets will welcome back DTH van der Merwe, Emyr Phillips and Gareth Owen for the start of the season.
"Samson has undergone shoulder surgery and is expected to be unavailable for 12-16 weeks," said Scarlets physiotherapist Matthew Rees.
"We're pleased to see DTH, Emyr and Gareth making good progress and on track to be back in action for the start of the season."
The talks are expected to be dominated by issues of security and trade.
They come days after the US exempted India from economic sanctions in return for cutting imports of Iranian oil.
Ms Clinton said ahead of the talks that ties with India "have never been stronger".
Mr Krishna is being accompanied by a large team, including senior cabinet ministers, government officials and the chief of India's intelligence bureau.
The two sides will discuss a range of issues from Afghanistan and Pakistan to counter-terrorism, homeland security, health and climate change.
BBC India correspondent Sanjoy Majumder says that defence is now a key area of cooperation, with India spending $8bn on US-made military hardware.
Trade has grown from $9bn in 1995 to $100bn this year.
Over the past few months, a number of senior members of the US administration have visited Delhi, including Mrs Clinton and Defence Secretary Leon Panetta.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected in the Indian capital at the end of June.
Many in Delhi see this as an indication of the growing significance of India in the US's regional strategy, our correspondent says.
There are areas of concern - the US wants India to allow greater access to American firms, and a landmark nuclear deal has not delivered the lucrative contracts it promised to.
But ahead of the talks, the US announced that it was exempting India from financial sanctions because it had reduced oil imports from Iran, another sign of the growing proximity of the two countries.
The offer was oversubscribed, with sovereign wealth funds from Middle East and Asia taking part.
Petrobras sold 1.87bn new preferred shares at 26.30 reais each and 2.4bn new common - or voting - shares at 29.65 reais each.
The money will fund the development of recently-discovered oil reserves off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The offer's 2% discount to Petrobras's closing share price was much smaller than investors expected, and suggests strong demand for the shares.
"The deal was priced at a very tight discount, which is comforting to know because the market expected it to price lower," said Marcio Macedo, fund manager at Sao Paulo-based Humaita Investimentos.
A public share offer had been expected earlier this year, but was delayed while a deal was sorted out over how many shares the Brazilian government would receive in return for giving Petrobras access to up to 5bn barrels of oil.
The astronomer, who presented The Sky At Night for over 50 years, died at his home in Selsey, West Sussex, in December 2012.
The monocle will be auctioned later at Christie's, in London.
The xylophone - which he used during a Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen - is to be sold at Henry Adams Auctioneers in Chichester.
Sir Patrick presented the first edition of The Sky at Night on 24 April 1957.
He became famous for his habit of wearing a monocle on screen, as well as his dishevelled and idiosyncratic persona.
However, he was a celebrated and gifted astronomer and wrote dozens of books, with his research being used by the US and the Soviet Union in their space programmes.
The monocle has a reserve price of £500 - £800 and the xylophone £1,500 - £2,000.
Dr Heimlich died at a hospital in the US city of Cincinnati early on Saturday following complications from a heart attack he suffered on Monday, his family says.
Dr Heimlich invented the lifesaving technique, which uses abdominal thrusts to clear a person's airway, in 1974.
In May he used the technique himself to save a woman at his retirement home.
He dislodged a piece of meat with a bone in it from the airway of an 87-year-old woman, telling the BBC: "I didn't know I really could do it until the other day."
Dr Heimlich was director of surgery at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati when he devised the technique.
In a statement released to the media, Dr Heimlich's family said he had been "a hero to many people around the world".
"From the time Dad began his medical career in New York City, to the time he practised as a thoracic surgeon in Cincinnati, he was committed to coming up with simple, effective ideas that helped save lives and significantly improved people's quality of life," it said.
The anti-choking manoeuvre was not Dr Heimlich's only success. In 1962 he developed the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve which was credited with saving many soldiers' lives in the Vietnam War and is still used for patients undergoing chest surgery.
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Since the technique was introduced in 1974 it is believed to have saved the lives of more than 100,000 people in the US alone.
They include former President Ronald Reagan, pop star Cher, former New York mayor Edward Koch and Hollywood actors Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau, Carrie Fisher, Jack Lemmon and Marlene Dietrich.
In 2014 actor Clint Eastwood was credited with saving the life of a golf tournament director in California who was choking on a piece of cheese.
In the UK, celebrity promoter Simon Cowell was reportedly saved by comedian David Walliams, who carried out the Heimlich manoeuvre on him after a mint became stuck in his throat.
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Traffic and pedestrians were banned from Deerness Bridge, between Ushaw Moor and New Brancepeth, on 13 April.
Durham County Council is to install a replacement Bailey bridge so people can cross the river while a permanent solution is developed.
The council said the "vital route" is expected to open by the end of May.
Jean Hanlon, 53, from Dumfries, disappeared on 9 March last year and her body was found four days later in the sea off Heraklion.
A local coroner initially ruled she died as a result of an accident.
However, her family said a Greek magistrate had now said the case was being treated by police as murder and two men had been arrested.
Her son Michael Porter, 25, who now lives in Mansfield, said police revealed his mother suffered a broken neck before she went into the water and also had minor injuries to her face and neck, consistent with a struggle.
He said: "This gives us confirmation that we were right to be suspicious all along and now we want our country to help us.
"We cannot afford to go out there again, we have not got a translator or legal aid and it is a battle to get justice for my mum.
"It worries and concerns me that many other families may have been told their loved ones died in an accident and have not persisted like us."
Mrs Hanlon, previously known as Jean Porter, disappeared on 9 March last year but police and British Embassy officials in Greece were not informed until several days later.
She had moved to the village of Kato Gouves four years earlier to work in the seasonal tourism trade and returned to England and Scotland regularly to visit her family, including her three sons.
Mr Porter, a musical theatre performer, said the last anyone heard of her was after she met a man at a bar in Heraklion.
He said she spoke to a friend on the telephone saying she wanted to get away and sounded as if she had been drugged.
She later sent a text message with the single word: "Help".
Mr Porter added: "There are a lot of questions I want to know the answer to that we know that police have investigated.
"It is a lack of communication and the language barrier.
"I am not criticising the Greek authorities for not doing anything - we just do not know what they have done because they will not tell us."
The Porters' Greek solicitor said the death of Mrs Hanlon was now being treated as suspected murder.
In an email to the family, he said: "I would like to inform you that as concerning your mother's case, criminal proceedings were brought against the suspects by the attorney."
The family has campaigned to bring the case into the public spotlight on social networking site Facebook.
Hull, 20, shot a five-under round of 66 to move to eight under, two adrift of South Korean leader Inbee Park.
American Stacy Lewis produced the best round of the day - an eight-under-par 63 - and is one shot behind Park at the halfway stage.
Britain's Catriona Matthew, 46, moved from tied 26th at the start of play to a share of 13th position on five under.
This is the first women's Olympic golf event since 1900 and the third round will be played on Friday before Saturday's final round.
Hull made a mixed start on day two, posting a birdie at the first, but bogeying the second before further birdies at the sixth, seventh, 16th, 17th and 18th.
"I hit some great shots," said Hull. "I've played the course a few times and know where to hit it.
"I feel I am representing my country every week, but this week you know you are part of a team.
"It's pretty cool, not many people can say they're an Olympian. It's a good thing to have on my CV."
Matthew, level par after day one, started her second round with birdies at the first, third and fifth holes.
The Scot also picked up shots at the 10th, 16th and 18th, with her only bogey of the day coming at the 14th.
Park, ranked fifth in the world and a winner of seven major women's titles, claimed three birdies in the final four holes to take the lead at the halfway point.
The leaders go out in reverse order on Friday, with Hull beginning her round at 15:09 BST and in the same three-ball as Park and Lewis.
Matthew starts her third round at 14:25 BST.
Meanwhile, Brazil's Victoria Lovelady became the first player in the Olympic Games to be penalised for slow play during her second round.
Lovelady, 29, was given a one-shot penalty on the 15th hole, turning what should have been a par into a bogey.
"I tried to refute it, tried to appeal, but I didn't have enough argument to convince them," Lovelady said after a 75 left her 12 over par.
"There was a lot of interruption noise from the crowds, which is normal. I had to back off a lot of shots."
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Thomas Brown came off his bike at a privately-run event next to Low Hardwick Farm, near Sedgefield, County Durham, on Sunday.
The 27-year-old, from Barnard Castle, worked on his family's farm and had been involved in motocross since the age of eight, Durham Police said.
Mr Brown was taken by air ambulance to hospital in Middlesbrough, but was pronounced dead shortly before arrival.
His family said they were "devastated".
A woman in her 30s from the Sedgefield area, who was hurt in a separate incident at the track on Sunday, remains in hospital.
Her injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
The event, which involved about 100 participants and 300 spectators, was closed down by police on safety grounds following the crashes.
Its organisers have not yet commented.
Some will be housed in temporary camps at two former Olympic stadiums.
The migrants have been stranded since Macedonia started filtering by nationality - allowing through only those from war zones.
The UN refugee agency says more than 900,000 refugees and migrants have reached the EU since January.
Separately on Wednesday, 12 migrants drowned and 12 more were reported missing after a boat carrying about 50 people sank off the small Greek island of Farmakonisi in the early hours.
More than 3,500 people have died or have been reported missing this year while trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe.
Some 350 Greek policemen were mobilised before dawn to put migrants from the Idomeni border area on to about 45 buses to Athens.
They were mainly from Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia and Morocco.
Some scuffles broke out and about 30 men were taken to a police station. They were later put on the Athens-bound buses along with the other migrants.
Aid workers and journalists were kept away from the operation, which Greek police said was completed smoothly.
The Idomeni crossing has been the scene of angry demonstrations among migrants who have been stranded for three weeks.
The bottleneck occurred after Macedonia blocked passage to those not fleeing war zones in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan.
A few sewed their lips shut in protest.
Some tents and temporary houses were destroyed.
The migrants now transferred to Athens will be allowed to file for asylum, while the others will be repatriated.
Meanwhile, Greek coastguard and navy ships were still searching for survivors of the boat that sank off Farmakonisi.
Six of those who drowned were children. Some 26 people were rescued.
Although the weather was good, the vessel reportedly started taking on water after leaving the Turkish coast.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
A snapshot of 12 cases investigated by the watchdog over the past five years shows "inadequate standards of care" given to patients, including at weekends.
Nine of the patients died, although in most cases the out-of-hours care was not necessarily a factor. The hospitals and names of patients were not identified by the ombudsman.
Here are summaries of five of the cases:
1 Elderly motor neurone disease patient - feeding tube not fitted for 40 hours, 2011
A patient with a history of motor neurone disease and dementia admitted to hospital after a fall. Transferred to a medical ward early on Friday and seen by a consultant. Due to difficulty swallowing, he was to fed by a tube. But there was no attempt to insert a tube until the Sunday - 40 hours later. His condition deteriorated and he died two days later.
The ombudsman found it "entirely unacceptable" that an elderly, nutritionally deficient patient had to wait so long before an attempt was made to insert a tube to feed him.
2 Patient with abdominal pains, who needed an urgent operation, 2010
Admitted to hospital with vomiting and abdominal pain early on a Friday and a consultant physician suspected gastroenteritis or peritonitis. X-ray carried out which showed signs of colitis. A registrar reviewed the case at 17:00 and advised continuation of treatment plan. Unclear if the consultant still in the hospital. Abdominal pain worsens and registrar reviews the patient at 01:00 on Saturday. No medical or surgical review on Saturday. Consultant surgeon diagnoses severe infection and shock and requests scan on Sunday morning which finds fulminant colitis. Patient dies before he can be transferred to intensive trauma unit.
Ombudsman found if consultant surgeon had seen him on the Friday, emergency surgery would have been carried out and his death could have been prevented. No effective referral between consultants before or during the weekend and poor communication.
3 Patient with kidney problems - lack of weekend reviews, 2012.
In hospital with spinal condition discitis. Blood tests indicated impaired kidney function but not checked for two days and then not repeated for a further six days, when doctor said he was then aware of decline in kidney. The patient also once had to use a black bag to vomit into and he slept under his sister's coat to keep warm because of lack of blankets. Transferred to the high dependency unit and then to another hospital, where he died a couple of weeks later.
Ombudsman found lack of weekend reviews caused delays in treatment. Several missed opportunities to diagnose kidney failure and repeated failures to maintain his hydration levels. A consultant commented on a shortage of doctors at the hospital during the weekends and "as a result patients do tend to deteriorate over the weekend period".
4 Patient with a stroke - five days to see a specialist, 2012
A 77-year-old man admitted on a Friday with a suspected stroke to his left side. A scan in the afternoon followed by ward admission at 21:50. Not transferred to a specialist stroke ward, or acute stroke unit at neighbouring hospital due to lack of beds initially but missed opportunities over the weekend when beds became available. His family made repeated requests for him to see a specialist but told none available. Two trainee doctors assessed him over weekend until a consultant saw him on the Monday. Specialist stroke physician eventually reviewed his case on Tuesday afternoon and transferred him.
Ombudsman found junior doctors were unaware of the availability of, or unwilling to contact, on-call consultants.
5 Patient with kidney failure - no consultant review at weekend, 2012
Duty consultant physician confirms gastroenteritis, dehydration and impaired kidney function diagnosis. Intravenous fluids prescribed over 24 hours but plan not completed. Condition deteriorates rapidly on Saturday and on Sunday he suffers respiratory arrests - and dies after the second.
The ombudsman found staff failed to adequately rehydrate the patient or respond appropriately to his acute kidney failure, while doctors failed to monitor him adequately. His intravenous fluids were stopped overnight without explanation. Not sure if death could have been avoided but further consultant physician review after admission on the Thursday night was "unacceptable".
Some of them now say their trade is unviable in the long term.
There is no doubt their hard won, sole right to be hailed and pick up in the street is shrinking and there are many concerns if you drive a black cab.
There are now 90,000 private hire vehicles on the streets and apps like Uber and 'ehailing' by phone means it is easy to find a lift.
Cabbies also say there is a lack of enforcement by Transport for London (TfL) on touts and there are too many road works, with some cabbies complaining the construction of cycle superhighways are contributing to congestion.
Also, new cabs will have to be electric from 2018.
More broadly, cabbies have found themselves isolated politically (even though they do have a representative on the board of TfL) as the trend in cities is to give more space over to pedestrians and cycling.
And it is not party political - a Conservative mayor is doing it as are Tory and Labour councils.
And these changes are not stopping.
The Conservative mayoral hopeful Zac Goldsmith has said he would allow electric cars in bus lanes in which black cabs are allowed to go.
And more areas of London are being closed to cars and cabs.
City of London has said it will close the notorious Bank junction to all traffic apart from buses and cyclists to make it safer for the 18,000 pedestrians an hour that use it. Tavistock Place is another example.
The rise in cycling and the increase in cycling infrastructure certainly attracts anger from the black cab trade.
On some roads according to the 2013 Central London Cycle Census, cyclists make up 24% of road-based vehicles in the morning peak.
But as well as the rise in cycling, there has also been a big jump in the number of 'white vans'.
According to TfL,25% of peak traffic in London are now vans, and 5% are HGVs.
Also the number of private hire vehicles (PHVs) entering the congestion charge zone has also jumped.
There are now 91,465 PHV registered drivers compared to 76,249 at the start of 2014.
TfL predicts it could reach 128,000 by 2017. It also believes about 8% to 10% of vehicles in peak traffic are now PHVs and the mayor thinks it is the private hire cars that are creating the congestion.
London also has a lot of construction sites.
There are big redevelopment projects at Lewisham Gateway, Victoria and Nine Elms. There are road improvements schemes at Aldgate, Shepherd's Bush town centre and Elephant and Castle.
At City Hall congestion is seen as a concern. If you look at the raw data then speeds have dropped.
In the latest Street Performance report it says: "We've seen a significant deterioration in London-wide traffic speeds during observed hours of 07:00 to 19:00. These decreased by 1.0 mph to 17.5 mph compared to Q1 last year, representing a 5.6% reduction."
More worrying for anyone that drives is that the number of trips on the roads is only going one way.
At the moment there are 30 million trips per day on the capital's roads. With population growth TfL predicts there could be an extra five million trips per day. That is a huge challenge.
Transport for London says: "We've got on-street officers to clear obstructions and move unlawfully stopped vehicles.
"We're installing high tech SCOOT traffic control system at 4,000 sites by next spring - these cut congestion by 12% where they operate.
"We're providing up-to-the-minute traffic information to help people avoid hot spots, including via our Twitter feed, which is the largest of its type in Europe.
"Where lanes have been reduced such as on the Embankment, we have looked to remove the central reservation to ensure traffic continues to flow past where a vehicle is broken down.
"We have contingency plans in place, including a rapid response vehicle breakdown service.
"Red routes are constantly monitored from TfL's London Streets Traffic Control Centre, allowing the recovery teams to respond immediately to any incident."
But what about long term? There already has been talk about investment in 'fly-unders'. As yet I've yet to see any funding.
And don't forget London already has a congestion charge (although the zone was reduced by the current mayor).
If congestion keeps increasing will that be increased? That is politically sensitive.
I'm told the authorities are looking at how to reduce freight from rush hour. And charging is not being ruled out.
I'm also told it is looking at charging private hire vehicles (minicabs) to enter the zone - that would be extremely controversial.
Afghans and Syrians are said to have taken part in the three-hour brawl there, where thousands of people live in filthy conditions.
On the island of Chios, migrants have broken out of a camp in protest.
Meanwhile, Greece is preparing to begin returning migrants to Turkey under an EU deal.
Lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill to facilitate the implementation of the agreement reached last month.
Under the deal, migrants who arrive in Greece from Turkey after 20 March are expected to be sent back if they do not apply for asylum or their claim is rejected.
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The returns are set to start on Monday, but this has been under doubt as many of the support staff promised by other EU countries to help enforce the plan have still not arrived.
The deal has been heavily criticised by human rights groups, and the United Nations refugee agency has called for legal safeguards to be in place before any return takes place.
Five centres called hotspots have been set up to house and process migrants in Greece, but they are struggling to cope with the influx of people.
On the island of Chios, where one of these centres has been established, some 300 people, many of them women and children, tore down part of the razor wire fence and began walking to the port in protest, Reuters news agency said.
There are some 1,500 people said to be living at a site which has capacity for just 1,200.
Tensions were already high on Thursday night, when police used stun grenades as migrants staged a protest demanding to be allowed to leave the camp. Three people were taken to hospital.
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Three people were also stabbed during rioting on the island of Samos.
Meanwhile, at the port of Piraeus, eight people were taken to hospital as clashes erupted between groups of migrants camping out there on Thursday. The fight left the area strewn with rocks and broken glass.
Most of the migrants there are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and for weeks they have slept in tents or blankets out in the open with poor sanitation and little food.
On Thursday, Greek officials started transferring some of those people to other accommodation elsewhere in the country. But some reportedly refused to leave, and about 5,300 were still there.
The UN refugee agency says detention should only be a last resort for asylum seekers, but every migrant who arrives here by boat is now taken to a closed camp. That includes women, children and the elderly.
On Lesbos, the facility being used is now overcrowded. Those inside say some people have to sleep in the open, and the UNHCR says food supplies are insufficient.
Frustration is clearly mounting as families, including those fleeing the violence in Syria and Iraq, now worry they will be sent back to Turkey.
But every day still brings boats loaded with new arrivals. They know their path through Europe may be blocked, but they are desperate enough to try to make it in any case.
The UN refugee agency has warned that conditions are worsening in Pireaus and also on the islands of Lesbos and Samos as well as at the Idomeni border crossing with Macedonia.
"The risk of panic and injury in these sites and others is real," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
She urged the EU to provide greater support to boost Greece's asylum system.
There are at least 51,000 migrants and refugees stranded in Greece after Balkan countries shut their borders last month, preventing them from continuing their journey to northern Europe.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
The free event is being held in Duns on 16 and 17 May.
A line-up of classic Formula One, touring and sports cars in which Jim Clark raced in 1965 will also be on the show over the weekend.
Organisers also hope it will raise awareness of plans for a new Jim Clark Museum by 2018.
The Jim Clark Weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of his most successful season on the track.
In 1965 he won his second F1 world championship, the Indianapolis 500, the Formular 2 Championship and the Tasman Series.
He remains the only driver ever to claim both the F1 and Indy 500 titles in the same year.
Alan Morgan, chairman of Club Lotus, which is organising the event, said: "By demonstrating the cars he drove during that year we'll be bringing the sight and sound of these fabulous racing cars to Duns."
Earlier this year Scottish Borders Council agreed to give £500,000 in funding to a project to expand and improve the Jim Clark Museum.
Sir Jackie Stewart said: "Jim, who was a great friend, projected Scotland and the Borders of Scotland in a dignified fashion around the world, during his motor racing career.
"I am also very proud to be honorary president of the Jim Clark Trust and a patron of this justifiably important statement to be made to attract people to Duns and the Border region, to celebrate the life of Jim Clark. I am delighted to attend this special Jim Clark Weekend."
The independent financial review panel has said it made the decision in light of the reduction to the assembly budget.
The panel has also decided that MLAs should make some disclosures before accessing office cost expenses.
Assembly members will have to declare the names of people receiving the money if they are relatives.
MLAs will also have to disclose whether the recipient is a political party, or an "association" that aims to advance political opinions, culture or religion.
The independent financial review panel is working on a review of MLAs expenses, which will be completed in June.
The panel chair Pat McCartan said: "We are currently working on a comprehensive review of all aspects of members' expenses for the next mandate, but given the ongoing debate, we felt it was now time to increase transparency on contractual arrangements and on where and how public money is being spent by MLAs."
George Robinson, a pupil at Stamford School in Lincolnshire, was injured playing against DF Malan in Cape Town on 27 July.
The 17-year-old, who has been on a ventilator since the incident happened, has undergone reconstructive surgery on broken vertebrae.
His family said he had showed immense courage to come through his ordeal.
George's father, Simon, said: "It has been a life-changing experience and injury for George and our family.
"George has responded positively to therapy after such a significant injury and there has been daily improvement in his condition; he is very close to being fully weaned off the ventilator that has been assisting his breathing for the past 37 days."
He added: "We know that we have a long journey ahead... and we will move into this next chapter with positivity, determination and hopefulness."
Mr Robinson will be flown home by air ambulance on Wednesday.
One of a young goalkeeper who makes the change to striker. Moves to a new club and becomes a defender.
Let go by that club but moves away and returns to the striker role before firing in a goal that helps his country make their way into the European Championship finals.
A bit far fetched it may sound, but this is the real life story of Josh Magennis.
"It's crazy!" Magennis told BBC Scotland. "It was Neil Ardley, who was the academy manager at Cardiff and is now the manager at Wimbledon, who helped me make the transition from goalkeeper.
"He said I had the attributes to be a striker. I managed to knuckle down and find my strengths, which are my pace and power and able to run."
Magennis then made the move north to Aberdeen, where he struggled to hold down a regular spot, although he did have an alternative option.
"We had a tremendous striking group there with Chris Maguire and Scott Vernon who were keeping me out of the team," he said.
"Assistant manager Archie Knox said there was a vacant position at right back and I ended up playing around 30 games in that position."
Magennis, though, fell out of favour when Derek McInnes took over and, after a spell on loan at St Mirren, he joined Kilmarnock, where he has found his shooting boots once again, netting as Kilmarnock defeated Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2-0 at Rugby Park.
In addition, he scored his first goal for Northern Ireland in their recent win over Greece in Belfast. A win that took Michael O'Neill's side to next year's finals in France.
Magennis says he will not look too far ahead and just try to concentrate on helping Kilmarnock up the league table and hope that, when the squad is named next year, he will be one of those on the plane.
"I can't get ahead of myself thinking I will be one of the 23 man squad," he added.
"That would just be insulting to the rest of the lads.
"It is up to me to make sure I am in peak condition for my club and hopefully keep scoring goals.
"It is up to myself to show the manager that in the domestic level and then, if I am picked to go away for the upcoming international friendlies, that I am ready to be part of the squad."
The shooting happened at about 19:20 GMT on Saturday as armed officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) stopped a car in Culcheth.
GMP Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said officers performed first aid on the man but he died at the scene.
The dead man's next of kin have been informed. Two other men were arrested.
Witness Jessica Brown, 15, said: "I saw loads of police cars driving past and I saw three men run past the pizza place with gasmasks on and guns and police chasing them.
"Then my friend's dad came and picked us up and said it wasn't safe to be out here."
Jessica's father Anthony Brown said: "I was just putting out my tea when Jessica ran in screaming.
"I went to look but the police told me to get inside. It's shocking, Culcheth is normally a quiet village."
A car has now been removed from the scene close to the village supermarket and a care home for the elderly.
The scene of the shooting, on a public car park, has been cordoned off.
The car park off Jackson Avenue is near shops, restaurants and bars including The Cherry Tree pub.
Pub manager Mike Davies said his chef was in the rear yard at the time.
"He said he heard what he thought was a firework.
"He saw a whiff of smoke and then he heard screaming," said Mr Davies.
"We are all pretty gobsmacked that something like this could happen here in Culcheth, a semi-rural village," he said.
Mr Hopkins said: "Our thoughts are with the man's family during what will clearly be a very difficult and emotional time, and specially trained family liaison officers have been in contact with the family.
"I want to assure them that ourselves, Cheshire Police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission will carry out a thorough investigation which will establish all the facts."
Cheshire police said patrols had been increased in the area. It said the community of Culcheth "should be reassured that this is an isolated incident and there is no risk to the community as a whole".
An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) spokesperson said: "The IPCC has been informed by Cheshire Constabulary of an incident near Jackson Avenue, Culcheth, Cheshire at approximately 7.20pm on Saturday 3 March where a man was fatally shot by armed officers from Greater Manchester Police.
"The incident has been referred to the IPCC who will independently investigate.
"IPCC investigators are at the scene and working with officers from both Greater Manchester Police and Cheshire Constabulary."
South Wales PCC Alun Michael is backing ChildLine's Zipit campaign to help teenagers refuse requests to share explicit images of themselves.
Mr Michael said parents did not have to contend with camera phones when young and so may not know what to advise.
A Zipit mobile phone application offers advice for parents and children.
About six out of 10 children aged from 12 to 15 are thought to own a smartphone.
The charity ChildLine said "sexting" - the sending of intimate images or videos by mobile phone or online - had become so common "it is considered mundane".
The Zipit campaign is run jointly with the NSPCC and the Internet Watch Foundation.
A new Zipit phone app also offers advice on safe online chatting and on what young people should do if they feel threatened or if an image becomes public.
The free app offers users a choice of what the charity says are "witty responses" youngsters can send when asked to share an image.
Mr Michael, who is responsible for the policing priorities of the South Wales force, welcomed the campaign.
He said: "The explosion of the numbers of mobile phones with cameras has only been relatively recent.
"It is certainly something that parents did not have to contend with when they were young, so it can be difficult to provide the right advice and support to their children.
"This campaign comes at it from both angles - providing young people with an app which offers advice on how to engage in safe chat and the dangers of sending sexual images, and providing parents with helpful advice, so they can be more in tune with the problems that can arise."
In June this year, Mr Michael said internet providers around the world had to "wake up" over images that show child sex abuse.
He spoke out in the wake of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones by Mark Bridger in her home town of Machynlleth, Powys.
Bridger's trial was told that he searched the web for child abuse and rape images.
He became the 37th person to be sentenced to a whole life term when he was convicted in May.
Spain is implementing drastic spending cuts to try to slash its budget deficit to 5.3% from 8.5% in 2011.
Many economists said the target was always unrealistic.
Last weekend, Spain was given 100bn euros ($125bn; £80bn) in emergency loans to help its struggling banks.
The IMF said Spain needed to raise revenue from taxes, and look at further spending cuts. However, it added that Madrid should not look to cut its deficit too quickly given "an unprecedented double-dip recession with unemployment already high".
Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone, with almost one in four workers out of a job.
Earlier this year, the government announced 27bn euros of cuts from its budget as part of one of the toughest austerity drives in the country's history.
Changes included freezing unemployment benefits and public sector workers' salaries, slashing departmental budgets and increasing tax on large companies.
But the spending cuts and tax rises have undermined the economic recovery in Spain. The country is back in recession and its banks are severely under-capitalised given the collapse in the Spanish property market.
The 100bn-euro bailout has failed to restore confidence in the country's economy, with the interest rate, or yield, paid on government bonds traded in the secondary market hitting 7% on Thursday, a level widely seen as unsustainable.
Bond yields in the secondary market are seen as a good indication of investor's confidence in a government's ability to repay its debts.
England are the first hosts in the tournament's history to fail to reach the quarter-finals, with losses to Wales and Australia in the so-called 'Pool of Death' sealing their fate.
The Rugby Football Union's World Cup inquest could mark the beginning of the end for head coach Stuart Lancaster, whose selections and tactics have been widely criticised.
Here, Guscott and others give their verdicts on what should happen next.
The RFU's post-World Cup inquest will be led by the man who appointed Lancaster, chief executive Ian Ritchie, who has promised a "360-degree review" without publicly setting out the timetable and parameters for the inquisition.
The RFU has declined to reveal the number of people on the panel, but it is believed it will solely concentrate on the national team's coaching set-up rather than any wider issues.
Lancaster indicated last week that the review could be completed within weeks and said he has "no problems" with it.
"The ideal scenario is that it is done privately and confidentially and the results are then made public but that might be quite hard," he has said.
Guscott does not believe the RFU need much time to assess the situation.
"You'd hope that the coaching team has been set a minimum target to achieve during this Rugby World Cup. If they've hit the target, they stay," he told BBC Sport.
Four years ago players were said to feel "betrayed" after their confidential verdicts into England's dismal 2011 World Cup, when off-field problems dominated the headlines, was leaked to a national newspaper.
Guscott said neither the players nor the coaches should be involved this time because their feedback would not be impartial.
England's 2003 World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward agrees, writing in his Daily Mail column that player input could potentially not only be limited but "very divisive".
Players were giving their verdicts within a week of their quarter-final defeat in 2011, but Rugby Players' Association chief executive Damian Hopley has said the squad members should return to their clubs and reflect before expressing their views.
But England flanker Tom Wood has already publicly supported the coaching team.
"I think I can speak for most of the lads - I want Stuart and the coaches to come out fighting," the 28-year-old said at the weekend.
Former England outside-half Rob Andrew is the RFU's professional rugby director, but the RFU - the biggest rugby organisation in the world - does not have a director of rugby.
"A director of rugby should be appointed and let that person get on with keeping the same coaches, or bringing in what they feel is right," said Guscott.
According to Woodward, Ritchie must "urgently" appoint a director of rugby who should then, in turn, make a decision on whether Lancaster should remain.
"The new director of rugby would undertake the review on his own," said Woodward. "He would interview who he wants of the management and people behind the scenes, but not the players.
"He will decide whether Lancaster and his coaching team can take England forward or if a complete change is required."
Much has been made of the RFU's policy of not considering players who are based outside the Premiership, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Flanker Steffon Armitage, the 2014 European Player of the Year, was ruled out of the tournament by the RFU because he plays his club rugby in France for Toulon.
Armitage's absence was especially highlighted after the defeat by the Wallabies, when breakdown specialist Michael Hooper and David Pocock completely dominated England's back row.
But Guscott supports the RFU's stance, saying England should only select overseas-based players if there is a release clause written into their contracts enabling them to attend every national squad session.
"I would get rid of the 'exceptional circumstances' phrase and just not mention it at all," said Guscott. "Until the time comes when a lot of players start to go overseas, like the Aussies are experiencing, then the RFU don't need to change anything except that phrase."
Lancaster was appointed on a temporary basis in December 2011, charged with clearing up the mess of the 2011 World Cup, and awarded the role permanently after a promising start to his tenure - which included a stunning 38-21 win over New Zealand in 2012.
The 45-year-old signed a six-year contract extension last year, but now finds himself in limbo until the outcome of the review is published.
During his tenure England have not won a Six Nations title in four attempts - finishing second on four successive occasions - and have now failed to make it out of a World Cup pool for the first time in England's history, reaching their lowest ebb in a thumping 33-13 defeat by Australia in a must-win match at Twickenham.
Lancaster's team selections and tactics in this World Cup campaign have mystified many former players and current Premiership coaches.
His preference for league convert Sam Burgess in the initial 31-man squad over Luther Burrell, a star performer in this year's Six Nations, was criticised by Northampton boss Jim Mallinder.
And former internationals, such as Mark Cueto and Kyran Bracken, have said Lancaster should go.
"This is four and a half years of failure," said former scrum-half Bracken.
But Graham Henry, whose All Black side lost in the quarter-finals of the 2007 World Cup before winning the competition four years later, believes Lancaster should keep his job.
"He has got the ability - it's a no-brainer to me," the 69-year-old told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
Despite having a contract until 2020, Lancaster's position is under serious threat but the man himself said on Saturday he had not had time to reflect.
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"With all the things to organise I haven't had time to sit back and chat to anyone about anything really. But there is a bit more space in the diary this week," he said after England's victory over Uruguay.
"You have to allow the dust to settle and have a chance to think, and it won't be all my decision anyway. Anyone in my position who has worked since December 2011 to this point would say it would be hard to walk away from, but equally I understand it is a results business.
"It is a difficult one to answer at the moment. There are a lot of people with opinions and what I tried to do is make sure the culture and character of the team stayed strong through the week."
The RFU has denied reports in South Africa suggesting it has already been in touch with former Springbok coach Nick Mallett, who was interviewed for the head coach's role along with Lancaster in 2011.
The 58-year-old South African has said he would not consider the role this time around.
Wales coachWarren Gatland, under contract with the Welsh Rugby Union for another four years with a £1.2m compensation clause in his deal, has joked that the RFU could not afford him.
Bath rugby boss Mike Ford is among the favourites but has insisted he would reject an offer to replace Lancaster should it come his way as he has "unfinished business" with the Premiership club.
Exeter'sRob Baxter, who has been one of the current regime's critics, has ruled himself out of the running, while Saints' Mallinder, who was upset that England had not selected hooker Dylan Hartley in the squad, has said his club is his priority "at this moment in time".
Daniel Wright opened the scoring for the hosts as he sliced home a penalty following a handball from Tyrone Williams shortly after the break.
James Rowe then teed up Dan Holman, who slotted home from the edge of the six-yard box to ensure victory.
It ended a recent revival by Harriers, who are nine points adrift of safety.
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Clarke admitted abusing boys in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s but was never brought to justice.
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World number 18 Ouseph, who reached the quarter-finals last year, lost 21-17 21-12 to India's Kidambi Srikanth.
Scot Gilmour, ranked 19 in the world, was beaten 21-17 21-17 by Japan's Akane Yamaguchi.
Mixed doubles pair Chris and Gabby Adcock beat Indonesia's Ronald Alexander and Melati Daeva Oktaviani.
The Adcocks saved set point in winning the first set 22-20 before taking the next 21-12 to go through at the Barclaycard Arena.
Francis Gerard D'Arcy, of the Malone Road in south Belfast, has also been fined £230,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,000.
He used the bank accounts of his four children to hide earnings from HM Revenue and Customs.
Last month, D'Arcy admitted four counts of tax fraud at Belfast Crown Court.
The 73-year-old was one of Northern Ireland's leading specialists in deafness claims by police and soldiers.
He admitted cheating on his taxes between 2008 and 2012 while acting as a consultant working on hundreds of deafness claims.
The court was told that D'Arcy would ring up solicitors he acted for in deafness claims and ask them to re-issue him with uncrossed cheques for his services.
The cheques were made out to "Dr D'Arcy" and the cheques would then be paid into the accounts of his four children who were all doctors by profession.
The judge was told the that two of the children now lived in the Republic of Ireland and a further two lived in Australia.
Asked by the judge if D'Arcy's offending was through maladministration or if it was a deliberate act by D'Arcy, a prosecutor replied: "He has pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue.
"If it was simply a matter of maladministration, it would have been a civil action. However, there is nothing wrong in putting money into your children's accounts.''
The judge said it was "incapable of belief'' that D'Arcy's offending was down to "maladministration'', saying that all the consultant had to do was to lodge the cheque into his south Belfast bank and put the letter from the solicitor into a cardboard box.
"A cardboard box is not hard to get. And at the end of the tax year, he can either do his returns himself or give the cardboard box over to an accountant,'' added the judge.
D'Arcy has 48 years of medical experience and most recently practiced at Belfast's Mater Hospital on the Crumlin Road.
The court heard that the cash had been repaid in full, including interest and penalties.
Jonathan Rivers was head of Derby-based Wyvern Media group, which pressured firms into buying worthless adverts.
Nottingham Crown Court heard he admitted fraudulent trading after more than 500 complaints were lodged.
He was jailed for six years. Four other members of staff were jailed, with a further five given suspended sentences.
The court heard the company had 12 offices throughout the Midlands and south-west of England and at one point employed 250 people.
Rivers, 55, of Coleshill, Warwickshire, was described by Judge Stuart Rafferty as the "head, heart and soul" of the company, which had about 18,000 customers per year and an estimated annual turnover of £7m.
Trading standards officers found small firms were targeted by Wyvern with high-pressure sales techniques and multiple calls.
Once paid for, the adverts would only appear in low circulation publications put out by the media company itself.
Businesses were sometimes billed for unsolicited extra adverts.
The highest amount lost by one firm was £31,305.
Mark Hughes, from Nottinghamshire Trading Standards, said: "You would see what we call 'feeding frenzies', where they would pass details of a company around the group which would then be targeted for more advertising.
"This group were quite callous if someone made a complaint - they would threaten those individuals with legal action and, indeed, would take individuals to county court to recover the money they thought they were owed."
One victim was Jutta Patterson, whose animal rescue centre lost more than £5,000 and almost closed.
She died of cancer in 2015.
Her husband Terry said: "She couldn't sleep at night, she started smoking more and didn't eat properly... I think it affected her a lot."
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The working group will comprise key bodies associated with preparing a bid.
The Irish government and the Northern Ireland Executive hope the move will lay the groundwork for a potential combined pitch to stage the tournament.
Ministers from Belfast and Dublin met in Armagh on Wednesday to discuss hosting the sport's showpiece event.
Stormont sports minister Caral Ni Chuilin and tourism minister Arlene Foster held talks with counterparts in the Republic's tourism and sports departments Leo Varadkar and Michael Ring.
The agreed working group will report back to both governments in a few months and Ministers will then consider how to move forward to submit a formal application to host the competition.
"The island of Ireland has a lot to offer the global rugby family and there would be a lot of benefits to be gained by hosting such a prestigious event," said Minister Ni Chilin.
"The (Stormont) Executive is investing £110m in upgrading stadiums in Belfast which includes the redevelopment of Ravenhill (the home of Ulster Rugby).
"While we would have world class venues to host the Rugby World Cup, there is a lot of work required to get us into a position to make a successful bid."
Mr Ring said the Rugby World Cup was potentially the biggest sporting event Ireland could stage.
"An event of this scale would not only have a great benefit for rugby but would also raise the profile of what sport can do for the country," he said.
"We all witnessed the massive boost to the national mood that was provided by the London Olympics.
"The Rugby World Cup is probably the largest event we could ever host on our own on the island and I would hope it would have a similar impact here.
"Sport is a great unifier, it brings people together and large events like this can also bring about a great sense of pride."
The ambitious bid would see matches played on both sides of the Irish border, taking in both rugby union and gaelic games venues.
Ireland has been mulling over the idea for over a year, with the backing of the Irish Rugby Football Union, in the hope of replicating the successful 2011 New Zealand event.
This private university, with its own degree-awarding powers, will be among the lowest charging, alongside the Open University.
There will also be more intensively taught degree courses, which will cost £12,000 for two years.
Chief executive Carl Lygo said the private university college wanted to "challenge the educational status quo".
Mr Lygo said the fee level would allow students to "start their chosen career without a mountain of debt".
The government wants to promote a market in tuition fees - raising the upper limit to £9,000 per year.
The range of charges is now emerging - with the highest for an undergraduate degree course so far set to be £36,000 for a four-year course in Edinburgh, payable by students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Scottish students will not have to pay tuition fees at Scotland's universities.
A majority of universities in England have set tuition fees of between £8,000 and £9,000 for some or all their courses.
The announcement of fees from BPP University College will lead to a three-year degree course costing £15,000. An accelerated degree course, where students work through the summer, will cost £12,000 for two years.
It will also mean that students at this private university will be able to apply for student finance in the same way as students at public universities.
The government announced earlier this year that students at private higher education institutions could borrow up to £6,000 per year to cover fees.
This will be the charge for undergraduate courses in law, business, accountancy and finance at the university college's bases in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Swindon and Manchester.
The university college says it has 6,500 students at its law and business schools, and trains more than 30,000 accountants.
It challenges the traditional model of a university offering a three-year residential degree - and is aimed at students wanting work-related qualifications who might save money by living at home when studying.
"Universities have been forced, many for the first time, to make some tough decisions in order to compete in a changing and challenging environment," said Mr Lygo.
"At the heart of this is the student, who deserves value for money and the chance to improve their employability prospects and, as a sector, we mustn't lose sight of this."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he was considering banning US coal exports in response to the "unfair" tax on Canadian lumber.
The government is also looking at duties against several Oregon industries, the BBC has learnt.
Oregon has been one of the loudest supporters of an up to 24% tax on Canadian softwood lumber.
Mr Trudeau wrote to British Columbia (BC) premier Christy Clark to say that he was "carefully and seriously" considering trade action on coal exports. He said trade officials will explore next steps.
Ms Clark had previously asked Ottawa to ban US thermal coal exports, and has said she will impose a tax on thermal coal entering BC ports regardless of the federal government's decision, because "it is the right thing to do".
BC is one of Canada's largest producers of softwood lumber.
"We share the commitment to fighting climate change and protecting the environment," Mr Trudeau wrote in his letter on Friday.
"We strongly disagree with the US Department of Commerce's decision to impose an unfair and punitive duty on Canadian softwood lumber."
The government is also considering imposing duties or other trade action on several Oregon industries, the BBC has learnt.
This has nothing to do with US President Donald Trump, who has been a vocal opponent of Nafta and criticised Canada for protectionist dairy policies, the BBC is told.
Instead, the government is considering levying duties on several Oregon industries, including wine, wood chips, plywood, flooring and packaging material, that receive state support which the Canadian government believes may constitute illegal subsidies.
Democratic Oregon senator Ron Wyden is one of the biggest critics of the Canadian softwood lumber industry.
Canada and the US have long had a trade dispute over softwood lumber, with the US arguing that Canada unfairly subsidises its industry by charging minimal fees to log publicly owned lands.
Last week, the US Commerce Department announced it will charge five Canadian softwood exporters duties ranging between 3.2% to 24.12% to make it a "level playing field".
The 20-year-old ex-England Under-17 player has yet to make a first-team appearance for the Championship side since coming from the youth system.
Clark will go straight into the Cambridge squad for Good Friday's League Two match against high-flying Bristol Rovers.
The U's are currently 10th in the table, five points off the play-offs.
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There were no new Ebola cases reported last week according to the WHO.
At the height of the outbreak Sierra Leone was reporting more than 500 new cases a week. Last week, for the first time since May last year, there were zero new cases.
But authorities are warning against complacency.
OB Sisay, Director of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC), said: "This does not mean Sierra Leone is suddenly Ebola free.
"As long as we have one Ebola case we still have an epidemic. People should continue to take the public health measures... around hand-washing, temperature checks, enhanced screening."
In Sierra Leone currently:
Restrictions on public gatherings, travel and trade have been eased in the last couple of weeks. Nightclubs and theatres have re-opened and markets are allowed to stay open for longer.
"People are really happy," said OB Sisay.
"The jubilations haven't started yet because we are constantly on the radio saying it's not over yet, but people are extremely pleased that they are [starting to] see the end of this."
Officially though, the end of the outbreak will only be declared six weeks after the last Ebola patient either dies or tests negative for the virus. Whilst neighbouring Guinea continues to report a small number of cases, this final goal remains out of reach.
Guinea identified three new infections last week. Liberia has been on zero new cases since 23 July.
On Friday, President Ernest Bai Koroma lifted the quarantine on one of the last villages to be cordoned off to help stop the spread of the virus, marking the moment as the beginning of the end of the outbreak in Sierra Leone.
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The World Health Organization said the use of rapid response teams and strong community involvement in tracing sick people and their close contacts is helping to finally bring an end to the outbreak.
It said the focus is now on tracking each and every chain of Ebola virus transmission, and closing them down as quickly as possible.
Tracking chains of transmission means finding every single person who has been in contact with someone infected with Ebola, monitoring them closely for 21 days and then quickly moving them to a treatment centre if they develop symptoms.
Dr Anders Nordstrom, WHO Representative in Sierra Leone said: "We have to keep doing this intensive working with communities to identify potential new cases early and to rapidly stop any Ebola virus transmission.
"It's important for Sierra Leone that we have come this far, but it's not over for the region until we are at zero for 42 days in all three countries."
Labour MP Rachel Reeves, who worked at HBOS during the crisis, said regulators needed to be "forever vigilant".
She echoed the Bank of England which warned earlier this week of a sharp rise in household debt and car loans.
Ms Reeves also pledged to question company bosses over their record on reducing the gender pay gap.
The recently elected chairwoman of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee told the BBC's Today Programme she was concerned that UK households were overextending themselves with personal debt.
"I do worry about the growth of some of those issues we saw in the mortgage market in 2008 now rearing their heads in unsecured lending and in car purchases," said Ms Reeves.
"We've got to be forever vigilant. We're not going to have the same crisis as in 2008, but there are risks building up in the financial services sector as well as in household debt."
Ms Reeves's words chime with a warning from the Bank of England's Alex Brazier this week that personal loans had increased by 10% over the past year and were now at "dangerous" levels.
Ms Reeves, an economist, worked in the retail banking arm of HBOS between 2006 and 2009. She became MP for Leeds West in 2010 and served in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet.
Under her predecessor as committee chairman, Iain Wright MP, the select committee prompted headlines over the appearances of some prominent business leaders.
Most notable were its cross-examination of Sir Philip Green, interviewed about his role in the collapse of BHS, and the appearance of Sports Direct boss, Mike Ashley, after allegations surfaced over poor working conditions and under-payment at the company's Derbyshire warehouse.
Ms Reeves said she thought those events were "really powerful and actually changed behaviour in some cases".
She said she was keen to pursue a similar strategy and also planned to look at employment practices in the gig economy.
Ms Reeves signalled her intention to get tough with companies over the difference between what they pay male and female employees.
From next April firms must publish information on the ratio of pay between the genders.
"I'd like the select committee to scrutinise that, to look at what sectors and businesses are doing well and which have some way to go," she said.
"And I am keen to call in some of those businesses to understand why some - I hope - are getting close to parity on pay, while others are still out of step."
Following her election earlier this month she also indicated the committee would hold companies to account over their disability and ethnicity pay gaps.
Vivianne Miedema scored twice, with Lineth Beerensteyn also finding the the net before half-time at Livingston.
Renee Slegers scored number four in a one-sided friendly.
Ellen Jansen, Shanice van de Sanden and Jackie Groenen also scored for the Dutch, ranked 12th in the world, on a miserable night for the Scots.
The Dutch are hosting next year's tournament, the first major event 21st ranked Scotland has reached, and the visitors were on top from start to finish.
Scotland goalkeeper Shannon Lynn made early saves to deny Renato Jensen and Miedema, while Caroline Weir blasted high and wide from a rare Scottish opening.
Bayern Munich striker Miedema broke the deadlock with a shot that looked destined to be stopped by Lynn before defender Joelle Murray stuck out a leg and diverted the ball high into the net.
Two goals inside first-half stoppage time really knocked the wind out of the hosts, who were without star midfielder Kim Little.
Beerensteyn raced away from Scotland captain for the night Ifeoma Dieke to fire home a blistering strike and Miedema was first to react when Manieke Dekker hit the crossbar, nodding in the rebound.
The Netherlands continued to make all of the running after the interval, increasing their lead on 66 minutes when Van de Sanden cut the ball back from the bye-line for Slegers, who hammered it through the legs of Lynn.
Soon after, Lynn failed to hold a shot by Van de Sanden and Jansen followed up to score. The Swedish-based goalkeeper was injured in the process, with Gemma Fay taking over.
However, the introduction of the regular skipper did nothing to stem the tide and her mistake allowed the lively Van de Sanden to make it six.
Scotland's heaviest defeat is 8-0 to England in 1973 and that record was under threat when Groenen danced through the home defence before beating Fay at her near post.
With only two changes to the side that beat Iceland in their final qualifying match, this was a harsh lesson for Scotland, who have plenty of hard work ahead before Euro 2017.
Scotland head coach Anna Signuel: "They were playing in behind us all the time and we couldn't stand up to it. Losing two goals just before half time really killed the game.
"We played better in the second half, higher up the park, but we still let in four goals and that's from a lot of individual mistakes. One-v-one, they are much better than us.
"It's very disappointing and it shows that we have a bit to go, especially physically. We need more of these types of games in the spring because playing qualifiers against lower ranked teams becomes a false reality. You think you're better than you are, maybe."
Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said about 120 fighters on both sides had been killed around the town of Ratyan on Friday.
As many as 20,000 refugees fleeing the fighting have gathered at a border crossing with Turkey.
Turkey says it is prepared to help the refugees but the frontier is shut.
In the past few days, the Syrian army backed by Russian air power has made a series of gains in Aleppo province.
Syrian state TV said on Friday that pro-government forces had seized Ratyan, just north of Aleppo city.
Rebel chief Hassan Haj Ali told Reuters the town had not yet fallen but there were "very heavy battles".
"The regime is now trying to expand the area it has taken control of," he added.
"Now the northern countryside [of Aleppo] is totally encircled and the humanitarian situation is very difficult."
Earlier in the week, the Syrian government claimed a major victory by breaking the rebel siege of two towns in Aleppo province, severing an opposition supply line from Turkey to Aleppo city.
"It feels like a siege of Aleppo is about to begin," said David Evans, a spokesman for aid group Mercy Corps.
Before the civil war, Aleppo was a key commercial centre and home to more than two million people. Since 2012 it has been divided into rebel- and government-held areas.
The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said up to 20,000 people fleeing the fighting in Aleppo province had gathered at the Bab al-Salam border crossing on the Turkish border.
March 2011: Anti-government protests erupt across Syria, but Aleppo is initially untouched as a result of a state crackdown
February 2012: As the rebellion turns into a conflict, clashes between rebels and the government are reported with increasing frequency in Aleppo province
July 2012: The battle for Aleppo begins. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided
2013: The government begins bombarding rebel districts with barrel bombs, causing thousands of casualties
September 2015: Syria launches a fresh offensive in the wake of Russia's intervention in the conflict
February 2016: The government captures towns north of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the city
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It said between 5,000 to 10,000 refugees had also fled to the nearby city of Azaz.
"Humanitarian organisations are responding to the needs of those displaced, but ongoing military conflict is making access to populations in need increasingly difficult," the UN's Linda Tom told AFP news agency.
In a televised speech, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey would not leave refugees "without food or shelter" but he would not say if they would be allowed in.
Nato has accused Russia of "undermining" Syrian peace efforts through its strikes, which it says are mainly aimed at opposition groups. Russia insists it only targets what it calls terrorists.
On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Russia of being engaged in an "invasion" of Syria, saying it was trying to create a "boutique state" for ally President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Erdogan said Russia and the Syrian government were together responsible for 400,000 deaths in Syria.
On Thursday Russia accused Turkey, key backer of Syria's opposition, of preparing a ground invasion, an accusation Mr Erdogan called "laughable".
Turkey and Russia have been embroiled in a row since Turkey shot down a Russian jet it accused of violating its airspace in November.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, the Islamic State group, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, which are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.
Aberdeen confirmed there would be no victory parade on Sunday should they lift the Cup on Saturday.
And Celtic also said, in the event of winning, the team would not be able to parade the trophy back at Celtic Park.
The planned Heroes and Legends bus parade at Celtic Park on Sunday has also been cancelled.
Both teams said the decisions had been made after discussions with Police Scotland.
A total of 22 people were killed in the attack at Manchester Arena, some of them children.
In 2014, tens of thousands of Aberdeen fans lined Union Street after the club won the Scottish League Cup.
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Neither Aberdeen or Celtic will hold Scottish Cup Final trophy events, whoever wins at Hampden Park, in the wake of the Manchester bombing.
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Gerald Vernon-Jackson, a Liberal Democrat, was told it would take eight months to mint the medals but does not accept it can take that long.
He is concerned elderly veterans would not live to see their medals awarded to them and has written to David Cameron.
A Downing Street spokesman was unavailable for comment.
Mr Vernon-Jackson said there needed to "be a sense of urgency" as "people have been waiting since 1945 for this medal".
"They need to pull their finger out and get a move on, it cannot take eight months," he said of Downing Street.
More than 3,000 seamen died over four years from 1941 on missions to deliver supplies to ports in the Soviet Union.
Winston Churchill described the convoys as the most dangerous of the war.
The service was not recognised with a medal and the veterans were unable to lobby for honours after the war because Russia became an enemy.
But in December, Mr Cameron told the Commons he had accepted an expert review's recommendation that an Arctic star medal should finally be minted.
Mr Vernon-Jackson said there were about 400 Arctic convoy veterans still alive but that most would be in their late 80s and 90s.
In his letter to Mr Cameron, Mr Vernon-Jackson said: "I am very conscious that the veterans who will receive these medals are becoming increasingly old.
"Every week before the award of the medals puts them at risk of not being able to receive the medals they so richly deserve."
Veterans have received recognition from the Russian government but have yet to be honoured by the British government.
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The leader of Portsmouth City Council has said Downing Street need "to pull their finger out" over medals promised to World War II Arctic convoy veterans.
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1 February 2013 Last updated at 17:13 GMT
She performed the song when Barack Obama was officially sworn in to his second term as American president but lots of people noticed she wasn't singing live.
Instead she pretended to sing to a pre-recorded backing track, something known as lip synching.
She says it is because she had not had enough time to rehearse the song.
To prove how good her voice is she sang the anthem live for journalists at a press conference and promised not to lip synch when she performs at the Superbowl.
The Welshman, who helped Britain to track pursuit gold at the Rio Olympics, was due to be part of Team Sky for the Adelaide-based event.
"Not exactly how I pictured making my world tour debut but when your appendix ruptures there isn't much you can do," he wrote on Twitter.
Australian Caleb Ewan won the first stage riding for Orica-Scott.
Team Sky doctor Neil Heron said: "The earliest Owain will leave the hospital is Thursday and recovery and recuperation is likely to take at least four weeks.
"Owain is obviously disappointed, but he appreciates he needs to be 100% fit to get back racing."
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Robots will eventually help carry out less invasive surgery in areas such as ear, nose and throat, and urology.
Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the "advanced facilities" would attract specialists to Wales and give patients the latest treatment.
A prostate surgery robot at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff will also be given extra funding.
The cash will boost facilities for training doctors from hospitals across south Wales in robotic surgery.
Professor Andrew Davies, chair of Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, said: "This is great news for patients as it will allow our doctors and nurses to improve and extend their skills and surgical techniques."
The visitors, 2-1 up from the first game, went ahead through Lewis Milne, with David Cox adding to their lead.
Danny Denholm fired home early in the second half and Aiden Malone knocked in a back-heel finish.
Scott Brown pulled one back for Peterhead before Josh Peters completed the rout from close range.
The visitors made the perfect start on five minutes when Milne raced on to a through ball to slip his shot under keeper Graeme Smith from 14 yards.
The second goal arrived on 17 minutes when Cox steered in a Milne pass from a couple of yards.
Nicky Riley had a shot blocked for a corner and Leighton McIntosh saw his header clawed away by keeper Grant Adam as the home side pressed for a goal to give them some hope but Forfar, with a strong wind at their back, looked dangerous on the counter attack.
Denholm cracked in a powerful left foot shot six minutes after the restart from the left side of the Peterhead box to leave the home side with an impossible task.
Substitute Malone piled the misery on for the Balmoor side back-heeling in the fourth goal from close in.
Peterhead reduced the deficit when Brown rifled a low shot in from 22 yards but substitute Peters then knocked in his 17th goal of the season as the Loons marched back into the third tier at the first time of asking.
Forfar Athletic manager Gary Bollan: "We expected a tight game because Peterhead are a good side and not many teams come here and score five goals.
"We were without Gavin Swankie, who has been influential for us this season, but Lewis Milne filled his boots and got the first goal.
"We felt if we kept the ball well enough we could catch them on the break and cause them problems. Our back four were magnificent, getting the ball into wide areas and into midfield. At times, we cut them open.
"After the disappointment of relegation last season, we had a huge job in front of us. We probably should have won the league but we've done it the hard way."
Match ends, Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 5.
Second Half ends, Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 5.
Jamie Stevenson (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Milne (Forfar Athletic).
Foul by Scott Brown (Peterhead).
David Cox (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Thomas O'Brien (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Leighton McIntosh (Peterhead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Leighton McIntosh (Peterhead).
Christopher McLaughlin (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Scott Ross (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Scott (Forfar Athletic).
Goal! Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 5. Josh Peters (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jim Lister.
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Josh Peters replaces Aiden Malone because of an injury.
Goal! Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 4. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Peterhead. Nathan Blockley replaces Ryan Strachan.
Simon Ferry (Peterhead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Simon Ferry (Peterhead).
Marc Scott (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Eddie Malone (Forfar Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Allan Smith (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eddie Malone (Forfar Athletic).
Attempt saved. Leighton McIntosh (Peterhead) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Nicky Riley (Peterhead) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Grant Anderson (Peterhead) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Ryan Strachan (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Peterhead 0, Forfar Athletic 4. Aiden Malone (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Aiden Malone (Forfar Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Liam Gordon (Peterhead).
Jim Lister (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Peterhead. Allan Smith replaces Jamie Redman.
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Marc Scott replaces Danny Denholm.
Attempt missed. Jamie Redman (Peterhead) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Peterhead. Conceded by Thomas O'Brien.
Attempt saved. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Strachan (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jamie Stevenson (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Denholm (Forfar Athletic).
The 23-year-old has been recovering from a shoulder injury after undergoing surgery in July.
Lee, who played in all three Tests for Wales in New Zealand in June, was expected to be sidelined for 12-16 weeks.
"He's looking good," said Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac.
"There's been consultation (with Wales) and everyone is happy with his testing.
"He's training with us today and he's stepping it up. He'll have more involvement next week."
Scarlets suffered a second successive Pro12 loss when they were beaten 20-9 by Edinburgh at Murrayfield on Friday.
The Welsh region visit Ulster on Friday, 16 September.
The bill would have allowed faith-based organisations to refuse service to gay and transgender people.
Disney, the National Football League, Coca-Cola and others threatened to pull business out of the state.
The veto comes as other US states enacted similar laws that limit gay rights.
"I believe it is a matter of character for our state," Governor Nathan Deal said.
"I do not think that we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith-based community in Georgia."
Republicans lawmakers said the bill would protect religious people who believe serving gay and transgender people violates their beliefs.
The bill also would have protected clergy not wishing to perform gay marriages, and people who would not attend weddings based on religious beliefs.
If passed, opponents said it would have legalised discrimination and flattened ordinances passed to protect gay and transgender people.
Mr Deal said his decision was "about the character of our state and the character of our people. Georgia is a welcoming state; it is full of loving, kind and generous people."
Disney said it would not shoot films in Georgia if the bill became law.
"Disney and Marvel are inclusive companies, and although we have had great experiences filming in Georgia, we will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law," a Disney spokesman told Variety last week.
Warner Bros and cable network AMC released a similar statement last week. AMC produces the hit show The Walking Dead, which is filmed in the state.
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank denounced the bill, and the National Football League said passing the bill would have hurt Atlanta's chances of hosting the Super Bowl.
"The message to Governor Nathan Deal was loud and clear: this deplorable legislation was bad for his constituents, bad for business and bad for Georgia's future," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay rights group. "Discrimination and intolerance have no place in the 21st Century."
Republican State Senator Josh McKoon said he was "disappointed" and thought Mr Deal was someone "the faith community could rely on".
After the US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage last year, many conservative states drew up laws in an attempt to protect the religious community.
Last week, North Carolina's legislature passed a sweeping bill that bars its cities and counties from having their own anti-discrimination rules.
Legislators pushed for the bill after Charlotte passed an ordinance allowing transgender people to use restrooms according to gender identity.
Lawmakers in several other US states have proposed similar legislation - sometimes referred to as "bathroom bills".
The North Carolina law has also drawn criticism from the business community with Charlotte-based Bank of America, Apple and other large companies expressing concern about the law.
On Monday, a federal lawsuit was filed against the governor of North Carolina over the new law.
Two transgender men along with two civil rights groups filed the lawsuit, asking a judge to declare the law unconstitutional.
Swansea Bay City Region's chairman Sir Terry Matthews aims to transform these sectors in the same way the internet changed telecom.
The blueprint is to create up to 33,000 jobs over the next 20 years.
A fibre-optic transatlantic cable from New York to Oxwich Bay would be a "game changer" to bring ultrafast broadband.
The city region has decided to go for something distinctive and ambitious in its vision - not based on physical infrastructure or huge transport projects.
It concedes that south west Wales is underachieving economically and also needs to be resilient, particularly with the difficulties being faced by big employers like Tata Steel at Port Talbot.
Those behind it say they want to "punch above our weight" and offer something of importance to the UK, as well as developing something different to what other city deals are offering.
South west Wales would in essence become a giant test bed for internet and digital innovation.
The bid has been analysed by Cardiff University and it is estimated the economic potential could see 33,000 jobs created over 20 years - worth £3.3bn in output.
The four local councils in the city region are looking at a £100m commitment over 20 years, with contributions from the private sector, higher education and European Union.
The negotiations for the fibre-optic link from north America is understood to be at an advanced stage and would bring the ultra-fast broadband speeds to west Wales first, enabling towns along the coast to benefit.
Sir Terry, speaking from Canada, said it was important to realise the main transmission communication channel from New York to London was via the south west Wales region.
"It speaks very loudly to the importance of building up a technology sector on those communication channels.
"There's an opportunity of creating a significant industry which is in software. Coding should become the name of the game for the people in this region."
In a letter to Chancellor George Osborne, Sir Terry - who made his millions in internet developments of the telecom industry - said the vision addressed global challenges and was of a sufficient scale to attract international investors.
"The prosperity gap between Swansea Bay and the rest of Wales and the UK remains stubbornly and unacceptably high.
"Real transformation will not be achieved by simply doing more of the same."
Swansea council recently unveiled its own regeneration proposals and leader Rob Stewart called the city deal proposal "an enormously exciting bid".
The shooting happened in Braithwaite Road, Sparkbrook, at about 23:30 BST on Thursday. The 22-year-old man remains in a stable condition in hospital.
West Midlands Police said three men aged 20, 21 and 25, have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
The busy Stratford Road at the junction of Bordesley Middleway and Braithwaite Road has been cordoned off while forensic investigations take place.
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Lizzi Walton is struggling under the weight of 25,000 brochures, and she is inundated with calls.
It is a good job she can multi-task because she has got plenty to do.
From this tiny office in the middle of a small Gloucestershire market town, Lizzi is running an international festival - one that will see some 15,000 visitors swell the local streets this month.
So are we talking music, literature or the latest fad, food - all of which are now popular festival fodder?
No, this festival is all about fabric or, to be more precise, textiles - and it is already into its sixth year.
Stroud has a proud textile heritage. In its heyday, the town was bursting at the seams with mills churning out cloth.
By the mid 19th century, there were more than 1,000 looms at work in what was known as the Golden Valley.
Stroud Scarlet, a beautiful red woollen fabric, graced the backs of the Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Family, and local manufacturers were world-renowned.
Today Stroud still boasts a mill that makes cloth for snooker tables and championship tennis balls.
It is this former global reputation that Lizzi is seeking to build on.
"Stroud has such a proud textile heritage and I wanted that tradition to live on," she says.
"This area is teeming with talent and was at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement.
"[Famous 19th century designer] William Morris' country house Kelmscott Manor is just up the road."
Born in Stroud, Lizzi trained in fine art at Winchester and has spent much of her life working in arts administration.
Then, a few years ago, she decided to channel her considerable creative energy into putting the town back on the map and single-handedly started the festival of which she is now the director.
"I support good design, provide contemporary artists with a platform to showcase their work, and aim to create a real buzz around textiles again," she says.
This year, more than ever, one senses that buzz is growing. The recent recession has awakened a whole new generation to the delights of sewing, knitting and crochet.
"Make do and mend" has gone from being a wartime necessity to a fashion trend, and in Stroud itself two enterprising barmaids from The Prince Albert are now running popular monthly clothing repair sessions alongside the peanuts and pints.
But Lizzi is keen to point out that textiles are not just about domestic crafts.
"It's really not just about women making quilts, although of course that definitely has a place," she says.
"Textiles helped make Britain great and fashion, for instance, is a huge generator of wealth.
"Fabrics play a major role in all our lives, from the cradle to the grave we're literally touched by textiles. It's a global language."
This year the festival is an exciting mix of exhibitions, talks and workshops, with artists coming from as far afield as Holland, France and Japan to take part.
Established world-class makers rub shoulders with emerging talent, and quirky fringe events provide opportunities for everyone to get involved.
Putting on a festival in a recession is no easy task, and the programme is delivered on a shoestring. Apart from Lizzi, there is just one part-time administrator.
"With investment, we could draw even bigger crowds," she says.
"The local economy is already benefiting from hosting an international festival, and visitor numbers have grown year-on-year, with 65% of people coming from outside of the county.
"Bed and breakfasts in the town this month are full. The craft sector brings in cash and helps people think outside of the box, both important commodities - especially today."
The 5.2cm (two inch) coin was taken to the auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, by its owner who was unaware of its significance.
The Declaration Pound, which dates from 1643, was described by auctioneers as "extremely rare".
It was struck in Oxford, a year after the English Civil War broke out, at a new mint created to launch an official currency under Royalist control.
Duke's Auctioneers had expected the coin to fetch £50,000.
It had been handed down through several generations to the current owner, who said she did not know where it had originally come from.
The coin marks Charles I's attempts to regain his failing power from the Parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell.
A legend inscribed on the back of the coin in Latin reads: "Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered".
It is seen as a declaration of the king's power and his belief in absolute monarchy.
According to the National Archives, £1 in 1640 would have been worth £85.80 in 2005.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendation includes a ban on hands-free devices, making it stricter than any current state laws.
Thirty-five states have banned texting when driving, and nine states have outlawed hand-held mobile phone use.
But enforcement is generally not a priority.
And no states ban the use of hands-free devices for all drivers.
The NTSB does not have the power to impose such a nationwide ban, but its recommendations carry significant weight with federal regulators and lawmakers.
In a unanimous vote, the board also recommended increased enforcement of existing laws.
The NTSB recommendations would make an exception for devices seen as aiding driver safety, such as GPS systems.
The debate was prompted by a pile-up in the state of Missouri last year, caused by a 19-year-old driver who sent or received 11 texts in the few minutes before the crash.
Missouri has a law banning drivers under 21 years old from texting while driving, but was not enforcing it regularly at the time of the accident.
"We're not here to win a popularity contest," NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman told reporters on Tuesday.
"No email, no text, no update, no call is worth a human life."
Other high-profile cases investigated by the NTSB include the death of 25 people in a train collision, which involved an engineer texting.
Another accident involved a lorry driver who was using his phone when he collided with a van, killing 11 people.
About two out of 10 drivers have texted or emailed from a mobile phone while driving, according to a survey of US drivers by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Half of drivers between 21-24 years of age had done so.
The survey found that many drivers do not think it is dangerous when they use phones on the road - only when others do.
The body of the 18-year-old was recovered by RNLI crews close to Weymouth ferry terminal on 15 March.
Louis, from Dorchester, went missing on Valentine's Day after a night out. It is understood he was celebrating a friend's birthday when he went missing.
The force said in a statement: "His family have been updated. Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
He wants to ensure firms in countries which do not use the euro as their currency are not discriminated against.
He also wants to ensure those countries, including the UK, are never required to bail-out euro members.
German leader Angela Merkel said her message to Mr Osborne was that the UK must "stay in" the EU.
Mr Osborne's visit to Germany comes as the UK government "steps up the pace" of renegotiation talks ahead of an in/out referendum promised by the end of 2017.
Prime Minister David Cameron will next week set out Britain's demands in full in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk.
But Mr Osborne is preparing the ground with a speech to business leaders in Berlin, setting out his vision of Britain's place in a "two-tier" Europe.
He will tell the BDI, the Federation of German Industries, the EU must accept that the single market has more than one currency and that it "should not discriminate against any business on the basis of the currency of the country in which they reside".
"What we seek are principles embedded in EU law and binding on EU institutions that safeguard the operation of the union for all 28 member states. The principles must support the integrity of the European single market."
And he will add: "We must never let taxpayers in countries that are not in the euro bear the cost for supporting countries in the eurozone."
Not much happens in the European Union without Germany's agreement.
So the conversations between the Chancellor George Osborne and the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, really matter.
And Mr Osborne will use this visit to give more details of two of the four goals the government hopes to achieve as part of their quest for a new relationship with the rest of the EU - an explicit end to the commitment of ever closer union, where countries inside the EU inevitably become more and more aligned, and a legal guarantee that British businesses won't lose out because they are not in the eurozone.
Making those demands to the rest of the EU is one thing, persuading their leaders to help the UK's cause is quite another.
Speaking ahead of Mr Osborne's appearance at the conference, Angela Merkel said: "I think Great Britain should remain a member of the European Union. Mr Osborne is not here yet (at the BDI meeting), but you can relay a message to him: Stay in.
"But of course this is not just up to us. In the end the British have to decide. The only promise we can make is this: Whereever their demands are justified, more competitiveness, more effectiveness in the EU, the British demands are our demands too.
"Of course we won't be able to agree on everything, we have always found possibilities for opt-outs, and the Europe of today is not a one-speed Europe.
"For us there are many reasons to keep the UK in the EU and we will do everything we can to make this happen. But the British have to decide and I hope they will make a decision that takes Europe forward."
Another crucial demand for the UK is the ability to opt-out of the EU's commitment to "ever-closer union" between member states, which dates back to the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
Mr Osborne will tell members of the BDI the British people "do not want to be part of an ever-closer union".
He will stress the British government's desire to stay in a reformed, EU, but will add: "It needs to be a Europe where we are not part of that ever closer union you are more comfortable with.
"In the UK, where this is widely interpreted as a commitment to ever-closer political integration, that concept is now supported by a tiny proportion of voters.
"I believe it is this that is the cause of some of the strains between Britain and our European partners.
"Ever closer union is not right for us any longer."
He will say that the new principles "must ensure that as the eurozone chooses to integrate it does so in a way that does not damage the interests of non-euro members".
The chancellor fears Britain could be kept out of decisions on single market laws that will have an impact on its economy as integration between the 19 euro member states intensifies.
His proposals could be enshrined in future EU treaty changes after Britain has held its referendum but only if Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne can persuade other EU countries to accept that they do not represent special treatment for the UK.
Michael Sandford, 20, pleaded guilty in September to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function.
He was accused of grabbing a policeman's gun at a rally in Las Vegas in order to shoot at the candidate.
His mother says "he is remorseful over what he did".
Sandford, of Dorking, Surrey, had faced up to 10 years in prison over the alleged assassination plot.
The court heard that he could be eligible for release in four months' time, at which point he will be deported to the UK.
The defence team said their client is autistic and suffers seizures and obsession-compulsion anxiety.
Michael Sandford appeared in court in orange prison garb, looking pale and slight, his ankles shackled.
He smiled as members of his family waved to him and mouthed: "I love you."
Sandford then broke down in tears as he apologised for what he had done and for taking up time and costing the taxpayer money.
"I just feel terrible about it," he said.
The judge James Mahan appeared sympathetic, telling Sandford: "I don't think you harboured malice in your heart."
His mother, Lynne Sandford, also addressed the judge, saying her son was "cherished and adored".
"It breaks my heart to see him in this environment," she said, as she appealed for a lenient sentence on the basis that her son needed treatment and the support of his family.
After Sandford was arrested, he told officers he had planned to shoot the billionaire Republican candidate.
He failed to pull the weapon from an officer's holster, the court heard.
His mother said that she had lost contact with her son after he left home to travel around the US in 2015.
He had previously shown no interest in politics, and she was unable to explain why he would want to shoot Mr Trump.
According to court documents, Sandford, who was homeless and living in the US illegally having overstayed his visa, told the Secret Service that he had driven from California to Nevada with the goal of shooting Mr Trump.
The papers detail how he had been plotting the attack for around a year and had gone to a gun range in Las Vegas the day before the attack to learn how to shoot, firing 20 rounds from a 9mm Glock pistol.
He reportedly told an officer that he had expected to die in the attack but that he also had tickets for a later Trump rally in Arizona in case he needed a second chance.
Judge James C Mahan described the incident as "a crazy stunt".
"You have a medical problem," the judge told Sandford, adding that it is "nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about."
"I don't see you as evil or a sociopath," the judge said, wishing Sandford luck as he rose to leave the courtroom.
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With polls narrowing, experts say the votes of young people will be "absolutely crucial" in the contest.
BBC Scotland teamed up with The Social to host a debate with young politicians taking questions from an audience of people aged under 30.
They highlighted issues including housing, human rights and homelessness.
Taking part in the debate, which was streamed live on Facebook and Twitter, were the SNP's Stewart McDonald, Labour's Pam Duncan-Glancy, Conservative Kirstene Hair, Lib Dem Kris Chapman and Green MSP Ross Greer, attempting to win over a panel of young voters.
The key topics discussed focused on engaging young people in politics.
Prof John Curtice of Strathclyde University said the turnout rate among the young could be "absolutely crucial" in the election.
He said: "One thing we know from every single election about younger voters is that they are less likely to vote. And therefore how many of them turn up to vote, whether they abstain in the kind of numbers they did in the last election or whether they turn out in rather high numbers this time, could well in truth determine or have a significant impact on the outcome of this election."
Discussing political engagement in the debate, Mr McDonald said: "My experience is that young people are generally quite well tapped into the issues in a way that perhaps older generations aren't. Young people tend to be more broad and open-minded on the issues, and the more time we spend engaging them the better."
Mr Greer, who was elected as Holyrood's youngest MSP aged 21, said: "When I was elected, there were some people saying 'how can you possibly be a politician at that age, you don't have enough life experience to know what you're talking about. But our parliaments are supposed to represent all of society - they're not doing that if they're full of white men over the age of 50."
Ms Hair said it was "really important that you engage with young people", and said she had seen more young people involved in Tory campaigns in recent years.
She also said Ruth Davidson had lobbied Tory colleagues at Westminster to reduce the voting age in UK-wide elections to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote.
Meanwhile Ms Duncan-Glancy said her party was standing on policies aimed at engaging young voters.
She said: "The manifesto we have put forward for this election is a manifesto for young people. We've got policies to be proud of, which is why you'll see a lot more from Labour on social media on what we'll do for young people."
And Mr Chapman said future generations were the "most powerful tool in society", saying it was important to invest in them.
He said: "It's all about engaging young people and representing them and making sure they have a voice at all levels of parliament and politics."
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The attack happened near Balloch Road in Balloch at about 22:45 on Sunday 11 September last year.
The man in the image is described as white, in his 20s, about 5ft 7in tall, of slim build with short dark hair and riding a red Firefox bicycle.
He was wearing a long-sleeved grey top and a short-sleeved black top.
Police Scotland said he was also wearing black lycra shorts, black Sondico socks, grey Nike trainers and was carrying a black rucksack.
Officers have urged anyone who recognises the man to contact them.
The 54-year-old was arrested after "clashing" with a teenager at the store in Camden on Friday 17 October.
In a statement posted on his website following the incident, Mr Joyce claimed he had asked for the police to be called after he had "detained a youth".
He is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 30 December.
The Metropolitan Police said the former Labour MP, who is now an independent, had been charged with two counts of common assault and one count of criminal damage.
One Love Manchester is raising money for those affected by the suicide bombing at the end of Ariana Grande's performance at the Manchester Arena.
She is returning to the city, joined by stars including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Take That.
It is not yet known how the unfolding London attack might affect the event.
Grande tweeted after the incident in the capital that she was "praying for London".
The Manchester attack killed 22 people - including children and teenagers who saw the show as well as parents arriving at the arena to pick them up at the end of the night.
The youngest victim was just eight years old.
Ariana Grande is going to be performing, having said she wanted to return to the "incredibly brave city" to spend time with her fans, and to "honour and raise money for the victims and their families".
She's bringing a host of stars with her - Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Usher, Pharrell, Little Mix, Robbie Williams, Black Eyed Peas, Niall Horan and Take That are all on the bill.
The Old Trafford cricket ground has a 50,000 capacity and tickets sold out within 20 minutes when they went on general sale.
Some tickets were set aside for fans at the original concert, who were promised free entry. Ticketmaster said 14,200 tickets were being held for them.
People have been asked not to bring bags, "for speed of entry", and will be searched as they enter the grounds.
Full details are here.
Proceeds will go to the We Love Manchester emergency fund, which has been set up by Manchester City Council, in conjunction with the British Red Cross. Organisers expect at least £2m to be raised from the event.
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Favaro has played 28 times for Warriors in two seasons and was voted the club's player of the season last campaign.
It is understood Glasgow have signed open-side flanker Callum Gibbins from Super Rugby champions, the Hurricanes, as a replacement.
Gibbins, 28, will join next season after his commitments in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Scotland back-row Josh Strauss is likely to be allowed to leave Glasgow when his contract expires this summer.
The 30-year-old, who started Saturday's Six Nations win over Ireland, has attracted interest from clubs in the Top 14 and Aviva Premiership.
Following Monday's announcement that Stormers and Scotland centre Huw Jones will be joining Glasgow in the summer, Sam Johnson and Nick Grigg have extended their stays at Scotstoun.
They will compete with Jones and Alex Dunbar for starting places, with Mark Bennett's contract expiring.
Australia-born Johnson, 23, has signed a new two-year deal, keeping him in Glasgow until at least May 2019, while Grigg, a year older, will remain with the Warriors for at least another season after extending his contract by a further 12 months until May 2018.
All-action flanker Favaro has featured on nine occasions for Glasgow this season, although shoulder and ankle problems have limited his game time.
The Scotstoun fan favourite is included in Italy's Six Nations squad, but missed the opening-round defeat by Wales through injury.
Gibbins has been a member of the Hurricanes' wider Super Rugby group since 2013, earning his place in the full squad in 2015, and going on to make 25 appearances in the competition.
The New Zealander is reputed to be among the fittest members of the Canes squad, having twice won the team's notorious pre-season surf-to-peak challenge, which comprises a range of flat and climbing runs and cycles, but has found himself beneath All Blacks prodigy Ardie Savea in the pecking order.
Gibbins captains Manawatu Turbos in the provincial Mitre 10 Cup, where Dave Rennie, who takes over as Glasgow boss this summer, gave him his debut in 2009.
His Turbos stint has also seen him play for Scotland attack coach Jason O'Halloran, who will join Rennie's staff at Scotstoun next season, and Scotland head coach Vern Cotter's brother Jeremy.
The flanker will move to Scotland once his southern hemisphere commitments have been fulfilled.
The vehicles, worth an estimated £500,000, were taken from locations across Northern Ireland.
The thefts happened between May 2016 and February 2017.
Algimantas Scipouas, from Dunlade Road in Greysteel, appeared in Newry Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
The charges relate to the theft of a Range Rover, a Mercedes, an Audi Q7 Jeep and 26 Audi cars.
A police officer told the court that technology had been used to clone keys which were then used in the thefts.
Speaking through an interpreter Scipouas confirmed he understood the charges against him.
No application was made for bail.
He was remanded in custody and is due to appear in court again by video-link next month.
Moobs earns its listing as a slang term for a man's prominent breasts, and YOLO is an acronym for "you only live once".
New words and phrases are usually added to the dictionary once editors have enough evidence to demonstrate continued historical use.
Other entries focus on the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, with additions such as Oompa Loompa and witching hour.
Words related to food, speech, media and retail also feature.
The OED is a historical dictionary and a definitive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of almost 830,000 past and present words, senses, and compounds from across the English-speaking world.
It differs from the online Oxford dictionary, which lists current definitions of English words, and has a lower threshold for accepting new entries to its list of words.
Some of the words and senses to be added or updated in the OED, along with the dictionary's definitions:
There are also a number of new entries related to Roald Dahl which coincide with centenary celebrations and the publication of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary.
These include the words Oompa Loompa, scrumdiddlyumptious, witching hour, human bean and golden ticket.
"The inclusions reflect both his influence as an author and his vivid and distinctive style," said the chief editor of the OED, Michael Proffitt.
"For many children, Roald Dahl's work is not only one of their first experiences of reading, but also their earliest exposure to the creative power of language."
The pair clashed just before half-time with the game goalless and MacKenzie was shown a straight red card.
He was given his marching orders for a similar incident with Huddersfield's Alan Lee in September.
"I'd like to apologise to my team-mates and my manager and the fans," the 26-year-old told BBC Three Counties Radio.
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"On the incident, firstly I was just doing my job. I made a good clearance and then I was kicked on the ground and when I confronted the player he headbutted me.
"And I retaliated which obviously was wrong.
"I've apologised and I'll apologise again. It was wrong. I should have alerted the referee if he didn't see it - or the linesman who conveniently didn't see it either.
"I find it hard how half a stadium can see it but a referee and linesman can't.
"I need to learn from this. It's not the first time it's happened. Maybe I am a target for players who think they can wind me up. But I need to get that out of my game or it could hamper my career."
Dons boss Karl Robinson said MacKenzie's actions were unacceptable and added the Scot would be punished internally.
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But the MK manager praised the defender, who will be suspended for four games, for facing the media immediately after the game.
"I bet you were all shocked to see the player want to come to speak to you," he said.
"If we make mistakes we stand up as men, hold our hands up and internally we'll deal with everything else.
"The player can't headbutt our player, I'm disappointed they missed that.
"But I can't accept what happened afterwards. I'm so proud of him in a weird way, coming out and accepting his punishment. I'm not proud of what he did but he'll learn from it."
The postponement is a setback for the president who had insisted he would win the numbers to pass it through the lower chamber of Congress on Thursday.
The American Healthcare Act is intended to replace parts of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.
Repealing and replacing so-called Obamacare was a major plank of Mr Trump's election campaign.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans would still meet on Thursday evening but the plan was for a House vote on Friday.
A White House official said that "the vote will be in the morning to avoid voting at 3AM... We feel this should be done in the light of day, not in the wee hours of the night and we are confident the bill will pass in the morning".
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mr Trump had made a "rookie's error for bringing this up on a day when clearly you're not ready".
After a tumultuous day on Capitol Hill, it has become apparent that there simply aren't enough votes to pass the healthcare reform law. At the moment, it may not even be close.
Minutes before the announced delay, the president himself was insisting that a vote would happen on Thursday night, so this turn of events signifies an embarrassing setback.
If success was just a vote or two away, the evening would probably have proceeded as planned, with Speaker Paul Ryan and Donald Trump offering whatever threats or entreaties were necessary to edge past the finish line. Instead, the bill remains on the edge of an abyss.
For Republicans, a delay is better than outright defeat, of course, a scenario which would have undermined both the president's claims to be a dealmaking supremo and Mr Ryan's ability to control his party's hardliners.
The White House now has more time to negotiate with the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who represent the best, possible last, chance to salvage the bill. Such support will come with a high price, however, with any move to the right making the legislation all the harder to pass in the more moderate-minded Senate.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has all week insisted the administration would get the numbers and that the bill would pass, saying there was "no plan B".
The bill needs 215 votes to pass but ran into opposition mainly from conservative Republicans who believed it did not roll back enough of Mr Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare helped 20 million previously uninsured Americans get health insurance but has been plagued by increases in insurance premiums, which were also a problem before the health law.
Mr Trump promised a new law that would cover more people and at a lower cost.
The Republican bill keeps some of the popular elements of Obamacare but limits future federal funding for Medicaid, which covers low-income people.
A new estimate by the Congressional Budget Office released on Thursday evening said recent changes to the bill would make it costlier than previously thought.
The number of uninsured Americans would rise to 24 million by 2026 under the new law, the budget analysis said.
Groups representing doctors, hospitals and the elderly have said they are opposed to the Republican bill.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus met Mr Trump on Thursday and afterwards said there was "no deal".
The failure to go to a vote is a blow for the president, who has projected himself as a master dealmaker and has spent the week visiting the Capitol and calling senators on the phone to win over opponents.
House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows said there were "not enough members to get a yes, but progress is being made".
He played down what he called the "artificial deadline" of Thursday.
Mr Meadows insisted: "We are going to get to the finish line."
David Armitage did not take part, but filmed a live video on Facebook telling viewers "carnage, that's what we do".
The incident saw a large number of motorcyclists tear through streets and pedestrian areas in the city.
Armitage, of Headingley, was one of 13 defendants who appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.
All had admitted causing a public nuisance at a previous court hearing and were given bail until sentencing on Tuesday.
Witnesses likened the scenes on 31 October to the Mel Gibson film Mad Max.
Andrew Horton, prosecuting, told the court: "The motorcyclists were travelling en masse with over 100 riders, some not wearing helmets but wearing Halloween-type face masks of varying descriptions."
He said footage showed the bikers speeding, weaving between traffic and performing wheelies.
"The riders showed little or no regard for the safety of others," he told the court.
Mr Horton added that Armitage "directed and encouraged riders... and was shown cheering and embracing riders".
Police received about 160 calls from the public and were forced to close a section of Kirkstall Road.
The court also heard many of the riders had expressed regret when interviewed by police.
Mr Horton said Nicholas Flaherty told police "he would never normally ride in that manner but it was such a buzz, it was like he was in a film".
Another rider, Dean Fawcett, said in interview that he "thought it was a good idea but quickly realised it was turning into mayhem and that was not his intention".
The court also heard the event raised about £400, which Armitage initially claimed would go to Children in Need, but later said any money raised would go to the family of a local murder victim.
Deborah Smithies, representing Armitage, said he became confused after his arrest about what to do with the funds, which he still holds, "and stands ready to direct them where appropriate".
All 13 defendants pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to "causing a public nuisance by participating in a large-scale procession of motorbikes and similar vehicles that rode around Leeds in a manner that interfered with the comfort, enjoyment and safety of the public".
Omar Ahmed, 24, of Stonegate View, Meanwood
David Armitage, 26, of Brookfield Road, Headingley
Ashley Benson, 26, of Whingate Road, Armley
Michael Clough, 28, of Torre View, Burmantofts
Ben Colley, 26, of Butterbowl Road, Farnley. He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance
Dean Fawcett, 28, of Intake View, Middleton
Nicholas Flaherty, 30, of Prospect Street, Farsley. He also admitted perverting the course of justice
Rachel Taylor, 30, of Grange Park Walk, Leeds
Joshua Hawley, 23, of Mead Grove, Colton
Dylan Lockwood, 23, of Torre Grove, Burmantofts
Adam Nicholson, 27, of Bellmount Close, Leeds
Anton Rojas, 26, of Skelton Avenue, Burmantofts
Jamie Ayres, 26, of Lupton Avenue, Leeds
Hernani Banza, 27, of Shafton View, Leeds, pleaded not guilty to the same charge and is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 28 November
Mr Meacher, 75, had been MP for Oldham West and Royton since 1970, retaining the seat with a 14,738 majority in May.
The funeral service was held at St Mary's Anglican church in Wimbledon Village, London, for Mr Meacher who died on 21 October.
Mourners included Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former leader Ed Miliband.
In eulogies from family, friends and Reverend Mary Bide he was described as a man of "great integrity" with "huge intellect and learning" and a "wonderfully dry sense of humour".
His son David told mourners his father "approached work and life with boundless enthusiasm.
"He would be moved to real anger and sorrow to hear about people who were suffering from benefit cuts."
Former Labour MP Chris Mullin referred to Mr Meacher as a "serial dissident," who was "razor sharp, had a boyish charm and a naivety that never left him".
"He had been calling for a national living wage since 1970. Almost to the day of his death he was thinking of ways to resist tax credit cuts and making plans.
"He never lost his radical streak or infectious good humour," he said.
A by-election for the Oldham West and Royton constituency takes place on 3 December.
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Fruean, 28, has undergone several heart operations in the last decade, chiefly stemming from his rheumatic fever.
He is being subjected to additional medical assessment by club staff before completing a deal with Edinburgh.
The former Crusaders player will become Richard Cockerill's second signing as head coach as the Englishman prepares to succeed Duncan Hodge.
It is understood the former Leicester Tigers boss is eager to bolster his options in the backline.
Fruean's impending move follows that of fellow centre Mark Bennett, who suffered a cruciate ligament injury, which means the Scotland international faces up to a year on the sidelines, after agreeing a switch from Glasgow Warriors.
Injuries have limited New Zealand-born Fruean to just six Bath appearances, since joining the Premiership club from Hawke's Bay.
However, he has expressed a desire to represent Samoa in the 2018-19 Sevens World Series, with a view to playing for the national XV at the 2019 World Cup.
Any such sevens involvement would deprive Edinburgh of the 6ft 2in, 102kg centre for chunks of their Pro12 and European campaigns respectively.
With most results declared, Mr Iohannis, mayor of Sibiu, had 54.5% of the vote to Mr Ponta's 45.5%.
Mr Iohannis, 55 and an ethnic German, vowed to change politics and said "another kind of Romania is beginning".
Romania is one of the most corrupt EU states, something the centre-right Mr Iohannis has vowed to tackle.
Despite the election result, Mr Ponta told a local TV channel that he had "no reason to resign" as prime minister.
He had hoped to become the country's youngest president, replacing the incumbent Traian Basescu who cannot stand for re-election after serving two terms.
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Romania's large diaspora of up to four million people played a key role in the election. Many expat voters were said to be disillusioned with Mr Ponta.
After the first round of voting there were protests at polling stations in Paris, London and other cities. In some places voters had to queue for hours - with some unable to vote - leading to the resignation of the foreign minister last week.
The number of expatriate voters on Sunday more than doubled to 379,000 and large queues thronged polling stations at embassies and consulates across Europe, from Milan and Munich to London and Portsmouth.
Police in Paris fired tear gas on Sunday evening to disperse voters angry that they had been unable to cast their ballots. The new foreign minister had suggested that voters in France should travel instead to the eastern city of Nancy.
Romanian media praise election result
Expatriate voters overshadow presidential poll
Mr Ponta had been leading in the opinion polls and had beaten Mr Iohannis, the mayor of Sibiu in Transylvania, in the first round of the presidential election.
"We are a democratic country," Mr Ponta said outside the headquarters of his Social Democratic Party on Sunday. "The people are always right."
Mr Ponta, 42, had promised to reduce the budget deficit, increase pensions and the minimum wage.
As prime minister, he oversaw economic growth and political stability in Romania, the EU's second-poorest state after Bulgaria.
Aside from tackling corruption, Mr Iohannis, 55, promised in his election campaign to strengthen the independence of the judicial system.
Five miles of road from Kincraig to Dalraddy is involved in the first phase of a £3bn project to dual the A9 from Inverness to Perth.
A 40mph speed restriction will be in place on the five-mile section from Monday, Transport Scotland said.
Average speed cameras will be used to enforce the speed limit.
Nicholas Williams' challenge against Andrew Barlow caused the cup match between Cefn Albion and AFC Brynford last October to be abandoned.
Williams claimed it was a freak accident but Recorder Huw Rees called it "shocking violence".
Williams, 26, of Wrexham, was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Barlow broke his tibia and fibula and is still receiving treatment.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Con Rhodri Ifans of North Wales Police said: "This was a particularly callous assault which has had a huge impact on the victim.
"Anyone who commits acts of violence must realise to potential seriousness of their actions and we will vigorously pursue offenders and bring them to justice."
A large increase of incidents involving e-cigarettes and vitamin D supplements were recorded in recent years.
Contraceptive pills, artificial sweetener and raisins also harm thousands each year, data shows.
Vets reported almost 11,000 UK pet poisonings in 2016, mostly involving dogs, cats and rabbits.
More on pet poisonings and other Devon & Cornwall news here
Gudrun Ravetz, president of the British Veterinary Association said: "E-cigarettes may be harmful if they are ingested by your pet, as e-cigarettes and refills can easily contain sufficient quantities of nicotine to kill a small animal."
Some 113 pets were poisoned by e-cigarettes while 148 cases involved vitamin D tablets, figures from the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS) show - however they remain a small percentage of the overall total.
Pete Stewart's dog was poisoned after he found and ate "up to four bars of dark chocolate".
Mr Stewart, from London, said: "He seemed completely normal until the next afternoon when he started getting quite hyperactive and shaking, so I took him to the vets immediately.
"It was pretty horrible, they were really worried - they managed to flush his system but the quantity he had was enough to kill a much bigger dog".
1,253
Human painkillers
579 Chocolate
759 Rat poison
253 Artificial sweetener
113 Electronic cigarettes
Elizabeth Mackie's cat, Mr Mistoffelees, died after licking pollen from lilies in what she described as a "traumatic and horrific experience".
The Shropshire pub manager said she had an "overwhelming response" to her story from cat-lovers "right round the globe".
Nicola Brown, from Newquay, also said she had a "massive nightmare" and a "large bill" when her "pride and joy" Shaka the cat was poisoned by lily pollen.
There are no official figures for how many animals die from poisoning, although research into about 1,500 cases by the VPIS shows of those brought to a vet around 8% end in fatality.
Fatal poisoning cases are known to have involved insulin, baby wipes, bleach, morphine pesticides and antifreeze.
Animals' bodies break down certain substances in a different way to humans, which can lead to kidney failure. In chocolate, the problem is a naturally occurring chemical in cocoa beans called theobromine. Symptoms can include vomiting, diarrhoea, hyperactivity, tremors, rapid breathing and fits.
The former Bayern Munich assistant took over in January 2017 with Swansea bottom of the Premier League, but steered them to safety.
"It's a very different situation to when I came in last January," he said.
"We played Crystal Palace on my first day at the club, while three days later there was another fixture. There was no time to get to know the players."
Swansea travelled to America in pre-season, where they played Major League Soccer side Philadelphia Union, and second tier clubs Richmond Kickers and North Carolina.
"This trip has proved a very valuable period for me," Clement told the club website.
"It's nice to go away in that environment where the pressure is lower, there's not so much emphasis on winning games but developing.
"The sessions have been hard and the games competitive. We will certainly benefit from it."
Swansea continue their pre-season with a match at Birmingham City on Saturday, 29 July, and begin the new Premier League campaign on 12 August with a trip to Southampton.
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Many Arabic dailies condemn the move as "racist" and inconsistent with US values, while in Iran there have been calls for the government to respond in kind.
However, the reaction in some of the Saudi and Gulf press has been more muted, and there have been mixed views on social media.
An editorial in Iraq's Al-Adala, the mouthpiece of the Shia Islamic Supreme Council political party, sees in the decision "flagrant evidence of racist policies".
It lashes out at "this abuse from a country that claims to be democratic and respectful of human rights" and wonders what effect it will have on the strategic agreement between the US and Iraq, asking: "Does the agreement have any significance after these discriminatory measures?"
Ali Nun in Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal - owned by Prime Minister Saad Hariri - says that "Trump's decision cannot be seen but as a collective punishment" that has "poisonous and detestable racist roots" and "has nothing to do with Western norms of justice and democracy".
Echoing the sentiments, Ahmed Mansour in Qatari pro-government Al-Watan says that "Trump's war against what he calls extremist Islam begins with those who say 'I bear witness that there is no god but God' [Islamic testament of faith] and ends with Daesh [Islamic State]".
London-based Al-Arab says that "Trump has conveyed a message to the Muslim world to the effect that the policy of rapprochement is over". The paper notes that "Trump has an ability to create chaos through his decision, which astonished critics and supporters at the same time."
An editorial in Saudi pro-government Al-Riyadh is more muted, expressing concern about the relationship between Washington and Arab and Muslim countries and calling for "wise decisions to defuse tension in the region, which is supposed to turn a new page of balanced relations [with the USA] that would serve the interests of the different sides".
In London-based, Saudi-funded Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Tariq al-Hamid criticises some of the countries covered by the ban. "After years of hostility towards the USA, why is Iran angry with Trump's decision? Why those who adopt a fundamentalist Islamist discourse are angry with the decision although they had spent years in spreading hatred against America?" he wonders.
Iranian newspapers and broadcast media report prominently on the protests in the US against the travel ban, with reformist newspaper Ebtekar and conservative Khorasan publishing large photos of the protests on their front pages.
A commentary in Iran's hardline Javan newspaper urges the Iranian authorities to take "reciprocal" steps against the ban.
It says that Mr Trump's recent acts demonstrate "ill intentions" which are in "open violation" of the provisions of the Iran nuclear deal, which urge that "goodwill" should be demonstrated while the deal is being implemented.
Iran's Keyhan voices similar views in a commentary headlined "Banning US citizens from entering Iran is the minimum of what is expected from the government".
Rolling news channel IRINN quotes Deputy Foreign Minister Qashqavi as saying that "Iran will respond to the illegal measures of the US president".
Users of Arabic social media appear to be divided in their responses to the ban. Some express disapproval at the apparent selectivity of the ban while others defend the measure.
Some Iraqi users wonder why Iraq was included in the ban while Saudi Arabia was excluded.
Other users, however, praise the US move, expressing astonishment at Arabs' criticism of the ban in light of difficulties put in the way of Syrian refugees getting visas by almost all Arab countries.
Dubai's deputy police chief, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim (@Dhahi_Khalfan, with 1.58m followers), says it was "a sound decision to impose a travel ban on the nationals of the countries affiliated to Iran as well as Iranian nationals".
He tweets in Arabic: "They curse America and invoke destruction, then they weep for imposing a travel ban on them, they are idiots."
Firas Tlass, an influential politician and son of a former Syrian defence minister, writes on Facebook: "Gulf countries and Turkey have prevented Syrians from obtaining visas. So leave Trump alone!"
Saudi journalist Aziz al-Qenaei also tweets: "When you want to criticise Trump, you should reform yourself and your society, culture and religious behaviour so that your argument becomes more rational."
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
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The People's Supreme Court ruled a Chinese sportswear company must stop using the characters for Jordan's name, read as Qiaodan in Chinese.
Qiaodan Sports registered the name more than a decade ago but Jordan's lawyers said it built its business around his Chinese name without his permission.
Jordan has welcomed the decision which overturns previous rulings against him.
"I am happy that the Supreme People's Court has recognized the right to protect my name through its ruling in the trademark cases," he said in a statement sent to the BBC.
"Chinese consumers deserve to know that Qiaodan Sports and its products have no connection to me."
"Nothing is more important than protecting your own name, and today's decision shows the importance of that principle."
The basketball star first started legal action against Qiaodan Sports in 2012.
His team argued that Qiaodan's trademarks had damaged his legal rights to use his name and asked the court to invalidate more than 60 trademarks used by the company.
The court agreed Qiaodan Sports had violated trademark law and its registration of the name should be revoked.
But his win is only a partial victory.
While the company cannot use Jordan's Chinese name, the court upheld a ruling allowing it to use the Romanized version of Qiaodan, pronounced "Chee-ow-dahn."
A Shanghai court is yet to hear a separate naming rights case.
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While attending a Kraftwerk concert in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband, 11-year-old son and his friend, Knowles drew the ire of a group of white women seated behind them.
Knowles began live-tweeting from the concert, where she estimated she and her family were among only 20 black attendees in a crowd of 1,500 white concert-goers.
"4 older white women yell to me from behind, 'Sit down now'. I tell them I'm dancing at a concert. They yell, 'u need to sit down now'..." Knowles tweeted. "You are telling ... not asking me ... to sit down. In front of my child."
Knowles wrote that the incident culminated in the women pelting her with trash and a lime wedge.
"I'm just going to share my experience ... So that maybe someone will understand, why many of us don't feel safe ... in many white spaces," she tweeted.
But some criticised Knowles for starting "drama" and said she had been rude for standing.
A short item about the incident in the New York Post called her complaints a "Twitter rant".
At some point, Knowles deleted almost all her tweets describing what happened.
On Sunday she published an essay titled And Do You Belong? I Do on her website Saint Heron.
She explained why the incident was not isolated, and why her response should not be treated as celebrity gossip.
"The tone," she began. "It's the same one that says to your friend, 'BOY…. go on over there and hand me my bag' at the airport, assuming he's a porter.
"It's the same one that tells you, 'ma'am, go into that other line over there' when you are checking in at the airport at the first class counter before you even open up your mouth."
Knowles said that even before the dancing incident, a security guard brusquely ordered her son and his friend to stop smoking.
She writes that two adult white men were actually the ones puffing away.
It was just the latest in a series of incidents in which Knowles felt she was aggressively, dismissively or rudely treated in spaces that seemed to be reserved for white people.
She said she didn't feel as though the people she encountered "do not like black people", but instead were a "product of their white supremacy and are exercising it on you without caution, care, or thought".
"Many times the tone just simply says, 'I do not feel you belong here.' You and your friends have been called the N word, been approached as prostitutes, and have had your hair touched in a predominately white bar just around the corner from the same venue."
Knowles' essay was met with praise and support online, including from actress Gabrielle Union.
"I can relate to everything @solangeknowles experienced. This is real & it happens everyday. We are not making it up," Union wrote.
Another Twitter user wrote: "@solangeknowles' piece is a good reminder for anyone who thinks famous & affluent black people are immune to racism."
By penning her own essay about the incident, Knowles writes that she hoped to take control of the conversation and avoid focusing on what she might have done to deserve the treatment she received.
"We belong. We belong. We belong," she concluded.
"We built this."
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Following an incident between her family and a group of white women at a concert, singer Solange Knowles penned an essay explaining how black families are made to feel uncomfortable in "white spaces".
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World number 10 Konta triumphed 6-3 7-5 against Russian 19-year-old Daria Kasatkina, who beat world number one Angelique Kerber in the previous round.
The 25-year-old will face Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in the last four.
Evans, 26, beat Spanish eighth seed Marcel Granollers 1-6 6-3 6-3 to reach the third round.
He will face the winner of the match between top seed Dominic Thiem of Austria and Portuguese qualifier Gastao Elias.
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British number one Johanna Konta reached the Sydney International semi-finals, while men's number three Dan Evans also progressed on Wednesday.
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Officials were looking for documents which would support the company's previous claims that it had not meant to deceive car buyers.
Last month Suzuki said it found "discrepancies" in its fuel emissions testing, but denied it was cheating.
Suzuki added the issue did not apply to products sold outside of Japan.
The company issued a statement earlier this week, and clarified that it failed to use testing methods that would comply with Japanese regulations due a lack of manpower, and also a failure on its part to invest in the necessary infrastructure.
Suzuki's shares were down by almost 1% on the Tokyo stock exchange on Friday.
Suzuki is the fourth-largest car company in Japan, after Toyota, Nissan and Honda.
Earlier this year, Japan's transport ministry raided the offices of Mitsubishi Motors, after the carmaker admitted to falsifying its fuel economy data.
The scandal led to the president stepping down, and rival Nissan Motor later stepped in to gain a controlling stake in the embattled company.
Last year Volkswagen admitted to cheating emissions tests in the US.
Authorities found the German carmaker was installing a cheating software in its diesel vehicles that could detect when the cars were being tested and would change emission levels accordingly to improve the results.
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Japanese authorities have raided the headquarters of Suzuki, as part of an ongoing probe into the carmaker's use of improper fuel economy tests.
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Uncle Roy's said consumers should return bottles of its Natural Bitter Almond Extract to the store to receive a refund.
It said some labels had a misprint stating that they were allergen free.
Uncle Roy's is based in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, and has recently expanded production to a site in Ayr.
Food Standards Scotland said the recall affected 50ml bottles with the batch codes 112787, 112789, 113172, 114374, 114432 and 115614, all dated best before the end of 2017 or 2018.
No other Uncle Roy's products are affected.
The Foxes signed the 23-year-old from non-league Leamington in 2012, but he has yet to make a first-team appearance for the current Premier League leaders.
Blyth has had five loan spells in the Football League, scoring five goals in 23 league games to help Burton win promotion from League Two last year.
He also had a six-game loan spell at Cambridge earlier this season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Brian Dickson, 32, denied a charge of first-degree murder in the killing of Qian Liu, 23, from China.
But prosecutors rejected his offer to admit a lesser charge.
The accused lived in the same building where Ms Liu was found dead on 15 April 2011, hours after an intruder interrupted her web chat.
Justice Anne Molloy told jurors in the Toronto courtroom on Friday that the prosecution intends to prove the suspect guilty of the more serious charge of first-degree murder.
Ms Liu - who had attended Beijing City University before moving to Toronto to study English - and her boyfriend were chatting when a man knocked on the door asking to use her mobile phone.
She let him into her basement flat and a struggle ensued for several minutes while the boyfriend watched helplessly.
The web chat was shut down, and Ms Liu's laptop and webcam were taken from the flat.
Ms Liu was found dead the next morning.
Leinster have confirmed that Ringrose, 22, will be out for four to five months after surgery on a shoulder injury.
The outside centre initially suffered the injury during Leinster's Pro12 semi-final defeat by the Scarlets.
Despite the injury, he took part in Ireland's summer tour of the USA and Japan, scoring two tries and a conversion during the three matches.
Leinster say Ringrose could have continued to play with the shoulder problem but they took the decision to send the player for surgery during the off-season and he is expected to return for the Christmas period.
The province are also waiting for an update on the fitness of Johnny Sexton, Robbie Henshaw and Sean O'Brien, who suffered injuries during the British and Irish Lions' tour of New Zealand.
Ireland will begin their November series against South Africa on Sunday, 12 November at the Aviva Stadium before playing Fiji six days later.
The third Test against Argentina will be held on Saturday, 25 November.
Suffolk Coastal District Council has approved plans from developers who want to build an entertainment and conference venue.
Restaurants, retail units and an observation tower will also feature on the pier and part of the nearby boating lake will be turned into a car park.
Designer Haydn Evans said the new-look pier could be open by as early as Easter 2014.
The meeting will take place "within the next five to 10 days."
Carlisle vice-president Andy Bell revealed on Wednesday that a "billionaire" had made them an offer.
And chairman Andrew Jenkins said: "We are looking forward to making further progress with the prospective new investors before the end of the month."
He continued: "We recognise that the issue of the club's shareholding needs to be settled at the earliest opportunity.
"However, it is imperative that we choose the best option which will move the club forward at this critical point in our history."
Carlisle, meanwhile, are continuing efforts to revamp their playing squad for next season, completing the signing of Accrington Stanley captain Luke Joyce.
They had already brought in defender Michael Raynes and midfielder Jason Kennedy earlier this week.
Victoria Wasteney, 39, was found guilty in 2014 by her employer, the East London NHS Foundation Trust, of "harassing and bullying" a work friend.
She had given her a book about a Muslim woman's encounter with Christianity and asked her to church.
Miss Wasteney said she had "no idea" she was upsetting her.
A formal disciplinary investigation made eight allegations of misconduct against Miss Wasteney and she was later found guilty of three charges.
Working as a senior occupational therapist at the time, Miss Wasteney, who also prayed with her colleague, was suspended for nine months and given a written warning for "harassing and bullying" her.
Her colleague had reportedly been happy to discuss faith with her and had not given evidence about her allegations to the NHS.
She challenged the decision at an employment tribunal last year, but it ruled her employer had not discriminated against her.
A judge gave her the chance to appeal against that decision, saying it should consider whether the original ruling correctly applied the European Convention on Human Rights' strong protection of freedom of religion and expression.
But Judge Jennifer Eady QC dismissed the appeal on Thursday.
Following the decision, Miss Wasteney, from Epping, Essex, said: "What the court clearly failed to do was to say how, in today's politically correct world, any Christian can even enter into a conversation with a fellow employee on the subject of religion and not, potentially, later end up in an employment tribunal.
"If someone sends you friendly text messages, how is one to know that they are offended?"
Update 28 April 2016: This story has been amended to give more background detail on the original complaint against Miss Wasteney.
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The Three Lions were beaten 2-1 by Iceland - the lowest ranked team left in the competition.
Former England captain Alan Shearer called it the worst performance he'd ever seen by an England team.
Manager Roy Hodgson stepped down from his job immediately after the match.
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Penny Bearman told the BBC the family had not known of the talks, which she said had taken place in April.
She did not say who was involved in the negotiations or who offered a ransom.
Mr Somers and fellow captive Pierre Korkie were shot by militants as US special forces tried to free them.
US officials said Mr Somers was about to be killed by the militants, who had released a video threatening to end his life.
The rescuers had not been not aware that South African teacher Mr Korkie was being held with Mr Somers - a British-born US citizen - officials later said.
"One of the difficulties we have faced over the past few days is learning from different sources that there had been a ransom demand," Ms Bearman said.
"Negotiations had happened in April - even a figure had been set - and somebody had offered to pay a ransom for Luke as well as for the other hostage."
She criticised the policy of the US and British governments of not talking to militants.
"We feel that Luke's message was that negotiations should happen between countries and that the rescue attempt was not going to do anything for helping countries talk or negotiate," she said.
US troops had reportedly landed by helicopter around six miles (10 km) from the compound where the hostages were being held in Shabwa province on 6 December.
Supported by Yemeni forces they advanced to within 100m (320ft) of the site.
But they were spotted by militants and a gunfight broke out. One of the militants was seen entering the compound and US officials believe this was when the hostages were shot.
Both hostages were evacuated with serious injuries. Mr Korkie died on a helicopter while Mr Somers died while being treated on a US navy ship in the region.
After the rescue attempt, a charity working with Mr Korkie said mediators had been working on an "arrangement to take him out" and he was due to have been freed very soon.
It is understood that a payment had been made to enable Mr Korkie's release.
Anas Hamati, Yemen director of the charity Gift of the Givers said that the rescue attempt had "destroyed everything".
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama had no regrets about ordering the mission and that militants should note his resolve to do everything possible to rescue captured Americans.
Mr Somers, 33, was born in the UK but moved to the US with his mother when he was seven.
He visited the UK regularly to see his father, who was based in Deal, Kent.
Caledon Estate in County Tyrone will play host to a family fun day and craft fair in aid of St John's Parish Church in Caledon.
Caledon Castle was built in 1779 by James Alexander, a member of the Irish House of Commons for Londonderry.
Special guest at the fair will be Dame Mary Peters.
"I consider it a privilege to hold this event for the local community and further afield," said Lord Caledon, the seventh Earl of Caledon.
"People can come and share something that is special to me and my family and hopefully, it will be special to them for a day."
The estate has for many years been hidden away from view behind heavy ornate gates and a stringent security regime.
However, the grounds and the gardens, which sweep down to the Blackwater River, have been beautifully maintained.
A monument in the grounds of the estate was blown up in 1973.
But Lord Caledon is keen to acknowledge and reflect how the situation has changed since those dark days.
"I think the past is the past," he said. "This current climate that we live in here has been different for some time.
"It's wonderful for us to be able to do it to the extent that we can do it.
"The last time we opened the estate, we had a great big fence round the house and very obviously visible security.
"We don't have that any more and that is wonderful for us as a family, and hopefully it will also enhance the visitor experience."
Lord Caledon, the Queen's lord lieutenant for Armagh, also owns a house in Oxfordshire and another estate in Hertfordshire.
"I've lived and worked in London for a lot of my life," he said.
"And like most people who do that, I love to get away from it, so it's a real privilege to live in Northern Ireland.
I think we have a great quality of life here. The people are great and we're not too overcrowded so all in all, I think we have a wonderful country."
The estate was bought from the seventh earl of Cork for £94,400 in 1776 ,by James Alexander (later first earl of Caledon).
Between 1806 and 1811 the first earl of Caledon spent more than £17,000 when he employed English architect, John Nash, to extend and repair Caledon Castle.
Stornoway Coastguard received a mayday call at 23:41 on Friday alerting them to the boat in distress.
The yacht had two adults and four children on board and the occupiers feared it was sinking.
Coastguard teams launched an air and sea mission to get to the aid of the boat, which was stranded near Calve Island, south east of Tobermory Bay.
The Oban lifeboat and the Rescue 951 helicopter from Inverness were sent to the scene, a coastguard spokesman said.
The lifeboat was first on the scene and managed to rescue everyone on board.
The helicopter stood by and provided lighting in the area.
"There were no injuries and everyone was taken off safely," the coastguard spokesman said.
The boat was floated off at high tide on Saturday.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue has said it costs £303 for a one-hour attendance using one appliance.
Neil Blackburn from the service said: "We will only take cost recovery on businesses where there are persistent problems."
The fire service said the move, which they aim to bring in from April, would save £30,000 a year.
There were 246 call-outs in Somerset and 1608 in Devon between 2011-15.
The fire service said by taking no action on lift rescues, it would cost £758,000 over three years, a figure it wants to reduce.
"We don't ever want to get to that position where we are charging businesses, the intention is we will work with the businesses and we will encourage them to take action," added Mr Blackburn.
The fire service said the recovery costs would be made on a case-by-case basis, depending on the circumstances.
If repeated call-outs were made to the same firm, they could potentially be faced with paying for the £303 cost of sending out one appliance.
Margaret Matthews gave evidence as the hearings looked at the final movements of Brian Matthews, who was 38.
The inquests also heard how Anthony Kelly, a former soldier, was left unattended for two minutes after being pulled from the terraces.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans died after crushing at the 1989 FA Cup match.
Mr Matthews was described by his sisters as "a big brother, a mentor and an inspiration".
He was a self-employed financial consultant and had been married to Mrs Matthews for more than 11 years.
At the hearing, Mrs Matthews was shown a photograph of the Leppings Lane terraces timed at 15:02 BST. Mr Matthews' head was visible among the other fans.
She said: "He looks as though he is suffering some kind of pain. If he's being squashed, he would be - you'd panic wouldn't you."
Mr Matthews, who had gone to the 15 April match in Sheffield with friends, was carried off the terraces at around 15:18.
A group of volunteer medics and police officers tried to resuscitate him on the pitch.
Anthony Kelly had joined the army at 18.
His mother, Betty Almond, said: "I miss him so much. Anthony was our only child. Hillsborough should never have happened."
Mr Kelly went to the match with friends on a coach that left Ellesmere Port. Michael Sullivan walked into the terraces with him.
In a statement, he said: "When we got to the end of the tunnel, that was when we came up against a wall of people.
"I think we moved slightly to the right at the end of the tunnel and pushed our way into the crowd."
Mr Sullivan said they made it on to the terracing by around 14:50.
He said that five minutes later he "became aware of the fact that the crowd was getting worse".
He added: "The pressure was building up on my chest and I began to get very short of breath.
"I looked at Anthony and I saw that he looked as if he had collapsed and passed out. My left arm was out but I could only move my fingers."
Mr Kelly was seen in footage timed at 15:31 lying on the pitch. Matthew Hill, a barrister representing the coroner, said the video showed he was unattended for the next two minutes.
At 15:33, a group of police officers, including Ian Cox, lifted Mr Kelly onto an advertising hoarding and carried him to the stadium's gymnasium.
Asked why he thought Mr Kelly was dead, Mr Cox said: "I would assume that I made a visual and possibly a physical assessment, but I can't say for certain."
He said that the officers left Mr Kelly outside the gymnasium, along with other casualties with their faces covered.
The inquests, held in Warrington, Cheshire, continue.
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An analysis of 500 top global firms showed that only 13% of their philanthropic and social investment budget was targeted at education.
At the top of global spending on education were Santander, IBM and Telefonica.
In the UK, GlaxoSmithKline, Rio Tinto and HSBC were the highest ranked.
The Business Backs Education campaign wants education to be a higher priority for "corporate social responsibility" spending.
Extra funding could help tackle global concerns such as providing places for 58 million children in developing countries without any access to primary school.
These Global Fortune 500 major firms spend about $20bn (£13.2bn) annually on such social investment projects - with about $2.6bn (£1.7bn) spent on education.
This analysis shows that less than half of this education spending goes to high priority regions where provision is weakest, such as in sub-Saharan Africa.
The report has been published by the Varkey Foundation, set up by the founders of the Dubai-based GEMS education group, with partners including Unesco.
The report, claimed as the most comprehensive attempt to evaluate such global corporate support, is part of a campaign to encourage businesses to allocate 20% of their philanthropic spending to education by 2020.
Business leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos next week will be urged to back the campaign as delivering life-changing chances to young people and boosting economic development.
This type of spending can include direct cash support for projects, scholarships, setting up trusts or delivering services in kind, such as computer systems or software.
The firms at the top of the donations already give much more than 20% to education. Santander spends 79% of its corporate social responsibility budget on education, IBM allocates 72%, Toyota gives 41%.
The Spanish banking firm, Santander, gave about $197m (£129m) to education; US technology firm IBM gave $144m (£95m) and Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica gave $130m (£85m).
The UK, on average spending per company, is one of the biggest spenders on education in the world. Although US companies, with more firms in the top 500, give the biggest overall amount.
There are 26 UK companies in this group of global giants, contributing about $331m (£218m) of their corporate social responsibility budgets to education projects.
This is much more than the donations of 89 Chinese companies, which between them were identified as giving $47m (£31m) to education, almost all of which was spent within China.
While UK top 500 firms have an average $102m (£67m) annual spend on corporate social responsibility, in China the average is $5m (£3.3m).
"The world's business leaders need to take a fresh look at their philanthropic spend," says Vikas Pota, chief executive officer of the Varkey Foundation.
"I would urge them to re-examine how much they currently commit to improving the education of children around the world. How much is helping children learn the skills to raise themselves out of poverty and dream of better lives? How much is equipping children with the knowledge to compete in tomorrow's world?"
Unesco director general, Irina Bokova, said the report showed the size of the potential for funding from major companies - and that such spending on education would boost economic growth.
"There is no more powerful link than that between an educated, skilled workforce and sustainable economic development. It is an investment that makes sense now for business, for youth and for building more equitable and prosperous societies."
It has been reported that Xia has failed to demonstrate he possesses the necessary funds to complete the deal.
But BBC Sport has learned £52m has been paid into an escrow account, ready to be transferred to current Villa owner Randy Lerner.
Xia has also provided proof of funds that will guarantee he takes on an existing debt of £25m.
The same amount will be payable to American Lerner if Villa, relegated from the Premier League, return to the top flight within three years.
Xia has also provided guarantees to the Premier League and Football League that he can cover the club's operating costs for the next two seasons.
A joint enquiry by the two leagues continues and will not be rushed as all aspects of the proposed takeover are scrutinised, including the likely make-up of the new board of directors.
Villa remain without a permanent manager to replace Frenchman Remi Garde, who was sacked in March.
Former Everton and Manchester United boss David Moyes, who was on a three-man shortlist for the job, pulled out of the running last week.
Ex-West Brom and Chelsea manager Roberto di Matteo remains in the frame.
Health has been devolved in Wales since 1999 and is the responsibility of the Welsh Labour Government.
But the Plaid Cymru leader fears the Tories could "grab back" powers if they increase their mandate on June 8.
The Welsh Conservatives said it was a "cynical attempt to exploit uncertainty".
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Ms Wood claimed if the Tories increased their majority at the general election they could try to take back powers from the assembly.
She pointed to the list of reserved powers in the recently passed Wales Bill, claiming it suggested there were some powers which could be "dragged back" to Westminster.
"The Tories have attacked the Welsh NHS quite viciously," Ms Wood said.
"If they increase their mandate then I wouldn't put it past them to try to take powers back from Wales over the NHS, and then, of course, we risk our NHS being privatised."
A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives said: "Responsibility for the Welsh NHS has been a matter for the Welsh Government for a generation, so these claims are a cynical attempt by Plaid to exploit uncertainty over the devolved settlement and should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
"In fact, the Welsh Conservatives in government have strengthened the devolved settlement in recent years, and the recent Wales Bill offers greater clarity and accountability than ever before in the devolved era."
The child and her mother were both struck in the collision in Marlborough Place, Brighton, close to the King and Queen pub, at about 09:00 BST.
The girl was taken to hospital by air ambulance, while her mother sustained minor injuries, Sussex Police said.
No-one on the coach was injured. A section of the road was closed for investigations, officers said.
Yousif Badri, 29, is accused of being involved in conduct "with the intention of committing acts of terrorism".
The medical student denies three charges under the Terrorism Act.
A jury at the High Court in Glasgow was told the manual was found on a computer hard drive.
DC Mark White, a member of Police Scotland's organised crime and counter terrorism team, was asked to describe the document, which ran to dozens of pages.
He replied: "A manual created by al-Qaeda. This appears to be a scanned copy which has been translated into English."
The court heard the document discussed weapons, explosives, and how to prepare false documents.
DC White said: "It is basically a manual if you want to kill somebody or blow something up and how to avoid detection."
The jury was also shown photographs found on a memory stick taken from the flat.
One of them showed a man with his face partially covered with a red and white scarf and holding an assault rifle.
DC White was asked if the photograph resembled anyone and he replied: "I believe it resembles Mr Badri."
Mr Badri's flat at Ashgrove Road in Aberdeen was searched in June, 2013.
The offences are said to have been carried out at two places in Aberdeen - Mr Badri's former flat in Ashgrove Road, and in Berryden Retail Park.
His current address in Halifax, West Yorkshire, is also listed in the allegations.
The trial, before judge Lord Turnbull, continues.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 45.13 points, or 0.2%, to 18552.57.
The wider S&P 500 slipped 3.15 points to 2183.87, while the Nasdaq index dropped 1.77 points to 5238.38.
Minutes from the most recent gathering of the Fed's rate-setting committee revealed a split, with two members favouring a rate rise when it next meets in September.
Investors will be searching for clues at the annual Fed symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week where its chairwoman, Janet Yellen, will give a speech.
"I think we're due for a pause here as we look for greater clarity over the next couple of weeks," said Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at US Bank Wealth Management.
Petroleum related shares were lower on Friday. Exxon Mobil fell 1.3% and Chevron dropped 1.2%.
Among individual stocks, shares in farming equipment maker Deere rose 13.5% after it increased its full-year profit forecast.
The company's latest quarterly results beat expectations, and it says earnings for the full financial year are set to be $1.35bn, up from previous guidance of $1.2bn.
Computer chipmaker Applied Materials rose 7% after it reported a strong profit forecast for the quarter.
Shares in Nike climbed 3%. The apparel company announced it had signed a supply-chain partnership with private equity firm Apollo Global Management.
It happened on the A986 Dounby to Twatt road near Birsay on Wednesday morning.
The male pedestrian died at the scene.
Police Scotland said the road was closed to allow a collision investigation.
The man, who has not been named, was found at an address in Woodborough Road, Mapperley Park, at about 01:00 BST.
He was treated for his injuries at the scene but died shortly afterwards.
Woodborough Road has reopened after it was closed between its junctions with The Wells Road and Mission Street while investigations took place.
Ms Suu Kyi's presence is seen as a sign of improving ties with the military since her release from house arrest.
Addressing the gathering, army chief General Min Aung Hlaing told troops the military would maintain a role in national politics.
The event comes ongoing communal violence in central Burma.
Armed Forces Day marks the 68th anniversary of Burma's uprising against Japanese rule.
Over 6,000 troops were in attendance, as military jeeps and tanks took part in the parade in Burma's capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
Aung San Suu Kyi's attendance is a striking symbol of the reconciliation between her and the institution that locked her and so many of her supporters up for many years, the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports.
In the past she was a strident critic of the military's grip on Burma. Today she is making conspicuous efforts to build good relations with the armed forces, which still hold an automatic quarter of the seats in parliament, our correspondent adds.
Elections in November 2010 replaced decades of military rule with a military-backed civilian government, which has since initiated a series of reforms.
Ms Suu Kyi was freed from years of house arrest in late 2010. Her NLD party, which boycotted the polls, now has a small presence in parliament after rejoining the political fold and contesting subsequent by-elections, which resulted in a landslide win.
But the military-backed party has a much larger presence in Burma's new chamber.
"While the country is moving toward modern democracy, our military plays a leading role in national politics," General Min Aung Hlaing said at the parade.
"We will keep on marching to strengthen the democratic path wished by the people."
The army chief also addressed the anti-Muslim clashes in central Burma that have led to 40 reported deaths and made an estimated 12,000 Muslims homeless.
"Our independence came from all Burmese people, including every ethnic minority - therefore we have to protect it," he said.
"The conflict that is going on now, the army never wants that to happen again."
The violence broke out after a reported argument at a gold shop in Meiktila in Mandalay region last week which sparked clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in the town.
Mosques and other buildings were razed, and a state of emergency has been imposed in Meiktila.
Overnight curfews have also been imposed on three other Burmese towns as the clashes have spread closer to Rangoon.
The conflict is the worst since violence in Rakhine state last year, where nearly 200 people were killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes.
The communal conflict that erupted in the western state involved Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, who are not recognised as Burmese citizens. Scores of Rohingyas have fled what they say is persecution in Burma in recent months.
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The much-heralded "world's highest and longest" glass-bottomed bridge has opened to visitors in central China.
It connects two mountain cliffs in what are known as the Avatar mountains (the film was shot here) in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province.
Completed in December, the 430m-long bridge cost $3.4m (£2.6m) to build and stands 300m above ground, state news agency Xinhua reported.
It has been paved with 99 panes of three-layered transparent glass.
And according to officials, the 6m-wide bridge - designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan - has already set world records for its architecture and construction.
Glass bridges in China have been a popular craze for the daring photo opportunities they provide. Events like mass yoga displays and even weddings have been staged on several such bridges.
One couple celebrated their special day by dangling in mid-air from a bridge in Pingjiang, also located in Hunan province.
This was the question on everyone's minds as the city geared up for the bridge's official opening.
But officials have staged high-profile events to try and reassure the public of the bridge's safety.
Officials sent in sledgehammers and even drove a car, filled with passengers, across the bridge earlier this year.
The BBC's Dan Simmons was invited to take a bash at the bridge.
Park officials have said a maximum of 8,000 visitors will be allowed on the bridge each day.
So those wanting to add another thrill to their bucket list are strongly encouraged to book their slots in advance.
Gavin Ashenden resigned from his post with the Queen in January because he wanted to speak out in a row over Islam and the Scottish Episcopal Church.
In a post on social media he confirmed that he was leaving the Church of England, though his holy orders will remain valid.
On Twitter, he wrote: "The Church of England left me long before my legal dissolution".
The Rev Ashenden left his royal position in January so that he could openly criticise a decision to allow verses of the Koran to be read in St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow.
He said the reading had caused "serious offence".
At the time he said he did not want the Queen drawn into public affairs.
The Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church are both members of the Anglican Communion.
26 September 2016 Last updated at 11:58 BST
Tens of thousands are being killed every year for their ivory tusks, which are smuggled around the world and sold for large amounts of money.
In order to tackle this illegal trade in ivory, authorities try to find it when it is being transported so it can be taken away.
One of the ways they do this is by using specially trained sniffer dogs, who can smell ivory through cases.
McFall owned the Liverpool club in the 1960s, changing it from a jazz venue to a rock 'n' roll club and booking Merseybeat bands like The Beatles.
The Fab Four went on to play at the legendary basement venue 292 times.
"It was Ray who opened it up to those early Merseybeat sessions, which led to the whole Merseybeat explosion," said Jon Keats, a director of the Cavern.
"It was completely his vision that moved the club forward, with what turned into the huge Merseybeat explosion and The Beatles' success and Gerry and the Pacemakers and all the main bands.
"He changed The Cavern completely and allowed the rock 'n' roll into the club."
McFall took over the club in 1959 and, with compere Bob Wooler, opened it up to the city's young rock 'n' roll bands.
The Beatles first performed there in a lunchtime session on 9 February 1961 - but their legendary association with the club almost did not happen.
McFall had banned jeans from the club because he thought they signified a rough crowd. Guitarist George Harrison wore jeans to that first gig but managed to persuade the doorman to let him in.
McFall was not pleased at first - but was soon won over when he saw the band perform.
"The Beatles were sensational and I was smitten," he later said. "Completely, Absolutely, Instantly.
"I stood at the side, between the pillars, about halfway up the hall, and as soon as they started playing I was captivated by them.
"From that very first day, there was no stopping them. I said to Bob: 'What other lunchtimes have they got? We must have them regularly.'"
The venue also hosted gigs by The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf. But in 1966, McFall was declared bankrupt and the Cavern Club was forced to close.
In 1973, the cellar was filled in but the club was rebuilt near the original site and opened again in 1984.
Oxford archaeologists discovered the 165 million-year-old reptile bones at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey.
Dr Carl Harrington and his team dug up more than 600 pieces of bone as well as the skull, still preserved in clay.
"Eve", described as "a fantastic fossil", has anatomical features only before seen in plesiosaurs half her size, a palaeontologist said.
Plesiosaurs were sea creatures that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.
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Eve's "snout" was the first thing Dr Harrington noticed as he was digging around in the wet clay.
"It was one of those absolute 'wow' moments. I was the first human to come face-to-face with this reptile," he said.
In all, the team from Oxford Clay Working Group dug up hundreds of pieces of fossilised bone and spent more than 400 hours cleaning and repairing the remains.
"I'd never seen so much bone in one spot in a quarry," Dr Harrington added.
Almost all of the plesiosaur's bones have been found, although the hind flippers and parts of the fore-flippers are still missing.
The site of Eve's final resting place - owned by building product manufacturing company Forterra - has given up a number of important finds over the years.
Cambridge archaeologists are currently excavating the remains of a Bronze Age settlement described as "Britain's Pompeii" because it is so well-preserved.
However, Eve is much older and palaeontologists have reason to think she is a "previously unknown species of plesiosaur".
Source: Oxford University palaeontologist Dr Roger Benson/BBC Nature
The skeleton is currently being studied by experts at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History.
Palaeontologist Dr Roger Benson said although Eve has a long neck, which is not uncommon, she also has "some anatomical features only seen in Picrocleidus, a plesiosaur about half the size of this new skeleton".
The Must Farm specimen had an 8ft (2.5m)-long neck, a barrel-shaped body, four flippers and a short tail.
Scientists are currently working to remove the skull from inside a block of clay.
It has been CT-scanned by the Royal Veterinary College to enable them to accurately locate the bones without damaging them.
Eve was donated by Cambridgeshire landowners Forterra to the Oxford museum, who said they were "very excited" to have the new "sea monster" in their collection.
The media watchdog investigated after the report drew 205 complaints.
Live footage from Ukraine, broadcast on 20 July, showed Mr Brazier pluck items from an open suitcase.
Ofcom said that while his actions could have caused offence, it also had to regard the broadcaster's right to freedom of expression.
After Mr Brazier handled the items, he was seen dropping them back into the luggage saying "we shouldn't really be doing this I suppose, really".
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
All 298 people on board were killed.
The crash left bodies strewn across several kilometres, as well as plane wreckage and passengers' belongings.
Mr Brazier's broadcast showed an array of luggage and personal items, which he described as "holiday paraphernalia".
Ofcom noted that Mr Brazier appeared to almost immediately regret his actions and expressed this to viewers.
Nonetheless, Ofcom concluded that "these actions were capable of causing considerable offence and this was not mitigated by an immediate broadcast apology.
"On balance we therefore considered that the offence was not justified by the context."
But the regulator said it had to take into account that "news crews reporting from the crash site found themselves reporting from an unusual and emotionally charged situation.
"The editorial decisions taken by reporters were particularly challenging, especially when made in the context of a live report broadcast on a rolling news channel."
Ofcom also recognised that Sky News and Mr Brazier apologised in the hours following the broadcast and that Sky had updated its guidelines for journalists in the light of this event.
The watchdog concluded that "despite the offence caused in this case, Ofcom considered that this brief but significant lapse of judgement by a news reporter should not prevent journalists from reporting live on sensitive and challenging news stories."
In the balance of these findings, the watchdog considered the matter resolved.
The UK astronaut said he hoped his time in orbit would make people think about how science could help solve the world's problems.
And he added that the tens of billions of pounds spent on the ISS would ultimately benefit human health.
Tim spoke with reporters in a Tuesday link-up intended to focus on the science he is doing during his mission.
"I do hope this mission has inspired people to perhaps think differently about science, about space exploration - and to think about how science can solve so many problems and challenges we are going to be facing in the future," he told me.
"I think that's incredibly important and I think if I can help to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers then that's mission success for me."
When Tim was asked what he would miss the most when he returned to Earth on 18 June, he replied that it would be the view from his window: "I thought that after a few months, you would be used to Planet Earth. But I'm enjoying it more and more.
"The longer you spend up here the more you discover about our own planet - the different times of day, the different phases, the different seasons.
"I'm seeing the Northern Hemisphere from space changing from winter to spring to summer, and it's the most incredible thing to see. The different weather systems, the ice melting in the Hudson Bay.
"The Earth reveals its secrets slowly over time, and the more you look out the window the more there is to see."
When asked whether robots could have performed the scientific experiments he was involved in and so save billions of pounds - he replied that the money invested in the ISS was money well spent.
"So much of the scientific research we are doing up here is on the human body, and I personally think that that's where we are finding some of the most exciting results and also some of the ones that will most benefit the people on Planet Earth.
"Investigations into osteoporosis, muscular dystrophy, cancer vaccines, the cardiovascular system, the whole aging process - the list is endless, and this is all a result of flying human beings into space to study the human body."
For many of the experiments, Tim has been the "guinea pig".
Previous studies have shown that weightlessness takes its toll on the human body.
No astronaut has been in space for longer than 14 months. If people are to go on missions to other worlds, researchers will have to find ways to enable astronauts to stay healthy in space for longer.
Part of that involves astronauts monitoring their vital signs in great detail.
Tim told me that he had noticed many changes shortly after he was in space.
"I had increased pressure in my head; (I felt) stuffed up; my face was puffy; I had nasal congestion. This was all the result of the fluid in my body shifting up round my chest and in my heart.
"But what has happened in the past few months is that my body has got rid of all that excess fluid. I've completely adapted to microgravity."
"I've also noticed over the course of the mission that my eyesight is changing slightly. That is an ongoing experiment we are studying - astronauts' vision due to spaceflight."
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Since April this year officers have had to record a series of details every time they use handcuffs, CS spray or draw a baton.
As Home Secretary, Theresa May promised to get rid of what she described as "grinding" bureaucracy in policing.
One Police Federation official said the new process was "very bureaucratic".
The new rules were announced in March by Mrs May's successor as Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, with the aim of ensuring that police record every encounter involving force.
Ms Rudd said that "when police take the difficult decision to deploy force, it is also vital that the people they serve can scrutinise it.
"These new rules will introduce unprecedented transparency to this important subject and reinforce the proud British model of policing by consent."
But John Apter, chairman of the Hampshire Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said filling out the 10-page form had proved to be like "writing an exam essay".
Mr Apter said he understood the need to capture data about the use of force, but thought the process was too complex and took too long, especially at a time when police were already over-stretched.
It is "over-engineered", he said.
"I know officers who haven't got the time to fill in the form," he said, adding that in some city forces, such as London's Metropolitan Police, officers might have to fill in six forms on each shift.
He believes a better approach would be to scan officers' pocketbooks and use samples of these to provide and analyse data.
Police forces will begin publishing data from the forms over the next couple of weeks.
The rules require a "use of force monitoring form", administered by the National Police Chiefs' Council, to be completed "as soon as practicable" after any incident involving force.
A separate form must be completed for each person on whom force is used and officers are expected to complete forms for their own constabulary, even if the incident took place in another police force's area.
The forms require full details of the incident, including location, whether officers were themselves threatened or assaulted and what sort of force they used.
Officers are expected to mark a diagram showing what areas of the person's body the force was used on, whether the person was injured and whether medical assistance was offered or provided.
Previously each force was required to provide details of the use of Tasers and firearms, but the new rules also ask for details of the use of batons, spit-guards, dogs, shields, handcuffs and unarmed restraint, as well as irritant sprays such as CS.
Speaking in May 2011, during her six years as Home Secretary, Mrs May promised that her policies would "do away with the bureaucratic accountability of the past. So we will free the police to do their job".
"I have said loud and clear that the days of the bureaucrats controlling and managing the police from Whitehall are over.
"The Home Office will no longer scrutinise and supervise police performance and come up endlessly with new schemes and initiatives."
The sudden death of PC Andy Hocking, who was 52, triggered an "unprecedented outpouring of grief", according to local businesses in Falmouth, Cornwall.
He died while off duty in March.
About 6,000 people attended a tribute march involving members of Devon and Cornwall Police and other emergency services to pay their respects.
The community-funded memorial is being unveiled on Friday by the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police and several town leaders.
PC Andy Hocking's shoulder badge, number 4270, is also being presented to the town.
Andy Hocking's widow Sally Hocking said: "I miss him constantly and, like everybody in Falmouth, I look for him in all his 'usual' places when I'm walking through the town. These amazing footprints will continue to remind me that he is never far away from us."
The tribute has been organised by the Falmouth Business Improvement District (BID) and Falmouth Town Council's Town Management function, with the help of PC Hocking's family.
Falmouth's Mayor, John Body said: "The plaques are sited at spots where Andy, with his infectious smile would regularly be seen. I'm pleased that his contribution to our town as the epitome of local policing, is now retained for posterity."
Shaun Sawyer, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "It is an extraordinary, generous and welcoming addition, so resonant to the spirit of Falmouth and reflects the nature of Andy who wanted to be on the streets and with the public whom he loved, and who loved him."
The Welsh digital economy is worth £8bn and employs 40,000 people.
David Warrender, former director of Digital Wales, said it was vital firms could "trade in the same way" as other European nations.
But other Welsh technology executives believe the market outside Europe is more important.
Mr Warrender is now the CEO of Innovation Point, which matches digital businesses with investors.
"Like the rest of the Brexit negotiations, we need to make sure that we are able to access that digital single market," he said.
"I think it's pretty crucial, we need to be part of it.
"If we're not we've got to get on with exporting elsewhere. In many ways for digital businesses, proximity is actually slightly less important than it is for some."
Last year, a report said Wales had the fastest-growing digital economy outside London.
In May 2015, the EU Commission announced a strategy for the EU digital single market, which will introduce laws on issues, such as cross border e-commerce and copyright.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said Wales was not far behind some of the world's most-developed digital nations, but agreed with Mr Warrender it was very important Welsh businesses had access to the EU's digital single market.
However, Denise Powell, Open Innovation Manager at IQE which makes semi-conductors in Cardiff, said Brexit will not affect business, as many of its products are sold beyond the European Union.
IQE is working with the Welsh Government to attract global businesses to create Europe's first compound semi-conductor cluster and Mrs Powell believes it could lead to thousands of jobs.
"I suspect that Brexit will not have a strong impact on the cluster, because compound semi-conductor technologies are global," she said.
"Some early figures suggest that we could certainly start to build a cluster that could attract in the region of 5,000 jobs," she added.
Mr Mubarak left a military hospital in southern Cairo and went to his home in the northern suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer said.
He was ordered freed earlier this month after Egypt's top appeals court cleared him over the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising.
Mr Mubarak, 88, became president in 1981 after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
He had been at Maadi Military Hospital since 2013, when he was transferred there on bail from Torah prison.
Mr Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 2012 of complicity in the killing of protesters who died at the hands of security forces in February, 2011.
Another trial was held and a judge decreed in May 2015 that Mr Mubarak could be released from detention.
However, the government of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was reportedly reluctant to free him because of the public backlash that might accompany such a move.
Mr Sisi served as Mr Mubarak's military intelligence chief and led the military's overthrow of his democratically elected successor, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013.
In all, more than 800 people are believed to have been killed as security forces clashed with protesters in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other cities around Egypt during the 18-day uprising that forced Mr Mubarak to resign.
The MPs are examining the role that BHS directors and advisers played before the retailer was sold for £1 last year.
Anthony Gutman said he told Sir Philip's Arcadia Group about Mr Chappell's history of bankruptcy and lack of retail experience.
Arcadia executives said they considered Mr Chappell's history before the sale.
The joint session of the Commons Business and Work and Pensions select committees heard BHS had made losses for six years before the sale.
Under Mr Chappell's ownership, BHS entered administration earlier this year, putting 11,000 jobs at risk and leaving a £571m pensions deficit.
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Mr Gutman, co-head of Goldman Sachs' European investment banking services, told MPs he gave his "observations" to Paul Budge, Arcadia's finance director, four months before the sale.
Goldman Sachs did not rule out the deal, although the transaction was "too small" for the investment bank to handle as a formal adviser, he said.
Under questioning from MPs, Mr Budge said Arcadia knew of one of Mr Chappell's bankruptcies during sales talks.
However, "this was not one man on his own" and Mr Chappell was part of a consortium with experienced businessmen, the Arcadia finance chief told MPs.
The main criteria for Arcadia was the consortium's access to financing and its desire to keep BHS running, Mr Budge said.
Earlier, the MPs heard that advisers at accountancy firm KPMG also raised concerns about the little-known Retail Acquisitions.
David Clarke, a partner at KPMG, told MPs: "We were particularly concerned about its ability to continue to trade and fund both BHS - which was clearly loss-making - and the [pension] schemes."
KPMG, which was an adviser to the embattled BHS pension schemes, sent their concerns to the retailer and its other advisers ahead of the sale, Mr Clarke said.
Other advisers from accountancy firms Deloitte and PwC, and law firm Eversheds, said they had not raised concerns about Retail Acquisitions.
The MPs heard that BHS management decided to pause a pension rescue plan, known as Project Thor, in 2014 to let managers focus on trading.
The rescue plan was then shelved in February 2015 as the possibility of a BHS sale emerged, the committee heard.
That revelation takes some pressure off the Pensions Regulator, which had faced questions about why it did not allow Project Thor to go ahead.
A former tennis player, who competed in Wimbledon in the 1960s, he is an advocate of healthy eating.
But when it comes to business it appears he has a rather different appetite, one that stretches to ready meals and processed foods.
His company 3G Capital - which already owned Heinz and Burger King - bought the US food giant Kraft last month, in partnership with billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
The products may have a tendency to stretch your waistline, but Lemann, who was born in Rio de Janeiro, is obsessed with lean companies.
In late 2008, barely months after acquiring Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser beer, Lemann and his associates overhauled the company, shedding 1,400 jobs, some 6% of its workforce.
In one year, 3G Capital found $10bn in savings and divestments.
Executives lost all sorts of privileges: walls were torn down and personal offices were joined together in open plan spaces.
The number of company Blackberries issued to employees fell from 1,200 to 720.
Freebies like free baseball tickets, free beer or first-class tickets were cut. Private jets belonging to Anheuser-Busch were sold.
"They take cost-cutting very seriously," says Cristiane Correa, a journalist and author of Dream Big, a book on the rise of Lemann and his two fellow countrymen and partners Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira.
"Some people get really scared by that. Afterwards, of course, the company grows and they end up hiring again, but at start it is ugly."
Cost-cutting is one of 3G Capital's obsessions.
But there are others too, such as meritocracy and investing in the right people.
Some of 3G Capital's top executives that today are in charge of leading global brands have been with Lemann since the early days of Garantia - the bank he founded in the 1970s.
Back then, the magnate had already coined the term PSD to describes his ideal employees: "Poor, Smart, with a Deep Desire to Get Rich."
Marcel Telles, one of 3G's three strongmen and with a net fortune estimated upwards of $13bn, started out his career as a sort of office boy in Garantia.
One trait that is conspicuously absent in 3G Capital's business model is innovation.
The company makes its fortunes by finding optimum ways of producing something simple - like a burger or ketchup - and repeating that formula on a larger scale, without requiring much creativity.
"This model is well-suited to the food industry, where you can make a lot of money if you are disciplined enough to avoid waste when producing," says Leni Hidalgo, a professor at Brazil's Insper business school, who worked in one of Lemann, Telles and Sicupira's businesses in the 1990s.
Last month's Heinz-Kraft merger turned Lemann into a food tycoon, now leading the third largest food and beverage conglomerate in the US.
In the 2000s:
Massive offshore oil discovered
20 million people lifted from poverty
Achieved investment grade rating in credit agencies
Won bids to host Olympics and World Cup
Now:
Austerity measures and spending cuts
Large scale Petrobras corruption scandal
0.1% GDP growth in 2014
Rising inflation (7.7% compared with a target of 4.5%) and unemployment (5.9% up from 4.8% in January 2014)
Currency close to its lowest point in 12 years - $1 is worth almost twice as much as five years ago
It has been almost a decade since the business world saw the rise of another ambitious Brazilian - mining tycoon Eike Batista.
For much of the past 10 years, Batista - a flashy maverick with an extravagant lifestyle - was the world's seventh richest billionaire, and seen by many as the international face of Brazil's then vibrant economic growth on the world stage.
Much of Batista's wealth was made during a cycle of high commodity prices.
But once that cycle came to an end, a mixture of economic downturn and bad decisions meant he lost much of his lustre and fortune.
In a way, Batista's story is a chronicle of Brazil's journey from hype to economic downturn, in which the fortunes of South America's largest country roughly followed the same timescale.
Now the subject of a series of criminal charges his fall from grace was absolute, while Lemann claimed the post of Brazil's richest person.
Many commentators see him as the "anti-Batista" - a prudent manager with a low profile and discreet lifestyle who is not given to grandiose statements.
But just as with Batista in the 2000s, Lemann now seems like an appropriate choice to be the "face" of Brazil's tougher economic reality in 2015.
His philosophy of cost-cutting and efficiency savings is currently in vogue in his home country - as the government turns to austerity measures in a bid to put the Brics nation back on a path of sustainable growth.
But Prof Hidalgo says 3G Capital is, in many ways, the opposite of the typical Brazilian industry.
Their firms have discipline, high productivity and low waste - qualities many companies in Brazil are still lacking today.
"Brazilian businesses have much to learn from them," says the professor.
Brazil's government must surely be hoping that the country's fortunes also mirror one of its most successful sons.
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An overwhelming majority of MSPs voted against triggering Article 50, but the vote is largely symbolic following a ruling of the Supreme Court last month.
Despite that, The Scotsman reports that Scotland's Brexit minister Michael Russell will demand the UK government listen to "Scotland's voice" in meetings with ministers in London later.
In a similar vein, The National's front page headline asks: "Are you listening Westminster?" Scotland's rejection of Brexit was "loud and clear", it adds.
The vote "throws down the gauntlet" to Theresa May, according to the i newspaper, which also notes that three Labour MSPs voted in favour of leaving the EU.
A poll in The Herald claims that support for Scottish independence has risen to 49% since the prime minister's "hard Brexit" speech, in which she confirmed that the UK would leave the single market.
Mrs May is expecting Scotland's first minister to demand a second referendum on independence next August, according to The Courier. And the paper claims that No 10 is preparing a "secret independence strategy" ahead of any negotiations on another poll.
Meanwhile The Scottish Sun reports that police numbers north of the border could be cut by 3,000 in a decade. It claims the numbers are revealed in draft of 10-year vision drawn up by Police Scotland's Chief Constable Phil Gormley.
A woman who "silently stalked" a stranger on Facebook and claimed they were engaged features on the front page of The Daily Record.
The Scottish Daily Mail uses its front page to launch a campaign calling for action to clear up "the modern scourge of Scotland's beautiful countryside" - cans and plastic bottles.
Nicola Sturgeon will launch a new multi-million pound decommissioning fund for the North Sea during a visit to Aberdeen later, according to The Press and Journal.
The Scottish Daily Express reports that "another wave" of interest rate cuts is set to hit millions of savers.
The Scottish edition of The Times leads with news that Britain's tax burden is set to rise to its highest level for more than 30 years.
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The 25-year-old injured his knee in Wednesday's 72-run victory over the tourists at Headingley.
He will be assessed by England's medical staff when the team arrive on the south coast later on Thursday.
Stokes made 25 runs in the first ODI before suffering the injury as South Africa chased England's 339-6.
He bowled two overs - conceding 14 runs - before leaving the field for treatment.
He returned to the field but "was not fit enough to bowl", captain Eoin Morgan said after the game.
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Though later regretting the move, it was not long before Susan Kiefel found work as a receptionist in a Brisbane law firm.
She finished her high school certificate part-time, then took a job as a legal clerk while completing a law degree at night.
Arriving at the bar in 1975, the Queenslander embarked on an impressive career which culminated on Tuesday with her being named Australia's 13th chief justice.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in announcing the appointment, described Justice Kiefel's story as "an inspiration".
The Law Council of Australia called it a "landmark moment" for the nation and its legal system.
"Prior to her her appointment, Justice Kiefel was already a trailblazer for women in the legal profession," said Law Council president Stuart Clark.
"She was the first female QC appointed in Queensland in 1987. She was appointed to the Queensland Supreme Court in 1993 and the Federal Court of Australia in 1994."
She also served as Queensland Bar Association president and as a part-time Australian Law Reform commissioner, he said.
In a short statement on Tuesday, Justice Kiefel said the High Court was as relevant now as it was more than a century ago.
"The issues that come before the High Court affect many aspects of the life of the nation," she said.
"It will be a privilege to walk in the footsteps of the eminent jurists who have been appointed chief justices since the court was established in 1903."
Justice Kiefel replaces outgoing chief justice, Robert French, who will retire in January.
Her vacant spot on the High Court bench will be filled by Brisbane-based judge James Edelman.
"He was born on the 9 January 1974 so he is a different generation to most of the other judges of the high court, but he was a professor of law at Oxford at the age of 34," Mr Turnbull said.
The appointments were welcomed by the opposition Labor Party as "both highly deserved".
At the High Court, Justice Kiefel has been involved in high-profile judgements including dismissing the Australian government's Malaysia refugee solution, the overturning of a same-sex marriage law and the collapse of a company owned by billionaire former MP Clive Palmer.
In a speech to graduates at Griffith University in 2009, Justice Kiefel reflected on her "fortunate" career as both barrister and judge.
"With the benefit of considerable hindsight it is quite easy to say how one may have a rewarding working life," she said.
"It does not seem so simple when you are not there. You find that occupation or endeavour that suits your talents and your personality.
"It is what the educator Sir Ken Robinson calls being in your element ... people in their element are doing the thing they love and in doing it they feel like their most authentic self."
Surrey Police said the graffiti was sprayed inside a shop on the Lion Retail Park, Woking, in view of the Shah Jehan Mosque in Oriental Road.
The words were sprayed between 19:00 and 20:00 GMT on Monday.
The teenager, from Woking, has been released on bail until 13 December pending further inquiries.
The actress told ES Magazine it was unusual for her to be offered a part without at least one nude appearance.
"What's annoying is that they are fun roles, if you can remove the sex," she said.
"It's the sex that makes it annoying. Otherwise they are interesting stories, interesting women with chequered pasts."
The 34-year-old, whose previous roles include a high-class escort Belle De Jour in ITV drama Secret Diary Of A Call Girl between 2007 and 2011, said she was tired of being sent "hooker scripts".
Piper also revealed she has reunited with the show's writer Lucy Prebble for a new television series, which the actress described as "beautifully bleak".
She told the magazine the unnamed series was about "two London women in their 30s and everything that comes with that".
The actress added: "I would say tonally it's black comedy but it might just be black."
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The 28-year-old is believed to have built the device his younger brother used in an assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister in August 2009, and the underwear bomb a young Nigerian man tried to detonate in an aircraft over the US on Christmas Day.
He is also thought to have made the bombs hidden in two packages which were found on planes in Dubai and the UK in October 2010.
Both were shipped from Yemen, where he is based, and used the powerful explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), which was also used in the two earlier attacks. The packages were addressed to synagogues in the US.
And in May 2012, US officials said they believed Asiri had built an improved version of the underwear bomb, which was reportedly given to a Saudi-recruited double agent to blow up on a US-bound flight.
Known by the alias "Abu Saleh", Mr Asiri was born in April 1982 into a pious military family in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Little has been reported about his early life, but he had four brothers and three sisters, and was previously imprisoned in the Gulf kingdom after trying to enter Iraq to join Islamist insurgents there.
"They put me in prison and I began to see the depths of [the Saudi] servitude to the Crusaders and their hatred for the true worshippers of God, from the way they interrogated me," Asiri was quoted as saying by a al-Qaeda-produced magazine in September 2009.
In 2007, the family was living together in the holy city of Mecca when he and his younger brother, Abdullah, went missing.
"We were planning to move back to Riyadh, but Abdullah and Ibrahim said they wanted to go to Medina before returning with us," their father Hassan, a retired soldier, told the Saudi Gazette in 2009.
"Abdullah later contacted us to say he was out of the country, but did not say where. From that day on we had no more news of him until we saw his and his brother's pictures... in the media on a list of wanted people."
Ibrahim's was the first name on the list of 83 Saudis and two Yemenis who the Saudi authorities said were wanted for "participating in extremist activities abroad" with "deviant groups". Abdullah was number 40.
Officials said the men had entered Yemen illegally and joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, formed in January 2009 by a merger between two regional offshoots of the international Islamist militant network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
AQAP established strongholds in central and southern Yemen, where it was protected by tribes who were wary of government interference. It took on new recruits and experienced fighters returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, including several former detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
The group's first operation outside Yemen was carried out in Saudi Arabia in August 2009 against the kingdom's security chief, Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, though he survived with only minor injuries.
The suicide bomber - who was later named as Ibrahim's 23-year-old brother, Abdullah - concealed a device containing about 100g of PETN inside his body or inside his underwear. It used a detonator with a chemical fuse, which would not be spotted by a metal detector, Saudi officials said.
Posing as a militant who wanted to give himself up in person to the prince, Abdullah was flown on his private jet to the city of Jeddah and given a private audience in the interior ministry offices there.
Pictures of the aftermath showed a sizeable crater in the concrete floor, and Abdullah's body blown in half. It is believed the force of the blast went downwards, which is why only the bomber died.
After the assassination attempt, their father said he was shocked that Abdullah could have been involved, and complained that his son had been "snatched from his family" by extremists. Some reports suggested that Ibrahim had recruited his brother.
"We denounce this despicable act, and we stand right beside our guardians in the face of the enemies of the nation and the Ummah [Muslim community]," he said.
After the death of his brother, Ibrahim is thought to have designed the underpants bomb allegedly used by a young Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in an attempt to blow up a US passenger jet as it flew into Detroit on 25 December 2009. That device also contained PETN and had a chemical fuse.
AQAP later released a statement saying it had sought to avenge recent raids by Yemeni forces aided by the US military and intelligence services.
Ten months later, in the wake of the alert over the bombs sent from Sanaa to the US through cargo firms UPS and FedEx, Mr Asiri was accused by unnamed US officials of making the devices.
The devices both contained PETN, and one of the detonators was almost exactly the same as the one made for Mr Abdulmutallab, they added. Pictures released by Dubai police showed one bomb was hidden inside a printer.
The US Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, did not name Mr Asiri but confirmed that the same person was believed to have made the underpants bomb.
"I think the indications are right now based on the forensics analysis that it's an individual who has been responsible for putting these devices together, the same," he told ABC News.
"He's a very dangerous individual - clearly somebody who has a fair amount of training and experience. We need to find him and bring him to justice as soon as we can," Mr Brennan added.
Mr Asiri subsequently became a major focus of US intelligence efforts and in March 2011 he was officially designated a wanted terrorist.
In September, US officials believed he had died in a missile strike that killed the US-born radical Islamist cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki. However, it soon became apparent that Mr Asiri was still alive.
As the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death on 1 May 2011 approached, a joint intelligence bulletin issued by the US Northern Command, the FBI and Homeland Security Department expressed concern that al-Qaeda intended to "advance plots along multiple fronts, including renewed efforts to target Western aviation".
Then on 6 May, US officials said they had and their allies had foiled a plot to bomb a US plane, involving a device that bore the "hallmarks" of the underwear bomb carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009.
The planned suicide attack was conceived in Yemen by AQAP, but was thwarted before a target had been selected, they added. It later emerged that the would-be bomber was a Saudi intelligence agent.
The device was reported to be a sophisticated construction. Officials said the main charge was a high-grade military explosive which would have been able to bring down an aircraft, and that it could have been detonated in two ways, in case one failed.
The bomb also had no metal parts and probably would not have been detected by most airport security magnetometers. Sewn into custom-made underwear, it would have been hard to detect during a pat-down.
Officials said the latest device bore the "hallmarks" of Ibrahim al-Asiri.
Advanced bomb-making techniques, such as those taught by Mr Asiri, have continued to alarm security services.
In July 2014, the US requested enhanced security checks on all direct flights to the US, in response to a "credible threat".
Security experts say that the warning was triggered by a fear that some of al-Qaeda's sophisticated bomb-making expertise, such as that pioneered by Mr Asiri, had proliferated out of Yemen to Syria.
In addition to his expertise in bomb-making, Mr Asiri is also said to be an expert in preparing poisons and well-versed in martial arts.
He is thought to be hiding under the protection of local tribes in the mountainous governorates of Shabwa and Marib with AQAP's leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, a Yemeni former aide to Osama Bin Laden.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has served a warning notice on Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) due to "serious concerns" about its "places of safety services".
Inspectors found patients were being placed in police cells and regularly waiting over 12 hours for assessments.
The trust admitted there are "some areas" which it still needs to improve.
CQC inspectors visited the adult mental health service provider in May to check on progress after it was found the trust was not "always safe, effective, responsive or well led".
But in the latest report, described as "damning" by Karen Bennett-Wilson, head of inspection for the CQC's south region, the trust was criticised for using police cells as "places of safety" and for the "many" who had to wait for "two or three days" for assessment.
Currently, people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 can be held in a hospital or police station for up to 72 hours.
But the Home Office wants that time reduced to 24 hours and the use of police cells as a "place of safety for adults" to be restricted.
Dr Paul Lelliott, the CQC's deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said: "When a person in a crisis who requires mental health care is detained by the police, they should be taken immediately to a properly staffed place of safety where they can be assessed by a mental healthcare professional.
"They should be taken to a police cell only in exceptional circumstances. We found that too often the designated places of safety managed by AWP were not available when needed. This must be addressed as a priority."
The trust said it was working with councils, commissioners and the police to "find solutions".
Carol Bowes, from AWP, said: "We need to do better on the leadership and we need to do better on some of the safe domains.
"But the CQC were very clear that they understand that the work we need to do around places of safety is not just our work."
The report comes less than a fortnight after a woman with mental health problems was held for 11 hours in a police cell then three hours in the back of a police car.
Katie Simpkins, 23, from Chippenham, said it had been "one of the scariest things" she had ever been through.
AWP later apologised and said the situation "was not ideal".
If the trust fails to comply with the CQC's warning notice, it could face further enforcement action.
The victim, in her 80s, was assaulted in the early hours of Friday in Havant, Hampshire.
Police said the attacker was a man, described as aged between 30 and 40 years old, tall and of "sturdy" build and wearing dark clothing.
Officers are appealing for information about the attack, which happened in Lymbourn Road at about 03:30 GMT.
The Mourne men had been 4-1 outsiders but produced a hungry, high-energy display to reach the 16 July final in which they will play holders Tyrone.
Monaghan trailed by seven points when Darragh O'Hanlon converted a 41st-minute penalty.
They fought back to be just one point behind, but Down clung on to win.
It was a stunning display by Eamonn Burns' side and came just a year after Monaghan had hammered Down 2-22 to 0-9 at the quarter-final stage.
For Monaghan, it was a huge disappointment as they sought a third provincial title in five years.
They went in as strong favourites but came up against a fired-up Down side who had been buoyed by victory over Armagh in the quarter-finals.
In a pivotal first-half spell, Down accounted for seven of the eight points scored and they led 0-10 to 0-8 at half-time.
Then came the penalty drama, with Niall Donnelly being pulled back by Colin Walshe.
I'm so proud of the players - they did everything we asked them to do. We started brightly but at the end we dug in. We were patient and fought hard.
Stand-in referee Paddy Neilan from Roscommon, who had replaced the injured David Coldrick at half-time, awarded the penalty and O'Hanlon found the net despite keeper Rory Beggan getting a hand to the ball.
Victory seemed assured for Down - but Monaghan revived their hopes with a string of points from Conor McManus 4, Darren Hughes, Jack McCarron and Kieran Hughes.
Late in the game, Conor Maginn had the ball in the net but ref Neilan ruled it out for a foul on keeper Beggan.
McCarron had a chance to level the game but sent a free well wide and Down got the insurance point through Donal O'Hare.
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Down: M Cunningham; N McParland, G McGovern, D O'Hagan; D O'Hanlon, C McGovern, C Mooney; K McKernan, N Donnelly; P Turley, C Maginn, S Millar; J Johnston, R Johnston, C Harrison.
Monaghan: R Beggan; F Kelly, D Wylie, R Wylie; C Walshe, V Corey, N McAdam; K Hughes, K O'Connell; D Hughes, K Duffy, O Duffy; C McCarthy, J McCarron, C McManus
It is no wonder then that philanthropists are becoming more and more concerned that the money they are donating is being used effectively.
"I don't see it as giving it away. I see it as investing it for the common good," says British philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter.
"It's not just 'here's some money' - we really do see it as an investment. We're looking for a return - it's different to investing for profit, but we still want to measure things in charitable investments."
According to the Charities Aid Foundation, who surveyed those who made the 2012 Sunday Times Rich List - a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people and families in the UK - 88% say they will only invest in charities who demonstrate their impact clearly.
And 81% think that giving strategically is important.
This notion of strategic philanthropy - giving designed around focused research and strategies to be as effective as possible - has grown in recent years.
Kurt Hoffman, the chief executive of the Institute for Philanthropy, says strategic philanthropy is an attempt to go beyond traditional charity, where you make contributions but don't really know what happens with the money.
Several organisations now exist to advise those wishing to donate to good causes on how best to part with their wealth.
The Institute for Philanthropy was established in 2000 to work with philanthropists to increase effective giving.
"There's an assumption that all charities do equally well. That's not true. We need to find out which do better," says Mr Hoffman.
The trouble is: how do you measure which ones do better?
"It's difficult," Mr Hoffman admits. "There are no market-based rules or prices."
Rachel Findlay is the head of funder effectiveness at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). She works with a wide variety of funders from individuals and families to corporates, larger trusts and foundations, advising them on how their funding can have the greatest impact.
Historically, she says, people have been very focused on looking at administration costs, but she encourages funders not to do so.
"Some charities have very high admin costs but are exceptionally well-run," she says. "If you have a charity that delivers food or clothes to Africa, would you rather they have good lorries and run them quickly, or cheaper ones that break down and aren't very efficient?"
Instead, NPC encourages funders to look beyond exactly what the money is being spent on, and to concentrate instead on what is actually being achieved.
"You could have a charity that works with a wide group of young people at a very light touch level, say once a week, while another might work more intensively with a smaller group, every day," Mrs Findlay says.
"So you can't always look at how many people you've worked with - the output. But you should ask how have you actually helped them - the outcome."
Nevertheless, charities are under pressure to show more hard data. For instance, how much grades have improved as a result of education programmes.
Kurt Hoffman from the Institute for Philanthropy says there is a "compelling" reason for both philanthropists and charities to measure impact.
"There is very little comparative analysis at the moment, if at all. That's where the sector has to head," he says.
The financial crisis of the last few years has also made funders keener to provide effective giving, according to Mrs Findlay.
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Those that have an endowment - who put their money in a foundation, invest it and then use the interest to fund charitable projects - have seen lower financial returns on their investments in recent years.
Therefore they really want to focus on funding that makes a difference, she says.
But the crisis has also had a significant impact on charities, with many seeing government funding dry up, and leaving potential benefactors with the decision of whether or not they want to step in and replace that funding.
Another recent phenomenon is the social impact bond, which aims to use private investment to prevent social problems and save the public sector money.
Philanthropists and social enterprises are asked to provide advance funding to support schemes commissioned and delivered by public bodies, such as prisons and local councils.
They would be remunerated by the government if it is concluded that pre-determined outcomes have been achieved. The rate of return will depend on how well the schemes perform - the higher the social impact, the higher the return.
Some are sceptical about how successful social impact bonds will be in the long term, and others have criticised them for being just another name for privatisation.
But the ultimate aim is to use philanthropic money efficiently, and that is what philanthropists have been striving towards.
Agreements have been made on the issues of paramilitarism, finance and welfare reform, but the legacy of the Troubles remains unresolved.
Politicians and other key figures have reacted to the announcement of the deal on Tuesday.
"At the outset of this process I indicated that we needed to make Stormont fit for purpose and to secure an agreement that would deliver a stable and long-term basis upon which to operate.
"I believe we have secured that outcome.
"Today represents another milestone along the way as we normalise and build our society.
"We must ensure that through co-operation and common purpose the spirit, vision and promise of the document is fulfilled."
"At the heart of this agreement is our common commitment to a better future for all of our people.
"Peter and I are at one in our determination to defend core public services, to continue to attract foreign direct investment, support indigenous businesses and to provide more and better jobs.
"The legacy of the past remains a huge gap in this work. The onus remains on the British government to live up to their responsibilities to victims, in particular full disclosure."
"This agreement deals with the issues that have cast the greatest shadow over the future of the devolved institutions here.
"This deal means that Northern Ireland's finances can be put back on a sustainable footing, ending the long-standing dispute over the budget.
"There will be a fresh emphasis on tackling paramilitarism and organised crime and clear declaration that such activity will never be tolerated."
"Today's agreement is another significant step in normalising politics and society in Northern Ireland, consolidating the hard won peace on this island.
"Devolved government in Northern Ireland is now placed on a more sustainable footing.
"This, together with the firm commitment to working for the ending paramilitarism, will help build the peaceful, reconciled, prosperous Northern Ireland its people deserve."
"This breakthrough today is an important turning point for Northern Ireland.
"The agreement secures sustainability for Northern Ireland's budget, sets out how we'll deal with paramilitary groups, and could provide a basis for a shared future for the people of Northern Ireland.
"What is vital now is that the parties in Northern Ireland use this agreement as the platform for stable devolved government that delivers on the day-to-day issues that matter to people."
"The agreement provides the people of Northern Ireland with a chance to have the burden of thuggery, intimidation and sectarian hatred taken off their backs once and for all.
"[It is] a chance for peace to mean more than the absence of violence, 21 years after the ceasefires.
"[It is] a chance for a prosperous and inclusive society to flourish to its full potential."
"I urge all of Northern Ireland's political leaders to support and fully implement this agreement.
"It was carefully constructed to deliver better and sustainable governance, as well as to advance Northern Ireland's peace process for the benefit of all the people of the region.
"I strongly encourage the UK and Irish governments and all the parties to continue their vital work to deal effectively with the past by creating the institutions set out in the Stormont House Agreement."
"We all signed up to a process where we would have all the parties around a table, trying to come up with a comprehensive deal, and then two parties went off and did their own deal.
"We're not going to sign up to anything until we've had a proper chance to look at it, but we're very disappointed that the issue around the past has once again been left out.
"The absence of comprehensive proposals on the past is a very serious failure. Those who persist in impeding truth and accountability cannot prevail."
"This document may be called A Fresh Start, [but] in terms of the feelings of the victims of the past, it's another false dawn."
"At this stage, it is not possible to credibly support a plan which doesn't detail where the money is coming from, no details where the money is to be spent, and which doesn't necessarily cover all the issues that need to be covered around paramilitarism.
"It's a half-baked plan, it's not a real move forward. It's not what they promised."
"There are, of course, a number of key questions that we will need answered to allow us to make that final decision [on whether or not to support it].
"For example, there's a startling omission of victims, there's nothing on the legacy of the past being addressed, we don't see paramilitary shootings, the IRA doesn't even get a mention, and that's before we even get into how the money is being handled."
"Sweeping murder under the carpet is the abiding message of this Sinn Fein/DUP manifesto.
"There is no mention of IRA murder. There is no mention of decommissioning the weapons still held by the IRA.
"That shameful state of affairs will not be forgotten by the unionist electorate."
"If additional resources are now to be allocated to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, it would be the wish of this Federation that an adequate amount is ring-fenced to finance a long overdue expansion of the service.
"The £160m is promised over five years when actually that amount is required right now."
"A reduced rate of corporation tax will open doors for us to be able to compete for, and seek to attract, new operations, which are tax sensitive.
"Today's announcement will provide a welcome boost to local, profitable businesses which will have additional finance to invest in their future growth."
"This new deal must ensure there is a fully functioning executive which can deliver good government and make decisions in the best interests of Northern Ireland's future prosperity and all its citizens.
"I hope this deal will ensure we have brought an end to the series of standoffs and showdowns."
"Political stability and a Northern Ireland Executive pulling together on the economy is vital for business growth in Northern Ireland.
"With a [corporation tax] rate and date now in place, businesses can plan for growth and Invest NI can start selling the proposition to potential inward investors across the world.
"Whilst the agreement on welfare seeks to protect the most vulnerable in our society, many of whom are victims and survivors, the failure to agree over the legacy issues is a bitter pill for victims and survivors to swallow.
"The much campaigned for pension for the most severely injured is one of a number of critically important steps that need to be taken now to meet the needs and expectations of those who have suffered most."
"Those who lost loved-ones in the conflict will be privately grieving and angry at London's insistence that it must be able to redact/censor reports from the proposed Historical Investigations Unit on "national security" grounds.
"If London had this right, it could mean that families would never discover that state agents, informers, UDR soldiers and RUC men had a role in their relatives' murders."
"We pray that this particular accommodation, reached in the interests of all, will be the basis for beginning to restore hope to those who are struggling and re-establish the trust that has been slowly ebbing from our political institutions."
"The two governments and political parties have said that dealing with the suffering of victims and survivors is central to Northern Ireland moving forward.
"They can no longer say that with any credibility.
"The reality is that they have abandoned and betrayed victims and survivors who have repeatedly been promised that there would be an inclusive and comprehensive way found to deal with the legacy of the past."
The complaint covers graphics processing technologies Nvidia says it owns via a wide patent portfolio.
The disputed technology is used in many Samsung devices, said Nvidia, which also wants gadgets using the technology to stop being sold.
Samsung said it would fight the legal claim. Qualcomm has yet to comment.
"They're using our technology for free in their devices today and they're shipping an enormous number of devices," said Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia chief executive, during a news conference.
The infringement complaint is the first ever made by Nvidia and has been filed with a court in Delaware from which it hopes to be awarded damages for unauthorised use. Nvidia owns thousands of patents covering its graphics technology but said it launched the legal action on the back of seven that were representative of its work.
In a statement, Nvidia said it had been forced to take legal action after months of talks with Samsung over use of its technology "made no progress".
In response, Samsung said: "Following a thorough review of the complaint, we will take all measures necessary against Nvidia's claims."
Nvidia has also lodged a complaint with the US International Trade Commission that rules on which devices can be shipped and sold in the US. It has also asked the ITC to block devices made using Arm and Imagination Technologies hardware that it claims are also using its patented technology. Neither Arm nor Imagination are named in the Delaware court papers.
The 21,000-capacity ground, who Swansea share with Ospreys rugby region, is the second smallest in the Premier League behind Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium.
Swansea had considered adding 12,000 seats but shelved expansion plans in December 2015 as talks to buy the ground from Swansea council stalled.
"We have to make sure the council are on board," said chairman Huw Jenkins.
Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan, experienced in running US sports teams, lead an American consortium which has bought a controlling stake of 68% in the Swans.
Swansea have averaged crowds of around 20,500 in their last four Premier League seasons, which is close to their capacity, and the club has an ultimate vision of expanding the Liberty Stadium to 40,000 seats.
The Welsh club's new major shareholders want to talk to the local council about purchasing the Liberty Stadium and Swansea's initial desire is to expand the ground to 33,000.
"All Swansea supporters would like to see the stadium expanded," added Jenkins.
"If we can find a deal that suits both parties and, perhaps with Jason and Steve on board, if we feel it is right to go down that route again we'll meet up and find a solution that helps everybody."
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Ernest Kalawa, 24, from Southwark, died from multiple stab wounds after an attack on Haymerle Road, Peckham on 30 December.
Derron Campbell, 23, also of Southwark, was charged on Wednesday. He is due before Camberwell Green magistrates.
Previously Klark Mangal, 21, of Peckham, was charged with Mr Kalawa's murder.
His trial is due to begin on 3 July at the Old Bailey.
A report from Macmillan Cancer Support reveals that more than half of health professionals say they have patients who refuse treatment because of this.
Former AM Karen Sinclair, who has cancer, was "saddened" by the findings.
"There are people out there who are facing this alone and they shouldn't have to," she said.
Macmillan's report, Facing the Fight Alone, looked at the number, profile and experiences of isolated people living with cancer.
It estimated that 3,420 people - 19% - of the 18,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients each year said they lacked support from family and friends.
More than half of health professionals - 53% - have had patients choose not to have treatment because they felt they did not have the support.
Susan Morris, general manager for Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales, said: "This research shows that isolation can have a truly shattering impact on people living with cancer.
"Patients are going hungry, missing medical appointments and even deciding to reject treatment altogether which could be putting their lives at risk, all because of a lack of support."
She said these figures were the tip of the iceberg.
"As the number of people living with cancer in Wales is set to double from 120,000 to 240,000 by 2030, isolation will become an increasing problem and we need to address this now," she added.
"That's why we are launching a new campaign to help tackle this crisis and to ensure that in future, no-one faces cancer alone."
She added: "We know of people, from a survey we've done by professionals, who said they've actually turned down treatment because they didn't think they would be able to cope with the demands of the treatment without that support around them.
"And we know if you're tired and can't prepare a hot meal for yourself, or can't take care of yourself in the same way, that's really tough and it can affect the outcome of the treatment as well.
"We know we live much busier lives these days and perhaps families don't have the same time for each other that they did."
Despite the love of a devoted family, Karen Sinclair knows how desperately isolating fighting cancer can be.
The 60-year-old former Labour AM for Clwyd South, who will never be cured, endured 18 months of treatment that "poisoned" her body and wiped out her immune system.
There were weeks where she was cut off from family and friends for fear of infection.
It was during these darkest moments Mrs Sinclair, from Llangollen, felt the loneliness of the disease.
She said: "When I could not see people I was isolated, I could not work, go out and meet people - my life had disappeared."
"I was saddened to see the percentage of people who face treatment alone or don't even have treatment - it makes me so sad because there's help out there."
Mrs Sinclair was diagnosed with multiple myelomas, which is when a collection of abnormal plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow, in 2008 aged 55.
She said: "I wasn't isolated in the sense that I have a very supportive family - they are absolutely fabulous.
"But there are things that I cannot talk to them about during those deepest, darkest times because I don't want to distress or scare them.
"There are people out there who are facing this alone and they shouldn't have to because help is there."
Mrs Sinclair received eight months of chemotherapy and spent weeks at the Christie Hospital in Manchester receiving stem cell treatment.
Her spine was severely damaged by the cancer, which meant has been left in permanent pain and her movement has been severely affected.
Mrs Sinclair said she did lose a few friends who could not "cope with the idea of cancer".
The mother-of-two's immune system was broken down and she was not able to see anyone in case they passed on an underlying infection.
But Macmillan nurses would visit Mrs Sinclair for support.
She said: "They also put me in touch with the local hospice that had a hydro pool and I could use that, rather than a local pool, because they were kept so clean. I'd also go for massage therapy.
"That helped in all ways - mental as well as physical benefits. It makes me so sad that so many people don't seek out this help because it's there."
Mrs Sinclair and her husband Michael know her cancer can only be managed.
She said: "My Wrexham haematologist told me that while not curable my cancer was treatable and if it went well the course of treatment could see me in remission.
"I was told how long for no-one knows but then no-one can say what will happen in the future and with new treatments."
While Mrs Sinclair remains positive she admitted living with the disease, that she admits will cut her life short, was "pretty stressful" at times.
She said: "When I was diagnosed we were planning our wonderful retirement when suddenly all the things you were going to do you were never going to do."
The couple and their children Helen, 36, and Tom, 30, are now planning a close-knit celebration for their forthcoming 40th wedding anniversary.
Benjamin Netanyahu said Margot Wallstrom's remarks were "outrageous... immoral and... stupid".
Ms Wallstrom had called for "thorough and credible investigations" into the deaths.
Some 155 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have been killed in unrest since October.
In that time, 26 Israelis have been killed in stabbing, shooting or car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli-Arabs.
The attackers who have been killed have either been shot dead by their victims or security forces. Others have been arrested.
On Tuesday, Ms Wallstrom said it was "vital that there is a thorough, credible investigation into these deaths in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability", according to Swedish media reports.
Speaking to foreign reporters, Mr Netanyahu condemned Ms Wallstrom's comments.
"I think what the Swedish foreign minister said is outrageous, I think it's immoral, it's unjust and it's just wrong," he said.
"People are defending themselves against assailants wielding knives who are about to stab them to death and they shoot the people, and that's extrajudicial killings?
"Does the Swedish foreign minister suggest that there be examinations of what happened... in Paris, or in [San Bernardino] the United States?" he asked by comparison, alluding to deadly attacks late last year by Islamist militants in which the assailants were killed by security forces.
Israel's deputy foreign minister earlier said Israel would continue a policy of barring the Swedish foreign minister from visiting the country, accusing Ms Wallstrom of fostering terrorism.
Relations between Israel and Sweden have been strained since Sweden recognised Palestinian statehood in October 2014.
In the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Ms Wallstrom also angered Israel by saying a sense of hopelessness among Palestinians was a factor behind the rise of Islamist extremism in Europe.
The object, which proved to be a piece of non-explosive military equipment, was spotted at 15:30 in Deans Industrial Estate in Livingston.
A police spokesman said: "The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit were contacted to safely dispose of the item.
"It was later found to be an inert training device."
The spokesman added: "The local community is thanked for their patience.
The 25-year-old Welsh keeper was out of contract with the League One club and will join North End on 1 July on a three-year deal.
Maxwell started his career at Wrexham and had four seasons at Fleetwood.
The Lilywhites were without a first-choice keeper after Anders Lindegaard's loan spell ended and they chose to let Chris Kirkland leave.
"Preston is a massive club and getting the deal done early going into the summer is good from a personal note," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"There was a bit of interest from other parties but once I knew Preston were interested in me, and speaking to the staff, it was almost a no brainer."
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Mr Shah was recently cleared of raping a schoolgirl in London hotels when she was between 12 and 15.
He said charges of rape involving girls under 16 who "threw themselves" at celebrities could be "technical".
But the NSPCC and National Association of People Abused in Childhood said rape was always a crime.
Mr Shah, the 69-year-old founder of the newspaper Today, who lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire, was found not guilty at the Old Bailey last month of raping a girl at upmarket London hotels when she was between 12 and 15.
After the case he called for a review of how rape cases are dealt with by police, saying: "Anybody walking down the street can point at a celebrity and say, 'he raped me'.
And on Saturday he told BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan rape charges involving girls who "threw themselves" at celebrities were a legal technicality.
Mr Shah said: "If we take the pop groups and people of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, who everybody knows that women were throwing themselves at them - young girls who looked 17, 18, 19 and 20...
"Rape was a technical thing - below a certain age. But these girls were going out with the pop groups and becoming groupies and all the rest of it, and throwing themselves at them. You cannot put that down to the fact they've been abused.
"Young girls and young men have always wanted a bit of excitement when they are young. They want to appear adult and do adult things."
When asked if he was implying that under-age victims could themselves be at fault, he said: "If we're talking about girls who go out and just have a good time, then they are to blame.
"If we talk about people who happen to be out and actually get 'raped' raped, then I feel no - and everything should be done against that."
Mr Shah also commented on Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree investigation, set up in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse by BBC DJ Jimmy Savile and other television stars from the 1970s and 1980s.
He added that he had been helping a "very well-known person" charged under Operation Yewtree deal with the "horrible, horrible feeling" of "emptiness about everything", which Mr Shah said he had experienced when he was wrongly accused of rape.
Asked if he thought the investigation was in danger of becoming a witch-hunt, he said: "I think it's developing into that. It's easy policing and it's easy prosecutions...
"In a civilised society there's got to be more checks and balances before these sort of accusations are used."
He also talked again about the suicidal thoughts he had experienced after his arrest.
"Every night I worked out different ways of committing suicide to help me go to sleep, actually," he said.
His comments come after another case, in which a prosecutor was suspended and a judge placed under investigation after it emerged a 13-year-old girl was labelled "predatory" and "sexually experienced" during the trial where a man admitted abusing her.
The NSPCC's Jon Brown said there was "nothing valid" about Mr Shah's comments.
He told BBC News: "If we start talking about gradations of rape, it's extremely concerning.
"Mr Shah's also completely incorrect. A young person under the age of 16 cannot give consent to sexual activity.
"We are talking about child abuse or we're talking about rape, it's as simple as that."
Mr Brown also called for more education and training to help judges with sentencing in child sex abuse cases.
Mr Shah's comments were also criticised by Pete Saunders, chief executive of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood.
Mr Saunders said: "I'd like to meet with Eddie, and to have him explain to me, and maybe explain to some rape victims, what he means by 'raped raped', because my understanding is there is rape, or there is not rape, and rape is always a crime."
His views were echoed by Jim Gamble, the former chief executive of Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP).
Mr Gamble said: "At the end of the day, a child is a child, and the law is configured to protect a child, and there's an assumption made that adults, you know, will respect that, because they will want to protect children themselves."
The animals have become a daily challenge in Cape Town by entering properties in search of food.
While measures are in place to keep them away from urban areas, some male baboons are still getting in and the team want to know how.
They have developed bespoke GPS collars allowing them to track their movements.
Prof Justin O'Riain from the University of Cape Town has been studying baboons in the region for over 10 years.
"The baboons enter properties to raid in gardens and bins, but also enter homes and sometimes take food directly from people," he said.
Swansea University researcher Gaelle Fehlmann carried out the fieldwork in South Africa.
She said raiding events are "so fast and intense" that they were unable to keep up with the baboons in urban areas due to high walls and security fences.
"We had to find another method to document the very special techniques baboons were adopting when raiding," she said.
The team from Swansea designed and built bespoke collars for the baboons that would allow them to precisely track their movements. Ten collars were deployed and they showed exactly what the baboons were doing over 252 days.
The team is now able to recognise more than 90% of baboon behaviours without even seeing the baboons.
The next step is to use the technology to uncover the secrets of the baboons' raiding tactics.
The UN Children's Fund said 30 schools had reopened on Sunday, allowing 16,000 children to resume their education after two years of jihadist rule.
Iraq's Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has announced that the east of the city is now fully clear of IS.
However, deadly fighting was reported in eastern districts on Tuesday.
Photos published by Reuters news agency show Iraqi soldiers examining the dead bodies of IS fighters in what is said to be the Intisar district.
Further north, also east of the River Tigris, Iraqi troops said they had liberated the Rashidiyah district, as well as the villages of Haditha and Jurf al-Milih.
Government-led forces began their offensive against IS in Mosul in October. It is the group's last major urban stronghold in Iraq but the jihadist group still controls several large towns and large parts of Syria.
Battle for Mosul: The story so far
An additional 40 schools are expected to open in the coming weeks after being checked for unexploded ordnances.
IS uses schools to indoctrinate children into its extremist ideology.
Boys adhere to a rigid curriculum, where drawing, history, philosophy and social studies - considered by IS to be "the methodology of atheism" - are removed. They must instead memorise verses of the Koran and attend "jihadist training", which includes firing weapons and martial arts.
Girls - most of whom were banned from getting an education in Mosul - are veiled and taught how to cook, clean and support their future husbands.
Unicef said it was supporting the Iraqi authorities in their efforts to rehabilitate, equip and open schools as the security situation improved in previously contested areas. Many buildings were used for military purposes or were badly damaged by the fighting.
School supplies for 120,000 students in eastern Mosul have been put in place and Unicef is retraining teachers, introducing accelerated learning programmes for children and launching awareness campaigns against violence.
"After the nightmare of the past two years, this is a pivotal moment for the children of Mosul to reclaim their education and their hope for a better future," said Peter Hawkins, Unicef representative in Iraq.
Another 13,200 children living in camps outside Mosul, who are among the 180,000 people who have fled the city since the government launched an offensive 100 days ago, are also being helped to get an education.
Also on Tuesday, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq expressed deep concern for the estimated 750,000 civilians trapped in IS-held western Mosul, as troops prepare to retake it.
"The reports from inside western Mosul are distressing," she said in a statement also signed by 20 international and local aid groups.
"All the evidence points to a sharply deteriorating situation. The prices of basic food and supplies are soaring. Water and electricity are intermittent in neighbourhoods and many families without income are eating only once a day. Others are being forced to burn furniture to stay warm."
Ms Grande could not rule out the possibility of siege-like conditions or a mass exodus, and noted that almost half of all casualties from Mosul had been civilians, with many killed by booby-traps, caught in crossfire or used as human shields.
Mary Hawgood, vice-chairwoman of The Journey trustees, said not enough people see it at its current position at Durham's Millennium Place.
She said it should be moved to near Durham Cathedral.
A spokesman for Durham County Council said the square was a key gateway for the region and many festivals and exhibitions took place there.
Mrs Hawgood added: "The Millennium Place has not developed in the way we were told it might.
"As you go down the path to the main door [of Durham Cathedral], there's a lovely big area where the Journey would look perfect and it could be the end of the journey."
"We can afford [to move] it, so it's no cost to anybody else."
Durham sculptor Fenwick Lawson's publicly funded artwork, which was installed on 22 September 2008, pays tribute to the story of St Cuthbert's coffin.
The coffin was taken from Lindisfarne, after the monks fled from a Danish invasion, and transported it to different locations, ending at Durham Cathedral at the end of the 10th Century.
Charles Anthony Swift, known as Tony, 68, suffered severe head injuries at Mendip House on Monday and later died.
A 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder was released without charge on Thursday.
Mr Swift's daughter, Charlotte Wain, said she was feeling "really sad" he did not live "to a ripe old age".
"It is disbelieving that someone felt they could do this. He was a kind man who always did a lot for us," she said.
"We just need to find out who did this to him.
"If anyone's got anything they know, if you saw something... the tiniest thing could make such a massive difference.
"We would appreciate any help that anyone can give us."
Det Insp Richard Pegler, from Gloucestershire Police, said Mr Swift was "the subject of a horrific assault with a blunt instrument" and he had been "repeatedly hit on the head".
He said detectives were looking for discarded blood-stained clothing, Mr Swift's Samsung mobile phone and a potentially blood-stained weapon.
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The WRU has reached "heads of agreement" for a deal which includes the purchase of Rodney Parade.
The deal must be ratified by 75% of Newport RFC shareholders, and Dragons chairman Martyn Hazell says the WRU takeover is the only viable choice.
But Friends of Newport Rugby (FONR) says there are "alternative options".
The group have urged supporters 'not to dive in' and vote yes before further guidance from the group.
A statement from the Newport RFC supporters' group said: "FONR believes that the directors are putting the needs of the regional side ahead of Newport Rugby Football Club and that there may be alternative options which will enable Newport RFC to retain most of the ground."
The Dragons say their position "has not changed" since last Wednesday's statement.
They say an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) is "likely to be held in the second week of May," while they will also host an additional open meeting for Newport RFC supporters and shareholders.
"At the moment we don't want people diving in and voting yes until all other avenues have been explored," said Kevin Jarvis, secretary of Friends of Newport rugby and Newport Shareholders.
"The deal from the Welsh Rugby Union is on the table. The board is saying it's the only option and maybe it is.
"We have to explore whether there are other options available and give people alternatives if there are other options out there."
Feezan Hameed Choudhary, 24, from the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, is wanted over the alleged scam.
The scammers targeted people by using technology to make the phone number they were calling from seem like a legitimate bank.
Once customers' trust was gained they were duped into revealing account information.
Eleven arrests were made in London and Scotland earlier this week by officers from Falcon, the Met's cyber crime and fraud team.
Choudhary is about 6ft 2in with black hair and brown eyes. He is known to have links to Edinburgh and London.
Police appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Det Ch Insp Andy Gould, head of Falcon's taskforce, said: "These fraudsters gain the trust of their victims by appearing to call from an official bank phone line.
"They sound professional and ask some subtle questions in order to gain the information they need to access the customer's bank account online.
"This is the largest covert proactive operation we have ever undertaken against cyber-enabled crime."
Louth beat last year's All-Ireland semi-finalists 0-16 to 0-12 in Thurles to go top on 10 points.
Following their 1-12 to 0-13 win over Antrim on Saturday, Armagh have nine points while Tipperary are on eight.
Ciaran McKeever hit Armagh's goal while Antrim had a CJ McGourty penalty saved as they stay in relegation trouble.
Antrim will go into the final weekend of round robin games third from bottom but almost certainly needing a home victory over Longford to survive.
McKeever netted as a close first half ended 1-3 to 0-6 before five points without reply saw Armagh surge clear.
Antrim closed the gap to three points when McGourty's penalty was superbly saved by Armagh keeper Blaine Hughes.
Saffrons pair Conor Murray and Stephen Beatty were red-carded late on along with Armagh's Stephen Sheridan.
McKeever's goal was the highlight of a low-key first half between the Ulster rivals, with the centre half-forward palming in to finish a fine Orchard move.
That gave Armagh a one-point lead after two CJ McGourty frees helped Antrim into an early advantage.
McKeever slotted over the final score of the half to level but Armagh were guilty of wayward finishing, registering 11 wides in the opening 35 minutes.
The side exchanged points on the restart and it was all-square before Armagh took charge.
Unanswered points from Charlie Vernon (2), Aidan Forker, Jamie Clarke and Anto Duffy gave the hosts a five-point cushion.
But Antrim showed resilience by hitting the next two points and then being awarded a penalty after a foul on Conor Murray.
McGourty stepped up and his strike was kept out by an excellent save from Hughes in a decisive moment in the game.
An unsavoury finale saw Murray, Sheridan and Beatty shown straight red cards for violent conduct in separate incidents while Armagh substitute Aidan Forker and Antrim's Conor Hamill were black-carded.
Armagh secured a hard-fought win and they are a point clear of Louth and Tipperary although having played an additional game.
Kieran McGeeney's team take on Tipperary in their final game as they chase promotion while Antrim are seventh to remain in relegation danger.
"We're delighted to get that victory and I'm happy to make any contribution," said Armagh defender Vernon, who scored two points.
"Antrim were very good tactically and they deserve credit - they caused us problems on the counter-attack.
"We now face a big game against Tipperary and it's a major challenge for us before the championship."
Allianz Football League results
Sunday
Division One
Cavan 1-10 0-13 Kerry
Tyrone 0-12 1-10 Mayo
Donegal 1-11 1-11 Monaghan
Division Two
Derry 2-10 0-20 Cork
Meath 3-15 0-6 Fermanagh
Down 1-13 3-15 Galway
Kildare 0-18 1-14 Clare
Division Three
Sligo 2-10 2-14 Offaly
Tipperary 0-12 0-16 Louth
Division Four
Leitrim 2-16 0-15 London
Wexford 0-9 3-24 Westmeath
Wicklow 0-10 1-18 Carlow
Saturday
Division One
Dublin 2-29 0-14 Roscommon
Division Three
Armagh 1-12 0-13 Antrim
Laois 1-13 0-13 Longford
Division Four
Waterford 0-8 0-14 Limerick
Two Eunan Walsh goals helped St Ronan's lead 2-4 to 0-8 at half-time but an Aaron Boyle fisted goal contributed to St Paul's taking control.
Maghera have the chance to win a third title in four years after they beat St Pat's Dungannon 2-10 to 1-11 on Friday.
Conor Glass and Shane McGuigan scored Maghera's first-half goals.
Academy of Dungannon made a great start and scored 1-3 in the first 11 minutes, Cormac O'Hagan netting a penalty after he was fouled by Patrick Turner.
Glass and McGuigan scored 1-1 and 1-3 respectively to help St Pat's to a 2-4 to 1-6 interval lead.
St Pat's, winners in 2013 and 2014, went on to secure a two-point victory.
They can thank keeper Sean O Caiside who made a great late save to deny Dungannon captain Liam Rafferty a crucial goal.
There were ugly scenes at the end of the game in Loup when players from both teams got involved in fighting.
This year, the show is being dominated by the launch of a clutch of supercars, sports cars and luxury motors from the likes of Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Aston Martin.
While car shows in Detroit and Frankfurt vie for importance, they tend to be dominated by the host countries' companies.
It's Geneva's level playing field that the good and the great who run the industry find attractive - well, that and possibly the chance to squeeze in some skiing.
So the 86th Geneva Motor Show starts this week with the industry's mood much improved.
After years of painful restructuring and the near-death of several companies, motor manufacturing has climbed out of recession.
European car sales last year were 14.2 million, 9.2% higher than in 2014, though still below levels before the economic crisis.
And 2016 has got off to a good start, with sales up 6.3% in January year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.
There has been much debate, especially during the bad times, about whether spending millions of euros and dollars on motor show car launches is worth it.
In the era of social media, YouTube and the iPad, some people argue that motor shows are less important for getting the message across.
And with today's cars as much about technical wizardry as performance and design, marketing departments are increasingly diverting some of their budgets to tech events like Las Vegas's Consumer Electronics Show.
Yet, there are few signs at this Geneva show that carmakers are rowing back. The list of product launches is long, as is the showcasing of new technologies, concepts and curiosities.
Analyst Tim Urquhart, from IHS, thinks the show will be less about themes, and more about "the European industry taking care of business, coming up with compelling product that will bring buyers into showrooms and maintain the current positive sales trend."
Geneva has a reputation for debuting the exotic, and this year does not disappoint. Take a bow, the Bugatti Chiron.
For petrol heads, the launch of Bugatti's successor to its Veyron supercar will provide the show's wow factor.
Jeremy Clarkson described the Veyron thus: "It has rendered everything I've ever said about any other car obsolete. It's rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose." The Chiron is Bugatti's attempt to improve on it.
Details were being kept under wraps until the official unveiling today. But to beat the Veyron, the Chiron needs to do 100km/h in under 2.7 seconds and have a top speed of more than 424kmh (264mph). It's all road legal - and yours for about $2.5m (£1.8m; €2.3m).
Back in the real world (if that's the right phrase), Ferrari is debuting two cars, the California T Handling Speciale and the GTC4 Lusso four-seater. The latter is pitched at the younger family man (and woman). The kids should enjoy doing the 100km/h in 3.4 seconds.
Meanwhile, Ferrari's near-neighbour Lamborghini celebrates the birth of its founder 100 years ago with the unveiling of the Centenario. Lamborghini has been promising an all-new car, not a tweak to an existing model, so aficionados have been getting excited.
However, if you've got a spare €2m (£1.5m), look elsewhere. Only 40 are being made - and they were all sold two months ago.
Another hotly-anticipated debut is Aston Martin's DB11, a replacement for the DB9 (the DB10 moniker was skipped because it was used in James Bond's last film, Spectre).
Last year, Aston's boss Andy Palmer hinted that the company might address complaints that each new generation of cars was starting to look alike.
That's sparked a lot of speculation about the DB11's design. A few spy shots of a camouflaged DB11s have aired on social media, but nothing official has so far been released.
Look out, too, for Maserati's entry into the crowded market for sports utility vehicles. If Geneva underlines any trend, it's the seemingly unstoppable growth in SUVs.
Audi, Seat, Skoda are among a string of manufacturers displaying new SUV products. Maserati's Levante is pitched at the top of the market, with the Porsche Cayenne in its sights.
It's a big diversion for the Italian sportscar firm, but it follows other luxury carmakers, including Jaguar and Bentley, into the SUV market.
"Maserati's Levante is an important model for the brand," says Mr Urquhart. "It is needed as a volume and profit generator, and to bolster the brand's credentials as a serious competitor to Porsche."
There are reports that Maserati is working on a plug-in hybrid engine, another example of how alternative technologies are moving up the industry's value chain.
In fact, "green tech" will be everywhere at Geneva.
Five years after a small Croatian company, Rimac, revealed its all-electric Concept One supercar, the firm is unveiling a production version. The car gets 1,073bhp from four electric motors, and a top speed of 221mph - making it the fastest electric car on the planet, Rimac claims.
At the other end of the design scale, the UK's boutique manufacturer Morgan is showing its EV3 electric three-wheeler. The technology was developed with the help of a £6m UK government grant. The car has a range of about 120 miles per charge, and with a price tag of £30,000.
Geneva will also see a big push of hydrogen technology. Honda is showing its Clarity Fuel Cell vehicle, Toyota its Mirai.
The fuel cell uses oxygen and hydrogen, producing electricity, heat and water vapour as by-products - and it clearly has big backers, but many people are sceptical that this will win out over rival technologies.
Just last week, Dieter Zetsche, boss of Daimler, which is working on battery electric and fuel cell cars, said that the former technology was likely to win out because charging technology and infrastructure was fast improving.
Of course, there will be plenty of more mainstream stuff at the show, including the launch of the fourth-generation Renault Scenic.
MPVs were the great sales success story of the 1990s, but the popularity waned with the rise of SUV and so-called crossover models.
Can the Scenic make us fall in love again with MPVs?
Amid all the supercar glamour and technological hype, it could well be that it is this latest variant of Renault's segment-leading family car that becomes the lasting sales success to come out of the show.
Cara Lee-Fanus, who was approaching her second birthday, was admitted to St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey, with serious injuries in May 2014.
She was transferred to St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, but died a day later.
Kirsty Lee, from Windsor, and Alistair Wayne Bowen, from Luton, are due at Guildford magistrates on 14 April.
A post-mortem examination found Cara died from a head injury.
Ms Lee, 25, of Grove Close, and Mr Bowen, 35, of Drayton Road, have both been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child and causing or allowing serious physical harm to a child.
East Northamptonshire District Council said a developer was due to submit an application to redevelop Rushden and Diamonds' Nene Park ground "in weeks".
But Max Griggs, who led the club to the Football League, said "a lot of money would need to be thrown at it" for a club to start at the site again.
The owner of the land has declined to comment on what is being proposed.
Rushden and Diamonds started in 1992 by the amalgamation of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds.
After building a state-of-the-art stadium in Irthlingborough, the club was half way up the third tier of football when Mr Griggs pulled out in 2005 for financial reasons.
The club was sold to a supporters' trust but it eventually folded in 2011. Shortly afterwards, Kettering Town played at the ground for 18 months but could not afford its long-term upkeep.
New club AFC Rushden and Diamonds now play in the United Counties Premier League at a ground in Wellingborough about five miles away.
Mr Griggs, who is retired, said he would not envy anyone who took on the 6,500-capacity stadium.
"I don't think anybody could run the stadium and resurrect the football club again unless they're prepared to throw a lot of money at it like I did," he said.
"It costs a lot of money to run a football club and whatever money you put into football, in my experience, you don't really get back. You're really paying for your fun at the end of the day."
Site owner Keith Cousins said he hoped football would return, but he had a number of options to consider and declined to comment further.
East Northamptonshire District Council said the site must contain a leisure facility as part of its remit, but has not specified further what that could be.
23 February 2016 Last updated at 15:44 GMT
Well tiny transmitters have been put under the skin of the slippery slugs to see where they go.
It's part of an experiment in Shropshire to help farmers stop the slugs eating their plants.
Hundreds of slugs have been tagged and their movements tracked to give the famers a better understanding of what they get up to at night.
See how it works.
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Sir David joined the BBC after serving in the Royal Navy from 1947 to 1949 and launched Zoo Quest in 1954.
A string of successful natural history programmes followed including Life On Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials Of Life, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth.
Cameraman Gavin Thurston, who has worked with Sir David for many years, described him as "an amazing man".
BBC Springwatch presenter Michaela Strachan said Sir David was the "god of wildlife programmes and presenters".
"He's up there and we are all really proud of him and have all been inspired by him," she said.
"And he is unbelievably intelligent, not just on wildlife but on many other subjects as well.
"I don't know anybody that doesn't like David Attenborough. I know lots of people that don't like us but everyone loves him."
Fellow presenter Chris Packham said: "He told us stories, that's the great thing."
CBBC wildlife star Steve Backshall said Sir David "completely transformed my view of the wild world".
The BBC has a special page celebrating Sir David's extraordinary career in natural history, including:
There will be a special programme on BBC One at 19:00 BST on Sunday in which he shares highlights of his life and career with broadcaster Kirsty Young.
The Natural History Museum tweeted: "Very happy birthday wishes to #SirDavidAttenborough! Many thanks for inspiring us all w/ your work."
The Zoological Society of London tweeted: "We want to wish the world's greatest ambassador for animals a very happy 90th birthday."
Wishing Sir David a happy birthday, BBC Three has him providing commentary to "nature's most curious species" - the human being.
The hashtag #Attenborough90 has been trending on Twitter.
Kat Hartwell Goose tweeted: "A guiding light and inspiration, I feel truly honoured to have met him, happy birthday!!"
Daniel Mueller said: "Happy Birthday David Attenborough. I had the pleasure of meeting the great man only a week ago."
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Three decades ago, it was referring to itself as part of the Muslim Brotherhood and laying out its aim to obliterate Israel, creating an Islamic state on "every inch" of historic Palestine.
In its 36 articles, the 1988 document often uses anti-Semitic rhetoric to describe its struggle as a confrontation between Muslims and Jews.
Now, after years of internal wrangling, Hamas has produced a new policy document, which softens some of its stated positions and uses more measured language.
There is nothing so dramatic as recognition of Israel.
In fact, Hamas restates the Palestinians' claim to all the land "from the River Jordan in the East to the Mediterranean Sea in the West".
However, the new document does formally accept the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - what are known as pre-1967 lines.
This idea has been the basis for previous rounds of peace talks with Israel.
At a press conference in Doha, where he lives in exile, the Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal also stressed a change in approach to the Jewish faith.
"Hamas believes our struggle is against the Zionist occupation, the Zionist enterprise. It's not a struggle against Jews or Judaism," he said.
The indications are that Hamas wants to improve its international standing.
It has dropped all references to the Muslim Brotherhood since Egypt and some Gulf Arab states decided to categorise the wider organisation as a terrorist group.
And yet, the new declarations will not see Hamas itself removed from the terrorist lists of the United States and the European Union any time soon.
They make clear that Hamas remains committed to what it calls "armed resistance" against Israel.
The Israeli prime minister's spokesman, David Keyes dismissed the new Hamas document.
"When you look at what they tell their own people on Hamas's TV stations, in their mosques, in their schools, they are calling on a daily basis to destroy Israel," he said.
There has been speculation that Hamas is seeking entry to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), an umbrella group for Palestinian political factions.
Its original charter states that on the day the PLO "adopts Islam as its way of life, we will become its soldiers."
Now, the body - headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - is described as "a national framework for the Palestinian people inside and outside of Palestine".
That shift could play well with many Palestinians - keen to see an end to the damaging division between their main political factions, Hamas and Fatah.
However, Fatah spokesman, Osama al-Qawasmi, criticised Hamas for not altering its stance earlier.
"Hamas should apologise to the PLO after 30 years accusing it of treachery and blasphemy and for causing a sharp split between the Palestinian people," he said.
Tensions have recently increased between Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority governing parts of the West Bank, and Hamas, which controls Gaza.
Hamas took over Gaza by force in 2007, a year after it won legislative elections.
The more moderate tone from Mr Meshaal comes as he is about to step down as leader of Hamas after serving two terms.
Some analysts suggest he hopes to alleviate the economic pressure in Gaza, which has long seen tight border restrictions imposed by Israel and Egypt.
This new document also comes as his political rival Mahmoud Abbas prepares to meet US President Donald Trump this week.
While Hamas officially criticises his diplomatic efforts, it may not want to be marginalised if the moribund peace process is revived.
Lyle Taylor's first league goal since the opening day of the season had put AFC Wimbledon ahead, only for Black to level matters after the break, with Shrewsbury holding on despite Toney receiving two yellow cards.
The Dons began sharply and led after six minutes when Taylor battled to win a corner, before losing his marker to meet a low delivery with a fierce shot past Jayson Leutwiler.
Shrewsbury ought to have been level after 10 minutes when Toney spurned a fantastic chance, ballooning his header from Junior Brown's cross well over.
The visitors rarely threatened after that but they equalised within 90 seconds of the restart when Black was given space to fire beyond James Shea from 25 yards.
Shea then kept out Shaun Whalley's long-range effort, before Leutwiler made a fantastic save of his own from Dom Poleon from two yards.
Shrewsbury were reduced to 10 men when Toney was shown a senseless second yellow in the 82nd minute, but Wimbledon could not make their advantage count.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Shrewsbury Town 1.
Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Shrewsbury Town 1.
Attempt saved. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Adam El-Abd (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt saved. Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Oliver Lancashire (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Oliver Lancashire (Shrewsbury Town).
Andy Barcham (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antoni Sarcevic (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Barry Fuller (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt blocked. Chris Whelpdale (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Second yellow card to Ivan Toney (Shrewsbury Town) for a bad foul.
Foul by Ivan Toney (Shrewsbury Town).
(AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Oliver Lancashire replaces Joe Riley because of an injury.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Chris Whelpdale replaces Lyle Taylor.
Ivan Toney (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon).
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Ivan Toney.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Junior Brown.
Attempt blocked. Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Antoni Sarcevic (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon).
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Tyrone Barnett replaces Dean Parrett.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Andy Barcham replaces Tom Elliott.
Attempt saved. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Joe Riley (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon).
Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon).
Antoni Sarcevic (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon).
Ryan McGivern (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon).
Adam El-Abd (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon).
Ian Black (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mae pedwar o bobl wedi marw yn yr ymosodiad a 40 wedi eu hanafu.
Mae tri o'r rhai sydd wedi eu hanafu yn blismyn a dau mewn cyflwr difrifol.
Mae heddlu Llundain yn credu eu bod nhw'n gwybod pwy oedd yr ymosodwr ac yn dweud ei fod wedi cael ei ysbrydoli gan derfysgaeth Islamaidd ryngwladol.
Mae wyth o bobl wedi eu harestio mewn cysylltiad gyda'r ymosodiad.
Mewn datganiad ger bron Tŷ'r Cyffredin fore Iau dywedodd y prif weinidog Theresa May fod yr ymosodwr, oedd wedi ei eni ym Mhrydain, wedi gweithredu ar ben ei hun.
Ychwanegodd fod yr heddlu a'r gwasanaethau cudd yn adnabod y dyn.
Rhai blynyddoedd yn ôl, meddai Mrs May, roedd yr M15 wedi cynnal ymchwilaid oherwydd pryderon am eithafiaeth treisgar, ond gwnaed y penderfynaid fod y dyn yn "ffigwr ar yr ymylon" ac nad oedd yn rhan o'r darlun cyfoes sydd wedi ei lunio gan y gwasanaetahu cudd.
Wedi'r ymosodiad yn Llundain, mae darlithydd yn adran astudiaethau amddiffyn Coleg King's wedi dweud bod y math yma o ymosodiad yn "anodd ei ragweld".
Dywedodd Bleddyn Bowen ar y Post Cyntaf: "Y math yma o ymosodiad yw'r peth anoddaf i'w ragweld ac i'w atal achos mae pawb yn gallu cael car a chael gafael ar gyllell, felly mae'r math yma o ymosodiad yn anodd iawn i'r asiantaethau diogelwch a gwybodaeth i'w ragweld..."
"Does dim ateb clir i'r math yma o ymosodiadau, tu hwnt i system lywodraethol fwy totalitaraidd, neu atal pobl rhag gyrru ceir ble mae lot o bobl ar bafin."
Ymhlith y rhai a gafodd eu lladd yn Llundain oedd plismon, y Cwnstabl Keith Palmer, a oedd yn gwarchod y Senedd. Cafodd y dyn 48 oed ei drywanu gan yr ymosodwr.
Cafodd yr ymosodwr ei saethu'n farw.
Cyn yr ymosodiad ar y plismon fe wnaeth yr ymosodwr yrru ei gar at gerddwyr oedd yn croesi Pont San Steffan.
Ar y Post Cyntaf, dywedodd yr AS Liz Saville Roberts bod teimlad o "agosatrwydd" yn Llundain.
"Mae 'na awyrgylch yma, pobl yn edrych ar ei gilydd, rhyw deimlad os rhywbeth o agosatrwydd, ond deall hefyd," meddai.
Bydd Tŷ'r Cyffredin a Thŷ'r Arglwyddi yn gweithio yn ôl eu harfer ddydd Iau.
Dyna hefyd fydd hanes y Senedd ym Mae Caerdydd, ar ôl i weithgareddau yno gael eu hatal ddydd Mercher yn dilyn digwyddiadau Llundain.
Ond fe fydd yna fwy o heddlu gan gynnwys heddlu arfog ar ddyletswydd yng nghyffiniau'r Cynulliad Cenedlaethol.
Cafodd munud o dawelwch ei gynnal ar draws Whitehall yn Llundain, yn Scotland Yard ac yn y senedd ym Mae Caerdydd fore Iau.
Under a two-year scheme, firms with fewer than 250 staff will get subsidies if they take on a young or unemployed person for six months or more.
In addition, about 500,000 vocational training schemes will be created.
France's unemployment rate is 10.6%, against a European Union average of 9.8% and 4.2% in Germany.
Mr Hollande said money for the plan would come from savings in other areas of public spending.
"These €2bn will be financed without any new taxes of any kind," said President Hollande, who announced the details during an annual speech to business leaders.
"Our country has been faced with structural unemployment for two to three decades and this requires that creating jobs becomes our one and only fight."
France was facing an "uncertain economic climate and persistent unemployment" and there was an "economic and social emergency", he said.
The president said recently that the country's social emergency, caused by unemployment, was as serious as the emergency caused by terrorism.
He called on his audience to help "build the economic and social model for tomorrow".
The president also addressed the issue of labour market flexibility.
"Regarding the rules for hiring and laying off, we need to guarantee stability and predictability to both employers and employees. There is room for simplification," he said.
"The goal is also more security for the company to hire, to adapt its workforce when economic circumstances require, but also more security for the employee in the face of change and mobility".
However, the BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield said there was widespread scepticism that the plan would have any lasting impact.
"Despite regular announcements of plans, pacts and promises, the number of those out of work continues to rise in France.
"With a little over a year until the presidential election in which he hopes to stand for a second term, President Hollande desperately needs good news on the jobs front. But given the huge gap so far between his words and his achievements, there is little expectation that this new plan will bear fruit in time", our correspondent said.
The point to extend the Robins' unbeaten run to four games leaves them 22nd in the table, but moves them to within two points of safety after Bury were beaten by Rochdale on Thursday.
Wimbledon's Tom Soares could have seen red in the 24th minute after his high boot forced John Goddard off the pitch with blood pouring from his head.
The Dons should have taken the lead in the 30th minute when Tyrone Barnett was gifted a chance but he scuffed his effort into the hands of Lawrence Vigouroux.
Goddard returned shortly afterwards and almost gave the home side the lead when his curling shot from outside the area forced Joe McDonnell into a fingertip save.
Swindon's Bradley Barry tried his luck from long range in the 77th minute, but his stinging shot went just over the crossbar.
Jake Reeves almost won it in the final moments for the Dons when he broke free on goal but he fired his effort straight at Vigouroux.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Swindon Town 0, AFC Wimbledon 0.
Second Half ends, Swindon Town 0, AFC Wimbledon 0.
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon).
Bradley Barry (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt missed. Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Lawrence Vigouroux.
Attempt saved. Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Alfie Egan replaces George Francomb.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Bradley Barry.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Paul Robinson.
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon).
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Dean Parrett replaces Tom Soares.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Andy Barcham replaces Tyrone Barnett.
Attempt blocked. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Fankaty Dabo (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon).
Attempt missed. Bradley Barry (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon).
Substitution, Swindon Town. Luke Norris replaces Charlie Colkett.
Foul by Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town).
Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Hand ball by Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town).
Bradley Barry (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon).
Foul by Rohan Ince (Swindon Town).
Darius Charles (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Ben Gladwin.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Dion Conroy.
Attempt blocked. Tyrone Barnett (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Dion Conroy.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Swindon Town. Ben Gladwin replaces John Goddard.
Delay in match Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) because of an injury.
Foul by Rohan Ince (Swindon Town).
Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
6 November 2015 Last updated at 03:16 GMT
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Nottinghamshire began on 89-4 but added just 101 runs to their overnight score, with Samit Patel (46) top-scoring as the hosts' bowlers shared the wickets.
Set 401 runs to win, Marcus Trescothick (65) and Tom Abell (72) made a perfect start with a 129-run partnership.
Johann Myburgh added 56 before Notts recovered to leave Somerset 274-5 at stumps, requiring another 127 to win.
Somerset began the day on the front foot as Tim Groenewald (3-65) trapped the dangerous Riki Wessels lbw in the first over.
Luke Wood was then bowled by Alfonso Thomas (2-43) to leave the visitors reeling on 95-6 and give Somerset hope that they could set up an attainable victory target.
Will Gidman (22) and Patel moved the score along, but Gidman was caught and bowled by Groenewald before Patel was caught at point off the bowling of Abdur Rehman (2-60) and the tail soon followed to leave Somerset five sessions to make 401 runs.
Trescothick and Abell set about their sizeable task with positive intent, with the Somerset captain reaching his third Championship half-century of the season from 79 balls before he was caught and bowled by Patel.
Gidman (2-29) then took two crucial wickets in quick succession, having Abell and the in-form James Hildreth caught at short extra cover to leave the score at 201-3.
Matthew Carter (2-95) had both Tom Cooper and Myburgh caught to reach nine wickets for the match, but Jim Allenby (32 not out) and Peter Trego (26 not out) reached the close untroubled to leave both sides hopeful of a victory going into the final day.
Somerset coach Matt Maynard:
"It would have been nice had we have lost one or two fewer wickets, but we are still in a position where if we can get a couple of partnerships together, it is going to be a very tight finish.
"We know the new ball is around the corner, but if Trego and Allenby can develop their partnership and see off 10 or 15 overs of the new ball, it's going to be very exciting.
"I think we have done brilliantly to get ourselves back into this position in the first place. We were 200 runs adrift on the first innings, but to have bowled and fielded like we did is very encouraging."
Nottinghamshire all-rounder Will Gidman:
"The game is certainly in the balance and it's shaping up to be a fantastic last day.
"It's very clichéd, but I think the first half-hour to 45 minutes is going to be vital. Whoever wins that will be in a very strong position.
"The first innings was all about Matthew Carter but they have dealt with him a lot better and as a result, they are a lot better off in terms of the game position."
Coach Erik Hamren looks set to stick with Marcus Berg up front, ahead of fellow misfiring forward John Guidetti, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic's strike partner.
Belgium midfielder Mousa Dembele is unlikely to be risked after suffering an ankle injury against the Republic of Ireland, so Radja Nainggolan may start.
Defensive duo Jan Vertonghen and Thomas Vermaelen will both start the game a booking away from a suspension.
Belgium only need a point against Sweden to secure qualification as runners-up. They would go out if they lose and the Republic of Ireland win.
Sweden will qualify as runners-up if they win - as long as the Republic of Ireland don't beat Italy by at least three goals.
If Sweden and Ireland both claim victories and the Irish win by at least a three-goal margin it becomes possible for Sweden to drop to third - but four points would guarantee they qualify as one of the best third-placed sides.
Defeat would eliminate Sweden - as would a draw coupled with an Ireland win. If Sweden end third on two points they are unlikely to go through as one of the best third-placed teams.
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It's a tale of two strikers in Nice. Romelu Lukaku put a disappointing outing in Belgium's opener behind him with a two-goal display against the Republic of Ireland. Meanwhile Swedish star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is yet to score at Euro 2016 and is goalless in his last four games for Sweden.
The 34-year-old will retire from international football after the tournament and is still hoping to bow out in style. "To finish with a disappointment - never," he said on Tuesday.
Lukaku's goals were vindication for Belgium coach Marc Wilmots, who opted to stand by the forward despite calls for him to be dropped after their opening game defeat.
The situation could not be more different for Ibrahimovic. The Swede entered the tournament to much fanfare, yet he is still to test an opposition goalkeeper as indeed are any of his team-mates. Sweden are the only country yet to have a shot on target.
Head-to-head
Sweden
Belgium
16th century - Spanish colonisation of the River Plate coast and inland areas begins.
1776 - Spain establishes separate Viceroyalty of the River Plate.
1810 - Viceroy overthrown, launching the war of independence.
1816 - Independence declared, followed by decades of turmoil, attempted foreign intervention, and civil war between centralist and federalist forces.
1861 - State of Buenos Aires finally reintegrated with Argentine Confederation after Battle of Pavon to form a united country.
1880 - Start of decades of liberal economic and immigration policies that lead to rapid income and population growth and progressive education and social policies.
Evita: 50 years as a symbol
Witness: Peron returns
1908 - Argentina has seventh highest per capita income in the world.
1912 - Full adult male suffrage introduced.
1916 - Hipolito Yrigoyen of the Radical party is elected president and introduces a minimum wage to counter the effects of inflation. Yrigoyen is elected again in 1928.
1930 - Armed forces coup ousts Yrigoyen amid sharp economic downturn caused by Great Depression. Civilian rule is restored in 1932, but economic decline continues.
1942 - Argentina, along with Chile, refuses to break diplomatic relations with Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour.
1943 - Nationalist army officers seize power in protest at stagnation and electoral fraud. One leading figures is Colonel Juan Peron.
1945 - Argentina declares war on Japan and Germany.
The Peron era
1946 - Juan Peron wins presidential election on a promise of higher wages and social security. His wife, Eva 'Evita' Peron is put in charge of labour relations.
1949 - A new constitution strengthens the power of the president. Congress passes legislation providing jail terms for anyone showing disrespect to the government. Regime opponents are imprisoned, independent newspapers are suppressed.
1951 - Peron is re-elected with a huge majority.
1952 - Evita dies of cancer. Peron's support begins to decline.
1955 September - Military coup succeeds after three days of fighting, during which thousands are killed. Peron resigns and goes into exile. The federal constitution of 1853, based on that of the United States, is restored.
1966 - General Juan Carlos Ongania seizes power after years of unstable civilian government.
1973 - The Peronist party wins elections in March, Peron becomes president in September.
1974 - Peron dies in July. His third wife, Isabel, succeeds him. Terrorism from right and left escalates, leaving hundreds dead amid strikes, protests and rampant inflation.
1976 - Armed forces seize power and launch 'Dirty War' in which thousands are killed on suspicion of left-wing sympathies.
The Falklands War
On This Day 1982: Argentina invades Falklands
Falklands War anniversary
Falkland Islands profile
1982 April - Argentine forces occupy the British Falkland Islands, over which Argentina has long claimed sovereignty. British task force re-takes islands in June.
1983 - Junta, reeling from Falklands fiasco, restores democracy. Raul Alfonsin becomes president. Argentina begins to investigate the 'Dirty War' and charge former military leaders with human rights abuses. Inflation is running at more than 900%.
1989 - Carlos Menem of the Peronist party is elected president. He imposes an economic austerity programme.
1990 - Full diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom are restored, although Argentina maintains claim to Falklands.
1992 - Argentina introduces a new currency, the peso, which is pegged to the US dollar. A bomb is placed in the Israeli embassy, 29 people are killed.
1994 - A Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires is bombed. 86 people are killed and more than 200 injured in Argentina's worst terrorist atrocity. Over subsequent decades of investigations, prosecutors allege Iranian involvement.
1996 - Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo is dismissed. Economic hardship leads to a general strike in September.
1997 - A judge in Spain issues orders for the arrest of former Argentine military officers on charges of participating in the kidnapping and killing of Spanish citizens during the 'Dirty War'. Argentine amnesty laws protect the accused.
Recession bites
1998 - Argentine judges order arrests in connection with the abduction of hundreds of babies from women detained during the 'Dirty War'.
1999 - Fernando de la Rua of the centre-left Alianza opposition coalition wins the presidency, inherits 114 billion-dollar public debt after a year of recession.
2000 - Strikes and fuel tax protests. Beef exports slump after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Soya exports suffer from concerns over the use of genetically modified varieties. The IMF grants Argentina an aid package of nearly 40 billion dollars.
2001 March - President de la Rua forms a government of national unity and appoints three finance ministers in as many weeks as cabinet resignations and protests greet planned austerity measures.
2001 July - Much of the country is brought to a standstill by a general strike in protest against proposed government spending cuts. Country's credit ratings slip.
Return of the Peronists
2001 October - The opposition Peronists take control of both houses of parliament in congressional elections.
Unemployed protesters took to the streets of Buenos Aires
The day Argentina hit rock bottom
Fresh hope after Argentine crisis
2001 December - IMF stops $1.3bn in aid, banks shut down. President De la Rua resigns after at least 25 people die in rioting.
2002 1 January - Congress elects Peronist Senator Eduardo Duhalde as caretaker president. Within days the government devalues the peso, ending 10 years of parity with the US dollar.
2002 November - Argentina defaults on an $800m debt repayment to the World Bank, having failed to re-secure IMF aid. The World Bank says it will not consider new loans for the country.
Kirchner sworn in
2003 May - Mainstream Peronist candidate Nestor Kirchner wins presidential election.
Cristina Fernandez succeeded husband Nestor Kirchner as president
Obituary: Nestor Kirchner
2003 September - After weeks of negotiations Argentina and IMF agree on debt-refinancing deal under which Buenos Aires will only pay interest on its loans.
2005 March - President Kirchner declares the restructuring of the country's debt to be a success. Argentina offered to exchange more than $100bn in defaulted bonds.
2005 June - Supreme Court approves repeal of amnesty law that had protected former military officers suspected of human rights abuses during military rule in 1976-1983. Congress voted to scrap the amnesty in 2003.
2006 January - Argentina repays its multi-billion-dollar debt to the IMF.
Fernandez elected
2007 October - Former Roman Catholic police chaplain Christian Von Wernich is convicted of collaborating in the murder and torture of prisoners during the 'Dirty War'.
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected president, succeeding her husband Nestor Kirchner in the December.
2008 July - President Fernandez cancels controversial tax increases on agricultural exports which sparked months of protests by farmers.
2008 August - Two former generals are sentenced to life imprisonment for their actions during the period of Argentina's military rule - known as the Dirty War - during the 1970s and 1980s.
2008 November - Lower house of parliament approves government's controversial plan to nationalise pension funds. President Fernandez says the move is necessary to protect pensioners' assets during the global financial crisis.
2009 July - Legislative elections result in President Fernandez's Peronist party losing its absolute majorities in both houses of parliament.
Row with UK
2009 April - Argentina hands documents to UN formally laying claim to a vast expanse of the ocean, as far as the Antarctic and including British island chains.
2009 December - Argentine parliament passes law claiming Falkland Islands and several other British overseas territories in the area.
Tango evolved in Buenos Aires, became a worldwide craze
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2010 February - Argentina imposes new controls on ships passing through its waters to Falkland Islands in response to plans by a British company to drill for oil near the islands.
2010 June - Argentina's creditors agree to new debt swap deal worth around $12bn. Under the new agreement, two thirds of the country's outstanding bad debt will be exchanged for new bonds.
2010 December - Exploration firm says it fails to find oil at Falkland Islands.
Former military ruler General Jorge Videla is sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
2011 October - Benefiting from strong economic growth, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wins a second term with a landslide 54% of the vote.
Former naval officer Alfredo Astiz and 11 other former members of the security forces are given life sentences for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-83 period of military rule.
2011 December - As the 30th anniversary of Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands approaches, tensions with Britain increase after Buenos Aires persuades members of the South American trading bloc Mercosur to close their ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag.
2012 May - The European Union files a suit against Argentina's import restrictions at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a row over Argentina's nationalisation of energy company YPF, which was majority owned by Spain's Repsol.
2012 July - Two former junta leaders found guilty of overseeing the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners during 1976-1983 dictatorship. Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone sentenced to 50 and 15 years in prison respectively. Trial follows years of campaigning by rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which says 500 children stolen and raised by families close to the regime.
2012 September - The International Monetary Fund warns Argentina it could face sanctions unless it produces reliable growth and inflation data by mid-December. Economists say annual inflation in Argentina is running at 24%, much higher than the official 10% figure.
2012 November - Congress approves a law to lower the voting age to 16. The government says it is an extension of democracy that will enfranchise more than a million young voters. President Fernandez is courting the youth vote, and critics say the change is designed to boost her party's chances in the key mid-term congressional elections in 2013.
2013 January - Argentina and Iran agree to set up a joint commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, despite Argentine courts having blamed Iran for the attack in which 85 people died.
2013 February - Argentina becomes the first country to be censured by the International Monetary Fund for not providing accurate data on inflation and economic growth, under a procedure that can end in expulsion.
2013 March - Falkland Islanders vote overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a British overseas territory.
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires is chosen as Pope. He is the first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, and takes the name of Francis.
2013 November - President Fernandez appoints leftwingers to run the cabinet, economy, agriculture and central bank in a move to strengthen state intervention in the economy. Government reaches deal with Spanish energy company Repsol to pay compensation for the YPF firm nationalised in 2012.
2014 July - Argentina defaults on its international debt for the second time in 13 years, after failing to resolve its differences with US hedge funds that hold 1.3bn dollars worth of bonds, bought at a discount after the country last defaulted.
2014 September - Congress approves a bill to restructure the country's debt and sidestep a recent US court ruling that caused Argentina to default.
2014 October - Court gives life sentences to fifteen people for their involvement in the running of a detention and torture centre in the city of La Plata during military rule in the 1970s
2014 December - Reynaldo Bignone, Argentina's last military ruler already in jail for crimes against humanity, is sentenced for the theft of babies born during the years of dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s.
2015 January - Prominent prosecutor Alberto Nisman is found dead in mysterious circumstances, after accusing the government of a cover-up over the country's worst terrorist attack - the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead.
President Fernandez announces plans to dissolve the country's intelligence agency, and suggests that rogue agents were involved in Mr Nisman's death.
2015 February - Judge dismisses Prosecutor Nisman's case against President Fernandez for lack of evidence.
2015 November - Conservative Mayor of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri beats Peronist Daniel Scioli in run-off presidential election, takes office in December.
2016 February - Argentina agrees to settle multi-billion-dollar dispute with US hedge funds over bond repayments, which had restricted the country's access to international credit markets.
The 19-year-old played just 11 times for Ligue 2 club Lens but has also represented Belgium at Under-16, Under-17, Under-18 and Under-19 levels.
He follows Eden, 21, who joined Chelsea for a reported £32m from Lille in June.
Thorgan will train with Chelsea's under-21 squad in pre-season but a loan move would be considered, according to the club's official website.
Meanwhile, striker Fernando Torres expects the Blues to challenge for the Premier League title this season.
Torres, 28, told his personal website, www.fernando9torres.com: "I would love to win a Premier League.
"Hopefully it will happen this year, but for sure we will be challenging for it."
Nemesis, a heavily-modified Lotus Exige body, will be driven by estate agent Nick Ponting, 21, from Gloucester.
Dale Vince said he had built the car to "smash the stereotype of electric cars as something Noddy would drive - slow, boring, not cool".
The record attempt is due to be made at Elvington Airfield, near York, on 27 September.
Nemesis was designed and built in under two years by a team of British motorsport engineers in Norfolk.
It can travel from 100-150 miles between charges, depending on driving style, and can be charged from empty in about 30 minutes using a rapid-charger.
The team believes theoretically the motors are capable of about 200mph but "real world" constraints like aerodynamic lift have to be addressed before the attempt.
Mr Vince, who runs the electricity company Ecotricity, said he was quietly confident the team would break the record.
The current record of 137mph (220km/h) was set by Don Wales, from Addlestone, Surrey, in 2000.
A separate attempt to beat the record last August was thwarted after the vehicle's suspension was damaged by a pothole.
The Bluebird Electric was being driven along Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire by Mr Wales's son Joe, who suffered mild whiplash as a result.
It had previously removed the image, posted by a Norwegian author, on the grounds that it contained nudity.
The move sparked a debate about Facebook's role as an editor.
The editor of Norway's largest newspaper had written an open letter to Facebook's chief Mark Zuckerberg calling the ban "an abuse of power".
The tech giant said it had "listened to the community" and acknowledged the "global importance" of the photo.
"Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance, the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed," it said in a statement.
"It will take some time to adjust these systems but the photo should be available for sharing in the coming days.
"We are always looking to improve our policies to make sure they both promote free expression and keep our community safe."
The Norwegian prime minister - who had earlier posted a copy of the photo on Facebook herself only to see it removed - welcomed the U-turn.
"That's very good, I'm a happy prime minister," Erna Solberg told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight programme.
"It shows that using social media can make [a] political change even in social media."
Tom Egeland, the author whose Facebook account had been suspended over the affair, also expressed his pleasure.
"Now I'm happy!" he tweeted.
"This does not alter at all the difficult issues that involve Facebook and the Norwegian media. But tonight I'm just happy."
But Espen Egil Hansen - the editor of Aftenposten, who had brought the issue to prominence - said he still had concerns.
"When it comes to this photo specifically I would say that it was a sensible decision by Facebook. That's what we editors have to do sometimes - realise that we made a mistake and change our minds," he wrote in Norwegian on the newspaper's site.
"But the main point of my article, and the point that I have asked Mark Zuckerberg to engage in, is the debate about Facebook's power that results from so much information going through its channels. And that still stands.
"He should begin to take part in this discussion, for there are no simple solutions. Facebook must recognise that it has become an information filter - and that raises problematic issues."
Last month, Mr Zuckerberg told an Italian audience that he did not want his firm to become a news editor.
"No, we are a tech company, not a media company," he said.
"The world needs news companies, but also technology platforms, like what we do, and we take our role in this very seriously."
The Welsh 400m hurdler, 32, met the Olympic qualifying time in May, but failed to win automatic Rio selection at the British Championships.
Williams failed in his appeal, which he said was "a bitter pill to swallow".
"Sport requires so much dedication... It's whether I've still got that drive and motivation," he told Newyddion 9.
The 2012 European 400m hurdle champion said, at the moment, his love for the sport is not there, but added: "hopefully in the coming weeks it will be.
"I'm not going to make any rash decisions because I want to see Wales, off the back of this Olympics, springboard into the Commonwealth Games... and I've always wanted to be one of the main Welsh athletes there."
Asked if athletics fans would see him at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, the 2012 Olympian replied: "I hope so, we'll see."
Williams was left out of the Team GB squad for Rio after missing out on a place in the top two at the British Championships in June and finishing fifth at the European Championships in July.
The British Athletics selection panel did not feel that he would win a medal in Rio or at a future Olympic Games.
Williams, who received a four-month ban for doping in 2014 and missed that year's Commonwealth Games, admitted watching the Olympics from home "has been tough".
"When you've just fallen short over a selector not thinking you're quite good enough, even though you're much better than some of the athletes they've taken, it's a bitter pill to swallow.
"But that's life, that's sport and you've just got to get on with it.
"I really wanted to almost end my athletics career on a high, and I almost did that and I just fell short."
Seren Bundy-Davies was the only Welsh track and field athlete named in Great Britain's team for the Olympics.
It means Wales has just one athletics competitor at an Olympics for the first time since the 1952 Helsinki Games.
Williams fears Wales might struggle to send a larger athletics contingent to future Games unless more talent starts coming through the system.
"Sport is up and down and Welsh Athletics have got actually a great system in place and a great head coach.
"What they haven't got is enough athletes coming through, they get lost to rugby, football, hockey, [and] netball so until that's sorted, it's not going to change much."
US Governor Sam Brownback signed the law on Thursday, saying it would encourage people to get back to work.
Other states prevent welfare recipients from buying alcohol and cigarettes with government aid.
But the revised Kansas list appears to be the most extensive in the US.
Senate Minority Leader Democrat Anthony Hensley called it "a punitive and highly judgmental piece of legislation" while national commentators such as The Daily Show's Jon Stewart have ridiculed the law.
But other critics question whether such restrictions can be enforced.
Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of the advocacy group Kansas Action for Children, said the list had attracted national attention because "it feels mean-spirited."
"It really seems to make a statement about how we feel about the poor," she said.
The walk-in service is aimed at reducing doctor appointments and to help reduce the over-use of antibiotics, NHS England said.
It is hoped the scheme could result in fewer visits to GPs -potentially saving the NHS millions of pounds a year.
But pharmacies say cuts in funding to the sector could jeopardise the scheme.
The Sore Throat Test and Treat service, which has been trialled in 35 Boots pharmacies, will determine if an illness is caused by a virus - meaning drugs will not help - or a bacterial infection.
Results from a throat swab, which measures sugars on the tongue, are provided in five minutes. Patients who can be helped by antibiotics will be prescribed them by the pharmacist and not have to see a GP.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens said the scheme will be rolled out across the country over the coming year.
Dr Adam Roberts, a microbiologist at University College London specialising in antibiotic resistance, told the BBC it was "quite an innovative step".
He said: "Anything that reduces our reliance and our inappropriate use of antibiotics is a good thing.
"The initial data they showed using this kit showed that of around 360 individuals that took part only 36 were given a prescription, which is a massive reduction."
Claire Ward, chairwoman of Pharmacy Voice, which represents the trade, welcomed the roll-out and said it was the "kind of thing community pharmacies should be undertaking".
But she warned that cuts to services could prevent the scheme from working.
In October, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee told the BBC that the government had drawn up proposals to cut funding by 12% from December. The Department of Health said no final decision had been made.
The throat test is one of eight medical innovations being introduced to help the NHS modernise in the face of increasing demand.
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's national medical director, said "innovation is not an option but a necessity if we are to build a sustainable NHS".
"The innovations selected for this programme have the potential to deliver better value for the taxpayer whilst making patient interactions with the NHS safer and more personal," he said.
Police in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire will instead form a "strategic alliance" to coordinate their work.
A spokesman for the Unison union said the decision was "good news for our members and the public".
A full alliance, which was "not a merger", could be in place by 2020.
A police spokesman from Northamptonshire said "a decision was made not to progress any further work by G4S across the three forces in this area".
Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner Sir Clive Loader said: "We'd prefer to be the masters of our own destiny."
A spokesman for the three forces said: "On 3 November, we announced that G4S had been asked to carry out a feasibility study into contact management.
"We are grateful to G4S for providing their report but although we have identified an urgent need to explore options... we can confirm at this early stage that this will not include outsourcing.
G4S spokesman John Shaw said the firm was "disappointed" that a deal had not been agreed.
"We firmly believe that we can help police forces unlock resources in their support functions to release money for front-line policing and keep more officers on the beat."
A joint statement from the three forces' police and crime commissioners said: "To be quite clear, the alliance is not a merger.
"It is all about protecting the quality of local policing services in each force area as a result of maximising efficiencies ... and each force will retain its own identity."
Leicestershire Police Unison branch secretary Chris Hanrahan said the union will be looking to meet chief police officers early next year to discuss the three-force alliance.
United midfielder Fellaini appeared to catch Can with an arm during Thursday's first leg at Anfield and could face retrospective punishment from Uefa.
But 22-year-old Can said: "Fellaini is a fair sportsman. He touched my throat with his elbow but it is OK.
"It was just a small fight. It was not a boxing ring punch."
Spanish referee Carlos Velasco Carballo produced six bookings in the game, but did not produce a card for Belgian midfielder Fellaini for the clash with Can.
Liverpool dominated Thursday's game and won it through a Daniel Sturridge penalty and second-half goal from Roberto Firmino.
The home side could have had a bigger lead to take to Old Trafford for next Thursday's second leg were it not for United keeper David De Gea, who made a number of good saves.
"De Gea is a very good goalkeeper but we created chances, played well and scored two goals," added Can.
"It was incredible, a very good score for the second leg and we have to keep going like that."
Sarah Beadle, 38, had left the girls "in a safe location while she went ahead to get water and some help", Scott Beadle wrote online.
Park rangers suspect the emergency room physician became lost and died from heat exhaustion on the Arizona trail.
Other hikers found the girls in good condition and brought them to camp.
Mrs Beadle's daughter had been "feeling dizzy from heat exhaustion and they had run out of water", her husband said, explaining why she had set out alone.
"Somewhere along the trail she made a wrong turn and got lost. The park rangers suspect she died of heat exhaustion."
"Sarah loved travelling with her family and sharing so many wonderful experiences with all of us," Mr Beadle wrote on Facebook.
The National Park Service confirmed that a woman's body was found on Wednesday less than a mile from the Phantom Ranch along the South Kaibab Trail.
She had been hiking on one of two trails which hikers can take to trek to the bottom of the 6,000ft deep (1,800m) canyon.
But Kirby Shedlowski of the National Parks Service told WFAA-TV that although the South Kaibab trail is shorter, "that trail has limited shade and no water accessibility on it".
Rescuers, who had been searching since 1 August, found her backpack near the junction of the South Kaibab Trail and River Trail, officials said.
The Baylor Emergency Medical Center of Keller in Fort Worth, Texas, where she worked as an emergency physician, said that she "was a beloved member of our team and she'll be missed by all with whom she came in contact, having worked at the medical centre for a year and a half".
The National Park Service and the Coconino County Medical Examiner in Arizona are conducting an investigation.
Officers say every year they receive complaints about callers who post flyers offering services such as household repairs or garden clearance.
They warn that these traders often use misleading or intimidating practices to obtain large amounts of money.
Vulnerable consumers, particularly the elderly, are most often targeted.
The guidance issued by Moray trading standards advises householders to never agree to employ a trader who cold calls at their home.
It warned: "Doorstep sellers are often trained in pressure sales techniques and they can be very persuasive. The best protection course of action is to say, 'No thank you' and close the door.
"Common complaints include poor quality of work, quoting a low initial price which goes up significantly because of 'extra work' needed, or exaggerating the risks that consumers face if they do not get repairs carried out.
"Householders who think that work is needed to their property should get quotes from two or three traders or ask someone trustworthy for a recommendation."
The organisation also appealed to the public to report any suspected rogue traders.
The guidance said: "Many instances of doorstep crime remain unreported because victims are embarrassed, they don't know who to report it to, or they do not even realise they have been the victim of a crime."
And now Tom Hiddleston is stepping up to the challenge.
The Thor and Night Manager star will lead the cast for a fundraiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
The London production will be directed by Rada president Sir Kenneth Branagh and will also star Born to Kill actress Lolita Chakrabarti as Gertrude.
Branagh directed Hiddleston in his breakthrough movie, Thor.
Hiddleston said the role offered "almost limitless possibilities for interpretation".
"I can't wait to explore them, with this great cast, at Rada. Kenneth Branagh and I have long talked about working on the play together, and now felt like the right time, at the right place," he said.
The production is a joint one between Branagh's theatre company and Rada. It will run from 1 to 23 September at Rada's Jerwood Vanbrugh theatre in London.
Tickets will be available through a ballot, which is open from 12:00 BST on Tuesday 1 August. The online ballot will close at 18:00 on Sunday 6 August, while people can enter by phone until 17:00 on Saturday 5 August.
All proceeds will go towards Rada's Attenborough campaign, which is aiming to raise £20m to upgrade one of its main London sites and to provide Rada with its first on-site student accommodation.
Hiddleston added: "The performing arts exist to bring people together, not to break or keep them apart.
"I hope the funds raised by the production will help Rada continue to provide a wider field of equal opportunity to train actors, stage managers and technical theatre artists, from every background, to a standard of excellence and professionalism. We need to keep the doors open for everyone."
Branagh pulled out of directing Jude Law in Hamlet several years ago, reportedly because he was tied up in preparation for directing Thor.
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The mid-cap index rose 34.9 points, or 0.2%, to 19,264.6 with Tullow Oil the biggest gainer, up 5.7%.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index ended the day flat, reflecting broadly flat European markets.
It was down less than 1 point at 7,348.9 despite strong showings from retailers.
Tesco rose 2.4% after a court approved a deal between Britain's biggest supermarket chain and the Serious Fraud Office to settle an investigation over a 2014 accounting fraud.
Primark owner ABF and Marks & Spencer also gained, climbing 3.8% and 2.5% respectively.
Miner BHP Billiton did well after one of its shareholders pressured it to adopt a restructuring plan.
The mining giant's shares rose by more than 5% before closing up 2.3% after hedge fund Elliott Advisors said it had sent the plan to the firm's directors.
It would involve demerging BHP's US oil business and returning more money to investors.
BHP rejected the idea: "We have concluded that the costs and associated risks of Elliott's proposal would significantly outweigh any potential benefits."
Meanwhile, shares in Barclays ended 0.4% higher after the bank said regulators were investigating its chief executive over the handling of a whistleblowing incident.
The investigation relates to attempts by Jes Staley last year to identify the author of a letter by a whistleblower.
The bank said Mr Staley had their full confidence and should remain as chief executive.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.4% against the dollar to $1.2419 and gained 0.3% against the euro to 1.1711 euros.
Det Con Michael McMillan, 32, from Merseyside Police has been charged with misconduct in public office.
The allegations relate to his position as a detective constable with the Family Crime Investigation Unit.
He is due to appear before Liverpool Magistrates' Court on 3 December. He is currently suspended from duty.
The allegations have been the subject of an investigation by Merseyside Police's anti-corruption unit and were managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
It was a great start for the hosts as Taylor finished neatly, latching onto a pass from strike partner Ben Greenhalgh after just four minutes.
He grabbed his second on the half-hour mark, providing vital daylight between the sides and settling Maidstone down.
Greenhalgh came close to scoring in the second half but his shot sailed just over the bar before Braintree were reduced to 10 men after Jon Ashton received his marching orders with nine minutes remaining.
The visitors make a mark on the game in stoppage time when Joe Maybanks pulled a goal back but it was not enough for a point.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Braintree Town 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Braintree Town 1.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Braintree Town 1. Joe Maybanks (Braintree Town).
Substitution, Maidstone United. Vas Karagiannis replaces Bobby-Joe Taylor.
Jon Ashton (Braintree Town) is shown the red card.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Joe Maybanks replaces Rohdell Gordon.
Reece Hall-Johnson (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Reece Hall-Johnson replaces Tom Murphy.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Michael Cheek replaces Lee Barnard.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Dan Sweeney replaces Jack Paxman.
Second Half begins Maidstone United 2, Braintree Town 0.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Braintree Town 0.
Barney Williams (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Braintree Town 0. Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United).
Jack Paxman (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Braintree Town 0. Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
He posted that this year's personal challenge is to "have visited and met people in every state in the US".
The 32-year-old tech titan added that he needs to travel to about 30 states to fulfil the pledge.
His previous New Year challenges have included running 365 miles, reading 25 books and learning Mandarin.
The US tour comes amid speculation that a future personal challenge by Mr Zuckerberg could include running for president of the United States.
"After a tumultuous last year, my hope for this challenge is to get out and talk to more people about how they're living, working and thinking about the future," Mr Zuckerberg said in his Facebook post.
"For decades, technology and globalization have made us more productive and connected.
"This has created many benefits, but for a lot of people it has also made life more challenging. This has contributed to a greater sense of division than I have felt in my lifetime. We need to find a way to change the game so it works for everyone."
He added that the road trips would help him to make "the most positive impact as the world enters an important new period".
"My trips this year will take different forms - road trips with [wife] Priscilla, stops in small towns and universities, visits to our offices across the country, meetings with teachers and scientists, and trips to fun places you recommend along the way," the statement continued.
Last year there was speculation that he could one day launch a bid for the White House.
That was fuelled by documents showing he has made provisions to keep control of the company if he works for the government.
Mr Zuckerberg also said last week that he was no longer an atheist.
He posted a Christmas message, prompting someone to ask: "Aren't you an atheist?"
Mr Zuckerberg replied: "No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important".
Mr Farron cited his 2008 resignation from the Lib Dem front bench because he wanted a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
But he said only the Lib Dems could prevent the "calamity of hard Brexit".
The party is aiming to attract the votes of people who backed Remain in June's EU referendum.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he made a pitch for voters in former Lib Dem heartlands in the South West, where many people voted to leave the European Union.
"I don't want to go off on a little bit of a rabbit hole here, but you will remember that I resigned from the Liberal Democrat front bench about 10 years ago because I am a bit of a Eurosceptic," he said.
"I'm somebody who challenges people in power - the EU, in government, in councils - but I am somebody who believes Britain is better off in the European Union."
He also said he admired ex-prime minister Tony Blair for his electoral success, and claimed that Labour was now too divided to focus on the election.
Reiterating that there would be no Lib Dem coalition with Labour, he said a Conservative majority after the 8 June general election was "not in question" and that Mrs May was heading for a "colossal coronation" - making questions about party pacts meaningless.
"We're determined to turn the coronation she expects into a contest that Britain desperately needs," he added.
Labour said the Lib Dems could not be trusted, pointing to the party's promise not to raise tuition fees - a stance it abandoned in coalition government.
Liz Saville Roberts used her 22 years' work "as a teacher, college director and local authority education leader" to highlight the importance of education.
"Plaid Cymru is committed to public services for all," she said. "The reason we will oppose the [Education and Adoption] Bill if there is a vote, even though education is a devolved matter, is that the growing privatisation by stealth of education in England through the increased number of academies has implications for the funding of Wales via the Barnett formula."*
Her speech also focused on the challenges of the rural economy. The Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP said that although unemployment in her constituency was only 1.7%, more than 50% of those in work earned less than the living wage.
"Education gives our young people a ticket to hope and a career, but the lack of decent salaries and affordable housing closes the door on their return. Work and the means to buy a home are essential.
"Rural hinterlands are at risk of becoming a low-income combination of conservation museum and adventure playground, to be serviced by the locals on the minimum wage and enjoyed by those who have made their money elsewhere."
In keeping with the traditions of maiden speeches, Ms Roberts talked about her constituency - home to "the greatest mountain of Wales and England, Yr Wyddfa" - and her predecessor, Elfyn Llwyd.
"From my first day here, it has been evident that members and officers of the House alike held him in the highest regard. Elfyn contributed extensively to improving legislation for victims of domestic violence and stalking. He was an advocate of the rights of veteran soldiers.
"He will be remembered as a foremost critic of the Iraq war, who called for the impeachment of Tony Blair. That role continued in his scrutiny of the Chilcot inquiry, which, disgracefully, we still await."
You can read her speech here.
* I wonder if the Bill would be subject to new restrictions on MPs from outside England under the government's "English votes for English laws" plan.
Helina Kotlarova, 12, was killed by the driver in Oldham on New Year's Eve with Zaneta Krokova, 11, critically ill in hospital.
The girls had left a shop near their homes when they were hit by a black VW Golf in Ashton Road at about 19:15 GMT.
Greater Manchester Police said the driver of the car did not stop.
Family members have visited the crash site to lay floral tributes
Helina's sister Sylva, 19, told how her mother Sylva and father Robert raced to the scene 300ft (90m) from their home seconds after the crash.
She said: "When we went there she was on the floor. I've seen her face and it was all bleeding.
"I was trying to see if she could breathe or something but she couldn't breathe
"Mum was touching her hair."
She added: "She had asked mum for £2 as she just wanted to buy some food."
The family of seven sisters and one brother came to England from the Czech Republic eight years ago.
Miss Kotlarova said the girls were with a larger group of family and friends who had already crossed the road, one of the main routes into Oldham town centre, and the larger group was waiting on the opposite pavement.
The two cousins then started to cross the road outside the shop.
Miss Kotlarova said: "But as they came to the other side of the road the car ran them over. They were holding hands."
She added: "It is just hard to believe she has gone, she was just too young."
Witnesses said the car was driven fast and "flying away" after the collision. Seconds later friends ran to Helina's home to alert the family.
She said Helina attended the Collective Spirit free school in Oldham.
She added: "She liked dancing and she was always singing."
Her injured cousin is critically ill in hospital in Manchester.
Miss Kotlarova added: "I did speak to her family but they said she's still fighting for her life."
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She told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn she had been urged by her constituents to vote against the Article 50 bill.
Ms Stevens said leaving the EU will be a "terrible mistake" and it was "wrong" to back steps that make it inevitable.
Mr Corbyn said it was "right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum".
The Cardiff Central MP is the second Labour front-bencher to have quit over the vote.
Other Labour MPs have said they will rebel against their leader's orders.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill was published on Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled that parliament - not just the UK government alone - must vote to launch the formal process of the UK leaving the EU.
Mr Corbyn is ordering Labour MPs to back the bill, despite their misgivings, to avoid accusations of trying to overturn the result of the referendum.
Ms Stevens - the first person to quit the shadow cabinet over the bill - was the fourth MP to serve as Labour's shadow Welsh secretary since the May 2015 general election.
The city of Cardiff as a whole voted 60% Remain to 40% for Leave at the EU referendum.
One of her predecessors as shadow Welsh secretary - Pontypridd MP Owen Smith - has also said he will rebel against any instruction to vote in favour of the bill.
In a letter to Mr Corbyn, Ms Stevens said: "I accept the referendum result is to leave.
"I also accept that the parliamentary numbers are such that Article 50 will be triggered and we will leave the EU.
"But I believe that leaving is a terrible mistake and I cannot reconcile my overwhelming view that to endorse the step that will make exit inevitable, is wrong.
"I expect this to be the most important vote I will ever cast as an MP and for me it is a clear issue of principle and conscience.
"When I vote I will be representing my constituents, a great many of whom, including a great many Labour Party members and voters, have strongly urged me to vote in this way.
"That is why, in Shadow Cabinet, I argued against the imposition of a three line whip."
Ms Stevens said Prime Minister Theresa May was "now leading our country towards a brutal exit with all the damage that will cause to the people and communities we represent".
"There have been no guarantees before triggering Article 50 about protecting single market access, employment, environmental and consumer rights, security and judicial safeguards and the residency rights of many of my constituents. And no guarantees for the people of Wales," she added.
"Article 50 should not be triggered without these safeguards in place."
In response Mr Corbyn said: "I understand the difficulties that Jo, and other MPs, have when facing the Article 50 bill.
"Those MPs with strong Remain constituencies are understandably torn.
"However, it is right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum on leaving the European Union.
"We have said all along that Labour will not frustrate the triggering of Article 50 and to that end we are asking all MPs to vote for the Bill at its second reading next week."
Former Labour Welsh Secretary Lord Hain praised Ms Stevens in a tweet, saying she had been "brilliant" in the role of shadow Welsh secretary.
He described her as a "principled socialist huge talent sadly sidelined by crass whip [and] absence of clear Labour strategy or vision".
Jenny Rathbone, her Labour colleague who represents Cardiff Central in the assembly, said she was sorry to lose Ms Stevens as shadow Welsh Secretary "as she has undertaken the role with gusto".
Ms Rathbone said Ms Stevens was right to vote against Article 50 given "because no safeguards [have been] offered for Wales".
She added: "Nothing will be decided until Germany and France have had their general elections.
"So triggering Article 50 now could leave the UK adrift without a paddle."
Reid, 21, recently had his grant cut by British Athletics but is refusing to mope about the situation.
And the Bath-based 200m athlete says his tough childhood in and out of foster care has helped motivate him during a testing time.
"It builds fire in the belly," Reid told BBC Radio Bristol.
Reid, who is fifth on the British all-time list for 200m, spent time in 14 different foster homes.
"I had nothing, everyone always writes you off when you are in foster care," he said.
"At school I was always messing around, I was always fidgeting, the class clown probably because I didn't have a stable home. I went to 10 different schools."
Reid eventually took up sprinting at the relatively late age of 15 after being urged to do so by a school PE teacher and won a silver medal at the European Under-23 Championships in the summer.
Having lost his support from British Athletics, he is now looking for local backers to provide funding as he pursues his Olympic goal.
"Some people react differently to cut funding, I'm leaving no stone unturned, I'm going for it.
"If I'm not at Rio, it'll be the London 2017 World Championships, I'll be there and I'll fight to be on the starting line," he added.
"I got dropped by British Athletics funding, not because of my results, but because the sport is moving on and going places where I'm destined to be but not quite yet.
"I'm just outside the Olympic qualifying level which is 20.50 seconds. I've run 20.62 five times in the rain so it's within touching distance."
The win puts her in a strong position to be selected for Rio, though her place is yet to be confirmed.
"I think I'm there, I think I'll be sculling at Rio, but I haven't been told what's happening yet," she said.
The 28-year old from Wrexham is hoping to partner Katherine Grainger in the double sculls at the Games.
Thornley claimed her third successive win at the GB Trials, winning her race by more than seven seconds.
Reigning Olympic champion Grainger missed the trials with injury.
"It puts me in a good place to win an Olympic trial," added Thornley.
"I was confident I could win the race and I had a margin I wanted to win it by ,and I missed that by a little bit.
Grainger won the double sculls with Anna Watkins at London 2012, but Watkins has subsequently pulled out of the Olympic Rowing Programme following the birth of her second child.
Thornley and Grainger were sixth i the double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette in 2015.
She accepts getting a medal at Rio would be a huge achievement.
"I definitely think getting onto the podium come Rio is going to be a hard thing to do," she said.
"But it's definitely something that we can do - there's the talent in the boat, we're strong and I feel like we've moved on this season and we're aiming to get on to the podium."
He was found in the River Taff close to Taffs Mead Embankment last week.
At a press conference on Tuesday, a midwife from Cardiff and Vale health board issued a plea to the baby's mother, who has not yet been found.
Suzanne Hardacre said: "Our midwives and doctors are worried about you and understand you have been through a very traumatic time."
She said the team understood the mother may be frightened to come forward, but said any care she received would be in confidence.
"We are aware that this must have been a very difficult and distressing time for you and we are not here to judge you," she added.
Det Insp Mark O'Shea of South Wales Police said: "An interim post mortem has been conducted and the baby died at childbirth."
Jamie Francis Sager, 50, had admitted to the rampage in the New South Wales town of Teralba in 2015, but denied he was trying to hurt a family inside.
The three people managed to escape what prosecutors said was an act of revenge.
A jury unanimously rejected Sager's claim that he did not know there was anyone inside at the time.
The court heard that Sager had made eye contact with one person in the house before ploughing into it.
Sager had stolen the bulldozer from a nearby mine in darkness on the morning of the attack. From there, he waited until sunrise before driving to the house.
He first rammed the vehicle into the cars and the boat, leaving a trail of destruction, before turning his attention on the house.
Prosecutors said he wanted to cause "maximum destruction" when he drove the bulldozer into the walls and razed the building.
Police ultimately managed to stop Sager when the bulldozer got stuck.
Sager later claimed he had not intended to hurt anyone inside the house.
"That's why I hit the cars first because I knew when I hit the cars they'll come out of the house," Sager told police, according to the Newcastle Herald.
The court heard he knew the family and had an "irrational desire" to inflict revenge after perceiving he had been wronged.
The jury found Sager guilty of maliciously destroying property with the intent to endanger life, a charge carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years in jail.
He will be sentenced in October.
Several thousand people are in the village for the demonstration.
Fifty lodges from counties Donegal, Cavan, Leitrim and Monaghan have been joined by lodges from Northern Ireland as well as England and Scotland.
A small number of Orangemen from Canada and America also travelled to the event.
The Orangemen, accompanied by 30 bands, paraded along the one-mile route into the seaside village before a religious service.
Harold Henning, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, said it was an "excellent venue".
"This is a unique experience. It brings brethren, family, friends from all over our jurisdiction to come there to Rossnowlagh on this special day."
David Mahon, County Grand Master of County Donegal Grand Orange Lodge, said it the event was main highlight of the year for Protestants in the Republic of Ireland.
"This is their annual Twelfth parade and it's been going on since the early 1900s," he said.
"It seems to be getting bigger all the time. It is a very important day for Orangemen."
The march comes before the annual 12 July celebrations in Northern Ireland, marking the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.
The Orange Order invited the Irish President, Michael D Higgins, to the Donegal parade but said it appreciated that he has a busy schedule.
It said it hopes he will be able to attend in the future.
Not only that, but one of Moonlight's stars - Mahershala Ali - became the first Muslim actor to win an Academy Award.
And best supporting actress Viola Davis, star of Fences, made history as the first black woman to win an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony for acting.
Diversity. It's a word that gets bandied around so much, and so often, it runs the risk of becoming meaningless.
It's worth remembering, though, that only 12 months ago the #OscarsSoWhite controversy was all Hollywood was talking about.
Two years of all-white line-ups in the four acting categories stung the Academy into taking concerted measures to broaden its membership's make-up.
Viewed in that light, this year's list of award winners makes for much more encouraging reading.
Yet it wasn't just the winners who reflected the "identity rainbow" Jodie Foster spoke about at a pre-Oscars rally.
From Loving's Ruth Negga to Moonlight's Naomie Harris to Lion's Dev Patel, the losers were a pretty diverse bunch too.
Auli'i Cravalho, an actress of Chinese, Irish, Native Hawaiian, Portuguese and Puerto Rican descent, sang a song on stage.
And Lion's Sunny Pawar, an eight-year-old boy who was born and raised in a Mumbai slum, got lifted aloft by Jimmy Kimmel, the ceremony's host.
Millions around the world were watching last night. President Trump, however, is not thought to be among them.
Yet that didn't spare him a ribbing from Kimmel, or from being taken to task both obliquely and directly.
Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director of best foreign film The Salesman, stayed away in protest at the Trump administration's travel ban on immigrants.
In his absence, a speech was read out that castigated the "inhumane" legislation for disrespecting his homeland and the six other countries it targeted.
There were many moments to cherish at this year's Oscars - some humorous, some moving and some downright calamitous.
Yet perhaps the most telling came when the stars of Hidden Figures arrived to announce the winner for best documentary feature.
With them came Katherine Johnson, the 98-year-old African-American woman who was one of the real-life inspirations behind the space race drama.
Could a woman born in 1918, who has lived through Jim Crow, segregation and the fight for civil rights, have ever dreamed of a day when her presence at the Oscars would generate a spontaneous standing ovation?
La La Land may have won the most awards at this year's ceremony, but diversity was surely the biggest winner of all on Hollywood's glitziest night.
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John Lewis, from Virginia, has been responding to tweets sent to his handle @johnlewis following the release of the store's 2016 festive advert.
He was sent a cushion personalised with the message: "Merry Christmas @johnlewis 'not a retail store'".
John Lewis the store said it was a thank you for fielding wayward tweets.
Mr Lewis has suffered the same festive problem for at least the last two years.
He was inundated with messages following the release of the John Lewis Christmas advert - starring Buster the boxer dog - on Thursday.
He replied to his correspondents with witty messages which include the retail store's actual Twitter handle @johnlewisretail.
One user Marsha wrote: "Ahh wow @johnlewis has done it again. Festive brilliance. #bustertheboxer #JohnLewisAdvert #TheMagicOfChristmas."
Mr Lewis replied: "While I am both brilliant and festive, I have done it exactly zero times. @johnlewisretail."
Michael Kelly tweeted Mr Lewis to ask whether the dog in the advert was available in the store or online, adding: "My lad wants one and Xmas is gonna be insufferable if I can't get it!"
He responded by saying: "My dog is a Shepard named Sandy, not a Boxer named Buster. You probably want to check with @johnlewisretail."
John Lewis said it sends Mr Lewis a Christmas gift for his efforts in directing the mistaken tweets to the correct handle.
He posted a picture of his latest present package on Twitter which also included a cuddly toy Buster, personalised wrapping paper and Christmas crackers.
A John Lewis retail spokeswoman said: "This is our busiest time of the year and we know that although he's not a retail store it can be busy for John too.
"We hope he can take a little time out to enjoy these gifts as much as we enjoy his tweets."
The home fans chanted against their players and owner Randy Lerner as the Blues took control in the second half.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek's deflected shot and Pato's precise penalty had given the visitors a healthy half-time lead.
Pedro scored twice - slotting in Oscar's pull-back and hammering home a loose ball - before Alan Hutton was sent off to compound Villa's misery.
Aston Villa's Premier League survival may still be possible in theory but, with 15 points separating them from safety and six games left, attention has long since switched to the longer term in the Holte End after seven straight league defeats.
Before kick-off, fans held aloft banners asking "Proud History, What future?" as they contemplate a Championship campaign on the pitch and owner Randy Lerner's continuing attempts to sell up off it.
Their protests increased in volume towards the end of the match with substitute Leandro Bacuna - who spoke of his plans to leave the club this week - picked out for particular criticism and a synchronised show of discontent on the 74th minute.
The final whistle was greeted with resounding boos from the fans who remained in a fast-emptying Villa Park.
Their team - without Gabriel Agbonlahor after photos were published of the striker apparently smoking on a holiday in Dubai - initially worked hard to provide some short-term solace for their fans.
With Eric Black in charge following Remi Garde's departure on Tuesday, there was more industry and invention in attack in the first half with Jordan Ayew and Carles Gil both going close.
But, as has been the case so often this season, their efforts were fatally undermined by a brittle defence as Aly Cissokho allowed Cesar Azpilicueta too much space down the left to create the opener and then bundled into Pato to give away the spot-kick for the second.
Jack Grealish was greeted warmly as he returned from injury as a substitute and Alan Hutton was applauded off despite being shown a second yellow card for a heavy challenge on Loftus-Cheek.
But, after an insipid second-half surrender, there was little love for the rest of Villa's team as they trooped off.
It was difficult to measure Chelsea against opposition in such disarray, but some of the fringe squad members shone in a win that extended their unbeaten league run to 15-straight games.
Pato said after the match that he was "surprised" to be brought on after Loic Remy suffered a slight injury, but showed some nice touches. In defence, fellow debutant Matt Miazga coped well with the aerial threat from Rudy Gestede while a hungry Loftus-Cheek curled a shot just wide as he hunted his second.
Pedro was particularly bright and could have had a hat-trick had a deft chip not been ruled out in the first half for a marginal offside.
With matches against Tottenham and Leicester to come in May, Chelsea will have a say in the climax to this season's title race. With Italian Antonio Conte reportedly lined up for the manager's job, they may be more directly involved next season.
Caretaker Aston Villa boss Eric Black: "I'm not overly delighted losing 4-0 today, but things obviously run a little deeper.
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"If you're bottom of the league and have won three games all season, you're not going to be flying high. We have to be professional until the end, and do our utmost for the club and supporters. We need to continue to work hard to get this club back to where it should be.
"We have got to win back the fans and it will happen. How quickly, I don't know. We have only won two games at home and there can be a disconnect, but we carry on and try and change their minds."
Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink on BT Sport on Alexandre Pato's debut wait: "He was counting down the days, and knocking on the door. I could have brought him on after 14 days or three weeks but it would have been irresponsible.
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"He was not strong enough to battle in the league. He has to deal with the competition but he finally stepped up."
Aston Villa play Bournemouth at Villa Park next Saturday. Chelsea are away to Swansea on the same day.
Match ends, Aston Villa 0, Chelsea 4.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 0, Chelsea 4.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Matt Miazga.
Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Ayew with a cross.
Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Baba Rahman (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa).
Second yellow card to Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) for a bad foul.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alan Hutton (Aston Villa).
Attempt missed. Baba Rahman (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Oscar with a through ball.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Jordan Lyden replaces Idrissa Gueye.
Attempt saved. Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alexandre Pato (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alan Hutton (Aston Villa).
Offside, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas tries a through ball, but Baba Rahman is caught offside.
Substitution, Chelsea. Jake Clarke-Salter replaces Pedro.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt missed. Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alan Hutton.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Leandro Bacuna replaces Carlos Sánchez.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Jack Grealish replaces Carles Gil.
Carlos Sánchez (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Carlos Sánchez (Aston Villa).
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Carlos Sánchez (Aston Villa).
Goal! Aston Villa 0, Chelsea 4. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Alexandre Pato (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Oscar.
Oscar (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Hutton (Aston Villa).
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Baba Rahman.
Foul by Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea).
Carles Gil (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Foul by Pedro (Chelsea).
Idrissa Gueye (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, Juba.
Sudan earlier became the first state to officially recognise its new neighbour.
The south's independence follows decades of conflict with the north in which some 1.5 million people died.
Celebrations in Juba began at midnight (2100 GMT). A countdown clock in the city centre reached zero and the new national anthem was played on television.
South Sudan became the 193rd country recognised by the UN and the 54th UN member state in Africa.
By Peter MartellBBC News, Juba
Officials had planned for people to hold quiet celebrations at home, with the formal declaration of independence due later on Saturday.
But the people clearly couldn't wait. Two hours before midnight and lines of cars zoomed around town packed with people waving flags and waiting to celebrate.
When the final countdown arrived, the atmosphere was wild. Groups ran down roads, dancing to drum beats. Soldiers and policemen joined in too, waving paper flags and laughing.
A sign read: "Congratulations, free at last, South Sudan." But the people didn't need to read the message - they were already dancing and leaping with happiness.
"It is a shout of freedom," said Alfred Tut, lifting his head back and screaming.
South Sudanese celebrate their divorce
The BBC's Will Ross in Juba says the new country's problems have been put aside for the night amid an air of great jubilation.
People were in the streets, cheering, waving South Sudan flags, banging drums and chanting the name of President Salva Kiir Mayardit, he adds.
A formal independence ceremony is due to be held later on Saturday.
The Speaker of the South Sudan Legislative Assembly, James Wani Igga, is expected to read out the Proclamation of the Independence of South Sudan at 1145 (0845 GMT). Minutes later Sudan's national flag will be lowered and the new flag of South Sudan will be raised.
In addition to Mr Bashir and Mr Ban, attendees will include former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the US permanent representative to the UN, Susan Rice, and the head of the US military's Africa Command, Gen Carter Ham.
Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a referendum was held on independence, which was favoured by more than 99% of voters.
The new country is rich in oil, but one of the least developed countries in the world, where one in seven children dies before the age of five.
Unresolved disputes between the north and south, particularly over the new border, have also raised the possibility of renewed conflict.
On Friday, Sudan's Minister of Presidential Affairs, Bakri Hassan Saleh, announced that it recognised "the Republic of South Sudan as an independent state, according to the borders existing on 1 January 1956", when Sudan gained independence from Britain.
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President Bashir, who agreed the 2005 peace deal with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), stressed his country's "readiness to work with our southern brothers and help them set up their state so that, God willing, this state will be stable and develop".
"The co-operation between us will be excellent, particularly when it comes to marking and preserving the border so there is a movement of citizens and goods via this border," he told journalists in Khartoum.
Fears of fresh conflict resurfaced after recent fighting in two border areas, Abyei and South Kordofan, which forced some 170,000 people from their homes.
But separate deals - and the withdrawal of rival forces from the border - have calmed tensions.
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution approving a new 7,000-strong peacekeeping force for South Sudan - but this is basically a rebranding of the force which was already in Sudan, mostly in the south.
Khartoum has said its mandate would not be renewed, leading the US to argue that the 1,000 UN troops should be allowed to remain in South Kordofan. The 1,000 troops in the disputed town of Abyei are to be replaced by 4,200 Ethiopian soldiers.
Our correspondent says keeping both the north and the south stable long after the celebratory parties have ended will be a mighty challenge.
The two sides must still decide on issues such as drawing up the new border and how to divide Sudan's debts and oil wealth.
Analysts say the priority for Khartoum will be to negotiate a favourable deal on oil revenue, as most oilfields lie in the south. At present, the revenues are being shared equally.
Khartoum has some leverage, as most of the oil pipelines flow north to Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
Citizenship is also a key issue which has not yet been decided.
A new law passed by the National Assembly in Khartoum has withdrawn Sudanese citizenship from all southerners.
The UN refugee agency (UNCHR), has urged both governments to prevent statelessness.
Ten authors were chosen from hundreds of entries to compete for a publishing deal and a £5,000 cash prize.
The competition is now in its 12th year and the winner will be announced at a gala dinner in October.
Last year's competition was won by Swedish author Martin Cathcart Froden's 'Devil Take the Hindmost'.
Peggy Hughes, manager of Literary Dundee, said, "The Dundee International Book Prize is a vital part of our work, and a key way in which we celebrate and champion new voices.
"This year's shortlist is a stellar mix of international talent and genres, and we're deeply excited to see which one will win."
Will Dawson, convener of Dundee City Council's city development committee, said: "Each year the quantity and quality of entrants for the book prize goes from strength to strength.
"I never envy the judges the difficult task they have of choosing just one winner from such a strong field, but every time they manage to select a deserving book to take the title."
The full 2016 shortlist is:
Not to be Reproduced by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry (US)
The Margins by Jessica Thummel (US)
In Borderlands by Richard Strachan (Scotland)
London Clay by Amy Spencer (England)
Reading Through Binoculars by James Cole (England)
Shadow Jumping by Margaret Ries (Scotland)
The Life of De'Ath by Majella Cullinane (New Zealand)
The Shadow of Pure Light by Emile Cassen (England)
Ghost of a Writer by Helen Dann (England)
The Great Edge by George Gunn (Scotland)
Two days earlier, a government spokesman had referenced Mr Trump's treatment of journalists in a Facebook post that threatened to shutter media outlets jeopardising "stability".
Now, the Cambodia Daily - an independent, English-language newspaper that has long been a thorn in the side of the government - is facing possible closure after being slapped on 5 August with a $6.3m (£4.9m) bill for back taxes that authorities said had to be paid within 30 days.
On Tuesday, Mr Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander in power for more than thirty years, stepped up the pressure. If the sum was not paid, "please pack up your things and leave", he said, reportedly calling the publishers "thieves".
The move against the newspaper - which many believe is politically-motivated ahead of elections next year - is worrying Cambodia's journalists, who have long enjoyed far greater reporting freedom than their colleagues in neighbouring countries.
It comes as the government announces tax or regulatory probes into other perceived critics. Staff from the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a prominent US-funded non-profit that played a key role in investigating alleged irregularities in the 2013 national elections, were on Wednesday ordered to leave the country under the aegis of a controversial NGO law passed in 2015.
The government said NDI, which ruling party figures have accused in the past of being part of US-sponsored regime change efforts, had failed to acquire formal registration or pay taxes. The group told the Associated Press it had obeyed registration laws and worked with transparency for 25 years.
Aside from the Cambodia Daily, other independent media outlets - including the US government-funded Radio Free Asia and Voice of America - have also reportedly been accused of not complying with tax obligations.
These outlets, and the Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper which so far has not faced similar accusations, frequently report on topics that embarrass the government, from illegal logging to corruption and human rights abuses.
Lee Morgenbesser, an expert on authoritarian regimes at Australia's Griffith University, said that using back taxes as a pretext to "silence perceived opponents" was a "subtle technique" also used in Hungary, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela.
The Cambodian government denies the cases are political and points to the considerable freedom critical journalists have in the country, which it says is a democracy.
Ou Virak, a Cambodian analyst who heads the Future Forum think tank, said he believed that while the Daily's alleged tax issue gave the government a "convenient excuse" to target them, it would likely do so regardless as part of a broader stifling of critical voices.
He said that the US's diminishing voice on human rights and democratic freedoms combined with China's largesse and influence in Cambodia had emboldened the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) to take action.
"Basically what you are now seeing is the end of a western-dominated era in Cambodian nation building and politics," he said, adding that previously, if activists "drummed up enough noise to get attention internationally" the aid-reliant government would back down.
A spokesman for the CPP said the party had "no motivation or any kind of reason" to be involved in what he characterised as strictly a matter between the Cambodia Daily and the tax department.
There was plenty of media aligned with the opposition party, Sous Yara said, adding that the Daily was trying to "politicise" the issue.
Deborah Krisher-Steele, the newspaper's deputy publisher, said tax authorities were not following regulations and had ignored a request for a meeting. She wants a full audit to be carried out, but insists that if any taxes are owed, "it could not be anywhere close" to the multi-million dollar sum demanded.
She has said the process is meant to "intimidate and harass the Cambodia Daily…and others who speak the truth".
The newspaper was set up in 1993 by her father, Bernard Krisher, a former Newsweek correspondent in Japan who was friendly with then-King Norodom Sihanouk.
Ms Krisher-Steele told the BBC the paper had been "losing money for many years" and was subsidised by Mr Krisher. She said she had been trying to run it as a profit-making business since April.
Reflecting the reality of Cambodian politics - where the prime minister himself often personally intervenes in policy issues or other disputes, announcing major decisions in long, meandering speeches - Mr Krisher has appealed directly to Hun Sen for help.
"Only you, Your Excellency, can stop the tax department from taking these measures," he wrote in a letter seen by the BBC. "I implore you to intervene to stop the shutting down of The Cambodia Daily."
The newspaper's staff of local journalists and foreigners - and an alumni network of reporters who now work for media outlets around the world - are devastated by the prospect that it could close.
Robin McDowell, a journalist who helped found the Daily in 1993 and who went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2016 with the Associated Press, said that getting the newspaper off the ground in that era, after UN-run elections, was a herculean endeavour.
Frequent blackouts meant the whole newspaper might be lost hours before being brought to the printer. "We were working 20 hours a day. Literally breathing and sleeping at the Daily," she said.
With few local journalists to recruit, motorcycle taxi drivers, pagoda boys and former policemen were all among those brought on board and trained as reporters.
It was a tiring and trying task, she said, but after years of war, the newspaper, along with the then fortnightly Phnom Penh Post, "gave Cambodians the first real look at the outside world and what a free press could look like".
In fact, the whole issue is so fraught that the country's most senior civil servant, Sir Jeremy Heywood, wrote to government ministers in the run up to the politically-charged conference season, warning them against speaking out.
Sir Jeremy's email said they could repeat statements they had made before the report was published in July, but urged them to keep quiet now.
It was received by some with deep irritation.
One cabinet minister told me it was "unprecedented". Other ministers believe the letter illustrates the political sensitivity of the decision.
The Cabinet Office said they would not comment on leaked documents, but the anxieties in government are real and are twofold.
There are concerns over any comments making the final decision more vulnerable to a legal challenge - tying up the decision in the courts for years to come.
And there is significant political opposition around the cabinet table, including from the London Mayor, Boris Johnson.
He, along with others, is all too ready to remind David Cameron of his own vow in 2009, "no ifs, no buts", ruling out a third runway at Heathrow.
But the business community is eager for a decision to be made, after decades of political dithering.
And the government, particularly the chancellor, have made big promises about pushing ahead with big infrastructure decisions, even citing the Airports Commission as an example of how the case for major projects should be independently made.
But resistance to Heathrow is passionate and powerful. The prime minister and the chancellor have promised to make a decision by Christmas, but that promise won't be easy to keep.
17 May 2016 Last updated at 08:45 BST
Matthew Daley, 35, killed Donald Lock on the A24 near Worthing in July 2016 after the 79-year-old ran into the back of his vehicle.
Daley, who was convicted of manslaughter, told how he had attacked Mr Lock on "auto-pilot".
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The paintings were seized in August as part of the ongoing inquiry into Opus Art Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold.
Gloucestershire Police said the company was run by Donald Smith and Emma Poole until they sold it to a London-based gallery owner before moving to France.
The inquiry is trying to establish what specific offences have been committed.
A spokeswoman for Gloucestershire Police said in May it received allegations that individuals involved with the gallery had been dishonestly retaining or selling works of art.
A large number of works and assets previously held by the company were then seized.
"Officers are working to bring any perpetrators of fraud or theft in this case to justice, and in due course to reunite the works with their owners," a force spokeswoman said.
Notts folded in April and the Football Association wants to rebalance the two tiers of the WSL with 10 teams in each.
WSL 2 sides have been asked to show how they can meet the additional licence criteria and financial demands at the higher level.
A decision on the successful bidder will be made in June.
It will be based on the applicant clubs' skills in business management, youth development and marketing, as well as the quality of their facilities and their performances on the pitch in the past 12 months.
Before Notts' liquidation, there would have been 10 teams in WSL 1 for 2017-18, and 11 in WSL 2.
With one match remaining, Everton are top of the WSL 2 Spring Series - a one-off, smaller league competition designed to bridge the gap before the WSL reverts to a winter schedule in 2017-18.
Everton can win the title on Saturday, however, there will be no promotion and relegation between the top two tiers at the end of the Spring Series.
One of either Blackburn or Tottenham, who face each other in a promotion play-off at the end of May, will join WSL 2 for the 2017-18 campaign.
Current WSL 2 clubs will have until 30 May to submit their business plans and budgets.
The day ticket costing £10 for adults, £7 for children and £25 for a family is aimed at providing affordable public transport on the TrawsCymru network.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates hailed it as "an exciting opportunity" to boost use of the government-funded service.
TrawsCymru buses carried more than two million passengers last year.
"The new TrawsCymru Day Ticket is an exciting opportunity to encourage people across Wales to enjoy this fantastic public transport service and travel Wales," said Mr Skates.
"The ticket represents a significant saving for those looking to make long distance journeys and, hopefully, facilitate more hop-on hop-off travel across Wales too - boosting tourism and local economies in the process."
The scheme allows unlimited travel on T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T9 services and on the X85 service between Newtown and Machynlleth.
Rasmussen has already served a two-year suspension for evading doping controls during the 2007 Tour de France.
The 38-year-old was sacked by his Rabobank team and withdrawn from that year's Tour de France after lying about his whereabouts.
A court ruled in 2007 that the Rabobank cycling team had to pay Michael Rasmussen €665,000 compensation for wrongful dismissal after they fired him during that year's Tour de France for lying about his whereabouts.
A Utrecht judge ruled Rabobank had been entitled to dismiss Rasmussen from the team, but said that they followed the wrong procedure.
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"I am well aware that I have cheated, lied and deceived people and other athletes," he told a news conference.
Rasmussen said that he took testosterone and growth hormones and underwent blood transfusions in an effort to boost his performance.
"I have used doping substances and methods during the period 1998-2010, including EPO, growth hormone, testosterone, DHEA, insulin, IGF-1, cortisone and blood transfusions," he said.
"I am now ready to make good and I'm ready to take my punishment."
The Dane said that he intends to leave the sport with immediate effect and will co-operate with anti-doping agencies.
"The specifics of exactly what I did and when have been given to the anti-doping authorities," he said.
"My co-operation with them is based on confidentiality, which means that I cannot disclose further details at this time. That time may come later."
Rasmussen's revelations follow Lance Armstrong's admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs during his seven Tour de France wins.
Rasmussen won the Mountain Bike World Championships in 1999 before being given the chance to try out with a professional team for a few months at the end of the 2001 season with CSC-Tiscali.
He joined the Rabobank team in 2003 and looked set to win the 2007 Tour de France when holding a substantial advantage over second-placed Alberto Contador with four stages to go.
However, he was summarily sacked by Rabobank when he lied about his pre-race whereabouts, saying he was in Mexico when he was in fact in Italy.
Rasmussen eventually returned to the sport in 2009 and competed for the Tecos Guadalajara team before moving to Miche in 2010.
He had been with the Christina Watches Onfone team since 2011.
Hamilton was 0.547 seconds clear of the field after a dominant performance and looks a strong favourite this weekend.
"I am on it and I plan to keep it that way, Hamilton said. "It is a wonderful feeling to have the car so strong coming into a new era."
However, Hamilton cautioned against writing off Ferrari so early.
The Italian team impressed in pre-season testing and the former world champion labelled them as favourites going into the weekend.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was second quickest and he did beat Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.009secs.
Hamilton said: "It feels amazing and that is surprising. I didn't know how it was going to be.
"The test was not spectacular so coming into today it was quite refreshing to have the car right where I needed it.
"I felt good in the car and I didn't even notice the cars being more physical, which is also a positive because I have trained so hard to be ready for this season.
"The Ferrari is obviously very strong and fast, they might not have the power turned up or whatever and we will see tomorrow, but it seems we are as strong, if not a bit stronger than them."
F1 has introduced new rules this season aimed at making the cars faster, more demanding and more dramatic.
The cars have met those targets but the competitive order appears not to have changed a great deal at this early stage.
Asked whether the gap between himself and Hamilton was representative, Vettel said: "I hope not. Overall it has been OK. The car doesn't yet feel as good as it should and it can so I am confident we will find something overnight.
"We were very happy in testing and the times look good but it doesn't mean anything.
"I am not that happy overall. The balance is not yet where I want it to be. It is not bad but I think we can do better.
"We see where it takes us on Saturday when everyone shows what they can do. Today it is still difficult to say. We had a mixed day but the team is doing well and there are lot of things we can improve."
Members of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board meeting on Tuesday backed a report recommending that services are left unchanged.
Staff shortages prompted the move, with services at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire threatened.
The board said following a recruitment drive staffing levels have recovered.
The health board first put forward plans to change maternity care in autumn 2014, prompting widespread protests.
The preferred proposal would have seen maternity doctors from Glan Clwyd Hospital transferred to strengthen teams at Bangor's Ysbyty Gwynedd and Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
That meant Glan Clwyd would have only had a stand alone midwife-led maternity unit for low-risk pregnancies.
Campaigners were set to challenge the decision through the courts and the board began a fresh consultation process over the summer.
Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: "It has been important to give people certainty about the temporary options for women's and maternity services in north Wales.
"The approval of the recommendations by the board gives the public, staff, pregnant women and patients certainty for the immediate future."
For the Tories, Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar said it was "hugely welcome news and represents a victory for common sense".
The Clwyd West AM added: "It's now absolutely crucial that Labour ministers see through on their promise to swiftly establish the new neonatal intensive care centre for north Wales."
Addressing the board members, medical director Prof Matt Makin said services were becoming unstable in 2014.
"It was a challenge in recruiting middle-grade doctors and alarm bells were ringing," he said.
"We've kept things safe, but we have been managing things in critical incident mode.
"What's changed is that there's been a really big push in recruiting new staff. We appointed seven new consultants in late August."
Prof Makin said the recruitment meant "more boots on the ground" for maternity services.
The board unanimously backed the report recommendations, which also included rejecting temporary changes at either Ysbyty Gwynedd or Wrexham Maelor.
However, the board has also been warned that further work will be needed to "consider the long-term sustainable model" for maternity services.
The board is expected to consider a fresh report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on the issue in early 2016.
Shirley Oaks Survivors Association told the BBC it would recommend withdrawing from the Lambeth strand of the inquiry because it was not "truly independent".
Ex-inquiry chair Justice Lowell Goddard has said she was prevented from picking her own staff, and that civil servants were prioritised by the Home Office.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd denied this.
The treatment of children in care in Lambeth, south London, during the second half of the 20th Century is one of 13 areas that the inquiry is looking at.
But the Shirley Oaks group said the Home Office was one of the institutions that had failed children in care in Lambeth in the past - and that the scale of its presence in the inquiry staff represented a conflict of interest.
Raymond Stevenson, from the survivors' group, told BBC Newsnight there had been a sea change in the way the inquiry was operating.
"We have to recommend at this moment in time that we pull out. We have given the inquiry an opportunity to meet us. We contacted them two weeks ago and we are still waiting for a meeting," he said.
"Some of our members have been through investigations before which had Home Office members and staff part of it so we have been through that.
"This is about the third investigation Lambeth has been through so what we wanted from this was for it to be truly independent. We were sold a theory it would be truly independent."
In a written submission to the Commons Home Affairs Committee, Dame Lowell said: "The panel and I have had little or no input into either the composition of the senior management team or the recruitment of secretariat staff during the lifetime of the current inquiry.
"The administrative arrangements made by the Home Office as the inquiry's sponsor meant that in the recruitment of staff priority was given to civil servants.
"Their approach has been bureaucratic and the inquiry's progress has been impeded by a lack of adequate systems and personnel, leading to critical delays.
"I felt as chair handicapped by not being given a free hand to recruit staff of the type that I judged to be essential."
Ms Rudd denied that Dame Lowell had been unable to choose her own staff, and has also said the scope of the inquiry will not change despite Dame Lowell's claim it was too big and bureaucratic and should focus on current child protection and future changes.
The inquiry was set up in 2014 and announced that 13 initial investigations would look into allegations against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces, public and private institutions and people in the public eye.
It has been beset by problems, and last month Dame Lowell became the third chair to quit the inquiry.
Prof Alexis Jay, who led the Rotherham abuse inquiry, is to be the new chairwoman of the inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales.
Hani Khalaf, 21, an Egyptian national of no fixed address, will be tried for the murder of Jairo Medina, 62, in February.
The body of the professional carer, from Chelsea, was found in Hyde Park near Speakers' Corner on 12 August.
At the Old Bailey, Mr Khalaf was remanded in custody. He is expected to enter a plea in November.
A post-mortem examination of Mr Medina did not establish a cause of death.
Some schools struggle to show how they use pupil premium payments, aimed at raising the achievements of poor children, an Ofsted study says.
However Ofsted said many schools were using the money better than last year.
"It is vital that schools get this right", said the chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw.
Under the scheme, schools in England are allotted an extra £623 for every child from a low income family, with the aim of bringing their achievements up to the level of their better-off peers.
It is paid to schools for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals or who has been eligible at any point during the previous six years, or for pupils who have been in care for more than six months continuously.
Schools are free to spend the money as they see fit but must be able to show how it is helping children from low income families.
A report by Ofsted last year suggested that the scheme was having little impact on disadvantaged pupils in high numbers of schools.
As a follow-up, inspectors visited a range of nearly 70 schools to see how they were spending the money and found that a growing number were now using it effectively.
"Following my criticism of schools last year, it is clear more schools are now taking their responsibilities seriously when it comes to using the Pupil Premium money and our inspectors have found evidence of some very good practice in their recent visits," said Sir Michael.
"Crucially, many of these good schools are concentrating on the core areas of literacy and numeracy to break down the main barriers to accessing the full curriculum. They are also focusing on the key stages of a child's development in their school career.
"However, some schools still lack good enough systems for tracking the spending of the additional funding or for evaluating the effectiveness of measures they have put in place in terms of improving outcomes."
Sir Michael pledged that Ofsted would continue to take an active interest in the issue in coming months and would criticise when funding was not being spent effectively on improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.
The report highlights best practice in the ways that schools manage the money.
It says that schools that manage the cash well are likely to have ring-fenced it, will aim to support disadvantaged pupils to achieve the highest levels and understand that all teaching must meet the needs of each pupil.
They should also analyse the effectiveness of each technique and intervention and adjust the way they spend the money accordingly.
According to the report schools which did less well often showed "a lack of clarity about the intended impact of the spending", did not monitor the effect properly and often spent the cash "indiscriminately on teaching assistants".
Ofsted also said that the money the government makes available for summer schools to help disadvantaged children bridge the gap between primary and secondary education could be better spent on extra maths and English classes once they start secondary school.
The Schools Minister David Laws responded: "If we are to build a fairer society, we have to make sure children can succeed at school whatever their background. The Pupil Premium is a significant amount of money going into schools up and down the country. It is vital that schools use it effectively.
"I am delighted with the good practice shown by many schools, as recognised by Ofsted in their report. But there is still a lot more that can be achieved."
The report drew a mixed response from teaching unions.
Christine Blower of the National Union of Teachers said: "At a time of huge budget cuts, schools... have had to use pupil premium money to plug gaps caused by funding problems."
Ms Blower called on the government "to restore funding and access to resources to schools to ensure that they can provide and meet the needs of all their pupils.
Malcolm Trobe of the Association of School and College Leaders argued that headteachers should continue to have discretion over how the money was spent: "It is essential for schools to have the flexibility to create solutions to suit their own particular circumstances."
The 4x4 disrupted rush-hour services between University Boulevard and the Toton Lane terminus in Nottingham.
The tram operator said the driver, who was not familiar with the area, "became embedded" in a tram-only section of track.
The motorist was "extremely apologetic", the spokesman said.
A Nottingham Express Transit spokesman said: "Although it is clearly signposted as a tram only route, the driver took a wrong turning and unfortunately ended up with his vehicle stuck on the tracks.
"Our technicians removed the vehicle and the driver was extremely apologetic about what had happened.
"Services were delayed for around 40 minutes while we resolved the incident."
A police spokesman said they were informed of the delays but were not involved in the removal of the vehicle.
The 26-year-old former Watford trainee has been with the Gloucestershire outfit since January 2013.
He has made 104 league appearances for Rovers, who lost to Grimsby in the promotion final at Wembley on 15 May.
"For me, it was a no-brainer. We had a good season, I've been here a long time and have enjoyed my time," Bennett told the club website.
Goalkeeper Steven Arnold, who started Forest Green's promotion final defeat, has been released after two years with the club.
The church, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, has had its bank account frozen at the request of Hagihon over an unpaid $2.3m bill.
The dispute has left hundreds of priests, monks and teachers unpaid.
The church has traditionally not been charged for water, but Hagihon says it is owed money for the past 15 years.
According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, there was a tacit agreement between the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem - which, along with the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Franciscan Custos, is jointly responsible for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's administration - and a former mayor of the city that the church would be exempt from water bills.
But in 2004, Hagihon sent a demand to the church for 3.7m shekels ($950,000; £590,000). It was backdated to when the company took over the water supply in the late 1990s.
The Patriarchate reportedly believed it was a mistake because Hagihon did not press it to pay. The company is now demanding that the bill, which has risen to 9m shekels ($2.3m; £1.4m) including interest, be settled.
A Hagihon spokesman said Israeli law did not permit any exemptions.
The company had not taken other enforcement steps, such as shutting off the water supply, in order not to disrupt activities at the site, he added.
Father Isidoros Fakitsas, Superior of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, told the Associated Press that an agreement had been reached with Hagihon a few weeks ago.
Under the deal, various denominations of the church would pay their monthly bill and the 9m-shekel debt was to be forgotten, he said.
But to his surprise the Patriarchate's bank account was blocked, making it impossible to pay stipends to some 500 priests and monks, 2,000 teachers and the running costs of more than 30 schools.
According to Maariv, other services have also been affected, including telephones, internet and electricity, as well as companies supplying food.
Father Fakitsas said the Patriarchate would be able to function despite the frozen bank account and that it would try to find an alternative if matters became too difficult, such as opening another bank account.
Patriarch Theophilos III wrote a letter to Israel's prime minister and president warning that the "enforcement of this unjustified step undermines the sanctity and offends the sensitivity of the site".
He told Maariv: "If nothing changes we intend to announce... for the first time in centuries, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed."
The other Christian denominations which jointly manage the church are said to support the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in its battle.
The Israeli tourism ministry said the issue was between the Patriarchate and the Jerusalem municipality, but that it was trying to mediate between them and hoped that the dispute would be resolved quickly.
Ond er gwaethaf hyn, mewn llawer o drefi neu bentrefi Cymru, mae enwogion (gwrywaidd) yr ardal yn cael eu dathlu gyda cherfluniau amlwg... ond pa mor amlwg?
Ydych chi'n gwybod ble mae'r rhain? (Rhowch farc ychwanegol i'ch hun os fyddwch chi'n gwybod cerfluniau o bwy ydyn nhw hefyd.)
Roedd arfer sefyll yng nghysgod y Pafiliwn, ond ym mhle?
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Mae rhai'n credu fod jôcs y gŵr yma'n gawslyd, ond mae llawer yn anghytuno. Ond ble mae e?
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Ble mae cerflun y bardd hwn? Mae'n drwm!
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Ydych chi wedi dod ar draws y cerflun yma? Mae'n eithaf pell o'i fan geni, ond mewn man eithaf amlwg i lawer.
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Pa bris am y ceflun yma? Os ydych chi'n gwybod lle mae e, mae digon o arian gerllaw!
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Cerflun arall tu fas i gastell, a roedd hwn yn dipyn o ddewin hefyd. Ond ble mae e?
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Ydy'r cerflun yma dan y wenallt?
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
Mae gan hwn siwt neis, ond dyna fe, 'dyw hynny ond yn naturiol, ag yntau mor fedrus â'i siswrn. Ond ble mae e?
Am yr ateb, pwyswch yma.
The brawl involved a large group of teenagers near the Hunters Bar roundabout on Friday evening, South Yorkshire Police said.
Officers were called at about 20:00 BST to reports of an altercation between a group of teenagers.
A 19-year-old man and 14-year-old boy suffered what are believed to be stab wounds.
The 14-year-old suffered minor injuries and has been discharged from hospital. However, the 19-year-old man remains in a serious condition.
Eyewitnesses said two people were taken away by ambulance; one with blood around the stomach area and another with what appeared to be a head injury.
Inquiries are ongoing and anyone with any information should contact South Yorkshire Police.
Four men have been arrested after the greyhound, Clares Rocket, was found "safe and well" by Irish police.
The dog is believed to have been stolen from kennels run by the Holland family in Golden, County Tipperary, on Monday.
They said they were "very emotional" when they were reunited with the dog and he was "very glad to be home".
"His feet are a bit sore but he had been fed and had not dehydrated," the family added.
The greyhound is owned by the Limerick-based Full House Syndicate but is trained by Graham Holland and his family at Riverside Kennels in County Tipperary.
In a statement on their website, the family said: "The whole thing has been a nightmare for the team, and his owners.
"We were away in Belfast visiting our son Christopher and we assume the dog was taken in the early hours of Monday morning.
"Our other son Timmy found the dog missing and contacted us immediately."
The theft of the champion dog was widely reported in the Irish and UK press, sparking comparisons with the IRA kidnap of the Irish racehorse Shergar in 1983.
At one stage, it was speculated that thieves might demand a ransom for the safe return of the dog.
Clares Rocket is considered to be a "superstar" in greyhound racing, according to pundit Ian Fortune.
"He's already captured under 54,000 euros (£45,800) in prize money and he's not even two-and-a-half years of age yet," Mr Fortune told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"Purely just in terms of pace, determination, track craft - this is just a serious greyhound.
"He's a dog that seems to have everything. He has great early speed, flies down the back straight, stays strong. He's well bred."
The Racing Post said Clares Rocket is "regarded as one of the fastest - and best - greyhounds seen in years".
The Holland family said they were informed on Tuesday evening that four men had been arrested and that the dog was safe.
"We picked Rocket up at about midnight and it was very emotional," the family added.
"He was very glad to be home and we were delighted to see him again. At one stage, naturally, we all feared the worst.
"Thank you to all our family, friends and followers who supported us during this time."
Detectives are questioning two men in Tipperary Garda (Irish police) station while the other two suspects are being interviewed at Clonmel Garda station.
A Garda spokesperson said the four men were detained on suspicion of the theft and possession of the stolen greyhound.
However, Clares Rocket has "found safe and well", police confirmed.
Business owners said the Wyvern Media (WM) group has billed them repeatedly for unwanted adverts.
One said she had to close her business after being charged more than £5,000 and another said had more than £500 in bills after taking adverts worth £40.
WM said it has never been its practice to take unauthorised payments.
Jean Wood, a dog breeder in Lincolnshire, agreed to pay for two adverts in company publications to sell some puppies, but claims she was charged for adverts in other publications.
"I had two invoices for the two I'd paid for, for £40," she said. "And that was okay but then I started getting invoices with "paid" on them that I hadn't asked for.
"I'd got six payments off of my credit cards that I hadn't authorised and so they'd taken over £500."
Bespoke travel business owner Polly Zabari claims she has had to close her business to pay charges of over £5,000.
She agreed to sign up to a single advertisement. However, after becoming confused by a deluge of phone calls and emails from various companies from the WM group, she discovered that the company claimed she had signed up to a total of more than £5,000 in advertising.
She said she never saw a published copy or receipt in relation to these orders and the charges led to her being forced to close down her company.
Mrs Zabari's bank has now reimbursed her after she lodged a successful complaint.
On its website, WM says it runs 28 newspaper titles, with offices across the country, including Coventry, Leamington Spa and Rugby.
An ex-employee, who did not wish to be named, sold adverts for one newspaper for several months and confirmed she had received complaints from unhappy advertisers.
"Calls started coming in from customers that... I knew our office had sold to, claiming that certain payments had been taken out of their bank accounts without authorisation," she said.
"Basically we all kept our heads down, we didn't dare say anything because, you know, we'd be out of a job there and then."
In response to the allegations, WM managing director Jonathan Rivers, of Coleshill in the West Midlands, said it "has never been" the company's practice to take unauthorised payments from customers.
He said the publications now record all sales calls, and complaints have dropped to three or four a month, out of several thousand sales.
Mr Rivers adds that if customers feel money has been taken without proper authorisation, the payments can be reclaimed through their credit cards.
The 57-year-old was taken to hospital with minor injuries following the attack in Rostrevor Avenue Stamford Hill, on Saturday night.
Another man was also attacked but he has not come forward to police.
Stamford Hill has a large Jewish community but a Metropolitan Police spokesman said the assault was not being treated as anti-Semitic.
Organisers of the Wildcat Haven project said the area had been expanded by neutering 100 local domestic cats.
Breeding with pet and feral cats is among the most serious threats to wildcats as it results in hybridisation and also exposes them to diseases.
The latest neutering work has extended the haven by 300 sq miles to total of 800 sq miles.
The project's organisers said that the zone covered Ardnamurchan, Sunart, Morvern and Moidart.
They hope in future to extend the haven towards Fort William.
The chief scientist on the project, Dr Paul O'Donoghue, said: "It's all about hybridisation. The wildcat is a very capable survivor and prefers to breed with other wildcats, but it's so outnumbered by domestic cats that hybridisation is inevitable.
"This means that over a few generations, those wildcat genes are lost, and you're just left with domestic and feral cats causing big problems for prey species and themselves."
The Scottish wildcat is among the world's most endangered animals.
The Wildcat Haven is separate from Scottish Wildcat Action, a project involving six priority areas - Strathpeffer, Strathbogie, Strathavon, Morvern, North Strathspey and the Angus Glens.
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South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.
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Writers from New Zealand to Scotland's most-northerly tip have made the shortlist for this year's Dundee International Book Prize.
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A man who stabbed a retired solicitor 39 times after a crash between their cars described the attack in interviews with detectives.
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Detectives investigating allegations of fraud and theft at a Cotswold art gallery are seeking the original owners of 600 works of art.
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Women's Super League Two clubs have been invited to apply to join WSL 1 for the 2017-18 winter season, to replace the defunct Notts County Ladies.
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New tickets offering unlimited long distance bus travel across Wales are being launched with hopes of boosting tourism and the economy.
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Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen has admitted that he took performance-enhancing drugs between 1998 and 2010.
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Lewis Hamilton said he was surprised how good his Mercedes felt during Friday's practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
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Plans to suspend consultant-led maternity care at one of north Wales' main hospitals have been scrapped, the health board has confirmed.
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A 600-strong survivors' group has lost faith in the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse, its leaders have said.
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A man accused of murdering a carer at a tourist hotspot in central London will go on trial next year.
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A significant minority of schools in England are still not spending extra funding for poor pupils effectively, warns an education inspectors' report.
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A driver who took a wrong turn and drove on to tram tracks caused almost an hour of delays while his vehicle was removed.
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Forest Green Rovers defender Dale Bennett has signed a new two-year contract with the National League club.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has warned that it may shut its doors to pilgrims in protest at a dispute with an Israeli water company.
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A 19-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital following a fight in Sheffield.
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The trainers of a kidnapped greyhound, believed to be worth up to 1m euros (£847,000) in stud fees, have said they are "delighted" the dog has been found.
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The tax cut was agreed as part of the Fresh Start deal and is due to take effect in 2018.
It means companies in Northern Ireland will have profits taxed at 12.5% compared to 19% in the rest of the UK.
BBC News NI's Economics and Business Editor John Campbell reports from the US.
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None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident on Monday night, and police on Tuesday said they had arrested one man.
Regular protests have taken place since Jamar Clark was shot by police 10 days ago. Police deny he was handcuffed.
Police use of force against African Americans has been an ongoing issue.
Protests have been held nationwide for more than a year after a series of incidents, some of them fatal.
The shooting of the five protesters happened about a block from a Minneapolis police station that has been the site of demonstrations for about a week.
A witness told the Associated Press news agency that three mask-clad people, who "weren't supposed to be there", showed up at the protest site.
They soon left and were followed by a few protesters to a street corner, where the masked men began firing.
The shooting on Monday has prompted Clark's brother to call for an end to the protests "out of imminent concern for the safety of the occupiers".
Black Lives Matter, the movement organising the protest, had planned to announce "next steps" in their protest strategy. It is not clear if the announcement will happen in light of the shooting.
Police said that Clark was the suspect in an assault case, and was shot during a struggle with police that followed him trying to interfere with paramedics tending to the assault victim.
Protesters have alleged that Clark was handcuffed when he was shot - a claim that police deny.
A federal investigation is also being conducted to determine whether police intentionally violated Clark's civil rights during the incident.
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This ranking of online searches is very different from the traditional map of the global powerhouses of higher education.
There is a strong interest in online courses, rather than traditional campus-based universities, says Google.
And there are five Indian institutions in the top 20 of most searched-for universities.
The top search worldwide is for the University of Phoenix, a US-based, for-profit university, with many online courses and a sometimes controversial record on recruitment.
The University of Phoenix, founded in the 1970s, comes ahead of famous US academic institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.
In second place in this league table of university searches is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - last week ranked as the world's best university and also an institution with a strong record for pioneering online courses.
The top European university is not some ancient institution, but the UK's distance learning pioneer, the Open University.
It has been developing online courses, including for the US, and is in third place in the Google most-searched rankings.
University College London and the London School of Economics are both ahead of Oxford and Cambridge among UK universities.
The University of Calicut, in Kerala, India, is fourth in this ranking of online searches. And Anna University in Chennai is the second Indian university in the top 10.
Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university based in Virginia in the US, with many online students, appears in the top 20.
The internet has become a key marketplace for universities to reach potential students, says Google's analysis.
It is also increasingly the medium for delivering courses, including massive open online courses or "Moocs". In 2013, searches for online universities overtook traditional universities.
Taking the UK higher education system as an example, Google's search patterns show a globalised and fast-changing market.
Among searches worldwide for UK universities, 40% are from outside the UK. The biggest international regions for searching for UK universities are Asia Pacific and western Europe.
This has helped to put five UK universities in the top 20 - but Google's report on search data shows the volatility and pace of change.
In 2011, the most searched-for universities in the UK, apart from the Open University, were conventional campus-based institutions, headed by Oxford and Cambridge.
By 2014, all of these UK campus universities had been overtaken by Coursera, the US-based provider of online courses. Other Mooc providers, such as edX and FutureLearn, had also emerged as bigger than many traditional UK universities.
"The growth that they've experienced has been phenomenal," says the Google analysis. "Higher education institutions must decide whether to embrace and adapt or risk getting left behind."
The Khan Academy, which has been providing online teaching material since 2006, has more search activity than Cambridge University, teaching since the 13th Century.
Universities are acutely aware of the importance of their online presence, says Ronald Ehrenberg, director of Cornell University's Higher Education Research Institute in New York.
The internet is the "primary way" that universities market themselves to potential students and to alumni, says Prof Ehrenberg.
"We update our web page multiple times a week to broadcast all the news that is going on at the university and all of the achievements, including research, of our faculty and students, and showcase all the visitors to the university.
"But this is only the tip of the iceberg in the way that the internet has changed how we behave.
"Many institutions are heavily into online instruction as a way of expanding enrolments... many institutions are moving to expand revenues by growing professional masters programmes in a wide range of areas."
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute in London, says the impact of Moocs has been "over-sold".
But he says university websites have an important role in recruiting, particularly for overseas students.
The Google data suggests that academics, accustomed to university terms, will also need to pay attention to search terms.
"The internet is playing an ever increasing role in the decision making. Students are online searching and consuming content in all forms when they are deciding whether or not to go to university and deciding which universities to apply for," said Harry Walker, education industry head at Google.
Connor Jennings came closest to breaking the deadlock in a tight first half, heading against a post for the away side from Adam Buxton's neat cross.
In the second half, Rovers rued a miss from James Norwood, as Williamson went up the other end and found the top corner at the near post with precision and calmness.
Richard Hill's side were always in control, as emphasised in the latter stages when McAllister and Sam Matthews came off the bench, with the latter crossing for the former to head in off the underside of the bar.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Eastleigh 2, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 2, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Ben Williamson.
Goal! Eastleigh 2, Tranmere Rovers 0. Craig McAllister (Eastleigh).
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Alabi replaces Connor Jennings.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, Tranmere Rovers 0. Ben Williamson (Eastleigh).
Substitution, Eastleigh. Sam Matthews replaces Ross Stearn.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jack Dunn replaces Jay Harris.
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Craig McAllister replaces Chris Zebroski.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Zebroski (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Norbert Hofer's new slogan translates as "So help me God" which his party says reflects "a strong anchorage in Christian and Western values".
But leaders from Protestant churches said God was the defender of the weak, "who today include refugees".
Mr Hofer's Freedom Party has campaigned against immigration.
The Christian leaders - not including the country's dominant Catholic Church - also said God was not Western, but universal.
"God cannot be manipulated for personal intentions or political purposes," Bishop Michael Buenker said in a joint statement with other Protestant leaders (in German).
"We consider that mentioning God for one's own political interests and using him along with reference to the Christian West to indirectly attack other religions and cultures amounts to an abuse of his name and of religion in general.
"We reject the use of God for political campaigning."
In response, Mr Hofer tweeted the lyrics to the Austrian national anthem (in German), which mention God, a picture of a US dollar note bearing the slogan "In God we trust" and a picture of the cover of a book about German Chancellor Angela Merkel, entitled So wahr mir Gott helfe.
Mrs Merkel used the optional phrase at her swearing-in ceremony. It is the exact same slogan as Mr Hofer used, and translates to "So help me God".
Mr Hofer is facing an independent Green-backed candidate, Alexander van der Bellen, in an election which is being rerun because of procedural irregularities. If he wins, he will become the first far-right head of state in Europe since the EU was founded.
In May, he lost by 31,000 votes to Mr van der Bellen, but the Freedom Party's claim of procedural irregularities was upheld in court and the election will be re-run in December. The re-run had to be postponed after an October attempt was curtailed due to postal vote envelopes not being sticky enough.
The Freedom Party said Mr Hofer's slogan had come directly from his heart.
Party official Herbert Kickl said the phrase was "in no way a misuse of the concept of God" and that mentioning God was "deeply rooted in our tradition and culture".
His other slogans included "Norbert Hofer: for Austria with heart and soul".
Mr Hofer was born into a Roman Catholic family but has since become a Protestant. His wife and children are Catholic.
Philippe Lamberts said MEPs could move from the French city to their other building in Brussels, Belgium.
His suggestion came as new proposals to redistribute 160,000 migrants were announced.
An influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees has sparked a crisis in the 28-nation EU.
"This parliament where we are gathered today, well we use it only 50 days of the year," Mr Lamberts said as lawmakers debated an address by European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.
"For the other 300 days, the 750 MEP offices, all heated, all with their own shower cubicle, remain empty and useless.
"We propose that this... perfectly equipped building be used as a temporary home for the migrants and refugees while we do our work in Brussels."
Migrants have been pouring into western EU countries, particularly Austria and Germany, where they are being cared for in registration centres. But officials say they are struggling to cope with the numbers.
The Green Party has been a fierce critic of the European Parliament's monthly move between Brussels and Strasbourg, branding it expensive and damaging to the environment.
The city stands on the Rhine facing Germany, and France insists it is a symbol of post-war unity and friendship.
Strasbourg hotels, restaurants and other services also benefit from the regular visits by MEPs, parliament staff, journalists and lobbyists.
The Strasbourg parliament building was inaugurated in 1999 by then French President Jacques Chirac.
In 2008, part of the ceiling in the plenary chamber collapsed. Fortunately, the room was empty at the time and no-one was hurt.
The Airlander 10 - which is part plane and part airship - took off from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire.
Its original test flight on Sunday was postponed, but it finally left the ground at 19:40 BST.
The £25m aircraft measures 302ft (92m) long and is about 50ft (15m) longer than the biggest passenger jets.
Live: Latest updates on the maiden flight of Airlander 10
In pictures: The Airlander 10 on the day of its maiden flight
Sunday's attempt was dropped because of a "technical issue" which could not be resolved in time for a daylight flight.
The airship is not allowed to fly at night during the test stage.
Christened the Martha Gwyn, the aircraft was first developed for the US government as a surveillance aircraft but the project was shelved amid defence cutbacks.
British firm Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) launched a campaign to return the Airlander 10 to the skies in May 2015.
The huge aircraft will be able to stay airborne for around five days during manned flights.
HAV claims it could be used for a variety of functions such as surveillance, communications, delivering aid and even passenger travel.
The company hopes to be building 10 Airlanders a year by 2021.
The Airlander 10 was launched from Cardington Sheds, a Grade II-listed relic of World War One which housed airships in the 1920s.
The body of Oliver Gobat, 38, was found in a burnt-out car on the Caribbean island in April last year.
He was reportedly shot and then set alight.
After the inquest in Woking delivered its verdict, The Foreign Office said it had been agreed in principle UK police could assist investigators in St Lucia.
Surrey Police said no request for assistance had yet been made.
Mr Gobat, known as Ollie, was born on the island but grew up in Surrey, where he played junior cricket at county level.
He and his two older brothers ran a five-star boutique hotel at an exclusive resort in St Lucia.
The Foreign Office said any assistance from UK forces would have to be funded by Caribbean authorities.
But, it said, no decision had been made to deploy police to St Lucia and it could not comment on cost details.
Surrey Police said it was aware of Mrs May's decision and would "carefully" consider any requests from St Lucia.
The report, Mapping the Social Business Sector in Wales, identified 1,698 organisations operating in the social business sector in Wales.
This includes co-operatives, mutuals, social enterprises and employee-owned businesses.
It is based on a survey of 810 organisations - 48% of the sector.
Other key findings of the report were:
Glenn Bowen, director of enterprise at the Wales Co-operative Centre, said the report suggested there had been "real growth" in the sector in the last two years.
He said: "Social businesses are often formed as a result of issues identified at a grassroots level by a local community.
"They plug gaps in provision and, in some cases, grow through innovative delivery and defining services in direct response to their community's needs."
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the Welsh Government was "committed to working closely with social businesses to help them to thrive and grow".
The research was commissioned by Social Business Wales and conducted by Wavehill Ltd.
Santosh Benjamin-Muthiah died in November 2010 after he was overcome by smoke at his home in Wealdstone, north London.
The 36-year-old helped his two daughters to safety through a window.
His daughters - one aged three and the other three months - survived, but he did not escape the house himself.
Coroner Andrew Walker has accepted recommendations put forward by Hertfordshire Trading Standards and London Fire Brigade about the way safety problems are recorded and how irresponsible manufacturers should be punished.
He will now urge the government to reform safety standards.
Lawyers representing Mr Benjamin-Muthiah's family said the changes "would stop manufacturers keeping safety issues secret" and force them to take action.
Mr Walker recorded a narrative verdict at North London Coroner's Court, which blamed a defrost timer on the family's Beko fridge-freezer for the blaze.
The inquest previously heard that Beko, one of Europe's largest white goods brands, had been aware of a possible safety issue with components as far back as 2003 but failed to rectify it.
Mr Walker said he could not be sure what caused the defrost timer to fail and said a product recall to fix the problematic component might not have prevented the blaze.
The family's lawyer, Jill Patterson, said the inquest had highlighted problems with regulating products and product recall.
"The changes could potentially overhaul consumer product safety regulation," she said.
"They put the power back in to the hands of consumers and stop manufacturers from keeping their problems secret."
After the inquest, Mr Benjamin-Muthiah's wife Jennifer said: "Manufacturers, producers and their retailers should be held more accountable for their actions, or their lack of response to consumer safety concerns.
"The value of a human life is priceless."
Palmer, who has died at the age of 87, was the first sportsman to use his fame to build a business empire, through an array of commercial ventures.
He put his name to products and services, including United Airlines, Cadillac cars, Rolex watches, Hertz car rental and Callaway golfing products.
The effects of his vision spilled over into other sports including tennis.
"He had the good looks, and affable persona and smile, as well as golfing ability, to become the template for what every successful sports endorser should be," says sports sponsorship expert Nigel Currie.
"He had all the attributes you need to maximise your earnings through commercial activities.
"Before then sportsmen made all their money from hitting a ball in a sporting arena."
Indeed, the man nicknamed The King, was the first golf player to make $1m from playing the sport.
He was Mark McCormack's - the undisputed king of sports marketing - first client at agency IMG, and together they invented a way of making more money off the golf course than on it.
In the first two years of his agreement with Mr McCormack, the golfer's endorsement earnings leapt from $6,000 a year to more than $500,000.
Palmer put his name to a variety of products and services, including United Airlines, Cadillac cars, Rolex watches, Hertz car rental, Pennzoil engine fluid, Callaway golfing products and E-Z-Go golf carts.
And he founded Arnold Palmer Enterprises to handle his endorsements and other ventures.
"Palmer was such a huge golfing icon in America, he was hugely popular with the public, and he and McCormack were able to make money from using his personality in conjunction with different brands," says Mr Currie.
"And it was not just endorsements during his playing career, nor indeed just golf brands.
"He also made a huge amount of money after he stopped playing."
The golfer was loved as an everyman superstar, and even had a drink named after him - the Arnold Palmer cocktail, made from one part iced tea and one part lemonade.
He also gave his name to a professional tournament - The Arnold Palmer Invitational, held each March at his private golf resort in Bay Hill, Florida.
He also leaves behind nearly 300 signature-designed courses.
"Whether he was able to physically oversee and have total control over the development of all of these courses is arguable," says Mr Currie.
"But he will have worked with top people in bringing them to fruition, and certainly will have had a huge involvement in each design."
As well as endorsements and course designs, Palmer is also credited with helping to make golf a popular TV sport during the late 1950s.
Palmer attracted thousands of diehard fans known as "Arnie's army" and helped to promote the game into the television age.
Mr Currie says that the power of Palmer's personality in securing such a powerful commercial position for himself should not be underrated, given that he was not the most global successful player ever.
"Jack Nicklaus was the more successful player, and won more titles," he says.
Nicklaus won 18 majors, and Tiger Woods has won 14, while Palmer secured an impressive seven majors between 1958 and 1964, as part of his overall haul of 90 tournaments worldwide.
"Palmer had a short career at the very top, and did not win a major title after the early 1960s."
But he had shown he was already thinking ahead to a career off the course, shrewdly signing that IMG deal with McCormack as early as 1960.
Nowadays it is commonplace for sports stars to put their names to commercial products.
But half a century ago such as association between sport and brands was unheard of.
Palmer has left a legacy for which today's high earning stars, earning astronomical sums from their own deals, should be eternally grateful.
The likes of Tiger Woods, who signed lucrative deals with global firms such as Nike, American Express and GM, Nick Faldo and Greg Norman, who launched a number of commercial ventures, from sports clothing to wines, as well as tennis stars such as Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova all followed in the path created by Palmer.
"He was the prototype for all of today's high earning sports men and women, and one of the few people you can truly say changed the world of sports business," says Mr Currie.
"As well as being as a highly significant business figure, he was also an American and golfing icon."
Of more than 90 trusts that responded to FOI requests, half are making at least £1m a year, the news agency Press Association (PA) found.
The Patients Association said the charges were "morally wrong".
But many trusts defended their revenues, saying some or all of the money was put back into patient care.
The investigation showed hospitals were making increasing amounts of money from staff, patients and visitors - including those who are disabled - who used their car parks.
It also found hospitals were giving millions of pounds to private firms to run their car parks for them, with some receiving money from parking fines.
Others are tied into private finance initiative contracts, where all the money charged from car parks goes to companies under the terms of the scheme.
Seven NHS trusts earned more than £3m in 2014-15 from charges, another eight made more than £2m a year and a further 33 earned more than £1m a year.
Almost half of all trusts also charged disabled people for parking in some or all of their disabled spaces.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: "The money is never reinvested in frontline services. Hospital car parks are often managed by private contractors who take a huge percentage of the profits.
"This is morally wrong - and charging disabled people is a disgrace."
Laura Keely, from charity Macmillan Cancer Support, told the BBC: "You shouldn't necessarily penalise cancer patients and other people with long-term conditions who are having to attend hospital to receive life saving treatment, that just isn't fair.
"There could be concessionary schemes. There could be barrier schemes, people proving that they are there for a hospital appointment, to weed out people who should not be using the hospital [car park] to do their Christmas shopping."
Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said the figures were "worrying".
Josie Irwin, head of employment relations at the Royal College of Nursing, said the charges were having a "real impact" on nurses' pay.
Hospital car parking charges in Scotland and Wales were abolished in 2008.
Three car parks in Scotland, operated under Private Finance Initiative contracts, still have car parking fees. The Scottish government said there are no plans to abolish charges at these hospitals.
Three hospitals in Wales also continue to charge, but have been told to stop doing so once their contracts with private parking firms end in 2018.
A spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety said hospital parking charges are permitted "where they are set to recover the cost of investment in and maintenance of car park provision including associated security costs".
Patients receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatment, patients receiving renal dialysis and next of kin visiting patients in critical care or a high dependency unit are eligible for free car parking in Northern Ireland.
The London North West Healthcare NHS Trust paid £1.8m in 2014 went to the company Apcoa, which manages the Northwick Park multi-storey under a PFI contract.
The company, which pays the trust about £40,000 a month on a lease basis, also kept £34,052 in parking fines in 2014.
Some NHS trusts also raised a significant amount from charging staff for parking.
Of the £3,876,314 the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust raised from parking charges in 2014-15, £1,206,836 was from staff.
Many trusts said the money was put back into patient care or was spent on maintaining car parks or grounds.
Others said their size and the fact that they served busy neighbourhoods meant they took more in revenue.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "We expect all NHS organisations to follow our guidelines on car parking, including offering discounts to disabled people.
"Patients and families shouldn't have to deal with the added stress of unfair parking charges and our guidance rightly helps the public hold the NHS to account for any unfair charges or practices."
The 27-year-old has scored in each of his six league games since joining the Scottish champions.
"On a personal level, it's about me getting back to enjoying football and that's exactly what I'm doing," Sinclair told BBC Scotland after Saturday's 6-1 win over Kilmarnock.
"I've got a manager who believes in me and gets the best out of me."
Sinclair and Rodgers worked together at Chelsea and Swansea and were reunited when Celtic paid Aston Villa an undisclosed fee to bring the player in on a four-year deal in August.
The manager hailed Sinclair's "incredible" goal-run, revealing the winger had been hampered by recent illness.
"Scott was not well all week," Rodgers explained. "He didn't train after the game last weekend and we gave him a 45 minute rest on Wednesday [the 2-0 League Cup win against Alloa].
"But he always has a hunger to work hard and to score.
"He showed great composure for the goal."
Sinclair's strike against Kilmarnock came from the penalty spot, with Leigh Griffiths giving up the opportunity to score after he was fouled.
The gesture from the striker, who had already netted as a substitute on his return from injury, was appreciated, with Sinclair saying: "It was great from Griff and it just goes to show the togetherness in the team.
"I came here to score goals and create and as long as I'm doing my job I'm happy."
Next up for Celtic is a Champions League meeting with one of Sinclair's former clubs, Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola's side top the Premier League and have won all 10 of their games since the Spaniard took over, including a 4-0 demolition of Borussia Monchengladbach in their Group C opener, while Celtic were routed 7-0 in Barcelona.
"It's going to be massive," said Sinclair, who moved to City from Swansea in 2012.
"All the players are telling me when the Champions League nights are here it's unbelievable. Celtic Park will be rocking and I'm really looking forward it.
"With the fans behind us, it definitely spurs us on and gives us that little bit of edge."
Sinclair made just two league starts for City, spending time on loan at West Brom and Aston Villa before switching permanently to Villa in 2015.
"I wouldn't say I had a point to prove," said Sinclair. "I'm just enjoying football again. I've got a smile on my face and I'm scoring goals and we're winning games."
The San Francisco Chronicle said Mr Baker died in his sleep at his home in New York on Thursday night.
He initially designed an eight-colour flag in 1978 for the city's gay freedom day, the precursor to the modern pride parade.
A candlelight vigil is planned for Friday evening in San Francisco.
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black tweeted: "Rainbows weep. Our world is far less colourful without you, my love. Gilbert Baker gave us the rainbow flag to unite us. Unite again."
California State Senator Scott Weiner said Mr Baker's work "helped define the modern LGBT movement".
"Rest in power, Gilbert," he said.
Mr Baker's original flag had eight colours, each representing a different aspect of humanity:
Read more: The rise of the rainbow flag
It would later be reduced to six stripes, removing pink and indigo, and swapping blue for turquoise.
Mr Baker said he wanted to convey the idea of diversity and inclusion, using "something from nature to represent that our sexuality is a human right".
In 2015, New York's Museum of Modern Art acquired the flag for its design collection, calling it a "powerful design milestone".
"I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will," Mr Baker told the Museum in an interview.
"And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate."
A giant rainbow flag flies at the junction of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco, near Harvey Milk Plaza, which is named for America's first openly gay politician.
A candlelit vigil is planned for 19:00 local time (02:00 GMT) beneath the flag.
Officers examined an allegation of "a small number of assaults" at It's The Little Things Children's Day Nursery in Maghull in November 2015.
The Crown Prosecution Service said no further action would be taken following the investigation also involving Sefton Safeguarding Services and Ofsted.
Co-owner Scott McCubbin thanked parents and staff for their support.
He said: "We're pleased to hear the police investigation has concluded and there will be no further action.
"We'd like to thank our staff and parents for their loyalty throughout this difficult time."
The case has been filed pending further information. No arrests were made.
Mr Schlecker is accused of offences relating to the 2012 bankruptcy, and his family allegedly helped him. His shops sold personal hygiene goods and household articles.
"The accusations are unfounded," he objected, via his lawyer in Stuttgart.
He could get up to 10 years in jail.
In Germany about 25,000 Schlecker staff lost their jobs, as did a similar number elsewhere in Europe, after the business filed for bankruptcy.
According to Stuttgart prosecutors, Mr Schlecker knew that bankruptcy was looming and siphoned off more than €20m (£17m; $21m) in assets, which would otherwise have gone to creditors.
He is accused of having made false statements about the company's financial situation.
Mr Schlecker's lawyer argues that his client did not imagine that the business was facing collapse.
The indictment includes the charges that Mr Schlecker spent €1m on a home renovation for his son Lars, a holiday for the children that cost tens of thousands of euros, and €800,000 in gifts for four grandchildren.
Lars and his sister Meike ran a logistics firm, LDG, which allegedly became a conduit for some of the Schlecker company assets.
His wife Christa is accused of having received tens of thousands of euros disguised as consultancy fees.
The MSP says when she asked for her quotes on her sexuality not to be included in an interview with the Fabian Review, her request was ignored.
The Fabian Society said it was "very sorry" she was upset by the interview.
Meanwhile, Tory MP Sir Alan Duncan says his sexuality prevented him from getting a role in former Prime Minister Sir John Major's government.
They were among a number of politicians speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme about what it was like opening up about their sexuality.
Lothian MSP Ms Dugdale who resigned as the leader of Scottish Labour on Tuesday, said she regretted not having "complete control" over coming out after quotes about her sexuality had been published in 2016.
"It wasn't the first time I'd been asked [by journalists] about my sexuality. I would always answer honestly, and then I would say, 'I'd prefer you didn't use that... I don't think it matters.'
"Up until that day, everybody had respected that, and then that one journalist had decided no, it was a story," she said.
Ms Dugdale said the night before publication she had decided to "make some phone calls" to inform people of her sexuality before it had been revealed in the media.
The Fabian Society said in a statement that the "wide-ranging and comprehensive on-the-record interview was conducted by an experienced, broadsheet journalist who followed usual journalistic practice".
The article's author, Mary Riddell, said "at no point during the interview or afterwards did [Ms Dugdale] ask me not to publish her comments, which were recorded with her agreement.
"Nor has she ever complained to me that her on-the-record comments relating to her relationship had been published."
Ms Dugdale is in a relationship with SNP MSP Jenny Gilruth.
The Labour politician said it was "fascinating" that public attention had focused on the couple's political divide, rather than their sexuality.
"People weren't in any way bothered that it was two women together.
"They were more intrigued it was two people from different political parties," she said, adding that this "definitely" showed how attitudes towards LGBT people had progressed.
British voters returned a record number of LGBT MPs to Parliament in the last general election with 45 gay, lesbian or bi-sexual MPs elected in June - six more than in the previous parliament.
Sir Alan Duncan, Conservative MP and Foreign Office Minister, said he came out as gay in 2002.
"I thought, 'I'm just going to say it. Whatever happens, happens,'"
"I'd reached the point, having been in Parliament for 10 years, where I thought I was senior enough not to be dismissed."
Sir Alan has continued to serve as an MP since that day, but believes his sexuality did go on to cost him a role as a whip in Sir John Major's government.
"I know I was blackballed from the whip's office," he said.
"Not by him, but by [others], who thought it would be too high-risk."
Sir Alan did face some hostility after he revealed his sexuality, with one article's headline reading: "I'm sorry Mr Duncan. if you're gay you are not a Tory."
But, he said, by now, with a number of gay MPs in Parliament, the UK could lead the way on LGBT rights.
"The UK can campaign [with countries without gay rights] and say, 'How dare you live in a country where you persecute gay people.'"
SNP MP Joanna Cherry told the programme she had previously believed she would be unable to have a political career because of her sexuality.
"When I realised I was gay and I saw what happened to [former Labour Party candidate] Peter Tatchell in the [1981] Bermondsey by-election, the terrible homophobia that he faced... I thought to myself a career in politics isn't going to be open to me.
"So I chose instead to concentrate on my legal career."
But in 2015 Ms Cherry stood for office, and was elected.
She said "like most gay MPs", she had since received homophobic abuse on Twitter, but was "very proud to be out as a lesbian in politics".
"I hope to be a role-model to younger women who can see you can be an out woman in public life," she said.
In 1984 Lord Chris Smith became the UK's first MP to come out as gay in office, and in 2005 spoke publicly about being HIV positive.
"Since then, I haven't regretted making that decision for a single moment," he told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
It would be another 13 years until there was another openly gay MP - Labour's Stephen Twigg - and Lord Smith said he had initially been "terrified" of the reaction, but had received many positive letters.
"There was no social media in those days, thank goodness, but I did get letters from people from all around the country," he said.
"A lot of them saying, 'Well done, congratulations,' but the ones that really meant the most to me were the ones that said, 'Thank you, it's made it easier for me.'"
Watch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Police said the blaze spread from a plastic garden shed to a house in Limefield Crescent, Bathgate, at about 23:15 on Friday.
Two men, aged 32 and 29, and a 37-year-old woman, managed to get out of the house and call the emergency services.
Police are treating the incident as wilful fire-raising.
Det Con Craig O'Mara, from Livingston CID, said: "Thankfully none of the people in the house were injured but the fire has caused significant damage to the house as well as the shed in the garden.
"At this stage the motive has still to be established.
"Limefield Crescent is a residential area and although at this time of night there may not have been people out in the street, it is quite possible people in the houses around the area may have seen something out of the ordinary, someone they didn't recognise hanging about or indeed who started the fire."
Jim Parsons, who plays lead character Sheldon, Johnny Galecki (Leonard) and Kaley Cuoco (Penny) all agreed to new three-year deals with Warner Bros TV.
Actors Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar are still involved in negotiations but are expected to settle shortly.
It was reported the stars were each seeking $1m (£600,000) per episode.
Such a settlement would make The Big Bang Theory's cast members the highest paid actors on US television.
Parsons, Galecki and Cuoco had been negotiating with the studio together, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which added that it was "likely" that a $1m per half-hour show deal had been sealed.
CBS, the show's broadcaster, has yet to comment on the terms of the new settlements.
The principal cast is expected to resume work on Wednesday, a week later than scheduled. It is unclear whether the delay will result in fewer episodes being recorded.
Its main stars did not return to the studios for the first days of filming for the eighth series last Wednesday while their contracts were still under negotiation.
$1.8m for Charlie Sheen - Two and a Half Men (2010)
$1.7m for Ray Romano - Everybody Loves Raymond (2003)
$1.6m for Kelsey Grammer - Frasier (2002)
$1.25m for Tim Allen - Home Improvement (1998)
$1m for the main cast of Friends (2002) and Big Bang Theory (2014)
The comedy - which centres on a group of high-functioning science "geeks"- is the most-watched TV show in the US, with an average audience of 23.1 million in 2013-14.
Earlier this year, the show was extended for a further three series, meaning it will now air until at least 2017.
As well as its ratings success, the show has been a favourite at the Emmy Awards, with Parsons winning three times for his portrayal of socially challenged particle physics genius Dr Sheldon Cooper.
The show has also been nominated for best comedy series but has yet to collect that accolade.
Anthony Grainger, 36, was shot once in the chest during a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) operation in Culcheth, Cheshire, in March 2012.
The inquiry into his death heard police believed he was preparing for an armed robbery.
The police watchdog made 16 findings critical of GMP.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found the marksman may have committed a criminal offence.
The case against the officer, referred to as Q9, was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service but it was decided not to proceed to trial.
Inquiry counsel Jason Beer said prosecutors decided not to bring charges as a jury "would accept that the officer did believe his actions were necessary and that the level of force used in response to the threat as he perceived it to be was proportionate".
The public inquiry at Liverpool Crown Court heard Mr Grainger, a father-of-two, was suspected of being about to take part in an armed robbery.
But Mr Beer said the IPCC investigation uncovered serious failings by GMP and individual officers.
The IPCC found the investigation, known as Operation Shire, relied heavily on "out of date" intelligence in relation to Mr Grainger and that briefings to officers contained "inaccurate information".
David Totton, Robert Rimmer and Joseph Travers, all from Manchester, were arrested at the scene but later found not guilty of conspiracy to rob following a trial at Manchester Crown Court in September 2012.
Sir Peter Fahy, who was the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police at the time of the shooting, had been charged with a health and safety offence.
But the case collapsed after it was ruled that police evidence was so secret that it would not be in the public interest for it to be revealed in court.
Mr Grainger's inquest was converted to a public inquiry in March 2016 by the then Home Secretary, Theresa May.
The inquiry, chaired by Judge Thomas Teague, is expected to run until 21 April.
Sudhir Choudhrie and his son Bhanu were arrested on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations of bribery in Indonesia and China.
The Choudhrie family and their businesses have donated more than £1.5m to the Liberal Democrats since 2004.
The men, who have been bailed without conditions, deny the allegations.
They were arrested as part of the serious fraud office's investigation into allegations of bribery in Asia by Rolls-Royce, which makes engines for military and commercial jets and ships
The Liberal Democrats confirmed they are aware of the SFO's investigation but say that whilst it is ongoing they cannot comment.
The Choudhrie family businesses, C&C Alpha Group, C&C Business Solutions & Alpha Healthcare, have donated more than £1.3m over the last 10 years.
This included donations in 2010, the general election year, totalling £415,000, which accounted for 8.5% of all the donations the Liberal Democrats received that year.
Sudhir Choudhrie and Bhuna Choudhrie have personally given £185,000 to the party since 2004.
Sudhir Choudhrie, 65, who is originally from India, lives in London and is reported to have arrived in the UK 10 years ago.
Home Secretary Theresa May presented him with a lifetime achievement award at the Asian Business awards in March last year.
In an interview after the ceremony, he said the secret of his success was ''hard work and nothing else but hard work''.
The family's portfolio of companies include businesses that specialise in providing services for the elderly and mentally ill.
The parent company of Alpha Hospitals Ltd is Harberry Investments which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven.
More than 700 travelling fans watched Vale suffer their fifth straight away loss to slip back into the bottom four.
But Brown believes many fans are aware of the circumstances that he is working under, with his squad hit by injuries.
"We can see they're frustrated, 100%," Brown told BBC Radio Stoke.
"The ones who look into the true problems we have are very understanding of the situation," added the 40-year-old, who is still acting on a caretaker manager basis and awaiting a decision on his own future.
The loss of defender Andre Bikey late on in Vale's defeat on Saturday, to become the club's ninth current injury casualty, was the sparking point to the fans' anger.
But Brown is now ready to risk turning as his replacement to Remie Streete, who has been sidelined for three matches with a hamstring injury, when they host promoted Sheffield United on Good Friday.
"We hope to have Remie for Friday," Brown added. "We certainly need him."
Vale have only won three times in 2017 - but all three have been in the past month, in a run of good home form that has brought them 10 points out of a possible 12 at Vale Park.
Their biggest home test to date comes on Friday against the Blades, one of Brown's old clubs and the likely League One champions.
"Other teams are beating teams who are higher in the table," he said. "That's what we're going to have to do in the coming weeks.
"We knew it was going to go all the way, but there are games we can still win. We need to be as positive as we can."
Vale, in 21st, are one point behind three clubs - Bury, Shrewsbury Town and Gillingham.
Brown's men have a game in hand, away at Walsall on 25 April, but Vale have the second worst away record in the division, having picked up just nine points in 20 games.
They have lost last their past five away matches, having not won on their travels since beating MK Dons 1-0 on 9 October.
Under the plan, all migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey would be returned and for each Syrian sent back, a Syrian in Turkey would be resettled in the EU.
The UN's refugee agency said any collective expulsion of foreigners was "not consistent with European law".
Amnesty International called the plan a death blow to the right to seek asylum.
The deal, discussed at a summit in Brussels on Monday, has not been finalised and talks will continue ahead of an EU meeting on 17-18 March.
Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War Two. Last year, more than a million people entered the EU illegally by boat, mainly going from Turkey to Greece.
Nearly half of them were Syrian, fleeing the country's civil war. Another 2.7 million Syrian refugees are currently in Turkey.
Meanwhile Slovenia has announced new restrictions for migrants - only those seeking asylum in the country or arriving for humanitarian reasons will be allowed entry.
The move means the Balkans route from Greece to Western Europe is "shutting down" to migrants, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar said.
In response Serbia, though which migrants transit on the way north to Slovenia and beyond, announced its own restrictions for migrants arriving at its borders.
The future of the Schengen agreement - which allows passport-free travel in a 26-nation zone - is already in doubt, given that eight of its members have introduced temporary border controls.
The EU heads said "bold moves" were needed, and made the following proposals:
European Council President Donald Tusk insisted the leaders at the summit had made a "breakthrough", and he was hopeful of concluding the deal in the next week.
However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was more circumspect, saying: "It is a breakthrough if it becomes reality."
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey had taken a "game-changing" decision "to discourage illegal migration".
Vincent Cochetel, the UN's regional co-ordinator for the refugee crisis in Europe, said: "An agreement that would be tantamount to a blanket return of any foreigners to a third country is not consistent with European law."
Amnesty International said the plan was "wrought with moral and legal flaws".
Amnesty's Iverna McGowan said: "EU and Turkish leaders have sunk to a new low, effectively horse-trading away the rights and dignity of some of the world's most vulnerable people."
The EU believes the legal questions will be covered by declaring Turkey a "safe third country" for return. Amnesty says it strongly questions the whole concept of "safe third country".
Turkey is also not a full member of the Geneva Convention, which could raise more legal questions.
The system spelled out to the BBC by EU Commission spokesperson for migration Natasha Bertaud would see all migrants rescued in Greek waters taken to a Greek island for screening.
Irregular migrants would then be returned to Turkey to be screened again and "if they have no right to international protection" - which currently covers only Syrians - sent back to their country of origin.
All migrants rescued in Turkish waters would be taken back to Turkey, which would decide their status.
Serious questions remain. What will happen to the thousands of migrants already in Greece, which has struggled to shelter and register them?
The biggest problem will be the migrants themselves - having risked their lives and invested much of their money, will they not simply try other routes?
Vincent Cochetel said: "As long as the conflict is not solved, it's a myth to believe that people will not try to leave."
There is major opposition among some EU members to compulsory migrant quotas. Hungary says it vetoed the Turkish resettlement proposal on Monday and may do so again at the next EU meeting.
Turkey's bid for EU membership is another thorny issue, not helped by the recent wrangle over the court-ordered seizure of the opposition Zaman newspaper.
More problematic is Turkey's request for visa-free access for all its citizens to the EU's Schengen zone, which it hopes to achieve by June. This may draw a lot of opposition.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
A statement purportedly by the militant group said it would issue demands to the French government "shortly" and warned it against "anything stupid".
France has sent troops to hunt for the hostages, five of whom are French. The others are from Togo and Madagascar.
They were last seen heading towards Niger's borders with Mali and Algeria.
Two of the French nationals were employees of the French nuclear energy firm, Areva, which operates the mine near Arlit.
The other five hostages worked for a subsidiary of the French construction company, Vinci, which was a subcontractor there.
In an audio statement broadcast by al-Jazeera on Tuesday, a spokesman for al-Qaeda's North African offshoot said a group led by Sheikh Abou Zaid had managed to evade the tight security in place at Arlit and kidnapped "five French nuclear experts" early on Thursday.
"The men were able to attack the mine at Arlit, which is considered one the world's most important sources of uranium that France has been stealing from for decades," Salah Abou Mohammed said.
"We claim responsibility for this blessed operation and tell the French government that the mujahideen will inform it with their legitimate demands at a later time."
"We also warn them from doing anything stupid," he added.
The French Defence Council later met at the Elysee Palace to discuss the statement, which has not yet been authenticated.
Niger's government said evidence suggested the kidnappers were affiliated to Abou Zaid, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in northern Mali.
On Monday, France said it had dispatched 80 military personnel to Niger's capital, Niamey, to help search for the hostages.
Long-range Breguet Atlantique aircraft and a Mirage jet, equipped with sophisticated monitoring equipment, were also sent.
The hostages and their captors were last seen heading towards Inabangaret, an important well and stopping point in north-western Niger.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an offshoot of the Islamist militant group, is active in the region and has kidnapped French and other European nationals in the past.
In July, the group announced that it had executed a 78-year-old retired French engineer it was holding hostage in Mali, after a raid by the French and Mauritanian armed forces failed to free him.
The following month, the Spanish government is believed to have paid millions of euros to free two of its nationals seized by AQIM in Mauritania.
Niger is the world's sixth biggest producer of uranium, and the radioactive heavy metal is its main export. Areva gets much of its uranium from the two mines it operates in the country, Arlit and Imouraren.
The FTSE 100 closed up 1.62% at 6,032.24 points.
The index had fallen 2.8% in the previous session after commodity-related shares were hit by worries over global growth prospects.
However, investors shrugged off another survey suggesting China's manufacturing sector was continuing to contract.
A similar survey for the eurozone indicated that activity among businesses in the bloc continued to expand this month, although at a slower rate than in August.
The preliminary reading of the Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the eurozone was 53.9 in September, down from 54.3 last month. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
British Airways owner IAG topped the FTSE 100 risers board, closing up 4.7% to 594p after Morgan Stanley raised its price target for the stock. The news lifted shares in Easyjet, which ended the day 3.4% higher.
Energy stocks were bolstered as the price of oil steadied. Shares in BP ended the day up 1.3%.
Shares in Smiths Group ended up almost 1% after the company reported full-year results and said Andrew Reynolds Smith would take over as chief executive from Friday.
In the 12 months to 31 July, revenues at the engineering group dropped 2% to £2.89bn, but pre-tax profits rose 3% to £459m.
Drinks giant Diageo closed higher by 0.96%. The company said that recent currency fluctuations would cut operating profits by about £150m, but added that the financial year had begun well and "performance is in line with our expectations".
United Utilities shares closed the day 1.48% higher, after the water firm's latest trading update. The company said its profits would be hit by about £25m after it had to pay compensation to about 300,000 households in Lancashire following the discovery of a parasitic bug in water supplies.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.81% against the dollar to $1.5242, and dropped 1.09% against the euro to €1.3657.
The government said it would halt "combat operations" in line with the plan announced by the US and Russia.
But the opposition said its acceptance depended on government forces ending sieges and air strikes of civilians.
The deal will not apply to the two main jihadist groups in Syria, Islamic State (IS) and the rival al-Nusra Front.
Al-Nusra is an affiliate of al-Qaeda and forms part of a major rebel alliance that controls large parts of the country's north-west.
What's a 'cessation of hostilities'? How it differs from a truce or a ceasefire
Who's in and who's out? Which armed groups will not be abiding by the accord
More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria.
Eleven million others have fled their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other, as well as IS militants.
Under the terms of the agreement announced by the US and Russia on Monday, the Syrian government and opposition were required to indicate by noon on Friday (10:00 GMT) whether they would comply with the cessation of hostilities.
The High Negotiation Committee (HNC) issued a statement after a meeting in Saudi Arabia saying it was "committed to the success of the international efforts dedicated to ending Syrian bloodshed".
But it warned that "acceptance of the truce is conditional'' on the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 2254, which calls on all parties to lift sieges, allow aid deliveries, halt aerial and artillery attacks on civilians, and release detainees.
The Syrian government later declared "its acceptance of a halt to combat operations on the basis of continuing military efforts to combat terrorism".
It added that it would work with Russia, which has conducted air strikes against Mr Assad's opponents since September, to identify areas and armed groups that were covered and reserved the right to "respond to any breach by these groups ".
Moscow's military intervention in Syria has been a game changer.
Not only has it forced the West to sit down at the negotiating table and deal with Russia and its president, but also to recognise Russia as a major world power. And, of course, it has given a huge boost to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The reason Washington no longer demands the Syrian leader's resignation as a pre-condition to peace is because it knows that is no longer realistic: Russian firepower has made Mr Assad more secure, his armed opponents weaker.
The Russians sense that both the United States and Europe want a swift end to this conflict, and they know that the Syrian refugee crisis is putting a huge strain on the EU.
So, Russia sees its chance to change the way it is viewed: it wants to be seen by the West not as the problem, but the solution.
The Syrian government also stressed the importance of sealing Syria's borders, halting foreign support for armed groups, and "preventing these organisations from strengthening their capabilities or changing their positions".
The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance told the Associated Press that it would not abide by the deal because it was fighting only IS in northern Syria.
The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has described the plan for the cessation of hostilities as encouraging, but acknowledged that enforcing it on the ground will be challenging.
Mr de Mistura will convene a taskforce to monitor the deal as soon as it takes effect, due at midnight on Saturday (22:00 GMT on Friday).
The US, which supports the opposition to Mr Assad, will also share information with Russia, including data that delineates territory where armed groups are active.
Rebel commanders expressed doubts about the accord, saying it would provide cover for government forces and Russian aircraft to continue their attacks.
"Russia and the regime will target the areas of the revolutionaries on the pretext of al-Nusra Front's presence," Bashar al-Zoubi of the Yarmouk Army told the Reuters news agency. "If this happens, the truce will collapse."
US Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate committee that it would be clear very soon whether Russia was serious about ending the conflict.
"The proof will be in the actions that come in the next days," he said.
He added that Mr Assad was going to "going to have to make some real decisions" about the formation of a transitional administration, as part of a UN Security Council-endorsed peace process, or the US would consider "Plan B options".
Fighting continued on Tuesday despite the plan for a cessation of hostilities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that air strikes, believed to have been carried out by Russian jets, had targeted one of the last roads into opposition-held eastern areas of the city of Aleppo.
South of Aleppo, IS militants captured the town of Khanaser, cutting a road used to supply government-controlled areas of the city, the Syrian Observatory said.
Meanwhile, state TV reported that an aid convoy had entered the eastern Damascus suburb of Kafr Batna, which is under siege by government forces.
Ms Harman told the Sunday Times the change in position came after they "reflected on the conversations we had on doorsteps" during the election.
The PM has pledged to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK and hold an "in/out" referendum by the end of 2017.
Ms Harman told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show the party would still campaign for the UK to stay in the EU.
She said: "Whether we are in the European Union or not is a huge, important, constitutional, political, economic decision."
The Conservatives were bringing forward a bill to allow the referendum to happen, said Ms Harman, and Labour "wouldn't succeed" in stopping it.
She added: "There just does not seem to be the public appetite for us to man the barricades against a referendum that appears inevitably going to happen. We will vote for the bill and then get into the big questions for and against Europe."
Labour's decision to support the referendum bill, which is expected to be in Wednesday's Queen's Speech, means it should be able to speed through Parliament without serious delays.
Analysis, by BBC political correspondent Carole Walker
Labour's change of heart on Europe brings the party's overall position into line with that already taken by several of the candidates hoping to be its new leader. What'll be interesting to see is whether Labour will actually whip all of its MPs to support continuing EU membership when it actually comes to the crunch. We don't often hear about it, but there is a significant minority in the party that is Eurosceptic
For now, though, I think this is Labour facing up to reality - for them to be saying, 'No, no, we don't want people to have a say in this' just wouldn't be the best direction to pursue.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid told the Andrew Marr Show that the government was "not pretending it was going to be easy" to get the changes required.
But minds would be concentrated elsewhere in the EU now that the referendum was going to happen, he said.
"We are going to need some patience but we will get there," Mr Javid said, especially on getting changes to things like the welfare payments available to new arrivals from elsewhere in Europe.
He added that limiting the rights of EU migrants to claim tax credits was a key part of the renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU.
Mr Javid said EU migrants could currently receive £700 per month in tax credits, twice what they would receive in Germany. He said "that's the kind of thing we need to change. It's a very key part of our negotiation."
David Cameron is ready to start renegotiating the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
The UK and the EU: Better off in or out?
What Britain wants from Europe
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
Timeline: EU referendum debate
Why Germany is David Cameron's new best friend
Ms Harman said Labour agreed with the principle that people should have had to pay in before getting welfare payments, and said Labour also wanted to see change on the tax credit rules - although stressing this could be achieved by increasing the minimum wage.
She said that while Labour would now support the bill, she did not want to see the referendum held on the same day as other elections as it was "a big constitutional question which needs separate consideration".
The settled view in Labour was that the UK's future lay in being a member of the EU, Ms Harman added.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said Labour had been "dragged unwillingly to accept the inevitable" that there would be a referendum, but said they appeared to have learned little from their election defeat.
"They grudgingly accept that it is the will of the British people to have a say on their future, but they make it clear that they will campaign for an in, whatever the result of Mr Cameron's negotiations. So in reality this isn't a conversion to democracy and the facts of the European argument, merely an acceptance of the inevitable," he said.
The Labour U-turn came on the same day that Pascal Lamy, who was director general of the World Trade Organization for 13 years, urged David Cameron to make the positive case for Europe if he wants to successfully renegotiate the UK's terms of membership with fellow EU leaders.
In an interview to be broadcast later on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend, Mr Lamy - who now heads up the think tank Notre Europe - said he did not agree with the view "that the Brits have always been a pain in the ass so they can leave and it would be fine".
He said the prime minister started with some credit because of his election victory.
"[David Cameron] won an election in a reasonably brilliant way as a politician, as a professional of politics he did a good job and these guys are in the same job and they recognise that", he said.
"There are issues of substance, but the psychology of that matters very much."
He warned there would be some red lines, such as free movement of people but there was a "margin of manoeuvre" over this and exempting the UK from "ever closer union".
He suggested Mr Cameron's tone would be important.
"Most European leaders, including myself, feel David Cameron needs to be able to make a good case for Europe in the referendum."
Mr Lamy said if Britain left, it would be bad news for the EU.
He said in his previous jobs, he found world leaders, like the presidents of China and Brazil, felt the EU was founded on two miracles - peace between France and Germany, and British membership.
The BBC's Mark Mardell, presenter of the World This Weekend said: "As a high profile, fervent believer in European integration Mr Pascal's words are important - and suggest the European establishment want to give Mr Cameron a deal that will help him win a referendum".
Listen to the The World This Weekend on BBC Radio Four on Sunday at 13:00 BST, and after that on BBC iPlayer.
Flights to Majorca from Inverness Airport are to be offered for six weeks from 16 June 2016.
The first direct flights from Scotland to Jamaica will also be offered next summer, for three weeks from Glasgow Airport.
Holiday companies Thomson and First Choice will operate the links.
Graeme Bell, general manager at Inverness Airport, said the flights to Majorca would be a "fantastic addition" to the airport's holiday route network.
The flights would connect holidaymakers to several resorts, including Sa Coma on the east coast of Majorca.
Services from Glasgow to Montego Bay are to be offered for three weeks from June 2017.
Thomson and First Choice are also introducing new flights from Glasgow to Sal in Cape Verde this winter and again next summer.
The companies said the Jamaica flights would serve popular resorts including Lucea, Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios and Trelawny.
Glasgow Airport has welcomed the announcement.
Dave McClure announced his resignation in a blog entitled: "I'm a creep. I'm sorry."
Entrepreneur Sarah Kunst had claimed in the New York Times that Mr McClure sent inappropriate messages after discussing a potential job offer with her.
Mr McClure apologised directly to her for his behaviour in his post.
He also admitted that he had behaved inappropriately towards other women.
"I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate," wrote Mr McClure.
"I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behaviour was inexcusable and wrong."
After the article, tech entrepreneur Cheryl Yeoh also published claims of an assault in her apartment and claimed there were "dozens" of women who had been sexually harassed by him.
She said she had invited Mr McClure and some other investors back to her home to brainstorm new ideas in 2014. He was the last to leave.
"He pushed himself on to me to the point where I was backed into a corner, made contact to kiss me, and said something along the lines of, 'Just one night, please just this one time,'" she wrote.
Ms Yeoh said she had already told Mr McClure that she had a boyfriend, and that he knew him.
"The fact that I had to say no multiple times, and that he had pushed himself on to me and kissed me without my consent was way more than crossing the line of inappropriateness," she wrote.
In his blog Mr McClure apologised directly to Sarah Kunst and "the women I have hurt or offended" but did not mention Ms Yeoh by name.
He has not commented on her claims.
TechCrunch reported that a female partner in the firm had also resigned, criticising 500 Startup's leadership for its "lack of transparency" regarding Dave McClure.
Co-founder Christine Tsai has now taken on the role of chief executive.
"As much as we want to be part of the solution, we clearly have also been part of the problem," she wrote.
"Undoubtedly there are ways I could have done more or acted sooner."
Dave McClure is undergoing counselling "to work on changing his perspectives", she added.
Silicon Valley has been rocked by sexism scandals in recent months.
Several senior executives at Uber, including founder Travis Kalanick, resigned after a damning report into the organisational culture within the firm which included sexual discrimination.
Last month, Binary Capital co-founders Justin Caldbeck and Jonathan Teo both resigned from the tech investment firm following accusations of harassment carried out by Mr Caldbeck.
In a statement to The Information (which has a paywall) Mr Caldbeck said he was "deeply disturbed" by the allegations.
"There's no denying this is an issue in the venture community, and I hate that my behaviour has contributed to it," he said.
At last week's Female Founders conference, attendees said they were pleased to see action was being taken.
"People are being held accountable - they're not sweeping it under the carpet," Jessica Livingston, co-creator of start-up investment programme Y Combinator, told the BBC.
The 24-year-old, who will join Edinburgh Rugby in the summer, was injured in last month's Six Nations defeat by England at Twickenham.
Fellow Glasgow Warrior Josh Strauss is expected to be out for six weeks after injuring a kidney on Scotland duty.
Strauss will sign for Sale Sharks on a three-year contract in the summer.
Bennett had anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery and is expected to take between nine to 12 months to return to full fitness.
Back-rower Strauss has been out since February but, following a review by his consultant, the 30-year-old has been told he requires six more weeks of non-contact work before being allowed to return to full training.
"We're disappointed that Mark's time at the club has come to an end in this way, and it also looks like Josh may not play for us again as he continues his graduated return to training," said Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend, who is leaving to become Scotland coach.
"We wish both players all the best with their rehab and look forward to having them as part of our wider group for the remainder of the season."
Both players are due to attend Glasgow's Pro 12 game at Scotstoun a week on Friday, along with other squad members who are leaving in the summer, to mark their contribution to the club.
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Edmund, making only his second Davis Cup appearance, won 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-5) to give Britain, who were without Andy Murray, an unassailable 3-1 lead.
Britain will now play Argentina at home in September as they aim to defend the title they won in Belgium last year.
Following Edmund's win, James Ward lost 6-2 3-6 7-5 to Janko Tipsarevic to make the final score 3-2 to Britain.
Edmund, 21, was playing as Britain's top-ranked singles player after Murray chose to sit out the tie following his Wimbledon success.
It was the first time Britain have won a World Group match in the Davis Cup without their number one player.
Facing Lajovic, the highest ranked player in Serbia's squad following Novak Djokovic's decision to miss the tie, Edmund produced one of the best performances of his career, hitting 27 forehand winners and 39 in total.
The world number 67 served for the match at 5-4 but Lajovic broke back before the Yorkshireman rallied to take the match on a tie-break.
"You want to win for your country," said Edmund. "When you know what is at stake... I'm so pleased that I've won."
Edmund had beaten Tipsaveric in the first singles rubber on Friday to give Britain a 1-0 lead.
Lajovic then beat Ward in the second singles match on Saturday before Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot put Britain in front again with victory in the doubles.
Team captain Leon Smith has now won 14 of his 16 Davis Cup matches since taking the job in 2010.
He was full of praise for Edmund's performances this year and last.
"I have seen Kyle develop a lot," said Smith. "To get your first Davis Cup win is something, to get two in one weekend is something very special indeed."
Former Great Britain Davis Cup captain John Lloyd: "It was a gutsy performance and Kyle had faith in his game. He didn't pull back, he stood firm and withstood Lajovic's best games at the end.
"That will mean so much that Kyle came through in that sort of pressure. What that could do for his career is amazing."
Former Great Britain Davis Cup player Jamie Baker: "He was rock-solid at the end. He's never been in a situation like that before.
"His forehand, in terms of pace and what he can do with it is in the top five, of the world but he can always improve his movement."
Britain will face Argentina in the last four after the South Americans completed a 3-1 away victory against Italy.
France - featuring Wimbledon doubles champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, as well as singles quarter-finalists Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - beat the Czech Republic 3-1.
They will face Croatia, who came from 2-0 down to beat the United States.
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He said the election was a choice between the Conservatives "running the country for the rich" or Labour which "puts working people first".
The Tories said on Saturday they plan to raise personal tax allowances to £12,500.
The Liberal Democrats have announced proposals to boost apprenticeships.
After rejecting any coalition while on a visit to Deeside, Mr Miliband said Labour having a majority government would be in the "best interest for Wales and the best interest of the UK".
He said: "There's a big choice at this election. Do we have a Conservative government with David Cameron which runs the country for the richest and most powerful people?
"Or do we have a Labour government led by me which puts working people first?"
But, on Friday, Prime Minister David Cameron said people in Wales knew "more than most the damage Labour can do".
Launching the Conservative election manifesto for Wales, in Powys, Mr Cameron said it was both "hypocrisy" and a source of shame that Welsh Labour had not protected health spending in the way his government had in England.
Mr Miliband responded: "The way David Cameron has approached the issue is using Wales as a political football not trying to address the real reasons for this."
He also defended the record of the Welsh Labour government and would not put a figure on future funding for Wales.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has also accused Labour of hypocrisy, for attacking Conservative public spending cuts while refusing to commit to reversing those cuts.
Plaid Cymru MPs would not support a minority Labour government "that at its heart represents the worst excesses of austerity", she warned.
But they have called for parity with Scotland on funding, saying it would amount to an extra £1.2bn a year to the Welsh budget.
Also on Saturday, the Liberal Democrats announced what it calls plans to scrap the "jobs tax on young employees".
The party says it wants to run a scheme exempting businesses from paying National Insurance on the earnings of apprentices aged under 25, due to come into force next year, for the remainder of the next parliament.
Cancer charities argued the drug adds an average of six months to the lives of some women whose breast cancer has become inoperable.
Women in England, Wales and Ireland have already been refused access to the drug on cost grounds.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium also had concerns about cost effectiveness.
The SMC said it had to consider value for money and take account of the needs of all patients who need treatment, not just those affected by this medicine.
Earlier this year the SMC was reformed to give patients and clinicians a greater say on which new medicines are approved.
The drug approval body for England and Wales, NICE, ruled in August that Kadcyla was still too expensive to be approved for routine NHS use.
It led to claims by the manufacturer Roche that the system was "broken".
NICE generally approves treatments which cost no more than £30,000 per year of better-quality life.
In the case of Kadcyla, NICE said the quality-to-cost ratio had been calculated at £166,000.
The Irish equivalent of NICE and the SMC, the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, has also ruled that Kadcyla is not cost-effective.
The only way women will be able to access it will be through a new Peer Approved Clinical System (PACS).
They will need the support of their consultant to argue that the drug offers them particular benefit over and above what has already been considered by the SMC.
Prof Jonathan Fox, chairman of the SMC, said the organisation was "disappointed" not to have been able to recommend Kadcyla, which is also known as trastuzumab emtansine.
He said it had "taken on board" the drug's effectiveness and applied as much "flexibility" as possible in its considerations. Ultimately, however, "the committee felt unable to accept it."
He said: "While the PACE process is a determining factor when we consider medicines like this, and was designed to increase access to such medicines, that access cannot come at any price - we have to consider value for money and take account of the needs of all patients who need treatment, not just those affected by the medicine under consideration. NHS Scotland does not have infinite resources.
"This is a devastating condition and we understand that this decision will be very disappointing for patients. Most of our committee members are practising clinicians who care for patients daily and the decision to not recommend a life-extending medicine is never taken lightly.
"Local NHS boards have processes in place to allow clinicians to prescribe medicines that are not accepted for routine use by the SMC. We would welcome a resubmission for trastuzumab emtansine that takes into account the issues raised by the SMC appraisal."
James Jopling, the Scotland director for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "Support for this drug has united the entire breast cancer community.
"Patients, families, carers, oncologists and all four breast cancer charities in Scotland have called for this medicine to be approved. In addition, over 1,800 members of the public have signed our petition calling for more medicines like Kadcyla to be made available in Scotland.
"So this is a deeply disappointing outcome and, though we recognise the very high cost of this medicine made it hard for the SMC to approve, it becomes more vital than ever that pharmaceutical companies do more to set the cost of new medicines at a price the NHS can afford."
He continued: "Access to drugs for people who really need them is an ongoing problem and Breakthrough is leading the call for a solution to be found. We are determined to stop breast cancer for good, and making sure every woman receives the treatment she needs is the first step."
Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "As happens currently, any patient with secondary breast cancer whose clinician believes that Kadycla will be of significant benefit can make a request to their health board to access the drug.
"There are already patients in Scotland being treated with Kadcyla, funded by the NHS, and this will continue with the additional funding pledged by the Scottish government.
"However this is clearly not the ideal situation for patients and clinicians in Scotland, and I hope that the manufacturer will resubmit Kadycla quickly and at a fair price."
Highland Council had to submit an application for listed building consent as part of the project to create viewing platforms in the tower.
The local authority hopes to open the tower to the public next year.
The rest of the 19th Century building would continue to be used as a sheriff court.
The 32-year-old suffered a groin injury in last week's 0-0 draw at Barnsley.
"We've assessed him now and we think he'll be out for the season," he said.
"He did train yesterday but not fully. The only chance he has in the last couple of games, if any chance.
"At first we thought that he could be out for months."
He continued: "It's not severe as we first thought. He was chirpy yesterday."
Meanwhile, Lee Peltier could make his first appearance in 10 weeks against Sheffield Wednesday, after an injury which Warnock says has caused him "agony".
The 30-year old has not played since the end of January after suffering an ankle injury in the 2-0 win over Preston.
"He's training really well. We're having to hold him back a bit. I'm toying with the idea of using him tomorrow on the bench.
"But we've just got to be careful. He had an operation to take away one large bit of bone and two others. He must have been in agony for weeks. But it's good that it's been cleared up."
Warnock also welcomed the news that goalline technology will be used in the Championship next season.
He was Crystal Palace manager in 2009 when Freddie Sears found the net against Bristol City, only for the ball to hit the the stanchion and bounce back into play as the referee failed to spot the goal. Palace went on to lose the game 1-0.
"It's not before time. I've had my disappointments, with Bristol City being my main one. We all celebrated but four people in black didn't see it," he said.
"It can only help referees. I thought it would have been introduced the same time as the Premier League (in 2013) with what's at stake in the Championship."
Lord Lawson said it "would be great" if the Republic of Ireland said it had "made a mistake" in getting independence from Britain in 1922.
He is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum.
He made the joke while answering a question on the effect of a British EU exit (Brexit) on the Irish border.
Lord Lawson served as chancellor from 1983 to 1989, under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
He is now chairman of the Vote Leave campaign group.
During a referendum debate at the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House, Lord Lawson was asked about the security implications along the Irish border if the UK leaves the EU.
He said the UK had a "special relationship with the Irish Republic, for obvious historical reasons but also for reasons of sentiment".
He said both states worked together to tackle the threat from terrorism and added he believed that "very close co-operation" would continue after the UK left the EU.
Lord Lawson then joked: "I would be very happy if the Republic of Ireland - I don't think it's going to happen - were to say we made a mistake in getting independence in 1922, and come back within the United Kingdom. That would be great."
When asked if a UK withdrawal from the EU would result the reinstatement of security checks along the Irish border, he said: "There are checks now because of the terrorist problem.
"That's one of the places where terrorists are checked. I'm not at all sure there needs to be anything further. I don't see why there should be."
However, earlier this week Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness warned the implications of a UK withdrawal from the EU would be "absolutely enormous" for Northern Ireland.
His Sinn Féin party, which is campaigning to stay in the EU, said an exit would "undoubtedly led to a reinforcement of the border and greater restrictions on the movement of people, livestock and goods from one part of this island to the other".
Speaking at a campaign rally in Miami for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the president said Mr Trump's comments undermined American democracy.
Mr Trump refused in a televised debate to say he would accept the outcome of the election on 8 November.
He later said he would accept a "clear" result but left a challenge open.
Speaking in Ohio on Thursday, Mr Trump said, with a grin: "I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States, that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election - if I win."
In the same speech, he said he would accept a clear election result but reserved the right to file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable one.
Hours later, the president said that sowing the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of US elections provided a boost to the country's enemies.
"You're doing the work of our adversaries for them, because our democracy depends on people knowing that their vote matters," said Mr Obama.
Mr Trump has been heavily criticised by many in his own party by suggesting he might not accept the election result.
For days, he has claimed the election is rigged against him, due to media bias and voter fraud.
During Wednesday night's debate with Mrs Clinton, when moderator Chris Wallace asked Mr Trump if he would accept losing to her, the Republican nominee said he would "keep you in suspense".
Mr Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, later insisted that the candidate had meant he would not concede until the "results are actually known".
Republican Senator John McCain, who lost to Mr Obama eight years ago, said: "A concession isn't just an exercise in graciousness. It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader's first responsibility."
First Lady Michelle Obama also joined the attack on Thursday, saying "you do not keep American democracy in suspense".
Hillary Clinton walked on to her campaign plane to the cheering and clapping of her aides.
She told reporters she was relieved and grateful and joked there would be "no more naps"- a reference to Trump's repeated description of her prep days off the campaign trail as naps.
Mrs Clinton's stand-in for Mr Trump during the mock debates was one of her close aides, Philippe Reines, who took the role so seriously that he wore Trump cufflinks, shoe lifts and the same red tie as Mr Trump. After the debate, Mrs Clinton and Mr Reines embraced and he called her a "badass hombre".
Clinton aides said she would continue to highlight Mr Trump's refusal to pledge he would accept the results of the election. But would it be a real crisis on election day? Not if the result was a decisive win, they seemed to quietly indicate.
If Mrs Clinton and her team felt that she had closed the deal on stage, they kept their confidence in check. But the mood on the plane was certainly relaxed.
At the Ohio rally, Mr Trump also reiterated a claim he made during the debate, that Mrs Clinton and President Obama were responsible for inciting violence at a Chicago rally earlier this year.
The crowd erupted into cheers of: "Lock her up!"
During the debate, he called Mrs Clinton a "nasty woman".
Mr Trump has trailed Mrs Clinton in the polls after facing damaging fallout over a video that emerged of him making obscene remarks about groping women.
When asked to address the allegations made against him by several women in the wake of the video, Mr Trump said the claims had been "largely debunked".
Mr Trump's comments come after a 10th woman came forward to accuse him of sexual assault on Thursday at a news conference.
Karena Virginia said Mr Trump allegedly touched her breast at the US Open in 1998 and made offensive comments about her to a group of men.
The two candidates are scheduled to appear at a charity dinner on Thursday night in New York.
Polls suggest Mrs Clinton is ahead nationally and in key battleground states.
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Linda Eshun scored the winner on 49 minutes when she headed the ball home from close range following a corner.
In the first half South Africa had the best chances but Refiloe Jane headed over and another header was well saved by Ghana keeper Patricia Mantey.
Banyana Banayana also failed to equalise when Andisiwe Mcgoyi put a simple chance over the bar.
Unlike in 2014, this match did not offer the prize of a Women's World Cup place.
And in the end South Africa had to settle for fourth place - just as they did two years ago - while Ghana claimed a first bronze medal since 2004.
On Tuesday, hundreds of prisoners lit fires, broke walls and smashed windows in a 15-hour riot at a Melbourne prison in what authorities believe may have been a reaction to a smoking ban at the remand facility.
It was one of the worst prison riots in recent memory and authorities and commentators moved quickly to either condemn or support the state-wide prison smoking ban.
Western Australian Corrective Services Minister Joe Francis says his state won't be following the Victorian model yet.
He says the riot affirmed his decision to reject calls from prison officers for a full ban on smoking in his state's prisons, where inmates are still permitted to smoke in designated outdoor areas.
"As a former smoker, I can tell you it's a bloody difficult habit to kick," he told a Perth radio station.
He says many prisoners are already going "cold turkey" on drug or alcohol addictions, are separated from their family and often suffering mental health issues.
His prison officers are "bitterly divided" on the issue and have warned him a ban could lead to prisoner riots.
"My gut instinct is that banning smoking in prisons is a bridge too far for many people," he says.
"Prisoners are sent to prison as punishment not for punishment."
Australia has led the world in anti-smoking actions, such as the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes.
Smoking rates for adults have almost halved since 1980 to 13%.
In contrast, up to 80% of prisoners smoke, say health experts, at great cost to their health, and to the health of prison staff.
Smoke-free prisons are already in place in Tasmania, Queensland and the Northern Territory and will soon be introduced in New South Wales.
They are also common in prisons in New Zealand, Canada and parts of the United States.
Full smoking bans are also on the agenda in Britain following a recent High Court ruling in support of an inmate complaining about the health impact of second-hand smoke.
Human rights academic Dr Bronwyn Naylor says smoking in prison is a problem for everyone inside.
But she argues a total ban on smoking stops them engaging in an activity that is lawful in the community and which provides some pleasure and personal freedom in an "otherwise highly controlled environment".
Bans could put parole eligibility at risk if prisoners relapsed - like most smokers do at some point - and they raise management issues in prisons.
"International experience tells us that when we make something illegal that people want, we can end up with black markets, stand-overs, violence etc," Dr Naylor told the BBC.
"If people in the community are allowed to smoke, subject to restrictions but in their homes particularly, then the starting point should be that prisoners can too," she says.
In Tasmania, authorities reportedly withdrew teabags from prison canteens after prisoners resorted to smoking tea leaves mixed with nicotine patches to quench their addiction.
Cancer Council Victoria, which helped Victoria's prison system prepare prisoners for the ban in that state, says the potential health benefits outweigh the negatives.
One recent US study showed that prisons that had implemented smoking bans had recorded a 9% reduction in smoking-related deaths, says the council's director Dr Sarah White.
"Prisoners are far more likely to have serious health problems than the general population, and smoking only worsens these health inequities," she told the BBC.
Dr White says concerns about human rights and freedom of choice are more complex when it comes to products like tobacco.
"There's no such thing as free choice when you're addicted (to something)," she says.
Marie McInerney is a Melbourne-based writer specialising in health issues.
Liam Cairns, 26, had been charged over the death of the infant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, but the prosecution at Preston Crown Court offered no evidence.
A neglect charge was also withdrawn by prosecutors.
The baby died in hospital shortly after he was discovered at an address in Church Street, Preston, in March 2014.
The 37-year-old, from Aviemore, has already recovered from three rounds of surgery on it.
Smith, who won a rowing gold at the London Paralympics, had hoped to be part of the Great Britain Para-cycling team at the Rio Games this summer.
The need to have another lifesaving operation ended that dream.
In a message uploaded to the internet, Smith said: "Surgery is now here. Like any race in life I feel best prepared but also pretty scared."
He added: "It's going to be tough but I'm positive. I've read every message and that's given me so much strength."
Last month, Smith told BBC Radio Scotland's The Stephen Jardine Programme he had a love-hate relationship with the tumour.
While it caused him almost constant agonising pain, it has also led him to become a role model to others coping with health difficulties.
The paralympian also told the programme how sport had given him the mental and physical strength to deal with the tumour.
He said he had already prepared a timeline setting how, and by when, he plans to be able to cycle again.
The 30-year-old's partner for pairs gold in 2012 and 2016, Heather Stanning, retired on Wednesday.
Glover, who married television presenter Steve Backshall in September, is taking time out from the sport.
"I haven't decided. I was always going to take these few months without thinking about it too much and without trying to make a decision," she said.
"Heather's decision doesn't affect mine at all, I already knew she was going to retire.
"In 2013, when she left to have a year out, I took my decision regardless of whether she was going to come back or not, so it feels kind of similar to that," she told BBC Radio Cornwall.
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Glover hinted in June that she could quit the sport after the Rio Olympics and has not been given a deadline by which to make her decision.
"Its open-ended in terms of GB Rowing's support and they'll support me and will be happy to welcome me back, but also happy to support me if I move away from rowing," said Glover.
"But for me there is a deadline because I don't want to get to the stage where I've left it too late to come back and be competitive.
"People have taken a year out, like Heather did in 2013, and come back very strong, any more than that you'd be looking at making it very difficult for yourself to continue."
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Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the Scottish first minister admitted "we need to do better" after figures showed less than half of 13 and 14-year-olds were performing well in writing.
Ms Sturgeon also said that Scotland may need a "phased" approach to European Union (EU) membership if independent.
She also ruled out the country adopting the Euro.
During her interview, Ms Sturgeon said that Scottish ministers had "taken advice" on refocusing the country's education policy, the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).
CfE was implemented in Scottish schools in 2010.
The latest Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy figures followed another set of poor results for Scottish pupils, when the international Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) found scores for maths, reading and science had all declined.
Ms Sturgeon insisted she was not denying the results and said measures were being taken to address the issues.
She told the programme: "I've been very open that this is not good enough.
She said that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) had been communicating with her government to address concerns.
Ms Sturgeon said: "They've made certain recommendations to us about how we improve the teaching of literacy and numeracy.
"Right now we've got a new national improvement framework, we have an attainment challenge, we have an attainment fund putting significant extra resources into education."
She added: "But we have had some advice that we need to have more of a focus in our curriculum on literacy and numeracy and that's exactly what we're doing right now, so we've introduced new benchmarks for the teaching of literacy and numeracy."
Ms Sturgeon also said that her government was increasing the budget of head teachers in Scotland by £120m to invest in measures it believes would improve levels of literacy and numeracy.
Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Liz Smith criticised the Scottish government's record on education and said it was an admission of failure.
She said "After ten years of SNP control over Scottish education, it is simply not good enough for Nicola Sturgeon to say that improvements will be made by 2021.
"Scottish children cannot afford to wait until the next parliament for things to get better.
"It is time for the SNP to put its obsession with independence to one side and get on with tackling its supposed top priority of improving education."
The Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, called it a "bruising interview" for Ms Sturgeon and said she had been faced with the reality of her "own appalling record on education".
On Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon told Andrew Marr that "by necessity" Scotland might have to pursue membership of the European Free Trade Association (Efta) before achieving full EU membership.
The SNP leader said her position remained that she wanted an independent Scotland to be in the EU.
"If Scotland is independent, our position always has been, as long as I've been in the SNP and continues to be, that we want Scotland to be a full member of the European Union," she said.
"We don't want to go into the Euro and no member of the EU can be forced into the Euro and Sweden is one of the examples of that."
"Now we have to set out, if we're in an independence referendum - and we're not in that right now - the process for regaining or retaining, depending on where we are in the Brexit process, EU membership.
"Now it may be that we have a phased approach to that by necessity."
Asked whether that could mean Efta membership first and EU membership later, she said: "It may be by necessity, even if we didn't want that."
It is supposed to be the Brexit election.
Yet in Scotland, on the campaign trail, you're more likely to hear talk of independence.
Of the four parties in Scotland defending seats at Westminster, the one least likely to major on independence in this campaign is the SNP, even though it exists to achieve independence.
There's an obvious reason for that. Independence divides opinion and in any election the SNP wants to broaden its appeal beyond "Yes" voters.
This has worked successfully for the party in the past.
In 2015, the SNP positioned itself as the party best placed to "stand up for Scotland's best interests" at Westminster.
It secured its best ever election result, winning 50% of the vote, 5% above the level of support for independence in the 2014 referendum.
In this year's election, Nicola Sturgeon has also sought to redefine the mandate that she is seeking in this UK general election.
It is, she said, "to demand a place for Scotland at the Brexit negotiating table and the inclusion of the case for our place in the single market in the negotiating remit".
That is a "more immediate priority" than indyref2, Ms Sturgeon said.
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Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Conservative deputy leader, responded to Ms Sturgeon's words by describing her position on Europe as "complete chaos".
He said: "She claims we must have a referendum on independence because we're leaving the EU.
"Now, in a cynical attempt to win back Leave voters who have deserted the SNP, she now refuses to say whether an independent Scotland would go back in.
"And her flirtation with EFTA would leave us with all the obligations but no voice in decision-making."
Labour's Kezia Dugdale said: "The reality is the Nationalists have quietly shifted away from a policy of immediate EU membership if Scotland leaves the UK.
"Nicola Sturgeon claims Scotland must leave the UK because of Brexit, but won't even commit to rejoining the EU straight away."
The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie, accused Nicola Sturgeon of "selling out pro Europeans" to win back Brexit supporters.
He added: "The SNP are using the EU as their excuse to call another independence vote but won't guarantee Scotland in the EU will be a result of their vote.
"For the SNP it is always about independence. The EU and a vote on the terms of Brexit are the latest excuses."
David Norris says he was set upon by inmates at HMP Belmarsh in Woolwich in 2011, suffering a broken nose and ribs.
He is seeking £10,000 in damages from the Ministry of Justice for failing to protect him, The Sun on Sunday reports.
Norris and Gary Dobson were found guilty of murdering the teenager in a racist attack in Eltham in 1993.
They were convicted under joint enterprise in 2012, sentenced to life in prison and ordered to serve a minimum jail term of 15 years and two months, and 14 years and three months respectively.
Norris was given leave by a judge last week to sue the government.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: "We have cut our compensation costs by more than £1 million over the past year.
"We robustly defend all claims and are successful in two thirds of cases brought against us by prisoners."
During the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, defence lawyer Stephen Batten QC said Norris had been beaten up several times while on remand in prison.
He told jurors at the Old Bailey that on one occasion his client's nose was broken, his teeth were knocked out and four of his ribs were broken.
In 2012, Bristol City Council put £2m aside for the Hartcliffe Way site and the scheme was also part of the city's European Green Capital bid.
Mayor George Ferguson said: "I'm not putting a recycling centre there that's going to cost the city year after year."
The Liberal Democrats at the council have called for the scheme to go ahead.
Liberal Democrat leader Gary Hopkins said: "We have to use the term of environmental vandal at the mayor for the scheme.
"Money was set aside for it, it was even promised as part of the bid for European Green Capital and it's absolutely shocking this scheme has not proceeded."
But the mayor has said the centre's running costs would need to be subsidised every year, which the council could not afford.
Local residents groups, such as Friends of Dundry Slopes Conservation Group, claim the lack of local recycling facilities in Hartcliffe Way is causing fly-tipping.
Resident Heather Jarrett said: "This is one of the problems for not having local recycling facilities open because I feel Dayes Road is so far away, a lot of people don't have cars for a start or they're not willing to go that far.
"It's convenient to dump it in the fields where nobody can see it."
But the mayor has said fly-tipping is a wide-spread national problem and educating people about the crime is a way of tackling it.
Mr Ferguson said he was "starting discussions with social enterprises" to find ways of re-using and recycling waste.
The 18-year-old joins Formula 1 drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Esteban Ocon as the third member of the scheme.
Russell, who finished third in the European Formula 3 championship last season, will race in the GP3 feeder series with the leading ART team.
"It's a dream come true," Russell told BBC Radio Norfolk. "The real hard work starts now."
Russell, who lives in King's Lynn, added: "It's quite comforting knowing that if I do the job, I'm quite confident I will get the opportunity from Mercedes to further my career."
Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff said: "George has shown impressive form in the junior categories and we've been keeping a close eye on him for a while now. It's still early days in his career but we see great potential in him."
Archaeologists used satellite images, drone photography and ground surveys to locate the find, according to the study published in the American Schools of Oriental Research.
The large platform is about as long as an Olympic swimming pool and twice as wide.
Researchers say it is unlike any other structure at the ancient site.
The study, by Sarah Parcak of the University of Birmingham, and Christopher Tuttle, executive director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, describes the find as "hiding in plain sight".
Petra dates back to the fourth century BC, when it was founded by the Nabataean civilization, who inhibited parts of what is now Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
Surface pottery suggests the platform was built in the mid-second century BC, when Petra was at its peak.
It is thought the structure may have had a ceremonial purpose.
The survey also revealed a smaller platform was contained inside the larger one, which was once lined with columns on one side with a vast staircase on the other.
Ms Tuttle told National Geographic that someone in decades of excavation "had to know" the structure was there yet it had not been written up.
"I've worked in Petra for 20 years, and I knew that something was there, but it's certainly legitimate to call this a discovery."
Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Petra each year, although numbers have been hit by the conflict against so-called Islamic State.
The site is best-known for the Treasury Building, which is carved from sandstone and featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Frank Knight, 67, published an apology to Owen Oyston and his son Karl after posting allegations concerning them and the club on his Facebook page.
But football fans responded by raising £20,915 on a crowd-funding website.
The Frank Knight campaign is keeping the appeal open to help other fans sued by the club.
Fans of clubs ranging from Liverpool to Middlesbrough and non-league teams such as FC United and Stockport County contributed to the fund.
The appeal was even backed by tweets from Countdown presenter Rachel Riley and comedian Russell Brand.
Mr Knight said on his Facebook page: "I cannot comment upon the legal complaint for legal reasons, however I would just like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Joe Atherton [Blackpool fan who set up the webpage] and to everyone for their messages of support and donations. I am truly humbled."
Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston is being investigated by the Football Association over abusive texts sent to a Blackpool supporter.
The Oyston family is also seeking £150,000 damages for allegedly defamatory comments on the Back Henry Street website.
In February Tim Fielding, a director of a personal injuries law firm and the former chair of the Blackpool Supporters' Trust apologised for comments he had made.
Earlier that month, dozens of Blackpool fans attended a court hearing in Manchester for a separate legal action brought by the Oystons against a fan.
David Ragozzino, 32, was given 21 days to respond to a claim for damages from the club. He is due to meet with the club next week.
On 30 January another fan, Stephen Sharpe, apologised to the Oystons over his online comments, withdrawing his posts after accepting they were "false, defamatory and, in some cases, threatening".
Blackpool supporters have been involved in demonstrations, match boycotts and social media campaigns over the way Oyston family run the club.
He was among hundreds of supporters packed into a tent plastered with banners and flags - many carrying the party's motto "Hope is on its way".
"It's nice there is a party that wants to change the situation because there was no hope," Katia Zagoritou, 34, told me as the radical leftist party's victory unfolded.
"We hope these results can change things also in Italy," added Claudia, 24, who was among hundreds of Italians to fly to the Greek capital for the celebrations.
The word "hope" must be one of the most commonly used around here in past 24 hours.
It was this message of "optimism and dignity" that connected with voters, said Mr Avgeridis.
He has supported the party for a decade, and watched Syriza's share of the vote grow from 5.6% in the 2007 election to 36% this weekend.
Many of those celebrating the latest results began supporting the party - whose name is a Greek acronym for The Coalition of the Radical Left - after the crisis that followed the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in 2008.
The killing happened just streets away from the campaign tent where the party was celebrating its victory on Monday, in Athen's Exarcheia area. The shooting eventually led to riots by the city's young and poor.
As the election results came in, Syriza supporters find themselves at the heart of the political establishment.
They cheered, sang and hugged in Klafthmonos Square, which has long played a role in Greece's political history. The square's name comes from the ancient Greek word for "crying", after a tradition that lasted until early in the 20th Century of public servants in tears begging a new regime to have their jobs back.
But there were only tears of joy on Sunday night as some supporters danced until the temporary floorboards bounced - cigarette in one hand and can of beer in the other.
"First we take Greece, then we take Berlin," said Anastasia Giamali, 28, who works for the party's campaign newspaper.
The celebrations felt as much European as they did Greek, with loudspeakers blaring a selection of French, British and Spanish music.
Along with the Italian contingent, there were German supporters in the crowd who at one point joined their fellow Europeans on the stage at the front of the party tent.
"This is not only a victory for Greece but for people of Europe. It shows there is an alternative," said one 24-year-old activist from Potsdam.
Syriza supporters hope this victory could bring an end to painful austerity measures that have brought deep cuts to pensions, pay and jobs since the eurozone crisis broke out.
The party's leader, Alexis Tsipras, has vowed to renegotiate the country's bailout agreement with the EU and IMF and boost public spending.
And it is no surprise that so many celebrating are younger voters - unemployment in Greece is 25%, with the figure rising to 50% for those under 25. The average wage is €600 (£450) a month.
There is a feeling among many here that this is a historic moment, and supporters speak in terms of big ideas and dreams.
"For me, becoming an MP is not so important," said Yiannis Giannopoulos, who stood in the second district of Athens aged 28.
"The important thing is the collective vibe.
"We have one chance and we have to take it - not only for Greek society but for the people of Europe that look up to us."
These are grand promises of change. But leave Klafthmonos Square and the plaza outside Athens University where Mr Tsipras made his victory speech, and the streets are much the same as they were before.
Greeks woke up on Monday with their country still in debt by up to 175% of GDP. Their country has still borrowed 240bn euros (£188bn) from the EU, the ECB and the IMF and still needs to find its way around securing the crucial next instalment.
Many Greeks are not feeling so optimistic about Syriza's victory, amid fears that its policies will set the country on a collision course with creditors. Such fears may only grow after the party formed a ruling coalition with the anti-austerity Greek Independents.
But far-left supporters are looking forward to what they hope will be a better future.
"I won't let myself be happy yet," said Katarina Voulalika, a 32-year-old teacher and mother. "I know that just by voting - and putting a particular person in control - nothing really changes.
"I will only be happy when I see a better day for my family. I hope it one day will happen."
England lead World Cup Qualifying Group F and are six points ahead of fourth-placed Scotland, who lost 3-0 to the English in November.
"I think we're capable of winning 2-1," Brown told BBC Radio Scotland.
"I'm the eternal optimist. I'm genuinely confident. I share Gordon Strachan's feeling that we can win."
Brown's Scotland won 1-0 at Wembley in 1999 but it was not enough to overturn the 2-0 deficit from the first leg of their Euro 2000 play-off.
Subsequent meetings between the sides have all ended in England wins - 3-2 at Wembley in 2013, 3-1 at Celtic Park the following year and 3-0 when the sides met earlier in the current qualifying campaign.
"I always am very confident," said Brown.
"I genuinely believe that the 'Braveheart stuff' is not enough. It's a calm assurance and an authority which will win the game and I'm sure Gordon will instil that in his players.
"Shouting and putting on the war paint is not good enough to beat a quality team like England.
"When we were at Wembley recently, we created three or four really good chances. If I were Gordon, I'd be saying that's the kind of chances that we're capable of making."
And Brown believes Celtic trio Craig Gordon, Kieran Tierney and Stuart Armstrong, as well as Hull City defender Andrew Robertson, will be crucial to Scotland's chances.
"England will make chances, I'm sure of that so I think Craig Gordon could be the key player for us," said Brown.
"It's being realistic. They're going to make a chance or two and Craig Gordon is an outstanding goalkeeper but at the other end of the pitch, Armstrong running in behind will cause them a problem.
"If we've got the two young full-backs playing, I think they're the best young full-backs around and I'm quite sure Tierney and Robertson can damage England down the flanks."
The Japanese carmaker has already admitted that it has been falsifying fuel efficiency tests for decades.
After Mitsubishi's share price slumped by more than 50%, fellow carmaker Nissan moved in to take a controlling stake in Mitsubishi.
In April, Mitsubishi Motors admitted it had rigged tests for the past 25 years.
Regulations changed in 1991 to better reflect stop-start urban driving, but Mitsubishi failed to heed the change.
Meanwhile, fellow Japanese carmaker Suzuki has said it has found "discrepancies" in its fuel and emissions testing, but denies cheating.
The company said its testing method for 16 models was not in line with official regulations, but it insisted that new tests showed no need to amend the data.
Mileage fraud breaks Japan's fuel efficiency laws. It is unclear what penalties Mitsubishi might face, because of uncertainties about the outcome of further investigations.
Mr Aikawa took on the role of Mitsubishi's president and chief operating officer in June 2015.
Before the scandal, Mitsubishi Motors was the sixth biggest carmaker in Japan and number 16 worldwide.
Annual car production currently stands at 1,218,853 vehicles.
Volkswagen has admitted to cheating emissions tests in the US. Authorities found the German carmaker was installing a cheating software in its diesel vehicles that could detect when the cars were being tested and would change carbon dioxide emission levels accordingly to improve the results.
Mitsubishi Motors has admitted it had falsified fuel economy data for the past 25 years. Breaking Japanese test rules meant the carmaker was able to advertise its vehicles as being more fuel efficient than they actually were.
Suzuki has admitted it has found "discrepancies" in its fuel and emissions testing but denies cheating. The company said its testing method for 16 models was not in line with official regulations, but it insisted that new tests showed no need to amend the data.
Nissan has been accused of having some of its UK-built Qashqais fitted with so-called emissions defeat devices. The company has denied the allegations.
Media watchdog Ofcom says more people will have faster broadband as a result of proposals to make BT's Openreach network more independent.
Openreach's cables and wires are used by more than 30 million customers in the UK.
Its infrastructure is used not only by BT, but telephone and broadband providers such as Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone.
It's extremely frustrating watching the advertisements on TV showing super-fast access to fibre broadband at a much cheaper deal than I can get for poor quality standard broadband down a phone line.
Its high time someone thought about us poor people living in rural locations and concentrated on our needs for better broadband speeds, as we need it as much as everyone in the town does. There are many, many small businesses run in and around rural locations and are extremely dependent on their internet connection. Get a grip, BT!
I work from home in the media industry, so a fast internet connection is important to me and my business. My home backs on to a small business park which has superfast broadband and houses on the opposite side of the street have superfast broadband.
However, BT Openreach says that because the cabinet to which I am connected serves a small number of customers, the cost of upgrading will be too high for it to be commercially viable.
One point that has not been made in the media is that the next generation of TV is 4K and 4K sets are on sale in stores all over the country, but to view a 4K picture, you need fibre. So the failure to deliver fibre is also holding back the progress of the whole media industry - an industry which is, in all other aspects, world-class.
My broadband speed is at best 1.2mb, but apparently I'm "lucky" to get that, because I'm at the end of a 9km line from the exchange - even though I'm only 3km away as the crow flies. However, of course I am still paying the same monthly fee as people with much faster speeds. The engineers have had to come out to repair faults on my line twice so far this year alone, and one took four months to resolve.
I don't see why it should take over a week to get someone to sort out a fault when the water and electricity companies act immediately and work through the night if necessary.
There are 11 cabinets in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. All cabinets have been converted with the exception of the one where I live; this has not been converted, despite being only 200m from the telephone exchange.
This has had a detrimental effect on my business and leisure activities. I cannot carry out the work I wish to efficiently - I work from home - nor can I receive BT TV in HD, despite being told by BT that I would be able to. Why not complete Faringdon rather than prevail over a postcode lottery?
The FA is also expected to contact the Hammers about the events in the stands at their new London Stadium home.
West Ham promised a "zero tolerance" approach to any fans found guilty and said they would be banned for life.
"We will request courts serve banning orders to prevent these individuals attending any football," the club said.
West Ham's first season at the London Stadium in Stratford, formerly the Olympic Stadium, has been marred by unsavoury incidents involving their fans at the last three matches, with criticisms being made over stewarding and segregation arrangements.
At the first league match at the venue - against Bournemouth last month - some fans arrived with tickets for seats that did not exist, while fighting broke out between rival supporters outside the stadium.
Some of the disturbances are believed to be over persistent standing during matches, with some fans ejected at the Watford match, which West Ham lost 4-2.
Before the game, West Ham co-chairman David Gold tweeted that the club was "trying to achieve harmony" between fans who want to sit and those who wanted "to stand and increase [the stadium's capacity] to 66,000".
On Sunday he wrote: "I want to assure everyone that the club is working flat out to solve the sitting/standing issue."
The book, which was part of her series of her hugely popular books The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, was made into a film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 2008.
Her publisher Harper Collins confirmed the news of her death.
"It is with huge sadness that we can confirm the death of our much loved author and friend, Louise Rennison."
She was in her sixties.
Rennison wrote the Georgia Nicolson series in a diary style about 14-year-old Georgia who lives with her annoying parents.
Louise based several episodes in the books on her own childhood in Leeds, where she was brought up in a three-bedroomed council house with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin.
She also wrote a series of books on The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.
Her physical book sales in the UK totalled 2.6 million copies, according to Nielsen Book Data figures.
Author Patrick Ness was among the people paying tribute.
"Shocked at the death of Louise Rennison. Kids just laugh and laugh and laugh at her books, which is the best sort of miracle. RIP," he tweeted.
Holly Smale author of Geek Girl also tweeted. "So, so sad to hear about Louise Rennison. Such a wonderful, talented and funny writer. Love to her family."
Fellow author Jenny Colgan also tweeted her sadness at the news:
Rennison started out as a performance artist after enrolling on a performing arts course in Brighton where she lived.
But after an audition in which Louise was asked to be an embryo, her tutor remarked: "You are obviously a very intelligent girl, Louise, but you must never go on stage again. Your performance made me feel physically sick."
However, she did continue with performing and her first one-woman autobiographical show, Stevie Wonder Felt My Face, won great acclaim and awards at the Edinburgh Festival in the 80s and a subsequent BBC 2 special was a TV hit.
Other of her own shows included Bob Marley's Gardener Sold My Friend and Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head.
She also worked for Radio 4, contributing to Woman's Hour and The John Peel Show and wrote for and with many well-known comedians.
Four western regions have been declared disaster zones after heavy floods, caused by monsoon rains, left at least 27 people dead.
But rescue teams have not yet reached many areas and are still awaiting reports on the worst-hit regions.
In the neighbouring eastern Indian state of Manipur, a landslide buried a village, killing at least 21 people.
Heavy rains are normal in monsoon season, but many people in Myanmar - also known as Burma - told the BBC that the rains were particularly strong in recent weeks.
Wind and rain from Cyclone Komen added to damage.
On Sunday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said some 156,000 people were affected by the floods in 12 districts but the total could be "significantly higher".
The UN also said:
On Saturday, Mg Mg Khin from Myanmar's Red Cross told the BBC the country was facing "a big disaster".
Heavy rains are expected in many states, including Chin, Rakhine and Magwe, over the next two days, forecasters say.
Thousands of people are sheltering in Buddhist monasteries, but one report said people from the Rohingya Muslim minority were turned away from some shelters.
The Burma Times said security forces turned away Rohingya Muslims from abandoned schools and community centres in Rakhine.
More than half a million acres of rice paddy fields have been flooded, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said.
The landslide in Manipur state hit a remote village in Chandel district, bordering Myanmar, early on Saturday.
Rescue teams are expected to reach the area only on Sunday because of heavy rains and landslides, a local MP said.
Continuous rain in recent days has washed away bridges and roads and left thousands homeless, India's NDTV reported.
Elsewhere, floods in Vietnam left at least 17 people dead and in western Nepal, some 36 people were killed after torrential rain triggered landslides.
It is his first public comments since supplier Unilever tried to raise the cost of popular items such as Marmite due to a weaker currency.
The UK's biggest retailer briefly halted online sales of Unilever's goods.
Mr Lewis said price rises needed to be "justified".
He agreed there were inflationary pressures, but he said multi-national companies should not increase prices just to reassure investors.
Mr Lewis pointed out that such businesses presented results in both constant and current exchange rates to take account of currency volatility.
"The only thing we would ask of companies that are in that position is they don't ask UK customers to pay inflated prices in order that their reporting currency is maintained," he said.
"They don't do that for countries outside of the UK."
Unilever had argued price rises were necessary to cover higher import costs even though Marmite was being manufactured in the UK.
Mr Lewis, who worked for Unilever for 28 years, quickly reached an agreement with his old employer, but the terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The pound has fallen by about 16% against the dollar since the UK voted in June to leave the EU. It has also fallen to a lesser extent against the euro.
A weaker pound pushes up the price of imported goods, although it also makes UK exports cheaper for foreign buyers.
Last week, Sainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe said multi-national suppliers should shoulder some of the burden caused by the fall in the pound because their profitability was greater than UK supermarkets.
Price sensitivity has caused problems for other well-known manufacturers.
Fans of Toblerone bars complained bitterly last week when they realised the manufacturer had spaced out the triangular chunks in some of its confectionery.
The product's makers, Mondelez International, said it had reduced the weight of the 400g bar to 360g and the 170g bars to 150g, but it had kept the packaging the same.
Mondelez said the move was down to a rise in the cost of ingredients and production. However, it linked it to the rise of the Swiss franc in 2015 rather than Brexit-linked exchange rate concerns.
The company said it was a choice between changing the look of the bars or raising the price.
Walkers and Birds Eye have both said they are set to raise the prices of some items following the drop in the UK exchange rate since June's EU referendum.
The concert in Carnegie Hall was announced on 10 January as a retrospective of Bowie's life.
But hours later, the singer's family announced his death from cancer. The concert then quickly sold out.
Among the acts performing were the Flaming Lips, the Pixies, Debbie Harry, Cyndi Lauper and former REM singer Michael Stipe.
Demand was so high that a second concert was added for Friday night at Radio City Music Hall. It will be broadcast online.
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"God bless David Bowie," Jakob Dylan said after performing one of the singer's most recognized songs, Heroes.
Another of his hits, Starman, brought the crowd to its feet, in a performance by Blondie leader Debbie Harry. Heart's Ann Wilson got the audience moving with Let's Dance.
The Flaming Lips performance saw singer Wayne Coyne wearing a suit of lights sat atop the shoulders of a band mate dressed as Chewbacca to sing Life on Mars.
But Cyndi Lauper's version of Suffragette City and Laurie Anderson's take of Always Crashing in the Same Car seemed to have failed to impress the public.
Other hits such as Rebel, Rebel and Life on Mars, and some more obscure songs, were also performed.
Carnegie Hall was where Bowie made his New York debut in 1972, a city where he would live for 20 years.
The annual tribute concerts, that have previously focused on acts including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell, were set up to raise money for charity.
Organisers were overwhelmed by requests by performers keen to take part after Bowie's death.
"We felt kind of awkward because we are usually so humbly grateful to anyone who wants to participate in this," producer Michael Dorf said.
One scheduled act, hip-hop band The Roots, pulled out of the shows on Thursday, after accusing another unnamed group of refusing to allow them to use their equipment.
The building, in Sauchiehall Street, was bought by the Willow Tea Rooms Trust in 2014 with the aim of restoring the site to its former glory.
The Willow Tea Rooms inside was a separate business and had to relocate.
The Trust hopes to re-open the building to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Mackintosh's birth on 7 June 2018.
Catherine Cranston - a leading figure in the development of tea rooms - set up the The Willow Tea Rooms in 1903.
The aim is to allow the public to once again drink tea and dine in the Mackintosh interior.
There will also be an exhibition and learning facility focused on the architecture, design and artwork of Mackintosh, and the business, social history and success of Miss Cranston.
Chairwoman of the trust, Celia Sinclair said: "The Willow Tea Rooms will be the only Mackintosh building where members of the public can still enjoy and participate in the buildings' original use."
Prof Pamela Robertson, of the University of Glasgow said: "The Willow Tea Rooms are of outstanding importance in Mackintosh's career as one of his most accomplished interiors, where he had input as an architect and designer.
"The building will provide a unique experience for visitors telling the rich story of Glasgow's rise as an economic powerhouse at the turn of the last century."
Simpson and Brown were appointed as lead design consultants to restore the Willow Tea Rooms.
The Trust has been supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Environment Scotland, Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Glasgow City, Glasgow Life, the Dunard Fund, Mann Foundation, the Robertson Trust, Lyon & Turnbull, the JTH Heritable Trust and Unity Bank.
The revenue generated by the Tea Rooms, which will be run as a social enterprise, will help fund the education and learning centre.
There have been more than 15 closures of the crossing in West Dyke Road, Redcar over the past 18 months, the town's Labour MP Anna Turley said.
Strong winds regularly mean the crossing has to close for safety reasons, causing traffic disruption.
Work will begin in the next few weeks to install custom-built telescopic sliding barriers.
Network Rail said the work had been fast-tracked.
A spokesman said a start date would be confirmed early next week.
"The new barrier system should bring an end to the frequent failures and closures that have brought our town centre to a standstill," Ms Turley said.
Each officer received 624 years for the death of 52 inmates, but in Brazil no-one serves more than 30 years in jail.
The verdicts come in the second of four stages of the trial involving different floors of the prison. Twenty-three officers were convicted in April.
The police are expected to stay free pending an appeal.
The defence can only challenge the verdicts after the end of the whole trial, expected in January 2014.
Under Brazilian law there are no life sentences, and no convicted person can serve longer than 30 years in jail.
The officers, nine of whom are still on active duty, will also lose their jobs, O Globo newspaper reported.
The riot began on 2 October 1992 after an argument between two inmates quickly spread, with rival gangs facing off in what was at the time one of South America's largest prisons, housing 10,000 inmates.
Inmates said riot police brutally repressed the riot.
The officers' lawyer, Ieda Ribeiro de Souza, argued they were only doing their duty and acted in self-defence, as many of the inmates were armed.
While prison riots are not uncommon in Brazil, the number of those killed at Carandiru and the slow pace of the Brazilian justice system in bringing the accused to trial shocked the public.
Carandiru was closed in 2002, shortly after inmates co-ordinated simultaneous uprisings in 27 jails across Sao Paulo state during which thousands of visitors were held hostage.
In 2001, Col Ubiratan Guimaraes, who led the police operation to regain control in Carandiru, was convicted of using excessive force. But he was acquitted on appeal in 2006.
It is seven decades since the end of World War Two on VJ Day, when the Japanese surrendered to the allies.
Ms Sturgeon attended a commemorative service at Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk.
She said it was incredibly important to remember the sacrifice of those who had fought, were imprisoned and had died in the Japanese war.
13,000 British soldiers died in prisoner-of-war camps and during forced labour on projects such as the Burma-Siam railway.
The minister of the Canongate Kirk, the Reverend Neil Gardner, himself a former Army chaplain, said between VE Day (Victory in Europe) and VJ Day (Victory over Japan) many of those fighting in the Far East felt forgotten.
He said Saturday's service would help redress that balance.
Later Nicola Sturgeon will take some of the veterans to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
The first minister told BBC Scotland: "It is profoundly important and deeply personal to all of us that we take time to remember those who fought the Second World War, and those who gave their lives so that we can enjoy the freedoms that we take for granted in this generation.
"Today's service was very beautiful and poignant and an important opportunity for us all to reflect and to remember."
WWII veterans Donald Christison and Jim Richardson were among those who attended the service.
Mr Christison, from Edinburgh, was on HMS Duke of York at the end of the war.
He was in Tokyo harbour around the time of surrender, and was taken down to Hiroshima at a later date, not long after the bomb had been dropped. His boat was picking up prisoners liberated from the camps.
The 89-year-old said: "I was working with electrics down below in the ship where the hull was 15 inches thick. It was a scary place to be if we were torpedoed, you wouldn't get out."
Jim Richardson, 90, was taken prisoner when his ship was sunk - and he was a prisoner for three years, seven months and 23 days.
He was not freed until more than a month after the surrender.
Mr Richardson said: "I knew nothing about it because we were still kept in captivity until 23 September.
"The Japanese never left the camp and we were still under guard. We knew something was happening because the guards were disappearing.
"Eventually they all went except two and we knew that something had happened."
Kacey Adams, 34, and Daniel Wallace, 33, broke into their victims' bungalow near Sevenoaks, Kent, in April 2016.
Adams, of Covert Road, Hainault, and Wallace, of no fixed address, admit aggravated burglary and causing GBH with intent.
They are being sentenced for the attack at Chelmsford Crown Court.
The court heard how the raid happened as Janis Buswell, 64, knitted clothes for her expected great grandchild while her 66-year-old husband John watched boxing on TV.
The men tied up Mr and Mrs Buswell with cable ties before subjecting them to two hours of torture to demand the codes to their safes, said prosecutor Tracy Ayling QC.
Adams and Wallace, together with a third man who has never been caught, made off with around £50,000.
They were arrested on a flight back from Dubai in May 2016, and their luggage was found to contain more than £18,000 of luxury goods.
The two men smirked and chatted to each other throughout Friday's sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court.
The court was told how Adams and Wallace tipped a kettle of boiling water over Mrs Buswell's head, which made Mr Buswell so angry that he broke free from his cable ties, the court heard.
The men then threatened Mr Buswell with a knife before tipping a second kettle of boiling water over Mrs Buswell.
"She was screaming in terrible pain," said Ms Ayling.
Mr Buswell took the men to a second safe, hidden under the floor, which contained around £40,000.
Their ordeal continued as the men then tipped boiling water over Mr Buswell's head, threatened to chop off his wife's fingers with a knife and his ears with scissors.
In a victim impact statement, Mrs Buswell said: "What these criminals did to me was barbaric."
A fourth man, 27-year-old Drew Morris, of Downhall Road, Rayleigh, Essex, admitted being the getaway driver but said he did not enter the house or know what was going to happen.
He admitted simple burglary at an earlier hearing at Maidstone Crown Court.
Judge Charles Gratwicke is expected to sentence the men at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday
Adams and Wallace will also be sentenced for a drive-by shooting in Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, in May 2016 which their victim survived.
They were convicted of conspiracy to murder along with a third defendant, 23-year-old Edward Dooley, of St Edwards Way in Romford, following an earlier trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.
However, that was measured before the slump in oil prices, which has hit the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire economy.
Glasgow was found to have the lowest amount of spending money per head, after tax and benefits, while the west Highlands and Ayrshire were the parts of Scotland relying most on benefits.
The findings are from a study by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
It showed that disposable income in Scotland in 2013 averaged £17,039. That compares with £17,599 for the whole UK.
In real terms, that has risen faster in Scotland, at 27%, than the UK as a whole, at 23%, in the 16 years to 2013.
In cash terms, excluding the effect of inflation, income was up 81% in Scotland over that period, and by 75% in the UK as a whole.
That shows the gap between Scotland's average income and that of the UK as a whole has narrowed since 1997.
The study also showed how that disposable income differs across Scotland. Only the north-east and Edinburgh were above £20,000 per head, putting those areas in the top 20% for the UK as a whole.
The areas with the lowest level of spending money per head were in west central Scotland, West Lothian and parts of Tayside.
The highest income areas were more than £5,000 per head better off than Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, which were in the bottom 25% for UK income.
Disposable income per head in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire was 35% above Glasgow.
The analysis also went into the question of how much that ranking depends on social benefits, including pensions and welfare.
Of Scottish disposable income, 21% came from benefits, while the figure for the whole UK was just below 20%.
Areas with a high concentration of older people or with greater poverty are combined among the areas where most income comes from benefits.
The area with the highest share of income from benefits, at 28%, was a region that includes Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh, Arran and Cumbrae along with Argyll and Bute. That puts it in the top 10% of UK regions for reliance on benefits as income.
Another insight into Scottish income came this week from the Budget for Fiscal Responsibility, in a document released alongside the Budget at Westminster.
Using HM Revenue and Customs statistics, it split the 2012-13 income tax-paying population of Scotland, Wales and the UK into five segments, and showed how they differ in distribution.
The outcome showed Scotland is slightly more weighted towards the lower earning segments. But it is only in the share of those earning more than £150,000 that there was a big difference.
The difference between Welsh income distribution and that of the UK was much wider than Scotland's.
Kerry Jane Wilson, 60, was working with an NGO when she was taken from the company's office in Jalalabad by armed men in military-style uniforms.
She is now "safe and well", according to Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who gave no further details.
Jalalabad is close to the border with Pakistan, in a region where militant groups are known to operate.
Ms Wilson, known also as Katherine, is the director of Zardozi, a charity which helps poor women start their own businesses.
She had been working in the region for 20 years before she was kidnapped by the unidentified gunmen.
Ms Bishop said the government would not comment on the circumstances of her release to "protect those who remain captive or face the risk of kidnapping".
However she added that she "deeply appreciated the work of the authorities in Afghanistan whose support and assistance facilitated (Ms Wilson's) release".
Australia says it does not pay ransoms for hostages.
Ms Wilson's 91-year-old father, Brian Wilson, had earlier told the Australian Broadcasting Corp he was extremely worried about his daughter, but that the kidnappers would probably keep her alive.
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Harold Henning, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, said he hoped the relaxed atmosphere in the County Donegal village would be reflected throughout the 12 July period.
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Seven people have been infected with the disease so far in South Korea, said the country's health ministry.
Chinese officials said they had traced the son of a patient who had refused voluntary quarantine.
Cases of the virus, for which there is no known cure, have been confirmed in more than 20 countries.
Two new cases of Mers (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in South Korea were confirmed on Thursday.
The health ministry said that all of them had been linked to a man who returned from the Middle East - where Mers is more common.
Dozens of people are now in quarantine.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials said they had identified and isolated a South Korean man who had ignored quarantine restrictions to fly to China through Hong Kong.
Local media said that health workers had contacted 35 people who came into close contact with him.
His father was diagnosed with the virus earlier in May.
"We should have checked more actively and broadly on family-related issues. We are deeply sorry about that," said Yang Byung-kook, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mystery virus with no known cure
Mers was first identified in humans in 2012 and is a type of virus from the same family as Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
Sars killed almost 800 people in an outbreak that began in 2002.
There is no cure or vaccine for Mers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a total of 1139 cases of Mers globally and at least 431 deaths.
It happened on Tutbury Road, Tutbury, just before 07:00 GMT.
The minibus was carrying Spanish nationals who were travelling to their workplace in the Tutbury area, Staffordshire Police said.
A man in his 40s, from Quinta das Pedras, Portugal, and another in his 20s, from Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, have been arrested.
They are accused of causing death by careless driving.
Of the six people injured, one was in a critical condition and taken to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, Staffordshire Police said.
A spokesman said: "We have interpreters helping us and our officers are currently liaising with the relevant embassies to keep their families fully informed."
The A511 was closed but reopened at 12.15.
The 9ft 3in (2.8m) bridge in Birmingham's Dale End, which gets lower towards the centre, was struck at about 10:10 GMT.
The male driver was shaken but unhurt and was on the phone to bosses to explain what had happened.
Two lorries also became wedged in the same spot in February and June.
The 7.5-ton Isuzu commercial vehicle hit the underside of the overpass, which takes bus traffic in and out of the city centre.
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The 43-0 home loss to Glasgow in Saturday's European Champions Cup game was Tigers' fifth successive defeat in all competitions.
"It's been nowhere near good enough," Youngs, 29, told BBC Radio Leicester.
"We're at the bottom of the pit at the moment and we've got to dig ourselves out."
Leicester last lost five in a row in late 2003, when their squad was depleted by World Cup call-ups.
As well as a pool-phase exit from the Champions Cup, Leicester are now five points off the Premiership play-offs and could yet finish outside the top six for the first time in the professional era.
Youngs added: "We're going to keep working on the things we need to work on as individuals and as a team.
"The preparation has been good but we're saying things and we're not quite executing them."
BBC Radio Leicester commentator, and ex-Tigers fly-half, Bleddyn Jones said the Glasgow defeat marked a new low point for the club, who sacked director of rugby Richard Cockerill on 2 January.
Head coach Aaron Mauger took over the role on an interim basis.
"Usually when a new coach takes over, a team picks up their game but it hasn't been the case with Leicester Tigers," Jones said.
"Over the last three or four weeks it's probably been the worst time for being a Tigers fan, seeing their demise this season.
"I can't see a light at the end of the tunnel."
Death, declination, or otherwise.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) sets out in its Rule 9 the terms for "filling vacancies in nominations".
It reads: "The Republican National Committee is hereby authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death, declination, or otherwise of the Republican candidate for President of the United States."
Death may be off the agenda, so what about the other scenarios?
Mr Trump would voluntarily leave the race.
With "Rule 9" invoked, the RNC could then either reconvene the 2,472-delegate convention to vote again - a virtual impossibility at this stage - or the board of the RNC, with 160 members representing all states and territories, would select a replacement.
Each state and territory would have the same amount of voting power that it had at the convention. Mike Pence, the vice-presidential nominee, would not get an automatic promotion because the board could choose anyone to fill the vacancy.
Many Republican representatives and senators would welcome a new candidate as he or she could help them hold on to their seats.
Unfortunately for Trump opponents, the candidate has shown no intention of exiting the scene. His comments after the latest obscene remarks controversy - "See you at the debate on Sunday."
The anti-Trumpers might take some comfort in the vagueness of the phrase.
Rule 9 has never actually been used before and so its boundaries have never been tested. The last time a candidate left the ticket late was in 1972. Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton was forced off after his bouts of depression were made public.
"Otherwise" is generally taken to cover the gap between death and declination, perhaps a coma or stroke or other illness that leaves the candidate alive but unable to signal withdrawal.
As such, it is about filling vacancies and not creating them.
But some have suggested a broader interpretation, taking "otherwise" into areas such as acts of criminality, treason or even adopting principles "fundamentally at variance with party principles", as commentator Thomas Balch puts it.
But Mr Trump could sue if the "otherwise" path were taken against him.
By the way, even if he did commit a criminal act, it would not bar him from running for the presidency. He could possibly pardon himself after winning.
Time has run out, it would seem, even if there were the inclination.
Rule 9 can be amended by a majority vote of the RNC's Standing Committee on Rules, followed by a three-quarter majority in the RNC. But it would only take effect 30 days later.
Tens of thousands of Republicans have already cast their absentee votes, many of them in the key states of Florida and North Carolina. What happens to them?
Many state set deadlines locking the names on ballot papers so that electoral procedures can run smoothly. Those ballots now have Mr Trump's name on them, and the deadlines have passed. Anyone voting for a Republican candidate would probably have to select Mr Trump.
This happened in Florida in 2006, when representative Mark Foley resigned five weeks before polling day. The Republican Party failed to get replacement Joe Negron on the ballot. Its "punch Foley for Joe" campaign failed to retain what had been a safe Republican seat.
Without Mr Trump leaving the race, a Republican replacement isn't possible under the rules.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is a former Republican and served as the governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003. He did pull in 1.275 million votes in 2012 and is on the ballot in all 50 states.
Evan McMullin, a former CIA agent and Republican Congressional staff member, is also running as an independent, but he entered the race too late to compete in every state.
The downside for conservatives is a third-party vote could aid a victory for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
The Green Party's Jill Stein probably won't attract many Republicans.
"Better luck next time" isn't the most comforting election strategy, but some disaffected Republicans think their best option is to denounce him and wait. More and more are signing letters and writing columns denouncing Mr Trump.
Thirty former Republican lawmakers did that on 6 October, saying in a letter that Mr Trump lacked the "intelligence" and temperament to be president. They didn't propose any removal, just that voters reject him at the ballot box.
Mr Trump has been underestimated before and eventually came out on top. Republicans have made it this far enduring Mr Trump's wild campaign, so what's another month?
The executive branch is a huge undertaking involving thousands of positions and there aren't enough Trump loyalists to fill them all. Republicans - even ones uneasy with Mr Trump - will be able to shape policy and deliver on issues important to their constituents for the next four years.
On the other hand, Mr Trump may have done lasting damage to the Republican Party's brand with Latino, black, Muslim and women voters.
Earlier this week, paediatric pathologist Dr Caroline Gannon resigned over interventions by the attorney general on the issue.
The law is currently being considered by the Court of Appeal.
The Alliance Party leader said women should be able to make their own choice on the matter.
He told BBC's The View programme: "What I want to do is exactly what I wanted to do as minister and was blocked by the executive."
Mr Ford said he wanted something "which would allow abortion in the case of a fatal foetal abnormality where two doctors certified no prospect of a viable life".
The former SDLP MLA and barrister, Alban Maginness, told The View the issue should not be decided by politicians.
"In relation to fatal foetal abnormality, it is ill-defined and you cannot define it properly," he said.
"What you have to do in these circumstances is wait for the Court of Appeal's decision and see just exactly what the Court of Appeal is saying in relation to this whole issue."
A fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis means doctors believe an unborn child has a terminal condition and will die in the womb or shortly after birth.
Earlier this week, paediatric pathologist Dr Caroline Gannon resigned over interventions by Mr Larkin
She investigated the deaths of babies including those in the womb or stillbirths.
She said the final straw was having to advise a couple to use a picnic cooler bag to return their baby's remains to NI following an abortion in England.
Unlike other parts of the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Currently, a termination is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
In February, MLAs voted against legalising abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
Politicians have been lobbied to reform the law since 2013, when Northern Ireland woman Sarah Ewart spoke out about having to travel to Great Britain for an abortion after she was told she was carrying a baby that had no chance of survival.
The body of Norma Bell, 79, was found in the burned out property in Westbourne Road, Hartlepool, in April.
Gareth Dack is on trial at Teesside Crown Court accused of murder and an offence of arson being reckless as to endanger life.
The 33-year-old, of Windermere Road, Hartlepool, denies all charges.
The prosecution claims Mr Dack was a drug user who had borrowed £10 from the widow a week before her death.
His DNA was found on a spent match on a gas hob and on a ligature around her neck.
Jurors were told after he killed her, he used her phone to call a soft-porn channel to speak to "scantily-clad ladies".
It was also alleged he stole £700 from his elderly victim and sold her TV.
The court heard Mrs Bell and her husband fostered more than 50 babies and toddlers during a 35-year period and had three children of their own.
The trial continues.
The left-wing Greek leader, known for his informal attire, promised to wear the gift once his country's debt crisis had been resolved.
That tie is yet to appear around the neck of the youngest political leader in modern Greek history, who has forged an international reputation on challenging the EU policy of austerity.
And it is likely to remain in the drawer for a while longer.
Before this latest election, the Syriza leader said he had a moral duty to go to a vote after signing up to fresh austerity measures as part of a third bailout for Greece.
Alexis Tsipras was first elected prime minister, aged 40, in January 2015 - six years after becoming the leader of Syriza, a group of radical left-wing parties. He was instrumental in transforming the coalition from an also-ran to a ruling party.
At his swearing-in ceremony, Mr Tsipras broke with tradition by refusing to take a religious oath, saying it was against his atheist principles. After the election, he continued to zip around Athens on a motorbike, as he had done before.
His first gesture as prime minister was a visit to a monument honouring Greek communists executed by Nazi occupation forces in 1944.
For a man whose political life began as a communist, the visit was heavy with symbolism, also because Germany holds more Greek debt than any other eurozone state and Greece is still seeking reparations for the Nazi occupation.
Month after month, he defied international creditors and tested the patience of his European partners.
Then, late on 26 June, as Greek negotiators were locked in talks with their European partners, he summoned them out of the room by text message.
Mr Tsipras told them he was calling a referendum on a deal that was not even on the table. In a late-night TV address, he spoke of the bailout as "unbearable" and a "humiliation".
It came out of the blue and was viewed either as a reckless gamble or a masterstroke, casting into doubt Greece's future in the euro.
Cash support for Greek banks was frozen, and the government imposed capital controls, shutting the banks and limiting cash withdrawals.
Opponents questioned whether he had ever really wanted to stay in the eurozone, and EU leaders were infuriated by his decision.
But when Greeks surprised the pollsters and backed their prime minister's stance, he told them their mandate was not "rupture with Europe" but a mandate for a viable solution.
As Greece's economy teetered on the brink of leaving the euro, Mr Tsipras agreed a deal for a third bailout that many of his colleagues refused to back, and even he admitted he did not believe in it.
"I acknowledge the fiscal measures are harsh, that they won't benefit the Greek economy, but I'm forced to accept them," he told MPs.
He called a fresh vote amid a rebellion by some Syriza MPs, who then split to form a new party.
Alexis Tsipras's political origins are far removed from the large parties and dynasties that have traditionally governed Greece.
He was born in Athens, three days after the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, at a time of deep political division.
However, the Tsipras family was not regarded as especially political. Sport may have been a stronger draw for the young Alexis, who grew up near Panathinaikos football club's stadium, and remains a fan of the team.
Alexis Tsipras was not schooled at the usual private schools that most politicians in Greece with a pedigree prefer, but graduated from a state school in Ampelokipoi, a middle-class area in central Athens.
It was where his political activism began, leading a student protest against the right-wing government's education policy.
Matthew Tsimitakis, an activist who was then a pupil at another Athens school, described meeting the young leader, in a 2012 profile broadcast on BBC Radio.
"He struck me as very intelligent, calm, passionate but also very aware - he could represent the balance of a few hundred thousand kids who weren't very sure of what they were demonstrating about."
It was at school that he met Peristera "Betty" Baziana, who was to become his wife. They were both active in the Communist Party of Greece's youth wing and shared the same world view.
They went to university in different cities and later chose a civil wedding instead of a traditional religious ceremony.
The couple now live in the middle-class Athens neighbourhood of Kypseli, and have two young sons - Pavlos and Orpheas Ernesto (after Ernesto "Che" Guevara).
Although Ms Baziana has rarely appeared in public, she reputedly threatened to leave him if he gave too much ground to Greece's international creditors.
Like his father, Mr Tsipras's career began in civil engineering but in 2006, he represented Syriza in the Athens mayoral election.
"He toured around neighbourhoods in Athens, and tried to have close contact with potential voters," Elpida Ziouva, a civil servant for the Athens assembly, told the BBC.
What was not clear from his early political career was how far he was prepared to go to rid his country of austerity, by closing the banks and bringing Greece to the verge of exit from the eurozone.
He was one of golf's dominant players in the 1950s and early 1960s, winning seven major titles over seven seasons.
Tiger Woods said: "Thanks Arnold for your friendship council and a lot of laughs." The US Golf Association called him "golf's greatest ambassador".
President Obama posted a photo of a lesson Palmer gave him in the Oval office at the White House.
Jack Nicklaus, whose sporting rivalry with Palmer spanned over half a century, said he would "miss him greatly".
"We just lost one of the incredible people in the game of golf and in all of sports," he wrote on Twitter.
"Arnold transcended the game of golf. He was more than a golfer or even great golfer. He was an icon. He was a legend."
Nicklaus, 76, who won 18 majors to Palmer's seven, posted a series of snapshots on Instagram recalling their long friendship.
Northern Ireland golfer Rory McIlroy recalled meeting Palmer at his Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Florida - where a professional tournament named after him is held each March.
"Remembering the special times I spent with Mr Palmer at Bay Hill. A true pioneer for our sport. Forever remembered," McIlroy tweeted, hours after winning the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
"My heart aches with passing of the King. What he did for golf cannot be measured. Athlete, pioneer, philanthropist, family man, and much more...RIP Arnie," tweeted US golfer Zach Johnson.
Rickie Fowler, a member of the US Ryder Cup team, said Palmer's memory would not fade. "Legends never die ... you will live on forever Arnie ... thank you for being you and giving me the opportunity to do what I get to do every day!"
How The King changed the game
Palmer the commercial champion
Outside the golfing world, others too shared their farewells on social media.
President Obama paid tribute to "The King", highlighting Arnold Palmer's philanthropy.
Former US President George H W Bush, a keen golfer, said: "He brought golf to millions by his daring and caring. We miss him already."
Arnold Palmer was the first golf player to make $1m from playing the sport.
But he made much more than that from his many off-course endorsements, putting his name to a variety of products and services, from United Airlines to Cadillac cars.
Nowadays it is commonplace for sports stars to lend their names to commercial products.
But half a century ago such an association between sport and brands was ground-breaking.
Palmer, in association with marketer Mark McCormack, was the trailblazer.
It is a legacy for which today's high-earning stars, making astronomical sums from their own deals, should be eternally grateful.
Palmer was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1929, the son of a groundskeeper at the local country club who later became a professional at the golf club there.
Apart from his seven majors, he also notched up 62 PGA Tour wins.
The much-loved veteran died at a hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was undergoing heart tests.
Under Islamic law, courts can punish homosexual acts by stoning to death.
But the judge said he took into account that the Muslim man, Mubarak Ibrahim, 20, carried out the acts seven years ago, and had stopped the practice.
In Nigeria, homosexual acts are illegal under both Islamic and secular law and restrictions have been tightened.
Earlier this month, President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law a bill which bans same-sex marriages, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affection.
The new legislation applies throughout Nigeria.
Most states in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria have adopted Islamic law, known as Sharia, since the end of military rule in 1999.
Along with Mr Ibrahim, 11 other Muslims and a Christian man were arrested last month accused by the authorities of being homosexuals.
He was also ordered to pay a fine of about $30 (£18).
Mr Ibrahim told the BBC he was relieved that Judge Nuhu Muhammad had been lenient on him and had not sentenced him to death.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid was in court when Mr Ibrahim was lashed with a whip, made of animal skin smeared with oil.
Mr Ibrahim, who had pleaded guilty to the charge, was ordered to lie on a bench, and an official whipped his back in front of a packed courtroom, our correspondent says.
Mr Ibrahim screamed in pain while being lashed, but was able to walk afterwards, he adds.
The trial of two other men was adjourned to 23 January.
The fate of the nine other men arrested on the same charge is unclear but on Wednesday the Sharia Commission in Bauchi said the Christian would be tried by a "conventional court", not an Islamic court.
Nigeria is a deeply conservative country, with an influential Christian evangelical movement in the south and strong support for Islamic law among many Muslims in the north.
Hostility towards gay people has escalated since parliament debated the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act last year, Dorothy Aken'Ova, a rights activist with the Nigeria-based International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights, told the BBC.
She said that she was aware of 38 people being arrested in Bauchi state last month, and was trying to confirm reports of more arrests in both the north and south of Nigeria since the new law was approved.
"What this act is saying is that they [gay people] do not deserve to exist," she told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme on Wednesday.
After landing at La Paz airport, the pontiff spoke of the need to protect the most vulnerable in society from the impact of capitalism.
He was greeted by President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous leader, who gave Francis a ritual pouch with coca - a sacred leaf in the Andes.
The Pope flew in from Ecuador. He will also visit Paraguay.
At the airport welcome ceremony, the pontiff praised Bolivia - a majority indigenous country - for encouraging the poor to be active citizens.
"Bolivia is making important steps towards including broad sectors in the country's economic, social and political life," he said.
President Morales is a fan of Pope Francis, who he says shares many of his views on how capitalism leads to social inequalities, BBC regional analyst Candace Piette says.
But she says Mr Morales' government has for many years had an uneasy relationship with the Catholic Church.
After taking office in 2006, Mr Morales ordered the Bible and cross to be removed from the presidential palace - both symbols of colonial Spanish oppression.
A new constitution in 2009 made Bolivia a secular state, and Andean religious rituals replaced Catholic rites at official state ceremonies.
President Morales has said he is a Catholic but - like many Bolivians - he believes there is plenty of room for both Christianity and traditional belief.
"I remain convinced that we Bolivians have a double religion, double faith," he said in January.
But Mr Morales' attitude to the church changed radically when Francis became pope. He visited him twice in Rome and invited him to come to Bolivia, our analyst says.
Before leaving for the lowland city of Santa Cruz, Pope Francis visited the site where the body of a Jesuit Bolivian priest was found.
The priest was tortured and murdered in 1980 during the military rule for defending the rights of Bolivia's mining community.
In a newspaper column drafted in February, and now published by the Sunday Times, he suggested staying in the EU would be a "boon for the world".
Mr Johnson says he was "wrestling with the issue" at the time and was merely trying to make the "alternative case".
Critics accused him of "duplicity".
Mr Johnson was a leading figure in the campaign to exit the EU and became foreign secretary after the Leave vote in the June referendum.
Amid growing pressure on the government to spell out its negotiating objectives for Brexit, Mr Johnson insisted last week that the UK could get a trade deal that was "of greater value" to the economy than access to the EU single market, which he described as an "increasingly useless" concept.
But in February's pro-Remain column, Mr Johnson backed membership of the free trade zone, describing it as "a market on our doorstep, ready for further exploitation by British firms".
He added: "The membership fee seems rather small for all that access. Why are we so determined to turn our back on it?"
In the article, which was produced at the same time as a pro-Brexit article published in the Telegraph, Mr Johnson also warned Brexit could lead to an economic shock, Scottish independence and Russian aggression.
He wrote: "There are some big questions that the 'out' side need to answer. Almost everyone expects there to be some sort of economic shock as a result of a Brexit.
"How big would it be? I am sure that the doomsters are exaggerating the fallout - but are they completely wrong? And how can we know?"
Mr Johnson had previously admitted to writing the pro-Remain piece but its contents had not been known until now - having been revealed in a new book by Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman, All Out War.
Asked whether he had changed his views on the issue, Mr Johnson said before the referendum was called "everybody was trying to make up their minds".
"It's perfectly true that I was wrestling with it, like a lot of people in this country," he said.
"And I wrote a long piece which came down overwhelmingly in favour of leaving.
"I then thought, I'd better see if I can make the alternative case to myself, so I wrote a kind of semi-parodic article in the opposite sense, which has mysteriously found its way into the paper this morning, as I think I might have sent it to a friend.
"I set them side by side and it was blindingly obvious what the right thing to do was."
Shipman said Mr Johnson's column contradicted positions he had adopted since joining the cabinet following Theresa May's appointment as prime minister - but also "dispels the myth that Johnson's case for remain was better than his argument to leave".
Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman Tom Brake said it would "confirm many people's suspicion that he put his own career ahead of the interests of the country".
"Boris was bang on about the threat of Brexit to the economy and the unity of the country - it is a shame he did not listen to his own warning."
Leave campaigners say pre-referendum forecasts of an immediate economic shock failed to materialise, although critics of Brexit point to the fall in the value of the pound against the dollar and the euro as evidence.
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who supported a Remain vote, suggested Mr Johnson and other "opportunists and chancers" backing Brexit had lied to the British people during the referendum campaign about the economic impact of Brexit.
"If I was a Brexit voter, I would feel increasingly betrayed that I voted in the belief that all these Brexiteers knew what they were doing," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
"I would be increasingly angry that these people, months after the referendum, still won't come clean about what they mean by Brexit."
Mr Clegg, who is part of a cross-party campaign urging a parliamentary vote on the UK's negotiating strategy with the EU, said having a "sensible and coherent plan" in place before beginning official talks would "strengthen" Mrs May's hand.
But International Development Secretary Priti Patel warned against MPs "using Parliament as a vehicle to subvert the democratic will of the British people".
She told Marr that MPs were already debating the government's strategy on a daily basis - pointing to two statements made by ministers during the past week.
"The job of the government is to deliver the result of the referendum. The British people have spoken and we are going to deliver for them."
The prime minister has said she wants the best access to EU markets for British business after Brexit but has signalled she also wants limits on freedom of movement - which EU leaders say is incompatible with continued membership of the single market.
On Sunday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she believed a deal could be reached that would allow Scotland to retain access to the single market after Brexit.
Elected in 2005, age 39, he promised to "inspire a new generation".
He became prime minister of the coalition government in 2010 before gaining an overall majority at the general election in May this year.
He is only the fourth Conservative to reach the milestone in over 100 years behind Stanley Baldwin, Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Cameron's declaration that he will quit before the next general election scheduled for 2020 means he cannot overhaul Lady Thatcher's record, in modern times, of 15 years, nine months and 17 days.
He became Conservative Party leader after snatching victory from established favourite David Davis having dazzled activists with a no-notes speech at party conference.
Seen as the Tories' youthful answer to Tony Blair, it was thought he could shake off the Conservatives' "nasty" image and recreate them as an optimistic and modern party.
In 2008, seizing on the UK's mounting financial crisis, he issued a challenge to then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call a snap election saying: "Call that election. We will fight. Britain will win."
But it was another two years before he got the chance to challenge the Labour leader.
He failed to achieve an overall majority in the 2010 general election, but surprised many Westminster-watchers by forming Britain's first coalition since World War Two with the Liberal Democrats.
His first term was marked by spending cuts, riots in English cities, the phone-hacking scandal and recovery from recession.
In May, after one of the biggest general election shocks for decades, Mr Cameron led the Conservatives to victory and his party now holds a slim majority in the Commons.
In his current term as prime minister he has promised an in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU by the end of 2017 and has persuaded MPs to back his plan to extend air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.
The future prime minister was born on 9 October 1966 to Ian and Mary Cameron. He has a brother and two sisters.
Educated at Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he gained a First in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
Began working for the Conservative Party in 1988, before roles in the Treasury and Home Office.
Married Samantha in 1996, they have three children, Nancy, Arthur and Florence. Their first child, Ivan - who had cerebral palsy and Ohtahara syndrome - died in 2009 aged six.
Elected MP for Witney in Oxfordshire in 2001.
David Jones admitted Wales did benefit from EU membership but may be even better off if the UK left the union.
The Clwyd West MP told BBC Radio Wales the Conservative Party was "probably overwhelmingly Eurosceptic".
He claimed more than 100 Tory MPs would be prepared to defy the wishes of the Prime Minister and back withdrawal.
David Cameron has promised an "in-out" referendum after he renegotiates the terms of the UK's membership of the EU.
Mr Jones called on the prime minister to focus on the rules surrounding benefits payments to migrants and measures to strengthen UK law.
"My assessment of the Conservative Party is that it's probably overwhelmingly Eurosceptic," he said.
"I think that if the Prime Minister does not achieve what we would like him to achieve, then we will certainly push for Britain to leave the EU."
Mr Jones, vice president of Conservatives for Britain, which wants to reform Britain's relationship with the EU, dismissed claims that Wales had more to lose from leaving the EU than other parts of the UK.
"This of course is frankly the great lie of those who want Britain to stay in the EU, come what may, put out that parts of the country such as Wales would be poorer," he said.
"My view is that the parts of the country such as Wales that do benefit from the EU as they do at the moment would actually be not only just as well off but could potentially be even better off as could the country as a whole."
The 25-year-old had to last seven games before the 30 November cut-off date to avoid a one-match ban.
"That was annoying me a little bit," the Cameroonian told BBC Sport.
"It was a difficult period because I'm an aggressive player, so it was quite difficult for me to hold myself in certain situations."
He continued: "I'm not looking to get yellow cards but I will definitely be a little bit more aggressive now."
The Pilgrims have gone four matches without a win and slipped to third in League Two, having been seven points clear at the top at one stage.
They have scored just one goal in that period, with strikers Jimmy Spencer and Arnold Garita both injured.
"I think the loss of Jimmy Spencer was a big loss for us upfront, so after that you have to adjust the team and make a new formation," added Songo'o.
"If we can lose three games, have another run of 15 games (unbeaten) and then lose another three, I will take that all day."
Stephen Spavins from Spalding died when his aircraft crashed to the ground at Tempsford near the Black Cat roundabout on the A1 on Tuesday.
The other aircraft was able to carry on flying and landed safely at Thurleigh airfield.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is investigating.
The water company says supplies should be back to normal by Wednesday morning.
The problem was reportedly caused by flash floods in the Andes, which muddied the river Maipo and forced the closure of water processing plants.
More than two million people have been affected, with some businesses ordered to close for the day.
The water processing plants have now been fixed, the Aguas Andinas company said.
Supplies should be restored in the city of nearly five million people by 06:00 local time (09:00 GMT).
"We had an emergency event owing to circumstances beyond our control that forced us to cut water to 15 neighbourhoods," said Cristian Esquivel, spokesman for Aguas Andinas.
Officials have been distributing emergency supplies from tankers, with people rushing out to buy bottled water, says the BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago.
The problem could hardly have come at a worse time, as this is the middle of the Chilean summer, when temperatures regularly top 30C (86F), our correspondent adds.
Most offices, businesses like bars and restaurants, and playgrounds were closed because of the water shortage, reports say.
Many people have complained that they were not given adequate warning.
Peat, 41, from Chapeltown, won three World Cup titles, one World Championship and, at one stage, held the men's record for the most downhill race wins.
A bronze plaque bearing his name was unveiled outside the town hall.
Other famous names immortalised in the walk of fame include Sean Bean, Michael Palin and Jessica Ennis.
Peat said: "It is a huge honour to be selected by the people of Sheffield to join some of my heroes on Sheffield's 'walk of fame'.
"It is always great to be acknowledged by the people from my home town, as I have always been proud to represent Sheffield and this country wherever I've competed around the world."
The South Carolina senator asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about the matter on Monday as he testified before a Senate panel.
Mr Clapper declined to answer a question about concern over any Russian ties to Mr Trump's business interests.
Mr Graham said it would be "helpful" to see President Trump's tax returns.
Russia: The scandal Trump can't shake
"I want to know more about Trump's business dealings," Mr Graham told CNN on Tuesday.
But he added it was too soon to determine whether he would be willing to subpoena them from the White House.
CNN reported that Mr Graham intended to scrutinise possible links between Mr Trump's business and Russia.
Mr Graham later clarified that the Senate judiciary committee he leads was not actively looking into Mr Trump's business relations.
"There's no effort by the judiciary committee to go after business interests because I don't know of any that are illegal or irresponsible, but if you can show me there is some evidence of that I'd be interested in it," he said.
The White House on Tuesday said it did not oppose any inquiries by Mr Graham.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the president "has no business in Russia; he has no connections to Russia."
"So he welcomes that," he added.
During Monday's testimony, Mr Clapper was asked whether he had any concerns about Mr Trump's business interests and a possible connection to Russia.
"Not in the course of the preparation of the intelligence communities assessment," said Mr Clapper, who served under former President Barack Obama.
But when Mr Graham pressed the former spy chief on whether he had ever discovered any Trump business ties to Moscow, Mr Clapper alluded to an ongoing FBI investigation.
"Senator Graham I can't comment on that because that impacts an investigation," he said.
The president took to Twitter to cast doubt on any questions surrounding Mr Clapper's refusal to comment on Monday.
"Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is 'no evidence' of collusion w/ Russia and Trump," he wrote.
He later added: "The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?"
Rowntree spent eight years as an assistant coach with England, but lost his job in December after the hosts' early exit from the Rugby World Cup.
The former England prop will move to the Stoop in the summer, working under new director of rugby John Kingston.
Rowntree, 45, told BBC 5 live he was "excited" by his new job.
"This opportunity has come sooner than anticipated given what happened at the World Cup, but it's here and I'm determined to grasp it," he said.
"It's the start of a new adventure."
After being appointed as Stuart Lancaster's successor, England head coach Eddie Jones dispensed with the services of Rowntree and fellow assistant coaches Andy Farrell and Mike Catt.
"It wasn't the easiest period of my life, but you've got to learn from these things," Rowntree said.
"It was hard work, to be honest. You've got to move on and look forward. So here I am, able to look forward, working at a great club.
"There are a lot of things [you learn], but as long as you use that going forward, then it's of some benefit in the future."
Steve Borthwick was recruited by Jones as forwards coach, but Rowntree says he has no complaints about the decision to start afresh.
On the England coaching staff between 2008 and 2015, he is now eager to take on the challenge of working at a Premiership club.
"I was ready for a club role," he said. "That involvement I've been craving.
"There's so much potential - look at the blend of the squad - so that makes it very appealing for me. I love coaching, and I'm ready to do it for a long time."
Quins forward Nick Easter will also join the coaching staff next season, overseeing the defence.
Easter says Rowntree's reputation remains intact despite the World Cup disappointment and insisted he did not have to "prove anything".
Easter added: "What happened at that World Cup was a collective and it came down to 10 minutes against Wales. It's fantastic for him personally that he's back doing what he does best."
Rowntree's appointment means all three of Lancaster's assistants are now back in work, with Farrell part of the Ireland coaching set-up and Mike Catt joining outgoing Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea on the Italy staff.
Lancaster himself recently expressed his desire to return to coaching - and Rowntree says it will not be long before he is back doing what he wants
"He's had various offers," he said. "He's just waiting to pick the right one."
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The city council voted to award the honour to the car maker to recognise how it had "transformed both the city's and the region's economy".
The motion, which had cross party support, also praised the "sterling efforts" of its 7,000-strong workforce in securing the production of the next generation Qashqai and X-Trail.
A ceremony will take place in 2017 on a date yet to be decided.
Freedoms are proposed in Sunderland to individuals or groups who have made outstanding contributions to the wellbeing and community spirit of the city.
Leader of the Labour-run council Paul Watson, said: "For the first time we have the real secret of Nissan's success - it's the workforce."
Peter Wood, leader of the Conservative Opposition Group, seconded the motion.
He said: "It is right to recognise the contribution of the men and women who work at Nissan - on the production line, in the office and in the boardroom.
"To confer the freedom of the city upon them is the best way we as councillors can show how proud we are of them for the pride they take in their work."
Other freedoms of Sunderland include television reporter Kate Adie, FA Cup goalkeeper Jimmy Montgomery and the crew of HMS Ocean, the city's adopted Royal Navy warship.
A coroner ruled bullying and the "lingering" effect of an alleged rape were factors in the suicide of Cpl Anne-Marie Ellement, 30, in 2011.
Now, ex-Cpl Thomas Fulton and ex-Cpl Jeremy Jones have each been charged with two counts of rape.
In 2009 the Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA) ruled there was not enough evidence to prosecute them.
But the director of service prosecutions, Andrew Cayley, said he has now concluded that decision was wrong.
Cpl Ellement alleged she was raped by two soldiers during a posting in Germany in 2009.
She was found dead at Bulford Barracks in Wiltshire.
Chris Smalling's header put United ahead before Juan Mata finished off a slick move with a crisp strike.
Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba - with his first goal for the club - both scored from corners, with Demarai Gray's spectacular long-range strike the only consolation for Leicester.
Rooney came on in the 83rd minute.
United's first Premier League win in a month was sealed by half-time, but a third defeat for Leicester already matches their total for the whole of last season.
"If he has to go on the bench, he goes on the bench. If he has to stay at home, he stays at home."
Mourinho was true to his pre-match words as Rooney was dropped for a Premier League game for the first time since Boxing Day 2015 - and ended up a spectator for what was eventually a transformed first-half performance.
For the first 20 minutes it may have been more of the same from United - ponderous and slow in their approach - but once Smalling headed in Daley Blind's corner the shackles were released.
How much of a difference Rooney's absence made to their play is hard to quantify, but a 4-0 lead at the break was proof enough the change was justified.
Mata, nominally playing in Rooney's place behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic, was bright and lively and took his goal superbly before teeing up Rashford for a tap-in, but it was in midfield the hosts were able to really take a grip of the game as Leicester froze.
Rooney eventually came on with seven minutes left, replacing Rashford on the left wing. Where his future role now lies remains a mystery but Mourinho's decision to leave out his captain could hardly have worked out better.
United's first-half performance was their best of the season so far, and went hand-in-hand with Pogba's finest display since his world-record move to Old Trafford this summer.
Mourinho chose Ander Herrera to partner him instead of Marouane Fellaini or Michael Carrick, and Pogba played noticeably further forward, often interchanging with Mata.
He had already played two searching cross-field passes before a flurry of individual highlights as United scored three goals in five dazzling minutes at the end of the first half.
Pogba delivered a disguised chip over the top to Ibrahimovic, who volleyed over, fired in a dipping 35-yarder that was well saved by Ron-Robert Zieler, and sliced through a pass that freed Antonio Valencia. The Frenchman then played a key part in Mata's second before he headed his first goal for the club.
For £89m he is expected to control games, and he did for a brilliant spell.
He was anonymous after the break but the game was already won.
Leicester's shock title win last season was built on the back of the attacking brilliance of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, coupled with the work ethic of the now departed N'Golo Kante, but also on a solid defence, which conceded just 36 goals in 38 games.
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The Foxes won five of six games 1-0 in March and April to move towards the championship as they conceded four goals in seven games.
Yet here they became the first defending Premier League champions to concede four goals in a single half.
What will hurt manager Claudio Ranieri even more is that, apart from Mata's brilliantly constructed and taken second goal, the other three were simple goals from corners which could, and should, have been stopped.
The Foxes collapsed after the opening goal and the message was clear at half-time when star men Vardy and Mahrez were taken off, apparently rested for the Champions League date with Porto in midweek.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone at Old Trafford
There is no great disconnect between Wayne Rooney and club or manager, as there was in 2013, when Rooney sat in an executive box and watched Sir Alex Ferguson's final Old Trafford game as Manchester United manager behind glass.
Rooney politely applauded back when he was sent out to warm up for the first time, and the home fans' reception was enthusiastic when he ran on to the field after replacing Rashford near the end.
It won't stop the chatter around Rooney though. His United future is on the line.
Mourinho's decision is not about this lunchtime - or Thursday, when United face Zorya Luhansk in the Europa League and Rooney is likely to start.
It is about next month, and January and June next year. About the day when Henrikh Mkhitaryan is going to be fit and in form. When transfer windows open and close.
Rooney did not get dropped for the man Mourinho bought to be his new number 10. He got dropped because Mourinho needed to do something to wake his team from their September slumber.
What we don't know yet is whether England's captain is surplus to requirements permanently.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho:
"Today we had intensity, movement and dynamism. To be back home and beat the champions is good. Last season we couldn't beat them and this season we have beaten them twice already."
Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri:
"It is not possible to concede three goals from corners. That means you are not concentrating. We are usually very solid at corners and free-kicks, it was very strange. Until now we have been very strong, we have made some mistakes. I can understand that they score with headers, that they are very tall, but to score a smart goal from a corner is not possible.
"It is important to clean our mind and get ready for the Champions League on Tuesday."
Leicester host Porto in their first home game in the Champions League on Tuesday, while Manchester United welcome Ukrainian side FC Zorya Luhansk to Old Trafford in the Europa League on Thursday.
Match ends, Manchester United 4, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 4, Leicester City 1.
Offside, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney tries a through ball, but Antonio Valencia is caught offside.
Ander Herrera (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Foul by Chris Smalling (Manchester United).
Islam Slimani (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ashley Young replaces Juan Mata.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Substitution, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney replaces Marcus Rashford.
Offside, Manchester United. Marcus Rashford tries a through ball, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic is caught offside.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Antonio Valencia.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Daley Blind.
Substitution, Manchester United. Michael Carrick replaces Jesse Lingard.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Wes Morgan.
Danny Simpson (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Foul by Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United).
Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Demarai Gray (Leicester City).
Hand ball by Christian Fuchs (Leicester City).
Attempt saved. Andy King (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp.
Foul by Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United).
Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Ron-Robert Zieler.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Valencia.
Attempt blocked. Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Marc Albrighton.
Goal! Manchester United 4, Leicester City 1. Demarai Gray (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Daniel Amartey.
Foul by Juan Mata (Manchester United).
The authorities ordered construction to stop on several occasions but were ignored, they say.
Engineers involved in the building have been asked to turn themselves in to police.
It is not clear how many people died - some reports say more than 160 were killed, the authorities say 29.
The roof of the church in Uyo, in the south of Nigeria, caved in on worshippers who had gathered for the ordination of a bishop.
The church was still under construction and workers had rushed to complete it for the ordination, witnesses say.
It is not unusual for buildings to collapse in Nigeria, the BBC World Service's Africa editor, Mary Harper, reports. Corners are cut, materials are sub-standard and the quality of work is often shoddy, she adds.
In 2014, scores of people were killed when a church hostel belonging to a Nigerian TV evangelist collapsed in the city of Lagos.
He said Brexit would freeze "the possibilities of investment in Great Britain or in Europe as a whole".
He appealed to the UK prime minister and other EU leaders to ensure an orderly process for the British exit.
Earlier EU leaders warned that the UK must honour the principle of free movement of people if it wants to retain access to the single market.
The leaders of the other 27 EU countries were meeting in Brussels without the UK for the first time in more than 40 years.
Mr Obama was speaking at a summit in Ottawa with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, aimed at strengthening economic ties between North American countries.
He said the preparations by central banks and finance ministers indicated that "global economy in the short run will hold steady".
But he added: "I think there are some genuine longer-term concerns about global growth if in fact Brexit goes through and that freezes the possibilities of investment in Great Britain or in Europe as a whole.
"At a time when global growth rates were weak already, this doesn't help," the president said.
Mr Obama also strongly defended free trade and promised to press on with plans for a Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Without mentioning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump - who opposes the plan - he said: "We've had times throughout our history where anti-immigration sentiment is exploited by demagogues. But guess what? They kept coming."
Mr Obama said his main message to Britain and Germany was: "Everybody should catch their breath. I think that will be a difficult, challenging process, but it does not need to be a panicky process,''
The president said he had spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and that her interest was making sure Britain's exit worked, not retribution.
Mrs Merkel was one of many EU leaders to stress again on Wednesday that freedom of movement for EU citizens was an essential part of the single market - and that there would be no negotiations with the UK until the bloc was formally notified of its intention to leave.
After their meeting, the 27 EU leaders said in a statement: "Access to the single market requires acceptance of all four freedoms."
The "four freedoms" that underlie the EU's internal market are the freedom of movement of goods, workers, services and capital.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have separate phone talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel later on Thursday, Japan's foreign ministry said.
Mr Cameron announced he would resign after the campaign he led for his country to remain in the EU was defeated by 52% to 48% in Thursday's referendum.
The outgoing leader said that he would attempt to "steady the ship", but that it would be for the new prime minister to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which would give the UK two years to negotiate its withdrawal.
He told parliament in London that the issue of freedom of movement would be difficult to resolve.
"Frankly, it's a difficult issue inside the EU, where you've got all the negotiating ability to try and change things, and I think it will be in many ways even more difficult from outside," he said.
The Blaze Laserlight trial involves 250 Santander Cycles for hire, with the front light built into the frame.
It aims to increase cyclists' safety by giving them a bigger visible footprint and to overcome drivers' blind spots.
There have been eight cycling deaths in the capital this year, seven of which involved heavy goods vehicles.
Critics say dedicated cycle lanes would keep cyclists safer.
Santander Cycles said the trial was being funded as part of its annual budget and if the trial was successful it hoped to extend the laser light technology to more of its bicycles.
The club's debts are estimated at nearly 75m euros (£54m).
Giampietro Manenti promised to clear the debts when he took over as chairman last month but he was arrested on Wednesday after being accused of involvement in a credit card scam.
The Italian league has allocated 5m euro (£3.6m) so the league's bottom club can fulfil their fixtures.
In the absence of Manenti, club officials Osvaldo Riccobene and Enrico Siciliano represented the club at a scheduled hearing, which lasted 10 minutes.
Riccobene said: "The club's creditors called for bankruptcy, which was accepted by the prosecutor."
Parma's season has long descended into farce. Players have not been paid this campaign, while they have had to do their own laundry, drive the team bus and go without hot water.
The club - who have changed ownership twice this season - have already been hit with a three-point deduction and been forced to postpone two matches. They are 16 points adrift of safety.
Parma, who are coached by former Italy and AC Milan midfielder Roberto Donadoni, were runners-up in Serie A in 1997 and won the Uefa Cup in 1995 and 1999, as well as the 1993 Cup Winners' Cup.
Lancashire were reduced to 6-4 and 32-5 before recovering to 102-5, still 225 behind, when rain and bad light ended play 28 overs early at Old Trafford.
Middlesex earlier lost seven wickets for 65 runs to be bowled out for 327.
If Middlesex win and Somerset beat Yorkshire at Headingley, Middlesex will need four points from their final game against Yorkshire to become champions.
Whereas the visiting batsmen benefited from some loose Lancashire bowling on the first day, the Middlesex attack made perfect use of the new ball and the movement offered from the surface to rip through the home top order.
Toby Roland-Jones, constantly asking questions with a full length, had England prospect Haseeb Hameed caught at second slip without scoring, before Tim Murtagh induced an edge to gully from Luke Procter.
Roland-Jones then had Alviro Petersen held down the leg side, despite the batsman's protests, and yorked Steven Croft two balls later to leave the hosts in disarray at 6-4.
Jos Buttler briefly sparkled, but when he was brilliantly caught down the leg side by John Simpson to give Roland-Jones a fourth wicket, Lancashire were 32-5.
It was left to Rob Jones, in only his third first-class match, and Liam Livingstone to rebuild in an unbroken stand of 70, occasionally aided by light only good enough for Middlesex to bowl their spinners.
When the weather intervened for the final time, Jones, solid in defence, was unbeaten on 42 and Livingstone 31 not out.
The collapse came after an improved bowling display by Lancashire, with Kyle Jarvis and Tom Bailey making inroads with the second new ball and spinner Simon Kerrigan running through the lower order.
Overnight pair Dawid Malan (53) and Stevie Eskinazi were bowled by Bailey and Jarvis respectively before Bailey had Simpson caught at second slip.
Kerrigan, who struggled on the first day, showed a greater consistency of length to find turn and some uneven bounce, removing Ollie Rayner, Roland-Jones and Steven Finn in figures of 4-80.
The disease now kills more than three times as many women as breast cancer and thousands more than either heart attacks or stroke.
Analysts say the rising numbers may be because doctors are becoming more aware of the disease and recording it on death certificates more frequently.
Coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in men.
For males, dementia is the third most common cause of death.
The gradual wasting away of the brain in dementia cuts lives short.
The condition can be recorded as the sole cause of death, but is frequently found as an underlying condition. Many people with dementia ultimately die from pneumonia.
The data, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed more than half a million people died in England and Wales in 2013.
Cancer is the leading killer when all subtypes of cancer are combined across both genders. Nearly one in three deaths last year was from some form of cancer.
The latest data confirms a dramatic shift in the causes of death in the past decade.
Between 2003 and 2013 the percentage of deaths from coronary heart disease, which includes heart attacks, fell to 16% of male deaths from 22%. In women the figure fell to 10% from 15%.
Improved care means people are more likely to survive heart attacks and more people take statins to prevent them in the first place.
Meanwhile, dementia rose to 6% of male deaths from 2% and to 12% of female deaths from 5%.
The latest data is the second consecutive year that dementia has been recorded as the leading cause of death for women.
The ONS report said: "Some of the rise over the last few decades may also be attributable to a better understanding of dementia.
"This means that doctors may be more likely to record dementia as the underlying cause of death."
Hilary Evans, the director of external affairs at the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "The figures highlight dementia as a huge problem that we cannot shy away from any longer.
"Encouragingly, the statistics reveal that other health conditions, such as heart disease, are beginning to be tamed and this has come about due to improved research into treatment, prevention and better public health.
"We must now turn our attentions to dementia - our greatest health challenge - and invest in research that will drive better prevention and treatment of the condition."
Gavin Terry, from the Alzheimer's Society, said: "Dementia is one of the biggest health and social care challenges the UK faces.
"For too long dementia has been wrongly seen by many clinicians as a natural part of ageing and, as such, have failed to record it as a cause of death."
Prof Peter Weissberg, the medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said coronary heart disease "continues to blight the lives of thousands of people and families".
"We've made great progress over the last 50 years but we still need to fund much more research to stop people dying needlessly, and to help the increasing number of people living with heart disease."
Drawings from the author's novels will be on display at National Museum Cardiff until 20 November.
The exhibition features more than 120 works, brings together curator Quentin Blake's drafts and storyboards with finished art work to demonstrate how ideas evolved.
The 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl's birth will be celebrated in September.
A Roald Dahl-themed breakfast takes place at 10:00 BST, followed by drawing and a fancy dress competition.
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A survey by the Bank of England said 30% more lenders expected demand to grow over the first three months of the year than those predicting a fall.
Various figures have shown an increase in buy-to-let mortgage lending in recent months.
Buy-to-let investors face a 3% surcharge on stamp duty from April.
Housing experts predict that prospective landlords will move as quickly as possible to complete purchases before the extra stamp duty on second home purchases kicks in.
Demand for buy-to-let lending increased significantly in the three months to Christmas, the Bank said.
Some 22% more lenders reported increases rather than decreases in the demand for loans.
On Thursday, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the number of buy-to-let home loans advanced in November leapt by 35% compared to the same month a year earlier.
A number of reports have also suggested an increased reliance on credit among consumers towards the end of last year.
The Bank's survey revealed that demand for personal loans and overdrafts picked up in the last three months of 2015. A significant chunk of this was finance for buying cars.
This demand is expected to remain strong in the first quarter of this year, the Bank said.
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Lenders are expecting more jostling for buy-to-let mortgages in the coming weeks after a leap in demand in late 2015.
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The move followed the publication of a Senate report that claimed Backpage.com had "knowingly concealed evidence of criminality" by editing ads featuring words associated with child abuse.
But the site says its freedom of speech rights have been violated.
And it claims the ads had helped police track down missing children.
Links on the site to its adult section now feature the word "censored" and direct users to a page that claims the business has been a victim of "unconstitutional government censorship."
The adult section's closure had been unexpected.
Last month, a judge dismissed a case in which the Californian authorities had claimed that Backpage's chief executive and two of its ex-owners had committed pimping offences and generated millions of dollars by hosting sex trade ads.
The basis for the ruling was that US law states that website publishers cannot be held responsible for content created solely by their users.
And on Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed by three women who had alleged Backpage was at fault because they had been sold as prostitutes via the site when they had been as young as 15.
The UK and other international versions of Backpage.com continue to offer their adult sections.
The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations described Backpage as the "world's second-largest classified advertising website", adding that the service was involved in 73% of all child trafficking reports passed from the public over to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
It said the company was aware of the problem, but rather than block suspicious ads had set up a programme that helped remove incriminating words and phrases.
Banned terms included:
It said that initially these words were automatically removed by an electronic filter, and manual checks removed similar language - but the remainder of the ads were then allowed to run.
The committee added that by 2012, a different process had been put in place, which brought up an error message if the banned terms were detected.
It said these alerts identified the words that were barred, allowing users to resubmit their ads with the restricted terms removed.
The committee also presented evidence from unnamed whistleblowers, who were said to have worked for the company.
It said one had told it that the moderation team had seen it as its job to "sanitise" ads before they appeared.
"According to her, moderators 'went through the motions of putting lipstick on a pig, because when it came down to it, it was what the business was about' - that is moderating ads for prostitution," the report said.
The committee acknowledged that Backpage had passed on thousands of ads it had suspected of being related to child exploitation to the NCMEC.
But it said an internal company email dated February 2012, suggested the company might have "artificially limited" the number of such alerts.
"If we don't want to blow past 500 this month, we shouldn't be doing more than 16 a day," the email said.
"We can't ignore the ones that seem like trouble, but if we start counting now it might help us on the ones where we're being liberal."
Backpage has shared the letter it had sent to the committee defending its practices.
It said it agreed that human trafficking was "abhorrent" and added that it had spent "thousands of hours and millions of dollars" to help law enforcement tackle the problem.
It also published a statement from Children of the Night - a Los Angeles-based organisation part-funded by Backpage and dedicated to "rescuing American children from prostitution".
"The ability to search for and track potentially exploited children on a website and have the website bend over backwards to help and cooperate with police the way Backpage did was totally unique," wrote Dr Lois Lee, the organisation's founder.
"It not only made law enforcement's job easier, it made them much more effective at rescuing kids and convicting pimps."
Although Backpage's adult section is offline for now, the site indicated it might try to revive it.
"This will not end the fight for online freedom of speech," it said in a statement.
"Backpage.com will continue to pursue its efforts in court to vindicate its First Amendment rights and those of other online platforms for third-party expression."
Backpage's lawyers said executives from the company would appear at a Senate subcommittee hearing later this Tuesday, but would not testify.
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A classified advertising website accused of being a "hub" for the sex trafficking of children has shut down its adult section in the US.
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On Thursday, the commission barred a 12 July Orange Order parade from returning along part of the Crumlin Road in north Belfast.
As a result, unionist parties pulled out of talks on parades, flags and the past.
Ulster Unionist Danny Kennedy said he hoped Tuesday's meeting would go ahead.
Speaking on Sunday Politics, Mr Kennedy said while it should deal with normal business, he hoped it would also deal "with the here and now, the issue of the day - the Ardoyne parade".
"In the week that leads up to that parade, we've got to deal as an executive with those issues and I will be asking for that to be fully discussed in a fully comprehensive manner round the executive table by the executive parties," he said.
"It's of vital importance to stability and public order.
"Why wouldn't the executive want to discuss the issue of the day that is dominating discussion at the moment?"
Sinn Féin said the meeting was not the place to raise the issue.
"As far as I would be concerned, my party would be concerned, Danny would kind of be whistling up the wrong tree," the party's Alex Maskey said.
"They walked out of talks last week which were designed to deal with the whole issue of flags parades and the past.
"Danny can raise whatever he wishes to raise, but the 12 July parade will not be resolved in the executive meeting."
Meanwhile, Drew Nelson, the grand secretary of the Orange Order, has said he expects "reaction" to the Parades Commission decision to continue for some time.
Speaking at the annual Drumcree parade in County Armagh on Sunday, Mr Nelson said: "We are now in a new situation where there is a realisation throughout the loyal orders and unionist political leadership that a knee-jerk reaction over the parading season is not enough.
"I therefore expect that the unionist and loyalist family's reaction will continue well after the parading season has finished and will spread into the sphere of politics and governance.
"The Grand Lodge of Ireland will hold an emergency meeting later this week, which will take place in tandem with our ongoing discussions with our unionist partners."
He again called for any protests to be peaceful.
On Thursday, Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson said the Stormont institutions had been put under threat by the Parades Commission's determination.
However, the deputy first minister, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, said people should abide by the decision and show leadership.
On Sunday, the SDLP's Alex Attwood said: "Following the Ardoyne decision, playing fast and loose with devolution and North/South [institutions] is the road to nowhere.
"This is the road Peter Robinson, [Ulster Unionist leader] Mike Nesbitt and others are choosing."
On Wednesday, the commission ruled that the outward leg of the parade could proceed along the road.
However, it said that only hymn music could be played by bands.
The road separates unionist and nationalist communities in north Belfast and it is the second year in a row that the commission has ruled against the return leg of the 12 July parade marching along the route.
In its determination on the return leg, the Parades Commission said: "On the notified return route, the parade shall not process that part of the notified route between the junction of Woodvale Parade and Woodvale Road and the junction of Hesketh Road and Crumlin Road.
"The parade shall disperse no later than 7.30pm."
The north Belfast group the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) has said it has called off plans for a protest against the parade on 12 July.
Loyalists have maintained a continuous presence at a protest camp at the Woodvale/Ardoyne interface at Twaddell Avenue since last July.
A North South Ministerial Council meeting that was due to be held in Dublin on Friday was postponed following Thursday's developments.
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An executive meeting on Tuesday should discuss the Parades Commission's decision on an Orange parade, the regional development minister has said.
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Mr Maduro said the owners had reduced the number of employees working on cash tills in order to create queues and "annoy the Venezuelan people".
He has accused Venezuela's business elite of boycotting his government.
The opposition blames the socialist policies of the past 16 years for the worsening economic crisis.
"Yesterday we detected that a famous chain of stores was conspiring, irritating the people," said Mr Maduro.
"We came, we normalized sales, we summoned the owners, we arrested them and they're prisoners for having provoked the people," he said.
A week ago, thousands of Venezuelans attended an opposition march in Caracas, banging empty pots to highlight what they say is the shortage of many staple foods.
Demonstrators also voiced discontent at high inflation, crime and long queues.
Many analysts say currency controls that restrict the availability of dollars for imports play a key role in creating a scarcity of many items.
But President Maduro is adamant that many businessmen are colluding with the political opposition to oust his government.
He accused four supermarket chains of hoarding goods and smuggling items out of the country.
"Those who use their stores to hurt the people will pay with time in prison," Mr Maduro told a group of his supporters.
Last month he called on the National Assembly to open an inquiry into what he described as "an economic war" waged against his socialist government.
Venezuela - a major oil producer - has been heavily affected by the fall in oil prices on international markets. The economy officially entered recession in December.
Figures released by the central bank showed that GDP declined by 2.3% in the third quarter of 2014, after contracting by 4.8% and 4.9% in the first and the second quarters respectively.
Inflation in Venezuela reached 63.6% in the 12 months to November, one of the highest rates in the world.
A senior DUP source said it was a heart-related condition.
A party spokesman confirmed that the party leader felt unwell on Monday morning.
"He has been admitted to the hospital for some further tests," the spokesman said. It is understood Mr Robinson, who is 66 years old, was taken by ambulance to hospital.
He has served as first minister in Northern Ireland since 2008.
There are no further details about his condition.
The Verity was carrying 3,000 tonnes of scrap metal when its engine failed four miles off Hartland Point.
Padstow and Appledore RNLI lifeboat volunteers were joined by the Dutch Frigate HNLMS De Ruyter to rescue the crew.
RNLI volunteers spent more than 24 hours at sea helping the cargo ship.
Alan Tarby, Padstow RNLI Coxswain said: 'It was excellent team work from the RNLI lifeboats and the skipper and crew from the Dutch Warship did an amazing job in difficult conditions.'
The former energy secretary and Welsh secretary died at the city's St Richard's Hospice.
Lord Walker was MP for Worcester from 1961 to 1992. His son Robin won the seat for the Tories last month.
He was Environment Secretary and Trade and Industry Secretary under Edward Heath, and Energy Secretary and Welsh Secretary under Margaret Thatcher.
Lord Walker was appointed a life peer after retiring as an MP in 1992.
In a statement, Lord Walker's family said: "As a politician, he always believed in the importance of helping those most in need, combining efficiency with compassion.
"He was a true one-nation Conservative and a patriot. His great personal compassion was always reflected in his private life."
Wales Office Minister David Jones paid tribute to Lord Walker during Wales Questions in the House of Commons, describing him as "a true friend of Wales".
The current Secretary of State, Cheryl Gillan said her thoughts were with the family of Lord Walker, a sentiment echoed by Plaid Cymru's Parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd.
Lord Walker entered Parliament in 1961 and two years later was made parliamentary private secretary to the then leader of the Commons, Selwyn Lloyd.
He was regarded as a close ally of Mr Heath, who brought him into the cabinet in 1970 as environment secretary - making him the first environment minister anywhere in the world.
Mrs Thatcher made him agriculture minister following her 1979 General Election victory.
In 1983 she made him energy secretary, giving him a frontline role in combating the miners' strike of 1984 to 1985.
In 1987 he was moved to Welsh secretary - a post he held until 1990, when he finally bowed out of government.
Liberal ALDE leader Guy Verhofstadt said "there is insufficient common ground" to join forces with M5S.
Earlier M5S members voted to leave their current alliance with the UK Independence Party (UKIP). That could weaken UKIP's parliamentary influence.
M5S was also rebuffed by Green MEPs.
M5S founder Beppe Grillo - previously a comedian - said the snub by ALDE was a move by "the establishment", preventing his party from having greater influence.
In a blog post (in Italian), he said: "All possible forces moved against us. We shook the system like never before."
But M5S "will continue its work to create an independent political group for the next European legislature: the DDM (Direct Democracy Movement)", he pledged.
Being in a parliamentary group brings more EU funding and influence to a party than being non-aligned.
Unlike the liberal group, M5S is anti-euro and wants Italy to hold a referendum on whether to keep the single currency. Mr Grillo often criticises the way the EU is run.
Mr Verhofstadt, a veteran campaigner for deeper EU integration, said "there remain fundamental differences on key European issues" between ALDE and M5S.
His decision means ALDE loses the chance of becoming the third-biggest group in the parliament.
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UKIP's Nigel Farage voiced satisfaction over the ALDE snub, saying "I didn't expect to be proved correct so quickly".
Earlier he had called Five Star's approach to ALDE "completely illogical".
UKIP's group - Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) - will be much weakened if the Italian MEPs leave.
EFDD has 44 seats in total, including 20 UKIP members and 17 from M5S.
The M5S vote to join ALDE on Monday was 78.5% in favour - that is, 31,914 votes. The party believes profoundly in deciding policy through direct online voting by its members.
Earlier, Mr Grillo argued that with Brexit looming, UKIP would be focused on "the political future of the UK" and British MEPs would not be in the parliament after the 2019 European elections.
He said M5S and UKIP had voted the same way in no more than 20% of cases.
Despite the ALDE snub, it agreed on a joint blueprint for fundamental EU reform with M5S last week.
Both oppose the "grand coalition" that dominates the EU institutions: the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D). Those two blocs got €17.4m (£15m; $18m) and €15.3m in EU funding last year, respectively.
ALDE got €5.7m in EU funding and the EFDD got €3.8m.
The ALDE-M5S blueprint says both agree that the EU of today "is unable to deliver the results that citizens expect in terms of prosperity and protection".
"We need to make the European Union the global champion of civil liberties, fundamental rights and the rule of law," they say.
They also agree that the euro's "underlying flaws" must be fixed. And both call for "a more democratic and transparent" EU.
Perez squeezed Ocon towards a wall at more than 180mph as the Frenchman was trying to pass the Mexican.
The two collided, damaging Ocon's front wing and giving Perez a puncture.
Ocon said: "He is supposed to be a professional with a lot of experience but he hasn't shown it. I will speak to Sergio. I am furious."
The incident on lap 29 was the second time the two had collided in the race and also the latest in a series of incidents between the two this year following Ocon's arrival in the team.
The first incident was very similar but happened in the same place on the first lap, although Ocon actually hit the wall this time and the two cars got away without damage. It was influenced by the fact Renault's Nico Hulkenberg was on their outside.
"Just a stupid race," Ocon said. "The first incident I accepted even if I think he saw me. It is at the start, we are three wide, maybe it can happen.
"But the second one was one too much. He risked our lives in there and he costs points to the team.
"I am always very calm but we have lost a lot of points for the team and I can understand the team is very unhappy with this and if they don't let us race in the future I think this would be normal because every time we can race something happens.
"(In the last race) in Hungary he touched me, he broke my car. I didn't say anything. Here again, same story, so this has to end and I will go speak to him man to man."
Perez said: "First-lap incident was 100% my fault. I didn't have the the right engine mode selected so I had 50% of the power.
"My incident. The second one I think Esteban was too optimistic. There was no need to touch there. He could have lifted and then we could carry on."
Perez said he felt there was no need to impose team orders, but Force India have decided that is what they will do from now on.
Team boss Vijay Mallya said: "As much as I support competitive racing, the repeated incidents between both our cars are now becoming very concerning.
"Under these circumstances I have no choice but to implement a policy of team orders in the interest of safety and to protect the team's position in the constructors' championship."
Chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer said: "We can't afford it to happen more so in the future we will do some things differently so the team controls what happens out on the track.
"We will have to put some more rules in place and take the situation in our control. we will make sure it doesn't happen again."
By embedding tiny tubes in the plants' leaves, they can be made to pick up chemicals called nitro-aromatics, which are found in landmines and other buried munitions.
Real-time information can then be wirelessly relayed to a handheld device.
The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) work is published in the journal Nature Materials.
The scientists implanted nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes (tiny cylinders of carbon) into the leaves of the spinach plant.
They then delivered the nitro-aromatics into the water taken up by the roots and directly to the leaves in droplets. It takes about 10 minutes for the spinach to take up the water via the roots into the leaves.
To read the signal, the researchers shine a laser onto the leaf, prompting the embedded nanotubes to emit near-infrared fluorescent light.
This can be detected with a small infrared camera connected to a small, cheap Raspberry Pi computer. The signal can also be detected with a smartphone by removing the infrared filter most have.
Co-author Prof Michael Strano, from MIT in Cambridge, US, said the work was an important proof of principle.
"Our paper outlines how one could engineer plants like this to detect virtually anything," he told the BBC News website.
Prof Strano's lab has previously developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors to detect hydrogen peroxide, TNT, and the nerve gas sarin.
When the target molecule binds to a polymer material wrapped around the nanotube, it changes the way it glows.
"The plants could be use for defence applications, but also to monitor public spaces for terrorism related activities, since we show both water and airborne detection," said Prof Strano.
"Such plants could be used to monitor groundwater seepage from buried munitions or waste that contains nitro-aromatics."
Using the set-up described in the paper, the researchers can pick up a signal from about 1m away from the plant, and they are now working on increasing that distance.
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Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate, something few would have predicted a little more than 12 months ago.
And after the Democrats' convention in Philadelphia, we know Hillary Clinton will be their candidate.
Whatever happens from this point on, the outcome will be historic. This is how:
When Barack Obama first walked through the White House front door in January 2009, he was aged 47, and was the fifth-youngest president in history. Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest, at 42 years and 322 days.
The next one will be a fair bit older, whatever happens.
Donald Trump celebrated his 70th birthday on 14 June. If elected in November, he would be the oldest president in history (Ronald Reagan was 69 when he took office).
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, turns 69 some two weeks before the election, and would become the second-oldest president on inauguration. She would replace William Henry Harrison, who became president in 1841 (and was the last president born on British soil).
Trump v Clinton is the first presidential contest between New Yorkers since 1944, when the governor of New York, Thomas E Dewey, ran against the incumbent, Franklin D Roosevelt.
Whoever wins this time will become the first New Yorker in office in 71 years when the inauguration takes place next year.
(And yes, we know Mrs Clinton was born in Chicago, but she was a senator from New York and lives in the state.)
If Mr Trump wins, we could be looking at the least amount of money spent by a winning candidate for some time.
Federal Election Commission records show he spent $91m (£69m) up to 22 July, of which $50m is his own money.
No other candidate since Al Gore in 2000 ($126m) has spent as little. Hillary Clinton is on some $275m so far, by the way.
Of course, Mr Trump could break out the chequebook given that he has more campaigning to do between now and November, but it looks likely he will come a long way under what Barack Obama spent last time round - almost $556m.
A Trump win would be significant for another reason - no-one has been elected president in more than 60 years without experience as a governor or in Congress.
Even then, the last president with no political experience, Dwight Eisenhower, was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two, before he was elected to office in 1953.
Before that, Herbert Hoover, who was president from 1929 to 1933, was previously an engineer and humanitarian.
No previous candidate has ever owned a chain of casinos and hotels. But Mr Trump says his experience doing deals, and the fact he is not too tied to the Washington establishment, stand him in good stead.
The long years Hillary Clinton has been on the Washington scene may make it easy to forget one fact: She would be the first female president if elected. She is already the first female candidate for a major US party.
The closest we have got before is when Republican John McCain surprisingly picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, and when Democrat Walter Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as his vice-presidential pick in 1984.
Neither won the presidency.
Amazingly, only two Democrats have directly succeeded another Democrat as US president. The most recent was James Buchanan, who was president from 1857 to 1861.
Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson were both vice-presidents who were named president when their predecessors died. They both then went on to win the next election.
A Clinton win, therefore, would bring even more significance to the Democratic Party.
Detectives and investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) want to interview Andy Hill as soon as possible.
Reports that Mr Hill, 51, has left hospital are unconfirmed by police.
Eleven people died when the Hawker Hunter jet plummeted on to the A27.
The former RAF pilot from Sandon, near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, was placed in a medically-induced coma at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton after the crash, and was later moved to a specialist hospital.
An initial AAIB report said Mr Hill was thrown clear of the aircraft during the later part of the crash.
It said it was not clear whether he initiated his ejection.
After the crash, the pilot's family issued a statement which said they were devastated and deeply saddened by the loss of life and sent prayers and heartfelt condolences to the families of all those affected.
A friend also described him as an expert pilot.
The Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) is seeking a judicial review of the policy.
Earlier this year a United Nations committee called for a change to the guidelines in Scotland.
The government said schools were encouraged to discuss options with parents and children.
It added that religious observance should be sensitive to individual beliefs - including those who have none.
All school pupils in Scotland need parental permission to withdraw from religious activities like assemblies.
But sixth form students in England and Wales, normally aged between 16 and 18, have the right to make their own decision about opting out.
Gordon MacRae, the chief executive of the HSS, said: "Today in Scotland young people are trusted to get married, join the army and vote in elections and for the constitutional future of Scotland.
"However, Scottish ministers still do not trust them to make their own decisions about attending religious observance or to give young people the same rights as those living in England and Wales."
Religious observance must take place in Scottish schools at least six times a year.
In June, a report by the UN committee on the rights of the child highlighted the fact that children in Scotland are not able to legally withdraw from religious observance.
It recommended that laws requiring compulsory attendance at religious worship are scrapped.
However, the Scottish government ruled out a review of the policy.
Now the humanist group have submitted papers to the Court of Session. It believes the government may have acted unlawfully by refusing to ensure their guidance remains in line with international humans rights law.
Mr MacRae said: "For some time now, Humanist Society Scotland has been calling on the Scottish government to update its policy on religious observance.
"I had hoped that if they would not listen to us then at least they would listen to the United Nations children's rights committee.
"We have worked with a number of organisations and individuals over the years to seek to reform religious observance, most notably the Church of Scotland in 2014, with whom we issued a joint call for reform.
"Sadly our efforts to seek progressive reform of this outdated requirement of Scottish education has failed.
"The Scottish government's policy on religious observance is a mess, a classic political fudge. Our young people deserve better."
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "Religious observance should be sensitive to individual beliefs, whether these come from a faith or non-faith perspective.
"Parents are legally entitled to withdraw their children from religious observance in our schools.
"While there is currently no legal basis for children to remove themselves from religious observance, the flexible approach to learning and teaching afforded by Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland encourages schools to discuss options with both parents and their children, this could also include allowing pupils to withdraw from religious observance if they wish."
The Church of Scotland said it supports the idea of a "time for reflection" in schools.
Rev Dr Richard Frazer, convener of its church and society council added: "Such moments do not seek to indoctrinate or give preference to one faith tradition but instead enable shared reflection and a deepening of our understanding of the rich range of spiritual and secular traditions held within our society".
The law may not have changed since 1980 - but the common practice in non-denominational schools has changed hugely.
In the 1980s, it was still common for children in non-denominational schools to start the day with the Lord's Prayer, sing hymns and attend a church service at the end of term.
Today things are very different.
The common practice is to hold what are, in effect, times for reflection - designed to be inclusive of children from all faiths and none. They do not take the form of worship.
Schools will often have pastors representing all significant faith communities in their catchment areas.
While, for example, the local Church of Scotland minister may be a well known figure in the school and may well talk about religious themes - for instance giving a Christian perspective on an issue - they cannot proselytise.
The right of parents to withdraw their children from these activities is enshrined in law - but, of course, a child cannot make the decision to pull out.
A few years back, the Church of Scotland considered the issue of formally turning religious observance into "times of reflection" - one reason for this was that some were concerned parents might withdraw their children because they misunderstood the nature of the events.
Occasionally controversies erupt over the role of religion in non-denominational schools.
Three years ago there was a row when pro-Creationist material was distributed at a primary school in East Kilbride by members of a small American-based church which is active within the town. The headteachers were moved. Later the council toughened its rules.
They lost Dominic Sibley and Kumar Sangakkara at The Oval, with both well taken behind the stumps by wicketkeeper Lewis McManus.
Burns remained watchful in overcast and humid conditions, reaching his hundred off 205 balls with a six and 15 fours.
He departed four deliveries later, caught off Brad Wheal for 101, before bad light play with Surrey on 260-6.
After Sibley (11) and Sangakkara (26) departed, Arun Harinath was caught for nine as he sent a mistimed pull off South African Ryan McLaren to Wheal.
And the home side slumped to 144-4, with Wheal taking his first scalp of the day as Steven Davies was caught in the slips by Will Smith.
However, Burns passed 5,000 first-class runs as he reached his half-century and after two interruptions for bad light, he hit Wheal for a four and six as he went to three figures.
The pace bowler got his revenge in his next over to dismiss Burns but wicketkeeper Ben Foakes' unbeaten 47 saw Surrey past 250 before the light forced the players left the field for the third and final time.
Surrey are third in Division One and need to win to keep in touch with leaders Middlesex, who are 16 points ahead of their London rivals, having played one fewer game.
Hampshire are 14 points adrift of seventh-placed Durham, who have a match in hand, and safety.
Surrey batsman Rory Burns told BBC Radio London:
"It's done quite a bit and to be where we are in the game, we're pretty happy with it, and the next target is to push on to 300 in the morning.
"It was very humid, which helped the ball swing all day, and the pitch was quite fresh as well. It was a good contest.
"I've had a couple of near misses in recent times so to get there (to a hundred), I'm really chuffed.
"It would have nice to go massive, but in the context of the game, that could prove to be a really big score."
Hampshire coach Craig White told BBC Radio Solent:
"It was another frustrating day. On that pitch, in the conditions we had, I don't think we bowled as well as we could.
"We bowled a couple of decent balls in an over, then bowl a poor ball and just release the pressure.
"We got better as the day went on, but if we'd done that first session we could have been batting tonight.
"Saying that, with a new ball first thing tomorrow, if we bowl well, we could bowl them out for 280, that's be the aim."
The UK is on course for an unprecedented 15 years of spending cuts and lost pay growth the Resolution Foundation said.
It will leave the poorest third of households worse off than in the years after the financial crisis, it said.
The Treasury says it has helped poorer workers by increasing the Living Wage.
The Budget watchdog - the Office for Budget Responsibility - forecast that government borrowing for 2016-17 would be £51.7bn - a fall of £16.4bn from its November forecast and £4bn lower than the 2016 Budget estimate.
"While the OBR at least delivered some good news on borrowing, the family finances picture has actually deteriorated since the autumn," said Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation.
"Britain is set for a return to falling real pay later this year, with this decade now set to be the worst for pay growth since the Napoleonic wars.
"Some households will feel the pinch more than others. The combination of weak pay growth and over £12bn of benefit cuts means that for the poorest third of households this parliament is actually set to be worse than the years following the financial crisis," he said.
According to its analysis of the Budget, the Resolution Foundation, which says its goal is to improve lives for people on low and modest incomes, predicts that average earnings are only set to return to their pre-crisis peak by the end of 2022.
On public finances, it said that despite the downward revision to borrowing forecasts, the UK was only on course to meet the government's objective of eliminating the deficit in 2025.
If it does so, that would be 15 years after the previous chancellor, George Osborne, had started implementing spending cuts and raising taxes.
Speaking on the BBC's Today programme, Chancellor Philip Hammond said he could have stuck to George Osborne's target of balancing the nation's finances by the end of this parliament but "that would have required us to squeeze the economy extremely hard, that would not have been a sensible thing to do".
"It would be a very poor government that said I'm going to ignore what's happening in the real world... the decision to leave the European Union has changed the game and Britain needs to prepare for the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead."
Philip Hammond will find the analysis difficult to dismiss, he approvingly name-checked the think tank in his Budget speech yesterday.
On the big controversy of the day - the tax rise for the self-employed - the Resolution Foundation supports the government.
"The chancellor is right to begin tackling the unfair and expensive tax advantages enjoyed by self-employed workers by increasing the rate of National Insurance contributions they make," the organisation said yesterday.
On this far thornier issue - the incomes squeeze - it is far more waspish, saying that there has been "little policy action" in the Budget or last year's Autumn Statement to solve the crisis.
"The Budget offered the Office for Budget Responsibility and the chancellor the chance to respond to better than expected economic news in recent months, following grim forecasts about the outlook for Brexit Britain back in November's Autumn Statement," Torsten Bell, the director of the foundation, said.
"Both have largely ignored it.
"The big picture from yesterday's Budget is that the big squeezes on both the public and family finances have been prolonged well into the 2020s."
Mr Hammond has a political headache with the controversy over the rise in taxes for the self-employed.
He has an even bigger economic headache caused by stagnant incomes.
British Transport Police (BTP) said additional officers would be at Hull, Leeds and York stations.
The patrols will take place in the evening as people arrive for a night out.
BTP said similar patrols in other areas had resulted in a "significant drop in instances of anti-social behaviour".
The officer in charge of Operation Stronghold, Insp Gary Jones, said it was "about reassuring the public".
"Put simply, Op Stronghold Is about having officers at key locations at key times to reduce crime and keep the travelling public safe," he said.
"We want everyone using the rail network at the weekend to enjoy a safe and secure journey."
The operation will run over the next two weekends.
After their 37-10 defeat by Leinster last weekend, a breakaway Ken Pisi try left much-changed Northampton 13-5 up.
But Adam Byrne's second try and scores from Luke McGrath and Sean O'Brien saw Leinster move 29-13 ahead by the break.
Tadhg Furlong, Sean Cronin, Isa Nacewa (two) and Rory O'Loughlin added further tries as Northampton capitulated.
Leinster's second-half scores increased their run of unanswered points to an astonishing 55 as they inflicted a record European defeat on the struggling Saints.
Northampton's 10 changes included hooker Charlie Clare's inclusion in place of Dylan Hartley following the England captain's six-week suspension for his swinging arm tackle on Ireland flanker O'Brien last weekend.
Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder also left out big names Tom Wood and Louis Picamoles - possibly with a view to next Friday's Premiership game against Sale Sharks.
For much of the first half, Northampton frustrated Leinster at the breakdown but once the three-time European champions found their fluency, they began to walk through the Saints at will.
Leinster's finishing was hugely impressive but the Irish province will be mindful that Northampton's challenge during most of the contest was pitiful.
Byrne's fifth-minute try was a warning of what was to come as a routine overlap was finished off in the corner by the powerful young wing.
However, two Stephen Myler penalties edged the Saints ahead by the 17th minute before wing Pisi ran the length of the field to score after intercepting a Luke McGrath pass near his own line.
But Leinster were back in front in the 29th minute after Saints lock James Craig over-committed himself at a ruck following a semi-fumble by McGrath which allowed the scrum-half to scamper unchallenged over the line.
Byrne ran in his second try after Garry Ringrose dispossessed Northampton try-scorer Pisi on half-way and O'Brien finished off a well-executed line-out maul to secure Leinster's bonus point by the interval.
Leinster's five second-half tries included two Nacewa touchdowns when Saints flanker James Gibson was in the sin-bin for kicking the ball out of a scrum, with Pisi's horrible fumble over his own line to concede the final score summing up Northampton's dismal evening.
The win extends Leinster's Pool Four lead to six points over Montpellier, who face Castres on Sunday, while Northampton's qualification hopes are now over.
Leinster coach Leo Cullen: "There were a lot of things that we could improve on from last week.
"I thought our guys prepared really well and put in a decent performance. We were pretty clinical in taking the opportunities that we created.
"The guys took the challenge from Northampton very, very seriously which was pleasing."
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder: "It was always going to be tough when you bring a side like we did. We made a number of changes coming to play Leinster who clearly are a side who are on fire, we saw that last week.
"We competed well to get ahead but the difference in class showed at the end.
"We're out of Europe. We were always going to struggle. We knew that before the game.
"What we need to do now is refocus. We've got some massive league games ahead of us and they are games we have got to win."
Leinster: Z Kirchner; A Byrne, G Ringrose, R Henshaw, I Nacewa; R Byrne, L McGrath; J McGrath, S Cronin, T Furlong, D Toner, H Triggs, S O'Brien, J van der Flier, J Heaslip.
Replacements: J Tracy for Cronin 48, C Healy for J McGrath 48, M Bent for Furlong 48, R Ruddock for Toner 53, J Conan for O'Brien 57, J Gibson-Park for L McGrath 58, N Reid for Ringrose 64, R O'Loughlin for A Byrne 51.
Northampton Saints: A Tuala; K Pisi, G Pisi, JJ Hanrahan, T Collins; S Myler, N Groom; E Waller, C Clare, K Brookes, A Ratuniyarawa, J Craig, J Gibson, C Clark, T Harrison.
Replacements: J Fish for Clare 63, A Waller for E Waller 67, P Hill for Brookes 51, M Paterson for Craig 51, B Nutley for Clark 41, T Kessell for Groom 72, R Hutchinson for G Pisi 41
Not used: J Wilson.
Sin bin: Gibson (54).
Referee: Romain Poite (Franc)
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The county admitted the offences at a disciplinary hearing on Friday, and the deduction effectively cancels out one of this summer's two Championship wins.
The Foxes had previously endured a 37-game winless run in first-class cricket before beating Essex in June.
"We believe that the sanction imposed is severe," said CEO Wasim Khan.
"[Head coach] Andrew [McDonald] and I have worked hard, and continue to do so, to improve the expected standards and levels of discipline expected of Leicestershire cricketers."
Leicestershire were also handed a suspended £5,000 fine, which will be imposed if the county's players commit two further fixed penalty offences within the next 12 months.
But the points deduction leaves Leicestershire, who beat Derbyshire to secure their second win of the season on Monday, 32 points adrift of eighth-placed Kent at the bottom of County Championship Division Two.
"The conclusion to today's hearing is bitterly disappointing to us considering the superb win earlier this week against Derbyshire and taking into account the significant strides we have made this season," Khan added.
"Clearly more needs to be done, but we will brush ourselves off and remain determined to do everything possible to improve every aspect of the club."
The Silence of the Lambs star will direct an episode in the fourth season of the show, to premiere on Netflix on 2017.
Rosemarie DeWitt, currently to be seen in the Oscar-tipped La La Land, will appear in Foster's episode.
The third series of Black Mirror makes its debut on Netflix on Friday, following its move from Channel 4.
It will be the first of two six-episode series.
Brooker retweeted a link to Variety reporting Foster and DeWitt's involvement with the series, saying: "This is true."
Foster won Academy awards for her performances in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs in 1989 and 1992 respectively.
The 53-year-old has since moved into directing with such films as Little Man Tate, The Beaver and Money Monster.
Black Mirror is described by Netflix as "an anthology series that taps into our collective unease with the modern world".
Bryce Dallas Howard, Kelly MacDonald and Game of Thrones' Jerome Flynn, are among the stars of the show's third series.
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The scheme will appoint a named person, usually a teacher or health visitor, who will be responsible for ensuring the welfare of every child.
It had been due to come into force last August, but the Supreme Court ruled that sections covering information sharing did not comply with the law.
The changes published on Tuesday aim to overcome those concerns.
They will ensure that public bodies can only share information about children if is likely to "promote, support or safeguard the wellbeing" of the child.
Public bodies will also be required to consider whether sharing the information would be compatible with data protection, human rights and confidentiality laws.
Only then will they be given the power to share the information.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the changes would bring "consistency, clarity and coherence to the practice of sharing information about children and young people's wellbeing across Scotland".
He added: "The Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a named person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'.
"But young people and families must have confidence that information will be shared only where their rights can be respected.
"We must ensure that we get it right for every child, but in a way that respects the rights of families fully."
Supreme Court judges ruled in July last year that specific proposals in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act about information-sharing were incompatible with the rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
They said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware".
Judges at the Court of Session had previously ruled that named persons would have "no effect whatsoever on the legal, moral or social relationships within the family".
They added: "The assertion to the contrary, without any supporting basis, has the appearance of hyperbole."
The appeal was brought to the Supreme Court by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.
They had claimed named person would undermine parents by appointing a state guardian for their children, and would stretch resources for protecting vulnerable children by creating a scheme that applied to all children regardless of need.
The Scottish government said after the Supreme Court ruling that it remained absolutely committed to introducing named person, and would bring forward fresh legislation that would comply with the law.
It had originally hoped to do so in time for the scheme to be implemented by August this year - but that has been delayed until 2018.
The Scottish Conservatives, who have been vocal critics of the scheme, said the changes to named person marked a "major U-turn" by the government.
The party said the changes meant that "parents who do not accept the advice of named persons will not be subsequently viewed with suspicion by authorities".
But while welcoming the clarification on data sharing, the Tories said they continued to have "serious concerns" about the legislation.
Simon Calvert of NO2NP said the new rules on information sharing were a "100% climb-down on their original plan of a statutory duty to share information about people's private lives almost without restriction".
Mr Calvert added: "If they'd only listened at the start, they could have saved huge amounts of time and money. They now have to retrain those who have already been trained to implement an unlawful scheme."
Scottish Labour said the implementation of named person had been a "complete mess from the start" and called on the Scottish government to produce a "clear plan to rebuild trust in the scheme".
The Liberal Democrats warned there was a "very real risk that the limited changes now being proposed won't be enough to regain the confidence of families across Scotland."
But the Scottish Greens welcomed the Scottish government changes, which it said meant that "We are now back on track to ensuring children in Scotland are as safe and well supported as possible".
Peter Madsen, 46, denies wrongdoing, saying he had dropped off the reporter - 30-year-old Kim Wall - in Copenhagen before the sinking.
Her partner raised the alarm in the early hours of Friday when she failed to return from the Nautilus vessel.
It was later spotted but sank on Friday morning and Mr Madsen was rescued.
Police have launched a search for Ms Wall, a freelance journalist based in New York and China who has written for the New York Times, the Guardian and Vice Magazine.
Danish media said Mr Madsen had been charged with negligent manslaughter and would be detained for 24 days, following his court appearance on Saturday.
Police would not comment on why charges had been brought before a body had been found.
In a statement to Swedish paper Aftonbladet, Ms Wall's family said: "It is with great dismay we received the message that Kim is missing. We believe and sincerely hope she will be found safe and well."
Her friends and family have been posting widely on social media asking for her whereabouts.
Salvage teams started raising the Nautilus from the seabed in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen, on Saturday.
Police are hunting for witnesses and camera footage to determine whether the missing woman had disembarked after setting off.
Footage aired by Denmark's TV2 shows Mr Madsen getting out of what appeared to be a private boat, giving reporters a thumbs-up sign, saying: "I am fine, but sad because Nautilus went down."
He later told a reporter: "I was out on a rehearsal trip, tinkering with different things in the submarine. Then a defect happened with a ballast tank which wasn't that serious - until I tried to repair it - then it suddenly became very serious.
"After that it took 30 seconds for Nautilus to sink. I couldn't close the hatch or anything. But that might be OK, as I would still be down there then."
Ms Wall had been writing about Mr Madsen and his submarine, which at one stage was the largest privately-made vessel of its kind.
Mr Madsen made headlines in 2008 when he built the home-made submarine, that is almost 18 metres long, by using online crowd-funding.
The 26-year-old Real Madrid forward scored his 43rd league goal to surpass the record previously held by former England and Barcelona striker Gary Lineker.
Bale joins these famous names as the most prolific British and Irish players in Europe's biggest leagues:
Swansea-born John Charles played for Leeds United between 1948 and 1957 before becoming one of the first British players to secure a move abroad.
Charles joined Juventus for a then-record £65,000 transfer fee and the centre-forward went on to score 108 goals in 155 appearances for the Italian Serie A club.
The Wales international netted four goals in 10 games during a brief spell with Roma.
In 1997, seven years before his death at the age of 72, Charles was voted the best-ever foreigner to play for Juventus.
Tony Cascarino proved his goalscoring prowess for Gillingham, Millwall, Aston Villa, Celtic and Chelsea before taking his talents over to France.
The Kent-born Republic of Ireland international joined Marseille in 1994 and scored 70 goals in three seasons with the club, helping them back to the top flight.
A move to AS Nancy-Lorraine followed in 1997, and he added 45 goals to his personal tally.
Striker Tony Woodcock was part of Brian Clough's legendary Nottingham Forest team who won the First Division title, League Cup and European Cup in the 1970s.
He had just been named PFA young player of the year when he was tempted away from his hometown club on a then-record £600,000 transfer to Bundesliga side Cologne.
He scored 44 goals during his seven years in the German leagues, which came either side of a spell with Arsenal.
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Results against group rivals Chad have been erased after their withdrawal on Sunday, meaning only the group winners will make it to next year's finals.
Nigeria have two points and Egypt have four, while Tanzania have one.
A win for Egypt would put them in a strong position to qualify but they could still be caught by Tanzania.
Mathematically the countries could both finish on seven points, although Egypt have a far superior goal difference and a 3-0 win over Tanzania from their match last June.
Each country in Group G now plays a maximum of four qualifiers.
Home success at the Borg El Arab will lift Egypt to seven points and put the Pharaohs out of the reach of Nigeria, who will have just one game (at home against Tanzania) left.
If the Super Eagles win, then they would hold the upper hand but would still need to win their last group game to make sure of qualification.
Nigeria missed out on the last Nations Cup finals in Equatorial Guinea despite winning the 2013 edition in South Africa. Egypt have remarkably not competed at the finals since winning the last of three back-to-back titles in 2010.
Previews of Tuesday's other matches to follow.
A report by the Health Select Committee says health workers should use every opportunity to deal with the problem.
The MPs also call for urgent steps so people understand the wider health benefits of physical activity.
The government says its Change4Life programme is providing widespread free advice on healthy eating and exercise.
But the MPs argue that national and local government and the NHS must do more to prevent people becoming unwell.
That could include regulation of what goes into food, a ban on marketing sugary drinks to children, and much more support for people at risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, so they do not need bariatric surgery.
"The committee regards it as inexplicable and unacceptable that the NHS is now spending more on bariatric surgery for obesity than on a national roll-out of intensive lifestyle intervention programmes that were first shown to cut obesity and prevent diabetes over a decade ago."
The report emphasises the "huge health benefits" of physical activity. The MPs cite recent research which found that for the most inactive people, walking for 20 minutes a day would have a greater positive impact than not being obese.
"It is vital that the importance of physical activity for all the population - regardless of their weight, age, gender, health, or other factors - is clearly articulated and understood."
The MPs also highlight inequalities in rates of physical activity, in particular the disparity between men and women.
Official figures suggest just 16% of girls aged five to 16 achieve recommended levels of physical activity, compared with 21% of boys.
Some 32% of women meet the recommended threshold for activity. For men, the official figure is 43%.
The report speaks of a "fear of judgement" deterring many women from taking exercise. One witness to the committee, Julie Creffield, described the ordeal of venturing out.
"I have women who tell me they run on a treadmill in their shed because they just don't want to be seen in public, but that is part of the problem. Because we don't see many overweight women exercising in public, other women don't think that exercise is for them."
In a statement, the Department of Health for England said a lot of progress had been made in tackling the issues raised by the MPs.
"Our Change4Life campaign has been providing widespread free advice on healthy eating and exercise, and nearly two million more people now play regular sport than 10 years ago.
"Working with the food industry, we have cut calories, salt and fat in food, and we have also given £8.2bn to local authorities to tackle public health issues like obesity."
Dr John Middleton, vice-president of the Faculty of Public Health, said: "Bariatric surgery generates huge costs to patients, families and the NHS. We need public health policies that can save money by helping prevent people becoming obese in the first place."
Prof John Wass of the Royal College of Physicians praised the select committee's report.
"It is welcome to see the findings of this report recognise the importance and benefits of physical activity beyond weight loss, as previous findings have shown regular physical activity of just 30 minutes, five times a week, can make a huge difference to a patient's health."
Recent analysis by the Royal College of Surgeons suggests rates of bariatric surgery have declined in the past two years.
The 68 year old has terminal pancreatic cancer.
But pain does worry him. His cancer causes excruciating discomfort which can be controlled only through massive doses of morphine-like drugs and other medication.
"I get a really bad thumping pain" he says, "but within half and hour of taking the tablets I feel fine."
Mr Small is on his sixth in-patient stay at Thames Hospice in Windsor, Berkshire.
On several occasions he has been close to death.
Married to Christine for 43 years, the couple say the palliative care at the hospice is superb.
Mrs Small says: "The staff here know Adrian needs very big doses of painkillers - they are used to dealing with it - but when we are in a general hospital the doctors are frightened by the numbers and they won't give him what's needed."
The couple have never considered an assisted death since Adrian's diagnosis.
Mrs Small says: "It's not been about dying it's been about living for two years - everybody deserves the dignity you get here".
But the hospice - which has 17 beds in Windsor cannot help all those who could benefit.
It's Chief Executive, Debbie Raven says: "Every day we have up to 13 people waiting for one our our in-patient beds, so inevitably we have to turn some patients away; we'd like everyone to have access to high quality palliative care no matter where they are."
The hospice does not take a stance on the issue of assisted dying, nor does it judge those who are for or against a change in the law.
The medical director, Dr Cecily Wright says they do sometimes get asked to end a patient's life: "We do occasionally - that request is often coming from a place of great stress and fear.
"It's very seldom just about pain and that's why we use our holistic approach to bit by bit make life easier and better."
I spoke to Adrian and Christine on the eve of a debate on assisted dying in the House of Commons.
Labour MP Rob Marris is proposing a bill which would allow doctors in England and Wales to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients judged to have six months or less to live.
A judge would review all decisions and rule whether a person was choosing an assisted death free from coercion.
Currently, assisted suicide is illegal under the Suicide Act 1961 and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The private member's bill is almost identical to one introduced in the House of Lords last year by the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, and which ran out of parliamentary time.
It's the first time since 1997 that a bill of this kind has been brought forward in the Commons.
MPs will be given a free vote, but even if the bill gets through its second reading, it is very unlikely to succeed as it lacks government backing.
Campaigners in favour of changing the law point out that about one Briton a fortnight travels to Switzerland to end their life with the help of the suicide organisation Dignitas.
Those opposed argue it would send a message that, if you are terminally ill, taking your own life is something it is appropriate to consider.
The campaign group "Living and Dying Well" said it would expose vulnerable people to pressure to take their own lives.
The Archbishop of Canterbury described assisted dying as one of the "biggest dilemmas of our time", but dismissed suggestions that current laws are not working.
Justin Welby said the evidence around the world is there is a "slippery slope" and once you accept the role of medicine is deliberately to kill people, there would be pressure to go further.
California has just approved similar legislation, modelled on a law in Oregon which allows terminally ill patients to obtain a lethal dose to end their lives.
Tatsuyuki Hishida's wife and fellow gang members found him collapsed and bleeding at a house in Mie prefecture, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
Hishida's hands and feet were reportedly tied, and his head appeared to have been hit with a blunt object.
The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organised crime group, split in two in September.
Police said the incident was likely related to the split, which saw the emergence of a rival group calling itself the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.
Hishida was the leader of a second-tier Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate group called the Aio-kai, based in the city of Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture.
Tensions have run high between the rival groups since the split, with the Yamaguchi-gumi forced to cancel its annual Halloween party for children in Kobe this year.
The children were escaping the Spanish Civil War, and arrived on a ship from Bilbao.
The ceremony took place in Blackboys, near Uckfield, where 20 children and their teachers lived in a chalet provided by the local community.
Speaking at the ceremony, former refugee, Miren Alsono said: "It's like a dream - now I can die happy."
After the bombing of Guernica in the Basque region of northern Spain in April 1937, a decision was made to evacuate the children to safety.
On 23rd May 1937, the SS Habana docked in Southampton with 3,861 children, 95 women teachers and 15 Catholic priests on board.
The children were housed in a temporary camp on the outskirts of the city and eventually moved into residential homes around the country.
The Basque government insisted the children should not be adopted by families, but stay in groups so as not to lose their national identity.
Former refugee Venancio Zornosa said: "I find it unbelievable to think that 4,000 children between the ages of five and 14 with a number of teachers and senoritas to look after us, we managed to survive with voluntary contributions and that's due to the British people."
Eventually, most of the children were repatriated to Spain but others had no home to go to because their parents had been killed or were in prison, so they made Britain their home.
It will be the first time the show has been seen in central London since 1990.
Set in Depression-era New York, it tells of a young performer, Peggy Sawyer, who gets a shot at stardom when her show's leading lady is injured.
The new production begins previews on 20 March and will be directed by the original show's co-author Mark Bramble.
First staged on Broadway in 1980, 42nd Street was named best musical at the following year's Tony Awards.
Its original London production, whose cast included a young Catherine Zeta-Jones, won the Olivier award for best musical in 1984.
Zeta-Jones was a second understudy on the production who got a chance to perform when both leading lady Barbara King and her first understudy were indisposed.
A Broadway revival in 2001 brought further accolades, including a Tony for musical revival.
The show has since been seen at various UK venues, among them the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2010.
"The original production had the look of a Warner Brothers black-and-white film," said Bramble.
"This time we're doing an MGM Technicolor version of 42nd Street with additional songs and dances.
"The theme of the show speaks louder today than ever before: Follow your bliss and with talent and hard work dreams can come true."
Ruby Keeler played Peggy in the original film, best-known for the scene in which she is told: "You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!"
42nd Street will open at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, currently home to the musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Casting for the show, which will have its official opening night on 4 April 2017, will be announced at a later date.
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On the third Thursday in November the occasion is celebrated across France with fireworks, music and other festivities.
It marks the arrival of the first bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau wine which are released at 00:01 under French law.
But Swansea, which was popping bottles of Beaujolais long before yuppies were marking the day in their Filofaxes, continues to cling on to the tradition.
Beaujolais is a a sub-region of Burgundy, north of Lyon, and started promoting its freshly pressed wines as "Nouveau" in 1951.
A post-war British public slowly emerging from austerity soon began to develop a taste for the infant red wine; usually served chilled, just six weeks after harvest.
The Beaujolais run reached fever-pitch across the UK in the 1980s, when the competition to land the first bottle back in London saw the winning team employ a Harrier Jump Jet to deliver it.
But why has Swansea been at the vanguard of the Beaujolais Day craze?
Cultural historian Prof Peter Stead believes he might have an idea.
"Swansea provided the perfect storm for Beaujolais Day hysteria; as they say in Miss Marple, we had means, motive and opportunity.
"First of all, what is now known as the No Sign Bar on Wind Street was then owned by former Wales rugby captain Clem Thomas, who had a house in Burgundy, so he could get the Beaujolais into Swansea quickly and cheaply, and make money by bringing the new London craze to Wales.
"At the same time there were other entrepreneurs in the embryonic stages of the 'Gastro Pub' market - like a fellow called Tecero who opened The Brasserie - who had to be seen to be outdoing Clem, by putting on even more extravagant Beaujolais Day events.
"But most of all it fitted the Swansea zeitgeist of the late 1960s. This was a community trying to find its feet as a city - looking to gentrify and intellectualise itself - and Beaujolais Day seemed to capture perfectly the spirit best summed-up in Kingsley Amis's 'Old Devils'."
But by the mid 1990s Beaujolais Day had gone the way of Mr Blobby.
The decline of Shoulder Pad culture had put pay to the idea that greed and excess were good.
At the same time, the 'Beaujolais Nouveau' brand had been sullied by over-saturation with poor-quality weak and acidic products.
So why did the tradition live-on in Swansea? Again, Prof Stead thinks he might have the answer.
"We're a city who love to revel in being not-quite-on-trend.
"There's plenty of Swansea City fans who still in their heart-of-hearts hanker for the days when the club was a bit of a joke, and so clinging on to Beaujolais Day was a sort of two fingers to fashion; we'll carry on doing things our way.
"Plus, with the history of Clem and Mr Tecero, there was a sense that Beaujolais Day was something as uniquely Swansea as it was French."
Whilst Beaujolais Day has made something of a mild resurgence across the UK in recent years, there may still be nowhere outside of London who go in for it quite like the people of Swansea.
It is estimated that last year the event contributed around £5M to the local economy; ranking as the third busiest night in the city, only behind "Black Friday" and New Year's Eve.
Russell Greenslade, Chair of Swansea Business Improvement District said: "Beaujolais Day in Swansea continues to grow in popularity over the years, with many other places now following suit.
"A variety of the business sectors benefit from the day, such as retail, hairdressers, beauticians, and of course hospitality; with many booked up well in advance for the occasion."
But as with all major public celebrations, Beaujolais Day in Swansea comes with its own set of problems.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board are bracing themselves for a busy night across the region's emergency departments, while South Wales Police say they will be closely monitoring the festivities so that everyone can enjoy themselves.
Though before Swansea starts polishing its Beaujolais crown too vigorously, perhaps it ought to stop and take a look east - a little further afield than traditional rivals Cardiff - Japan is the world's biggest export market for Nouveau, buying almost 60 million litres last year alone.
But for the first time in the 65 year tradition of Beaujolais Day, Thursday's celebration coincides with a Super Moon.
Could revellers on the streets of Swansea end up "howling" in more ways than one?
South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said: "Beaujolais Day will have a different feel to a normal night, however, with alcohol being a direct factor in over 50% of all violent crimes, South Wales Police alongside businesses and partners will be out enforcing the law and protecting those vulnerable.
"By reducing alcohol consumption, you reduce the risk of becoming a victim or perpetrator of alcohol related violence. Stay safe and have fun."
Police said they were called following reports of the car being driven erratically on Groathill Road North at about 08:10.
The car, believed to be a Mercedes, then crashed into a caravan in a garden on the same road.
The driver fled the scene. Nobody was in the caravan when the car crashed into it.
The car has now been removed from the scene.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in Edinburgh responded to a report of a car driving erratically on Groathill Road North around 8.10am on Wednesday 14 September.
"The vehicle was subsequently involved in a collision with a stationary caravan on Groathill Road North.
"Inquiries are ongoing to trace the individuals believed to have been inside the vehicle.
"The search activity is being supported by colleagues in the air support unit."
A recent Ofcom report suggested 20% of homes in urban areas struggle with poor 4G phone signal.
In rural areas, it's as high as 80%. Little wonder then Britain languishes at 54th place in the global league table of 4G connectivity, behind Albania, Estonia and Peru.
The hunt is now on for test beds to develop new 5G technology - Bristol, Kings College London and the University of Surrey are all said to be interested.
The government has announced a fresh drive to bring us up to speed for the digital age. It has put superfast connections at the heart of its Industrial Strategy, backed up with investment of £1bn.
Inside the Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol - I discover just how much progress they've already made.
They've designed a small box that emits 5G. The promise is super-fast, super-reliable connectivity wherever you go.
It's an essential component in the driverless car technology they're also working on here. When you're travelling at 60mph in a car reliant on mobile signals for direction, you can't afford to slip into a digital desert.
Lab director, Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, said: "5G is a revolution. It's not just about having a faster connection in our mobile phones - it's also about creating a seamless connectivity with the network and it's about having complete reliability."
"Often in your home you have great connectivity. Your teenagers might be on YouTube while you're watching programmes streamed on iPlayer. Then you get into your car and you don't even get a 3G service. 5G will stop all of this."
As our data demands climb exponentially we need a network that can support them. Now the race is on to design the framework for that digital dream.
The mother's parents argued it would be better for the six-year-old to come to them.
They said that as the victim's family, they shared his loss and were best placed to console him.
But experts told the court it would be better for him to stay in England.
A social worker, a court-appointed guardian and an independent psychiatrist all said it would be better for the boy to stay with his father's sister and her family as he barely knew his grandparents, and did not speak Cantonese.
The case was heard in April, but the judgement was only published this week.
The boy's father had beaten his mother to death a year earlier, in what the judge called a premeditated and carefully planned attack. He maintains his innocence but was convicted in January, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum 28-year term. The boy was placed with foster parents.
The grandparents said the mother had been their only child together. The grandmother told the court the boy was the "most precious and most close relative" she now had.
They are wealthy people; the grandfather owns and runs two factories and they have two spacious homes, including a villa by the sea. They had found a private English school for the boy and an English-speaking nanny.
The grandmother described how the murder had disturbed the boy. She had been told he had started throwing stones at classmates and argued he would have a "quieter" environment in China where he would be "at peace".
Their lawyer argued the grandparents and the boy were the "true and only victims" in the case, and they were the best people to console him.
However, the boy had only met his maternal grandparents once before the murder, on a visit to China when he was a toddler. They have no language in common.
A social worker said the boy was worried about going to China because his grandparents were strangers to him and he could not speak Cantonese. By contrast, he was very excited to spend time with his paternal aunt and her family.
A psychiatrist and guardian warned a move to China would be a huge upheaval and adjustment for a child still suffering from a huge emotional and psychological shock.
The judge, Mr Justice Holman, acknowledged that research suggested children in this situation would do better living with the victim's family, rather than that of the perpetrator.
But he said it should not be ruled out "if the prospective parenting family fully and sincerely acknowledge and accept the guilt [of the person who committed the crime] and ascribe no responsibility to the victim".
In this case, the sister accepted her brother was guilty and said she considered him a liar.
The judge said it was of "the utmost importance" the boy maintain contact with his grandparents in China, whether through face-to-face meetings or through Skype.
The 31-year-old finished with a score of 639.30, 60 points more than Mexico's Jonathan Paredes, with fellow Briton Blake Aldridge fifth.
Hunt, from Southampton, was second at the inaugural World Cup in 2014 but failed to make the podium last year.
However, he beat Paredes to claim victory at the World Championships in Kazan, Russia, in August.
Chelsea beat City 1-0 at the same stage of last season's competition on the way to winning their first major trophy.
Manchester City are the only side left in the Women's FA Cup never to have reached the final before, with Sunderland beaten by Arsenal in 2009.
The semi-finals will be held on Sunday, 17 April.
The final on Saturday, 14 May will again be played at Wembley. A competition-record crowd of 30,710 watched Chelsea beat Notts County 1-0 in the 2015 final, which was hosted at England's national stadium for the first time.
Adam Pickles, 43, spent more than a year in a coma after being attacked by Sean Tinsley in Pattaya in 2012.
Mr Pickles' family said Tinsley, originally from Wolverhampton, had been jailed after an initial not guilty ruling was overturned on appeal.
His mother, Adele, said the verdict meant "justice had been served".
Adele Pickles, from Thorner, near Leeds, said: "We've never felt vengeance or hatred; we've never felt these kind of feelings.
"We wanted to be able to tell Adam that we did everything we possibly could to get that verdict for him and for the sake of his son, Benjamin, so we can say, yes, this happened, but we got justice for him."
Mr Pickles was the head of English at the Regents International School in the coastal town of Pattaya, about 95 miles (150km) south of Bangkok.
He suffered a traumatic brain injury after being attacked with an iron bar in what was believed to be a road rage incident and was flown back to the UK following a campaign to fund his repatriation.
Mrs Pickles said he was no longer in a coma but he was only able to move his fingers and toes and, sometimes, open his eyes.
She said: "We told him the result yesterday and we got a little smile."
Tinsley was cleared of a charge of attempted murder but, following, an appeal he was convicted of assault and jailed.
He was also fined 6.2 million Thai baht (??114,000).
The BBC understands he has up to 60 days to appeal against the verdict and has lodged an application for bail.
Barrister Iain Morley QC, who was assisting the Pickles family, said: "We have no doubt that the family feel great relief from this overwhelming important move."
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Playing against Spurs for the first time since his £85.3m world record transfer to Madrid, Bale provided the key moment in a pedestrian affair.
The Wales international swerved home on his left-foot from outside the box after James Rodriguez headed home the opener at Munich's Allianz Arena.
Erik Lamela missed Spurs' best chance.
The Argentine winger skied over from a Kyle Walker cut-back in a busy opening 15 minutes that contrasted with the way the rest of the game played out.
Bale initially appeared to indicate he did not intend to celebrate his goal, which came in the latter stages of the match.
He pointed his hands towards the ground and looked down, but with jubilant team-mates bearing down on him he then brought his hands together to make the familiar heart shape seen so often in his six years at White Hart Lane before he left for the Bernabeu in 2013.
His goal was certainly a strike to be proud of. The 26-year-old turned quickly towards goal before unleashing a vicious low strike that seemed to bamboozle goalkeeper Michel Vorm with its dip and pace.
Dutchman Vorm, standing in while first-choice goalkeeper Hugo Lloris continues his recovery from a broken wrist, mistimed his dive and the ball went into the net via his arm.
Luka Modric was another former Tottenham player on show for Real, and the Croatia midfielder went close with a deflected shot Vorm did well to claw off the line in the first half.
Spurs youngster Dele Alli, in his first pre-season at Spurs since a £5m transfer from MK Dons in February, at one point nutmegged Modric in midfield.
The 19-year-old said he was disappointed with the result but put the moment of skill down to "natural instinct", adding: "Hopefully I've shown what I can do."
Although both sides put out strong line-ups, with Harry Kane among the starters for Spurs, there was no Cristiano Ronaldo or Karim Benzema for Real.
Ronaldo suffered a back injury during training on Monday, while Benzema pulled a muscle in his right thigh.
Host club Bayern Munich play AC Milan in the tournament's second semi-final later on Tuesday, with Spurs to play the loser in a third-place play-off on Wednesday.
That match will come just three days before the start of Tottenham's Premier League season - Mauricio Pochettino's men play Manchester United in a 12:45 BST kick-off at Old Trafford on Saturday.
The 35-year-old, currently with Stjarnan in Iceland, has won a record 203 caps for her country,
"I felt the time was right to call it a day and that my journey was complete after playing in the Euros this summer," she said.
"Captaining my country for the best part of a decade has meant everything."
Fay becomes the third Scotland player within a week to announce she is quitting.
Glasgow City midfielder Leanne Ross and Vittsjo defender Ifeoma Dieke said they would no longer be seeking selection on Friday after playing in Scotland Women's first major international tournament finals.
Scotland coach Anna Signeul is also standing down, with Stirling University men's team manager Shelley Kerr taking over.
"I have given everything I can for my country and, as the team moves into a new era with a new head coach, it's time to pass the baton to the next generation," Fay told the Scottish FA website.
"This is such an exciting time for women's football in Scotland and I wish Shelley and her team every success in the future. I look forward to watching this team flourish.
"When I was a child, if you had told me I would play for my country once I would have been delighted, so to have done so on 203 occasions is incredible.
"It is hard to describe how much it has meant to me to play for my country. It has helped shape me into the person I have wanted to be."
Kerr, who is a former international team-mate, paid tribute to the former Aberdeen, Ayr United, Brighton, Hibernian, Leeds United, Celtic and Glasgow goalkeeper.
"Gemma is a true role model for any athlete," she said. "The years of dedication and commitment she has given to her country are an inspiration and one cannot underestimate her contribution to women's football in Scotland over the past two decades.
"There is no doubt that, as a team, we will miss her qualities - not just her football talent but her communication skills and her leadership.
"Her being an ever-present in the squad for nearly 20 years is remarkable."
Her son, who lodged the claim, has been given a 12 month community order.
Arafa Nassib, 48, and Adil Kasim, 18, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court in May to committing fraud by false representation.
A death certificate issued by a hospital in Tanzania stated Nassib had died from a severe head injury.
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Nassib had amassed debts of £80,000 when she faked her death in Zanzibar, where she was said to have been involved in a car crash.
Prosecutor Jonathan Barker told the court that "had the fraud been successful then the conspirators would have benefited to the sum of £136,530."
The fraud, which centred on claims made against two policies with Scottish Widows, took place between March and December last year. One policy was worth £115,267 and the other £21,263.
Kasim was sentenced for conspiring to commit fraud after his mother instructed him to lodge the false life insurance claims.
Defence barrister Mohammed Riaz claimed Kasim had been acting under the instruction of his mother after she contacted him from Africa.
The 48-year-old's fraud was discovered when investigators found no trace of her supposed grave in Zanzibar and the doctor reported to have treated her was not working on the day Nassib supposedly died. Nassib was in fact living in Canada at the time.
Mr Barker said of Nassib: "She took the lead role in this conspiracy and she involved her young son. The offending was sophisticated and involved, no doubt, significant planning."
Burke Ramsey said his reputation was ruined after a series called The Case of JonBenet Ramsey suggested he killed his six-year-old sister in 1996.
Mr Ramsey claimed the TV network, production company Critical Content and expert interviewees conspired to defame him for publicity and profit.
The US series was aired in September.
JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, on Boxing Day 1996. She died from a blow to the head and strangulation.
Police have since collected and studied thousands of pieces of evidence but no-one has been charged with the killing and the case remains open.
Burke Ramsey was nine at the time. He and parents John and Patsy were all cleared by prosecutors in 2008 based on DNA evidence. Patsy, herself a one-time pageant queen, died from cancer in 2006.
The district attorney currently overseeing the case has said it was premature to exonerate the family and has ordered additional tests using new DNA technology.
Burke Ramsey's legal action said he had been "exposed to public hatred, contempt and ridicule" following the series.
He accused CBS of conducting a "sham reinvestigation" of the murder, calling the accusation against him "a compilation of lies, half-truths, manufactured information, and the intentional omission and avoidance of truthful information about the murder of JonBenet Ramsey".
CBS has yet to comment on the legal action but at the time of the broadcast, the network said it stood by the program and "will do so in court" if necessary.
It is the second lawsuit Burke Ramsey has filed over the two-part TV series.
In October, he sued forensic pathologist Dr Werner Spitz, who was featured on the programme and said Burke Ramsey bludgeoned his sister to death.
Michael Lever, 46, attacked one woman in Ayr and another victim at locations in the Borders, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard the women were compelled to take part in acts which judge Lord Uist described as "unpleasant and indeed...disgusting".
The judge asked for psychiatric reports on Lever, who is being held at the State Hospital at Carstairs.
Lord Uist also placed the doctor on the sex offenders' register.
The judge told jurors on Wednesday: "It is most unfortunate you have had to deal with a case of this nature."
He said it was an "unpleasant and indeed, in many ways, disgusting case".
During the trial, one of Lever's victims told the court she had been told to consume a drink containing the drug GHB, sometimes known as liquid ecstasy.
The next day she woke up naked, covered in sick and saw "pornographic material" playing on a DVD.
She said from her physical symptoms it was obvious that sexual contact had taken place.
The victim also told the court that Lever had engaged in a type of sexual activity she had not wanted and that "there was blood everywhere".
Another woman said that Lever told her he was head of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.
She said he told her that if she did not do what he wanted he would have to kill her.
She said Lever was "deadly serious" when he made the threat.
The 45-year-old said: "Looking back now it was like I was being groomed like a teenage girl."
She said that "having fun" for Lever was taking drugs and playing with her sexually.
The court also heard details of the victims being tied up and forced to perform sex acts in front of a webcam and Lever ignoring their distress.
One witness told the trial that she found one of the victims in a wardrobe naked with her arms tied, looking badly bruised and crying.
Lever had denied raping and sexually assaulting the women but was unanimously convicted of the offences.
The court heard that he was a qualified doctor but had not practised since 2004.
He was in the process of taking up a post at a hospital in Ayr when he was detained in 2013.
Lord Uist said he would have to seek psychiatric reports before deciding on how to deal with Lever.
"I couldn't speak the language and I didn't know where I could find help. I was alone," says Ibrahim, who asks me not to use his family name because of fears for the safety of his relatives still in Syria.
But the 20 year old has no regrets and is glad that rather than facing a perilous journey by sea, as many Syrian refugees are forced to undertake, he chose the safer option of flying to Brazil.
It was also probably a lot cheaper.
"When I found out that the Brazilian Embassy in Beirut was offering 'laissez-passer' (right of passage) to refugees of the war in Syria, it was the best option for me. Why pay $3,000 or $4,000 (£1,955-£2,607) to get smuggled across the sea and risk drowning, when for half of that price I can fly to Brazil?"
Ibrahim fled to Brazil to avoid being drafted into the Syrian army, a country where conscription is compulsory.
His older brother, Mohammad, was less fortunate. Indeed, it's a miracle that he is still alive and was able to escape to Brazil to be with his brother.
Showing me at least 20 shrapnel scars and bullet wounds on his arms and legs, Mohammad doesn't care much for who is on which "side" in the war - just that it is tearing the country apart.
That's not to say that life for Ibrahim, Mohammad - and more than 7,000 other Syrian refugees now in Brazil - is easy when they get here - far from it.
Brazil has a long tradition of accepting refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East, Africa and other countries.
Those seeking asylum can request it on arrival in the country and, as Brazil's economy grew over the last decade, work permits were readily available for those wanting a job.
Last week Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff wrote a newspaper editorial saying that while European nations prevaricated and argued over how many refugees to take in, Brazil was proud to play its part in alleviating what has become a global crisis.
"More than 10 million of us (Brazilians) are descendants of Syrians and Lebanese immigrants, so we are obliged to act in this way," wrote the president.
She concluded: "Brazil has its arms open to take in these refugees… who want to come to live and work here. And we want to offer them this hope".
Ibrahim and Mohammed now run a popular and busy little stall in Rio de Janeiro, selling home-made humus, kibbe and other Middle Eastern pastries. The money they earn helps to look after their elderly parents and their two younger siblings.
The boys agree with Ms Rousseff's assertion that Brazilians have been overwhelmingly kind and receptive to the new incomers but, they say, there's almost a vacuum of official assistance once they enter Brazil.
The Hafir family, too, have few home comforts but they try to make visitors feel welcome. Amina, 23, makes coffee on a small stove as I take my shoes off and enter the small, single room they now live in together.
Jamal Hafir has been a refugee for his entire life, as a Palestinian whose parents fled to Syria in 1948.
Forced out of his Damascus home two years ago, as the neighbourhood was destroyed by the civil war, Jamal has now brought his own family half way around the world to Brazil.
"There's more help for refugees in Europe," Jamal tells me. "But we knew it would be dangerous to go by sea. So when we heard Brazil's embassy in Lebanon was offering visas, we thought it's better to come to a country that accepts you."
Syria's war has robbed the family of their home and the children of their education.
While the two boys are out looking for work, the family's four girls, who haven't been to school for three years, sit in the corner of the room on mattresses that double up as sofas and study some basic Portuguese.
They've escaped the war but life in Brazil is still tough.
A local pro-Palestinian charity, not the Brazilian government, is housing the Hafir family at an abandoned office block in Sao Paulo.
The charity pays for electricity and water, but this is still essentially a squat, and like most informal housing, the family don't know how long they'll be able to remain.
But it's not just the Brazilian federal government and individual states who are being urged to do more.
Established communities should also, arguably, play their part. In the last century thousands of Syrians were among the many immigrants who helped to build modern Brazil and other South American countries like Argentina.
Their descendants have been criticised in some sections of the media for not organising and coming forward with practical help for those now fleeing the Middle East.
Back in the Sao Paulo squat, Abdul Salam Sayed plays a lament for his distant, broken homeland on his oud.
Another refugee, forced to leave his Damascus home, Abdul Salam is grateful for the shelter Brazil has afforded him.
But surviving and perhaps even settling here will be a huge challenge for people who have already gone through so much.
Luke King, who had previously threatened to put explicit photos of the woman on the internet, changed his profile picture to one of the images.
The woman, from Derbyshire, told police she was "disgusted" and "really upset" by the act of so-called "revenge porn".
King, 21, of Calcroft Close, Aspley, Nottingham, was jailed for 12 weeks.
He was sentenced at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court, where he had previously pleaded guilty to the offence, which happened on 8 August.
The woman told police she had sent King the images for him to see only.
Derbyshire Police said King's victim had previously contacted them when he initially threatened to post the images, and officers warned him not to do so.
A spokesman said: "It's important for people to realise that it is an offence to harass others in this way. We agree with the judge that it was a despicable thing to do, especially after Luke King received warnings to stop.
"Anyone who is subjected to this type of crime should keep the evidence and contact the police as soon as possible."
King was prosecuted under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, but other people who distribute revenge porn images and videos could face two years in jail under a new law dealing specifically with the practice.
The amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill covers material shared via the internet, text messages and via physical distribution.
WhatsApp, which King used to display the image, is a messaging service for mobile phones where users can send photos and videos using the internet.
He was Archbishop of Dublin from 1988 until 2004, and Cardinal since 2001.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said Cardinal Connell had passed away peacefully in his sleep.
In 2009, the Murphy Report into child sexual abuse in the Dublin archdiocese found that his strategy in refusing to admit liability added to the hurt and grief of many victims of abuse.
The report said the commission had no doubt that clerical child abuse was covered up by the Dublin Archdiocese and other Church authorities.
Just before his retirement in 2004, Cardinal Connell asked for forgiveness from all those he had offended.
Benjamin Wyatt, from Bath, had been the subject of a police search in Melbourne after he disappeared on Tuesday while on holiday with his parents.
Relatives had pleaded for help to find the 34-year-old man, who has autism.
On Wednesday night, the family said that Mr Wyatt had returned to his sister's home in Melbourne, about 28km (17 miles) from where he was last seen.
"We are pleased to announce that Ben has just walked through the door," they wrote.
"We want to thank everyone who has helped us find him. A big thank you to Victoria Police with everything they did for us!"
Police confirmed he was safe and well.
The Herald Sun newspaper reported that Mr Wyatt is believed to have walked 5km from Half Moon Bay beach to a shopping centre, where he caught a bus across the city then walked a further 5km to his sister's home.
About 50 supporters were subjected to an unprovoked attack outside the Black Dog Pub in the old town area of Mostar on Wednesday.
The assailants set off flares and attacked the supporters with baseball bats and metal bars.
Aberdeen FC said club officials later attended the scene.
About 200 Aberdeen supporters are expected to attend the second-leg tie in Bosnia, following a 1-1 draw at Pittodrie last week.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Black Dog Pub offered its "sincere apologies" to the Aberdeen fans.
It said: "This was a football rivalry-related incident and is not normal in the old city of Mostar.
"The police are involved and people have been identified. If anyone has any more info please pass it forward."
Yet the relationship is not simply about new roads, mines and military power. Traders from across Africa now live and work in China, while tens of thousands of Chinese nationals have moved in the opposite direction.
Many different facets of life in Africa have been affected by the Chinese influence - here's a look at some of the more surprising transactions:
In 2014, tiny Benin was the continent's biggest importer of wigs and false beards from China. It purchased Chinese hair pieces worth $411m.
A hefty three million kg (472,400 stone) were taken to Benin, with many of those wigs then whisking their way to neighbouring Nigeria.
South Africa was the continent's biggest importer of Chinese-made male underpants.
Of the 18,747,003 pants imported by South Africa in 2014, 16,612,590 were Chinese - that's a whopping 88% of South Africa's imported pants.
Mauritius was Africa's largest importer of Chinese soy sauce last year, spending $438,929.
However surprising sales don't just flow one way. Mauritius sent back 5,735 reptiles to China to a value of $90,000.
Kenya was Africa's biggest importer of plastic Chinese toilet seats in 2014, spending $8,197,499 on the lavatorial thrones.
In Nigeria, China has not only been buying its oil, but also keeping Nigeria's teeth clean.
Nigerian traders were the continent's biggest purchasers of toothbrushes from China last year, spending a cool $9,372,920 on 159 million items - roughly one for each Nigerian.
China has also been keeping Africa moving. In 2014, Togolese traders spent $193,818,756 on Chinese motorcycles.
Only Nigeria imported more, spending a whopping $450,012,993.
Guinea was Africa's largest primate exporter in 2014, sending 17 live animals, weighing a total of 340kg (750lb), to China last year.
Source: COMTRADE, UN
More on China in Africa:
The BBC is running a special series about China's role in Africa.
Fairer Finance (FF) says airlines like Flybe, Monarch and Ryanair may be in breach of rules which say the charges should only reflect genuine costs.
Flybe and Monarch are said to be the worst offenders, putting a surcharge of 3% on bookings.
However, the airlines argue that their charges do accurately reflect the cost of processing the payments.
FF also accuses some local authorities of charging too much for paying by credit card.
James Daley, the managing director of FF, said there were hundreds of companies he believed were in breach of section four of the Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharge) Regulations, which came into force in April 2013.
"If they choose to charge for accepting credit card payments - in spite of the strong public sentiment against these charges - then the rules make it very clear that they can only pass on the cost," he said.
Trading Standards teams across the country should be investigating the issue, Mr Daley added.
Monarch told the BBC that its 3% surcharge did reflect its costs in processing the payments.
And it said that those who paid via Paypal do not pay a surcharge.
"Monarch's credit card surcharges are set to cover all of the related costs incurred by the company associated with taking payment by credit card," the airline said.
"When booking a flight at www.monarch.co.uk, charges are added to the total price of the booking and clearly itemised in the running total from the moment a customer select flights, right up to point of payment."
Ryanair said: "These claims are false. We fully comply with all EU regulations and our credit card charge reflects the cost of processing credit card payments, including bank charges."
A Flybe spokesperson said the airline is "fully compliant with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Guide 'Consumer Protection Regulations March 2012' that very clearly explain the allowable costs that can be recovered through a payment surcharge".
It claimed to have been ahead of other airlines in 2012 by scrapping debit card charges for all online bookings.
Some other airlines, such as Jet2, have dropped credit card charges altogether. British Airways charges a flat fee of £5.
However, FF believes that the cost of processing credit card payments should be covered by a 1% surcharge.
One element of that cost is the so-called interchange fee: The amount that businesses or retailers have to pay to the bank or credit card company.
Since December 2015 interchange fees have been capped at 0.3% of the transaction cost, under EU rules.
Mr Daley said that should be the largest part of the cost - with other expenses making up a further 0.3%.
"That should mean that consumers are being charged no more than around 0.6% by large companies - and certainly no more than 1%," he said.
None of the councils contacted by the BBC were available for comment.
It came after Marks and Spencer became the latest firm to pull its online ads over the issue, joining others such as Audi, RBS and L'Oreal.
Google's European chief, Matthew Brittin, promised to review the firm's policies and strengthen enforcement.
But some questioned the company's commitment to tackling the issue.
A recent investigation by the Times found adverts from a range of well-known firms and organisations had appeared alongside content from supporters of extremist groups on YouTube's video site.
An advert appearing alongside a video earns the poster about £6 for every 1,000 clicks it generates, meaning brands may have unwittingly contributed money to extremists.
The Times said that rape apologists, anti-Semites and hate preachers were among those receiving payouts.
There are two difficult issues for Google here - spotting videos that are illegal and should be removed from YouTube, and determining which are legal but not suitable for advertising.
Pressed by reporters on whether the firm would employ people to actively hunt down extremist videos, Matt Brittin was evasive, indicating that a combination of smart technology and user alerts to harmful content was a better option.
But his main challenge will be in providing more clarity to customers when it comes to deciding which videos are "ad-safe".
Drawing the line won't be easy - as he pointed out, news organisations put a lot of disturbing content online but need to earn money from advertising if they are to continue to invest in journalism.
Mr Brittin seems confident that by having a thorough look at its policies and showing advertisers how they can control where their messages appear, Google can regain their confidence.
But the company, which insists it's a technology platform not a media business, is finding it ever harder to hold that line.
Media firms face tight regulation - and that is what may be coming Google's way if it doesn't clean up its act.
Read Rory's blog in full
Last week, ministers summoned Google for talks at the Cabinet Office after imposing a temporary restriction on the government's own adverts, including for military recruitment and blood donation campaigns.
And on Monday M&S joined a growing list of firms to suspend their advertising from both Google's search engine and YouTube site. Others include McDonald's, HSBC, Lloyds, the BBC, Channel 4 and the Guardian.
Speaking at the Advertising Week Europe conference, Mr Brittin said: "I would like to apologise to our partners and advertisers who might have been affected by their ads appearing on controversial content."
He also promised that Google would exert more control over where ads were placed and improve its record for reviewing questionable content. Further details are expected later this week.
However, Labour MP Yvette Cooper told the Guardian the apology had not gone far enough.
"They need to say whether they will be paying back any of that advertising revenue and to answer our questions on what more they are doing to root out extremism or illegal activity on YouTube because they are still failing to do enough to remove illegal or hate-filled content from YouTube."
Brian Wieser, an analyst at the brokerage Pivotal, meanwhile downgraded Google's stock on Monday, saying the scandal would curtail its profits this year.
"Alphabet's Google is facing a serious issue in the UK with brand safety issues, which has global repercussions," he wrote in an analyst note.
Mark Mulligan, managing director of Midia Research, told the BBC that the complaints against Google "were not new" and showed the internet was "still in its adolescence".
"When the internet was founded, it was all about doing away with the gatekeeper. But now we're facing fake news and inappropriate content and that clashes with business models like Google's which are built on selling advertising."
He said Google was likely to weather the storm, but that such incidents would weaken its dominance of the online advertising market.
"Every incident like this gives Facebook an opportunity to steal a march on Google," he said.
Most of us know someone who has had to cope with a diagnosis of cancer, with the treatment, and then with the worry that it might return.
In recent years, treatments have made real improvements, but often it is still a matter of prolonging life by just a few months.
Now, at last, some scientists are daring to hope that one approach might lead us to our best hope of a cure.
In the last two years, attention has turned to a form of cancer treatment called immunotherapy. This aims to turn the power of our own immune systems against tumours.
Until recently, immunotherapy has been a poor relation to more traditional approaches, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Results in the last couple of years have excited cancer specialists. But the timing could hardly be worse.
Positive results have begun to come in just as the world's financial systems started to wobble, and the usual sources of money have become less easy to find.
Venture capitalists, charities and governments not only have less money to spend, but they are less prepared to spend it on "risky" bets - including unproven cancer therapies.
In the US last year, a team at the University of Pennsylvania reported a major breakthrough for immunotherapy - dramatic improvement in three leukaemia patients. Two appeared to be cancer-free a year after treatment.
Results in the UK have been similarly dramatic.
Newsnight has had exclusive access to a groundbreaking immunotherapy trial, in Manchester.
The trial, led by Professor Robert Hawkins at the Christie Hospital, is at the cutting edge of work on one part of the immune system - so-called killer T cells that can attack and kill cancer cells.
These killer T-cells are in the body's frontline of immune defences.
Scientists have already found that they can stimulate their production using drugs, but the approach under trial at the Christie involves taking killer T-cells from a patient's own tumour, and growing these up to form a colony of millions in the laboratory.
The idea is to create an attacking army of killer T-cells to safely re-inject into the patient.
Ben Perdriau, and his wife Joanne, flew from Australia to take part in the trial.
He was diagnosed with melanoma in 2010.
Last year he found it had spread to his brain, and now his body has developed resistance to conventional drugs. He is only the third person to try this pioneering new treatment here in the UK.
"The goal is to look to something with a more promising and durable response and complete response that can last for several years, if not indefinitely," said Mr Perdriau.
"So the therapy that's being developed and being administered is something that does hold that promise. So that's why I'm here, putting my hand up for it," he added.
The treatment matters so much for him because his tumour has developed resistance to the best that chemotherapy can offer.
The operation to remove a part of his melanoma went well.
The team found relatively few killer T-cells in Ben's sample, but these grew well in the lab, and will be ready to re-inject into Ben in early August.
Prof Hawkins says that whilst nothing is certain, the treatment does have a 50/50 chance of working.
Funding hurdles
Head of London's Institute of Cancer Research, Prof Paul Workman explained that although there was a great deal to be excited about in the latest cancer research, getting it out of the laboratory was still difficult.
Scientists at his institute recently published exciting work on one form of immunotherapy, making use of a virus that can hitch a ride on red blood cells, so that it travels straight to a tumour, kills the cancer cells, and also triggers the immune system to attack - a bit like a vaccine.
The problem is, not only is it increasingly hard to find money to pay for such research, but also to find the money and the partners to make sure it gets out in to small and large scale trials in patients, and beyond into the commercial world as treatments.
"Right now we've got a combination of the most exciting science and the most frustrating financial situation," said Prof Workman.
"We've got the cancer genome, we've got immune approaches. We've got incredible science and incredible ideas and we can't fund it. So we have to come up with creative approaches," he added.
He said there needed to be a partnership between industry, government and non-profit organisations - charities and philanthropy to bridge the "'valley of death between excellent basic science and pharmaceutical development."
Prof Workman thinks while "good efforts" are being made by the government, funding basic science, universities and research institutes as well as making it easier for the biotech industry to operate would help ensure the UK stays at the cutting edge. "I think more can be done," he added.
Britain's largest cancer charity has found it so hard to secure money and partners that it has set up its own cancer investment fund.
Cancer Research UK's commercial arm is spending ??25m, with equal funding from Europe, on this new investment strategy.
One of the major problems facing cancer treatment today is that patients develop resistance to even the best in cancer drugs.
They need a new weapon, and many scientists believe that harnessing the power of our immune systems is their best hope.
Watch Susan Watts' report on the promise of immunotherapy in cancer, and the funding "crunch", on
Newsnight
tonight at 10.30pm on BBC Two. Or afterwards on BBC iPlayer or the Newsnight website.
Murty made the revelation in the wake of the 2-1 defeat at Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Friday night.
"The board have taken steps, they have offered me help and I have taken advantage of that help," Murty said.
"At the moment that will remain private between me and the person who is helping me."
The result in Inverness makes it two league defeats in a row for Murty's side, following the 2-1 loss at Dundee.
The Ibrox outfit fell behind to Greg Tansey's strike on the stroke of half time but squared it from the penalty spot thanks to Martyn Waghorn.
Iain Vigurs then missed a penalty for Inverness but Billy Mckay's overhead kick sealed all three points for the home side.
Murty, whose team host St Johnstone on Wednesday, said: "The board will take their time and appoint the person that they think should be in place at a time of their choosing. So until I'm told otherwise I will carry on doing what I'm doing.
"But I have to say, my help and the people helping me, doesn't take away from the fact that the players have to focus what they can control, and they can control their attitude and performance.
"You haven't got the space and I haven't got the time to convey how I'm feeling. Suffice to say we are walking away with nothing and that's not good enough for this football club. This club has been and will be again about winning football matches and we haven't managed to do that.
"We weren't clinical enough in either box and we paid the price.
"You saw a group of players who were focused, I thought for 25 minutes we were great, but it's the same old problem, if you don't score when you have the chance and you let in too many goals, then you are not going to take too many points home."
The "no jab, no pay" policy may cost parents more than A$11,000 a year per child in lost benefit payments.
Families with children not immunised have been able to receive childcare cash if they have a philosophical or religious objection to vaccines.
PM Tony Abbott said that the rules would soon be substantially tightened.
He said that there would only be a small number of religious and medical exceptions to the new rules - supported by the Labor opposition and due to come into effect in early 2016.
The prime minister refused to say in detail how much money the initiative would save.
"It's a very important public health announcement, it's a very important measure to keep our children and our families as safe as possible," ABC News quoted him as saying.
The prime minister said that his government was "extremely concerned" about the risks posed to the rest of the population by families who chose not to immunise their children.
"The choice... is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments," Mr Abbott said in a joint statement with Social Services Minister Scott Morrison.
Anti-vaccination campaigns have been gaining ground in some Western countries in recent years - coinciding with a resurgence in preventable childhood diseases like measles.
The campaigners say that some vaccines against deadly diseases are dangerous. An online petition against compulsory vaccinations - with more than 3,000 signatures over the last five days - states that Australian parents have the right to make "an uncoerced choice".
The government estimates that about 39,000 children aged under seven have not been vaccinated because of the objections of their parents.
Mr Morrison said that no mainstream religions have registered objections to the proposals with the government.
A report for the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths revealed 43 people in the UK died after taking now-outlawed methcathinones in 2010, compared with five in 2009.
The group includes mephedrone or "meow meow", which alone caused 29 deaths.
Overall, drug-related deaths fell by just under 14%, with Brighton having the highest rate, at 14.8 per 100,000.
The total number of deaths from drugs throughout the UK fell from 2,182 in 2009 to 1,883 in 2010.
The National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD) said heroin-related deaths fell "significantly". In 2010, it was involved in 41% of all drug-related fatalities, compared to a proportion of 53% the previous year.
The annual report for NPSAD was compiled by the International Centre for Drug Policy (ICDP) based at St George's, University of London.
The team looked at drug-related deaths that had been formally investigated by the authorities, based on information from coroners, police forces, and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
The study concluded that former legal highs, such as meow meow, "tightened their grip on the recreational drug scene in western Europe but especially the British Isles".
It went on: "It is now difficult to gauge with any certainty what will be the next 'big thing' that will capture the attention of the experimenter or regular recreational drug user."
One of the report authors, John Corkery, said a dip in deaths from opiates such as heroin in 2010 could have been down to the popularity of mephedrone and other methcathinones.
He said: "They were thought to be less dangerous as they were promoted as legal. Of course, legal does not mean safe.
"Mephedrone is still causing deaths in 2012, and new substances are being identified all the time.
"These drugs are not tested, we do not necessarily know what the effects will be," he added.
While England, Scotland and Wales each saw a drop in drug-related deaths, Northern Ireland saw a slight rise - from 65 to 72.
The majority of deaths (72%) across the UK were among men aged between 25 and 44-years old. More than half of deaths (64%) occurred after an accidental overdose.
Professor Hamid Ghodse, director of the ICDP, welcomed the general fall in drug-related deaths but warned that finding "prevention strategies" is still a priority.
"It should not make us complacent as there are indications that there is still a general upward trend in fatalities involving emerging drugs such as mephedrone and prescription drugs such as methadone.
"This is a great concern and it is clear that much work is still required in improving access to effective treatment and rehabilitation services and most importantly, finding prevention strategies to stop people being at risk in the first place," he said.
Leading anti-drug charity Addaction also welcomed the drop in deaths, but said remained concerned about the developing use of less "established" drugs.
Simon Antrobus, the charity's chief executive said: "We need to acknowledge that drug use in the UK is changing.
"Developments, such as the ability to buy drugs over the internet, mean that some of this change has been at an astonishing rate.
"Some of the deaths reported will relate to substances that have only appeared in the past couple of years, rather than to 'established' drugs such as heroin.
"We see the use of these 'legal highs' with an increasing frequency in our services, and are concerned at the further damage their long-term use will cause."
Methcathinones were classified as class-B drugs in 2010, losing their "legal high" status.
The government announced on Thursday that two new legal highs, "black mamba" and methoxetamine or "mexxy" are to be criminalised.
There are foreign cameras everywhere in Tanzania, and no, they are not taking selfies, instead they are keeping a watchful eye on the country.
In any election, any other year, hardly anyone outside the country's borders would pay any attention to Tanzanians as they vote, because Tanzania is one of the most peaceful and stable countries in Africa.
Presidents are voted into office and leave without a strong military hand or popular protests shoving them out the door.
Since independence Tanzania has had four presidents who between them have served a total of 54 years.
'Jumped ship'
But this election is different and a number of factors have combined to turn the sleepy Tanzanian political landscape into an intense battlefield.
To begin with, for the first time ever, the main opposition parties, including Chadema, have joined forces to support one candidate for the presidency.
This opposition umbrella is known by its Swahili acronym, Ukawa.
In 2002 in neighbouring Kenya, a similar opposition umbrella group delivered a fatal blow to the ruling Kanu party, which had been in power for 40 years since independence.
Secondly incumbent Jakaya Kikwete has to leave office having served the maximum two five-year terms allowed by the constitution, so the stage is set therefore for a new president.
Thirdly, Edward Lowassa, a key figure in the ruling CCM party, and who served as prime minister, jumped ship shortly before the campaigns and is the now the greatest challenge to the party.
He is Ukawa's presidential candidate and he knows the spots that hurt within CCM.
Fourthly there is the youth factor and the undecided voters: More than half of the 22,750,789 registered voters are aged between 18-35 years.
Many of them are first-time voters - which means no-one can tell which way their vote will go.
Joseph Warungu:
"When money, politics and power converge, you can expect fireworks"
Unlike other elections, modern campaign methods are all the rage in this election.
The use of helicopters by the main parties and some prominent candidates makes it easy to criss-cross this vast country and hold a number of rallies each day.
Social media is a key frontier to conquer in this election and a strong web presence is mandatory.
Finally, there is the money factor.
Judging by the amount of live radio and TV advertising that has been purchased by the parties and candidates, as well as the forest of party posters, banners, billboards and flags everywhere, it is clear the main parties are loaded with cash.
When money, politics and power converge, you can expect fireworks.
But CCM is an experienced electoral machine with a solid loyal block of supporters.
Its presidential candidate John Magufuli comes largely scandal-free and has a reputation for being a "mchapa kazi" - a hard worker who delivers on his word.
He will be no push-over.
'Sharpened focus'
So what do they main players in this election want?
But what do the ordinary Tanzanians want?
All they want is food on their tables, jobs to support their families, a reliable and affordable health care system and quality education.
Safe drinking water and reliable efficient infrastructure are also top on their list.
Every voter in Africa wants and needs these same things. Tanzanians too deserve them.
They are looking for a leader who will deliver this promise and sustain the peace and stability the country has enjoyed since independence.
For now the many foreign cameras in Tanzania will sharpen their focus as the day approaches for Tanzania to decide who they really really want.
The man, 27, was detained on Sunday after "suspicious items" were found at his home in Naseby Road, police said.
Houses in the street were temporarily evacuated while West Midlands Police, the fire service and army officers conducted safety checks on the items.
Police said there was no immediate risk to the public.
The house, in the Alum Rock area of the city, will remain cordoned off until Monday while searches are under way.
Officers had originally arrested the man on suspicion of "going equipped" and possession of an offensive weapon at 01:20 BST.
He was then arrested of suspicion of terror offences on Sunday afternoon following the house search.
Detectives from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit have until Tuesday morning to question the man.
Nine-year-old Mohammad Ismaeel Ashraf ate fish fingers and developed symptoms similar to an allergic reaction before his death in March.
On Tuesday three medical experts told an inquest in Birmingham "anaphylaxis" was the most likely cause of death.
They said it was "unlikely" he died as a result of his lunch though.
See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here
The hearing was told the contents of Ismaeel's stomach did not reveal any foods to which he was allergic and the experts noted he had "vomited violently" prior to his death.
The experts agreed it was also unlikely the nine-year-old pupil at Al-Hijrah School in Bordesley Green had been allergic to fish.
The experts were also questioned about Ismaeel's treatment before paramedics arrived at the school.
Jurors at Birmingham Coroner's Court heard a delay in administering an EpiPen may have "contributed" to his death.
Dr Robin Tall, consultant paediatrician at Birmingham Children's Hospital, said: "It (the adrenaline) was given later than it should have been. It is not negligible".
The court was told that on the balance of probabilities "it did contribute" to Ismaeel's death.
The coroner asked Dr Tall and his colleagues, Home Office pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt, and consultant paediatric pathologist Tamas Marton, if the delay had "caused" the death.
All three agreed it was not a "cause".
However, the court was told the injection of adrenaline is more effective the earlier it is given.
The hearing continues.
The crash happened on the A417 Reading Road in East Hendred at 09:55 BST, said police.
A Honda CBR 650 motorbike travelling towards Didcot had crashed. The 53-year-old rider was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed.
Sgt Edward Crofts said: "Our thoughts are with man's family at this very difficult time."
Bilbao won the first leg 4-0 but Barcelona threatened a comeback with Lionel Messi's close-range finish.
Barca defender Gerard Pique was sent-off after the break and Aritz Aduriz struck late on to seal it for Bilbao.
The visitors had Kike Sola sent-off late on, but the celebrations for Bilbao had already begun.
It was ultimately a disappointing display for Barcelona who, despite plenty of possession, failed to threaten often enough.
After Barcelona's humiliating defeat in the first leg, Athletic Bilbao knew Luis Enrique's side would be determined to make amends.
The reigning European champions lined up with Messi, Luis Suarez and Pedro in attack but the visitors had done their homework and the trio were well marshalled throughout.
Whenever Messi had the ball, at least two players crowded round the Argentina international and his inability to get into the game left Suarez isolated.
Pedro, a reported target for Manchester United, had Barcelona's better opportunities in the opening stages but was unable to make them count.
The forward was full of running but his finishing let him down when it mattered, most notably when he missed the ball completely when a corner routine was worked to him on the edge of the area in the first half.
Pedro failed to find the target with another chance after the break and was eventually replaced in the 68th minute.
Enrique heads into the new season with some concerns at the back. Goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen was named on the bench after conceding eight goals in his last two games, with Chile international Claudio Bravo starting in his place.
Barcelona's attacking intent often left them exposed at the back, and any hopes of getting the goals they needed ended when Pique was needlessly sent-off midway through the second half. The defender angrily remonstrated with the linesman and the referee produced a straight red.
After a brief spell of Barca dominance, Jeremy Mathieu gifted possession to Aduriz, leaving the forward one-on-one with Bravo and, after his initial effort was saved, Aduriz side-footed home the rebound to put the game beyond Barcelona.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and Public Heath Wales stressed the dangers of flu to pregnant women and reminded expectant mothers to get vaccinated.
Pregnant women are more vulnerable to infections and cannot fight off flu as well as other people.
Dr Richard Roberts, of Public Health Wales, said there can be "severe complications" for mothers and babies.
Pregnant women who catch flu are more likely to deliver early, with an increased risk of stillbirth or illness for a baby in their first week.
Helen Rogers, director of RCM, said it "strongly recommends" pregnant women have the vaccination, saying they can have it "at any stage during their pregnancy".
"We also urge midwives and other health professionals to have the vaccination to protect themselves, their family and the people they care for from infection as well," she added.
Dr Richard Roberts, head of the vaccine preventable disease programme at Public Health Wales, said flu can be "devastating for the woman and her unborn baby".
The annual flu vaccination programme aims to make sure the people who need it most get free protection each year, including those aged 65 and over and people with certain long-term health conditions, as well as pregnant women.
All children aged two and three years old on 31 August 2016, and those in reception class, year one, two and three in school are also being offered protection with a nasal spray flu vaccine.
Two and three-year-olds will get their spray at GP surgeries, while those up to year three will be offered the vaccine at school.
The OBR said the public finances were "on an unsustainable path".
It blamed increased spending on the NHS and state pensions in particular, which is likely to grow faster than the economy as a whole, it said.
And public sector debt could increase from 82% of GDP to 234% by 2066-67.
That is based on an estimate that public sector borrowing would rise from 0.7% of GDP in 2021-22 to 16.6% by 2066-67.
The estimates came in its latest fiscal sustainability report.
Rather than moving into surplus, the budget deficit is also likely to get worse, the OBR said, rising from 0.7% of GDP in 2021-22, to 1.8% by the end of the next parliament.
The previous chancellor, George Osborne, had planned to balance the books by the end of this parliament.
However his successor, Philip Hammond, extended that deadline.
In the Autumn Statement he said he expected the deficit to be 2% of GDP by 2020-21, allowing him an extra £56bn of borrowing.
Six return flights per week will operate between London Heathrow and Tehran, which BA described as "an important destination".
It follows the lifting of some sanctions against Iran in January and the reopening of the British embassy in the Iranian capital in 2015.
BMI was the last UK airline to fly to Iran, but the service ended in 2012.
The BA Boeing 777 is due to depart from Heathrow just after 21:00 BST.
BA offered the first scheduled flights between London and Tehran in 1946.
However, it ended its service - which at the time was provided by franchisee British Mediterranean Airways - in 2007.
The flights were then operated by British Midland International (BMI), but services were suspended in 2012 as part of BMI's integration into British Airways.
The British embassy in Iran reopened in August last year, after it was ransacked by a mob in 2011.
The reinstatement of regular UK flights also comes after a long-term deal on Iran's nuclear programme was agreed with six world powers - the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany - in 2015.
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said BA's decision to resume direct flights may help to improve the UK's relationship with Iran.
Air France resumed flying to Tehran in April after a seven-year break.
The visitors took the lead through Carl Tremarco, the defender rising to nod home his seventh of the season from Greg Tansey's curling free-kick.
Arnaud Djoum was in the right place to knock the ball home for the equaliser before he was brought down for a penalty.
Sub Walker's tame effort was, however, well saved by Owain Fon Williams.
Hearts had the bulk of possession and hit the post through Esmael Goncalves, with Djoum and Andraz Struna also going close.
Caley Thistle also hit the woodwork from Ross Draper's header, with the scores at 1-1.
Inverness remain bottom of the Premiership table but have closed the gap on Hamilton to two points.
Inverness arrived at Tynecastle without a win in 13 Premiership matches, and the last time they were in Gorgie they were thumped 5-1.
Richie Foran set up his side to be tough to beat by flooding the midfield and it was a wise move as Hearts struggled to create as many clear-cut chances as might have been expected.
And it was the home defence that was breached first. From Tansey's free-kick, Unmarked Inverness left-back Tremarco rose to head into the net to make it 1-0.
Overall Caley Thistle did well to keep Hearts at bay, although Bjorn Johnsen almost equalised with a deflected shot off the crossbar.
Struna then came close for Hearts with a fierce drive that looked like it was heading for the top corner, but Fon Williams tipped the ball over.
From the resulting corner Goncalves looked like he would equalise from close range but his header flew narrowly wide.
In the second half it looked like Hearts were in search of more width as Johnsen was taken off and in his place came Walker.
And the change appeared to have the desired effect as the home side looked lively, Goncalves rifling an angled shot off the post.
But the full house at Tynecastle would eventually get a goal to cheer. A cross from Perry Kitchen on the left wing found African Cup of Nations winner Djoum at the back post and the Cameroon international fired a shot into the bottom corner to make it 1-1.
The match was starting to hot up now and Draper hit the post with a well-directed header from the edge of the area.
But down at the other end Hearts suddenly had a penalty as Djoum was bundled over in the box by Draper. Up stepped Walker but his spot-kick was comfortably saved by Fon Williams.
Neither side could find a winner and both will no doubt be glad to see the back of the Tynecastle pitch for the day. The surface is badly rutted and ensured good passing play was at a premium, despite a number of excellent technical players on show.
There is plenty of talk of sorting the surface and the case is building for it to be done sooner rather than later.
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro: "[Inverness] worked very, very hard. They stayed strong, they stayed compact and they gave us some difficulties in breaking them down.
"However, I think we have dominated the game and we have created enough chances to win one-and-a-half games. Ultimately we suffered the frustrations of having perhaps not been clinical enough when those opportunities arise and defending the set play properly in the first-half.
"It's not great (the pitch). Of course it adds another level of difficulty but it is a situation we need to manage with and deal with collectively."
Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager Richie Foran: "That was the old Inverness today I thought. Going forward we have been fine this season, going back we have been lazy. We haven't had enough fight - the fight was there today, that's for sure.
"The boys are flat out on their feet and I think it's a deserved point. They've hit the post, we've hit the post. We looked dangerous on the counter-attack, they looked dangerous on the counter.
"It wasn't a pitch to play football on. There were a lot of long balls. The most pleasing part was our going back up the park, our spirit, our work-rate. That was the old Inverness."
Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 1, Inverness CT 1.
Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 1, Inverness CT 1.
Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Henri Anier (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Rory Currie (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian).
Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Aaron Hughes (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Henri Anier replaces Billy McKay.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Liam Polworth.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Perry Kitchen.
Penalty saved! Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Penalty Heart of Midlothian. Arnaud Djoum draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Owain Fon Williams.
Penalty conceded by Ross Draper (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Jamie Walker.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Lennard Sowah.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Greg Tansey.
Attempt saved. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from long range on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Jamie McCart.
Attempt saved. Rory Currie (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Aaron Hughes.
Attempt missed. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Aaron Hughes.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 1, Inverness CT 1. Arnaud Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Perry Kitchen.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Aaron Doran replaces Jake Mulraney.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Rory Currie replaces Moha.
Aaron Hughes (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The Vermont senator received a three-minute standing ovation when he took the stage in Philadelphia.
"Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States," he said as the crowd erupted in cheers.
First Lady Michelle Obama also received a rapturous reception for a powerful speech in which she took on Republican nominee Donald Trump.
"Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great, that somehow we need to make it great again," she said, referring to Mr Trump's signature slogan "Make America Great Again".
"Because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth," she added.
Earlier in the evening, Mr Sanders' fans had booed any mention of Mrs Clinton, who will accept the party's presidential nomination on Thursday.
And as he implored them to back his Democratic rival in the final major speech of the night, they held aloft their blue "Bernie" signs and chanted his name.
Some supporters broke into tears while others wore duct tape emblazoned with the words "silenced" over their mouths.
"While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths," Mr Sanders continued.
"If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country," he said.
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Members of the audience had earlier disrupted the event's opening prayer, chanting "Bernie!" while also jeering as Democratic National Committee chair Marcia Fudge delivered remarks.
The commotion prompted Mr Sanders to send an email saying the credibility of the progressive movement would be damaged by "booing, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays" of protests.
Revelations from an email leak which showed DNC officials allegedly plotted against Mr Sanders' primary campaign threatened to overshadow the event as it fuelled the anger of his voters.
Wikileaks released emails that revealed the DNC was biased against Mr Sanders when he ran against Mrs Clinton in the hard-fought primary contest.
The FBI has confirmed that it is investigating the leak.
Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned on Sunday as pressure built on the party to address the scandal.
Democratic party bosses later issued an apology to Mr Sanders for "inexcusable" emails which tried to undermine his White House campaign.
But Mr Sanders refused to let the email scandal eclipse his message to his supporters.
"Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here tonight," he said before he left the stage.
About 5,000 party delegates are among the 50,000 people expected to attend the four-day convention, which will end on Thursday with Mrs Clinton formally accepting the nomination for president.
1. What is the point? At a convention, each party formally nominates its candidates for president and vice-president, and the party unveils its party platform, or manifesto.
2. Who is going? There are about 5,000 delegates attending, selected at state and congressional district conventions, and representing each US state and territory. Plus about 15,000 journalists and tens of thousands of other party grandees, lawmakers and guests.
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The previous night in Bangalore, Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli had piled on 211 for Royal Challengers in exactly the same number of deliveries.
Because this is cricket, the contrast served only to underline Cook's particular charms as a batsman. In a fast-forward world he is a player from another time, a writer of epic novels in an age of the tweet, probably the last of the pure Test specialists his country will produce.
Were Cook to be judged in the same way as England's international cricket this summer - a 'Super Series' amalgam where success in each of the divergent formats directly affects the other - he would look one-dimensional and dated. Only 60 of those 10,000 runs have come from shots that have cleared the ropes.
But one-dimensional and dated is a rather wonderful recipe for an opener in Test cricket.
Cook may have just four main scoring shots - the straight push-drive, a cut, the clip off his legs, a rolling wristy pull. He may occasionally still look at the crease as he did to Nasser Hussain when the then Essex captain first saw him in the nets at Chelmsford: stiff-legged, heavy headed.
Of the 12 men to get past the 10,000 mark, only the cussedly idiosyncratic Shivnarine Chanderpaul has perhaps as restrained a repertoire. Cook also has the lowest average of that elite set.
He is also the only one who has spent his entire career at the top of the order (Sunil Gavaskar slowly migrated there), and has scored his runs at such a clip that he has reached the milestone faster and at a younger age than every one of them.
The comparison with Chanderpaul, who took 18 years and 37 days to get there, is an unfair one. Cook has more in common stylistically with Rahul Dravid, the next quickest to 10,000 runs in terms of time - and much more in temperament with Steve Waugh, who took 15 more innings.
Just like Waugh, who could score a critical half-century just when Australia needed it most, or score a ton on one leg when the occasion demanded it, Cook is a batsman defined as much by his mental toughness as his strokeplay.
Do not be fooled by the choirboy past or his reported terror of snakes. Cook's 10,000 are about attrition where others have fallen, about treating the 100th ball of an innings just the same as the first, about being imperturbable when panic has gripped and turned elsewhere.
That toughness was there on his very first scoring shot in Test cricket, when he pulled a Zaheer Khan bouncer for four, and in the second innings century he compiled in that match in Nagpur despite being just 21 years old and fresh off a plane from an England A tour of the Caribbean.
It has been there in his captaincy, in the way his batting average as skipper (46.69) almost exactly matches his mark as a player (46.36), in the way he carried on as skipper through the Ashes horrors of 2013-14 and the unholy civil war that followed and emerged to bat on, and on, and on again.
Paul Collingwood also made his maiden Test ton in that same innings in Nagpur. His recollection of the occasion is of the intense nerves he felt as his own century approached, and of meeting Cook halfway down the pitch to discover that the kid eight years his younger felt nothing of the sort.
As it began so it has carried on. Cook has scored runs on the familiar pitches of home, as one would expect, but he has been more successful in the more challenging conditions overseas.
Sixteen of his 28 Test centuries have come away from home; his 766 runs to lay the foundations for England's first Ashes win in Australia for 24 years not only broke records but came after only one ton against that opposition in 19 innings. He adapted, he learned, he pushed on.
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Cook does not carry the charisma of the man he will one day overtake as his country's leading run-scorer across all formats, Kevin Pietersen. He is admired rather than adored, functional rather than flamboyant.
He is all the better for it. As his mentor Graham Gooch once observed, Cook's demeanour at the crease and his shot selection are exactly the same if he is on 20 or 200.
Despite those sporadic sixes he is a physically strong man. He has the same outsized forearms of all elite batsmen and the athlete's physique that modern conditioning methods have created.
He may not use those to improvise wildly as so many elite batsmen of this era do, but Cook is a player for whom less is more.
Even that 10,000-run target will soon slip away in his slipstream, even as the achievement is lauded, because he has so many years and innings ahead of him.
Arguably too, it is no longer quite the magic mark it was, at least outside England where it had never been seen before.
While it took a century of Test cricket for Gavaskar to become the first there, 11 batsmen have done it in the last 11 years. When Sachin Tendulkar is almost 6,000 Test runs on, Cook's accumulator instincts will have already adjusted his sights.
Only injury is likely to hold him back. But there can never be the suggestion that Cook, unlike more naturally gifted players, has failed to fulfil the limits of his potential.
It might sound like a curiously mealy-mouthed compliment. It isn't. Cook has been the best he can be, across a decade of exhausting Test battles. And there is more, much more, to come.
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The missile, launched at a steep angle, reached an altitude of 2,000km (1,242 miles) and travelled about 700km, landing in the sea west of Japan.
North Korea said on Monday it was a test of the abilities of a "newly developed ballistic rocket".
South Korea's military said it could not yet verify the North's claims.
But it said the North's missiles did appear to be able to leave and re-enter the atmosphere, which is crucial to developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the Yonhap news agency reported.
Repeated missile tests by the North this year - not all of them successful but all a breach of UN sanctions - have sparked international alarm and raised tensions with the US.
The US and Japan have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
North Korea's KCNA state news agency said on Monday that the test of a "newly developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12" had gone to plan.
"The test-fire aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly developed ballistic rocket capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead," it said.
North Korea is known to be developing both nuclear weapons - it has conducted five nuclear tests - and the missiles capable of delivering those weapons to their target. Both are in defiance of UN sanctions.
But it remains unclear whether it has the ability to make the weapons small enough to be mounted on a rocket, and it has never tested a long-range ICBM which could reach, for example, the US.
ICBM's are considered to have a range of about 6,000km, but analysts believe the missile tested on Sunday would have travelled about 4,000km if it had been fired at a standard trajectory rather than upwards.
The KCNA report said that, as ever, the test had been overseen by the North's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
It said he had told the scientists and technicians involved "not to be complacent" but to build further "nuclear weapons and methods of delivery" until the US made "the right choice".
The White House has mooted talks with North Korea under the right conditions, which would include a halt in missile tests.
But in a statement on Sunday, it said Pyongyang had been "a flagrant menace for far too long" and that this "latest provocation" should "serve as a call for all nations to implement far stronger sanctions".
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said on Sunday that until Mr Kim meets the US conditions, "we're not sitting down with him".
South Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in, who is seeking deeper engagement with the North, said it was a "reckless provocation" while China, North Korea's only real ally, is urging restraint.
In a five-hour closed session, Lula rejected allegations that he received a flat as a bribe in a scandal linked to the state oil company, Petrobras.
He called the case "illegitimate" and a "farce".
Lula faces a prison sentence if found guilty. If cleared, he says he will run again for the presidency next year.
The 71-year-old former president, still considered a hero to many in Brazil, was questioned by Judge Sergio Moro, who oversees the corruption investigation into Petrobras, known as Car Wash.
It was the first time that both faced each other in court, in the southern city of Curitiba, where security had been stepped up.
Wearing a sober suit and a tie striped with the colours of the Brazilian flag, Lula repeatedly denied the accusations against him.
"I consider this trial illegitimate and the accusation a farce," he said, according to a video released after the testimony.
He also strongly criticised the media for a coverage that, he claimed, "demonised" and "criminalised" him. The press, he added, wanted him "dead or alive".
But Judge Moro rejected this: "The press has no role in this case whatsoever," he said.
"The judgment will be made on the basis of law and exclusively according to the proof presented."
Lula went from the courtroom to a campaign style rally where thousands of his supporters gathered, many wearing the red colour of his Worker's Party. He was cheered on as a "warrior of the Brazilian people" and defied his accusers.
He said they had produced no evidence against him - and that he wanted to be judged on proof, not on interpretations.
Excerpts of the hearing started being shown on TV immediately afterwards, with commentators trying to decide which side had prevailed.
But this call will only be clear in the coming weeks: Judge Moro is expected to hand down his verdict in 45 to 60 days.
This is the first of the five charges that Lula faces related to the Car Wash scandal, Brazil's biggest ever corruption investigation.
He is also accused of money laundering, influence peddling and obstruction of justice.
Meanwhile, a much smaller group of opponents of the former president also gathered, raising an inflatable caricature of Lula dressed in prison garb.
Chief Brennan Sainnawap of the remote Wapekeka First Nation in northern Ontario made the declaration this week.
On 13 June, Jenera Roundsky, 12, became the latest child to die as part of a suicide pact.
In January, two other 12-year-old girls committed suicide. The community says almost 40 youths are considered to be at risk in a town of about 400 people.
It is the latest suicide crisis to hit a Canadian aboriginal community. Last year, Attawapiskat First Nation in Ontario declared a state of emergency after 11 people attempted to take their own lives in a single day.
Over the summer, Wapekeka notified Health Canada that they had become aware some girls had entered into a suicide pact and asked for about C$380,000 (£225,000; $286,000) to create a youth suicide prevention programme.
Leaders of the village also met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to talk about the community's suicide crisis.
Health Canada said it would send the funds but Wakepeka says it has so far only received $95,000 - a quarter of what was promised.
In January, an anonymous donor pledged to send $380,000 to help prevent youth suicide in the community when the federal funds were slow in coming.
Wapekeka spokesman Joshua Frogg told the BBC on Friday that the donor only eventually sent $30,000, which went to hiring one mental health worker for a couple of months.
Mr Frogg's niece, Chantell Fox, was one of the three girls who committed suicide. He spoke in January at a news conference in Ottawa, pleading for a national strategy on suicide.
The Toronto Star reported that Jenera Roundsky was found dead on 13 June at the local hockey rink. She had reportedly texted a friend to say goodbye.
Chantell and Jolynn Winter both died less than six months earlier.
On Friday, Health Canada said in a statement that it has been funding additional crisis supports since last winter. That includes four mental health counsellors whose positions are funded until March 2019.
The federal agency also says it has provided Wapekeka with close to $1m for the delivery of their community health programmes since last April.
Ontario Indigenous Relations Minister David Zimmer said in a statement on Friday that the province is working with regional and federal partners to help coordinate the response for additional support.
The province also committed $50,000 last week in response for sport and recreation activities for youth there.
"The conditions that lead to despair and hopelessness are complex and multi-layered. We all have a responsibility to address these conditions seriously," Mr Zimmer said.
Last year, Ontario's Attawapiskat community saw 28 suicide attempts in March and more than 100 since September 2015.
The regional Weeneebayko Health Authority flew in a crisis team, mental health nurses and social workers to help with the crisis.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which represents 49 First Nation communities within northern Ontario including Wapekeka and Attawapiskat, said earlier this year that 17 people died due to suicide across the region between January 2016 and January 2017.
It criticised the "current piecemeal approach to this perpetual crisis" by the federal government.
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For the 2016 Games, in addition to changes in the sporting arena - with sports like rugby sevens and golf added - there are also important sponsor changes.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has relaxed the rules around athletes - such as six-time gold medal winner Usain Bolt - who have commercial deals with firms that are not official Olympic sponsors.
For the first time those athletes can feature in promotions for their brands during the Rio 2016 period. Previously the IOC's Rule 40 had imposed a blackout period throughout the Games for this type of "non-official" advert.
In the case of the UK, as long as advertising campaigns were up and running by 27 March, and were approved by the British Olympic Association, they can continue throughout the duration of Rio 2016 - something unheard of before.
"There was a lot of negative feedback from the athletes at London 2012 about the advertising restrictions they faced, and the IOC said they would review the rules because of this unhappiness," says Karen Earl of the European Sponsorship Association (ESA).
"Athletes, who are often at their earnings peak during an Olympic Games, became angry four years ago as they could not financially capitalise on their fame at a time when they were in the global spotlight.
"There was never much possibility that there would be a total relaxation by the IOC of Rule 40. But what they have done has allowed athletes and their backers to think carefully outside the box and come up with creative advertising."
However, certain restrictions remain in place, with certain banned phrases still not allowed, including "Olympic", "Rio", "gold" and "Games".
And any adverts from non-sponsors must also "not create any impression of a commercial association with the Olympic Games".
(In addition, if an advertising campaign is to be run in a number of countries during the Games period, then it needs the approval of the IOC as well as the home Olympic association.)
The IOC says Rule 40 is in place for various reasons, including:
Among those taking advantage of the relaxation of the rules and thinking creatively have been Virgin Media and Usain Bolt.
The company has been running series of adverts around the theme of Be The Fastest, focusing both on the fact that Bolt is the world's fastest man, and Virgin Media's broadband speeds.
The advert has no Olympic Games association but does reference his 100m world record time set in Berlin in 2009.
Virgin says it will be running the campaign during the Rio Games, having launched it in late March in order to comply with all the new IOC guidelines.
"This campaign with Usain Bolt was conceived quite some time ago," says Ginni Arnold of Virgin Media.
"We started in quite a low-level way with Bolt in the starting gun position," she says. "We did that to make doubly sure that we complied with the new IOC cut-off times for launching campaigns."
In fact, Virgin started the process of making sure their ad was IOC compliant as early as January, with its ad agency BBH in contact with both the British (BOA) and Jamaican (JOC) Olympic associations.
In March it was given permission from the BOA to run the advertisement throughout the Olympic Games. As the campaign is only running in the UK it did not need IOC approval too.
But before running on TV, Virgin Media initially put out its Bolt advertising in March in print - Sunday newspapers and billboards - and on social media - on Twitter and other outlets.
"The whole campaign needed to be up and running a significant time before we approached the official Olympic Games period, to make sure it was compliant," says Ms Arnold. "The TV ad too was all checked, everything had to meet IOC guidelines."
Ms Arnold says Virgin Media has a positive view of the tweaked Rule 40, and recognises that the IOC has a duty to protect its official sponsors.
"For us it is positive," she says. "It is a good thing, it allows us to capitalise on our long-standing association with Bolt, during a period when previously we would not have been able to do so.
"It is fantastic to be able to run the campaign. But at the same time we are always respectful and mindful of the criteria and rules around the world's greatest sporting event. "
And Ms Earl of ESA says the IOC has done its best to create a delicate balancing act.
Athletes remain frustrated about restrictions on what they can say about their sponsors on social media during the Games, and Ms Earl admits "athletes did think there would be a far greater relaxing of the system".
"But the IOC could not really afford to do that as they do not want to upset their official sponsors," she says.
"They wanted to protect their sponsors' rights, but at the same time open the door slightly to other athletes and their brands."
There are 12 big international brands who are IOC official global partners, plus separate Rio 2016 sponsors and partners.
These firms, including the likes of Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Samsung and Visa, have paid handsomely to use trademarked Olympic phrases and imagery, with the money they pay for those rights providing the bulk of the money to run the Games.
"The official sponsors pay a lot of money for their packages," says the ESA's Karen Earl.
"And they don't just run campaigns saying 'we are an official sponsor' - they spend a lot of time and effort too in coming up with campaigns that are relevant and connect with consumers, and which they can understand."
These Olympic sponsors get little or no branding in the stadium, and none on the front of sporting kit, so much official sponsor advertising has to be done via high-profile advertising campaigns featuring Olympians - such as P&G's with gold medal winning heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill.
President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said they hoped for a peace deal in 2016.
The latest round of negotiations aiming at reunification have been going on for more than seven months.
The Turkish-controlled north broke away in 1974 after a Greek-inspired coup.
'Optimism' at peace talks
Rocky road to reunification
Mr Anastasiades said his wish was for Greek and Turkish Cypriots to be able to live peacefully together in a reunified Cyprus, while Mr Akinci said he hoped 2016 would bring lasting peace for all.
"I wish the new year will bring lasting peace, serenity and prosperity to all Cypriots," Mr Akinci is quoted as saying by the Cyprus Mail.
The newspaper said the leaders will meet three times in January.
In 2004, Greek Cypriots rejected a UN plan to reunify the island. They were unhappy at limits on their right to return to property in the Turkish north.
Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the plan.
The self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is diplomatically isolated, recognised only by Turkey.
UN peacekeeping forces estimate that 165,000 Greek Cypriots fled or were expelled from the north, and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south, although the parties to the conflict say the figures are higher.
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Former Accies players Chris Swailes and Guillaume Beuzelin will be assistant manager and head coach respectively.
Scottish defender Canning had been made interim player-coach after Neil exited.
And it has now been revealed that the 33-year-old knew he already had the job on a permanent basis despite a number of high-profile applications.
"I had an indication that was the way it was going to go," Canning told BBC Scotland.
"The best way to do it was to do it the way it was done. Now that it's resolved we can go back to concentrating on football.
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"Going into management was something I always wanted to do. Who knows if it's too soon or the right time or the wrong time - you'll never know until you actually go ahead and do it.
"For me, it was a no-brainer to take it and we'll just see how things go."
Canning, who was club captain, has overseen three consecutive defeats, with Accies losing 5-0 away to Partick Thistle on Wednesday - but it has not deterred the Hamilton board from again appointing from within.
Neil was elevated from his role as captain to player-manager when Billy Reid moved on in April 2013.
Frank McAvoy, who was Neil's assistant at New Douglas Park, had remained behind to assist Canning but will now also head to Carrow Road following Saturday's home game with Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Canning, who described it as "a big opportunity", will continue as a player and have some input into training, but that will be the main responsibility of Swailes and Beuzelin.
Englishman Swailes played for Hamilton for two seasons after leaving Oldham Athletic in 2007 during a long playing career that included spells with Boston United, Doncaster Rovers, Ipswich Town, Bury and Rotherham United.
The 44-year-old former defender ended his playing career after joining Northern Football League club Dunston UTS in 2011.
Former Le Havre, Hibernian, Coventry City and Olympiakos Nicosia midfielder Beuzelin will move from Scottish Championship club Dumbarton, where he was appointed assistant manager in July.
The 35-year-old Frenchman, who had a short spell with Accies in 2009, previously had coaching roles with Falkirk, Stirling University and Hibs, as well as a continuing one with South of Scotland League side Edusport Academy.
Hamilton sit fifth in the Scottish Premiership - nine points behind leaders Celtic - following promotion via the play-offs in the summer.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served BP with an improvement notice following the incident on the Etap on 1 October last year.
BP said the leak was spotted and quickly stopped after a re-start following maintenance.
The HSE says BP failed to take appropriate measures to control maintenance activities.
Wednesday's demonstration was the first public glimpse of Hyperloop, a system that could send people and cargo through tubes at the speed of sound.
Executives hope in five years' time people will be able to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.
"It's real. It's happening now," Hyperloop CEO Rob Lloyd said.
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk first pitched the idea in 2013, urging others to take up the proposals as he and his company developed electric cars and solar energy technology.
The technology uses levitating pods that move through a low-friction environment with electricity and magnets. The pods are designed to travel at more than 700 mph (1,120km/h).
Hyperloop hopes to start moving cargo by 2019 and people by 2021. However, huge logistical and technological hurdles remain.
The plan has detractors including James Moore, director of the University of Southern California's Transportation Engineering Program.
"I would certainly not say nothing will come of Hyperloop technology," Mr Moore told the Associated Press. "But I doubt this specific piece of technology will have a dramatic effect on how we move people and goods in the near term."
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McGrath Brothers Engineering Group specialised in metalwork.
BBC News NI's economics and business editor, John Campbell, gave more details on the redundancies to BBC Newsline's Donna Traynor.
Glasgow Caledonian University has spent £9.6m on an American offshoot that has struggled to generate revenue.
Three years after opening, GCU New York is still unable to enrol any degree students because it does not yet have a licence.
A union convener said the campus should be closed. But university management insisted it will eventually pay off.
At the moment, Glasgow Caledonian University has financial problems.
BBC Scotland has learned that it has recorded a deficit of almost £2.7m for the 2015/16 financial year - the first time it has gone into the red for at least nine years.
This figure is expected to be confirmed when the university publishes its annual financial statement.
It is understood that it will blame a drop in the number of international students because of "toughened changes to the student visa regime".
In the document, GCU's principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Pamela Gillies, is expected to describe "a downturn in the attractiveness of the UK as a destination for international students".
But union officials at GCU argued this explanation ignored the millions of pounds spent on the loss-making New York campus.
Without that burden, they believed the university would still have an overall surplus.
Union convener at GCU, Dr Nick McKerrell said: "I'd like university management to hold their hands up and say 'look we made a mistake, this was not a venture that was going to succeed.'"
GCU New York is funded by a loan from the main university of which £5.6m had been drawn down by the end of the 2014-15 financial year.
That figure rose by almost £4m to £9.6m over 2015-16.
The university has always said the project is entirely funded from its own resources and not from public money.
Professor James Miller, deputy vice-chancellor of GCU, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the university had enjoyed a healthy balance sheet since 2007.
He said: "Over the past nine years Glasgow Caledonian University has made surpluses and that has allowed us to make the investments that we make, not just in our transnational and international ventures but also in relation to the investments that we make here in Glasgow.
"And the £9.6m that was identified for New York is dwarfed entirely by the £32m that we have recently spent in the heart of Glasgow campus, that we've undertaken and completed, so it is a little simplistic to suggest that because we are investing money in New York that we wouldn't have run this deficit this year."
Prof Miller insisted that the New York campus would turn out to be a productive investment but acknowledged delays in admitting students had been frustrating.
He added: "Of course we are slightly frustrated at the fact that we don't have our licence yet. That sits with the New York State Education Department.
"We are the first university to have gone through this process so that's why it's probably taking longer than we were initially led to believe was the case. But we continue to work with the NYSED."
In the meantime, the campus in lower Manhattan is being hired out as a venue to generate some income.
Last weekend it was used by the model Julia Restoin-Roitfeld for what was publicised as a Le Marche Bleu holiday pop-up shop.
It appears to have been designed to promote a French vodka brand.
University flags and logos were removed for the occasion.
Union convener Dr McKerrell said: "We are not a pop-up shop, we are a university of higher education. We shouldn't be selling foie gras, caviar and Champagne to the wealthy of Manhattan.
"We are a higher education institution. To do such a thing demeans us academically, and I think we need to look at why we have not got the licence and how we can get out of this without losing more money for staff at Glasgow."
The venue's website suggests it has previously been used by Nike and Banana Republic and for an art exhibition.
GCU New York has also generated some money by offering short non-degree courses to businesses.
The university sees internationalisation as a key to its future success.
The New York State Education Department said "no decision has been made" on Glasgow Caledonian's application for degree-awarding authority.
If such a licence is granted, the university is expected to offer specialist courses in fashion and risk management.
Officials at a housing registration office in suburban Shanghai were so preoccupied that they didn't bat an eyelid when we walked around with a small camera to film the queues.
In communist China, where the state has a deep-seated suspicion of the foreign media, that's very unusual. That's how busy they are.
The announcement of new measures - meant to cool the housing market in China's mega-cities - caused a surge in sales. People wanted to move in before the minimum deposit rose.
The police were on hand to keep order at Baoshan property trading centre when we visited. There were crowd barriers outside.
Shanghai is home to 25 million people. The development in the city has been vast and it's been quick.
The apartment I am sitting in as I write this was a field 20 years ago. Shanghai is still building - where it can find the space.
Howard Huo is one of the many trying to find a house amidst that space, and he's in a hurry.
In the six months he's been waiting for the right paperwork to come through his friend has seen the value of his apartment go up, by 60%.
He told me he's "very sad" about that. His mate said he was "proud of it".
At 28, Howard is stuck in the middle. The government measures mean buyers like him will need more money to put down.
But at the same time credit is cheap in China.
That's one of the counter-measures meant to help as growth in the world's second biggest economy is slowing. So how far will he stretch himself to get into that new home?
"I'm going to borrow 70% of the housing price," he told the BBC, as any more would be "crazy" he reckons.
"I will borrow from the bank, it's much more safe," Howard said.
The deposit is coming from his parents, a common arrangement in China. But the government has been spooked recently by reports some buyers are using riskier online providers to part finance their house buying.
Peer-to-peer lending is a big growth business in China. Companies like Lufax or Dangtian Wealth are challengers to the big state backed banks, which prefer to lend to companies not people.
But it's risky. About a third of firms have got into trouble.
Property analyst Joe Zhou says there is "definitely concern about the credit environment" in China.
So money is cheap and there is some growing concern about bad loans. The government's promised new restrictions on "grey market" lenders, but it hasn't said what that will be, yet.
"The problem is whether the money should go in to real estate or into other sectors," he said, adding "currently given the risks in the real economy lots of investors are getting loans and investing in real estate".
China's Housing Minister Chen Zhenggao recently said he thinks the housing market is in "good health".
But it's not just too much money swilling around that the country's leaders worry about. There's a lingering concern about too many empty houses.
The polarisation is staggering. Outside of the major cities, particularly in the north, there are numerous empty tower blocks, even empty towns.
An hour out of Shanghai, in Huaqiao, I found myself standing in a shell of a room at the bottom of a nearly completed tower, the tenth to be completed on that particular plot after five years of building.
Every time I took a step there was an echo.
Looking out of the empty window frame I saw the first phase which was completed in 2011. It's only 40% full.
Property may be a good store of value for investors who are fearful of another stock market dip in China, but a huge inventory of unsold homes remains.
Filling those with more new city folk remains a key aim for China's leaders. But they're keeping an eye on that loose credit too.
World number three McIlroy, 26, carded a two-over-par 72 to miss out by one stroke at the PGA National in Florida.
The Northern Irishman had a triple bogey on the fifth and a double bogey on the 15th to go with four birdies.
Fowler's four-under round took him to eight under, one shot ahead of fellow American Jimmy Walker.
World number five Fowler, 27, shot four birdies and no bogeys for the second day in succession, although he was fortunate to escape with a wild drive on the first, his 10th hole of the day.
"I got a nice break on one but kept myself in it with some good up and downs, made some good putts and it was a little bit of a bonus with a birdie on the last," Fowler told PGA Tour Radio.
"I'm definitely pleased with the way I've played the last two days."
Overnight joint leader Sergio Garcia had three birdies and two bogeys in a 69 to lie six under, a shot ahead of Australian Adam Scott, who carded an impressive 65.
Defending champion Padraig Harrington recovered from playing his first two holes in three over par to card a 68 and finish one over par, with fellow Irishman Shane Lowry a shot behind after adding a 75 to his opening 67.
They failed to comply with regulation 14(d) which relates to them being unable to ensure their 'club whereabouts' information was accurate.
Clubs are required to provide accurate details of player whereabouts so they are available for testing at all times.
Manchester City were charged for a similar offence in January.
The actor told DJ Howard Stern that Winfrey had rebuked his "gallivanting" and had told him he was "blowing it".
Winfrey, Foxx went on, also arranged a meeting with Sidney Poitier "to make me understand the significance" of being nominated for an Academy Award.
The meeting took place one week before the 2005 Oscars, where Foxx won best actor for playing Ray Charles in Ray.
Foxx, who was also nominated that year for the best supporting actor Oscar, went on to star in Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained.
"You know me, I was going hard," the 49-year-old told Stern this week during an appearance on the latter's radio show.
"I'm having such a good time, and I'm not knowing I'm [expletive] up. I'm drinking, I'm doing every [expletive] thing you can possibly imagine."
"That's not what you want to do," Foxx recalled Winfrey telling him in an unexpected phone call. "I want to take you somewhere."
This led to a visit to Quincy Jones's house, where he was told by the legendary producer: "You're doing good, man, we just don't want you to blow it, baby."
"We go in the house and there's all these old actors, black actors from the '60s and '70s, who look like they just want to say 'Good luck, don't blow it," he recalled.
One of those present was Sidney Poitier, who told Foxx his portrayal of Charles in Taylor Hackford's film "had made him grow two inches."
Foxx said the meeting had taken place on Poitier's birthday - 20 February - and had made him realise his nomination was "way bigger" than he had originally thought.
"To this day, it's the most significant time in my life where it was, like, a chance to grow up," he added.
The actor and musician recently appeared in crime thriller Sleepless and will shortly be seen as a volatile bank robber in action comedy Baby Driver.
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Other shows being revived include Steptoe and Son, Porridge, Are You Being Served? and Up Pompeii!
The BBC's "landmark sitcom season" will mark 60 years since Galton and Simpson's Hancock's Half Hour started on BBC Television.
It will also feature a special prequel to Keeping Up Appearances.
Created by Johnny Speight, Till Death Us Do Part ran over seven series on BBC One from 1966 to 1975.
It starred the late Warren Mitchell as curmudgeonly bigot Alf Garnett alongside Dandy Nichols as his wife Else and daughter Rita played by Una Stubbs.
Till Death Us Do Part is one of a trio of "lost sitcoms" - along with Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son - that will be remade for BBC Four using the original scripts.
Each will have a brand new cast and be filmed in front of a studio audience.
The lost Till Death Us Do Part episode, A Woman's Place is in the Home, dates from January 1967. It features Garnett ranting against his wife when he returns to an empty house and finds his dinner burnt.
The sitcom season will begin this summer on BBC One with a special live episode of Brendan O'Carroll's comedy Mrs Brown's Boys.
Prison sitcom Porridge - which starred Ronnie Barker as inmate Fletch - returns as a one-off special, written by its creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
The episode features Fletch's grandson, also known as Fletch, imprisoned for a series of cyber-crimes.
Up Pompeii!, the ancient Roman-themed comedy, which ran from 1969 to 1970 starring Frankie Howerd, will also return with a new script by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson, the writers of the show's 1991 revival on ITV.
A special prequel of 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, called Young Hyacinth, will be written by Roy Clarke, the creator of Keeping Up Appearances.
Set in the late 1950s, it will feature the young Hyacinth "Bouquet" taking charge of the family as her sisters and her father are left by their mother.
As announced last month, Are You Being Served? is being revived with a cast that includes Mathew Horne (Young Mr Grace), Jason Watkins (Mr Humphries), Sherrie Hewson (Mrs Slocombe), John Challis (Captain Peacock), Roy Barraclough (Mr Grainger), Arthur Smith (Mr Harmon), Justin Edwards (Mr Rumbold) and Niky Wardley (Miss Brahms).
Charlotte Moore, controller of BBC Channels and iPlayer, said: "Comedy has such a wonderful, rich tradition on the BBC, and I'm committed to continuing that across all the channels.
"The landmark sitcom season will celebrate our very British sense of humour, by reimagining hits of the past and giving a platform for new talent."
Tobias Ellwood gave emergency first aid to PC Keith Palmer who was stabbed outside the Palace of Westminster.
In a Daily Telegraph interview, he said the hardest part of his experience was trying to explain to his eight-year-old son what had happened.
Five people died in the attack by Khalid Masood on 22 March.
Mr Ellwood attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of the injured PC Palmer after he was stabbed by Masood, who had driven his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge.
The Conservative MP for Bournemouth East said: "I think the hardest thing, as well as stepping through with others to try and save PC Keith Palmer's life, was coming home and finding my eight-year-old boy on top of the stairs having refused to go to bed.
"It was 10 o'clock at night and he was really confused. He couldn't understand why a bad person would do what he did and he also couldn't quite understand why I had then stepped forward in the way that I did.
"I had to explain to him that there are some bad people in this world.
"There are bad people doing bad things, but there are more good people doing good things, and that's why we stand up to events such as this."
Mr Ellwood is now a defence minister and spoke to the Telegraph as the government launched a strategy which aims to improve the mental health of the Armed Forces, veterans and their families.
He said members of the Armed Forces worked in a "very macho environment" but urged war veterans dealing with traumatic experiences not to "bottle it up".
He told the paper: "What I went through is something... but we shouldn't forget that there are many people who have seen much worse and continue to be affected by it.
"That's why it is so important for us to have the mental health strategy that we need - a veterans' support package that is understood and a covenant that obliges councils, businesses and communities to recognise the sacrifice that individuals have given."
Mr Ellwood, who has rarely spoken about his actions, was praised by MPs in the week after the attack.
"I was one of many that stepped forward on that dark day," he told the Commons at the time.
At least 40 people were injured, including three other officers. Masood was shot dead by police.
Kole Lulgjuraj was arrested in Darlington in 2012 on suspicion of fleecing people out of their savings, but fled the country while on bail.
Durham Police said many of his alleged victims had since died.
He has now been tracked to Indianapolis, in the USA, and is to be charged with six counts of theft.
Durham Police officers will travel to the USA and bring the 50-year-old from Montenegro back to the North East where he will face another charge of fraud.
Det Con Dave Wearmouth, of the force's major crime team, said: "This has been a long investigation and sadly several of the victims in this case have died.
"However, we have never given up."
An investigation began when the family of one of the alleged victims queried her bank account when working out the funding of care home bills.
That led to other alleged victims in the County Durham area, many of whom were elderly and had lost their savings and assets, Durham Police said.
In January this year the suspect was arrested by the FBI in Indianapolis, Indiana, after he started work at a bank.
A colleague had carried out an internet search of his surname leading to a newspaper article which said he was wanted by police.
Mr Wearmouth said: "It goes to show that, there is truly no hiding place for suspected criminals in today's digital world."
Fly-half Sexton trained in Kildare after having a head injury assessment (HIA) following Leinster's Pro12 semi-final defeat by Scarlets.
Flanker O'Brien missed that match because of a "tightness in his calf".
O'Brien has done some running but has yet to return to full training.
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The Leinster pair are training in Ireland along with the rest of Warren Gatland's squad before Monday's departure for the 10-game tour of New Zealand.
"Johnny has trained all week, he's absolutely fine," said Lions coach Andy Farrell.
"Sean is nearly there, he's progressed really well. He's back to a bit of straight-line running. They're just managing him making sure that we don't break him down too early."
The budget carrier said the improvement was largely due to selling its 40% stake in Tigerair Australia. The stake in the loss-making subsidiary was sold for $1 to Virgin Australia in 2014.
Group revenue for the quarter was up 12.8% to S$167m.
Tiger Airways is majority owned by flagship carrier Singapore Airlines.
Chief executive Lee Lik Hsin said: "We are encouraged by the narrowing of losses in a seasonally weak second quarter."
Tiger Airways reported a loss of S$182.4m in the July to September quarter last year.
The improved earnings came as airlines around the globe benefit from the current low fuel prices helping profit margins.
The results showed that traffic and passenger numbers also saw a slight increase.
Tigerair recorded additional income from leasing aircrafts to its former Australian subsidiary and to Tigerair Taiwan, an affiliate majority-owned by China Airlines.
For its outlook, the airline pointed to the next months as a peak quarter which traditionally sees increased travel during the holiday season.
The club has gone into a state of mourning following his death on Monday at the age of 88.
As current club president Florentino Perez noted in his emotional tribute, in a symbolic way, Di Stefano simply is Real Madrid. His presence looms so large that he came as close as anybody ever will to the status of being "bigger than the club".
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But football history could have been different - very different indeed. Because when the magical Argentine forward first opted for a move to Spain, he appeared to be destined not for Real but their eternal rivals Barcelona.
The story of Di Stefano's transfer to Los Blancos is a fascinating and complex web of claims, denials, counter-denials and conspiracy theories involving five clubs in three countries. There are allegations of treachery, a mysteriously ripped-up contract and - possibly - the personal intervention of a dictator.
In the spring of 1952, Di Stefano was already a player of quite some renown. A 25-year-old Argentina international boasting an almost goal-per-game scoring record, he travelled to Spain for a friendly tournament in Madrid with his Colombian club side, Millonarios.
His performances were breathtaking, immediately prompting both Barcelona and Real Madrid to push hard for his signature.
Barca appeared to take an early lead in a race that was complicated immensely by the fact that Di Stefano's registration rights were also claimed by Argentine giants River Plate, who were still less than delighted about their star player's controversial (and perhaps illegal) move to Colombia three years earlier.
Nevertheless, with hard-nosed nationalist Catalan lawyer Ramon Trias Fargas leading the negotiations, Barca embarked upon slow but steady progress with both South American clubs. However they made what appears to have been a fatal error by underestimating Millonarios when they enlisted the help of another Catalan who was living in Colombia, Joan Busquets.
Busquets just happened to be a director of Millonarios' biggest local rivals, Santa Fe, and his presence at the bargaining table made the Colombian club suddenly reluctant to agree to the move - especially when Barca strangely submitted an almost derisory initial offer, which was promptly rejected.
Apparently believing that Millonarios were irrelevant and that River Plate were the only club they needed to do business with, Barca reacted to having their bid refused by essentially ignoring such an unwanted development.
Instead of taking the rebuffal seriously, they arranged for Di Stefano and his family to leave Colombia and flew them to the north-east of Spain, where he started to settle into life with his 'new' club and even played at least one pre-season friendly for Barca in the summer of 1953.
At that point, however, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) intervened by refusing to sanction the transfer on the grounds that Millonarios had not agreed to it. The RFEF dismissed Barca's complaints that the deal had nothing to do with the Colombian club, who the Catalans claimed had signed Di Stefano illicitly in the first place.
Barca refused to budge from their position that they had an agreement with River Plate, who they believed were the legal owners of Di Stefano's registration.
In the meantime, Real president Santiago Bernabeu had taken advantage of the uncertainty to reach a similar deal with Millonarios. An impasse ensued.
When the RFEF eventually reached its verdict in September 1953, it came to the startling compromise that Di Stefano could play for alternate clubs over the course of four years, starting with a season at Real.
Humiliated Barca president Marti Carreto was forced to resign and the interim board ripped up the contract, freeing Di Stefano to join Real for good on the agreement that Los Blancos paid back to Barca the 4.5 million pesetas fee they had already handed over to River Plate.
The rest, as they say, is history, but plenty of questions remain unanswered. Why did Barca fail to reach a deal with Millonarios? Why did the RFEF refuse to sanction Di Stefano's transfer when Fifa had already waved it through? And why then did Barca, if they believed in their case, tear up the contract rather than sticking to their guns?
The big underlying question is the extent to which Spain's ruler, General Franco, was involved.
Throughout the 1950s, Real were regarded by their (many) enemies as Franco's team or the 'Regime Team'. Although the extent of the dictator's meddling in sporting matters has probably been exaggerated, it certainly was true that he had dealings over the years with Real president Bernabeu and occasionally exerted significant influence upon the RFEF.
Any conspiracy theory carries unusual weight from such a politically explosive era. Strange as it sounds, there have even been unproven claims that one or more of Barca's negotiators were acting as double-agents for Real, deliberately sabotaging the deal to ensure Di Stefano eventually moved to the capital.
Even now, the circumstances of Di Stefano's arrival in Spain is an almost uniquely emotive topic.
Barca fans angrily believe their team was robbed by dark governmental forces. The club's official website bitterly bemoans "a strange federative manoeuvre with Francoist backing".
Real supporters bristle with indignation at the suggestion of underhand dealings and maintain they simply took advantage of Barca's sloppiness rather than enlisting the assistance of General Franco.
Whatever the exact truth of the matter, the end result was that Di Stefano did move to Madrid, making his debut in a friendly against French club Nancy on 23 September 1953.
A month later, the first Clasico of the season took place at the Bernabeu. Real won 5-0… and Di Stefano scored four. A legend was born.
The Pentagon said Siful Haque Sujan, originally from Bangladesh, was killed near the city of Raqqah on 10 December.
Sujan supported IS hacking efforts, anti-surveillance technology and weapons development for the jihadist group.
He was one of 10 IS leaders killed in air strikes.
Pentagon spokesman Army Colonel Steve Warren said: "Now that he's dead, ISIL has lost a key link between networks."
Members of the Cardiff Bangladeshi community said they were shocked and stunned and had no indication he had been radicalised.
It is understood Sujan left the UK in July 2014 and travelled to Syria.
South Wales Police Det Supt Lee Porter said: "We are unable to confirm or deny the accuracy of these reports at this time but are currently working with our partners to ascertain what has happened.
"While we understand Mr Sujan had lived and worked in south Wales, he had left the UK in 2014 thus was not a resident of Wales at the time of his reported death."
Sujan bought a house at Rhydyfelin near Pontypridd 10 years ago while he was a student and rented it out.
Former neighbours Donna and Nigel Davies were surprised at the news.
"He was a nice enough outgoing guy, always polite to us," Mrs Davies said.
"It was a hell of a shock - living next door to someone like that for four years and not knowing anything about it."
The first minister has promised an expansion in free childcare if the SNP is voted back into power next year.
It would see the number of hours eligible youngsters receive being nearly doubled to 1,140 a year over the course of the next parliament.
But Fair Funding For Our Kids claimed about 26,000 extra nursery places would be needed for that to be fulfilled.
The group said it had met Education Secretary Angela Constance on Tuesday to discuss the issue.
But it claimed Ms Constance had been "unable to answer basic questions" about how she planned to ensure the childcare pledge was met.
The Scottish government said the figures estimated by Fair Funding for Our Kids assumed that "nothing will change between now and 2020 to deliver this increase in funded hours and fail to take account of Scotland's 5,500 childminders."
A spokeswoman said: "They also assume that doubling the hours of free childcare available will mean that we will need to double the number of childcare places.
"This is not true. We can reassure parents that preparations are well underway to deliver this massive expansion of 1,140 hours and ensure a place for every eligible child."
She said delivery of the pledge would cost about £800m and result in a significant increase in the early years workforce, and said the government was working with councils to plan for a "significant infrastructure expansion" to meet the increased demand.
Council nurseries, private nurseries and childminders currently provide the government-funded childcare that all three and four-year-olds and some vulnerable two-year-olds already receive.
Jenny Gorevan, of Fair Funding For Our Kids (Glasgow), said an estimated one in five youngsters was missing out on the current entitlement and added: "How will the first minister deliver this new, bigger promise if she cannot even give children what they are entitled to now?"
She added: "We added up all the nursery places in Scotland. If every single place was used to meet the first minister's 2020 promise there would still be a shortfall of around 26,000.
"The most basic sum tells you the 2020 promise needs a minimum of 650 new nurseries and 3,250 new nursery staff from nowhere within four years.
"That is before you factor in variations in demand, staff retirement, geographical spread, parents wanting to pay for two-year-olds not eligible for a free place and so on. The real numbers are likely to be much, much higher."
Ms Gorevan was speaking as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new best practice standard for childminders to ensure children are left "in the best possible hands".
While all childminders have to be registered and inspected, they do not have to have any qualifications to gain registration.
But in future it is expected the new training and induction course, which will be developed with the Care Inspectorate, will be completed by childminders before they register.
Ms Sturgeon said: "Childminders play a vital role in children's development, which helps to reduce social inequality and close the attainment gap.
"They will be central to our ambitions for a massive expansion of early learning and childcare in the years to come."
The first minister, who visited a childminder in Edinburgh, added: "As recently highlighted, well-trained, supported and suitably qualified staff are fundamental to improving quality and have a key role in addressing our most entrenched problems of poverty, poor health and poor attainment.
"These new standards will help drive up quality and ensure parents can rest assured that their children are in the best possible hands."
The S&P 500 added 1.5 points to close at 2,041. The Dow Jones, which reached a record high last Thursday, rose 13 points to close at 17,647.
The technology focused Nasdaq index fell 18 points to close at 4,671, hurt by a 1.5% loss for shares in Amazon.
Shares in Baker Hughes jumped 8% after it agreed to a takeover deal from rival oil services firm Halliburton.
And another big winner was Allergan, whose shares rose almost 5% after it agreed to a takeover from rival Actavis.
Dreamworks Animation saw the most spectacular fall on the Nasdaq, plunging 14% on reports that a takeover by toy maker Hasbro might have run into problems.
All of that deal making news helped boost investor confidence, which had been dented by news earlier on Monday that Japan had fallen into recession.
There was also a warning from UK prime minister David Cameron about the health of the global economy.
In an article in the Guardian, Mr Cameron said "red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy".
"It shows the strength of the overall market that you could have this recession news out of Japan, and yet have the market inch upwards," said Eric Kuby, chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management Corp in Chicago.
In July the minister said there would be no change to funding in 2016/17.
Guarantees were being sought by students after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
Mr Swinney also urged the UK government to "guarantee their [students] right to stay here during their studies and work here after their studies".
He announced the funding pledge during his keynote address to the Glasgow conference, attended by 3,000 delegates.
The MSP said: "We have already confirmed tuition fee funding to support EU students studying here, or preparing to start this year.
"Now, we will extend that guarantee to those starting next year in 2017/18.
"And, unlike Labour and the Tories, that's tuition-free education we are guaranteeing - not the massive fees they impose on students wherever they come from."
He added: "We will guarantee their funding. But what I demand is that the Tory-Brexit government guarantee their right to stay here during the studies and work here after their studies.
"They are not cards to be played. They are human beings."
Education was a strong theme in Mr Swinney's speech.
He said his task to "close the attainment gap for our poorest pupils" was simple.
Mr Swinney added: "And our ambition is equally straightforward: we will make significant progress in closing the gap within the next parliament and substantially eliminate it within a decade.
"It may be a simple objective. It may be a straightforward aim. But it will not be easy. We do not underestimate the scale of our ambition."
He also spoke about the desire to "re-invigorate local government" by "reconnecting it with communities".
A review is already under way on the role of councils in the delivery of education.
Mr Swinney will now review the relationships between local authorities and health boards.
He said: "We aim to achieve nothing less than to transform our democratic landscape, protect and renew public services and refresh the relationship between citizens, communities and councils."
"We do this not because it is radical - and it is - but because we believe it is right.
"We do it not because it is easy - it's not - but because it is in the national interest.
"We believe that national interest lies in placing power in the people of this country's hands. It is why I believe in independence."
A mix of light rail, trams, improved trains and faster buses is expected by 2020 in Cardiff and the valleys.
Opposition politicians welcomed the announcement by the Welsh government.
But they said it needed to be well planned and affordable, and said more details were needed about the route.
The metro is in addition to planned rail electrification and will run as a "not-for-dividend" part of the next all-Wales rail franchise from 2018.
Economy Minister Edwina Hart has tasked rail and business experts to finalise plans before work starts in 2017.
She said she wanted it to be a blueprint for transport in other parts of Wales.
Conservative Shadow Minister for Business, Enterprise and Transport William Graham AM welcomed the announcement, but stressed the importance of its delivery.
"It is vital the project is delivered on budget and on time where schemes like the one in Edinburgh have notably failed," he said.
"I do have some concerns that we are seemingly no closer to learning what type of rolling stock the scheme will employ, or any significant detail surrounding the route.
"It is also important that the network is attractive to a range of public transport users."
He said the metro's route must be well planned and affordable if it was to become a "viable alternative" to cars for Cardiff's commuters.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies AM tweeted: "Ability of the metro to drive the economy of South Wales forward with a dynamic and integrated transport system should not be underestimated".
Plaid Cymru's economy and transport spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth AM said it was an exciting project that had to be "usable and affordable".
But he also called for transport spending to be spread around Wales as a whole, with a cheaper alternative to the £1bn M4 relief road freeing up more money.
"Whilst the metro is the right project for that region, the government must remember that other parts of Wales also need solutions," he said.
Welsh Liberal Democrats economy spokeswoman Eluned Parrott AM said people still wanted a "clear idea" of what the metro map would look like and she was frustrated by a lack of definitive detail despite three years of reports.
"I want to see it transform our communities and bring prosperity, that we're desperate to see especially at the top end of the Valleys where people feel they're so badly disconnected, and the east of Cardiff where a bus can take an hour to get from the suburbs to the city centre."
Mrs Hart said the wider map would be looked at by the autumn and the Welsh government was going out to the market to see what it could offer for the money available.
Angela Merkel was criticised for appearing to be unsympathetic when Reem Sahwil described what her life was like under threat of deportation.
She had told the teenager that not all migrants can stay in Germany.
Reem told the BBC: "[Mrs Merkel] reacted like a politician. At least she gave an honest opinion."
"In a way she was right. Migration is a difficult topic. She is not the person who can make that decision in front of all the cameras and the people," she added.
The conversation took place during a government-organised forum for young people, which was filmed and then broadcast.
In the video, Reem tells Mrs Merkel that her family had been waiting four years to gain permanent residency in Germany.
They were told they would have to return to a camp in Lebanon imminently - only to receive a last-minute temporary German residency permit, she said.
"I would like to go to university," said Reem, in fluent German.
"It's really very hard to watch how other people can enjoy life and you yourself can't. I don't know what my future will bring."
Mrs Merkel replied that "politics can be tough", adding: "You are an extremely nice person but you also know that there are thousands and thousands of people in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon."
Germany could not manage if all of them wanted to move there, she said.
When Reem began to cry, Mrs Merkel went over to her and began stroking her on the back and telling her she had done well to highlight the difficulties facing refugees in Germany.
In an interview with BBC Newshour, Reem said she felt genuine "empathy" from the chancellor.
"I just sensed even though she is politician she has feelings and she showed them," she added.
The teenager said she spoke with Mrs Merkel because she thought she might help her.
Within hours of the video being broadcast, the term #Merkelstreichelt (Merkel strokes) trended on Twitter.
Some social media users complained that Mrs Merkel had "petted" the girl and failed to show enough sensitivity, although others defended the leader's reaction.
Germany says it expects 400,000 asylum applications by the end of 2015 - more than double the amount it received in 2014.
The right-wing Pegida group has marched against what it calls the Islamisation of Germany, and the country's newest political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has called for tighter immigration control.
"The mistakes in the government's refugee policies can't be patted away," Katrin Goering-Eckardt, a Green Party MP, said after the broadcast went out.
Documents and computer equipment were seized from the Mossack Fonseca office, officials said on Twitter.
The attorney general's office said the Mossack Fonseca sign had been removed a day earlier and quoted an employee as saying the firm was moving.
The leak showed how some wealthy people use offshore companies to evade tax.
The raid was overseen by El Salvador's Attorney General Douglas Melendez.
Mossack Fonseca's El Salvador branch was able to provide "back office" functions for the firm's clients all over the world, according to a document posted on Twitter by the attorney general's office.
Local news website El Faro reported (in Spanish) that Salvadoreans had used Mossack Fonseca to buy property in the country without declaring the purchases to the Salvadorean authorities.
The firm has denied it has done anything wrong and says the information is being presented out of context.
Elsewhere:
According to TMZ, which claims it's seen the pictures, the images have been uploaded to several porn sites.
The entertainment website alleges they were originally sent by the DJ to a number of women.
Newsbeat hasn't seen any naked photos of the 31-year-old and Calvin's people told us they aren't commenting.
The DJ, who's the new face of Armani underwear, recently posed for a photo shoot wearing nothing except a pair of tight pants.
Newsbeat has seen black and white pixelated pictures posted online, in which it is claimed the star is naked.
But it's not clear if these are genuine or if they are professional pictures edited to suggest he's not wearing underwear.
Last year, Forbes magazine estimated the DJ, who is the richest in the world, earned around £40m.
In January he signed a three-year deal to hold residencies at three of their Las Vegas venues and become their music consultant.
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Shops selling alcohol are closed until Friday, while some 350 bars will shut early on Wednesday and Thursday.
The FA has expressed "serious concerns" about security after clashes between England and Russia supporters last week.
Supt Steve Furnham, the Welsh Police Forces' lead for Euro 2016, told BBC Wales the alcohol ban was "very difficult to police".
Emergency services were called to the scene at Powrie at about 15:30 on Monday.
It is understood the collision involved a car and a lorry.
Traffic Scotland described the incident as "serious" and said local diversions were in place for small vehicles, with lorries currently being stacked at Tealing.
A referendum asks you to vote yes or no to a question or proposal.
The people of Scotland will be asked the simple question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Scotland has been part of the UK for more than 300 years, so the vote is a huge moment for the country.
For the first time, people aged 16 and 17 will be allowed to vote in the referendum. Usually in the UK the voting age is 18.
On Thursday 10 September, thousands of them gathered at a big debate in Glasgow, to ask some of the leaders some important questions.
All will become clear on 19 September, when it's expected that the result of the historic vote will be announced.
Campaigners who want to restore the pier to its former glory said it is a "day we never thought would happen" following the short ceremony in Ramsey.
The government handed over the keys to the Queen's Pier Restoration Trust (QPRT) who want to save the landmark.
It is estimated the overall restoration of the pier could cost around £1.5m.
The pier was closed in 1990 due to concerns about its safety.
Despite being unlocked for the day, the pier will remain out of bounds to the public.
The 0.7 km (0.43 mi)-long structure was built for the Isle of Man Harbour Board for around £45,000 and opened in 1886.
A QPRT spokesman said the next stage of their campaign will see a survey undertaken before a £60,000 project gets underway to restore the first of 55 bays.
Tom Durrant from the Trust said: "Each of the subsequent bays could cost £25,000 each."
In 2011, Tynwald approved £1.7m to stabilise and protect the Queen's Pier on the north coast of the island.
Thousands of tonnes of steel reinforcement were used to secure the structure and stop potentially hazardous debris falling into the sea.
Mr Durrant from the Trust said campaigners said the pier is "as important to the Isle of Man as the Laxey Wheel".
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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has risen to national prominence as one the country's leading conservatives.
Mr Wall has become a frequent foil of Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and his recently elected Liberal government.
The largely rural province is seen as one of last conservative strongholds in Canada.
The Saskatchewan Party won a clear election, with victories in 48 out of 61 constituencies confirmed, according to the CBC. The party is on track win three more.
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Cam Broten has won 10 seats, a slight improvement after the party suffered major losses in the 2011 elections.
During the campaign, Mr Broten criticised Mr Wall's government for running a deficit.
Mr Wall campaigned on his record and promised bring more jobs to the province.
In a surprising upset, neighbouring province Alberta elected the left-leaning NDP last year, ousting the conservatives after years in power.
Failing oil prices and a strong US dollar have hurt the Canadian economy. Alberta - a hub of the Canadian oil industry - has been hard hit.
However, with strong agriculture and mining sectors, Saskatchewan weathered the downturn better than Alberta.
Mr Wall remains popular and the province's unemployment rate is low, compared to the rest of the country.
Barbie was bitten on Monday night by Falco, a German shepherd, on a private lane, and was put down due to the extent of her injuries.
Falco's operational licence has been removed while the incident is investigated, Lincolnshire Police said.
The suspension was "normal practice" and was "not a pre-judgement of the circumstances", it said.
No action has been taken against Falco's handler Mick Judge, who the force said was "very upset" by the incident.
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Barbie's owner Charles Giermak described Monday's attack, near Fishtoft, Boston, as a "horrible sight".
He said the other dog came out of the darkness and shook three-year-old Barbie "like a rag doll".
Mr Giermak, who was out walking with Barbie and her daughter Candy, said: "There was no barking, no growling - nothing - it just attacked."
He said the attack could have been prevented if the police dog had been wearing a muzzle.
In what can only be described as a back-handed compliment, the NYT declared in a recent style article that its neighbour to the north was no longer a "frozen cultural wasteland populated with hopelessly unstylish citizens".
The reason for Canada's sudden cultural cache? The Times mentions film and music idols, fashion designers and YouTubers, but the star of the show seems to be new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The "6-foot-2 self-described feminist... has assumed the role of world leader with a heart," reckons the paper.
But the Times is not exactly thought of as being at the cutting edge of popular culture. The Grey Lady, as the paper is affectionately known, is even mocked by a dedicated spoof Twitter account for arriving consistently late to the zeitgeist.
And Canadians who tweet (those left who haven't moved on to more hip social networks, presumably) have been sending the paper (and themselves) up over its ever-so-slightly patronising article.
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Sadiq Khan claimed the top job after beating Conservative Zac Goldsmith, winning 57% of the votes once first and second preferences were counted.
On the Assembly, 12 seats went to Labour, while the Tories now have eight having lost one to Labour.
The Green Party had the third most votes and have two seats in the Assembly, as do UKIP.
The Lib Dems claimed the last remaining seat.
Mr Khan, who becomes the city's first Muslim mayor, led Mr Goldsmith by 44.2% to 35.6% after first votes were counted.
After second votes were counted, he had 1,310,143 votes compared with Mr Goldsmith's 994,614. His tally gave him the largest personal mandate of any politician in UK history.
His victory ended eight years of Conservative control of City Hall.
The boroughs taken by Labour are Barnet and Camden, Brent and Harrow, City and East, Ealing and Hillingdon, Enfield and Haringey, Greenwich and Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark, Merton and Wandsworth and North East.
The Conservatives held Bexley and Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, Havering and Redbridge, South West and West Central.
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First preference votes for Sadiq Khan
35% First preference votes for Zac Goldsmith
43% Of voters chose Labour for London Assembly members
45% Voter turnout, an increase of 7% on 2012
9 Constituencies which went to Labour
Labour's Leonie Cooper, who gained Merton and Wandsworth from the Tories, said: "It's been a long campaign but we finally won, and we're absolutely delighted as you can imagine."
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Voters were asked to choose first and second preferences for mayor, and two types of London Assembly member - one for their area and one for the city.
Of the votes for the city, UKIP gained two seats while both the Conservatives and Lib Dems lost one each.
The 11 members voted in are:
The best performing of the smaller parties was the Women's Equality Party.
Party leader Sophie Walker said Mr Khan would have to focus on the gender pay gap in London.
"We opened our doors to membership 10 months ago and look where we are now. We are here for good.
"We set ourselves up to make real change, and to force the other parties to make real change."
The mayor has control over four major policy areas in London - transport, policing, environment and housing and planning.
Along with the mayor, the London Assembly make up the Greater London Authority.
The London Assembly scrutinises the mayor's policies and it must be consulted over the Greater London Authority budget.
It can reject mayoral policies or amend the draft budget if two-thirds of its members agree to do so.
Find out more about who stood in the London elections.
But for seven politicians it was a chance to convince the nation that they were worthy of their vote come May's general election.
ITV's The Leaders Debate was a two-hour marathon - that if the broadcasters were to be believed - promised even more drama than the channel's usual 8pm hosts, Emmerdale.
So what did we learn and did it live up to the hype?
The seven fluorescent blue podiums left some viewers wondering if they were witnessing the return of one of our most iconic quiz shows.
And seemingly acutely aware of her set dressings, host and chief moderator Julie Etchingham did her best to channel her inner Anne Robinson.
Donning a sharp suit 17-year-old baby-faced assassin Jonny Tudor was arguably the real winner of the night.
The politics student asked the first of four questions from the audience and was then constantly name checked by the panel of leaders.
"I initially felt quite taken aback about being on first name terms with the prime minister, and that was quite exciting for me," he said.
But despite Jonny's obvious charms, the lady to his side left many wondering whether they were actually witnessing the most unromantic date in history.
Not to be outdone by Jonny - Victoria Prosser interrupted Prime Minister David Cameron as he tried to answer a question on prospects for young people.
The psychology graduate, who was asked to leave after her verbal salvo, told reporters: "My cause is speaking the truth and making sure as many people as possible start questioning people at the top, the 1%, who are not working in our best interests."
While we were promised drama on stage, it was audience that kept on giving.
In 2010 Nick Clegg took the political world by storm by addressing audience members by their first name.
This time round Labour party leader Ed Miliband made a habit of eyeballing the camera….to mixed reviews.
Despite wall-to-wall pre-debate build-up, overnight figures suggest coverage hadn't reached saturation point.
The programme averaged around 7m viewers, peaking at 7.4m.
That's somewhat down on the 9.4m that watched Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron lock horns in 2010, but a decent return for the seven-way verbal joust.
It also accounted for over 90% of all TV-related chat on Twitter, with around 1.5m tweets sent.
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Lawro's opponent for this week's Premier League fixtures is actor James McAvoy, star of new film 'Split'.
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McAvoy is a Celtic fan and says he grew up supporting them for many reasons.
"I think your choice of football club quite often is not your choice," he told BBC Sport. "It is thrust upon you by your family, wherever you grew up, or sometimes even your religion, so it is a kind of environmental thing that you just soak up.
"That is why I am a Celtic fan but why I enjoy being a Celtic fan is different and I have much more power over that.
"In London, I keep an eye on Arsenal but I am not really an Arsenal fan. I am more of a plastic Gooner just because I used to live two doors away from the East Stand when they played at Highbury.
"That was amazing. When I couldn't get tickets, which was quite often, I would be able to watch the game on TV, open the windows and turn the sound down, and just have the roar of the crowd in the background."
You can make your Premier League predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got four correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 70 points.
He beat UFC star Michael Bisping, who got three correct results, with no perfect scores, for a total of 30 points.
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Liverpool v Swansea (12:30 GMT)
Liverpool have lost some of their attacking lustre in recent weeks so it is important for them to have Philippe Coutinho back in action, and getting sharper with each game he plays.
I just wonder if the Reds' form has tailed off a bit because Jurgen Klopp has been changing his team around for various cup games - it might help if he sticks with a team that is going to play regularly for the next couple of weeks.
Swansea have made a couple of signings since Paul Clement's first game in charge - Saturday's 4-0 home defeat by Arsenal.
Norwich left-back Martin Olsson and Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll have both come in but Clement will need to do more than that to solve his side's defensive issues.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
James McAvoy's prediction: 1-0
Bournemouth v Watford
Watford have not won any of their last six league games, and they have not signed anyone in the transfer window yet to try to arrest their slump in form.
Bournemouth's recent form is better than the Hornets, but they are an inconsistent side. Hull beat them last time out and their defence is not exactly reliable.
This is a hard one to call but Watford are struggling at the moment, and the Cherries will create chances against them.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-1
Crystal Palace v Everton
Everton have got energy and enthusiasm in their team with youngsters like Mason Holgate and Tom Davies in their line-up, and they have been getting stuck into teams.
Sam Allardyce is yet to win a league game as Crystal Palace boss after three attempts and I don't think it will be easy for him here either.
Allardyce signed Jeffrey Schlupp from Leicester this week and it is safe to say he will not be the last new face to arrive at Selhurst Park before the January transfer window closes.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 0-0
Middlesbrough v West Ham
Middlesbrough have bolstered their attacking options by signing Patrick Bamford. They are in more danger of being dragged into the relegation dog-fight than West Ham, but both clubs have a bit of breathing space over the bottom four.
A point would probably suit them and the Hammers because it will keep them ticking over.
Even if West Ham lose Dimitri Payet, as looks likely now they are saying he can leave for the right price, I think they will be fine.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 0-2
Stoke v Man Utd
I don't see the issue with Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho going a little bit route one as his side came back to earn a point against Liverpool last weekend.
If you have got Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marouane Fellaini, who are both really good in the air, then you use them to get your team a goal.
Mourinho is the manager, and too often managers are criticised for not having a 'Plan B'. He had one, and he used it because 'Plan A' was not working.
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This is another tough game for United, though.
Stoke were one of the teams to frustrate them at Old Trafford before Christmas when they were drawing a lot of home games, and I can see them sharing the points again on Saturday.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 1-1
West Brom v Sunderland
I watched Sunderland lose to Burnley in the FA Cup on Tuesday and it is clear that Black Cats boss David Moyes lacks quantity and quality in his squad - injuries have left him very short.
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I actually think Sunderland are almost at the point where the manager has a conversation with the chairman about whether he wants him to start preparing for next season in the Championship.
That sounds a bit defeatist because there are still loads of points to play for but with all those injuries, and the fact Moyes has not been given any money to bring in new players, I do not see them getting out of trouble.
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West Brom are always tough opponents and carry a threat from set-pieces. Having watched what Sunderland are like at the back, I cannot see them holding out.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-1
Man City v Tottenham (17:30 GMT)
Tottenham are flying right now and I don't think Jan Vertonghen's injury will affect them because in Kevin Wimmer and Ben Davies they have got a couple of potential replacements at the back.
I like their 3-5-2 formation because it really suits their players and you could argue that, at the moment, they are the best team in the league.
I would expect some improvement from Manchester City after last week's heavy defeat against Everton but they are struggling defensively and this Spurs team will definitely create chances against them too.
Put it this way, I can see there being a few goals at both ends.
There has been a lot of debate about City's £50m defender John Stones of late.
Stones is a really good footballer who is a bit unlucky that Nicolas Otamendi is his centre-back partner, and City's full-backs are not good enough.
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But Stones has got to start making good defensive decisions himself. He needs to become a defender who can manage the game, because City do not have one at the moment.
Lawro's prediction: 2-2
James McAvoy's prediction: I am looking for a thriller. 3-3
Southampton v Leicester (12:00 GMT)
Both of these teams are in the bottom eight when they would expect to be a lot higher up the table.
Southampton have lost their last four league games, and it seems their manager Claude Puel swaps his side around more than anyone. His rotation policy is not working.
Meanwhile, Leicester's form remains completely up and down.
The Foxes still have not won away from home, and do not look anything like the team they were last season. I do not see that changing here.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-1
Arsenal v Burnley (14:15 GMT)
Burnley are 10th despite taking only one point from nine away league games this season.
They gave Arsenal a good game at Turf Moor and the Gunners only grabbed a winner in injury time.
I do not see this game being anything like as close, such is the difference between Burnley at home and Burnley away.
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The Clarets have not really been ripped apart since West Brom beat them 4-0 in November.
They will be competitive and difficult to play against at Emirates Stadium, but they just don't make enough chances to win games on the road.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
James McAvoy's prediction: I still keep an eye on Arsenal, and they just surprise you every now and again with the most ridiculous result. I am going to be positive here, though, and say they will take Burnley apart. 3-0
Chelsea v Hull City (16:30 GMT)
Hull have a battle on their hands to keep their best players as well as stay up - Jake Livermore and Robert Snodgrass are both being linked with moves away.
It appears new manager Marco Silva will get any money he raises from sales to spend on new players, but who is he going to attract to Hull in their predicament?
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By the looks of things, Diego Costa will be back in the team on Sunday and I think Blues boss Antonio Conte has done quite well with the way he has handled him, because it has taken him more than six months to have his first bust-up.
The Tigers have won two of their last three games but it is a step too far to think they can challenge the leaders at Stamford Bridge.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-0
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 130 points (week 13 v Tim Vine)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
Marcell Seeley, 34, was found dead in his ground floor flat at Dingwell Park in Taghnaven, at about lunchtime on Tuesday.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Craigavon on Wednesday.
It is understood Mr Seeley's body had been in the flat for a number of days and that his mother discovered him.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw anything unusual in the Dingwell Park area in recent days to contact them.
MP Damien Collins says British Cycling have been unable to deliver the relevant paperwork, though all parties deny any wrongdoing.
Sir Dave Brailsford told the committee the package contained asthma medicine.
"The apparent lack of knowledge of so many in the support staff did not chime with my own experiences," Cooke said.
Wiggins announced his retirement on Wednesday but the contents of the package given to him at the end of a race in France in 2011 are the subject of a UKAD probe into alleged "wrongdoing".
Team Sky principal Brailsford told a Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee last week that the package contained fluimucil, an over-the-counter decongestant available relatively cheaply in France.
Writing in the Guardian, 2008 Olympic road race gold medal winner Cooke says the explanations offered do not adequately explain why Team Sky went to such expense to have the drug delivered by British women's coach Simon Cope.
"At the end of the three hours we were informed by Brailsford that the mysterious content of the jiffy bag was a £10 'decongestant' that was available over the counter in any of eight pharmacies located within 5km of where the team bus was parked in France," Cooke said.
"It was an answer that raised even more questions than we had before, especially now we know Simon Cope spent two days travelling to deliver it."
Cooke, who has spoken out about alleged sexism at British Cycling, also raised concerns about why Cope, a former women's coach at the governing body, was used to transport the package.
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"Why did the top management deem it acceptable to use the publicly funded national women's team road manager, Simon Cope, in the role of a basic courier?" she said.
"As the saga developed this year, Cope came up with information entirely new and disturbing to me. In an interview he said that in 2011 he had 'been working with Sky a lot' and been running training camps with Brad.
"Throughout early 2011 I was attempting to get Cope to run a single training camp for the women riders he was meant to be managing.
"Eventually I got Cope to agree to a camp to prepare for the world championships in Copenhagen and we both proposed it to Brailsford and (former technical director Shane) Sutton - the same pair who apparently think it fine to fly a courier with a £10 med 1,000 miles across Europe.
"I have the email and Sutton's response turning down the training camp suggestion. Nothing was put in its place and so the women went to another world championships without having conducted a single team camp.
Needless to say our team preparation was insufficient."
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Devon and Cornwall Police said officers and the Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team were called to the beach in Dawlish Warren at about 09:10 GMT.
A 200m (655ft) cordon was put in place to keep people away from the area.
Petty Officer Mark Cocking from the Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team said it was better to be safe than sorry.
He said: "We always work along the lines 'Don't touch an item if you suspect it, contact police or coastguard'."
Analysis by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) found there has been a sharp drop in confidence in the third sector.
It called on the Scottish government and councils to help the sector by awarding fairer funding packages.
The Scottish government wants a three-year funding cycle to give charities greater stability.
However, councils have said that until their income is guaranteed three years in advance, they cannot plan ahead.
The SCVO report found that almost half (47%) of charities saw a reduced turnover last year.
Most of those which did record growth were large organisations with an annual turnover of more than £500,000.
It highlighted concerns that many organisations are unable to plan ahead because funding is allocated on a short-term basis.
Yet almost three quarters of charities (72%) expect demand for their services to increase in 2017.
John Downie, director of public affairs at SCVO, said: "Our research clearly shows that Scotland's third sector has given up on the idea of growth and has gone into survival mode.
"Organisations feel they will have to do more with less as demand for services increases at a time where funding streams are squeezed.
"There is a strong expectation of growing competition to secure unstable hand-to-mouth funding and this is hampering the sector's ability to develop."
The main findings of the report include:
Mr Downie added: "Given the relatively small amounts of money the sector relies on, an increase in funding is not necessarily required to improve things.
"We know it's possible to provide more stability and security to third sector bodies with more straightforward funding processes and three or five year awards.
"SCVO has been calling for funders to commit to long-term funding for decades. It's time to move on from empty promises to actual solutions."
A spokesman for the Scottish government said it was supporting Scotland's "strong and dynamic third sector".
He said: "We have protected core funding for the sector of £24.5m next year, an investment in prosperity and social cohesion across the country.
"We will continue to work in partnership with the sector to ensure our support continues to be effective. We will continue to work in partnership with the sector to ensure our support continues to be effective.
"Last week, for the first time, we announced three year rolling funding from our Equalities budget. That will give organisations more financial security and enable better planning for the longer term."
Mazembe were held to a 0-0 draw by visiting Confederation Cup holders Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia on Sunday in the second leg of their semi-final to make it 1-1 on aggregate.
The 2015 African Champions League winners progress thanks to the goal scored in the first leg by Ivorian Roger Assale in Tunisia.
Mouloudia Bejaia progressed after they earned a 1-1 draw in Morocco against FUS Rabat after a goalless first leg.
Defender Mohammed Nahiri scored his fifth of the goal the campaign for Rabat after 73 minutes when he scrambled the ball home from close range.
Rabat were on the verge qualifying for the finals when they failed to deal with a free-kick into their area and Faouzi Rahal bundled the ball over the line for the crucial away goal.
The final will be held over two legs in October and November.
"We won't stop! We know everything about you," read one tweet, along with the names and phone numbers of military staff.
Another social media post shows people in uniform in an office, with the picture apparently taken by webcam.
Central Command is part of the US military responsible for regions of the world where combat operations may take place - in this case 20 countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues its CyberJihad," says another tweet.
Some of the documents published appear to relate to foreign policy for China and North Korea.
They also say that Islamic State, which also goes by the name ISIS, has infiltrated "networks and personal devices".
It also appears that a YouTube site associated with Central Command was also hijacked - with a picture of a man wearing a scarf and the phrase "I love you Isis" appearing at the top of the page.
A Pentagon official has said the hacking of the U.S. Central Command Twitter feed was an embarrassment but did not appear to be a security threat.
Both the Twitter and YouTube accounts have now been suspended.
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Speaking to reporters he reiterated Moscow's view that the opposition may have carried out last month's deadly attack in the Damascus suburbs.
President Bashar al-Assad has warned it could take about a year to destroy Syria's chemical stockpiles.
The disarmament plan was unveiled by the US and Russia last weekend.
The West wants the deal enshrined in a UN resolution backed by the threat of military force, but Russia - Syria's ally - objects.
Addressing a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Russia's north-western Novgorod region, Mr Putin pointed out that Syria had already made steps to join the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
"These are practical steps which the Syrian government has already made," he said.
"Whether we will manage to see everything through, I cannot say 100%. But everything that we have seen up to now, in recent days, inspires confidence that this is possible and that it will be done."
President Putin insisted it was not proven that the Syrian government was behind the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta that killed hundreds of people in August.
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"It is clear that (chemical) arms were used... it's just not clear who did it," he said, adding: "We have every reason to believe that it was a provocation."
Damascus - backed by Moscow - has insisted that rebel forces carried out last month's attack.
In an earlier interview with Fox News, Mr Assad said the issue of destroying Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons was "a very complicated operation, technically".
"And it needs a lot of money, some estimates (say) about a billion [dollars].
"So it depends, you have to ask the experts what they mean by quickly. It has a certain schedule. It needs a year, or maybe a little bit more."
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that President Assad was "very serious" about the disarmament plan.
After talks in Syria, he said Damascus would fulfil its commitment to eliminate its chemical weapons by mid-2014.
By Paul WoodBBC News, Turkish-Syrian border
The fighting over Azaz seems to have evolved accidentally, rather than having been part of a long-planned offensive. Still, there is a long record of skirmishing between jihadi militias and FSA brigades for control of the border crossings into Turkey (along with all the lucrative income from smuggling and stealing from aid shipments). Tensions between the two groups have been steadily escalating.
What does this mean for the Syrian revolution? In the long term, the United States and other Western governments might be more willing to support the Free Syrian Army if they see real distance between it and the jihadis. In the short term, if the rebels are fighting each other, they are not fighting the regime.
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Meanwhile, members of the world's chemical weapons watchdog are due to meet on Sunday to discuss the first steps in securing and destroying the Syrian arsenal, AP news agency reported.
Michael Luhan, spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said the group's executive council would debate the US-Russian plan.
In another development, evidence has emerged of further infighting among rebel groups in Syria.
In the town of Azaz, near the Turkish border, jihadists from the al-Qaeda-linked group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), reportedly clashed with fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Activists said that Isis fighters had overrun the town in what is believed to be one of the biggest confrontations so far between the jihadists and the FSA.
The UK-based pro-opposition group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes erupted after a failed attempt to kidnap a German doctor working in the area.
Turkey closed one of its border gates near Azaz in response to the fighting, Reuters reported.
More than 100,000 people have been killed since Syria's civil war began in early 2011, according to the UN.
Millions have fled the country and millions more have been left homeless.
Weir, who earned 61 caps, announced his diagnosis to raise awareness of the condition for Global MND Awareness Day.
Speaking during a family holiday in New Zealand, Weir, 46, revealed plans to create a charitable foundation to help tackle the debilitating disease.
"I will devote my time towards assisting research... to help my fellow sufferers," he said.
MND - also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's Disease - is a progressive disease. It occurs when specialised nerve cells called motor neurons break down.
Former British & Irish Lion Weir, now an after-dinner speaker, said his health had become a source of concern.
''Over the past few months a number of friends and family have raised concerns surrounding my health," he said.
"I think then, that on this day set to help raise awareness of the condition, I should confirm that I too have Motor Neurone Disease. I should like to take this opportunity to thank the National Health Service in recognising then diagnosing this, as yet, incurable disease.
"I am currently on holiday in New Zealand with Kathy and the boys and when we return, I will devote my time towards assisting research and raising awareness and funds to help support fellow sufferers.
"There are plans in place to create a charitable foundation to help in any way we can and we will share these details with you after our family trip."
Scottish Rugby said in a statement: "Doddie gave distinguished service to the national team for 10 years and has been a terrific ambassador for the sport.
"He is a larger-than-life character and Scottish Rugby will look to support him and the charity initiative he has described."
His former Scotland team-mate Scott Hastings, whose mother-in-law died from the illness in recent years, said he was "in tears" when Weir phoned to tell him about his condition a few weeks ago.
"It is an awful, cruel disease," Hastings told BBC Radio Scotland. "But Doddie, like the rest of his life, has approached everything with a real relish to challenge the disease.
"He's one of the great characters of Scottish rugby."
Craig Stockton, chief executive of MND Scotland, spoke of his sadness at learning of Weir's condition.
"This is devastating news for anyone but especially for someone with a young family and for whom physical fitness has been such an important part of his life," he said.
"It is very brave of him to come forward publicly to share his diagnosis and raise awareness of the illness. MND Scotland will be here to support him and his family and all those affected by MND in Scotland."
Wilfred Isaacs died at Chubbards Cross caravan site in Ilton following a shooting incident.
Charlie Broadway, 23, and William (Billy) Broadway, 18, from Ilton, were charged with murder, attempted murder and possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Both men remain in custody and are due before Yeovil magistrates on Monday.
Five others arrested in connection with the shooting are being questioned by police.
Det Supt Andy Bevan said: "This has been a fast-paced and wide-ranging investigation and I would like to again thank the local communities affected for their patience and support.
"We will continue to have a visible police presence at Chubbards Cross caravan site as this ongoing, complex investigation continues."
He added that forensics teams remained on site and that it would remain closed for the next few days.
Police are still looking for the firearm used in the death, which they believe is a shotgun.
The solar flare - a sudden release of radiation - peaked at 1705 BST on Monday, and was associated with a huge burst of matter.
When these eruptions reach Earth, they can interfere with electronic systems in satellites and those on the ground.
Nasa said this solar explosion - known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - was not directed at Earth, but it could pass several US spacecraft.
The event on Monday was classified as an "X-class" flare - the most intense type - with a designation of X2.8 (higher numbers denote a stronger flare). It surpassed an X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 hours earlier.
They are the first X-class events to occur this year.
When intense enough, a flare can disturb the Earth's atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing - the radio blackout associated with this flare has since subsided.
CMEs can be even more disruptive because they can send billions of tonnes of solar particles into space. In those cases when very strong eruptions do reach Earth, the charged matter can blow out transformers in power grids.
The so-called Carrington Event of 1-2 September 1859 shorted telegraph wires, starting fires in North America and Europe, and caused bright aurorae (northern and southern lights) to be seen in Cuba and Hawaii.
The CME associated with this flare may pass the Stereo-B and Spitzer spacecraft. The operators of those science missions can choose to put their spacecraft into a "safe mode" to protect the electronics in onboard instruments from being tripped.
Increased numbers of flares are expected at the moment because the Sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is approaching a "high" of activity - known as a solar maximum.
Goode cited injury problems when calling time on his career soon after joining Irish from Wasps in the summer.
But, the 35-year-old signed a three-month contract with fellow Premiership strugglers Newcastle last week.
"Andy's motivation for joining Newcastle is certainly his own," Irish coach Glenn Delaney told BBC Sport.
Bottom-of-the-table Irish host Newcastle on Sunday in the Premiership and Goode could make his Falcons debut.
The former Leicester, Saracens and England three-quarter took advice from Irish's medical staff and his own physician before initially retiring.
"Andy has explained his position pretty clearly in that Dean Richards (Newcastle director of rugby) is the only coach he would come out of retirement for," added Delaney, head of the London Irish's rugby operations.
"They've got a great affinity to each other that goes back a long time. I think Dean has probably leant on that relationship to get him to come (to Newcastle)."
Irish returned to the bottom of the Premiership on Saturday after letting a 14-6 half-time lead slip at Gloucester.
Delaney says Goode's possible Newcastle bow next weekend will not be a distraction.
"It's not something we're particularly concerning ourselves with," he said. "All we can worry about is what we're doing."
Newcastle moved above the Exiles at the weekend after picking up their first win of the season against Bath.
Former Fifa and Interpol adviser Chris Eaton says only "naive or careless players" will be caught.
The BBC obtained the figures from the Gambling Commission's Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU).
It comes as former Sutton goalkeeper Wayne Shaw is investigated.
Shaw, who resigned from the club on Tuesday, was seen to eat a pie on the bench during Monday's FA Cup defeat by Arsenal, after a bookmaker offered odds of 8-1 that he would do so on camera.
The Gambling Commission and Football Association are now investigating if there was a breach of betting regulations.
Following a Freedom of Information request, the SBIU said it received 53 alerts between 1 August 2014 and 23 December 2016, alleging footballers placed bets on matches.
That figure relates to uncorroborated reports, rather than confirmed instances of rule breaches.
But the Commission also told the BBC that it was looking into more alleged breaches it had identified through its own intelligence work.
The rule came into force on 1 August 2014 as an anti-corruption measure. It applies to anyone involved in football at that level - not just players.
Just a handful of players and officials have been sanctioned to date, but the figures obtained by BBC Sport reveal many more could face punishment.
Eaton said the SBIU alerts primarily concern players that use their own name and account.
They did not include:
"It is the best the Commission can do within its regulatory embrace," Eaton told the BBC. "But it is the tip of an iceberg that stretches well beyond the horizons of the Commission.
"In the absence of a global regulatory model, only naive or careless players will be caught in a tiny national net that is swamped in the massive global web that is sport betting."
The SBIU was established in 2012 under the umbrella of the Gambling Commission. The Commission, which regulates commercial gambling in Great Britain, said the 53 alleged offences relate to betting on any football matches, and are not necessarily specific to a player betting on their own team or a match they were involved in.
However, it refused to divulge any more information on these cases, arguing that to do so could impede its investigations.
Between October and December 2016, 38% of reports on betting activity in sport received by the Commission were football related - the largest percentage - with tennis second on 37%.
The unit worked on the case concerning Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who received a one-match suspension for breaking Scottish Football Association rules on gambling.
The 34-year-old has also been charged with misconduct, with the Football Association alleging that the midfielder placed 1,260 bets in the past 10 years. He has admitted the charge and is awaiting a personal hearing.
It says it also supported the case involving Frome Town manager Nick Bunyard, who was given a three-year ban and fined £3,000 on 9 November, after placing 45 bets against his own teams.
Aside from the cases involving Barton, other high-profile players have also been found guilty, including:
Scottish League Two club Cowdenbeath have suspended defender Dean Brett after he admitted gambling on football matches, including betting against his own team. The 24-year-old is being investigated by the Scottish Football Association over the alleged 2,787 bets he placed.
Non-league players have also fallen foul of the rules. In March 2016, East Thurrock forward Lewis Smith was given a £23,000 fine and 17-month ban. In July, Ashton United striker Martin Pilkington was suspended for four years for a betting breach.
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Former Frome Town boss Bunyard told BBC Points West last November that the temptation to gamble on football was too great for some footballers.
He said: "Because betting culture in football is so rife, you get dragged along because everyone is doing it. You think: 'No-one else is getting caught, so why would I?'"
The previous rules outlined that participants were prohibited from betting on a match or competition in which they were involved that season, or could influence.
Under new guidelines, gambling on any worldwide football activity was prohibited, including betting on manager appointments and player transfers.
Darren Bailey, the FA's director of football governance and regulation, said: "This betting rule change to encompass all aspects of world football provides a simple, clear and straightforward message to all participants concerned, on where the line is drawn."
Former FA general secretary Alex Horne said at the time: "We are really proud of the integrity of the game in this country and it is really important people trust... what is happening on the pitch.
"We want to keep our message as simple as possible - and it cannot be more simple that, as a player, you cannot bet at all on football."
Many people expressed alarm on social media when the "Breaking News" logo flashed up 11 times during the show.
BBC News at Six and Ten editor Paul Royall said a "technical systems crash" caused the four-minute delay.
Edwards later tweeted a photo of a can of beer, saying he was "going to enjoy this little beauty" after the bulletin.
Some viewers used the #bbcnewsten Twitter hashtag to make light of the glitch.
Royall explained that the delay was due to a technical systems crash that happened seconds before the News at Ten was due to air, adding that "hats off" were due to Edwards.
"Director had to switch to back-up system ASAP", he said.
Viewers on BBC One were played saxophone music for part of the delay, while on iPlayer an announcer apologised for the glitch.
The BBC News Channel continued to broadcast Edwards live in the TV studio.
At 22:04 BST, Edwards wished viewers a good evening and said: "A few technical problems tonight for which we apologise".
Four hundred people gathered at the former RAF Swinderby near Lincoln in the early hours of Sunday.
People living nearby said they were kept up all night, and could still hear "thumping bass" while having breakfast.
But Lincolnshire Police defended the actions of officers, saying the unlicensed rave was dealt with as quickly as possible.
Lisa Whitehead, who lives nearby, said she was woken by the music which made it sound like the rave was "in her bedroom".
She said it continued through the night and could still be heard at eight o'clock in the morning.
Another resident thought it "ridiculous" the rave was allowed to continue when people using the village hall had to keep the windows closed so noise from inside did not annoy anyone.
Insp Phil Taylor from Lincolnshire Police said: "We are acutely aware of the disruption this caused to the local community and want residents to know we did all that we could to bring this event to a safe and peaceful end as swiftly and effectively as we could."
Five men, all in their 20s, were arrested and later bailed.
Three were held over for drug related offences, one for refusing to comply with police and another over an unrelated matter.
In 2014 the force was criticised for taking 15 hours to close down a rave on farmland at Dunsby, near Bourne.
On that occasion police said it was not safe to intervene due to the size of the event which attracted about 300 people.
Officials at the city's airport confirmed a plane carrying Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi had landed on Tuesday.
A government source told the Reuters news agency Mr Hadi would spend the festival of Eid al-Adha in Aden before flying to New York to address the UN.
He fled Aden in late March as Houthi rebels advanced on the city, triggering air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition.
In July, pro-government militiamen and soldiers drove the Houthis and allied army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of Aden with the help of coalition ground forces.
However, residents have complained that Aden has descended into chaos and lawlessness, with jihadist militants affiliated to al-Qaeda and Islamic State seen on the city's streets, and that the local authorities have been slow to restore services.
Security around Aden's airport was increased ahead of the president's return, with armoured vehicles reportedly surrounding the facility and checkpoints put in place.
"The return of his excellency the president to Aden comes after an absence that has lasted for six months amid the brutal aggression which has been carried out by the militias loyal to the Houthis and Saleh on the city of Aden," the Associated Press quoted a statement by Mr Hadi's office as saying.
The president was expected to meet members of the cabinet, local officials and military and security leaders in the coming days.
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Last week, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah returned to Aden with seven ministers to take up residence, and acknowledged the government faced major challenges.
The UN says almost 4,900 people, including more than 2,200 civilians, have been killed in fighting on the ground and air strikes since 26 March.
Earlier, medics said at least 20 people were killed when coalition warplanes bombed two buildings in the capital Sanaa, which the rebels overran a year ago.
The identity of the casualties was not clear. One security source saying they were mostly Houthis, but the rebel-controlled Saba news agency said they were civilians.
The Saudi defence ministry meanwhile said two soldiers had been reported missing after getting lost inside Yemeni territory. Evidence suggested they were being detained by rebel forces, it added.
The acknowledgement comes days after a man who identified himself as a captured Saudi soldier appeared on a pro-Houthi television channel and said he was being held with several comrades.
Since regaining control of Aden, forces loyal to President Hadi and coalition troops have advanced northwards towards Sanaa. However, their offensive is reported to have stalled in Marib province, east of the capital, in recent days.
Mr Swinney, who is also deputy first minister, was speaking as Holyrood debated his plans for next year.
After the debate, MSPs gave final approval to the 2015-16 budget by 64 votes to 53, with 3 abstentions.
Mr Swinney had told MSPs that frontline health spending would rise by £383m next year, up to more than £12bn.
This would include an extra £127m which had not previously been announced, he said.
In his statement to the Scottish Parliament, the minister challenged local authorities over teacher numbers, threatening to withhold extra funding if they were not prepared "to sign up to a clear commitment to protect teacher numbers".
Responding to Mr Swinney's statement, Scotland's largest teachers' union, the EIS, slammed the local authority group Cosla for its continuing refusal to sign up to a new agreement on maintaining teacher numbers.
General Secretary Larry Flanagan said: "It seems that, despite Cosla's repeated statements about its commitment to protect education, their objective is to slash education budgets and cut teacher numbers even further - with serious consequences for pupils across Scotland.
"Teacher numbers have already been, quite literally, decimated over the past decade in that there has been a near 10% reduction in the number of teachers working in our schools."
Mr Swinney told the Scottish Parliament: "The health of our population and the education of our young people are two of the most important responsibilities of government and they are at the top of our priorities."
Labour's finance spokeswoman Jackie Bailie said the extra health spending was as a result of the Barnett consequentials which resulted from extra spending in England.
She said: "There is not one penny more allocated to health than simply announcing what you would do with the remaining £127m consequentials."
On education, she said the finance secretary had not reached a deal with local authorities and had imposed a settlement.
Ms Baillie said: "The concordat, that he signed up to, now lies in tatters."
She said that one local authority had complained that the money offered by Mr Swinney would not even cover the advertising bill for new teachers.
Mr Swinney asked if Ms Baillie would encourage Labour councils to sign up to the agreement.
She said: "Our position is to maintain teacher numbers, the SNP promised to do just that, yet you have failed miserably.
"We now have almost 4,500 fewer teachers in Scotland today than when you took charge."
Tory economy spokesman Gavin Brown said: "The education of our children in Scotland is best served if all levels of government work together to achieve outcomes instead of using a budget speech as a platform for creating a turf war with Cosla."
Mr Brown said the three most significant changes from the draft budget were down to UK chancellor George Osborne.
He said money was flowing to health through Barnett consequentials, business rates increases were being capped at 2% and changes had been made to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) due to the actions of the Tory-led coalition at Westminster.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie says the context of the budget was one of an economy in recovery.
Employment was up, GDP was up and unemployment was down, he said.
Mr Rennie added: "That is due to a plan the SNP were against."
Other measures set out by Mr Swinney, which were not in the original budget included:
The Scottish government had already put forward plans to spend £4.5bn on infrastructure investment in 2015-16.
Investment of more than £390m should provide 6,000 new affordable homes, while more than £300m is to be spent extending free childcare to all three and four-year-olds and some vulnerable two-year-olds.
In addition, the Scottish government said £81m had been set aside to "mitigate against changes to housing benefit" which have been branded the "bedroom tax".
Further money is being made available to allow local authorities to continue the council tax freeze.
Joe O'Mahoney and Cerys Jones set up the Repair Cafe in Cathays after growing frustrated at the number of fixable items being thrown away.
The first event in April attracted dozens of people and saw 18 volunteers fix 43 items in four hours.
Monthly events are now planned and they also hope people will learn new skills.
The Repair Cafe movement began in Amsterdam in 2009 and has since spread around the world, including more than 30 registered groups in the UK.
Miss Jones got involved after answering a social media post from Mr O'Mahoney asking whether people would be interested if he set one up.
The pair organised the first event not knowing if anyone would turn up, but they were "overwhelmed" by the response.
Among the items fixed were clothes, bikes, irons and hair strengtheners, which were also safety tested.
"Our motivation is reducing what's sent to landfill, we're also really keen on bringing the community together," Miss Jones said.
"When you bring something, you get the option to learn a new skill so you can fix it yourself next time."
"Consumerism has gone a bit crazy and there's no requirement to be chucking things away when they could be fixed.
"It's quite different from our grandparents' generation, when things would be fixed out of necessity. We've lost all those skills."
About 38,000 tonnes of rubbish passed through Cardiff's waste centres in 2016-17.
Household waste which cannot be recycled in the city is no longer sent to landfill and instead goes to an incinerator, which deals with 172,000 tonnes of waste a year from five councils.
Miss Jones said people had been "chuffed to bits" with their newly-revived items.
If the success continues, Miss Jones hopes the event could also be held in areas across the city.
The next Repair Cafe is at The Table, Pentyrch Baptist Church, Cathays, from 10:00 BST to 14:00 on 6 May.
Craig Williamson is accused of having the couples pay money into his account, believing they were paying Guthrie Castle near Forfar.
Mr Williamson, 42, of no fixed abode, appeared in private at Forfar Sheriff Court on a single charge of fraud.
He made no plea and was remanded in custody.
The charge states that the alleged offences took place between between July 2015 and April 2017.
Former five-division champion Mayweather, 40, takes on McGregor in a boxing match in Las Vegas on 26 August.
The contest has drawn criticism from middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin, among others.
"To combine both sports is going to be great for boxing more than MMA," said Britain's former light-welterweight world champion Khan, 30.
"We are not getting the good pay-per-view numbers we used to.
"At the moment, MMA and UFC is doing so many great numbers on TV, on pay-per-view. Boxing is doing OK but it took little bit of a dip.
"We hit a wall and we didn't really do anything. Boxing never moved forward around the world, whereas MMA kept moving forward and got bigger and bigger and bigger.
"Boxing kind of stalled in my opinion and we needed something like this."
Both fighters will reportedly earn around $100m (£77m) from the match, which will take place in Las Vegas.
Mayweather will end a spell of retirement as he bids to extend his 49-match unbeaten record against 28-year-old McGregor, who has never boxed professionally.
Khan, who last fought when beaten by Saul Alvarez in May 2016, has been unsuccessful in attempts to secure a fight with Mayweather, but still hopes to face the American or former eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.
"When Mayweather beats McGregor, which I think he will, that fight can still be there. It really can happen," said Khan, who has 31 wins from 35 fights.
"There are still some big fights out there for me."
Mr Hunt said Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust would be scrapped and, while its two hospitals would remain open, many services would move to other hospitals.
The trust has been in administration since April when services were deemed "unsustainable" by watchdog Monitor.
However, campaigners who oppose the move said they may challenge the decision in the courts.
By Nick TriggleHealth correspondent
Administration is a pretty brutal and - for the NHS - quick process. In years gone by, troubled trusts would have limped on regardless.
But the landscape has changed. With the health service under pressure to be as efficient as possible, there is now a growing acceptance that action is needed to deal with unsustainable trusts.
And so, less than a year after this process was started, the health secretary has signed off the dismantling of this trust.
Mid Staffordshire, like many small trusts, has struggled to attract staff and patients. But its financial viability has also been hit by the scandal over poor care from 2005 to 2009.
However, this is only the second time the process has been used in the health service. The first was in 2012 when administrators went into South London Healthcare. That ended with one of the key elements of the plans - the downgrading of Lewisham Hospital - being overturned in court.
NHS bosses are confident this will be a much more straightforward process from now on by comparison - unlike in south London other trusts are not losing services.
That will no doubt elicit mixed emotions in the town with a number of locals unhappy at what they see as the demonising of their hospital trust despite the scale of the scandal that has engulfed it. But for the rest of the health service it will act as a shot across the bows.
Under the plans, Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals would be "operated by other local providers".
Mr Hunt said the changes would "secure the safe and high-quality services that the people of Stafford deserve having endured years of uncertainty and failures in care".
He added: "I want Stafford to be a proper district hospital that continues to meet the needs of patients nearby, including for emergency care and births."
He said he wanted to dissolve the trust "as soon as possible" to stabilise local health services.
Stafford could still retain consultant-led maternity services after Mr Hunt agreed to NHS England carrying out a review into the issue.
The original plan from administrators had been for maternity services to close but this was later amended to allow for the creation of a midwife-led unit.
Mr Hunt has now agreed to review that decision to see whether consultant-led services - needed for more difficult births - should be retained.
The trust was criticised in February 2013 in a public inquiry headed by Robert Francis QC for causing the "suffering of hundreds of people" under its care between 2005 and 2008.
The inquiry criticised the cost-cutting and target-chasing culture that had developed at the trust.
Receptionists were left to decide which patients to treat, inexperienced doctors were put in charge of critically ill patients and nurses were not trained how to use vital equipment.
Cases have also been documented of patients left crying out for help because they did not get pain relief and food and drinks being left out of reach.
Data shows there were between 400 and 1,200 more deaths than would have been expected between 2005 and 2008, although it is impossible to say all of these patients would have survived if they had received better treatment.
The inquiry made 290 recommendations aimed at tackling the wider cultural problems in the NHS.
Sue Hawkins, from the Save Stafford Hospital group, said: "We were expecting the trust to dissolve.
"We understood from the outset that would be the case but we are a semi-rural area and people are going to have to travel long distances to receive care.
"It's been a very lengthy process. I wouldn't wish this on any other hospital."
Cheryl Porter, another campaigner, said the decision to move services was "unacceptable for a community of this size". She argued hospitals in Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton and Walsall were "not ready" to take the extra patients.
Gail Gregory, from Stafford, whose husband is being treated at the hospital, said she had expected the decision because the trust had a "toxic name".
She said: "The hospital has been made a guinea pig for new government policies." She blamed the poor care on "the rush to Trust status".
She added: "Fifty thousand local people know the value of their hospital and this fight is not over."
Stafford Borough councillor Ann Edgeller said she was pleased the hospital would remain in Stafford but there was still a lot to do to keep essential services.
"In some ways it's good that we have still got a hospital; two years ago we thought we might lose it," she said.
"The most disappointing thing is not knowing what will happen to paediatric and maternity services.
"It's something we've got to fight for - there are a lot of new houses being built not half a mile away from Stafford Hospital and it worries me that UNHS might not be able to cope."
Stafford's Conservative MP Jeremy Lefroy said local accountability on the trust board was crucial.
"We must now see a merger with the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust and not a takeover," he added.
Maggie Oldham, chief executive of the trust, said she wanted to "pay tribute" to staff at the hospitals.
"Mid Staffs has come a long way over the past few years and I am very proud of all of our staff and what they have achieved," she said.
"I would also like to remind patients that we are still working as usual and that they should please keep their appointments and keep using the services provided at Stafford and Cannock Chase Hospitals."
Philip Atkins, leader of Staffordshire County Council, said: "While this will undoubtedly be a bitter blow for campaigners, it is also an opportunity to show how the county can now lead the way in demonstrating how integrated hospital and community care can be both delivered safely and meet the highest standards."
Christina McAnea, head of health for Unison, said the decision was "bitterly disappointing" for the local community and staff.
"The facts show patient care has improved massively," she said.
"If key services are to be transferred to neighbouring trusts, it is vital that they are given the financial resources needed to take on the extra responsibility."
Police said the Ford Focus car he was driving left the southbound carriageway near Lendalfoot and hit the verge at about 19:00 on Monday.
He was taken by ambulance to Ayr Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police said they wanted to speak to anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the Ford Focus on the road before the incident.
Abubakar Sidiq Usman's arrest by the anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was widely condemned in Nigeria.
His supporters launched a #FreeAbusidiq campaign on Twitter.
Last week, Mr Usman published allegations that EFCC acting chairman Ibrahim Magu was bullying his staff.
Mr Magu has not yet commented on the allegation.
An EFCC spokesman confirmed to the BBC that Mr Usman had been released on bail.
Mr Usman was grateful to Nigerians for speaking out against his detention of more than 36 hours, his lawyer Michael Bello told the local Premium Times newspaper.
His bail conditions required him to "make himself available to the EFCC whenever he received an invitation".
Mr Usman is an extremely popular blogger and a strong backer of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He is also a founding member of the youth wing of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement posted on its Facebook account after he was detained, the APC youth wing said he was being held on "spurious charges".
The EFCC was formed to investigate financial crimes and had overstepped its jurisdiction by detaining him, it said.
Mr Usman is the third blogger to be arrested in Nigeria since the Cyber Crime Act came into force in 2015, the Premium Times reported.
"I have to get poetry lessons to describe his importance to us," he said of Hammers midfielder Dimitri Payet, who orchestrated their 5-1 victory over Blackburn in the FA Cup fifth round.
So we asked you to get involved on social media by sending in your prose, dedicated to your favourite clubs and players.
Here's a few of the best:
By Sean Collinson on BBC MOTD Facebook page
Football, oh football. What happened to you? You're just not the game as a kiddy I knew.
Now with players on wages that could fund a small city, yet desire has lessened which seems such a pity.
No respect for officials and cheating abound. A small puff of wind sends a player to ground.
Our children are watching what these fellas do. They think they are heroes, they haven't a clue.
I really do think it's time for a shake up, and all of the top folks now need to wake up.
I want players to think of the badge not the pay, before the sport I once loved starts to slowly ebb away.
By Chris Greenhouse: Gabby Agbonlahor: Yes, he can score. He's done it before, but it happens no more. Someone show him the door.
By Steve Brunskill: Roses are red, I'm useless at poetry, but we've got Payet...so I don't care.
James Norling: LVG and United are on the brink. I've had more fun unblocking the sink. Let's hope they play well tonight, for Shrewsbury Town will show their might. If we shall succumb and lose, LVG leaving will be all the news.
Andy Harris: Sergio Aguero a world class act, the best in the league and that's a fact. Unlike Yaya you never hear him moan, he can play with a partner or can be deadly alone. They once fed a goat and then he would score, now we have an Argentine that the whole club adores. With the ball at his feet he tears defences apart, his goals aren't like sport they are more like an art.
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Public and Commercial Services Union members are against plans to stop extra payments paid to weekend and bank holiday staff.
National Museum Wales said a 4% salary rise for low-paid workers and a Living Wage of £7.85 an hour would mitigate the loss.
It apologised for strike disruption.
The strike is affecting six of National Museum Wales' sites, with Swansea's National Waterfront Museum, the National Slate Museum in Llanberis and the National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, closed on Saturday.
St Fagans National History Museum and National Museum Cardiff are open Saturday but with limited services.
Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon is shut both days.
The Colin Tizzard-trained nine-year-old (7-4) took control at the second last and won easing up, with Dynaste third.
Cue Card suffered pelvic problems after his 2013 success but returned to win the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby last month.
"The way he rode today he felt like a Gold Cup horse," jockey Paddy Brennan told Channel 4. "It was unbelievable."
Brennan dedicated the win to the victims of the Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed.
"I was lucky enough to ride some winners in Auteuil and we are all thinking about them," he said.
Silviniaco Conti, the 5-4 favourite, made a gallant attempt to win the race for a third time as he set a good gallop, but Cue Card was never far away.
Brennan moved him level with the leader before the four fences in the straight and he drew away to take victory by seven lengths.
Cue Card will win a £1m bonus if he follows up Saturday's win with victories in the William Hill King George VI Chase and Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The prevailing theme to this jumps season of popular comebacks continued here as Cue Card built on a recent Wetherby success, his first for nearly two years.
The nine-year-old, who put in a really sparkling performance to beat Silviniaco Conti, follows the recent returns to winning ways of Bobs Worth, Sprinter Sacre and, in Ireland, Sir Des Champs.
A rejuvenated Cue Card versus Silviniaco Conti, the not entirely convincing Ascot winner Vautour and maybe Coneygree in the King George on Boxing Day should be one to savour.
The CA magazine found that half of the Scotland-based directors polled thought growth would be "flat" or "negligible" over the next 12 months.
Only 42% expected to see "strong" or "modest" growth, compared with 82% of those who were polled last year.
Skills shortages and the low oil price were cited as major barriers to growth.
Weak confidence among consumers and in the business sector was seen as another significant barrier.
The survey suggested Scottish finance directors were more pessimistic about the economy than those based elsewhere in the UK, where one in three (37%) of finance directors think growth will be flat or negligible and 58% expect strong or modest growth.
The CA, which is the journal of chartered accountancy body ICAS, found 37% of respondents thought growth would be flat or negligible, while 58% expected strong or modest growth over the next year.
More than one in four (28%) said they anticipated redundancies in their organisations over the course of the rest of the year, compared with just 19% of those asked last year.
Controlling costs, growing revenues and staff recruitment and retention were once again highlighted as the top three priorities facing finance directors.
The survey elicited responses from a total of 108 members of ICAS, of whom 55 were based in Scotland. It was carried out in partnership with law firm DLA Piper.
ICAS chief executive Anton Colella said: "The new number one at the top of Britain's risk registers is the difficulty of recruiting the right staff with the right skills to grow our economy.
"The skills gap is not just a problem in construction, manufacturing and technology but a red flag across almost every sector in the UK.
"If we are to ensure sustained growth in the UK economy then this must be addressed and it requires a concerted effort by business, government, education, and the workforce."
The 26-year-old three-time Paralympic gold medallist, who was born without her right hand and part of her forearm, also competed at both Games in 2008 and 2012.
She joins fellow table tennis player Melissa Tapper from Australia and Iranian archer Zahra Nemati, who have also qualified to compete at both events later this summer.
"I hope this shows all disabled athletes that nothing is impossible," said Partyka, the world number 73, who will take part in the Olympic team event.
Tapper, 26, who has Erb's Palsy after her shoulder nerves were damaged during birth, will play in both the singles and team events at the Olympics, which take place from 5-21 August.
She competed for Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, winning team bronze, and will be the first Australian to take part in both Games.
"I think that it's awesome that the Paralympic athletes are breaking down barriers and getting to participate in the Olympics," she said.
The Rio Paralympics run from 7-18 September.
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Rates for Salcombe's only bakery have risen from £9,000 a year to £21,000.
Others facing rises of 50% say that with increased costs and VAT, they are tempted to sell-up to chain stores.
The Valuation Office, which has announced the increases as part of a five-year review, says the Salcombe rates reflect high rental values there.
Becky Simpson, who runs a clothes shop in the town, admitted that Salcombe had a reputation as a place for well-heeled visitors, with average house prices of more than £500,000.
But she said local traders were "not massively well off" and were already being squeezed by rising prices of raw materials and VAT.
"We are normal people with normal businesses," she said.
"My income is going down and our rates are going up.
"We just can't afford it."
She said some traders had been made offers from chain stores.
"It's tempting to just take the money and run.
"In that case Salcombe will become just one big chain store."
Ben Holt-Wilson, 37, who runs the Upper Crust bakery in Fore Street, said: "I'm working hard, but I don't seem to be progressing because of the cost of living - these rates and other commodity prices are just going through the roof.
"So I feel at the whim and mercy of councillors and government."
Business rates are set by a government agency, the Valuation Office.
Spokeswoman Alison Gidman said business rates were based on where the property was situated, not what was sold there.
Adjoining properties of the same size had the same rateable values.
"We don't treat different occupiers in any different way," she said.
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Some independent traders in a Devon tourist destination fear that business rate increases could force them to close down.
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Researchers suggest £4m will be generated in additional sales of beer, confectionery and food.
Another £2.8m could be spent at pubs and fan zones during matches, including on transport and fast food.
The survey suggests £2.5m will be spent on NI home and away shirts and other official merchandise.
Andrew Webb, senior advisor at the Ulster University's economic policy centre, said: "The European Championship finals is a significant sporting event for Northern Ireland but with the added benefit of not having many of the associated costs that come with actually hosting the event.
"The buzz surrounding the tournament will bring more people to pubs and fan zones to watch the matches as well as see them organise get-togethers at home.
"As retailers benefit from the additional expenditure that comes from this, there is an increase in demand on their suppliers and so on down the supply chain."
Researchers categorised the impact in several ways
Mr Webb said the figure of £8.5m was "most likely conservative".
"There are, of course, a range of wider additional benefits which we can't quantify such as extra advertising and publicity for Northern Ireland as a result of the Euro 2016 qualification as well as sponsorship deals and television rights packages that may come later, with a higher profile team.
"So it is likely that the total economic benefit would be slightly higher than we have estimated."
The Northern Ireland football team secured their place at the Euro 2016 finals last October after beating Greece 3-1.
Michael O'Neill's squad is due to play against Poland in Nice on Sunday.
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The Northern Ireland economy could benefit by more than £8.5m due to NI's qualification in Euro 2016, according to an Ulster University survey.
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Mr Zulu, 38, was on a Nelson Mandela-linked charity trip to raise funds to buy sanitary towels for girls.
Mr Zulu and his wife Letshego both descended Mount Kilimanjaro when he experienced breathing problems on Sunday, according to local reports.
In his last Facebook post, the three-times national rally champion posted he had flu-like symptoms.
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Mr Zulu won the hearts of many South Africans with his warm spirit as a motorsport television presenter and was well-loved even by those who did not follow racing, say the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.
"Made it though (stet) day2. My wife is doing fabulous, she has even learnt the local language. Am having flu like symptoms and struggling with the mountain but taking it step by step!! Today we managed to see our destination and our camp is literary above the clouds!!" he said in his last post 16 July.
The pair, affectionately known as the "adventure couple", were celebrated in South African sporting circles.
Messages of condolences have poured in from across the country, with many posting wishes for his widow and their one-year-old daughter Lelethu.
The celebrity couple were taking part in the Trek4Mandela Caring For Girls, an expedition led by the Nelson Mandela Foundation aimed at raising funds for underprivileged communities to ensure girls would not miss a day from school due to menstruation.
"I am devastated. I knew him well. I recruited him to climb Kilimanjaro. The last thing he said to me at the airport before he left last week was that he wanted to speak about doing other Mandela Day projects. I feel a huge sense of loss," said the foundation's CEO Sello Hatang.
The group had planned to climb Kilimanjaro to mark Mandela Day, a United Nations recognised day which falls on the late statesmen's birthday - 18 July.
It encourages people all over the world to do community service in honour of the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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South African rally driver Gugu Zulu has died while attempting to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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The fragile piece of wood is all that remains of the Nanteos Cup, a wooden chalice named after the mansion in Aberystwyth where it was once kept.
Some believe it was the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and that it has healing powers.
It was stolen in 2014 before being returned to its owners a year later.
It has now been donated to the library in Aberystwyth where thousands of people are expected to view it over the coming months.
Pedr ap Llwyd, director of collections and public programmes, said visitors would finally be able to view the "mysterious object".
"This is truly a remarkable object and a very interesting addition to the national collections."
The cup is claimed to have been brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the death of Christ and then taken to Nanteos Mansion by seven monks from Strata Florida, Ceredigion, during the reign of Henry Vlll.
The house was then owned by the Powell family and, after the monks died, they took possession of it for centuries.
Legend says the cup, made of olive wood or wych elm, is sacred.
Owner Margaret Powell kept the chalice locked in a cupboard in a library and the sick travelled to Nanteos to drink from it.
However, some experts have said it was made 1,400 years after the crucifixion.
It originally measured approximately 12cm by 12cm (4.7in by 4.7in) but now measures 10cm by 8.5cm (3.9in by 3.3in) and is held together by wire staples and kept in a blue velvet bag.
After many years it left Nanteos Mansion and came into the ownership of the Steadman family in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, who kept it in a bank vault in Wales.
In 2014, it was loaned to a seriously ill woman because of its supposed healing properties, but burglars stole it while the woman was in hospital.
After police appeals and a reward being offered, it was returned to its owners.
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A religious relic which, claimed by some to be the Holy Grail, is to go on permanent display at the National Library of Wales.
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Thames Valley Police said the family of the 57-year-old from Rotherham had been informed and were being given support.
Mr Cresswell is the third victim to be recovered since the boiler house partially collapsed in February. John Shaw, 61, also from Rotherham, is the last workman yet to be found.
A guard of honour was formed as Mr Cresswell was taken from the site.
Representatives of the missing men's families joined police and fire and rescue crews, and staff from site owners RWE and contractors Coleman and Company, as his body was taken away early on Thursday morning.
A police spokesman said: "Our thoughts are with his family and also with the family of the remaining missing man, John Shaw, and we would ask that their privacy is respected during this incredibly difficult time."
The body of a third man Christopher Huxtable, 34, from Swansea was found last week.
A fourth man, Michael Collings, 53, from Brotton, Teesside, died from multiple injuries following the partial collapse of the structure in February when it was due for demolition.
The remaining section was brought down using explosives in July.
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The man recovered from the rubble of Didcot A Power Station has been identified as workman Ken Cresswell.
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Of 172,000 offences recorded in 2015-16, a total of 159,000 were for speeding, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to police.
Overall, there were 2.4m driving crimes in the UK that year.
Road safety charity Brake described the Welsh speeding figure as "appalling". The four police forces in Wales have been asked to comment.
The figures were obtained in a FOI by motoring insurance company Confused.com which requested data on petrol thefts, seatbelt offences, defective tyre offences, speeding, drink-driving, drug driving and middle lane hogging.
It revealed Wales ranked as the fourth worst region for seatbelt crimes with 5,700 offences.
Brake spokeswoman Lucy Amos said: "It is appalling to see that over 90% of motoring offences in Wales during 2015-16 were related to speeding.
"Speed is a contributory factor in one in four fatal crashes in the UK - crashes that have a devastating impact on those left seriously injured or bereaved."
Gwent Police's Supt Glyn Fernquest said: "Speeding is one of the most common causes for fatal and serious collisions on our roads.
"It is extremely dangerous and puts not only the driver at risk but also other road users. The laws are in place for everyone's safety and protection and it is disappointing to see that people still think it is acceptable to break these laws."
A South Wales Police spokeswoman added: "Excess speed for the conditions, or the limit, is one of the main reasons for accidental deaths and injuries on our roads."
In January, it was announced that speeding fines for the most serious cases in England and Wales would rise by up to 50%.
The Sentencing Council said it wanted to ensure a "clear increase in penalty" as the seriousness of offending increases.
The Old Bailey jury decided unanimously that Humphrey Burke, 23, caused "catastrophic" brain injuries to Lorraine Barwell.
Burke had been assessed as unfit to plead to murder due to mental illness.
Mr Justice Singh imposed a hospital order and said Burke should remain at Broadmoor secure hospital.
Following a trial of the facts, the jury deliberated for just 20 minutes before deciding Burke did kick Mrs Barwell in the head at Blackfriars Crown Court in June last year.
Gia Sofokli was on her first day in the job and was "shadowing" the 54-year-old, who had worked at security firm Serco for more than 10 years.
She said: "He just literally pulled his leg back and kicked her... she screamed quite loud and then it was about two seconds before he swung again with his foot but this time it got her in the face.... her head went back but it did not smack the floor. It just snapped back."
Prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said Burke had been "unpredictable" at previous Blackfriars hearings where he had pretended to faint, collapse and go limp.
At the time of the attack a psychiatric report had been prepared but no definitive diagnosis of mental illness had been made.
Mr Justice Singh imposed a hospital order with a restriction order under the Mental Health Act.
He formally adjourned the Blackfriars case as well as the murder charge, saying Burke could still face trial if he becomes fit to plead in the future.
The judge said Mrs Barwell had been "clearly close to her family who loved her".
Referring to a victim impact statement by her daughter Louise Grennan, he said: "She described in very clear detail the devastating impact that there has been to members of Lorraine Barwell's family over her death."
Det Ch Insp David Reid from the Metropolitan Police said: "Lorraine Barwell was not a threat to Humphrey Burke; she was merely doing her job - the same job that she had carried out with dedication and professionalism for many years."
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He took 5-29 to hurry the tourists out for 119 and finish with match figures of 10-45 in the summer's first Test.
Despite a rain delay of almost three hours, England wrapped up victory shortly after tea.
Steven Finn grabbed 3-26, while Kusal Mendis top-scored with 53 for an outclassed Sri Lanka side.
With only 162.4 overs bowled, it was the 13th shortest Test in history.
A couple of dropped catches aside, England can take great pleasure from the ruthless manner in which they dismantled a team that won on their last trip to Leeds in 2014.
Sri Lanka's prospects, by contrast, look bleak, and they will be hoping for distinctly less seamer-friendly conditions when the second Test of the three-match series in Durham starts on Friday.
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For the second time in under 24 hours, Anderson exploited muggy skies and a pitch offering appreciable lateral movement to claim the third 10-wicket haul of his Test career.
That seven of his wickets came courtesy of catches to the wicketkeeper - plus two bowled and another lbw - reflected his sustained accuracy and skill at a venue where his previous best figures were 3-91.
Anderson's emotions after removing Nuwan Pradeep to seal victory contrasted starkly with his tears of disappointment at Headingley two years ago, when he was caught off the penultimate ball of the match and Sri Lanka won the series.
Bowling full and finding swing and seam away from tentative batsmen, Anderson located left-hander Dimuth Karunaratne's edge in the third over of the day after Sri Lanka resumed on 1-0.
Kaushal Silva fell to the same combination of Anderson and Jonny Bairstow, diving to his right, although Sri Lanka had recovered to 77-2 by the time rain forced an early lunch.
Caught Bairstow, bowled Anderson appeared on the scorecard six times across both innings, and man of the match Bairstow - who scored a first-innings 140 - finished with nine dismissals in the match.
Sri Lanka's resilience, led by Mendis' counter-attacking maiden Test half-century, evaporated after a rain delay of two hours and 45 minutes.
Dinesh Chandimal, cutting, played on to Moeen Ali in the first over back to spark a collapse of seven wickets for 26 runs that echoed the tourists' slide to 91 all out on Saturday.
Captain Angelo Mathews fenced at Stuart Broad before Anderson accounted for Mendis - bowled via his inside edge as he attempted to leave - and Dasun Shanaka.
Finn helped himself to three wickets in five balls either side of tea, before Anderson returned to complete the rout.
Sri Lanka survived for only 72.1 overs in the match, which amounted to less than a full day's play.
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England captain Alastair Cook on BBC Test Match Special: "Sometimes you take it for granted, but watching Stuart and Jimmy go about their business was a pleasure to captain.
"Jonny Bairstow was batting on a different wicket to the other 21 players in this match. The first time I saw him I thought he would play for England and he'll go from strength to strength."
Former England spinner Graeme Swann: "Jimmy has got a Dukes ball back in his hand and he's deadly with that. He's bowling as quick as ever.
"It's the second best I've seen him bowl for England - he was better in a Trent Bridge Test against Pakistan. Sri Lanka don't face bowling like this - they were rabbits in the headlights."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott: "I don't think they will get much sunshine in Durham. If the ball moves the same amount again, Sri Lanka will lose."
It is a slight drop on last month, which was 5.8%, said the Office for National Statistics.
The most recent figure comes in behind the UK average, which was 10.4% and England's which was 10.8%.
The average house in Wales now costs £172,000 compared with homes across the UK where the average figure is £271,000.
In England the average house costs £283,000.
Former Bury and Sheffield United player Andy Woodward was abused by Barry Bennell while at Crewe Alexandra from the age of 11 to 15.
Bennell was sentenced to nine years in prison in 1998 after admitting sexual offences against six boys.
Cheshire Police said officers were contacting the six people.
It is not known whether those contacting police are potential victims or witnesses.
Mr Woodward has previously spoken of his decision to waive his anonymity to raise awareness, because he believed there were more victims of Bennell and other abusers.
He said he was "speechless" from the support he had received from fans and former players since going public - and encouraged other victims to come forward.
A spokesman for Cheshire Police said the force took all reports of sexual abuse "extremely seriously".
Acting Det Sgt Ben Hilton, of the force's Public Protection Unit, said: "As of Monday 21 November we have been made aware of six other people who have come forward wishing to speak to the police.
"We are currently in the process of making contact with the six people, and at this stage no one else is under investigation."
They were scheduled to fly to the Balearic island on Tuesday on Monarch Airlines flight ZB504.
But after police were called to Manchester Airport at about 19:10 BST all were removed from the aircraft and no further action was taken.
The airline said they were "offloaded due to disruptive behaviour".
One witness, passenger Amber Ferguson, described the women as "disgusting human beings".
Photographs of the incident posted by her on social media have drawn thousands of critical comments about the four women.
Ms Ferguson, a teaching assistant from Manchester, said the women used racist language and threatened other passengers.
She wrote: "If you know them or are related to them you should be ashamed to know such disgusting human beings!!"
A spokesman for Monarch Airlines said: "The flight, which was being operated by Smartlynx, on behalf of Monarch, had 158 customers on board.
"Monarch takes a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive behaviour on board all of our flights.
"The safety and security of our passengers, crew and aircraft is our absolute priority."
Pledges include $1bn (£640m) from India, $500m from China, and $600m from the Asian Development Bank.
Nepal says it needs $7bn after April and May's devastating quakes, in which nearly 9,000 people were killed.
Opening the conference, Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala promised that the relief funds would be used wisely.
Donor countries and international agencies have voiced concerns that red tape and poor planning could result in the donations being squandered.
But Mr Koirala urged delegates to "work with us, the government of Nepal" and vowed "zero tolerance toward corruption".
"I assure you that we will [leave] no stone unturned in ensuring that the support reaches the intended beneficiaries," he told the conference.
Announcing India's pledge, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the two neighbours were "joined in both their joys and sorrows" and must "help each other in the wake of such calamities".
Additional pledges of $260m from Japan, $130m from the US, and $100m from the European Union - as well as an earlier announcement of up to $500m from the World Bank - take the total assistance offered to around $3bn.
Nepal, which was hit by an earthquake on 25 April then a strong aftershock on 12 May, was one of the world's poorest countries even before the disaster.
Nearly 500,000 houses were destroyed, and thousands of people were left in need of food, clean water and shelter.
Nepal donors' 'concern' over end of emergency quake aid
$7bn
needed by Nepal to rebuild
1/3
of Nepal's GDP wiped out
8,832 people died
500,000 homes destroyed
2.8m people affected
Reid, 30, leaves Glasgow after making 109 appearances in seven years at the Scottish club, in which he helped win the Pro12 title in the 2014-15 season.
The loose-head prop has 24 caps for Scotland and joins Irish after they won the Championship play-off final.
"I had seven enjoyable seasons with Glasgow, but it's now time for a new challenge in my career," he said.
Irish have also secured the services of Australian scrum-half Ben Meehan, 24, who joins from Super Rugby side Melbourne Rebels and 24-year-old Georgian back row Lasha Lomidze from Russian side Krasny Yar.
Meehan switched codes after playing for NRL side Melbourne Storm, while Lomidze has 25 caps for Georgia and previously played for French clubs Montpellier and Beziers.
Reid, Meehan and Lomidze are the Exiles' first new signings for the 2017-18 season following their play-off win over Yorkshire Carnegie and promotion back to the Premiership at the first time of asking.
The worst loss of life was the 45 killed in the 1986 Chinook crash.
Another 17 lost their lives in a failed Dan Air take-off in 1979, and two helicopter crashes in 1990 and 1992 claimed six and 11 lives respectively.
The memorial consists of a stone horseshoe-shaped structure.
It has two teak benches and the names of all those who were killed are listed.
Thousands of pounds were raised to build the memorial.
Two contract employees of the Pogo Mine were attacked on Monday while collecting geological samples.
Fatal black bear attacks against humans are very rare, experts say. Around 90% of deaths by bears in Alaska are caused by brown bears or grizzlies.
On Sunday a 16-year-old boy was killed by a 250lb (113kg) black bear while running in a trail race.
Patrick Cooper was competing in the Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb near the city of Anchorage, when he was attacked.
Since 1880, only six deaths in the state have been linked to black bears, the Alaska Dispatch News reports.
The victim of the latest attack, which unfolded about 340 miles (550km) north of Anchorage, has not yet been identified.
Another mine employee suffered "non-life-threatening injuries" in the incident, reports the Daily News-Miner.
Employees of the underground mine shot and killed the black bear.
After the attack, 24 other mine workers were recalled to the main camp, the newspaper reports.
"Right now we have more questions than answers. Everyone on site is concerned for those involved," said Pogo Mine general manager Chris Kennedy.
"Our condolences have been shared with our contractor and our hearts go out to the individuals, their colleagues, and their families."
You wondered if the traditional Staffordshire oatcake was available further afield than its home county.
Your questions around the meaning of English phrases inspired us to create a quiz which has been attempted more than 1.2m times so far.
We were asked if Rugby ever had a castle and moat. Here are some answers to the things you wanted to know.
There are many peculiar English phrases whose origins and meaning can appear obscure. For instance, where does "dead as a doornail" come from? When might one say: "I'll go to the foot of our stairs?"
A recent BBC News article unearthing the stories behind some phrases drew a huge response from readers, who sent in examples of their own.
But how much do you know about the English language and its sayings? Test your knowledge here.
Well firstly, for those not familiar, we are talking about a type of savoury pancake made from oatmeal, flour and yeast which is synonymous with its local area.
BBC News spoke to three local producers, Staffordshire Oatcakes, Povey Oatcakes and High Lane Oatcakes who said they regularly send them across England and Wales.
They also said they sent to parts of Scotland too, but only Povey Oatcakes said they send them overseas, adding that it can cost quite a bit but they've sent them to France, Germany, the US and Australia in the past.
But High Lane Oatcakes said that, while they don't ship oatcakes overseas, they have had people buy them and then send to relatives and friends in other parts of the world.
Reg Jackson said he was told as a child that Rugby had a castle with a moat in Regent Place and could we find out more.
According to the council's Conservation Area assessment, there is documentary evidence of a possible medieval castle at Regent Place.
It says the earthwork of a moat was recorded here in the late 19th Century.
The local history group records that Regent Place was known as Moat Street until being renamed in 1925.
Lonnie Cooke, who started gigging back in 1956, has been called Stoke-on-Trent's longest-living rocker.
As the nickname suggests, he's regarded as a legend in the city and, we can confirm, he is alive and kicking.
We gave him a call and he said he's still out gigging, including performing at this year's Newcastle Jazz and Blues Festival and he switched on Stoke's Christmas lights a couple of weeks back.
In his own words "still enough to stop me rusting".
We shed some light on Zeb Mohammed's question last week when we talked to Luke Harrison at the university.
"There are about a mile of phoney coalmine snakes beneath campus. It was built in 1905 to give mining students experience of working underground," he said.
Since then we have some more information from the Special Collections team at the university which has been going through the Air Raid Precautions Committee minutes.
On 28 October 1938, Professor Moss submitted a scheme for adapting a model mine for about 800 people.
By 10 March 1939, the chairman reported the alterations to the model mine were almost complete.
So it's true they were converted into bombs shelters but we don't know if they were ever used during an air raid.
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Officers received a report of an unconscious and injured man found on Lion Street at about 01:00 BST on Sunday.
He was taken to hospital by ambulance but later died.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the man was a soldier and Dyfed-Powys Police said the death was being treated as unexplained.
It is understood the soldier was not wearing army uniform and there was nothing to indicate his death was linked to extremism.
The area has been cordoned off and anyone who was around Lion Street, Bethel Square, Tredegar Street and High Street between 00.30 and 01:30 is asked to call 101.
An Army spokesperson said: "We are aware of an incident involving the death of a soldier in Brecon.
"Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."
The attack happened on the top deck of the 57 bus as it left the Silverburn shopping centre in Pollok, Glasgow, at about 22:30 last Friday night.
The 14-year-old sat downstairs with a friend but then moved to the upper deck where she was assaulted and raped by two men.
Police have appealed for other passengers to come forward.
Bus operator First Glasgow said the driver was unaware of the assault but ejected the two men involved later in the journey due to separate unruly behaviour.
Detectives said the girl engaged in conversation with two men who had boarded the bus in the city centre.
Her friend, also 14, went up to see her and raised the alarm with passengers downstairs.
'Frightening experience'
A woman and two men came to the girls' aid. They all left the bus two stops along from Silverburn.
The passengers are said to have waited with the girls until they got another bus home, thought to be in the Darnley area of the city, where police were contacted.
No CCTV footage is available from the bus.
Both of the attackers are said to be aged around 18 to 20.
One is about 5ft 10in, with a shaved head and wearing a black jumper.
The other man has brown, spiky hair and was wearing a tracksuit which may have been grey, with a body warmer or jacket.
Det Con Jackie Carroll of Strathclyde Police said: "This was a very frightening experience for the young girl concerned, and thankfully she was assisted by her friend and the Good Samaritans on the bus who ensured she got home safely.
"She has been left traumatised by her ordeal.
"We're continuing extensive enquiries into the incident, and would like to trace two men and woman who came to her assistance, as they will have vital information which could help with our investigation."
Police said the two men were very loud and using crude and lewd comments to other passengers.
The bus driver ejected them at Pollokshaws Road, near to the park, at about around 00:30 hours.
A spokesman for bus operator First Glasgow said: "Our thoughts are very much with the victim of the assault."
"We are assisting the police with their investigation and would echo their appeal for anyone to come forward who may have information about the incident."
He added: "Our driver was not aware of the assault. Unfortunately, the incident took place on the top deck of the bus and therefore out of our driver's eyeline and no-one on board approached our driver to report a disturbance.
"The driver ejected the two males in question sometime later in the journey - this was due to separate unruly behaviour."
The parents of three-month-old Alexander Kendall, from Norwich, spotted the errors after being given a set of five bodysuits from the store.
One bore the slogan "I was born awsome", while the other read: "Daddys little man" - missing an apostrophe.
Tesco apologised after Alexander's father shared the errors on Twitter.
It offered a refund or exchange and said: "Sorry about this, we've made our suppliers aware of this so it can be corrected for future stock."
Mother Sophie Kendall, 28, said: "We both work as journalists so are perhaps a bit more pedantic about these things than most.
"Fortunately Alex is a long way off being able to read so we'll just use the suits and hope nobody notices."
I'm from a small town in the North West Province and am the very first person in my family to go to university - I'm under a lot of pressure to succeed.
If I have to drop out of school because I couldn't not afford the fees, it will be big disappointment to everyone.
It's unfair to have to struggle just to get an education in this country and yet we are told it's the most developed country in Africa.
Degrees in South Africa:
Why are students protesting?
I'm sitting with student debt of close to 100,000 rand ($7,328; £4,774) to repay as soon as I start working.
I'm from a family where my father is the sole bread winner, he works as a cleaner at a lodge - he makes very little money.
My family support what we are doing here, they know that we are not just doing this for ourselves but for our children.
I want to study towards a post-graduate degree next year but I won't be able to because the National Student Financial Aid System (NSFAS) doesn't fund the degree I need to do.
I hope I can find a job next year and save enough money to return to school in 2017.
I don't think our government knows how hard it is for us from poor families to get educated.
It was a proud moment for my whole family when I qualified for university but our joy has been short-lived. It's bitter-sweet because now this education is a burden.
My mother is paying for my fees and the rest covered by NSFAS. It's a real struggle for her.
Making tertiary education so difficult to acquire is a big problem - especially when it's being done by the [governing] African National Congress (ANC) which has been promising us free education since 1994.
Tertiary education is now a privilege or for the rich in this country and it shouldn't be like that, anyone who is academically deserving should be able to further their studies if they want to.
I cannot afford university fees and if they were to go up then I won't be able to do a post-graduate degree and many places don't hire you unless you have a post-graduate degree - we have many unemployed people sitting at home with undergraduate degrees - the entire system is flawed.
I don't know why this government wants to keep us uneducated at this rate we will continue having unskilled labour.
They are now doing to us what the apartheid government did to them - except this is academic exclusion, it is financial exclusion.
My father was in the struggle and didn't finish school, this is not what he fought for. He didn't go through all of that for us to now have a repeat of 1976 [the Soweto uprising when schoolchildren protested about a new policy to teach black children only in Afrikaans].
They are segregating us and it's worse because it's people who have been through it before and now they are turning around and doing it to their children. Do they care about the country they are going to leave us with when they die? I don't think so.
The government says there is a skill shortage in the country and yet won't help us get the qualifications we need - I am disappointed in the people running this country.
I don't know how our families are expected to fund our studies if even middle families are struggling.
I'm from Limpopo, my family is considered middle class because both my parents are working and can afford a certain kind of lifestyle. We are not well off though.
My older brother had to drop out of school so my parents could afford to pay for me. He had qualified for a master's degree but had to put his own dreams aside.
My [annual] fees alone are currently 35,000 rand ($2,562, £1,671) that excludes accommodation, transport, food and school supplies - at the end of the year the total is nearly double that.
My sister is planning on coming to university next year and my parents are worried about how they are going to be able to pay for both of us.
We are pleading with the government to reconsider the budget to include students like us, because right now I don't qualify for NSFAS but my parents - who are teachers don't make enough to qualify for the loans we need to study.
Their salaries are enough to pay for our daily expenses and not much else.
It would break my heart if I had to leave school next year because I am so close to graduating but I know that if there is no money at home next year for my sister, I might be forced to.
Many black families are forced to make these difficult choices.
I've been fortunate enough to get a bursary so that has gotten me through first, second and third year.
I'm graduating at the end of this year but I'm going to study further. My parents will have to come up with a way to pay - they are paying for my sibling too.
My father is an electrical engineer and he runs his own small business.
I do relate to this struggle because If I didn't have a bursary I don't know what I would have done.
I understand the struggle even though I feel like I am more privileged than the average South African so if I am struggling imagine what is it like for the rest of the nation.
Education has become about how rich you are and that's some type of discrimination - that doesn't sit well with me.
All of this boils down to finance and corruption, we need this addressed. I think the government is too comfortable at the moment and they need to be shaken up a bit.
For me this goes beyond a protest about fees, there are bigger issues that need to be addressed such as inequality.
For example the middle class measure is not the same here for black and white people, I was born middle class but my family weren't but a white child my age is most likely to be from generations of that - that needs to change. We all need to have equal opportunities.
Official NHS statistics showed 95.8% of all patients were seen and either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
This was the best monthly performance since the same period in 2013.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the latest figures were "extremely promising".
But she warned that more would need to be done to achieve the target in the busier winter period.
The figures showed that activity at A&E departments was at its lowest level for July in the past five years, with staff dealing with 131,948 cases.
Ms Robison said: "NHS staff have been working extremely hard to cut waiting times and deliver a first-class service, and the figures published today are testament to this."
She added: "We want to see long-term, sustainable change put in place in order to maintain this high level of performance during peaks and troughs of demand."
Governing body the FIA is to hold a meeting on 3 July to "further examine the causes of the incident to evaluate whether further action is necessary".
The outcome will be made public before the Austrian Grand Prix on 7-9 July.
Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty and three points on his licence for driving into Hamilton.
It is understood Hamilton's driving in the incident is not in question and the hearing will focus on Vettel's behaviour.
The FIA warned Vettel after an incident in the Mexican Grand Prix last year - when he swore over the radio at race director Charlie Whiting - that he could face a tribunal in the event of any future incident of a similar nature.
In Azerbaijan, Vettel accused Hamilton of 'brake-testing' - deliberately slowing in front of him - as they prepared for a re-start behind a safety car.
Vettel then pulled alongside Hamilton and drove his car into the Mercedes so they banged wheels.
Hamilton's car telemetry data was analysed by the stewards on Sunday and he was cleared of any wrongdoing.
The four stewards in Azerbaijan spent some minutes contemplating what was the most suitable punishment for Vettel.
They had no doubt Vettel had driven into Hamilton on purpose in a fit of pique.
They chose the second-most severe form of punishment - a 10-second stop-and-go penalty. The only tougher option was disqualification which it was considered, on balance, Vettel's actions did not deserve.
Some have argued the stewards got it wrong and Vettel should have been kicked out of the race.
But it is also clear the penalty has appeared less severe because, as it turned out, Vettel ended up finishing ahead of Hamilton and extending his championship lead.
The Mercedes driver had to pit to have a loose headrest replaced and came out of the pits behind Vettel.
Had Hamilton not had this problem, he would have won the race with Vettel in fifth and the Mercedes driver would have taken the championship lead by three points, rather than seeing his deficit extend to 14.
Insiders are suggesting that FIA president Jean Todt is perturbed by Vettel's behaviour. Only he has the power to call a new hearing, as has been done in this case.
Vettel has an immediate problem in the wake of the three penalty points he was given in Baku in addition to the stop-and-go penalty. He now has nine on his licence - and 12 in a 12-month period means an automatic race ban.
The first two of those nine points were for forcing Felipe Massa's Williams off the track at last year's British Grand Prix, so they are soon to drop off Vettel's licence - but not before the Austrian Grand Prix next weekend.
So Vettel will have to avoid any further controversy at the Red Bull Ring or he could end up missing the British Grand Prix.
Beyond that, this is the second road-rage incident from Vettel in the past eight months - the first being when, antagonised by the driving of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in Mexico, he swore at race director Whiting.
He apologised to Whiting in person after the race and did so again in letters to both Whiting and FIA president Todt later that week.
However, he was warned further action could be taken if he behaved in a similar fashion again and that is what has happened here.
The red-flag period gave the race stewards in Baku the chance to properly analyse telemetry data from Hamilton's car.
They looked at his behaviour at all three safety-car restarts and concluded the Mercedes driver did nothing wrong. The FIA said he did not brake or lift off excessively and maintained a more or less constant speed.
The language in that statement leaves room for doubt as to whether Hamilton slowed down before Vettel hit him.
Some on social media have reacted to on-board video from Hamilton's car, claiming telemetry graphics indicated he did brake shortly before the initial impact, and used it as evidence that Vettel was right to accuse Hamilton of 'brake-testing' him.
But the video does not show this. Close analysis of the footage shows Hamilton is slowing as he approaches the apex of the corner, and keeps the brakes on lightly past the apex. His minimum speed is 51km/h as he exits the corner. But he has come off the brakes and is coasting before Vettel hits him.
At this point, Hamilton was preparing for the restart, and managing his gap to Vettel while bunching up the pack, trying to ensure he had the most advantageous position. As the leader, that is his prerogative.
The FIA says there was no heavy braking or anything contrary to the rules.
As one senior source said: "Seb was not expecting it and he should have been. He accelerated anticipating Lewis would too. But Lewis had a clear view of the safety car ahead of him with its lights off. Why would he accelerate? He wants to get a gap (to the safety car), plus it's his right to control the pace."
Former F1 driver and David Coulthard agreed, saying in his Channel 4 commentary: "Hamilton hasn't accelerated then decelerated, he has kept a constant pace. Sebastian has misjudged it and then in his anger made contact with Hamilton.
"I don't think there is any part of that you can point a finger at Hamilton and say he has done something wrong. Vettel was anticipating what he would do, forgetting the fact the lead car can control the pace."
The eventual race winner, Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, also backed this view.
A Russian group called New World Hackers claims it took down the website, telling the BBC it was done "in protest" against Gabon, the host of this year's Africa Cup of Nations.
"Gabon is a country of dictatorship," a member of the group told BBC Sport.
Caf has added a five-second process that screens all visitors, called a Cloudflare, to alleviate the problem.
"Caf has taken action but we can't certify 100% it will not happen again," Junior Binyam, the governing body's communications director, told BBC Sport.
"Even CIA servers are hacked."
The African football body's website was shut down for around five hours on Saturday, leading officials from African football's ruling body to investigate a technical fault prior to deciding the issue lay elsewhere.
This year's Nations Cup has been the subject of opposition from a section of Gabonese who have used it as a vehicle to express political grievances.
Following last year's disputed presidential elections, won by the incumbent Ali Bongo (who originally took power in 2009), people took to the street in protest.
The Gabonese authorities say three people died following violent clashes, while the opposition - led by former African Union chair Jean Ping - said the death toll was much higher.
In the ensuing months, the opposition called for a boycott of this year's football tournament, which - having started on 14 January - will end on 5 February.
On Sunday, the New World Hackers also claimed to have taken down the website of oil company Total, which signed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with Caf last year.
"I don't want to talk a lot but yes, we did the same to Total," the New World Hackers member, who requested anonymity, told the BBC via email.
The BBC has reached out to Total for comment but has yet to hear back.
On Sunday, Gabon became the first Nations Cup hosts in 23 years to be eliminated in the group stage of a Nations Cup following a limp goalless draw against Cameroon.
Gynaecologist Anthony Madu, 45, was suspended two months into his job with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board before going on sick leave.
A jury heard Mr Madu, of Woolwich, carried out locum work in England while still earning more than £29,000 from his employers in Wales.
Mr Madu is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of six counts of fraud.
The court heard Madu was given the specialist registrar obstetrics and gynaecology post at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, in August 2009.
He was placed on extended leave in October 2009 before being "escorted off the premises", said Christian Jowett, for the prosecution.
He added: "In short they suspended him. The following January he began a period of sickness leave."
The jury heard Mr Madu got locum work at Sandwell General Hospital in Birmingham, Scarborough General Hospital, North Yorkshire, and The Royal Oldham Hospital between late 2009 and August 2010.
However, in January, March and April 2010, Mr Madu handed in sick forms to his bosses in Cardiff, Mr Jowett said.
He was diagnosed with work-related stress and offered counselling as well as prescription drugs.
The court heard that between October 2009 and June 2010, the defendant was paid £29,150.66 by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board but when cover was included, the total cost to the Welsh NHS was around £49,000.
Mr Jowett said Mr Madu "thought he was allowed to do locum work".
The trial continues.
Farah, who will defend his Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m titles in Rio next summer, will run the 8km race at Holyrood Park.
It will be the 32-year-old's first cross country event in five years.
"For many years, cross country was a key building block for the year ahead," said Farah.
"I'm pleased to add it to my schedule for the first time since I ran in Edinburgh back in 2011."
The race on Saturday, 9 January will be broadcast live on BBC television and the BBC Sport website.
Spinner Rebecca Grundy and seamer Natasha Farrant, who were both in England's squad for the recent Women's World Twenty20, are not included.
The three-match series is Heather Knight's first as captain, following the retirement of Charlotte Edwards.
The first game takes place on Monday at Leicester (14:00 BST).
"Alex has worked incredibly hard at her game over the last 12-18 months, and I have been very impressed with her skill as a left-arm spinner in the time that I have been working with her," said coach Mark Robinson.
As well as Grundy and Farrant, the other names missing from the World T20 squad are Edwards and Lydia Greenway, who have both retired from internationals, and Sarah Taylor who is taking a break from cricket to deal with anxiety issues.
In Taylor's absence, Amy Jones will keep wicket, with batter Lauren Winfield - who was left out of the World T20 - as back-up keeper.
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Fellow batter Fran Wilson, added to the list of centrally contracted players last year, returns to the squad having played her last international in 2011, while uncontracted seamer Beth Langston is ruled out with an ankle injury.
Robinson added: "Monday is going to be a very proud day for our new captain and vice-captain, Heather Knight and Anya Shrubsole.
"Pakistan cannot be underestimated. They showed everyone during the World Twenty20 how dangerous they can be, when they beat the hosts India on their own patch."
Full squad: Heather Knight (capt), Anya Shrubsole (vice-capt), Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, Georgia Elwiss, Jenny Gunn, Alexandra Hartley, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones (wk), Laura Marsh, Natalie Sciver, Fran Wilson, Lauren Winfield, Danielle Wyatt.
Police have received 30 reports of rape from students aged 18 to 24 between August and October compared to 15 in the same period in 2013.
Posters with the strapline "drinking is not a crime, rape is" have been put up in bars and clubs used by students.
Det Insp Damian Simpson said "alcohol-fuelled" nights were the target because the reports often involved drink.
He said officers had "dealt with many an incident whereby two young people have met on an alcohol-fuelled night out, one thing has led to another and the next morning we're arresting somebody for rape".
"It doesn't matter whether there has been flirting, kissing or you've exchanged numbers - if somebody is too drunk to consent then the best thing for all involved is to assume it has not been given."
The joint campaign by Greater Manchester Police and students' unions and is being backed on social media using the hashtag #noconsentnosex.
Jess Lishak, women's officer at the University of Manchester Students' Union, said she was "really pleased to create this campaign [which is] aimed at perpetrators rather than victims".
"I think it marks a really important change in the narratives around rape in our community."
Fiza Ikram, the president of the University of Salford Students' Union said the posters "encourage students to be respectful to one another, keep one another safe and think before they act".
A police spokesman added the force was working "very closely" with St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Survivors Manchester and Rape Crisis to "continually improve the support services offered to victims of this crime".
It is understood it was contained in an envelope delivered to the building on Knock Road, Belfast, earlier on Thursday.
Bomb disposal officers were called to premises to examine the package. It is understood it was a letter bomb.
The Knock Road was closed for a time during the alert, but has reopened.
Regulators have stepped in after big losses in the mainland markets led trade to be suspended early for the first time on two occasions this week.
The central bank also set the yuan guidance rate higher to calm markets.
The sell-off came as weakening of the yuan led to worries that China's economy was slowing more than expected.
The rest of Asia also recovered some losses after the dramatic plunge in Chinese shares had triggered a global sell-off.
Markets in Europe and the US made steep losses overnight after trading in the world's second largest economy was closed within the first 30 minutes in the previous session, making it China's shortest trading day on record.
On Friday, the Shanghai Composite was up 2.2% to 3,194.08 as investor confidence grew on the new measures introduced by authorities to support the stock market.
Regulators suspended the "circuit breaker" rule late on Thursday. Analysts said it was creating more panic selling instead of calming sentiment.
"[The fall in markets] looks to have been exaggerated and driven more by fears and regulatory issues around the share market and currency rather than a renewed deterioration in economic indicators," said Shane Oliver, investment strategist at AMP Capital.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) set the daily yuan rate at 6.5646 - firmer than the previous day's rate, ending eight days of weakening the currency to boost exports.
Investors were worried that China's moves to weaken the yuan would spark a currency war in the region as other countries tried to remain competitive.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 1.1% to 20,568.58, while Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4% to 17,836.90.
But South Korean and Australian shares bucked the regional uptrend with the Kospi index down 0.1% to 1,901.92, and the S&P/ASX 200 index losing 0.4% to 4,992.10.
Shares of Samsung Electronics were up 1.1% despite the tech giant's profit guidance for the fourth quarter missing market expectations.
Ukad is looking into claims by former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke to BBC Sport that controversial painkiller Tramadol was "freely offered" at the road world championships in 2012.
British Cycling, the national governing body, has put the allegation to the medic in question, doctor Richard Freeman, on the BBC's behalf, who has denied it.
Separately, it is understood Ukad is also looking into an allegation in the Daily Mail that a medical package was delivered to Team Sky by a British Cycling coach in France on 12 June, 2011.
It is claimed the alleged delivery was said to have been made on the day Sir Bradley Wiggins won the Criterium du Dauphine in La Toussuire.
Team Sky said they had conducted an internal review and were "confident there has been no wrongdoing".
Wiggins has previously denied any wrongdoing before a major race.
"We informed British Cycling of the allegation and asked them to contact Ukad, who we will continue to liaise with," they said.
British Cycling says it has not identified the substance in the package.
It also released a statement which said: "British Cycling can confirm there is an ongoing Ukad investigation with which we are cooperating fully. We are unable to comment further at this stage."
A spokeswoman for Ukad said: "UK Anti-Doping is investigating allegations of wrongdoing within cycling. In order to protect the integrity of the investigation, we will not comment further."
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In an interview with BBC Sport, Tiernan-Locke also says Team Sky's stance in allowing Wiggins to take a banned drug to treat his asthma has tainted the outfit's image.
Wiggins was granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
Tiernan-Locke, who rode for Team Sky until he was sacked for a doping violation in 2014, said the matter of Wiggins' TUEs "definitely looks odd".
Wiggins' use of the substance has come under scrutiny following revelations made by computer hackers known as the Fancy Bears, who are thought to be from Russia.
The cyber-espionage group accessed the private medical data of some of the world's leading athletes from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
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Wiggins' TUEs were approved by British authorities, and cycling's world governing body the UCI. There is no suggestion either the 36-year-old or Team Sky, his former team, have broken any rules.
Questions have been raised over why Wiggins apparently did not need the drug before 2011, or after 2013.
But Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford has defended his former rider, saying the medication was recommended by a specialist and that Team Sky "do not cross the line" over performance-enhancing drugs.
Stella English, 34, who earned £100,000 a year, claimed she had no real role at Lord Sugar's IT firm, Viglen.
Lord Sugar told the employment tribunal at the East London Tribunal Centre he had no case to answer and Ms English was effectively blackmailing him.
Following the unanimous ruling in his favour, he tweeted: "A victory for the law against the claim culture."
In a written judgment, Judge John Warren said: "This was a claim which should never have been brought.
"There was no assurance or suggestion that the winner would receive direct mentoring from Lord Sugar.
"The claimant was clear herself about this - she knew full well the job she (would) do at Viglen when she accepted the prize. She told the nation on the BBC Breakfast TV show."
He said Ms English had the wrong idea about how glamorous the role would be and had stated in her evidence that she believed previous winners of the show "had accompanied Lord Sugar in his private jet".
"The tribunal believes that the claimant had in her mind that having won The Apprentice the role would be much more glamorous and that she would be working alongside Lord Sugar as his assistant," Mr Warren said.
Ms English, from Whitstable, Kent, told the tribunal she was given a desk and a phone but no specific duties during a four-month probationary period.
She said her boss Bordan Tkachuk looked at her with "contempt" on her first day and said: "There is no job."
Ms English said she carried out basic administrative tasks but did not say anything to Lord Sugar because she "did not want to be a troublemaker".
The 2010 Apprentice winner resigned from Viglen in May 2011 and then felt pressurised into taking up a new position at Lord Sugar's internet set-top box company YouView, she told the hearing.
Lord Sugar said he was trying to help her out by offering her a new position because she had complained of being "desperate for money".
The judge found that Ms English was given a "real job" at Viglen, with "enormous scope for advancement and learning".
"The Viglen role was specifically selected for the claimant to expand and build on her already acknowledged experience and ability," he said.
"The respondent (Lord Sugar) had gone out of (his) way to ensure the claimant was placed in a role at YouView from which she could learn new skills, a job which she agreed to and which she enjoyed doing."
In a statement after the tribunal's judgement, Lord Sugar said: "There was never a case for us to answer but her need for money and fame meant that the whole system was subjected to this charade.
"I have been cleared of a derisory attempt to smear my name and extract money from me.
"The allegations were without substance, and I believe this case was brought with one intention in mind - the presumption that I would not attend the tribunal, that I would not testify and that I would settle out of court, sending Ms English on her way with a tidy settlement.
"I'm afraid she underestimated me and her reputation is now in tatters."
The wife of former prime minister David Cameron has designed a 40-piece collection which will be sold from early next year.
Mrs Cameron said she was inspired to start the label as there were not many British brands that fit the "designer contemporary" bracket.
The brand name is derived from her children's names - Elwen, Florence, Ivan and Nancy.
Items from the fashion range will be priced between £100 and £300.
The first pictures of the collection will feature in the January issue of British Vogue ahead of its launch for spring/summer 2017. Her sister Emily Sheffield is deputy editor of the magazine.
In an interview with the publication, Mrs Cameron said: "I felt that there was a lot of American and French brands out there that fit that bracket of designer contemporary with the right price point and the right styling, but there aren't that many British brands which fill that space."
She said she resisted the urge to completely design the collection with herself in mind as "that would be pointless", adding: "I've spent a lot of time trying stuff on my friends."
Mrs Cameron became known for her fashion style during her time at Number 10 and previously worked as creative director of luxury brand Smythson, where she still holds a consultancy role.
She also currently serves as an ambassador for the British Fashion Council and is often seen wearing UK brands including Roksanda, Christopher Kane and Erdem.
She said she was launching her own fashion range to "create an urban uniform for busy women" saying she felt there was a gap in the market for a British brand that offered a wardrobe that could take women from day to evening.
Fashion expert Oonagh O'Hagan said Mrs Cameron's style influenced a generation of successful women who were interested in wearing fashionable designs.
"She promoted the idea that you could be taken seriously and still be fashionable," she said.
"You could look cool and sophisticated and you didn't always have to wear black. She had a big impact on the brands she wore. She wasn't a leader but she was a savvy adopter and her doing this label shows that.
"She has seen there is a bit of a gap for women. If you're a successful businesswoman you want to feel like you have an identity, you're individual with a knowledge of fashion but not obsessed.
"I think it's a savvy and clever move."
Mrs Cameron joins a long list of famous names who have launched their own fashion lines which also includes former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and rapper Kanye West.
Ms O'Hagan, fashion and textile curriculum leader at Central Saint Martins, said a celebrity name does not always guarantee success and launching a fashion label can be an uphill struggle.
She added: "There are so many celebrities that have bombed out. It can be a dangerous ground. That is why Samantha Cameron is interesting because not many people who are famous through politics have done this. It's usually singers and actresses.
"It's really difficult to set up a fashion line. Initially you can start very small but once it becomes popular you have a horrible jump where you have to take on factories across the world to get your production up. That responsibility is stressful.
"That's why many designers have backers and need people to put money into them. You'll probably lose money in the first few years and that's famous people as well. It's not particularly easy."
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale.
They were named at a press conference in Sweden.
The machines conceived by today's laureates are a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair.
They could slip inside the human body to deliver drugs from within - for instance, applying pharmaceuticals directly to cancer cells.
This field of nanotechnology could also yield applications in the design of smart materials.
The prize recognises their success in linking molecules together to design everything from motors to a car and muscles on a tiny scale.
"They have mastered motion control at the molecular scale," said Olof Ramström, from the Nobel Committee.
Reacting to the award, Prof Feringa said: "I don't know what to say, I'm shocked. And my second remark was: 'I'm a bit emotional about it'."
Donna Nelson, president of the American Chemical Society (ACS) said she was "thrilled" by the Nobel Committee's decision.
"It's wonderful. I've done work in nanoscience for a while - though not in micromachines - so I think I have enough background to appreciate the difficulty of the work they did and its magnificence," she told the BBC News website.
The professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma added: "I'm also interested in the public perception of science and this topic is perfect for capturing the imagination of schoolchildren."
"The world is so aware of the Nobel Prizes and they influence the research. It will make the area blossom; more scientists will move into the area and it will attract more funding. You can expect the applications to appear much more rapidly now."
The celebrated physicist Richard Feynman is often credited with inspiring the concept of molecular machines.
In a lecture at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1959, titled "There's plenty of room at the bottom", he considered the possibility of the direct manipulation of matter at the atomic scale.
It was also in this lecture that he introduced the idea of "swallowing the surgeon".
Jean-Pierre Sauvage was born in 1944 in Paris, France. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Strasbourg and director of research emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
His work provided early breakthroughs in the area of molecular machines. He had been researching the use of sunlight to drive chemical reactions but this work helped him work out that he could link different molecules together in a chain.
This was the first step towards building molecular machines. In 1994, Prof Sauvage's research group succeeded in making one molecule rotate around the other in a controlled manner when energy was applied.
Sir Fraser Stoddart was born in 1942 in Edinburgh, UK. He is currently affiliated to the Northwestern University, in the US.
The Briton made a key advance by threading a molecular ring on to a rod-like structure that acted as an axle.
Sir Fraser then made use of the ring's freedom to move along the axle. When he added heat, the ring jumped forwards and backwards - like a tiny shuttle.
His group later built on this discovery to build numerous molecular machines, including a lift, a muscle and - in partnership with other researchers - a computer chip.
"It's a recognition of fundamental chemistry and I think that should be celebrated today," Sir Fraser told the BBC.
But he condemned the outcome of the Brexit vote, saying international collaboration had been "absolutely critical" to his successes.
"Today I am distressed that the UK is looking at a situation where it would cut off that supply. This is not good news... I would hope that this whole business of Brexit would just go away or had not happened."
He said this placed British science "in jeopardy" and said politicians in the current government had "gone off the rails".
Bernard Feringa was born in 1951 in Barger-Compascuum, in the Netherlands. He is a professor in organic chemistry at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
In 1999, Prof Feringa led the first research to produce a molecular motor that continually spins in the same direction.
In 2011, his group built a four-wheel-drive nanocar: a molecular chassis holding together four motors that functioned as wheels.
Commenting on the award, he said: "I feel a little bit like the Wright Brothers who were flying 100 years ago for the first time and people were saying why do we need a flying machine and now we have a Boeing 747 and an Airbus.
"The opportunities are great."
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2015 - Discoveries in DNA repair earned Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar the award.
2014 - Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner were awarded the prize for improving the resolution of optical microscopes.
2013 - Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel shared the prize, for devising computer simulations of chemical processes.
2012 - Work that revealed how protein receptors pass signals between living cells and the environment won the prize for Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka.
2011 - Dan Schechtman received the prize for discovering the "impossible" structure of quasicrystals.
2010 - Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were recognised for developing new ways of linking carbon atoms together.
2009 - Discovering the structure and function of our cells' "protein factories", earned the chemistry Nobel for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath.
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Fifteen felines have been nominated for an award which is split into five categories, including the coveted "Cat of the Year" category.
One of the nominees is Houdini the cat, who has been helping his autistic owner Harri to feel happier and more confident.
The results will be released at an ceremony in August.
A Conservative MP proposed immediate decriminalisation - but ministers are backing a revised amendment giving them power to make the change in the future.
The amendment also proposes a review of penalties for non-payment, which must be completed within 15 months.
The BBC says decriminalisation could cost it £200m through greater evasion.
A TV licence, which is required if a user watches or records live broadcasts on any device in the UK, costs £145.50 per year.
By Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
The difference between a criminal and civil offence is that one leads to a criminal punishment because it is an offence against all of society, while the other seeks to redress a wrong committed by one person on another.
In practice, magistrates don't jail people for criminal failure to pay a TV licence unless they have refused to pay a previous fine. That's because prisons are a last resort - reserved for the worst offenders.
If someone commits a civil offence, there will be a finding against them in court which can include an order to make amends, including damages. If that person fails to comply with that order, that's an offence against the court which can lead to jail.
In English law, civil damages are more limited than myth would have it - so a future civil penalty could be no more than the price of a licence fee plus legal costs.
Those who refuse to pay face a £1,000 fine and a criminal record, as well as the prospect of jail if fines are not paid.
A senior Downing Street source said Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who tabled a proposal in the House of Commons to decriminalise non-payment, had "genuinely changed government thinking on the matter".
Mr Bridgen's original proposal - which was among amendments to the Deregulation Bill going through Parliament - aimed at forcing a vote on immediate decriminalisation. It was signed by 150 MPs.
Mr Bridgen has now tabled a revised proposal calling for a review of the "appropriate" sanctions for non-payment of TV licences. The review would have to be completed within 15 months of the Deregulation Bill being passed.
His amendments would also give ministers power under "statutory instrument" - meaning no further Act of Parliament was needed - to "replace the TV licensing offences with civil monetary penalties".
This power could be used only during a two-year period, starting from the completion of the proposed review. After that it would require approval by both Houses of Parliament.
The revised proposal will be considered at a parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "The BBC is content that this proposal balances a timely examination of this issue with a proper review of the options, while not taking any decisions prior to charter review."
The BBC's royal charter, which sets out the corporation's purposes and the way it is run, is reviewed every 10 years and the current one runs until the end of 2016.
The BBC Trust - which is the governing body of the BBC - said the licence fee issue should be "discussed in the round", taking account of the possible effect on BBC output.
It said any decisions should be made "as part of the charter review process".
"This amendment appears to be in line with that," it said.
Earlier this month, the corporation's strategy director, James Purnell, warned BBC channels could close if non-payment of the licence fee was decriminalised.
He said it would be a "huge risk" which would increase non-payment and cost the BBC £200m a year in lost licence fee revenue.
The sum is the equivalent to the costs of BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies, which would have to be taken off air, he said.
His comments followed a decision to make BBC Three an online-only channel as part of ongoing cost-cutting measures.
On Friday, Mr Purnell said: "We do some research quite regularly and one of the things that people know is that at the moment it [non-payment of the licence fee] is a criminal offence and that does seem to be a deterrent. So we want something that is just as effective in future."
He said it could be "the current system under the amendment that has gone down", a civil system or a completely different system looked at in the context of charter review.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller has previously said "decriminalisation of the licence fee should be on the table" during the charter review.
With TV licensing cases accounting for 180,000 - or more than one in 10 - criminal prosecutions in 2012, decriminalisation could ease pressure on the courts system, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said.
Of those prosecuted in 2012, about 155,000 people were convicted and fined for non-payment.
The General Medical Council rules, coming into force in June for private clinics and the NHS, make it clear that patients must not be rushed or cajoled into having surgery.
Promotional tactics like two-for-one offers are banned.
Doctors who break the rules could be struck off the medical register.
The surgeon or practitioner who is carrying out the cosmetic procedure - be that a breast implant, face lift or botox injections - must fully explain the risks of any procedure and should make sure patients know who to contact if they experience any complications, say the guidelines.
They are in response to a review of the industry in 2013 by Prof Sir Bruce Keogh which found few safeguards for patients, particularly for those undergoing non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as dermal fillers.
"In fact, a person having a non-surgical cosmetic intervention has no more protection and redress than someone buying a ballpoint pen or a toothbrush," his report to government concluded.
The GMC says most doctors who do cosmetic procedures do so at a high standard "but we do sometimes come across poor practice, and it is important that patients are protected from this and that doctors understand what is expected from them".
The GMC has been working with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which is launching its own set of professional standards for cosmetic surgeons.
The RCS is also calling on the government to introduce new legislation at the next Queen's Speech in May to make sure surgeons are certified to carry out cosmetic operations.
It is hoped the measures will put an end to botched and unethical procedures.
Victoria Ashton, a mum from Leeds, had breast implants in 2008 that she later found out might be faulty with a high risk of rupturing in the body. She's now part of a campaign group for the 47,000 UK women similarly affected by the PIP implant scandal.
She believes the guidelines should help consumers, but says the public needs to be more aware of the potential risks of surgery.
"Think twice," she said. "Profit before people is basically our experience of the cosmetic surgery industry. They are all lovely to you in the process of having your operations.
"As soon as your operation is over and done with and you are out of the period in which they look after you, they don't really want to know."
A post-mortem examination showed John Clift, 54, suffered the heart attack prior to the collision near Pwllheli on April 29.
Mr Clift died at the scene of natural causes.
The office of North West Wales coroner, Dewi Pritchard Jones, said there would not be an inquest into the death.
The incident between an emergency ambulance and a patient care service ambulance happened on the A499, north of Y Ffor.
Mr Clift, from Pwllheli, was driving the service ambulance.
Davies, who was injured in last month's defeat by Southend, has scored 11 goals in 30 games this season.
And the 29-year-old believes his injury held up contract negotiations.
"It's something me and the manager have been talking about for a couple of weeks, and if it wasn't for my injury, we probably would have got the deal done sooner," he told the club website.
"I've been focusing on rehabilitating properly from that, then we got down to business to get the deal done.
"The injury came at a difficult time, so for the gaffer to still want to give me a new deal was great."
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Hans Reid appeared at the city's sheriff court after the bus was taken from Aberdeen Bus Station on Saturday night.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
The charges included theft and culpable and reckless driving. He was also charged with a number of road traffic offences.
These included offences relating to driving under the influence of drink or drugs, having no licence, no insurance and failing to stop.
Mr Reid was also charged with assaulting a police officer, vandalism and failing to give his details.
The bus was reported to have collided with other vehicles. No-one was injured.
The majority of the jobs, 43, are posts that are being transferred from the firm's offices in the US and Europe.
The remaining 24 positions are to be created as a result of "projected natural growth at its Belfast office over the next three years".
Invest NI has offered the firm £348,400 to support the move.
The money is in addition to the £2.5m that Invest NI gave them two years ago, to support the firm's decision to relocate to Northern Ireland.
It is understood that the 43 employees whose jobs are due to be transferred to Belfast will be offered the option of relocating to the city.
Should they decline, their posts will then be advertised.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster welcomed the announcement as "positive news for our economy and the legal services sector".
"Having located here in 2011, Allen & Overy has rapidly grown its presence and is already well ahead of its recruitment schedule with 300 people employed across a range of support and legal functions," the minister added.
In February 2011 the firm announced it was moving 180 back-office jobs from its base in London to its new office in Belfast, and said it believed it could save £10m over five years through its relocation to Northern Ireland.
At the time, the firm also said it hoped to employ as many as 300 staff based in Belfast by 2014. The jobs announced on Thursday are in addition to that 2011 figure.
Andrew Brammer, Head of Allen & Overy's Support Services Centre, said: "Since our investment in 2011 we have been continually impressed with the contribution our Belfast office has made in supporting the delivery of high quality legal services to Allen & Overy's international client base.
"We are ahead of where we thought we would be in terms of recruitment under the original investment as we have found a wealth of highly skilled and talented people from which to grow our operation.
"In a difficult global economy, Northern Ireland has provided us with an effective and competitive location from which to grow our business," he added.
"Do the Maths 2015" says the government is not providing enough cash for new school places needed in the capital.
The report, from London Councils, says 78,000 secondary and 34,000 more primary places will be needed by 2020.
The government says its free schools programme will create 270,000 school places in England over five years.
London Councils, which represents the 32 London boroughs, plus the City of London, fears crunch time is rapidly approaching for the capital's education budgets.
There has been "unprecedented growth in demand" for school places in London, says the report.
The number of school-age children (aged five to 19) increased by 112,000 in London in the five years to 2015.
Local authorities have a legal responsibility to ensure there are enough school places. So far, schools and London boroughs have managed to provide these places.
But London's school-age population is forecast to rise by another 12% over the next five years, nearly twice the rate for the rest of England.
By 2020, there are expected to be 146,000 more five to 19-year-olds in London than there are now.
This represents about a quarter of the overall increase expected in England.
The authors warn that while the focus so far has been on primary schools, demand has now reached secondary schools, which are more complex, requiring specialist facilities such as art blocks and laboratories.
Providing new secondary places could cost up to twice as much as primary places, says the report.
The report asks the government to fully fund the continued expansion of schools in London by allocating at least £1.5bn to create new school places in the two years from 2018 to 2020.
So far, says the report, councils in London have had to borrow, sell assets and divert funds from school maintenance to provide extra places.
They warn this is not sustainable as the places crunch continues.
"At a time when budgets are under pressure across the board, boroughs cannot continue to subsidise the cost of school places in London," said Peter John, London Councils' executive member for children, skills and employment.
"Time is running out for the government to fully support councils' efforts to provide primary and secondary school places in the capital over the next five years.
"Councils in London have worked exceptionally hard with school heads and governors since 2010. But without sufficient resources it will be extremely difficult to manage complex primary expansions and meet the rising demand for secondary school places in the future," warned Mr John.
The report says the government's commitment to new free schools will help meet some of the need for places but urges the Department for Education "to ensure all new free schools are prioritised in areas of need".
The government said it had doubled funding for school places to £5bn during the last parliament, creating half a million new school places since May 2010, with a further £7bn committed to create more places over the next six years.
A DfE spokeswoman said: "London has benefited significantly from this investment, receiving almost £2bn in the last four years, almost 40% of all the funding provided to local councils for new places.
"In London alone, free schools have already created almost 50,000 school places.
"Today, we have approved a further two new London free schools and 18 more are opening in the capital this term, creating an extra 9,000 school places, giving parents more choice than ever before."
Rovers went ahead on 24 minutes through midfielder Liam Noble, whose free-kick from the wing went all the way in for his first goal for the club.
Darren Carter doubled the lead when his left-footed strike left Chester goalkeeper Jon Worsnop helpless, giving the visitors much needed breathing space.
Chester pulled a goal back when Elliot Durrell finished from Jordan Chappell's through-ball with 11 minutes remaining, but it was not enough as Rovers overhauled Tranmere at the summit.
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REACTION: Forest Green manager Mark Cooper speaks to BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Match ends, Chester FC 1, Forest Green Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 1, Forest Green Rovers 2.
Matt Tubbs (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Sam Russell (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Fabien Robert replaces Keanu Marsh-Brown.
Goal! Chester FC 1, Forest Green Rovers 2. Elliott Durrell (Chester FC).
Substitution, Chester FC. Jordan Chapell replaces James Alabi.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Matt Tubbs replaces Rhys Murphy.
Blaine Hudson (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Tom Shaw.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Elliott Frear replaces Ben Jefford.
Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 2. Darren Carter (Forest Green Rovers).
Second Half begins Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
First Half ends, Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Ben Jefford (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers).
Darren Carter (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Conservative idea that caught my eye is "flash incarceration".
This is a new kind-of jail term for prolific offenders, which, according to their manifesto, will deliver a "short, sharp" spell in custody - a throwback to Willie Whitelaw's "short, sharp shock" of the 1980s.
Under the plan, offenders who breach community orders would be detained for 48 hours in police cells.
But how will over-stretched police forces cope with that?
And will the scheme, based on a programme across 18 US states which the Tories say has significantly cut re-offending, prove to be more than an election gimmick?
Labour's law and order offering includes a commitment to "keep police on the beat", with a guarantee that neighbourhood policing will be protected in every community.
They have identified hundreds of millions of pounds of savings to safeguard 10,000 police officers they claim will be cut under the Tories.
I would like to know if Labour will promise to maintain officer numbers across the full five-year parliament - and how they can reach their savings target when many forces already complain that they can't make further efficiencies without compromising safety.
The stand-out Liberal Democrat proposal is on drugs, an issue that has hardly featured in the campaign.
The Lib Dems would end imprisonment for people caught with drugs for personal use; users wouldn't get a criminal record, but receive civil penalties and be diverted into treatment or education.
But are the Lib Dems worried about the message that might send to young people who are considering experimenting with illegal substances and would they reverse it if they found it led to an increase in the number of users?
This election issue includes policing, crime prevention and the criminal justice system.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Central to UKIP's crime policy plans is a pledge to remove foreign criminals.
But, as successive governments have found, however hard you try to remove foreign offenders, you can't if the receiving country won't take them. Why should UKIP's ideas be any different?
The Greens would expand the use of restorative justice and operate a smaller prison system, with inmates given the right to vote. But are their plans workable?
Restorative justice isn't suitable for all crimes, it relies on the victim to take part and the results are often mixed.
As for Plaid Cymru, the main plank of their proposals is to devolve criminal justice policy to Wales.
But how does that fit into a world in which cross-border crime is said to be on the increase, and the National Crime Squad is playing an increasingly influential role in co-ordinating the fight against serious and organised crime?
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Helen Birtwhistle, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said 20,000 English patients were registered with Welsh GPs compared to 15,000 Welsh patients with English GPs.
No extra money comes to Wales for the additional 5,000 patients, she said.
She was giving evidence to the Welsh Affairs committee on Tuesday, in the wake of a bitter political row over Labour's record running the NHS in Wales.
Addressing a UN summit on development goals, Mr Xi said investment would reach $12bn over the next 15 years.
He also said China would cancel debts to the world's least developed nations, including small island nations.
Beijing, he added, would assist in 600 overseas projects in the next five years and offer more scholarships.
'End poverty' - and 16 more UN Global Goals
"Looking around the world, the peace and development remain the two major themes of the times," the Chinese leader said at the summit in New York.
"To solve various global challenges, including the recent refugee crisis in Europe, the fundamental solutions lie in seeking peace and realising development.
"Facing with various challenges and difficulties, we must keep hold of the key of the development. Only the development can eliminate the causes of the conflicts," Mr Xi said.
His pledges of aid give a big boost to the launch of the UN's new Global Goals for Sustainable Development - the day after all members states committed themselves to a hugely ambitious programme, the BBC's James Robbins in New York reports.
The plan aims to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030.
It was China's extraordinary record shifting so many families out the ranks of the poor which ensured that the overall global record in poverty reduction under the previous Millennium Development Goals was substantial, our correspondent says.
But it was very patchy, he says, adding that now China is offering to help other countries - particularly in Africa - make the same transformation.
This new initiative also suggests China is willing to take on more of the responsibilities that go with its status as emerging superpower, our correspondent adds.
The incident took place after the victim said "no" when asked if he had a cigarette by two men on Oldham Street at 20:25 GMT on Wednesday.
Greater Manchester Police revealed details of the "hate crime" on Twitter.
The force said officers were looking at CCTV and offering support to the victim.
Military officials believe hundreds, possibly thousands, of people remain trapped in districts close to the city centre in which mopping-up operations against the last remaining Islamic State (IS) fighters are continuing.
They may have gone into hiding hoping that Iraqi forces will clear their areas as soon as possible.
A few hundred did manage to escape. About 60 families were taken to safety in the nearby town of Habbaniyah by the security forces on Tuesday night.
They were rescued hours earlier near the former government compound and were handed food and water.
Among them were many women, children and elderly people.
"We tried to get closer to where the army was and we screamed for help. When they heard us, they rushed towards us," Ferdous Shabban said.
She explained that IS fighters wanted to take them to another district but that many families refused and shut their doors. The jihadists then opened fire on their houses.
Ramadi largely emptied in the months leading up to last week's offensive as Iraqi forces progressively surrounded the city to suffocate IS fighters, who took control in May.
Tens of thousands of people sought shelter in Habbaniyah or in camps set up on the road leading to the capital, Baghdad, about 90km (55 miles) to the east.
Ibrahim Najm took his family to "Habbaniyah Tourist City" in August.
This is a tourist resort that was erected on the shores of Lake Habbaniyah in the late 1970s and quickly became an attractive destination for tourists from all over the Middle East.
It is still called "Tourist City" - even in aid agencies' reports - but tourists have long been replaced by displaced people.
"The conditions here are terrible," Mr Najm said over the phone.
"We've been living in a tent all this long, it doesn't protect us from the rain; it's very muddy."
Mr Najm's family was given a heater to cope with the cold. But they worry they do not have enough fuel for the whole winter.
Local authorities are distributing food to displaced people in Habbaniyah Tourist City but Mr Najm complains that it is "far from enough."
"They give us 1kg (2.2lbs) of flour every five days to make bread but we are twelve in the family!"
"We survive on different kinds of beans."
More than 300 families have been squatting in one of the derelict resort hotels, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
It says the building has no running water, heating or electricity while stagnant water on lower floors is damaging its foundations.
Conditions in the hotel are so dire that aid agencies are building a new camp nearby to relocate these families into new shelters.
Ramadi is a city that has been sacrificed in battle. The scale of destruction is enormous, delaying the prospect of return for those who lived in areas that have been liberated.
"We hope to go back as soon as possible, but we heard on the news that it has been so destroyed I know it's not going to happen any time soon," lamented Mr Najm.
The UN says it will be essential to ensure conditions are in place for people to return in safety.
Areas are still insecure, littered with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and booby-traps; electricity and water services have been damaged.
The government is planning to hand over responsibility for securing and stabilising the city to Sunni tribal fighters, local and federal police, allowing Iraqi security forces to move to other battlefields.
Shia militias have been kept from the frontline to avoid a sectarian backlash following reports of abuses after they played a central role in the retaking of the predominantly Sunni northern city of Tikrit earlier this year.
A failure to prevent reprisals by Shia militia fighters against the Sunnis of Ramadi could put the stabilisation process at risk.
But we are not even there yet, and it may take days before Iraqi security forces regain full control of the city.
In the meantime, aid agencies are providing emergency assistance to the displaced people - plastic sheets to insulate tents, jerry cans for water and toiletries.
"It makes me feel bad to see my family in a tent all day," Mr Najm says. "We have nothing to do, we're even bored."
"All day long I wonder: 'What is our future?'"
Fabio Barone covered the nearly 11km (6.8 mile) route in just 10 minutes 31 seconds, on 21 September.
The road has 99 sharp turns on its way up Tianmen Mountain, rising from 200 to 1,300 metres above sea level.
He had his Ferrari specially modified for the attempt, shaving crucial kilos off its weight by swapping metal for carbon fibre parts.
Mr Barone is not new to racing hairy mountain roads, having set another speed record last year on the Transfagarasan mountain road in the Transylvanian Alps in Romania.
Tianmen Mountain is no stranger to extreme motor sports either, having hosted a Red Bull "drift king" event, for adrenaline-seeking drivers to slide their cars around its tight bends.
England, emboldened by their three-goal lead, knocked it about as if toying with the tired Scots. They passed and passed and passed and, all the while, the visitors chased and chased and chased. Forlornly.
The scene had an audible and visual backdrop. England supporters cried 'Ole!' and, in the air, they waved their white tee-shirts - a gift from the FA. Wembley basked in Scotland's hopelessness.
You wonder how many of the home crowd were around when Scotland lorded it in this place nearly 50 years ago, but there were echoes of that here.
There was nobody of Jim Baxter's class and no mocking keepy-uppy of that storied victory in 1967, but in those closing stages on Friday, the English message was the same as the Scottish one all those years ago - this is easy, oh so easy.
The Tartan Army could have closed their eyes to avoid it all, but there was no respite in the dark either.
No matter what you do, there is no escaping the fact that Scotland are now fifth in their World Cup group. Fifth - despite being seeded third - and on life support in terms of a shot at qualification.
Gordon Strachan said that the game was cruel on his players - "really cruel" - but it wasn't. Footballing cruelty is borne out of an unlucky break or a refereeing blunder, not from your own inability to convert the chances you create and your own shortcomings in dealing with the chances created by others.
How could Grant Hanley's first-half header, which threatened the floodlights more than Joe Hart's goal, be deemed cruel? How could Leigh Griffiths' terrible error of judgement in shooting, instead of playing in Robert Snodgrass, be presented as a hard luck story? How could James Forrest's weak shot, early in the second half, be considered an example of the Gods being against the Scots?
Cruel was not the word. And this game wasn't even the place where the damage was done.
Everything would not look so thunderously awful today had Scotland not been so bad in their two previous games. Had there been three points against Lithuania and even one point against Slovakia, people could have taken a 3-0 defeat against England on the chin and not folded in a heap.
As it is, another campaign has all but gone and this is a natural end for Strachan now. He refused to talk about his own position in the aftermath of Wembley, but it is untenable and surely he knows it.
People will indulge in fatalism. 'We don't have the players.' 'Changing the manager will make no difference.' 'It goes much deeper than one man.'
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Of course it does. It goes very deep. Scotland's demise as a nation - one which, for decades, produced a torrent of world-class players - is an epic story, a tale retold more often than The Mousetrap.
Have the debate (again) about the cause of all of this. Commission another blueprint. Get in the politicians and the sports management boffins if you like. Navel gaze to kingdom come.
Attempting to make things better in the future doesn't preclude you from trying to make things better in the present. Scotland needs a new manager.
Again the mantra goes that no man can conjure up a formidable set of centre-backs or the kind of predators in front of goal that were so absent on Friday. It's true, but the history of football is full of international managers who have inherited a failing squad and then hauled them forwards.
Strachan managed to do it himself for a short while. You don't have to look too far to find other examples.
Over in Dublin, Martin O'Neill inherited a Republic of Ireland squad that had, not long before, shipped nine goals in two qualifying games against Germany. They then dropped four points out of six against Scotland. O'Neill slowly turned things around.
The Republic went from losing 6-1 and 3-0 to Germany to beating them in what was the seminal moment of their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. They then beat Italy at the Euro 2016 finals to make the knockout stage.
It's too easy to say that the Republic's players are much better than Scotland's. Better? Yes. Is there a big gulf? No. Or, at least, there shouldn't be.
O'Neill's management has made them mentally strong, thoroughly organised and harder to break down. In terms of entertainment and class, they're no oil painting, but they're efficient.
The Irish team that beat Italy in France had defenders from Blackburn Rovers, Derby County and Burnley - all Championship clubs at the time. Behind their lone striker, they had a three-man unit drawn from Derby, Ipswich Town and Norwich City.
They had Shane Long up front. Long is a good player, but O'Neill's Ireland were hardly a team of all the talents.
Travel further north and you find a prime example of a manager making a difference. Before Michael O'Neill took over Northern Ireland, they were a soft touch and were utterly irrelevant and largely ignored in European football.
In the campaign before his appointment - Euro 2012 - Northern Ireland won just two of their 10 games. They drew 1-1 with the Faroes and lost 4-1 to Estonia. Things were grim.
The things you are hearing now about Scotland just not having the players is precisely what they were saying in Northern Ireland five years ago. No players, no prospect of players, no hope of any manager being able to alter that.
The squad that O'Neill took to the last 16 of the Euros last summer had just five players who were performing most weeks in the Premier League. He had four from the Scottish Premiership, one from Melbourne City and the rest from the English Championship and English League One. His three goalkeepers came from Hamilton Accies, St Johnstone and Notts County and had a combined age of 109.
On Friday night, as Scotland were losing at Wembley, Northern Ireland moved into second place in their own qualifying group following a 4-0 victory over Azerbaijan in Belfast. Azerbaijan had beaten Norway at home and had got a 0-0 away to the Czech Republic, but Northern Ireland put them away with the minimum of fuss.
In his starting line-up, O'Neill had players from Fleetwood Town, Millwall, Norwich, Blackburn, Charlton Athletic and Brighton. On the bench, he had two from St Johnstone and one each from Rangers, Aberdeen, Ross County, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Shrewsbury Town, Rochdale, Burton Albion and Kerala Blasters in India.
O'Neill, who lives in Edinburgh, has done a magnificent job. He has made a little go a long, long way. With his assistant, Scotsman Austin MacPhee, they are doing what Scotland are failing to do - and they're doing it with meagre playing resources compared to the ones at Strachan's disposal.
Forget Wembley. Would O'Neill's team have failed to beat Lithuania at home? Would they have surrendered so meekly against Slovakia away?
Northern Ireland have made the most of what they have - and there is a lesson in that for Scotland.
If the curtain comes down on Strachan's reign, then O'Neill would be a good starting point in the search for a new manager. Would he take it? The time is fast approaching when Stewart Regan needs to start asking that question for himself.
The 23-year-old's deal is subject to a medical, which will take place after he returns from Chile, where he has been playing for Brazil in the Copa America.
Firmino, who has scored 47 goals in 151 games for Hoffenheim, becomes the Reds' second most expensive player.
The Anfield club made Andy Carroll their record signing when he joined them for £35m from Newcastle in 2011.
They also paid Southampton £25m for Adam Lallana in 2014, and have already brought in Burnley striker Danny Ings, goalkeeper Adam Bogdan, defender Joe Gomez and midfielder James Milner this summer.
The Reds have so far resisted two offers from Manchester City for England forward Raheem Sterling.
Firmino, who has spent the last four and a half seasons in the Bundesliga, was on target for Brazil in their 2-1 Copa America victory over Venezuela on Sunday.
In the absence of Neymar, who has been suspended for the rest of the tournament, Firmino and Philippe Coutinho, who is already a Liverpool player, are set to start again in Saturday's quarter-final against Paraguay.
The North York Moors National Park commissioned report has looked at the impact of the nearly five-year construction of the site.
Developers Sirius Minerals claimed the mine would create 1,000 direct jobs.
The park authority will make a decision on whether to grant permission for the mine at a meeting on 30 June.
Even after completion of the York Potash Project, consultants Amec Foster Wheeler believe it could cost a further £5m a year to the tourism industry.
The tourism sector is of key importance to the economy of the National Park and of Whitby, bringing in £177m - £104m of it to Whitby - in 2013, according to a separate report.
But a spokesman from York Potash said the company had already committed to contribute £500,000 a year during construction.
He said this would be split between Welcome to Yorkshire, the North York Moors National Park Authority, Visit England and Visit Britain, and was predicted to generate a return of £60.3m over the construction period.
York Potash said it would also double train services between Whitby and Middlesbrough, and give £400,000 for directional signage to the North York Moors National Park from main roads nearby.
Amec Foster Wheeler raised particular concerns about the volume of HGV traffic on the area's roads as a result of the mine.
The report said there was a "legitimate concern" that visitors may choose to go elsewhere if they know there is a major construction site.
Potash is a salt which contains potassium and is usually used in fertilisers.
Councillors at Redcar and Cleveland Council have already approved plans for the mine and mineral transport system but Sirius Minerals - which owns York Potash - still needs permission from the national park.
A tunnel planned to run underground from the Doves Nest Farm site to a processing plant at Teesside would be 37km long.
Looking forward there has been a warning that the government's planned £8bn a year extra by 2020 will not be enough.
Looking back, it has become clear that the Department of Health only just kept within the budget agreed by Parliament last year.
First, the department's annual report for the 2014/15 year and what it tells us.
If this sounds dull and technical and not everybody's idea of a gripping read, please bear with me.
The report was issued on Tuesday in the final hours of the parliamentary session and shone new light on what it costs to keep the NHS in England afloat.
On the important day-to-day spending definition (known to the cognoscenti as RDEL), the Department of Health shelled out £110.5bn in the financial year which ended in March.
The annual report says this was an under-spend of £1.2m on the total agreed by Parliament.
That may sound like a reasonable cushion but in Whitehall terms it's nothing - equivalent to 0.001% of the budget. It is rather like ending the month with one penny in the bank account after paying the mortgage and all the bills.
Given that only two years ago the department ended the year with an under-spend of £1.5bn, the £1.2m result in 2014/15 is put into some sort of context.
The job of finance chiefs in steering the department through to the end of the year within the agreed budget has been likened to landing a Harrier jet on a tennis court.
For the year just ended it must have been like landing that jump jet on a flower bed.
All this is more intriguing because the Department of Health only just scraped by despite an injection of £890m in extra funding over the course of the financial year.
This consisted of £250m of money quietly transferred from Treasury reserves, with the rest moved from investment budgets into covering day-to-day running costs.
So it was a close-run thing in 2014/15, and the current financial year does not look as if it will be any easier.
Deficits at health trusts seem set to be bigger than last year.
Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, told MPs on Tuesday that the single biggest factor was the rapid growth in spending on agency staff. It was critical, he said, that this was dialled back in the months ahead.
Further afield, ministers are hoping that the £8bn annual funding boost by 2020 which they have promised will be enough for the NHS in England to continue delivering current levels of care. But a report out on Wednesday by two leading think tanks challenges that assumption.
The Health Foundation and the King's Fund have called for more investment over and above the £8bn to create what they call a transformation fund.
This vehicle, the authors say, would invest in measures needed to create longer-term efficiency savings - for example, the retraining of some frontline staff and the development of new ways of caring for patients.
The NHS, they argue, will not become more productive without upfront investment of an extra £1.5 - £2bn per year.
But the think tanks received short shrift from the government, with a spokesperson pointing out that the NHS had asked in its five-year strategy paper for the £8bn by 2020 and now had to get on with the job of finding efficiency savings.
But the thorny question of money and what is deliverable by the health service will continue to cause furrowed brows in Whitehall and Downing Street as the autumn spending review approaches.
The reigning world champion, Nico Rosberg, has walked off into the sunset. The cars have evolved, with new rules allowing them to become bigger, faster and more aggressive-looking.
But the most significant transformation has taken place behind the scenes.
Formula 1 is under new ownership. Control has passed from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to the US group Liberty Media.
As a result, former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, the man who is credited with turning F1 into one of the world's most lucrative sports, has finally stepped down at the age of 86.
The new chief executive is Chase Carey, a veteran of the US media industry and a former associate of Rupert Murdoch. He has already suggested that F1 "needs a fresh start".
So what might actually be changed?
In commercial terms, Formula 1 is a curious beast. It is certainly lucrative. In 2015, its revenues reached $1.7bn, according to motorsport analysts Formula Money. Yet teams towards the back of the grid often struggle to make ends meet.
Earlier this year, the Manor team finally closed down after several years of financial problems. Its collapse followed those of HRT and Caterham, who folded in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
And even as revenues have been rising, TV audiences have been falling.
The sport claimed 400 million viewers in 2016, down from a peak of 600 million in 2008. That may be partly due to a shift towards pay-TV in major markets such as the UK, Italy, France and Spain.
Formula 1 is an expensive business: even the smallest teams employ about 200 people, and it costs at least $100m just to get on to the starting grid. Remaining there, however, is the biggest challenge.
Small squads that don't win races and that don't get much television airtime often struggle to raise the sponsorship they need.
And although roughly half of F1's revenues are distributed among the teams, they are not divided equally.
Part of this is merit-based. The higher you finish in the World Championship, the more money you get. But some teams get extra bonuses, irrespective of how well they perform.
Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes and Williams all get extra funding. And Ferrari gets more than $60m simply for turning up, because of its place in the sport's heritage.
The smaller teams think this is deeply unfair and argue that because in F1, success is heavily linked to financial resources, it distorts the competition. In 2015, the Sauber and Force India teams lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission.
Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn says she hopes matters will change under Liberty Media.
Talks so far, she says, have been "very encouraging". Although altering the way payments are made would inevitably mean some of the larger teams getting less, she thinks they will co-operate.
"Why shouldn't it happen?" she says. "The big teams know that the show has to be a healthy show.
"If viewing figures continue to go down and we don't have that 'aha effect', sponsorship will go down and they will suffer equally, probably more, because they need more money to keep their operations going."
Graeme Lowdon, a motor racing entrepreneur who helped to found the Manor team, agrees that a more level playing field is needed,
"What people want to see in F1 is a sport where skill is rewarded," he says.
"The sports that have grown in the past few years are the ones that are focused on parity, such as the NFL."
Another area where change may be needed is in how F1 reaches out to its fanbase.
In recent years, the sport has focused on maximising its revenues, but despite expanding into new markets, it has arguably failed to attract a new generation of enthusiasts.
Races have been held in countries with little or no F1 heritage or established audiences, but where governments have proved willing to pay ever-higher sanctioning fees in exchange for the glamour associated with hosting a grand prix.
At the same time, fewer events have been held in the sport's European heartlands, where organisers are less willing to pay more than $30m for the privilege.
Liberty Media appears keen to reverse that trend and introduce new races in the United States, in an effort to broaden the sport's appeal.
That could mean getting rid of lucrative but controversial events like the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which Liberty Media's chief executive Greg Maffei recently said "does nothing to build the long-term brand and health of the business".
However, according to Formula Money's Christian Sylt, that strategy may not work if F1 wants to keep its revenues at their current level.
"I do not believe there is a 'big ticket' alternative revenue stream to race hosting fees", he says.
But perhaps the biggest challenge of all is to bring in a new generation of enthusiasts.
"We need to do something to connect with younger fans," says Sauber's Monisha Kaltenborn. "You know, we don't want people who are just 40-something watching the sport. We have to go into digital media and social media far more.
"That's not a question about instantly making money, but it's about positioning yourself towards young people, so that tomorrow they'll come and watch a race."
Former Jordan team commercial manager Ian Phillips puts it even more bluntly. "At the moment Formula 1, it hurts me to say it, is just not that exciting," he says.
The problem, he thinks, is cost. Champions Mercedes spend upwards of $400m a year on their cars, and other teams simply can't compete. So the racing becomes boring.
"I have a 13-year-old son who just watches the first lap, then he goes away," he says.
So wealthy F1 may be - but if it can't attract the kids, it may well find itself overtaken by other, more appealing sports before long.
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Susan and Terence Greer, of Merseyside, admitted conning vulnerable people into believing grants were available for their windows and doors.
They advertised their company Green extensively until they were stopped by Denbighshire council in 2013.
They also lied about selling top quality glass, Mold Crown Court heard.
Gary Parle, who supplied the windows, was ordered to pay £30,000 compensation and £10,000 costs.
He told the court he had got involved because he wanted to recover a debt owed to him by the Greers.
All three defendants admitted a fraudulent trading charge.
The court heard the Greers led a number of elderly and disabled people in Rhyl and Rhuddlan to believe they were entitled to government and EU grants on UPVC products.
But the 14 complainants did not receive the windows they believed they would be getting and felt conned.
Judge Niclas Parry told the Greers: "You gave the impression that you were helping them. In fact, what you were doing was taking advantage of their vulnerabilities".
He said false documents and leaflets showed there was significant planning and the scam had been "pre-meditated".
Mrs Greer, 54, and her 76-year-old husband, who live in Birkenhead, were given a two year prison sentence suspended for two years. Mrs Greer, who was said to primarily operate the company, was also ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work.
Yale Howarth was spoken to by staff at Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen, Denbighshire, after the girl said she was not sure if she had sex with a boy at a party, before later naming him.
He was found by his father at the family home in Chirk in January 2013 and died the next day in hospital.
The inquest is due to last three days.
During the hearing, Sally Roberts, assistant learning manager at the school, said the female pupil told her she had been to a party and "she didn't know if she'd had sex with a boy or not".
Initially, the girl did not name any individuals, and was taken to a local chemist where she was given a morning after pill.
Later, she named the boy as Yale and, on 22 January, he was spoken to by staff at the school, the inquest was told.
The girl also told the school's inclusion manager Wendy Gwilliam she had been to a party and "was drunk and didn't remember anything". The girl also told her: "I don't know if I had sex."
Ms Gwilliam said she believed she had to report the incident because she knew the girl had been drunk.
After discussions with colleagues, they contacted social services the following day, who said the matter needed to be referred to the child protection team.
Ms Gwilliam said social services also advised them to speak to Yale about the matter.
In written statements, Yale's parents, Mark and Della, said they had no idea what happened at school earlier that day as their son returned home as normal and went into their converted garage which he used to rehearse with his band.
They tried to resuscitate him using CPR after finding him in the garage.
They alerted paramedics who took him to Wrexham Maelor Hospital, where he died.
It costs just over £10 to buy, but sits alongside a £30,000 white gold rattle and a teddy bear from the President of the United States.
They feature on a list of presents given to the royal baby in the year since her birth.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Hogan explained how the hand-made gift ended up in the princess's possession.
"In May last year, the Prince of Wales came over to Galway and I thought it would be a nice idea to give it to him.
"He gave it to Charlotte, I don't know when exactly, the first I heard of it was when I saw the rattle on the list of gifts.
"I can imagine that not all the gifts for the princess make it through, so I was really chuffed to find out mine had."
He said the rattle was made from willow and contained seven stones, which symbolised the seven deadly sins.
"When the child shakes the rattle, she is shaking away those evils", he said.
When quizzed about how the rattle would stand the test of time he said it could "go a bit soggy" if Princess Charlotte decided to chew the top as many babies do.
Threatening calls and emails were made to the billionaire, whose 2005 takeover of the club was fiercely opposed, according to Associated Press.
One threat involved a man with a British accent who made menacing calls saying he wished Mr Glazer was "dead".
No-one was charged as the source of the threats could not be identified.
The FBI released more than 120 pages of records, including details of the threats, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press news agency.
The papers show that on 12 May 2005 - the day Mr Glazer became the majority shareholder at Old Trafford - a man with a British accent called the headquarters of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the American football franchise also owned by the Glazer family.
He ended the call by saying he wished Mr Glazer was dead.
A second call, made by a man identifying himself as a member of a supporters' group, warned that Mr Glazer's family would be in danger unless he backed down from his takeover bid.
In a third call, a man claiming to be the same caller said he knew people who "were ready to take action against Glazer".
The caller said: "I am giving you another warning" and set a deadline for Mr Glazer to abandon his takeover bid.
Glazer, who never actually set foot inside Old Trafford, gradually bought out United shareholders between 2003 and 2005 before launching a £790m takeover largely funded by loans secured against the club's assets.
At the time, many Manchester United supporters opposed foreign ownership, and launched protests, fearing the businessman could sell off the stadium, raise prices and saddle the club with debt.
Greater Manchester Police also investigated alleged threats made against the American, who died in May aged 85, but no-one was charged.
Striker Luuk De Jong got the home team on their way from Luciano Narsingh's pass and Memphis Depay made it 2-0 with a superb free-kick.
Joey van den Berg pulled a goal back for Heerenveen but De Jong headed in his second from Jetro Willems' cross.
De Jong turned provider to set up Narsingh in the closing stages as PSV won their 22nd league title.
The victory moved PSV 13 points clear of second-placed Ajax, who have only 12 left to play for.
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) said she had received a complaint relating to Andy Marsh's role in Hampshire Constabulary's investigations at Stanbridge Earls School in Romsey.
A 2014 inquiry by Essex Police cleared him of misconduct allegations.
Another force is now set to investigate the complaint.
During Mr Marsh's tenure as Hampshire chief constable, the force investigated two rape claims against students by a girl at the independent school for pupils with special needs in 2013.
Following allegations of misconduct against Mr Marsh over his handling of the investigation, a report by Essex Police found "no grounds to justify" the claims.
Avon and Somerset PCC Sue Mountstevens said she had received a complaint relating to meetings held by Hampshire Constabulary during its investigation into the rape claims.
"I reviewed this latest complaint and given the background and the previous 12-month investigation I felt the complaint could be dealt with locally and directly with the complainant," Ms Mountstevens said.
"The complainant has the right to appeal my decision.
"They have used that right, and the Independent Police Complaints Commission has referred the complaint back to me for local investigation, which means I will ask another police force to look at this."
Following the police investigation and Ofsted inspections which raised concerns about safeguarding of pupils, the independent school, which had boarding and day pupils aged from 10 to 19, closed in 2014 after calling in administrators.
Mr Marsh replaced Avon and Somerset chief constable Nick Gargan, who quit after being found guilty of misconduct by an independent panel.
It comes a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to try to find a solution to the UK's drive for reform.
Mr Fischer, an architect of European foreign policy, told the BBC that the UK was not a priority for Mrs Merkel.
Mr Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum.
But Mr Fischer said his advice to David Cameron was: "Don't lose yourself in wishful thinking.
"Angela Merkel will do nothing which will endanger the basic principles of the common market, of the EU," he told BBC Europe editor Katya Adler.
"And she has a much bigger problem to address - how to find a compromise in the currency union with Greece. That's her priority number one now."
Mr Fischer said it would be an "illusion" to think the UK would get special treatment because it is a major contributor to the EU budget.
He added: "What will the UK be without the EU? Go to Washington, ask them. The answer is very clear, very negative."
Last week, Mr Cameron made a whistle-stop tour of Europe trying to gather support for changes he wants before holding the UK's EU membership referendum.
After talks with the UK prime minister in Berlin, Mrs Merkel said she did not rule out future treaty changes in Europe.
"We would like to be a part of the process that is going on in Great Britain at the moment and we would like to be a constructive partner in this process," she said.
Mrs Merkel said her "clear-cut" view was that the UK should stay in the EU.
Mr Cameron has not set out in full detail the reforms he wants but analysts say they will include tougher rules to prevent migrants claiming benefits.
He also wants safeguards to protect the City of London in the event of closer eurozone integration and an exemption for Britain from the EU drive for "ever closer union".
The UK's in/out referendum will take place before the end of 2017.
Brian Tozer, 46, was struck by a vehicle in Andover in the early hours of Sunday and was found lying in the road by a passing motorist.
He was taken to Southampton General Hospital but died of his injuries. A 28-year-old man has been arrested.
Mr Tozer's family said they were "deeply saddened" by his "tragic and sudden death".
A statement said: "Brian was a wonderful, son, brother and uncle and will be greatly missed by us all including his extended family, friends and work colleagues."
A man from Andover was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and has been bailed until 28 June.
The crash happened near the Folly Roundabout, Redon Way, at about 00:45 GMT.
Poppi Iris Worthington died in December 2012, and her father, Paul, 46, and a 30-year-old woman were later arrested.
An inquest in October ruled the cause of death could not be ascertained and their bail has now been cancelled.
Police said the inquiry was continuing and a file had been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration whether to bring criminal proceedings.
Lynden Scourfield, a former manager with HBOS, pleaded guilty to six counts including corruption.
Five other defendants, including so-called turnaround consultants, were also convicted.
In exchange for bribes, Scourfield told customers to use the turnaround firm.
Mark Dobson, who was also a manager at HBOS, David Mills, and Michael Bancroft, were convicted at Southwark Crown Court on counts including bribery, fraud and money laundering.
Alison Mills, and John Cartwright were also convicted for their parts in the conspiracy while one other defendant, Jonathan Cohen, was acquitted.
Scourfield had been convicted after pleading guilty at an earlier trial last year.
The five newly convicted people will be sentenced on Thursday.
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The CPS special prosecutor, Stephen Rowland, said the case was one of the largest and most complex the special fraud division had ever prosecuted.
"It involved millions of documents, a lot of the material we had to look at was electronic and of course in this day and age the capacity for electronic media is huge," he said.
"So we had a very large amount of material to work through and to consider."
Businessmen Bancroft and Mills arranged sex parties, exotic foreign holidays, cash in brown envelopes and other favours for Scourfield between 2003 and 2007.
In exchange for the bribes, Scourfield would require the bank's small business customers to use the firm of consultants run by Mills and his wife Alison, Quayside Corporate Services.
Quayside purported to be turnaround consultants, offering business experience and expertise to help small business customers improve their fortunes.
But far from helping turn businesses around, Mills and his associates were milking them for huge fees and using their relationship with the bank to bully the business owners and strip them of their assets.
In cash fees alone, according to prosecutors in the trial, £28m went through the accounts of Mills, his wife and their associated companies.
But the true value to Mills of the corrupt relationship with Scourfield was much greater.
"What Scourfield gave Mills in addition to fees was the opportunity to take control of the various businesses and, in some cases, to acquire ownership of them," prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC told the court.
"Mills and his associates used the bank's customers and the banks's money dishonestly to enrich themselves."
Mr O'Neill said there was a pattern of abuse of small business customers whose companies were "run down by incompetency or as a deliberate policy or as a combination of the two".
This included:
The bank, which was rescued by Lloyds Banking Group during the financial crisis, internally estimated the cost of Scourfield's lending activity as more than £300m in early 2007.
However, that figure excludes further losses crystallised since that date and huge losses to business customers, many of whom have been ruined.
Sources close to the investigation say the total value of the fraud may be closer to £1bn.
Once appointed as turnaround consultants, Mills and Bancroft would put forward inflated cash flow forecasts and other figures.
HBOS would then extend far more money than the businesses needed, which Quayside would siphon off not only in fees but in loans that were lent on to other companies controlled by Mills and others - loans that would never be repaid.
If the business had good prospects, Bancroft or Mills would use their relationship with the bank, threatening owners that if they failed to accept their instructions, the bank would pull the plug.
They would then insist on a seat on the board, or a shareholding, or eventually, control of the business.
"Scourfield paid absolutely no regard to his overriding duty as an employee of the bank to protect its financial interests. Neither was Scourfield, nor Mills nor Bancroft, troubled by the proper interests of the directors, shareholders and creditors of the various companies," Mr O'Neill said.
"Many individuals suffered great financial loss and considerable personal trauma as a result of their callous disregard for the businesses they had established, owned or managed."
A decade on, HBOS's owner Lloyds Banking Group still has not acknowledged the full scale of the fraud - or offered to compensate its victims.
HBOS said: "The trial highlighted criminal actions that bear no reflection on the behaviours of the vast majority of the employees of HBOS at the time or in the group today."
The affected bank customers included music publishers Nikki and Paul Turner, who uncovered the fraud in 2007 by investigating publicly available records even as the bank sought to pull the plug on their business.
When they presented their evidence to the bank's board, first HBOS and then Lloyds Banking Group, the bank dismissed their allegations and instead sought to repossess their home.
File on Four will have a special report about the case on BBC Radio Four on Tuesday 31 January at 8pm.
No-one was killed but a BBC Arabic correspondent in Damascus says some people were injured.
The explosions triggered widespread panic and smoke was seen coming from the embassy compound.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described it as "a terrorist attack".
"This is... most likely intended to intimidate supporters of the fight against terror and prevent them from prevailing in the struggle against extremists," he said.
"Together with the Syrian authorities, we are now trying to establish those responsible."
Moments before, demonstrators had been waving Russian flags and holding up photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin, witnesses said.
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Rebel forces based in the suburbs of Damascus have previously targeted the embassy. Last month, Russia demanded "concrete action" after a missile struck the embassy compound.
One person was killed in May when mortar rounds landed near the embassy, and three people were hurt in April when mortars exploded inside the compound.
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Russia began its campaign of air strikes in Syria late last month.
The Kremlin says it is attacking the Islamic State (IS) group and other jihadists, but the US says other rebel groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad - an ally of Russia - have been targeted.
A US military spokesman said American and Russian jets came within kilometres of each other over Syria on Saturday, at around the same time both countries' officials held talks over how to avoid conflict.
In a 40-minute message released on Monday, Abu-Muhammad al-Adnani, an IS spokesman, confirmed the death of the group's second-in-command, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayal. The US had declared him dead in August after an air strike in Iraq
Adnani also called on Muslims to join a jihad against the US and Russia. It is the first time the group has made threats against Russia.
On Monday, the head of the al-Nusra Front - a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria - described Russia's intervention as "a new crusade".
Abu Mohammad al-Golani called on rebel groups to unite in the wake of the air strikes and also urged Muslims in the Russian Caucasus to attack civilians there.
In another development on Tuesday, a report by Amnesty International accused Kurdish forces in northern Syria of carrying out a wave of forced displacements and mass house demolitions that amounted to war crimes.
It said the Popular Protection Units (YPG) had razed entire villages after capturing them from IS.
The YPG has consistently denied accusations of forced displacements.
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Monti Shortt said the return of her dog, called Gog, "saved her life" and she praised the police and public for helping her find her pet.
The police are still investigating the theft.
He said firms in the EU were hampered by too much "cumbersome" regulation.
Mr Klesch, who runs his own investment fund, Klesch & Co, specialises in turning round struggling companies.
His intervention comes amid a series of large companies writing to staff in support of Britain staying in Europe.
BT, Rolls-Royce and today Unilever have all told staff the uncertainty engendered by Brexit could hurt investment and sales.
Mr Klesch has in recent years bought steel mills and refineries in Germany and Holland.
He was an unsuccessful bidder for the Milford Haven refinery complex in Pembrokeshire last year, and also tried to buy Tata Steel's plant in Scunthorpe.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
He said that international investors would find the UK more attractive if it left the EU.
"The model is a very static model, a very regulated model. England is a part of that now. With Brexit, it can go to a dynamic model.
"It's not just me. Everyone [investors] talk about Asia, America and last of all Europe. The big advantage is that once you move into a dynamic environment it allows for explosive growth."
He said there was no doubt there would be an economic shock were the UK to leave, saying there was "no such thing as a risk-free transaction".
"There will be short-term pain, but long-term gain."
The UK should be confident of its position and status in the world economy, he said.
"I'm offended by the President of the United States coming over here and saying we will have to go to the back of the queue - when [the UK has] the fifth-largest economy in the world. Has he talked to Ford? Has he talked to Apple?"
The UK votes on whether to leave the European Union on June 23.
The media watchdog said there were no grounds to investigate after receiving 17 complaints about the attire of Channel 4 News presenter Fatima Manji.
"The way in which the presenter chose to dress in this case did not raise any issues under our rules," Ofcom said.
The watchdog will not be "taking the matter forward for investigation".
The Ofcom spokesman also said that "the selection of a presenter is an editorial matter for the broadcaster".
Manji co-presented the Channel 4 News bulletin, produced by ITN, from London during coverage of the lorry attack in Nice which killed 86 people on 15 July.
So-called Islamic State subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie questioned whether the Muslim presenter should have appeared on the bulletin.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has received some 1,700 complaints over his remarks, including one from Manji herself and one from Channel 4 news.
The programme's editor, Ben de Pear, said last month that the correspondent had been a victim of "religious discrimination".
"ITN believes the article was in breach of a number of provisions of the Editor's Code, in particular discrimination, harassment by intimidation and inaccuracy," he added.
De Pear said a "further complaint" had been made by ITN chief executive John Hardie "which fully supports and endorses the grounds and reasoning of Fatima's complaint".
A ruling from Ipso is not expected until the autumn.
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Orchestras from across the UK are being urged to sign up and compete for the chance to perform at a major public event later this year.
Five finalists will compete in a grand final, to be broadcast on BBC Two.
The search is part of BBC Music's Get Playing initiative, which encourages people to try their hand at music.
Thousands of amateur musicians meet across the UK every week - with one government estimate suggesting there were 11,220 groups playing regularly.
In London alone, there is an orchestra composed of lawyers, one of medics, one which plays exclusively in basements and the London Gay Symphony Orchestra (which is open to everyone).
But they rarely get mainstream recognition, with a few notable exceptions such as the CBSO Chorus, which regularly performs with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The BBC competition is open to orchestras with between 40 and 75 members. They must have been playing for at least a year and all entrants must be aged 16 or over, meaning most school orchestras will be ineligible.
A complementary series, The UK's Best Part-time Band, was announced last October, and will be broadcast on both BBC Two and Four.
Cassian Harrison, editor of BBC Four said: "We want to go beyond the stars to celebrate the passion of amateur music makers who captivate, entertain and transport audiences up and down the country every week, and hoping to inspire a new generation to pick up a musical instrument."
The conservation groups want licences to help protect rare birds of prey.
It comes after two cases against gamekeepers were dropped because prosecutors decided video footage was inadmissible as evidence.
But gamekeepers say any decision which could impact on jobs should be based on proof, not "suspicion".
The Scottish Raptor Study Group (SRSG), the Scottish Wildlife Trust and RSPB Scotland believe a licensing scheme will give protection to birds of prey in Scotland.
The RSPB said the illegal killing of birds of prey such as eagles and hen harriers was a "stain" on Scotland's reputation.
The call to work together to set up a licensing scheme comes after Holyrood's environment committee agreed to keep open SRSG's petition on creating the new regulations earlier this week.
Committee convener Graeme Dey has written to Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham asking her to look at "a licensing system for shooting businesses based on civil law".
Logan Steele of the SRSG said: "We accept that many within the shooting industry are law-abiding and are as keen as we are to bear down on the criminal element within their ranks.
"A government-sponsored inquiry, into how a licensing regime might work, presents an opportunity to work in partnership with forward-looking representatives from the industry, and other stakeholders, towards creating a sustainable upland environment where our birds of prey can thrive alongside legitimate shoot management."
The call comes after the Crown Office said video evidence provided by the RSPB in two cases was not admissible in court because it was filmed for the purposes of gathering evidence.
RSPB director Stuart Housden said the "illegal killing of our birds of prey has been a constant stain on the reputation of our country" for more than two decades and there was an increasing recognition that self-regulation had "failed".
A Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) spokesman said it, and others in the game industry, had put forward proposals to the Scottish government aimed at ending wildlife crime.
He added: "The SGA will not defend wrongdoing and has taken strong action when its position on wildlife crime has been breached by its members.
"We also believe honest working people, in the overwhelming majority in our profession, deserve to have their rights to employment protected.
"Any decision which could ultimately see a business, in any field, ended, with resultant loss of employment, ought to be taken on the appropriate, substantive standard of proof rather than on the basis of suspicion."
Plans were submitted to the government for 24 turbines on the Talladh-a-Bheithe estate, an area of moorland between Loch Rannoch and Loch Ericht.
Hillwalkers said the plans would affect the views for miles around.
The Energy and Climate Change Directorate ruled that the application was legally "not competent".
It noted that the application was received on 23 June 2014 but Talladh-A-Bheithe Wind Farm Limited was not registered as a company until 28 August that year.
This meant that the applicant was not a "legal entity" at the time the application was made.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) had campaigned against the plans, claiming the 125m tall turbines would affect views from Schiehallion, Ben Alder, Glen Lyon and Loch Tay, and would be visible from the A82.
MCofS director for landscape and access Dave Gordon said: "Although the decision was based on a specific legal point, which meant that the application was not competent, many people thought the very idea of wind farm in such an unspoilt area was incompetent.
"We hope that Rannoch is now free forever from the threat of wind turbines and does not have to suffer repeated applications, as many communities have."
Poppi Iris Worthington died in December 2012 when she was 13 months old.
A 46-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman have been arrested in connection with the death and are on conditional police bail until December.
The initial police investigation is being probed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and an officer has been suspended.
Cumbria Constabulary is continuing to investigate the death, but the IPCC is investigating several officers.
The coroner for south and east Cumbria, Ian Smith, told the inquest there had been a two-week Family Court hearing into the death, which found the cause of death could not be ascertained.
He said it would be inappropriate for another court to come to a different conclusion and recorded an open verdict.
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The £80 fine was put on the silver Mercedes as Mrs Clinton attended an event at Chatham House on Friday.
Her security staff were seen discussing the penalty notice with a Westminster Council traffic marshal, but he refused to remove the ticket.
A Westminster councillor said: "We have to be fair to everyone."
Westminster City Council cabinet member for business Daniel Astaire said: "The former US Secretary of State was parked for nearly 45 minutes without paying.
"I'm sure she will understand that we have to be fair to everyone, regardless of their status on the world stage."
Mrs Clinton was awarded this year's Chatham House Prize in recognition of her contribution to international diplomacy and work on behalf of gender equality and opportunities for women and girls.
She has not commented on the ticket.
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The by-elections in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central have left politics a little clearer than before.
Labour may no longer need to fear the UK Independence Party in its heartlands, but Theresa May and her Conservatives look like they need fear no-one.
Brexit worked for the Tories in Copeland, alongside doubts about Jeremy Corbyn, and it has helped the prime minister claim to be a Tory capable of reaching people and parts of the country no Conservative leader has reached since Margaret Thatcher.
Her authority, her less easily definable aura of power, have grown.
Downing Street was already convinced they could, to put it plainly, beat Jeremy Corbyn in their sleep.
They are doubly convinced now.
So Mrs May has space to develop her big idea besides Brexit, making people who feel left out by the global economy, feel it is working for them.
Her plan to achieve that is still a work in progress.
Meanwhile, the government is still trying to manage a small voting majority in the Commons - and that will not change unless or until Mrs May wins a bigger one at the next election.
Will she be tempted to go to the country before 2020?
Dominant at home or not, Theresa May's premiership will be defined by her handling of Brexit. And that's a long struggle against Britain's European rivals and under domestic political pressure that can only increase.
The White House says that James Comey was fired for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email inquiry, but Democrats have called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate links between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign.
The BBC's North America reporter Anthony Zurcher answers your questions on what will happen next.
Why are the Democrats now saying that James Comey should stay? Didn't Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi all say that he was doing a bad job?
Indeed there are plenty of quotes from top Senate Democrats expressing dismay bordering on disgust with the way Mr Comey handled the FBI investigation into Mrs Clinton's email server.
However, most of those quotes date back to November 2016. Six months are an eternity in politics, and in the ensuing time Mr Comey has become the face of the FBI's investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
While many Democrats may not have been thrilled with Mr Comey, over the past few months they've come to view him as one of the few individuals independent enough to challenge the president.
How will his successor be appointed? Will the Trump administration be the ones to dictate the position?
Donald Trump has the power to fire the director of the FBI, and he's the one who gets to hire the replacement. But it's a high-level political appointment, so whoever he picks has to be confirmed by a majority vote in the 100-seat US Senate.
Given that there are currently 52 Republicans there, as long as Mr Trump's party sticks together, Democrats will be unable to block whoever Mr Trump chooses as the nation's next top law enforcement officer.
The system is set up to insulate FBI directors from politics. They serve 10-year terms, which means their tenure is supposed to overlap multiple presidents. The last time an FBI director was fired mid-term was back in 1993. It's a rare occurrence that is fraught with political peril.
Can Mr Comey speak freely now he is out of office about these events in any subsequent hearing? Is he subject to the Official Secrets Act?
The former director is still bound by various US laws, similar to the British Official Secrets Act, that criminalise revealing classified information, as well as government policies that prohibit releasing details of an ongoing investigation.
That doesn't mean, however, that he can't shed new light on his interactions with the White House and the possible political pressure they have put him under, over the past few months, if he so desires.
Democrats are already calling for Mr Comey to return to Congress to testify about the circumstances of his firing. Mr Trump may have removed him from his post at the FBI, but he won't be able to usher him off the national stage so easily.
What does James Comey's dismissal mean for the future of the bureau?
The Trump White House, from the president down, has framed Mr Comey's dismissal as a necessary step in restoring public trust in the FBI.
It's certainly true that the former director had plenty of critics on both sides of the political divide - ones who thought the bureau would be better served with new, less politically charged leadership.
In the short-term, however, the president's move throws the FBI into chaos. The rank-and-file in the bureau were caught totally off-guard by the announcement.
The future of the Russia investigation itself is up in the air, pending further action by the Justice Department.
Mr Trump's choice for Mr Comey's successor, then, is critical. He or she is likely to be viewed with deep suspicion by Democrats, particularly if the pick has a partisan background.
The rebuilding task for the FBI will be difficult, and the Trump White House hasn't made it any easier so far.
Why did President Trump have to state in his letter firing the FBI chief that on three occasions he had assured him that he was not being investigated?
He didn't have to say that. In fact, he probably shouldn't have brought it up at all.
By saying that Mr Comey had assured him he wasn't under investigation - communications that were previously unreported and would be very unusual given the ongoing nature of the FBI inquiry - Mr Trump has effectively put a spotlight on the matter.
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Royal Portrush club's place on the rota of host courses is to be confirmed next week. It is likely to be held in 2019.
The R&A, which organises The Open, has confirmed it will hold a press conference at Royal Portrush on Monday.
It is the first time since 1951 that Northern Ireland and the County Antrim course has hosted The Open.
The decision follows the successful staging of the Irish Open in 2012.
As it is going on a rota of courses, it means Portrush will also get future tournaments after 2019.
Philip Tweedie from Royal Portrush said this was good news for everyone.
"It is something we have been working towards over the last few years. It is great for the club, it is great for Portrush, for Northern Ireland and, indeed, Ireland," he said.
"From the overall tourism point of view, this is a real boost."
Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke had all called for The Open to return to Portrush.
Darren Clarke, who won The Open in 2011 is delighted that his home club will stage the tournament.
"It is wonderful for the area, for Northern Ireland and the whole of Ireland that one of the biggest sporting events in the world is coming here," he said.
"It's just massive, with pictures of Royal Portrush being beamed around the world to people who haven't seen how beautiful it is."
Two-times major winner Rory McIlroy said winning the Open at Portrush would be the pinnacle of his career.
"Irish golf has been on a great run and the ultimate is getting a major back here," he said.
"It's going to be incredible and I'm already looking forward to it.
"Everyone says winning the Open at St Andrews is a golfer's dream, but to win the event at home would probably be even bigger for me."
Graham McDowell said that to play an open championship in Portrush would be "something a bit special".
US star Tiger Woods said: "As far north as I have been is Royal County Down... But it would be pretty incredible."
The officials at Royal Portrush are equally pleased with the news.
Norman Hillis who is also an alderman and businessman in Portrush said: "They've all been rooting for us to get The Open here and everybody is thrilled. This is fantastic for the town and brilliant for Northern Ireland. The Royal Portrush Golf Club is top class in the world."
Mr Hillis said the legacy of hosting The Open would far outweigh any short term loss.
"We will be at the centre of the golfing world for the whole build-up period and we will have legacy after this competition is played in 2019. There will be far, far greater benefits. People will be coming from all over the world to play the course," he said.
"It is going to be an event, not just for Portrush, but for all of Northern Ireland."
Driving for the new Ford Chip Ganassi team, Guernsey's Priaulx and team-mates Harry Tincknell and Marino Franchitti finished ninth in their class, having hoped to get onto the podium.
"It was a tough race," he said. "We had a gearbox issue at the start, so we were unlucky from the outset.
"Considering what happened to us, just finishing was an achievement."
Priaulx and his team-mates qualified fourth-fastest in their class, but saw fellow Ford drivers Joey Hand, Dirk Muller and Sebastien Bourdais win on the 50th anniversary of the manufacturer's first victory at Le Mans.
"I have already been on a World Endurance Championship podium at Spa and sort of hoped to achieve the same here, but it was not to be," added Priaulx.
"The team did a great job and we have all learnt a lot for next year."
The award and £60,000 prize money is presented to a writer for their "achievement in fiction on the world stage", organisers said.
Roth, 78, said: "This is a great honour and I'm delighted to receive it."
His body of work includes the 1997 novel American Pastoral, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. At 26, he wrote his first book Goodbye, Columbus.
'Esteemed prize'
The announcement was made at a press conference in Australia, during the Sydney Writers' Festival.
The award will be presented at a formal dinner in London on 28 June, however a spokeswoman said Roth would be unable to attend.
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1933, Roth's controversial 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint brought him worldwide attention for its graphic depiction of sexuality.
Time magazine included the work in a list of the best novels of the 20th century.
His 2000 book The Human Stain was adapted for the screen, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman.
The American author said he was grateful to the judges for awarding him the "esteemed prize".
He added: "One of the particular pleasures I've had as a writer is to have my work read internationally despite all the heartaches of translation that that entails.
"I hope the prize will bring me to the attention of readers around the world who are not familiar with my work. This is a great honour and I'm delighted to receive it."
The judging panel was chaired by writer, academic and rare-book dealer Dr Rick Gekoski.
"For more than 50 years Philip Roth's books have stimulated, provoked and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience," he said.
"His imagination has not only recast our idea of Jewish identity, it has also reanimated fiction, and not just American fiction, generally."
Gekoski was joined on the panel by writer and critic Carmen Callil and award-winning novelist Justin Cartwright.
In March British thriller writer John Le Carre asked judges to withdraw his name from the shortlist.
The author said he was "enormously flattered" but added: "I do not compete for literary prizes."
His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman and Rohinton Mistry had also been up for the award.
The Man Booker International Prize, which is presented every two years, has previously been awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005, Chinua Achebe in 2007 and Alice Munro in 2009.
In JK Rowling's bestselling series, evil wizard Voldemort is such a fearsome character no-one in the magic community dares utter his name.
"I'm that character in Harry Potter they can't talk about," said the 43-year-old. "Voldemort? It's as if you can't mention him."
Armstrong has previously said he should be forgiven for doping and lying.
He added: "It won't be the case forever because it can't be the case forever."
The American was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from sport for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) in August 2012.
In January 2013, after years of denials, he confessed to taking performance-enhancing drugs during all of his Tour de France wins.
"I tried to make it right with every one of those people [who were hindered either by Armstrong's doping or denial of doing so]. I can only do so much," said Armstrong.
It follows a critical inspection at Allerton Lodge Care Home in Brynford, near Holywell, by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales.
Flintshire council said it was moving all 15 residents out as the home had not made enough progress since the CSSIW report.
The home owner has declined to comment.
The CSSIW inspection found one resident had not received prescribed medication for 17 days and another was seen crying because she was so hungry.
A council spokesman said: "The home has been given every opportunity and support.
"A decision has been made to withdraw the contract with immediate effect and move all residents to safe and secure surroundings as a matter of urgency.
"The council will not tolerate poor standards of care and has acted promptly."
The spokesman added: "Over recent months we have been working closely with the owner of Allerton Lodge Care Home and CSSIW to support the home to address concerns we share over the quality of care.
"Unfortunately, the home has not made sufficient progress and cannot provide us with the assurances we need in the interests of the welfare of its residents."
The CSSIW said in a statement: "Following serious concerns that we had about standards of care provided at Allerton Lodge, we worked closely with Flintshire County Council, who are now terminating their contract with the home.
"They are making arrangements for the residents living there to move to other services as soon as possible.
"Our primary concern is for the safety and well-being of everyone who uses the service."
The black and white male has been nicknamed Henry, after King Henry VII who was born at the castle in Pembrokeshire.
The RSPCA said it was a horrible ordeal for Henry, who was very frightened.
He was given antibiotics and pain relief by a vet, and is recovering well.
RSPCA animal collection officer Ellie West said: "It was just by chance someone saw the kitten struggling on the wall. The poor little thing was so frightened. We don't know how he got there.
"He is very sore and bruised and he has torn a bit of his skin on his thigh which should heal. But he is doing really well and is now recovering from his ordeal in our care.
"He's eaten well overnight which is good as he's actually a little skinny under all that fur."
It is believed Henry is a stray cat, but the RSPCA has appealed for information in case he has an owner.
St Luke's Hospice have put on the display to give the "local community the chance to remember a loved one in a very unique way".
The plastic flowers will be on display until the end of May before they are sold.
Angela Rippon OBE officially opened the garden and said it was a "great pleasure".
She said: "This is a wonderfully graphic way of reminding people of those individuals in our lives that have been important to us people who we really do want to continue to remember".
The flowers were created by the Theatre Royal Plymouth's TR2 workshops, who were also responsible for the sculpture design for the recent London Poppy Appeal.
Seb Soper, head of project development at the theatre, said: "Housed on a steal rod each flower is individually handcrafted whilst hot and therefore each flower is distinctly different."
The 27-year-old struck either side of half-time with two typically well-taken finishes to put his side ahead after Sergio Garcia's solo goal had given the visitors a surprise early lead.
After Messi's second, Barca took charge with Gerard Pique heading their third.
Pedro scored a fourth before Messi had the last word by completing the rout.
Messi's three goals - the first a pinpoint finish from the edge of the box, the second a side-foot strike after he had controlled Luis Suarez's pass and the third a tap-in following a one-two with Pedro - took him to 256 goals in La Liga in 291 appearances.
They also took him past the 200 goal mark in Spain's top flight since the 2009 arrival at Real Madrid of Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored his own 200th goal as part of a hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Celta Vigo on Saturday night.
Ronaldo's treble was a record 23rd in La Liga, but Messi is not far behind, having now notched up his 21st in the competition.
Ronaldo still leads the goalscoring charts for this season with 29 goals in 21 appearances in all competitions (and a stunning 23 in 13 in la Liga), with Messi having now scored 20 in 19 games this campaign, 13 of which have come in the league.
Barca were once again indebted to their Argentine forward for turning the game around after Garcia had charged forward to slot Espanyol into a 13th-minute lead and give them hope of a famous victory at the home of their local rivals.
However, having claimed the lead, Barca kicked on and Pique's header from a corner and substitute Pedro's drilled finish from Jordi Alba's pass swung the game decisively in their favour before Messi added the gloss.
Real's win (their Spanish record-equalling 18th in succession in all competitions) took them five points clear of their great rivals overnight.
But Barca's victory means the gap is now back to two points, with reigning champions Atletico Madrid two points behind Luis Enrique's side in third.
James Freeman, who joined the firm a year ago, apologised after criticism from callers to BBC Radio Bristol.
He said First was in the middle of a "massive rescheduling" of local services - with 58 new double deckers coming into service in the autumn.
Passengers on major Bristol routes were up 25% with a 10% rise in Bath.
Bus services were described as "diabolical" by one caller to a BBC Radio Bristol phone-in - who complained that his wife's bus - the 43 - had not turned up at all 17 times since December.
Others complained that buses were too packed to board, stopped in the wrong place and that drivers simply did not know the area.
Mr Freeman, managing director for Bristol and the West of England, said buses and drivers were having to be brought in from outside Bristol to cope with pressure on services - which had seen an "amazing" increase year on year.
New low-carbon buses had been ordered and new drivers were being recruited, he said.
The firm had too many single-decker buses - many of which were now being replaced by a new fleet of double deckers.
"I'm really, really sorry for all the problems, anybody who travels on those services will know they are not right," he said.
"They are a bit better at the moment because of the summer traffic but the fact is, they have not been right for a long time and we are reorganising them and rescheduling them."
First is the biggest bus company in the West of England, operating 567 vehicles and employing about 1,700 people across the region.
William Kelly, 41, was seriously injured in the fire which killed his mother Catherine, 71, on 11 February.
Mr Kelly faces charges of murder, attempted murder, assault to severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life, and assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
He made no plea at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.
They would not be doing it if it wasn't for the former Goldman Sachs economist, Jim - now Lord - O'Neill.
He coined the term 15 years ago as a marketing tool for investors looking for more adventurous growth prospects.
Lord O'Neill has told the BBC the group have performed better than even he had thought.
"The Brics countries collectively are bigger today even in the most optimistic scenario I thought 15 years ago, and it's primarily because of China."
He says this despite recent weak performances from Russia and Brazil, whose economies were the most reliant on commodity prices.
"Despite the problems Brazil and Russia face - and they're big - in the first decade of Brics they all grew way more strongly than I thought."
The countries were picked as they are all leading developing or newly industrialized countries, with potential for fast growth and therefore investment returns.
South Africa was not one of the original four he was looking at. The others asked that country to join them at the meetings they began holding in the late 2000s.
They contain half the world's population and represent between 20-25% of world gross domestic product.
He was warned after he came up with the acronym in 2001 that including Brazil and Russia in the list was risky, since notoriously volatile prices for the oil, metals and minerals from which they derive a large source of income made them an easy hostage to fortune.
Lord O'Neill said: "I have occasionally, when pushed, joked that the group should have been called 'Ics'!
"Brazil and Russia have been really disappointing and some people in the earliest days said these countries would be found out when commodity prices fell sharply and on one level that of course has happened."
Brazil and Russia are both in recession, Brazil on some counts is suffering its worst downturn since the 1930s.
But Lord O'Neill said there had been a very strong recovery in the Brazilian real: "If you look at financial markets the Brazilian financial market is the top performing market in the world.
"I think the Brazilian real has probably risen 50% against the pound, so I wish I would have put some money into Brazilian real because I'd be more happy about Brazil than many people I see writing about it."
Listen to Jim O'Neill on the BBC World Service's Business Daily programme
13 December 2016 Last updated at 08:48 GMT
Laugh-til-you're-crying? Gritted teeth? Maybe heart eyes?
Last night the BBC Music Awards took place in London.
Adele was the big winner of the night taking song of the year for Hello, and album of the year, for 25.
Ricky caught up with some of the biggest names in the music industry to find out which Emoji they'd use to describe their year.
Germany has dropped below Japan to have not just the lowest birth rate across Europe but also globally, according to the report by Germany-based analysts.
Its authors warned of the effects of a shrinking working-age population.
They said women's participation in the workforce would be key to the country's economic future.
In Germany, an average of 8.2 children were born per 1,000 inhabitants over the past five years, according to the study by German auditing firm BDO with the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).
It said Japan saw 8.4 children born per 1,000 inhabitants over the same time period.
In Europe, Portugal and Italy came in second and third with an average of 9.0 and 9.3 children, respectively. France and the UK both had an average of 12.7 births per 1,000 inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the highest birth rates were in Africa, with Niger at the top of the list with 50 births per 1,000 people.
Germany's falling birth rate means the percentage of people of working age in the country - between 20 and 65 - would drop from 61% to 54% by 2030, Henning Voepel, director of the HWWI, said in a statement (in German).
Arno Probst, a BDO board member, said employers in Germany faced higher wage costs as a result.
"Without strong labour markets, Germany cannot maintain its economic edge in the long run," he added.
Experts disagree over the reasons for Germany's low birth rate, as well as the ways to tackle the situation.
Mr Probst said the country would need young immigrant workers to fill the significant skills gap. And more women were needed in the workforce to avoid economic problems.
Germany has one of the highest migration rates in the world, but has also seen growing support for anti-immigration party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD).
The latest birth rate figures comes despite efforts by Mrs Merkel's government to invest in childcare support.
This time it's the American intelligence community's familiar foe - Wikileaks - with another cache of what look like highly sensitive secret documents, this time about the CIA's technical capabilities.
The National Security Agency faced its problems when Edward Snowden passed on documents to journalists - but this time it's the NSA's sister agency.
While the NSA is the agency charged with collecting what is called signals intelligence and the CIA's job is to recruit human spies, the reality is that the technical and the human side of espionage have been drawing closer for years.
The CIA created a Directorate of Digital Innovation whose director told me the priority was making sure the agency stayed on top of technology.
While the NSA may sift global internet traffic looking for intelligence, the CIA prioritises close access against specific targets who it is interested in.
And getting into someone's electronic devices can be vital if you are trying to target them - either to recruit them as an agent or for a drone strike against a suspected terrorist.
These latest leaks will be a huge problem for the CIA as the Snowden leaks were for the NSA (although there will be less surprise about these capabilities now since we learned so much from the Snowden files).
There is the embarrassment factor - that an agency whose job is to steal other people's secrets has not been able to keep their own.
This will be added to by the revelations that the US consulate in Frankfurt was used as a base for the technical operations which may cause problems in Germany where the Edward Snowden revelations caused intense domestic debate.
Then there will be the fear of a loss of intelligence coverage by the CIA against their targets who may change their behaviour because they now know the spies can do.
And then there will be the questions over whether the CIA's technical capabilities were too expansive and too secret.
Because many of the initial documents point to capabilities targeting consumer devices, the hardest questions may revolve around what is known as the "equities" problem - when you find a vulnerability in a piece of technology, how do you balance the benefit of leaving that vulnerability in place so the intelligence agency can exploit it to collect intelligence with the benefit to the public of informing the manufacturer so they can close it and improve everyone's security?
If an intelligence agency has found a vulnerability then other hackers might do as well. The NSA faced questions about whether it had found the right balance and now it may be the CIA's turn.
There will be anger in the CIA and some of that will be directed at Wikileaks.
Wikileaks has said the source of this latest cache of documents came from a former US government hacker or contractor.
But it is an organisation that the US intelligence community has claimed may have been a route for information hacked from the Democrats by the Russians during last year's election to make it into the public domain.
No doubt the CIA will be trying to establish the exact source of the latest leak and understand the timing - coming right in the middle of an intensifying row between American spies and their own president.
It will reimburse all of what it terms "reasonable out-of-pocket expenses" resulting from the major disruption which affected thousands of customers.
It will be refunding charges placed on people's accounts in error.
Customers will receive £20 if they visited the bank from 19 June - 18 July and made a transaction.
This is a payment for inconvenience caused.
Others who were inconvenienced but did not visit the bank during that period are being urged to contact their local branch and explain how they were affected.
Thousands of customers were unable to withdraw cash or access their accounts after a software upgrade on 19 June.
The computer failure affected the entire Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) group, but Ulster Bank took longest to resolve the issue.
Ten weeks after the initial problem, the bank was still warning some customers that their statements may not be correct.
The Ulster Bank has given a commitment that no customer will be left permanently out of pocket.
About half of the bank's 1.1m customers were impacted by the computer failure, which led to widespread criticism of the bank.
As a result, its chief executive Jim Brown said he would forego his bonus for 2012.
Announcing the compensation scheme on Friday, he said: "Once again, I apologise unreservedly to our customers and customers of other banks for the inconvenience this has caused and thank them for their patience as we worked to resolve this issue.
"We recognise that we have work to do to restore our customers' trust in us and we believe that this is the first step in that direction.
"We have worked with our key stakeholders to ensure the additional measures which we are taking provide a comprehensive response to customer concerns and demonstrate our commitment to making amends."
Customers seeking further information can go online, call into their local Ulster Bank branch or telephone 0800 231232.
One customer said: "They should have given £100. £20 is nothing as I was inconvenienced very much through direct debits and not being able to get my money out of the machine - having to queue in the bank and wait maybe an hour.
"It is ridiculous, given what customers went through for nearly two months, to offer them £20."
The Consumer Council said it had produced a fact sheet providing guidance on the type of expenses customers could claim for, including travel costs, telephone bills and non-financial losses such as stress.
Its chief executive, Antoinette McKeown, said Ulster Bank had to ensure this redress scheme compensated affected customers quickly, fairly and consistently.
"It is paramount that Ulster Bank communicates openly with its customers and takes the hassle of redress away from its customers," she said.
"Many Ulster Bank customers have had their daily lives severely disrupted throughout this summer and Ulster Bank need to restore customer confidence through this redress scheme.
"Throughout the crisis, the Consumer Council expressed frustration with issues of Ulster Bank's leadership, communication and clarity.
"We will continue to liaise with Ulster Bank and Financial Services Authority to ensure this redress scheme is working for affected Ulster Bank customers".
In a statement, Sinn Fein said: "This was not a compensation scheme by any stretch of the imagination, but simply a reimbursement scheme for people that have been charged as a result of the bank's failure to carry out its primary function.
"The fact that compensation for out-of-pocket expenses has been capped at £100 for all personal and SME's customers further reinforces that fact."
Earlier this month, the RBS said it had put aside £125m to pay compensation to customers affected by the computer problem.
Walsall hit the woodwork seven minutes in as Erhun Oztumer's near-post cross was met by Andreas Makris' flick but came back off the upright.
Southend twice came close as Nile Ranger left the Saddlers' defence in his wake on a 50-yard solo run but was denied by goalkeeper Neil Etheridge, who then foiled Anthony Wordsworth's 25-yard free-kick.
The Saddlers then struck the woodwork for a second time as Scott Laird's deflected cross clipped the top of the bar.
But Southend ended the first half the stronger as Wordsworth flashed one effort wide from 15 yards and saw a 25-yard rocket tipped over by a flying Etheridge.
The second half was much quieter but Etheridge made a sprawling save to foil the clean-through Stephen McLaughlin after a mix-up between Walsall defenders Matt Preston and Jason McCarthy.
Walsall almost snatched the points eight minutes from time but Shrimpers keeper Mark Oxley beat away Kieron Morris' 20-yarder.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Walsall 0, Southend United 0.
Scott Laird (Walsall) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half ends, Walsall 0, Southend United 0.
Anton Ferdinand (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Matt Preston.
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nile Ranger (Southend United).
Attempt saved. Simeon Jackson (Walsall) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Attempt saved. Kieron Morris (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by James O'Connor.
Attempt blocked. Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Scott Laird (Walsall) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right.
Hand ball by Ryan Leonard (Southend United).
Substitution, Southend United. Jermaine McGlashan replaces Anthony Wordsworth.
Attempt saved. Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jason McCarthy (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nile Ranger (Southend United).
Attempt saved. Kieron Morris (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Joe Edwards (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Southend United. Marc-Antoine Fortuné replaces Simon Cox.
Foul by Amadou Bakayoko (Walsall).
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Kieron Morris (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Will Atkinson (Southend United).
Substitution, Walsall. Amadou Bakayoko replaces Andreas Makris.
Attempt missed. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Adam Chambers (Walsall).
Nile Ranger (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Laird (Walsall).
Jason Demetriou (Southend United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Josh Ginnelly (Walsall).
Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Walsall 0, Southend United 0.
Substitution, Walsall. Matt Preston replaces Kevin Toner because of an injury.
First Half ends, Walsall 0, Southend United 0.
But Southgate claims some fans would not be so tolerant towards homosexual players open about their sexuality.
He was speaking after Manchester United keeper Anders Lindegaard said "homosexuals are in need of a hero".
Southgate told BBC Sport: "I'm sure there might be some reaction from crowds, but within dressing rooms I think it would be accepted."
The son of former Liverpool player Glenn Hysen, Anton came out as gay in an interview with a Swedish football magazine. The 21-year-old plays for Swedish lower league side Utsiktens BK.
Despite a number of high-profile male and female athletes choosing to go public with their sexuality in recent years, the only footballer to come out as a homosexual since the late Justin Fashanu in 1990 is Anton Hysen, a Swedish lower league player.
"It will take someone who is brave enough to be open and honest," added former Middlesbrough manager Southgate in an interview with BBC's Richard Conway at a charity event for the England Footballers Foundation, which was set up in 2007 with players donating their England match fees to good causes.
"Players mix with players of different nationalities, races and religions so I don't see it being an issue in the dressing room.
"We can't control the reaction of all supporters, so unfortunately there will always be a adverse reaction to parts of society. But the honest answer is that we don't know until somebody steps forward."
Earlier this week, Lindegaard wrote in a blog that the nature of supporters on the terraces does little to encourage homosexual players to be open about their sexuality.
"Homosexuals are in need of a hero," he said.
"They are in need of someone who dares to stand up for their sexuality. But homosexuality in football is a taboo subject and the atmosphere on the pitch and in the stands is tough.
"As a footballer, I think a homosexual colleague would be afraid of the reception he could get from the fans, but my impression is that the players would not have a problem accepting a homosexual.
"The problem for me is that a lot of football fans are stuck in a time of intolerance that does not deserve to be compared with modern society's development in the last decades.
"While the rest of the world has been more liberal, civilised and less prejudiced, the world of football remains stuck in the past when it comes to tolerance."
The retired policeman was cared for by Sister of Nazareth nuns in Termonbacca, Londonderry.
It is one of 13 institutions being investigated by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA).
Some victims groups want compensation payments before the inquiry completes it work in two years' time.
Bernard McEldowney spent 16 years at Termonbacca.
He left in 1976, aged 18, and eventually joined the police in England where he rose to the rank of inspector.
A year ago, he gave evidence to the HIA anonymously and told the inquiry that he believed the prospect of compensation from either the Sisters of Nazareth or the HIA had prompted some false allegations of abuse.
He has now decided to waive the right to anonymity and speak publicly for the first time to raise his concerns.
"The problem I have is that the real victims will be marginalised by these people who have hijacked the inquiry," he said.
But other campaigners have rejected the charge, saying people giving evidence at the inquiry have been telling the truth.
Mr McEldowney said it was time someone spoke up for the many nuns who looked after countless orphans like him.
When he gave his evidence to the Inquiry last year, Bernard McEldowney said: " I do hope that the HIA inquiry team... are keeping open the possibility of involving the police to see if they can secure and preserve evidence of a possible conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and related offences."
When he spoke to me in England, almost a year later, the former police officer said he regarded any prospect of compensation as a problem.
"It shouldn't be about money, it should be about justice. and if people are obsessed with getting money, rather than justice, then I question their motives for making the allegations in the first place," he said.
But Jon McCourt from the Northwest Survivors group in Londonderry said people had gone through trauma to give evidence to the inquiry:
"I know the experience I had, of sitting in Banbridge, and listening to people from this city give evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
"The toll that that was physically taking on people, emotionally taking on people, there's no way anyone was lying there."
Mr McEldowney said he was one of many children who were given the best of care by nuns at Termonbacca.
He still regards those nuns as the family he never had, then and now.
"The problem with making these allegations is that they have created new victims," he said.
"I mean there are people I know, nuns who are dead, some who are still alive.
"They were working 24/7 looking after the children, they had other responsibilities as well and yet, despite all the effort they've made .... they're now being accused of all these allegations.
"When in many cases they're dead or should be enjoying their retirement, they're having to be spoken to by the police, giving evidence to the inquiry. so, the are victims, they're the new victims, they're another set of victims we shouldn't discount."
He also said he believed false allegations could damage the legitimate claims of people who were abused in care.
"I have never denied there are victims and I have submitted statements to the inquiry and in my statements I have stressed that I know and believe that there will be victims. but my concern is that this inquiry is being hijacked by unscrupulous people."
Mr McEldowney said his views were shared by some other people who were also cared for by nuns at Termonbacca.
Manager Graham Westley confirmed he does not want to retain either player and is hopeful of making two signings before Saturday's game at Barnet.
County are bottom of League Two - six points from safety in spite of their 1-1 draw with Colchester.
"Ben Tozer's been told he can leave the club and Compton's been told he can go as well," said Westley.
"There's a few lads who are aware that they are not going to be playing a part in what we do going forward, and the best thing is that they find somewhere else to play their football."
Westley has already made nine signings during the January transfer window.
"Talks are ongoing and there's a couple who may come through before the weekend, but they won't affect selection this week," added Westley.
The former Peterborough Preston North End boss suggested there will be more players brought in later this month - "good quality, experienced lads towards the end of the window," he said.
The protesters say the president must have known about a corruption scandal in the state oil firm, Petrobras.
The political opposition say much of the alleged bribery took place when she was head of the company.
But Ms Rousseff has been exonerated in an investigation by the attorney general and denies involvement.
Most of the politicians accused of taking bribes in a kickback scheme come from the governing coalition.
After the protests, the government promised a series of measures to combat corruption and impunity.
Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo said the government saw the rallies as an "expression of democracy".
Protests have taken place across 22 Brazilian states and the federal capital, Brasilia.
The largest demonstration went ahead in Sao Paulo, a major opposition stronghold.
The estimates of how many people attended the march varied widely.
Brazilian data analysts Datafolha say almost 200,000 people marched on Avenida Paulista on Sunday evening.
But police estimated the number of participants at one million, based on aerial photographs of the area.
Many of the protesters waved Brazilian flags and wore the yellow shirts of the national football team.
They shouted slogans against corruption and the Workers' Party government.
Opposition parties have backed Sunday's protests but have not openly called for impeachment of the president, says the BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo.
Senator Aecio Neves, who was defeated by a narrow margin in October's presidential vote, issued a statement praising the protests.
He said Brazilians "went to the streets to reunite with their virtues, their values and also with their dreams".
In Brasilia a crowd of 40,000 demonstrated outside the Congress building.
In Rio de Janeiro, where Ms Rousseff won 55% of the vote in the October presidential election, police said around 25,000 people had joined a protest there.
"There's no point in complaining only on social media, we have to be here and show that we are really fed up," businesswoman Daniela Mello told AP news agency in Rio.
Friday saw supporters of President Rousseff out in force, with tens of thousands taking to the streets.
Her supporters say calls for an impeachment, less than five months after she was elected to a second four-year term, amount to a coup attempt.
The Workers' Party has been in power since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his first term in January 2003.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court approved the investigation of 54 people for their alleged involvement in the kickback scheme.
The list was prepared by Attorney General Rodrigo Janot who alleged that private companies paid corrupt officials in order to get lucrative Petrobras contracts.
According to the investigation, high-profile politicians also took a share of the money siphoned off from the oil company.
Mr Junot's list includes Senate President Renan Calheiros, President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha, former Energy Minister Edison Lobao and former President Fernando Collor de Mello.
All deny corruption allegations.
The sides meet at Celtic Park on Tuesday following England's 3-1 win against Slovenia in their latest Euro 2016 qualifier on Saturday.
Scotland will be optimistic after a 1-0 win against Ireland on Friday.
"We know there are a lot of stern tests ahead of us and it starts on Tuesday night," said Hodgson.
A crowd of around 60,000 are expected to watch the latest edition of the world's oldest fixture. England won the last encounter 3-2 at Wembley in August 2013.
"The Scottish fans are exceptional, especially at Celtic Park," Hodgson added. "That is all to the good. That is what we need."
England have a 100% record in Group E after four successive wins and look set to progress to the Euro 2016 finals at a canter.
"We have done all we can do in these first four qualifying games so we are reasonably satisfied with that, but we know there is a long way to go," Hodgson said.
"A game like that in Scotland will probably tell me a little bit more about this team.
"I hope the players who get a chance to play will be able to stand up to any crowd pressure and I hope they will learn from it. Any lessons we take from it will only be valuable in the future."
West Brom striker Saido Berahino and Everton midfielder Ross Barkley are in line to start for England.
Everton defender Phil Jagielka is expected to travel despite coming off with what appeared to be an injury in the 89th minute against Slovenia.
Goalkeeper Joe Hart will not be involved after being allowed to return to Manchester City.
Southampton's Fraser Forster looks to set to start in goal on the ground where he played for Celtic for four seasons.
England's Willett needs to finish fifth to regain top spot in the Race to Dubai, but was joint 58th after failing to claim a birdie in a round of 74.
Olesen enjoyed an eagle and eight birdies as he moved to 15 under, six shots clear of Spaniard Adrian Otaegui and Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee.
Otaegui had earlier broken the course record himself with a 63, before Olesen went one better.
"I feel pretty comfortable," said the leader, who won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship last year and made a strong start to this season, but had missed the cut in seven of his past 10 events before this week.
Bogeys on the 16th and 18th left Masters champion Willett 16 shots adrift of Olesen.
Willett had led the money list since claiming his first major title at Augusta in April, but was overtaken by Henrik Stenson on Sunday after the Open champion was joint second in the WGC-HSBC Champions and Willett finished 75th in the 78-man field.
As part of the Made in Hull event large images were projected on buildings to tell the city's history over almost 100 years.
In Queen Victoria Square, three major buildings - the city hall, Ferens Art Gallery and the maritime museum - acted as large canvasses for the event.
The free, unticketed event ran every night from New Year's Day to 7 January.
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Martin Green, director of Hull 2017, said: "It was extraordinary - I'm so glad people like the work.
"The work will keep coming but it doesn't mean anything if it doesn't have an audience.
"When I walked into the square every evening and saw it packed with people you couldn't fail to be moved by it."
The last night of the attraction was attended by 103,000 people on Saturday, organisers said.
In 2015 the Office for National Statistics put the city's total population at 258,000.
Saturday's volume of visitors caused some overcrowding on public transport and traffic congestion as people headed for the city centre.
The city's maritime past, the blitz it endured in World War Two and the heavy loss of life for Hull's trawlermen were all featured in a video projection which lasted about 10 minutes.
The city's sporting achievements and its other local heroes, including record-breaking aviator Amy Johnson, were also marked.
The Hull-born documentary filmmaker Sean McAllister was the event's creative director.
A spectacular display of fireworks launched the first day of the city's events.
Once Made in Hull finished its last projection at about 21:00 GMT on Saturday. Within hours an early-morning heavy-haulage operation started moving the city's latest attraction into place in Queen Victoria Square.
Moffat said the BBC was "right not to reward greed" after the corporation lost the rights to Channel 4.
The writer and producer said he had rejected offers from other broadcasters who wanted to air Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Moffat picked up an Emmy on Sunday for Sherlock The Abominable Bride.
He told the audience at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday: "Thank you to the BBC who we love above all bakery. British people will get that."
Last Monday, Love Productions, which makes Bake Off for the BBC, announced it had signed a new deal with Channel 4.
The following day, presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins stated they would leave the programme after the current series, which airs on BBC One.
Judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry have not yet said if they are moving to Channel 4 with the show, fuelling much press speculation about its future and who might present it.
Moffat, who is a board director at Hartswood Films which produces Sherlock, said after the Emmys ceremony: "We have had offers, that's not what it's about. It should never be about that. I think the BBC was quite right not to reward greed. It's wrong."
Hartswood Films, which was also behind series including Jekyll and Coupling, is run by his mother-in-law Beryl Vertue and his wife, Sue, is also a producer and board director.
During negotiations over Bake Off, the BBC fell £10m short of the amount of money required to keep it, BBC News understands. The corporation is thought to have offered £15m per year to keep the show.
That would have been double the amount the BBC currently pays for it and its sister programmes such as An Extra Slice and the Sport Relief specials.
But it is understood Love Productions refused to entertain any offers below £25m per year.
On Monday, Grand Designs star Kevin McCloud defended the show's move to Channel 4.
"I'm excited to see how they make it their own. It will be different, it will be its own creative thing," he said.
"I can't imagine Grand Designs going anywhere. I was listening to the radio this morning when they were talking about Bake Off and I felt good to be associated with Channel 4.
"It's a very big stable. I think what is interesting for Channel 4 is the way they remake themselves and revitalise themselves.
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Piotr Pawel Nowicki, who was 62 and lived in Gartly, died after a collision involving a silver Vauxhall Insignia.
The incident happened at about 17:30 on Thursday. The road was closed for several hours to allow for investigation work.
Sgt David Pirie from Police Scotland said: "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of all those involved."
He added: "Officers are continuing with the investigation into the collision and anyone who witnessed it and who hasn't already spoken to police is asked to contact us on 101."
The hashtag #grammerschools has been trending on Twitter with people arguing for and against their re-introduction.
But eagle-eyed users have noticed the error and are commenting on the spelling of the hashtag rather than the topic itself.
Glen Laker's tweet made the point very succinctly:
Mark Pullinger tells off people opposing more grammar schools for the misspelt hashtag:
Will Black's irony meter has hit its maximum point:
Jonny Geller tweeted this image showing poor grammar:
I H Laking used this gif to illustrate the hashtag:
Others shared images of the actor Kelsey Grammer as people have mistakenly tweeted the spelling of his surname. While Siraj saw the irony of the hashtag trending on International Literacy Day on Thursday.
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It followed a referendum in May, when the Republic of Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
From Monday onwards, registrars will be able to register same-sex marriages.
Also, the marriages of same-sex couples who were legally married abroad will be automatically recognised by the state.
Same-sex couples who have already applied to register a civil partnership will be able to convert this into a marriage application.
People who are already in a civil partnership will also be able to get married within days, if they give notice of their intentions to the registrar.
However, no new applications for civil partnerships will be accepted after 16 November.
Civil partnership will only be available for a limited time for those couples who have already submitted their applications before the legislation comes into effect.
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald signed the commencement order for the Marriage Act 2015 in Dublin Castle on Tuesday.
She said the new law would have a "profound symbolic importance" and a "real and tangible impact" on same-sex couples' family life.
"The Irish people blazed a trail on 22 May 2015 when they became the first sovereign people to choose marriage equality by popular vote," she said.
"They determined that Ireland should be characterised by solidarity and inclusiveness. They have reaffirmed the importance of marriage and family for our society."
In May's referendum, 62.1% people voted yes, while 37.9% voted no.
The Swedish title was one of 19 films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or, in the 70th year of the festival on the French Riviera.
Prizes also went to British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and director Sofia Coppola.
But juror Jessica Chastain said she was shocked at the way many of the films she saw at Cannes portrayed women.
Chastain, star of The Help said it was "disturbing" to see the way women were depicted on screen, saying: "The one thing I really took away from this experience was how the world views women. There are some exceptions, but for the most part I was surprised with the representation of female characters on the screen in these films.
"I hope when we include more female story-tellers we will have more of the women that I recognise in my day-to-day life, ones that are proactive, have their own agency and don't just react to the men around them - they have their own point of view."
Toni Erdmann director Maren Ade, who also sat on the jury, agreed more female directors were needed, adding: "We're missing a lot of stories they might tell."
Palme d'Or: The Square
Grand Prix: BPM (Beats per Minute)
Jury prize: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Loveless
70th anniversary award: Nicole Kidman
Best director: Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
Best actress: Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Best actor: Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Best screenplay: Joint winners Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Lynne Ramsay for You Were Never Really Here
Camera d'Or (best debut film): Leonor Serraille, Jeune Femme
Short film prize: A Gentle Night, Qiu Yang
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, who chaired the jury, said the winning film was a rich and "completely contemporary" tale about "the dictatorship of being politically correct".
The director of Julieta and All About My Mother said the festival was "the birth of a lot of wonderful movies" and that he had been "completely mesmerised" by some of the films in competition.
But he appeared emotional when discussing how much he had loved Grand Prix winner BPM, which tells the story of activist group Act Up and the lack of government support for Aids sufferers in the 1990s.
"They are real heroes who saved many lives," he said, his voice breaking.
BPM had been a favourite to win the Palme d'Or, alongside bleak Russian family drama Loveless and heist thriller Good Time, with The Square an outsider.
Jury members also included Men in Black star Will Smith, South Korean director Park Chan-wook, Chinese star Fan Bingbing, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, French actress and writer Agnes Jaoui and composer Gabriel Yared.
British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay was the joint winner of best screenplay for You Were Never Really Here, for which Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor. It tells the story of a private contractor sent to rescue a young girl from a paedophile ring, and Ramsay said it had been a "labour of love", and that "to be recognised for the writing is great".
The best director award went to Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled, a drama about an injured soldier taken in by a girls' boarding school during the American Civil War - only the second time the prize has gone to a woman.
It stars Nicole Kidman as the headmistress and the Australian actress was given a 70th anniversary award to mark the fact she had three films and one TV series shown at this year's festival.
The Square stars Claes Bang with British actor Dominic West and Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss in supporting roles. While it received good reviews, it was not tipped to win the main prize.
After winning, Ostlund said: "I think my first reaction was 'oh my God, how fantastic'. I mean I hugged the main actor that I've been working with almost for two years now. We have been struggling together and it was a very, very happy ending of that work of course."
The Square focuses on Bang's character Christian as the gallery he runs prepares for a new exhibition in the gallery's courtyard in which members of the public can stand and ask for help. Meanwhile, his private life starts to unravel after he is mugged and seeks the return of his belongings in an unorthodox way.
It received four stars from the Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin, who said that while it is a "slow burn", it has a "cumulative force that can't be resisted", while Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian gave it the same score, calling it "thrillingly weird".
The Swedish director was previously best known for Force Majeure, about a family ski trip rocked by a father's selfish reaction to an avalanche.
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The presidential candidate had until midnight to repay the money, but said she had no intention of doing so.
The parliament says she wrongly used the funds to pay an aide at the National Front's headquarters in Paris.
She says she is the victim of a politically motivated vendetta.
If she does not repay the money, the parliament could now respond by withholding as much as half of her salary and allowances, which her opponents say total almost €11,000 a month.
Ms Le Pen is one of the front-runners in the French presidential election to be held in April and May. If she wins, she has promised a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership of the EU.
Polls suggest that she will make it to the run-off where she is likely to face conservative candidate Francois Fillon or centrist Emmanuel Macron.
"I will not submit to the persecution, a unilateral decision taken by political opponents... without proof and without waiting for a judgement from the court action I have started," she told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
The money the European Parliament wants returned was used to pay the salary of Catherine Griset, a close friend of Ms Le Pen as well as her cabinet director.
The funds were conditional on Ms Griset spending most of her working time in Brussels or Strasbourg.
However, the parliament says most of her time was instead spent working in the National Front's headquarters in Paris. The party will face a second demand for 41,554 euros in wages paid to her bodyguard.
The far-right leader also tried to distance herself from financial allegations overshadowing Republican candidate Francois Fillon, who has vigorously denied that his wife was paid 834,000 euros for fake jobs.
Asked if she would pay back the money, Marine Le Pen told AFP: "To pay the money back, I'd have had to have received the funds, but my name isn't Francois Fillon."
Quite apart from her refusal to pay back the funds, the FN leader might struggle to find the money. Her party has been unable to raise funds from French banks and has had to seek financing abroad.
In 2014, the FN received a €9m loan from Russian lender First Czech-Russian Bank, which collapsed last year.
Sisu had claimed the council's £14m loan to Arena Coventry Limited (ACL), the previous operator of the Ricoh, was an illicit use of public funds.
But the Court of Appeal said there was not a good legal reason to challenge the original judgement.
Sisu said it would apply for another hearing in a bid to continue the fight.
In July, Mr Justice Hickinbottom found Sisu had, from April 2012, refused to pay rent "deliberately to distress ACL's financial position, with a view to driving down the value of ACL and thus the price of a share in it."
Coventry City Council gave ACL, at the time jointly owned by the authority and a charitable trust, the loan so it could pay off debts.
A Coventry City Council spokesman said: "We have always been confident we had a strong case and we're pleased the application, from Sisu-related companies for leave to appeal against Mr Justice Hickinbottom's High Court judgement, has been refused."
Premiership rugby team Wasps took over ACL last November.
Orange CEO Stephane Richard went to Jerusalem and met PM Benjamin Netanyahu to "clear up the confusion".
He had earlier said he wanted to end an agreement with an Israeli partner which operates in the occupied West Bank.
The comments were strongly criticised in Israel as supporting a boycott.
"It's no secret that what you said last week was interpreted by many as an attack on Israel," Mr Netanyahu told Mr Richard on Friday.
The prime minister said his government sought "real and secure peace with our neighbours the Palestinians", but that could not be achieved "by boycotts or threats of boycotts".
Reuters and the Times of Israel reported that Mr Netanyahu had instructed the Israeli ambassador to Paris not to accept a request by Mr Richard to meet in France.
Mr Richard said his comments had been taken out of context.
"I have been profoundly and personally distressed to observe the results of the misunderstanding and the distortion of my recent statements," said Mr Richard.
"I deeply regret the impact resulting from the context and interpretation of those statements."
The CEO had said in a meeting in Cairo last week that he would pull out of Israel "tomorrow morning" if contracts allowed, adding it was important to build trust with Arab countries.
Orange's Israeli affiliate, Partner Communications, controls close to 28% of Israel's mobile market.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign group - that Israel says works to "delegitimise" the state of Israel - had also previously called on Orange to sever its ties with Partner because of work it carries out in settlements.
Israel's settlements in the occupied territories are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
The French government has a 13.45% stake in Orange. Last week French President Francois Hollande said he did not support a boycott of Israel and wanted to improve ties between the two countries.
Ajax moved to the brink of a first European final in 21 years with a 4-1 first-leg win in Amsterdam last week.
Lyon have averaged over four goals per game in their Europa League home matches this season.
"There's an hour and a half to overcome our deficit," said Genesio, whose side are fourth in Ligue 1.
Two goals from on-loan Chelsea striker Bertrand Traore, plus efforts from Kasper Dolberg and Amin Younes have put the Dutch side in command ahead of Thursday's return leg.
But Lyon, who have never reached a major European final, were given hope after France midfielder Mathieu Valbuena curled in an away goal.
The winners will play either Manchester United or Celta Vigo, who trail 1-0 to the Premier League side, in the 24 May final in Stockholm.
Genesio believes his side's 3-2 league victory over Nantes on Sunday showed they are capable of pulling off a comeback against Ajax.
"We'll have to create chances and take them, but also remain calm and organised when we lose the ball," added Genesio.
"We have to remember that we scored three goals on Sunday. And if we score three against Ajax, we could go through."
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Well tiny transmitters have been put under the skin of the slippery slugs to see where they go.
It's part of an experiment in Shropshire to help farmers stop the slugs eating their plants.
Hundreds of slugs have been tagged and their movements tracked to give the famers a better understanding of what they get up to at night.
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Christophe Berra headed Matt Ritchie's corner past Michael McGovern in the 85th-minute for the dominant Scots.
The win served as a worthwhile warm-up for Gordon Strachan's side ahead of their European Championship qualifier against Gibraltar on Sunday.
Northern Ireland, too, can take heart from some fine individual displays ahead of their meeting with Finland.
Jonny Evans, Aaron Hughes and Chris Baird impressed as the visitors played deep and challenged Scotland to try to break through a well-organised defensive shape.
Gibraltar will seek to do the same at Hampden at the weekend, so the friendly turned into an occasion for the Scots to hone their attacking play.
They were at their sharpest down the left, where Ikechi Anya's fearsome pace was a constant threat, and tended to leave Paddy McNair looking vulnerable.
The young Manchester United defender was one of several fringe players that O'Neill brought to the fore.
MK Dons' Will Grigg led the line, where he was often isolated, while Josh Magennis of Kilmarnock was a powerful and direct runner down the right.
Brentford's Stuart Dallas and MK Dons' Ben Reeves, both earning their second caps, were intermittently busy.
So, too, was Northern Ireland goalkeeper Michael McGovern.
His interventions often came after Anya had burst to prominence. On one occasion, the left winger raced into the penalty area, then cut the ball back for Steven Fletcher whose snap shot was turned over by Hamilton's McGovern.
The Northern Ireland goalkeeper had to dive smartly to push an Anya shot wide, then when the winger was played into the penalty area by James McArthur, he shot wide from a good position.
A clever reverse pass from Shaun Maloney provided a shooting opportunity for Steven Fletcher, but McGovern dashed out quickly to block.
Evans was marshalling the visiting defence, in the midst of a domestic ban for spitting at the Newcastle United striker Papiss Cisse.
The Manchester United centre-back was composed throughout, helped by the solid reliability of his partner, Brighton centre-back Hughes, and by the industry and conscientious running of West Brom's Baird and Reading's Oliver Norwood in midfield.
The approach was to try to deny Scotland, rather than control the game, but Northern Ireland pressed more assertively, and higher up the field, after the break.
Scotland were less able to control the game, as substitutions disrupted their rhythm as much as the visitors' approach.
Steven Naismith carried a threat in the air, though, flashing one header over from Craig Forsyth's cross, then seeing an effort from Ritchie's corner saved by McGovern.
Ritchie drifted in and out of the game on his debut, but there was promise in the delivery from his left foot.
Familiar faces came on to bolster Northern Ireland, including former Rangers midfielder Steven Davis and his one-time Celtic rival Paddy McCourt, while another - Magennis - came close with a shot across the face of goal.
The game seemed destined to finish as a stalemate, but Ritchie's delivery from set-pieces tended to be threatening and Scotland finally made the breakthrough when Berra headed his corner kick past McGovern.
There were only four minutes left, and Northern Ireland had no riposte.
Match ends, Scotland 1, Northern Ireland 0.
Second Half ends, Scotland 1, Northern Ireland 0.
Attempt saved. Jordan Rhodes (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven Naismith.
Foul by Jordan Rhodes (Scotland).
Aaron Hughes (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Scotland 1, Northern Ireland 0. Christophe Berra (Scotland) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Scotland. Conceded by Paddy McCourt.
Attempt missed. Billy McKay (Northern Ireland) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Paddy McCourt following a corner.
Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Jordan Rhodes.
Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Allan McGregor.
Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Ikechi Anya.
Attempt blocked. Luke McCullough (Northern Ireland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Craig Forsyth (Scotland).
Billy McKay (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Luke McCullough replaces Jonny Evans.
Substitution, Scotland. Johnny Russell replaces Steven Whittaker.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Billy McKay replaces Josh Magennis.
Christophe Berra (Scotland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Northern Ireland).
Attempt saved. Matt Ritchie (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Steven Whittaker.
Attempt saved. Steven Naismith (Scotland) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.
Corner, Scotland. Conceded by Jonny Evans.
Attempt missed. Ikechi Anya (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Scotland. Conceded by Lee Hodson.
Attempt blocked. Ikechi Anya (Scotland) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Rhodes.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Ryan McLaughlin replaces Ben Reeves.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Steven Davis replaces Oliver Norwood.
Attempt missed. Matt Ritchie (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Steven Naismith.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Reeves.
Substitution, Scotland. Jordan Rhodes replaces Steven Fletcher.
Substitution, Scotland. James Morrison replaces James McArthur.
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Scotland).
Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Paddy McCourt replaces William Grigg.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Lee Hodson replaces Chris Baird.
Ikechi Anya (Scotland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick McNair (Northern Ireland).
Attempt missed. Steven Naismith (Scotland) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Craig Forsyth with a cross.
Steven Naismith (Scotland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland).
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham said he opened the envelope in his office and was told to stay where he was as it was treated as a chemical or biological incident.
The independent House of Lords member said the powder was later found to be harmless.
Police said they were called at 12:30 GMT to reports of a suspicious package.
"We are examining the contents," a spokesman said.
Lord Ahmed told the BBC the white powder spilled over him and the envelope had contained a note with the words "paki filth".
He said: "The powder went all over my clothes and I immediately shook it off. I realised this powder could be anything.
"It was frightening, and I think that even more than it being frightening for me, it was a big shock for everyone who was around me because security personnel came and told everyone to be calm and remain seated, and you could see the police officers with guns."
He said every five minutes medics were looking at his face to "see if it had turned blue".
He said he thought of the recent death of MP Jo Cox who was killed in a street of her constituency in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
"I immediately thought that this could be more serious than just an abusive letter," he said.
Lord Ahmed said he was "concerned" by what happened and said he had been targeted by racist messages about a dozen times before.
He believed he received those messages because of his status as the first Muslim life peer in the House of Lords, he said.
The Royal College of Midwives said offering rewards for taking up healthy behaviours was "not ideal" and expensive.
But the trial of 600 women showed that more than 20% of those offered vouchers did stop smoking, which researchers say could save the NHS money overall.
Why do doctors say it's important women give up smoking when they are pregnant?
Smoking is always unhealthy but the NHS says there are specific reasons why expectant women should quit.
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For many years tobacco advertisers sold the "health benefits" of cigarettes - and people, including pregnant women, were not educated as much as we are today about the dangers of smoking.
See some of the "outrageous" ways smoking was promoted.
Now medical experts know much more about the problems linked to smoking while pregnant.
"Protecting your baby from tobacco smoke is one of the best things you can do to give your child a healthy start in life," advice from the NHS explains.
They say that there are more than 4,000 chemicals in cigarettes and many of these can harm an unborn baby.
It can also interfere with the oxygen supply to the baby, requiring the heart to do more work.
Stopping smoking can ease morning sickness and increases your chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby.
There are other benefits to quitting cigarettes, including a reduction in the risk of stillbirth, a premature birth and cot death or sudden infant death.
Doctors also say that by quitting smoking, a parent can increase the chance of their baby having a healthier life.
"Continuing or returning to smoking after birth increases the risk of cot death and exposes your child to health risks including respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma," says the charity Tommy's, which funds research into stillbirth, premature birth and miscarriage.
Second-hand or passive smoking can also reduce birth weight and make it more likely for a baby to need treatment of bronchitis and pneumonia.
"More than 17,000 children under the age of five are admitted to hospital every year because of the effects of second-hand smoke," say the NHS.
When it comes to alcohol, opinion is still divided about exactly how much pregnant women can drink and still stay safe.
The Department of Health's guidance says that women should avoid alcohol altogether, but says that if they choose to drink, they should stick to one or two units of alcohol once or twice a week to minimise the risk to the baby.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says women should have no alcohol at all during the first three months of pregnancy because of the risks of miscarriage.
For the rest of pregnancy they say to drink no more than one or two units of alcohol once or twice a week.
Always seek medical advice when looking to give up smoking as some medication, such as some stop smoking tablets are not recommended during pregnancy.
Manufacturers also recommend that pregnant women also avoid liquorice flavoured nicotine replacement therapies.
GPs, midwives, pharmacists and specialist stop smoking advisors should all be able to offer suitable support.
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Michael Jacobs set up Will Grigg to put the hosts ahead before Haris Vuckic headed Jason Pearce's cross home.
Chris McCann tapped in Wigan's third, before Matt Done turned home Billy Sharp's ball as the Blades fought back.
Sharp headed home Jay McEveley's cross to make it 3-2 and Done slotted Sharp's rebounded shot to seal a point.
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 3, Sheffield United 3.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 3, Sheffield United 3.
Attempt missed. Matt Done (Sheffield United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Che Adams (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Jussi Jääskeläinen.
Attempt saved. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 3, Sheffield United 3. Matt Done (Sheffield United) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Jamal Campbell-Ryce replaces Dean Hammond.
Max Power (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Dean Hammond (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Martyn Woolford.
Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Chris Basham (Sheffield United).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Reece James replaces Leon Barnett.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Che Adams replaces Ryan Flynn.
Substitution, Sheffield United. Martyn Woolford replaces Jay McEveley.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 3, Sheffield United 2. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) header from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jay McEveley with a cross.
Attempt missed. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Neill Collins.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Edgar (Sheffield United).
Attempt blocked. Chris Basham (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic).
Jose Baxter (Sheffield United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 3, Sheffield United 1. Matt Done (Sheffield United) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Billy Sharp with a cross.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 3, Sheffield United 0. Chris McCann (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Don Cowie replaces David Perkins because of an injury.
(Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Sharp (Sheffield United).
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by Michael Jacobs.
Corner, Sheffield United. Conceded by David Perkins.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Yanic Wildschut replaces Haris Vuckic.
Attempt missed. Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Billy Sharp (Sheffield United).
The Sussex batsman, 37, requires minor knee surgery and has been replaced in the squad by Sean Terry, who made his debut against Afghanistan in July.
Tim Murtagh will join the squad in South Africa after Middlesex's final County Championship game next week.
Ireland face South Africa in Benoni on 25 September before meeting Australia at the same venue two days later.
"It's obviously a blow to lose someone of Ed's calibre but Sean Terry is a batsman of undoubted promise," said Ireland coach John Bracewell.
"Given the likely pitch in Benoni, and the likelihood we will facing two majority pace attacks, the selectors felt that Sean was the logical replacement."
Joyce produced impressive form for Ireland over the summer as he hit two centuries against Afghanistan at Stormont, including a series-saving unbeaten 160.
Murtagh, 35, will delay his departure to South Africa in order to be available for Middlesex's County Championship game against Yorkshire, starting on Tuesday, as they aim for a first title in 23 years.
"This match means a huge amount to both Tim and Middlesex. Having played with the club for 10 years, it would be the culmination of one of his most fiercely held ambitions," said Cricket Ireland's performance director Richard Holdsworth.
Middlesex have agreed to fly Murtagh out to South Africa as soon as the game finishes, in time for him to join the squad ahead of the first game against South Africa.
According to the Department for Education survey, only 3% of investigations resulted in a criminal caution or conviction for the teacher.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the research justified the government's plan to give teachers a legal right to anonymity when pupils made claims.
One union said it was "a small step".
The survey, commissioned by the Department for Education, looked at the number and nature of abuse allegations referred to 116 English councils between April 1 2009 and March 31 2010.
Of 12,086 allegations referred, 2,827 (23%) were against school teachers, and 1,709 were against non-teaching staff in schools.
It found that 47% of all allegations made against teachers, and 41% against non-teaching staff members were found to be unsubstantiated, malicious or unfounded.
About 18% of teachers and 29% of non-teaching staff were suspended while accusations were investigated.
Based on information held by councils rather than the police, the survey found that 12% of the accused teachers and nearly a fifth of those non-teaching members of staff faced a criminal investigation.
And just 3% of concluded investigations against teachers resulted in a criminal caution or conviction, with the figure 5% for non-teaching staff, the survey found.
The government plans to allow teachers anonymity when facing allegations from pupils - up to the point they are charged with a criminal offence.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said: "Every allegation of abuse must be taken seriously, but some children think they can make a false allegation without any thought to the consequences for the teacher concerned. When these allegations are later found to be malicious or unfounded, the damage is already done.
"We will back teachers as they seek to maintain discipline in schools and raise academic standards."
The general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, Chris Keates, said the government's plans were a "small step in the right direction" but needed to be expanded.
"In addition, it doesn't address the issue of information being kept by police even when a teacher has been exonerated," she added.
Paceman Eranga felt discomfort while batting during Sri Lanka's one-day international win over Ireland.
"He was OK and stable and we're awaiting the results," said a Sri Lanka Cricket spokesman.
The 29-year-old's bowling action was reported during the second Test against England in May.
Eranga was tested on 6 June at the National Cricket Performance Centre in Loughborough, which is accredited by the International Cricket Council.
"The assessment revealed that all deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under the regulations," said an ICC statement.
Eranga, who has played 41 times for Sri Lanka across all three formats, is still able to play domestic cricket in Sri Lanka, with the consent of the country's cricket board.
He can apply for a reassessment of his action once it has been modified.
Sri Lanka face England in the first ODI at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.
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Asda boss Andy Clarke said he would sink another £500m into the price war with his rivals, as part of "radical action to win back our customers".
The move comes at the start of a big week for the grocery trade.
The other big UK supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - are set to unveil Christmas trading figures.
Asda, which is owned by US chain Walmart, does not release its figures until February.
However, Asda appears to have been suffering more than its rivals, with analysts viewing it as the most vulnerable of the big four to discount stores Aldi and Lidl.
Asda's latest price-cutting investment is in addition to £1bn of investment announced in 2013 and due to be rolled out over a five-year period.
Mr Clarke said: "The structure of UK grocery retailing has permanently changed to reflect the way that customers shop today."
He described the change as "a global phenomenon", adding: "We saw the change coming and responded in 2013, but we didn't move fast enough."
Conditions in the UK grocery market are particularly gruelling, with all of the big four chains struggling.
Morrisons, which reports its Christmas trading results on Tuesday, saw a 2.6% fall in its like-for-like third-quarter sales. The retailer dropped out of the FTSE 100 list of the UK's most valuable companies in December.
Tuesday also sees the publication of the latest Kantar Worldpanel figures indicating the relative size of retailers' share of the grocery market.
Sainsbury's, which publishes its third-quarter and Christmas results the following day, saw a 1.6% fall in its like-for-like first-half sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings.
Tesco's third-quarter and Christmas results come out on Thursday. In the first half of the financial year, its UK like-for-like sales were down 1.1%.
As for Asda, its like-for-like sales fell 4.5% in the three months to the end of September, marking its fifth consecutive quarter of falling revenue.
Retailers including Marks and Spencer and Waitrose have already released their figures for trading over the Christmas period.
Last week, M&S said third-quarter sales of general merchandise were down by 5.8% for the 13 weeks to 26 December, although food sales were up 0.4%.
It also said chief executive Marc Bolland would step down in April, to be succeeded by Steve Rowe, executive director of general merchandise.
Like-for-like sales at Waitrose supermarket, which is part of the John Lewis Partnership, fell 1.4% over the Christmas period, although John Lewis sales overall rose 5.1%.
Hockey Ireland's funding has been increased from €423,675 last year to €530,000 in 2016 following successful qualification for the Rio Games.
Golf and pentathlon are also to receive significant financial boosts as part of a total package of €27 million.
Money will be available to support Olympic and Paralympic training camps.
Team Golf Ireland will get €200,000 this year, which will be aimed at supporting individual players trying to make a breakthrough on to the major professional tours.
Also included in the funding is money to help attract support for the hosting of a Challenge Tour event in Ireland.
In total €10.25m in funding has been announced for investment in high performance sport in the year of the Rio Olympics and Paralympic Games.
This summer's Olympics will be the first time in more than 100 years that an Irish hockey team has participated in an Olympic Games.
Timothy Malone, 67, from Hampshire, was on holiday with his wife Yvonne when their Rover car and a Kia Proceed crashed near Reynoldston on Friday night.
Mrs Malone, 62, remains stable at Morriston Hospital, Swansea. A 19-year-old man arrested in connection with the crash has been released on bail.
Mr Malone was described as an "outstanding" father and husband.
The couple's son Joe Malone, 32, said his father "would do everything with mum", enjoyed going on walks and was a keen mountain biker.
"We are just devastated," he said.
"He was about to retire and enjoy the rest of his life pretty soon, and they were going to buy a motor home and go see the world."
Two men who were passengers in the Kia car were treated for minor injuries in hospital and have since been discharged.
Earlier on Thursday the parents of some of the girls had met Mr Buhari after marching through the capital Abuja.
The military has freed hundreds of Boko Haram captives in recent months, but none of the Chibok girls.
The government has faced criticism for the lack of progress in finding them.
"I assure you that I go to bed and wake up every day with the Chibok girls on my mind," Mr Buhari told the parents who visited him, according to a statement from his office.
He pointed to the sacking of the heads of Nigeria's army, navy and air force in July 2015 as proof of his determination to have the girls found.
"In spite of the dire financial straits that we found the country in, I continue to do my best to support their efforts in that regard," he added.
The new probe will be led by a panel appointed by the Nigeria's national security adviser and will look into the circumstances of the kidnapping and the government's response.
The government says it does not know where the girls are or if they are alive.
The teenagers were seized from their dormitories in the north-eastern town of Chibok.
In December Mr Buhari said he was prepared to negotiate with Boko Haram militants to secure the release of the girls.
The militants regard the girls as their most invaluable captives and their leader, Abubakar Shekau, said last year that most of them had converted to Islam and had been married off.
Although Boko Haram has been driven out from most of the areas it controlled in north-eastern Nigeria, it has continued to carry out suicide bombings and raids into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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All over the UK people are putting on furry ears, having bake sales and raising money in fancy dress.
To date, more than £790 million has been raised for good causes.
Children in Need currently supports around 2,500 projects in the UK. They all work with kids who are in tough situations and need help.
For example, money goes to disabled football teams in London, is used to help train guide dogs for children with disabilities in Oxford, and provides support and activities for children in Northern Ireland who have Downs Syndrome.
The money raised or donated will go towards helping disadvantaged children and young people right here in the UK.
In 2014 Children in Need raised £32.7 million and since it started it has raised over £790 million.
Children in Need say that 100% of every donation, no matter how big or small, will be given to projects that benefit young lives across the UK.
Tracy Houghton, 45, died instantly along with her sons Ethan, 13, and Joshua, 11, and her partner's daughter Aimee Goldsmith, also 11, when Tomasz Kroker smashed into stationary traffic.
Judge Maura McGowan said his attention had been so poor he "might as well have had his eyes closed".
Kroker, 30, was scrolling through music selections at the time of the crash.
The court heard he had been so distracted he barely looked at the road for almost a kilometre. The judge described the case as the most horrific she had ever seen.
Kate Goldsmith, whose daughter Aimee died in the crash on the A34 near Newbury in Berkshire, said Kroker had turned his lorry into a "lethal weapon" by using his phone while driving at 50mph, and she made a plea to all road users to learn the lessons from the case.
"We urge you to make a personal commitment to stop using mobile phones while driving and make our roads safer for everyone," she said.
Speaking outside Reading Crown Court, she said: "The 10-year sentence will not ease our pain and suffering, nor do we believe it will send a strong enough message to those who lack the self-restraint to not use a mobile phone when driving."
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The court heard how the family had been returning from a camping trip in two cars at the time of the crash on 10 August
Ms Houghton's partner Mark Goldsmith and his 13-year-old son Jake were in a car that was struck by Kroker. The court heard how the Vauxhall Zafira being driven by Mr Goldsmith was shunted into the Corsa containing the rest of the family, which was forced underneath a lorry in front.
The Corsa was compressed to a third of its normal size, the court was told.
Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson said: "It is a particularly distressing feature that the two surviving members of the family were in the car behind, and a 13-year-old boy was forced to witness at close range the deaths of four members of close family."
Some family members left the court as the prosecution began to show photos of the crash scene and video from the lorry's cab camera.
Others were reduced to tears as video of the crash was shown.
Less than a second before the impact, an onboard camera showed Kroker, originally from Poland, "looking up with sudden horror on his face... it was too late to take any avoiding action", the court heard.
In the pile-up, Kroker also seriously injured Mazda driver Adam Pearson, whose car was thrown on to its roof, leaving him with a collapsed lung and a broken back, and also injured the two occupants of a Citroen.
Jake Goldsmith, who witnessed his sister Aimee's death, now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a victim impact statement from his mother Kathryn.
"Jake doesn't talk much any more, he doesn't have much to say," she said. "Our nights are plagued with nightmares and broken sleep."
The court heard that an hour before the pile-up, Kroker had signed a declaration to his employer, promising he would not use his phone at the wheel.
He initially told police his brakes failed, and the traffic in front of him "just stopped". He was also found to have lied to his bosses about whether he had been distracted, claiming he had the radio on.
The lorry driver, from Trajan Walk, Andover, Hampshire, pleaded guilty on 10 October to four counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
Coilcolor has bought Falcon Steel which was based at the old Alcoa site.
Thirty five people lost their jobs when the company failed but 16 have been re-employed and Coilcolor hopes to take on more in the next few months.
Coilcolor, which makes coated steel, said due to the expansion it aimed to grow its workforce across both cities to around 90 by mid 2012.
Managing director Dean Proctor said the deal safeguard the future of the Swansea plant and Coilcolor would begin manufacture at the Westfield Industrial Park site immediately.
Mr Proctor added: "This deal gives Coilcolor a massive potential for growth.
"Greater capacity means we can offer existing and new customers a leaner, fitter and even more cost-effective service.
"Prospects are now even brighter for the existing company as well as our new team in Swansea and south Wales can boast the largest independent coil coating company in the UK."
Coilcolor makes coated steel in a variety of colours and finishes which are used in the construction industry to clad buildings.
The Swansea site will operate as a separate company to be known as Coilcolor West Ltd but will have mutual shareholders with the existing Newport company.
Mr Proctor said turnover was expected to double from £30m within 24 months.
Kyle Naughton is fit after sitting out two games with a hamstring problem, while all of Swansea's international players are available.
Middlesbrough are bolstered by the availability of defender Daniel Ayala following a hamstring problem.
George Friend and Calum Chambers are also close to returning after respective calf and foot injuries.
Alistair Mann: "After seemingly starting to pull clear of trouble, two successive defeats to sides in a similar plight have drawn Swansea back into the dogfight once again. They can ill afford a third.
"That said, the situation of their weekend visitors is even more desperate - a fourth defeat in a row might cause Middlesbrough to be cast adrift of the safety line.
"The last time Boro registered three points was before Christmas, when they recorded their biggest victory of the campaign, with the Swans their beleaguered opponents.
"As then, Swansea's Achilles heel remains their defensive frailties. Middlesbrough's has been in attack, and with both acutely aware of the damaging effect of a defeat it's all set to be a frantic tussle."
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Swansea head coach Paul Clement on reports Gylfi Sigurdsson has said he wants to play for a 'big' club: "I've no problem with Gylfi saying that because what I see in him is a player very motivated to play well here and help us remain in this league.
"I've had no conversation with him about going elsewhere. Everything has been about training hard and doing his best for Swansea every day. I see it in the extra work he puts in and, that for me, is no coincidence why he is such a good player.
"But we shouldn't worry about this. Our focus now is on preparing for Middlesbrough and the next nine games."
Middlesbrough head coach Steve Agnew: "Paul Clement is a very, very good English coach and he'll have them well organised with creative players going forward.
"We haven't scored enough goals. We have to now think of way to create more chances. And converting those chances.
"Lots of ideas have gone into the players and I'm sure they'll respond."
Swansea will look at this as a game they need to win for several reasons, one of which is they will go eight points above Middlesbrough if they do.
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Historians believe Allied bombardments killed almost as many French people as German bombs killed Britons during the Blitz.
According to research carried out by Andrew Knapp, history professor at the UK's University of Reading, British, American and Canadian air raids resulted in 57,000 French civilian losses in World War Two.
"That's a figure slightly below, but comparable to, the 60,500 the British lost as a result of Luftwaffe bombing over the same period," says Knapp who is the co-author of Forgotten Blitzes and a book just published in France called Les francais sous les bombes alliees 1940-1945 (The French Under Allied Bombardment).
"It is also true that France took seven times the tonnage of [Allied] bombs that the UK took [from Nazi Germany]," says Knapp. "Roughly 75,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped on the UK [including Hitler's V missiles]. In France, it's in the order of 518,000 tonnes," he says.
Winston Churchill, who addressed the French over the airwaves with confidence and even a certain relish in their own language, spoke to them as Allies despite the collaboration with the Nazis of a part of the French population.
But the bombing tactics employed did not always reflect this.
Knapp divides the Allied bombardments into three categories: "Some did manage to be accurate and cause minimal civilian casualties.
"The second category, you can see why they did it but the level of civilian casualties might be considered disproportionate to the military advantage. And the third category it's really quite hard to understand, even with hindsight, why they did it at all."
The most disturbing example is the bombing of Le Havre in September 1944. Nearly all of the city was reduced to ash and 5,000 French men, women and children were killed. Allied infantry took the port a few days later but, many believe, they would have done it without the bombardment.
"It's fairly clear," says Knapp, "that on the basis of the treaties we have signed now - not the treaties we had signed then - some of these raids would be eligible for the category of war crimes."
Catherine Monfajon, author of a documentary on the subject that has just been shown on French TV, says the French often showed great spirit.
At the funeral for more than 100 French apprentices killed in an Allied air raid on St Nazaire, when a Vichy official started speaking about "birds of death", a whistle of disapproval rose from the very gallery where the parents of the dead boys were standing.
At the end of the War, St Nazaire was recorded as "100% destroyed" but talking about the destruction in this and 1,500 other towns was taboo.
"That silence is amazing and amazed me," says Monfajon. "France was the third country most bombed by the Allies after Germany and Japan and it is hardly mentioned in our history books."
This was largely because of the way the collaborationist Vichy regime used these casualties in their propaganda in order to turn public opinion against the Allies.
Even so much as questioning the bombing was considered suspect, she says. "And people were split between their pain, their anger and their gratitude towards these pilots who brought them freedom. Who died for that."
As the bombing of French cities intensified around D-Day, Churchill expressed concern that the scale of civilian casualties could durably damage Anglo-French relations even after the war was won.
Arthur "Bomber" Harris, head of RAF Bomber Command, wanted all his bombers pounding Germany.
Although apparently untroubled by the carnage inflicted on German civilians, he was pained by French casualties to the point of collecting money to send to help Allied bombing orphans.
Almost half of Bomber Command's airmen were killed in action. Their missions, their commanders argued, would help win the war more quickly.
But as the French are finally daring to say, the liberation of Normandy towns like Saint Lo, Caen and Le Havre turned them into wastelands of rubble and ash.
On D-Day itself, 2,500 Allied soldiers were killed. About the same number of French civilians were killed also.
Not heroes perhaps. But as the French president will affirm on the landing beaches on 6 June, their sacrifice for freedom was great.
The British retailer suspended its site for two hours on Tuesday night to fix the problem.
It said the glitch was the result of an internal error, rather than of an external hack attack.
It added that its customers' full credit card details were not among the exposed information.
However, personal data, including names, dates of birth, contacts and previous orders were shown.
One user told the BBC he had seen another person's account details when he tried to register a store loyalty card.
"It accepted my registration but then told me i had 9,000 sparks points which i thought was a bit odd," said Mark Hill.
"So, I looked at the account details and despite saying 'hi Mark' , it was quite clearly an account belonging to a female in a different part of the country."
A call centre employee who handles complaints for the firm recounted another incident.
"One woman contacted me and informed me that 'a bloke from the other side of the country' had contacted her by telephone because he had seen all her details while using the M&S website, and felt she should know about it," he said.
"Many callers were anxious and very concerned - they understood the seriousness of the situation.
"It took nearly an hour before the website was shut down - something one tech guy told me should have been done as soon as the problem was recognised."
Marks and Spencer has apologised for the glitch.
"Due to a technical issue, we temporarily suspended our website yesterday evening," an M&S spokesman said.
"This allowed us to thoroughly investigate and resolve the issue and quickly restore service for our customers."
It is not yet clear how many people's details were seen by other M&S customers as a result of the fault.
Mr Cameron is visiting Amritsar in the state of Punjab on Wednesday, at the end of a three-day trade trip to India.
This was where hundreds of people at a public meeting were shot dead by British troops in 1919.
The prime minister described the massacre as "a deeply shameful event in British history".
Writing in the memorial book of condolence, he added: "We must never forget what happened here."
He later defended his decision not to offer a formal apology saying the British government had "rightly condemned" the massacre at the time.
"I don't think the right thing is to reach back into history and to seek out things that we should apologise for. I think the right thing to do is to acknowledge what happened, to recall what happened, to show respect and understanding for what happened," he added.
While Mr Cameron was in India, a Downing Street source told the BBC that the Red Arrows - the RAF's famous display team - was safe as long as he was prime minister.
The RAF has offered its expertise to the Indian military to enable its Surya Kiran display team to conduct similar colourful flypasts.
There has been speculation in the media that the Red Arrows could be axed as part of defence cuts in the UK.
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Thousands of people gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh public gardens in Amritsar on 13 April 1919.
British colonial authorities had banned public meetings and a general was sent in to disperse the crowds.
Without warning, he blocked the exits and ordered his riflemen to open fire. They stopped 10 minutes later when their ammunition ran out.
The death toll is disputed - an inquiry set up by the colonial authorities put the figure at 379 but Indian sources put it nearer to 1,000.
Past prime ministers have expressed their regret, but Mr Cameron is the first to pay his respects at the site in person.
The prime minister laid a wreath at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial, bowing his head and standing in silence.
The killings were condemned by the British at the time - War Secretary Winston Churchill described them as "monstrous" in 1920.
During her visit in 1997, the Queen said it was a "distressing" example of the "moments of sadness" in the history between Britain and India.
Mr Cameron wants his visit to focus on more positive ties of history, particularly by visiting the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the holiest site in the Sikh religion.
The prime minister, bare-footed and wearing a blue bandanna to cover his head, also visited the kitchens which feed thousands of pilgrims every day and tried his hand at flipping chapatis.
Later he said: "In coming here to Amritsar, we should celebrate the immense contribution that people from the Punjab play in Britain, the role they play, what they give to our country.
"What they contribute to our country is outstanding and it is important to understand that and pay respect to that and to seek a greater understanding of the Sikh religion and that is why this visit to the holy temple, the Golden Temple, was so important."
In 1984 the Golden Temple was invaded by Indian troops seeking to flush out militants who wanted an independent Sikh state in the Punjab.
Operation Blue Star enraged many Sikhs and the Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
Retired Lieutenant General Kuldip Singh Brar, who led Operation Blue Star, was attacked in London during a visit in October.
Several people are awaiting trial accused of causing him grievous bodily harm.
On Tuesday, Mr Cameron held talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh.
The trade delegation, accompanying the prime minister, includes representatives from BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, London Underground and the English Premier League.
The ex-supermodel alleged that they falsely called her a liar after she claimed the comedian sexually assaulted her three decades ago.
Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled Cosby and his former lawyer Martin Singer must give sworn depositions before 25 November.
Cosby's lawyers said they would appeal.
Neither Cosby, 78, nor Dickinson, 60, attended the hearing on Monday.
More than 50 women have accused the comedian of sexual assault. He has never been charged for any of the alleged crimes. In most cases, the alleged incidents date back decades, meaning they fall outside the time limit for legal action.
Reuters said it is the second time in two months that Cosby will be required to testify under oath in response to a complaint of sexual misconduct against him.
Mr Singer, an LA lawyer, represented Cosby until he was replaced last month with a new legal team.
Last year, Dickinson had claimed Cosby drugged and raped her in a hotel in Lake Tahoe in 1982.
Speaking at the time, Mr Singer labelled Dickinson's allegations as "false and outlandish".
It happened at about 01:30 on Saturday on a lane between Great Western Road and the Auchentoshan Estate.
Police said an 18-year-old man and three boys aged 15 were "intentionally targeted" by another group of men.
They are treating the incident as attempted murder and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
The four teenagers were taken to hospital. Two of the 15-year-olds were suffering life threatening injuries. The 18-year-old and the other 15-year-old were released after treatment.
Det Sgt Darren Munogee said: "This type of violence will not be tolerated on our streets and I would offer reassurance to the public that we are doing all we can to trace the people responsible.
"Although the exact motive is still to be ascertained, we believe that the victims were intentionally targeted.
"We have a dedicated team that will trace the persons responsible. Our inquiries are continuing. We have utilised specialist search and forensic teams and are continuing to analyse available CCTV.
"We have increased our high visiblity patrols in the area and officers are continuing to conduct door-to-door inquiries."
The band of rain which fell on Tuesday cleared by Wednesday morning but more bad weather is set to move in.
Natural Resources Wales has four flood alerts in place for Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
The Met Office has issued yellow "be aware" warnings for strong winds in the same area on Thursday and for heavy rain across south and mid Wales.
It warned travel could be disrupted and trees damaged.
Tuesday's rain was the second time in a week that Pembrokeshire has suffered flooding.
Roads and properties in Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock as well as Neyland and Haverfordwest were affected.
Mid and West Fire Service said it also took calls from parts of Carmarthenshire.
South west Wales was badly hit by storms over the weekend, with several flooding incidents in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion following a yellow warning for the south Wales coast.
The yellow warnings are currently in place up to Friday.
Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and Warner Music argue that the claimants have failed to make their case after three days of testimony.
US District Judge R Gary Klausner is expected to hear arguments on the motion when the trial resumes later.
The band are accused of basing Stairway on the 1968 Spirit song, Taurus.
The case was brought by Michael Skidmore, who runs the estate of Spirit's late guitarist, Randy Wolfe.
In court, Skidmore's lawyer, Francis Malofiy played both songs and attempted to establish that Page heard the song prior to writing Stairway to Heaven.
The guitarist testified that he had not heard the Spirit track until a few years ago, and said the chord sequence was also similar to the Mary Poppins song Chim Chim Cher-ee.
However, musicologist Dr Alexander Stewart told the court that the chord progressions in Taurus and Stairway "both skip the E before resolving on an A note in an unusual way".
The claimants rested their case on Friday, and lawyers for Led Zeppelin filed to have the case dismissed on Monday.
The defendants argue that Malofiy failed to put the copyright registration of Taurus into evidence; that the Wolfe Trustee does not own that copyright; and that he failed to establish that Led Zeppelin had heard Taurus before writing Stairway to Heaven.
If the judge rules against the motion, the defence will start their case on Tuesday, with Robert Plant and bassist John Paul Jones expected to testify.
Dyfed-Powys Police was called to the A40 near Llanspyddid, near Brecon, at 07:35 GMT on Friday.
The woman who was killed was 58 and a 21-year-old remains in hospital.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash and the road has since reopened.
We were both staying in the same crowded, shabby house, trying to make sense of the fighting nearby, and clinging on to a few home-comforts - something at which Peter, with his roll-ups, his music and his well-honed ability to put the stresses of the job to one side over a few beers, excelled.
Since then, our paths have crossed repeatedly, as they tend to in this relatively tight community of foreign correspondents, cameramen and producers.
Mogadishu, Goma, Juba, Abidjan… the big stories draw us to the same hotels, frontlines, refugee camps and government offices.
Peter is a fine journalist. Over the years I have watched with admiration and surges of envy, as he has set the pace for the rest of us in places like South Sudan and Somalia.
He is based in Nairobi, Kenya, covering the continent in much the same way I try to from Johannesburg.
And yes, like the rest of us, he has run into trouble.
Roadblocks, security scares, predatory bureaucracy, and the more complicated political minefields that come with the job.
It is not uncommon, on this continent and elsewhere, to run into the assumption that foreign journalists venture into places like Zimbabwe, or South Africa, or Egypt, with fixed agendas - either personal ones or those assigned to us by our editors back home.
Regime change, cultural imperialism or just a merciless addiction to reinforcing every wretched, negative stereotype we can lay our hands on.
The truth - from my experience - is almost always far less Machiavellian.
We are just trying to find good stories, understand what is going on, give a voice to those who seem to need it most, and make sure we get our reports on air.
In 23 years on the road, I can only remember one time when an editor asked me to make changes that I did not feel were warranted - and that was in Libya, when he was more sceptical than I was about the likelihood that the rag-tag rebels would ever take Tripoli.
It is subjective stuff, for sure. We are all prone to mistakes.
And with the internet, our audiences have the ability to dissect and re-dissect reports and blogs and tweets that have sometimes been scribbled at great speed and under enormous pressure.
A testy email exchange comes to mind - with a listener who bitterly objected to an infinitive that I had split on Radio 4 one morning, as I crouched behind a wall during a firefight on the outskirts of Abidjan, and which he believed fundamentally undermined the credibility of my entire report.
But the idea - and here I realise I am being subjective, though I hope impartial - that Peter was working in Cairo in support of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is absurd, and appears to have been revealed as such in court to most viewers, although not, as today's sentence makes clear, to the judge.
The news is - most importantly and pressingly - a terrible blow for both Peter and his family.
But it is also something that surely strikes at the entire journalistic community.
Sometimes, when the news comes in of another colleague killed or injured in conflict, I find myself clutching at the thought that the journalist had been too reckless - had taken risks so foolish that somehow they bore responsibility for their fate.
Over the years I have come to realise that this is just a self-defence mechanism - a way of trying to make it feel like that same fate could not be waiting for me on the next road in the Central African Republic or wherever.
Surely I would have been smarter. I would have pre-empted the threat. It couldn't have been me…
But what Peter's own agonisingly slow Cairo disaster has shown more clearly than any other instance I can think of is this: For however many days he and his colleagues remain in prison (and given the international outcry that must surely follow the verdict… it can surely not be many), Peter represents all journalists.
In that cage, in that cell, it really could be any of us.
The $100m (£75m) deal had been agreed after legal action on behalf of around 385,000 Uber drivers, who claimed that they should be classed as employees and entitled to expenses.
However, a San Francisco judge has ruled that the settlement was "not fair, adequate or reasonable".
Uber said the decision was disappointing.
"The settlement, mutually agreed by both sides, was fair and reasonable. We're disappointed in this decision and are taking a look at our options," the company said.
Under the agreement, Uber had agreed to pay the drivers, based in California and Massachusetts, $84m initially.
They would then receive another $16m if the company decided to go public and its valuation increased one-and-a-half times from its December 2015 valuation within the first year.
Crucially for Uber, it meant the drivers were still classified as contractors and not employees.
The company has introduced policy changes as a result of the case - agreeing to create and fund a driver's association in both states, as well as providing them with more information about why a driver may have been "deactivated", as well as piloting an appeals process.
At the time of the agreement, the lawyer representing the drivers said it was an "historic" agreement and "one of the largest ever achieved on behalf of workers claiming independent contractor misclassification".
The frustrating thing for Uber is that it thought it had pleased everyone.
But a judge disagreed - taking issue with a settlement that came with strings that shouldn't have been attached, such as a stipulation that some of the settlement money would only be paid out if Uber's valuation rose above a certain level, if and when it floats on the stock market.
Still, you don't need a crystal ball to know how this one is going to be resolved. Uber will solve this like it solves all of its problems: by throwing more money at it. That worked for ride-sharing rival Lyft who, after facing a lawsuit of its own over the same issue, simply doubled its offer when a judge initially said no.
I can't see the employee/contractor row being an ongoing problem for Uber.
When this case first arose I spent the day chatting to Uber drivers waiting for punters arriving at San Francisco airport.
Among them, I didn't find any drivers who wanted to be considered employees rather than contractors, as the flexibility they felt it gave them made the loss of employee benefits a worthwhile sacrifice.
The yogurts, supplied by Yeo Valley but mostly sold under own-brand labels, pose a "possible risk" to health, the Food Standards Agency said.
The products in question are sold at Asda, Co-operative, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose.
The FSA says customers who have bought the products should not eat them.
The supermarkets are asking customers to return the products for a full refund, or contact customer services.
The products affected are:
No other batches or products are known to be affected, the FSA said.
Fenwick has signed a one-year contract, with an option to extend it for a further 12 months.
The 26-year-old former Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Sunderland academy player joined Hartlepool from non-league Dunston UTS in November 2014.
He scored six goals in 30 appearances for Pools last season, before playing three games on loan at Tranmere Rovers.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Playing at their first finals in 39 years, Uganda acquitted themselves well overall but Micho admitted they were found wanting in a couple of areas.
"We paid for one mistake which is hard to explain," he said. This competition does not permit silly mistakes.
"We just lack a bit at the technical and tactical level."
Andre Ayew scored Ghana's goal from the penalty spot after defender Isaac Isinde had lost possession and pulled back Asamoah Gyan.
Uganda responded well after going a goal down and Serbian Micho saw enough to convince him they can still progress.
"We came here to show that we did not qualify by accident and no matter that we now have to face Egypt and Mali, we will give 200% to advance," he said.
In their last African Nations Cup appearance, Uganda lost to Ghana in the 1978 final.
The Cranes' next Group A game is in Port Gentil on Saturday against Egypt.
Kevin Lokko got the hosts off to a sensational start with a second-minute strike, and Delano Sam-Yorke doubled the lead just three minutes later.
Joe Pigott steered in Tom Mills's cross inside 15 minutes, and Alex Flisher could so easily have made it four, but hit the post.
On the stroke of half time, Lokko added to his side's tally with a looping header over Lynch.
In the second half, James Alabi pulled one back from the penalty spot and Sam Hughes headed in Ryan Lloyd's free-kick, but they did not threaten Maidstone's lead.
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Match ends, Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 2.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 2.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jake McCarthy replaces Delano Sam-Yorke.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jamar Loza replaces Jack Paxman.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Bobby-Joe Taylor replaces Joe Pigott.
Goal! Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 2. Sam Hughes (Chester FC).
Goal! Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 1. James Alabi (Chester FC) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Chester FC. Ross Killock replaces Wade Joyce.
Substitution, Chester FC. Kane Richards replaces Tom Shaw.
Second Half begins Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 0.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 0.
Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 4, Chester FC 0. Kevin Lokko (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 3, Chester FC 0. Joe Pigott (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Chester FC 0. Delano Sam-Yorke (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Chester FC 0. Kevin Lokko (Maidstone United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Brown, 19, is now on loan at Rotherham United after so far failing to break through at Stamford Bridge.
Albion's head of academy recruitment claims Brown, who was 16 at the time, may have made the wrong move.
"It might turn out a correct decision. At the moment, it doesn't look a great decision," Hopcroft told BBC WM.
"I absolutely loved Izzy Brown. I thought he was the best of all the players that have left here.
"He could have gone on to play a similar number of games as Saido Berahino. He could have made his 100th appearance for West Brom and be in a better position than he is now.
"For whatever reason he chose not to go down that route. He chose to go down another route with a bigger club.
"He made a decision and his parents made a decision that West Brom wasn't for them at that time. I wasn't party to it, but I know really good offers were made."
The England Under-17 international became the second youngest-ever Premier League player when he made his Albion debut at 16 in May 2013, but moved on later that summer for an undisclosed compensation fee, decided by tribunal.
"He was the one that got away for me," said Hopcroft. "The manager at the time, Steve Clarke, was ready to make him an integral part of the team.
"We had a potential £20-30-40 million player that the fans would have loved, full of flair and skill. He could on take six players from his own half and score.
"I was bitterly disappointed, as was everyone in the Academy. He's still potentially a world-class player, the best we've lost, without a shadow of doubt."
Brown, one of 38 players currently out on loan from Albion's Premier League rivals Chelsea, has so far scored once in four appearances for Rotherham.
Hopcroft, who has spent 12 years at The Hawthorns, has signed a new deal with Albion this week, having been linked with a move to Manchester United.
Apart from the likes of Saido Berahino, he has also helped to bring through current first team squad members Jonathan Leko, Sam Field and Kane Wilson.
Steve Hopcroft was talking to BBC WM's Rob Gurney.
Security officers found a device at Manchester Airport on 30 January.
Nadeem Muhammad, 43, who denies possession of explosives with intent, boarded another flight on 5 February, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Jonathan Sandiford, prosecuting, said Mr Muhammad intended to detonate a device on a Ryanair flight to Bergarmo.
Mr Muhammad, who was born in Pakistan but had an Italian passport, was questioned by police on 30 January but not arrested.
A swab of the device found revealed no traces of explosives.
Mr Sandiford said: "At that stage nobody had realised this was a real device and the defendant was allowed to go on his way."
He told the jury it was only on 8 February when the device was examined again that the bomb squad was called.
The explosive was sent to expert Lorna Philp, who found it was a "crude but potentially viable improvised explosive device".
The device was found to contain nitroglycerine, the trial heard.
Mr Muhammad, of Tinline Street, Bury, was arrested when he returned to the UK on 12 February.
Mr Sandiford said if wires protruding from either end of the tube had been connected to each other the device would have detonated and experts said it would have been "unreliable" and "unpredictable".
"The only reason he would have for trying to get that explosive device on to the aeroplane was that he intended to detonate it within the confines of the Boeing 737 aircraft."
He said the prosecution could not be sure if terrorism, suicide or "another purpose altogether" was the motive.
The device was found within the zip lining of a small green suitcase which Mr Muhammad was carrying, the court heard.
When initially questioned he said it may have been placed into his bag by his wife or another person.
Mr Muhammad denies possession of explosives with intent to endanger life or property and an alternative charge of possession of explosives under suspicious circumstances.
The trial continues.
Police say some of the money funded travel from the UK to Syria. There are fears some of those who travelled had links to so-called Islamic State.
Gang leader Makzhumi Abukar was jailed for seven years and four months, alongside accomplices including former X Factor contestant Nathan Fagan-Gayle.
Some of the victims - the oldest of whom was 94 - lost as much as £130,000.
Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Judge Anuja Dhir said that none of the convicted men had shown any genuine remorse.
She told the men their crimes would have a "devastating and lasting impact" on the victims, whose average age was 83.
Phone scam victim: 'My fears my savings went to Syria'
She praised detectives from Scotland Yard's counter terrorism command who brought the men to justice.
Speaking about the victims, the judge added: "I was struck by their dignity and their courage when giving evidence about a matter that was so obviously painful for them to relive."
The sentences were:
They will all serve half their sentences before being eligible for release on licence.
Fagan-Gayle received £20,000 from the scam and went on a spending spree.
During the scam, carried out across southern England, gang members phoned elderly victims and pretended to be police officers.
They told victims about suspected fraud at their banks and instructed them to withdraw money or transfer it to different accounts for "safe keeping".
In some cases this involved handing over cash to "couriers" - gang members who arrived at victims' houses on the pretence they were working for the police.
Many victims were deceived into lying to their family, friends and banks about what they were doing.
World War Two veteran Kenneth Whitaker, who fought at the Battle of Arnhem, was 93 at the time of the fraud.
He said he felt "dumb and stupid" after losing £113,000 to the fraudsters.
Barbara Davidson, 86, lost £14,000 which she had been planning to use to visit relatives in South Africa.
She now fears she will never see those family members again.
The Metropolitan Police said about 140 frauds and attempted frauds were identified as part of the investigation - and more may have gone unreported by victims who were embarrassed by what had happened.
The force said officers found 16 telephone lines the group used to make 5,695 calls to 3,774 different numbers.
Commander Dean Haydon, head of the Met's counter-terrorism command, said he was pleased with the sentences given to the gang members.
He added: "They callously and systematically defrauded elderly people of their life savings.
"Had we not arrested them and put them before the courts, the group may have gone on to defraud many more victims across the UK."
A court official told reporters Ms Gu had not contested the charge that she killed Mr Heywood by poisoning in 2011.
The date of the verdict would be announced later, the official said.
Ms Gu is the wife of former high-flying politician Bo Xilai, whose career in office was ended by the scandal surrounding Mr Heywood's death.
Ms Gu, herself a prominent lawyer, is on trial along with her aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who was described by the court as an accomplice.
Two British diplomats were in court to observe the trial, but no foreign media were given permission to attend.
In an unusual news briefing outside the court, the court official, Tang Yigan, said Ms Gu and Mr Zhang "did not raise objections to the facts and the charges of intentional homicide".
Reading from a statement, Mr Tang said the prosecution alleged that Ms Gu had been involved in a business dispute with Mr Heywood, and believed he had "threatened the personal safety of her son... and decided to kill him".
The prosecution alleged she had arranged for Mr Heywood to travel to Chongqing from Beijing, accompanied by Mr Zhang.
Ms Gu spent the evening of 13 November with Mr Heywood at the Nanshan Lijing Holiday Hotel, where they drank tea and alcoholic drinks.
"After Heywood became intoxicated, vomited and asked for a drink of water, she poured a poison into his mouth that had been prepared beforehand and that she had given to Zhang Xiaojun to bring along, causing Heywood's death," said the statement.
"The facts of the crime are clear and backed by ample evidence," it said.
Mr Tang said Ms Gu had been "in good shape and mentally stable," throughout the trial.
"The trial committee will announce the verdict after discussion," he said.
The two defendants face a possible death penalty if found guilty.
China's state news agency Xinhua later reported that four police officers would go on trial on Friday, accused of trying to protect Ms Gu from prosecution.
Mr Heywood's body was found at the hotel in Chongqing in November 2011.
The death was recorded as a heart attack at the time, but four months later Mr Bo's right-hand man, police chief Wang Lijun, fled to a US consulate to allege murder and a massive cover-up.
Bo Xilai was the Communist party head in Chongqing at the time of Mr Heywood's death.
He had been seen as a strong contender for one of China's top jobs, as the country prepares to install a new generation of leaders.
But he was sacked in March and is currently under investigation for unspecified "disciplinary violations.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Hefei says the facts of the case may be as they have been reported by the court, but that there is a strong political element to the story.
The case raises questions about corruption at the highest level, says our correspondent, so it is almost certain that this will be a politically managed trial as well as a criminal one.
The court may take into account mitigating circumstances in its verdict, he adds, including the assertion that Ms Gu had been concerned for her safety and that of her son.
Ms Gu, Mr Zhang and Mr Bo have not been seen in public since April, when the investigation was announced.
One of Ms Gu's supporters, who gave his name as Mr Han, criticised the process of the trial, and said she should have been allowed to choose her own lawyer rather than accept one appointed by the court.
"She should have been granted the right to defend herself to the media," he said.
"I won't accept any verdict before I hear their side of the story."
But there was a mixed reaction on Chinese social media, with many posts expressing satisfaction at the verdict.
"All the corrupt officials try their best to sing the praises of the present system, but I wonder what they say now after they have been tried!" said Lian Zhugen on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter.
The trial is being held in Hefei, 1,000 km (650 miles) from Chongqing.
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Around 40 traders and shoppers marched through the centre of Cardigan on Wednesday calling for two hours of free parking for visitors.
Local shops said their trade increased by up to 20% last year when parking machines in the town's four car parks were vandalised and out of use.
Ceredigion council said parking charges must be "consistent" in all towns.
The march was led by the chairman of Cardigan Traders, Martyn Radley, who has called on Ceredigion council to give local traders "a level playing field" with out-of-town businesses.
Ceredigion council said the matter had been discussed and the view is that "parking charges must be applied consistently across all towns within Ceredigion".
The council added the charges are necessary both in terms of covering the cost of providing car parking facilities and helping to meet the "extraordinary financial pressures" facing the authority.
Traders have vowed to continue their campaign for free parking.
More than 40 others were wounded by the blast, which occurred at 12:00 (09:00 GMT) at the facility in Taji, about 25km (15 miles) north of the capital.
One report said potential new recruits gathered outside were the target.
Although violence has decreased in Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, insurgent attacks are still common.
On Monday, two car bombings killed at least four people and wounded 16 others around Baghdad.
The first took place at a market in the mainly Shia district of al-Ubaidi, while the second struck an army patrol in Taji, wounding several soldiers.
It is not clear how many of the victims of Tuesday's blast were soldiers. One report said as many as 22 were among the dead.
The explosion appears to have occurred as they left the base at lunchtime and walked towards minibuses waiting to transport them.
However, sources told the AFP news agency there had also been a recruitment event on Tuesday to welcome potential new soldiers.
Mohammed Talal told the New York Times he had been among the would-be recruits.
He said the crowd of applicants had been told to check their names against lists posted on the walls outside.
"I was heading to the place near the parking lot to check my name when all of sudden a strong explosion happened where the people was gathering," he added. "I turned and started to run, and I began to feel shrapnel in my back and I fell to the ground."
Such recruitment events have been targeted by militants in the past. In January 2011, a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of police recruits in the city of Tikrit, killing 50 people.
Following Tuesday's blast, heavy security was in place around Kadhamiya hospital, where many of the victims were taken for treatment.
The incident is believed to be the deadliest single attack in Iraq since 23 July, when a series of co-ordinated blasts - also in Taji - killed 42 people.
No group has said it was behind the bombing, although previous attacks on army bases have been claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq, a radical Sunni Islamist militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda.
Both Ireland and Afghanistan were granted Test status by being awarded full membership to the International Cricket Council (ICC) last week.
"To be honest there are so many pieces of the jigsaw," said Deutrom.
"We are probably somewhere between not wanting to wait years for our first Test match versus making sure we have the appropriate sense of occasion."
The two countries were voted in unanimously to become the first newcomers since Bangladesh in 2000 and take the number of full ICC members to 12.
Ireland have been playing as associate members since 1993 and have recorded famous victories over Pakistan, England and the West Indies in that time.
Deutrom said last week they were hoping to play England in a Test match at Lord's.
But scheduling a first match may take some organising and Deutrom believes it could prove difficult to arrange around the other nations' full schedules.
"Another consideration is that we are ready to play our first Test match as we haven't played a five-day game yet.
"History would suggest that new full members play their first Test, at home, against a big nation within a year.
"But I know how much busier the full members are with their own schedules so trying to find a gap within 12 months in an already-congested schedule is incredibly difficult.
"We are going to do our best, we will have as many conversations as possible, but I can't put any members on the spot, although quite a few have been generous to say 'let's have a conversation'.
"I don't want to express disappointment if no-one is available because I know how packed those schedules are."
With most Test-playing nations having fixtures planned, it could be that Ireland make their bow against fellow newcomers Afghanistan, with neither Deutrom nor his Afghan Cricket Board counterpart Shafiq Stanikzai ruling out that possibility last week.
Customers had been using social media on Monday morning to complain about problems accessing both the bank's web and app services.
NatWest said the issues around the lack of services had been resolved after one hour, and apologised "for any inconvenience caused".
The problem came three days after NatWest and HSBC experienced issues with their payments system.
NatWest said at the time that Friday's problems "did not originate" with itself.
Last month, NatWest said it was the target of a series of deliberate cyber attacks that meant customers could not access the bank's online systems.
Sir Nicholas Wall's family said the 71-year-old had suffered for several years from a rare neurological disease called fronto temporal lobe dementia.
Sir Nicholas became president of the High Court's Family Division in 2010 but retired on health grounds in 2012.
The Family Law Bar Association said he was "a compassionate judge who... cared deeply about the outcome of his cases".
Sir Nicholas, who was called to the Bar in 1969, became a recorder in 1990 and then a judge of the High Court Family Division in 1993.
He went on to work at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Administrative Court and Court of Appeal.
In a 2011 interview with the Times, Sir Nicholas said a "live-in lovers" law would protect women in long-term relationships from losing their home and income in a break-up with their partner.
A year later he suggested couples should be allowed to divorce without having to blame one or the other, saying he could "see no good arguments against no-fault divorce".
A death notice in the Times says Sir Nicholas "died by his own hand on 17th February 2017".
In a statement, Sir Nicholas's family said he "took his own life having suffered for several years" from a disease that "had only recently been diagnosed".
Sir James Munby, his successor as President of the Family Division, said: "Sir Nicholas often spoke with passion, and in plain language, about the importance of family life, the good practice of family law, and the proper administration and resourcing of family justice.
"He was appropriately outspoken about the plight of children caught up in the midst of parental conflict.
"He expressed his deep concern again and again about the impact of domestic abuse on children and on family life."
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said it was not possible to guarantee the powers would not adversely impact on Scottish or UK budgets.
It also said the Barnett formula that calculates Scotland's share of UK spending should be reformed.
This would defy a key recommendation of the Smith Commission.
But in a joint paper, co-written by the University of Stirling and the Centre on Constitutional Change, the IFS said different ways of calculating the block grant Holyrood receives from Westminster, after the new powers contained in the Scotland Bill are devolved, could mean differences of more than £1bn a year to Scotland's budget.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she will block the bill, which will hand new powers over areas such as income tax and VAT, unless it comes with an appropriate funding formula that is "fair for Scotland".
Her stance has been backed by Lord Smith of Kelvin, who chaired cross-party devolution talks after the independence referendum.
The House of Lords economic affairs committee has also argued the process for determining the fiscal framework is flawed and that its design principles may not be workable.
Talks between the Scottish and UK governments over the fiscal framework are continuing, with both sides having said they are hopeful an agreement can be reached.
The IFS said that the precise way in which the remaining block grants are calculated and indexed over time could mean differences of more than £1bn a year in the Scottish government's budget in the space of a decade or so.
If an unreformed Barnett formula remained in place it would be impossible to design a system that satisfied the Smith Commission's principle that there should be "no detriment as a result of the decision to devolve a power" while also fully achieving the "taxpayer fairness" principle, the IFS said.
David Bell, professor of economics at Stirling University and co-author of the report, said: "The options available for calculating the block grant adjustments and other elements of the fiscal framework will have major effects on the Scottish government's budget and the fiscal risks and incentives it faces.
"These issues should be part of the public and parliamentary debate, as much as the tax and welfare powers set out in the Scotland Bill itself have been."
David Phillips, a senior research economist at the IFS and co-author, said: "It may now be time for a more fundamental reassessment of how the devolved governments are financed: including whether the Barnett formula should be reformed.
"Reform of Barnett may remove some of the conflicts between the Smith Commission's principles that we have identified.
"The Smith Commission parked these issues to one side by committing to the current Barnett formula. Making the UK's fiscal framework sustainable for the long term may require reopening the debate."
The 4m (13ft) bronze sculpture will be situated beside the River Thames at Runnymede and will be unveiled on 14 June.
It shows the Queen in full Garter Robes and has been inspired by the 1954 and 1969 portraits by Pietro Annigoni.
It has been gifted by Runnymede Magna Carta Legacy, a charity reported to have raised more than £300,000.
The unveiling of the statue, which will be located within Runnymede Pleasure Ground, coincides with the Thames River Pageant.
Runnymede Borough Council has invited members of the public to comment on the proposed statue, and the landscaping of the garden surrounding it, by 27 March.
The plans, similar to those due to be introduced in the United Kingdom, could generate more than £1m for the public purse in its first year, he said.
Money raised would help tackle obesity.
The UK government has already confirmed it will push ahead with its plan to introduce a Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) from 1 April 2018.
There will be two bands in the UK - one for soft drinks with more than 5g of sugar per 100ml and a higher one for drinks with more than 8g per 100ml.
In his maiden budget speech, Mr Cannan said government would invest the revenue in programmes to "reduce childhood obesity and encourage physical activity and balanced diets".
He predicted the tax take would fall over time as "producers and consumers shift their behaviour" away from high-sugar drinks.
Mr Cannan said the Treasury was negotiating with the UK to avoid the "headache of double taxation" for local businesses and government.
There will be an exemption for the smallest Manx producers and also businesses importing soft drinks from very small producers.
Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth, one of a Thai consortium to take over the club in 2014, said the new training ground plans were still being finalised.
Speaking to the BBC after the Royal's 1-0 win over Preston North End, he said final details were being worked over.
The club bought land in Bearwood Park for the training ground in 2013.
Mr Thanakarnjanasuth said: "It's a bit delayed because the plans are not settled yet, there's been a lot of change, but we look forward to building that up.
"The drawing, even the location and the number of pitches, has not been settled yet, but we're working on that now."
The Championship football club received planning permission to build on the 120-acre site in 2015.
It was hoped the facility would be ready by 2016.
Prisons inspector Martin Lomas said although his team thought the jail was improving there was a long way to go in tackling some of the issues raised.
The prevalence of drugs were also highlighted in the report.
The National Offender Management Service said the governor and his staff had worked extremely hard and deserved credit for the progress made.
Significant overcrowding was another area for concern in the report, which followed an inspection in November.
First-night arrangements for prisoners were also described as being "chaotic".
Mr Lomas said: "Overall, Lincoln is a much improved prison. When we visited in 2012 we described a prison that was poorly led and failing.
"I think we found across the operation it was much better than it had been."
However, he said there was a perceived fear of violence among prisoners, which needed to be taken seriously and dealt with.
He added: "It is a constant battle - they have to keep on, keeping on - and while we recognise there has been much improvement - we don't shy away from making the point that more needs to be done."
Prior to the inspection, an inmate was charged with murder after a 73-year-old man was found dead in his cell, and there have been two suicides since the last inspection.
The HM Inspectorate of Prisons report also found there was no strategy in place for managing about 80 sex offenders who were described as being in denial about their crimes.
The prison was praised for promoting equality and diversity, although prisoners from black and minority ethnic backgrounds expressed more negative perceptions of the prison.
Michael Spurr, chief executive officer of the National Offender Management Service, said he was pleased the chief inspector had recognised "the significant improvements that have been made at Lincoln despite the challenging operating environment".
"The governor and his staff have worked extremely hard and deserve credit for the progress made.
"There remains more to do and we will use the recommendations in this report to support further improvements."
HMP Lincoln is a category B prison, which is also used to relieve overcrowding at other prisons in the East Midlands.
Chasing 271, the visitors looked well set on 151-1 in the 29th over before Daryl Mitchell (3-38) and John Hastings (3-50) tore through the Durham order.
Graham Clark struck 114 and Keaton Jennings 47, but no other visiting batsman reached 20 as they made 255-9.
The hosts, who guaranteed themselves a quarter-final place, made 270-8 led by Brett D'Oliveira (73 not out).
Opener Tom Kohler-Cadmore compiled 48 from 59 deliveries, while England all-rounder Moeen Ali struck six fours in his 34.
The hosts still looked to be falling short when Durham's opening pair shared a partnership of 122 before Moeen took the key wicket of Jennings.
Worcestershire, who have now won five of their seven One-Day Cup matches to overtake Yorkshire, will finish top of the group and secure a home semi-final if they win their day-nighter on Tuesday at Derby.
Durham are fourth after four wins and two losses, but their hopes of a quarter-final place no longer rests in their own hands.
They need to beat Lancashire on Tuesday and hope Notts slip up against Northants.
Worcestershire skipper Joe Leach told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"We probably looked a bit dead and buried after 25 overs but it is testament to the belief in the side and the run we are on that we believed we could win.
"That showed and as soon as we got that first wicket, we swarmed all over them and they panicked a little bit. In days gone by we might have folded and got hammered but we've got a very talented group.
"To show that character stands us in very good stead, especially going into what are the knockout stages of the competition now."
Durham head coach Jon Lewis told BBC Newcastle:
"I don't think it ever looked quite like a stroll. It was a good partnership. But it never quite got the run rate down. It held the run rate steady.
"As a fielding team, you know if it is still staying steady and you get a new guy at the crease, you can try and impose yourself which, to be fair to Worcestershire, they did very well. They squeezed the new batsmen very well and we stopped dictating the terms.
"It was great for Graham to get his first century but I'm sure even for him it will be a little bit bitter that it is not in a winning cause."
Pyke, 19, is a member of Huddersfield's Under-21 team and is yet to make a first team appearance for the Championship club.
"He's got pace, he's direct and he's a powerful runner," Wrexham manager Dean Keates said.
"He's on the verge of the first team at Huddersfield so it's a case of him coming here to get experience."
Play was suspended in the 33rd minute after supporters in the away end at Goodison Park surged towards the pitch and objects were thrown.
Everton have been charged with the "throwing of objects".
While European football's governing body have charged Croatian club Hajduk with four offences.
They are: "throwing of objects", "crowd disturbances", "field invasions by supporters" and "acts of damages".
Uefa is yet to confirm the date of the hearing.
Everton had opened the scoring moments before the trouble broke out in the Europa League play-off first-leg.
The teams waited on the side of the pitch before the police and stewards restored order, and the match resumed after a break of almost five minutes.
The Toffees added a second goal through Idrissa Gueye shortly after the restart and they held on to win 2-0.
The second leg takes place in Split on Thursday.
Abdul Hakim Belhaj alleges that former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and MI6 were complicit in arranging his and his wife's rendition from China in 2004.
The High Court had ruled the case could not be heard in the UK courts because it could damage foreign relationships.
But appeal judges said the claims were so "grave" a court should hear them.
Mr Belhaj, now a politician in Libya, said: "My wife and I are gratified by the judges' decision to give us our day in court," adding their alleged torture was "as fresh and as painful for us as if it happened yesterday".
His lawyer Sapna Malik said it was "very significant step forward" to the case being heard in England.
Mr Straw, who has previously denied being aware of the rendition, and the government, have been given leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Foreign Office said it was considering whether to make an application. The case would not be heard until after any appeal.
Dominic Casciani, BBC home affairs correspondent
This judgement is a major blow for the government. The three judges have demanded that a light be shone into dark corners of the state's work - and not for the first time. Time and again the Court of Appeal has said allegations of wrongdoing, linked to security and intelligence, must be examined if the rule of law is to be upheld.
The key factors in this decision are clear: The judges say that international law and practice demands that alleged human rights abuses be examined. They say that it becomes even more important to do so given that claims are made against serving or former British officials.
Another reason they give is that unless an English court looks at the claims, the truth may never come out - and that is a denial of justice for both sides.
And most embarrassingly for ministers - they brush aside claims that allowing Mr Belhaj to sue would damage international relations.
Rendition involves sending a person from one country to another for imprisonment and interrogation, possibly by methods such as torture, that would be illegal in the country doing the rendering.
Mr Belhaj, former leader of an Islamist group which fought the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, claims British intelligence provided information that facilitated his rendition, along with his pregnant wife Fatima Boudchar.
Last year, Mr Justice Simon ruled at the High Court that the case against Mr Straw and Sir Mark Allen, ex-head of counter-terrorism at MI6, should be thrown out.
The government had argued an English court could not adjudicate on claims of rendition and torture in Libya, even though UK officials allegedly knew about them.
The judge said that because most of the claims related to officials in China, Malaysia, Thailand and Libya they were "non-justiciable" in the UK.
But on Thursday, appeal court judges said the proceedings were not barred by state immunity.
One of the judges, Lord Dyson, said: "There is a compelling public interest in the investigation by the English courts of these very grave allegations.
"The stark reality is that unless the English courts are able to exercise jurisdiction in this case, these very grave allegations against the executive will never be subjected to judicial investigation."
Mr Belhaj was jailed for six years after he returned to Libya. Mrs Boudchar was also imprisoned, but released shortly before giving birth.
The couple have refused so far failed to reach a settlement with the UK government, saying they want it to admit what they say happened.
In March last year, Mr Belhaj offered to settle the case with a token payment of £1 from Mr Straw and the government, an apology and an admission of liability - but this was rejected.
Cori Crider, a director at human rights charity Reprieve, which also represents the family, said: "The government so fears this case going to trial that they have stalled for years by throwing up a parade of scarecrows - claiming, for example, that the United States would be angered if Mr and Mrs Belhaj had their day in court in Britain.
"The court was right: embarrassment is no reason to throw torture victims out of court."
A statement issued by human rights organisations Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists, Justice and Redress said: "We welcome the decision of the Court of Appeal which now enables the very serious contention that UK authorities and officials were directly implicated in the 'extraordinary rendition' of the claimants to be properly assessed by courts in the UK."
Lee Turner, 45, disappeared on 7 November after being seen falling into the water.
His body was recovered from the marina ten days later.
The competition is being held at the Swansea Bay seafront near County Hall, with all proceeds being donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Devon and Cornwall Police have discovered 14 such establishments in Newquay alone since July.
Officers say sex workers typically rent the properties out for a week, advertising their services online, before packing up and moving on.
Det Insp Dave Meredith said he believed sex workers were being trafficked into the seaside resort by organised gangs.
Speaking on BBC R4's PM, he said it was virtually impossible for owners to know about the activities taking place in their holiday homes.
The problem is not believed to be confined to Newquay, Mr Meredith said, adding it was proving difficult to disrupt.
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"It's very probable that there's organised crime behind these sex workers and that organised crime is certainly skimming off some of the money they make," he said.
One guesthouse owner, who gave her name as Ellen, said the first she knew about a temporary brothel on her street was when a man knocked on her front door last July.
"He asked me how much I charged, assuming I was part of it. I just told him to go away - I was shocked," she said.
She added that she had a duty to protect her guests and, with young families living nearby, it simply was "not what you want in the area".
The force is urging residents in Newquay and people living alongside holiday lets to be vigilant and contact police with concerns.
Incomplete lists were delivered to all 155 stations and many of those trying to vote before going to work were unable to do so.
The council later sent out the correct versions and urged would-be voters to return.
It has promised a "thorough investigation".
Labour's Andrew Dismore has held the Barnet and Camden London Assembly seat with a 16,240 majority over the Conservative candidate.
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The council offered emergency proxy votes to residents who were turned away and unable to return.
They included the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis.
Candidates and voters can challenge the result of the elections in London by lodging a petition with the Royal Courts of Justice.
Grounds for the appeal include claiming the successful candidate was not duly elected, or the election was invalidated by corrupt or illegal practices.
Sophie Walker, the Women's Equality Party (WEP) mayoral candidate, registered a complaint with the council as well as the London Assembly.
A WEP spokeswoman said: "We are waiting for more information before we decide what our next steps are."
The Labour leader on Conservative-controlled Barnet Council, Barry Rawlings, told the Guardian the first set of lists delivered to polling stations contained only the names of people who had registered since January.
"It would have been 10% the size of the proper list. They should have spotted it."
A Barnet Council spokesman said: "We cannot comment any further on the impact of the issues with the electoral registration lists yesterday. We will begin a thorough investigation into the cause of the problems once results are declared."
Northern Ireland's most senior judge Sir Declan Morgan increased Patrick and Paul Somers' prison terms from 12 months to two-and-a-half years.
In 2014, the pair had pleaded guilty to wounding a man with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The man needed plastic surgery to an ear injury inflicted during the attack.
Shane Gallagher was beaten and stamped on by the brothers with a pool cue at the Roundhouse Bar in Enniskillen in October 2013.
Patrick Somers, 21, from Hillview Park, and Paul Somers, 20, from Drumbeg, were originally handed three-and-a-half year sentences, of which a year was to be spent in jail.
However, that was appealed by the Director of Public Prosecutions Barra McGrory.
On Friday, Sir Declan ruled that the case involved high culpability and premeditation.
He said: "There is a long line of authority from this court dealing with the problem of wanton violence by young males, often after the consumption of large amounts of alcohol."
The court heard how the brothers had returned to the bar based on a false allegation that their mother had been assaulted.
CCTV footage showed Patrick Somers walk straight up to the victim, knock him to the ground and punch him up to six times before stamping on his head.
His brother Paul had armed himself with a pool cue which he used to strike Mr Gallagher about seven times.
He also lifted bar stools and tried to hit the victim, who had been rendered unconscious at some stage in the attack.
Mr Gallagher sustained a deep cut to his ear lobe, as well as cuts to his eyelid and head, and heavy bruising.
He said that he was lucky not to have lost his ear or been killed in the assault.
Sir Declan said the sentencing range for such attacks was designed to act as both a deterrent and to protect the community.
He ordered the men to serve five years, half of which will be served in jail and the remainder on licence.
A number of homes and businesses in Clady were flooded after the storm last December.
An initial study has been carried out to replace a damaged floodwall and flood-banks.
But David Porter of the Rivers Agency said progressing that work was now subject to "the availability of funds".
"We are carrying out a study to see whether any works are viable, i.e. affordable, to increase the standard of protection," he told BBC Radio Foyle.
"That will be a longer terms project because of its scale, and also because of the availability of funds."
Mr Porter said there were "many competing priorities" for funding.
Mr Porter said people who live in at-risk areas must take measures to protect themselves from flooding.
Last month a couple in their 60s who have been living in a caravan since their Clady home flooded last year said they are fearful of repeat flooding this winter.
Eugene and Mary McShane' home on Urney Road was damaged by about 5ft of water on 5 December 2015.
The record rainfall caused the rivers Mourne, Finn and Derg to burst their banks.
The A499 has been closed in both directions after the incident between the B4354, at Y Ffor, and the B4417, at Llanaelhaearn, at about 15:00 BST.
The driver of a patient care service ambulance died at the scene.
Three other people, including one elderly person, were in an ambulance on a 999 call and have been taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor with what are believed to be serious injuries.
The driver's next of kin have been informed.
Richard Lee, the Welsh Ambulance Service's director of operations, said: "Our thoughts this evening are with everyone affected by this incident, but particularly with the family of the colleague we have lost.
"As an ambulance service we deal with road traffic accidents on a daily basis. These are always difficult for our staff to deal with, but even more so when they involve our colleagues.
"We have plans in place to support our staff in Pwllheli and the wider Gwynedd area over the coming days."
Wales Air Ambulances, North Wales Police and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene.
The A499 is expected to remain closed for the next few hours, affecting motorists between Pwllheli and Caernarfon, and diversions have been put in place.
They join 10 other nations on thecampaign group's register of statesthat restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers.
India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB's list of "countries under surveillance" because of concerns that they are becoming more repressive.
The body says 2011 was the "deadliest year" yet for so-called "netizens".
It says at least 199 arrests of internet campaigners were recorded over the year - a 31% increase on 2010.
It adds that China, followed by Vietnam and Iran currently hold the largest number of netizens in jail.
RWB said it had added Bahrain to its list after thedeath of Zakariya Rashid Hassan. It said the forum moderator had maintained a website focused on stories about his birthplace, al-Dair, ahead of his arrest on 9 April.
It said Mr Hassan was charged with disseminating false news and calling for the overthrow of his country's government before he died, six days after being detained.
RWB says the country's law authorities have also arrested other netizens, smeared free speech activists and disrupted communications at the time of demonstrations.
Bahrain's government expressed a number of concerns about the report, which it said failed to "present the reality of the situation" there.
Several positive steps had been taken towards reforming the media sector since the publication of a report by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) into last year's crackdown on anti-government protests, it said, including relaxing censorship and increasing the range of political opinions in the media.
In Belarus, the campaign group says, President Alexander Lukashenko's government has increased the number of blocked websites and arrested some bloggers while inviting others to "preventative conversations" with the police during which they are pressured not to cover protests.
It says the regime has also used Twitter to send messages designed to intimidate demonstrators. It adds that the country's main internet service provider has diverted users to sites containing malware when they tried to log into the Vkontakte social network.
Elsewhere RWB accuses China and Syria of hiring bloggers to troll sites containing posts from cyber-dissidents, and then flood the pages with messages supporting the governments.
It raises concern that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced plans to create a "clean" web with its own search engine and messaging service, and says Vietnam has attacked Catholic networks and campaigners trying to raise awareness about environmentally damaging bauxite mines.
RWB said India had joined its "surveillance" list after stepping up internet monitoring efforts following 2008's Mumbai bombings. It claims that the country's national security policy undermines the protection of users' personal data.
Kazakhstan was added to the list after being said to have cut communications around the city of Zhanaozen during a riot and having introduced new "repressive internet regulations".
Australia remains on the register because of its government's efforts to introduce a mandatory web filtering system to block content deemed inappropriate, such as child pornography. RWB says it is concerned that the system would not be managed in a transparent matter.
France is also on the list because of its "three strikes" policy on illegal downloads which can lead to net access being suspended.
The organisation also notes that a blogger became Egypt's first political prisoner of the post-Mubarak era after Maikel Nabil Sanad was convicted for criticising the armed forces.
Although the UK does not make either of RWB's list, the body notes that the UN has raised concerns about its Digital Rights Bill aimed at defending copyright.
It also says thatBlackberry's decision to assist the authoritieswithout a prior court order during the London riots is "a worrying development".
RWB also highlights the role of firms which provide monitoring equipment and software to repressive regimes.
It says that western companies have been criticised for activities in Syria, Egypt and Libya when Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime was still in charge.
The organisation notes that the European Parliament has adopted a resolution supporting tougher export controls, and that a bill with a similar aim is being considered by US lawmakers.
Timothy Noel Green, from Sheffield, admitted stealing quantities of fish worth about £13,000 from a lorry he was driving in September 2013.
He also admitted stealing almost £6.000 worth of chicken drumsticks in October the same year and £29,000 worth of cheese a month later.
He was given an 18-month sentence at Sheffield Crown Court.
Green, of Rosemary Road, Beighton, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.
The court heard that on each occasion, Green took the items while transporting the goods to and from businesses and ports or freight terminals. Each shipping container was checked before it left one location and upon arrival at its destination. However, substantial quantities were found to be missing.
Investigating officer Det Con Thomas Ryan, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "This has been a three-year investigation into substantial thefts of goods from a number of locations and businesses across the country.
"Theft is not a victimless crime and Green stole significant quantities of popular items, which could have had a devastating impact on the businesses that were expecting these shipments."
The stolen goods have never been recovered, the force said.
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The Crues trailed 2-1 before a Jordan Owens double secured a vital win while Jimmy Callacher and Andrew Waterworth were on target for Linfield.
Portadown have been given another relegation reprieve after Carrick's 2-2 draw with Ards.
Dungannon Swifts beat Glentoran 2-1 while Coleraine and Glenavon drew 1-1.
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Michael Carvill bundled home to give Crusaders a first-half lead in the north Belfast derby at Solitude.
Levi Ives fired in two crackers either side of half-time to put the Reds in front but the Crues showed the grit of champions by fighting their way to three points.
Owens won it for the visitors with two trademark headers, the first from a pinpoint Paul Heatley cross, although it required a superb double-save from Sean O'Neill to deny the Reds a late equaliser.
"My heart rate wasn't good watching that in the second-half, I can tell you that," said Crusaders boss Stephen Baxter.
"It was tough viewing but I thought we gave a stunning performance and definitely showed our never-say-die attitude.
"Jordan Owens has struggled to be fit for this game but he's delivered with two massively important goals for us."
"The title race is far from over and I've said that time and timer again. Linfield are a top team but we just have to keep focusing on what we're doing."
Just three games remain for Linfield to overhaul the leaders but they kept the pressure on with a comfortable win at the Showgrounds.
Jimmy Callacher headed the Belfast Blues into an early lead and Andrew Waterworth fired in with two minutes left to seal the points.
Carrick fought back from 2-0 down to draw with Ards but it confirms a bottom-two finish and keeps Portadown's hopes of avoiding automatic relegation alive.
Guillaume Keke's double put Ards in control but Martin Murray smashed in before Paddy McNally headed home an equaliser before the break.
Fra Brennan headed into his own goal to gift Glentoran the lead at Stangmore Park before the Swifts levelled with Chris Hegarty heading in from Jarlath O'Rourke's corner.
Jamie Glackin's classy late lob won it for Dungannon and they move three points clear in seventh and on course for a Europa League play-off place.
Coleraine are also on track for the Europa League by finishing third, although they conceded a late leveller at the Showgrounds.
Darren McCauley gave the hosts the lead with a back post volley before James Singleton headed home for Glenavon.
Guy Hedger was attacked at his home in Ashley during the early hours of Sunday. The 61-year-old died later in hospital.
Detectives said a 40-year-old Blandford man attended Bournemouth police station earlier and was arrested on suspicion of murder and aggravated burglary.
Three other people have previously been arrested over the incident.
A 41-year-old Bournemouth man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and aggravated burglary.
A man and woman, both in their 40s, have been detained on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary.
Properties in Winterborne Stickland near Blandford and in Verney Close in West Howe, Bournemouth, are being searched in relation to the investigation.
Mr Hedger was shot with a shotgun after intruders entered the house in Castlewood cul-de-sac shortly after 03:00 BST.
Detectives are trying to establish why the home of the former Liverpool Victoria (LV) marketing executive, near Ringwood, Hampshire, was targeted.
Police previously said they believed it to have been a planned burglary that turned violent. They also said jewellery had been stolen from the house.
The road remains cordoned off but nearby David's Lane has been reopened.
Mr Hedger was a director of the Avonbourne International Business and Enterprise Trust, which runs colleges and a primary school in the Bournemouth area.
The charity said he gave his time for free because of his "passion for education".
"He was quiet and thoughtful. He really wanted to make a difference for young people and the community. He was a truly lovely person," the charity added.
A Met Police whistleblower claimed rape and sexual offences were being under-reported by as much as a quarter.
And a former West Midlands chief inspector described practices such as recording thefts as "lost property".
Committee chairman Bernard Jenkin said he was "shocked" by the claims of such manipulation "on such a wide scale".
Metropolitan Police constable James Patrick - who is currently awaiting disciplinary proceedings - told the Commons public administration committee his concerns had begun after he joined the force in 2009.
He had found robberies being logged as "theft snatch" in order to get them "off the books", he said.
After raising his concerns with an assistant commissioner, PC Patrick was moved into a specialist role looking at the measurement of crime levels, where he found disparities between numbers of burglary reports and those finally recorded.
"Burglary is an area where crimes are downgraded or moved into other brackets, such as criminal damage for attempted burglaries, or other types of thefts," he said.
An audit carried out by analysts inside the Met found that "as many as 300 burglaries would disappear within a couple of weeks", he told the committee.
Analysing 12 months of data, PC Patrick said he had also found that "the Met had effectively been under-recording rape and serious sexual offences by between 22% and 25%".
PC Patrick said he had learnt that, in an effort to avoid the perception of serious sex crimes going undetected, "a preference had developed to try to justify 'no crime' on the basis of mental health or similar issues of vulnerability or by saying that the victim has refused to disclose to them".
Former West Midlands chief inspector Dr Rodger Patrick - no relation of the constable - backed his account: "This is my experience as well. You can see that in the investigations that are being carried out, victims are being pressurised."
PC Patrick told the committee that massaging statistics had become "an ingrained part of policing culture".
London's target of a 20% crime reduction was set by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and passed down the chain of command from the commissioner to constables on the beat, whose chances of promotion were linked to hitting the target.
Former Met Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Barron told the committee: "When targets are set by offices such as the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, what they think they are asking for are 20% fewer victims.
"That translates into 'record 20% fewer crimes' as far as... senior officers are concerned."
Mr Barron also said that inaccurate recording of crimes had an impact on the ground, as the statistics were used to determine the number of officers deployed in particular areas which were "grossly out of kilter with the real demand as opposed to the recorded demand".
He said: "There is a massive disconnect between the reality of what's happening on the ground and the formula used to determine the appropriate workforce for the borough."
He said: "The issues we are describing here are common knowledge at every level in every force within England and Wales."
And he added: "We now find ourselves in a situation where potentially forces will be amalgamating across England and Wales and, therefore, chief officers might think it is a good idea to shine bright at this time because they want to be one of the few surviving chief constables.
"How do they do that? They achieve their performance targets. This is fraud."
Dr Patrick told the MPs about techniques including "cuffing", "nodding", "skewing" and "stitching" which he said officers used to make the figures look better.
He said "cuffing" crimes could involve officers deciding they did not believe complainants, recording multiple incidents in the same area as a single crime or recording thefts as "lost property", burglaries as "theft from property" and attempted burglaries as "criminal damage".
Senior officers might inappropriately take crimes off the books, he claimed.
"Nodding" involved collusion between offenders and police officers to improve detection rates, said Dr Patrick.
An offender might admit a number of offences in return for being charged for less serious offences which would result in a reduced sentence, he claimed.
The practice of "skewing" involved forces putting resources into those areas measured by performance indicators, he said.
"Stitching" suspects through the use of false confessions was "prevalent in the past, but less so now", he said.
Committee chairman Mr Jenkin said he was "shocked that apparently such manipulation of police statistics could possibly happen on such a wide scale and become so institutionally prevalent".
Mr Jenkin said: "I think what we have heard is basically how there is a system of incentives in the police that has become inherently corrupting and I think that is a very shocking thing to hear."
He added: "This is a really savage thing to say, that we can't trust the leadership of our constabularies to measure their own performance. This is what we pay our chief constables to do."
But Kent's police and crime commissioner, Ann Barnes, insisted the Kent force had now put things right, following a critical report into the way it recorded crime.
She said she had ordered a report from police inspectors, and Kent Police were now tackling the problem.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that it was "committed to ensuring crimes are accurately recorded and has put in place robust processes to ensure crimes are neither over- nor under-recorded".
"The crime recording of sexual offences, and rape in particular, has been audited eight times in the period September 2012 to August 2013, and has achieved an average compliance across all six areas of scrutiny of 95%."
The late actor's publicists shared the news of his death on Facebook.
"It is with a truly heavy heart that we must confirm that Paul Walker passed away today in a tragic car accident while attending a charity event for his organization Reach Out Worldwide.
"He was a passenger in a friend's car, in which both lost their lives. We appreciate your patience as we too are stunned and saddened beyond belief by this news.
"Thank you for keeping his family and friends in your prayers during this very difficult time. We will do our best to keep you apprised on where to send condolences," the statement said.
Walker's Fast and Furious co-star Vin Diesel wrote on his Twitter account: "Brother I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless. Heaven has gained a new Angel. Rest in Peace xxx"
In a second post he wrote: "My brother and I... we aimed for the stars together... and achieved more than we ever hoped we could with f&f."
Another co-star Ludacris wrote on instagram: "Your humble spirit was felt from the start, wherever you blessed your presence you always left a mark, we were like brothers & our birthdays are only 1 day apart, now You will forever hold a place in all of our hearts @paulwalker legacy will live on forever. R.I.P"
Universal Pictures, the company behind the film franchise, released a statement.
"All of us at Universal are heartbroken. Paul was truly one of the most beloved and respected members of our studio family for 14 years, and this loss is devastating to us, to everyone involved with the Fast and Furious films, and to countless fans."
Mark Webb, who works on the set of the Fast and Furious films, said: "As far as people go, they didn't come any finer, any more gracious. He always treated everybody with respect.
"This one hurts. This one hit right in the gut on this one," he told ABC News Radio.
A friend of Walker's, Bill Townsend, was at Saturday's charity event also attended by Walker to support the Philippines typhoon relief effort.
Mr Townsend told AP Radio: "He was very happy. He was smiling at everybody, just tickled that all these people came out to support this charity. He was doing what he loved. He was surrounded by friends, surrounded by cars."
Hollywood actress Goldie Hawn tweeted: "Our family mourns the loss of Paul. A very special human being. Our prayers go his beloved family."
Actor James Franco wrote on Twitter: "So sad. He gave a lot of joy."
Model and actor Tyson Beckford posted "RIP Paul Walker, loved working with you on "Into the Blue". I Will miss you."
US radio and TV host Carson Daly said he was "sick about the tragic loss of #PaulWalker. I enjoyed our time together very much. Such a really nice guy. Prayers to his family and friends."
Here are a few of the many emails the BBC has received, which echo the sentiment of fans across the world:
Felix in Botswana emailed the BBC: "I was truly saddened by the death of Paul Walker. Fast and Furious will not be the same without you Paul."
Lorgina in the Philippines told the BBC: "It breaks my heart knowing that my Idol past away, I have been a big fan of Paul Walker. He will always stay in our hearts."
"He was a real actor. Fast & Furious is incomplete without him. My deepest condolences to his family; may his soul rest in peace. Thanks for all Paul Walker. I'll miss you," says Jasper in Bangladesh.
"I met Paul Walker in May at the Fast & Furious 6 UK Premiere, what a wonderful man, so nice and always willing to have a laugh with his fans. Waking up to this incredibly sad news is so horrible, shocked. RIP," wrote Dex in the UK.
Lemuel in Zambia wrote: "Actors like Walker become a part of our lives, they entertain, inspire and sometimes take us to places we've never been through their roles in movies. I will greatly miss him."
India Chipchase, 20, disappeared in the early hours of Saturday after a night out with friends in the town.
Formal identification has yet to take place but her family have been informed of the discovery of the body, at a property in Stanley Road, St James.
A 51-year-old is in custody, Northamptonshire Police said.
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A post-mortem examination is due to take place at Leicester Royal Infirmary later.
Platini resigned in May and will be replaced by either Slovenian FA president Aleksander Ceferin or Dutch FA boss Michael van Praag.
The 55 national association members of Uefa are meeting in Athens to vote.
The pair will address the Extraordinary Uefa Congress, laying out their vision of the future of European football.
BBC Sport looks ahead to the election and the issues facing the winner.
The president is in charge of the body that implements reforms and rules in football in Europe.
Ceferin or Van Praag will likely begin the job by making clear a stance on the potential breakaway of the continent's top teams.
In March it was reported that an elite invitation-only club competition breakaway - that would see the biggest English clubs partner with their continental counterparts - could be formed in a move that would mean huge change in the structure of European football.
Ceferin last month warned it might lead to "war" between Uefa and clubs.
Among other responsibilities, the Uefa president is also accountable for relations with world governing body Fifa and its president Gianni Infantino.
Van Praag, 68, has headed the Dutch FA since 2008, and is also a Uefa vice-president.
Ceferin, 48, has a background in law and has been in charge of the Slovenian FA since 2011. Sources close to him have told the BBC he has nearly 40 pledges of support from the 55 Uefa member nations.
A simple majority of 28 votes is required to win the election.
Spain's Angel Maria Villar, who has been Uefa's acting president since Platini's resignation, withdrew his candidacy last week.
Proposed reforms
In his manifesto, Van Praag says he wants to "unify" football and make the sport "better, more simple and attractive" by reviewing rules and working closely with what he calls "innovative, independent thinkers" and fans.
The Dutchman is also pledging to make the game safer and more secure for fans, offer more support to the women's game and to make the organisation more "efficient and mean and lean".
Slovenia's Ceferin, who operates his own law firm, wants to introduce term limits for presidents and lobby for greater transparency in the game at all levels.
Ceferin told ESPN he wants to battle match-fixing and is also keen to change the bidding process for the Champions League, European Championship and other major events.
Like Van Praag, he is keen to support the growth of the women's game.
European Super League
Van Praag says that if elected, he will "reopen the negotiations" on the Champions League after complaints that England, Germany, Italy and Spain have been guaranteed four group-stage places from the 2018-19 season.
Ceferin's stance is much the same, with the Slovenian wanting to consider the interests of the whole continent, rather than just the most powerful and wealthy nations.
European Championship
The next European Championship in 2020 will not be hosted in one country, nor co-hosted by neighbouring nations. Instead, matches will be spread between 13 cities across the continent.
The new president will face re-election before the next Euros; but the selection of a host for 2024 is anticipated in 2018 and so a decision on whether to continue with the format implemented by Platini will likely need to be made by the new president and his committee.
The Football Association (FA) declared its support for Van Praag last week.
"Mr Van Praag would provide the strong leadership European football requires," FA vice-chairman David Gill said.
"In all, he has a proven track record across domestic and international matters that can only help Uefa go forward."
The Scottish FA will vote for Ceferin, while the Welsh FA and Irish FA have not disclosed their preferred candidate.
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The BBA will join up with Payments UK, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), the UK Cards Association and the Asset Based Finance Association.
The idea is to cut costs, and increase lobbying power.
The BBA represents both High Street and investment banks, while the CML covers banks and building societies.
It is not yet known what the new body will be called.
Nine of the UK's biggest banks including HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays as well as building society Nationwide, called on the trade bodies to consider merging as it was considered that they often duplicated lobbying efforts.
They also raised concerns over the need to cut costs and have a stronger voice on European regulation.
"A new trade association would be able to represent the industry more effectively because its voice would carry greater weight," said Ed Richards, the former communications regulator who was appointed to lead the review.
"Having a single point of contact will also be welcomed by policymakers and will reduce duplication of effort."
The review also said trade association fees could be reduced by up to 30%.
The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation think-tank estimates banks spend upwards of £50m on the top 10 trade associations they belong to.
It also found a significant overlap in membership with around 60% of UK Payments Council members also members of the BBA, for example.
The review called for the new to become a close partner with UK Payments Administration and Financial Fraud Action UK.
The Building Societies Association and the Finance & Leasing Association both said they did not want to join the merged group of trade bodies.
The various trade bodies expected to merge have yet to hold a vote of their members, which is not expected until the end of February. Should members of each lobby group vote to merge the timetable would see the enlarged trade body launch in May and be fully operational by November 2016.
The women were married through a matchmaker to men living in rural villages near Handan, but vanished in late November, the reports said.
Their matchmaker, a Vietnamese woman living in China, had also left.
China's gender imbalance sometimes sees poorer bachelors seeking brides from South East Asian countries.
China Daily quoted an official as saying an "organised ring" may have been involved in the mass disappearance.
The bachelors had paid tens of thousands of yuan each to the Vietnamese matchmaker, named by local media as Wu Meiyu, who had been living in Hebei for more than 20 years.
Earlier this year she had gone around rural areas in Hebei looking for customers, promising them a Vietnamese bride for a 115,000 yuan ($18,600; £11,800) fee, the reports said.
On 20 November, the wives reportedly told their husbands that they were having a meal with other Vietnamese brides. They subsequently became uncontactable.
When the husbands went to Ms Wu's home to confront her, they found out that she had left a few days earlier.
Jinghua Daily reported that at least one bride subsequently returned. She claimed that she "lost consciousness" after the meal and awoke to find herself in a small house far from her husband's village of Quzhou.
She was told that she would be going elsewhere to "find another husband". The woman left the house and returned to Quzhou to file a police report.
China's longstanding one-child policy has created a gender imbalance as Chinese culture traditionally favours male babies over female.
Some poorer bachelors in rural areas have relied on matchmaking services to find brides from nearby countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar (also known as Burma).
Such demand has fuelled human trafficking. Last month, state media reported that authorities arrested a gang selling Burmese women and girls as wives in China.
Taku Ngwenya touched down in the corner before Warriors were awarded a penalty try as the visitors took a 10-7 half-time lead at Sixways.
Ben Te'o finished out wide to put Worcester in front after the break, but Said Hireche and Thomas Acquier tries gave Brive a 25-17 lead late on.
Andy Short pulled a try back in the last minute but Brive held on.
Worcester picked up a bonus point but have now lost both of their pool matches and sit bottom of the table.
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Short, Stelling, Te'o, Adams; Heathcote, Baldwin; Bower (capt), Williams, Daniels, Kitchener, Scotland-Williamson, Taylor, Xiourouppa, Cox.
Replacements: Singleton, Appiah, Alo, Hewitt, Smith, De Cothi, Shillcock, Hammond.
Brive: Lapeyre; Ngwenya, Mignardi, Burotu, Namy; Laranjeira, Lobzhanidze; Devisme, Ribes, Bekoshvili, Uys, Snyman, Luafuta, Hireche (capt), Whetton.
Replacements: Acquier, Lavergne, Buys, Mela, Narisia, Delarue, Bezy, Masilevu.
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White, 24, who joined the Dragons from Livingston in May, is in hospital because of problems with his bloodstream.
"They're trying to get to the bottom of it but it more or less paralysed him for a while because he couldn't move," Wrexham manager Gary Mills said.
"He's got to go on a course of antibiotics for eight weeks without any exercise or anything."
Mills added: "We wish him well and hopefully we can get him back as quickly as possible."
White's illness could force Mills to sign a striker ahead of Wrexham's National League season opener against Dover Athletic on 6 August.
Mills has further added to his squad with the signing of former Northampton Town and Cambridge United goalkeeper Chris Dunn.
Dunn has signed a one-year contract and will also be the club's goalkeeping coach.
The 28-year-old has been training with the Dragons during pre-season and will provide competition for Shwan Jalal, who joined from Macclesfield Town in June.
"That gives me two top keepers in this league," Mills told BBC Wales Sport.
Waddock, 52, only became U's boss in March but was unable to guide the club to the League Two play-offs.
The appointment of Appleton, 38, forms part of a restructuring of the club in which ex-Marussia Formula 1 chairman Darryl Eales becomes joint-owner.
Businessman Ian Lenagan, who has owned Oxford for eight years, will stay on.
In a statement, Lenagan said: "We would like to thank Gary for his effort and contribution through the past months on behalf of Oxford United and to make it clear that this change does not in any way reflect on his performance or capability as head coach."
He added that the new structure bodes well for the club's future ambitions.
Lenagan and Eales, who will become chairman, now each hold more than 30% of the shares in Oxford United Ltd, but both with less than 50%.
Former West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper and director Mark Ashton will become chief executive, having previously held similar roles at Watford and Wycombe.
Ashton also had a spell as a director with the Baggies at a time when Appleton was with the club as a player.
Having had his playing career cut short by a serious knee injury while at West Brom, Appleton started his coaching career at The Hawthorns and had one match in caretaker charge after Roberto di Matteo was sacked as manager in February 2011.
He took over as boss of Portsmouth in November of that year, but could not prevent them being relegated from the Championship after being docked 10 points for entering administration.
Appleton left Fratton Park for Blackpool in November 2012, only to move on again two months later to become manager of Blackburn Rovers.
Despite leading Blackburn to an FA Cup fifth-round win over Arsenal, he was sacked after only 15 games and 67 days in charge.
Eales' investment follows BBC Radio Oxford reporting last month that the club had been the subject of multiple takeover bids.
A consortium led by local businessman Charlie Methven submitted an offer to buy Oxford but Woodstock-based Lenagan opted for a deal to secure future funding while remaining part of the club.
Lenagan, who also owns rugby league side Wigan Warriors, is believed to have invested nearly £8m in Oxford since taking over the U's.
The quartet of Laurence Halsted, Marcus Mepstead, James-Andrew Davis and Richard Kruse beat France 45-28 in the bronze-medal match.
Britain, seeded fourth, lost 44-28 in the semi-finals to Italy, who were then beaten 45-42 by Russia in the final.
Davis, Halsted and Kruse will compete in the individual and men's team foil events at this summer's Rio Olympics.
Party activists met in Holywell, Flintshire, on Monday to discuss concerns about "serious misconduct".
In recent months, Ms Brown has denied a hotel's allegations of smoking recreational drugs, and of impropriety over changing the text of a job advert.
She declined an invitation to attend the meeting, and her spokesman described it as "petty infighting".
UKIP assembly leader Neil Hamilton said Ms Brown had his full support.
Members from six UKIP branches in north east Wales passed a vote of no confidence in Ms Brown but decided to hold a wider vote of members across north Wales in about a month's time.
Shaun Owen, vice-chair of UKIP's Delyn branch, told BBC Wales that activists in north Wales felt "deserted" by Ms Brown and by the party in general.
"We've been very active over the past 18 months to two-year period in getting her elected to a position as the AM and also, of course, promoting the Leave campaign," he said, referring to the referendum vote for Brexit.
"A lot of people have put in a lot of effort, a lot of footwork, a lot of time and a lot of money into those campaigns as well, only to be rejected by Michelle Brown."
UKIP Delyn treasurer Susan Williams added the AM was not "engaging with the population" or properly representing them in the assembly.
Neil Hamilton told BBC Wales the meeting was organised by people who were largely not members of UKIP. "This meeting has no constitutional significance at all," he said.
"It's a culmination of a long and bitter campaign, a personal campaign against her, and she has my full support."
BBC Wales has seen a copy of a letter from Mr Owen inviting Ms Brown to the meeting to discuss her "serious misconduct", saying there was a "deep sense of growing disquiet, disillusionment and alarm" amongst members.
The letter listed 18 concerns, including an accusation by a Cardiff hotel that the UKIP AM for north Wales smoked "recreational drugs" in her bedroom.
Ms Brown's spokesman has denied the allegation, saying the "strong smell" in her room was caused by a strong tobacco product.
Details of discussions between Ms Brown and an assembly official concerning how an advert for a job in her office could be changed to help her brother get an interview for the post are also included in the letter.
Ms Brown has said she acted with "complete propriety" in the matter.
Mr Owen's letter also cited a property leased by the North Wales AM to serve as her regional office which has never been opened.
Responding to a Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales, the Welsh Assembly said it had paid £2,027.93 for the property between October 2016 and March 2017.
The assembly said the office in Shotton, Flintshire, was not occupied "because work necessary to ensure its security was carried out incorrectly".
Responding to the letter, a spokesman for Ms Brown said: "This letter represents nothing more than some petty infighting that is a relic from the pre-Nuttall era."
UKIP won seven seats in the 2016 Welsh Assembly elections but, after a row, fellow north Wales AM and former UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill left the assembly group to sit as an independent.
With all the questions marks surrounding the role of UKIP now that the process of leaving the European Union has begun, more background noise like this will not be helpful.
The UKIP group at the assembly has become hugely important for the party in showing that it can develop a democratically-elected power base.
But since the assembly election last year, UKIP's story has largely been one of infighting at the Senedd with Nathan Gill becoming an independent after a row with Neil Hamilton.
UKIP always insisted it would bring something different to assembly politics.
New developments like this surrounding Michelle Brown will make it more difficult for UKIP supporters to persuade people its impact has been positive.
It also says patients need to be made more aware of how to complain and greater independence is needed in the handling of serious complaints.
The review, led by ex-Panasonic UK and Ireland boss Keith Evans, said some bodies and individuals must learn "how not to be defensive".
Welsh ministers welcomed the recommendations.
But Labour Cynon Valley MP Ann Clwyd, a persistent critic of Welsh NHS care standards, warned it would be "difficult to change the take it or leave it culture within NHS Wales".
The three-month review followed criticisms that the concerns of some patients and families were not being heard.
The report's recommendations and findings include:
Mr Evans said NHS executives and senior staff should "lead the required change from the front and by good example".
"Furthermore, whatever job someone has in the NHS, they should think of themselves wearing their patients' shoes and put themselves in their position at all times," he said.
"Doing so will quickly reveal the daily issues of what is going right and wrong."
"It is also very important that organisations and individuals learn how to not be defensive but to listen to NHS users concerns and complaints, analyse them, and reflect the findings into the workplace quickly and efficiently for the betterment of all," he added.
Ms Clwyd led a UK government-commissioned inquiry on how NHS hospitals in England handle complaints.
She has said she also received hundreds of letters from Welsh patients outlining poor experiences they had suffered.
But Welsh ministers said they could not be investigated because the complainants were anonymous.
Welcoming the review on Tuesday, Ms Clwyd warned it would be difficult to change the "take it or leave it culture within NHS Wales, and the lack of leadership which has led to complacency about listening to those who it is supposed to serve".
She is due to give evidence to the assembly's health committee on 16 July.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said handling complaints properly was "about culture as much as it is about resources".
"We need to do all we can to allow patients to put forward their concerns effectively and simply.
"At the same time we must not create a climate where staff feel under siege, as this report has found."
The Welsh government will respond formally to the review in the autumn.
The Conservatives warned some complaints may indicate "wider failings" in some parts of the health service requiring "immediate attention".
Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar repeated his call for a wide-ranging investigation into the Welsh NHS.
"Change in complaints handling is urgently required - but this review is no substitute for a Wales-wide Keogh-style review into standards of care," he said.
Figures show complaints about the Welsh NHS to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales increased from 191 in 2006/7, when the office was created, to more than 750 in 2013/14.
The acting ombudsman for Wales said in her annual report that the way health complaints were being handled featured prominently.
"It is the clear view of this office that it is not with the process itself that the problem lies," said Margaret Griffiths.
"Rather, it lays with the culture within health bodies and their attitude towards dealing with complaints."
In March, the complaints system for the NHS in England was described as "hopelessly complicated" and in need of an overhaul by a patients' watchdog.
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Businessman Richard Overson, a Sky Blues fan, backed the latest bid led by former City vice-chairman Gary Hoffman.
The club's owners, Sisu, had described the group's two previous offers as "derisory" and insisted there had been no discussions between the two parties.
"We just need Sisu to tell us what they want for this club," Overson, 49, said.
Fans have campaigned for Sisu, now in their 10th year as club owners, to sell the relegated League One club, who will be playing in English football's fourth tier for the first time in 58 years next season.
In April, the London-based hedge fund revealed they had turned down two bids and would not enter into talks over a sale.
Coventry supporter Hoffman, whose name was chanted by City fans during the club's final home game of the season, made his third unsuccessful approach last week.
Multi-millionaire Overson, who only joined the consortium after the first two offers were rebuffed, told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire: "I just thought I'd reach out to the consortium to say I'm prepared to come and help.
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"We've made the [latest] bid. That's come back unsuccessful.
"We need Sisu to tell us exactly what they want and I think at the moment they're not.
"I'm doing it to get us away from Sisu but that's just the start of it really. I think once we are away from Sisu then we will need the majority of City fans to come and join us.
"I have a nine-year-old son who is a supporter of Coventry. The football club is part of the community."
Sisu boss Joy Seppala issued a public apology to Sky Blues fans following their relegation, saying the ownership took responsibility for the club's position.
She added: "This summer will be one of change and reform. Our plan and aim has to be promotion next season, a return to League One and then upwards from there."
When hundreds of severely-burned aircrew were treated at the hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, residents welcomed them into their homes.
It was the idea of pioneering surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe who felt the disfigured men's mental health was as important as their physical health.
He also encouraged the formation of a drinking club, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary.
"The Guinea Pig Club", as the men affectionately named it because of the experimental surgery they underwent, was created in 1941 and was only intended to last until the end of the war.
But the club, which was used as a support mechanism for the men, continues with 39 British members of its original 649 still alive.
Sir Archibald is credited with pioneering modern plastic surgery during the war at the Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead.
According to the Guinea Pig Club's honorary secretary, Bob Marchant, who worked with the surgeon in the 1950s, it was his focus on young men's future lives, which paid dividends.
"He not only treated them for burns, but also psychologically by getting them back into the community," he said.
"There were a lot of wealthy people around here and McIndoe went out and asked them to invite the airmen into their homes. He also did the same in the pubs.
"Eventually East Grinstead became known as the town that didn't stare."
Sadly for some of the airmen their injuries proved too severe for existing relationships to continue.
"Some of the wives left the men because they couldn't stomach the disfigurement," said Mr Marchant.
"But some of the men married the nurses from the hospital as they got used to seeing past the injuries."
During WWII, Sir Archibald invented various surgical techniques and improved others.
He noticed that the burns of airmen who crashed into sea healed quicker than the those who crashed on land, and he ordered the men to take saline baths.
He also improved the technique of using pedicles to rebuild facial features which had been burned off.
This involved using a tube of skin from the patient's body and attaching it to their face for a month to encourage blood flow between the two.
It was later detached from the body and moulded into facial features.
Mr Marchant said: "I met Sir Archibald when he was at the top of his career - a very impressive and powerful man.
"He was also a very good surgeon, but didn't suffer fools gladly."
This attitude rubbed off on to his "guinea pigs" and he was made the club's president until he died in 1960.
"Sir Archibald allowed alcohol within the wards and pinups on the walls because he remembered these were just young men who needed cheering up," said Mr Marchant.
"The guinea pigs have kept close, but if one of them says they've got a bad leg or arm, the others tell him to be quiet because they suffered far more years ago.
"There's no sympathy and they do have a very black sense of humour."
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Holders Hibernian ran out 3-1 winners against their city rivals in their fifth-round replay at Easter Road.
"That's quite a few backward steps and we've got a lot of making up to do to a lot of people," Cathro said.
"Maybe the mistake has been us overestimating the stage we are at as a team."
The result followed four matches unbeaten for the Premiership side but they could not extend that run against the Championship leaders.
"We lost those situations earlier in the game and caused a very hurtful evening for a lot of people," Cathro told BBC Scotland.
"Fight, second balls, 50-50s, individual things, that's what our problems were. We accept that, we feel it also. I feel it."
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Cathro sent his players out early from the half-time interval, and made two substitutes, but with his team trailing to goals from Jason Cummings and Grant Holt, the game was already lost.
The Hearts fans booed their team off at the interval and many left before the end of the game. Cathro admitted his side had regressed from recent progress and took full responsibility.
"Maybe the mistake has been us overestimating the stage we're at as a team and forgetting slightly that we needed to focus on the more simple, basic things in the game," he explained.
"One hundred percent, that's my job, that's what to do. I want to step up and do that. We overestimated where we are and we need to find solutions to it quite quickly.
"I didn't see it coming, of course not. We've not done enough on the pitch to respect the club, so we have a lot of things that we need to fix. And we will."
Hearts return to league duty on Saturday, with a trip to Partick Thistle in the Premiership before hosting Ross County next Wednesday.
Taylor, 29, has started 14 Championship matches during his season-long loan spell from Wigan Athletic.
"Hopefully I can keep my place between now and the end of the season and then we'll sit down with my agent and see what's what," he said.
Taylor has competed for a place at left-back with Jordan Obita.
"I've enjoyed my time here and really taken to the players, staff and fans," he added. "If an opportunity came to stay, it's something I would definitely look at."
The former Cardiff and Middlesbrough defender says he has heard little from his parent club since making the move south.
"Nobody's been in touch with me from Wigan, apart from a few players I'm friends with," he said. "But, from staff-wise and above, nobody's spoken to me."
They have blamed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov and state officials for a "wave of persecution".
They cited the case of a teenaged male thrown out of a ninth-storey window, allegedly because of his sexuality.
Chechen officials have denied that gay people even exist in the republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month backed an inquiry into the reported crackdown on gay people in Chechnya.
But the three French groups have rejected Russia's internal investigation, and want the International Criminal Court in The Hague to start work before Russia withdraws from its jurisdiction in November.
Reports of arbitrary arrests of gay men first surfaced last month in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
The three groups highlighted the case of a 17-year-old gay youth allegedly thrown to his death from a ninth-floor window by an uncle supposedly anxious to salvage the family's honour.
They have accused President Kadyrov of setting up torture camps to exterminate homosexuals, Le Monde (in French) reported. It quoted the leader of Idaho France - one of the three groups instigating the ICC case - as saying the court was the only way they could pursue their grievances.
Last week five gay rights activists were detained in Moscow as they tried to deliver a petition to the office of Russia's prosecutor general.
Police said they were held because their action was unauthorised.
The activists said more than two million people had signed the petition to investigate alleged torture and detentions of gay people in Chechnya.
President Kadyrov has insisted that there are no "people of non-traditional orientation" (a term sometimes used to describe LGBT people in Russia) in the predominantly Muslim republic.
Chechen officials also say the local police have not received any official complaints from alleged victims.
Wendy Dillingham, 59, paid herself inflated wages, moved lump sums into her account and used bank cards belonging to PPS Media Limited.
She hid her dishonesty by creating false documents until an internal audit uncovered her actions in 2013.
Dillingham, from Evesham, admitted theft, fraud and false accounting.
She was sentenced at Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday.
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Dillingham, of Wisteria Drive, worked at the Evesham-based firm between 1987 and March 2014 where she was responsible for the company payroll, West Mercia Police said.
She used her position to create false bank statements, withdrew money from cash machines and used the bank cards to buy herself luxury cosmetics, paintings, clothing and luggage.
Police said she paid herself a higher wage despite claiming to have taken a £10,000 per year reduction, to help the business through the economic downturn in 2008.
The firm became suspicious when Dillingham was unwilling to provide original bank statements during the audit.
Managing director, Vernon Pethard, said he remained "deeply shocked and dismayed" by her crimes.
"She was in a position of trust and this was a highly thought-out and long term deception.
"I had even made her an executor of my will which shows the extent to which she was trusted by me."
Det Insp Emma Wright , from the force's economic crime unit, said officers had carried out a "long and complex investigation".
"Wendy Dillingham betrayed the trust of a company who had employed her for 24 years by abusing her position in order to steal money from them."
The amnesty applies to offences committed during the political turmoil after Mr Thaksin was ousted in a coup.
The lower house passed the controversial bill in the early hours of Friday. It now goes to the Senate.
The opposition Democrat Party has warned that the passage of the bill will trigger street protests.
It did not take part in the vote, but the bill passed by 310 votes to 0.
The bill's passage through the Senate is less certain, reports the BBC South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, as half its members are appointed.
But this could happen as early as next week and would almost certainly provoke further protests.
Advocates of the bill say it will draw a line under the political turmoil that resulted from the military coup in 2006 that removed Mr Thaksin from power, leaving Thailand bitterly divided.
This turmoil included the occupation of Bangkok's main airport in 2008 and then two months of street protests in Bangkok in 2010 that left about 90 people - mostly civilian protesters - dead.
But critics say the amnesty would allow human rights abuses to go unpunished.
"The proposed amnesty would allow officials and protest leaders who have blood on their hands to go unpunished," said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, on 21 October.
"By whitewashing past abuses, the government denies justice to victims and tells future abusers they have little to fear."
The opposition believes the bill is aimed at facilitating Mr Thaksin's return, without having to serve a jail sentence.
Thaksin Shinawatra has lived in self-imposed overseas exile since being convicted of corruption in 2008, charges he says are politically motivated.
The amnesty - initially limited to ordinary protesters charged over involvement in past street clashes - was suddenly expanded two weeks ago to include anyone investigated by agencies set up after the 2006 coup.
It was as a result of one of those investigations that Mr Thaksin was jailed, our correspondent reports.
In the wake of the coup Mr Thaksin remained popular with rural voters and both general elections since the polls have seen parties allied to him elected.
His sister Yingluck Shinawatra is currently the prime minister.
The opposition says it plans to challenge the legislation.
"We will continue our fighting in the street until the bill is aborted. There are other avenues such as by petitioning the Constitutional Court," said Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut.
On Thursday, as the bill was being debated, thousands of people rallied against it outside a railway station.
Work to prepare the legislation has been under way for two years and Justice Minister Alan Shatter said he expects the database to be operational in 2014.
He said the key aim of the bill was to assist police in tackling crime.
Mr Shatter said it would help link crimes and identify suspects.
"The intelligence generated will be invaluable to the Gardaà in relation to identifying prolific offenders involved in volume crime such as burglary, but also in relation to serious offences against the person, such as homicide and sexual offences," he said.
"It will contribute to the move towards more effective, targeted and smarter policing and will also facilitate co-operation with other police forces in relation to mobile criminals."
The minister insisted the database would also be of benefit in establishing the innocence of persons suspected or wrongly convicted of offences.
Mr Shatter said "substantial changes" had been made to the bill put forward by the previous government in 2010.
"The bill published today is substantially amended in many respects to address issues that gave rise to genuine concerns, including in relation to the sensitive area of the retention of samples and DNA profiles of persons who are not subsequently convicted in order to ensure that any interference with their privacy rights is justified by the public interest in the investigation of crime and is proportionate," he said.
The bill provides for the taking, subject to appropriate safeguards, of biological samples in the form of mouth swabs or hair follicles from suspects and convicted persons including sex offenders from which their DNA profiles will be generated for entry in the database.
Crime scene profiles from unsolved crimes whether occurring before or after the new legislation becomes law will also be entered in the database.
The database will be established and operated by the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Department of Justice and Equality at its current location at Garda headquarters, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The minister said he was "determined" to ensure the DNA database would be operational as soon as the legislation was enacted.
"To make this happen, the Forensic Science Laboratory has been furnished with resources for the necessary specialist staff, and to allow for the purchase, installation and validation of sophisticated robotic sample handling instruments to cater for high throughput of samples," he said.
"These are now in use and will be capable of processing the anticipated increased submissions associated with a national database."
Last year's men's champion Dan Purvis (89.5) took silver while Nile Wilson (87.150) claimed bronze.
Claudia Fragapane won the women's event with a lifetime best of 58.1.
Rebecca Tunney finished second after two years out injured on 56.35 with Ellie Downie (55.25) in third.
Whitlock's score was better than the last world and Olympic gold-winning totals posted by Japan's Kohei Uchimura.
Uchimura claimed gold at London 2012 with 92.69 and won his world title in Glasgow last year with 92.332.
"I'm very proud of today, I've never even hit that score in training and so to do it at such an important championships and win the gold its brilliant," said Whitlock, 23.
"Preparation went well, the build-up was perfect and that's my personal best and I'm very happy to do it at the British Championships.
"There were two new skills for this year, one on rings and one parallel bars, so it feels great to have got those out."
Whitlock opened his evening at the city's Echo Arena with a huge 16.25 on pommel and closed with 16.05 on floor.
Those were the same apparatus on which he won gold and silver respectively in Glasgow.
Fragapane's display showed upgrades in her routines across the board.
She began on her least favourite apparatus - the uneven bars - with 13.85, then went on to score 14.75, 14.7 and 14.8 on beam, floor and vault.
"It feels absolutely amazing. I've never been British all-around champion and I got a personal best so really pleased," said the 18-year-old.
"This gives me a huge amount of confidence and I can't wait for my next competition now."
For the men, the all-around competition also doubled as their senior apparatus finals with pommel world silver medallist Louis Smith again outdone by Whitlock despite a high score of 15.8.
On Sunday, the women will challenge for individual apparatus honours, while the men will compete against the best junior gymnasts for 'Masters' apparatus medals.
The victory saw Derry clinching a third successive league win for the first time since March.
Barry McNamee put Derry ahead inside the first minute after he intercepted a careless back pass.
Lukas Schubert doubled Derry's lead in the ninth minute and substitute Ben Doherty completed the scoring on 85.
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The win moves Derry five points ahead of fourth-placed Shamrock Rovers, with the clubs meeting in Dublin on Friday night.
Derry got off to the perfect start as McNamee nipped in to put them ahead after less than 30 seconds of the contest as he latched on to Joe Crowe's back pass before rounding Brendan Clarke.
Limerick never really got over the immediate blow and they were two behind on nine minutes as defender Schubert applied the final touch after Rory Patterson's initial shot.
Ronan Curtis, recalled to the starting line-up after being left by Kenny Shiels for the win over Finn Harps because of a disciplinary issue, tested Limerick keeper Brendan Clarke as Derry continued to dominate before the break.
Limerick were unable to summon up a gallop in response in the second half and Doherty's first goal for Derry completed the scoring in the closing stages after Dean Clarke had failed to clear.
Judge Mabel Jansen said the gang-rape of babies, girls and women was seen as a "pleasurable" pastime.
A petition has been launched to demand her removal as a judge. She said her comments had been taken out of context.
South Africa has been hit by a spate of racism rows in recent months, triggered by comments on social media.
The government has responded by saying that it intends to toughen anti-racism laws.
White minority rule and legalised racism ended in South Africa in 1994.
The latest row came after comments that Judge Jansen purportedly made on Facebook in a conversation with South African activist Gillian Schutte last year went viral at the weekend.
"In their culture a woman is there to pleasure them. Period. It is seen as an absolute right and a woman's consent is not required," the judge is quoted as saying.
In another post attributed to her, she said that "murder is also not a biggy" for black men and "gang rapes of baby, daughter, and mother [were] a pleasurable pass [sic] time".
Judge Jansen added, according to the post, that the "true facts are most definitely not that espoused by the liberals".
Leading South African advocate Vuyani Ngalwana said Judge Jansen's "outburst, effectively tarring all black men with the 'rapist' broad brush," was "shocking beyond belief", the local Business Day newspaper reports.
The Judicial Service Commission, which has the power to discipline judges, should ask her to explain her comments, before a decision was taken on her future, Mr Ngalwana is quoted as saying.
A spokesman for the governing African National Congress (ANC) said he suspected there were other judges who engaged in "racist stereotypes", while the party's influential women's wing said her comments were "purely racist" and misrepresented the "facts about black culture".
The opposition Democratic Alliance said Judge Jansen's comments were "not only hurtful and demeaning", but undermined "the dignity of our people," the AFP news agency reports.
The judge told local media that the posts were from last May, when she was in a private inbox exchange with Ms Schutte in an attempt to get help for victims of rape and assault.
"I was referring to specific cases," the judge told News24.
"It is very bad when you are attacked on this basis, when you know it is the opposite. I don't know what she [Ms Schutte] is trying to do."
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Ms Schutte said she had made the posts of the judge public to expose the "deep racism and colonial thinking" prevalent in South Africa.
The hashtag #‎MabelJansen is trending South Africa, and a petition, "Remove Judge Jansen for Racist Comments", has been launched on Facebook.
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The latest row, involving a judge, has raised many uncomfortable questions - top of the list being how many other judges harbour such apparently prejudiced views, despite the fact that they are supposed to see all people as equal before the law.
Many South Africans on social media are calling for her to be sacked, and legal experts say her comments could open the way for convicted black people to appeal against her rulings.
Racism on social media is becoming a common feature in South Africa, and some analysts say the time for a frank conversation about how to tackle the problem has come.
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Nathan Rhodes, 23, from Southam, Ryan Case, 25, from Stockton, and Emily Jennings, 27, from Warwick, were in a Citroen Saxo which crashed in Leamington Spa early on Saturday.
It happened on the A425 Radford Road near Willes Road.
A 21-year-old man was seriously injured and has been receiving care at University Hospital Coventry.
His condition has been as described as stable.
A 20-year-old man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and drinking and driving has been bailed.
Accies were claiming that the ball had already gone out of play when Greg Kiltie cut across goal and fired his side into an early lead.
Kiltie then played a one-two at the edge of the penalty box with Kris Boyd before providing the finish.
A Boyd penalty and a Josh Magennis strike added pain for hapless Hamilton.
The third-bottom hosts, who could have guaranteed their place in the Premiership next season with their third straight victory, were poor throughout.
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But Kilmarnock, sitting a place behind, were dominant from the off and fully deserved the three points.
The result not only narrows the gap between the sides with three games left to play but also means that Dundee United can be relegated on Monday night against city rivals Dundee.
Kilmarnock came flying out of the blocks and a cross from Craig Slater went into the box, Hamilton defender Michael Devlin miscued his header and it rebounded off his own bar.
The ball fell to Kiltie, but the midfielder's shot was brilliantly saved by Michael McGovern.
Kilmarnock would make their early momentum pay, albeit with a slice of controversy.
Kiltie cut in from the left wing before arrowing a superb shot into the top corner with the Hamilton players complaining to the referee that the ball had gone out of play in the build up.
It would get even better for Kilmarnock - and Kiltie. A perfectly judged through ball from Boyd found the young winger, who showed real composure to finish well past McGovern. A hint of offside, but again the goal stood.
Accies saved their best move of the half right until the end. A shot from Ali Crawford from eight yards out forcing a one-handed save from goalkeeper Conor Brennan.
Another moment of controversy came in the second-half. Lucas looked to accidentally strike the ball with his arm in a jostle with Magennis, but the assistant referee put the flag up for a penalty.
Boyd showed no mercy from the spot and Kilmarnock went close to extending the lead when Rory McKenzie's chip from the edge of the box sailed just over the top corner.
Magennis then had the ball in the net, finishing well at the far post, but the flag was up for offside.
However, the Northern Ireland forward would get his goal eventually, firing in a low shot that McGovern was unable to stop from squirming over the line.
The volunteers belong to the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) and were attacked in separate incidents over the past 12 months.
It is thought this is the first time prison volunteers have been attacked.
The Prison Service said it would push for the "strongest possible punishment" for those involved.
The volunteers' role includes ensuring standards of care and decency for prisoners are maintained.
In two of the incidents, volunteers were spat at, one of the IMB members was pushed, and another was punched.
No-one required hospital treatment.
There are about 1,500 IMB volunteers across England and Wales who monitor the day-to-day life of prisons and immigration removal centres.
The volunteers have unrestricted access to the jail they are visiting, and can talk to prisoners out of the sight or hearing of Prison Service staff.
It is thought to be the first time that members of the IMB have been attacked.
The two spitting incidents took place in prison segregation areas - the IMB members were spat at through the cell door hatch.
The punch incident was also in a segregation area.
Segregation areas are staffed so prison officers would have been present. The push took place on a prison wing.
No-one needed hospital treatment but the visitor who was punched has taken time off their IMB duties to recover.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "We do not tolerate any violence against staff and the dedicated volunteers who work in our prisons.
"Where incidents like this occur we will always work closely with the police to push for the strongest possible punishment."
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.
"We have the unenviable task of finding millions of pounds worth of savings and have to review every service to ensure our limited budget is being used in the most effective way," said Councillor Carl Maynard.
"We felt the proposals minimised the impact of changes on the residents of East Sussex and offered best value for money for all taxpayers."
This year's cover sees the 63-year-old posing alongside her two daughters - Sailor Brinkley Cook, and Alexa Ray Joel.
Writing on Instagram, Brinkley said: "Thank you Sports Illustrated for sending the powerful message that good things come in packages of every size and we do not come with an expiration date!"
Christie appears to be literally walking on water in the photo - something she referred to in her Instagram post.
"My kids think I walk on water, so let's not mention the apple box concealed just under the surface," she joked.
Christie shot to fame after appearing in Sports Illustrated in the late 1970s and went on to become well known as an actress and TV personality.
She continued to be a successful model, appearing on the cover of Playboy and Men's Health.
In 1985, she married Uptown Girl singer Billy Joel, who is Alexa's father. The couple divorced eight years later.
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In its editorial, Sports Illustrated said Brinkley was "out to prove that age is nothing more than a number".
Speaking to People, the model said: "When I turned 30, I was like, 'This is the last time I'm posing in a bathing suit!'
"When this issue comes out, I'll be 63. I thought, 'those days are over'. But to get to do it with my girls, I thought, 'one last go!'."
Her daughter Sailor, 18, said appearing in Sports Illustrated "has been my dream since I popped out the womb" in a post on Twitter.
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Barkley, 23, was punched in a Liverpool bar last weekend in what his lawyer described as an "unprovoked attack".
In an article on Friday, Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie compared Barkley - who has a grandfather born in Nigeria - to a "gorilla at the zoo".
Police confirmed they were investigating the "full circumstances".
MacKenzie targeted both England international Barkley and the city of Liverpool in the article - which has since been taken off The Sun website - saying:
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson told BBC Sport he reported the article to the police for a "racial slur".
Speaking to BBC Sport, Anderson said: "Not only is it racist in a sense that he is of mixed-race descent, equally it's a racial stereotype of Liverpool. It is racist and prehistoric."
Anderson later tweeted to say he had reported the article to Merseyside Police and the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
Alongside the article, The Sun published adjoining pictures of Barkley and a gorilla on their website with the caption "Could Everton's Ross Barkley represent the missing link between man and beast?" The picture was later removed.
MacKenzie was editor of The Sun when it published a front-page article headlined 'Hillsborough: The Truth' in the aftermath of the 1989 disaster at Sheffield Wednesday's football stadium.
The article claimed Liverpool fans were to blame for the tragedy, in which 96 people died. MacKenzie apologised in 2012.
Last year's landmark Hillsborough inquests recorded that the 96 fans were unlawfully killed and that Liverpool supporters at the FA Cup semi-final had played no role in causing the tragedy.
This Saturday, 15 April, marks the 28th anniversary of the disaster.
Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who was an Everton youth player, tweeted: "Those comments about Ross Barkley, a young working-class lad, are disgusting. Then add in the fact he is mixed race! It becomes outrageous."
Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore tweeted: "Implied racism at its finest."
A Sun spokesperson said: "Columnists are supposed to have strong opinions that provoke debate among the readers. However their views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper."
Football's equality and inclusion organisation Kick It Out said they had received complaints about the "insulting and offensive" comments.
"We will be contacting Everton and the PFA about their responses in providing support to Ross and his family," they said.
BBC Sport has contacted Everton and Barkley's representatives for comment.
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It's about a year since we last covered BYOC - bring your own computer. This refers to companies who offer staff the chance to choose the devices they use for work - a laptop, or perhaps desktop or Mac. Even a tablet.
Where this happens the company might cover either all or part of the expense, on the understanding that the employee also purchases a support package. Or it might simply provide software to allow employees to access a virtual desktop on their own devices.
Most schemes allowed for access via a virtual private network or similar software application to ensure that data was held securely on the company servers.
Since then, BYOC has become BYOD - bring your own device.
In the last year the level of smartphone and tablet ownership has sky-rocketed, and with it the trend towards the consumerisation of IT. In other words, business IT organisations have come under ever-increasing pressure to let their employees choose what they use to do their work on.
While many firms follow the traditional route of offering a stipend or some sort of financial incentive, others expect their employees to pick up the tab.
A survey covering 17 countries by business technology company Avanade found that 88% of executives said employees were using their own personal computing technologies for business purposes.
Absolute Software found that 64% of IT managers surveyed thought it was too risky to let personal devices be integrated into the business network. However 52% of companies allowed some form of access.
Another survey by Cisco found that although 48% said their company would never authorise employees to bring their own devices, 57% agreed that some employees use personal devices without consent.
And 51% said the number of employees bringing their own devices to work is on the rise.
A completely unscientific straw poll carried out on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, suggested that many people were aware of BYOD policies. For some, the ability to choose how they access the network was an important factor in choosing an employer.
Many felt however, that they should expect some financial contribution towards the equipment.
Ian Foddering is the chief technology officer and technical director for Cisco UK and Ireland. He says companies need to have a policy on BYOD.
"We've been in the interesting position for the last 12-18 months. I look at what our clients are doing. Up until recently they've been deciding whether to block it or embrace it.
"Beforehand most people were ignoring it [but now] you'll certainly find the more progressive organisations have embraced it."
Cisco also runs a BYOD programme for its own employees.
They have the choice of either using company-issued laptops and phones, or buying their own.
If they choose to use an Apple Mac, the company won't provide IT support. This is done instead through internal wikis and mailers where other employees offer possible solutions to their IT woes.
Mr Foddering says users find they prefer this to having to use the IT department.
When it comes to recruiting young talent, he says company research found that offering a choice of device was an important consideration to potential employees.
Source: Absolute Software
"We found globally that 40% of college students and 45% of employees would accept a lower paying job with a choice of device, than a higher paying job with less flexibility."
Absolute Software's Stephen Midgley agrees.
"We're actually hearing from our own customers, during the interview process, where potential employees are asking what kind of device they will be able to use to access the network."
He also stresses that companies need to consider the security of their networks and data.
"It's the new reality for organisations, and IT needs to find an effective way to securely manage these devices. What we've seen is a cultural divide between IT and the rest of the organisation.
"IT thinks about security, that's their job, the rest of the organisation doesn't."
Making secure behaviour the easiest option is the best way to get employees to cooperate, says Mimecast's Justin Pirie.
"Companies need to make sure they have the facilities to support the 'right' behaviour with the proliferation of devices.
"This has to mean that the 'right' behaviour also becomes the 'easiest' behaviour."
It's not just the young that are pushing to use their own devices at work, according to VMware's Joe Baguley. The company is a virtualisation and BYOD specialist.
"It's definitely a trend that's increasing," he says.
"As technology is getting to more and more people, like my parents and my wife who are now using IT more than ever before and seeing what's possible.
"It's not just the under-30s turning up from university with their iPads and iPhones. People talk about the consumerisation of IT, the problem is that the users have turned into consumers. It's consumerisation of the users with IT departments struggling to keep up."
The company is in the process of launching Horizon Mobile, software that allows you to run both business and personal phones from one handset.
This means that should the phone be lost, or the employee leaves, any company data on the phone can be remotely wiped. The work phone can also be switched off leaving the personal phone still connected.
Another company which has seen BYOD policies increase over the last year is Good Technology.
"If I go back 12 months we would have discussions about companies providing smartphones as an alternative to Blackberries, but they would still be owned and managed by the company," says Good's Andy Jacques.
"Now it's almost exclusively about BYOD."
The trend is powered not only by the growth in mobile devices, but by cloud computing, with companies able to buy ready-to-go virtual desktops.
Mr Jacques sees big advantages especially for small businesses.
"If I was a small business owner the last thing I would be doing would be buying employees phones and laptops," he says.
"I wouldn't put any servers in my office, I would put everything into the cloud, I wouldn't implement any software on the premises."
According to Brian Gentile, CEO of business intelligence (BI) company Jaspersoft, the BYOD trend has been key in pushing consumerisation, and in pushing the uptake of business applications on personal smartphones and tablets.
The company has just launched its software as a mobile application.
"Recently [technology analysts] Gartner reported that by the end of 2013, approximately 33% of BI will be consumed from a mobile device, which is just remarkable given a couple of years ago the number was zero."
One thing seems sure: companies have to make decisions about how they are going to handle employee demands to use their own devices, or risk devices being used on the network without their knowledge.
Phil Lieberman of Lieberman Software certainly thinks so. He believes companies need to talk to their IT departments to find a solution.
"I guess that many chief information officers who approve employee device usage see this as a nice way to make their bonuses by further reducing costs, while the potential liabilities are above their pay grades.
"Perhaps corporate management believes that this is simply a way to get more out of their employees - a type of electronic leash - without having to pay the cost of the devices or service; all without considering the legal consequences."
Excalibur chairman Roger Maggs also said he is not sure Tata ever really wanted to sell its steel businesses here.
Tata has entered into merger talks with German rival Thyssenkrupp.
But Mr Maggs said: "We're on alert".
There are concerns a merger between the Indian and German groups would not secure the future of steel-making at Port Talbot in the long term.
Excalibur's chief executive Stuart Wilkie is a senior Tata director who has been given paid leave to work on the management buyout bid.
It was one of the bidders expected to emerge on a shortlist of potential buyers until Tata put the sales process on hold while it entered negotiations with Thyssenkrupp about its European operations.
There were indications that the Indian company was unhappy with the standard and feasibility of the bids it received.
In Excalibur's first interview since the bidding process was put on hold, Mr Maggs put forward a number of steps he would be willing to take including increasing its bid, if it would get Tata back to the negotiating table.
Speaking exclusively to BBC Wales, he also said he would be willing to consider working with Newport-based Liberty Steel, another potential buyer of the UK facilities.
Dealing with Tata's pensions deficit of around £700m was considered to be one of the main issues adding to the uncertainty.
Plans by the UK government to change the law to reduce the deficit by allowing the pension scheme to cut benefits to members appear unlikely to progress due to concerns in Parliament about setting a precedent.
Excalibur is now willing to look at whether it could take on pension liabilities as part of any sale.
Mr Maggs said he was disappointed but not surprised Tata had "paused" the sales process.
"It always seemed to be an unreal - very fast - timetable and there was very little engagement," he said.
"We dealt with almost exclusively early on with Tata's agent. It was a filling-in-forms process and there was never any negotiation about the terms of any bid. We felt there wasn't an enthusiasm for a sale on Tata's side as there was on ours."
In July, Tata entered negotiations with German rival Thyssenkrupp about a European merger.
"I can only surmise that for the whole time, the merger idea with the Thyssenkrupp had been in their minds. I suspect that once they saw the quality of the bids, they decided to concentrate on the merger with the German group. All global steel analysts are all saying the merger is the right thing to do."
But Mr Maggs said his concern was where a merger would leave capacity in the UK - with plants in a new super-company in Germany, Holland and Brazil coming into the equation.
"Where does Port Talbot figure in that?" said Mr Maggs.
"Our concern is we know we have certain disadvantages, we're trying to get stronger. But that's what worries us and I'm sure that's what is worrying the UK government and Welsh Government and the consequences for us."
He said the merger itself was complicated, while in the background the UK government was now making the judgement about whether it still wanted a British steel industry.
"This dish is not cooked - something could go wrong," he said.
"Our responsibility is to just stay there, stay fit and, if there's an opportunity, we can just go straight back in there. Our advisers have agreed to that. We're on alert."
Tata Steel gave no update in its latest quarterly report earlier this month on the future of the company's Port Talbot plant.
Koushik Chatterjee, Tata's finance director, said Tata Steel UK "continues to be engaged" with stakeholders, including unions and the UK government, "to find a structural solution to the pension exposure of the UK business".
But he said the "positive impact" of structural restructuring in the UK in the last six months along with a weaker pound, cost reductions and an "effective hedging strategy" on raw material imports meant it was able to report a better performance for the quarter.
The military has not made public the reason for Vice Admiral Mark Norman's suspension.
Federal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said in a short statement that he fully supported the decision to relieve Vice Adm Norman from carrying out his military duties.
Vice Adm Norman was named to the post last August.
He was removed from of his duties "effective immediately and until further notice", according to an order from Gen Jonathan Vance, Canada's chief of the defence staff, which is dated 13 January.
Gen Vance is Canada's top soldier in uniform and commands the military. His letter did not offer any explanation for Vice Adm Norman's dismissal.
A spokesman for the general said Vice Adm Norman has been removed "from the performance of military duty. For the time being, he will not be carrying out the functions of [vice chief of the defence staff]".
He has been replaced on an interim basis by current navy commander Vice Admiral Ron Lloyd.
Vice Adm Norman is a career naval officer who has spent over three decades in Canada's military, joining in 1980 as a navy reservist.
Ian Cannell CBE died aged 83 on 17 June after a long-term illness.
Mr Cannell, who was the first official TT commentator for Manx Radio, also commentated on the annual Tynwald ceremony for more than half a century.
President of Tynwald Steve Rodan said his "dignified, fluent and informed commentary" had "illuminated proceedings" for 52 years.
Mr Cannell was made CBE in 2004 for his work with the Royal British Legion.
His funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon in Peel Methodist Church.
The pop star's fortune rose from £85m to £125m - meaning she's the richest solo female musician in the paper's annual wealth survey.
But she's only joint 19th in the list of the UK and Ireland's richest music acts, which is dominated by older men.
Sir Paul McCartney is in the top spot with £780m with wife Nancy Shevell.
They are followed by West End mogul Lord Lloyd-Webber, U2, Sir Elton John, Sir Mick Jagger and his Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards.
Adele is tied in 19th place on £125m with Queen guitarist Brian May.
The rise in her bank balance was put down to a 122-date global arena tour, which has earned an estimated £138m at box offices, and the continued success of her third album 25, which sold 2.4 million copies around the world in 2016.
The singer will play four sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium this summer - but has hinted that she may not tour again after that, which could limit her future earnings.
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Human traffickers are the key link that European officials wish to target. But they are taking on complex criminal networks that do not recognise borders and which experts liken to "multinational corporations".
Libya's coastguard officials believe that traffickers are increasingly working with Italian organised crime.
Giampaolo Muscemi spent two years travelling with traffickers across the world as he co-wrote the ebook Confessions of a People Smuggler.
He met one Egyptian smuggler who has developed a huge network in Libya over 15 years running boats to Italy. The smuggler insisted that was in his interest to provide safe passage.
His message, Mr Muscemi told the BBC, was: "I don't want my clients to die, because my work is based upon my reputation. At the beginning of my career I was searching for clients, now that I am a big smuggler people come to me because of my reputation for safety."
Business is clearly booming. A record 35,000 migrants have already travelled to Europe this year. Mr Muscemi estimates that Mediterranean trafficking is worth between 300-600m Euros a year, and this is encouraging amateurs to take over.
"In Libya, the clients are too many, they don't have any choice but to put their lives in the hands of the smugglers," he said. "So the smugglers can decrease the quality of the service. They don't have to preserve their reputation. It's just a matter of markets, if there is demand you can do whatever you want."
Since the 1980s Libya has attracted economic migrants from across Africa, but their role has now changed.
Europe's border agency Frontex says that many of the original migrants have now become "recruiters, liaising between the Libyan-controlled criminal gangs and would-be migrants".
Once in the country, migrants are often forced to hand over their money and passports, leaving them at the mercy of the traffickers. Ali from The Gambia was forced to board an unsafe boat.
"The Libyan man lied to us," he told the BBC. "He said it was a big boat. We all paid 1,000 dinar (£488, $728). When we got to the boat, he forced us to enter with a gun, if you don't enter he will shoot you, so you must enter."
Libyan authorities rarely stop traffickers, with Tripoli's coastguard admitting to the BBC they cannot handle the volume of boats and they will only interfere if a boat runs into trouble.
Much of Libya is beyond government control and it is believed that local militias are often active partners with the smugglers.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica has published what it says is an Italian police recording of a Tripoli-based smuggler's phone calls.
Eritrean Mered Medhanie claimed to have sent 8,000 migrants on Italy-bound vessels, in a conversation with another smuggler intercepted by police.
"I always let too many on board, but it is them [the migrants] who want to leave as soon as possible," he reportedly said.
Mr Mescumi says one common misconception is to think of the smugglers as boat pilots or fishermen.
"They are businessmen," he says. "They are clever. Think of a smuggler as someone who never sleeps and spends 24 hours a day thinking about how to break into Europe. They read newspapers, study European laws, study what Frontex are doing - they will probably even read this piece."
He believes that the desperation of migrants allied with the profits that smugglers stand to make means it has become an intractable problem.
"One smuggler we met in an Italian prison told us: 'You will never stop us. You can't stop migrants.'
"When governments shut routes the business just becomes richer, because the journey is longer and more dangerous. You can't stop it, you just have to manage it."
Former world number one Sharapova returned to action in April but was denied a wildcard for the French Open.
The 30-year-old Russian, a five-time major winner, was given one for Wimbledon qualifying but withdrew with an injury.
Sharapova has volunteered to speak to young tennis players at the USTA National Campus about the importance of the tennis anti-doping program
The US Open will take place at Flushing Meadows from 28 August to 10 September.
"Her suspension under the terms of the tennis anti-doping program was completed and therefore was not one of the factors weighed in our wildcard selection process," The United States Tennis Association (USTA), which oversees the US Open, told BBC Sport.
"Consistent with past practice, a wildcard was provided to a past US champion who needed the wildcard for entry into the main draw.
"Previous US Open champions who have received US Open main draw wildcards include Martina Hingis, Lleyton Hewitt, Kim Cljisters and Juan Martin del Potro.
"Additionally, Sharapova has volunteered to speak to young tennis players at the USTA National Campus about the importance of the tennis anti-doping program and the personal responsibility each player has to comply with the program's requirements."
Sharapova returned to playing without a ranking in April and rose to 211 in the world after receiving wildcards in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome.
She hoped to receive a wildcard for the French Open, but was denied one for both the main draw and qualifying rounds.
The 2006 US Open champion then elected to try to reach the Wimbledon main draw through qualifying, however she pulled out of the tournament having failed to recover from the muscle injury she sustained at the Italian Open the previous month.
She is currently suffering from a left forearm injury which forced her to pull out of this week's Cincinnati Open. She withdrew from the Stanford Bank of the West Classic earlier this month after suffering the injury in her first-round match.
In June 2016, Sharapova was punished with a two-year doping ban for testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.
It was reduced to 15 months following her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, Ms Wood also despaired of hot flushes caused by the menopause and spoke of sexism she had experienced.
An independent Wales was a long-term project for her and she would not be standing down after the general election whatever the result, she said.
The election was an "opportunity to have a strong voice for Wales at Westminster," she added.
Since the EU referendum and the decision to leave the EU our "voice has almost gone unheard, pretty much neglected" she told Victoria Derbyshire, while driven around central London in a white van - during which the pair sang along to Catatonia's Road Rage.
When asked if she had ever taken drugs, Ms Wood said she had: "Cannabis, a long time ago. But I was younger and a student - I tried a few."
She also said she did not believe in God as no evidence had "come my way that would convince me", and said that gay sex was not a sin.
On the question of who does the "boy and girl jobs" at home (a reference to a comment made by Prime Minster Theresa May on the One Show) she said her partner did all the housework "so all the jobs are his really".
She also touched on her experiences of sexism saying there was a "wide range from the casual sexist comment through to misogynistic... abuse on Twitter".
On Theresa May, she said: "I get the feeling I don't know what she is, I get the feeling that what we see is a very carefully presented person, who is trying to appear in a certain way. But I don't get the sense that we know the person at all."
Responding to a question about her future should the party - which advocates an independent Wales and has three MPs - see its vote flatline as in 2015, she said she would remain leader because she had taken over the party five years previously on the basis it was a long-term project she had to "see out".
"It will take quite a long time I think to get Wales into the position whereby we can talk about having a referendum," she said.
She said Plaid and Scotland's SNP were at different stages on their "journey to self-determination".
Ms Wood also said she wouldn't rule out going into coalition with Labour and taking seats in a Jeremy Corbyn cabinet "because what I want to do is stop the Tories wreaking havoc on Wales".
However, she added, she believed the outcome of the election would be a Tory landslide in England.
It said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were both falling.
However, it called for far more international effort as the "current pace cannot end the epidemic".
And charity Medecins Sans Frontieres warned most of those in need of HIV drugs still had no access to them.
The report showed that 35 million people around the world were living with HIV.
There were 2.1 million new cases in 2013 - 38% less than the 3.4 million figure in 2001.
Aids-related deaths have fallen by a fifth in the past three years, standing at 1.5 million a year. South Africa and Ethiopia have particularly improved.
Many factors contribute to the improving picture, including increased access to drugs. There has even been a doubling in the number of men opting for circumcision to reduce the risk of contracting HIV.
While some things are improving, the picture is far from rosy.
Fewer than four in 10 people with HIV are getting life-saving antiretroviral therapy.
And just 15 countries account for three-quarters of all new HIV infections.
The report said: "There have been more achievements in the past five years than in the preceding 23 years.
"There is evidence about what works and where the obstacles remain, more than ever before, there is hope that ending Aids is possible.
"However, a business-as-usual approach or simply sustaining the Aids response at its current pace cannot end the epidemic."
Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAids, added: "If we accelerate all HIV scale-up by 2020, we will be on track to end the epidemic by 2030, if not, we risk significantly increasing the time it would take - adding a decade, if not more."
Drugs have been a miracle in reducing deaths from Aids.
Normally it takes about 10 years for Aids - acquired immune deficiency syndrome - to develop.
"Opportunistic infections" that a healthy immune system could fight off then become deadly.
But patients taking antiretroviral drugs can keep their HIV infection under control and have a near-normal life expectancy.
The tools are there, but too often they are beyond the reach of people who need them.
Some 54% of people living with HIV do not know they are infected and 63% are not getting antiretroviral therapy.
Diagnosing and treating the missing millions - often in sub-Saharan Africa - would significantly reduce the 1.5 million Aids-related deaths each year.
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Dr Jennifer Cohn, the medical director for Medecins Sans Frontieres' access campaign, said: "Providing life-saving HIV treatment to nearly 12 million people in the developing world is a significant achievement, but more than half of people in need still do not have access."
In Nigeria, 80% of people do not have access to treatment.
Dr Cohn added: "We need to make sure no-one is left behind - and yet, in many of the countries where MSF works we're seeing low rates of treatment coverage, especially in areas of low HIV prevalence and areas of conflict.
"In some countries, people are being started on treatment too late to save their lives, and pregnant women aren't getting the early support they need."
Marcus Low from South African campaign group Treatment Action Campaign told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme:
"It is still a crisis in South Africa - we still have about 1,000 new infections every day.
"On the treatment side, we have done well and people are living longer.
"But we must do more to prevent new infections."
After asking for access to Parliament for six years, he was eventually granted permission to film in places where cameras have never been allowed before.
I have seen the first of the four programmes, and these are my 10 favourite facts from it, featuring swords, purple ribbons, abseiling rope and what is known as the "plastic fantastic"...
The Palace of Westminster - Parliament - was built on the site of William the Conqueror's first palace.
Rebuilt in Victorian times as a Gothic fantasy palace, it is an eight-acre jumble of buildings, courtyards, passageways and corridors.
There are 100 staircases, more than 1,000 rooms and three miles of passages.
There are purple ribbons attached to the coat-hangers in the members' cloakroom, allowing MPs to hang up their swords as well as their coats. At least one MP still takes advantage of this.
An impressive 300 panes of glass cover the clock-face known to many as Big Ben.
In fact, Big Ben is actually the name of the bell inside the clock-tower.
Once every five years the clock-face is cleaned from the outside, by a team who abseil down it to do their maintenance work. Not a job for anyone scared of heights!
There are 650 MPs elected to the House of Commons. 502 of them are men; 148 are women.
Despite there being 650 MPs, the chamber has only 427 seats - meaning there is often standing room only on big days, such as the Budget.
However, there is a rather arcane way of booking a seat to guarantee a spot on the green benches.
MPs have to roll up at 8am, and place a "prayer card" in the place they would like to sit. They then have to be in the chamber at the start of that day's sitting, for prayers.
For over four centuries, every day in the Commons has begun with prayers, which last for three minutes and require MPs to face the wall for the duration.
There are competing theories as to why this is the custom.
Applause is very, very rare in the House of Commons. Tony Blair received a standing ovation on the day he stood down as prime minister and left chamber for the final time.
There was also an outbreak of applause for Sir Robert Rogers, who retired last year as clerk of the Commons. Sir Robert described the clapping as "really, really moving". But Conservative MP Jacob Rees Mogg said: "I think applause is a bit modern for the House of Commons."
Parliament produces 80 million printed pages a year, ranging from the official parliamentary record - called Hansard - to committee reports and draft legislation.
The thick file of information, carefully labelled to help David Cameron quickly find what he needs at Prime Minister's Questions, is known in Downing Street as the "plastic fantastic".
When a proposed new law, a bill, is sent from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, the clerk of the Commons writes "Soit bail as Seigneurs" on it - which means "let it be sent to the House of Lords" - in Norman French...
...the bill is then tied up in green ribbon, the colour of the House of Commons, and carried by hand through Central Lobby into the House of Lords.
The first episode of Inside the Commons, an Atlantic Productions for BBC Two, is broadcast on Tuesday on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT.
Irene, a category three storm, hit with winds of 185km/h (115mph).
Officials said some areas of the remote Acklins and Crooked Islands were badly damaged, although the capital, Nassau, was largely spared.
Irene also brought flooding and power cuts as it swept over Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands over the past few days.
The Bahamian island of Mayaguana, where roughly 250 people live, about 40 homes were damaged, AP reported.
There were also reports of extensive damage on Cat Island, Long Island and Eleuthera.
Lovely Bay on Acklins Island in the southern Bahamas was badly hit, said the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema).
On its website, The Tribune newspaper said homes had "been completely washed away or have lost entire roofs, power lines have been downed and trees are blocking roads".
Crooked Island saw wind gusts of more than 160km/h, with a school's roof "completely blown off and its windows blow out", Nema reported.
Across the Bahamas, Irene toppled trees and brought some flooding.
But the storm's course shifted, sparing New Providence island, which is home to some 200,000 people.
For the last three or four major hurricanes that I can recall, we've managed to skirt the eye of the hurricane," Charlton Knowles, who runs a pizza restaurant in Nassau, told AP.
"If the only things we are having are downed trees and pickets fences, then it's just a severe storm and that's all."
Irene was heading towards the US, with its projected path well offshore of the east coast of central and northern Florida later on Thursday and early Friday, according to the NHC.
The hurricane is forecast to approach the coast of North Carolina, where US President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency, on Saturday.
Three weeks after this year's tournament in Gabon, all the technical staff, including coach Avram Grant, have still to be paid.
"We don't have the money," a leading Ghana FA (GFA) official told BBC Sport.
Video analyst Gerard Nus is refusing to fly to his home nation Spain until the matter is addressed.
I will be here as long as it takes
"It's frustrating," the Spaniard told BBC Sport.
"Like any human being, when you do work you want to get paid - I don't think there's anything strange in that. I'm just going to wait here until they come with a good solution. Local people tell me that if I leave without a payment, most likely I will never get paid.
"It's sad to hear that because basically all I'm claiming is the money I've been promised for the job done."
Citing financial difficulties, the GFA has sought assistance from the country's government to settle the matter.
"The ministry is working for government to release funds for them to be paid," the official explained.
"It's not only Nus but the entire technical team and backroom staff - all of them."
Fitness coach Jamie Lawrence, who played in the Premier League with Bradford City, says he has lost work as a result of the payment delays.
"It's very frustrating. They told us the money would be paid as soon as we got back to Ghana and they haven't fulfilled the promise," the former Jamaica international told BBC Sport.
"I was away longer than anyone else - two months - and I went at the drop of a hat with 18 hours' notice for Avram and they haven't paid the money.
"90% of the team weren't playing regularly for their clubs and I got them up to speed before the tournament.
"I've been promised that I will get the rest of the money in the next 14 days. This hasn't put me off working in African football again but I have missed out on work because of this, when I was waiting for the money in Ghana."
The Black Stars extended a Nations Cup record in Gabon this year when becoming the first team to reach six semi-finals.
However, the four-time African champions once again failed to win a first title since 1982 as they were beaten 2-0 by Cameroon in the semi-finals.
Having taken charge after a disastrous 2014 World Cup for Ghana, Grant left his post earlier this month after deciding against renewing his contract.
The Israeli has left the country - in contrast to Nus, who should be back in Madrid.
The Spaniard also works at La Liga side Rayo Vallecano, who have been working without their assistant technical director in recent weeks.
"Rayo are wondering why I am not back in Madrid and of course that's where I want to be to help the club," Nus explained.
However, he is prepared to stay put until he is paid his salary by the GFA.
"They say I will get paid and I believe them. They are nice people and I trust them but it's one day, another day, another day and another day - and the issue is not getting sorted out.
"I will be here as long as it takes."
It happened after the woman had an abortion in England.
Her father told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme it had been a "traumatic day and night".
He said he and his wife had travelled to England the day after his daughter with the cooler bag.
"We got the foetus and we put it into the cool bag and started driving at two o'clock in the morning up the motorway," he added.
"Then the phone rang that she (his daughter) had collapsed and been rushed to the hospital.
"We had to turn the car, drive for 20 miles... turn back down the motorway to go down and see how she was.
"We didn't know whether she was alive or dead. We got to the hospital and she was being looked after really well.
"I had to sit in the car with the engine running to keep the cool bag cool.
"I tried to sleep for a few hours because I knew I was going to be driving immediately and I hadn't slept for nearly 24 hours.
"At six o'clock in the morning we headed home and eventually got to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast about eight o'clock to hand that over to the doctor."
Paediatric pathologist Dr Caroline Gannon has resigned over interventions by Northern Ireland's attorney general, John Larkin, on abortion laws surrounding fatal foetal abnormality.
She said the final straw was having to advise the woman and her partner to use a picnic cooler bag to return the remains.
Mr Larkin has said the law surrounding fatal foetal abnormality is under consideration.
"The legislation can be changed if those MLAs - who vote when this does come round - can picture their own daughter," the woman's father said. "I wish this on no-one.
"Mr Larkin, I don't know if he has a daughter, I would hope he would never have to go through what my daughter and her husband went through, what my wife and I have gone through.
"It was horrendous."
The man said he "saw nothing wrong in what he did" and hoped that there would now be a change in legislation "because at least something good would have come out of the the most awful experience".
He added that he thought it was "amazing" that his daughter "was able to get on with her life and get back to her work" but acknowledged she was "still burdened by the whole thing".
"We pray every day that she will have the child that she longs for," he said.
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Growing up together they would put on plays and silly shows and make their Mum and Dad watch them.
They also loved going on family holidays to Cyprus, where they would help out on their grandparents farm.
Hayley has a younger brother called Adam. Growing up they loved going on camping holidays, walking their dog Simba, playing on their bikes and making obstacle courses.
Adam was always braver than Hayley - he would climb up a rock and Hayley would wave to him from the bottom.
But Adam's sense of adventure pushed Hayley to try out new things, like paragliding and swimming in caves. They still love camping and going on holiday together now.
Martin has a younger brother called John and an older step-brother called Matthew.
Growing up, their favourite things to do together were watching movies and play video games.
Martin says although they have the same hobbies, they all have completely different personalities. John is the smartest brother, Matthew is the sensible brother and Martin is the cheeky one.
Ayshah has an older brother called Rob. He's older by one year and nine months.
Growing up together they loved going to the park and feeding the ducks.
But their favourite thing to do together is sing to Britney Spears and Meghan Trainor's songs.
Jenny has two older sisters called Anna and Sally. They grew up in Scotland. Now, Jenny and Anna live in England and Sally lives in Canada.
Jenny and her sisters used to love playing board games and video games - but they were super competitive with each other. Sometimes, their board games would go on for days.
Jenny always wanted to be just like her bigger sisters and used to borrow their clothes all the time. She still gets in trouble now for trying to sneakily wear their outfits.
Leah has an older brother called Dean and a younger sister called Rebekah.
When they were younger, Leah loved playing football video games with Dean and playing football and riding her bike with Rebekah.
When they see each other now, they enjoy spending time together at their Mum's house, cooking dinner, playing games and catching up.
Ben Raine (6-66) had helped reduce the visitors to 167-7, still 84 runs adrift of the hosts' first-innings 251.
But Broad (52) and Pattinson (89) added 122 for the eighth wicket to help Notts to a 78-run lead.
Luke Fletcher then piled in with three wickets as the hosts slumped to 51-6 at the close.
Making his Notts debut, Pattinson hit 14 boundaries and two sixes in his 108-ball knock, and then had opener Harry Dearden caught behind by Chris Read with the ninth ball of Leicestershire's second innings.
Fletcher replaced Broad, who trapped Paul Horton lbw for two, and produced an excellent spell of line and length to dismantle Leicestershire's middle order, putting Notts on the brink of victory.
James Pattinson told BBC Radio Leicester:
"Broady and I managed to put together a good partnership and then to come out and get six wickets was a bit unexpected. I thought everybody bowled well, particularly Fletch from the Pavilion End.
"I wasn't too disappointed [not to get to three figures] - I was pretty happy with what I'd done, and then to get the wickets we did made it a pretty good day.
"At the moment I feel I've got pretty good rhythm, the sort when you run in and it almost feels as though you're not really trying."
Ben Raine told BBC Radio Leicester:
"Career-best figures are nice but it doesn't feel that good right now.
"Broad and Pattinson had a good game plan: when the ball gets old it gets easier to bat on this pitch, but fair play to them, they took it away from us.
"I felt confident we'd get through the evening session, and it's hard to explain. We'll come back tomorrow and fight."
The fall happened at the East Cliff side of West Bay, near Bridport, at about 19:40 BST.
Dorset Police initially said some people had suffered minor injuries but now said no-one is thought to have been be hurt.
No-one is believed to be trapped in the rubble, but a search is under way. A cordon is in place and the coast path is partially closed.
An infra-red helicopter search was carried out but due the warm temperature of the rocks it proved "inconclusive", a coastguard spokesman said.
Gem Gilbert, who photographed the landslip, said on Twitter: "Cute evening down the beach chilling, next thing you know part of the [cliff] had fallen down."
West Bay and Lyme Regis coastguard rescue teams, and the Lyme Regis RNLI inshore lifeboat are at the scene.
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue, and Devon and Somerset Urban Search and Rescue are also attending, the coastguard added.
Ch Insp Steve White, of Dorset Police, said: "Although at this stage it is not thought anyone has been trapped by the fall, I would appeal to the public that in the unlikely event that you are aware of someone who has not returned home from West Bay this evening, please report the details to the police urgently via 999.
"We would like to remind people that the cliffs remain unstable and it is possible further rock falls could occur.
"We urge the public to obey warning signs, not to stand near the edge of cliffs or stand directly underneath them.
"Landslides and rock falls can happen at any time and without warning."
The coast path is currently closed east of West Bay to Burton Bradstock.
A section of the cliff fell onto East Beach last month.
The last few groups will face off against each other on the live final in what is sure to be a nerve-wracking show.
Judges Gareth Malone and Kelis, alongside with guest judge Deke Sharon, will then cut the remaining six down to two final contenders.
The winner is then decided by a public vote.
So who is in the running to be crowned 'Pitch Battle Champions'? Let's have a look at the groups...
First on our list are Scot Soul who sailed into the final after impressing the guest judge, singer Chaka Khan on last week's show. The five piece from Loch Lomond sang the hit song 'Ain't Nobody' which Chaka made famous in the 1980's.
Next up, Tring Park 16 - a chamber choir from Tring Park School of Performing Arts. Tring Park 16 won over guest judge Joe Jonas, with their version of his song 'Kissing Strangers' to get through to the final. Judge Kelis said of the group, "they're young, they're vibrant, and they're extremely skilled." We will have to wait and see if they have what it takes to win.
The Portsmouth University Gospel choir bagged themselves a place in tonight's final with a heart-string-pulling cover of Seal's 'Kiss From a Rose' in front of the man himself who made the song a hit.
The group of eight from West Yorkshire saw off strong competition and snapped up a place in the finals with their version of Evergreen by Will Young. A choir member said "We don't know what to say! We are never lost for words and don't know what to say but thanks to everyone, thanks!"
From London, All the King's Men beat Sgarmes to score a place in the finals. The boys sang Bebe Rexah's 'Take Me Home' and even though the judges said it was a really hard decision they eventually picked the London nine piece.
Despite losing to All the King's Men, Sgarmes, from Wales, were chosen to come back as the wild card.
The wild card is a group that lost but the judges liked enough to bring back for the finals!
The incident happened near a flower shop at one of the main entrances to Sydney's Central station during peak-hour on Wednesday evening.
Police had been called following reports of an armed robbery, and the man was killed a short time later.
New South Wales Police said the incident was not terrorism-related.
Witnesses told local media the man had been armed with scissors when he was shot dead.
Florist Manuel Theoharas said the man had moments earlier held a bottle to his neck and demanded he call police.
"He said to me: 'Don't move, call the police'," Mr Theoharas told the BBC.
"When I ran away from him, he grabbed the scissors from here, from the shop."
Witnesses reported seeing police officers surround the shop before shots were fired.
One man, Nick Mavros, told Australian Broadcasting Corp: "I heard 'put it down, put it down'."
Police acting assistant commissioner Mark Walton said: "A critical incident investigation has commenced following the death of a man during a confrontation with police."
"A male of Asian appearance has died following that confrontation with the police.
"The homicide squad will now investigate all the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the discharge of a police firearms during the confrontation with the man."
Police appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Technical support scams try to convince people to buy expensive software to fix imaginary problems.
But Ivan Kwiatkowski played along with the scheme until he was asked to send credit card details. He instead sent an attachment containing ransomware.
He told the BBC he wanted to waste the man's time to make the scheme unprofitable.
Technical support scams are designed to scare people into buying useless and sometimes harmful software.
Scammers send out emails, create fake websites or place advertisements online, falsely warning people that their computers have been infected with viruses.
They encourage victims to contact "technical support" via a supplied telephone number or email address.
"In most cases, the scammer's objective is to convince you that your machine is infected and sell you a snake-oil security product," Mr Kwiatkowski told the BBC.
When Mr Kwiatkowski's parents stumbled across one such website, he decided to telephone the company and pretend he had been fooled.
The "assistant" on the telephone tried to bamboozle him with technical jargon and encouraged him to buy a "tech protection subscription" costing 300 euros (£260).
Mr Kwiatkowski told the assistant that he could not see his credit card details clearly and offered to send a photograph of the information.
But he instead sent a copy of Locky ransomware disguised as a compressed photograph, which the assistant said he had opened.
"He says nothing for a short while, and then... 'I tried opening your photo, nothing happens.' I do my best not to burst out laughing," Mr Kwiatkowski wrote in his blog.
"I respond to email scam attempts most of the time, but this was the first time I responded to one over the telephone," Mr Kwiatkowski told the BBC.
"I'm curious about how criminals operate and what they're trying to accomplish.
"More often than not it ends up being fun and there's social utility in wasting their time. I believe that if more people respond and waste their time, their activities might not be profitable enough to continue."
Mr Kwiatkowski said he could not be absolutely certain whether the ransomware had infected the scammer's computer, but there was a fair chance it had.
"He did not let on that something had happened to his computer, so my attempt is best represented as an unconfirmed kill," said Mr Kwiatkowski.
"But encrypting a whole file system does take some time."
He acknowledged that some people may have found his retaliation unethical, but said responses had been "mostly positive".
"People respond well to the story because this is such a David versus the Goliath setting," he said.
However, Professor Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey warned that "hacking back" could have consequences,
"There's a lot of talk around hacking back - and while it may be very tempting, I think it should be avoided to stay on the right side of the law.
"But wasting their time on the phone I have no problem with. I even do that myself!"
Ahead of new powers to raise cash in 2018, the UK government is allowing Welsh ministers to borrow £500m for the proposed relief road.
But Jenny Rathbone said the benefits of the metro project to upgrade public transport in south Wales were greater.
The Welsh Government said it will deliver both schemes.
A Labour colleague of Ms Rathbone, John Griffiths, also called for the cash to be spent on the metro, saying it had more political support in the assembly than the M4 relief road.
Recent assessments have put the cost of the M4 upgrade at £1.1bn, excluding VAT and inflation. One estimate of the overall cost of the Metro, which could see the use of trams, has been put at £2bn.
Some £764m has been allocated for the Metro as part of the 20-year Cardiff Capital Region deal and EU funding could also be used.
Ms Rathbone, who has expressed her opposition to the road scheme before, told BBC Wales: "We don't have the money to do both."
She said the metro project "needs more money to do it properly" to ensure main valleys communities are linked.
"I'm not aware of any other pot of money that we could use to generate this amount of money. It does not exist," the backbench AM added.
"We can't get EU money for the M4. We have some EU money for the metro and but not all the money that is needed."
The Cardiff Central AM said she believed pressing ahead with the metro "would resolve the congestion problems we have got on the M4", which she said arise from the "100,000 commuters that come into Cardiff and Newport every day".
The Welsh Government will be able to borrow up to £500m from 2018, but ahead of those powers coming into force the UK government has allowed for that money to be borrowed early for the M4 project.
Ms Rathbone said it should be "up to the National Assembly to decide how to use that early borrowing facility".
A spokeswoman for the Welsh Government said: "Both the M4 relief road and the metro are hugely important to our vision for a fully integrated transport system for Wales.
"This Welsh Government was elected on a mandate to deliver both of these ambitious projects and that is what we will do.
"Our spending plans for future years will reflect our priorities for this administration."
A group of scientists drafted the letter with the initial aim of building a network of 500 women.
In the six days since its publication, 8,800 researchers have signed the pledge, which rejects the "hateful rhetoric that was given a voice".
Dr Kelly Ramirez, at the Netherlands Insitute of Ecology, was an author.
Dr Ramirez and co-authors Jane Zelikova, Theresa Jedd, Teresa Bilinski and Jessica Metcalf took aim at discrimination targeting "minority groups, women, LGBTQIA, immigrants, and people with disabilities".
Their letter states: "Many of us feel personally threatened by this divisive and destructive rhetoric and have turned to each other for understanding, strength and a path forward".
Dr Ramirez explained on the Scientific American website that she and a group of colleagues hoped to start a positive conversation in response to "fear that the scientific progress and momentum in tackling our biggest challenges, including staving off the worst impacts of climate change, [would] come to an abrupt stop" in the wake of Donald Trump's election victory.
Mr Trump promised, during his campaign, to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement.
Dr Ramirez added: "We asked ourselves, how can we take action?"
Dr Franciska De Vries, from the University of Manchester, is also involved in this project, which has quietly gathered momentum via social media.
She said she hoped it would develop into a "global network" of scientists who would support each other in research and to inspire young women to embark on careers in science.
"It's empowering for people to read that letter and to see the huge amount of signatures and support," Dr De Vries told BBC News.
"To share these feelings with a network - we have a voice."
The researchers now plan to convert this outpouring of support into practical measures that promote scientific research and career progression, including mentoring programmes for women scientists.
"We see this as the start of something bigger," said Dr De Vries.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has also responded to the initiative, telling the BBC: "We commend efforts to stand up and speak out on behalf of women in science and engineering."
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Many sporting fixtures across Europe were postponed or cancelled following the attacks in Paris on Friday.
Germany's friendly with the Netherlands in Hannover on Tuesday was called off after a bomb threat.
Monaco have said they will prevent fans of Belgian side Anderlecht from attending their Europa League meeting on 26 November.
A spokesperson for European football's governing body said: "Uefa is working closely with the home clubs and local authorities to ensure all necessary measures are implemented to guarantee safety for all involved.
"We have not issued directives about travelling fans. It is up to the relevant authorities to decide on such matters."
French league games this weekend will go ahead, but away fans will not be allowed in to the stadiums for security reasons.
Belgium's friendly with Spain in Brussels, scheduled to be played on Tuesday, was called off on Monday because of security fears.
England's match against France at Wembley on Tuesday went ahead, with tributes paid to the 129 people killed in Paris on Friday.
The Premier League said matches this weekend will go ahead but it will meet with clubs later in the week to discuss security measures.
There will be no changes to fixtures in Germany's Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2, but fans have been told to leave pyrotechnics and firecrackers at home.
Bundesliga president Dr Reinhard Rauball said: "We have great confidence in the federal and state security authorities.
"On the one hand, we do not want to succumb to terror. Yet, on the other, top priority must be given to protecting human life."
In Spain, La Liga president Javier Tebas, said all matches will go ahead, including Saturday's El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona at the Bernabeu.
"We must be calm and trust in our security forces, who have extensive experience and know how to act on each occasion," he said.
Matches in the Belgian Pro League will take place as planned, with increased security measures.
In rugby union, Munster's European Champions Cup game against Stade Francais in Paris on Sunday has been postponed.
Councillor Jackie Dunbar takes over from Callum McCaig, who is now the MP for Aberdeen South.
He has already resigned as a councillor, which will spark a by-election.
Kirsty Blackman, who was voted in as MP for Aberdeen North, will decide her future on the authority in the coming days. Aberdeen City Council has a Labour-led administration.
Workers will stage five days of strikes from Monday in a dispute over jobs, pensions and branch closures.
The industrial action will affect Crown Post Offices - the larger branches usually located on High Streets.
But Dave Ward of the Communication Workers Union said it was "now or never". "[We have to do this] if we want to make a difference," he said.
"We already know that the government and the company are going to announce a further tranche of closures in January," he told the BBC's Today programme.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the walkout would start on Monday 19 December and include Christmas Eve.
But the Post Office said despite the walkout it would be "business as usual" with "at least" 97% of its 11,600 branches not involved.
A spokesperson from Royal Mail said: "If any industrial action takes place in Post Office Ltd, Royal Mail will be operating as normal. We expect there to be no or little effect on the services we provide to our customers.
"Royal Mail customers will also continue to have access to Royal Mail services including pre-paid parcel drop-off through over 1,200 customer service points at delivery offices nationwide."
In April 2016, the Post Office announced plans to transfer up to 61 branches into WH Smith stores over the following year.
It said the move was part of a 10-year plan to cut costs and save cash, and would act as a way of "safeguarding the future of the network."
"Our members want the Post Office management to pause its closure and privatisation programme, hold off on its planned pensions changes, and commit to sitting down with us and with the other key stakeholders of this Great British institution and, together, construct a lasting vision," said CWU assistant secretary Andy Furey.
The Post Office said it was "extremely disappointed" by the CWU's action.
"Just today, we agreed with the CWU that we would resume talks, which have been ongoing throughout the summer, on Wednesday," added Kevin Gilliland, the Post Office's network and sales director.
Winger Ellison opened the scoring five minutes into the second half when he volleyed home from close range after U's goalkeeper Will Norris had superbly saved Michael Duckworth's initial effort.
The home side doubled the lead five minutes later when Ellison was again in the right place at the right time to put the ball into the empty net after Norris could only parry an excellent effort from Paul Mullin into the path of the Morecambe veteran.
The Shrimps continued to press but Norris made excellent stops to deny Lee Molyneux on two occasions and Aaron Wildig, while at the other end Cambridge produced just one effort of note when Barry Corr fired wide.
Morecambe thought they had taken the lead in the ninth minute when Peter Murphy scored from a Michael Rose corner but the effort was disallowed for handball.
The home side continued to look lively going forward and Mullin went close to putting them in front when his shot from a tight angle beat Norris but came back off the foot of a post.
After a quiet start, Cambridge began to look dangerous themselves with Piero Mingoia forcing Barry Roche into a neat save with a shot from distance before Jake Carroll hit the woodwork when he did well to get on the end of Luke Berry's cross.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Morecambe 2, Cambridge United 0.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 2, Cambridge United 0.
Substitution, Morecambe. Luke Jordan replaces Kevin Ellison.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).
Barry Corr (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Piero Mingoia.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Will Norris.
Substitution, Morecambe. Antony Evans replaces Aaron Wildig.
Attempt missed. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Aaron Wildig (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Delay in match Alex Kenyon (Morecambe) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Michael Duckworth (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Morecambe. Rhys Turner replaces Paul Mullin.
Attempt missed. Mark Roberts (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Alex Whitmore.
Foul by Aaron Wildig (Morecambe).
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Attempt missed. Jake Carroll (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Will Norris.
Attempt saved. Aaron Wildig (Morecambe) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Attempt blocked. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Barry Corr replaces Uche Ikpeazu.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Conor Newton.
Goal! Morecambe 2, Cambridge United 0. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Will Norris.
Attempt saved. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Morecambe 1, Cambridge United 0. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Wildig (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United).
Attempt saved. Paul Mullin (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
The blockade has also prevented the delivery of earthquake relief supplies.
Ethnic groups from the southern plains, reportedly backed by some Indians, have been stopping supply trucks entering Nepal since September.
They are protesting against a new constitution which they say discriminates against them.
Nepal produces around 40% of its medicines internally and imports 60% from India.
Because of the blockade, Nepal is neither receiving enough new medicine from Indian nor able to produce its own supplies as raw materials have also been prevented from entering the country.
The Himalayan nation is already grappling with the aftermath of two earthquakes earlier this year that killed almost 9,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
"Hospitals have run out of essential drugs and supplies, vital social services have been disrupted and aid agencies such as Oxfam have not been able to secure fuel to deliver relief items to prepare people for the winter in earthquake-affected districts," said Cecilia Keizer, head of Oxfam in Nepal.
The acting director general of Nepal's Department of Drug Administration, Narayan Dhakal, says he has been asked by the WHO to assess how much medicine is left in the country.
The Manmohan Thoracic Centre in Kathmandu has said it no longer has stocks of a number of essential medicines including adrenaline, atropine and saline.
Another heart hospital in Kathmandu, Shahid Gangalal Heart Centre, has postponed bypass surgeries because it had run out of the special thread needed to sew up the heart.
As well as causing a medicine shortage, the blockade has meant towns and cities across Nepal have run low on fuel, food and general supplies. More than three quarters of Nepal's international trade is with India, and it relies almost wholly on its southern neighbour for fuel.
Protesters in the country's southern plains are angry with the country's new constitution which they say discriminates against them because it fails to give them equal representation with Nepal's other ethnic and regional groups.
The Nepalese government has accused India of unofficially backing this protest by slowing or stopping completely traffic from crossing the border into Nepal.
The Indian government has denied this, but has said it cannot allow trucks to enter Nepal while conditions are unsafe.
It has also criticised the new constitution and urged Nepal's leaders to engage in dialogue with the protesters.
Chinese military personnel were put on "high alert" during the incident on 10 December, and issued warnings to leave.
The Pentagon said it was looking into the complaint.
China claims large swathes of the South China Sea but is in territorial dispute with a host of regional neighbours.
In October, China rebuked the US after a destroyer sailed close to a reef.
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On Saturday, a statement from China's defence ministry accused the US of deliberately raising tensions in the area with the B-52 over-flight of the disputed Spratly Islands, which it calls Nansha.
A report in the Wall St Journal said there were two B-52s on the mission and that one unintentionally flew within two nautical miles of Cuarteron Reef on the Spratly Islands, possibly due to bad weather.
China said the flights "constitute a serious military provocation and are rendering more complex and even militarising conditions in the South China Sea".
It urged the US to take measures to prevent similar incidents.
The US has not taken sides on sovereignty issues in the area but has a "freedom of navigation" policy asserting right of passage for its military.
However, Pentagon spokesman Cmdr Bill Urban said the B-52 over-flight was not part of this policy, which analysts say might suggest a navigation error.
B-52s flew close to the Spratly Islands in November. The US said this mission was "fully in accordance with international law".
The South China Sea region continues to cause tension in US-China relations.
The US guided missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef in late October, which the Chinese branded "extremely irresponsible."
Subi is one of the reefs China has built into artificial islands to help stake its claim to sovereignty.
However, the UN does not recognise such artificial islands as being part of the 12-nautical mile sea limit nations can claim for sovereign territory.
The recent decision by the US to approve a new arms package to Taiwan has also angered China.
Administrators PwC said a firm run by Alteri Investors bought Brantano shops in Inverurie, Inverness, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, Elgin and Linwood.
A total of 68 Brantano staff are transferring to Alteri.
However, nearly 130 posts in Scotland remain under threat as 13 Scottish stores were not included in the deal.
Brantano went into administration in January, about four months after the chain was bought by an investment firm.
Trading continued while a buyer was sought.
PwC announced on Monday that the majority of the UK-wide business had been sold to Alteri, preserving 1,372 jobs and 140 stores and concessions.
However, 58 stores and concessions were not included in the Alteri acquisition, including 13 stores in Scotland.
They include: Coatbridge (11 staff), Aberdeen (8), Clydebank (11), Ayr (10), Wishaw (11), Dumfries (7), Irvine (12), Glasgow - Partick (8), Glenrothes (7), Edinburgh - Straiton (11), Lanark (12), Linlithgow (10) and Kilmarnock (11).
Lead administrator Tony Barrell said: "We continue to trade the remaining Brantano business whilst discussions with interested parties continue.
"Unfortunately, in the event further sales are not possible, redundancies will become inevitable.
"We are working closely with Brantano employees and offering every support possible through this difficult period."
The Sun on Sunday published a video allegedly showing Vardy abusing a Japanese man on Sunday, 26 July.
After investigating, Leicester opted against sacking Vardy, 28, after taking into account his "prompt apology".
"Jamie has been reminded of his responsibilities," said the club.
The Foxes added Vardy's fine would be donated to local charities.
As he apologised "wholeheartedly" on Sunday, Vardy said he made "a regrettable error in judgement" and accepted his "behaviour was not up to what's expected of me".
Two months ago, Leicester sacked three players after they took part in a racist sex tape filmed on the club's end-of-season tour of Thailand.
Tom Hopper, Adam Smith and James Pearson - the son of former Foxes manager Nigel - had their contracts terminated after an investigation by the club.
Claudio Ranieri, who succeeded Pearson Sr as Leicester boss, said: "Jamie has apologised and for me it is OK.
Referencing the club's Japanese striker Shinji Okazaki, Ranieri added: "There's a good relationship between Jamie and Shinji. We go only forward."
Former Fleetwood forward Vardy scored the first goal in Leicester's 4-2 win against Sunderland on Saturday, the opening day of the Premier League season.
He has netted 26 goals in 98 league games for the Foxes and made his debut for England in June.
The money was divided between thousands of victims, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse was told.
The data, released on Thursday, showed the average payment was A$91,000.
The landmark royal commission was set up in 2013 and is also investigating abuse at non-religious organisations.
The Catholic Church made the payments in response to 3,066 of 4,445 child sexual abuse claims between 1980 and 2015, the inquiry heard. More than 40% of claims were received by a handful of male orders.
They included compensation, treatment, legal and other costs, said Gail Furness, the lead lawyer assisting the commission in Sydney.
"The royal commission's experience is that many survivors face barriers which deter them from reporting abuse to authorities and to the institution in which the abuse occurred," Ms Furness said.
"Accordingly, the total number of incidences of child sexual abuse in Catholic Church institutions in Australia is likely to be greater than the claims made."
The average delay between an alleged abuse and it being reported was 33 years, she said.
Earlier this month, the commission heard 7% of the nation's Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010.
Reflecting on the findings, abuse survivor Andrew Collins told the BBC it had been "drummed into his head" by the four men who abused him between the ages of seven and 14 - two teachers, a priest and a Catholic Brother - that he was the one who had "done wrong".
"I did try to tell my mum once and she said it was absolute rubbish and a man of God would never do such a thing," he said.
The commission has previously heard harrowing testimony from scores of people who suffered abuse at the hands of clergy.
One victim said he was sexually abused by his Catholic Christian Brother teacher in his classroom, with other students ordered to look away.
In another case, the inquiry heard allegations that a priest threatened a girl with a knife and made children kneel between his legs.
Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, said last year the church had made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counselling of priests to solve the problem.
A royal commission is Australia's most powerful type of inquiry that is able to compel people to testify and recommend legislative changes and criminal charges.
It is also investigating other religious institutions and government and sporting organisations, among others.
Wiggins, 32, was again asked questions about doping as he retained his overall lead of the Tour after the first day in the Alps.
The Team Sky rider said: "There's one reason why I'm in this position and that's because I've worked hard.
"I deserve every minute of what I've been through this last week or so. I shouldn't have to justify it."
Wiggins is the first Briton to wear the yellow jersey for four days in one Tour, beating the previous best of three days set by Chris Boardman in 1994 and David Millar in 2000.
He has won the Paris-Nice, Criterium du Dauphine and Tour de Romandie stage races to establish himself as a favourite for the Tour de France.
Wiggins holds a near two-minute lead over 2011 winner Cadel Evans, but has become increasingly frustrated at having to respond to questions over doping.
Wiggins reacted angrily on Sunday when asked for his response to critics who say riders must take drugs to win and he was asked again after Wednesday's stage.
"I don't expect Team Sky's strategy to change when the race goes into the Alps this week. The time Wiggins has got on his rivals means he can concentrate on conserving that lead, especially with another time trial to come in the penultimate stage of the race on 21 July."
Tour a triumph for British cycling
French rider Remy di Gregorio was suspended on Tuesday for allegedly using banned substances, while seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong is currently fighting his own court case against doping allegations.
"It's not like I've just come from nowhere," Wiggins said.
"I've been three times Olympic champion on the track; people have to realise what kind of engine you need to win an Olympic gold medal as an individual pursuiter.
"I've been six times world champion, fourth in the Tour de France, third in the Vuelta last year.
"I'm tested by the UCI (International Cycling Union) God knows how many times a year, God knows how many times on this race and the Dauphine.
"What more can I do? Other than that? I don't know."
Helped by his Team Sky colleagues, Wiggins made light work of the 17.4km climb to the 1,501m-high summit of Col du Grand Colombier on Wednesday, which was expected to shake up the top of the General Classification.
One of Wiggins' rivals for the overall win, Vincenzo Nibali, was allowed to make a breakaway by Team Sky but was eventually caught and remains in fourth in the general classification.
The Italian was unhappy with a gesture from Wiggins as the duo crossed the line together.
Nibali said: "At the moment they (Team Sky) are really, really good.
"After the finish line, Wiggins made a gesture with his hand. He should not lack respect for his rivals.
"In cycling, riders have always shown a great respect towards each other. We are not footballers."
Jony Ive appeared to attack the Moto Maker scheme in an interview in which he criticised the idea of giving consumers huge choice over how their handsets were made to appear.
Rick Osterloh, president of Motorola, told the BBC his company had a "different philosophy".
And he criticised Apple in turn, calling its prices "outrageous".
Sir Jonathan specifically asked the New Yorker magazine not to name the company he had been "scathing about", but a campaign launched by Motorola in late 2013 matches the description he gave.
"Their value proposition was, 'Make it whatever you want. You can choose whatever colour you want,'" Sir Jonathan is quoted as saying.
"And I believe that's abdicating your responsibility as a designer."
Motorola promotes Moto Maker as offering shoppers "thousands of ways" to customise its Android-powered Moto X handsets. Choices include the colour of the model's back, the type of metal trim used and the option to include a variety of leathers in its design.
Mr Osterloh of the scheme: "Our belief is that the end user should be directly involved in the process of designing products.
"We're making the entire product line accessible.
"And frankly, we're taking a directly opposite approach to them [Apple]."
He added that he believed this difference in strategy went wider than design.
"We do see a real dichotomy in this marketplace, where you've got people like Apple making so much money and charging such outrageous prices. We think that's not the future," he said.
"We believe the future is in offering similar experiences and great consumer choice at accessible prices.
"The mobile phone industry's greatest failure is also its greatest opportunity: to make really good, affordable devices for people who don't want to spend a lot of money.
"A great smartphone, and a great mobile internet experience, shouldn't be an expensive luxury. It should be a simple choice for everyone."
Motorola launched Moto Maker while owned by Google, but it has since become a division of China's Lenovo.
Sir Jonathan - who was knighted in 2012 for his services to design - was also critical of another brand, in the New Yorker article, suggesting Toyota's Echo model was "shocking".
"It is baffling, isn't it? It's just nothing, isn't it? It's just insipid," he said of the vehicle, which is also sold as the Yaris.
A spokeswoman for Toyota declined to comment.
Sir Jonathan did, however, praise Bentley's vehicles, saying he "loved" their designs.
According to reports by the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working on a car as a possible follow-up to its forthcoming smartwatch.
Alexis Sanchez put the Gunners ahead when he got in front of defender Lamine Kone to head in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's cross.
The dominant visitors had a strong penalty appeal turned down after Sanchez looked to have been brought down before Jermain Defoe equalised from the spot after keeper Petr Cech had fouled Duncan Watmore.
However, Arsenal reasserted their authority and lead with three goals in six minutes and 20 seconds.
Olivier Giroud came off the bench to guide in a shot and then headed in a Mesut Ozil corner, while Sanchez's close range effort was the signal for the home fans to start streaming out of the Stadium of Light.
The win moved Arsenal top of the Premier League - but Manchester City's victory over West Brom later in the day knocked them off the summit.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger wanted a win in the early Saturday game to put pressure on his side's rivals and his players duly delivered.
The Gunners were missing the in-form Theo Walcott, but Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored twice in the midweek EFL Cup win over Reading, competently filled the void.
He provided the cross for Sanchez, starting up front instead of Giroud, to head in the opener and the England midfielder has now been involved in seven goals in his past eight games in all competitions, with four goals and three assists.
Ozil had a chip saved when clean through and the Gunners were punished for failing to turn their dominance into further goals when Defoe equalised.
However, Arsenal regrouped and recovered with a late burst of goals and are unbeaten in 14 matches.
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Arsenal were still smarting from referee Martin Atkinson not awarding them a penalty for Kone appearing to pull back Sanchez when Defoe gave Sunderland hope.
Wenger sent on Giroud, who was playing his first league game since 24 September following a toe injury, and he scored with his first two touches of the game.
"I have been lucky today, I had great assists from my team-mates," said France striker Giroud, who has scored seven goals in his last seven appearances against Sunderland in all competitions.
"It is a big time for me coming back from a tough injury and I'm very happy to be back on the pitch."
The latest defeat for Sunderland means they have made the worst ever start to a Premier League season, with just two points from 10 games.
Their fans might have feared the worst going into a game - and any concerns did not take long to be realised as centre-back Kone was caught on his heels for the opener, the sixth headed goal the Black Cats have conceded in the league this season.
That tally went to seven following Giroud's goal later on and the defending of Sunderland, who were using a seventh different back four combination under Moyes this season, left plenty to be desired.
Even when Defoe scored with the hosts' first shot on target, they failed to show the security in defence to build on that lifeline.
They had plenty of support with 44,322 at the Stadium of Light, but their capitulation left swathes of empty seats at the final whistle.
Match of the Day pundit Danny Murphy said: "Sunderland got so deep, I couldn't believe what was going on.
"It was as if it didn't matter. This is a team that are supposed to be battling to stay in this league even this early in the season, but if they continue to play this deep, with this much fear, then they have got no chance."
Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer said: "Arsenal are a better team with Alexis Sanchez as a centre forward. He was superb, he ran the Sunderland defence ragged. They did not have a clue how to deal with him."
Sunderland manager David Moyes: "Once we get one or two of the injured players back, that will give us some more options and that will give us a better chance.
"The message is the players are giving everything they can. It was not through the lack of effort, or the lack of trying - they played a team with a lot of quality.
"We are not in a good position and need to play better. The players are doing their best, but you will only ever be judged by your results."
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger: "It was a mental test when we were at 1-1. We missed so many chances, so many opportunities, and I was worried we could lose - but we have shown great strength to bounce back.
"In the Premier League at 1-1 you can lose the game but it was about how we responded. Do we panic, give up, feel sorry for ourselves? We responded well and in the end it was a comfortable win.
"It was an important result for us. We had six wins, then one draw at home, which was disappointing, and a second draw or defeat would have been like we had dropped our level."
On his introduction of Giroud, who then scored twice in the next seven minutes, Wenger added: "The manager has an easy credit when he has quality players on the bench and you don't need to be a special manager to make this decision. It was 1-1 and we had Giroud on the bench."
Arsenal travel to Bulgaria to play Ludogorets Razgrad in a Champions League group game on Tuesday at 19:45 GMT before hosting north London rivals Tottenham in the Premier League on 6 November (12:00 kick-off).
Sunderland are at Bournemouth in the Premier League at 15:00 on 5 November.
Match ends, Sunderland 1, Arsenal 4.
Second Half ends, Sunderland 1, Arsenal 4.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal).
Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Jack Rodwell.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Jack Rodwell.
Substitution, Arsenal. Ainsley Maitland-Niles replaces Francis Coquelin.
Offside, Sunderland. Patrick van Aanholt tries a through ball, but Jermain Defoe is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) because of an injury.
Substitution, Sunderland. Lynden Gooch replaces Duncan Watmore.
Foul by Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal).
Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal).
Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Sunderland 1, Arsenal 4. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Substitution, Arsenal. Aaron Ramsey replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Goal! Sunderland 1, Arsenal 3. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Jack Rodwell.
Attempt blocked. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland).
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Papy Djilobodji.
Attempt missed. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Gibbs.
Offside, Sunderland. Jermain Defoe tries a through ball, but Patrick van Aanholt is caught offside.
Goal! Sunderland 1, Arsenal 2. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kieran Gibbs with a cross.
Substitution, Sunderland. Adnan Januzaj replaces Steven Pienaar.
Attempt missed. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mohamed Elneny with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Alex Iwobi.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Papy Djilobodji.
Offside, Sunderland. Jack Rodwell tries a through ball, but Jermain Defoe is caught offside.
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Sunderland 1, Arsenal 1. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Petr Cech (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Petr Cech (Arsenal) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Sunderland. Duncan Watmore draws a foul in the penalty area.
A medical examiner in Texas said Ms Davis had died on Sunday morning.
US media reports said she had fallen in her home. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
The Brady Bunch ran from 1969 to 1974. Ms Davis won two Emmy Awards for an earlier role in the sitcom The Bob Cummings Show.
A friend of Ms Davis, Bishop William Frey, told CNN she had fallen and hit her head, and suffered a subdural hematoma from which she never regained consciousness.
The Brady Bunch was unusual at the time in focusing on a non-traditional family but was never controversial.
It charted the marriage of a widow bringing up three daughters with a widower and his three sons.
Ms Davis once wrote of the show: "Wouldn't we all love to have belonged to a perfect family, with brothers and sisters to lean on and where every problem is solved in 23 and a half minutes?"
Her role as Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz on The Bob Cummings Show ran from 1955 to 1959.
It earned her a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 1960, in addition to her two Emmys.
Entered by thousands from around the UK, an image of a small stream created by heavy rain among the vast Glencoe mountains took the overall winning title.
A Beginning and an End captures a "fleeting moment of beauty" in the Scottish Highlands by photographer Mark Littlejohn from Penrith, Cumbria.
Mr Littlejohn said he got up at 01:30 GMT to drive to Glencoe but the rain had been torrential at dawn.
As he wandered about waiting for gaps in the weather, he saw the stream from high up on Gearr Aonach.
He said: "It tumbled steeply down the slopes before vanishing again near the base of the mountain.
"With more squalls coming through I decided to take this image as the light became slightly more diffuse. It had to be a quick handheld shot due to the sideways rain."
Founder of the awards Charlie Waite, said Mr Littlejohn's image discovered and isolated a "fleeting moment of beauty" within a vast and "slightly threatening" arena.
Other winning shots ranged from a close-up of a lichen-covered rowan tree to cityscapes dominated by striking buildings.
The Young Photographer of the Year category was won by Sam Rielly, 17, from London, for his black and white image of his mother walking through the landscape of Anglesey.
He said: "This image was taken on a particularly wet and windy day on Parys Mountain, the site of a former copper mine.
"The subject of the image is my mother, who was unaware that I was taking the picture."
The awards, held in association with VisitBritain, included a category for an image that would encourage people to visit Britain.
John Robinson, from Peterlee, County Durham, won this category for his shot of sunset over the heather-strewn Yorkshire Moors.
The winning entries will be on display at Waterloo station in London from 1 December.
The National Union of Teachers says some academy trusts are advertising for pupils to join "grammar streams" within comprehensives using an ability test.
The NUT has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening threatening a judicial review.
The Department for Education says streaming by ability is allowed.
Multi-academy trusts are already able to stream by ability across their groups of schools and teach pupils at a separate site, says an education department spokeswoman.
And the education department says it is ready to investigate any breaches of the admissions code at these so far unidentified schools.
However the teachers' union says it has identified practices which are more than putting pupils in ability streams.
And the union says that any expansion of selection by ability remains unlawful, as laid down in the legislation introduced in 1998 which blocked the opening of new grammar schools.
Ms Greening has set out plans for a new generation of grammar schools, which would require legislation to overturn the ban on increasing selection.
But the Green Paper on grammars also raised the idea of academy trusts establishing a single centre for their most able pupils.
According to the NUT, a handful of academy trusts are already running grammar streams within schools which are otherwise comprehensive.
It argues this is an expansion of grammar school places by the back door.
It has sent solicitors' letters to the schools in question asking them to explain the practice.
Kevin Courtney, NUT general secretary, refused to name the schools, but said he was talking about something way beyond setting and streaming by ability, where children can go up and down between classes.
"There are schools that are advertising publicly that they are running a 'grammar stream' and running entry tests for it."
This, the NUT argues, is in breach of the admissions code.
"We are aware that the government is trying other routes other than primary legislation to increase the number grammar schools," said Mr Courtney.
"They're examining the possibility that one of your schools could be selective within a multi-academy trust, and saying this is just like streaming."
He added that the government had no manifesto mandate for grammar schools and that it was likely that any legislation would have a difficult passage through Parliament.
And he suggested ministers may be seeking a non-Parliamentary route for the expansion.
"We think that's illegal and we are investigating ways of challenging that."
Legal action could take the form of a judicial review of a school's decision to adopt and recruit for such a selective stream.
Or it may be a judicial review of any forthcoming guidance from the secretary of state to academy trusts allowing them to open separate grammar schools or streams within their group of schools.
Mr Courtney's letter to the education secretary says: "The existence of a separate establishment within the trust, for which pupils would be selected following admission to a school within the trust, would create a situation in which schools were seeking to frustrate the purpose of the law, which clearly sets out to prevent such selection."
The Department for Education says that multi-academy trusts can already stream by ability across their schools, with these ability groups being taught at different sites - and the consultation on grammars will not affect this.
A department spokeswoman said: "Streaming pupils by ability is, and has always been, allowed at all schools, and helps teachers give every child an appropriately stretching education.
"Multi-academy trusts have always been able to pool their resources to deliver these benefits on a larger scale and across different sites within the trust, and we want to see more do this."
A transcript of court proceedings from a copyright lawsuit against Google allegedly contains reference to a deal between the Silicon Valley firms.
The alleged agreement involves Google paying Apple a percentage of revenue - as much as 34% - gained through iOS devices.
Both companies declined to comment.
The BBC has not been able to verify the claims independently.
Bloomberg added that the referenced document has since been removed from the web.
"The transcript vanished without a trace from electronic court records at about 15:00," the report noted.
The court proceedings in question regard a lawsuit by Oracle Corp. in which the firm claims that Google used its Java software to develop Android but failed to pay for it.
Analyst firms, such as Morgan Stanley, have quoted the $1bn figure in the past, but this appears to be the first time that a reference has been found in court documents.
"It's a very lucrative business to be the browser of choice on a device or the search engine on a device," Chris Green, a technology analyst at consultancy firm Lewis, told the BBC.
"It really does, I think, highlight the importance that's being put on being able to own real estate and the conduits through which people access information."
However, Mr Green also noted that it was generally quite common for companies to pay hardware vendors fees for the placement of software and services on devices and that sometimes that may indeed be a percentage of revenue gained as a result.
Other details about how Google manages its services emerged this week - including the fact that the firm removed 780 million "bad" advertisements from its sites last year.
By bad, Google said it was referring to ads which linked to malware, promoted fake goods or covered up website content.
In a blog post, the company said it had more than 1,000 people within its organisation responsible for weeding out these ads and that the number that had to be removed was increasing.
Some figures published by Google on advertisements include:
It happened on the Gortagammon Road at Tullyhogue, near Cookstown on Saturday between midnight and 01:00 BST.
A pedestrian and a vehicle were involved.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to contact them.
In a statement, the BNP accused him of trying to "destabilise" the party and "harassing" party members.
In a tweet, Mr Griffin took issue with the decision, accusing the party leadership of "plastic gangster games".
Mr Griffin stepped down as party leader in July after 15 years at the top. The party saw its vote collapse in May's elections, in which Mr Griffin lost his seat in the European Parliament.
The BNP said the decision to expel Mr Griffin had been taken by its conduct committee following an investigation after he stepped down as leader.
It accused him of seeking to "destabilise" the party and "embroil it in factionalism".
Specifically, it claimed Mr Griffin prepared and leaked "damaging and defamatory" allegations about senior members of the party and its finances.
It also accused him of "harassing members of BNP staff and in at least one case making physical threats" as well as publishing e-mails giving a false account of his own financial affairs after he was declared bankrupt in January.
It also suggested that he had ignored warnings from Adam Walker, the party's chairman, that he was bringing the BNP into disrepute.
"Although we all appreciate that Nick has achieved a lot for our party in the past, we must also remember that the party is bigger than any individual," Clive Jefferson, a member of the conduct committee, said in a statement.
"Nick did not adjust well to being given the honorary title of president and it soon became obvious that he was unable to work as an equal member of the team and alarmingly his behaviour became more erratic and disruptive."
Analysis: Iain Watson, BBC political correspondent
Why the fuss over the internal machinations of a party which has no MPs, no MEPs - and which polls suggest commands the support of about one per cent of voters?
Well, for many people Nick Griffin was the BNP, and his personal - and his party's - fortunes appeared intertwined. But 2014 hasn't been a good year for him.
He lost his seat in the European Parliament, was declared bankrupt, replaced as party leader and has now been expelled from the party.
He says he will not '"resort to the BBC gutter" to air his grievances - the members will sort it all out, he says. But a political comeback looks like a very tall order.
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In response, Mr Griffin said he had been "expelled without a trial".
He accused the party of "operating outside the constitution", adding that he would "ignore their plastic gangster games".
Mr Griffin has been the public face of the BNP for more than a decade, during which time the party increased its popular support despite being dogged by allegations of racism, which it has always rejected.
But the BNP's fortunes have slumped in recent years amid internal divisions and questions over the party's future direction.
While it won more than 6% of the vote in the 2009 European elections, when Mr Griffin and one other colleague were elected, it garnered just over 1% of the vote in May.
The party has also lost the majority of its council representatives.
Mr Griffin told political correspondent Ross Hawkins that he would not speak to the BBC about the dispute but insisted he would "sort it out" with party members.
The party's divisions, he added, were linked to its slump in electoral support since 2009 but observers also claimed that there had been arguments over the party's financial affairs.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said job gains came in retail trade, health care, professional and technical services, and financial activities.
The jobs figures are a seen as a significant gauge of the health of the economy.
Analysts said the figures meant a US interest rate rise in September remained a possibility.
Last month, the Federal Reserve upgraded its assessment of the labour market, saying it was continuing to "improve, with solid job gains and declining unemployment".
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said: "With the Fed's decision on the timing of the first rate rise 'data dependent', today's report does nothing to discourage the belief that a September hike is very much on the table, albeit by no means a done deal."
He said that the new hiring figures "just missed" expectations of a 225,000 rise.
"Private sector payrolls grew by a solid 210,000, just shy of an expected 215,000 rise, led by service sector hiring alongside gains in the manufacturing and construction sectors," he added.
The Bureau of Labour Statistics said that "over the year, the unemployment rate and number of unemployed people were down by 0.9 percentage point and 1.4 million".
Payroll figures from May and June were revised upwards to show 14,000 more jobs created than previously reported. Also, the average working week lengthened to 34.6 hours, the highest since February.
Average hourly earnings increased by five cents, or 0.2%, after being flat in June.
The statistics office also said that the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 2.2 million.
These account for 26.9% of the unemployed.
The civilian labour force participation rate was unchanged at 62.6% in July.
Yet this Renaissance scholar of politics, philosophy, mathematics and economics is better remembered on the other side of the Atlantic.
Now the Richard Price Society are hoping to reawaken a pride in the achievements of one of the Garw Valley's most influential - if not famous - sons.
They have launched an exhibition of some of his most seminary works and pictures and according to Swansea University's Professor of History Chris Williams it is a tribute which is well deserved.
"If Richard Price had been born a hundred years later then quite possibly we'd be hailing him as the father of the modern world."
"Though unfortunately he was ahead of his time. His ideas - such as one-person-one-vote and that the government only exists to serve the people - may seem obvious today, but in the 1750s and 1760s, he was the first person to seriously suggest them."
His upbringing was already radical, as he was born the son of a Unitarian preacher who flew in the face of established theological doctrine by believing that God was one entity, rather than the Holy Trinity.
Though for the first half of his life Price was comparatively low-profile and anonymous; working as a minister in the still-technically illegal Unitarian church of Newington Green.
However by the late 1760s his dissertations on economics had won him friends in high society, including Lord Shelburne and William Pitt The Younger.
According to Martyn Hooper, chairman of the Richard Price Society, his theories still provide the backbone to a great deal of today's financial orthodoxy.
"Does the need to reduce the national debt sound familiar? Well it was Richard Price who first warned of the dangers of over-indebting the economy in his 1772 pamphlet, 'Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt'," he said.
"He also developed a theory of statistical calculation which revealed a serious flaw in the way in which pensions and insurance of the time was calculated and prevented a major financial disaster."
Yet Prof Williams says that no sooner had Price's economic genius taken him to the very heart of London society than his hard line liberal views set him at odds with the establishment once again.
"Price was faithful to his beliefs in egalitarianism, regardless of if that put him at odds with his country," he said.
"His belief in the right of people to govern themselves influenced America's founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
"His work directly contributed to George Washington's assertion that George III's reign over the 13 colonies of America was 'tyrannical, and thus illegitimate'.
"In fact upon the Declaration of Independence Price was made an honorary US citizen and invited to take charge of the new nation's economic policy."
Price died in 1791 in the midst of a controversy surrounding his support for another popular revolution - this time in France.
While he was honoured by both the American Founding Fathers and Napoleon, in Britain he was largely written off as a dissident trouble-maker.
His exhibition in Llangeinor Community Centre officially opened on Saturday - on the 222nd anniversary of his death - by Mayor of Bridgend, Councillor Marlene Thomas.
Its data showed the quietest station, Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire, had just 22 entries and exits across the whole of last year.
London Waterloo was the busiest station, with more than 99.2 million entries and exits in the last year.
Campaigners and industry groups said the report highlighted the impact of station facilities on footfall.
The 'top of the stops' report released by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) recorded the estimated number of 'entries and exits' - based on the total number of people travelling from or to the station.
The total number of estimated entries and exits at Britain's stations in 2014-15 reached nearly 2.8 billion, an increase of more than 119 million, or 4.5%.
Below are the top 10 busiest stations in the UK for 2014-15, with 2013-14 figures in brackets (based on the total number of passenger exits and entries):
Almost all of the top-10 busiest rail stations were in London, except Birmingham New Street station which was said to have 35.3 million passenger entries and exits at the station last year.
In contrast, Britain's quietest station in Shippea Hill sees one train each weekday to Norwich, while on Saturday there is one train to Norwich and one to Cambridge.
Below are the top 10 quietest stations in the UK from 2014-15, with 2013-14 figures in brackets (based on the total number of passenger exits and entries).
The ORR report also highlighted reductions in estimated entries and exits at certain stations, such as the 12% drop of 6.9 million at London Bridge station, which it said was partly due to engineering works.
Charing Cross trains and cross-London Thameslink services have not stopped at London Bridge since January as part of works to redevelop the station.
The news comes as track operators Network Rail agreed to create a £4.1m fund to benefit passengers after alleged poor planning of upgrades at the station caused delays and overcrowding.
Campaigners and industry figures said the standard of facilities across the rail network had positive and negative effects on station usage.
Martin Abrams of the Campaign for Better Transport group, which supports sustainable transport, said problems at stations like London Bridge were reflected in the "drop in passenger numbers".
He said it was "vital" the government tackled pressure on the network from the overall increase in passengers with "smart ticketing, flexible season tickets for part-time workers and improved rolling stock".
Mr Abrams added that despite the fact some rural stations were the quietest, "there are plenty of examples where targeted investment in smaller stations has boosted passenger numbers considerably".
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "These figures are further proof that Britain's railways are booming, which is why we are investing record amounts in building a world-class railway that can meet this increased customer demand."
They said the investment was part of a wider plan to make journeys "better for everyone" by improving stations and facilities, tickets and pricing, and journey times.
A spokesman for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said it was "no surprise" that improvements made to stations like Birmingham New Street and Stratford also coincided with "huge increases in people wanting to use them".
He added: "Growth at even the smallest stations is proof that when the rail industry works together to improve facilities, passengers vote with their feet."
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David McNally's Twitter account said he had left following his club's defeat against Manchester United. The tweet was later deleted and the club did not comment.
Norwich City Football Club confirmed on Monday that McNally had resigned.
"Everyone at Carrow Road wishes him all the very best for the future," it said.
McNally resignation: 'Norwich City top brass under increasing scrutiny'
The statement on the club's website said: "The board of directors had unanimously agreed to accept McNally's resignation and would like to place on record their sincere gratitude for David's game-changing contribution to the football club since he joined in the summer of 2009.
"David played a leading role as the club erased crippling debts and rose from the lower reaches of League One to the Barclays Premier League.
"Director of finance Steve Stone has been appointed interim chief executive and the board and everybody at the club is totally focused on supporting Alex and the players, as we head in to Wednesday night's vital Premier League game against Watford at Carrow Road."
On Saturday, McNally replied to a fan on Twitter who called on him to leave the club after the defeat by Manchester United.
The fan blamed a lack of investment for the Canaries current plight - facing relegation from the lucrative Premier League.
In a tweet, he said: "I understand your view. I've resigned tonight and I hope the club can now progress."
David McNally's departure is a hugely significant moment for Norwich City. This was the man who ran the club on a day-to-day basis and had the final say on most things, from player transfers to what was on sale in the club shop.
He arrived in 2009 with the club at its lowest point in 50 years following relegation to League One.
He oversaw successive promotions, four of the past five seasons in the Premier League and the club clearing all external debt - all of which will count in his favour in the eyes of Norwich City supporters.
But with the prospect of a second relegation from the top flight in three seasons looming, the club's top brass was coming under increasing scrutiny.
Then, hours later, Mr McNally seemingly retracted his resignation, insisting he remains fully committed to the club.
The tweet said: "I take back what was said earlier. I remain fully committed to NCFC and to Delia and Michael and I've not resigned. My apologies."
Both tweets were then deleted.
The Canaries' current predicament sees the club four points from safety with two games to play. On Wednesday, they face Watford at home and then Everton away on the last day of the season.
Both Newcastle United and Norwich City will be relegated to the Championship if Sunderland win on Wednesday.
A strong ally of co-owner Delia Smith, Mr McNally arrived at Carrow Road in 2009 from Fulham having previously spent four years as sales and marketing director at Celtic.
Norwich City fans on Twitter have praised McNally and thanked him for his work at the club, while others have questioned the timing of his departure.
MrTomParsley said: "The loss of @davidmcnally62 just made the inevitable relegation a lot more worrying, he deserves only respect & thanks from all #ncfc fans."
Dan Brigham of the Little Yellow Bird Project, which produces podcasts on Norwich City, told BBC Radio Norfolk: "I interviewed him earlier this year and he said he wanted to leave a legacy, leave Norwich City with a 35,000-capacity stadium, and a first class training facility.
"He will see this [Norwich City facing relegation] as a real failure, as not part of the plan.
"We're not relegated yet, so the timing is weird."
China's Liang led for most of the match, winning the seventh frame on a respotted black to go 5-2 ahead.
Trump hit back, and with the score at 7-6, both players looked nervy and missed shots, but it was the Chinese player who clinched a crucial frame.
Despite missing more chances, Liang held his composure to beat the Englishman and take the £70,000 prize.
Trump had been in good form leading up to Sunday's match, after beating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final of the European Masters last week.
But Liang became just the fourth player from Asia to win a ranking event, after Ding Junhui of China, Hong Kong's Marco Fu and Thailand's James Wattana.
The 29-year-old world number 20 said he had met former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in his hotel before the final, who told him to "concentrate".
However, Liang thanked his "best friend" - five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan - for advising him to learn from last year's UK Championship final, when Liang lost to Australian Neil Robertson.
"I practise with [O'Sullivan] and eat with him every day," said Liang. "I have learned a lot from him over the past two years.
"I knew I needed to be more calm and controlled this time. In the last two frames I concentrated on every shot and made two good breaks.
"Snooker is a very difficult game but if you don't enjoy it you don't play well."
World number three Trump said: "Liang was playing with freedom and his long potting was unbelievable. It's good to have another winner from China."
The demonstrators want Mr Najib to face charges over allegations that billions were looted from his brainchild investment fund, 1MDB.
They were undeterred by a police ban and the arrest of a number of activists ahead of the planned action.
Mr Najib has denied any wrongdoing and says he will not be cowed by protests.
In a statement on his blog, Mr Najib called Bersih - the electoral reformist group which organised the protest - "deceitful". He said the group had become a tool for opposition parties to unseat a democratically elected government.
But his accusations were dismissed by Bersih deputy chair Shahrul Aman Shaari, who told the crowds gathered at the National Mosque: "We are not here to bring down the country. We love this country. We are not here to tear down the government, we're here to strengthen it."
This is the second rally organised by Bersih, which means "clean" in the Malay language, to demand Mr Najib's resignation in 15 months, and comes after weeks of rising tension between the "yellow shirts" and pro-government "red shirts".
The leaders of both sides, as well as a number of other Bersih activists, were arrested in the hours leading up to the rally - a move which was immediately condemned by human rights group Amnesty.
It demanded their immediate release, describing the activists as prisoners of conscience.
The arrests did not deter the protesters, however, some of whom chanted "save democracy" and "Bersih, Bersih".
"We want a clean government. We want fair elections," Derek Wong, 38, a real estate agent, told AFP.
A small group of red shirts gathered for an opposition protest.
The 26-year-old France international was sent home on Tuesday after being late on three separate occasions.
"We have some rules and we have to respect them," said Klopp.
"After eight days, when we come back, we can talk. But it's not that serious. We had no argument. You cannot argue when only one person is speaking."
It had emerged in a club video that Sakho arrived late for the flight to the US and Klopp revealed that the former Paris St-Germain player also missed a training session and was late for a team meal.
In the video, filmed during Liverpool's visit to the old prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Sakho interrupts manager Klopp during an interview and asks: "How long do you think you can live here?"
The 49-year-old German replies: "I don't have to think about that - you should. Only one of us turned up late for departure from Liverpool. It was you."
Klopp also jokes that "we are here because we want to leave Mama here".
France international Sakho, 26, this month had a doping case against him dismissed by Uefa.
He had been eligible for France's Euro 2016 squad after serving a provisional 30-day suspension for testing positive for a type of fat burner in March, but was left out by manager Didier Deschamps.
Sakho joined Liverpool for £18m from Paris St-Germain in 2013 and has made 55 appearances for the Premier League side.
Michael Philpott told jurors his family had been "having the bathroom done" but he did wash his face with water.
He said he may have got fuel on his clothes after lending his neighbour a petrol-powered grass strimmer.
Mr Philpott, his wife Mairead Philpott and friend Paul Mosley all deny the manslaughter of the children in Derby.
Mr Philpott, under cross-examination by his wife's counsel, Shaun Smith, told the court he changed his t-shirt every day but did not change his trousers.
He was later told by the prosecution that his wife was "no longer sticking to the story" and that she was "breaking ranks".
Mr Philpott replied: "If she wants to break ranks that's up to her, but again, I did not set fire to the house."
Richard Latham QC, prosecuting, told the court that Mr Philpott controlled his wife and used sweet talk, demands and tantrums to get his own way.
He said: "You ruled number 18 with a rod of iron, didn't you? You wouldn't take dissent."
Mr Philpott replied: "You're talking a lot of rubbish."
Mr Latham continued: "You get what you want by whatever means necessary.
"If all else fails, we throw a sickie, don't we? We start crying or we flop to the ground. And when you cry, there are no tears are there? It's all an act."
Mr Philpott replied: "No."
Earlier, Mr Smith suggested Mr Philpott had been trying to blacken his wife's name by bringing up stories of drugs and sex - an accusation he denied.
Mr Smith then asked him: "Did you start the fire or arrange the fire while Mairead was asleep?"
Mr Philpott began sobbing and said: "I love my kids and I would never endanger them."
Mr Smith suggested there had been a pattern to the women in Mr Philpott's life, noting he was in his 40s when he met both Mairead, who was 19, and Lisa Willis who was 18.
When asked about his decision to bring Ms Willis, his mistress, into the family home, Mr Philpott said: "Can you help who you fall in love with?
"I didn't actually want two women in my life. It just happened and I regret it.
"It might sound strange to you, but I asked Mairead's permission and I got it.
"We was one happy family."
Mr Smith said, before Ms Willis moved in, Mr Philpott would go to her house for sex, leaving Mairead to look after the children, but Mr Philpott replied: "It wasn't just sex, I was helping with the decorating as well."
Mr Smith also asked Mr Philpott about his attitude towards his wife.
He asked: "You regarded her as your property, didn't you? Your slave. That's what she was, wasn't she?"
"She did everything in that house, didn't she, even when you were having a relationship with another woman?
"Mairead wasn't leaving, Mairead wasn't going anywhere. You think you own her, don't you?"
Shaking his head, Mr Philpott replied: "No."
Mr Smith asked: "It's all about you, isn't it?"
Mr Philpott replied: "It's all about L-O-V-E - love."
Jade Philpott, 10, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died on the morning of the fire.
The children's half-brother, 13-year-old Duwayne, died in hospital.
The trial continues.
The blast took place in Garabulli after clashes between locals and militia fighters from the city of Misrata.
Officials initially said a munitions store had exploded but one resident told the BBC a lorry loaded with fireworks had exploded.
In fighting further east, in Sirte, at least 30 pro-government fighters died.
They were killed in fighting with militants from the so-called Islamic State group.
Garabulli is about 50km (30 miles) east of Tripoli and 140km west of Misrata.
A BBC producer close to the scene in Garabulli said the coastal road was completely blocked and he could hear sounds of gunfire from a distance.
A mix of armed civilians and local militias from the coastal town were manning checkpoints on the edge of the town along the coastal road.
Cars trying to pass through were being searched but it was not clear for what.
The situation is very tense, says Rana Jawad, the BBC's North Africa correspondent.
The Garabulli resident who spoke to the BBC said the entire affair had started after a fighter from a Misrata militia purchased items at a grocery store and allegedly refused to pay for them.
The owner of the shop allegedly shot and killed him and then there was a retaliatory attack against the store by the militia.
The shop was burnt down and so was the owner's family home nearby.
Armed residents protested over the attack and the presence of the militia in the town.
It was then that a store nearby that had some depot, or lorry laden with fireworks for sale, exploded.
The resident's account could not be independently verified or backed by a second source in Garabulli.
"The number of casualties is rising and we are working hard to transfer them to nearest hospitals," Mohamed Assayed, a local official, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Jason Upshall is one of two more players to make allegations about Bob Higgins who coached them in the 1980s.
Another man claims he received groin area massages while half naked.
Mr Higgins was cleared of sexual abuse charges in 1992 and has always denied any wrongdoing.
Mr Upshall, 44, from Street, Somerset, was one of a number of young players who were taken on as apprentices at Southampton FC after training at the Bob Higgins Soccer Academy near Bath.
He said he suffered a breakdown months after being ordered to take part in naked soap and water massages with other team mates while on a tour in Sweden with the team in 1988 when he was a young teenager.
"For years I couldn't eat in front of people. I don't like crowded rooms.
"I could cry every day, but you can't let yourself cry."
Nick Good, 44, from Yate, who also trained in Bath, said he received massages to his groin.
"[We were] naked from the waist down," he said.
"It was deemed acceptable and a bit of fun. It was sort of a running joke."
Mr Good said he often stayed overnight at Mr Higgins' house in Southampton.
"The first time I went there I went into the front room and Bob was there.
"The really bizarre thing is he had two young boys sat either side of him.
"At my age, 12 or 13 at the time, I just accepted it for being 'that's what you do'."
In December it was reported that six former Southampton youth players had made allegations against Mr Higgins.
The BBC has asked Mr Higgins for a comment, but he has not responded.
Previously he has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
The allegations of abuse will be investigated in BBC Inside Out West at 19:30 GMT on Monday 23 January.
Makelele joined on a short-term deal in January following the appointment of Paul Clement as manager.
The 44-year-old has signed a new contract after Swansea secured their Premier League status.
"We are very happy that he is going to be staying on because he is very popular," Clement said,
"He is a quiet, humble man considering what he did as a player. He has great experience and he has passed that on to the players."
Makele won 71 caps for France and played for Real Madrid, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
The pupils had complained of irritation to their eyes and throats.
The gas is believed to be chloromethyl pyridine, a chemical used to manufacture pesticides and insecticides.
While the school in the Tughlakabad area was fully vacated, the children are not believed to be at serious risk.
Delhi Chief Fire Officer Atul Garg said two fire engines, a hazmat (hazardous materials) van and rescue teams had been sent to the government-run girls' school.
"Students and staff members of Rani Jhansi school were evacuated, and the entire area has been cordoned off," he said.
Delhi Police and India's National Disaster Response Force are working to identify the chemical, and how it leaked.
"Around 200 children were admitted to four hospitals for treatment. No-one is serious. The situation is normal now," police Deputy Commissioner Romil Baaniya told reporters.
In a tweet, India's health minister sent his prayers to those affected and said hospitals were on standby.
Gas leaks are reasonably common in India, with many caused by failure to comply with safety standards.
Six people died in 2014 when a poisonous gas leaked at one of India's largest steel plants in the state of Chhattisgarh.
A toxic gas leak in Bhopal in 1984 killed at least 25,000 people, and is still considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
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They were discovered by studying more than 200,000 images from camera traps.
Scottish Wildcat Action set up 347 of the cameras in five areas in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Angus Glens, to record data over a 60-day period.
More than a third of the cameras captured images of cats, most of which turned out to be feral cats or hybrids.
The SWA set up cameras in wildcat priority areas and surveyed 620 square miles in Angus Glens, Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire, Strathpeffer Easter Ross, Strathavon Moray and northern Strathspey.
In the coming weeks, the group said they would begin a new phase of the project to trap, neuter and vaccinate feral cats, which they said posed a threat to wildcats through hybridisation and disease.
Roo Campbell, SWA project manager, said: "We are delighted with the results. Though they are preliminary, and further investigation is needed to establish the true numbers present in each of our five priority areas, SWA has established that there are Scottish wildcats out there.
"We have detected at least 19 so far but there are bound to be more as we are still investigating the data from the camera traps. That is surely good news."
The survey also detected more than 20 other species, including a raccoon which is not native to Scotland.
The most common species found were roe deer (63% of trail cameras) followed by pine marten (60%) and badgers (45%), with the latter two frequently stealing the bait intended for attracting cats to the cameras.
Stuart Armstrong finished decisively for the opening goal, which came after the Ibrox side spurned a clear chance.
Gary Mackay-Steven's second came via a deflection and the Rangers goalkeeper Steve Simonsen made an error for Nadir Ciftci's third.
The Ibrox side had made it 2-1 with a first-half Steven Smith free-kick.
But they were unable to truly threaten United's passage to a final meeting with either Aberdeen or St Johnstone on 17 May.
Whoever Jackie McNamara's side face, the occasion is likely to lack the relentless intensity of this contest.
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The game initially had to accept second billing, since the competition was between the two sets of supporters and their goading of each other. The noise spilled from the Ibrox stands as if oblivious to events on the pitch.
There was soon a hectic urgency to the play, though, and composure was an early victim of the heightened atmosphere. There were pent-up emotions to be released, and the quality of the game suffered from the raucous surroundings.
There was excitement and zeal as the two sets of players hared around the Ibrox pitch, but not enough self-control to bring some poise to the proceedings.
Rangers had the most cause to rue that lack of restraint, since they should have opened the scoring when Dean Shiels was sent through on goal. The forward hurried his finish, though, and scuffed the ball wide.
It became a galling miss for Rangers, because minutes later a hopeful Gavin Gunning header sent Armstrong clear.
Nadir Ciftci was returning from an offside position but was deemed not to be interfering with play and Armstrong took advantage of the confusion to clip a shot past Simonsen that kissed a post before nestling in the net.
A pattern was established, since Rangers had the better patches of play, but could not influence the outcome.
When Fraser Aird was free in the area, he laid the ball back to Jon Daly, only for the striker to direct a shot rashly over the bar.
Moments later, Richard Foster failed to clear his lines and allowed Ryan Gauld to burrow into the Rangers penalty area before shunting into the path of Armstrong. He could not connect cleanly and neither, subsequently, could Mackay-Steven, but the ball looped off Bilel Mohsni, over Simonsen, and into the net.
Smith restored some hope for Rangers with a free-kick that squeezed between Radoslaw Cierzniak and the base of his left-hand post.
That goal came just before half-time and, athough Rangers continued to enjoy greater possession after the interval, their frailties could not be disguised.
Mohsni was often hapless in possession, attacks were intermittent and haphazard in nature, and there was not enough link-up play between the midfield and the forwards.
United's midfield struggled to retain possession, and their defence often sat too deep, but their four front players were a constant threat, not least because of the calamities that the Rangers defence were capable of.
When Foster broke up one move and passed back to Simonsen, the goalkeeper hesitated before stubbing the ball straight at Ciftci. The striker rounded the stricken goalkeeper and was celebrating even before he rolled the ball into the empty net.
Rangers restored something of their reputation with this display, but United were the more clinical side.
Azim Ahmed said British Muslims should not be seen as "the solution to extremism and terrorism alone".
But former UK government counter-terrorism minister Kim Howells said Muslim communities should do more to condemn attacks by Islamic terrorists.
The pair were speaking to Sunday Politics Wales.
Mr Ahmed told the programme that politicians "should really start talking differently about British Muslims".
"Not as a suspect community, not as someone who has to start taking care of extremism when no-one else has," he said.
"But really just part of the British public, part of the wider British fabric of society, and not simply look at British Muslims as somehow the solution to extremism and terrorism alone
However, Mr Howells said that there had not been "a huge response" from Muslim communities.
"I haven't seen thousands of British Muslims out on the streets demonstrating against these murders, demonstrating solidarity with people who've been murdered," he said.
"I think communities need to wake up. We've all got a responsibility to try to understand this phenomenon of terrorism and to defeat it. But that includes Muslim societies in this country."
Conservative AM Altaf Hussain said he thought the Muslim community in Wales should be "more open".
A lack of integration, he said, was part of the problem with young people turning to extremist ideology.
"We have created, in the past, multiculturalism which has run its course. We have multiple cultures running parallel not getting integrated," he said.
"That is a problem and we have left it too long... integration is important, we have to be more open."
Denmark, ranked 15th in the world, have also qualified for the tournament.
The two sides will meet at Copenhagen's Gladsaxe Stadium on Saturday, 1 July, at 18:00 BST.
"Denmark are a team who will have genuine ambitions of going a long way in the summer, so it will be a good challenge for us," England head coach Mark Sampson said.
England will meet up for their Euros training camp on 5 June and also play Switzerland in Biel on 10 June.
Their Euro 2017 opener against Scotland is in Utrecht on 19 July, followed by Spain in Breda on 23 July and Portugal in Tilburg on 27 July.
Human population growth and international travel have helped the bug become a source of irritation in hotel rooms around the world.
Insecticides are the most common way to kill them, but they have rapidly developed resistance.
Now, an Australian team writing in Plos One journal thinks it has found one of the reasons why.
Killing resistant strains of the bug may require concentrations 1,000 times larger than those needed to eliminate non-resistant creatures.
Infestations have spread to homes and offices and the bugs are extremely hard to get rid of once they gain a foothold.
They can survive for up to a year without feeding and a single fertilised female can infest a whole building.
While they were a common part of life in the 1940s and 50s, the introduction of DDT and other powerful insecticides initially restricted their populations.
But there was a resurgence as the bugs quickly developed resistance to DDT and subsequent classes of chemicals deployed to kill them.
Like all insects, bed bugs are covered by an exoskeleton called a cuticle.
Using scanning electron microscopy, David Lilly from the University of Sydney and colleagues compared the thickness of cuticles taken from bed bugs that were resistant to insecticides with cuticles from those that were more easily killed by insecticides.
The results showed that the thicker the cuticle, the more likely the bugs were to be resistant to insecticides.
"One way bed bugs beat insecticides is by developing a thicker 'skin'," said co-author Mr Lilly, a PhD candidate.
The researchers say the results could explain why bed bug infestations are so difficult to control and could assist the search for more effective strategies.
"If we understand the biological mechanisms bed bugs use to beat insecticides, we may be able to spot a chink in their armour," said David Lilly.
However, there may be other ways that the organisms beat widely used bug sprays. Another team of scientists in the US thinks that bugs there may be able to produce large quantities of enzymes that break down toxic chemicals, including insecticides.
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More than 14,000 people have attended one of the UK's leading folk festivals, with the final day bathed in sunshine.
Festival highlights included a spirited set from Saturday's headliner Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls.
"It's a bumper year despite occasional bad weather," said Neil Jones, from festival organiser Cambridge Live.
"It has not dampened the energy of the crowd and the festival has seen some amazing performances."
Former Damien Rice collaborator Lisa Hannigan and Orkney folk group Fara also took to the stage during the four-day festival, which got under way on Thursday in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall.
Up-and-coming performers were championed too, including Norfolk Americana band Morganway, singer-songwriter Kerry Devine, from Cambridge, and Danni Nichol, from Bedford.
Devine played the Den on Saturday evening.
"I was born in Ely and brought up in Cambridge, so playing the Cambridge Folk Festival is really special to me, " she said.
Amy Mason, from Oxford, won the £10,000 prize and a publishing deal for her debut novel The Other Ida.
The 32-year-old saw off competition from 400 entries from across the world in the annual contest, which was judged by a panel including novelist Neil Gaiman and broadcaster Kirsty Lang.
Ms Mason was presented with her prize at the Dundee Literary Festival.
The Other Ida follows a woman named after a hit play written by her hard-drinking mother as she returns home when the older woman succumbs to alcoholism.
Bournemouth-born writer and performer Ms Mason left school at 16 and said she was a "disaster" throughout her 20s until she was "saved" by an evening writing class aged 25.
She said: "Winning the prize is obviously completely brilliant. I entered on a whim, and cried every time I got to another stage in the competition.
"To get the novel published, and enough money to keep me writing for a year, is amazing.
"It's taken a long time to get here, but I'm delighted I can put Ida to bed in such a happy way.
"I said I'd never write another book, but have already started on the next one."
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Taylor, 28, won her country's first gold by beating Estelle Mossely of France in the lightweight final.
It was an 18th major title for Olympic champion Taylor, from Bray in County Wicklow.
Portlaoise fighter O'Reilly, 22, then earned a unanimous points verdict over Xaybula Musalov of Azerbaijan.
Taylor had shaded the first round against her 22-year-old opponent and went on to control the fight, winning the other three rounds on all the judges' cards.
"This means so much to me," she said.
"I wanted to win so much for my country and my family.
"It's a bit of a relief to sit here with the gold medal. I felt a lot of pressure this week as always.
"Now I have got every single major title out there and it is great to add this one to the list.
"Onwards and upwards, the best is yet to come. I think I am as hungry now as I ever was.
"People on their way up want to take my place so it is up to me to continue to improve and it is great to produce great performances each time.
"People at home think I just stroll through these competitions but every fight is hard fought and hard won."
Meanwhile, Belfast's bronze medallist Sean McComb has qualified for the World Championships in Qatar in October.
He gets the place because the man who beat him in the semi-finals, Albert Selimov of Azerbaijan, won the lightweight gold on Saturday.
MRI scans on 40 athletes training for challenging sporting events like triathlons or alpine cycle races showed most had stretched heart muscles.
Although many went on to make a complete recovery after a week, five showed more permanent injuries.
The researchers told the European Heart Journal how these changes might cause heart problems like arrhythmia.
They stress that their findings should not be taken to mean that endurance exercise is unhealthy.
In most athletes, a combination of sensible training and adequate recovery should cause an improvement in heart muscle function, they say.
But they believe more investigations are now needed, since their small study in Australia did not look at any associated health risks.
The medical director of the London Marathon, Professor Sanjay Sharma, agreed that more research was needed and said the results provided "food for thought".
"My personal feeling is that extreme endurance exercise probably does cause damage to the heart in some athletes. I don't believe that the human body is designed to exercise for as long as 11 hours a day, so damage to the heart is not implausible."
But he said it was too early to say that taking part in endurance sports causes long-term damage.
And Doireann Maddock of the British Heart Foundation said the findings should not put people off doing exercise.
"It is important to remember that the health benefits of physical activity are well established. The highly trained athletes involved in this study were competing in long distance events and trained for more than 10 hours a week.
"Further long-term research will be necessary in order to determine if extreme endurance exercise can cause damage to the right ventricle of the heart in some athletes. Any endurance athletes who are concerned should discuss the matter with their GP.''
In the study, the scientists studied the athletes a fortnight before their races, immediately after their races and then about a week later.
Immediately after the race, the athletes' hearts had changed shape. The right ventricle - one of the four chambers in the heart involved in pumping blood around the body - appeared dilated and didn't work as well as it had been in the weeks leading up to the race.
Levels of a chemical called BNP, made by the heart in response to excessive stretching, increased.
A week later, most of the athletes' hearts had returned to the pre-race condition. But in five who had been training and competing for longer than the others, there were signs of scarring of the heart tissue and right ventricular function remained impaired compared with the pre-race readings.
Millwall went ahead when Barnet striker John Akinde sliced Joe Martin's free-kick past his own goalkeeper midway through the first half.
Aiden O'Brien made it 2-0 when the ball broke to him kindly 20 yards out.
Steve Morison headed a third and Fred Onyedinma's penalty completed victory after he had been fouled in the box.
Match ends, Barnet 0, Millwall 4.
Second Half ends, Barnet 0, Millwall 4.
Attempt saved. Luke Gambin (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Luke Gambin (Barnet) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Ryan Watson (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tony Craig (Millwall).
Attempt blocked. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Michael Gash (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sid Nelson (Millwall).
Michael Gash (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Gash (Barnet).
Shane Ferguson (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Millwall. Shane Ferguson replaces Joe Martin.
Foul by Bondz N'Gala (Barnet).
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Barnet 0, Millwall 4. Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Bira Dembélé (Barnet) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Millwall. Fred Onyedinma draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Millwall. Jamie Philpot replaces Steve Morison.
Attempt missed. Luke Gambin (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Michael Gash (Barnet) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by David Worrall.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Watson (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Steve Morison (Millwall) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Barnet 0, Millwall 3. Steve Morison (Millwall) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by David Worrall with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Bondz N'Gala.
Substitution, Barnet. Justin Amaluzor replaces Alex Nicholls.
Attempt missed. Ryan Watson (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Aiden O'Brien.
Attempt missed. Alex Nicholls (Barnet) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Ryan Watson (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gregg Wylde (Millwall).
Attempt blocked. Elliot Johnson (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Michael Gash (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Barnet. Luke Gambin replaces Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro.
Foul by Curtis Weston (Barnet).
Gregg Wylde (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Barnet. Michael Gash replaces John Akinde.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Alex Nicholls (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
The men, awaiting trial for burglary, were found missing when they failed to show up for roll call on Sunday.
Officials said one of the fugitives had been captured and was being questioned.
The jail, thought to be Asia's largest, houses some 13,500 prisoners, including many of India's most feared militants, gangsters and other criminals.
This is the first time inmates have dug their way out of Tihar, reports said.
In what appears to be a carefully planned prison break reminiscent of the Hollywood film Shawshank Redemption, the two men - Faizan and Javed - are believed to have scaled the wall of one jail building to reach another where they dug a tunnel under the perimeter wall and crawled out through a drain, the Times of India reported.
Officials say they are still trying to piece together exactly how the escape was executed.
"They escaped sometime on Saturday or Sunday. We will find out how they managed to escape. It is too early to say how and when they staged the jail break," news agency AFP quoted Tihar's deputy inspector general Mukesh Prasad as saying.
The prison has a maximum capacity of 6,250 prisoners but is massively overcrowded.
Officials said an investigation had been ordered to find out how the prisoners managed to slip past armed guards and electronic surveillance.
The 42-year-old Spaniard did not take training on Saturday and assistant Steve Agnew was in charge for Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Charlton.
Karanka was thought to be considering his future at the Championship club.
But a Middlesbrough statement on Monday said he "will be resuming first-team duties with the club with immediate effect".
It added: "We have 10 games left this season and as a club we are fully focussed on what remains of our Championship campaign."
Karanka took charge at the Riverside in November 2013.
His Middlesbrough side were top of the table by six points on 12 January, but they are now seven points behind leaders Burnley.
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Sarah and Jem Burrows from St Agnes in Cornwall said they were "still buzzing" after capturing the bright pink glow in the early hours of Tuesday.
Experts said it had been predicted in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
They said the couple were "very lucky" to see it so far south. There were also reports of the Northern Lights being seen on Exmoor.
Mrs Burrows said she and her husband, a northern lights - or Aurora Borealis - enthusiast, had got "very excited" at space conditions and he persuaded her to go with him to St Agnes Beacon.
"We couldn't believe we were stood in Cornwall witnessing a phenomena we have travelled to Norway to see", she said.
"She put on an amazing show. I was very emotional".
Brian Sheen, from the Roseland Observatory in Cornwall, said the Northern Lights could be seen around once a year in Cornwall but were rarely noticed or captured.
"We don't get it so brilliantly down here as they do in the north. I've only see it three or four times in my life", he said.
Mr Sheen said the display was caused by a burst of gases kicked out from sun spots that interact with the Earth's magnetic field and hit the atmosphere creating "these lovely colours".
Dr Chris Arridge, of Lancaster University Physics Department, said: "If there is greater solar activity, they can, on rare occasions, be seen further south, if the conditions are favourable."
The Met Office, based in Exeter, said on its blog that the country could have another night of "spectacular aurora views" on Wednesday.
"To see the northern lights, wait until at least half an hour after sunset, go outside away from artificial lights, let your eyes accustom to the dark and look towards the north," the Met Office said.
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Footage of Omagh firefighter Terry Canning carrying a fellow runner towards the finishing line at the Boston marathon has gone viral.
Mr Canning, 44, was among tens of thousands of athletes taking part in the marathon on Monday.
But before the finish line, one of his fellow runners suffered from exhaustion.
Mr Canning saw Julianne Bowe on the ground about 200 metres from the finish line, and came to her aid.
Footage courtesy of CBS.
The Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust has agreed to pay Church Commissioners £2.45m for the freehold of the castle and grounds.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) turned down a bid for £478,000 from the trust in 2011 over concerns about the original asking price.
The trust wants to keep the castle, museum and library open to the public.
It houses the county museum and the Hurd Library, a collection of 5,000 volumes dating from 1476.
Robert Greenwood, from the trust, said the award was "a very significant first step to securing the future of this magnificent heritage site".
The trust plans to raise the money to buy the castle using contributions from private donors, and has raised £50,000 from donations made by members of the public.
Iain Rutherford, from Museums Worcestershire, said: "We look forward to working in partnership with the trust to deliver one of the best tourist attractions in the Midlands, indeed in England, and to re-establishing Hartlebury as an important centre of learning and culture."
The castle was the residence of the Bishop of Worcester until 2007.
The BBC said on Saturday that the fifth series, which begins in January, would be the last broadcast on BBC One.
Mark Linsey, acting director of BBC Television, said in a statement that it "wouldn't get into a bidding war or pay inflated prices to keep the show".
He said the format, which began as a Dutch talent show, had been "poached".
Current speculation over the UK version's future includes suggestions in The Guardian and other publications that ITV could ditch The X Factor to make room for it in the schedule, after the recent X Factor revamp failed to halt falling audience figures
There are also suggestions Sky could purchase The X Factor if ITV did decide to drop it.
ITV said it would not comment on the BBC's statement on the future of The Voice UK.
An spokesperson confirmed the X Factor has one year left in its current contract with the broadcaster after this current series.
The broadcaster signed a three-year deal with Simon Cowell's company Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia UK in 2013 to continue broadcasting both the X Factor and Britain's Got Talent until the end of 2016.
Announcing The Voice was leaving the BBC, Mr Linney said the corporation was "incredibly proud" of the UK version of the talent show.
"We always said we wouldn't get into a bidding war or pay inflated prices to keep the show, and it's testament to how the BBC has built the programme up - and established it into a mainstay of the Saturday night schedule - that another broadcaster has poached it," he said.
The Voice was mentioned in the government's recent green paper on the future of the BBC, questioning whether such shows were "distinctive" enough compared to commercial rivals.
The next series of The Voice sees Paloma Faith and Boy George joining the panel in place of Rita Ora and Sir Tom Jones.
The stoppage came days before the US planemaker was due to make its first delivery of the aircraft to a customer.
But Boeing said it was sticking with plans to begin MAX deliveries this month, adding that production of the jets would continue.
American Airlines, Southwest, and China's Shandong Airlines are among those who have placed orders.
Earlier this year Indian airline SpiceJet placed an order for 205 new planes from Boeing, in a deal valued around $22bn (£18bn). Boeing had said the first of the Max 737 planes would be delivered to SpiceJet in 2018.
The MAX fleet is designed to be a more fuel-efficient version and replaces Boeing's previous 737 model which has been a best-seller for the aerospace giant.
Boeing says it was notified last week of a potential issue involving turbine engine discs manufactured by a supplier to CFM International.
CFM is the joint venture between US firm General Electric (GE) and French-based Safran - the companies making the engines for the 737 Max fleet.
Boeing says it has not experienced any problems with the discs during more than 2,000 hours of testing.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we decided to temporarily suspend MAX flights," it told the BBC. "The step is consistent with our priority focus on safety for all who use and fly our products."
The 737 MAX 8, the first version of the plane to be built, carries a list price of $110m but airlines generally receive steep discounts.
The next model, the 737 MAX 9, has more seating capacity. That aircraft completed a successful maiden flight last month.
Sales and profits slipped at Boeing last year, mainly due to lower deliveries of its military aircraft.
The US aerospace giant celebrated its 100th year in business last year.
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The 23-year-old Barcelona forward was shown a red card for clashing with Colombia players following Brazil's 1-0 defeat in their most recent group game.
He was initially banned for one game, ruling him out of the final group match with Venezuela on Sunday.
But the South American Football Confederation has now reviewed the case and increased the punishment.
Neymar was shown the red card after kicking a ball at Colombia's Pablo Armero in frustration after the final whistle before appearing to head butt another player who confronted him. Brazilian media reports suggested he had also confronted the referee before returning to the dressing room.
Colombia's Carlos Bacca, who was also sent off for a retaliatory shove, has been given a two-game ban.
Both players have the right to appeal.
Neymar had already been shown a yellow card earlier in the Colombia game that would have kept him from playing against Venezuela.
In the 2014 World Cup Neymar was forced out of the tournament with a broken bone in his spine after he was kneed in the back by Colombia's Juan Zuniga in a challenge that went unpunished.
The company now expects admission to the London Stock Exchange's official list to happen when the markets are less volatile.
"Virgin Money continues to perform strongly and we remain focused on delivering a successful initial public offering as soon as market conditions allow," said boss Jayne-Anne Gadhia.
Virgin Money is hoping to raise £150m from the initial public offering.
The financial services provider part-owned by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson announced on 2 October that it would apply for a stock market listing, and expected the flotation to occur in the same month.
But the FTSE 100 index of blue-chip shares has fallen 10% since September, wiping about £175bn off company valuations.
Global stock markets have also been very volatile, making Virgin Money think investors may not have much appetite for buying its shares in the current climate.
Virgin's move follows that of UK bank Aldermore, which also scrapped its flotation plans because of the recent stock market turbulence.
It had been planning to raise about £75m through the flotation, which was set to value the bank at about £800m.
His new oil business, Letter One, fell foul of official intervention earlier this year when the then energy secretary, Ed Davey, blocked the purchase of 12 North Sea gas fields.
Letter One, of which Lord Browne is executive chairman, is backed by Mikhail Fridman, a Russian billionaire.
The government was concerned that sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine could affect the operations of the North Sea fields.
At first, Letter One said it would fight the ruling. But, Lord Browne tells me, they have now decided that good relations with governments - any governments - are more important than technical battles over legal rights.
Letter One has now agreed to sell the North Sea fields.
"Whether we agree with [the government's decision] or not, they are the government, we want to have good relationships with them and we need to know our place in the world and we do," he tells me.
Lord Browne is making a wider point. Businesses, he argues, should better understand that their role is to serve society.
Not run it.
His new book, Connect, says that only by rethinking how they engage with society can businesses hope to tackle the collapse in public trust that followed the financial crisis.
If they don't, Lord Browne warns, the precarious relationship between wider society and the business community can only deteriorate.
"It is more and more dangerous," he says of the present situation.
"A lot of my colleagues in business say: 'Well, it's cycles, they come and they go - bankers are hated and then they are loved, people in social media are loved today, they will be hated tomorrow, life goes on.'
"But life goes on at a far faster rate than it used to, companies can disappear when their reservoir of trust is depleted, companies can be wounded many, many times over.
"Getting it right is more important now because the information moves very quickly around the world.
"The single most important thing is [that businesses] know what their role is.
"Businesses aren't governments, businesses aren't people who should push others around.
"Businesses are there to co-operate, to work with society. Businesses have to be engaged very radically with everybody who is affected by them - [and] tell the truth."
In his book, Lord Browne says that many business leaders understand that they need to take a different approach, but still do not change.
The grind of quarterly reporting means it is easier to carry on with business as usual - and slap the false gloss of "corporate social responsibility" on top.
You can, of course, put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
"One of the props that people have relied upon is corporate social responsibility, and that's allowed a lot of companies to detach the activity of communicating and being involved with stakeholders almost into a side-pocket," Lord Browne says.
"And saying: it's all very nice and meanwhile we'll carry on the business in the way we've always done it.
"We have to integrate those two things, and that's why I think CSR, while it had some interesting positive effects early on, has I think become a rather negative problem, which takes away the substance of being involved with your stakeholders."
So, is it time to retire those worthy tomes printed on recycled paper and call an end to CSR?
"It should be dead," Lord Browne replies, laughing. He argues that up to 30% of a company's value "could be at risk" if it fails to engage properly with the public.
"This is not just to go 'hug another person' or say nice things. It is actually to do the business better. And by doing this well you can actually make more money," he says.
Now, Lord Browne was a very highly paid executive when he led BP.
And many argue that multi-million pound pay packages for chief executives at a time when many people are struggling through an era of low or even negative wage inflation make it difficult for public trust to be regained.
On executive pay, Lord Browne says: "things need to be made simple and explained better and the level needs to be thought through as fit and proper for the job".
"A lot of people don't begrudge large amounts of money for people who create something themselves," he argues.
"The public recognise that if you create something you should be rewarded for it. Being in a position where you just rise with the tide, then it gets a very negative result."
I ask Lord Browne about the oil price and its effect on the North Sea.
He says that a long career in the sector makes him wary of making any predictions, but at the moment the low-price cycle appears to be here to say.
"The fact is there is an awful lot of oil around - the revolution of technology that produced a lot of light, tight oil - so-called shale oil - in the US, the coming back into the world markets of Iran and Opec's determination to keep producing at maximum rate.
"Equally, demand is relatively weak. So, this is not a one-minute wonder. It will take a few years to come back into balance."
And that makes business in the North Sea ever harder?
"The North Sea is a very high-cost producing area, so the lower the price the worse the future," Lord Browne says.
"There is less margin available and more money needs to be set aside to abandon all the old facilities and pipelines that are no longer needed, so it is not a very attractive place to do business.
"But equally I would say this. When the North Sea started in the mid-seventies its lifetime was determined as 25 years.
"So, we are 15 years into overtime at the moment and that is a pretty good run."
Twenty Conservative MPs backed a continuation of the Dubs scheme, which is being closed by ministers.
The vote is non-binding on the government, but backers of the scheme called it a "litmus test" of parliamentary opinion.
The government has been criticised for ending the programme, which it says could encourage people traffickers.
Designed by the Labour peer and former child refugee Lord Dubs, it aimed to help some of the estimated 90,000 unaccompanied migrant children across Europe.
Last month, ministers announced it would close once 350 children had been helped.
In the Commons, MPs debated a cross-party backbench motion calling on the government to continue consulting local authorities over their capacity to take in more child refugees.
It was backed by 254 votes to one, and its supporters said they would put down new amendments to legislation next week to try to force the government to keep the option open.
Former cabinet ministers Maria Miller and Nicky Morgan were among the 20 Tory MPs to support the motion alongside 180 Labour MPs, 42 SNP, six Liberal Democrats, two Plaid Cymru, two independent, one SDLP and Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas.
Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg was the sole MP to vote against the motion.
The pair were catching mud crabs when one of the reptiles capsized their 3m (10ft) "tinny" boat at Leaders Creek in Darwin on Tuesday morning.
One man drowned after getting trapped trying to get back on to the boat.
The other fisherman managed to smash one of the animals on the skull with a spanner during the three-hour ordeal.
Air ambulance Careflight spokesperson Ian Badham recounted the survivor's experience, saying the crocodiles kept coming back at him during the "terrible tragedy".
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The man hid in mangroves before the changing tide eventually helped him climb back up onto land. Professional crabbers heard the man's screams and came to his aid.
They took him and the body of his friend to a boat ramp. Once other fishermen managed to reach air ambulance services he was treated for severe shock, dehydration and exposure before being released on Wednesday morning.
The two men had been on holiday from Bendigo in Victoria.
A 2015 inquest into the death of a man who was taken by a crocodile during a fishing trip in Kakadu warned that smaller boats posed a greater risk.
Last month a Northern Territory mayor called for a cull after a camper described waking up to find a crocodile had entered his tent and was biting his foot.
The population of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia is estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 adults.
The local clinical commissioning group (CCG) plans are being scrutinised by Norfolk county councillors.
The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Suffolk and Norfolk said the beds and the suite in Carlton Court in Lowestoft were vital to keep.
The CCG said more care would be provided in the community.
The CCG added that the loss of the suite meant more staff would be available for the remaining one.
A report to the Norfolk Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, meeting on Thursday, said the cuts were being looked at as part of the Trust's need to save 20% over four years.
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust was criticised recently when it was revealed some patients have had to be sent up to 200 miles (320km) for a bed in a mental health unit because of a lack of beds in Norfolk and Suffolk.
The report said as well as reducing the number of mental health beds, the CCG was also planning to cut 12 dementia assessment beds and a Section 136 suite - used to assess whether patients need to be sectioned.
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Suffolk and Norfolk said: "The campaign is very concerned about the loss of the 136 suite which provides a vital place of safety for people who are some of the most vulnerable members of our communities.
"With regards to the reduction in mental health beds, everybody except the CCGs acknowledge there are not enough beds in Norfolk and Suffolk. All too often health professionals are finding there are no beds available."
Trust chairman Gary Page said the organisation hoped to work with campaign groups and patient groups to improve services.
He said the trust was also undertaking "an analysis at the moment is to see if the number of beds is right".
The 25-year-old did not make an appearance for the Gulls after joining them on a one-year contract in July.
His only match this season was Gibraltar's 4-0 friendly defeat by Euro 2016 champions Portugal.
"I doubt many Conference managers have had an international as their number two keeper," said boss Kevin Nicholson.
"I don't want to stand in his way, for someone who's got such a unique opportunity of international football."
Robba, who has eight caps, has had his Torquay contract cancelled by mutual consent and is set to return to Gibraltar to play in their domestic league.
A loan move had been explored for the keeper, but Fifa rules meant the Devon side would not have been able to recall him if regular goalie Brendan Moore picked up an injury or suspension.
"With him being behind one of the best goalkeepers in the league he hasn't had any chances and a by-product of that, and it's a strange one because not many Conference managers have this issue, is that it's been hurting his international chances," Gulls player-boss Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.
"He's going to go over there and he's going to play - hopefully he's going to get himself back in the fold internationally, but I haven't closed the door on him."
The project on Brownsea Island aims to discover how the disease affects and is passed between native red squirrels.
Leprosy was first identified in red squirrels in Scotland in 2014.
Post-mortem examinations have since revealed it is also affecting the mammals on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour and on the Isle of Wight.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh will work with the National Trust, which manages Brownsea Island, where about 200 red squirrels are found, and Dorset Wildlife Trust, which manages a nature reserve on the island.
Humane traps will be used to capture the squirrels for health checks, blood tests and other clinical samples before they are returned to the wild, researchers said.
Little is known about how the leprosy bacteria, which causes swelling and hair loss to the ears, muzzle and feet, is spread among red squirrels.
Carrying out the study on an island location will enable researchers to examine the impact of leprosy on the squirrels in a contained environment.
Lead researcher Prof Anna Meredith, from University of Edinburgh, said the disease appeared to have been in squirrel populations in Scotland and England's south coast "for some time", and added the research would aid conservationists in understanding how to control its spread.
The risk to humans from the disease is negligible and Brownsea Island will remain open to the public while the research is carried out, researchers said.
Source:Forestry Commission England
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Ashley Broomhall trekked to the summit of 3,560ft (1,085m) Snowdon in Snowdonia before tackling Ben Nevis.
It took him seven hours to walk up and down the 4,406ft (1,344m) Scottish peak near Fort William. On the way up he had a snowball fight with other walkers.
He now plans to walk 3,208ft (978m) Scafell Pike in the Lake District.
Mr Broomhall, from Whitchurch in Shropshire, has been doing the walks to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
He set himself the peaks challenge after his mother was diagnosed with cancer.
The 28-year-old has been a member of Star Wars costuming club the 501st UK Garrison for more than five years.
Members attend events across the UK dressed in "movie-accurate" costumes to raise funds for charity.
But Mr Broomhall had to make some modifications to his outfit to make it move more freely on the ascents and descents of Snowdon and Ben Nevis, which were done this summer.
For safety reasons, he wore walking boots because his costume footwear was not suitable for the terrain involved and was accompanied by friends.
Dressed as an Imperial stormtrooper and carrying a UK Garrison flag, Mr Broomhall said he drew more than his fair share of funny looks tackling Ben Nevis, Scotland highest Munro and Britain's tallest mountain.
He said: "We had been confusing a lot of other climbers along the way as a stormtrooper was the last thing they had been expecting to see climbing Ben Nevis.
"We handed out cards and told them my tale and they offered nothing but the most vocal support."
Mr Broomhall also received donations from other walkers.
Higher up Ben Nevis he had to negotiate thigh-deep snow.
At the first of these snowfields there was some light relief when he and his walking companion had a snowball fight with other walkers.
Mr Broomhall said: "The last snowfield held the summit and, with my heart swelling with pride, I let the flag fly and charged on to the summit.
"We had made it. It was brilliant and I was so happy at making it after all the struggles and rallying needed to get myself there.
"I was greeted by a cheer from the climbers there and planted the flag on the summit itself claiming it for the Empire."
He added: "I love Scotland and I love Munros and this was a challenge that I enjoyed doing.
"Scafell Pike is next. I've done the other two in armour, might as well do the third in it."
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Shauna Hoare said she heard Becky "stomping down the stairs" and the front door slam at her home in Crown Hill, St George, Bristol.
Ms Hoare, 21, said she and her boyfriend, Becky's stepbrother, Nathan Matthews, 28, visited the house on 19 February - the day she disappeared.
Becky's body was later found cut into pieces. The pair deny murdering her.
Bristol Crown Court was played a police interview, recorded before Ms Hoare's arrest, in which she described arriving at Becky's house with Mr Matthews at about 11:00 GMT before letting themselves in.
The jury was told Ms Hoare heard music playing from Becky's upstairs bedroom, so assumed she was in, and then headed outside for a cigarette.
"I heard stomping down the stairs. That's what made me think Becky left in a mood," she said, before recalling the sound of the front door slamming.
"I assumed she was in one of her tantrums," she added.
The prosecution allege Becky was killed at the house that morning, some time before her stepmother Anjie Galsworthy arrived back from a hospital appointment.
Mr Matthews has admitted the manslaughter of his stepsister but insists his girlfriend had no part in it.
He has admitted storing body parts in a garden shed at a Bristol address.
The jury also heard from Benjamin Fairley, the manager of Donovan Demetrius who denies assisting an offender.
Mr Fairley told the court Mr Demetrius, 29, of Marsh Lane, Redfield, appeared "more tired than normal" at the Home Bargain Store in Brislington on 24 February.
The prosecution say Becky's body parts were moved in the early hours of 24 February from Ms Hoare and Mr Matthews' home to another address nearby, in Barton Court, where Donovan Demetrius was staying at the time.
Donovan Demetrius and another man, James Ireland, deny involvement.
Donovan's brother Karl and Karl's girlfriend Jaydene Parsons, who lived at Barton Court, have pleaded guilty to assisting an offender, but say they did not know what was in the bags stored in their shed.
The trial continues.
If there was a top 10 of education stories in the life of this Parliament, it would be hard to think of anything bigger than the ferocious dispute over raising tuition fees.
There were riots in the streets and rebellions among MPs. There was unprecedented interest in what had been the backwater of higher education funding.
But then it all went quiet. No one seemed to want to disturb the sleeping dragon.
The calm seems to be being broken, as universities are rapidly emerging as a political battleground, with competing visions.
Political parties like to align themselves with people's aspirations - and for more families than ever universities are a significant aspiration.
One lesson of the fee increase has been that there is a deep-rooted, rising demand for higher education. Despite trebling fees, after a brief dip, applications are almost undiminished, with every sign of long-term growth.
Record numbers will be starting university this autumn.
But alongside this big social change there is anxiety about affordability.
This week Labour has called for a more diverse higher education system, with more options for young people who do not want a traditional three year academic degree.
There are proposals for technical universities, promoting links with industrial research, where people can "learn while they earn".
Universities spokesman Liam Byrne has raised the spirit of the 1960s and the "white heat of technology", setting out a higher education system which would harness the hi-tech digital industries to support a high-wage economy.
The Conservatives are also making a strong play on higher education, positioning themselves as the party of university expansion.
They have announced plans to scrap limits on university places, tapping into the ambitions of parents for their children.
Alongside these optimistic plans is the much tougher and still unanswered question about what will happen to tuition fees.
Labour's last position was to reduce fees to £6,000. There might be some more clarity on this at the party conference - and maybe an even bolder position on reducing fees further in the longer term.
But any such reduction will produce a growl of concern from universities who will worry about a looming funding gap.
The Conservative plan to remove the limit on university places is also worrying universities, who are concerned that it will mean more students with same funding being stretched more thinly.
And would a move to a less regulated market in places mean a less regulated market in fees? There are already rumblings that top universities would like to be able to charge much more than the £9,000 limit.
It isn't just the headline figure that will need to be reconsidered. The repayment terms on student loans are an important part of the jigsaw.
In the angry battle over raising tuition fees there were strenuous efforts to damp down the impact.
And it might be that this current phase of £9,000 fees on generous terms will be seen as something of a phoney war - and that a much tougher set of repayment terms will apply to future students.
Such debates are much more difficult territory for the Lib Dems, who became the lightning rods for so much of the anger over tuition fees.
But the future of universities, as a touchstone of opportunity and ambition, looks like it could be an increasingly important dividing line.
Ioane Teitiota, 39, has argued that rising sea levels in his homeland meant his family would not be safe there.
His lawyer, Michael Kidd, told the BBC: "He's very disappointed obviously, he wants to be back in New Zealand."
Kiribati is among several low-lying Pacific nations threatened by climate change-linked problems.
These include storm surges, flooding and water contamination.
Mr Teitiota's wife and their three New Zealand-born children also face deportation and are likely to leave next week, reported local media.
"They said we are overstayers but we are not. We are trying to find a better life for the kids," his wife Angua Erika told Radio New Zealand.
Mr Teitiota's children are not entitled to New Zealand citizenship.
Mr Teitiota had been in New Zealand since 2007 but overstayed his visa and was caught in 2011.
His deportation on Wednesday night follows a failed appeal against a New Zealand high court decision that he could not be a refugee as he was not being persecuted. The United Nations describes a refugee as someone who faces persecution at home.
Mr Teitiota's appeal was dismissed in July. He was taken into police custody last week ahead of his deportation.
Mr Kidd said that Mr Teitiota was planning to appeal for help from the United Nations's refugee agency.
His lawyers have argued in court that he and his family would suffer harm if forced to return to Kiribati because of the combined pressures of over-population and rising sea levels, and that he would be "persecuted passively" by the circumstances there.
Prime Minister John Key said this week that Mr Teitiota had overstayed and that his argument lacked credibility.
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Britain had trailed 2-0 after the first day in Glasgow, but doubles victory on Saturday was followed by a singles win for Andy Murray on Sunday.
Dan Evans won the first set of the deciding match but Leonardo Mayer fought back to win 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4.
Argentina will travel to Croatia for the final in November.
It is the fifth time Argentina have reached the final as they attempt to win the title for the first time.
Britain, who won the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years 10 months ago, must wait for Wednesday's draw to see which nation they will face in the 2017 first round in February.
"It never feels good losing, of course it doesn't, but no regrets," GB captain Leon Smith told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We just asked the guys to go out and fight their hardest - the Argentines over the course of the weekend just played that little bit better and got the wins that were needed."
There was intrigue well before the first ball was struck on Sunday, with rumours circulating that Juan Martin del Potro would not play in a potential deciding fifth match as he nurses his body back from serious injury.
After Murray beat Guido Pella 6-3 6-2 6-3 to level the tie at 2-2, it was confirmed that Argentina's star man would sit out the final rubber and be replaced by world number 114 Mayer.
"We had to keep it to ourselves until the last moment so Great Britain were thinking a little bit, but we knew from last night that Mayer would play," said Argentina captain Daniel Orsanic.
Evans, the world number 56, had been expected to come in for Kyle Edmund, who was named in the original line-up on Friday, and fresh from a superb run at the US Open he had every reason to be optimistic.
That feeling only grew among the 8,000 home fans as Evans won the first set impressively, but Mayer then simply took over with some magnificent serving.
His lowly ranking was misleading, a shoulder injury having caused him to plummet from inside the top 40 six months ago, but his form had clearly returned as he made 20 of 24 first serves to level at one set all.
The 29-year-old then backed it up with some huge returning to win the third set, by which point it was the 400 travelling Argentine fans making most of the noise in the Emirates Arena.
Evans held on in a 12-minute opening service game to the fourth set, but Mayer broke for a 3-2 lead and coolly served out to love for his ninth consecutive Davis Cup singles victory.
"I am very emotional," said Mayer. "I haven't been able to play because of injury so I am delighted to be back on form.
"I do not know what it is about the Davis Cup it brings out the best in me."
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Murray, 29, suffered an injury scare in the third set of his win over Pella and was off court for eight minutes as he received treatment on his thigh, but the Scot returned to clinch victory.
He did not face a break point over the course of two hours and 11 minutes but was stretched more than the straightforward score might suggest, with Pella testing the Wimbledon champion's energy levels.
It appeared that the tactic might bear fruit after Murray missed an early break point in the third set, and then pulled up with obvious pain in his leg.
Trainer Shane Annun took his man off court and, while walking gingerly between points, Murray was more focused than ever on the resumption, winning five of the last six games.
"I have a lot of sharp pain in my right quad," he said. "I have to go and see what's up and get some treatment. I need a break. I have played so much tennis, my body needs some rest."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent: "Britain's hopes of winning back-to-back titles for the first time since the 1930s were ended by the better team. Three different players won singles points for Argentina, with only the Murray brothers contributing for Britain, and that ultimately was the difference.
"Del Potro's fatigue meant Mayer was the strongest option for the final rubber, and captain Orsanic deployed his resources very shrewdly throughout the weekend."
The company admitted water pollution and other offences at sewage facilities in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
One fisherman lost thousands and went out of business because the pollution killed his crayfish, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.
Fish and birds died following the spills in 2013 and 2014.
Aylesbury Crown Court heard on Friday that the spills resulted in hundreds of dead fish, fewer dragon flies, overflowing manholes and sewage spilling into nature reserves.
Environmental damage was caused in the riverside towns of Henley and Marlow.
There were also reports of nappies and other sewage debris spilling into the Thames.
The four Thames Water Utilities Ltd sewage treatment works where the spills occurred were Aylesbury, Didcot, Henley and Little Marlow.
The other site is a large sewage pumping system in Littlemore in Oxford.
Blackwell, 26, needed surgery to reduce swelling on his brain after the session on 22 November, despite no longer having a licence to fight.
Karkardi, 29, sparred with Blackwell and Wilkins oversaw the session at the boxing club in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Blackwell was taken to hospital in March after losing to Chris Eubank Jr.
He spent a week in an induced coma after suffering a bleed on the skull during the British middleweight title contest. Blackwell announced his retirement soon after recovering.
The Trowbridge fighter collected his British Boxing Board of Control trainer's licence in October, after encouragement from his former trainer Gary Lockett.
He was due to be in the corner of Liam Williams for the Welsh light-middleweight's victory over Gabor Gorbics in Cardiff last month.
The two blocks of six and seven storeys will be built between Belfast Metropolitan College and the Public Records Office for Northern Ireland.
The proposal also includes over 14,000 sq m of space for research and development.
The minister, Mark H Durkan, said the development would provide "much needed" high specification office space.
He added: "It is anticipated that once completed this building will accommodate 2,000 workers at this highly desirable waterfront location.
"Having this in place should help attract investment and encourage further job creation."
The US bank Citigroup occupies a substantial amount of office space in Titanic Quarter but it is not clear if a tenant has been identified for the new development.
High-end office space in Belfast has been dwindling as little development has taken place in the aftermath of the property crash.
However some new development is now beginning to take place.
Belfast Harbour Commission is currently developing office space in a project known as City Quays 1.
Bowlish Infants School in Shepton Mallet was evacuated and homes and businesses in Croscombe were also deluged.
The River Sheppey in Croscombe burst its banks flooding a pub and nearby homes in the centre of the village.
The heavy rain also forced the A371 to be closed between Shepton Mallet and Wells.
The Environment Agency said a storm cloud passing over the Shepton Mallet area caused the flooding, when 30mm of rain fell in the space of 30 minutes.
Bowlish House Hotel owner Chris Ashleigh said: "The school informed us at about 10:15 that the fire service told them the river was about to burst its banks and there would be a lot of activity outside the hotel with parents collecting their children.
"Rather than have them out on the road we suggested they were brought inside.
"We've had about 60 to 70 children - they all sat down in the sitting room and dining room and they've all been very well behaved."
Somerset County Council sent a structural engineer to inspect a wall near the school which is holding back floodwater. The school will remain closed on Thursday as a precaution.
A small section of the river wall in Croscombe was hammered down by a local resident to drain the water away.
Local resident, Peter Baron, said: "There was about two foot of water on the road and so some citizens turned up with their sledgehammers and bashed the wall down, a big water spout appeared and the road cleared quickly after that."
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said heavy rainfall had also affected parts of Wookey, such as Church Street which was under 2ft (60cm) of water in places earlier.
A spokesman for the fire service said crews had attended several properties to pump out water and to clear debris from roads.
Earlier heavy rainfall left some roads in Wookey and Shepton Mallet, such as Cannards Grave Road in Shepton under water, but this has now cleared.
The head teacher of Bowlish Infants School said it would remain closed on Thursday.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Vincent Uzomah said he prayed "God, don't let me die" as he ran to look for help after being stabbed in the stomach.
The boy - who cannot be named - has been sentenced to 11 years detention for the attack at Dixons Kings Academy in Bradford on 11 June.
Mr Uzomah, 50, said he was still too traumatised to return to teaching.
"I was just thinking is it my time to die? Is this my last hour? I didn't say goodbye to my wife, my little kids," he said.
The boy racially abused the father-of-three before stabbing him with a kitchen knife he had brought to school.
Mr Uzomah said he did not realise what had happened until he saw the knife being pulled out from his stomach.
"I looked around for help and there was nobody around. I felt if I stayed in the classroom probably the worst would happen and I started feeling cold inside so I held it tightly and started running towards the reception.
"I just prayed 'God, don't let me die'. I was really frightened."
At the boy's sentencing, Bradford Crown Court heard how the teenager had discussed the attack with a friend beforehand and later made "sick" boasts about his actions on Facebook.
Mr Uzomah later criticised those people who had "liked" a status update from his attacker on the social networking site, which contained the line, "I stick a blade straight in his tummy".
He said: "It makes me feel like the society is drifting away from the normal way of life and if things are not really put into place to correct this, it will keep on getting worse."
But Mr Uzomah said although the attack had caused him and his family pain, he still felt some sympathy for the boy and had forgiven him.
He admitted that he was still too frightened to return to work, despite his passion for teaching.
"The way I'm feeling at the moment, I don't think I could step into the classroom. But I believe with time I will get over it," he said.
"If I go to the park and see some kids who look similar to the boy that stabbed me, for sure it's there. I feel the need to protect myself. It is really not a good feeling."
The boy was handed an 11-year extended sentence, which includes six years' detention and five years on licence.
He admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent but denied attempted murder.
Under the deal, it will invest 276m euro in ASML to develop tools to make smaller, more cost-effective chips.
This comes just weeks after Intel signed a similar agreement with ASML.
Dutch firm ASML makes machines used to print circuit patterns onto chips.
Shang-yi Chiang, TSMC's co-chief operating officer, said that one of the biggest challenges facing the industry was "how to effectively control the escalating wafer manufacturing cost".
He said the co-investment programme with ASML to develop future technology will help keep the costs in check in the long run.
The Taiwanese chipmaker will also invest 838m euro to acquire a 5% stake in the firm.
TSMC said that it was hopeful that an increased investment in research will help ASML develop equipment that can handle a larger size of circular wafers from which chips are cut.
Chipmakers across the globe have been trying to increase the size of the wafers to 450mm, from the current size of 300mm.
The shift in the size of these wafers is expected to result in substantial cost savings for the chipmakers as more chips can be cut from them.
"The transition from one wafer size to the next has historically delivered a 30 to 40% reduction in die cost and we expect the shift from today's standard 300mm wafers to larger 450mm wafers to offer similar benefits," Brian Krzanich, Intel's chief operating officer said after the firm signed its agreement with ASML.
"The faster we do this, the sooner we can gain the benefit of productivity improvements, which creates tremendous value for customers and shareholders."
At the same time, TSMC and Intel have both said that their investment ASML will also help in faster development of extreme ultraviolet lithography, a new way of printing circuit patterns onto silicon wafers.
The technique is considered by many analysts as key to further reduction in the size of the chips.
London's mayor had argued that giving Transport for London (TfL) control of trains was the only way to improve the "shocking" passenger service.
But Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said he only wants TfL to be "closely involved" in developing services.
Mr Grayling has announced a major overhaul of England's railways.
Earlier this year the government indicated that services operated by Southern, Southeastern and South West trains could be devolved to London's transport agency once the current franchises end.
"The government needs to pull their finger out and get on with the task of devolving the suburban trains to TfL," Mr Khan said.
"That would lead to fewer cancellations, fewer delays and my fares freeze being extended," he said.
"We will keep pushing the government to deliver the rail devolution they have promised and that is needed."
The overhaul announced by the transport secretary will see franchises run by joint management teams involving operating companies and Network Rail.
Mr Grayling said he expected the Southeastern franchise, which the mayor had hoped to takeover in 2018, will be one of the first to have an "integrated operating team".
But he said a TfL representative will be invited to join "the franchise specification team" to be "more closely involved" in its development.
The Transport Secretary has told Sadiq Khan he's not convinced the mayor should take over suburban train services through south east London.
Chris Grayling says he's not ready to transfer the South Eastern franchise to Transport for London.
Instead, he plans to make the new franchise one of the first where there's closer integration with Network Rail over maintenance and services.
The mayor's been asked to be "closely involved" in planning for the future on suburban routes through south east London.
Effectively the door has not been closed to TfL taking over the franchise, but the mayor's role for now is being seen as advisory.
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales said bulky files had been too big to be filed in a trolley on the gynaecology ward at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire.
Hospital bosses have given assurances that action has been taken since the unannounced visit.
The pair were interviewed by detectives investigating a suspected slave labour racket operated in the city.
Details emerged as a planned bail application by a man accused of playing a central role was put on hold.
Zoltan Raffael, 39, denies three counts of human trafficking and three of acting as an unlicensed gang master.
He is further accused of money laundering.
The charges relate to two women and a man allegedly trafficked earlier this summer.
Mr Raffael, who is originally from Hungary but with an address at Eia Street in Belfast, was arrested after voluntarily handing himself into police last month.
He was said to have provided a full account at interview.
A 38-year-old woman charged with similar offences is currently on police bail ahead of her first scheduled court appearance next month.
On Thursday, Mr Raffael's barrister sought to adjourn his bid to be released amid attempts to ensure he has no contact with the co-accused.
The barrister told Belfast Magistrates' Court: "This is a very serious allegation of people trafficking from Europe to the United Kingdom and then Northern Ireland for the purposes effectively of slave labour."
He also disclosed: "There are two further potential alleged victims of this potential people trafficking enterprise who have come forward that police want to speak to.
"I can see that causing problems for a court determining bail."
A detective involved in the investigation confirmed the development in the case.
"There were another two (alleged) victims being interviewed this week," she said.
The officer also stressed police will "strongly object" to Raffael being granted bail.
Agreeing to the adjournment application, the judge listed the case for a further update next week.
Burke joined Leicestershire on a season-long loan deal in January, but his only appearance came against Loughborough University in March.
In 13 first-class games for Somerset and Surrey, the 26-year-old has scored 274 runs and taken 23 wickets at an average of 30.60.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed my career at Surrey," he told the club website.
The Black Health Initiative in Leeds says midwives from Africa are being flown into the country to carry out the illegal practice.
West Yorkshire Police said they were aware girls were being subjected to FGM locally.
Latest NHS figures show more than 8,000 women across England have recently been identified as being victims of FGM.
FGM is an illegal practice in the UK and carries a sentence of up to 14 years in jail. It is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia, for non medical reasons.
Heather Nelson, Chief Executive of the Black Health Initiative, said: "We know of parties happening here in England, and in West Yorkshire we recently had to break one up, and we've stopped another from taking place.
"What we're finding now is that where once girls were taken abroad to be cut, specialist midwives are now flown over and several girls are cut at the same time, which then leads to a celebration."
The charity said it had a referral from a school in Leeds last week regarding an eight-year-old girl who they thought was playing truant.
"In fact she was disappearing from class because it took her an hour to go to the toilet, such was the pain she was experiencing," Ms Nelson said.
"People will say why don't you call the police if you hear about one of these parties? But when you call the police you find that not every officer has an awareness of what FGM is."
West Yorkshire Police said they were aware that women and girls in Yorkshire had been subjected to the act of FGM.
Ass Ch Con Russ Foster said: "We are doing everything we can to tackle this issue and it is vital that all our partners continue to work together to make a difference."
The force said it had no "specific intelligence" about FGM "parties" taking place.
Areas in England with the highest number of recorded FGM victims include Birmingham, Bristol, London and Manchester.
'I don't feel like a woman'
Fatima, from Sheffield, was subjected to FGM when she was 10 years old while living in Africa.
"One day my auntie came to our house to take me to the place where they were going to cut me, and when we got there five women pinned me down.
"Afterwards I got an infection and that means now I can't have children.
"I don't feel like a woman because I can't feel anything. Everyday I think about it and it makes me very angry."
A recent report by the Home Affairs Select Committee said it was a "national scandal" that no one in the UK had ever been successfully prosecuted for a FGM offence.
There are no definitive figures that detail exactly how many women in England have actually been a victim of FGM.
A study by the City University of London published in 2015 estimated there were 137,000 women who have been subjected to the practice in England and Wales.
Meanwhile, NHS Digital began collating data in April 2015 about the number of women and girls coming into contact with the NHS who have been a victim of FGM at some point in their lives.
These figures show that 8,718 women have been identified as FGM victims, with 68 females saying the procedure had been carried out in the UK.
Additional reporting by Abi Jaiyeola and Jenny Eells
Gray originally had until Wednesday to reply to the Football Association, but now has until 5 September.
One tweet from the 25-year-old striker's account appeared to condone killing gay people.
The tweets from four years ago were posted when Gray was playing for non-league Hinckley United.
Gray, who is charged with bringing the game into disrepute, has apologised and asked "for forgiveness" for the posts, insisting he is now a "completely different person" and did not "hold the beliefs written in those tweets".
The posts, which also contained offensive terms, were deleted soon after being highlighted.
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The Chiefs led 10-6 at half time, but 14 points from Dan Biggar and a try from former Exeter player Josh Matavesi saw the Welsh side get the win.
"Sometimes what a team needs when it's on a winning run is a loss to give it a kick in the pants, and we've royally received a kick in the pants," he said.
"I've no doubt that we'll bounce back from this, we're a good side."
The defeat ended an excellent run for the Chiefs, which has seen them move up to second in the Premiership after bonus-point wins over London Irish and Newcastle, as well as victory over fellow high-flyers Leicester.
"That wasn't an Exeter Chiefs performance," Baxter added on BBC Radio Devon.
"We didn't look full of verve, full of fight and full of steely discipline, we got a little bit ragged a little too often and ultimately we paid the price.
"For a large part of the game it should have been the Ospreys under pressure with the scoreboard like that, but we never played like they were the team under pressure, we looked like the team under pressure for the whole game."
The 30-year-old Ireland international will leave Surrey at the end of the season after 11 years at the club.
"I am keen to play a part as a senior player in ensuring that the squad's potential is turned into success on the field," Wilson told the club website.
"There's a lot of talent at the club and they are learning and improving all the time."
A five-day campaign was launched last week by King Abdullah with a $5.3m (£3.3m) donation, but it was extended after donations continued to pour in.
State media report that people are donating both in cash and in kind, including medical equipment and cars.
More than 122,000 people have fled Syria since March 2011, while a million have been displaced inside the country.
In June, the UN appealed for $189m to help it provide six months of food, medical assistance and support for basic services for those inside Syria, and another $193 for refugees in neighbouring states.
However, earlier this month the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said both appeals were only 20% funded.
The Saudi government has called on President Bashar al-Assad to step down and is believed to be funding and backing the rebel Free Syrian Army.
Of 78 samples of the herb, 19 contained ingredients like olive or myrtle leaves, researchers found.
The study, for consumer group Which? revealed that in some cases, less than a third was oregano.
"Much better controls are needed," said lead author Prof Chris Elliott of the Global Institute of Food Security.
Prof Elliott examined dried oregano sold at a range of shops in the UK and Ireland and from online retailers.
The team used a technique called mass spectrometry to identify the make-up of the samples.
Some contained between 30% and 70% of other ingredients.
"Clearly we have identified a major problem and it may well reflect issues with other herbs and spices that enter the British Isles through complex supply chains," said Prof Elliott.
Consumers need much better protection "from heavily contaminated products," he added.
Prof Elliott blamed the complexity of food supply systems for the problem and suggested a lot of food may not be what consumers think it is.
"It particularly happens with things that come from far away places and with many different people interacting in the supply chains, they do tend to be very, very vulnerable," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Breakfast programme.
In a government-commissioned report, published in the wake of the 2013 horse meat scandal, Prof Elliott called for a national food crime prevention network to help protect consumers from food fraud.
In separate work last year in conjunction with Which? he found 40% of lamb takeaway meals contained other meat and one in six of the fish it bought from chip shops was not what had been ordered
Which? described the findings as "the latest in a long line of food frauds" which it has revealed and has shared them with the Food Standards Agency.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "It's impossible for any shopper to tell, without the help of scientists, what herbs they're actually buying.
"Retailers, producers and enforcement officers must step up checks to stamp out food fraud."
The Food Standards Agency said it would follow up the results of the Which? survey with the UK food businesses concerned, adding that an investigation into the herbs and spices sector was already underway.
"It is vital that the food people buy is what it says it is on the label," said a spokeswoman.
"It is the responsibility of food suppliers to test their products to ensure consumers are not being misled.
"The potential for food fraud in the herbs and spices sector is something that the FSA is already exploring following concerns about undeclared allergens in spices earlier in the year."
Ministers have lifted a block on the Birmingham Development Plan (BDP), which will see 50,000 new homes built.
The plan was approved in April, but put on hold after opposition to greenbelt development in Sutton Coldfield.
Housing Minister Gavin Barwell has now said the housing need was "exceptional" and the plan should be adopted.
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Mr Mitchell told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier: "This is the fault of the Labour council, my constituents are frozen out from this process and not one iota of notice has been taken of us."
The BDP includes 51,100 homes, 300 hectares (740 acres) of employment land, 350,000 sq m of retail floor space and 745,000 sqm of office space across the city.
Fields near the Sutton Coldfield bypass at Peddimore and Langley will have 6,000 homes and 71 hectares (175 acres) of business built on them.
Birmingham City Council leader John Clancy welcomed the decision saying the government had "recognised the need to release greenbelt to help meet our housing and employment land needs".
As part of the plans, there will also be six economic zones and 26 enterprise zones to grow existing business and attract new investors.
Yesterday, Conservative ministers did something that was pretty surprising. They gave the go-ahead to the building of 6,000 homes on the greenbelt, in the constituency of a rather prominent Conservative MP in Sutton Coldfield.
Andrew Mitchell, the local MP, blames the Labour council. It is fair to say he is generally not a happy man, not one iota of notice taken of his constituents. He'll seek a debate in Parliament.
But here is the thing that really matters - on the same day that happened, Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, gave a speech extolling what a good decision this was, saying how much he would back councils that made similar decisions. We are coming up to a housing White Paper and you can read something significant into all of this.
I understand that one of the ideas that ministers are considering in that White Paper is changes to make sure that councils don't set the level of houses they say they need in their area artificially low, so they can say "look, we don't need to even look at or consider the greenbelt" and there are concerns that may have been happening from some.
Research has shown 89,000 new homes are required over the next 15 years to address the housing shortage and meet the needs of Birmingham's growing population.
The plan is expected to be formally adopted by the city council early next year.
Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey accused them of "frankly shameful" behaviour during a delayed immigration tribunal.
The four men, led by Shabir Ahmed, 63, were convicted in 2012 of preying on girls as young as 13 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
The law firms involved declined to comment while the case was ongoing.
Mr Justice McCloskey, president of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, said the men's barristers and solicitors had failed to submit the necessary papers to the court and had repeatedly asked for adjournments.
He said: "The Upper Tribunal has been treated with sustained and marked disrespect. The conduct of these appeals has been cavalier and unprofessional. The rule of law has been weakened in consequence."
The judge, who is expected to deliver his decision on the men's appeal against deportation this month, also criticised government lawyers representing the Home Secretary after they produced "only a skeleton argument" at the "11th hour".
He has urged government legal officials to mount an investigation into such cases.
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said: "The perpetrators of these crimes are trying to avoid languishing in a Pakistani jail, which is where they should be. The law is far too easy to manipulate in this area."
The Rochdale grooming gang plied teenagers with drink and drugs before they were "passed around" for sex, the trial was told.
Ahmed was given a 19-year sentence at Liverpool Crown Court in May 2012 for a string of child sex offences, including rape. He was also jailed for 22 years, to run concurrently, in July 2012 for raping another child 30 times over a decade.
Three other men convicted of child sex offences in the same case, Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Abdul Rauf, are also appealing against deportation.
Their solicitors, Nottingham-based firm Burton and Burton, were approached for comment by the BBC.
A spokesperson for the Government Legal Department said it had apologised to the judge where it had failed to "comply with a direction".
Rajiv Sharma, the barrister who represented Ahmed, said he had been instructed at very short notice and was no longer handling the case.
Shukri Mabkhout's The Italian was the eighth winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
Judges said the novel was "astonishing", "a work of art" and "an important contribution to Tunisian, and Arab, literary fiction".
Mabkhout receives $50,000 (£32,000) and a guaranteed translation into English.
The Italian chronicles a seminal period in Tunisian political history while telling the story of Abdel Nasser, nicknamed 'The Italian' due to his good looks.
Yasir Suleiman, chairman of IPAF's board, called its author a "master of suspense".
Mabkhout's book, he said, "never lets go of the reader, who willingly follows its intriguing characters on their converging and diverging journeys".
He added that Mabkhout defies the "unfair criticism that the Arabic language is a bookish and fossilised mode of expression at odds with the modern world".
A total of 180 titles from 15 countries were in contention for the award, which is unofficially known as the Arabic Booker prize.
The five other shortlisted finalists will each receive $10,000 (£6,543).
Since 2008, the winning and shortlisted IPAF books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
Sammon and defender Faycal Rherras teamed up with the rest of the squad for pre-season training, with both men signing three-year contracts.
Hearts open their Europa League qualifying campaign on 30 June.
"The objective is to improve on last season's position and there's no reason we can't do that with this group of players and the manager," said Sammon.
"The club did incredibly well last season after getting promoted.
"I want to be challenging for the highest position we can and I'm excited by the prospect of being part of something really successful here."
Sammon, released by Derby County, returns to the Scottish top flight five years after leaving Kilmarnock for Wigan Athletic.
"I feel that I've improved in lots of different areas," the 29-year-old told BBC Scotland.
"I'm definitely stronger. I've had the opportunity to work with some good fitness coaches.
"Technically, I've been rubbing shoulders with some top drawer talent and that can only help.
"Mentally is another area that often gets overlooked. I was on some loan moves, which can be difficult because you're spending a lot of time travelling and you're away from the family.
"So I've improved from some positive and some negative experiences down south."
The Irishman spent last season on loan to Sheffield United, playing 33 times for the English League One club and scoring six goals.
And he revealed that he had "a couple of other offers" and had a "brief chat" with Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes.
"Playing at Tynecastle was always one of the best away days, the atmosphere is top class," Sammon added.
"I can only imagine what it's like as a home player when the team is doing the business on the park. It helped make the decision to come here an easy one."
The 23-year-old Rherras has left Sint-Truiden after two years with the Belgian top-flight club.
"Faycal is a player with real potential and will be a big boost to the defence," Head coach Robbie Neilson told his club website.
"He's played at a good level in Belgium and has been involved in the Moroccan international scene, so it's quite a coup to get him."
Left-sided Rherras, who was born in Liege, played 28 times last season for Sint-Truiden, for whom he signed from Vise in 2014.
Hearts' double signing came the day after 20-year-old Robbie Muirhead signed on at Tynecastle after leaving Dundee United, while fellow striker Gavin Reilly joined Dunfermline Athletic on loan.
Neither the report or chairman of the inquiry called for his resignation.
But there was enough in the 1,700 pages to make life extremely uncomfortable for him - particularly with the Daily Mail dubbing him the "Man with No Shame"
Firstly, the report was scathing about the culture in the NHS, saying it put "corporate self-interest" ahead of patients over the failings, which led to hundreds of needless deaths because of neglect and abuse.
As head of such an organisation, Sir David clearly had a case to answer.
But it went further than that.
The inquiry also dealt with his time as head of the health authority which oversaw Stafford Hospital.
He was on the panel that appointed Martin Yeates as Stafford's chief executive, the individual who ordered the cost-cutting measures which led to the "appalling" standards of care.
Over the next few months documents show that Sir David was concerned about the performance of the trust, but letters from the hospital's bosses convinced him they were tackling the problems.
The inquiry suggested this could have been viewed as the trust being in denial rather than engaged with the difficulties.
Questions were also asked over why there were no objections over the decision to recommend Stafford for elite foundation trust status in the summer of 2007 when it went through the Department of Health validation process.
He was, by this point, the department's most senior civil servant.
He is also reported to have dismissed Cure the NHS, the campaign group set up by local Stafford Hospital patients, as "simple lobbying" in a meeting with the NHS regulator in 2008.
The findings were enough to prompt campaigners and MPs to call for his head.
The government resisted, saying he was the right person to lead the NHS.
At the time, the health service was little over a month away from the biggest reorganisation in its history.
It is also likely ministers felt a great deal of loyalty to Sir David.
Over the past two years he has developed a close working relationship with Number 10 - so much so that it was Sir David rather than Andrew Lansley that the prime minister turned to most when the NHS reforms were nearly derailed by opposition within the health service.
Sir David has also proved extremely effective at keeping a tight control on the purse strings.
When he took over in 2006, NHS trusts were running up deficits.
He enforced tighter fiscal management by keeping a firm grip - some would say too firm - on what the NHS was up to.
In fact, a sign of his control can be seen in the fact that the latest savings drive - the bid to save £20bn by 2015 - is known as the "Nicholson challenge".
But this focus on spending led to accusations he was too controlling and at times bullying.
Many will argue this is an inevitable for someone who is a leader of an organisation the size of the NHS - it has 1.3m staff and a turnover of more than £100bn.
And those who have worked closely with him describe him as being a passionate and caring man.
But despite all his success during his 35-year NHS career, for many he will be known as the man who was in charge when the NHS forgot to care.
The Claim: Speaking about the UK's membership of the EU, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "It means workers throughout Europe have decent rights at work, meaning it's harder to undercut terms and conditions across Europe."
Reality Check verdict: Some of the UK's employment law comes from the EU. However, the impact a Brexit might have on workers' rights and protections depends on which existing laws the UK decides to keep or get rid of.
Among other things, he said the European social chapter and other EU directives had secured:
Let's start with paid leave. Some voices on the Remain side, such as the Trades Union Congress (TUC), have warned that holiday pay would be at risk if the UK decided to leave the EU.
Workers in the UK are entitled to five weeks and three days of paid holiday a year (including public holidays). The Working Time Regulations of 1998 guarantee four weeks of paid leave as a European minimum. But for 35 years before joining the EU, the UK had legislation on paid holidays, so this is unlikely to be affected. You can read more about this here.
Other voices on the Remain side have repeatedly linked benefits such as women's rights to EU membership. For example, the right of part-time workers to join occupational pension schemes was determined by rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which found that excluding them constituted indirect sex discrimination.
Find out more here about why we said that the EU had been influential in guaranteeing women's rights in the workplace - but they would not necessarily be in jeopardy if the UK left the EU.
It's also fair to say that the UK has, on some occasions, gone further than the EU in guaranteeing workers' rights, for example, in the case of maternity leave.
The 52 weeks of statutory maternity leave in the UK is considerably longer than the 14 weeks guaranteed by EU law. Of this, a period of 40 weeks is available for shared parental leave.
One controversial aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive. Some want to limit its application, which governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime. The Open Europe think-tank has listed it as the third most costly EU regulation.
The overall effect a Brexit might have on workers' rights is one of the most common questions that we get asked.
In short, if the UK votes to leave the EU on 23 June then the UK government would have to choose which EU laws to keep, change or get rid of. So, in theory, some rights could be lost but trade unions, the Labour Party and many Conservatives could also oppose any such move. We've answered a question from a reader about workers' rights in more detail here.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
The two sides will meet on 8 September at Sports Authority Field in Denver.
A superb defensive display earned the Broncos a 24-10 win and their third Super Bowl in the teams' last match.
The last time a season started with the teams that contested the Super Bowl was when the Kansas City Chiefs played the Minnesota Vikings in 1970.
"I think it's great," Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. "It's a big challenge for our team. It gets our attention really quick.
"We know that we're going to have to have a really good offseason."
The New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals, who both fell a game short of Super Bowl 50, will also meet on the opening weekend at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The 17-week regular season is followed by the play-offs which are contested by 12 of the 32 teams and conclude with the Super Bowl.
For the third successive season, three games are being played in London.
Wembley will stage the Jacksonville Jaguars against the Indianapolis Colts on 2 October followed by the Cincinnati Bengals against the Washington Redskins on 30 October.
Twickenham hosts the Los Angeles Rams against the New York Giants on 23 October.
Since the first NFL game was staged at Wembley in 2007, all the teams involved in London matches have received a bye week afterwards to help them recover from their trans-Atlantic trip.
However this year, the Colts are due to host the Chicago Bears the week after playing at Wembley. The five other teams have been given the usual time off.
While England were taking on Pakistan in the UAE, South Africa were touring India - both in conditions different to Kingsmead.
But whereas England were able to move on from their 2-0 defeat, to put it in a box and treat it as irrelevant to this series, South Africa's 3-0 loss continues to hang over their heads.
Alastair Cook's tourists look as though they are enjoying their cricket and are playing it in a good spirit. I was very impressed with their performance. I thought before this series began that they could come here and win, and nothing in Durban has persuaded me to think otherwise.
If we consider the issues that have surrounded this England team for a while, they are slowly being addressed and it can be said that they are moving towards their best XI.
The fragile nature of the middle order has been boosted by the inclusions of James Taylor and Nick Compton.
Taylor has long impressed in the one-day side and showed his worth to the Test team when he was recalled for the third match against Pakistan, while Compton played really well on his return after a two-year absence.
This match in Durban, where conditions favoured the bowlers for long periods, suited the type of scenario in which Compton likes to bat.
We will see situations when he has to adapt. If England are 150-1 when he arrives at the crease, can Compton play with more freedom? Test cricket is about playing the situation, so we will learn if he can be more positive.
In the bowling department, Moeen Ali came back from a tough tour of the UAE with seven wickets to earn the man of the match award.
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His off-spin, which has always been a work in progress, is getting better and better. For him to get 3-47 in the second innings - including the key scalp of AB de Villiers - will give him huge confidence.
Spinners are under pressure to get wickets late in the game, when the pitch is deteriorating and conditions are in their favour. Moeen has felt that pressure in the past, but he rose to the challenge here. He should now know that he is capable.
For Steven Finn, the remarkable journey from being "unselectable" to a potent Test-match weapon continues. Once again, he bowled very well here. He is a real bonus for Cook to have in the side - he simply takes wickets using the unexpected bounce generated by his height.
The two issues still outstanding are the wicketkeeper and the opening batsman.
Jonny Bairstow is less of a concern because he batted beautifully - timing the ball and scoring more freely than anyone else in the match - and he made up for the missed stumping of De Villiers by stumping Temba Bavuma on day five.
Bairstow is a good man to have in the side. He is very upbeat and full of life. He would have probably had a pretty sleepless night thinking about the De Villiers miss, but he took the first opportunity that came his way the next morning.
The challenge for him is to continue scoring runs and to eradicate the mistakes from his keeping - he only has to look across the dressing room to see the spectre of Jos Buttler looming over his place.
As for the opening spot, the second Test in Cape Town is a big one for Alex Hales, who will know he needs to perform better than he did on his debut in Durban.
Before this match, we thought Hales' weaknesses would be a loose technique outside off stump and a tendency to play a needless big shot. His dismissals highlighted both.
In the first innings, he flashed at Dale Steyn to give an edge and, in the second, he played nicely before playing a crazy big shot to be caught at long-on.
Come Cape Town, England will want to see that he is at least learning from those mistakes.
These, though, are small problems for England compared to those faced by South Africa.
Quite simply, the Proteas look as though they are hating their cricket. There was no leadership from Hashim Amla. When things are going badly, the captain has to galvanise his team, to inject some spirit and fight. There was none at all.
South Africa are still ranked as the world's number one, but they are a team in decline.
If Steyn does miss the second Test through injury, then I wonder how they are going to bowl England out. They have so many batsmen out of form and their two stars - Amla and De Villiers - have been burdened with the captaincy and wicketkeeping respectively.
There are political issues in their selection process which makes things even more difficult but, even then, parts of their performance were pretty hapless. Look at the way they batted from number five down. Bavuma was stumped for a duck trying to save a Test - what is going on there?
South Africa pretty much came straight from India and into the fire of this series. There was little time for change and even less before the second Test. It will be very difficult for them to turn things around.
Therefore, England have an excellent opportunity to win this series quite comfortably, so long as they do not succumb to their own inconsistencies.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Stephan Shemilt
Hundreds of thousands of cheering Germans turned out for the then presidential candidate and roared their approval of his vision of a new America - one which would be open to, and co-operate with, the rest of the world. His liberal and diplomatic tone struck a chord with many in the excited crowd.
Few here are cheering now.
What should have been Barack Obama's farewell visit to Berlin has been overshadowed by the man who will follow him into the White House.
The election of Donald Trump has profoundly shocked this country. Even as Berlin frantically hurries to establish diplomatic ties with Mr Trump's team, there is resignation. It will be some time before anyone really knows where the president-elect really stands on international relations.
There is also concern. A recent poll by the national broadcaster revealed the majority of Germans believe their country's relationship with the US will suffer.
For some years now, it has been a pretty special relationship.
Air Force One touched down in winter drizzle on Wednesday night just in time for Barack Obama's first engagement - a three-hour long dinner, which reportedly included a currywurst course, with the woman he calls his closest international ally.
The two leaders have built a strong and warm partnership that survived the revelation that US spies had listened into Angela Merkel's mobile phone calls.
They have worked closely together on issues like trade - America is Germany's largest trading partner - and both leaders have tried, and struggled, to see through the controversial free trade agreement (TTIP) between America and Europe.
They have also co-operated on climate policy and the conflict in Ukraine. Mrs Merkel has wielded significant global influence as mediator between Russia and the West.
No wonder, perhaps, she and Mr Obama have used this, his final visit, to stress their continued commitment to such issues, as well as promising that their countries will continue to work together. Neither wants their work, their vision - or in Mr Obama's case, legacy - destroyed.
Speaking alongside Mr Obama at a news conference in Berlin on Thursday, Mrs Merkel said Germany would continue to pursue free trade deals with the US.
She said she hoped to "work closely with the new president".
Both leaders have also pledged to continue to uphold the values of freedom, justice and democracy.
But - as one minister here recently put it - the world is entering a period of vacuum which will be defined by questions to which no-one knows the answer.
Donald Trump has indicated his disdain for climate change policy and free trade. The tide of populism that swept him to victory is washing over Europe, too.
Mrs Merkel must confront Germany's own anti-migrant, anti-Muslim Alternative for Germany party (AfD) which is snapping at the ankles of Germany's establishment parties and likely to win seats in the national parliament next year.
So what is, in effect, a message to Mr Trump and an attempt to reassure those unnerved by his victory may, in reality, be a largely symbolic statement.
In these uncertain times, one fact remains. Angela Merkel - Germany - will miss Barack Obama.
Reports at the weekend said the FTSE 250-listed company could face a bid approach from private equity firm KKR. Shares in Entertainment One rose 6.78% to 255p.
Entertainment One rejected a £1bn bid from UK broadcaster ITV last week.
London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 25.17 points to 6,941.19.
Shares in software group Sage rose despite news of a data breach. The company said it was "investigating unauthorised access to customer information using an internal login".
Reports said the data breach could have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses.
On the currency markets, the pound was down 0.38% against the dollar at $1.2871. It was also down 0.64% against the euro at €1.14920.
Currency traders will be eyeing a run of key data due out this week, when inflation, unemployment and retail sales figures for July - the first full month since the Brexit vote - will be released.
Attorney Bill Quigley says he hopes they will be released within days.
Last week, sabotage convictions against Sister Megan Rice, 85, Michael Walli, 66, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 59, for breaking into a Tennessee nuclear facility in 2012 were overturned.
But it upheld guilty verdicts for damaging government property.
Sister Megan was jailed for nearly three years for entering the Oak Ridge facility, which stores uranium.
The other two protesters were each sentenced to more than five years in prison.
The July 2012 incident prompted security changes at the Y-12 site.
On Friday, Mr Quigley said he was trying to get the three activists out of prison as soon as possible.
They have spent two years behind the bars, and the appeals court said they likely already had served more time than they would received for the lesser charge.
The campaigners are members of the group Transform Now Plowshares.
During their trial last year, Walli and Boertje-Obed received tougher sentences because they had longer criminal histories.
The trio were also found guilty of causing more than $1,000-worth (£650) of damage to government property.
After cutting a fence to enter the site, they walked around, spray-painted graffiti, strung out crime-scene tape and chipped a wall with hammers.
They spent two hours inside the site.
The trio also sprayed the exterior of the complex with baby bottles containing human blood.
When a guard approached, they offered him food and started singing.
At the trial, Sister Megan said her only regret was waiting so long to stage her protest. "It is manufacturing that which can only cause death," she said.
US lawmakers and the Department of Energy later launched an inquiry and uncovered "troubling displays of ineptitude" at the facility.
Top officials were reassigned, including at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
WSI, the company providing security at the site, was dismissed and other officers were sacked, demoted or suspended.
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James McLelland, 67, of Eyemouth, allowed his pet to be covered in fleas, skin conditions, sores and suffer a loss of hair over a six-month period.
The Scottish SPCA was alerted by someone who spotted terrier Trixie constantly scratching itself.
As well as the five-year ban, McLelland was also fined £300.
At Jedburgh Sheriff Court, he admitted a charge of causing the dog unnecessary suffering between February and August.
Scottish SPCA Insp Stephanie McCrossan said the dog had been in a lot of pain due to a long-standing and untreated skin condition and was also suffering from hair loss due to fleas.
"We would expect any animal owner to have sought immediate veterinary treatment for a condition that could have been easily prevented," she said.
"We welcome the fact that McLelland has been dealt with by the court and the sentence handed down. We hope he will give serious consideration about his suitability to care for other animals in the future.
"Trixie has now received the proper medication and treatment and has made a full recovery. She will be joining her new family this weekend."
People living in England who are aged 17 and 18 are eligible for the free jab.
The Royal College of Nursing says only a third took up the offer last year.
Charlotte Hannibal, now 21, lost both her legs and all of the fingers on her left hand due to the disease.
She had just started university when she fell ill.
It started with a "headache, a bit of a sore throat", says Charlotte, who is now an ambassador for the Meningitis Research Foundation.
Twenty-four hours later she was admitted to hospital. Doctors treated the infection, but had to amputate.
Charlotte's story
Older teenagers and new university students are said to be at particularly high risk of infection because they are mixing closely with lots of new people. Coughs, sneezes and kissing can spread it.
The MenACWY jab protects against four strains of meningococcal disease which cause meningitis and septicaemia - strains A, C, W and Y.
MenW, the type Charlotte had, is one of the most aggressive and life-threatening forms and can be fatal.
As well as affecting the membranes around the brain, the infection can cause life-threatening blood poisoning.
Officials say there has been a rapid increase in MenW cases across England, from 22 cases in 2009-10 to 210 in 2015-16.
Young people who have not yet had the MenACWY vaccine remain eligible up to their 25th birthday and should contact their GP surgery to get immunised.
Year 9 pupils (aged 13 to 14) are also routinely offered the jab in school.
Helen Donovan, from the RCN, said: "Meningitis can be fatal, and can leave those who survive with life-changing disabilities. Vaccination is quick, easy and free, and offers protection against most strains of the disease, but reaching young people is not easy.
"Many will have been away over the summer travelling or working before university. But the risk is real and getting vaccinated saves lives.
"We are urging people to contact their surgeries now and book an appointment with the practice nurse."
Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, added: "Remain vigilant and seek urgent medical help if you think someone may be showing signs of infection."
Never has there been a man in the White House - commander-in-chief of the most powerful military player in the alliance - who, at least on the campaign trail, described the organisation as "obsolete".
Mr Trump - unlike his predecessors - is not a man steeped in the orthodoxy of the trans-Atlantic partnership. He may now have reversed his position on Nato's obsolescence, but he tends to see things in transactional terms and it's clear that he still wonders if the US is getting a good deal from its Nato partners.
Indeed Nato officials are playing down any use of the term "summit" at all. I understand that Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is seeking a proper, full-scale summit in 2018.
This Brussels meeting is a brief affair; in large part a ceremonial occasion with a dinner attached. Two monuments will be unveiled and a ribbon will be cut marking the opening of the as-yet-unfinished new Nato headquarters.
"It's all a bit unscripted and very light on substance," commented one Nato insider. "It's all about creating an atmosphere - hopefully we will get a couple of good presidential tweets."
For all the uncertainties about President Trump's position, in many ways the Atlantic alliance is in good health:
But the shiny and unfinished new headquarters building is a kind of metaphor for the state of the alliance as a whole.
All appearances are of vitality and unquestioned relevance: an alliance capable of carrying out old missions like deterring against a resurgent Russian threat while grappling with the new - instability, terrorism and cyber-war.
Beneath the surface there is still a good deal of unfinished business and uncertainty about the way ahead.
There are arguments about resources and future missions; there are fissures opening up between members; and fundamental questions as to whether many of the "new" security challenges really fall within the remit of Nato at all.
Resources have taken up much of the limelight - not least because Mr Trump, like every recent president before him, insists that Washington's allies must spend more.
The alliance has anchored itself to the benchmark goal that 2% of a country's GDP should go on defence spending. A few are already there. Some are on the way to this goal; many are certainly spending more.
But there are still huge doubts as to how far this is really generating additional military capability at a time when technology is changing quickly and the need for rapidly deployable forces is growing.
Washington wants Nato to be even more involved in counter-terrorism and the struggle against so-called Islamic State.
Nato does a lot of work with partners on building defence capacity and reforming security structures. It has helped with training in Iraq and Jordan and so on.
But the Americans want Nato to join the anti-IS coalition as Nato: most of its members already have seats at the table. The plan seems likely to go ahead with Nato advance warning and control systems and tanker aircraft playing a more active role in the air campaign.
At least at the European end of the alliance, there is a fear in some quarters as to where this may all lead. Could Nato allies become embroiled in a post-conflict Iraq or indeed in Libya, just as they appear stuck in Afghanistan?
At root, though, there is another problem.
Many of the "new" challenges - cyber; the Russian disinformation campaign waged against Western societies; "grey-zone" warfare combining elements of both, along with military power (as seen in Ukraine) - are not entirely or even exclusively the remit of a military or diplomatic organisation.
There is a military dimension of course, but these are as much matters of civil resilience for private industry and institutions as they are for government.
Nato does not have a central role.
There are also internal strains within the alliance. The broad difference in emphasis has been managed up to now between northern member-states, whose chief worry is Russia, and those in the south, on Nato's Mediterranean coast, who see the wider instability in the Middle East as the prime threat.
But Turkey's drift towards authoritarianism and its flirtation with Russia warn of potential problems ahead on the alliance's southern flank.
Nato clearly still has a role both as a diplomatic forum and as a provider of military punch when needed.
But huge questions still remain about its capacity, enthusiasm and appetite for effective nation-building in conflict zones; a problem, in fairness, that all major international institutions are grappling with.
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Staff struggled to control one balloon which landed on its side while another was whipped up in the air before crashing back down towards the crowd.
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Lucie will be taking on singers and groups from all over Europe, after being chosen in a British public vote on Friday.
She told Newsround's Ricky she's hoping that her stripped-back ballad, Never Give Up On You, will help her to stand out from the rest.
The grand final takes place in Kiev in Ukraine in May - good luck, Lucie!
Salford led by 16 points at half-time after tries from Niall Evalds, Kris Welham and Ben Murdoch-Masila.
Evalds latched on to Michael Dobson's grubber kick for his second try, before Greg Johnson crossed for the visitors.
Wigan hit back with tries from Tom Davies, Ryan Sutton and Lewis Tierney, but Salford's defence held firm in the final ten minutes to secure the win.
Gareth O'Brien kicked a drop-goal and Dobson added another penalty late on as the hosts secured only their sixth victory over the Cherry and Whites in 41 Super League meetings.
The hosts had beaten Salford in the past four meetings, but they were unable to call on a number of senior players due to injury, while captain Sean O'Loughlin was absent on international duty with England.
The result takes Ian Watson's side up to second in the table after 13 games, only two points behind leaders Castleford.
Shaun Wane's Wigan stay fifth, having lost their last two games by a combined total of 85 points.
Wigan head coach Shaun Wane told BBC Radio Manchester:
"I'm very happy with some of things we did today. In the second half I thought we gave ourselves a chance to win the game.
"There were a couple of things that happened to us where if we had just got a try at a crucial time and not come up with a poor decision it would have been tough on Salford to win that game.
"We're doing it tough at the minute, but the spirit's really good and the players understand we're not far off."
Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester:
"It's great for our group as a squad, because to be fair we were down to the bare bones as well and we don't have the biggest of squads.
"It just goes to show that the guys who were in there prepared the right way and trained the right way, and they got the rewards for what they've done today.
"We speak as a club about taking it every week and knowing that we can beat teams like this, so it's about us turning up with the right attitude, training the right way for the games in front of us.
"So it's not a big surprise for us that we can do it, it's just making sure we're consistent."
Wigan: Tierney; Davies, Forsyth, Burgess, Marshall; Woods, Powell; Nuuausala, Ganson, Sutton, Isa, Farrell, Tomkins.
Replacements: Tautai, Gregson, Bretherton, Navarette.
Salford: Evalds; Johnson, Welham, Jones, Bibby; Lui, Dobson; Tasi, Tomkins, Walne, Lennon, Murdoch-Masila, Krasniqi.
Replacements: Kopczak, Brining, Murray, O'Brien.
The collision, involving four cars and two lorries, happened on the eastbound carriageway near the A6 junction at about 14:10 GMT on Tuesday.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene and another died later at Bedford Hospital. Four other motorists were taken to hospital but are not in a critical condition.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Both east and westbound carriageways were closed for most of the night between the Marsh Leys roundabout and the junction with the A600 but are now open.
Bedfordshire Police are appealing for witnesses including drivers with dashboard cameras.
Easing the restrictions on the A985 will also mean the route will be open to commercial vans around the clock from Monday.
Restrictions to the priority route will be lifted completely on 23 December.
The Forth Road Bridge will be closed until the new year.
The bridge was shut completely on 4 December after a crack in a truss end link member at the North Tower.
A travel plan was put in place which involved a priority corridor being set aside for public transport and HGVs between Cairneyhill and Longannet, close to the Kincardine Bridge.
Transport Minister Derek Mackay has now said that commercial light vehicles will be able to use the A985 route.
The priority route will be open to all traffic at weekends, starting from 20:00 on Friday 11 December.
Holiday period
Mr Mackay said: "Clearly the closure of the bridge has had a significant impact, particularly on small and medium sized businesses, and we and our transport partners have been listening to business community views since the travel plan was implemented.
"To address their feedback, from this Monday all commercial light goods vehicles will be allowed 24 hour a day access to the A985 priority route.
"We have also responded to community needs, and so can confirm that all vehicles will have access to the priority route at weekends and outside peak periods on weekdays.
"We also intend to lift restrictions on the priority route completely on the 23rd of this month to coincide with the start of the holiday period."
Andy Willox, Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland's policy convener, said: "We're delighted that the government has listened to the FSB and accepted the vital role our members play in keeping Scotland's economy moving.
"By allowing vans and other light goods vehicles to use the priority route, more essential journeys can be completed is less time.
"Tradesmen with deadlines to meet, wholesalers with shops to supply and couriers with customers' Christmas presents to deliver will be spending more time doing business and less time stuck in traffic."
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says the party does not want to return to an era of widespread state ownership.
Instead, Labour would look to expand co-operatives and explore giving workers the "right to own".
David Cameron has accused Labour of wanting to turn back the clock to the days of state ownership and strikes.
But Mr McDonnell tackled this claim head-on in a speech in Manchester, saying Labour had to move on from its traditional belief that state ownership was always the answer.
"Whatever the achievements of the past, we cannot simply turn the clock back - whether to 1997, 1964, or 1945," he said.
At the last election, "the Tories talked relentlessly, overwhelmingly about the future. Labour, strikingly, did not".
"We cannot allow that to happen again. We cannot be small 'c' conservatives."
He added: "A future Labour government will end the current programme of spending cuts. We will protect what has already been won.
"But we must look beyond this point. We should be seizing the opportunity to create a fairer, more democratic society."
Labour has already announced its intention to return the railways to public ownership.
But when it comes to the wider economy, Mr McDonnell said Labour should "look elsewhere" for solutions, and draw on its tradition of supporting workers' co-operatives.
He signalled support for giving employees in companies which are about to be sold off - or floated on the stock exchange - the first option to purchase the company.
"The Tories have offered a Right to Buy, Labour would seek to better this. We'd be creating a new Right to Own," he said in a speech in Manchester.
He said the "biggest hurdle" facing co-ops and other small businesses was getting initial funding from high street banks.
"No other major developed economy has just five banks providing 80% of loans. We'd look to break up these monopolies, introducing real competition and choice.
"Regional and local banks, prudently run and with a public service mandate, have to be part of the solution here."
Mr McDonnell is also considering adopting the Italian government's policy of offering funding to help employee-owned enterprises to get off the ground.
"With consortium co-operatives providing an effective means for new businesses to share and reduce costs, we'd look to support these at a local level, working with local authorities, businesses and trade unions," he said.
He said the policy would be developed "over the next few years", adding: "In an uncertain world where a laissez faire market approach continues to fail, co-operation is an idea whose time has come again.
"This is the start of developing a new, positive economic alternative for Labour."
He also urged Labour to embrace opportunities offered by the internet and new technology.
"Technology is proving disruptive. It can have terrible downsides - de-skilling and an accelerated concentration of wealth.
"But it also opens up new possibilities - the explosion of sharing that the Internet can provide.
"There is an entrepreneurial spirit at work here: not the theatrical meanness and one-upmanship of Gordon Gekko, but a desire to create something better for us all."
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands said Labour represented "a threat to our economic security".
He added: "Now we know the truth: Labour is planning another debt-fuelled spending spree and a huge tax bombshell on the businesses that have helped to drive Britain's recovery from the economic mess they left behind."
James Allen denies killing Colin Dunford, 81, of Middlesbrough, and Julie Davison, 50, of Whitby, North Yorkshire.
They were found with head injuries in their homes in April.
Mr Allen, 36, admitted to Newcastle Crown Court that he has robbed hotels all his life.
The prosecution say he was motivated by robbery and Robert Smith QC asked him why he had tried to stay in a Whitby hostel for free.
Mr Allen replied: "I did not want to pay for it as I was going to rob the place. I have robbed hotels all my life."
Mr Allen, responding angrily to Mr Smith's questioning, said: "You are a proper crank you are mate. You are in the wrong profession."
He said: "If you can show any substantial bit of evidence I will admit it to you right now.
"Here's your chance, I'm giving you an opportunity, show me one bit of evidence and I will admit it to the press now."
Mr Allen told Mr Smith he had liked Mr Dunford and called him a "decent old bat that lived next door".
But he said Mr Dunford had nothing to steal.
"Why would I kill him when I could go to a shop that has 20 to 30 times more," he said.
Mr Allen also threatened to throw a ring binder of evidence at Mr Smith and said he would show his "dark side".
The trial was adjourned until Friday.
A disciplinary hearing found Nirmala Read, who was in charge of the now-closed Orchid View care home in West Sussex, unfit to practise.
The NMC heard that she changed a dying resident's records and ordered documents to be shredded in an attempt to conceal an overdose of warfarin.
A total of seven allegations were heard in Mrs Read's absence.
She was given an interim suspension order for 18 months after the conduct and competence committee found against her on all seven counts.
An inquest in 2013 into 19 unexplained deaths at Orchid View, in Copthorne, found neglect contributed to five of them.
The West Sussex coroner said the home was riddled with "institutionalised abuse".
The home was owned and operated by Southern Cross Healthcare Group, which has since gone into administration.
It later reopened under a new name and management.
The NMC hearing heard how Mrs Read tried to cover up an overdose given to one of the 19 residents who died.
Jean Halfpenny, 77, who was referred to as Resident A, was about to go into hospital from the Copthorne care home in April 2010 when she was given an overdose of the blood-thinning drug warfarin.
Realising that the medical records showed what had happened, Mrs Read told a colleague: "You can't send her to hospital with these - we will be closed down."
Administrator Lisa Martin was told to shred the documents, which were then rewritten by Mrs Read.
Mrs Read also ordered Ms Martin to administer medication to another resident when she was not qualified to do so.
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Hamilton was leading when he was called in for fresh tyres during a late safety car period, dropping him to third.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said: "The answer is we got the maths wrong.
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"That one goes on the team and I apologise. He's a great leader and a great driver. I am sure he will understand sometimes we make errors."
The mistake handed victory to Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg and also cost Hamilton a position to Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
It cut the world champion's advantage in the championship over Rosberg to 10 points.
Hamilton was visibly distraught afterwards, but refused to blame the team for the error.
After crossing the finish line, Hamilton slowed to a stop at the Portier corner - which faces out to the Mediterranean Sea - seemingly to gather his thoughts.
He then completed the lap and drew up to the podium, where he knocked over his 'third place' parking board with the front of his Mercedes.
Wolff said the error was made because of concerns that the tyres on the Mercedes were losing temperature and that they might be vulnerable in the event Vettel stopped under the safety car for fresh tyres.
The decision was made more difficult, he said, because the GPS tracking system that shows the positions of all the cars on track was not available in Monaco.
"We thought we had a gap which we didn't have when the safety car came out and Lewis was behind the safety car and the calculation was simply wrong.
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"We expected to have a couple of seconds more."
Wolff refused to say who had made the final decision to pit Hamilton, who exited the pits almost side by side with Vettel, but had to cede position because the Ferrari got to the designated marker line fractionally ahead.
"It was the team's decision," Wolff said. "We are all in this together, we make decisions together and it is not one person to blame and we win and lose together and that is clear.
"From a common sense overview, disregarding the data I agree it looks like a risk. But we have to follow the data; that is how the sport works. But the simple answer is the numbers were wrong."
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They called for help at 16:15 GMT on Saturday when one member suffered a panic attack in fading light on Carnedd Llewelyn.
An RAF mountain rescue team was nearby and was able to escort the group to safety.
Chris Lloyd from Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue said they were poorly equipped in everyday street clothing.
The students were part of a walking club and were near the summit of the mountain when the alarm was raised.
Mr Lloyd said: "They had gone up the mountain on a glorious day. The mountain was white with snow and the skies were blue."
But he said some of the group were "inadequately dressed for going to the top" where temperatures are much cooler than they are at sea level.
The group had one ice axe between them and none of them had crampons - spikes fitted to boots for grip on snow and ice.
"They were determined to carry on with their route rather than turn back." said Mr Lloyd.
"Luckily for them there was an RAF team in the valley who walked them back to our base."
It was another dominant win for Welsh rider Davies while Northern Ireland's Rea edged team-mate and championship rival Tom Sykes into third.
Rea is 48 points clear of Englishman Sykes going into the final round at Qatar in a fortnight.
Fifty points are available and a 14th-paced finish would be enough for Rea.
Rea is attempting to become the first rider to seal successive World Superbike Championship successes since Carl Fogarty in 1999.
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Sunday's race followed a similar pattern to the opener 24 hours earlier in Spain.
Davies, who started third on the grid, hit the front on the first lap on his Ducati and was never threatened as he won by 5.8 seconds.
It was his ninth victory of the season but his good form has come too late to challenge for top spot.
The Kawasaki pair provided the drama in a battle for second place - Rea passed Sykes will 11 laps remaining and held on to pip him by 0.2 seconds.
Nicky Hayden made a late push for a podium place but he had to settle for fourth, ahead of Sylvain Guintoli and Michael van der Mark.
The figures have been rising for the past two years.
They are causing concern among doctors who are trying to reinforce the safe sex message.
Doctors at the Royal Victoria Hospital are also running clinics in gay clubs to try to convince hard to reach groups of the importance of testing.
Dr Carol Emerson, a consultant specialising in sexual health at the Royal Victoria Hospital, said the outreach clinics in gay venues in Belfast were essential.
"I'm really passionate about reaching people and ensuring they get HIV testing and full sexual health advice," she said.
"Some people find it a step too far to come to a GUM (sexual health) clinic and some people really regard confidentiality as the holy grail and bringing the clinic out has increased testing, increased knowledge and increased diagnoses."
Dr Emerson said there were many reasons why people did not want to come forward - not least the continued stigma about being gay in Northern Ireland.
Some patients are also married and have sex with men outside that relationship.
Others have simply ignored the safe sex messages and are too frightened to come forward.
"We are seeing a range of people over 45 testing for different reasons and it may be that they've had a stable relationship for a period of time and that has broken down and now they've found a new lease of life and they've picked up a new infection and that's not just HIV - it's the whole spectrum of sexual health," she said.
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and on its own it does not kill you.
The virus can survive and grow only by infecting, and destroying, the immune system.
This continual assault on the immune system makes it weaker and weaker until it is no longer able to fight off infections.
Without treatment, it takes about 10 years from infection to the development of Aids - acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
It is then that "opportunistic infections", which a healthy immune system could fight off, become deadly.
People can die from pneumonias, brain infections, diarrhoeal illnesses as well as certain tumours such as lymphoma and cervical cancer.
The clinics run once a month at various different venues frequented by members of the gay community.
And there is an additional worrying trend.
Around half of those who are diagnosed need to go onto treatment right away because the condition has progressed to a serious extent.
"Their immune system isn't as strong as it might have been and they are being strongly advised to start the HIV treatment right away," Dr Emerson said.
The Rainbow Project, which lobbies for gay, lesbian and transgender rights, also carries out free testing.
Its director, John O'Doherty, is also worried about the increase in HIV in the over-45 age group.
"We're dealing with a community which spent a large part of their adult years being a criminal based on their sexual orientation," he said.
"So the new freedom and openness and visibility of our community has provided a lot more opportunities for relationships and to meet new people, so it does put them at increased risk."
The Kremlin club is Belfast's oldest and best known gay venue. It is one of a number of premises to host the clinics and Mr O'Doherty and his team often leaflet clubbers and hand out safe sex packs.
Philip Alexander and Matthew Armstrong are from Ballymena.
They are in their early 20s and often travel to Belfast for a night out in the Kremlin.
Matthew said his generation would be different.
"Good sexual health is something everyone should consider. You should put your health before anything," he said.
Philip added: "I think everyone of our age is worried about image and health.
"We are more health conscious. Definitely there are people out there who don't take it seriously - think there's no harm - but most of us are aware of the safe sex message."
Mohamoud Elmi stabbed PC Adam Koch and two worshippers in Ward End in Birmingham last June.
PC Koch and the two men, who were stabbed repeatedly, survived.
Elmi, 32, who was tried at Birmingham Crown Court, now faces a potentially indefinite period of detention in a secure hospital.
He is currently being treated at a secure hospital and will be sentenced by Mrs Justice Carr on Wednesday.
The court heard the defendant, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had declined treatment before the incident in the mosque.
Jurors deliberated for more than two days before returning verdicts that Elmi was not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity.
However, in reaching its decision, the jury ruled he had carried out acts that amounted to attempted murder and wounding.
Elmi's trial was told he had previously been treated for mental health problems but was discharged into the community before the attacks at the mosque.
The court heard the defendant, of Ward End Hall Grove, Washwood Heath, attacked worshippers on 15 June shortly after threatening two teenagers.
The prosecution said he raised a knife above Tahir Mumtaz, who was in a praying position, and repeatedly stabbed him.
Another man, Zakaria Bhayat, was injured when he tried to restrain Elmi, who then walked "calmly" into a washroom before returning to pray, it was said.
The trial was told PC Koch shouted to Elmi to warn him he had a Taser but Elmi approached him and then stabbed him several times despite the Taser being discharged.
Elmi was overpowered by other worshippers and a second PC who intervened, the prosecution said.
After the verdicts were returned on two counts of attempted murder and one of wounding, Birmingham and Solihull Mental NHS Foundation Trust confirmed an inquiry had been held into the care received by Elmi, who was discharged eight months before the stabbings.
The trust said its review highlighted "a number of lessons" for itself but said they had been acted upon.
Issues highlighted by the review included the need for greater involvement and input from families and GPs before and after patients are discharged.
Other areas of learning identified in the review centred on better record-keeping, particularly when patients were transferred from in-patient to community teams.
The party says it proposes banking reform, led by the Bank of England, to reduce the national debt.
Party leaders say it focuses on issues such as the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and British constitutional law.
The party is fielding nine candidates in the general election.
The manifesto covers 12 policy areas, including banking.
"Although everyone is talking about the deficit, we should be concerned about the nation's debt which has doubled in 10 years," it says.
"In recent years, legislation, government policy and court judgments have contributed to the tearing apart of our society's moral, relational and spiritual fabric, providing a seedbed for a host of problems.
"It is an inevitable consequence of turning our back on God's pattern for society - with huge ramifications."
Jeff Green, leader of the party, said: "We believe that unless we protect our hard-won freedoms - and they were hard won - unless we stand up for this, we see the culture of fear and intimidation continue across our nation and we can't allow that to happen."
The candidates standing in the general election are:
Jeff Green, Cardiff North
Dr Donald Boyd, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
John Cormack, Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Trevor Bendrien, Halifax
Juliana Brimicombe, Surrey Heath
Pastor Gabriel Ukandu, Birmingham Edgbaston
Laurence Williams, Old Bexley and Sidcup
Dominic Stockford, Twickenham
Gabriela Fajardo, Westminster North
The blaze, near Mousaword Loch in Sandness, could have potentially damaged power supplies, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said.
The service was alerted to the incident at about 12:50 on Thursday and fire crews took just under two hours to bring it under control.
Firefighters from Walls, Scalloway and Lerwick were involved.
Incident commander Myles Murray said: "This was an extremely challenging wildfire involving a large area and the crews did a truly excellent job to extinguish it.
"Wildfires are inherently unpredictable and we knew that if the wind changed direction, the flames could threaten power lines supplying electricity to our communities, which would obviously have a very serious impact on homes and businesses."
He added: "Our crews had to operate in arduous conditions and it was a physically demanding operation, but their skill and professionalism ensured this fire was successfully extinguished before the power supply was threatened and more environmental damage done."
The wildfire came during a spell of warm, dry weather which saw the temperature in Braemar in Aberdeenshire reach 18.6C on Thursday.
The fire also flared up on the same day SFRS issued a warning to the public to be aware of the risk of wildfires.
Accies keeper Gary Woods was inspired for 40-odd minutes but his resistance was broken just before the break by Arnaud Djoum.
Isamel Goncalves made it 2-0 from an indirect free-kick in the Hamilton box.
Jamie Walker scored a delightful curling free-kick from outside the box before substitute Malaury Martin made it 4-0, also from a free-kick.
The result means fourth-placed Hearts, who had gone five games in all competitions without a win, are now just five points behind second-placed Rangers in the Premiership table.
Hamilton remain second-bottom, one point above Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Woods' performance for much of this match has surely got to be one of the best seen in the Premiership this season.
First he saved well from a Walker header, before denying Goncalves who was clean through on goal. The Hearts striker should have done better but Woods still spread himself well to make the block.
Sam Nicholson then cut inside to fire in a shot from 25 yards, but Woods was there to tip the ball past the post.
The best was yet to come. A header from Goncalves looked to all the world like it was heading for the bottom corner of the net but somehow Woods got his outstretched hand to it. It was an outstanding save.
Woods had to look lively again on the half hour mark when Alexandros Tziolis cracked in a volley from the edge of the box. The shot took a deflection on the way through and the keeper did superbly well to adjust his footing and make yet another save.
In the 33rd minute Walker made space in the box for another crack at goal but Woods again denied the hosts.
Having weathered the early Hearts storm, Hamilton managed to establish something of a foothold in the match. For parts of the first-half their five man midfield enjoyed some possession during lulls in Hearts' dominance.
But chances were few. A deflected effort from Eamonn Brophy from the edge of the area the best they could muster in the first-half. It would not get much better in the second-half as Hearts took control. Ali Crawford's free-kick from 30 yards - comfortably saved by Jack Hamilton - was their only effort on target.
There are concerns in both defence and attack for Hamilton. These will have to be quickly addressed if the Accies are to preserve their Premiership status.
Woods went from hero to villain for Hamilton after handling a back-pass in the penalty area.
From the free-kick, Goncalves lashed a shot into the top corner.
Soon after it was 3-0 for Hearts as Walker curled in an exquisite free-kick from 20 yards, his 15th goal of the campaign.
The fourth came from another free-kick, this time substitute Martin firing home from a similar distance.
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro: "I think one of the biggest positives throughout the first-half was the character of our players to keep pushing.
"We created a lot of chances, we were dominant in the game early, we played with good possession, mixed our attacks as well.
"There were a lot of good stops from him [Hamilton goalkeeper Gary Woods], but the fact we never felt any stress, we stayed calm, we stayed patient, we kept doing the right things and we very much deserved the goal before half-time.
"When you suffer a bad week and three unacceptable results, which was the case, the focus day-to-day has to be on making improvements and making sure you give the maximum every day.
"That's not changed because of this performance and this result. What it means is that everything we had to do today we have done and we will also work again very, very hard tomorrow."
Hamilton manager Martin Canning: "Your job is to go and win games and get enough points to stay in the league and, at the minute, performing like that, we won't.
"That's not good enough, but we're not bottom of the league at the minute. The teams above us both lost today - we're still three points off of those two.
"The fixture list at the moment we have had Celtic, Aberdeen, Rangers, Hearts and Rangers again next weekend, so that's five games against the top teams in the league.
"So it was always going to be a difficult spell, but our performance levels today were not good enough and that is not something I have said a lot this season.
"We can't afford to miss players like were missing them today. We had Darian Mackinnon missing today, Mikey Devlin, who are so influential in the team and Alex D'Acol has been a huge miss up the park. I don't think we have looked the same since he hasn't played.
"[On Gary Woods handling the back-pass] Someone whistled from the crowd and Gary's thought the referee has blown his whistle.
"Jamie Walker had gone down as he tried to run through, something happened and there was a coming together and Walker has gone down and someone has blown a whistle from the crowd. It ends up costing us a very important second goal."
Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 4, Hamilton Academical 0.
Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 4, Hamilton Academical 0.
Attempt missed. Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Andraz Struna.
Foul by Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian).
Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 4, Hamilton Academical 0. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Tasos Avlonitis (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexander Gogic (Hamilton Academical).
Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical).
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Gary Woods.
Attempt saved. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian).
Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Hand ball by Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Bjorn Johnsen replaces Jamie Walker.
Attempt missed. Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Malaury Martin (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical).
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ryan Tierney replaces Rakish Bingham.
Attempt saved. Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Andraz Struna (Heart of Midlothian).
Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Moha replaces Sam Nicholson.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian).
Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Nicholson (Heart of Midlothian).
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Grant Gillespie replaces Eamonn Brophy.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Arnaud Djoum.
Foul by Arnaud Djoum (Heart of Midlothian).
Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lennard Sowah (Heart of Midlothian) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 3, Hamilton Academical 0. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Lord Taylor of Blackburn, 87, was left in a "stable" but critical condition after being taken to a south London hospital about 18:00 GMT on Wednesday.
Lord Taylor was the Labour leader of Blackburn Council in the 1970s before being made a Life Peer in May 1978 and becoming a businessman.
The driver stopped at the scene but was not arrested, Scotland Yard said.
The Labour peer was struck near an exit from the Houses of Parliament during rush hour on a busy junction in Westminster.
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He became a member of Blackburn Town Council in 1954 and was its leader from 1972-76.
In 2009 Lord Taylor was suspended from the Lords for six months after allegedly offering to help a business secure favourable changes in legislation for a fee in a newspaper "sting" operation. It was the first time in 350 years that peers have been banned in this way.
Lord Taylor and three other peers were caught speaking to undercover journalists posing as lobbyists and appeared willing to amend a Bill in return for cash.
A penalty from Dani Parejo on 88 minutes gave Valencia a 2-1 victory that moved them off the foot of La Liga with five matches played.
Victor Laguardia's own goal had given Los Che the lead but a header from Gaizka Toquero levelled matters.
Ayestaran replaced Gary Neville in March but Los Che lost eight of their 12 matches while he was in charge.
Salvador Gonzalez Marco, also known as 'Voro', was named caretaker coach following Ayestaran's dismissal.
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England were dismissed for 205 at Trent Bridge and the tourists have a lead of 205 in the second Test after reaching 75-1 at stumps on day two.
Former England captain Vaughan was critical of their approach during his analysis on BBC Test Match Special.
"The England batting has been appalling. Maybe it's a lack of respect about what the game is," he said.
"They look like they are playing a Twenty20 game. I look at the approach - yes, the ball has done a little bit but it's not been drastic.
"They have this approach of attack, attack, attack. There is no thought or feeling of seeing off a bowler or wearing a team down."
Vaughan believes the current crop of England batsmen could learn lessons from the way South Africa have approached batting at Trent Bridge.
"They [England's batsmen] don't trust their techniques to stay in long enough," said the 42-year-old, who captained England to victory in the 2005 Ashes series.
"That's a concern. England regularly collapse. It's always when the ball does a little bit. Look at the way South Africa played attritionally.
"A lot of England's players look like they are premeditating their shots. The best way is to watch the ball and react.
"I worry about the mentality of the Test batting because as soon as the things get difficult - it swings around or spins - they play aggressively."
Vaughan, who captained England in 51 of his 82 Tests between 1999 and 2008, also claims England's selectors need a rethink over the balance of the side.
"England are a batter light," he added. "You don't need six bowling options. This is the kind of team you pick after winning Test match after Test match.
"You have three all-rounders in Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali and Jonny Bairstow, so pack the batting. All the players from Joe Root down will give you chances.
"England lost eight Tests last year. They need to pack the batting. They are not good enough or winning enough games to go with that line up."
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England fast bowler James Anderson, who took 5-72 as South Africa crumbled from their overnight 309-6 to 335 all out, refused to criticise his side's batsmen.
"It was not a great day for us. We did well to bowl them out for under 350 but didn't get it right with the bat," said the Lancashire seamer.
"The batters have been fantastic over the previous months and you are going to have days like this, especially with a young side. You just have to keep them to a minimum.
"Joe Root was fantastic and played a great counter attacking knock when we were struggling. The first Test was plain sailing for him as captain but it's a real test here."
The allegations, dating from 1980 to 2015, have been made against 569 church figures, including 247 ordained clergy.
The Anglican Church has admitted trying to keep victims quiet to protect its reputation.
Archbishop of Melbourne Philip Freier said he was "deeply ashamed" of the church's response.
"I wish to express my personal sense of shame and sorrow at the way survivors' voices were often silenced and the apparent interests of the church put first," he said.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is also investigating allegations against other religious and non-religious institutions.
Last month, more than 4,400 people claimed to have been abused by Australian Catholic church figures during the same 35-year period.
Findings of the investigation into the Anglican Church of Australia included:
"We have witnessed first hand the suffering of those who have shared their stories," said Anne Hywood, general secretary of the church's general synod.
"We have seen in their faces and heard in their voices not only the pain of the abuse they suffered as a child, but the further damage we inflicted when they came forward as adults, seeking justice and comfort, and we pushed them aside."
Newcastle bishop Greg Thompson, an abuse survivor, told the commission last year he had been pressured to stop talking about the issue.
He quit as bishop on Thursday, saying the pressure had taken a toll on his health.
The shadow care minister told the Sunday Times a "fundamentally new approach" was needed after the defeat.
Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Chuka Umunna are expected to join the race but backbencher Dan Jarvis has ruled himself out.
The ruling National Executive Committee will meet early next week to agree a timetable for the leadership contest.
Mr Miliband said he was "truly sorry" for a showing which left Labour with 232 MPs, sustaining heavy losses at the hands of the SNP in Scotland and failing to make significant gains elsewhere.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to lead a government for "one nation" after his party won its first majority since 1992 with 331 seats.
In other election developments:
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said Mr Burnham, the shadow health secretary, and Mr Umunna, the shadow business secretary, were believed to be taking soundings before declaring their bids to become leader.
Ms Cooper, the shadow home secretary, and former soldier Dan Jarvis are also likely to consider a bid, he added.
In a Sunday Times interview, Ms Kendall, the MP for Leicester West, followed Tottenham MP David Lammy in saying she would be interested in being leader.
"I think we lost because people didn't trust us on the economy. People didn't think we understood their lives, shared their values and aspirations," she said.
She added that "we don't just need a new face. We need a fundamentally new approach".
Asked on the Sunday Politics if she would be running for the Labour leadership, she said: "Yes."
Mr Umunna used an article in the Observer to say Labour had talked "too little about those creating wealth and doing the right thing".
He said: "We talked about the bottom and top of society, about the minimum wage and zero-hour contracts, about mansions and non-doms. But we had too little to say to the majority of people in the middle."
And former Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Observer Labour needed to occupy the centre ground in order to win again.
"The Labour party has to be for ambition as well as compassion and care," he said.
"Hard-working families don't just want us celebrating their hard work; they want to know that by hard work and effort they can rise up, achieve. They want to be better off and they need to know we don't just tolerate that, we support it."
Elsewhere, Mr Lammy, who is putting together a bid to be Labour's candidate for Mayor of London in 2016, said it was "absolutely time" for a new generation to "step up to a leadership role".
Labour's election rules
MPs wishing to stand as leader and deputy leader have to be nominated by 15% of their colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party to be eligible to stand.
As Labour now has 232 MPs, this means prospective candidates must get at least 35 signatures.
Under rules agreed last year, all Labour Party members, registered supporters and affiliated supporters - including union members - will be allowed a maximum of one vote each on a one member, one vote system.
When the election is held, they will be asked to rank candidates in order of preference.
If no candidate gets 50% of all votes cast, the votes will be added up and the candidate with the fewest votes eliminated. Their second preference votes will then be redistributed until one candidate has 50% of all votes cast.
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But former Home Secretary Alan Johnson has ruled himself out, saying the new leader faces a "10-year task" to rebuild Labour.
He urged the party not to rush into a contest without a full analysis of what went wrong.
Mr Johnson said Mr Miliband had run a "decent campaign" but he was alarmed that the party had been unable to recapture seats in the south of England it held between 1997 and 2010, such as Hastings and Thanet South.
Labour, he suggested, had lost contact with Middle England.
On Twitter, Jon Trickett, a member of Mr Miliband's shadow Cabinet, said people still blamed his party for "mistakes" during the New Labour era, especially the invasion of Iraq.
Mr Trickett called for a "clean break" and said there was a perception that Labour and other parties were run by a "metropolitan elite".
The party's deputy leader Harriet Harman, who has said she will not stand again, is to serve as acting leader until contests for the two top spots take place later this summer.
Tom Watson, the party's former deputy chairman, has said he will consider running for the role, and shadow Commons leader Angela Eagle is believed to be considering putting herself forward.
Mr Lammy, who is regarded as being on the right of the party, was a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown having first entered Parliament in 2000.
He gained a national profile for his response to the shooting of Mark Duggan in his constituency in August 2011, which sparked riots across London and other cities.
Asked whether he had been approached by colleagues to run, he said: "They want me to step up for something.
"I think the question is whether that is here in London or the country at large. My passion instinctively is for London."
In 2014, Labour changed the rules for future contests to move to a "one member, one vote" system of party members, affiliated trade union supporters and registered supporters.
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Christopher Anthony Greco, 31, from Christchurch, pleaded guilty to child sex offences and breaching his sexual offenders prevention order.
Police said they had "extensively" investigated his "sickening offences".
Appearing at Dorchester Crown Court, he was jailed for three years and three months, with a further three years and nine months on licence.
Greco admitted possessing indecent images of children, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and breaching his sexual offenders prevention order in December last year.
Det Cons Paul Chessell of Dorset Police said: "Greco posed a threat to members of the public and it is right that he received this sentence.
"These are sickening offences which we investigated extensively to bring him to justice.
"This jail term is a warning to anyone involved in downloading indecent images of children."
Jose Mourinho side's beat Anderlecht 3-2 on aggregate on Thursday to reach the last four of the Europa League.
United could face one of Ajax (Netherlands), Celta Vigo (Spain) or Lyon (France) in the draw at 12:00 BST.
The Champions League semi-final draw, featuring Real Madrid, Juventus, Monaco and Atletico Madrid, is at 11:00.
Real are the defending champions after beating city rivals Atletico in last year's final.
The draws will be made at Uefa headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
Manchester United are now just two games away from reaching the Europa League final after Marcus Rashford scored the winner in extra-time at Old Trafford.
The Red Devils boast strong pedigree in Europe with three Champions League/European Cup wins, but have never won the Europa League/Uefa Cup.
Ajax, who beat Schalke 4-3 on aggregate to reach the last four, are also experienced European campaigners. They have won the Champions League/European Cup four times previously and the Europa League/Uefa Cup once, beating Torino in the 1992 final.
Seven-times Ligue 1 winners Lyon enjoyed their best-ever result in Europe when they reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2010, while Celta Vigo have never won a major European competition.
The Champions League semi-final first legs take place on 2 and 3 May, with the return legs the following week.
The first legs of the Europa League semi-finals are on 4 May with the second leg on 11 May.
Last year's Champions League winners Real Madrid, aiming to win Europe's premier club competition for a 12th time, beat German champions Bayern Munich 6-3 on aggregate to reach the last four.
Atletico, meanwhile, ended Leicester's fairytale run in Europe, edging the Foxes 2-1 over two legs.
Juventus claimed an impressive 3-0 aggregate win over Barcelona while Monaco defeated Borussia Dortmund 6-3.
The Champions League final takes place on 3 June (19:45 BST) at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
The Europa League final takes place on 24 May (19:45 BST) at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
The first minister and Plaid Cymru leader will reveal their plan for exiting the European Union on Monday.
In a joint letter in the Sunday Times, the pair said they would work together to "secure the best deal for Wales".
Welsh Conservatives leader, Andrew RT Davies, said Brexit was a chance for the UK and Wales to become "global leaders in trade".
The UK government previously warned the Welsh Government must not undermine Brexit talks.
Writing in the newspaper, Mr Jones and Ms Wood said: "The challenge we all face now is ensuring that as we prepare to leave the EU we secure the best possible deal for Wales. Together, we intend to rise to that challenge."
They said their Brexit plan for Wales would form a "sensible starting point for negotiations" for all parts of the UK.
The white paper - to be published on Monday - centres around Wales' continued access to the single market once the UK leaves the EU.
Mr Davies said: "What Wales needs is leadership and optimism. Carwyn Jones and his government's reaction to Brexit has careered from doom-mongering and denial to dithering and confusion."
The document, which sets out Wales' immigration needs and demands over funding, follows an agreement from Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats.
Welsh Labour and Plaid previously clashed over access to the single market following the Leave vote on 23 June.
Plaid agreed a limited deal after May's assembly election to allow Mr Jones, whose party won 29 of 60 seats in the May election, to be re-installed as first minister.
The pair criticised Theresa May, saying her speech earlier this week had done little to "inspire confidence" in the UK's exit strategy after the prime minister said the UK had to leave the single market.
But Mr Jones and Ms Wood wrote that remaining in the single market was "so important for the future prosperity of Wales and all of us who live here".
"People voted to leave but they didn't vote to undermine thousands of jobs, two thirds of Welsh exports or foreign direct investment into Wales."
The letter follows the first meeting of the joint ministerial committee, set up by the UK government to give devolved administrations a platform to voice their views on Brexit.
Mr Davies said the Welsh economy had become "too reliant" on the EU, but there was an opportunity to "take advantage of the new US president's willingness to cut a trade deal with the UK".
Mr Jones and Ms Wood repeated calls that the UK government should listen to the devolved nations' needs ahead of triggering Article 50, which will start the two-year formal process of leaving the EU.
"This white paper is not just a shopping list of demands from Wales but a sensible starting point for negotiations that should deliver for all parts of the United Kingdom," they wrote.
The pair also stressed a need for a "fair and clearly understandable" immigration system and said funding received by Wales from Brussels for industries including agriculture must continue.
"We were told during the referendum that Wales would not lose a penny of its current funding as a result of leaving the EU and we intend to ensure that the UK government fulfils this promise," they wrote.
"We won't stand for Wales to be weakened as a result of Brexit, and believe that our plan is the best route to securing a good deal for our country."
The Englishman, who led after round one, shot a two-under 69 to move to seven under par, one clear of Americans Jason Kokrak and Charley Kaufmann.
Scotland's Russell Knox slipped back to three under with a round of 73.
World number one Jason Day had a disastrous day, making eight bogeys and one double bogey in a 79.
That left the Australian tied for 40th place overall on two over par in South Carolina.
Donald, 38, is without a PGA or European Tour win since 2012, has slipped to 95 in the world rankings and considered retirement last year.
West Dunbartonshire Council is seeking approval for the scheme from Historic Scotland - the agency responsible for the country's historic monuments.
If the go-ahead is given, the lighting system will be installed during 2016.
Dumbarton Bridge was originally built in 1765 and was widened in 1884 before being reconstructed in 1934 when the balustrade was added.
Councillor Patrick McGlinchey, convener of the council's infrastructure and regeneration, said: "I am delighted that this historic bridge is going to be lit up in this way.
"It will look really spectacular when it is illuminated and will add more character to the area.
"We can see from the initial designs how the bridge could look and I'm now looking forward to seeing it introduced."
Wales suffered their first defeat in group five, despite Jake Charles' late strike, with Bristol Rovers striker Ellis Harrison missing a first half penalty.
Romania took advantage, scoring through Robert Hodorogea and Alexandru Ionita.
Wales have 12 points from seven games and now trail Denmark and Romania.
The defeat in Romania follows last week's 0-0 draw in Bulgaria.
Geraint Williams' side were knocked off the top of Group 5 after the draw and Denmark's 1-0 win over Luxembourg.
Wales drew 1-1 with Romania in November.
Wales Under-21 squad: Billy O'Brien (Manchester City), Michael Crowe (Ipswich Town), Gethin Jones (Everton), Jordan Evans (Fulham on loan at Oxford United), Dominic Smith (Shrewsbury Town), Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers), Josh Yorwerth (Ipswich Town - on loan at Crawley Town), Josh Sheehan (Swansea City), Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers on loan at Bradford City), Ryan Hedges (Swansea City on loan with Stevenage Borough), Tommy O'Sullivan (Cardiff City - on loan at Newport County), Wes Burns (Bristol City - on loan at Fleetwood Town), Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers), Daniel James (Swansea City), Jake Charles (Huddersfield Town), Connor Roberts (Swansea City - on loan at Yeovil Town), Louis Thompson (Norwich City - on loan at Swindon Town)
Her call came the day after it was announced Scotland would face a £176.8m cut in public spending this year.
Chancellor George Osborne announced a £3bn cut in UK departmental budgets for 2015/16 and the knock-on for Scotland.
In a letter to the four opposition leaders, Ms Sturgeon said the parties "must speak with a united voice".
The letter was sent to Labour's Kezia Dugdale, Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems and Scottish Green Patrick Harvie.
It said: "I hope that you will agree with me that all parties in Scotland must unite in making clear to the UK government that it is unacceptable for reductions to be imposed on this year's Scottish Budget.
"Not only do such reductions have a potentially damaging impact on our programmes and public services, but the chancellor's approach shows little respect for the role of the Scottish Parliament itself in approving the annual devolved Scottish Budget."
Ms Sturgeon said the Scottish government would continue to argue for an alternative to the UK government's austerity programme.
This would involve a "moderate increase" in public spending of 0.5% a year in real terms between 2016-17 and 2019-20, she said.
Mr Osborne made his cuts announcement ahead of his emergency budget, which will take place on 8 July.
The Tory chancellor said he believed it was vital to tackle UK debt "as quickly as possible".
The UK government has pledged to clear the deficit by 2018/19.
Mr Osborne must find a further £30bn of savings over the next three years, including £12bn from welfare spending and £13bn from government departments.
Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont said: "Nicola Sturgeon doesn't seem to understand that if Britain is going to prosper for the long-term, it needs to pay its way in the world and no longer pass on multi-billion pound deficits for our children and grand-children to pay off."
He added: "The truth is that the time when the SNP could resort to its age-old tactic of whipping up grievance over UK government decisions is over.
"Tax-raising powers are coming to the Scottish Parliament, so if it wants to act, it can."
Mr Harvie, co-convener of the Scottish Greens, said he opposed the UK government cuts but "the Tories are unlikely to listen".
He said: "The real challenge will be to achieve unity in the Scottish Parliament to use our own devolved power to achieve fairer taxation and protection of the public services we all depend on."
Permanent Secretary Sir Derek Jones told AMs he was "deeply unhappy" about the "avoidable" payment - listed as a loss in the 2015-16 accounts.
It came after the Welsh Government was challenged by an unsuccessful bidder over the contract decision.
Sir Derek did not reveal the contract or the bidders involved.
A further fraud case involving the concessionary travel scheme - where the Welsh Government funds bus travel for older passengers - is pending.
Sir Derek, who was giving evidence to Public Accounts Committee in the Senedd, said the buck stopped with him over flaws on how the policy was implemented.
The senior civil servant said he was "deeply unhappy" with the £1.25m payment.
He explained officials had "decided on some very narrow margins in favour of one tenderer".
The Welsh Government initially defended the decision but was subsequently given legal advice that the "costs of continuing to defend the action, taken with the prospects of success, was such that it would be better to enter formal arbitration with the claimant".
Arbitration is where two parties attempt to settle a dispute outside the courts.
"In my view this was avoidable," said Sir Derek, blaming in part "poor record keeping and some ill-judged, naive administration".
Actions had been taken to "minimise the risk of anything happening similarly", he said, adding he had asked officials to "pursue the possibility that some disciplinary action might need to be taken in the case of the staff who are involved".
The accounts also refer to a case where two Padarn Bus bosses were jailed after falsely claiming £800,000 by lying about the number of concessionary fare passengers they carried.
John Hulme, 55, and Darren Price, 46, falsely claimed the money from Gwynedd council.
Questioned about the fraud by Llanelli AM Lee Waters, Sir Derek Jones told the committee: "I was quite shocked about that loss."
Mr Waters said there was concern that the system was open to fraud "for some years".
Sir Derek said he was not aware of the rumours mentioned by Mr Waters.
Pressed further by Mr Waters, Sir Derek replied: "This clearly was a policy decided by the government which had a flaw in its implementation, actually at local authority level, where I think we are satisfied that the processes could have been more robust.
"I can't say for certain, but had they been, they might have been able to prevent that fraud."
Sir Derek also said he did not feel performance management of Welsh Government staff was tough enough.
"I don't actually think it's robust enough, is my honest answer.
"I don't know whether people are just too nice but I think sometimes the difficult conversation over performance management doesn't take place as frequently as it should."
The world's largest sportswear maker said it expects sales to increase by a high single digit percentage and for overall earnings to be in the low teens in the fiscal year ending May 2017.
That was lower than analyst estimates for between 10 and 15% growth.
For the three months to March, Nike posted a profit of $950m (£668mm) with revenues rising nearly 8% to $8bn.
The sports giant has seen its overseas sales eroded by the impact of a strong US dollar and other currency fluctuations.
Analysts are also concerned that consumers are reining back on spending due to the tepid global economy.
However, China has remained a bright spot for Nike, with revenues there jumping 23% during the last quarter.
Nike is expanding its e-commerce offerings in the country and saw particularly strong sales of its footwear, clothes and athletic equipment over the Lunar New Year period.
To help boost sales, Nike is developing a line of new technology-infused products including electronic running shoes that can lace themselves.
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The case was brought by the country's Green Party after its leader was targeted by a false account.
The court said postings not just in Austria but worldwide must be deleted. Facebook has not yet commented.
The ruling is seen as a victory for campaigners who want to make social media platforms combat online trolling.
The appeals court in Vienna ruled that postings against Greens' leader Eva Glawischnig as any verbatim repostings should be removed.
It added that merely blocking the messages in Austria without removing them for users abroad was not sufficient.
The court said it was easy for Facebook to automate this process.
A Green lawmaker, Dieter Brosz, said Facebook could no longer claim it was just a platform and needed to take responsibility for tackling hate postings.
Internet giants including Facebook, Twitter and Google have all come under fire in many countries for failing to remove hate speech from their platforms promptly.
Last month, German ministers approved plans to fine social media firms up to 50m euros ($53.3m; £42.7m) if they fail to remove hate speech and fake news quickly.
The companies have recently announced measures to address the issue:
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The firm, which once drew teen shoppers with ads featuring scantily-clad models, has struggled more recently with falling sales.
But shares rose in May after the firm, which also owns the Hollister brand, said it was considering selling itself.
The stock plunged more than 21% on Monday after those talks ended.
Abercrombie boss Arthur Martinez said the firm's business plan offered a better bet for shareholders than a sale.
"We believe in the prospects for our business and the opportunities for our brands," he said in a statement.
"We are committed to taking sound, aggressive action to deliver enhanced performance and long-term stockholder value."
Abercrombie reported a quarterly loss in May, with sales down 4% year-on-year. The firm is one of many US retailers seeing uncertain growth this year.
But Mr Martinez said the firm had seen "solid" sales momentum at its Hollister stores and expected to see improvement in the second half of the year.
Abercrombie operates about 900 stores globally. The potential buyers had reportedly included American Eagle and Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm.
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Investors dumped shares of Abercrombie & Fitch on Monday after the Ohio clothes retailer said it had broken off talks with potential buyers.
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Members of the Unite union stopped work from 10:45 until 15:37 BST on Friday. Further stoppages are also planned.
The union claims restructuring plans are threatening the jobs of more than 120 staff.
The council, which said plans will modernise the service and save £5m a year, said it is working to address missed waste collections.
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There will also be a series of two hour stoppages on 3, 11, 19 and 27 July and 4 August.
Unite spokesman Steve Foster said: "Nobody wants to go on strike but when nobody's listening to you, the only option is to withdraw your labour."
"There's been 100% support for the action that's taken place today," he said.
The council said it wants to change shift patterns for the collection crews - from a four day week of nine hours to a five day week of seven hours. Over 100 jobs will be "deleted", it said, but added it anticipated people will be offered new jobs. Agency staff will be replaced by full-time staff.
Jacqui Kennedy, for the council, said: "We're asking people to leave their bins out and we will get to them as soon as we possibly can.
"We're working closely with the trade unions to try and agree a way forward to address our differences. We do have to modernise the service and that takes some time."
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Gatwickmeetandgreet.net also said it had been approved by Gatwick Police and Trading Standards.
It said it "never" overbooked customers and parked cars in a police-inspected, fenced and floodlit compound.
One reader complained cars were parked entirely in a quiet residential road.
Urban Parking, owner of the service, did not respond to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) questions about the complaint.
The ASA said there was no evidence to support customers' understanding that their cars would be routinely parked at the compound and would remain there for the duration of their stay.
Gatwickmeetandgreet.net's claim of having been approved by Gatwick Police and Trading Standards was misleading and unsubstantiated, the ASA ruled.
It said the advert must not appear again in its current form, saying: "We told Urban Parking to ensure their future advertising did not mislead in relation to where consumers' vehicles would be parked."
He said he would support new measures to boost the security services' online capabilities "as much as any chisel-faced securocrat".
But he said a balance needed to be struck between security and liberty.
His comments come as the ex-head of MI5 warned anti-terrorism laws are "no longer fit for purpose".
David Cameron has raised the possibility of reviving plans - blocked by the Liberal Democrats in 2012 - for a communications data bill if the Conservatives are in majority government in May.
The prime minister also proposed introducing measures to break into the encrypted communications of suspected terrorists.
Mr Cameron has said the intelligence services need powers to store and read the contents of people's communications in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris.
But Mr Clegg told BBC One's Andrew Marr programme said: "It is not a very British thing to confer or imply guilt on the whole of the nation by retaining records of every website everyone has visited over the course of a year."
He said the plans for a communications data bill, dubbed a "snoopers' charter", were "unproven, clunky, [and] resource-intensive".
But Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles, told Sky News's Murnaghan programme, the data would only be held for a year, and could only be accessed with a warrant, adding: "I don't feel my freedom is in any way impinged by doing that."
In the Sunday Telegraph, former MI5 boss Lord Evans of Weardale argued for new laws to boost the intelligence agencies' online surveillance powers.
He said it was "much harder" than a decade ago for the security services to find out what terrorists or criminals were plotting, because they were communicating on platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat.
Mr Clegg said the state needed to "retain the ability to intrude on the privacy" of such people but he was "not comfortable" with the "indiscriminate" retention of data regarding the internet and social media use of "every single man, woman and child in this country for a year".
The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act will have to be renewed after the election as the measures expire in 2016.
Mr Clegg said: "New powers will need to be put on the statute book in the next Parliament, and I will advocate them as much as any chisel-faced securocrat."
But he insisted the values of liberty and privacy, which were "fundamental to an open society", must be protected.
"I want to keep us safe. It's ludicrous this idea that people who care about our freedom don't care about our safety," he told the BBC.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said it is important for security services to "keep up to date with technology" but it has to be "done in the right way", with "basic liberties" protected.
The party supports the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill going through Parliament, which gives some new powers to the security services.
Mr Clegg also told the programme it was "most likely" the Liberal Democrats would form part of a coalition government after May, dismissing predictions his party would lose up to half of its seats on 7 May as "silly".
The party would add "heart" to a Conservative-led government or "spine" to Labour, Mr Clegg said.
He stressed any decision on which of the two parties the Lib Dems would join in a coalition would not be based on his preferences but he rejected the idea of sitting in a cabinet with UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Asked if he would sit with the SNP, he said: "I find it very difficult to imagine the circumstances in which I would do that."
A Conservative Party spokesman the Tories were focused on securing an overall majority to deliver "a more secure future for Britain".
When pressed on the Lib Dems' deficit-reduction plans, Mr Clegg said plans would be set out in the coming weeks but he was "confident" it would not include income tax or VAT rises.
The meeting had been scheduled to take place in Vienna on Friday.
A Macedonian presidential pardon for 56 politicians embroiled in a corruption scandal sparked fury last week.
The EU Commission and MEPs say they regret "retrograde steps" in the Balkan nation which are delaying its progress towards EU membership.
EU sanctions against certain Macedonian politicians are a possibility, Reuters news agency quoted one EU official as saying.
The EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Johannes Hahn, and several MEPs are trying to mediate in Macedonia's political crisis. They had planned to build on the Przino agreement, a political deal reached under EU auspices last year.
But in a statement on Thursday the EU officials said it was time for the politicians to deliver. "The persisting rule of law issues in [the capital] Skopje, which undermine this agreement, must be addressed without any further delay," it said.
Macedonia's opposition has demanded that President Gjorge Ivanov revoke the mass pardon and postpone snap elections that he called for 5 June.
Political deadlock has gripped Macedonia for two years.
The opposition has accused former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of illegal wire-tapping - allegedly 20,000 people, including politicians and journalists, were bugged. President Ivanov cancelled an investigation into that alleged abuse of power.
An exchange of letters between senior civil servants shows the ex-PM was advised against the extra payments, but pressed ahead because the advisers were suddenly losing their jobs.
Mr Cameron resigned as PM on Wednesday.
Unions said it was "astonishing hypocrisy" while the rest of the civil service faced cuts in redundancy terms.
The letters between the chief executive of the civil service, John Manzoni, and Mr Cameron's Principal Private Secretary, Simon Case, have been published on the Gov.UK website.
In his letter, Mr Manzoni said special advisers - temporary civil servants who work directly for ministers and are able to provide more political advice than their Whitehall colleagues - were entitled to four and a half months of pay when they lost their jobs.
"I do not believe there is a case for awarding higher sums than those for which the contract allows," he wrote.
"Legal advice supports this position, and lawyers have been clear that awarding a further month's salary for special advisers in this position would constitute a payment above the contractual entitlement.
"My strong advice is that we continue to abide by the provisions in their contracts of employment."
He said Mr Cameron's decision would increase Number 10's severance pay bill by £282,892, taking it from £747,045 to £1,029,938, and set a precedent across all government departments which could lead to a further 30 special advisers getting the same deal.
He asked for a "written direction" to authorise the higher payments, equivalent to six months' pay, and said it could lead to an investigation by the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
In his response, sent the day Mr Cameron was replaced as prime minister by Theresa May, Mr Case said the then PM wanted to proceed with the payments for special advisers, who were reappointed after last year's election.
Explaining Mr Cameron's decision, he said: "He is conscious that the situation they find themselves in is through no fault of their own.
"The termination of their employment has been sudden and unexpected, and he does not wish to exacerbate an already difficult and uncertain time for them by inferring that their long and loyal service is not fully recognised."
Mr Case said Mr Cameron did want the six months rule to be applied across government.
The FDA union, which represents senior public service mangers, said it was "an astonishing act of hypocrisy from Cameron, increasing redundancy pay for his special advisers whilst in the middle of cutting redundancy terms for the rest of the civil service.
"It sends a clear message about who he valued most."
The Public and Commercial Services Union said it was a "stunning last act of cronyism".
Mr Cameron had been expected to step down in September, but the Conservative leadership contest suddenly ended when Andrea Leadsom pulled out, leaving Theresa May as the only contender.
The PM then announced he would step down within days.
Jenner, formerly US Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, will feature in the Women: New Portraits show next year.
Other portraits will include tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams and American comic Amy Schumer.
Leibovitz took the high-profile Vanity Fair magazine cover photo of Jenner earlier this year.
The exhibition is a continuation of Women, a project Leibovitz began over 15 years ago with her close friend, writer Susan Sontag.
The award-winning photographer has been documenting pop culture since the early 70s, where she began her career as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone.
Speaking in London on Wednesday, Leibovitz said: "It's interesting to realise that gender is very diversified and this is really what we are dealing with now. You can't just put it into male/female, there is more to that."
The free exhibition will be open to the public in London on 16 January at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station and will then travel to nine cities over the course of 12 months.
The Yorkshire rider, 35, followed up his emotional Supersport success on Monday by taking victory by 17 seconds over early leader Michael Dunlop.
Riding a PBM Kawasaki, Hutchinson beat the race record by 32 seconds and posted the fastest lap at 130.924mph.
"Beating Michael Dunlop makes it more special," said Hutchinson.
"Michael dominated things during the four years I was unable to push at the front."
The Bingley rider overhauled Dunlop midway through Tuesday's race to take his 10th career TT win.
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Hutchinson went close to losing a leg after a serious crash at Silverstone in 2010 and was out of action for a couple of seasons as he had a total of 30 operations on the injury.
Dunlop, still struggling with injuries sustained in Sunday's Superbike race, produced a courageous ride and led the eventual victor by two seconds as the riders refuelled after two laps.
However, Hutchinson moved into the lead on lap three as Dunlop's physical condition began to take its toll and the Yorkshireman was 9.4 seconds in front with one lap to go.
A disappointed Dunlop was left to ponder what might have been as he was unable to match the speed of his rival.
"I was fighting fit at the start of the fortnight but the team I was with were not giving me the tools I needed to do the job," added Dunlop.
"I had that 'off' on Sunday, through no fault of my own, and I've struggled ever since. I put everything into the first lap and then it all just fell apart."
Dunlop is considering pulling out of Wednesday's Supersport Race 2 to allow his body to recover ahead of Friday's Senior TT.
The Ballymoney man's brother William pulled out of the remainder of the meeting on Monday after breaking a rib in a practice crash on Monday.
Fermanagh rider Lee Johnston clinched his first TT podium by taking third place on the East Coast Construction BMW thanks to a flying last lap of 130.85mph, his fastest-ever on the Mountain Course.
James Hillier, Peter Hickman and David Johnson made up the top six on the leaderboard, while Guy Martin had to settle for seventh after losing time as his machine failed to fire into life after his pitstop.
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Carey has been put in charge by Liberty Media, the US group which completed its $8bn (£6.4bn) takeover of the sport.
The American told BBC Sport he had "tremendous respect" for Ecclestone, but F1 "needs to be run differently than for the last four or five years".
"Bernie is a one-man team. It was not right in today's world," he said.
"The decision-making is not as effective as it needs to be. Clearly it has to be improved."
Ecclestone has been removed as chief executive but offered a new advisory role as chairman emeritus.
Carey said Liberty had major plans to grow F1 around the world. He said:
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Carey was installed in September and said he had decided over the past four months that Ecclestone, 86, was no longer the right person to run F1.
"We needed a sport that while respecting what made it great has a sense of energy and innovation," Carey said.
"In many ways, in a simplistic sense, the sport said 'no' too much and we have to start saying 'yes' - not gimmick it up but find ways to do new and exciting things to have the sport continue to grow and interest and excite people."
He said Ecclestone had not been happy about the change but had accepted his new role.
"I would expect this is difficult for Bernie," Carey said. "He has run this sport for his entire adult life and I respect completely that this is a difficult change.
"We have tried to deal with him with the respect he's due, which is why we offered him the chairman emeritus title.
"I have been sincere in saying I value his help and advice as we go forward.
"He calls himself a dictator. He has run it as a one-man dictator for a long time. I think the sport needs a fresh perspective. But he has a lot to continue to offer and he will always be part of the F1 family."
Liberty has brought in former Mercedes F1 team boss Ross Brawn and ex-ESPN sales executive Sean Bratches to run the sporting and commercial sides of F1 under him.
Carey added the governance of F1 needed an overhaul.
"I don't know whether the decision-making is not what it should be because there is too much history amongst the players," he said.
"One of the benefits we bring is a fresh start. We don't have an agenda other than to make the sport great for its fans and that gives us an opportunity to look at how do we create more of a partnership - everybody has a shared vision of where do we want to go and we can align that vision and have everybody trying to move in the same direction."
Carey said he felt F1 was not making the most of its appeal to fans around the world.
"Bernie deserves enormous credit for the sport he built," Carey said. "It just got sold for $8bn so the proof is in the numbers.
"But the reality is to be competitive in today's world you need to continue to find ways to connect and excite fans and we need to use all the digital platforms available, have a marketing capability to tell the stories of the rivalries of the stars.
"They are larger-than-life personalities and you have to take advantage of all the rules to make that story everything it can be, have to make events larger than ever, music and entertainment with sport at the centre of it.
"I have talked about 21 Super Bowls and that is really what we should have. And then work with our partners - teams, sponsors, promoters, regulator - to ensure the race itself is everything it can be."
Liberty is to give F1 teams the opportunity to buy equity in the sport. They have rejected an initial offer but talks are ongoing.
"We would like to be more aligned with the teams and those discussions are ongoing," Carey said.
"We initially made a proposal that had too short a timeframe and we have found a way to have discussion that can have an appropriate level of exchange.
"Out of discussions of equity will be discussions of where do we want the sport to be. There is a great deal of interest in the equity but first and foremost it is about trying to create more of an alignment with the teams about the future of the business."
He added Liberty would look at the prize-money structure, which many inside the sport believe is too skewed in favour of the leading teams.
"We'd like owning a team to be good business, running a track to be good business and F1 is a good business, and together we are all figuring out how to share in making the whole business stronger," Carey said. "But dealing with revenue is complicated."
Many European races are struggling to cope with the high race fees Ecclestone demanded, but Carey said he hoped to find a way to make them more successful financially.
"I don't think we will make them more affordable," he said. "We will make them more successful. We want to be more of a partner. To be in the US we are not going to own tracks but we will be more of a partner in trying to figure it out.
"We think these events should be bigger and more profitable than they are and we think, properly run, these events should continue to grow and be even more successful."
Carey said the leading drivers were "great personalities" and he wanted to "provide enough opportunities for fans to connect with those personalities".
And he added safety was "critical".
"Go and watch one of these cars drive down a track," he said. "Anyone who tells me that is not dangerous by definition and awe-inspiring hasn't been to one of these races.
"What they do is truly unique. We have a responsibility to make it as safe as we can without undermining the sport."
Michael Ron David Kadar, 18, who has joint US-Israeli citizenship, allegedly used the internet to make hundreds of hoax calls in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Prosecutors say he often used software to disguise his voice as a woman's.
He is also accused of trying to extort money from a US senator.
Israeli prosecutors say Mr Kadar made more than 2,000 threatening calls to schools, airports, police stations and hospitals over a two-year period.
The charges against him were filed in Florida and Georgia, but the US justice ministry has said he will be tried in Israel. His motives remain unclear.
Mr Kadar reportedly targeted several British Jewish schools between February 2016 and March 2017.
On 28 February 2017 the Jewish Museum in London was evacuated after a bomb threat attributed to him.
The charges also include making threats to passenger planes, including British Airways flights between London and New York.
Prosecutors say that Swiss and French warplanes were scrambled to escort an El Al flight to Israel, after Mr Kadar falsely claimed a bomb was on board.
In another incident, a hoax threat from the defendant reportedly forced the diversion of a passenger plane. Those on board were evacuated using the slides, and six were injured as a result.
Mr Kadar is also accused of threatening to kidnap and kill the children of a former senior official at the Pentagon.
The teenager, who is himself Jewish, was arrested on 23 March in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. The investigation had involved the FBI and police forces from several countries.
A large antenna was discovered attached to his home which prosecutors say he used to disguise his identity by using neighbours' Wi-Fi networks.
Mr Kadar's lawyer has said he suffers from a medical condition that may cause behavioural problems.
He claimed the young man has a high IQ, but the emotional intelligence of a five-year-old.
The teenager's American-born mother told Israel's Channel 2 that her son was home-schooled after he was unable to function in school due to a brain tumour.
"He's autistic," she said. "He can't control it. He can't think straight."
In the same interview, Mr Kadar's Israeli father said: "To all the Jews in America, I want to say clearly - we are very, very sorry, from the bottom of our hearts."
Last month a former journalist, Juan Thompson, was arrested in connection with several of the threats.
Investigators say that 31-year-old suspect's alleged calls were part of a bizarre campaign against a former girlfriend.
The man admitted charges of child cruelty by wilful ill-treatment and assault in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health.
The offences occurred on dates between 28 February and 10 August 2012.
Two additional charges of assaulting the children were withdrawn.
Dungannon Magistrates Court heard the little boy was in his primary school on 23 March 2012, and a classroom assistant noticed he had swelling and bruising to his nose.
She asked how this had happened and the boy said he had been doing his homework and was finding it very hard.
His father had hit him in the face causing the injuries.
Whilst this was noted, the school did not report it and opted to monitor the situation.
Just over four months later on 7 August 2012 the NSPCC contacted police to say an anonymous caller had reported the two children had told her their father beat them with a belt, and proceeded to show marks.
On being spoken to initially the little girl said this had not happened to her, but later claimed both her father and step-mother beat her with a belt.
The children were medically examined and a report found marks on the boy "could be consistent with belt marks".
Having been removed from the family home, the little boy gave a video-interview in which he stated both he and his sister were beaten with a belt by their father and step-mother.
He stated he was glad he did not have to go home as he was afraid of his father.
He further disclosed his step-mother had told both children they were not to tell anyone of the beatings.
It emerged on one occasion the children returned home from the park and their step-mother asked what they had talked about.
The children claimed they "had told the other boys and girls about the beatings", and this led the step-mother to beat them again with a belt.
Police arrested the father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his children, and during interview he made no comment replies to all questions.
When his son's allegations were put to him he said it was all lies and he had never beaten his children.
He claimed to have punished them by taking things away or grounding them.
However, he accepted he had witnessed his wife strike the children once or twice, and it may have left marks.
In court, a defence barrister clarified, "My client accepts he used a belt to punish the children".
The judge ruled a pre-sentence report would be required.
The man, who was accompanied in court by his wife, was ordered to appear for sentencing next month.
He was warned by the judge: "I strongly advise you to co-operate with probation. These are very, very serious charges."
The University of Reading's students' union has voted not to take part, after hearing claims relating to a previous appearance on the show by the Reading team.
But the university says the programme is a "national institution" and will step in to ensure that Reading is represented in the contest.
"We want our brightest and best students competing against the top universities in the UK in front of millions of viewers - not waving the white flag and refusing to enter," said a University of Reading spokesman.
Reading teams have previously been organised by the university's students' union.
"The university now plans to step in and recruit a team, given the students' union has opted out," said the university spokesman.
He said the university did not know the details of the dispute between the team and the television programme.
The union's education officer, Niall Hamilton, said a confidentiality agreement meant it could not specify the comments that had caused concern - but the students' union believed that complaints had not been taken seriously enough.
"Misogyny and sexism are not about 'offending' contestants, but undermining and oppressing individuals due to their gender," he wrote on the students' union website.
"These forms of oppression should not be taken lightly," wrote Mr Hamilton.
The students' union voted 120 to 105 in favour of adopting a policy of boycotting the quiz show.
A boy aged 16 and an 18-year-old man have been arrested over the incident which happened in the Cutts area of Dunmurry on Sunday morning.
Insp Jim McGrillen said the taxi driver picked up two passengers in Divis Street, west Belfast, at 04:45 GMT.
He said one of them had a machete and an attempt was made to force the taxi driver from his vehicle.
The officer said two teenagers were arrested a short distance away on suspicion of attempted hijacking.
"The machete has been recovered by police and has been seized for examination," he added.
Paul Jones, 37, from Belper, died in hospital after becoming unwell at Chesterfield police station, on 26 June.
The IPCC said it has retrieved CCTV from the custody suite and accounts have been gathered from staff on duty.
The investigation will focus on whether Mr Jones was cared for properly.
James Dipple-Johnstone, IPCC commissioner, said: "We have met Mr Jones' family to explain our role and how the investigation will progress, and I offer them my sincere condolences at this difficult time."
An inquest at Derbyshire Coroner's Court was opened and adjourned on 7 July.
Almost half of the £33.5m profit was made by Edinburgh City Council where £15.3m was raised.
Glasgow City Council made £10.3m and Aberdeen City Council made £5m.
The analysis of data returned annually to the Scottish government by local authorities showed 16 councils made a profit, 13 made a loss and the Shetland Islands broke even.
A total of £73.3m was raised across the country through parking in 2013/14, while the combined cost to councils of running parking activities was £39.8m.
It left a profit of £33.5m, up £200,000 on the previous year.
The RAC said councils needed to set out where the profits were going.
East Lothian Council did not provide accounts and North Lanarkshire Council does not charge for parking at its car parks.
Not all councils provided information on the number of penalty charge notices issued over the year but there were 230,000 in Edinburgh and it is estimated there are about 700,000 issued each year across the country.
Prof Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Not all authorities are generating a surplus but overall we are talking about big money.
"Nobody wants a parking free-for-all but when we are talking about such large sums, local authorities should be transparent with residents and drivers about what their parking policy is, why charges are set at the level they are and where the profits are going."
He met shepherds and hill farmers and those who are trying to help find sustainable ways of living high in the fells.
Among them were members of the Herdwick Project - an initiative designed to raise the profile of Herdwick Meat and to encourage wider trade links.
Later he spent more than an hour talking to local employers at the Westmorland County showground and praised the work of the organisers.
He ended the day with a visit to furniture maker Peter Hall and Son in Staveley near Kendal.
Work to bring the two taxes together would take many years and start with widespread consultation, Mr Osborne said in his Budget speech.
The move was planned to simplify, rather than raise tax, he said.
So there would not be an increase in taxes for pensioners and those who receive some forms of benefits.
"It is time that we take this historic step to simplify our tax system and make it fit for the modern age," Mr Osborne said.
The idea of merging income tax and National Insurance Contributions was mooted in a recent review by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS).
The OTS described the idea as a "long-term project".
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Such a move would create a massive amount of upheaval for the tax system in the short term.
There would need to be some cover for groups, such as pensioners, who pay tax on their income but not National Insurance.
Those who have a series of small part-time jobs which bring small amounts of income could also be severely affected by such a merger.
People who receive work benefits such as company cars might also see the tax on these rise, as there is no National Insurance paid on these by employees at present.
Previously, the government announced income tax changes in April, with the personal allowance - the point at which income tax starts to be paid - rising to £7,475.
This will go up by another £630 in 2012, pushing it closer to the coalition government's aspiration of the first £10,000 a year of earnings not being subject to income tax.
But people will feel the effect of the decision to uprate direct tax by the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, not Retail Prices Index (RPI) from 2012, a move that will gain the Treasury £1bn a year by the end of the Parliament.
The employee contribution of National Insurance is rising from 11% to 12% in April, as announced previously.
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, described the mechanics of the income tax and National Insurance merger as a "minefield".
"It is a lot easier said than done," he said.
Key considerations would include how to prevent people who retired early being charged extra tax, he said, and how to replace the employers' National Insurance contributions.
And Tony Bernstein, senior tax partner at HW Fisher and Company chartered accountants, said: "At the very least, this is an admission that National Insurance is a tax.
"But in real life, merging National Insurance and income tax will be almost impossible to achieve in a simple fashion. Politically, will a much higher headline basic tax rate combining income tax and National Insurance contributions be palatable?"
Treasury committee chairman Andrew Tyrie said: "This has been a beguiling idea which successive chancellors have looked at very closely and then in the end rejected, largely because it hits the incomes of certain groups in unexpected ways.
"Maybe the time has come to implement it."
The woman, aged in her 80s, was pronounced dead at the scene in Ewhurst Road, Cranleigh, after she was hit by a Honda Civic at about 14:25 BST.
The female driver of the vehicle and the male passenger, both elderly, were flown to a hospital in south London with serious injuries.
Surrey Police has urged anyone who witnessed the incident or events leading up to it to come forward.
The New England Revolution striker, who is 32 on Thursday, returns a self-imposed 10-month international absence.
Kamara withdrew because he felt the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) "lacks respect for players".
Sierra Leone need to secure a victory to qualify for the Nations Cup finals for the first time in 20 years.
That would put them through as Group I winners, leapfrogging their Ivorian opponents, who currently lead them at the top of table by one point.
But a point for Ivory Coast would book their passage to next year's tournament in Gabon.
Kamara's return is a boost for Sierra Leone given his form in MLS.
He has scored nine goals so far this season for New England and his previous club Columbus Crew, where he had an outstanding campaign last year when he was the league's top goalscorer with 22 goals in the regular season and four in the play-offs.
SLFA public relations officer Abu Bakarr Kamara told BBC Sport: "Coach Sellas Tetteh said he has nothing against Kamara and he's welcomed back to the team.
"Kamara is now part of coach Tetteh's plan for the game and he's looking forward to him to giving his best against Ivory Coast."
Meanwhile, Leone Stars will have to play without China-based defender Gibril Sankoh, who has failed to honour Tetteh's invitation.
Ivory Coast will be without Hertha Berlin's Solomon Kalou, who has flown home after suffering two family bereavements.
But in the world of cricket the two proud counties could be willing to put differences aside and come together, if it offers them a chance to play at the highest level.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is currently reviewing the structure of the domestic game and one possibility could be to increase the County Championship from 18 to 21 clubs, split into three divisions, instead of the current two.
It has been suggested that Ireland and Scotland could take two of the extra places, and Devon and Cornwall are willing to unite to fill the third.
Devon has provided a number of well-known cricketers, including former England wicketkeeper Chris Read and brothers Craig and Jamie Overton, who play for Somerset and were recently called into the national one-day squad.
Cornwall, meanwhile, had a local boy in England's 1986-87 Ashes-winning team with Surrey wicketkeeper Jack Richards, who was born in Penzance, playing in all five Tests.
"I heard rumours over the winter that the ECB were looking to expand the County Championship and that they might be looking at Scotland, Ireland and one more team to join the championship," Sean Hooper, the chief executive of Cornwall Cricket Board told BBC South West.
"Someone suggested it might be a combined Devon and Cornwall team and I thought 'What a great idea that is'.
"In rugby, we have a lot of success with Cornish Pirates and Exeter Chiefs, so young kids have a way where they can play professional sport through rugby, but we don't have that in cricket, the nearest is Somerset which is two-and-a half-hours away, so they don't see any first class-cricketers."
His Devon counterpart, Neil Gamble, is also keen on the idea, if a little more sceptical.
"It's a very attractive idea, but I think there are a number of difficulties that would arise pretty fast that would make it somewhat impractical.
"In the first place, there are 18 first-class counties at the moment, of whom five or six find it very difficult to survive, and only survive because of help from the ECB.
"Probably, that's as many clubs as should exist, and if we try to expand the base even more, we may well have additional financial pressures on individual teams."
But he added: "I think if it was a real practical possibility, I think we would subsume any rivalries and hostilities and work very hard together to make sure it was a success."
The ECB is saying very little on the subject at present, apart from a statement saying that it is "at an early stage of the review process".
No decision on changes to the domestic programme are expected until late November, but there is no doubt that there is an appetite for first-class cricket in the south-west area.
Devon took the scalp of Leicestershire in the 2004 C&G Trophy and their one-day matches against first-class counties were always popular, with crowds of 5,000 regularly turning out at Exmouth.
Gamble said: "Devon has always been quite a strong minor county.
"In 1948, they applied to be first-class county to the MCC, who controlled things in those days, and they never received a reply, so it was obvious that the MCC didn't think it was a viable option."
Whether or not it is viable in 2015 remains to be seen, but the will is certainly there.
"I've always been a bit of an optimist and a dreamer," said Hooper.
"Is it realistic? I don't know. Could it happen? Yes it could. If the ECB want to talk to Devon and myself any further we'd be really keen to pursue that conversation."
Lt Col Oleg Peshkov's body was received by Turkish authorities at the Syrian border earlier in the day.
Turkish forces shot down the plane saying it had violated Turkish airspace, which Russia denies.
The incident has sparked a furious row between the two countries, with Russia announcing sanctions against Turkey.
Rebels from Syria's ethnic Turkmen community opened fire on Lt Col Peshkov and his co-pilot as they tried to parachute into government-held territory on Tuesday.
The rebels said he had died by the time he reached the ground.
His body was flown from the border to the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday afternoon, from where it will be taken to Russia.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu added that Lt Col Peshkov's body had been treated in accordance with Orthodox Christian tradition.
Another pilot in the plane, Capt Konstantin Murakhtin, survived and was rescued from rebel-held territory in Syria in a special forces operation.
Capt Murakhtin said he wanted to go back to duty and stay in Syria, saying "someone has to pay" for his colleague's death.
A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday covers imports from Turkey, the work of Turkish companies in Russia and any Turkish nationals working for Russian companies.
The decree also calls for an end to charter flights between the countries.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to apologise to Russia over the incident.
On Friday, he accused Moscow of "playing with fire" in its Syria operations. But on Saturday, he said he was "saddened" by the downing of the jet.
Turkey and Russia have important economic links. Russia is Turkey's second-largest trading partner, while more than three million Russian tourists visited Turkey last year.
Party leaders spoke out about how they would use the Scottish Parliament's new powers to help the poorest in society and support local businesses.
Nicola Sturgeon addressed the annual meeting of the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee, telling trade unionists that an SNP government would "use every power" to tackle poverty and inequality.
The SNP leader said if re-elected she would use Holyrood's new powers to make social security fairer, led by a Fairer Scotland Action Plan.
She said: "We did not argue for the new powers to use them in search of one day's headlines, we argued for them so we could address the poverty and worklessness that has lingered in some of our communities for far too long."
Ms Sturgeon also said she would reappoint an Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality - although the SNP has faced criticism for delaying its response to the findings of the last poverty advisor until after the Holyrood election.
Kezia Dugdale pledged to "stop the cuts that would trap a generation in poverty" while campaigning at a foodbank in Dumbarton.
The Scottish Labour leader said the next Scottish government had "a moral duty to break from Tory austerity".
Ms Dugdale also confirmed that opposition to the Trident nuclear weapons system will be included in Labour's election manifesto.
During a BBC Scotland radio phone-in programme, Ms Dugdale said there were "very mixed views" within Scottish Labour when she took over as leader, but said this had been settled through a "healthy democratic debate" and vote at last year's party conference.
Ruth Davidson underlined her ambition to be the leader of opposition at Holyrood during a speech in Perth.
The Scottish Conservative leader said the SNP were "a long way in front" in polls, and said her "realistic approach" was to "provide the strong opposition our country needs".
Ms Davidson also attacked Ms Dugdale's "bizarre" position on Trident, saying the Labour leader did not believe in her own policies.
She said: "Nothing shows the mess the current Labour party finds itself in more than its tortuous position on our national defence."
Willie Rennie voiced his support for small businesses while visiting Buckthorns House in Upper Largo.
The Lib Dem leader helped Fife Food Ambassador Christopher Trotter cook a meal using local produce, saying his party would work to change procurement rules to boost smaller food businesses.
He said: "Our small businesses sell some of the best food and drink in the world but at present, the way that the government chooses to buy produce locks them out of public contracts that would help them grow.
"We need to end the big business comes first mentality that has characterised the SNP government."
The "left alliance" of Rise published its manifesto at a launch event in Glasgow.
The party has issued a challenge to other pro-independence parties to back a second referendum within the term of the next parliament.
It has also proposed a "living income" for carers, a minimum income for public sector workers, higher taxes for the rich, free public transport, and the break-up of Police Scotland.
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Coventry Cat Group, which is run entirely by volunteers, can accommodate 100 cats at its centre in Allesley, and in foster homes. However, they say they are now at capacity and turning away stray animals on a daily basis.
Pat Whitehouse, from the charity, said she believed the reasons for the sudden rise in abandoned animals was a combination of hardship and ignorance.
"Most cats aren't intentionally stray, it's just that they are victims of society," she said.
Figures show that in 2012, when culling was postponed, the policy cost £2.5m. It then cost £9.8m in 2013 and £4.5m in 2014.
Anti-cull campaigners said the "disastrous" policy is now becoming "an unacceptable burden on the taxpayer".
Defra said operational costs had halved between 2013 and 2014 and additional costs were met by farmers.
Bovine TB, which can be passed from badgers to cattle, is one of the biggest challenges facing cattle farming.
Cattle are regularly tested are destroyed if they test positive for TB - 26,413 infected cattle were slaughtered in England in 2014.
But questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the culls in controlling the spread of TB and whether badgers, which are shot at night, are being humanely killed.
The figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, were revealed by The Badger Trust days after the government announced it would be rolling out the cull to Dorset.
The Trust said the cost to the public of killing each badger is £6,775.
Dominic Dyer, head of the Badger Trust, said: "Not only is the badger cull a disastrous failure on scientific and animal welfare grounds, it is also becoming an unacceptable burden on the taxpayer."
But Defra said farmers were footing the bulk of the costs, with the costs to government related largely to policing the culls and monitoring protocols in the first year.
A spokesman said: "TB poses a huge threat to our farming industry and has cost £500m over the last decade.
"We are pursuing a comprehensive strategy, including tighter cattle movement controls, badger vaccination and culling in areas where TB is widespread.
"Costs have been substantially reduced since last year and will be kept under review."
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Last week, clandestine online drugs market place the Silk Road was shut down after a lengthy investigation.
Andy Archibald, the interim head of the UK's National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), said his officers worked with the FBI to identify individuals who were buying and selling drugs through the anonymising networks.
But he added that different tools and methods would need to be adopted if his team is to keep up with the constantly-evolving threat.
About 1,000 tonnes of granite boulders have been used to plug the hole which opened up behind the Pyramids Centre in Southsea between 25 and 26 December.
Council leader Donna Jones said: "I'm very confident that what we've done will stop any further deterioration."
The authority said plans for a multimillion-pound replacement scheme for the sea defences was underway.
Portsmouth City Council said the cost of replacing the 40-year-old concrete defences was estimated at £87m.
So far this year, 95 officers have been murdered in and around the giant, sprawling city, according to official figures - up from 47 in 2011.
The spike in fatal attacks has been blamed on a powerful criminal gang known as the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), or First Command of the Capital.
The violence exploded back in May when six members of the PCC were killed in a shoot out with an elite police unit trying to clamp down on the drugs trade.
According to lurid newspaper headlines in Brazil, the gang's leadership swore revenge, and police officers immediately started being targeted in what has been described as an "undeclared war". Many have been killed in ambushes while they are off duty.
The fatal attacks on police officers come as the wider murder rate in Sao Paulo is also alarmingly high.
In October alone there were 176 murders in Sao Paulo city, and 571 in the wider Sao Paulo state region, mostly due to gang-on-gang violence.
For a country preparing to host football's 2014 World Cup - including the opening game in Sao Paulo - and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio, global reports of such a situation is a public relations disaster.
Yet, for the great majority of Brazilians, life continues unaffected, at a time when the football-mad country's economy is again starting to enjoy strong growth.
And with delegates from around the world preparing to attend the Soccerex global convention of football business and finance movers and shakers in Rio, Brazilian commentators say that despite the reputational damage, the country remains a safe place for overseas visitors.
Wilber Colmerauer is managing director of Brazil Funding, a private company that advises European investors on putting their money into Brazil.
He says: "We are seeing a big wave of crime in Sao Paulo, which is not good for its image or tourism. But Sao Paulo is a huge, sprawling city, we are talking 19 million people, and the violence is taking place in the very poor parts of the city on its outskirts. Most people are completely unaffected."
Julia Carneiro, the BBC's Rio de Janeiro correspondent, agrees with this analysis.
"In the central parts of the Sao Paulo there is concern but people haven't changed their routine," she says.
"The conflict has brought great fear to the poorer part of the population and to policemen and their families, but has not affected the richer neighbourhoods - Brazil's inequality is reflected also when it comes to security.
"If this situation doesn't change and crime does not spread to the central areas, it shouldn't be a matter of concern for tourists."
However, Professor Anthony Pereira, director of the Brazil Institute at King's College in London, said the situation in Sao Paulo would probably put people off visiting Brazil in general, or investing in the country.
"We have an organised criminal gang that is challenging the state, and doing it in a sophisticated way. It raises question marks about the capacity of the state to maintain order," he says.
In contrast to Sao Paulo, the murder rate in Rio de Janeiro has fallen in recent years, thanks to a policy known as pacification.
Under pacification, marines and police armed with machine guns, and using armoured vehicles and helicopters, have been entering some of the city's hundreds of favelas - or shanty towns - to drive out drugs gangs and restore order.
Once order is restored, and a permanent police presence is secured, the city's authorities then send in staff to establish social services, such as access to medical care and basic sanitation and waste collection.
As Rio prepares for both the World Cup - at which it will host both group games and the final - and the 2016 summer Olympics, favelas near to football stadiums and other sporting sites are among those being targeted.
"The UPPs [police pacification units] in Rio have been a great success," says Anthony Pereira. "The situation in Sao Paulo should not temper the genuine optimism coming out of Rio."
However, the BBC's Julia Carneiro is less upbeat about the situation in Rio.
"Rio has over 700 favelas and the pacification has only reached a small part of these communities, a little over 30," she says.
"Dozens of others remain under control of drug gangs and some say the situation is actually getting worse in some of them, with the migration of criminals expelled from the territories they once controlled.
"Another problem which is not very known abroad is a growing one: the control over many of Rio's favelas by the militias, groups of corrupt police or ex-police officers that force the population to pay fees for gas, water and their 'protection'."
One thing that has consensus is the fact that Brazil's rate of economic growth is now gathering speed once more, after it fell back from the highs of 2010.
While the economy expanded by 7.5% in 2010, it grew only 2.7% in 2011.
Although the government expects growth of just 1.5% overall this year, the economy is expected to expand by 4% in the last quarter of 2012, and by the same level in 2013.
Wilber Colmerauer says that the slowdown from 7.5% growth was in many ways welcome because the economy was over-heating, and inflation was rising too high as a result.
"2010 was an election year, so there were many economic stimulation measures in place to boost the economy and the consumer," he says.
"But the new government had to start to unwind a lot of these, to cool the economy down. This has enabled interest rates to fall from around 12% to 7% because inflation has also fallen back.
"You also had the impact of the debt crisis in Europe hitting Brazilian exports.
"Now, though, we are in a position where Brazil has never had inflation so low, more confident consumers are able to increase their spending, and exports are rising again.
"Plus there is the economic boost of all the infrastructure projects for the World Cup, and the Olympics in Rio," he adds.
With work on the new and renovated football stadiums due to be completed by late spring of 2013, and work continuing at pace at the Olympics sites, fears that Brazil may not be ready have largely receded.
Soccerex chief executive Duncan Revie said: "We are returning to Rio for the third time, with the city very much the focus of the sporting world as host for the 2014 Fifa World Cup Final and the 2016 Olympic Games.
"It is therefore a great time for the football world to be congregating in the city."
Labour made an election promise to more than double the amount people can keep from £24,000 to £50,000.
Social Services Minister Rebecca Evans said the limit would rise to £30,000 in 2017 as a first step in the process.
"This frees up more of people's money for them to use as they wish," she said.
The Welsh Government estimates up to 4,000 people currently pay the full cost of residential care and up to 1,000 of them could benefit from raising the limit to £50,000.
Meanwhile, Army veterans will have their war disablement pensions totally disregarded when councils assess charges for social care, Ms Evans added.
The Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset is sporting facial "hair" in support of Movember, which raises awareness of prostate and testicular cancer.
The National Trust's Rob Rhodes said: "It's all a bit of fun to highlight an important subject so we were happy to give our support and join in the fun."
He said the moustache would remain for one day, and that there would be no damage to the giant.
"I am sure the giant would approve," he added.
The 180ft (55m) tall giant's new moustache is 36ft (11m) by 9ft (2.7m).
A spokesman at British Seed Houses, which grew the whiskers, said it gave him a "rakish" appearance.
Local folklore describes the club-wielding figure, which dates back to at least 1694, as a symbol of spirituality and fertility.
The giant attracted attention in the summer of 2007 when a temporary chalk figure of Homer Simpson was drawn next to it, to promote The Simpsons Movie.
Money is raised for Movember during November each year by men growing moustaches to support health programmes that combat prostate and testicular cancer, and mental health challenges.
Mr Justice Coulson halted the trial of Dr Errol Cornish and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, saying it would be "unsafe and unfair" to go on.
Frances Cappuccini, 30, died after suffering a haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells Hospital on 9 October 2012.
It was the first prosecution of an NHS trust for corporate manslaughter.
Dr Cornish, 67, of Holmbury Park, Bromley, south-east London, a consultant anaesthetist, had denied manslaughter by gross negligence.
The judge told the court there was little or no evidence he had done anything wrong that had contributed to Mrs Cappuccini's death and, likewise, there was no evidence of systemic failure at the trust.
"I am firmly of the view that it would be unsafe and unfair to everyone, including Mrs Cappuccini's family, to leave this case to the jury," he added.
"Her unexpected death can only properly be described as a tragedy."
He told the court Dr Cornish had taken actions that were "as far removed from a case of gross negligence manslaughter as it's possible to be" and he and the trust that employed him had "no case to answer".
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had "carefully considered" Mr Justice Coulson's judgement and decided not to appeal against his decision.
It is still deciding whether to continue proceedings against anaesthetist Dr Nadeem Azeez, who was not on trial because he had left the country.
Following the conclusion of the trial, it emerged Mr Justice Coulson had ordered the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to delete a tweet he posted on the second day of proceedings which said it was a "tragic case from which huge lessons must be learned".
In a statement following the collapse of the trial, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said "no outcome from these proceedings could bring any consolation to the family" adding its sympathies were with them.
"The allegation of corporate manslaughter has been consistently denied by the trust and now also comprehensively rejected by the court," it continued.
"The trust regrets that the Crown Prosecution Service saw fit to pursue the charge in the first place, given the additional stress this will have caused all involved."
Dr Cornish said he was relieved with the judge's verdict and thanked "family, friends, legal team and all those who supported me through this difficult time".
"I would like to pay tribute to the family of Mrs Cappuccini for the restraint and dignity they have displayed throughout this trial," he added.
Jurors had been told Mrs Cappuccini lost more than two litres of blood when she gave birth to her second son Giacomo by Caesarean.
She was taken back into theatre for surgery for postpartum bleeding but did not regain consciousness.
Following the trial Mr Justice Coulson
The prosecution claimed the Dr Azeez, who was the anaesthetist, and consultant anaesthetist Dr Cornish failed to ensure Mrs Cappuccini safely came round from surgery.
It was the first time an NHS trust had been accused of corporate manslaughter since the charge was introduced in 2008.
The prosecution also claimed if one or both doctors were found to be grossly negligent then the trust could be said to have employed someone it knew or should have known was not suitably qualified or trained for their role.
The city beat off competition including Dublin and Glasgow to land the five-day world music showcase.
Up to 60 concerts featuring more than 300 artists will be held at the Wales Millennium Centre, with a fair trade exhibition at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the event would "allow us to grow the profile of Wales' traditional music".
Womex is described by UN cultural body Unesco as "the most important international professional market of world music of every kind".
Others have suggested that Womex is to world music what the Cannes Festival is to film, giving musicians the opportunity to make contacts for international touring and album distribution.
In addition to the concerts, the 2013 event, to run from 23-27 October, is expected to attract around 650 companies from more than 90 countries for the fair trade exhibition.
The year-long campaign to bring the event to Cardiff was led by Cerdd Cymru Music Wales, a partnership between the Welsh Music Foundation, and Wales Arts International, the international arm of the Arts Council of Wales, with support from the British Council and the Welsh Government.
The arts council said the world music gathering was a "real opportunity" to develop the music industry in Wales and showcase the cultural and economic value of its musical heritage.
Arts Council of Wales chair Dai Smith said: "This is a wonderful achievement for Wales.
"This event, of worldwide significance, is an important part of our wider plans to develop a vibrant and exciting music industry in Wales."
Copenhagen is hosting Womex this year for the third year running. Last year, Welsh harpist Catrin Finch hosted the Welsh evening at the event, featuring the bands Mabon, 9bach and Calan.
She said: "It's a chance to hear the best in the world on our doorstep and a chance to make sure that Welsh music is known and heard around the globe."
Welsh Music Foundation director Lisa Matthews said it was the "most amazing opportunity to get to learn about other musical cultures".
"It will open people's eyes to a wonderful celebration of world cultures," she said.
First Minster Mr Jones said: "Womex 13 Cardiff will place the music from Wales on the world stage alongside more established markets so that Wales' authentic music traditions become more widely known internationally and are positioned beside music from our Celtic neighbours."
Next year's event, Womex 12, is being held at Thessaloniki, Greece.
The 27-year-old struck an impressive 156 off 113 balls as Hampshire beat Somerset by four wickets in the One-Day Cup at Taunton on Wednesday.
The South African left-hander revealed Somerset overseas player Elgar "abused" him when he was still on nought.
"It was like a switch went on and I started middling everything from there, so thanks Deano for that 156," he said.
"I stayed in my bubble and didn't let the chirps or the bowlers get to me," the Kolpak signing told BBC Radio Solent.
"I'm not going to say what was said, but it was something to do with the pound. It was a switch and from there, I just started hitting boundaries."
Rossouw, 27, who joined Hampshire on a three-year deal in January, hit 24 fours and two sixes as his side chased 250 with almost 13 overs to spare.
"I really, really enjoyed that knock, I'd say one of my best knocks," he said. "I'm just really happy to get over the line with my first hundred for the club.
"I really hope this is the start of some great things to come for me and the club."
Hampshire's victory lifted them to fourth in the South Group with three games to play to keep their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages alive.
They face Glamorgan at home on Friday before Surrey at The Oval on Sunday and Sussex at home on Wednesday.
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He also says he will not discuss a new contract with the Reds until the summer, no matter how big a deal he might be offered in the meantime.
"It's not about the money at all," the England forward said.
"It's never been about money. I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about."
He added: "I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be."
Liverpool's last piece of silverware came in 2012, when they beat Cardiff on penalties to win the League Cup.
Sterling, who joined the Reds from QPR in 2010, did not become a first-team regular until the following season.
"I don't want to be perceived as a money-grabbing 20-year-old," said the player, who has two years left on a contract worth £35,000 a week.
"I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said in February that Sterling had been offered an "incredible deal for a young player" but now accepts talks will have to wait until the summer.
"I am sure it will be resolved and the concentration for Raheem is now on his football and it is clear the terms of when those talks will begin again," Rodgers said last month.
In the interview with the BBC, Sterling also said he would have accepted less than £100,000 a week had he been offered a new deal this time last year, when the Reds were chasing the Premier League title.
"If, at that point in time, I was offered a contract, I most definitely would have signed straight away, probably for far less money than being said now," he said. "I just think the timing was a bit off."
Sterling's future has been a source of almost endless speculation, with stories tipping him for a move to Manchester City, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
"I try to kill it off, but I don't think the public can see it that way," Sterling said. "I think they just see it as this 20-year-old boy being greedy.
"I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go and what I need to do to get better as a player."
Sterling said it was "quite flattering" to be linked with the Gunners, a team Liverpool visit in the Premier League on Saturday (kick-off 12:45 BST).
"I try to just block everything out and do well," said Sterling, who has 14 England caps.
"Next game is against Arsenal and I want to do my best. I won't be hiding. As I said, I'm just happy to be playing football."
In his interview, Sterling said one of his targets for the remainder of the season was to help Liverpool win the FA Cup.
If they beat Blackburn in a replay next week, the Reds will face Aston Villa in the semi-finals at Wembley on 19 April.
"I want to win something at the end of the season and the FA Cup's a great chance," Sterling said.
Liverpool, who finished second to Manchester City in the Premier League last season, have already had to deal with the loss of two key players.
Striker Luis Suarez joined Barcelona last summer, while influential captain Steven Gerrard will leave the club at the end of the season.
The potential departure of Sterling, who scored his first senior goal for England in a 4-0 win over Lithuania in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Friday, would be another big blow.
"I just want to focus on football and, when it gets to the end of the season, assess my position as a 20-year-old player playing in the Premier League," the Jamaican-born forward said.
If you want to hear more from Sterling, you can read some of his thoughts below or watch the embedded interview.
"I keep hearing I've rejected all sorts of contracts. Me, the club and my reps have spoken about it and put talks on hold until end of season, so it's frustrating to hear the contract situation keep going on and on. I just wanted to get my point across on the whole thing."
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"In my head I've sat down and thought about it. But, at the end of the season, I just want to sit down with the club and my representatives. I will definitely give guarantees when the season has finished."
"When I started out at QPR, I would never have dreamt of this day, to have such a huge offer in front of me. I'm really thankful. I just want to solely focus on my football right now. I want to win something at the end of the season and the FA Cup's a great chance."
"The public just think you want more and that's not the case at this moment in time. I'm just a kid that loves playing football. That's how it's been since I was a young kid. I've never ever wanted to demand anything off no-one, I'm just trying to demand the best of myself."
"I want the best for me and I want to reach my goals that I set out as a young kid. They've had their dreams when they were playing and that's no different for me. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I won't really take any notice of what they're saying."
"The fans get a bit frustrated with me because I'm not signing straight away. They can get on your back a little bit, but this is football and you have to accept these things. I try to block it out of my head, which is the whole reason why I've said I want to wait till the end of the season."
"I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself. I want them to understand it's been a bit much for me this season, with everyone talking about it every minute."
"Everyone's dream growing up is seeing themselves in an away kit somewhere in a sunny country. But, in reality, I'm happy to be playing for Liverpool and trying to win trophies."
"I speak to Brendan on good terms. He calls me when he needs to talk to me and I can talk to him when I want. There's nothing bad to say or think about Brendan. He's been really good to me since I came into the team and he's always tried to help me."
"You really want to be working with world-class players day in, day out. It's obviously left a little dent, these two world-class superstars leaving, but I think we have good players coming through at Liverpool."
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The thieves hijacked the website of finance security start-up Enigma and posted messages saying it was about to launch its own currency.
Many people keen to cash in transferred ethereum to the thieves' account.
In response, Enigma shut down its website and adopted stronger security policies to keep hackers out.
In a statement posted to its Twitter account, Enigma said the thieves had carried out the scam after taking over the company's web domain, mailing lists and Slack messaging service account.
By posting a message on the Enigma website and sending notices out via Slack and email, the malicious hackers convinced many people the security company was seeking early investors.
The attackers played on the fact that early next month Enigma plans to run a crypto-cash-based fundraising exercise to bankroll its expansion.
The criminal hackers asked for investments to be paid in ethereum and are believed to have amassed about $500,000 worth before the scam was spotted and shut down.
Enigma said none of its infrastructure had been used for the scam and none of its funds had been stolen by the attackers.
It said it had now regained control of its compromised accounts.
It has also adopted stronger security measures internally to prevent hijacks.
Enigma has also stopped using Slack and moved to the secure messaging program Telegram.
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"We're now very well aware of the potential threats and are taking no chances."
Enigma added it was helping to investigate the scam and who was behind it with the help of other crypto-cash and security companies.
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Stephen O'Brien, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator, said the militant group's actions had forced thousands to flee and left unprecedented numbers in need.
The UN estimates that more than nine million people in the region need humanitarian assistance.
Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.
Mr O'Brien told the UN Security Council that Nigeria was bearing "the brunt of the crisis", with Nigerians accounting for seven of the nine million people in need.
He said Boko Haram's "heinous, barbaric and unconscionable" violence had led to serious human rights violations in the country.
"From January to June 2016, more than 50 children have been coerced to carry out suicide bombings across the four countries," he said.
UN political chief Jeffrey Feltman said Boko Haram remained a threat to stability in the region, despite the group being pushed back from some areas.
Both men warned the council that the fight against the group was suffering from a lack of funding.
The militant group continues to target countries in the region, including Nigeria and Cameroon, with bomb and suicide attacks.
The UN's children's agency Unicef warned last week that almost 250,000 children in parts of Nigeria's Borno state, formerly controlled by Boko Haram, were suffering from severe malnutrition.
Officers converged on the Robroyston area of the city at about 10:55. They later cordoned off Robroyston Road.
Police have now confirmed that "vehicle tyre deflation rounds were discharged directly into vehicle tyres".
The nature of the operation has yet to be disclosed but the use of the shotgun rounds will be referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "Around 1055 hours on Friday 30 September 2016, Police Scotland officers carried out an intelligence-led operation in the Robroyston area of Glasgow.
"As part of the operation, vehicle tyre deflation rounds were discharged directly into vehicle tyres.
"This is a recognised and practiced tactic which is used specifically to disable a vehicle and was deployed in order to reduce any potential wider impact to the public and to maximise their safety."
The statement added: "As a result, and in line with the routine procedure, this incident will be referred to PIRC for review."
A spokesman for the PIRC said: "Police Scotland has notified the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner of an incident in Robroyston, Glasgow, on 30 September 2016, where officers fired tyre deflation rounds (TDR) at a vehicle as part of an ongoing police operation.
"The PIRC will assess the circumstances of the police use of TDRs before determining whether there is a need to investigate further."
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John Fahey believes Armstrong ducked key issues relating to his cheating in a TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Both Fahey and the United States Anti-Doping Authority (Usada) want the disgraced cyclist to explain the full extent of his doping "under oath".
"That is his way forward if he is serious," Fahey told the BBC.
"Don't go on a show with a woman who will give benign questions, lead you to the answers and not follow up when you don't answer properly.
"But is he going to do it? Probably not. If he was prepared to do it, he probably wouldn't go down the Oprah Winfrey route in the first place."
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in 2012 after he was found guilty of doping, but had always maintained his innocence until he confessed to cheating in the first of a two-part interview with Winfrey, recorded on Monday and broadcast at 02:00 GMT on Friday.
If he wants to help cycling and redeem himself, he should expose all, and not just conveniently give a few titbits that really tell us what we already know
The American cyclist revealed he took performance-enhancing drugs in each of his Tour wins from 1999-2005 but said doping was "part of the process required to win the Tour".
He also said he did not feel he was cheating at the time and viewed it as a "level playing field" but now admits that "all the fault and blame" should lie with him and he was a bully who "turned on" people he did not like.
Armstrong added that he would now co-operate with official inquiries into doping in cycling.
But Wada president Fahey has called on the 41-year-old to name names.
"I think his credibility has suffered," Fahey said. "If he is serious about redemption, he will go before an appropriate tribunal, give evidence under oath, subject himself to cross-examination, name names, say who in the entourage was helping him cheat, who supplied the drugs, which officials warned him he might be tested and who in the way of riders was associated with it.
"He claims he was doing what everyone else was doing. If he wants to help cycling and redeem himself, he should expose all, and not just conveniently give a few titbits that really tell us what we already know."
Usada chief executive Travis Tygart has also called on Armstrong to explain himself before a court.
"If he's sincere in his desire to correct past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities," Tygart said.
Usada was the agency that brought the charges against Armstrong after federal prosecutors in California dropped their investigation into alleged doping.
The American filed a lawsuit against Usada last July, accusing them of "corrupt inducements" to other cyclists to testify against him before stating in August that he would not fight doping charges filed against him. He was subsequently stripped of his titles since 1995 but maintained his innocence up until the interview with Winfrey.
"Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit," added Tygart.
"His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction."
Cycling's world governing body UCI came under scrutiny in the interview. It had been alleged that Armstrong had paid UCI to keep quiet about positive drugs tests.
But the president of the organisation Pat McQuaid said Armstrong's confession revealed there was no collusion.
"Armstrong's decision finally to confront his past is an important step forward on the long road to repairing the damage that has been caused to cycling and to restoring confidence in the sport," he said.
"Armstrong has confirmed there was no collusion or conspiracy between the UCI and Lance Armstrong. There were no positive tests which were covered up and he has confirmed that the donations made to the UCI were to assist in the fight against doping.
"Finally, we note that Lance Armstrong expressed a wish to participate in a truth and reconciliation process, which we would welcome."
But Fahey criticised the UCI for failing to do enough to tackle doping in the sport, and questioned McQuaid's future.
"They have got to make some moves that will change the way the sport operates, and if that involves current office bearers, so be it," Fahey said.
Armstrong faces a series of potential legal issues in the wake of his confession, although he would be unlikely to face perjury charges, despite making sworn testimony in a 2005 court case that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs.
New York defence attorney Stuart Slotnick told BBC Sport earlier this month that, under United States law, the Statute of Limitations means any prosecution must be launched within five years of the offence.
Armstrong said during his interview with Winfrey that he had not doped since 2005.
However, his former team-mate Floyd Landis - who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping - has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Armstrong of defrauding the US Postal Service, which paid more than £18.7m to sponsor the team Armstrong competed for.
In addition, the Sunday Times is already suing Armstrong for £1m over a libel payment to him in 2004 after the newspaper alleged he had cheated.
Livestrong, the non-profit organisation set up by Armstrong to help those affected by cancer, said it was disappointed the American "misled" people during his career.
The Texan, who won his own battle with testicular cancer, stepped down as chairman after Usada published its findings.
"We at the Livestrong Foundation are disappointed by the news that Lance Armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us," said the Livestrong statement.
"Earlier this week, Lance apologised to our staff and we accepted his apology in order to move on and chart a strong, independent course.
"We look forward to devoting our full energy to our mission of helping people not only fight and survive cancer, but also thrive in life after cancer.
"Even in the wake of our disappointment, we also express our gratitude to Lance as a survivor for the drive, devotion and spirit he brought to serving cancer patients and the entire cancer community."
The Pirates, who are now unbeaten in four games, sealed the points with goals from on-loan Chelsea duo Charlie Colkett and Jake Clarke-Salter.
Rovers full-back Lee Brown almost made the breakthrough when his skimming drive forced a low save from Oldham goalkeeper Connor Ripley.
The visitors deservedly went ahead on 25 minutes as Oldham only half-cleared a corner and, from 16 yards, Colkett smashed a powerful drive just inside the post.
Oldham were being outplayed in all areas, with their defence again pulled apart when Colkett wasted a first-half chance to double the lead.
It was a more even contest after the break, though Rovers goalkeeper Kelle Roos was not tested until the 65th minute when he beat away Lee Erwin's free-kick.
Roos also saved a 30-yard strike from Ryan Flynn as Oldham enjoyed their brightest spell.
But Rovers secured the win in the 87th minute when Clarke-Salter headed in from six yards.
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Match ends, Oldham Athletic 0, Bristol Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Oldham Athletic 0, Bristol Rovers 2.
Foul by Byron Moore (Bristol Rovers).
Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Calaum Jahraldo-Martin (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing misses to the right.
Goal! Oldham Athletic 0, Bristol Rovers 2. Jake Clarke-Salter (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Chris Lines with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Ousmane Fane.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Calaum Jahraldo-Martin replaces Paul Green.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers).
Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers).
Foul by Darius Osei (Oldham Athletic).
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Darius Osei replaces Freddie Ladapo.
Attempt saved. Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Cristian Montaño replaces Charlie Colkett.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Byron Moore replaces Hiram Boateng.
Attempt saved. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Lee Brown.
Foul by Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic).
James Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Lee Brown.
Attempt saved. Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
James Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Freddie Ladapo (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Kelle Roos.
Attempt saved. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Jake Clarke-Salter replaces Peter Hartley because of an injury.
Foul by Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers).
Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
The cash comes from "efficiency savings" and money returned by BT as part of the government's flagship broadband rollout scheme.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said the funds would bring faster broadband to some of the remoter parts of the UK.
Experts said it was not all "new money" but would still be welcomed.
The cash will be made up of £150m in cost savings and the rest in the form of returned subsidies from BT, the government said.
Under a 2010 deal, the government paid BT to roll out superfast broadband in hard-to-reach areas where providers had said it was not cost-effective to install broadband infrastructure.
As part of the agreement, if more than 20% of premises in those areas bought superfast broadband, BT had to repay some of the subsidy.
On average, the take-up has been 30.6%, leading to a forecast repayment of £292m, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said.
There are two views of the programme to roll out superfast broadband to places which might not be reached by the market.
To the government and BT it's that rare thing, a public/private partnership which is actually going to come in under budget and deliver more than was promised.
To its critics, the Broadband Delivery UK project has seen an overbearing monopoly handed huge sums of public money with little democratic accountability, and the result is that the UK has been given only a semi-fast network which is not future-proof.
But after some early stumbles, BT does look likely to meet the target of putting 95% of homes within reach of superfast broadband by 2017 - and this new investment could mean that 97% are reached by 2020.
The programme is doing what it promised - and the UK is ahead of other major European countries in rolling out superfast broadband.
Ah, say the critics, but only if you think a broadband connection that still makes its final journey into homes via a copper wire is superfast. If you're looking at fibre direct into the home - something even the government says should now be seen as the gold standard for broadband - the UK is still in the slow lane.
Openreach's answer to this is that a new "amazing" technology, called G.fast, will make it possible to achieve speeds of over 100 megabits per second over the copper connections.
The prospects for those people still waiting for any kind of decent connection have brightened slightly - but the row continues over what kind of broadband network will make the UK fit for the future.
The extra funds will be spent in all areas of the country through the Broadband Delivery UK scheme.
Ministers set up the programme so that by the end of next year, 95% of UK premises would be able to buy superfast broadband - defined as 24Mbps. Such speeds enable families to stream TV on multiple devices at the same time.
The extra funds are designed to reach the remaining 5% of the UK and improve speeds where coverage is patchy.
"The key point is this is not £440m of new money," said Andrew Ferguson, consumer telecoms expert at Think Broadband.
Of the £292m to be returned by BT, the company has already announced about £150m, he said.
Still, regardless of the source of the funds, more money going into infrastructure is "good news", he said.
"The pace of broadband rollout doesn't necessarily match what everyone wants and households aren't necessarily getting as much information as they would like," he added.
The village of Pudlestone in North Herefordshire is one rural location where higher speed broadband cannot come fast enough. The nearest telephone exchange for Pudlestone is about three kilometres from residents' homes meaning speeds are low. Pudlestone villagers have run a co-ordinated campaign to highlight the slow speeds they get and have written to politicians and BT to in a bid to accelerate work to improve speeds.
Linda Fryer, secretary of the Pudleston village hall committee, said everyone in the village was "fed up" adding that it was "extraordinary" if anyone's net connection went faster than one megabit per second (Mbps).
"I can't use Facetime to talk to my children, I can't download films and using things for shopping and banking can be very difficult when the thing drops out," she told the BBC.
Local residents are also wondering why they pay the same monthly fees as others in nearby towns who are enjoying speeds much closer to the national average of 28Mbps.
Retired nurse Judy Thompson said: "If you went in to a restaurant and ordered a cheese sandwich, why would you pay the same price as someone getting lobster? I just think it is completely unreasonable."
Mrs Thompson said she and her husband had sought help from BT but, so far, its advice had made no difference.
Kim Mears, the managing director for infrastructure delivery at BT's Openreach division, told the BBC's Today programme that there was "still more to be done" to improve broadband speeds in some rural areas.
However, she added that 4.5 million rural homes had already benefited from BT's efforts and that the company was "absolutely determined to look at how we go further and faster".
The company has faced criticism for the speed of the rollout and the quality of the broadband coverage.
However, the government and BT said it was a "win-win" in that more households were taking it up, triggering clawback payments that would help other premises access faster broadband speeds.
"We're delighted that the success and efficiency of our delivery will mean hundreds of thousands more homes and business could get faster broadband than originally expected," a BT spokesman said.
The government has not set a timeline for when the 600,000 premises will benefit.
It comes after Chancellor Philip Hammond announced £1.14bn in government funds in last month's Autumn Statement to improve fibre broadband and develop 5G.
The programme, Humans for Sale, found one Slovakian girl who had been trafficked to Glasgow three times.
Many of the women were forced into sham marriages with men, mainly from Pakistan, who were seeking to apply for residency in the UK.
The women, who are EU citizens, are lured to the UK with false promises.
According to Angelika Molnar, who runs Europol's human trafficking unit, the victims are encouraged to leave poverty and deprivation in countries such as Romania and Slovakia with the prospect of a well-paid job in Scotland.
"It's only upon arrival that they are told there is no work available and they have to be engaged in marriages with Pakistani men," she said.
Ms Molnar said the potential grooms wanted to stay in Scotland but needed marriage to an EU citizen to be able to apply for residency.
"After the marriage, the women are kept under control by the traffickers and are exploited as domestic service by the husband but also raped and sexually exploited by fellow nationals of the traffickers," she said.
Ms Molnar said people were now the second most lucrative criminal commodity after drugs, with labour and sexual exploitation the most common reasons for trafficking to Scotland.
Jim Laird, former head of trafficking services at the charity Migrant Help, told the BBC there was a "clear link" between Eastern European crime gangs and Asian organised crime in Glasgow.
The BBC sent investigative journalist Sam Poling undercover to expose the ruthless tactics used in the supply chain.
She travelled across Eastern Europe to track down victims sold to Glasgow gangs for sex.
In Slovakia she tried to track down some of the victims who had previously been trafficked to Glasgow before being rescued.
When she arrived at one girl's house to interview her, she discovered the girl was missing.
Her parents said they believed she had been trafficked back to Glasgow, leaving her baby daughter behind.
At other houses, the BBC team discovered three other girls had also been trafficked back to Scotland.
They filmed one house in eastern Slovakia which was set up as a "transit house" by a man who bought girls and kept them there for a few days before transporting them to Glasgow for sham marriages.
The house was surrounded by a high padlocked fence and had cameras trained on the doors and windows.
Yves Ogou, who describes himself as a social worker, works closely with authorities in both Slovakia and Scotland to help rescue and support victims, particularly those sold to gangs in Glasgow for sham marriages.
He said of the transit house: "Some girls, they have no identity card, they have no passport.
"Here, within 24 hours we can fix normal identity cards or passports. You pay for that and you have your passport.
"In those two days the traffickers change the girls to make them look like really pretty girls because most of those girls are from Roma settlements.
"There's no water, it's a really difficult place to live. They have to look like normal human beings."
Yves said Glasgow was specifically targeted by Slovakian traffickers because of historical links with Roma communities and their association with third-country nationals who wanted UK residency.
"Those people used to go to Glasgow because the first Roma community from here tried to move to Glasgow, Manchester, Bradford and so on," he said.
"That's their first contact and the traffickers, they have friends, they are friends to people from western Africa, people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and so on."
To try to get evidence of sham marriages in Scotland, Sam Poling examined marriage records to look for "red flags".
The suspicious markers include young Eastern European brides, older Asian grooms and the same addresses being used for multiple marriages, yet little sign of them living there.
She also looked at how many got divorced after the five-year-mark, the length of time someone has to have residency before being granted a UK passport.
The programme team found dozens of such marriages in Scotland.
Seventy of them were registered in Glasgow and a third in Govanhill.
And 40% of those who married there just over five years ago - the cut-off for the passport - are now divorced.
One address - Westmorland Street in Govanhill - had more than a dozen links to marriages between men from Pakistan and young Eastern European brides in recent years.
Witnesses of the weddings were also registered there.
Yet there was no trace of any of the couples living at any of the properties.
Jim Laird, one of Scotland's leading experts on human trafficking, said: "There's a high number of victims from the Govanhill area, and that's because there's a clear link between Eastern European crime gangs, who have human trafficking as one of the things they do, and links with organised Asian crime gangs in Glasgow.
"So the Eastern European crime gangs will provide the victims and the Asian crime gangs here will provide the accommodation which is why there is quite a lot of it in Govanhill."
There were 150 people recorded as official victims of trafficking in Scotland last year, a figure Jim Laird said did not reflect the reality of the trade.
He said: "The victims run into millions.
"In Scotland alone you'd be talking thousands.
"There's no prosecution because people are too frightened to be witnesses in trials, they're worried about their own personal safety, but they're also worried about their family's safety back at home."
He added: "Some of them quite frankly are embarrassed because they've been conned.
"They've been sold a dream, believed it and came here, and when they found out what has happened to them, they just want to disappear as quietly as possible and go back to their own country."
Humans for Sale is on BBC One Scotland at 21:00 on Wednesday 10 May
They were seen entering Stadion im Borussia-Park and then lit flares in the section they were congregated in.
But after Granit Xhaka headed in an injury-time winner, a handful of them invaded the pitch.
Peace was soon restored with the result moving Gladbach up to third spot in the Bundesliga at the expense of Schalke.
A Borussia statement read: "Negative emotions erupted in the away section after the final whistle and a handful of anarchists got out over the fence and into the interior of the stadium.
"There were arrests and the acquisition of personal data."
The German Football Association said they have opened an investigation into the incident, but did not specify what sanctions could potentially be applied.
Cologne meanwhile, said they were "disappointed and annoyed" by the incident, adding that those involved had committed "massive damage" to the club and its fans.
Scores of others were injured in the incident, which sent smoke billowing into the city sky.
Rescue crews began searching the debris on Wednesday evening for victims after the fire was finally put out.
Train services to and from Grand Central Terminal have been restored after a complete halt earlier.
As the search-and-rescue operation continued under floodlights on Wednesday night, the emergency services confirmed that the death toll had risen first to four, then to five and to six, with several people still missing.
Earlier, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news conference from the scene that the gas leak had been reported to the utility company 15 minutes before the blast on Wednesday morning.
Mr de Blasio said the "major explosion" had destroyed two buildings and heavily damaged other structures.
As night fell, rescue crews were finally able to search for victims in the debris after the fire raged for most of the day.
By Nick BryantBBC News, New York
A dense plume of smoke in the skies of Manhattan is a sight for New Yorkers that stirs bad memories and spreads fear - especially early in the morning. But despite the early presence of the FBI as a precautionary measure it soon became clear this was a gas explosion rather than foul play.
The intensity of the blaze, which took hours to extinguish, made it all the more difficult for emergency crews. They could not carry out a search of the rubble. The choking smoke added to the immediate chaos at the scene, as local people rushed to find loved ones.
More than a dozen people were reported missing. The hope is that they are alive and simply can't be contacted. The fear is that some were unable to escape.
Heavy equipment, including a bulldozer, helped clear the remnants of two multi-storey buildings. Thermal imaging cameras were brought in to identify bodies or pockets of fire inside the mountain of debris.
The New York fire department said 22 people had been hurt, but a tally of local hospitals by ABC News found that 64 had been admitted with injuries as a result of the incident.
That figure included seven children, one of whom was in a critical condition.
The utility company, Con Edison, says a resident in a nearby building reported smelling gas shortly before the explosion.
Streets and pavements around the site were littered with broken glass from shattered windows.
The blast scattered debris across nearby rooftops, correspondents say, destroying adjoining five-storey buildings in a largely Latino working-class neighbourhood.
Witnesses reported the powerful blast knocked items off shelves in nearby shops.
Authorities in the area were said to be handing out medical masks to residents due to the thick white smoke at the scene.
A witness told the BBC "there was just a lot of panic" following the explosion.
Dan Scarvino had just emerged on to a nearby train platform when "suddenly a plume of smoke came out of nowhere".
"I've never seen anything like it," he added.
A witness told the New York Daily News she had smelled gas "for weeks" before the explosion.
"We saw people flying out of the window... those are my neighbours," Ashley Rivera said.
Another witness told the newspaper he heard two loud explosions that shook the barber shop where he works.
"It was loud, like boom, boom!" Mitch Abreu said. "It rocked the whole block."
"It looked like the [Twin] Towers all over again. People covered in dust and covering their mouths."
In a blog post, the video-sharing website said it would not allow adverts to appear alongside "hateful" or discriminatory content.
YouTube said it was making the changes to "address advertiser concerns around where their advertisements are placed".
But some bloggers say the rules are too strict and will affect their income.
In August, many YouTube stars complained that their videos had been flagged as "not advertiser-friendly" and were no longer earning ad revenue.
The latest announcement clarifies in detail the type of content that will not be able to earn money on the website.
It describes "hateful" content as any video that promotes discrimination or "disparages or humiliates" people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or "other characteristic associated with systematic discrimination".
The website will also refuse to place ads next to videos using "gratuitously disrespectful language that shames or insults an individual or group".
The guidelines also discourage film-makers from making "inappropriate" parody videos using popular family entertainment characters.
Previously, some video-makers had taken children's cartoon characters and created explicit videos with them. While such parody videos may not fall foul of copyright law, they will not be able to earn advertising revenue.
YouTube added that even videos judged not to be "advertiser-friendly" could remain on the website as long as they did not fall foul of its guidelines.
However, the announcement has met with some criticism.
One user, Captain Sauce, pointed out that the algorithm used to detect whether a video may contain inappropriate content was not perfect.
"Context around many words is incredibly important and needs to be addressed," the user wrote.
Another pointed out that mainstream news networks often post inflammatory studio debates that could be judged "incendiary and demeaning", while music videos often pushed the boundaries of sexually-explicit content, but these still carried advertisements.
"Why punish the little guy, but not the big networks? This is a double standard," wrote Eugenia Loli.
YouTube said it would continue to "work to improve the ecosystem for creators, advertisers and users".
Members of the public have been warned not to approach Graham Stewart, 33, from Glasgow.
He was due to return to HMP Edinburgh on 19 August 2014 but failed to do so.
A Police Scotland spokesman urged anyone with information to come forward. He said: "The 33-year-old has still not presented himself and inquiries are ongoing to locate him."
Mr Stewart is described as being white, 6ft tall, of muscular build, with short, dark brown hair and possibly facial hair.
The 22-year-old, dressed in a full-body kit and hijab, was unable to qualify, finishing seventh in her preliminary heat in a time of 14.61 seconds.
Afghanistan's Kamia Yousufi also raced in a hijab and full bodysuit, finishing last in her heat in 14.02secs.
Middle distance runner Sarah Attar was the first female track athlete to run for Saudi Arabia, at London 2012.
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Aged 19, she wore full clothing and a hijab as she finished last in her 800m heat in London, clocking two minutes 44.95 seconds in London - more than 43 seconds behind heat winner Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei of Kenya.
Attar is due to compete in the women's marathon at 13:30 BST on Sunday.
The Saudis lifted their ban on women competing in the Olympics in 2012.
Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani competed without a hijab in the judo competition in London, aged 16.
The 29-year-old, who was included in a 14-man England squad for the fourth Ashes Test, currently has a deal which expires at the end of next summer.
Left-armer Footitt, capable of bowling in excess of 90mph, took 82 wickets in the County Championship last season, more than any other bowler.
He has taken 56 first-class wickets this summer, behind only Lancashire's Kyle Jarvis and Kent's Matt Coles.
Despite his efforts, Derbyshire sit seventh in County Championship Division Two and Footitt is likely to attract interest from clubs in the top flight should he become available.
Footitt began his career with Nottinghamshire, making his first-class debut in 2005.
He was released from his contract at Trent Bridge in 2009 and joined Derbyshire the following year.
He will play the lead in an adaptation of German playwright Georg Büchner's work by Skins and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child co-writer Jack Thorne.
The season also includes the world premiere of a Samuel Beckett monologue and Glenda Jackson as King Lear.
Artistic director Matthew Warchus said he wanted the theatre to be seen as a "leading creative hub".
The forthcoming season, which opens with the never-before performed Beckett work No's Knife on 29 September, will also see a 20th anniversary production of Yasmina Reza's Art - helmed by its original creative team - and a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore.
Announcing the season, Warchus said: "Anyone who has visited the Old Vic in the last eight months will have felt the new wave of energy which has swept through the building.
"There's much more happening, and for a much wider range of people. For a theatre without public funding, this is no mean feat.
"It's an exciting shift, aimed at consolidating the Old Vic as a vibrant and indispensable part of London's artistic scene."
Büchner's play, published posthumously in 1879, is based on the true story of a military barber who stabbed to death his mistress in a fit of jealousy.
Boyega, who played Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will take to the stage in February next year.
King Lear, which opens in October, will also star Jane Horrocks and Rhys Ifans, while the theatre will also stage a 50th anniversary production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and bring back The Lorax, which ran there last year.
The season also includes work for young people, including a newly commissioned puppetry show, Missing Light, and a collaboration with inclusive theatre company Chickenshed.
Brownlee, 28, has been selected along with younger brother Jonathan, 26, and fellow Leeds triathlete Gordon Benson.
Alistair beat Spain's Javier Gomez and Jonathan to win gold at London 2012.
"I don't think we've all performed to the best of our abilities and if that happens in Rio the podium will be the same," he said.
Vicky Holland will look to build on her first World Series titles in Cape Town and Edmonton last year as she takes part in her second Olympics.
Leeds-based Holland, 30, is joined in the GB women's team by former world champions Non Stanford and Helen Jenkins.
"My move to Leeds has been the catalyst for things in my career and in Rio I've got far loftier ambitions than 26th place this time round," said Holland.
There is live BBC Two and online coverage of the latest World Series Triathlon event Leeds on Sunday, 12 June from 12:45 BST (16:00-18:00 in Northern Ireland).
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On Wednesday, tonnes of earth engulfed the main highway leading north from Colombia's second-largest city, Medellin.
The mud from the mountainside covered an area the size of two football fields and buried two cars, a lorry and two motorbikes, rescue workers said.
Emergency workers are searching the mud for any more victims.
The landslide came down about 12km (7 miles) north of Medellin in the Copacabana area.
Landslides are common in this mountainous region of Colombia, especially following heavy rains.
Six years ago, 85 people died just a few kilometres south of Copacabana, when a landslide buried dozens of homes in the town of Bello.
The Plaid Cymru leader told Nick Servini last month: "I caution you against too many comparisons with Scotland. We're different countries and the SNP and Plaid Cymru are different parties and we're on different stages of our devolution journey."
A fair point, you might think, although it does make you wonder why Plaid then based their whole campaign strategy on demanding parity with Scotland.
Despite the SNP surge and the high UK-wide profile enjoyed by Ms Wood, Plaid ended up with a bog-standard election result for them - and, despite coming close in Ynys Mon, have fewer MPs now than they had when the Conservatives last won a majority in 1992. They finished fourth behind UKIP.
As recently as Monday, Plaid AM Rhun ap Iorwerth told Radio Wales: "I'll put my head on the block and say I'll be disappointed with three seats, I won't try to spin it any other way, it will be disappointing obviously."
Plaid, who at one time thought Leanne Wood would be spending today around a negotiating table at Westminster, now face the awkward challenge of making their voice heard in a Plaid/SNP/Green parliamentary group in which they have 5 % of the membership.
For Welsh Labour, losing one seat instead of making the expected gains, it was a fairly dark night, failing to take their top target of Cardiff North and losing the Vale of Clwyd and Gower to the Conservatives. It's the first time Gower has not sent a Labour MP to Westminster.
It was far, far worse for the Welsh Liberal Democrats, losing deposits in almost every corner of Wales despite Kirsty Williams's role as deputy chair of the party's UK campaign. She blamed tuition fees - she said voters had stopped listening.
Her deputy in Wales, Roger Williams, lost his Brecon and Radnorshire seat to the Conservatives who spent a lot of money in the constituency, paying for a wraparound of the local weekly newspaper.
The Welsh Tories are understandably delighted at their best result for 32 years. Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said it was "at the very top end of my expectations and ambitions".
He said his officials were currently writing legislation to transfer further powers to Wales, which I would expect to see included in the Queen's speech at the state opening of parliament later this month.
David Cameron said in Downing Street on his return from Buckingham Palace: "I will implement as fast as I can the devolution that all parties agreed for Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland."
That appears to confirm what George Osborne told us during his visit to Powys last week. The Scottish result will give impetus to the process, although the Welsh government is sceptical every time the prime minister mentions "respect" and the devolved institutions.
In other news, re-elected Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies has revealed how his majority was boosted by one vote.
"One voter decided to draw a detailed representation of a penis instead of a cross in my box on one ballot paper," said Mr Davies. "Amazingly, because it was neatly drawn within the confines of the box the returning officer deemed it a valid vote.
"Not sure the artist meant it to count, but I am grateful. If I knew who it was, I would like to thank him (or her) personally."
The results also reflect what Patrick Hannan described as the Welsh surname shortage - Wales has seven MPs called Davies, three Joneses and three Williamses. And Wales's 40 MPs include only two of the six politicians who took part in the Welsh leaders debates.
Full results provided by the Associated Press news agency are available here after polls close.
Winning delegates, the people who endorse a candidate at the party conventions in July, is key to securing the nomination.
The Democratic totals include the delegates won per state, as well as so-called "unpledged" or "super delegates". Hillary Clinton has a huge lead among the party leaders and elected officials who each get a vote at the convention.
AP conducts surveys of these super delegates, and adds them to a candidate's totals if they indicate their support. But super delegates can - and do - change their minds during the course of the campaign, so the figures may shift as the race unfolds.
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The American, 24, started her sprint from deep, hauling in her rivals before kicking again to push Finland's Lotta Lepisto into second on the Mall.
Germany's Lisa Brennauer led out the sprint and held on in wet weather to finish third in the 66km race around a central London circuit.
Dutch rider Marianne Vos was fourth with 2016 champion Kirsten Wild fifth.
"I'm absolutely elated - they were not the best conditions but when you've got a goal, you've got to commit and get after it," Team Sunweb rider Rivera told BBC Sport.
"I knew I was in the right place and just had to time my sprint correctly - it's a very long sprint so it's a bit deceptive but I went at the right time and pulled it off."
The Classique, part of the women's WorldTour, is the richest women's one-day race with a prize pool of 100,000 euros (£89,500), which matches the total prize pool for the men's race on Sunday.
"I'm really excited that this race understands we race just as hard, just as crazy as the men and so it's special to me they respect that," added Rivera, who won the women's Tour of Flanders in April.
"To win on my first time racing here is pretty special, too."
Rivera's Canadian team-mate Leah Kirchmann won the sprints competition for amassing the most points in the three sprint finishes on laps three, six and nine of the 12-lap race.
Britain's Katie Archibald won the first intermediate sprint and was fourth at the second but could not contest the third before she eased home in 80th place.
Compatriot Hannah Barnes was the highest-placed Briton in 17th as she faded from contention in the final stages, with her Canyon SRAM Racing lead-out rider Brennauer instead having to strike out alone.
The Scot, 25, beat Nicolas Peifer of France 7-6 (3) 6-1 in Sunday's final.
Reigning Wimbledon champion Reid secured his second Super Series title and will top the rankings for the third time when they are published this week.
"I'm very happy to be coming home with the title and regaining my place at the top of the singles rankings," he said.
"My performances in Japan have given me a good confidence boost looking ahead to the summer Grand Slams."
Reid first gained number one spot after winning gold at the Rio 2016 Paralympics against fellow Briton Alfie Hewett.
He remained top for three weeks before regaining the position in December after reaching the final of the wheelchair Masters in London.
The 18-year-old, from Penyrheol, was fined £90 for a public order offence after police received reports of a man taking part in the "creepy clown" fad outside St Cenydd Comprehensive School.
Gwent Police said it would go on his criminal record.
Clown sightings have been reported across Wales.
It has prompted police forces to warn people they could be arrested for scaring others.
Chf Insp Paul Staniforth said: "Gwent Police will not tolerate such behaviour and anyone seeking to cause distress and potential harm to anyone will be dealt with.
"I hope this result sends a strong message to anyone thinking about taking part in this craze, that their five minutes of what they may think is fun really isn't worth it."
Centre-back Scott Dann drilled in the opener after Andros Townsend's cross fell to him in the box.
Connor Wickham, who replaced Benteke at half-time, got the second two minutes into the second half.
League Two side Blackpool's best effort was Jim McAlister's strike, cleared off the line by James McArthur.
Belgium international Benteke was busy throughout his first 45 minutes since joining from Liverpool on Saturday.
He had a header saved in the second minute and drilled a rebound into the side netting after a McArthur shot.
Goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, a summer signing from Marseille, and centre-back James Tomkins also made their first starts for Palace as they claimed a first win of the season after losing their opening two league games 1-0.
Match ends, Crystal Palace 2, Blackpool 0.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 2, Blackpool 0.
Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt blocked. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jordon Mutch.
Attempt saved. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andros Townsend.
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Clark Robertson (Blackpool).
Attempt missed. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha.
Attempt saved. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Cain.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Clark Robertson.
Attempt blocked. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lee Chung-yong.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Wilfried Zaha replaces Yohan Cabaye.
Foul by Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace).
John Herron (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Sam Slocombe.
Attempt saved. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Herron (Blackpool).
Substitution, Blackpool. Bright Samuel replaces Armand Gnanduillet.
Foul by Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace).
Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lee Chung-yong.
Foul by Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace).
Clark Robertson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Blackpool. Mark Yeates replaces Brad Potts.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Lee Chung-yong replaces James McArthur.
Substitution, Blackpool. John Herron replaces Jim McAlister.
Attempt missed. Will Aimson (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jim McAlister.
Attempt blocked. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Connor Wickham.
Attempt saved. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Brad Potts with a cross.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by James Tomkins.
Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace).
Colin Daniel (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Andros Townsend following a corner.
Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Kelvin Mellor.
Foul by Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace).
Eddie Nolan (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wins from Catriona Matthew of Scotland and England's Georgia Hall and Florentyna Parker helped Europe to a 9-7 win over Australia, who again finished last in the four-team event.
It came down to the last hole of the final match, with Swede Linda Wessberg edging out Stacey Keating.
Korea avenged last year's defeat by Japan with a 15-1 rout in the final.
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The Queens tournament, which began last year, returned to the Miyoshi Country Club in Nagoya and the Koreans won the first seven matches of the final against the hosts, with Kotone Hori sparing Japan a whitewash by halving the final game with Lee Seung-hyun.
In the third-place play-off, Matthew defeated Rachel Hetherington two up to make it three wins out of three over the weekend, while Parker beat Sarah Kemp 5&4 and Hall saw off Katherine Kirk 2&1.
Sarah Jane Smith, Cathryn Bristow and Whitney Hillier won points for Australia, with Hillier beating Wales' Becky Morgan on the 18th hole.
"It's one of the best events I've ever been to - the whole team have performed admirably," said first-time captain Johnson.
"You've got a mixture of young players and players that have never played before.
"They've all been an absolute pleasure to spend a week with."
In an interview on BBC Radio Scotland's Stark Talk programme, the MSP said she struggled to reconcile her religious beliefs with being a lesbian.
Ms Davidson, who went to school in Fife, had a Church of Scotland upbringing.
She said when she was younger she "didn't want to be gay" and it took her years to accept her sexuality.
The former BBC journalist said the biggest issue about her sexuality was with regard to her faith.
Ms Davidson said: "It's something I struggled with, I didn't want to be gay. I'm not sure how many people do. It's been amazing the difference, even in my lifetime, how things have changed.
"I struggled with it for a number of years actually before I would admit it to myself, never mind to anybody else.
"But there comes a point at which you make a decision and that decision is either that you're going to live a lie for the rest of your life, or you're going to trust yourself, and that's what I had to do."
The politician told presenter Edi Stark that she had found it "very difficult" to see how parts of the Bible referred to homosexuality.
Ms Davidson explained: "To read Paul's letter to various churches around the globe talking about 'homosexual offenders' - the phrase in the international version - and talking about idolaters and adulterers and thieves being ranked together was very, very difficult."
In the wide-ranging interview, the political leader also insisted she would never want Prime Minister David Cameron's job.
She said: "I'm incredibly lucky in that I get to regularly see behind the door of No. 10 and it was like the loneliest job, second only probably to being the president of the United States.
"Running a G7 country is not for the faint-hearted. I don't think I'm up to it and I don't want it. I don't want the impact that would have on my life and all of the people that I love."
The 27-year-old scored 16 tries in 25 appearances for the Red Devils last month after joining from Leeds Rhinos.
Coach Brian Smith told the club website: "The signing of Ben is another highlight of our preparations for progress in Super League in 2016.
"Young, fast and coming back home to West Yorkshire add a great feel to the qualities Ben will bring to our team."
Erwyd le Fol (also known as Russell Erwood), 34, took part in a naming ceremony in the towns' square.
The occasion was marked with a birds of prey demonstration, medieval games and a parade.
Paid for by the town's chamber of trade, he will attend functions wearing a hat with donkey ears.
Speaking after the ceremony Mr le Fol said: "It's amazing. It's phenomenal. To be the first jester of a town in 700 years feels unreal."
Mr Trudeau is a favourite of global progressives, who see him as a bastion against rising tide of anti-immigrant and protectionist sentiment and who campaigned on appealing to people's "better angels".
Mr Trump won the US election riding that anti-trade and anti-globalisation wave, and as a political outsider who is free with his insults.
The relationship between the North American neighbours is a vital one and depends in part on the Republican and Liberal leaders finding common ground, despite differences in personality and policy.
Here are five areas where Mr Trudeau and Mr Trump are somewhat simpatico.
1. They pulled off unexpected election victories after being discounted by rivals and pundits.
Pollsters in both countries failed to predict Mr Trudeau and Mr Trump's upsets, and both party leaders were seen as celebrity lightweights by rivals.
It is a similarity not lost on Mr Trudeau.
In a 16 December interview with a Montreal radio show host, the prime minister revealed he touched on that "common ground" during his congratulatory phone call to Mr Trump following the US election.
"He and I had a conversation about being knocked around by the media because, present company excluded, that's the experience that I'd had for years of people just slamming me and saying 'he'd never become prime minister,'" Mr Trudeau said.
2. They embrace politics in the social media age.
The prime minister and the president-elect both use social media for their political ends.
Mr Trudeau and his team know a charming photo opportunity of the photogenic prime minister, from shirtless selfies to yoga poses, can go viral and bolster his popularity at home and abroad.
He has leveraged social media as a tool to sell his brand of progressive cool to the world.
While Mr Trudeau has a healthy Twitter following for a world leader, with nearly 2.4m followers (and over 830,000 on Instagram), his influence on the platform is dwarfed by Mr Trump's 19.7m followers.
A prolific tweeter, Mr Trump wields his influential account to attack opponents, drive the news, and pressure US manufacturers to bend to his agenda.
He has, however, promised to be more restrained in his Twitter antics after being sworn-in 20 January.
3. They promised to change the way politics is done.
Mr Trump vowed during the campaign he would "drain the swamp", a catch-all promise for his supporters who see of Washington as a cesspool of lobbyists, corruption, and waste.
During the 2015 Canadian election, Mr Trudeau said his predecessor, former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, "turned Ottawa into a partisan swamp" during his near decade in power.
Mr Trudeau promised to put an end to partisanship and patronage in Ottawa, to usher in a more transparent and receptive government, and to make question period respectful again.
The two have faced critics who say those promises were quick to fall by the wayside.
4. They harkened to the past in their pitch to voters.
The two politicians pressed some very powerful nostalgia buttons as they campaigned to lead their countries.
Mr Trump's inescapable campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again", borrowed from former US president Ronald Reagan's 1980 race, looked back to a time when voters felt there was more prosperity and opportunity in the United States and when their nation garnered respect on the world stage.
Mr Trudeau was more subtle, though his campaign was woven through with a thread of nostalgia, from a promise to recommit troops to overseas peacekeeping efforts to a foreign policy return to when Canadians thought the world saw the country as its good neighbour.
After winning the election, Mr Trudeau and his MPs made "Canada is back" one of their favourite catchphrases.
5. They followed in their fathers' footsteps.
Fred Trump, the first New York real estate magnate in the Trump family, started a million dollar residential real estate business in Brooklyn and Queens.
The Donald learned the business from his father, switching from building low-income housing in New York City's outer-boroughs to luxury towers in downtown Manhattan.
Justin Trudeau grew up surrounded by politics and was once toasted by former US President Richard Nixon, who predicted the young boy would one day become prime minister like his father Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Trudeau senior served as in that role from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, becoming one of Canada's most recognisable leaders.
James Caven, 39, had denied murdering Colin Armstrong, 49, in Macmerry, East Lothian, on 7 October last year.
But a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh returned a unanimous guilty verdict to the charge.
The court had heard how Caven stabbed Mr Armstrong 27 times during an attack at a house in Greenmill Brae.
Judge Lord Uist said Caven, from Macmerry, had carried out a "horrific and gruesome murder" of his neighbour and friend.
"He met a terrible end when he was subjected to a cruel and merciless attack with a knife by you, resulting in a total of 27 stab wounds, 14 on the neck, eight on the front of the chest, four on the back and one on the left arm," said the judge.
"Only you know what caused you to do this. In response to the overwhelming evidence against you, you lied and lied and lied again.
"You have shown no remorse for what you did and even falsely blamed men in an attempt to cover up your guilt.
"The sentence for murder is fixed by law and I must now impose that sentence on you. I sentence you to imprisonment for life."
He said Caven would have to serve at least 20 years before he can become eligible for parole.
The court had heard how Caven held a grudge against Mr Armstrong.
Det Sgt Neil Seath, of Police Scotland, said: "Colin Armstrong gave his friendship to James Caven only to be repaid with incidents of escalating violence, leading ultimately to a vicious, sustained and murderous knife assault.
"Caven, rather than providing an explanation which may have given Colin's family some level of understanding, chose to try and shift the blame onto others, resulting in extensive inquiries having to be made to eliminate innocent individuals.
"His conviction is welcomed and a testimony to the hard work of the officers involve in this investigation.
"My thoughts are with Colin's family and I pay tribute to them for the dignity and strength shown throughout this tragedy, and I sincerely hope this brings some form of closure for them."
The former MP for North East Fife, who stepped down in the last election, will head the European Movement in Scotland.
The group is to organise a series of town-hall style events to promote the benefits of EU membership in the run-up to the referendum in June.
Last week, high-profile nationalist Jim Sillars declared his intention to campaign for Britain to leave the EU.
He said he had met and would be happy to work with former MP Nigel Griffiths, who is leading a Labour campaign in Scotland which is opposed to continued membership.
Lord Campbell believed the EU's influence should be "absolutely cherished".
He said: "Our message will be a simple one - every person in Scotland benefits from our membership of the EU.
"Whether it is climate change, energy security, organised crime and terrorism or international trade, decisions taken by the EU are more effective than the ones made by 28 individual states.
"The peace, stability and prosperity that the EU has brought to Scotland through our membership is to be absolutely cherished."
He added: "Over the next few months we will be putting forward an unremitting and unashamedly positive case for our continued EU membership, ensuring that everyone can see the 'big picture' of the advantages our membership brings."
Campaign groups have formed on both sides of the referendum debate ahead of the vote on 23 June.
Those pushing to leave cite membership costs, increased bureaucracy and immigration issues as well as the influence of EU laws and regulations in the UK.
Pictures show the damage caused by burglars in order to get access to Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in central London.
In the vault, discarded safety deposit boxes, power tools, including an angle grinder, and concrete drills and crowbars can be seen
No arrests have been made.
The image shows the hole made using a heavy duty drill, model hilti DD350. It measured 50cm deep, 25cm high, 45cm wide and 89cm tall.
Police said there was no sign of forced entry to the outside of the building. Burglars disabled the communal lift on the second floor, then used the lift shaft to climb down into the basement.
They forced open shutter doors into the basement and bored holes into the vault wall.
All but six of those thought to have been victims of the crime have been contacted, the force said.
It added an appeal will be broadcast on Crimewatch on BBC One on Thursday.
In court was Stephen Brady, 46, from Uppertown Drive in Newtownabbey.
He is accused of one count of attempted rape, two counts of sexual assault and a further charge of burglary.
Mr Brady spoke only to confirm that he understood the four charges against him.
The offences are alleged to have taken place on 5 December.
A detective told the court the woman, who is her 40s, fell asleep on the sofa in the living room of her home but was awoken at 04:30 GMT when a man grabbed her around the neck from behind, threatening that he had a knife and would kill her if she did not do as he ordered.
She said the woman struggled and tried to escape to the front door but was trailed back by the hair, held on the stairs and then ordered to go upstairs.
Mr Brady allegedly tried to rape his victim "on numerous occasions", before subjecting her instead to what the officer said was a "sustained sexual assault".
Throughout the the alleged attack, the court was told Mr Brady told the woman he had a knife "and that he would kill her".
The detective said the attacker eventually left saying that she was "lucky" and that it "could have been worse" but warned her that he would be "watching her and if she went to the police he would kill her".
However, the alleged victim went to police the following morning and underwent a full forensic medical examination with a DNA profile allegedly matching that of Mr Brady being uncovered on swabs taken from her.
He was arrested and interviewed on Thursday of this week and during police questioning, the officer told the court he "provided a very scant account" claiming that he was walking home when he saw the woman at her front door and that any sexual contact was by consent.
The detective said police were strongly objecting to Mr Brady being given bail and revealed that as a result of a previous conviction for indecent assault, the accused is on the police sex offenders register for an indefinite period and is subject to sex offender management.
The detective revealed that such is the level of the woman's fear she has not returned to her home since the alleged attack.
Mr Brady's solicitor said she was instructed that her client "would abide by any bail condition" set by the court.
Refusing the bail application, a judge remanded Mr Brady into custody until 9 January.
Mark Jenkins has been told by Ocaso his claim in November is being refused because he did not declare the house in Maesteg was within 200m of a river.
Ogmore AM Huw-Irranca Davies said the flooding was nothing to do with the river and the firm was "unreasonable".
Ocaso said it was "in discussions" with Mr Jenkins.
People living in Maesteg described the flooding that followed heavy rain in November, caused by Storm Angus, as "devastating".
Mr Jenkins estimates it caused about £50,000 of damage to his house and is challenging Ocaso's decision not to pay out.
He, his wife Cerys and their children Sami, 11 and Lewi, two, had to move out and are living with her parents.
"It's a bit of a struggle as you can imagine, four of us in one room," he said.
"[Our] two-year-old [was] looking forward to one of his first major Christmases in the house, that's not going to happen.
"It's just utter devastation at the moment - we're just making do.
"We're just lucky we've got close family to put us up because otherwise we're effectively homeless because we can't live here."
Mr Jenkins said he does not "recall" the question about the proximity of a river being asked and said the insurer was "nit-picking".
Mr Irranca-Davies, the local AM and a former UK government floods minister, said Ocaso's handling of the case had been "terrible".
"They need to show some compassion," he said.
"Anybody with an ounce of decency would understand that this was out of the blue skies, it was a deluge of a flood, nothing to do with river flooding.
"It's a genuine claim for a couple and their family and their children who are now out of their home for Christmas, whose home is in devastation.
"Show some decency, I say to this company, and pay up.
"It's giving the insurance industry a bad name."
A spokesman for Ocaso said: "We are in discussions with our policyholder regarding this matter and the information provided when the policy was initially proposed.
"It would not be appropriate for us to comment further at this stage."
The Welsh Government has written to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) about the case.
In the letter, Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths said her officials believe the flood was not caused by "any main river".
An ABI spokeswoman said: "Insurance is there to provide help and support when the worst happens.
"It's important people answer questions honestly and to the best of their knowledge when taking out a policy so the insurer can assess the risk they're at and set their premium appropriately.
"The Financial Ombudsman Service exists to investigate any cases where a customer feels they have not been treated fairly.
"The insurance industry takes the availability of property insurance for flood risk areas very seriously which is why it worked with Government to set up the world first Flood Re scheme, which exists to ensure people can access affordable insurance for their homes.
"It's always a good idea to shop around when buying insurance to find the best priced policy to suit your situation."
Mr Irranca-Davies has also called for rules to change so that insurance companies themselves identify how close a customer's house is to a river, rather than customers having to declare it themselves.
In response, the ABI said it was down to individual firms to decide what approach to take.
The 31-year-old had been on trial with the Ibrox club after leaving Grasshoppers in his Swiss homeland.
Senderos looked like he would miss out on a deal when Rangers were poised to sign Joleon Lescott from Aston Villa.
But the former England defender failed a medical and Rangers manager Mark Warburton has turned to the man capped 57 times for Switzerland.
Having started his career with Servette, Senderos spent seven years with Arsenal before spells with AC Milan, Everton, Fulham, Valencia and Villa.
He made 14 appearances for Grasshoppers as they finished fourth in the Swiss top flight, having left Villa Park in January, but was left out of his country's squad for this summer's Euro 2016 finals.
Meanwhile, Rangers have released Andy Murdoch after the midfielder's contract was terminated "by mutual agreement".
The 21-year-old came through the youth ranks at Ibrox and made 22 appearances for the Glasgow side.
However, he ended last season on loan to Cowdenbeath in the Championship and has not featured under Mark Warburton this season.
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In September the oil exporting cartel members voted for the first production cut in eight years.
Details of the agreement are due to be finalised at a formal Opec meeting in Vienna on Wednesday.
But key Opec members appear to disagree over the plan and some analysts believe the meeting may not produce a deal.
Indonesian Energy Minister Ignasius Jonan said he was not sure Opec would manage to forge an agreement: "I don't know. Let's see. The feeling today is mixed."
Brent crude oil was down $1.76 per barrel at $46.48, and US crude was down $1.80 at $45.28.
Analysts at Barclays said: "Volatility is set to be high in the oil market in the days ahead."
In-depth negotiations will be needed on Wednesday to cement a deal, Goldman Sachs analysts said.
"The latest headlines suggest that while there is a broad agreement on the rationale for a cut, political considerations and country level quota negotiations are so far preventing a deal from being reached," Goldman Sachs said.
In September Opec pledged to limit production by about 700,000 barrels a day, although Iran was being allowed to increase production.
Disagreements between Iran and its regional rival, Saudi Arabia, had blocked earlier attempts to reach a deal.
Many of Opec's smaller members wanted limits after oil prices fell from $110 a barrel over the past two years after oversupply and slowing demand.
A new eight-week campaign - called The Earlier, The Better - is aimed at reducing "unnecessary" hospital stays.
Last year a review warned of a rise in avoidable emergency hospital admissions and NHS England said too many people simply "soldiered on".
The online, radio and poster campaign, launched on Monday, will urge people to get help without going to hospital.
It is being targeted at older people in particular because they often present themselves later, when conditions are more serious and are harder to treat.
Chronic conditions such as respiratory disorders can also be made worse by immobility, the cold and viral illnesses.
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To try to combat the issue, the campaign encourages over-60s and their carers to use self-care information to deal with minor health problems, such as a bad cough or sore throat.
Greater use of the local pharmacy, and calling the NHS 111 advice line, is also being encouraged.
"We see in our hospitals so many people who have not had or sought the help they need early enough," said Prof Keith Willett, NHS England's director for acute care.
"We have to do better at helping people stay well, not just picking up the pieces when they fall seriously ill."
He added: "Too many people make the mistake of soldiering on, losing the opportunity to nip things in the bud.
"Unfortunately this can lead to an unnecessary stay in hospital, particularly for the more frail elderly, and those with long-term conditions."
Clare Howard, the organisation's deputy chief pharmaceutical officer, said: "Pharmacists and their teams are well trained and well placed to be able to offer advice to people seeking help.
"They can provide medicines' advice and support for minor ailments, advise you about how to manage a long-term condition and tell you if something needs more urgent medical attention from your GP, or even your local hospital."
New channels will have to get 10,000 views before they can be considered for the YouTube Partner Program, the firm announced in a blog post.
YouTube will then evaluate whether the channel is adhering to its guidelines before letting it carry adverts.
It will help clamp down on content theft and fake channels, YouTube said.
"After a creator hits 10k lifetime views on their channel, we'll review their activity against our policies," wrote Ariel Bardin, vice president of product management at YouTube.
"If everything looks good, we'll bring this channel into YPP [YouTube Partner Program] and begin serving ads against their content. Together these new thresholds will help ensure revenue only flows to creators who are playing by the rules."
Qingzhen Chen, senior analyst for advertising research from IHS, said it would not be difficult for most channel creators to get 10,000 views from a global audience of more than one billion users.
"That's views not subscriptions - so even when people don't watch the whole video that's still considered a view," she said.
"We need to think about why YouTube is doing this. There are have been troubles recently in the news about some of its content, some big brands and agencies have pulled their adverts - this is just another effort to deal with the those issues.
"Publishers are increasingly going to spend their money on digital so they are going to be asking for more in terms of their ads appearing alongside the right content."
YouTube does not publish the figures video creators can earn from pre-roll adverts, which play before their video begins, but in 2014 the New York Times quoted an ad software firm which suggested the average rate was $7.60 (£6) per 1000 advert views, with YouTube taking a percentage.
18 August 2016 Last updated at 21:28 BST
Mr Ross was speaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ after arriving at Dublin Airport from Brazil on Thursday.
Arrested Irish Olympic official Pat Hickey has been released from hospital to be questioned at a Rio police station over allegations of illegal ticket sales.
He has temporarily stepped down from his position as the Olympic Council of Ireland's president, although he denies the allegations.
It said "ultimately we don't control the roads" and urged vehicles not to cut through Axbridge, in Somerset, but to "stick to the main road".
Mayor Ian Laken said road works caused by digging up the A371 "will have an impact on the town".
The £27m project involves laying 30km of new water main from Barrow Gurney to Cheddar to supply 280,000 homes.
Ben Newby, from Bristol Water, said: "It's a very narrow piece of road there and could cause all sorts of problems - so people really need to stick to the main road.
"We apologise in advance for the disruption. It is inevitable with a scheme of this size but we do need to put the pipeline in to secure the supply for now and for the future."
Mr Laken said: "The major concern is how it will impact on the town and the traffic. There's only one way in and one way out into Axbridge.
"If the road works take place on the bypass, thereby shutting one lane and having traffic lights, people may use it as a cut-through. This will snarl up the town.
"We can't stop people coming through the town but we would ask people not to use it as a shortcut."
He said they had "expressed their fears" to Bristol Water and said the company had been "extremely positive in liaising with us".
A public meeting is taking place at Axbridge Town Hall at 19:30 BST.
The award of 10 council houses since 1997 "seemed to all benefit members of Councillor [Mahboob] Hussain's family", the council said.
"Patterns of behaviour" looked like "conspiracy to defraud and/or misconduct in a public office", a council investigation report said.
Mr Hussain said the accusations were "purely politically-motivated".
The report further alleged another serving councillor, Babu Singh Bawa, and Mr Hussain "benefitted from a unique Compulsory Purchase Order [CPO] pilot scheme".
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Both men expressed an interest in land in 1998 which became the subject of an exclusive bid for self-build plots a year later, the council said.
The only bids the council said it received for the plots in September 1999 were from St Paul's ward councillor Mr Bawa and Mr Hussain and their immediate family members.
For one plot, the four bids received were all from Mr Hussain and members of his family, according to the report.
"The bids gave the impression of potential cover pricing and bid suppression," the authority said.
Mr Hussain said the allegations were an attempt to "smear" his character and the council had published allegations which had "not been properly investigated".
He said he would "cooperate fully with any investigation because he had done nothing wrong".
The council said Mr Bawa later failed to declare his role as a councillor when a planning application was submitted on his behalf in October 2007.
Mr Bawa has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
The report said a separate potential alleged code of conduct breach should be looked into further by the council.
In February 2011 former economy chief councillor Ian Jones asked for a property to be removed from a public auction at the request of the then-council leader, now deceased, Darren Cooper and instead be sold to a family member of Councillor Mohammad Rouf at a price "significantly below" what it was eventually sold for under a sealed bid process a year later - also to a relative of Mr Rouf, the report said.
Mr Jones said he had had "no opportunity to see or understand any evidence of the allegations against him" before Wednesday's report and questioned the council's "impartiality in any investigation" as information he had previously provided "had not been pursued".
There was also a "breach of the council's financial regulations and procedures" due to an informal arrangement between former borough mayor Derek Rowley while he was a serving councillor, and a member of the public to sell four council-owned containers from Jubilee Park in Tipton, according to the council.
"Conflicting information" over the sums involved, and the fact both Mr Rowley and a former employee were no longer involved with the council, meant "there may be little advantage to be gained from pursuing this matter further at this stage", the report said.
"No fault" was meanwhile found in the actions of another councillor, Stephen Frear, over the award of a three-bed council house to him.
Oldbury ward councillor Mr Hussain and Mr Jones stood down from the borough's ruling cabinet after an earlier investigation into alleged irregularities in the sale of the council's former properties.
West Midlands Police confirmed the allegations were referred to the force on 3 January and were being reviewed. The BBC has contacted councillors Frear and Rouf.
However distant or unlikely that possibility is, Brazil's government is going to great lengths to persuade athletes and visitors that Rio de Janeiro will be perfectly safe come the Olympic Games opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium on 5 August.
"We estimate that fewer than one in 500,000 visitors to Rio will contract the Zika virus," said Ricardo Barros, Brazil's new health minister.
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Mr Barros has only been in the post for a month, after the impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff forced a change of government, but he clearly sees reassuring Brazil and the world over the Zika outbreak as his number one priority.
I asked the minister how the government could be so confident in asserting that there was an "almost zero" risk of contracting Zika when the latest advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO) was that "women in Zika-affected areas should consider delaying becoming pregnant".
"There's no contradiction," replied Mr Barros.
"We are working closely with the WHO but our figures show that rates of Zika infection have fallen by 87% this year already."
In Brazil, there have been more than 1,500 confirmed cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
With other neurological conditions also blamed on Zika, there is obvious concern about the virus.
After the WHO's advice that pregnant women should not travel to Zika-infected areas and subsequent evidence that the virus could be transferred through sex as well as via the bite of an infected mosquito, a handful of athletes declared they would not be participating in Rio 2016.
Other big names, including Irish golfer Rory Mcllroy and UK heptathlete Jessica Ennis Hill, said they would be in Rio after having initially expressed concern about travelling.
Long jumper Greg Rutherford, who won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, is even thought to have frozen his sperm as a precaution before he travels to defend his title in Rio.
The stakes have been raised further by a recent letter calling on the WHO to recommend that the Rio Olympics should be cancelled over fears about Zika.
The open letter has been signed by more than 200 academics and specialists, among them prominent Brazilian anthropologist Deborah Diniz.
"There is a clear risk to global health in sponsoring these Olympic Games inviting half a million people to Brazil," she argues.
"Having an epidemic like this poses concrete risks to women of reproductive age."
Such arguments brought a rapid backlash from other specialists, who said the outbreak was now under control.
Political leaders in Rio, including the city's often outspoken mayor, Eduardo Paes, also reacted.
Mr Paes told the BBC that calls for the Olympics to be called off were a complete overreaction.
"It's completely crazy," said Mr Paes, who has also had to defend a series of other setbacks associated with the Games, including severe delays to critical transport networks and broken promises to clean up the city's chronically polluted waterways.
"At this time of the year, in August, when the Olympics are going on, there are no cases of dengue or Zika because of the weather," he said.
"I don't want to minimise it at all but there's a lot of exaggeration going on."
The mayor is adamant that public information campaigns and greater general awareness about Zika are having an impact.
We joined one such campaign "on patrol" in the sprawling working class suburb of Jacareipagua, about a mile from the main Olympic Park to the south of Rio.
A team of public health officials in brand-new uniforms knocked on doors in streets around the local clinic to inform residents about the importance of taking precautions against disease-carrying mosquitoes.
"We show them how to cover up areas of still or stagnant water, where the Aedes [mosquitoes] might breed," a team leader told me.
But in these areas, in particular, old habits die hard.
"I don't use repellent - I never have," said local resident Paulo Jose, reflecting the widely held view that somehow people here are immune to diseases like Zika and dengue fever.
As Paulo Jose was listening to the advice, I must have caught and squashed at least five mosquitoes in the space of 30 seconds.
The white-washed wall was stained red with little spots of blood, evidence that the insects had recently been feeding.
Notwithstanding the difficulties in getting the message through in some areas, the Brazilian government says it is dedicating unprecedented resources to the fight against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.
In Rio de Janeiro alone, the government says it has allocated more than $17.5m (£12.4) to "reinforce" the local health network during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
They say there will be more ambulances, extra health professionals and at least 3,000 people working on anti-Zika campaigns in the city.
Verifiable figures for people who contracted Zika are difficult to pin down and vary wildly from state to state, not helped by the fact that many of those infected show few if any symptoms at all.
There is still a lot to discover about the Zika virus, how it is contracted and what other conditions, in addition to microcephaly, it may be responsible for.
There is no vaccine yet, for example, and definitive tests to show if someone has definitely had the virus are still not widely available.
Cancelling the Olympic Games would be an extreme measure at this late stage and perhaps, indeed, a measure too far.
The best hope, for the Games organisers and Rio city officials, may be a continuation of the extremely cold weather we have been having in Brazil recently.
Temperatures have been so low the mosquito population in parts of Brazil could be decimated, for the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games at least.
10 March 2016 Last updated at 17:07 GMT
Now the standing-only trial is to be extended - but with one escalator still available for people keen to walk.
BBC London asked passengers what they thought of the new rule.
Figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show more than half of councils in England recorded a rise in rough sleeping compared with the year before.
The homelessness charity Crisis said it was rising at an "appalling rate".
The government said it was determined to help the most vulnerable and was investing £550m to tackle the problem.
Jon Sparkes, the chief executive of Crisis, said: "Behind these statistics are thousands of desperate people, sleeping in doorways, bin shelters, stations and parks - anywhere they can find to stay safe and escape the elements.
"Rough sleeping ruins lives, leaving people vulnerable to violence and abuse, and taking a dreadful toll on their mental and physical health. Our recent research has shown how rough sleepers are 17 times more likely to be victims of violence. This is no way for anyone to live."
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Official figures show rough sleeping has more than doubled since 2010, when 1,768 people were recorded.
Outside London, the number of people on the streets rose 20% since 2015, whereas in the capital it was 3%.
There were 174 councils out of 326 who recorded rises.
And for the first time they include details of gender, age and nationality of those seen on the streets.
4,134
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3,569
the year before
509 female
288 under 25
714 from other EU countries
194 from outside EU
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Separate statistics showed more than 114,000 households in England turned to councils for help in 2015-16 because they were losing their home.
Research by St Mungo's, the homelessness charity, found four in 10 rough sleepers had mental health problems, 41% needed help with alcohol dependency and 31% with drug abuse.
Its chief executive, Howard Sinclair, said cuts in welfare and services covering mental health, drug and alcohol abuse had contributed to the rise.
He said: "There is no single reason. People who end up on the streets are not just homeless and getting somewhere to stay is not the only problem.
"We have seen cuts to services as part of the austerity agenda but also a lack of affordable housing, particularly in the south."
Labour's shadow housing secretary John Healey said: "It is a national scandal that in England in the 21st century the number of people forced to sleep rough on our streets is spiralling upwards - and this is only the tip of the iceberg."
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has committed to invest £50m to help homeless people.
James Murray, deputy mayor for housing and residential development, said: "The figures we use in London show that rough sleeping continues to rise in the capital, which is shameful in one of the richest cities in the world. Sadiq has been clear that it will take a long time to turn things around."
The housing charity Shelter blamed "the lack of affordable homes coupled with cuts to welfare" for the "tragic" situation.
Crisis said there was "no time to waste".
Mr Sparkes added: "We need the government to take action on this issue, and we stand ready to work with officials to plan and deliver an ambitious new approach.
"The government has already shown leadership on plans to expand homelessness prevention, and in light of today's figures, we hope they will now extend this approach to helping those on the street."
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: "This government is determined to help the most vulnerable in society, which is why we're investing £550m to 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.
"Homelessness is more than just a housing issue so we are now funding projects in 225 local authorities to help those people at risk of becoming homeless, already sleeping rough or those with complex needs, to get back on their feet."
He said the government was also supporting the Homelessness Reduction Bill, proposed by Conservative MP Bob Blackman, to give people help earlier to avoid becoming homeless in the first place.
The Local Government Association, which represents councils, called for the government to give them powers and funding to build affordable homes.
Councillor Martin Tett, its housing spokesman said: "This is vital to end homelessness."
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The "distressed" sheep was spotted "stuck fast" in the middle of a field near Ware in Hertfordshire on Thursday.
"She wasn't the smartest in the flock," RSPCA rescuer Kate Wright said.
"There's no fence most of the way along the field, yet she managed to find a tiny bit to get trapped in. She only had to walk around it." The freed ewe was unharmed and returned to the flock.
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Ms Wright said the ewe could have been badly cut had she not been spotted by passing walkers.
"She had her head through one of the square meshes of this 'stock fence' and became stuck fast.
"When I arrived she was bleating in distress and really panicking. There were sharp wires in the fence and I have no doubt she would have hurt herself had she been left in that panicked state for much longer," she said.
Once cut free, the ewe "went charging straight off to rejoin her flock - danger averted," Ms Wright added.
Now, 100 years later, the London Transport Museum has sent one of the original battle buses - No. B2737 - across the channel to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.
What's the story of the battle bus?
Packed with men, the cheery red paint replaced by utilitarian khaki, and with the windows boarded over, the vehicles bore little resemblance to the omnibuses familiar to London.
When, in 1916, enlisted men boarded, it's unlikely they realised the ride would culminate in 141 days of horror, in which more than one million people would be killed.
The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest. For five months the British, French and Commonwealth troops fought the German army on a 15-mile front in northern France.
Once in France, although the majority of buses were used to transport soldiers, others were adapted for a wide variety of purposes, including pigeon lofts, engineering workshops and even touring cinemas.
Pte George Gwynn was a driver sent to Ypres in Belgium with his bus. He gave a recorded interview, which can still be heard, to the Imperial War Museum in 1985, when he was 95, describing how the vehicle was his only shelter.
"I slept at the roadside on those buses, with no cover. We ate on board.
"Each night in the winter we had to get out of our beds and start the engine every two hours. We had to be ready at any time to rush out and pick troops up from their billets.
"We came under fire every night and think 'game over'. The driver of the bus in front of mine was killed. Every night we had something like that."
Pte Gwynne, whose job also entailed taking injured men to field hospitals, recalled driving past "fields full of men, they'd been gassed. All the men just lying on their backs".
According to the London Transport Museum, this year's tour paid tribute to the transport workers who served during the war.
The bus - one of only two working 1914 B-types buses in the world - operated between Barnes and Liverpool Street and was transformed by the museum into a military troop carrier exactly like the ones that went to war.
It travelled along key locations from the battle, from Gommecourt in the north to Maricourt in the south.
Sam Mullins, director of the museum, said more than 1,000 London buses were requisitioned for war service - about one third of the London fleet - in many cases with their civilian drivers and mechanics.
Most vehicles went to France and Belgium, though some travelled as far as Greece.
The progress of the bus at the Somme, with information and photos, can be followed on Twitter.
The scheme was launched in 1981, during the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.
Protesters say some 10 million people who joined have now been left with very low retirement incomes - less than minimum wage in many cases.
They are calling for President Michelle Bachelet to scrap the scheme.
The Chilean pension fund system has been praised by pro-market politicians and economists across the world.
But critics say it pays many contributors less than the minimum wage, far less than the 70% of final salary originally intended.
President Bachelet, who is left wing, announced a number of reforms earlier this month to try to boost the income of pensioners.
She proposed an increase in employer's contributions and a reduction in commissions paid to the fund managers.
But protesters want the Pension Fund Administrators (or AFP) scheme to be scrapped altogether.
Leaders of the No More AFP movement have called a nationwide strike on 4 November.
Mae hi ei hun wedi dysgu llawer, meddai, o wylio'r rhaglen fydd ar BBC One Wales nos Fawrth, 4 Ebrill, Richard and Jaco: Life With Autism.
Mae'r rhaglen yn canolbwyntio ar brofiadau Richard Mylan, tad Jaco, sydd hefyd yn actor, a'i obeithion a'i bryderon am ddyfodol ei fab wrth iddo symud o'r ysgol gynradd i'r ysgol uwchradd.
Mae Catrin a Richard wedi gwahanu a Jaco'n rhannu ei amser rhyngddyn nhw gan fyw wythnos ar y tro gyda'r ddau.
Mae Catrin, sy'n adnabyddus am chwarae rhan Cadno ar Pobol y Cwm, yn ymddangos yn y rhaglen hefyd ac yn cyfaddef ei bod wedi trïo peidio â meddwl am ddyfodol ei mab 11 oed hyd yma.
"Fel dwi'n deud yn y rhaglen dwi bron yn trïo peidio meddwl am y peth, ond fydd rhaid imi ddechrau meddwl am y dyfodol - dwi jyst yn gobeithio y bydd o'n gallu byw ar ben ei hun," meddai Catrin sydd hefyd yn fam i ferch fach dair oed.
Mae Jaco wedi setlo yn dda yn yr ysgol uwchradd erbyn hyn, ond mae'r cyfnod yn y rhaglen yn garreg filltir iddo fo a'i rieni wrth iddyn nhw ddechrau wynebu sut fywyd fydd ganddo fel oedolyn.
Er bod Jaco wedi dechrau siarad ar adeg normal, fe ddechreuodd ei iaith slofi ar ôl tua 18 mis meddai Catrin ac roedd hi'n gwybod bod 'na rywbeth o'i le.
"Dwi'n cofio gofyn i'r ymwelydd iechyd, a dweud mod i'n poeni bod 'na rywbeth ddim yn iawn a 'nath hi ddweud 'Na, na, mae'n hollol iawn, mae o'n hitio'r milestones mae o fod i hitio efo geiria a phetha felna'.
"Roedd hi'n dweud wrtha' i am beidio poeni.
"Nes i ofyn iddi tua tair neu bedair gwaith a hithau'n dweud wrtha i am beidio poeni. Ond yn y diwedd, fe wnaeth hi fy referrio i weld paediatrician wedyn a nath o gynyddu o fanna, ac mi gafodd wahanol brofion.
"Ond ro'n i'n gwybod beth bynnag - mae ei gefnder bach o yn awtistig hefyd ac roedd o wedi cael diagnosis cyn Jaco.
"Oni'n gwybod be' oedd o mewn gwirionedd ond ro'n i eisiau diagnosis yn bennaf er mwyn iddo fo gael statement i gael help yn yr ysgol - hwnna oedd y peth pwysicaf."
Mae cael y datganiad yma'n golygu fod Jaco yn cael help unigol gan athro neu athrawes yn y dosbarth.
Y diagnosis gafodd Jaco i ddechrau oedd PDD (Pervasive Development Disorder). Erbyn hyn, dydi'r categori hwnnw ddim yn cael ei ddefnyddio ac mae'r diagnosis yn dod dan ambarél cyffredinol Anhwylder Sbectrwm Awstistig (Autistic Spectrum Disorder).
"Cyn i fi gael plentyn awtistig," meddai Catrin, "o'n i 'di gwylio rhaglenni am blant efo'r cyflwr ac oni'n meddwl eu bod nhw jyst wedi eu cau yn eu byd bach eu hunain ac yn y blaen. Ond dydi Jaco ddim fel'na.
"O'n i hefyd yn meddwl nad oedden nhw'n gallu dangos empathi - ond mae o yn gallu. Os ydi rhywun yn mynd yn ypset, mae o'n poeni am bobl ac yn mynd yn ypset drostyn nhw."
Un o brif nodweddion ei gyflwr ydy ei fod yn hoffi trefn a phatrwm, ac rydyn ni'n gweld yn y rhaglen ei fod yn hoffi ymweld â Marchnad Caerdydd i weld y stondinau'n cau ac yn arbennig i glywed y gloch yn cael ei chanu ar derfyn dydd.
"Mae o'n licio trefn i bob dydd. Mae 'na rwtîn mynd i'r gwely: dwi'n gorfod mynd a fo fyny, mae o'n gofyn be' sy'n digwydd fory a dwi'n rhestru be fyddwn ni'n ei wneud.
"Os oes rhywbeth yn digwydd sy'n wahanol i be dwi wedi ei ddweud, mae'n mynd yn flin. Os dwi wedi dweud ein bod ni'n mynd i parc a'i bod hi'n bwrw, a dydan ni ddim yn gallu mynd, mae hynny'n chwalu ei frên o."
Yn y rhaglen rydyn ni'n gweld Jaco yn ffilmio popeth ar ei ffôn ac yn gwisgo clustffonau am ei glustiau - mae'n clywed sŵn yn uwch na'r rhan fwyaf o bobl ac mae'n gallu brifo ei glustiau.
Pan roedd o'n fach roedd hyn yn golygu na châi Catrin chwerthin am fod y sŵn yn ei ddychryn, na gweiddi mewn gemau pêl-droed neu rygbi.
Mae hefyd yn ei chael yn anodd delio efo pethau fel pryfaid neu bili pala - unrhyw beth sydd y tu hwnt i'w reolaeth.
"Ond heblaw am hynna, 'sgynno fo ddim problem ymddygiad - mae o'n hogyn bach da, ufudd. Dim ond os nad ydi petha'n mynd ei ffordd o mae o'n gallu cael meltdowns," meddai Catrin.
Mae Jaco yn mynd i uned arbennig mewn ysgol arferol ar hyn o bryd ond yn y rhaglen mae Richard yn mynd i weld ysgol arbennig hefyd ac yn siarad gyda dyn ifanc ag awtistiaeth sydd mewn swydd weinyddol ac un sy'n siaradwr cyhoeddus.
Roedd hyn yn agoriad llygiad i Catrin ac mae'n gobeithio y bydd yn gwneud yr un fath i wylwyr y rhaglen.
"Gobeithio bydd y rhaglen yn codi ymwybyddiaeth o be sydd 'na ar eu cyfer nhw - tra maen nhw yn yr ysgol a tu allan i'r ysgol hefyd.
"Mae hyd yn oed wedi gwneud hynny i fi wrth wylio'r rhaglen, dwi wedi dysgu am yr ysgol arbennig ac yn y blaen.
"Mae o wedi gwneud ifi feddwl, felly gobeithio g'neith o wneud yr un peth i bobl eraill."
It was closed from junction 24 Coldra to 28 at Tredegar Park from 21:00 GMT on Friday to 03:40 on Saturday.
Officials said it led to very slow traffic as motorists were forced to come off the motorway.
A diversion using the A48 through Newport was put in place as emergency repairs were carried out.
Northern Ireland has been given the power to set its own rate and is set to cut the tax businesses pay on their profits to 12.5% by 2018.
However, last week the chancellor said the GB rate will fall to 17% by 2020.
Caroline Keenan of ASM accountants told the BBC's Inside Business programme it "dilutes" Northern Ireland's advantage.
Q&A: Corporation tax in Northern Ireland
She said the cut in the GB rate - announced by Chancellor George Osborne as part of last week's budget - had come as a surprise.
"I don't think it's a good move, from the point of view that it dilutes the potential that we have," Ms Keenan said.
"We're going to be competing with England, Scotland and Wales and, that differential, I don't think it's even going to cut it."
She said Northern Ireland needed "a cocktail of measures" in order to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), on top of having the lowest corporation tax rate in the UK.
"I've worked with many FDI companies over the last number of years and it's the whole range of the skills, the infrastructure, it's property."
Caroline Keenan's interview will be broadcast as part of Inside Business at 13:30 GMT on Sunday 20 March.
Abubakar Shekau leads the militant group, while Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid el Barnawi are thought to have ties with a branch of al-Qaeda.
The move means any assets belonging to the men in the US will be frozen, and contact with US citizens banned.
Boko Haram has said it carried out a number of attacks against churches and other establishments since 2009.
More than 640 people have died in the country so far in 2012 in attacks blamed on the group.
The BBC's Kim Ghattas, in Washington, said the move was likely to have little effect on the three men.
She said it was more of an attempt to help stop sectarian violence in the country.
Boko Haram carried out a series of attacks against churches on Sunday, sparking a wave of sectarian reprisals.
Gun battles also broke out in Damaturu after attacks by the group against security forces.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is a sacrilege" in the Hausa language, is based in the dominantly Muslim north of Nigeria.
The south of the oil rich country is mostly Christian.
It is thought some members of Boko Harem have connections with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group already designated as a terrorist organisation by the US.
A total of 36,997 homeowners had their mortgages approved, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) said.
That is the lowest figure since January 2015, and a 21% drop on August 2015.
The number of people borrowing to buy a house or flat has been falling since April, when there was a rush to buy property ahead of stamp duty changes.
"Mortgage borrowing is growing at a slower pace than it has for the last few months reflecting both the slowdown in housing market growth after the April spike and broader trends in the sector," said Rebecca Harding, chief economist at the BBA.
The figures do not include lending by UK building societies, which account for about a third of mortgage borrowing.
However, UK consumers are continuing to borrow more through loans and overdrafts.
The total amount of consumer credit grew by 6.4% in the year to August, the fastest rate of growth for nearly 10 years.
"Given the low interest rate environment and high levels of confidence during the summer, the strong credit growth can be interpreted as strong consumer sentiment," said Ms Harding.
Economists said consumer confidence had recovered since the vote to leave the European Union.
"Consumers were clearly prepared to continue borrowing and spending in August, and it is notable that confidence recovered to a significant extent after slumping in July in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote," said Howard Archer, chief European and UK economist at IHS Global Insight.
However, he predicted that such confidence could run out of steam in the months ahead.
"Consumers are likely to face diminishing purchasing power over the coming months as inflation rises and earnings growth is limited by companies striving to limit their costs."
He said unemployment was likely to rise, and predicted that inflation could hit 3% by the end of next year.
Wales' Hazardous Area Response Team (Hart) needs to get the casualty to hospital within the "golden hour", giving him the best chance of surviving his injuries.
Fortunately, "Neil" is a mannequin and the "collapsed building" is a pile of rubble at the team's Bridgend headquarters.
On a damp and grey Monday morning at the Brynmenyn industrial estate, white watch, one of Hart's seven teams has begun a week-long training programme. The elite team train for one week in every seven.
All experienced ambulance staff, they are specially trained to attend hostile or hard-to-access incidents and provide medical treatment to casualties from the moment they arrive, giving patients a greater chance of survival.
Before the service was created in 2012, paramedics had to wait for firefighters to bring victims out to safety before providing medical treatment.
Responding to chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear, firearm and terrorist incidents is also part of the team's brief.
Difficult terrain, sleep deprivation, exhaustion from wearing heavy suits and dehydration caused by some of the breathing kit can make already challenging environments even more difficult.
Hart's white watch has been working together since the service was created three years ago and there is a strong sense of camaraderie amongst the team, with lots of jokes at each other's expense doing the rounds.
Together, they have attended some of Wales' most high profile incidents.
Neil McKay
Rebecca Owen
Martyn Sullivan
David Wookey
Gavin Quinn
In 2012 Hart took part in the search for five-year-old April Jones from Machynlleth.
Clinical team leader Gavin Quinn, 46, said the search in Powys was particularly "physically and mentally demanding" for the team.
Paramedic operative Neil McKay, 40, agreed: "It was quite harrowing, quite surreal really.
"After seeing it for so long on the TV, to actually go to Machynlleth and assist with the search was hard.
"There was a lot of trekking through mountains and the terrain was quite difficult and involved water and cave searches.
"Her mum was there helping to make food for everybody."
April's body was never found, but bone fragments discovered at a cottage near Machynlleth helped convict 46-year-old Mark Bridger of murder.
In 2013 Hart rescued casualties from floods in Rhyl, Denbighshire, and attended Rhws Primary School, Vale of Glamorgan, after an out-of-control car injured a school lollipop lady and five children.
More recently, in June the team was called to a rock fall in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan which killed a 23-year-old woman and in July they went to the Brecon Beacons after lightning strikes left two men dead.
Day-to-day they witness catastrophic accidents and family tragedies, from a man who has jumped in front of a train, a teenager killed in a car crash to a father killed in an industrial accident.
Between April 2014 and the end of March 2015, Hart attended 2,226 calls, ranging from multiple vehicle collisions to natural disasters.
Despite the distressing incidents they regularly encounter, the team said they had never taken up the offer of counselling.
"Sometimes the situations we encounter can be quite traumatising", Mr McKay said.
"You try not to take that home with you. Instead we all talk about it in the station and have a good chat."
Deputy team leader Martyn Sullivan, the oldest member of Hart at 56, said the call-outs involving children could be the toughest.
"I was called out years ago to a woman with two kids. One of them had stopped breathing," he said.
"I worked on the child for a long time but it was too late. That was hard. I hadn't long had my own kid."
He has come up with a unique way of dealing with children who find themselves in a stressful environment; he always carries a puppet called Sweep, from The Sooty Show, which he said can help him get on a level with a child and provide a welcome distraction.
Every six months the team's stamina and fitness is tested.
Each team member has 14 minutes to complete a series of tasks while wearing full incident ground kit.
It involves a step-up test, a distance walk while wearing a 25kg (55lb) vest, a weighted mannequin drag and a dexterity test.
But what of Neil, the man trapped in the collapsed building?
Mr Sullivan explains: "We located the casualty who had a fractured leg and arm.
"We maintained the airways and the patient was packaged. From the time the team went in it took 16 minutes to get the patient out.
"This wouldn't have been possible years ago. Before we would have had to rely on the fire brigade, which did a good job, but now we can take all our equipment and start medical treatment from the moment we arrive, giving the patient a greater opportunity of survival.
"Sixteen minutes to go in, package a patient and get them in an ambulance, you can't ask for better than that."
The bridge will connect the Princes Quay shopping centre with the Marina. Work is expected to start next year.
A lane in both directions will be closed until 9 December.
Highways England said it would allow contractors to safely investigate "around the location of the new bridge".
Lanes will be closed between the exit and entry slip roads at Mytongate Gyratory, at the Ferensway junction, to allow contractors to dig bore holes in the centre of the roundabout, a spokesperson said.
The ground investigation work is due to finish by the end of January while the bridge is expected to be completed by Easter the following year in time for the port's 2017 City of Culture celebrations.
Project manager Jimmy Holmes said: "We will work hard to keep disruption to a minimum and thank drivers and residents for their patience while we carry out this work."
Michael McCabe, 37, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated criminal damage and two other counts of criminal damage.
Mobile phone footage shared on social media showed him damaging cars near St Margaret's Way in Leicester, during the afternoon rush hour on 4 August.
McCabe was also convicted of two assaults at Glenfield Hospital.
Leicester Magistrates' Court heard that McCabe started shouting racial abuse at a couple in one of the vehicles and as the driver tried to drive away slowly, he punched the windscreen and damaged the wipers.
The couple said the language he used "scared" them.
McCabe jumped on to two other cars, hitting their windscreens, before police arrived.
The court heard he kicked out at officers and there was a scuffle on the floor before he was taken into custody.
Magistrate Paul Forrester-Brown was told McCabe quickly admitted causing criminal damage and said he could not remember much of what happened as he had drunk one and a half litres of vodka and beer.
The nine week sentence was given for what were described by Mr Forrester-Brown as "unprovoked assaults".
McCabe, who appeared via video link from Lincoln Prison, was also found guilty of punching a patient and a nurse at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit at Glenfield Hospital on 13 August.
The 22-year-old will see out the remainder of his contract with Connacht who are in contention for Pro12 and European Challenge Cup honours.
He looks set to fill the void left by the impending departures of Ian Madigan and Ben Te'o.
Henshaw, a regular in Joe Schmidt's Ireland squad, has won 17 caps.
The Athlone man has formed an effective centre partnership with Jared Payne for Ireland, the pair teaming up in midfield for the eighth time in Saturday's 10-9 defeat by France in Paris.
"I would like to thank Connacht Rugby, the IRFU and Leinster for allowing me to consider my future," said Henshaw.
"This has been a long and difficult process and while I am sorry to be leaving Connacht I look forward to the next chapter of my rugby career at Leinster.
"The support I have enjoyed from the fans in the Sportsground and throughout the province is something that I really value and I want to thank them for four great years."
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen commented: "We are delighted to have secured Robbie's signature for the next three seasons. He is a huge talent and we have all seen that over the last few weeks and months with Ireland in the Six Nations and during the World Cup.
"We look forward to welcoming him into Leinster when this season is over and I am sure that our supporters would echo that view."
The incident involving a silver Mazda and black Kia happened close to Beran garage in Deiniolen, near Caernarfon, at about 08:30 GMT.
North Wales Police has advised motorists to avoid the area as the road has been closed.
Witnesses have been asked to contact police on 101.
But Taylor Swift has hit back at claims she only writes songs about her ex-boyfriends.
"No-one says that about Ed Sheeran. No-one says that about Bruno Mars," she said in an interview with Australian radio station 2DayFM.
"Frankly, that is a very sexist angle to take."
The 24-year-old added: "I have a really strict personal policy that I never name names. So anybody saying that a song is about a specific person is purely speculating."
But despite never naming names, many people think much of Swift's back catalogue is linked to past relationships.
"My first album came out when I was 16," she said.
"Then what happens is, as you get more successful, you have more and more people paying attention to what you're doing. All of a sudden the perspective has changed.
"They use you writing songs about your life as a way to play detective.
"You're going to have people who are going to say, 'Oh, she just writes songs about her exes'.
"No-one says that about Ed Sheeran. No-one says that about Bruno Mars. They're all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life and no-one raises a red flag there."
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Mark Sampson's side will host Italy at Port Vale's Vale Park on Friday, 7 April, three days before meeting Austria at MK Dons' Stadium MK.
Their opening match of Euro 2017 is against Scotland in Utrecht on Wednesday, 19 July.
England are in the United States for the SheBelieves Cup.
There they will face the three top-ranked teams in the world - the USA, Germany and France.
They face France in their opening match, in Pennsylvania on 1 March
They will then face the hosts and world champions in New Jersey on 4 March, and European and Olympic champions Germany in Washington on 7 March.
It includes a 12,500-seat concert hall, conference centre and hotel and will sit between the existing Baltic arts centre and Sage music venue.
Gateshead Council will invest £25m in the project with the rest of the money coming from the private sector, including venue operator SMG.
The scheme will mean the closure of SMG's 11,500-seat arena in Newcastle.
Detailed plans have yet to be drawn up, but it is hoped the new complex will open in 2021.
The council said it expected the 10-acre (four hectare) scheme would create more than 500 jobs and provide a boost to the North East economy of about £30m a year.
Martin Gannon, leader of the Labour-controlled authority, said: "We've wanted to regenerate and revitalise this key site on Gateshead Quays for a long time and internationally recognisable facilities of this scale have always been our long-term aspiration.
"Not only will they bring new life to the area, but they will bring new jobs and significantly boost the local and regional economy.
"We're now more confident than ever that we can finally push forward with our exciting plans for this £200m site.
"Working closely with our development partners, SMG Europe, local partners and the private sector, it really is time to give the North East another landmark destination and complete the picture of this truly unique, riverside site."
Part of the plan is to close the nearby Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle - conceived by former Animals member Chas Chandler which opened in 1995.
Executive vice president of SMG Europe John Sharkey said: "The Gateshead Quays development site is truly a unique location which will offer visitors a whole new experience.
"Our new entertainment, conferencing and exhibition facilities, standing shoulder to shoulder with Sage Gateshead and Baltic will, we firmly believe, further cement Gateshead Quays as a popular and stunning world-class cultural destination."
Newcastle City Council said it would now be considering what to do with the current arena site.
The bird, named Bud, was found with a damaged wing on Mull last August and rescued by the Scottish SPCA.
The charity worked with Raptor World and the RSPB to help it overcome the injury and a subsequent leg break.
Bud was freed on 13 March - the first time the Scottish SPCA has returned an injured golden eagle to the wild.
Colin Seddon, manager at the charity's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Clackmannanshire, said the juvenile golden eagle had been found by a farmer on Mull.
"Bud was found to have soft tissue damage to his wing which took a long time to heal and unfortunately once he had fully recovered he broke his right leg in a freak accident," he said.
"The break was repaired by a vet using an external fixator and as the healing process was very long Bud was kept with us over winter.
"We had to carefully choose the best time and place to release Bud and following discussions with David Sexton of the RSPB and Stewart Millar from Raptor World, we decided to take him back to a location close to where he was found."
Mr Seddon said they had to wait for a "reasonable weather window" to release Bud.
"We didn't want to release him in a period of heavy rain as he may not have been able to hunt," he said.
"We also had to avoid strong winds because, as an inexperienced flyer, Bud would have been blown away from the release site where support food and monitoring is being provided by the RSPB."
Mr Seddon added: "Bud is the first ever golden eagle we've been able to release back into the wild and everyone involved is extremely pleased with the outcome.
"It is rare for us to rescue golden eagles as there are so few of them in Scotland and because they tend to live in remote areas they often die before they are found if they become sick or injured."
He was struck by an upright section of the post, which narrowly missed a group of people when it came "crashing down" at Shrewsbury Rugby Club.
The 46-year-old had been watching his son play for the under-12s visiting side, Oswestry.
The club, which has suspended all matches, said he was now "conscious and speaking" and under observation.
Meanwhile, Shropshire Council said its public protection team was investigating the incident.
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The Rugby Football Union has been informed and the club said all games would be postponed until safety checks were carried out.
Nigel Dolman, a BBC reporter who was at the ground, spoke to spectators who had seen the accident.
"Part of the upright post came crashing down, narrowly missing a group of spectators, and hit the man on the head," he said.
He said there had been a "light wind" but the incident was not thought to be weather-related.
The reporter, who helped carry the ambulance trolley across the muddy field, said about 15 to 20 people had been watching the match.
An off-duty hospital trauma specialist, who had been watching a different game, treated the man until paramedics arrived.
An ambulance crew were at the scene just after 11:50 GMT and took the victim to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Club chairman Giles Alton, who has been speaking to the man's wife at the hospital, wished him a speedy recovery. He said the exact nature of his injuries was not yet known.
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge raised £100,000 since 10 March, and this will be matched by software company Red Gate.
It will pay for refurbishments and a new exhibition charting "the global impact of the computing revolution".
Museum director Jason Fitzpatrick said: "We are deeply grateful."
The museum opened in 2013, having moved from its old home in Haverhill, Suffolk, and features about 800 computers as well as old mobile phones and games consoles.
Mr Fitzpatrick said: "In its present condition, this building fails to do justice to the richness and variety of the collection.
"Although visitors can see, touch and use many of the superstar machines of the 70s, 80s and 90s, we lacked sufficient funds to show how each of these computers represents a step towards the small, powerful, multi-purpose devices most of us use today."
He said the new Tech Odyssey exhibition would help "tell the inspirational and epic story of the computing revolution to anyone - young and old, techie and no-geek alike".
The tourism body said there were 214,000 visits from China in January-September last year, up 37% from 157,000 in the same period of 2014.
Visitors spent £435m, an average of £2,032 per visit, up 4% on the year before, the organisation said.
The culture secretary said it was "great news" for the UK economy.
"We are making it even easier for Chinese tourists to come and enjoy the best of Britain and our recently launched two-year visa scheme will encourage even more to visit," John Whittingdale said.
The new two-year visa system for Chinese nationals visiting the UK was launched last month.
VisitBritain director Patricia Yates said: "China is the world's largest outbound market and a huge tourism opportunity for Britain."
She said Chinese New Year, on 8 February, was traditionally one of the busiest travel times for Chinese tourists.
"We want Britain to be at the top of their list as a must-go now destination," she said.
VisitBritain's latest figures from the International Passenger Survey also showed 2.6 million visits were made from the US during the first nine months of 2015 - up 7% on the year to levels not seen since 2007.
From January to September, there were also 2.6 million visits made from Germany, 3.2 million from France, 569,000 from Canada, 273,000 from the United Arab Emirates and 116,000 from Saudi Arabia.
Shelvey, 24, was charged over an incident involving Wolves' Moroccan midfielder Romain Saiss in September.
"I strongly maintain that I did not use the offensive language that has been alleged," said Shelvey.
The Englishman was also fined £100,000 and ordered to attend a Football Association education course.
Shelvey added: "I am very disappointed and frustrated with the outcome of the hearing.
"Despite my strong disappointment, we think an appeal is very unlikely to change the panel's decision on the case, so I have decided not to take that option."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez said: "Jonjo has maintained his position from the outset and as such has received our full support. Despite this issue going on in the background he has continued to train and play really well.
"Now he has made the decision not to appeal the verdict we can focus on the upcoming games without uncertainty and distraction."
It is understood the FA - which also had a right of appeal against the independent panel's sanction if it felt it was inappropriate - will not be contesting the ban either.
Newcastle were losing to Wolves in their Championship match at St James' Park on 17 September, when an incident occurred between Shelvey and Saiss in the 87th minute.
In charging the former Liverpool and Swansea player, the FA said his misdemeanour was an "aggravated breach" of rules, and that it "included reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or nationality".
BBC Sport's Pat Murphy said the matter was brought to referee Tim Robinson's attention by one of Saiss' team-mates immediately after the game.
FA guidelines, which were revised in 2013, state any player found guilty of racially abusing an opponent or discriminating on religion, sexuality or disability, should be banned for at least five games.
Prior to that, Chelsea's John Terry was handed a four-match ban and a £220,000 fine for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, while Liverpool's Luis Suarez received an eight-match suspension and a £40,000 fine for his abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra - both in 2011.
Jackson Irvine's first half strike gave the hosts the advantage despite Cardiff creating several first half chances.
Lucas Akins headed home just after the break as Burton secured a third victory of the season.
Cardiff remain in the Championship relegation zone in 23rd position while Burton are up to 18th.
The victory saw the Brewers keep their first clean sheet in eleven league games, while the Bluebirds have now lost six of their last seven Championship contests.
Cardiff boosted by the return of England striker Rickie Lambert, started the busier of the two sides and almost opened the scoring on six minutes when Lambert freed Stuart O'Keefe, but he was denied by a terrific stop from Jon Loughlin, low to his left.
REACTION: Burton Albion first-team coach Andy Garner speaks to BBC Radio Derby
That was as close as Cardiff came before they fell behind, a failure to clear a set piece proving costly when Irvine fired home through a crowd.
Trollope's side thought they had won a penalty on 32 minutes when ex-Cardiff defender Ben Turner challenged Craig Noone, but the referee waved away the protests.
And any hopes Cardiff had of a second half revival were distinguished four minutes after the break when Akins was given too much space in the City penalty area and was able to head past Ben Amos.
McLaughlin's fine stop to deny Peter Whittingham was the closest Cardiff came in a second period where the Brewers looked comfortable in defence.
Burton Albion first-team coach Andy Garner:
"It was incredibly important for us to get the win heading into the international break.
"We looked at these games against QPR and Cardiff over this week and I think we would have settled for four points out of six coming off the back of two defeats.
"There is still a lot more to come from this group. We got stuck in the middle a bit in the last 10 minutes between going for a third goal or making sure we got the clean sheet.
"Today is a fantastic clean sheet for us. The back three and the keeper all did their jobs very well."
Cardiff head coach Paul Trollope:
"We came off the back of a disappointing game against Derby but a good away win at Rotherham last week.
"We were trying to build upon that on the road but we shot ourselves in the foot conceding, from our point of view, a soft goal in the early period of the game.
"That was backed up by a disappointing goal from a set play early in the second period that killed any real hopes of getting back into the game despite there still being a long time left."
Match ends, Burton Albion 2, Cardiff City 0.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 2, Cardiff City 0.
Ben Amos (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion).
Attempt blocked. Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Will Miller.
Offside, Cardiff City. Lee Peltier tries a through ball, but Kenneth Zohore is caught offside.
Foul by Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City).
Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Burton Albion. John Mousinho replaces Hamza Choudhury.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Matthew Palmer.
Attempt saved. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Stuart O'Keefe.
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kenneth Zohore.
Offside, Cardiff City. Kenneth Zohore tries a through ball, but Craig Noone is caught offside.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kenneth Zohore replaces Rickie Lambert because of an injury.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Tom Flanagan replaces Chris O'Grady.
Attempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Chris O'Grady (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Will Miller with a through ball.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Craig Noone (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Frederic Gounongbe.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Tom Naylor.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Will Miller replaces Jamie Ward.
Attempt saved. Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion).
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Kyle McFadzean.
Offside, Burton Albion. Chris O'Grady tries a through ball, but Jamie Ward is caught offside.
Foul by Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City).
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Frederic Gounongbe replaces Lex Immers.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kadeem Harris replaces Joe Ralls.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Ward (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.
Rickie Lambert (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Turner (Burton Albion).
Foul by Jamie Ward (Burton Albion).
Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Burton Albion 2, Cardiff City 0. Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) header from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kyle McFadzean with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
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The Lao Securities Exchange opened for business on Tuesday with trading in just two companies.
The country, sandwiched between Vietnam and Thailand, is one of the world's poorest nations.
It is hoped that the stock exchange will help raise $8bn (£5.1bn) in equity and bond sales to fund investment in the country.
The Laos exchange is initially offering shares in two state-owned companies, Electricite du Laos Generation company and Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao.
The volume of the first day's trading was thin, about 2.14bn kip ($265,000; £170,000).
The communist country is hoping to follow the example of neighbouring China which has taken great strides in opening up its economy, albeit in a controlled way, greatly enriching itself and its citizens.
"I hope investors will support the endeavours of our stock exchange," said Dethphouvang Moularat, the head of the exchange (LSX), after a small opening ceremony.
Laos is aiming to join the World Trade Organization and become more integrated in the global economy.
The BBC's reporter in the region, Vaudine England, says that the stock exchange opening is aimed at foreign investors.
Our correspondent says the government in Laos has been trying to attract foreign investment since the 1990s.
The problem for the government, she adds, is that the majority of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture, so there is very little infrastructure in the country.
Despite the attractions for foreign investors in this resource-rich country, outside participation in the bourse will be limited at first.
The funding for the set-up of the exchange has come from South Korea, which has invested $9.8m, or 49% of the capital, for the venture. The Bank of Laos, the country's central bank, has invested the rest.
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The Seasiders squandered the golden opportunity after 21 minutes, when Neil Danns was upended in the area by Joe McNerney.
Danns took the penalty himself but put it well wide of the post.
Crawley's best effort of the first half came after 43 minutes, when Jordan Roberts struck powerfully from 20 yards - but it was straight at goalkeeper Sam Slocombe.
His opposite number Glenn Morris was called into action for the first time five minutes after the break as he leapt to his right to turn Andy Taylor's free-kick around the post.
The visitors passed up a great chance to go ahead after 54 minutes, when Slocombe spilled a corner but Jimmy Smith dragged the ball wide from ten yards.
Substitute Sanmi Odelusi thought he had grabbed a winner for Blackpool five minutes from time as he lashed the ball home but was penalised for handball.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Blackpool 0, Crawley Town 0.
Second Half ends, Blackpool 0, Crawley Town 0.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Andy Taylor (Blackpool) because of an injury.
Foul by Josh Lelan (Crawley Town).
Andy Taylor (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Jordan Flores (Blackpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kaby (Crawley Town) because of an injury.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Conor Henderson.
Attempt missed. Sanmi Odelusi (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Clark Robertson (Blackpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Joe McNerney.
Foul by Bobson Bawling (Crawley Town).
Jack Payne (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Rhys Murphy (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Aldred (Blackpool).
Josh Lelan (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Colin Daniel (Blackpool).
Substitution, Crawley Town. Rhys Murphy replaces James Collins.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Will Aimson.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Will Aimson (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Joe McNerney (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sanmi Odelusi (Blackpool).
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Mark Connolly.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Bobson Bawling replaces Dean Cox.
Substitution, Blackpool. Colin Daniel replaces Neil Danns.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Dean Cox.
Attempt blocked. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
Tom Aldred (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Clark Robertson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Andy Taylor.
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Flores (Blackpool).
Attempt saved. Joe McNerney (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Andy Taylor.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Clark Robertson.
City Deal status is an agreement between the UK Treasury and a region to stimulate investment in the area.
Partners across the Lothians, Fife and the Borders said the money would lead to jobs and improvements in infrastructure across the area.
The six councils have until 5 September to apply.
The bid from Edinburgh and the south east region aims to secure the funding with the aim of then gaining a further £3bn of investment from the private sector.
Edinburgh is the most prosperous city in the UK outside London and expects its population to grow by 200,000 in the next 20 years.
The partners hope to build new housing, generate jobs and improve connectivity through transport links and the internet.
Andrew Burns, Edinburgh city council leader, said: "We are asking businesses to pledge their support for the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal to help accelerate the growth of the region, Scotland and the UK.
"Together, across the region, we are responsible for over 30% of the Scottish economy and are a key driver of the UK. Edinburgh is the most prosperous city in the UK outside London and the most productive in Scotland.
"As a result of this, people may question the need for a City Deal here, but I would urge them to look below the surface and not to take our success for granted. We are also a divided region, with significant numbers missing out on the success of the many.
"In the next 20 years, there will be 200,000 more people living here, placing yet more strain on our infrastructure, housing stock and community services. This isn't only about accelerating growth; it's about putting in place the fundamentals to cope with it in a sustainable and equitable way."
David Parker, Scottish Borders council leader, said: "We hope that a City Region Deal can make available to the Borders a share of £1bn investment over the next 10 years and thus help boost the local and regional economy as well as tackling inequalities, but these opportunities can only be made as a result of a pragmatic co-operation with the five other local authorities."
Parents Against the Cuts to Education in RCT sought a judicial review after a council decision to end full-time nursery education for younger children.
It decided to offer part-time schooling for three-year olds and full-time from the age of four as part of budget cuts.
The council said officers would consider the detail of the judgement.
It has the right to appeal against the ruling.
It is understood the basis of the judgement is that the council breached its statutory duties in the way it reached its decision.
The plan to raise the age for full-time education to four, in line with many other Welsh councils, caused an outcry from parents.
Jo Caddy, one of the campaigners who travelled to London to hear the judgment, said: "It's hard to describe, it's absolutely awesome, a lot of hard work and effort has gone into this.
"We wanted to be here to hear this. It's exceptionally important.
"There's nothing more important than children's education. We all believe strongly the council acted inappropriately."
Another campaigner, Paula Webb, said she was delighted by the decision.
"It will ensure my son is able to continue the great educational progress he is already making," she said.
"He is more than ready for full-time education and anything else would have undermined his learning and development.
"And it gives me hope of undertaking vocational training so that I can return to work."
Plaid Cymru leader and South Wales Central AM Leanne Wood said it was "a great day for people power".
"The parents against the cuts group was brave and took a big financial risk by standing up to the Labour-controlled local authority that wanted to steamroller through some damaging education cuts without listening to local people."
Liberal Democrat South Wales Central AM Eluned Parrott said: "Education is a passport to a better life for our young people, and we cannot jeopardise the future of our children at such a young age.
In a statement, Rhondda Cynon Taf council said: "Unfortunately the council has no alternative other than to make significant reductions to its service provision because of the severity of the UK government's austerity measures.
"Officers will now consider the detail of this judgement and will report to members in due time."
Education union UCAC says the ruling should mean any talks about staff redundancies should be put on hold.
A spokesperson said: "Since there is now uncertainty about the original decision, we are calling on the council to suspend the redundancy process until the situation becomes clearer."
Animal Defenders International (ADI) said it received a complaint about the Enstone Show, to be held on Saturday.
It posted a Facebook message on Thursday calling on supporters to email organiser Kate Farquhar-Thomson.
She said she had been bombarded with hundreds of protest messages but vowed the show would still go on.
Ms Farquhar-Thomson said the emails had generally been polite but she has contacted police, who said they are aware of the situation, about abuse on Twitter and Facebook.
The European brown bear cubs are being provided by Amazing Animals, based at Heythrop Zoological Gardens.
Ms Farquhar-Thomson said the company had provided animals for the show over a number of years, including lion cubs, camels and tarantulas.
She said: "The bear cubs are not for entertainment they are for education.
"Some of the messages have been abusive but I'm trying not to take it personally.
"We have had a lot of support and the bear show will go ahead as planned."
ADI president Jan Creamer said the group had not raised the issue at previous events as this was the first time it had received a complaint from a member of the public in advance.
She added: "...we would urge people to be polite and let the facts speak for themselves.
"Using wild animals for entertainment compromises their welfare, denying them of the normal, social and mental stimulation they would enjoy in their natural habitat. It is unnecessary and unethical."
Jim Clubb, from Heythrop Zoological Gardens, said its premises were licensed by West Oxfordshire council and its animals regularly inspected.
He said: "There will be three young bears who at no time are to be touched or petted by members of the public."
We are not quite sure here in Ghana what to make of the drama that President Jacob Zuma faces when he goes to parliament to deliver his State of the Nation Address.
Our Parliament in Ghana has its share of heckling, rowdiness and walkouts.
Our MPs are experts at dishing out insults without being seen to be insulting.
Members regularly accuse each other of trying to mislead the chamber and there are regular demands to withdraw some word or sentence regarded as un-parliamentary.
But, by and large, the collective ire of our parliamentarians is aroused only when an outsider says something that is deemed to be uncomplimentary about them.
Recently for example, our honourable members got into an almighty tizz when someone suggested that parliament had displayed "ignorance" in a discussion on Ebola vaccine trials.
From where I stood, the scientific evidence did not seem to be on their side, but they were the "Honourables" and so their word counted.
Every Ghanaian now knows there is a strong chance of being hauled before the Privileges Committee of Parliament if you as much as say anything that can be interpreted as "bringing the House into disrepute".
We listen carefully to the words the MPs use to describe their colleagues in the House.
You are not allowed to call an honourable MP a liar, but everybody knows that when a parliamentarian says a colleague has been "economical with the truth", it means the person has told a lie.
There is usually some amount of drama when the president comes into the House to deliver the State of the Nation address or the Minister of Finance delivers the Budget statement.
One year, members of the opposition boycotted the sitting and left the majority to cheer on the president at every pause in the speech.
Another year the president was heckled non-stop but it was quite good natured and not enough to interfere with the delivery of the speech.
On a third occasion, the oppositiont refused to stand up at the end of the speech for the customary standing ovation after the address.
Elizabeth Ohene:
"You are not allowed to call an honourable member of Parliament a liar, but everybody knows that when an MP says a colleague has been "economical with the truth", it means the person has told a lie."
In the last few years, the opposition has resorted to newer methods of protest; like wearing black and red clothes, which are the colours for mourning, to denote what they think of the state of the nation, never mind what President John Mahama might say.
Sometimes, opposition MPs arm themselves with little cardboard pieces on which they write a slogan of some kind, which they will wave in the air as a sign of their displeasure at what the president or the minister of finance had to say.
Compared to the scenes in the South African parliament when President Zuma goes to deliver his address, it is obvious that the goings-on in our parliament is something of a child's play.
I am forced to conclude that our MPs are veering on the side of wit in the wafer-thin line that separates wit and cheap abuse.
It is most unlikely that anybody would get up in parliament in this country and call a minister or a president a thief.
They might think it, and they might even believe it, but they won't utter the word on the floor of parliament.
There will be strong editorials criticising such an MP, traditional rulers and religious leaders will weigh in with their condemnations and there will be calls for the offending MP to be removed from the House.
However, it will be perfectly OK and understood by all to say in the House that a huge gulf has developed between poverty and the president and his ministers.
We watch the drama in the South African parliament and wonder how come they cannot find the language to insult without being insulting.
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Ghana's fondness for creative language
Our presidents are addicted to titles
Britain's speedy high-drama elections seen through Ghanaian eyes
Should Ghanaians be given a three-day-weekend to attend funerals?
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Tolerating fufu made in a microwave
STV won the licence for a station focussed on the Glasgow area in January 2013.
The new station is being broadcast across Freeview, Sky and cable.
The company has also won a licence covering Edinburgh and more licences for other parts of Scotland are expected to be advertised by the regulator Ofcom.
STV director of broadcasting Bobby Hain told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Like any new business there's a degree of risk and nothing is a sure-fire bet.
"But we have 50 years of television experience and we're bringing all of that to this new model of television, we know the area well and we think we know the audience well."
The market for local TV is so far unproven and many in the traditional broadcasting industry are highly sceptical about whether local TV stations can prove both commercially viable and provide a useful public service.
Several previous attempts at local TV - Channel M in Manchester and Lanarkshire TV in Scotland - failed.
STV says local TV represents a £1 million investment for the company and expects the stations to be breaking even within a year.
The current scheme to set up a local TV system was the brainchild of the former UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt. It was partly designed amid concerns, which have now been allayed, that ITV in England might abandon its traditional regional news service.
Since the current round of local TV licensing began, a few stations have taken to the air in England. Viewing figures are only available for one - London Live.
Despite having the biggest potential market of any local TV station in the UK - and even claims by some in the London media that it was the most significant development in British TV since the start of Channel 5 - some programmes have attracted only hundreds of viewers,
STV's Glasgow and Edinburgh stations have one crucial advantage over the others set up so far - and one serious disadvantage.
The advantage is that they are owned by STV. As well as expertise, there will be opportunities for tie-ups and promotions between the local stations and STV's main channel. This could help attract viewers and advertisers, adding to the chance of the local stations becoming viable.
Even the trails for STV Glasgow being shown on the main STV service give the new channel a visibility other local TV operators may envy.
The disadvantage is that the stations will broadcast on Channel 23 on Freeview. Local TV in England is on the far more visible Channel 8 which is used in Scotland for the Gaelic channel BBC Alba.
This means there is less chance of casual viewers simply landing on the channel. STV Glasgow will have to work harder to make an impact.
Some supporters of the concept of local TV were both surprised and disappointed the Glasgow and Edinburgh licences were awarded to an established broadcaster despite rival bids.
STV argues the new channels will not be "STV2" and stresses the opportunity they will provide to media students at Glasgow Caledonian and Napier universities.
The channel is also available to viewers across the west of Scotland on Sky and Virgin while on Freeview many well beyond Glasgow may still manage to tune in - again a visibility some other local services lack.
The company has declined the offer of some TV licence cash to help get the stations going but is confident they will be breaking even after a year. Basically they will need to attract enough advertising and sponsorship to cover costs.
The main local programme on the Glasgow station will be a two hour magazine show in the early evening. There will be some other original programmes while other programmes will be bought in or come from STV's archives.
Repeats of Take The High Road and Taggart may win some viewers while STV will be hoping a subtitled Polish drama finds a niche.
However the statutory obligations surrounding local TV - such as the number of hours of local programmes and how they are resourced - are deliberately relaxed to help give them the best possible chance of success, unburdened by costly regulations.
On the other hand, there is an acceptance, acknowledged by former culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, that some of the local TV stations elsewhere could fail and simply go off the air - something which seems highly unlikely with STV's involvement.
A total of 25 licences have been awarded but most are not on the air yet. Rumours circulate that some may never see the light of day.
More local TV licences in Scotland are expected to be advertised soon - potentially covering Dundee, Falkirk, Aberdeen, Inverness and Ayrshire.
Nobody has publicly confirmed an intention to bid for them so far.
Its chief economist has described Northern Ireland's hospital waiting list figures as shocking, unnecessary, unacceptable and the worst in the UK.
Meanwhile, the BBC understands that funding specifically targeted at health and waiting lists will feature heavily in the Conservative and DUP deal expected to be announced this week.
The Nuffield Trust is an independent health charity and advises governments not only in the UK but around the world on health economics.
The Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said it was clear the current model of delivering services is not sustainable "given the continued increased demand".
"It is unacceptable that any patient has to wait longer than they should for assessment or treatment," it said in a statement.
Speaking to the BBC, the Nuffield Trust's chief economist, Prof John Appleby, asked if anyone actually cared about what is happening.
"There is no doubt that people are suffering," he said.
"I mean, economists like me talk about productivity and efficiency - what we really mean is not fixing the problem means people suffer.
"They wait too long, they are in pain, they may die on the waiting list when they needn't have to.
"So yes, the cost of not fixing the political problem, not fixing the management problem and so on, is that people are suffering."
Northern Ireland's hospital waiting list figures are the worst in the UK.
Last quarter's figures revealed that more people are waiting longer on a hospital outpatient appointment in Northern Ireland than ever before.
In fact, in just three months, the figure increased by 6,895.
Also, more than two thirds of patients were waiting longer than nine weeks - despite targets stating that at least 50% of patients should wait no longer than nine weeks.
There is growing concern that by the time the Northern Ireland Executive gets back up and running with a local health minister, the lists will have grown further.
According to Prof Appleby, the performance is unnecessary.
"I am really shocked," he said. "It is totally unacceptable in a health system in Northern Ireland to have the sort of numbers waiting as long as they wait."
"One in seven of the entire Northern Ireland population are on an outpatient waiting list. That's compared to England where it is one in 14.
"The fact that over 50,000 people are waiting over a year for an outpatient [appointment] again is very shocking.
"None of the waiting list targets are being met at the moment."
The HSCB said it welcomed the former health minister Michelle O'Neill's Elective Care Plan published in February.
"The plan sets out a commitment to reduce the backlog of patients waiting for elective care, subject to the availability of funding, while continuing the longer term process to transform secondary, primary and community care services to meet current and future demand," it said in a statement.
"The HSCB looks forward to working with the Department of Health, trusts and primary care in the future implementation of the plan."
Meanwhile, the BBC understands that an expected Conservative-DUP deal for Northern Ireland will target a substantial amount of money at the health service.
In both the DUP's and Sinn Féin's 2016 local election manifestos, £1bn was pledged towards health.
So, the figure from Downing Street could be somewhere in that region and would be a considerable investment, particularly if aimed at tackling the hospital waiting lists.
A source told the BBC that health and education have featured predominantly during negotiations, and that tackling waiting lists and school budgets would be seen as a massive plus for the DUP.
There is a possibility that the money - for instance the £1bn towards health and education - would not be conditional on how negotiations at Stormont play out.
While any cash injection - if it happens - will be welcomed, Northern Ireland's health service does not have the hospital space or staffing to deal with the issue in the short term.
However, sourcing some work to the independent sector could be a solution.
Senior managers will argue that while a one-off lump sum will work - what they need is longer-term recurrent funding in order to transform the service.
It remains unclear how a cash injection would shake down, particularly as using the Barnett formula - used to distribute UK wealth across Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales - is unlikely, since Scotland and Wales would also have to have an equal spend.
Prof Appleby is among the many people who have carried out reviews of Northern Ireland's health service.
His first review was in 2005, followed by another in 2011.
He says he finds it massively frustrating that more reviews followed and very little has changed. He also believe additional cash is not necessarily the answer.
"Looking at the performance, it's hard not to come to the conclusion do the politicians really care?
"They've had numerous reports, all of which like mine have pointed out the same problems, the same poor performance and productivity.
"There needs to be leadership from the top on this."
Speaking at the G20 summit in Hamburg, he said he would visit London. Asked when, he said: "We'll work that out."
In one-to-one talks, Mr Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to prioritise work on a post-Brexit trade deal, a UK government official said.
Mrs May said she was "optimistic" about a deal, but warned there was "a limit" to what could be done before Brexit.
She told a news conference that world leaders - including those from China, India and Japan, as well as the US - had expressed a "strong desire" to forge "ambitious new bilateral trading relationships" with Britain.
The prime minister hailed it as a "powerful vote of confidence" in Britain.
Asked about Mr Trump's visit the UK, Mrs May said: "We don't have a date yet, we are still working on a date."
Earlier, during a 50-minute meeting with Mr Trump - which overran by 20 minutes - the two leaders spent a "significant" amount of time on trade, in a discussion described as entirely "positive", Downing Street said.
Before their meeting, Mr Trump hailed the "very special relationship" he had developed with Mrs May.
"There is no country that could possibly be closer than our countries," he told reporters.
"We have been working on a trade deal which will be a very, very big deal, a very powerful deal, great for both countries and I think we will have that done very, very quickly."
Under EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, without EU agreement.
Sir Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to Washington, said Mr Trump's statement of intent was a "very good sign for the future" and would be "useful" to Mrs May.
However, Sir Simon Fraser, a former diplomat who served as a permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, cast doubt on how soon any trade deal could be reached.
"The point is we can't negotiate with them or anyone else until we've left the European Union," he said.
"And the Americans and others will not negotiate with us until they know what our relationship with the EU is going to be, because the access we have in Europe is hugely important for the advantages that they can get from their relations with us."
Mr Trump has previously accepted an invitation for a state visit to the UK - a prospect that has caused controversy - although no date has been given.
Mr Meyer said his visit would be a "very important moment" to nail down Mr Trump's commitment to a strong bilateral agreement.
By Rob Young, BBC business correspondent
Under EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until March 2019, unless Brussels agrees the UK can make a start earlier.
Trade talks tend to be complex and technical, lasting several years.
The EU and Japan took four years to reach an agreement in principle. But those discussions involved 29 nations; UK-US talks would involve just two.
With strong political will and determination, a transatlantic agreement could perhaps be completed more speedily than has been the norm for trade pacts.
Talks would cover cutting customs duties, making products such as cars and food cheaper.
The average UK-US tariff is relatively low anyway, at 3%, and huge amounts of trade already take place.
Negotiations usually cover thornier topics, such as food safety and environmental standards.
If one side agreed to accept the other's rules, a deal could be done quickly. But that would be controversial in various sectors. That's when negotiations can begin to drag.
Mrs May later said she was "dismayed" Mr Trump had withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The accord, signed in Paris in 2015, is an international agreement on how to deal with greenhouse gas emissions.
Mrs May said she raised the issue during one of "a number" of conversations she had with Mr Trump at the summit - not during the official bilateral talks.
The prime minister said she had "urged President Trump to rejoin", adding: "I continue to hope that is exactly what the United States will do."
Mrs May also held a 20-minute meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 25-minute meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
Talks with Mr Abe focused on trade and North Korea's nuclear missile programme.
Japan's new trade deal with the EU, signed off on Thursday, "could form the basis" of an agreement between London and Tokyo following Brexit, Mrs May told her fellow leader.
Meanwhile, Mr Modi told Mrs May he wanted to see economic links with the UK deepen now and after Brexit, according to a UK government official.
After a meeting on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and the UK were in a "golden era" of relations and increased investment from his country since the Brexit vote showed its confidence in Britain.
The G20 summit is the first gathering of world leaders since the UK's general election last month, during which Mrs May's Conservative party lost seats and her performance was widely criticised.
The two-day meeting is being held against a backdrop of violent protests on the streets of Hamburg, with demonstrators and heavily-armed police clashing into the early hours of Saturday.
The protests centre mainly on the presence of Mr Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities.
It follows the death of professional fighter Mike Towell following a bout in Glasgow last week.
Amateur boxer Daniel Flaherty had to have part of his skull removed after he collapsed in Motherwell last October.
His father, John Flaherty, told BBC Radio Scotland that his son will never go into a boxing ring again.
Daniel Flaherty, from Stirling, collapsed after losing a fight that could have seen him named Scottish Novice Champion.
He underwent life-saving surgery to stem the bleeding on his brain at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow that night.
A few days later, after taking a turn for the worse, he had part of his skull removed. He has since had a titanium plate fitted.
His father told the Good Morning Scotland programme that Daniel had made a "very good recovery".
He said: "At the time, there was questions whether there would be some sense of brain injury but that doesn't seem to have materialised.
"He's got back more or less full mobility. His speech is a bit slurred at times but he's ok with that.
"He had a wee problem with his eyes at first but that's settled down too. All in all, where we've been and where we are now, we couldn't ask for any more."
John Flaherty said neither he nor his son oppose boxing, despite their experience over the last 12 months.
But he added: "Daniel obviously, being through what he's been through, he wouldn't go in the ring again.
"And if he knew what was going to happen to him he wouldn't have gone into the ring."
Mr Flaherty pointed to the death of Mike Powell, the life-threatening injuries suffered by Nick Blackwell in a fight with Chris Eubank Jr in March, and the experience of his son, as evidence that there needs to be a rethink in the sport.
He called for head guards to be reintroduced to the amateur sport, after they were removed from men's boxing in 2013 amid claims it would reduce concussions.
He also suggested that the method of scoring could be changed, and they could "take away the head as a target", especially at amateur level.
"I don't believe for a minute, in all honesty, that a boxer goes into the ring thinking that he could die that day," Mr Flaherty said.
"I think boxers go into the ring and think it will never happen to me."
Mr Flaherty claimed that brain bleeds "happen quite regularly" in boxing.
"The problem is they're not reported very well, there's not record of it," he said.
"Boxing itself doesn't keep a record. Even Daniel's case wasn't investigated."
Mark Chung, who officers had advised the public not to approach, was detained on Tuesday afternoon after a police operation in the north of the city.
He had been reported missing from Castle Huntly at 10:00 on 3 October.
The 41-year-old is being held in police custody and is expected to appear at Perth Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
The hosts levelled the aggregate score at 1-1 through Santi Mina and went ahead through a superb Santos header.
But Aritz Aduriz scored a crucial late goal following a Raul Garcia flick.
An incensed Neville was punished for protesting against an apparent handball in the build-up to the goal and replays suggest his claims were legitimate.
The ball did appear to make contact with Oscar de Marcos' arm before it fell to Garcia, whose brilliant touch found Aduriz to score his 31st goal of the season.
The former Manchester United defender, 41, was already under intense scrutiny after a run of three straight defeats which included a 1-0 league loss to bottom-of-the-table Levante on Sunday.
But Valencia were the better side against a team who are six places above them in the league and were on a five-game winning streak in all competitions prior to the match.
Paco Alcacer had a chance to rescue his team in the dying minute only for Iago Herrerin to save from point-blank range, while a Parejo free-kick in added time was a fraction wide.
Sevilla, winners for the past two years, became the first team to reach the Europa League last eight in three consecutive seasons.
The Spaniards extended their unbeaten home run to 17 in all competitions with a 3-0 defeat of a Basel team who had earned a 0-0 draw in the first leg.
Elsewhere, Villarreal - enjoying a 2-0 first-leg lead - reached the last eight after holding Bayer Leverkusen to a goalless draw in Germany.
Sparta Prague beat Lazio 3-0 in Rome with goals from Borek Dockal, Ladislav Krejci and Lukas Julis boosting the aggregate score to 4-1.
Sporting Braga (agg 4-2) and Shakhtar Donetsk (agg 4-1) also progressed, knocking out Fenerbache and Anderlecht respectively.
Match ends, Valencia 2, Athletic Club 1.
Second Half ends, Valencia 2, Athletic Club 1.
Attempt missed. Daniel Parejo (Valencia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by San José (Athletic Club).
Santi Mina (Valencia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Íñigo Lekue (Athletic Club) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aduriz following a fast break.
Offside, Valencia. Daniel Parejo tries a through ball, but Shkodran Mustafi is caught offside.
Foul by Aymeric Laporte (Athletic Club).
Álvaro Negredo (Valencia) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Valencia. Álvaro Negredo tries a through ball, but Paco Alcácer is caught offside.
Aymeric Laporte (Athletic Club) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Álvaro Negredo (Valencia).
Attempt saved. Paco Alcácer (Valencia) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Álvaro Negredo with a headed pass.
Substitution, Valencia. Paco Alcácer replaces André Gomes.
Rúben Vezo (Valencia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Markel Susaeta (Athletic Club) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rúben Vezo (Valencia).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aduriz (Athletic Club) because of an injury.
Aduriz (Athletic Club) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aderlan Santos (Valencia).
Dangerous play by Etxeita (Athletic Club).
Álvaro Negredo (Valencia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Markel Susaeta (Athletic Club) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by André Gomes (Valencia).
Aymeric Laporte (Athletic Club) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Aymeric Laporte (Athletic Club).
Goal! Valencia 2, Athletic Club 1. Aduriz (Athletic Club) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raúl García.
Substitution, Athletic Club. Iturraspe replaces Sabin.
Substitution, Athletic Club. Íñigo Lekue replaces Balenziaga.
Substitution, Valencia. Sofiane Feghouli replaces Rodrigo.
André Gomes (Valencia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Hand ball by André Gomes (Valencia).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match José Gayá (Valencia) because of an injury.
Corner, Athletic Club. Conceded by José Gayá.
Substitution, Valencia. Daniel Parejo replaces Javi Fuego because of an injury.
San José (Athletic Club) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by André Gomes (Valencia).
Attempt missed. Raúl García (Athletic Club) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by De Marcos with a cross.
Premier Inn wants to build the 60-bedroom facility on land which has been vacant since the closure of a filling station on the site over a decade ago.
Parent company Whitbread said it would invest £6.5m in the project.
It has also said the hotel would create the equivalent of 25 full-time jobs.
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The options include a breathalyser, a multi-coloured flashlight, an SD card reader and an air quality sensor. The Nexpaq case itself will cost $99 (£68) and its modules will range in price from $20 to $45.
Smartphones that come with the built-in ability to accept modules are already on sale and in development - but the advantage of this product is that it can be used with existing iPhones and Galaxy S6 handsets.
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In December 2014, self-styled Islamist Man Haron Monis held 18 people hostage inside a Lindt cafe in the city centre.
Heavily armed police stormed the building 17 hours later after Monis shot cafe manager Tori Johnson.
A subsequent inquest was on Sunday labelled a "witch hunt" by the police union, but victims' families said police tactics had put lives in danger.
The relatives said they were shocked by revelations that police had planned to intervene only if the gunman killed or injured someone.
"I'll never be able understand how you can make a calculated decision that you wait for someone to die," Mr Johnson's mother, Rosie Connellan, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) in a programme to be broadcast on Monday.
New South Wales coroner Michael Barnes will hand down his findings into the 18-month inquest on Wednesday.
Monis was shot dead by police during the raid, while another hostage, Katrina Dawson, was killed by stray bullet fragments fired by police.
The inquest aimed to establish whether deaths were avoidable and if it should have been treated as a terrorist event.
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Relatives of Ms Dawson, a barrister and cafe customer, said the police tactics were "outrageous".
"The idea that we had to wait for somebody to be killed or seriously injured before the police would act was staggering," her brother, Angus Dawson, told the ABC.
The barrister's mother, Jane Dawson, said: "They should be saving them from death or serious injury."
Mr Johnson's partner, Thomas Zinn, said he had lost faith in police because of their "great level of incompetence" during the incident.
It is the first time the families have publicly criticised police, aside from when Mr Johnson's parents stormed out of the inquest during one testimony.
However, New South Wales Police Association acting chief Tony King said the inquest had scrutinised police officers "as if they were on trial".
"For some lawyers the focus appeared to be not just to attribute blame but moral culpability, twisting words to belittle experienced officers," he wrote in a long post on Medium.
Mr King said they should instead be thanked for putting their lives on the line.
Questions about why police snipers did not attempt to shoot Monis were heavily discussed during the inquest.
A police commander in charge of the operation had previously said the siege had the hallmarks of a domestic incident rather than terrorism, despite the fact that Monis asked to be given a flag of the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group.
He said he had been advised by a psychiatrist that the siege was "final posturing" by Monis in order to gain some "street cred" before a likely jail sentence.
Monis had been facing dozens of sexual assault charges plus charges of being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife.
The loose-head has featured 12 times for Force in Super Rugby, having joined them from Western Province in 2014.
Van Wyk, 25, moves to Saints following the departure of Ethan Waller to Premiership rivals Worcester Warriors.
"He's a strong scrummager and still relatively young for a front row forward," Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder told the club website.
"We believe that Francois has plenty of potential to continue improving and are pleased that he will be joining us at Franklin's Gardens next season."
Northampton had already signed fellow prop Jamal Ford-Robinson for the upcoming season, alongside Rob Horne, Cobus Reinach, Piers Francis and Mitch Eadie.
The sides drew 1-1 at East End Park on Saturday and face each other again on Tuesday at New Douglas Park.
"I was expecting the players to be buzzing about the Rangers draw this morning," Johnston told BBC Scotland
"But everyone was talking about the Hamilton game."
And the Pars boss added: "Rangers at Ibrox would be a tough task but we've got to get there first."
Paul McMullan's strike gave the Pars the lead on Saturday but Danny Redmond equalised in the second half to force the replay.
The potential trip to Ibrox in the last eight would excite Johnston, who scored a famous hat-trick there for Hearts in 1996 and went on to sign for Rangers in 2000.
But he is reluctant to shift his focus away from Tuesday's fifth round replay.
"I don't like talking about ifs, buts and maybes," said Johnston.
"The Hamilton game is massive for the club, it means a lot to us financially as well.
"Hamilton have a lot of good players but we can take a lot of confidence from the last game."
Dunfermline have only lost one of their last 13 matches under Johnston, whose side took time to adjust to life in the Championship following promotion.
They sit sixth in the second tier and the Pars boss reckons Saturday's draw with Accies proved there is not a huge difference between his men and the Premiership's bottom six teams.
"There's not a massive gap but you can still tell they've got a wee bit of quality and they can hurt you at any time," added Johnston.
"That's the difference in stepping up the leagues. And that's probably what took us a little bit of time coming into the Championship as well after playing in a lower division.
"It's good to test yourself against better teams because ultimately that's where want to be."
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Southern and Thameslink trains will not call at London Bridge station from Saturday 20 December to 4 January.
From 22-24 December, some Southeastern Charing Cross services will not call at London Bridge in the morning peak.
The disruption results from work to open two new platforms.
Simon Blanchflower, Network Rail's Thameslink programme director, said the closure would result in the new platforms for Southern services from 5 January.
The massive works will bring other changes.
Mr Blanchflower explained: "In the medium term, we'll be opening a new concourse from summer 2016.
"When we have completed all our works here in 2018 there will be a fantastic new facility, a new concourse the size of Wembley football pitch, new retail facilities, new travel opportunities for passengers in terms of the range of destination they can reach from this station."
Transport for London (TfL) has warned that other services on National Rail, London Overground, London Tramlink, DLR and the Tube will be busier than usual as a result of the work.
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Works will also take place to modernise nearby track and signalling equipment as part of the £6.5 bn Thameslink works programme.
According to Network Rail over 117 million people a year go to London Bridge or through it to Cannon Street and Charing Cross - 54 million start or end their at London Bridge itself.
Platform six is the busiest in Europe serving 18 trains per hour.
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Toby Perkins, who is leading Liz Kendall's leadership campaign, said it suggested a "paucity of intellectual argument" on behalf of Ms Goodman.
Labour needed a serious debate about its future direction, he said.
Ms Cooper, Ms Kendall, Jeremy Corbyn and Andy Burnham are all vying to become Ed Miliband's successor.
The winner of the contest will be announced on 12 September, ahead of the party's autumn conference.
In an article for Huffington Post, Ms Goodman, shadow media minister and Bishop Auckland MP, set out why she would be supporting Yvette Cooper's candidacy.
She said that being a parent to two children was "much more important" than her political career.
"That's why I'm backing Yvette Cooper to be the next Leader of the Labour Party. As a working mum, she understands the pressures on modern family life," she wrote.
Ms Goodman added: "We need a leader who knows what challenges ordinary people face day to day, and who is committed to helping them."
Asked about her comments Mr Perkins told BBC2's Daily Politics programme he was "disappointed" by the article.
"The idea that you say 'because one of the candidates is a mother they are the one that you should back' suggests a paucity of intellectual argument that the Labour Party really should have moved beyond," he said.
Mr Perkins said Labour suffered its worst electoral performance since 1983 at the general election.
The idea that the party could "go back to the electorate with the same programme but get a different outcome is intellectually bankrupt".
The Wales Under-16 international made his debut as the League Two side beat Championship club Brentford 1-0 in Tuesday's opening round of the EFL Cup.
Ampadu was only called up to the first-team because he is on school holiday.
"The biggest compliment I can give him is that he plays like a 35-year-old," Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon.
"That's not normally the English way - we like drama, we like spark. But we don't often encourage and cultivate subtle, classy players, and he's one of those."
Ampadu, who is capable of playing anywhere in defence and midfield, started at centre-back aged 15 years and 331 days to reset the record for youngest Grecians player.
The previous record for youngest player at 16 years and one month was set more than 88 years ago by Cliff Bastin who would later go on to set Arsenal's record for goal scoring.
Ampadu, reportedly wanted by a number of top Premier League clubs, has been hard at work impressing first-team staff and players at St James Park while on his summer holiday.
"He finished school and he came straight in to train with the first team," Tisdale said.
"I said 'come in when you want and if you want to go on holiday with your family then you go away, but come and do as many days as you can' - well he's been in every day over his school holidays.
"It became particularly apparent within three or four weeks that the rest of the squad suddenly had the upmost respect for his ability to play and they treated him like any other first-team player, if not a senior first-team player.
"That's often a really good clue, the senior first-team players instantly accepted him as one of them and treated him as such. That's a really good indicator to a manager, the fact that those players accepted him in and he has just looked the part."
"It is a very, very volatile business in terms of supply and demand. The oil price responds to very small mismatches between supply and demand," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The price of oil has roughly halved in the past year, to around $50 (£32) per barrel.
Goldman Sachs predicted earlier this month it could fall as low as $20.
When asked where oil prices may go next, he told the BBC: "The honest answer to that is I don't know."
As it moves, gingerly, through the first stages of exploration 70 miles off the Alaskan coast, Royal Dutch Shell has revealed its commitment to drilling in the Arctic.
And how long it will be before any oil or gas actually comes out of the ground - if at all.
Despite environmental concerns and the low oil price, Ben van Beurden, Shell's chief executive, told me that as the world's energy demands increased, the hunt for new resources was as important as ever.
The Arctic, he points out, has long been a source of oil and gas production. Environmental safety would be the priority, he insisted.
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The halving of the oil price is "on the back of just a few percent of oversupply, and it shows how inelastic the whole system is, and simply because oil is so cheap - its not as if demand is going to respond," he said.
He added that oil becoming cheaper would not tempt consumers to use more of it, as can happen with other products.
"People don't drive to work twice because it's more economical to do so" than it was before, he explained.
Demand for energy, North American shale oil production, Opec policy and industry costs would help inform where oil will go in the future, he said.
Opec producers, particularly Saudi Arabia, have maintained high levels of production in an attempt to curb US shale output, which is uneconomical at lower prices.
The organisation is managing through low oil prices by keeping its debts low. The organisation's debts are about 12% of total capital, he added.
Shell said in June it was cutting 6,500 jobs as part of cost-cutting plans following the oil price slump.
When asked how renewable energy could affect his business, Mr van Beurden said solar power could emerge as a much bigger contributor to world energy needs.
"I have no hesitation to predict that in years to come solar will be the dominant backbone of our energy system, certainly of the electricity system."
However, during that period, the demand for energy will double, he said, leading to a "multi-decade transition," from fossil fuels being the dominant supply for energy, he says.
He also said his reaction to any exit from the EU by the UK would be "one of disappointment" as the firm has a heritage in Britain.
Ms Sturgeon told the BBC such powers would allow the Scottish government to grow the economy.
She added that she had spoken "briefly" to Prime Minister David Cameron but more discussions were required.
Ms Sturgeon also said her party now provided the main opposition at Westminster.
Labour, with 232 MPs, are the official opposition but Ms Sturgeon claimed her party, which gained 50 MPs on Thursday, was the one putting pressure on Mr Cameron's Conservative government.
The SNP is the third largest party in the UK despite only standing in Scotland.
It took 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland, reducing Labour to just one MP when they had previously had 41.
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Ms Sturgeon said Mr Cameron did not appear to want to move beyond powers already outlined in the Smith Commission, which was formed after the independence referendum to fulfil the pledge to give Scotland further devolution.
She said: "What we will argue for is priority devolution of powers over business taxes, employment, the minimum wage, welfare, because these are the levers we need to grow our economy to get people into work paying taxes and lifting people out of poverty.
"David Cameron did not give me any indication that he wanted to move beyond the current Smith Commission proposals.
"I think he has to and that clearly is one of the things we are going to have to discuss."
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Elsewhere in the interview, Ms Sturgeon was asked whether a UK government offer of full fiscal autonomy - the devolution of all tax and spend powers - within two years would be a "good deal" for Scotland.
She replied: "It would be the responsibility of the Scottish government and our MPs down in the House of Commons to make sure we get a good deal."
She said any move towards full fiscal autonomy created "questions" around issues such as how much Scotland contributed towards reserved areas such as defence, and how much Scotland would pay towards UK debt interest payments.
"We have not got into the details of those discussions," she added. "My starting point is that Scotland's voice has to be heard."
She said any move to full fiscal responsibility would take several years to implement.
Ms Sturgeon described her party as the "principal opposition to the Conservatives".
She said she would seek to build alliances with others to stand up for "progressive politics".
Responding to former SNP leader Alex Salmond's comments on Saturday that following the party's landslide victory he thought Scotland was now closer to independence, Ms Sturgeon said there was "no disagreement" between them.
She said: "I think Scotland will become an independent country one day. He said he thinks it will be in his lifetime, I hope that's the case."
However, she repeated her previous stance that the election was "not about independence".
She added: "I said expressly to people in Scotland that if they voted SNP, and half of the Scottish population did, I would not take that as an endorsement of independence. I stick to that position.
"As First Minister, as leader of the SNP, I've got a responsibility to try to unite Scotland and I'm determined that I do that."
Alltwen Primary School in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, has even barred the treat from the staff room.
Head teacher Owain Hyett wrote to parents saying the snack could make the pupil "very ill".
He said: "To maintain the safety of this pupil our school will be adopting a no chocolate policy for all pupils and staff."
The school has declined to comment.
Mr Hyett's letter added: "Unfortunately, one of our pupils has been diagnosed with a chocolate intolerance and can become very ill if in contact with chocolate.
"All areas of the school will be chocolate-free, including the staff room and office.
"Sadly the pupil is also highly sensitive to chocolate if it is airborne or being eaten by another pupil."
Analysis by the King's Fund think tank, seen by the BBC, suggests 40% of the 58 trusts saw budgets cut in 2015-16.
It found six of them had seen budgets cut three years in a row.
An NHS spokeswoman said mental health services were "wider" than trusts, and care was funded in other ways.
Mental health spending overall was up 8.4% in 2015/16 compared to the previous year, the NHS said.
Neil Jewell, who had schizophrenia, died after failings in his care, accepted by the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) looking after him.
Its chief executive says improvements in care have since been made, but he warned mental health care missed out on funding in comparison to acute hospitals.
NSFT is one of the six trusts identified as having had its budget cut three years in a row.
Inspectors have just recommended the trust be taken out of special measures after almost two years, despite saying safety there is still inadequate, and raising concerns about high death rates.
Chief executive Michael Scott said: "If NSFT had received the same growth in funds that NHS acute services had received over the last four years it would have had £30m more in its budget."
Last year, for the first time, NHS commissioners in England were instructed to increase money for mental health, in line with increases in their own budgets - something called "parity of esteem".
King's Fund chief executive Chris Ham said: "Cuts in mental health services are just as risky as cuts in acute hospital services. We are talking about people in crisis who need expert support in a timely way.
"If they don't get it, it's bad for them and their families - and for the communities in which they live.
"The crisis in mental health services is real and serious. We all need to wake up to that reality."
He added: "Parity of esteem is a laudable ambition that hasn't been followed through in practice."
Neil Jewell had a heart attack in January 2014 while being reintroduced to his medication.
He had not had enough medication over the Christmas holiday period. When he was seen by a mental health team in early January, he was not offered a safe hospital bed and was driven 75 miles while he was having a psychotic episode, under restraints, to a different unit, where he died.
His sister, Christine Welfare, says there was a catalogue of failings in local mental health services both in the community and in hospital.
"It was a complete nightmare - it should never have happened. And then you start getting angry.
"These are people's lives. Anybody in society, no matter who you are, can suffer at various times in their lives with mental health issues and it's very important that people sit up and take notice."
Michael Scott said: "Our thoughts are with this patient's family and friends. This is an extremely sad situation, and they have our deepest sympathy.
"Since his death, our trust has ensured that patients based in the community have a named mental health professional or duty worker co-ordinating their care, to offer greater support.
"We also try to work closely with families and carers wherever possible, and with a patient's consent."
A spokeswoman for NHS Clinical Commissioners said: "Mental health trusts provide invaluable and critical services but it must be recognised that mental health service provision is wider than trusts.
"To get the best possible outcomes for their population, clinical commissioners are also investing in out-of-hospital care that focuses on prevention, recovery and community-based care.
"They are also looking at partnerships with voluntary and third-sector providers, and crucially investing in primary care mental health services."
Kay Elizabeth Hollingsworth, 31, told the boy she was "single and ready to mingle" and "about to have a shower".
She was dismissed from the school in Braintree, Essex, last May, for gross misconduct.
A teaching misconduct panel found her behaviour was "inappropriate and serious" but said she showed remorse.
Other messages sent to the 11-year-old included: "U probs distracted thinking about how fabulous I am" and "Going to bed now dimples xx".
She admitted asking his parents - who had found out about the messages - not to tell the school.
As well as the Instagram conversations with the boy, she had also exchanged Snapchat messages with a former pupil.
Alan Meyrick, deputy director of the National College of Teaching and Leadership, said Ms Hollingsworth recognised "she had acted in violation of her position" by asking the 11-year-old's parents not to say anything.
In a statement, she said: "I am shocked and horrified by what I wrote, putting the pupil in an inappropriate position, the school's reputation in jeopardy and my own career, [to] which I have dedicated nine successful years, in ruin."
Mr Meyrick said her conduct was "a serious departure from the personal and professional conduct elements of Teachers Standards".
Ms Hollingsworth can seek to have the ban lifted after two years, and is able to appeal against it at the High Court.
The 33-year-old got on the end of Shaun Miller's corner to score for the first time in 493 career appearances.
Roche almost netted in the first half, his long clearance saved at full stretch by opposite number Ryan Fulton.
Portsmouth went ahead when Kal Naismith ran through the Shrimps' midfield, cleverly finding Gareth Evans who finished smartly from 12 yards.
Roche's leveller halted Morecambe's three-game losing streak in the league, while Pompey move up to fifth in League Two.
Match ends, Morecambe 1, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 1, Portsmouth 1.
Goal! Morecambe 1, Portsmouth 1. Barry Roche (Morecambe) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Shaun Miller with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Ryan Fulton.
Attempt saved. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Andrew Fleming (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Shaun Beeley (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Shaun Beeley (Morecambe).
Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Paul Mullin (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Andrew Fleming (Morecambe).
Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun Beeley (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Adam McGurk (Portsmouth).
Delay in match Ben Close (Portsmouth) because of an injury.
Foul by Lee Molyneux (Morecambe).
Ben Close (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Adam McGurk replaces Marc McNulty.
Substitution, Morecambe. Lee Molyneux replaces Jamie Devitt.
Attempt missed. Jamie Devitt (Morecambe) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Devitt (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jamie Devitt (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Close (Portsmouth).
Substitution, Morecambe. Paul Mullin replaces Kevin Ellison.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Devitt (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Gary Roberts replaces Michael Smith.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Kyle Bennett replaces Kal Naismith.
Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Andrew Fleming (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc McNulty (Portsmouth).
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Shaun Beeley.
Attempt blocked. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Andrew Fleming (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Andrew Fleming (Morecambe).
Attempt blocked. Ben Davies (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Adam Dugdale (Morecambe).
Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Adam Dugdale.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Andy Parrish.
Repsol Honda rider Marquez, 24, has now won all five races at the circuit in Austin, Texas.
Vinales - who had won the first two races of the season on his Yamaha - crashed on the second lap.
His veteran team-mate Valentino Rossi now leads the standings after finishing second, with Dani Pedrosa third.
British rider Cal Crutchlow was fourth.
Rossi, 38, has won nine world championships but none since 2009. He has a six-point lead over Vinales, with Marquez in third.
Rossi was given a 0.3 second time penalty for clashing with Johann Zarco but still comfortably bought his Yamaha home in second place.
1. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 43:58.770
2. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha +3.069
3. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda +5.112
4. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Honda +7.638
5. Johann Zarco (France) Yamaha +7.957
6. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati +14.058
7. Andrea Iannone (Italy) Suzuki +15.491
8. Danilo Petrucci (Italy) Ducati +16.772
9. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Ducati +17.979
10. Jack Miller (Australia) Honda +18.494
1. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) 56 points
2. Maverick Vinales (Yamaha) 50
3. Marc Marquez (Honda) 38
4. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) 30
5. Cal Crutchlow (Honda) 29
King has flown into Glasgow for Friday's extraordinary general meeting at which he and two others are expected to replace the current board.
Chief executive Derek Llambias and finance director Barry Leach are the only two remaining board members.
"Tomorrow is a turning point, not in the history of the club but in the future of the club," said King.
"It is a chance to get rid of a very, very difficult couple of years.
"This is genuinely a new era for the club going forward.
"What we will offer [Rangers fans] is transparency, accountability and a road. The road might be tough and it might be long but we'll all know where we're going.
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"The club is in quite poor shape.
"Between myself and the other investors, we've certainly got sufficient [funds] to take it forward in the medium term.
"I've said about £20m [is needed] in the short term. There's probably other areas of the club where money's got to be spent as well. I think it will be north of £20m in the short-to-medium term.
"The proposals that I gave to the board, certainly when I came over in November, was that I would take on 50% of the funding and I expected other individuals to take the other 50% and that is where your [businessmen like] Paul Murray, George Letham, Brian Kennedy and Douglas Parks all come in.
"I'm looking at a 50-50 split but I don't see me as carrying this whole burden."
Since King called the EGM with resolutions to replace the current board with himself, Paul Murray and John Gilligan, chairman David Somers and James Easdale have resigned from the board.
"I expect the resolutions to be passed if the general meeting goes ahead, although there still remains the possibility they might concede before then," explained King at Glasgow Airport on Thursday evening.
Rangers, having come up from the bottom tier where they were placed in 2012 following financial problems, are struggling for form in the Scottish Championship and are over 20 points behind leaders Hearts, who are closing in on the title and the one automatic promotion route to the Premiership.
Should the Ibrox side finish second, third or fourth, they will enter the promotion play-offs, which culminates in a two-legged final with the team finishing second bottom in the top flight.
"Stage one is that we've got to, within a very short period of time, have Rangers as the number two club in Scotland, which clearly they're not at the moment," King said. "I think that can happen very, very quickly.
"Thereafter, the gap between ourselves and Celtic - certainly financially - will take a longer period to bridge.
"But being a solid number two and getting back into Europa League football is something I would imagine would happen quite quickly."
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Nearly 26,000 children, aged five to nine, were admitted to hospital in England in 2013-14, up 14% from 2011, with tooth decay.
The Royal College of Surgeons says many hospitals are reaching "crisis point" managing the number of children.
The government says children's dental health has improved in the past decade.
But Prof Nigel Hunt, dean of the Royal College of Surgeons' dental faculty, believes more needs to be done.
"It is absolutely intolerable that in this day and age, in a civilised country, children are having so many teeth out for decay, which is over 90% preventable.
"We need to stop talking and have action to bring several bodies together - the Royal College of Surgeons, Public Health England, NHS England, government and industry to make sure we improve all aspects of oral health."
He also called for the amount of sugar in food and drink to be better labelled, greater education of parents and more money for research as to why certain ethnic groups and people in areas of social deprivation are less likely to visit a dentist.
A report by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) published earlier this year showed tooth decay was the most common reason five to nine-year-olds were admitted to hospital.
Approximately 46,500 children and young people under 19 were admitted to hospital with tooth decay in 2013-14, with 25,812 in the five to nine age group, a 14% increase since 2010-11.
The report says there may be several reasons for this rise, including children not accessing a dentist until it is too late or more children not brushing their teeth properly.
The RCS says £30m was spent on hospital-based tooth extractions for children aged 18 years and under in 2012-13.
"Many hospitals are reaching crisis point in managing the number of children referred for a general anaesthetic for tooth decay," said Prof Hunt.
"Some people are having to wait over six months to access that service, some even up to a year in one particular centre. During that time that child will be in pain, suffering and perhaps having repeated antibiotics. All of this is unacceptable."
A national dental health survey, carried out every 10 years and last published in May, found almost half of eight-year-olds have signs of decay in their milk teeth.
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What would you see if you travelled to the surface of Mars? Or were able to drift in and out of Saturn's rings?
A new exhibition - Otherworlds - focuses on the creative work of US-based artist Michael Benson. He mixes art with science - to make crisp, colourful and seamless digital images from data sent back to Earth by Nasa and ESA spacecraft.
The museum's Poppy Cooper, who helped put the show together, says the 77 images are meant to represent what humans would see if they went to visit those places.
Scroll down and travel deep into the Solar System yourself.
Moonlight on the Adriatic
As seen from the International Space Station, this first image looks back to Earth.
The boot of Italy is clearly visible. The bright lights in the bottom right hand corner is Milan.
The Adriatic Sea sparkles in the moonlight - although, as Poppy Cooper points out, moonlight is of course reflected sunlight.
Mosaic composite photograph. ISS 023 crew, 29 April 2010
Credit: Nasa JSC/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Picture, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Typhoon over Bay of Bengal
This immense vortex of Tropical Cyclone 03B slammed into India's east coast at the end of 2003, with wind speeds approaching 120 kilometres an hour.
Below, the top of the island of Sri Lanka is relatively cloud free.
Photograph. Terra, 15 December 2003
Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, Lucian Plesea, Modis Land Rapid Response Team/Nasa GSFC/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Eclipse of the Sun by Earth
"Incredibly violent, energetic and quite frightening" is how Poppy Cooper describes the next image, which shows giant solar flares leaping out from the surface of the Sun.
The view - based on an ultraviolet exposure taken in space by the Solar Dynamics Observatory - shows the Sun appearing to be in the Earth's shadow.
The shadow is due to the increased density of the Earth's atmosphere - from left to right in the image - which blocks UV light.
Ultraviolet exposure. Solar Dynamics Observatory, 2 April 2011
Credit: Nasa SDO/Nasa GSFC/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Ground fog in Valles Marineris
It is foggy on Mars.
This next image shows the planet's Valles Marineris canyon system - which is about as wide as Australia, and at almost 4,000km long, is the largest in the Solar System.
A fog hugs the canyon floor, which is more than 6.5km deep in places - more than three times deeper than the Grand Canyon in the United States.
Mosaic composite photograph. Mars Express, 25 May 2004
Credit: ESA/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Global dust storm on Mars
Mars can also bear witness to giant dust storms which can last for months.
This image was put together using data from a Nasa mission in 1977.
"The scale is amazing. It just reminds you how active all these other worlds are," says Poppy Cooper.
"Our planet is not unique in that respect - other planets are constantly changing and moving."
Mosaic composite photograph. Viking Orbiter 2, 19 February 1977
Credit: Nasa/JPL/Dr Paul Geissler/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Late afternoon on Mars
This more peaceful image was taken late afternoon during a Martian day.
In the distance is Husband Hill - named in memory of Columbia Space Shuttle Commander Rick Husband.
He died with six other astronauts in 2003, when Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Mosaic composite photograph. Spirit Rover, 16 April 2006
Credit: Nasa/JPL/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
A Warming Comet
There are hundreds of comets flying around the Solar System - celestial bodies moving about the Sun in stretched orbits.
This image is of the oddly twin-lobed Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - which was discovered in 1969.
It starts to vent gas and dust as it heats up - about a month before perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the Sun along its orbit.
Rosetta, 7 July 2015
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam-CC BY-SA IGO 3.0/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Stormy Jupiter
Jupiter's Great Red Spot can be clearly seen here.
A persistent anti-cyclonic storm, it impedes the progress of the white clouds to its right - funnelling them into streaming tendrils below.
The churning dynamo is three times the size of Earth and has been raging for at least 348 years.
Photograph. Cassini, 1 January 2001
Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Europa, an ice-covered ocean moon
This next image shows the jumbled faults and curving ridges that sprawl out across the icy surface of Europa - one of the dozens of moons of Jupiter.
It is slightly smaller than our own Moon.
Mosaic composite photograph, Galileo, 29 March 1998
Credit: Nasa/JPL/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Crescent Jupiter and Ganymede
Jupiter - the Solar System's largest planet - dwarfs its largest moon Ganymede, seen here on the right.
Ganymede is the ninth largest object in the solar system and is bigger than the planet Mercury.
Like Europa, Ganymede's surface is composed of water ice, and is thought to have a sub-surface ocean.
Mosaic composite photograph. Cassini, 10 January 2001
Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Dark side of the rings
"It looks a bit like a marble or a hat you might wear to a wedding - the colours are beautiful," says Poppy Cooper of this image which looks down on Saturn's northern regions.
Dust and ice make up the distinctive rings which circle the planet - into which you could fit 763 (and a bit) Earths.
"Their relative dimensions are thinner than a sheet of paper. They are hundreds of kilometres long, but only about 10 metres deep."
Mosaic composite photograph. Cassini, 20 January 2007
Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Enceladus vents water into space
"A lot of people have been drawn to this image of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, because it looks a bit like the Death Star in Star Wars," says Cooper.
The moon is bathed in direct sunlight on the left, with reflected sunlight from Saturn illuminating it on the right.
At the top of the moon, erupts a vast spray of water into space - which immediately freezes.
"Enceladus is very reminiscent of our own moon but it is much more active," says Cooper.
"It is believed to have a sub-surface ocean - which leaves people wondering if it might have the conditions to host life."
Mosaic composite photograph. Cassini, 25 December 2009
Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Uranus and its rings
"I like this because it's so perfect and symmetrical - like a computer graphic - but it is actually real," says Cooper of this image of the planet Uranus.
"The blue comes from the methane in the atmosphere - reacting with the light from the Sun."
The third largest planet in our Solar System, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by the astronomer William Herschel - but its faint rings were only spotted in 1977.
Mosaic composite photograph. Voyager, 24 January 1986
Credit: Nasa/JPL/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
A Plutonian Haze
This final glowing image is of the chilly dwarf planet Pluto - on the edge of our Solar System.
"I love the idea there might be blue skies on Pluto - it's romantic," says Poppy Cooper.
"It's so other-worldly it couldn't be Earth. It looks cold, distant, inhospitable."
But the blue haze - captured last year by Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft - is light from the giant Sun, hidden here behind tiny Pluto.
Mosaic composite photograph. New Horizons, 14 July 2015
Credit: Nasa/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System can be seen at the Natural History Museum, London, from 22 January - 15 May 2016.
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Nick Singh, also known as Nick Rogers, was allegedly assaulted inside Morrisons at Wymondham on 17 July and died in hospital the following day.
Lee Monk, 19, and his uncle John Monk, 43, appeared via video link at Norwich Crown Court on Friday charged with his murder and an assault.
They denied charges and were remanded in custody for trial on 4 December.
The pair deny assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Leo Wardrop on 17 July.
Lee Monk, of Silfield Road, Wymondham, and John Monk, of Albini Way, Wymondham, sat together beside a prison officer on the video link from Norwich Prison.
Judge Stephen Holt moved the hearing to a larger courtroom to accommodate more than a dozen people in the public gallery.
Following Mr Rogers' death, his stepfather Andrew Steadman said in a written tribute: "Behind the typical young lad bravado, Nick was a warm and caring soul and would always help others where and when he could.
"His loss will leave a huge void in our lives."
Mr Rogers' mother, Sue Rogers, said: "Words cannot describe the overwhelming, gut-wrenching sadness and anger we are all feeling at the loss of Nicholas."
​Tram 3022 has a design inspired by the worker bee, which has become a symbol of solidarity following the Manchester attack on 22 May.
It will carry people travelling to the One Love Manchester charity concert at Old Trafford cricket ground later.
Free travel on the service is being offered to those who show staff a ticket for the concert.
In the days following the terrorist attack at Ariana Grande's concert, hundreds of people queued at Manchester tattoo parlours to get bee tattoos.
One city centre studio was faced with 800 potential customers and an 80-year-old grandmother chose the bee as her first inking.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said: "The incredible spirit of the people of Manchester has been what has sustained us all since last week.
"The Manchester Bee has taken on a new significance over recent days and it is fitting that we display it proudly as many of us head to what will be a memorable and moving event."
A panel heard Keith John Wright had a relationship with a year 11 student at Testbourne Community School, Whitchurch between 2000 and 2001.
Mr Wright, from Whitchurch, Hampshire, was also found to have taken another pupil to a pub to meet with his friend.
The 50-year-old, who denied all allegations, has been banned from teaching indefinitely.
Mr Wright was acquitted of indecent assault charges following a trial at Winchester Crown Court in April 2014.
The professional hearing, carried out by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), found him guilty of sexually motivated behaviour with both pupils.
It heard how the relationship with a girl referred to as Pupil A, was not reported to police until March 2013 - thirteen years after it was said to have taken place.
The panel concluded the Pupil A's academic progress and fulfilment had been prejudiced by Mr Wright's conduct and that it was the girl's belief that, having been distracted by him during her GCSE year, she failed to meet her potential.
The panel found that Mr Wright's behaviour in conducting a sexual relationship with Pupil A was "wholly incompatible with being a teacher".
The prohibition order prevents him from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England indefinitely.
He can not apply for the order to be lifted.
It is working with non-profit Summit Public Schools which has pioneered a teaching method that allows students to learn online and be mentored in class.
Facebook said that he project was completely separate from its social network.
There has been some scepticism about the technology firm's move.
In a blog post, Facebook's chief product officer Chris Cox said that the firm wanted to create a classroom "centred around students' ambitions".
The system allows content and tests to be delivered online and classroom time is reserved for "teacher-led real-world projects and collaborations", it said.
"The technology itself has the power to bring to life the daily work by putting it in context," said Mr Cox.
"It frees up classroom time for teachers to do what they do best - mentor students directly - and for students to spend time collaborating with, and in some cases, teaching each other."
But not everyone was convinced of the move.
"We are very concerned about the privacy implications of this deal. Facebook is known for violating privacy and seems to be getting worse in this regard," Leonie Haimson from US non-profit Class Size Matters told the BBC.
"Who will control access to the personal student data and who will protect it? Who will decide? Parents or Facebook or the schools or districts? This is a critical question which must be answered - especially given its reputation."
The small team of engineers working on the project were subject to "strict privacy controls to help protect student data", Facebook said.
The Personalised Learning Plan it has developed has so far been used by 2,000 students and 100 teachers in schools in California.
Summit Public Schools, Facebook's partner in the project, is a non-profit organisation that runs schools in the states of California and Washington.
There are several elements to Summit's curriculum - students spend some time working on projects and other time on the personalised learning of traditional subjects like maths and English - mostly via online content.
Ms Haimson is not convinced it is the best method to teach children.
"There is a growing body of research showing that online or 'blended' learning actually widens the achievement gap," she said.
"The educational tech boosters call it personalised learning, but its really depersonalised learning. Most parents don't want their kids spending any more time in front of computer screens than they do already - but want more human interaction with their teachers and their classmates."
Facebook and Summit plan to offer the software to any school in the US that wants it.
The social network is not the only technology giant involved in education. Google offers a range of educational products and Chromebooks are commonplace in classrooms.
Some 92% of the population live in places where air pollution exceeds WHO limits, which can contribute to lung cancer, heart disease, and strokes.
The south-east Asia and western Pacific regions account for nearly two out of every three such deaths, it said, with poorer countries "getting worse".
Around three million deaths every year are linked to outdoor air pollution.
When "indoor" air pollution - which includes pollutants like wood smoke and cooking fires - is added, air pollution is linked to one in every nine deaths worldwide, the WHO said.
The air quality model used in the data measures the smallest particles, less than 2.5 micrometres across - which can enter the bloodstream and reach the brain.
Country-by-country data showed that Turkmenistan has the highest death rate connected to outdoor air pollution.
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Egypt rounded out the top five.
"Rich countries are getting much better in improving the quality of the air," Dr Carlos Dora from the WHO told the Associated Press.
"Poorer countries are getting worse. That is the overall trend."
However, he said, North America is doing better than Europe, mostly because Europe depends more on diesel fuel and farming practices that create ammonia and methane.
China, the country with the sixth-highest death rate linked to air pollution, is relatively wealthy, but is plagued by smog in its cities and polluted air from industrial sources.
The WHO pointed to sustainable transport, waste management, and renewable energies as possible ways to reduce air pollution.
It said its latest data represented the most detailed study it has ever released. The analysis combined satellite measurements and more than 3,000 monitoring stations on the ground with air transport models.
The report is based on 2012 figures, which are the most recent available.
The Latics ensured an immediate return to English football's second tier with Saturday's 4-0 win at Blackpool.
Sharpe, 24, who is British football's youngest chairman, had previously said Wigan would "smash" League One.
"We have to do everything to be ready for the Championship but we've started that process as of three months ago," Sharpe told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I knew in my head we were the best team in the league and we would go up.
"Hopefully next season we'll continue the good times. We'll assess things in the summer but I believe in this group of players."
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Wigan, who have lost just once since being beaten at home by Blackpool on 12 December, are all-but champions, having a three-point lead at the top and a significantly superior goal difference compared to second-placed Burton Albion.
Chris McCann scored Wigan's opener and then set Yanic Wildschut up for the first of his two goals before Will Grigg added a fourth to seal promotion in commanding fashion.
"Today I believe we have won the league," said Sharpe, who succeeded his grandfather Dave Whelan as chairman of the then Championship club in March 2015.
"It's unbelievable. It's a special day. It will live long in the memory."
One of the founding fathers of progressive rock, the British musician is known for songs including In the Court of the Crimson King and his solo hit I Believe in Father Christmas.
He died on Wednesday after "a long and stubborn battle with cancer", said his manager.
The news comes nine months after Lake's band-mate Keith Emerson died.
Keyboardist Emerson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, coroners in the US said.
Lake's manager Stewart Young wrote on Facebook: "Yesterday, December 7th, I lost my best friend to a long and stubborn battle with cancer.
"Greg Lake will stay in my heart forever, as he has always been."
Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett paid tribute on Twitter, writing: "Music bows its head to acknowledge the passing of a great musician and singer, Greg Lake."
"Another sad loss with the passing of Greg Lake," wrote Rick Wakeman, keyboardist in prog rock band Yes.
"You left some great music with us my friend & so like Keith, you will live on."
Born in Bournemouth, Lake was given his first guitar at the age of 12 and took lessons from a local tutor called Don Strike.
He formed a close friendship with fellow student Robert Fripp, with whom he created King Crimson in 1969.
Their debut album In the Court of the Crimson King featured such songs as 21st Century Schizoid Man.
It set a standard for progressive rock and received a glowing, well-publicised testimonial from The Who's Pete Townshend, who called it "an uncanny masterpiece".
But within a year, founding member Mike Giles quit and Lake refused to work with the band - although he stuck around long enough to sing on their second album, In the Wake of Poseidon, which was criticised for treading old ground.
The singer and bassist was then approached by Emerson, who had supported King Crimson on a North American tour and needed a singer for his new band.
Joined by Atomic Rooster drummer Carl Palmer, ELP made their live debut at the Guildhall in Plymouth in 1970 before giving a career-making performance at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Unusually, the band combined heavy rock riffs with a classical influence. They scored hit albums with Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery - many of them produced by Lake himself.
Tarkus, released in 1971, featured an opening track inspired by the fictional Tarkus character - a half-tank, half-armadillo creature that would appear on stage at gigs - that lasted more than 20 minutes.
The band went on to enjoy chart success in 1977 with their version of Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
ELP's ambitious light shows and on-stage theatrics were the epitome of '70s rock excess, and several punk acts cited ELP as one of the bands they were reacting against.
But the band sold more than 48 million records, and Lake continued to be an influential and popular touring musician even after the band wound down in the late 1970s.
In 2010, Kanye West repopularised the King Crimson song 21st Century Schizoid Man when he sampled it in his hit song, Power.
"The greatest music is made for love, not for money," Lake is quoted as saying on his official website.
"The early ELP albums were pioneering because there is no standing still; time is always moving forward."
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The UN war crimes court at The Hague (ICTY) said he bore no individual responsibility for the crimes.
Mr Seselj had denied the charges. In his first reaction, he said the court had reached the only verdict possible.
He was allowed to go to Belgrade in 2014 after being diagnosed with cancer and was not present in the courtroom.
He had even refused the tribunal's offer to follow the verdict by videolink
He has been taking part in anti-government rallies ahead of Serbian parliamentary elections later this month.
Balkans war: A brief guide
"With this acquittal on all the nine counts of the indictment, the arrest warrant issued by the Appeals Chamber is rendered moot," said presiding judge Jean-Claude Antonetti.
"Vojislav Seselj is now a free man."
Mr Seselj was a close ally of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. He served as Serbian deputy prime minister from 1998 to 2000.
He surrendered to the ICTY voluntarily in 2003. When the court sought to appoint a defence lawyer against his wishes, he went on hunger strike.
The indictment charged him with three counts of crimes against humanity and six of war crimes for inciting ethnic cleansing in Croatia, Bosnia and the Serbian province of Vojvodina in the period August 1991-September 1993.
When the trial finally opened in 2007, prosecutors argued he was criminally responsible for the murder, torture and deportation of non-Serbs as part of his project to create a "Greater Serbia".
They accused him of raising an army of volunteers who had committed "unspeakable crimes".
In long outbursts, Mr Seselj berated the tribunal, challenged its legitimacy - and regretted the fact that it could not pass a death sentence on him.
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In 2014, the court decided to release him for treatment. Serbian doctors said at the time that he was suffering from cancer of the colon which had spread to his liver.
Since its establishment, the ICTY has indicted 161 persons.
Last week, it convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and war crimes in the war in Bosnia. He was sentenced to 40 years in jail.
Gen Ratko Mladic, who commanded Bosnian Serb forces, is also awaiting his verdict at The Hague.
Local officers said the man had died in clashes with the police, who were sent to the Malku Khota project after protests turned violent.
Five employees were taken hostage, but three have now been released.
Bolivian Government Minister Carlos Romero has denied that any clashes took place on Friday, and said the farmer died in an dynamite accident.
"Police sent to the area were not carrying firearms," said Mr Romero.
"According to local medical reports the local farmer who died had dynamite batons attached to his waist. He was drunk and one of them went off, killing him," he added.
The Malku Khota project, near the southern city of Potosi, is owned by a subsidiary of Canada's South American Silver Corporation.
It has huge reserves of silver and indium, a metal used in flat-screen televisions.
The company says it has invested more than $50m (£32m) in the project since it took over in 2007.
Local indigenous groups are demanding that left-wing President Evo Morales cancel the mining concessions - due to end in three years - citing environmental concerns.
The demonstrations turned violent on Thursday.
Three Bolivian employees were detained by people from the local Quechua community, bringing to five the number of hostages in the mining camp.
The government said the three were released later on Friday, but there is no information on whereabouts of the other two, who are engineers and were captured more than a week ago.
Minister Carlos Romero said three police officers were still missing following the confrontations. At least four farmers were injured in Thursday's clashes.
Indigenous groups have also taken their protests against the mining project to Bolivia's main city, La Paz.
Paul Olney, 35, was found dead at a property after police were called to Denham Close, Wivenhoe at about 15:50 BST on Monday.
Richard Waterhouse, 30, of Golden Noble Hill in Colchester appeared at Colchester Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday.
A 37-year-old man who was also arrested has been released on police bail until 21 July.
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The independent MP for Falkirk is still being held by police after the reported fracas during a karaoke night at the Sports and Social Club.
Officers were called to a disturbance just before 22:30 GMT on Thursday.
Mr Joyce, 52, was convicted of assault in a parliamentary bar last year, and later resigned from the Labour Party.
The Sports and Social Club was said to be packed at the time of the incident.
Tony Grew, from the PoliticsHome website, witnessed the alleged altercation, telling ITV News he saw the MP on the ground "wrestling with two police officers".
"There were around at least 40 or 50 parliamentary staff, shocked, watching this melee as it occurred.
"Bar staff were trying to push people back, telling them to stand back and let the police do their work," added Mr Grew.
"I can vividly remember a policeman's hat rolling on the ground towards me as I was watching this scene unfold."
MPs have expressed concern for Mr Joyce's welfare on Twitter.
Conservative Penny Mordaunt said: "MPs done great stuff for mental health but must ensure that colleagues who need help get it, esp if they are now sans party."
Former GP Sarah Wollaston, who has led Tory calls for a minimum alcohol unit price, said: "Eric Joyce is just one of hundreds of thousands who have lost control of their drinking. Westminster is blind to drinking problems."
But Dennis Canavan, who was an MP and MSP for Falkirk, said that it was time for Mr Joyce to stand down.
He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Well, this is sad news and this is sad for Eric Joyce, but it is even sadder for the people of Falkirk who for over a year now have no effective representation in Parliament and they definitely don't deserve this.
"It is time to go for the sake of his constituents and for his own sake, he obviously has a problem and he needs help for that problem."
Asked whether the prime minister felt Mr Joyce could continue as an MP, David Cameron's official spokesman told a regular Westminster media briefing: "That is a matter for Mr Joyce."
Following the fracas in February last year, Mr Joyce, a former soldier, announced he would not seek re-election in 2015.
After admitting four counts of assault, he was given a 12-month community order in March that included a Friday-to-Sunday curfew and a three-month pub ban. He was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £1,400 in compensation to his victims.
During the brawl in the Strangers' Bar, Mr Joyce headbutted Tory MP Stuart Andrew and attacked three other politicians.
While offering an apology in the Commons over the incident, he said: "Clearly I have a number of personal issues to address, and you can be assured that this will take place."
Speaking outside court, after pleading guilty to assault in March last year, Mr Joyce said the fight was a "matter of considerable personal shame" and that the punishment was fair.
"Drink was an aggravating factor, there's no question about that," he said.
"It's something I have to deal with personally. Not everyone who drinks gets involved in fights and certainly when they are my age."
Tom the cat had taken to the tree near his owner's home in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, on Friday, while being looked after by a neighbour.
Having tried everything to get the forlorn feline down, they eventually called the RSPCA who turned to the county's fire service to rescue him.
Tom was safely back on all four paws on solid ground after about an hour.
Officers from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service came to Tom's rescue at about 13:45 BST on Wednesday.
"The cat was about 40ft up in a tree. We had to cut through brambles to even get to the tree," crew commander Jason Leach said.
"The owners were away on holiday and the neighbour who has been looking after him tried everything to get him down."
The neighbour had done the right thing by not attempting to rescue the moggy themselves, he said.
"It is important members of the public do not attempt to carry out rescues which could put themselves in danger," Mr Leach said.
The cat was said to be none-the-worse for his ordeal, although "a little hungry".
"We're happy Tom the cat is safe, and hopefully he won't go on any more adventures while his owner is on holiday," Mr Leach added.
The firm is better known as a distributor of liquid fuels and coal but also has supplied electricity to business and commercial customers since 2012.
It has a 15% market share among large energy users and 10% share among medium energy users.
It also entered the commercial gas supply market in 2014.
The value of the council contracts has not been disclosed.
Shauna Forbes of LCC said the company was developing a major portfolio of customers in a very short period of time.
"It's a source of real pride among the staff and management of LCC Power, that we have gone from a standing start, just two years ago, as an electricity supplier for business customers, to becoming one of the top suppliers in Northern Ireland."
LCC is owned by the Loughran family. In 2013 the business made a profit of £14m on a turnover of £579m.
Councillors agreed he should face disciplinary committee on the matter.
The vote followed a dispute over cash he received in lieu of pension contributions which the Wales Audit Office ruled as unlawful.
Council leader Jamie Adams survived an earlier vote of no confidence at the same extraordinary general meeting.
The vote on Mr Bryn Parry-Jones saw 46 councillors support the no-confidence motion with three supporting him and three abstentions.
After surviving his no-confidence vote, Mr Adams then led the charge against the chief executive at the meeting on Friday.
Twenty nine councillors had supported Mr Adams, with 20 voting against and one abstention.
Mr Adams surprised councillors at the meeting when he said he had no confidence in Mr Parry-Jones.
"There are elements of confidence I have in the chief executive and some concerns," he said.
"No individual can operate within this particular environment."
The public were then asked to leave while councillors discussed a motion about possible disciplinary action against Mr Parry-Jones.
They rejected a call to immediately suspend him by 26 votes to 22, before considering whether to set up a committee to consider the allegations against him.
The meeting voted to establish a 15-person committee to investigate issues relating to Mr Parry-Jones's conduct.
The disciplinary and investigations committee is likely to meet next week and will have the power to suspend the chief executive if it believes there are sufficient grounds.
The chair will also have the power to suspend the chief executive in an "emergency".
Mr Parry-Jones currently remains in post.
Earlier on Friday, Pembrokeshire council said there was nothing in its standing orders requiring a chief executive to resign if a no confidence motion being passed.
Local government expert Jeff Jones described the vote of no confidence as "symbolic".
He said that while the chief executive would be expected to consider his position, the role would have been designed so that he could not be forced to resign by councillors.
In a statement, the union Unison said: "It is a shame the councillors have taken so long. But at last, our members having taken the lead, they have acted appropriately. Long may this continue."
The matter revolves around an investigation by the Wales Audit Office which ruled Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire councils acted unlawfully by letting Mr Parry-Jones, another senior Pembrokeshire officer, and Carmarthenshire chief executive Mark James opt out of a pension scheme and receive cash payments instead to avoid potential tax payments.
An investigation by Gloucestershire Constabulary found no evidence to suggest any criminal offences, but another police inquiry has since been launched following the discovery of new information.
In July, Pembrokeshire council said it would take no further action to reclaim the money against Mr Parry-Jones and another unnamed senior officer involved.
Some staff have previously walked out in protest at Mr Parry-Jones remaining in post.
On 15 August, Mr Adams said the chief executive would take a "period of absence" in the "best interests of the authority".
It was revealed on Tuesday that Mr Parry-Jones was back on duty, but working from home.
Labour group leader Paul Miller has said he was unhappy with the way the matter was being handled, and has called for a formal suspension and disciplinary process for the chief executive.
Pembrokeshire council webcast Friday's meeting.
Using the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the Children's Society estimated that 50,000 girls aged 16 and 17 were sexually assaulted last year.
This group does not have the same legal safeguards as those who are younger because they are able to consent to sex, the charity said.
It is calling for changes to the law to give them more protection.
Only one in 10 of the allegations identified by the Children's Society was reported to police.
The charity said half of those who did not report it either did not consider it worth reporting, feared going to court, or did not want the perpetrators punished.
There was a perception in some cases that once a girl turned 16 she had chosen to put herself in exploitative situations or could "look after" herself, it said.
The charity said "dangerous inconsistencies" in the law needed to be removed to help older teenage girls get the support and legal protection they need.
It called on the government to make sure police have the means they need to protect 16 and 17-year-olds from sexual exploitation, and that consent to take drugs and drink alcohol was never confused with consent to engage in sexual acts.
Chief executive Matthew Reed said: "Too many children are being left to suffer sexual exploitation in silence.
"Despite 16 and 17-year-olds being at the highest risk, they often receive the least support.
"These young people are still children and the government must make sure that the police and other agencies have the means they need in order to keep them safe."
He did not have any visitors on Friday after doctors advised him to rest, but his family are said to have been in contact by phone.
The 91-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Wednesday from Balmoral.
The Queen left Balmoral for a few hours on Friday, the first time she has been seen in public for a couple of days.
She drove herself out of the gates of the estate in a Range Rover, returning later in a convoy that included the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed an RAF helicopter was scrambled to take the duke to hospital on Wednesday, but its efforts to land near a road were thwarted by fog.
A spokesman said it was eventually decided it would be quicker to complete the 50-mile journey by road.
It is the duke's third hospital stay in nine months.
He spent four days in hospital over Christmas, following an operation to clear a blocked heart artery.
And after attending events to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June, Prince Philip was admitted to hospital for five nights, missing several days of festivities after sustaining the original bladder infection.
The 27-year-old left-back made 29 appearances for Torquay last season in his second spell with the Gulls.
Rowe-Turner previously had spells in the National League with Luton Town and Kidderminster Harriers.
The Leicester City youth product is the third defender signed by Chester this summer following the arrivals of Andy Halls and John McCombe.
They will help plug the gap left by star youngster Sam Hughes' six-figure departure to 2016 Premier League champions Leicester City this week, on a three-year deal.
Midfielder Paul Turnbull and strikers Harry White, Nyal Bell and Ross Hannah have also signed for the Bumpers Lane club, taking the number of new signings to seven.
The RFU has reported a rise in numbers playing and watching the game since the World Cup was held in England in 2015.
But those new to the sport need educating on behavioural standards, according to rugby development director Steve Grainger.
"We are starting to see some challenges in touchline behaviour," Grainger told BBC Radio 5 live.
"As we bring a different demographic into the game and broaden the number of people that come into the game, I think you inevitably get that."
While rugby union has long vaunted its values around respect towards match officials, Grainger believes verbal abuse from parents and coaches on the touchline at the amateur end of the game is a bigger problem than players' dissent.
"Traditionally a lot of kids that have come into the sport have come in because their parents have been involved in the sport, so you have a culture there," he said.
"As we broaden that, we are bringing in parents who themselves have had no exposure to rugby."
Grainger says education is key if rugby union is to stamp out the growing problem.
"Rugby clubs are very well equipped to deal with that," he said.
"It's important we welcome [new parents] into rugby - they are our future coaches, referees and club volunteers - and we need to bring them on board with what the laws of the game are, and what the culture and the values of our great game are."
Emergency services were called to Zoe Colleran Hair and Beauty on Croxteth Hall Lane at 01:45 BST following reports that a white Ford Transit truck had crashed into the shop.
The front of the building collapsed and adjoining properties have been damaged.
Merseyside Fire Service said it was investigating the cause of the fire.
Three fire engines attended the blaze, which spread from the shop to the first-floor flat above it and also damaged four adjoining bedsits.
The road outside the shop has been closed while investigations continue, Merseyside Police said.
Ramsey, 52, had been in temporary charge at Loftus Road with director of football Les Ferdinand after Harry Redknapp quit to have knee surgery.
QPR confirmed the appointment on Friday night with Ramsey working alongside first-team coach Kevin Bond and goalkeeping coach Kevin Hitchcock .
Ferdinand will 'oversee the trio' and also be involved in training.
Ferdinand said: "He will have a huge part to play in the long-term future of this club at all levels, and we are confident that Chris, supported by the backroom staff, will be able to deliver our goal of Premier League survival."
Ramsey was brought to QPR by Ferdinand in October 2014 and appointed the club's academy manager after a decade as head of player development at Tottenham Hotspur's academy.
The former England under-20 manager worked closely with former Spurs boss Redknapp and will continue to be involved in the running of QPR's Academy.
On Tuesday QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said he had got his "dream manager".
It is not clear if he was referring to Ramsey or a potential permanent successor to Redknapp for next season.
In a statement on QPR's website, Fernandes said: "A lot has been written and said about the position, including by myself, but the decision has been taken to defer the permanent appointment until the end of the season.
"We spoke to many individuals who were interested in the role, one of whom I was quoted on as being a dream, but none of them were right to take the club forward at this time for a variety of reasons, whereas we firmly believe Chris is."
Former Tottenham head coach Tim Sherwood was contacted about the job, while Derby manager Steve McClaren and Real Madrid assistant Paul Clement were also in the frame - although Fernandes dismissed media reports as wide of the mark.
Ex-Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup, currently in charge of Qatari side Lekhwiya, ruled himself out of taking over at QPR in the short term.
Former QPR striker Kevin Gallen says the appointment of Ramsey represents an embarrassing turnaround for Fernandes after his "dream manager" message on Twitter.
"I think the comment he made on Tuesday has made him look a little foolish," Gallen told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It's obvious his dream manager wasn't Chris Ramsey and, now he is the manager until the end of the season, he has had to backtrack."
QPR lost 1-0 to Southampton in Ramsey's first game as interim boss, but they ended an 11-game losing run away from home on Wednesday with a 2-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.
Redknapp resigned on 3 February, saying he needed "immediate surgery" on his knee and it would be "better for someone else to take over" because he could not "give 100%" to the job.
The 67-year-old led QPR to promotion to the Premier League last season via the Championship play-offs.
He was suspended from office in December pending a probe into his alleged ties with the former governor of the rich mining province of Ancash.
Ex-governor Cesar Alvarez is in jail while on trial for alleged corruption.
Mr Ramos is accused of covering up for Mr Alvarez while he was head of an auditing department.
Mr Ramos said the allegations were part of "a plot and conspiracy against me". He has five days to appeal against the decision.
A commission which oversees the judiciary voted five to one to fire Mr Ramos.
It said it had found links between Mr Ramos and Mr Alvarez, who is on trial for allegedly granting public work contracts in exchange for bribes.
Investigators said Mr Ramos had arranged to have prosecutors investigating Mr Alvarez fired.
Pablo Sanchez, who has been acting as interim attorney general since Mr Ramos was suspended, is expected to take over the post.
The sacking of the attorney general comes just six weeks after the prime minister was forced to step down over allegations that the country's intelligence services had spied on politicians, journalists and businesspeople.
Analysts say the scandals have hurt President Ollanta Humala, whose approval rating has plummeted to 24%, according to a poll conducted last month.
Flights had to be halted for three 30-minute periods so staff in the control tower could comply with rest breaks despite the shortages.
One passenger complained his plane was delayed by 90 minutes.
The National Air Traffic Services (Nats) apologised for the inconvenience but warned there would be a similar situation on Sunday.
Nats said "staff sickness" had caused the issues in Southampton's air traffic control tower.
A Nats spokesman added: "To ensure we complied fully with the safety regulations around controller rest breaks, this resulted in a stop to inbound and outbound flights for three short periods of time."
Brian Fearn, who is travelling to Malaga, said: "[There are] 150 very frustrated hot and bothered passengers on Flybe destined for Malaga are still on the ground 1.5 hours after scheduled departure with no news when we can get off or get away."
The Nats spokesman said: "We worked with the airport to ensure we kept the disruption to a minimum."
The researchers said the oceans' lowest reaches had untold riches that could benefit mankind enormously, but not if the harvesting were done destructively.
The scientists called for a "new stewardship" of the deep sea.
This would require effective ecosystem management and sustainable methods of exploitation.
The researchers said the fishing sector had already initiated some very damaging practices, such as the widely criticised use of heavy-rolling, sea-floor nets, but that there was still time for other sectors to take more sensitive approaches.
This includes the imminent development and spread of industrial-scale deep-sea mining.
The ocean floor is being targeted as a source for a range of metals and minerals.
Part of this is driven by the insatiable appetite for modern technology devices like cell phones and hybrid cars.
The battery in a Toyota Prius hybrid car, for example, requires more than 10kg of lanthanum.
Large tracts of sea bed have now been licensed to permit the prospecting of manganese nodules, cobalt crusts, massive sulphides to produce copper and zinc, and even phosphates to make fertilisers.
Some of these licences are certain to turn into full-mining permissions this decade.
"The deep ocean is a vast repository of resources, and looking over the long term - the next hundreds of years, say - we almost surely are going in there to mine," said Prof Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in San Diego, California.
"Even if some deposits are not currently economically viable, they probably will be in 50 years from now.
"What we're trying to say is that we need to do this in a responsible way, and if we are going to extract these resources, we need to do it with the least amount of harm to ecosystems, and now is the time to start thinking about how we do that," she told BBC News.
The researchers made their call for a new stewardship mentality at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Mining of the deep ocean has been talked about since at least the 1970s, but the advance in underwater robotics and rising commodity prices have brought the notion much closer to reality.
The International Seabed Authority has so far issued 19 prospecting licences, covering a combined area about the size of Mexico.
These licences are held by governments and big contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, which operates in the aerospace, defence and civil sectors, and more requests are pending.
Initial surveys have indicated that some of the metal reserves could be very lucrative, producing materials such as copper that would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the London Metal Exchange. But before the extraction can begin, thorough environmental assessments had to be done, said Prof Cindy Lee Van Dover, the director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, in Beaufort, North Carolina.
"The most effective time to do environmental management is before the mining begins. That mining has not yet commenced, and if we want to get really progressive environmental regulations, we need to do it now," she argued.
"That environmental management needs to be informed by science, and that science needs support from international and national agencies to make it happen. It's not cheap to work in the deep sea."
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People referred for assessment by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) should be seen within 28 days.
NSPCC Cymru said it was a worrying picture.
The Welsh Government said there had been a 44% decrease in people having to wait for six months, compared to 2015.
Des Mannion, the head of service for NSPCC Cymru, said that, while some improvements had been made, it was clear there were still problems.
"These figures lay bare the true scale of delays in accessing mental health services for children and it's a worrying picture," he said.
"It does seem pretty shocking that we're having some young people waiting for more than six months for their first appointment. That can't be good.
"Investment in these sort of services for children and young people is actually money that's well spent both in terms of outcomes for them but also in terms of preventing them needing further intervention support in their adult lives."
Another charity has also expressed concern about the delays.
Changing Minds is a project run by Newport Mind for 14-25 year olds in Newport. It works on early intervention strategies for these young people but said the delays had increased pressure on services.
Project manager Jules Twells said: "I think because CAMHS is struggling with the resources it has, what tends to happen is that when people are on their waiting list, they need additional support so we're getting the referrals that CAMHS and primary mental health care should be dealing with.
"It's putting a strain on our referral mechanisms because we can't support the early intervention because we're dealing with the treatment of mental health issues."
Abi Larcombe, 17, has suffered with mental health issues since she was about 11.
She only received support from mental health services after she tried to take her own life.
"I knew I needed help but I was refusing to acknowledge that there was an issue. I didn't want to accept the fact I was ill," she said.
Aneurin Bevan health board said: "We have had a backlog of cases due to us having experienced a shortfall of clinical staff available to undertake first assessments.
"However, since 2015-16 we have addressed this issue with the provision of additional clinical sessions and a successful recruitment programme which occurred as a result of additional investment by the Welsh Government."
Betsi Cadwaladr health board said its team had seen an increase in demand but it expected to meet its target of seeing 80% of first referrals within 28 days by the end of January.
Powys Teaching health board said that no-one had waited for more than six months since October 2015.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Statistics show that in the 12 months to October 2016 there has been an increase of 16% in the number of referrals to CAMHS, compared with the previous 12-month period.
"Comparing the data from October 2015 with October 2016, there has been a 31% decrease in those waiting over four weeks and a 44% decrease in those waiting over 26 weeks."
The tiger was killed when it caught hold of the guard who was tying a buffalo calf as a bait to a tree in the Bandipur forest range, officials said.
The animal, described as a "man-eater" by authorities, had attacked another man about a month ago, they said.
There are about 1,700 tigers left in the wild in India.
It is estimated India had 100,000 tigers a century ago, but their numbers have declined sharply since then, due to poaching and rapidly shrinking habitats.
With increasing human encroachment into their reserves, tigers often compete for resources with nearby villagers, leading to conflict.
The latest incident took place on Wednesday when more than 60 forest department personnel along with their colleagues from the Special Tiger Protection Force were sent to capture the tiger.
As tigers tend to return to the same spot, the team tied a goat as a bait at the place where the animal had killed and partially eaten a 55-year-old farmer, forest officials said.
The tiger evaded the bait but left behind enough pug marks for the forest department officials, armed with tranquilisers and bullets, to remain on the track.
The tiger was killed in a rather dramatic manner when it pounced and caught forest guard Shiv Kumar.
"It was when Shiv Kumar was trying to tie the bait that we suddenly heard the tiger's growl and the guard's shriek. That's when our sharpshooter Sushil Kumar shot the animal," Ravi Ralph, chief wildlife warden of Karnataka, told BBC Hindi.
Mr Kumar was taken to a hospital where his condition is described as "out of danger".
Last year, in the Doddabetta Forest range near the town of Ooty in Tamil Nadu, forest workers shot dead a tiger blamed for killing three women over two weeks.
Wildlife experts say most attacks on people are chance encounters gone wrong, and victims of such attacks are rarely dragged away as prey.
But a series of attacks on people in quick succession is a tell-tale sign of a man-eater at work.
Fewer than 85 humans are killed or injured by tigers every year in India and the country's strong animal welfare lobby has been campaigning that "man-eaters" should be captured rather than shot.
Forest officials, however, say sometimes prompt action is crucial in saving lives.
Bertrand Piccard piloted the plane for a final time, steering it safely from the Egyptian capital Cairo to the UAE.
He has been taking turns at the controls with Swiss compatriot Andre Borschberg, with the mission aiming to promote renewable energy.
It brings to an end a voyage that began in Abu Dhabi on 9 March last year.
"The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now. Let's take it further,'' Mr Piccard said, arriving into Abu Dhabi to cheers and applause.
The 17-stage journey covered some 42,000km, taking in four continents, three seas and two oceans.
The longest leg, an 8,924km (5,545-mile) flight from Nagoya in Japan to Hawaii, US, lasted nearly 118 hours and saw Mr Borschberg break the absolute world record for longest (time duration) uninterrupted solo flight.
It was just one of 19 official aviation records set during the global adventure.
Mr Piccard and Mr Borschberg have been working on the Solar Impulse project for more than a decade.
The pair had hoped to complete the challenge last year but progress was not quite swift enough to get the best of the weather in the Northern Hemisphere's summer.
And when battery damage was sustained on that epic five-day, five-night passage over the western Pacific in June/July 2015, the decision was taken to ground the effort for 10 months.
Solar Impulse is no heavier than a car, but has the wingspan of a Boeing 747. It is powered by 17,000 solar cells.
Its experimental design presents a number of technical difficulties, with the plane being very sensitive to weather conditions.
Indeed, the passage from Cairo was very bumpy for Mr Piccard as he battled severe turbulence above the hot Saudi desert.
The cockpit is about the size of a public telephone box, with the pilots having to wear oxygen tanks to breathe at high altitude and permitted to only sleep for 20 minutes at a time.
LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 772km; 13 Hours 1 Minute
LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,593km; 15 Hours 20 Minutes
LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,170km; 13 Hours 15 Minutes
LEG 4: 18 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,536km; 13 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 5: 29 March. Mandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,636km; 20 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing (China) - 1,384km; 17 Hours 22 Minutes
LEG 7: 30 May. Nanjing (China) to Nagoya (Japan) - 2,942km; 1 Day 20 Hours 9 Minutes
LEG 8: 28 June. Nagoya (Japan) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) - 8,924km; 4 Days 21 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 9: 21 April. Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) to Mountain View, California (US) - 4,523km; 2 Days 17 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 10: 2 May. Mountain View, California (US) to Phoenix, Arizona (US) - 1,199km; 15 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 11: 12 May. Phoenix, Arizona (US) to Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) - 1,570 km; 18 Hours 10 Minutes
LEG 12: 21 May. Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) to Dayton, Ohio (US) - 1,113 km; 16 Hours 34 Minutes
LEG 13: 25 May. Dayton, Ohio (US) to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (US) - 1,044 km; 16 Hours 47 Minutes
LEG 14: 11 June. Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (US) to New York (US) - 230km; 4 Hours 41 Minutes
LEG 15: 20 June. New York (US) to Seville (Spain) - 6,765km; 2 Days 23 Hours 8 minutes
LEG 16: 11 July. Seville (Spain) to Egypt (Cairo) - 3,745km; 2 Days 50 Minutes
LEG 17: 23 July. Egypt (Cairo) to Abu Dhabi (UAE) - 2,694 km; 2 Days 47 Minutes
An investigation found Geoffrey Marcy repeatedly violated the campus sexual harassment policies.
The inquiry was prompted by complaints from students about Mr Marcy from as early as 2001.
He is one of the world's top experts on the planets outside of Earth's solar system.
Mr Marcy has publically apologised for his behaviour, which the university found included unwanted massaging, kissing and groping, in a letter.
"While I do not agree with each complaint that was made, it is clear that my behaviour was unwelcomed by some women," he wrote in the 7 October letter.
"It is difficult to express how painful it is for me to realise that I was a source of distress for any of my women colleagues, however unintentional."
Initially, the university only reprimanded Mr Marcy for his behaviour. However, students and staff criticised that decision and called for Mr Marcy to be fired.
A petition which reads "I support the people who were targets of Geoff Marcy's inappropriate behaviour and those who have spoken publicly about it. I agree that sexual harassment has no place in our community" is signed by more than 2,500 people.
A group of 268 astronomers and physicists wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times after it published an article it felt was overly sympathetic to Mr Marcy and his wife, who has defended his actions.
He said there was no reason for the yuan to keep depreciating in value and that China would not let international speculators dominate market sentiment.
Mr Zhou's remarks come as Chinese markets prepare to reopen on Monday after a week-long New Year holiday.
Efforts to defend the yuan have eroded China's foreign currency reserves.
At $3.23tn (2.84tn euros; £2.2tn), China still has the world's biggest reserve of foreign currency holdings.
But that has declined by $420bn over six months and stands at the lowest level since May 2012.
In January alone, the reserves plunged by $99.5bn as the People's Bank of China sold dollars in an effort to shore up the value of the yuan.
Mr Zhou's comments came in an interview published in the Caixin financial magazine.
"International speculative forces have recently focused on shorting China," the People's Bank of China governor told the magazine, without giving further details.
He dismissed fears that China's currency reserves were declining too fast, saying: "It is normal for foreign reserves to rise and fall as long as the fundamentals face no problems."
The Chinese economy posted growth of 6.9% in 2015, its slowest rate since 1990. Fears of an economic slowdown have caused some investors to move their money out of China in search of better returns elsewhere.
However, Mr Zhou said China would not tighten its capital controls as a result. "Capital outflow and capital flight are two different concepts," he added.
The Chinese authorities fear a rapid devaluation of their currency, as it could destabilise the economy.
Many Chinese businesses hold debt in dollars and managing those debts with a severely weakened yuan could cause problems and some companies to fail.
So China has been trying to engineer an ordered devaluation of the yuan, but that is proving hard to deliver.
Investors have been trying to pull funds out of investments priced in yuan and speculators have been betting on further falls in the currency.
To stabilise the situation, China has been selling dollars and buying yuan.
And it has been using other tactics, including curbing currency speculation and ordering offshore banks to retain their reserves of yuan.
The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) was tasked with improving protection for children.
But the authors of a report on its work raised concerns that it spent too much time on the "wrong issues".
They added that "tensions" existed among senior board members.
Alarmingly, among the 11 recommendations from the review panel is a warning that all agencies must ensure the board is notified of cases where a child has died or been significantly harmed.
That suggests vital information was not being shared in some fatal cases.
While the report said fault does not lie with those working directly with vulnerable children, the finger of blame is being pointed to those at the top of the board.
The review said concerns were being raised by many involved in social work but no-one appeared to be listening.
There appeared to be some tensions at the top of the strategic board, but children were still being protected, said the chairwoman of the Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers.
"On the ground, multi-agency work in between police, medics, social workers, education works well," Marcellla Leonard told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
The review was led by Prof Alexis Jay OBE, who led the Rotherham abuse inquiry.
She was appointed as the new chairwoman of the inquiry into child sex abuse in England and Wales on Friday.
Although the review of the SBNI was completed in February 2016, it was only published on the Department of Health's website last week.
Several health professionals involved in the panel and affected by its workings only became aware of the review's recommendations when they were contacted by the BBC.
The SBNI was established in 2012.
At the time, then Health Minister Edwin Poots said the previous child protection committees had been criticised for lacking focus, a strategic perspective and a legislative basis.
But according to this review, little has changed in spite of the board having the protection of children as its core purpose.
"Perhaps the most troubling concern was the lack of structured focus on the multi-agency aspects of child protection," Prof Jay said in her review.
"The board now needs to restate its core role of ensuring that work to protect children is properly coordinated."
The review also covers Operation Owl, which related to 22 child sexual exploitation cases identified by police in 2013.
These cases related to children and young people who had gone missing from care in Northern Ireland and who the police said "may be at risk".
At the time, the SBNI conducted its own review and criticised the authorities for not doing enough.
The board has said the sheer scale of Operation Owl distracted them from their normal business.
But Prof Jay said it was not the review that distracted the board, but the way in which its members chose to handle it.
Throughout the 59-page report, a picture emerges of a disjointed organisation that was experiencing serious governance issues from the top.
That, according to the report, was affecting how health professionals were attempting to deliver care to vulnerable children on the ground.
In 2014, after two years of operating, cracks had started to appear.
After being contacted by members of the panel who had concerns about how the board was operating, the BBC approached the board seeking clarification.
But the questions were dismissed and the BBC was told the board was operating effectively.
The review said all was not well within months of the board coming together, and refers to "low staff morale" and "anxiety" amongst staff.
The SBNI is the responsibility of the Department of Health.
In a statement, it said Health Minister Michelle O'Neill has accepted Prof Jay's recommendations and has written to the board's chair requesting they are implemented without delay.
The French side led on two minutes when City's Carli Lloyd handled in the box and Saki Kumagai converted the penalty.
Kosovare Asllani quickly slotted in the hosts' equaliser but Dzsenifer Marozsan soon put Lyon deservedly back in front.
France striker Eugenie Le Sommer added a third after the break to put Lyon in command for the second leg on 29 April.
Champions League debutants City, bidding to be the first English women's team to reach a European final since 2007, almost pulled one back late on but Abbie McManus' effort was palmed onto the woodwork.
The French league champions, who have featured in five of the past seven Champions League finals - winning three - could have won in Manchester by a bigger margin.
Both sides went into the game having kept 13 clean sheets in their past 16 games, yet the match started at a frantic pace, with three goals in the opening 16 minutes.
Lyon had an effort from France captain Wendie Renard cleared off the line even before Japan's Kumagai calmly tucked in from the spot after World Player of the Year Lloyd's handball.
Toni Duggan's fine through ball allowed Sweden's Asllani to level but the visitors were a constant threat and Marozsan quickly drilled in for 2-1 and substitute Le Sommer added further damage from a tight angle in the second half.
Women's FA Cup finalists City - Britain's first Women's Champions League semi-finalists since Birmingham City in 2013-14 - won the English title and League Cup in 2016 and could still theoretically win five trophies in the space of nine months.
But Lyon will now reach 1 June's final in Cardiff if they avoid conceding three goals or more in the return leg in France next Saturday.
Manchester City Women: Bardsley, Bronze, Stokes, Houghton (c), Asllani, Scott, Duggan (Stanway 83), Lawley (Christiansen 81), McManus, Walsh, Lloyd.
Subs not used: Hourihan, Middag, Beattie, Ross, Parris.
Lyon Feminines: Boudhaddi, Renard (c), Kumagai, Majri, Houara-D'Hommeaux, Morgan (Le Sommer 56), Marozsan, Hegerberg, Buchanan, Abily, M'Bock Bathy.
Subs not used: Gerard, Hamraoui, Thomis, Petit, Henning, Seger.
Attendance: 3,614
Glasgow, Belfast and Manchester will host 'Home Series' ranking events, alongside the current Welsh Open.
The tour prize money will also increase from £8m this season to £8.5m in 2015-16 and £10m in 2016-17.
"There will always be players who criticise, depending on how it affects them, that's human nature," said Hearn, who took control of snooker in 2010.
"I need to think about the development of the sport. There will be casualties."
The prize money has increased from £3.5m since Hearn took over and he has now outlined plans to expand the sport further.
The 'Home Series' will see the introduction of Scottish, Irish and English Open tournaments, alongside the Welsh Open, which was established in 1992. If a player wins all those events, he will receive a £1m bonus.
All events apart from the World Championship with see a 128-person draw, but the showpiece 32-competitor event at the Crucible will be unchanged with regard to format, seedings and qualifying.
The winner of the world title will receive £500,000 from the 2017-18 season onwards, with this year's victor set to receive £300,000.
He was Alistair Sloss of Ruskey Road in the village.
Mr Sloss's death is being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland.
In a statement, the HSE said its "deepest sympathies are with the man's family at this most difficult time".
DUP MLA Keith Buchanan said the man's death was "another tragic loss within the farming community".
"The local community's in shock. Any small rural area, everybody knows everybody else," he said.
"The amount of farmers across Northern Ireland and across the country working at slurry at this time of year, unfortunately these things can and will happen.
"Hopefully the message will come through to take more time and be cautious."
Ulster Unionist MLA Sandra Overend said: "To hear of another local farming accident brings a clench to my stomach.
"I was so saddened to hear of the tragic death of Alistair Sloss yesterday evening and I immediately thought of his family who are suffering their greatest sadness; my heart goes out to them."
Wesley Aston of the Ulster Farmers' Union said the "tragic news" of Mr Sloss's death showed there could be no complacency around the issue of farm safety.
"Just a couple of days ago, we got encouraging news from the Health and Safety Executive about how much we had made progress in reducing farm deaths," he added.
"Unfortunately to receive this tragic news last night just shows that we can't be complacent and it is important that we do take every action that we can to avoid such events happening in the future."
The blaze broke out at Reading Lake Hotel, Pingewood, which is close to the M4, at about 11:40 GMT.
It is believed the fire started in the roof of the building, next to the 33-acre (13-hectare) lake, but an investigation is under way.
Ten fire engines were sent to the scene but there were no reports of any injuries.
A group of boys had thrown eggs at windows before one boy was chased by a man and punched so hard in the face he needed stitches.
The assault happened at about 20.00 on Saturday night in Old Kilpatrick, Clydebank.
The boy was taken to a Glasgow hospital where he received stitches to an eye wound.
The suspect is described as white, in his 40s, of "chubby" build with stubble on his face and dark hair, according to Police Scotland.
The boy was with friends in the lane between Harris Drive and Old Dalnottar Road when the man chased and assaulted him.
The suspect then ran off in the direction of Old Dalnottar Road.
Police believe that the suspect came from one of the houses involved.
Det Con Nicola McGowan said: "Whilst we are not condoning the egg throwing - that in itself was dangerous and upsetting for the householders - it's no excuse to hit a child in the face so hard they had to get stitches."
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The head of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) has told BBC Wales he believes the problem will get worse.
People are being turned away by funeral directors because they cannot afford deposits, leaving councils to foot the bill for so-called "pauper funerals".
BBC Wales' Week In Week Out programme found Welsh councils have increased charges by 168% in the last 10 years.
This is three times the rate of inflation recorded the Office of National Statistics over the same period.
On average it now costs well over ??800 to buy a grave in Wales.
Last month a report found the average cost of a cremation in the UK was ??2,720 and a burial was ??3,462.
Joanne Sunter, from Portmead in Swansea, said she was turned away by four funeral directors because she was unable to pay a deposit of hundreds of pounds up front.
"I was heartbroken. My mother was in a mortuary rotting and none of these people would help me," she said.
"I just wanted to put her to rest as did my brother and sister and the rest of the family."
Funeral directors like Clive Peterson in Cwmbran blame local councils saying increased charges for services associated with burial and cremation are the reason funerals have become so expensive.
"There doesn't seem to be any control," he said.
"For instance we've had notification in recent times that Caerphilly District Council are putting up the burial fees up by 18% plus inflation, every year for the next five years."
A public health funeral consists of a simple service after which the deceased is either cremated or buried in an unmarked grave which could potentially be reused three or four times.
At least one such funeral - traditionally held when there is no remaining next-of-kin - takes place in Wales every week.
But Week in Week Out has found councils are dealing with more cases where families simply cannot afford to pay or because funeral directors have turned them away.
The programme asked every council and local health board in Wales, through a freedom of information request, how many public health funerals they dealt with on an annual basis from 2001 to 2010.
Due to reorganization not every health board was able to respond but the figures gathered suggest numbers had doubled over the decade.
Steve Thomas, chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), said: "I'm not surprised by that, and I suspect we will see a growing trend towards this.
"Now it's not a trend any of us would welcome, but it does it reflect the nature of society and probably the problems we have in the economy at the moment."
Week In Week Out: The Cost Of A Welsh Funeral will be broadcast on Tuesday, 11 October at 22:35 BST on BBC1 Wales.
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The 25-year-old midfielder signed a three-year-contract to become Ibrox manager Pedro Caixinha's second signing of the summer.
Jack came through the youth ranks at Pittodrie but chose to leave the club at the end of his contract.
Caixinha has already secured the signing of Portugal defender Bruno Alves from Cagliari.
"It's an honour and a privilege to come to such a massive club and I'm grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to the challenge that lies ahead," Jack said.
"It's a huge club and the club is back in European football and a big support as well. It's always a great atmosphere when you play there. So all that and the package that comes with it, it's an exciting time.
"I'm really looking forward to it. It's a surreal moment but I'm delighted to be part of this club.
"I'm thankful to Aberdeen and to Derek McInnes, but I just felt it was time for a fresh challenge and it's one at Rangers that I'm really looking forward to.
"From what I've heard, the club are making a few signings and bringing in a good calibre of player, so it's exciting times and I know there are really good players already here as well."
Jack made his debut for Aberdeen against Rangers in September 2010 and went on to make almost 250 appearances for the club, scoring 11 goals.
He was appointed club captain by manager Derek McInnes at the beginning of the 2015-16 season.
However, he lost the armband ahead of the Scottish Cup final defeat to Celtic because of his intention to leave Pittodrie.
He was replaced as captain with Graeme Shinnie.
Alves became Rangers' first signing of Caixinha's rebuild after leaving Serie A and the Rangers manager was keen to make jack the second part of his recruitment strategy.
"I believe 25 is a great age for him to come here," the Rangers manager said.
"He had three years as captain of Aberdeen and has that experience. He also understands what it means to represent Rangers."
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David Pokora, 60, of Littleport, Cambridgeshire, died when he collided head-on with the lorry on 3 June.
Cambridge Crown Court heard that Istvan Becsei, 57, from Retszilas, Hungary, was driving on the wrong side of the single-carriageway road in Littleport.
Becsei, who admitted causing death by dangerous driving, was jailed for 32 months on Monday.
He was also disqualified from driving for 31 months.
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The court heard that Becsei had pulled out from a farm on to Ely Road and started driving on the wrong side of the road. The vehicles collided on a bend just south of the junction with Brickmakers Way.
Speaking after the hearing, PC James Thorne said: "This tragic collision was a result of Becsei not paying proper attention to his driving for a relatively long period of time.
"Losing concentration while driving has the potential to prove fatal and maintaining that due care and attention is particularly important when you're driving on a side of the road you're not used to."
The firm, which began a recovery plan in 2012 to control costs and improve efficiency, said it held net cash of £1.4m, offset by debts of £1.2m.
Fife-based Havelock said retail and international sales improved in 2014.
But its performance was hit by reduced activity in education and financial services.
Group revenue last year fell by more than £6m to £83.4m, while pre-tax profit before exceptional costs dropped from £400,000 to £200,000.
Reducing debt has been a key goal for the company since its bank debt hit nearly £20m in 2009.
The group's recovery plan includes developing a broader mix of business in order to "increase resilience and reduce dependence on particular markets and customers".
Havelock's client list includes high street names such as Alliance Boots, Lloyds Banking Group, Marks & Spencer, Primark, Virgin Money and House of Fraser.
In his annual results statement, chairman David MacLellan said: "The focus of the business continues to be centred on developing and diversifying across five main sectors: retail, financial services, Education/accommodation, healthcare and international.
"Retail, financial services and education are currently the strongest and most mature sectors and each is capable of delivering around 30% of group revenue.
"Over the long term, we aim to create a balance between sectors with no one sector contributing more than 30% of long term sales.
"Expansion of healthcare and international are key elements of this strategy."
Havelock is still seeking a new chief executive after Eric Prescott stepped down last month.
The company is set to move to new headquarters in Kirkcaldy, having sold its Dalgety Bay premises for £700,000. The cash will be reinvested in fitting out the new head office.
The historical artefact was found during construction of the £99m Lincoln Eastern Bypass.
Experts believe the cat left the mark when the tile was laid out to dry by a potter.
Ruben Lopez, site manager at Network Archaeology Ltd, said: "Many of us have pets and animals nowadays so you can see nothing has changed.
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Tiles from the site near Washingborough Road, Lincoln, have also been found with the imprints of a dog's paw and a deer's hoof.
"It is exciting, this site here is one in a thousand," Mr Lopez added.
"The Romans had pets as we do.
"You identify with finds like this. We are used to it of course, it's our job, but it is always exciting to find something like this."
Large quantities of tiles have been discovered, evidence that points to a complex of buildings - possibly a villa - built around AD100.
Walls made of stone have been exposed and the tiles show it could have had a tiled roof and a hypocaust [hot air heating system] according to archaeology reports.
The Roman era of British history lasted from AD43 to AD410. However, a host of finds from the past 12,000 years have also been identified.
They range from flint tools used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Bronze Age arrowheads to evidence of the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th Century.
Saxon burials and a possible Bronze Age boat have also been uncovered.
Archaeologists have been at the site since 2016. The five-mile (7.5km) Lincoln Eastern Bypass is due to open in October 2019.
Don Leisure Ltd said administrators had been called in to manage the assets of Aberystwyth's Royal Pier.
Managing director Andrew Deakin said last year's tidal storms and the resulting loss of business could be to blame.
He said: "A number of options are being considered, ranging from a restructuring to a possible sale."
Mr Deakin said the pier escaped the worst of last year's storm, but its trading suffered with many students returning home.
Here is a timeline of events in the most dangerous conflict to grip Europe since the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
12 November: Nato commander Gen Philip Breedlove says Russian military equipment and Russian combat troops have been seen entering Ukraine in columns over several days.
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11 November: Dutch efforts to salvage wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines crash site stall over disagreements with local rebel groups.
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2-3 November: Separatists in eastern Ukraine elect new leaders in polls backed by Russia and denounced by the West. President Poroshenko accuses the rebels of jeopardising "the entire peace process" and says Ukrainian forces should prepare defences against separatist attack.
Summary justice in Ukraine's rebel east
31 October: Russia agrees to resume gas supplies to Ukraine over the winter in a deal brokered by the EU.
Russia's gas fight with Ukraine
26 October: Pro-Western parties win Ukraine's parliamentary elections.
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21 October: Human Rights Watch says it has strong evidence Ukraine attacked populated areas of Donetsk with cluster bombs, banned by many other states.
12 October: President Putin orders thousands of troops stationed near the Ukrainian border to return to their bases.
24 September: Nato reports a "significant" withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine.
9 September: Dutch experts find that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air after being hit by "objects" that "pierced the plane at high velocity" in July.
5 September: Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels sign a truce in Minsk.
1 September: Ukraine says 700 of its men have been taken prisoner as pro-Russian rebels advance in the east.
27-28 August: Rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko says there are 3-4,000 Russian civilians in rebel ranks as the separatists open up a front on the Sea of Azov and capture Novoazovsk.
26 August: Ukraine releases videos of captured Russian paratroopers. They are later exchanged for Ukrainian soldiers.
22 August: A huge Russian convoy delivers humanitarian aid to the government-besieged city of Luhansk without Ukrainian permission.
30 July: The EU and US announce new sanctions against Russia.
17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam is shot down near the village of Grabove in rebel-held territory, with the loss of 298 lives.
5 July: Rebels abandon their command centre at Sloviansk in the face of a government offensive.
27 June: The EU signs a landmark association agreement with Ukraine.
25 June: Russia's parliament cancels a parliamentary resolution authorising the use of Russian forces in Ukraine.
14 June: Pro-Russia separatists shoot down a military plane in the east, killing 49 people.
25 May: Ukraine elects Petro Poroshenko as president in an election not held in much of the east.
11 May: Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk declare independence after unrecognised referendums.
2 May: Clashes in the Black Sea city of Odessa, leave 42 people dead, most of them pro-Russian activists. Most die when they are trapped in a burning building.
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22 April: Ukraine's acting president orders the relaunch of military operations against pro-Russian militants in the east.
17 April: Russia, Ukraine, the US and the EU say they have agreed at talks in Geneva on steps to "de-escalate" the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Three people are killed when Ukrainian security forces fend off a raid on a base in Mariupol - the first violent deaths in the east.
15 April: Ukraine's acting President, Olexander Turchynov, announces the start of an "anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russian separatists. It quickly stalls.
7 April: Protesters occupy government buildings in the east Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, calling for a referendum on independence. Ukrainian authorities regain control of Kharkiv government buildings the next day.
28 March: US President Barack Obama urges Moscow to "move back its troops" and lower tensions.
18 March: President Putin signs a bill to absorb Crimea into the Russian Federation.
17 March: The EU and US impose travel bans and asset freezes on several officials from Russia and Ukraine over the Crimea referendum.
16 March: Crimea's secession referendum on joining Russia is backed by 97% of voters, organisers say, but vote condemned by West as a sham.
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1 March: Russia's parliament approves President Vladimir Putin's request to use force in Ukraine to protect Russian interests.
27-28 February: Pro-Russian gunmen seize key buildings in the Crimean capital, Simferopol. Unidentified gunmen in combat uniforms appear outside Crimea's main airports.
23-26 February:
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21 February: President Yanukovych signs compromise deal with opposition leaders.
20 February: Kiev sees its worst day of violence for almost 70 years. At least 88 people are killed in 48 hours. Video shows uniformed snipers firing at protesters holding makeshift shields.
Images of Independence Square, before and after the clashes
18 February: Clashes erupt, with reasons unclear: 18 dead.
14-16 February: All 234 protesters arrested since December are released. Kiev city hall, occupied since 1 December, is abandoned by demonstrators, along with other public buildings in regions.
28-29 January: Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigns and parliament annuls the anti-protest law. Parliament passes amnesty bill but opposition rejects conditions.
16-23 January: Parliament passes restrictive anti-protest laws as clashes turn deadly. Protesters begin storming regional government offices in western Ukraine.
17 December: Vladimir Putin throws President Yanukovych an economic lifeline, agreeing to buy $15bn of Ukrainian debt and reduce the price of Russian gas supplies by about a third.
Early December: Protesters occupy Kiev city hall and Independence Square in dramatic style. Some 800,000 people rally in Kiev.
Late November: Protests gather pace, as 100,000 people attend a demonstration in Kiev.
21 November: President Yanukovych's cabinet abandons an agreement on closer trade ties with EU, instead seeking closer co-operation with Russia. Small protests start.
February: Viktor Yanukovych is declared the winner in a presidential election judged free and fair by observers. His main rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is arrested for abuse of powers and eventually jailed in October 2011.
December: Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko tops poll in election re-run. Rival candidate Viktor Yanukovych challenges result but resigns as prime minister.
November: Orange Revolution begins after reports of widespread vote-rigging in presidential election nominally won by pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko leads mass street protests and civil disobedience. Supreme Court annuls result of poll.
August: Ukrainian parliament declares independence from USSR following attempted coup in Moscow. In a nationwide referendum in December, 90% vote for independence.
The carmaker said it would withhold a portion of bonus payments for now, but could award them at a later date.
Last year VW admitted to cheating on diesel emissions tests, with net losses for 2015 reaching €5.5bn.
Chief executive Matthias Mueller apologised for the firm's actions.
At a press conference, he acknowledged that the carmaker "disappointed many people who trusted Volkswagen".
Mr Mueller has been promised a 2015 pay package of €4.76m, of which €880,000 has been postponed.
Meanwhile former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, who resigned in the wake of the scandal, agreed to delay 30% of his variable pay but will still collect a total of €7.3m.
Hans Dieter Posch will receive €5.2m for his previous work as chief finance officer, as well as fixed pay of €13.4m for his new role chairing Volkswagen's supervisory board.
The German company has set aside €16.2bn to pay costs associated with the scandal, almost half of which is devoted to buying back or repairing diesel cars that possess the emissions cheating software.
Mr Mueller said that the recall process would be the company's "most important task until the very last vehicle has been put in order".
Earlier this week, Volkswagen said it was postponing a recall plan for tens of thousands of Passat models in Germany, while it waited for the repair process to be approved by regulators.
The company has previously failed to win approval for a recall of its Golf models, as it struggles to fix 8.5 million vehicles in Europe alone.
Their lives were saved by the "quick thinking" of paramedics on Monday, police said.
The deaths in Barnsley on Good Friday are not believed to be linked to two other drug-related deaths in West Yorkshire.
Toxicology reports are expected in the next few days.
Ch Supt Rob Odell, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "In addition to the deaths reported to police, on Monday we received two separate reports of individuals becoming gravely ill after taking suspected illegal substances.
"Thanks to the quick actions of paramedics, those individuals survived."
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He said one of the four South Yorkshire deaths was "potentially linked to a pre-existing medical condition".
However, detectives are keeping an "open mind" and the other deaths could be due to an "unusually strong supply, or something added to the drugs", Mr Odell said.
"We understand there have been further deaths in the West Yorkshire region that may also be connected to drugs use," Mr Odell said.
"We are in contact with West Yorkshire Police officers but at this stage, we do not believe the deaths are linked. We will keep an open mind as our investigations continue."
Police have appealed for anyone with concern or information to contact them, and to seek medical help if they have taken a substance and feel unwell.
Robberies, thefts, assaults and driving offences were among 290 incidents recorded across England and Wales throughout July.
Lancashire Constabulary logged 39 incidents - the highest figure from 29 forces that provided data.
The force has reiterated safety advice for fans of the monster-hunting game.
A spokesman for Pokemon Go developers Niantic also urged people playing the game to "abide by local laws".
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Data released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act revealed officers have dealt with complaints ranging from the disturbing to the bizarre.
In some cases Pokemon players have been victims of crime, while others have been accused of committing offences or being involved in antisocial behaviour.
Surrey Police attended reports of 30 people fighting after a Pokemon hunt turned into a brawl.
Officers in north Wales discovered a man had invited children back to his home "as he had lots of Pokemon at his address".
In Cheshire, concerns were raised about children walking over graves in a cemetery as they took part in the augmented reality craze.
Both Greater Manchester Police and the Met noted incidents of Pokemon "lures" being set up, as robbers used the game to distract victims before snatching their mobile phones.
British Transport Police recorded two incidents of children trespassing on railways while playing the game, while several drivers have been spotted playing the game behind the wheel.
Other incidents were less clear. West Midlands Police referred to someone being "offered sexual favours" but provided no further detail.
West Mercia Police recorded a "road accident while playing Pokemon" but declined to elaborate.
A woman contacted West Yorkshire Police concerned that Pokemon characters were trying to "get into her home".
Cumbria Police received a complaint regarding a picture posted on Facebook, in which "the image had been altered to depict the person as a Pokemon character".
In another traffic-related incident, officers in Surrey discovered nine cars "parked across a junction" while looking for Pokemon.
Police in Devon were called to reports of a motorist driving down one-way streets and "stopping in the middle of the road playing Pokemon".
South Yorkshire Police said a Pokemon player had been punched and had their phone taken by three "unknown assailants".
West Mercia Police recorded 32 incidents, the second highest total, while the forces with the joint lowest were Thames Valley and North Yorkshire, which each logged two incidents.
The majority of forces declined to specify how many arrests had been made, with several citing ongoing investigations.
Sgt Neil Dewson-Smyth, of Cheshire Police, said the figures were "worrying".
"It was out in America first and there seemed to have been a few problems there. Nationally and internationally I'm well aware of quite a few circumstances that have come up," he said.
"But for me the key message is do not play it while driving. It's a fun game, but play safe and don't put lives at risk."
A spokesman for Niantic said the company takes the issue of "player safety" seriously.
"We encourage all people to be aware of their surroundings and to play alongside friends or family, especially when you're exploring unfamiliar places," he added.
"Please remember to be safe and alert at all times, don't drive and play, abide by local laws and respect the locations you visit."
Lancashire Constabulary said Pokemon players should never trespass on private land or put themselves in any sort of risk for the sake of the game.
"People should avoid potentially dangerous locations that could make you vulnerable to injury or become a victim of crime," a force spokesman said.
"Never enter any body of water. Pokemon do not appear beyond the safety of the shoreline. And don't enter derelict structures, unlit footpaths or alleyways."
This will also be the toughest fight yet, as losing its most cherished prize will present IS with an existential challenge incomparable to any other loss it has suffered over the past two years.
Four months ago, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the official start of comprehensive operations to retake all of Mosul - east and west.
The timing of the announcement of the latest phase of the campaign has more to do with rallying the morale of his beleaguered forces than any significant changes in military strategy.
The fight for the east proved more difficult and time consuming than the Iraqi government had predicted.
The initial hope from the Barack Obama administration had been that Mosul would be liberated before the handover of power in Washington.
It is become clear that liberating all of Mosul will take several more months.
In taking the east of Mosul, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) suffered considerable losses. According to Pentagon insiders, the casualty rates for certain forces on the front line was as high as 50%.
While this figure is denied by Iraqi military personnel in Baghdad, the government is concerned with attrition rates.
In battle, a winning side could be expected to suffer a much lower casualty rate. Incurring considerably more losses would heighten the risk of combat ineffectiveness.
For Prime Minister Abadi, just as important as weapons and funding is ensuring that his fighters on the frontline maintain battlefield morale and so far they have done so.
Time, however, is not on his side, as a prolonged campaign could erode troop resolve.
Mosul is the IS heartland. It was here, in the west, that the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, made his first and only public appearance, at al-Nuri mosque.
What has become clear from the battle thus far is that IS fighters will not retreat as easily from Mosul as they did in Falluja and Ramadi.
To them, losing the city means losing a capital.
Even before the group declared its caliphate, it was an underground organisation with a strong presence in western Mosul.
Residents recall that its fighters began performing public executions in the old market long before June 2014, without any punitive action from the provincial council.
Another challenge for the ISF will be the risk of civilian casualties. As many as 800,000 residents could be trapped in the densely populated and narrow streets. They are staying put as the battle rages.
Rather than fighting in the outskirt villages, IS is looking to draw the ISF to the urban centres of the west.
For the ISF, this means having to go door-to-door to flush out IS fighters, who are hiding among the population. The battle is already being dubbed the "war of the streets".
IS fighters are also relying on car bombs, which drive towards ISF troops and checkpoints. The jihadists would send up to 10 suicide bombers per day in the east.
To divert attention away from looming defeat, the IS leadership is looking to make a show of strength elsewhere.
When the ISF began operations in western Mosul, IS fighters launched attacks in the east, which Iraqi forces liberated over a month ago.
By doing this, IS looks to discredit ISF victories, and challenge the idea that Iraqi government forces are truly in control there.
Beyond Mosul, IS has also increased its attacks in other Iraqi cities. This includes recently liberated cities such as Falluja, but also, the capital, Baghdad.
The July 2016 bombing in Karada district, for instance, left more than 300 dead - becoming one of the largest attacks since 2003.
Since the beginning of this year, IS has killed almost 100 people in bombings in Baghdad alone.
Although challenging, short-term military successes are the easy part. The key to a sustainable victory is the political settlement.
Unlike most battles raging in the Middle East, in Mosul everyone bar IS is on the same side, albeit as uneasy bedfellows in some cases.
This includes Shia and Sunni Muslims and Kurds, as well as Iranians, Americans and others.
Despite that, each party is looking to gain the most out of a victory. This contest for power may squander successes.
IS emerged not only because of its military prowess, but also because a considerable portion of Iraq's Sunni Arabs felt disenfranchised by the Shia-led government in Baghdad, as well as their own Sunni leaders.
Although many of these original supporters have since grown wary of the harsh IS rule, they will cautiously re-engage with their liberators, in hope of a better settlement.
Political infighting is the fuel that IS needs to survive, as military power alone will not do it for them.
At the moment, though, there are no clear signs of this settlement, as Prime Minister Abadi will have to juggle powerful competing forces all vying for influence in a post-IS Iraq.
Renad Mansour is an Academy Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies, and lectures on the Middle East at the London School of Economics (LSE).
A housing start refers to the beginning of work on a residential property, such as the laying of foundations.
In 2013, there were 5,170 starts compared to 5,828 in 2012. That compares to more than 15,000 starts in 2005, which was the peak year.
The number of houses completed also fell year-on-year from 8,030 to 7,902.
That compares to nearly 18,000 completions in 2006, but is above the low of 6,800 in 2011.
Meanwhile, industry figures suggest that work is picking up this year.
There were 700 new homes registered between July and September, a 71% rise from the same period last year.
The National House Building Council's (NHBC) Northern Ireland director David Little said there were encouraging signs of growth.
However, he said the figures were still low by historic standards and more new homes were needed to meet demand.
Overall UK figures for the third quarter of this year 2014 reveal that new home registrations have increased 8% on the same period last year, with the private sector continuing to be the main driver of growth.
These figures represent the highest year-to-date figures and the highest quarterly figures since 2007.
NHBC's chief executive Mike Quinton said: "We are very encouraged to see that house building is again beginning to show signs of accelerated growth across the UK.
"Following the dramatic growth in 2013, followed by a period of consolidation in the first half of this year, our latest data would suggest that the pace of growth is picking up again."
With a population bulge about to hit secondary schools, councils want powers to open new maintained schools and to compel academies to expand.
Thousands of children are due to hear on Tuesday which secondary school they will attend from September.
However the government says the warning amounts to "scaremongering".
The population bulge which has put primary schools under pressure will start hitting secondary schools this year, according to official figures.
Last year councils had to provide 2,740,000 secondary school places, but this will rise to 3,287,000 by 2024, the figures predict.
And analysis from the House of Commons library, for the Labour Party, shows one in six mainstream secondary schools are already at or overcapacity.
The Local Government Association (LGA) says councils will struggle to meet the demand under the current system.
Under government rules, all new state schools must be "free schools", outside local authority control.
But the LGA wants councils to be able to open schools themselves and to require academies, which make up 60% of secondary schools and decide their own admissions policies, to expand as needed.
The LGA says councils have already created an extra 300,000 primary school places but face a new challenge as pupils reach secondary level.
"Councils will do everything they can to rise to the challenge of ensuring no child goes without a place," said Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.
A Department for Education spokesman said the government had confidence in the current system.
"Where local authorities identify the need for a new school they are required by law to invite proposals to run a new free school and then forward these to the department to decide who would be best placed to do this," the spokesman said.
"We would encourage councils to work with regional schools commissioners, using their combined local knowledge, to identify top sponsors for new schools in their area, and we are confident there are enough quality sponsors to meet demand."
But councils said they often struggled to find sponsors for free schools in time to meet demand for places.
Birmingham City Council, where the supply of secondary places is already tight, called the current system "a mess".
The council found secondary places for all pupils who applied last year, but 11% of those were in another local authority area and 6.6% were in schools which families had not included on their list of six preferences.
Birmingham's cabinet member for children's services, Brigid Jones, said the council spent "a lot of time working out what we need, but convincing some academies and free schools to open in the right places at the right times can be a nightmare".
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, accused the government of letting children down.
"The increase in pupil numbers is not a surprise," she said.
"The free school experiment has failed in its most important purpose; ensuring every child has a school place."
The National Union of Teachers said it was "quite clear" that local authorities needed the authority and funding to open new schools.
"Failure to do this will result in yet more chaos, children being taught in Portakabins, larger class sizes and many having to take places in schools away from their neighbourhood," said general secretary Christine Blower.
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: "It is time for ministers to reinstate local input on planning for new places and remove the bureaucracy that councils face when it comes to opening and expanding schools.
"Families deserve a better approach to planning for school places, otherwise we will continue to see many more children crammed into over-large class sizes and learning in unsuitable spaces."
Solicitors Simpson Millar, who specialise in admissions appeals, said their own research indicated that demand for secondary places this year would begin to outstrip supply.
Emma Pearmaine, the firm's director of family services, said missing out on a preferred school place could be detrimental, particularly in cases of family breakdown or where children had special educational needs.
It found a third of businesses, from a sample of 400, saw rising volumes of activity over the winter months.
However, nearly as many saw a fall.
There was a net 10 percentage point gap in the number of firms around Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire expecting growth in volumes over the next six months.
Exports across the Scottish private sector stalled between December and February, despite help from the weaker pound.
Capital investment dropped markedly since autumn, according to the survey. Some 21% of firms reported that new capital investment rose during the winter months, while 29% said it fell.
That net score, of a negative eight percentage points, contrasts with a positive 24 point gap between investment risers and fallers in the previous quarter of 2016.
The quarterly Royal Bank business monitor, carried out by the Fraser of Allander Institute at Strathclyde University, found inflation pressures were growing on firms, and expected to intensify during this year.
The sector with the strongest showing over winter were financial and business services.
The most positive outlook was found among tourism firms and those in transport and communications, although those sectors also reported that cost pressures were stronger than in other areas of the economy.
Stephen Boyle, chief economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, said growth looked "pretty tepid", while the main development was rising inflation.
"A combination of the weaker pound, the National Living Wage and a rise in energy prices is pushing up firms' input costs," he said.
"That's starting to show in consumer price inflation and will continue to build over the next few months. How consumers and businesses respond will be central to determining economic performance in 2017."
Prof Graeme Roy, director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, said: "Despite concerns about inflation picking up, firms expect growth in 2017 to be marginally more positive than 2016.
"However, the increase in uncertainty caused by the triggering of Article 50 and the prospects of a second independence referendum will act as a headwind for many businesses."
Apple sued Qualcomm in January, accusing the company of overcharging for its patented technology.
Qualcomm said on Friday it would defend its right to receive "fair value" for its "technological contributions".
The licence agreements had been in place for a decade, it said.
"These licence agreements remain valid and enforceable," Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel of Qualcomm, said.
Qualcomm's share price dropped 3% following the latest update, which came less than two weeks after the company reported quarterly earnings. Qualcomm said its forecast at that time involved scenarios with reduced payments - not their complete absence.
Qualcomm derived 40% of its revenue from Apple and Samsung Electronics in its most recent financial year.
In a statement, Apple said: "Without an agreed-upon rate to determine how much is owed, we have suspended payments until the correct amount can be determined by the court."
Apple's legal action in January followed a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission, a US regulator, alleging Qualcomm had used "anticompetitive practices" to maintain a monopoly over key technology.
Apple has also sued Qualcomm in China and in the UK.
The 53-year-old four-time major winner had six birdies and an eagle in her bogey-free round on the Creek course at the 13th Beach Golf Links.
Davies, who last won an LPGA title in 2001, leads the rest of the field by two shots.
English pair Holly Clyburn and Melissa Reid are tied for second.
They are joined by Denmark's Nicole Broch Larsen, Germany's Sandra Gal and Australia's Whitney Hillier on six under.
"I've been working on my putting, that's been the weakest part," said Davies, who has won 84 tournaments.
"I drove it well. It was just a really solid day. We were really lucky with the conditions, we hardly had any wind at all."
Scotland's Michele Thomson is tied for 11th on four under, with England's Hannah Burke a further shot back.
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Italy led 10-5 at half-time as they chose not to compete at the breakdown, allowing them to step into the England line without going offside.
But the hosts found a way through with five tries in the second period.
"Well done Italy, very smart. We knew they'd come with something," Jones told BBC Radio 5 live.
"But it wasn't rugby. We haven't played a game of rugby yet.
"I'm not critical of Italy, they did what they needed to do to stay in the game."
Italy coach Conor O'Shea defended the tactic, saying: "Everything we did was completely legal; I was incredibly proud of what the players put out there."
At one stage, England captain Dylan Hartley and team-mate James Haskell asked referee Romain Poite to clarify the law, but the Frenchman replied: "I am a referee, not a coach."
Jones added: "Did we react quick enough? It's hard when you don't play rugby, it's like playing a different game out there.
"If your half-back can't pass the ball, the game becomes difficult. It's not the way you want to play the game. We wanted to move the ball and play some good rugby.
"We scored six tries and at the end of three rounds, if we were undefeated and with a bonus points, we'd be doing handstands. So we're doing handstands."
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Italy played a novel tactic of not committing any men to the breakdown beyond the initial tackler, meaning no ruck was formed and any offside became irrelevant.
Italian defenders could therefore stand between England's half-backs, creating confusion for the men in white.
"How can you have players standing in your attack line? Even when there were rucks, there were people standing in our attack line.
"You look to pass the ball and there's a blue jumper there. You look in front and there's a blue jumper there. There's blue jumpers everywhere.
"He [Poite] had a terrible day. He wasn't refereeing rugby."
Asked if rugby's laws need to change following the game, Jones said: "I don't think anyone wants to see a game like that. No-one likes to see rugby not played in its proper form so World Rugby will have to have a very close look at it.
"I don't think there was anything good in that today. It didn't improve the game."
The innovative tactics caused confusion among the spectators as well as those on the field, and former England scrum-half Matt Dawson laid the blame for a disjointed contest firmly with Italy.
The 2003 World Cup winner said on Twitter: "Well done Italy on ruining this international. Now World Rugby have to change the laws because of your inability to compete at this level."
O'Shea was not about to back down when Dawson's comment was put to him, saying: "I'd like him to sit down with World Rugby to look at some of the other games we've played this year, and if he's that good in the rules, actually make a comment after we were impacted as we were in the first game of this championship - but that's not for me to talk about now.
"We came here to have a go. If they want us to lose by 100 points, why should we? Why should we be normal? We should be ourselves. Rather than having a go, have a bit of humility and respect for guys who have very little in comparison to their counterparts.
"I was expecting this, if I'm honest."
Jones went on to compare the Italian tactic to a famous one-day international cricket match between Australia and New Zealand in 1981.
With one ball remaining, New Zealand needed a six to tie the match.
To ensure this couldn't happen, Australia's captain Greg Chappell ordered his brother Trevor to bowl the last ball underarm, a legal action at the time.
"Well, obviously they've been watching Trevor Chappell with the underarm bowl along the ground to make sure they couldn't hit a six," said Australian Jones.
"I'm sure Trevor Chappell would've been happy today."
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England have a two-week rest before they take on Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday, 11 March, and another victory would see them equal New Zealand's world record of 18 Test matches unbeaten.
"We've got Scotland in two weeks and they've got belief and confidence," said Jones. "We are looking forward to them coming down and I'm sure they're going to play proper rugby.
"This is our next test, and I'm sure [Scotland coach] Vern Cotter won't have those tactics. He's a New Zealander. They like the breakdown and the contest.
"I feel like I haven't coached today. Let's be serious. It wasn't rugby today."
Police said children fled from the park in Dover Street, off the Shankill Road, on Thursday and reported that a man was brandishing a shotgun.
The man is then understood to have fired a shot into the air, before leaving with a woman.
Police praised the actions of residents who, they said, stopped two people in nearby Beverley Street.
Ch Insp Gavin Kirkpatrick said: "Two people are now in custody and a firearm has been recovered.
"We are at a very early stage in this investigation but at this point I'd like to give credit and thanks to the local people who intervened.
"Their prompt actions in detaining the suspects, disarming them and alerting police allowed us to make swift and effective arrests and seize the firearm for investigation."
The move to cut the number of deputies from 45 to 38 was proposed alongside changes to the political structure.
The proposals were accepted alongside changes to ensure recognised accounting standards would be brought in and the electoral process would be reviewed.
The drop in the number of deputies will be in place ahead of the next election, being held on 20 April.
The new political structure, including a senior committee, will be put in place following the election.
Deputy Matt Fallaize, chairman of States Assembly and Constitution Committee, said these changes would introduce leadership.
"We need more leadership in the States, but it has to be leadership by influence because it can't be leadership through the exercise of raw power unless we have a ministerial system of government," he said.
"If you create the conditions for leadership and coordination and more proportionate checks and balances, the chances are over time you will get policy that will serve the island better."
States outline structure
The States Assembly and Constitution Committee has been tasked with investigating a range of election methods, including island-wide elections, reducing the number of electoral districts and bringing in a single transferable vote system.
Currently the States is made up of 45 deputies elected from seven electoral districts and two States of Alderney representatives - who will be unaffected by the changes.
A move to increase the size and oversight of the States' Trading Supervisory Board was among those defeated.
The final details of the government, including the mandates of the committees, are due to be agreed later this year.
The left-armer took five wickets in the first two Tests, with the four-match series tied at 1-1.
The 27-year-old will return to Australia for treatment and rehabilitation.
He has been replaced by pace bowler Pat Cummins, 23, ahead of the third Test which begins on Thursday in Ranchi.
Shiraz Bashir, Leonie Mason and the teenagers attacked Craig Preston in a lay by in Rotherham before discarding his body by Woodhead Tunnels in August.
Bashir, 42, and Mason, 24, from Huddersfield, were found guilty of murder at Sheffield crown Court.
The boys were found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.
The five, who had all denied murder, are due to be sentenced at a later date.
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During the trial jurors heard how Mason had been in a relationship with both Mr Preston and Bashir at the time of the attack on 21 August.
Prosecutors said Mason, who changed her name to Alina Shiraz by deed poll in March last year, and Bashir had plotted to kill Mr Preston because he was an "annoyance" to their relationship.
The couple recruited the three teenagers, one of whom was just 14 at the time, and lured Mr Preston to the lay by in Town Lane where he was tied up and then kicked, punched and stamped on.
After the attack his body was bundled into the boot of a car before being dumped by the side of the River Ethrow, in Derbyshire.
The court heard a photo of Mr Preston inside the boot of the car was recovered from Bashir's phone.
His body was discovered by dog walkers on 22 August.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died as a result of head injuries.
Mason and Bashir, both of Holme Park Court, Huddersfield, were remanded in custody ahead of sentencing.
The three teenagers, two aged 15 and one aged 16 - who cannot be identified because of their ages, have been taken into the care of the local authority.
Det Ch Insp Steve Handley, from South Yorkshire Police, said: "This has been a complex and difficult murder investigation into a brutal and sustained assault on Mr Preston last summer.
"Bashir, Mason and the teenage boys planned to harm Mr Preston, which we were able to demonstrate through a combination of CCTV enquiries, forensics and telecoms work.
"We completed extensive telephone forensics work on the mobiles of all defendants and rather horrifyingly, were able to retrieve an image of Mr Preston's beaten body in the boot of a car on Bashir's phone as well as many texts between all defendants planning their attack.
"The three juvenile defendants, one of whom was just 14 at the time of Mr Preston's murder, have shown no remorse for their actions, just as Bashir and Mason have denied their guilt throughout."
The female - nicknamed Lassie - has taken over the nest at the Loch of the Lowes reserve inhabited for 24 years by "Lady", who reared 50 chicks there.
A round the clock watch is being kept on the nest near Dunkeld in Perth and Kinross by the Scottish Wildlife Trust as part of a stringent protection programme to safeguard the birds.
Ospreys can lay up to four eggs in one season.
The proposals at Fort Richmond, on Guernsey's west coast, have been made by the Treasury and Resources Department.
If successful it intends to put the site up for sale as part of a larger plan to sell off unused buildings.
Funds generated from the sale of the fort will be added to the capital reserve, which funds States' projects.
The fort, which never saw action, was used for social housing before World War One.
Helen Glencross, historic sites curator, said: "The building has been neglected for quite a long time, it hasn't been in use since the 1980s.
"It was built at the same time as the barracks at Fort Hommet and Fort Le Marchant, but this is the only one that remains standing.
"A lot of original features remain inside... and certainly the external appearance will have to be respected."
Fort Richmond
"It's been in a state of dilapidation for years and it does cost money to maintain the property, even in its current state, so that's not really good use of public funds," said Deputy Tony Spruce, chairman of the property services sub-committee.
He said it was unclear how much money could be raised by the sale as it depended on what plans were approved, if a move to include the site on the open market register was passed and the housing market.
Cheyenne Dunkley headed in Alexander MacDonald's cross and Bowery doubled Oxford's lead from close range.
Bowery grabbed his second when he nodded home Chris Maguire's corner, and MacDonald headed in a fourth from another Maguire delivery.
Alex Nicholls scored a consolation for the Grecians from outside the box after linking up with David Wheeler.
Oxford stay third in the League Two table, while Exeter remain in 14th place.
Honour abuse is usually associated with women from Muslim, Sikh or Hindu backgrounds and happens when they are seen to have "shamed" their community.
One charity, Jeena, said that one in five cases it handles involves men.
Another, Karma Nirvana, says calls from men to its helpline are up - and this is "just the tip of the iceberg" as many are afraid to come forward.
"We have seen a rise in male victims coming forward in the last year from none to one-in-five victims. It is extremely important to create safe spaces for men to be heard and to believed," Jenna told BBC Newsnight.
The programme has been in contact with about 70 men who say they have suffered various abuses - including domestic violence, sexual abuse and forced marriage - as well as threats against them due to their sexuality.
Most of the victims said they haven't spoken to any authorities about their experiences and believe they have nowhere to turn. Many said they had considered suicide.
"Being abused you associate with women in the Asian community. You don't associate it with men," said one victim who spoke to Newsnight on condition he remained anonymous.
"If you associate it with men, it's like: 'She's wearing the trousers. You're weak. We don't like weak people. You need to man up'"
The charity Karma Nirvana says the number of calls from men to their helpline has risen.
"We have seen an increase in reporting of male victims of honour-based abuse. We know the issue is still underreported by men. We are aware males are still not speaking out due to the stigma to coming out or speaking up.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg... we know there are many more male victims that exist."
They believe some of the increase is down to the introduction of a law in mid-2014 making forced marriage illegal in the UK, which raised awareness of the issue among both women and men.
BBC Newsnight contacted 10 police forces across the UK in areas with the highest proportion of black and minority ethnic inhabitants to obtain figures on reporting of male honour violence and abuse.
Four police forces - Metropolitan, West Midlands, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester police - responded to the request. Between them they had 271 cases of reported male honour abuse between 2010 and 2017. The majority were in London and the West Midlands.
But many men are still uncomfortable coming forward.
Research by BBC Newsnight showed that men from conservative communities were particularly reluctant to go to the police. The men saw honour abuse as something that only women could report and receive support for.
One man told Newsnight that when he reported domestic abuse by his wife to the police, he was treated as the perpetrator, which left him feeling more isolated and discouraged him from talking to anyone else.
The concept of honour is a cultural rather than a religious tradition and crosses conservative communities - be they Hindu, Muslim or Sikh.
"We are trained from a young age to keep the family honour intact, even if it means you might have experienced abuse, or you might have witnessed abuse in your own family," one victim told BBC Newsnight.
The man, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, is now an imam.
He told BBC Newsnight he was sexually abused by a male relative when he was a boy. Perhaps most shockingly, the relative went on to become an imam himself.
When he finally told his family about the sexual abuse - decades later - he said they were shocked, but didn't want to take it further: "The reason is honour, shame, to the family, to the perpetrator."
When rumours got out he had been sexually abused, his business suffered as close knit community stopped using the services, and he was seen as bringing shame for raising such a taboo subject.
He said family members believed him possessed by an evil spirit, or jinn.
This idea was a common theme in many of the interviews conducted by Newsnight. Victims said when the consequences of their abuse, and keeping silent about it, led to mental health problems, some family members and their wider community believed they were cursed.
Some male honour abuse cases involve men who are gay.
"People I knew were marrying women even though they were gay - or they were killing themselves," says Manjinder who was terrified of telling his Sikh family he was gay.
"I feared for my life. I felt I could be killed… I would be disowned, kicked out of the house and forced to marry a woman, definitely."
When he came out to friends, the news spread to some of the wider Sikh community and this caused a lot of tension.
He was told he was bringing disgrace to his culture and his whole family - and that it could affect his sister's marriage prospects.
Manjinder was further threatened by the humiliation of being violated by a Black and Decker drill.
Some victims told Newsnight they were urged to stay silent about the abuse they suffered for fear of it casting a dark shadow over their religion.
"The Muslim community, rightly or wrongly, feels that the Muslim community is in the dock at the moment," says the imam who was sexually abused by a relative as a child.
"[They feel] everybody everywhere, from every corner, is scrutinising the Muslims for whatever they do - from what they wear, what they eat, what they do, how they behave."
But, he says, this cannot be used as an excuse for silence.
He says he only felt able to talk about what happened when his work as an imam put him in touch with other survivors of sexual abuse.
"Up until that point, I thought I was probably the only person who had experienced such a thing.
"After listening to at least 30/40 case studies of young Muslim males and some females in this country who have also experienced abuses of a sexual nature - and some by clergy - I felt I had to do something about it, otherwise I would be answerable to God."
Watch Katie Razzall's full report on BBC Newsnight at 22:30 on BBC Two - or catch up afterwards on iPlayer
If you need support with forced marriage or honour violence, help and support is available at BBC Action Line
It is the second time Pilgrims boss Derek Adams has signed the 29-year-old, having brought him in at Ross County.
Miller has spent all of his career north of the border, also playing for St Johnstone, Ayr Utd and Livingston.
He is a fourth summer signing for the League Two club, after Yann Songo'o, Connor Smith and Ryan Donaldson.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
But at what cost?
The fumes that come out of vehicle exhaust pipes play a big role in the rise of air pollution - a problem linked with thousands of deaths in Scotland and across the UK each year.
St John's Road in Edinburgh is like many streets throughout the country. People live here and it's home to many businesses.
It's also attracted the unwanted title of Scotland's most polluted street.
So what do those who live and work here make of that?
Lucy's Cafe is a popular spot for locals, and there's a mixed reaction here from customers.
Working behind the counter is Lucy herself, who tells me: "When I was quitting smoking, I was going for check-ups every week and because of the air pollution, I never got down to zero."
Another customer adds: "I go outside for a bit of fresh air, but you don't get fresh air, not with all the vans and lorries passing."
But not everyone is convinced.
Andy Atkinson, a bronchitis sufferer, says: "I blame the little machines not always giving the proper recording.
"You just need one bus to come along, a plume of black smoke and it probably gives false readings."
The annual average European legal limit for the pollutant nitrogen dioxide, which is linked to asthma and other respiratory problems, is set at 40 microgrammes per cubic metre.
But new research from Friends of the Earth Scotland, collected from official monitoring stations, says it was breached on streets across the country in 2015.
Here's the environmental group's list of shame:
Friends of the Earth Scotland also collected data on particulate matter - tiny particles which are pumped into the air by diesel vehicles.
And it said that streets in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Perth, Glasgow, Dundee, Falkirk and Rutherglen failed to meet Scottish air quality standards.
Friends of the Earth air pollution campaigner Emilia Hanna said: "If you're breathing in air pollution day-in, day-out, you're more likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
"If you're asthmatic you might find that your symptoms are worsened."
Two months ago the Scottish government set a target to make Scotland's air the best in Europe.
Ministers say there have been "significant reductions" in air pollutants since 1990, but recognise more needs to be done.
The government says £3m has been earmarked for councils to help them improve air quality, as well as additional funding for schemes like the Green Bus Fund.
Ministers want councils to play their part - but councils say to do that, they need more cash.
Lesley Hinds, Edinburgh City Council's transport and environment convener, said 97% of streets in the Scottish capital actually pass air quality tests, adding that the authority was working on the rest.
She said the city was also trying to make busses greener and get more people on bikes, but in a time of cuts, warned: "There's no way we can introduce a low-emissions strategy in the city with the Scottish government unless we can get extra resources."
The Scottish government is facing the threat of court action if it fails to tackle illegal levels of air pollution in the country's biggest cities, from environmental law organisation ClientEarth.
It has already won a landmark ruling against the Westminster government, after the UK's highest court ruled must take immediate action to cut air pollution.
And there are moves afoot at European level.
The revelation the carmaker Volkswagen had emission-deceiving devices on its vehicles became an international scandal.
That prompted the European Parliament to consider imposing new car pollution limits - but a vote on the issue due to take place this week has now been postponed as politicians consider whether to make those limits even tougher.
For residents living in congested cities like Edinburgh, that means further delay.
Meanwhile, campaigners continue to argue air pollution is now at the heart of a major health crisis.
Officers were called to the Corkscrew Saloon on the Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley National Park shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
Inyo County Sheriff's Office said Terence Michael Butler, 65, was arrested for misdemeanour assault, public intoxication and vandalism.
He was released after "detox and citation", police said.
The Californian police department said an argument escalated into "a physical confrontation", resulting in an individual being struck and a window being broken.
Police gave Birmingham-born Butler's address as Beverly Hills, California.
The bassist later tweeted his thanks to fans after the "unfortunate altercation".
Three original members of Black Sabbath, including Ozzy Osbourne, reformed in 2012 to headline the Download Festival.
At the 2013 Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards they won best UK band and best album for 13, which became their first chart-topping album for 43 years.
The Coalition said legal challenges to projects such as coal mines were putting jobs and the economy at risk.
It wants to change the law so only people directly affected by a potential development can appeal against them in court.
But green groups said the changes could increase the risk of corruption.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the law currently gave green groups too much power.
He told reporters on Wednesday that major projects "shouldn't be subject to endless legal sabotage because the law gives green groups an unusual level of access to the courts".
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Mr Abbott's comments follow a recent federal court case that overturned government approval for Indian company Adani's proposed giant coal mine in Queensland on environmental grounds.
The court challenge was made by a small environment organisation, the Mackay Conservation Group.
The law currently allows third parties to challenge government approval of major developments.
Attorney-General George Brandis on Tuesday said section 487 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act provided "a red carpet for radical activists" to use "aggressive litigation tactics to disrupt and sabotage important projects".
The government's proposed changes could increase the risk of corruption by removing checks and balances in government decision-making, said WWF Chief Executive Dermot O'Gorman.
"Far from damaging the economy, merit appeals promote good government decision-making and transparency and therefore a stronger economy," Mr O'Gorman said.
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) said Senator Brandis's proposal was "nothing short of an attempt to strip communities of their right to a healthy environment".
"We want to make sure approvals for projects, such as Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine, are above board and consistent with people's right to a safe environment," said ACF's Chief Executive Kelly O'Shanassy.
The government said the legislation would be introduced to parliament later this week.
The robbery was carried out at the McColl's convenience store in West Doura Court in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, at about 21:50 on Friday.
During the incident, the suspect presented a knife at two members of staff before leaving with a three-figure sum of money.
The staff members were left shocked but uninjured.
The man was described as wearing a black and grey camouflage jacket with a hood, grey tracksuit bottoms and black and white Nike Air Max trainers.
He had black woollen gloves covering his hands and was wearing a 'Joker' mask in the style of the Batman movies.
Det Con John Scott, from Saltcoats CID, said: "Two staff members were left in a state of shock following this incident and we are determined to trace the suspect with the help of the community.
"Officers are in the area today conducting door-to-door inquiries. We are also assessing opportunities to capture CCTV which will help us determine where the suspect fled after the incident."
Walsh had been in contract negotiations with the IABA but on Monday he stepped down after 12 years in the post to take up a new position in the United States.
"Regrettably the IABA have not made it possible for me to continue on in the role," said Walsh.
Ireland won Olympic, World and European gold medals at amateur level during Walsh's successful period as coach.
Belfast pair Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan were among the many Irish boxers to blossom under the guidance of Walsh.
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"Since February of this year I have been engaged in a process with the IABA to secure my future as Head Coach with the High Performance Unit and senior team," added Walsh.
"A protracted process that went on for eight months included numerous high level meetings that resulted in various proposals.
"In August a fair proposal was developed under the auspices of the Irish Sports Council (ISC) that was acceptable and fair but then not subsequently ratified by IABA.
"I was hopeful in recent weeks that a final proposal arising out of an approach in late September by the IABA would lead to a successful conclusion but unfortunately it didn't."
"I am greatly looking forward to the opportunities ahead in bringing my expertise and experience to the USA Women's Team as they prepare for success in Rio and beyond."
In a statement, Sport Ireland said it was "extremely disappointed" to learn that Walsh had decided to step down, adding that it had "made every effort within its authority to resolve this issue".
"Billy Walsh has overseen an unprecedented period of success in Irish Boxing including, most recently, at the World Senior Championships. Sport Ireland is deeply appreciative of his contribution and wishes him well in his future. The USA's gain is Ireland's loss," read the statement.
"As the legal employer it was a matter for the IABA to resolve and it insisted on its autonomy to negotiate with their Head Coach. Sport Ireland was unequivocal in its desire to keep Billy Walsh in Irish sport and communicated clearly to the IABA that every support would be provided in order to retain him at the High Performance Unit of the IABA.
"This position was strongly supported by the Minister for Sport, Michael Ring, who met with representatives of the IABA on three occasions to facilitate an agreement and by Sport Ireland who met the IABA on several occasions."
Fergal Carruth, Chief Executive of the IABA said: "The IABA has been in discussions with Billy following his approach to the organisation to seek improved terms and conditions after he stated that he had received an offer from USA Boxing.
"The IABA is deeply disappointed not to retain his valued services, and for the avoidance of any doubt, the IABA has done its utmost to retain Billy Walsh as Head Coach. However, Billy himself has made the decision to resign and take up a position with USA Boxing, and we wish him every success with this."
The visitors were ahead when Guiseley defender Rob Atkinson inadvertently turned the ball into his own goal.
James Hurst volleyed the hosts level two minutes later before Jake Kirby's strike put Rovers back in the lead.
Again that was short-lived, as Hurst made it all square again to earn a point that leaves Guiseley five points above the relegation zone.
The Western lowland gorilla was born early, weighing 2lbs 10oz, after her mother showed signs of the potentially dangerous condition pre-eclampsia.
She needed help to breathe on her own, but staff are now "cautiously optimistic" for mother and baby.
There have only been a few gorilla C-sections in the world - most recently at San Diego Safari Park in 2014.
It is thought to be the first successful gorilla C-section in the UK.
The 11-day old Western lowland gorilla - a critically endangered species - was delivered by gynaecologist Professor David Cahill who has delivered hundreds of human babies by C-section, but never a gorilla.
"Along with having my own children, this is probably one of the biggest achievements of my life and something I will certainly never forget," he said.
He was called in for his opinion after the mother, Kera, appeared ill in late pregnancy.
The zoo's vet, Rowena Killick, told the BBC they made the "hard call" to sedate Kera to find out what the problem was, as although she is trained to take paracetamol, she would not take it when she felt unwell.
It is thought she was suffering from pre-eclampsia which can trigger high blood pressure and kidney problems and, if uncontrolled, can increase the chances of mother and baby dying.
The zoo said the three-hour operation was "very challenging". The baby was born with a strong heartbeat but had fluid in her lungs and was not breathing. It took two to three hours before she was breathing on her own.
"We really thought she was going to die," said Ms Killick.
"We couldn't see any signs of life apart from the heartbeat... and then eventually, she showed signs that she was going to breathe for herself."
The baby is getting stronger every day and had responded well to "skin-to-skin" contact with her mother, Kera.
She spends every day in the zoo's gorilla house "within sight and smell" of her mother, although she is being cared for by keepers while Kera recovers.
"Kera is still not 100%. She's still recovering, she's eating and drinking and she's started moving around a bit more normally." said Ms Killick.
She said as it was Kera's first baby, she had never held a baby before and "doesn't really know what's going on". The zoo might get another gorilla who "has shown real promise at being a mother" to foster the baby.
The baby gorilla is currently not on show at the zoo.
A day of ups and downs on the inaugural day of day-night pink-ball Championship cricket began with Durham being reduced to 18-5 inside the first 10 overs.
Two half-century stands then helped the hosts recover to 197 all out.
But Worcestershire had passed that by the end of the day with D'Oliveira unbeaten on 91, supported by 36 from England all-rounder Moeen Ali.
Durham's total was made up almost entirely of three separate lower-order stands - 46 for the sixth wicket between captain Paul Collingwood and Ryan Pringle, 54 for the eighth wicket between Mark Wood and Stuart Poynter, then 50 for the last wicket from Chris Rushworth and Barry McCarthy.
England paceman Mark Wood then took three wickets, as Worcestershire's tactic of promoting Durham old boy John Hastings and captain Joe Leach did not quite come off, but D'Oliveira and Moeen put on 77 to hint at a sizable day-two lead.
Wood's England team-mate Ben Stokes had a day to forget, being caught behind off former Durham team-mate Hastings for a seven-ball duck before then shipping 69 in 12 wicketless overs.
Durham coach Jon Lewis told BBC Radio Newcastle:
"We knew Tom Latham had an injury but thought he would be OK for this match. It now looks like he will be out for two or three weeks.
"The pink ball didn't swing any more than the red. The seam is quite coarse and nylony.
"It gripped the pitch more when it was new and that created the early movement."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"Durham had a good fightback. We learnt a lot from their innings and changed the tactics.
"We felt we needed to get the ball soft by belting it a few times, and also try to knock their bowlers off their stride when the ball was at its most dangerous.
"The move served its purpose. But we also have to pay tribute to Brett D'Oliveira, who played extremely well."
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The call comes after Home Secretary Theresa May told inquiry members their panel might be disbanded.
Peter Saunders, from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said the move would be supported by the majority of survivors.
Labour MP Simon Danczuk called the handling of the probe an "utter mess".
Mr Danczuk, who exposed child sex abuse allegations against former Liberal MP Cyril Smith, told Radio 4's Today programme that survivors would be "dismayed" by the progress of the inquiry - which was set up in July and has started work, but has no-one to chair it.
He later told BBC Radio 5 live that the government's organisation and handling of the issue was "verging on a disgrace".
Mr Saunders said he had not met any survivors who currently had any confidence in the process and panel.
"There are some very good people on that panel as it stands at the moment, but there are one or two characters who sadly have an association with the past that would make them inappropriate," he said.
It would not "take us back to square one" if the panel was disbanded, he said, and added that getting the inquiry set up correctly would ultimately win the support of survivors.
But former children's minister and Tory MP Tim Loughton said all survivors he had spoken to wanted to get the inquiry going.
In the letter to Home Secretary Theresa May, survivors, survivors' groups and associated professionals call for a new inquiry with the power to "compel witnesses to give evidence under oath".
It is "essential" the inquiry has these legal powers to "prevent evidence being withheld or tampered with", they say.
The letter also says they would welcome a "dedicated police team" to investigate and prosecute offenders alongside the inquiry.
It is also "essential" that those conducting the inquiry "are free from strong links to prominent establishment figures or any other potential conflict of interest", they add.
The letter calls for the terms of reference to be extended to include allegations of historical abuse dating back as far as 1945, rather than 1970 as is presently the case.
Abuse survivor and campaigner Ian McFadyen, who signed the letter, said the government had "one chance" to get an inquiry like this right, and it needed to have teeth.
Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt, who has revealed she suffered from child abuse, also agreed the inquiry needed greater powers, with people compelled to give evidence under oath.
But former director of public prosecutions Ken McDonald told the BBC he believed the inquiry was heading for a "vale of tears".
"I think the lesson of public inquiries in the past has been if they are not properly focused they don't get anywhere," he said.
He added that it was "extraordinarily difficult" for the police to conduct serious criminal investigations, while a public and "very voluble" inquiry was going over the same material at the same time.
The inquiry, sparked by claims of paedophiles operating in Westminster in the 1980s, is set to investigate whether "public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales".
In her letter to current panel members, which has been seen by the BBC, Mrs May said she was considering three options to give the inquiry more powers. One did not require the panel to be disbanded.
She acknowledged that the situation had "not been easy" for panel members but said the "confidence of survivors is paramount". An inquiry source told the BBC panel members had been told they could apply for positions on any new panel.
A leaked reply to Mrs May from panel member Sharon Evans, who runs a children's charity and suffered abuse, says halting the inquiry now "would send a very negative message to so many people we have already met".
The first two choices for inquiry chairman stood down.
Baroness Butler-Sloss resigned a week after the inquiry was set up. She faced calls to quit because her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s.
Her replacement, Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf, was appointed in September. But on 31 October she stood down amid questions over her links to former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.
The current panel members include:
The Pakistani was sanctioned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after allegations of spot-fixing in the 2013 Indian Premier League.
Rauf, a former member of the ICC elite panel, did not appear at the hearing.
Last month, spinner Ajit Chandila was banned for life and batsman Hiken Shah for five years after being found guilty of corruption.
At the close, the FTSE 100 index was down 8.5 points, or 0.11%, at 7,439.29.
Shares in Royal Dutch Shell and rival BP closed slightly up after struggling earlier in the day as oil traded above $45 a barrel.
On Wednesday, the price of Brent crude oil had fallen to $44.35 a barrel, its lowest since November, although it recovered to $45.61 on Thursday.
Oil prices have been dragged lower by excess supplies on the global market, despite the efforts of the Opec producers' cartel to limit output in order to push prices higher.
Pharmaceuticals firm Shire was the top riser in the FTSE 100, up 3.7%, after the European Medicines Agency validated its marketing authorisation application for Veyvondi, which treats an inherited bleeding disorder called von Willebrand disease.
Outside the FTSE 100, shares in Imagination Technologies jumped 16% after the company put itself up for sale.
Imagination is in dispute with its largest customer, Apple, after the US tech giant announced earlier this year that it planned to stop using Imagination's technology in its products.
On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.1% against the dollar to $1.2658 and was up 0.08% against the euro at 1.1355 euros.
President Francois Hollande confirmed the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier would aid six Mirage jets already stationed in Jordan and six Rafale jets in the United Arab Emirates.
The aircraft carrier can carry up to 40 aircraft and support 100 flights a day.
France began air strikes in Syria in September, a year after joining the US-led aerial campaign against IS in Iraq.
French officials have described the air strikes as self defence, after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in twin attacks in Paris at the start of the year.
Since that time, French fighter jets have carried out 271 strikes in 1,285 aerial missions across Iraq, according to the AFP news agency.
Only two known strikes have been carried out by France in Syria, targeting an Islamic State training camp in the east of the country at the end of September.
The Charles de Gaulle carrier is usually accompanied by several frigates, a refuelling ship and an attack submarine, according to Reuters.
Kit Symons is to leave manager Chris Coleman's coaching team to concentrate on his role as Fulham boss.
Trollope joined Cardiff in February and would combine his Bluebirds duties with his new role as Wales assistant on a part-time basis.
The Football Association of Wales has approached Trollope but has yet to agree a deal with Cardiff.
Former Wales midfielder Trollope, 43, previously managed Bristol Rovers and was also first-team coach at Birmingham City and Norwich City.
During five years as manager of Bristol Rovers, he guided the club to promotion to League One in 2007.
Swindon-born Trollope won nine caps for Wales between 1997 and 2003 and was a team-mate of Coleman and Symons with the national team and at Fulham.
Symons had been Chris Coleman's assistant since January 2012 and continued in the role despite succeeding Felix Magath as Fulham manager in October 2014.
But Symons, who won 37 caps at centre-back for Wales, left his international post after Wales' 1-0 victory against Belgium which has put them in a strong position to qualify for Euro 2016.
Unbeaten Wales are three points clear at the top of Group B following their 1-0 win over Belgium on 12 June, with four games remaining.
They would virtually clinch their place at next year's finals in France by beating Cyprus and Israel in their September double-header.
Wales conclude their group games away to Bosnia-Hercegovina and home to Andorra in October.
Norden, who was serving in the RAF during World War Two, went to the liberated camp in northern Germany to find lighting for a show he was putting on.
He went with fellow performers the late Eric Sykes and Ron Rich and none of them had any idea what the camp had been used for.
Norden, who hosted ITV show It'll Be Alright On The Night and appeared on BBC radio panel programmes My Word! and My Music, had formed entertainment units with the likes of Sykes to put on shows for the troops and to get off guard duty.
"We were doing a show at this particular RAF camp nearby, we were short of lighting equipment, and somebody said 'There is a kind of camp near us, which had all sorts of lights for illuminating it at night, you can take those', so we took this truck along," he said.
"We didn't know what to expect, we had not heard a word about it."
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair), Norden said they went back to their own camp and gathered as much food as they could.
"We told everyone you've never seen anything like it, and everybody in the unit contributed whatever spare food they had, or had been sent from home, and we took it along there.
"I've always had this awful feeling that it was wrong for us to do that, people so emaciated to have this rich food poured upon them, what it did to them."
The only other mention of this visit is in Syke's autobiography. The comedian died in 2012, aged 89.
"Ron Rich, Denis Norden and I were totally unprepared for the sights that hit us between the eyes.
"Appalled, aghast, repelled - it is difficult to find words to express how we felt as we looked upon the degradation of some of the inmates not yet repatriated," he wrote.
"As far as I could see, all these pitiable wrecks had one thing in common. None was standing.
"They squatted in their thin, striped uniforms, unmoving bony structures who could have been anywhere between 30 and 60 years old, staring ahead with dead, hopeless eyes and incapable of feeling any relief at their deliverance."
The British army liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945.
It had been used to house prisoners of war, exchange prisoners and finally Jewish evacuees from concentration camps across Europe.
While it did not contain any gas chambers, about 70,000 prisoners died mainly through starvation and disease.
One of Belsen's best-known prisoners was the young diarist Anne Frank, who died in the camp in March 1945.
Norden, who retired in 2006 due to deteriorating eyesight, said he also fed the German children.
"What was notable, was that the Germans themselves, wherever we were, were not receiving food at all really, and they were becoming very emaciated as well," he said.
"The little German kids would hang around when you're eating your food, eating your own rations, just looking at you, so everybody gave food to these kids.
"After seeing the camp, you could in theory hold it against the Germans, but you couldn't hold it against these German kids."
The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Mondays at 23:00 BST. The series is running for six episodes - each presenter has three episodes in which to choose a guest, whose identity is only revealed to the other presenter just before recording.
Bournemouth loanee midfielder Matthews started and finished the scoring for the visitors in an eventful game.
Ayo Obileye grabbed the Spitfires' other goal shortly after Luke Young had levelled straight from a corner for Torquay early in the second half.
Shaun Harrad's strike at 2-2 looked to have grabbed the Gulls a point before Matthews won in for Eastleigh.
The former SS man is not German, nor is he living in Germany.
He was allegedly a camp guard in 1944, when about 344,000 Jews from Hungary were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers in occupied Poland.
Prosecutors in Weiden, Bavaria, are to decide whether to charge him and try to bring him to Germany to face trial.
The man is believed to have lived in the Weiden area before going abroad after World War II.
German officials have not named him, but the Sueddeutsche Zeitung news website says the suspect is believed to be a Slovak now living in Philadelphia, in the US.
The chief prosecutor at Germany's office investigating Nazi war crimes, Kurt Schrimm, said details on the suspect came to light during the high-profile Demjanjuk investigation.
In March this year Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, found guilty for his role as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp, died aged 91. He had been sentenced to five years in prison by a German court in May 2011.
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi death camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
It comes nearly three weeks after the Grenfell Tower block blaze which is thought to have killed 80 people.
Emergency crews were called to a fire on the third and fourth floors in St Pauls Way, Mile End at about 06:00 BST.
They found a girl, believed to be aged about 17, outside the property. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Paramedics treated four other people. None of them were seriously injured.
An investigation has been started into the cause of the fire.
Lawyers, accountants, digital agencies, research analysts, telecoms and tech firms all gave Technology of Business their views on what the key tech trends were likely to be in 2016.
We received more than 50 submissions - a big thanks to all those who took part. Here's a summary of the main themes that emerged.
Allowing customers' data to be stolen by hackers is not good for business, firms are finally realising. It damages corporate reputations and erodes the public's "comfort with sharing their data", says Rashmi Knowles of cybersecurity company RSA.
But the worrying news is that breaches are inevitable, warns Geoff Smith of Experis, while a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals is likely to push up the costs of beefing up defences and dealing with attacks.
On top of this, new European data protection laws coming into effect in 2018 will see a "dramatic increase in fines" for data breaches, says James Mullock of law firm Bird and Bird, forcing firms to reassess their compliance procedures this year. Dedicated Data Protection Officers reporting to the board would be "a sensible measure", he says.
Meanwhile, new fronts are opening up for cybercriminals.
Several security experts are forecasting an increase in ransomware attacks, whereby criminals hack into your system, encrypt your data and then demand a ransom before they decrypt it.
"The ransomware arms race will come to the fore in 2016," says Hitesh Sheth, chief executive of Vectra Networks. "The threat will take on a new, larger role by concentrating attacks on enterprises, holding critical assets hostage in return for even bigger money."
Other experts warn that the growth of mobile payments systems will offer new opportunities for hackers, while others think criminals will increasingly target employees, suppliers and contractors as a way of infiltrating corporate systems.
And Tom Patterson of Unisys raises the alarming prospect of rogue intelligence officers using "government-owned spy capabilities for their own purposes."
Gadgets and objects wirelessly transmitting sensor data to each other and central computers will accelerate in 2016, many believe, leading to a host of new applications - and a host of new cybersecurity threats.
This trend is often dubbed the "internet of things", or IoT for short.
Michele Franci, chief technology officer at Inmarsat, sees "machine-to-machine" tech moving beyond industrial applications, such as utility infrastructure monitoring, and into agriculture, health, smart metering, and environmental research.
While Pete Baxter, UK country manager for software firm Autodesk, foresees our home appliances receiving software updates automatically and companies offering additional services on the back of the connected home concept.
This new world of "connected everything", says Tudor Aw, head of technology sector at consultancy KPMG, "should finally see real momentum in 2016", from connected cars recording driver behaviour data for insurance purposes, to smart watches and other wearables delivering health data and even initial diagnoses.
And all the data that these connected things generate will be stored, analysed and translated into practical insights using real-time analytics, enabling companies to "move beyond just quickly responding to changing customer needs, to actually anticipating those changes," says Andy Lawson, managing director at Salesforce UK.
Once these insights are incorporated into wearables that support augmented reality - smart glasses with digital displays, for example - we could become a "workforce of smart humans", says Valerie Riffaud-Cangelosi, new markets development manager at Epson.
This will enable us to solve problems on the go, she believes, and help us become more productive.
But many warn that greater connectivity means more points of entry for hackers constantly on the look-out for weak points in any network.
IoT cybersecurity concerns will also loom large in 2016.
"From healthcare to space exploration and self-driving cars, business in 2016 will be powered by robotics," says Phil Cox, president of Silicon Valley Bank's UK branch. "Robots are already replacing surgeons and factory workers and even learning to say no."
Software versions of robots - artificial intelligence or AI - will also "replace manual, repetitive tasks", says Abdul Razack, head of big data and analytics at Infosys.
This will change the way we work and make problem finding, rather than problem solving, become "one of the most coveted skills in organisations", he says.
More AI-powered virtual assistants will attempt to make us believe they are real - some might begin to succeed.
But rather that perceiving this rise of the machines as a threat to our livelihoods, Dave Coplin, Microsoft's chief envisioning officer, thinks we should see it as "augmenting, not replacing" us. We're back to the "smart humans" idea.
The mobile revolution will continue to roll on, with the smartphone becoming the primary tool for interacting with businesses and each other, observers believe.
"If you think mobile is here - it's not, it's still arriving," says Richard Wagstaff, managing director, of WSI, a digital marketing agency network.
Location-based services will proliferate, with consumers receiving highly targeted ads and special offers based on where they happen to be, right down to which part of a shop they are standing in.
"Mobile payments will become ubiquitous", says Michael Kent, boss of digital money transfer service, Azimo. "Technology is democratising financial services."
Sub-$25 (£17) smartphones will extend mobile connectivity to lower-income people in developing economies, providing them new services and marketing opportunities for business.
Mobile and the information "any time, anywhere" paradigm will continue to change the way we work, and the way businesses serve us.
"We will find ourselves in a world where brands we never expected are selling us services and products we never would have imagined," says Ronan Dunne, chief executive of telecoms company, O2.
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Bill O'Reilly told his Fox News viewers there was "horrific" violence during an assignment for CBS News in Buenos Aires, even though it was hundreds of miles from the conflict.
An article last week questioned his claims he reported in a "war zone."
Few reporters made it to the islands where the war was fought.
On Monday night's The O'Reilly Factor, he said: "As you may know, some left-wing zealots have attacked me, your humble correspondent.
"They say I trumped up my war experiences in the Falklands conflict and El Salvador - at issue, the huge riot immediately after the Argentines surrendered to the British in 1982.
"As I reported accurately, the violence was horrific."
He showed clips from the CBS video that he said proved what he said was true. And he spoke to journalists who said it was a "real war" on the streets of the Argentinean capital.
But former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg, who was there, described O'Reilly's account as "dishonest".
In an interview with the Huffington Post, he disputed O'Reilly's claim that his cameraman had been knocked down and needed rescuing.
Mother Jones broke the story shortly after NBC News anchor Brian Williams stood down for six months for misrepresenting his experiences in the Iraq War.
Fox News chief executive Roger Ailes has said he fully supports O'Reilly.
The 30-year-old centre-back, who moved to Sunderland from Tottenham in 2015, has told manager David Moyes that he wants to leave for personal reasons.
Kaboul has been given permission to discuss personal terms with Watford.
"The club and the manager have shown an understanding of my personal circumstances and I am grateful for that," Kaboul told the club website.
But it was also revealed that some 96 homes had been destroyed in the fire since it broke out on Tuesday.
Some 58 sq miles (150 sq km) have been charred in San Bernardino County, 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Several more fires continue to burn in other drought-stricken parts of California.
In pictures: Devastation from California wildfires
Fire spokesman Brad Pitassi said late on Friday: "It's looking very good", adding that more gains were expected on Saturday, despite firefighters continuing to face dry, hot and windy weather.
He said the number of buildings destroyed could have been far higher.
Blue Cut, named after a narrow gorge where the blaze broke out, had led to an evacuation order for 82,000 people on Tuesday.
Many people have now been allowed to return but others were left homeless.
Johanna Santore was running an errand when the fire gutted her home. She fears she may have lost her pets.
"I'm actually feeling numb,'' she told Associated Press from an evacuation centre. "It's like a nightmare. We don't plan on rebuilding. We plan on leaving."
Other fires still burning around the state include:
The 24-year-old former Tottenham trainee scored nine goals in 78 appearances during three years with Boro.
"I've liked Dean ever since he was at Spurs," Dons boss Neal Ardley told the club website.
"He's very dynamic, very quick and technically excellent. I think he has goals in him."
Parrett is Wimbledon's fourth signing of the summer following their promotion to the third tier via the League Two play-offs.
The Dons have not disclosed the length of Parrett's deal at Kingsmeadow.
Meanwhile, academy goalkeeper Will Mannion has left south-west London to join Hull City, with a compensation fee set to be decided by a tribunal.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Kathryn Smith also gave Matthew Rigby a pendant containing Ayeeshia's ashes on the eve of their trial, Birmingham Crown Court was told.
Ms Smith and Mr Rigby deny jointly murdering Ayeeshia Jane Smith in 2014, in Burton, Staffordshire.
Ayeeshia died when her heart was torn by a forceful stamp, jurors have heard.
The child suffered injuries likened to those found in someone who might have fallen off a building.
Giving evidence for a second day, Ms Smith was asked to recall the incident six weeks before her daughter's death when she accidentally fell in the bath and hurt her lip.
The 23-year-old, from Sandfield Road in Nottingham, told police she and her co-accused were both in the bathroom, but she retracted that statement in court saying she was actually out shopping at the time buying fence paint.
She said she lied to police because she "didn't want anyone to think it was weird the non-biological father was bathing my child".
Ayeeshia Jane was taken to hospital, but she did not require treatment.
But under cross examination Mark Haywood QC for Mr Rigby, suggested that changing her statement was part of a series of lies by Ms Smith in the weeks before her daughter's death.
Ms Smith told the court on Monday her co-accused was the last person to see Ayeeshia Jane, known as AJ.
Earlier, Mr Haywood asked why she would give her co-accused a pendant, identical to one she was wearing and containing a grain of AJ's ashes, if she believed he had harmed or killed her daughter.
Ms Smith said she also accepted the pair had still been in a relationship at the start of the trial.
But she said she did not know who had murdered her daughter in the pair's two-bedroom flat, but said she had not hurt her.
"I don't know anything, I thought she had a seizure," she said.
She also said she believed AJ could have got her injuries from CPR carried out by her stepfather.
She denied delaying calling an ambulance while she and Mr Rigby, from Nottingham, "decided what to do", as prosecutor Christopher Hotten QC put it.
When asked about stating it was "all my fault", at the hospital, and had wanted to dial 999 sooner "but Mr Rigby told you not to", Ms Smith said: "That bit got confused, I didn't mean that how it sounded."
In addition to the murder charge, the pair also deny causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty.
The trial continues.
Whether you call it tig, tag, you're it! or another name, we've all run around with our friends trying to avoid being caught by the person who is 'on'.
Now, a group called World Chase Tag want to turn the game of tag into an official sport.
They held an event at the end of last year where competitors battled against each other to be crowned tag winners.
Now, the team want to put together a global competition, with tag chases held all around the world.
Newsround spoke to World Chase Tag's founder Christian Devaux to find out more about it...
The idea for it started in Berkshire in our garden. The first obstacles were bins, chairs and an old punch bag.
In a way, tag is one of the oldest sports. Kids all over the world have played it naturally without even being told the rules.
It should be made into a sport because it is very entertaining to watch and you get into the action straight away, unlike a lot of the other more traditional sports.
Chase tag is great for fun and fitness, including agility, strength and overall general fitness. For a lot of sports, you require agility and speed. Chase Tag focuses on those two key qualities.
What's so good about chase tag?
It's popular mainly because it's fun. In countless studies about why people stop playing sport, the number one reason is always because they stop enjoying it.
It's also easy for everyone to play. The court is designed in such a way that tall people go over obstacles and small people can go under them.
In our first event, our youngest competitor - at just 13 years old - was able to go under certain obstacles that his older (taller) competitors had to go over!
It's a sport that everyone can relate to. Chase Tag is one of the few sports that EVERYBODY the world over has played at some point in their lives.
It's also extremely simple. There is one golden rule - don't get caught!
So, will this action-packed version of tag take off as a worldwide official sport? We will have to wait and see if it catches on.
Also, as fun as this looks, please remember that this can be a dangerous sport and the people in the video have had loads of training.
Conviction: Murder At The Station will show the work of charity Inside Justice, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice.
The programme will show the charity examining the case of Paula Poolton, who was killed in Hampshire in 2008.
It follows the popularity of Netflix's Making A Murderer and podcast Serial.
Both series looked at the evidence behind historical convictions and gripped their audiences.
The BBC Two programme will consist of two hour-long episodes to be broadcast on 21 and 28 September.
In June 2010, Roger Kearney was jailed for 15 years for killing Mrs Poolton, 40, of Titchfield, Fareham, and hiding her body in the boot of her car.
The trial heard that the pair had an affair in the summer of 2008.
The court decided Kearney stabbed her to death when she started putting pressure on him to leave his partner, and he then fabricated an alibi to cover his tracks.
Mrs Poolton's parents said after the sentencing that "justice had been done".
Kearney has always denied murder. Inside Justice said no scientific evidence was found at the crime scene to implicate him and crucial CCTV evidence was of "extremely poor quality".
Clare Sillery, acting head of commissioning for BBC Documentaries, said: "In gaining access to the work of Inside Justice, cameras capture the painstaking work that goes into these cases.
"With the bar for such referrals [to the Court of Appeal] being set phenomenally high, viewers will get a sense of just what it takes [to] look for evidence which could potentially overturn a murder conviction."
The company announced a net loss of 13.1bn yen ($120.5m, £83m) for its financial year ending in March.
It has been hit by a huge recall of faulty, potentially deadly, airbags used by car makers worldwide, which may affect more than 100 million vehicles.
The fault has been linked to the loss of 11 lives and more than 100 injuries.
Takata has acknowledged some airbag inflators explode with too much force and spray metal shrapnel into the car.
Takata has paid out $70m (£48m) in fines so far and the company's market value has dropped more than 80% since 2014.
Some 50 million vehicles have been recalled globally and last week, US authorities added up to 40 million more.
US regulators believe the volatile chemical used in the inflators, ammonium nitrate, can cause airbags to explode with excessive force.
Globally, 12 car makers are affected with Japan's Honda being the worst hit.
100m
or more vehicle recalls expected
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12 car makers affected
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Several automakers, including Toyota, Honda, Mazda and Ford have said they will stop using Takata airbags containing ammonium nitrate for their future models.
The firm also produces seatbelts, child seats, and other safety-related car parts.
For the current year, Takata forecast a net profit of 13bn yen.
The Japanese company's shares ended Wednesday 2.5% higher, after losing 11% this week and more than 80% over the year.
An estimated 20% of petrol stations have either run dry or are low on supplies.
Clashes broke out at one refinery early on Tuesday when police broke up a blockade at Fos-sur-Mer in Marseille.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls insisted the labour laws would stand, and that further blockades would be broken up.
"That's enough. It's unbearable to see this sort of thing," he told French radio. "The CGT will come up against an extremely firm response from the government. We'll carry on clearing sites blocked by this organisation."
The strike has gradually spread across France's fuel infrastructure, hitting oil refineries, fuel depots and petrol stations across the country.
The government said two out of every 10 petrol stations were affected, but motorists uploaded details of many more that had problems with supplies.
Petrol shortages were a hot issue on social media on Tuesday.
Some Twitters backed the industrial action under the hashtag #JeSoutiensLaGreve (I support the strike), while others toyed with film titles under the hashtag #PenurieCarburantDansUnFilm (fuel shortage in a film).
Police moved in early at dawn on Tuesday to dismantle a blockade outside the Fos-sur-Mer oil refinery and petrol depot at Marseille port.
Tear gas and water cannon were fired, projectiles thrown, and tyres and pallets set alight, reports said. Several people were hurt on both sides.
In his first intervention in the dispute, President Francois Hollande denounced the blockade as a "strategy supported by a minority".
Multinational Total, which owns five of France's oil refineries, threatened to review its investments in response to the disruption.
"If our colleagues want to take an industrial asset hostage for a cause that is foreign to the company, you have to ask whether that is where we should invest," Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told reporters.
He cited a planned €500m modernisation plan at Donges, near the western port of Saint-Nazaire, where some of the biggest disruption took place on Tuesday.
"I'm not saying we won't go ahead with it, just that we must learn the lessons of what's happening and review these plans."
The union is aiming to cut output by half at the refineries and wants strikes on the railways as well, in an attempt to reverse labour laws that make it easier for companies to hire and fire staff.
There are concerns that the disruption may affect the Euro 2016 football championships, with one former union leader saying the event is not "sacred".
The government provoked union outrage when it resorted to a constitutional device to force its watered-down labour reforms through parliament without a vote, earlier this month.
It's a region dominated by Labour - and that's unlikely to change.
The party's dominance in some seats is likely to be boosted further by the declining fortunes of the Liberal Democrats.
While Nick Clegg's party was pushing Labour hard in the City of Durham and the Newcastle seats last time, their ambitions are more limited in 2015.
They do have three seats to defend though. Westmorland and Lonsdale looks safe for potential future leader Tim Farron.
But there's far less certainty about the results in Redcar and Berwick.
Redcar was a gain in 2010, but Labour had never lost the seat before and despite some ructions in the local party, they'll feel they can take it back. The retirement of the victorious Ian Swales won't help the Lib Dems there.
But it's the Conservatives who are challenging in Berwick. Sir Alan Beith has held the seat as a Liberal and Liberal Democrat for 42 years, but his decision to stand down has made it more vulnerable.
The Conservatives though face their own struggles. Their 2010 gains in Stockton South (majority 332) and Carlisle (majority 854) are top Labour targets.
They need to retain both to be confident of keeping Ed Miliband out of 10 Downing Street.
But to have a chance of forming a majority Conservative government they may also need to win Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from Labour. It is number 20 on their target list.
Gain all of those and in theory Middlesbrough South would be the victory that could give David Cameron the 326 seats he needs to have a parliamentary majority.
But of course it's not just about three parties any more.
UKIP have become strong challengers across the North East and Cumbria - finishing second to Labour in two parliamentary by-elections and the European elections.
Their biggest push is in Labour-held Hartlepool, as they have had some local success there, but they will also hope to take second place in a string of seats. Becoming the main regional opposition to Labour in 2020 is their main aim.
The Green Party will also hope to poll much more strongly than in 2010, and have 22 candidates in the North East alone.
And the region even has its own political party this time with the North East Party standing in four constituencies. They are campaigning for regional power - and in time hope to become the North's equivalent of the SNP.
Not too many of the MPs elected in the North East and Cumbria in 2015 are likely to look like the ranks of men in our computer graphics! There are likely to more women than ever this time - including potentially the first from Cumbria.
And in a close election, and with another hung parliament possible, every MP elected here could have a crucial impact on who forms the next government.
Councillors approved the plans for a crossing to link Christchurch Meadows with the redeveloped railway station.
Cyclists who objected to the plans, which do not include cycling lanes, said they were "not very happy" and called the bridge a "vanity project".
The bridge will be paid for from a successful ??20.7m bid from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF).
The steel structure is likely to be painted either white or grey and will sit between the Reading and Caversham bridges.
The Reading Cycling Campaign presented objections at the planning committee meeting on Wednesday night based on research that an increased amount of cyclists would make the crossing unsafe unless segregated lanes were used.
Campaign chairman Adrian Lawson said: "Obviously the bridge will be a good thing, but the problem is going to come when they get a significant increase in the number of cyclists coming over."
He accused the council of wanting a "sleek and iconic" structure over a functional one.
The council did not provide a comment.
The Ulster player was injured late in the 22-9 defeat and Leinster's Fergus McFadden takes his place in the squad.
Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton are expected to be fit for the Dublin game after picking up injuries in Cardiff.
Scrum-half Murray sustained a shoulder injury while fly-half Sexton was not concussed after a head knock.
Sexton was taken off for a head injury assessment and returned after clearing the medical tests.
"He has a big black eye - with any contact to the head there will be an HIA done," said Ireland team manager Paul Dean on Monday.
"There are three stages to that. He came through all three of them no problem and there's no concern for concussion."
Murray suffered a shoulder injury while attempting to tackle Welsh try-scorer George North in the first half.
Dean added: "Conor's fine - he got a stinger. The full power [of the arm] is slow to come back. It didn't come back quickly enough for him to stay on the pitch but it's come back 100% now."
Bowe was introduced in the 79th minute and sustained the injury to his left leg just seconds later.
"It's a suspected fracture. We wish Tommy all the best and a speedy recovery," said Dean.
"It was very unfortunate. I don't think he was even on for a minute. We're really sorry for him."
Ireland's hopes of a third Six Nations title in four years were ended at the Principality Stadium.
Joe Schmidt's team stayed in second spot but eight points behind England, who are aiming for back-to-back Grand Slams.
Stephen Parnaby, Conservative leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said the announcement was "great news for the town and the wider East Riding".
The authority said it was spending about £100,000 on hosting the event.
The organisers of last year's inaugural race said it brought £50m into the region's economy.
The three-day event was launched by tourist body Welcome to Yorkshire after the county hosted the Tour de France Grand Depart in 2014.
More than 1.2m people lined the 320-mile (515km) route.
Mr Parnaby said last year's event had attracted thousands of spectators to the East Riding.
"The council feels that the investment made by the authority, circa £100,000, to bring part of the race here is money well spent and will provide opportunities for local traders to capitalise on increased spending and help boost the East Riding economy," he said.
Others in Beverley have also welcomed the race's arrival.
Local amateur cyclist Ed Neilson said he hoped having the start of the race would encourage other cyclists to visit the town.
"It's nice to see Beverley getting some recognition," he said.
"I think that a few people felt it missed out a little last year, because it wasn't shown on the telly."
Garry Payne, who owns a cycling cafe, said it was "fantastic news" for fans that they would get a chance to get up close to the riders.
He said: "It's so colourful and the riders will be signing autographs, and they're a lot more accessible than what it was last year when they literally whizzed by in the flash of an eye."
For the first time the official figures were expanded to include information from general practices and mental health trusts.
They show nine cases where girls were under 18 when first seen.
FGM is illegal across the UK and it is illegal to take someone abroad for this purpose.
Not all cases would have taken place in the past three months - some may have been picked up at routine appointments for other health issues many years after the incidents occurred.
And the report did not look at whether the cases took place in the UK or abroad.
Sometimes called female circumcision, FGM refers to procedures including the partial or total removal of external female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
It can cause issues including severe pain, infections, pregnancy complications and even death.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre figures covered cases of FGM reported by the women and girls themselves and others recorded by clinicians during appointments.
Experts say figures on the practice have been patchy and it is difficult to know exactly how many women have been affected by FGM.
But the government has plans to make data collection mandatory across many areas of the NHS.
Tanya Barron of the charity Plan UK said global action was needed to tackle this problem.
She added: "It's shocking to see the extent of FGM here in the UK.
"We've seen hugely increased attention on this problem in the past few years and we are now waking up to the scale of this terrible practice.
"What we must always keep in mind though is that this is not specifically a British problem.
"FGM is a practice with an inherently global dimension.
"And while it's vital that we do everything we can to stop FGM here in the UK, as well as to support the girls and women affected by it, the reality is that this practice won't end in the UK until it is ended worldwide."
Smitha Mundasad, health reporter
Charities say it is very difficult to know exactly how many women have been affected by FGM in the UK.
And many of the cases recorded by the NHS in the last three months will have not have taken place recently.
There are a number of reasons women or girls do not talk openly about FGM soon after it happens - including the fear of stigma or getting people into trouble.
Some incidents may come to light years later - for example at a hospital appointment for an unrelated issue or during an antenatal visit.
What is new is a concerted push to collect more data on FGM.
In the last few months clinicians in acute hospitals in England have been told it is mandatory to record any cases they see - whether they were previously recorded by NHS systems or not.
And in October this reporting will be mandatory for GP practices and mental health specialists as well.
Many practices have already started collating these figures and some have been used in this latest report.
For these reasons we can't compare any previous figures and so experts don't yet have a sense of what the trend is.
But there are many experts who hope that more data will help them better understand the scale of the problem.
Winger Kazenga LuaLua is expected to be named among the substitutes once more after making his debut from the bench in the win over Reading last week.
Fulham striker Chris Martin is expected to feature again, after boss Slavisa Jokanvoic said the row with Derby about the on-loan player "is over".
Forwards Floyd Ayite and Neeskens Kebano are away at the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
Rangers are looking to secure a fourth consecutive Championship win while Fulham have lost just one of their last seven league games.
The R's won the first west London derby of the season 2-1 at Loftus Road on 1 October, after the Whites missed two penalties.
QPR manager Ian Holloway told BBC Radio London:
"Losing so many games in a row forced my hand to be as brutal as I have been [with transfers].
"It is sometimes about clearing out things to get a freshness. The atmosphere here is one of optimism and the young players have helped with that.
"Our pitch is small and tight and Fulham are a fantastic test for us. We need to get around them and in their faces and try and carry on our momentum.
"Slavisa Jokanovic seemed to get no credit for what he did at Watford and no appreciation from them. Fulham's wage bill has gone backwards yet he has managed to hold it all together and play some wonderful football."
Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic told BBC Radio London:
"We played well against QPR last time, created many opportunities and missed two penalties.
"At this moment we play with more confidence and have improved ourselves. We know how important it is for our fans.
"I have to be happy because we have created an identity. We are more solid but in football it is important to win the game.
"We want to play these kinds of games and, although it is not my first derby around the world, I am excited like our supporters."
The Bastard Executioner, made at Dragon International Studios near Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, has been ditched after a slump in viewers.
The Welsh government said this series and others such as Da Vinci's Demons showed Wales had the UK's "biggest creative industries base outside of London".
It has not yet been screened in the UK.
Series creator Kurt Sutter took out an advert in TV trade press to announce the end of the series.
The Hollywood Reporter said Sutter sent an email to the Welsh-based cast and crew, praising them for their commitment and enthusiasm.
The 14th Century period drama premiered in the US in September.
Earlier this year the Welsh government supported Fox Television 21 as the company secured a long-term lease for the studios.
The Hollywood Reporter said the programme "lost more than half of its audience through its first six weeks on the air, falling from 4 million combined weekly viewers for its September 15 premiere to just 1.9 million for episode six."
There should be more funds for housing, schools and policing, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said.
Bulgarians and Romanians have been able to work in the UK only in certain circumstances, but EU restrictions on movement will be lifted on 1 January.
The Home Office said its focus was on ending abuse of movement within the EU.
Measures are already planned to restrict migrants' right to benefits.
Since Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU six years ago, their citizens have been able to work in the UK only if they are self-employed, have a job offer, or are filling specialist posts for which no British worker can be found.
Over the past month, the government has tightened the rules on benefit claims by EU citizens who come to the UK, amid growing concerns about a possible influx of Romanians and Bulgarians.
But the IPPR said the plans had been devised in an "atmosphere of panic and fear-mongering" and were largely "symbolic".
Instead, the institute said practical help was needed to deal with increased demands on the privately-rented housing sector and on police who may have to deal with more incidents of anti-social behaviour by people unaware of UK laws and customs.
It also called for extra translators in schools and health centres.
It said there should be a "dedicated" pot of money to pay for the measures, from visa fees and the European Social Fund.
The IPPR's report criticised the abolition in 2010 of the Migration Impacts Fund which helped local authorities deal with unexpected pressure on public services.
The institute recommended that a new fund should be set up and cabinet sub-committee assigned to support councils.
IPPR senior research fellow Alex Glennie said: "It is entirely legitimate for politicians to be concerned about the pace and scale of European migration flows, not least because this is an issue about which there is so much public anxiety. But the political response has been more symbolic than substantive.
"Failure to properly prepare for the rapid inflow of citizens from the previous group of eight states in 2004 and the effects that this had on communities was short-sighted, and led to a number of avoidable problems. It also polarised the broader migration debate in the UK.
She added: "Since then, the UK has had 10 years of experience managing the impact of migration from these countries.
"The past decade has shown that the UK's economy and society are flexible enough to adapt to and benefit from European migration flows, as long as the pressure points they create are quickly identified and addressed.
"There is little to suggest that these lessons have been learned and applied in the run up to January 1st, but even now it is not too late to take some practical steps to alleviate any issues that might arise."
The Home Office said its focus was on cutting out the abuse of free movement between EU member states and addressing factors that drive European immigration to Britain.
The report comes after Business Secretary Vince Cable told the BBC that a 75,000-a-year cap on the number of EU migrants to the UK would not happen.
The Liberal Democrat minister accused the Conservatives of being "in a bit of a panic because of UKIP", as he responded to Home Office proposals leaked last week.
Home Secretary Theresa May has not ruled out a possible future cap, saying there is an issue over "free movement".
When asked if there was a crisis in the coalition over the issue, Mr Cable said there was "quite a lot of tension".
He echoed earlier comments by his party leader Nick Clegg, arguing that there should not be further restrictions on freedom of movement within the EU.
Earlier, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev warned that David Cameron's plans to toughen rules on immigration could harm the UK's image as a "great global power that pioneered integration".
Downing Street said that while free movement was a principle of the EU it could not be a completely unqualified one.
UKIP, which has called for withdrawal from the European Union and greater restrictions on immigration, has seen improved poll ratings this year.
Karabo Mokoena's mother wept as she arrived at the hearing.
A widespread online campaign to find Ms Mokoena was called off on Wednesday when her father confirmed her death.
The case has sparked a fierce debate about the levels of violence faced by women in South Africa.
The suspect, who has not yet pleaded, will remain in custody after the case was adjourned until 24 May, local Jacaranda News reports.
Police are still waiting for DNA tests to confirm the identity of the body, which they said was "badly burned".
Being a woman in South Africa is like being trapped in a locked room - you can hear someone walking outside and you know someone will come one day and you won't be able to stop them.
There is nothing you can do to stop him.
Nothing can protect you - not the pepper spray in your bag, not the self-defence classes you got as a gift for your birthday when your breasts developed, not travelling in groups, not the NO you've been taught to say should that day come - nothing.
It is learning to be "vigilant" before you even know what it is to feel safe.
It is feeling unsafe everywhere, all the time.
African societies are built on patriarchy - every young girl grows up knowing that a man is the head, that he is powerful, that he is a go-getter, a conqueror. We are taught to admire these very traits about you, and I do. But dear God I am afraid of you - and with good reason.
The statistics in this country are not in my or any woman's favour. They say that one day I, or someone I know, will be your victim.
The hashtags #RIPKarabo and #MenAreTrash have been trending across the country as women call for an end to violence against them.
The case has prompted an outpouring of anger and grief in South Africa, mostly by women who took to social media to share stories of abuse they had suffered at the hands of their partners.
One woman's account of how a man had abducted and viciously beat her while she was returning home from a shopping centre in Johannesburg was shared by thousands of people on Twitter:
Others shared similarly harrowing tales of violence against women by their partners.
There were also those who were keen to point out that Karabo Mokoena's case, though widely publicised, was by no means unique.
South Africa has among the highest rates in the world for the rape and murder of women.
More than 40,000 cases of rape are reported every year, figures which are thought to only represent a fraction of actual attacks.
Mr Barroso criticised the PM's EU policy in the European Parliament on Wednesday, suggesting UKIP may outpoll them in the 2014 Euro elections.
The Conservative leader said he was "angry" at the remarks and accused Mr Barroso of "lecturing" his party.
Mr Cameron's pledge of an EU referendum in 2017 has heightened tensions.
Many senior Conservatives have said the UK's future membership of the EU cannot be taken for granted and will depend on a successful renegotiation of the existing terms of membership, including the return of certain powers from Brussels, prior to a public vote.
Mr Cameron has promised an in/out referendum after he has negotiated the return of some powers - so far unspecified - from Brussels.
In his state of the union speech on Thursday, Mr Barroso suggested those seeking to reverse ever-closer integration in the EU risked returning the continent to "the pre-integrated Europe of the divisions, the war, the trenches".
In exchanges following the annual address, Mr Barroso accused the Conservatives of turning Eurosceptic for electoral advantage and suggested that when it "comes to being against Europe people prefer the original to the copy".
Directing his remarks towards the head of the Conservative group of MEPs, Martin Callanan, Mr Barroso suggested that UKIP could become the "first force" in next year's elections - a stated goal of the anti-EU party.
Asked about the remarks, the prime minister told LBC Radio he was used to getting advice and he had a "good relationship" with Mr Barroso.
But he added: "I mean, the Barroso thing did annoy me, because frankly, you know, his job is to serve the members of the European Union, and, you know, the British Conservatives in the European Parliament are an important party, they are the governing party of the United Kingdom, and he should be respecting their views rather than trying to lecture them.
"They have got an important contribution to make and I think he got it wrong... We have a good relationship, I get on with him, we sometimes have some pretty robust exchanges, and I suspect this will probably be one of them."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage told the BBC on Thursday that the Conservative leader was "one of the big supporters of the European project" and the Commission president's "frustration" with him was mild compared to his fear of those advocating the break-up of the EU.
"His real concern is that, right across Europe, the kind of arguments we have used in the chamber are gaining in support... It is not reform he is afraid of. What he is afraid of is people leaving the union."
Alexanda Kotey, 33, from west London, has had his assets frozen by the US State Department.
He has been identified as one of four men known as "The Beatles", who reportedly imprisoned and beheaded hostages for so-called Islamic State.
Kotey is also said to have recruited UK nationals to the terror group.
The US State department said he was one of four members of a terrorist group responsible for beheading about 24 hostages.
Kotey acted as a guard and is likely to have taken part in its executions and torture methods, it added.
The terrorist group was led by Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, who was killed in a US drone strike in 2015.
He appeared in beheading videos of victims including British aid worker David Haines and taxi driver Alan Henning.
The two other members of the group are said to be Aine Davis, who was arrested in Turkey in 2015 , and mechanic El Shafee Elsheikh, a former child refugee - both from west London.
Identifying Kotey as a "specially designated global terrorist", the US State Department said: "As a guard for the cell, Kotey likely engaged in the group's executions and exceptionally cruel torture methods, including electronic shock and waterboarding.
"Kotey has also acted as an Isil recruiter and is responsible for recruiting several UK nationals to join the terrorist organisation."
The US has banned its citizens from having any dealings with him and has put a freeze on any property or interests he has within the country.
An investigation by the Washington Post and Buzzfeed, which identified Kotey as being part of the terrorist group, said he converted to Islam in his mid-20s.
He reportedly became involved with a network of extremists known as the "London Boys" who advocated violence and have been linked to terrorist attacks and plots in the United Kingdom.
If current trends continue, experts say, almost three in four adults could be overweight or obese by 2035, bringing a host of health issues.
The Cancer Research UK and UK Health Forum report says TV adverts for some food should be banned before 21:00.
Health officials say they are committed to tackling childhood obesity.
Recent studies suggest obesity is linked to several cancers - including oesophageal (gullet), womb, and bowel tumours.
And being overweight has long been associated with conditions such as diabetes and coronary heart disease.
In this study, researchers used a computer modelling system, together with historical and current health data, to predict the impact of obesity over the next 20 years.
Their work suggests a rise in the number of people who are overweight or obese would contribute to 4.6 million additional cases of type-2 diabetes and 1.6 million extra cases of heart disease by 2035.
And experts estimate this could lead to an additional £2.5bn in costs to the NHS for 2035 alone.
The report recommends a number of ways to tackle this problem, including introducing a 20p per litre tax on sugary drinks and a review of how food is advertised online.
Experts behind the report say they have taken into account that increases in obesity have started to slow in the past few years.
But they also say one of the major challenges they faced was an inability to take major future changes - such as new drugs or technologies - into account.
Prof Susan Jebb, at the University of Oxford, said while interventions to curb obesity were welcome, the report overlooked the need to fund support for people who were already overweight.
She added: "Most people know that smoking causes cancer, but fortunately, most people in the UK now don't smoke. And for them, managing their weight is the single most important thing they can do to reduce their risk of cancer."
Department of Health officials said they had already brought in a ban on adverts featuring junk food during children's TV programmes and would be launching a childhood obesity strategy shortly.
There are a number of theories behind the link, including:
Source: NHS Choices
The Derry woman, who was ranked in the world top 10 for three years, said she was "waving the white flag" as she announced her retirement on Twitter.
"Illness and injury are inevitable in a sporting career and I am a fighter - but this fight got me," she added.
Reid hopes to move into coaching after a career which included two Olympic Games appearances.
She also competed for Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games and secured podium finishes in the World Series.
Reid said: "I wanted to end on a high, a positive, I wanted to stand on that podium on more time and it was dream to hear 'Amhran na bhFiann' with the Tricolour (or Northern Ireland flag for that matter) flying in front of me.
"From time to time I remind myself that I was good once and not to give up.
"But the light is fading at the end of the tunnel and my belief that I would be able to overcome this injury and be the athlete I once was, is disappearing.
"I don't want to be half-good at anything, and so it's time to wave the white flag.
"I've been through the stages of grieving - it's a scary time leaving something behind, someone I was, something that I did that will probably define me forever."
At this year's Moscow International Security Conference, the official theme is fighting terrorism.
But there is an unofficial theme, too - blaming the West.
A string of Russian military figures and experts have accused the US and Nato of causing global insecurity and waging an "information war" against Moscow.
"Terrorism has become the number one problem for all of us," said Russia's Defence Minister, Sergey Shoygu.
He promptly went on to accuse the US and Nato of "building up military infrastructure close to Russia's borders and carrying out dangerous plans for missile defence".
Speaking at the conference, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, said the rise of terrorism was partly the result of "attempts to transfer the values of Western democracy to countries with their own mentality, spiritual values and traditions... this had exploded North Africa and the Middle East".
When I ask Veronika Krasheninnikova, a member of the Russian Public Chamber, who she views as the greatest threat in the world today, she points to Washington.
"The biggest threat is the adventurous military and political policy of some countries, like the US and its close allies, in the Middle East," she tells me.
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Mr Shoygu described the security situation in Europe as "deplorable".
But neither he nor any other Russian official has acknowledged Moscow's annexation of Crimea is in any way responsible for this state of affairs.
Crimea is not on the conference agenda.
"For the Russian leadership, the question of Crimea is now closed," Russia's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Alexander Lukashevich, tells me.
The message from Moscow is clear - Russia wants improved relations with the West, but the West must accept Russia as it is.
"One of the common themes of this conference is that we need to rethink issues, rethink the security environment, rethink our relationship," says Richard Weitz, from US think tank the Hudson Institute.
"But when you get specific, what they're saying is that the West needs to rethink its approach to Russia."
But, if Russia is serious about improving ties with the West, doesn't it take two to tango? Ms Krasheninnikova is in no mood to share the dance-floor.
"It takes two to tango, but it takes one to start a war," she tells me. "It takes one country to bomb other countries such as Libya."
"The West would argue, 'It takes one country to annex Crimea,'" I respond.
"Wasn't what Russia did in Crimea a watershed moment for international security?"
"It wasn't Russia that annexed Crimea," Ms Krasheninnikova replies.
"It was Crimea that ran away from the Kiev regime after a state coup."
When it comes to security issues, it often feels as if Russia and the West are talking past each other. But some delegates here sense cause for optimism.
"The Russians are always blaming the Americans, of course, and we have a lot of reasons to blame Russia, as well, for example on Crimea," says August Henning, former director of Germany's Federal Intelligence Agency.
"But my impression is that there is more openness in Russia to go ahead and find solutions.
"We should do this in a more discreet manner, not publicly - that would be not be very helpful.
Mr Henning says a solution to the question of Crimea is possible.
"I have made some proposals privately, even on Crimea," he tells me.
"I have no doubt the majority of the population of Crimea voted for being part of Russia.
"Nevertheless, the way it happened is not acceptable for us.
"My idea is to try to establish a free trade zone in Crimea, we should try to have a [kind of] Hong Kong, for example, in consensus with Ukraine, with the West, with the European Union.
"We need more [imagination] for this question. Now is not the time, but there may be an opportunity in the future."
Stuart Jenkins, 41, of Ossett, West Yorkshire, had been charged with killing Arthur Brumhill, 76, in Northampton in 1993.
Mr Brumhill was found dead in the basement of Denton's pet and garden shop. He had 26 injuries and his body was covered in straw.
Speaking outside Northampton Crown Court, Mr Jenkins said: "I'm relieved."
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Mr Jenkins worked at the pet shop for about a month in 1992, aged 17, on a youth training scheme.
The former army sergeant was arrested at the time of Mr Brumhill's death but was later released. He was re-arrested and charged in May 2015.
"It's been a long two years. It's been two years of not knowing where you are," he said after his acquittal.
His wife Louise said they send their condolences to the family of Mr Brumhill.
"We hope they do get justice," she added.
Northamptonshire Police said they remain "committed" to forensic developments in the case.
DCI Louise Hemingway, who led the investigation, said: "I'm really disappointed for Arthur's family. They have waited for 24 years.
"There was definitely enough evidence to bring it to trial. It was the right thing to do for Arthur, for his family and in seeking justice.
"This was an awful murder. If we do get any opportunities to investigate [further] we will."
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The hospital's Facebook page warned of a possible active shooter situation.
The message advised people in the area to "run, hide or fight".
There have been no reports of injuries, and an initial sweep of the building shows no evidence of a shooting. Naval dogs are doing a second search.
The hospital complex is on lockdown and those inside have been ordered to "shelter in place", the Navy said.
With over 6,500 personnel, the hospital serves wounded soldiers and serves as a training facility for nursing schools in the area.
All personnel have been asked to stay away from the building.
Local and military law enforcement and highway patrol are on the scene.
The Welsh Tory leader said the campaign had been "confusing" with London-only messages allowed "to take centre-stage".
The party lost three Welsh seats to Labour at the general election.
A Westminster Tory source said there was a Welsh campaign in the assembly elections: "We still went backwards."
His criticism comes a day after Mr Davies claimed the Welsh party lacked clear leadership.
Mr Davies is widely known as Welsh Conservative leader but under party rules, his authority does not extend beyond the National Assembly Tory group.
Despite some early expectations that the party could become the largest Welsh force in Westminster, the party's overall seat haul total in Wales fell to eight, with Labour solidifying its position as the largest Welsh group at Westminster with 28 MPs.
The Tories lost their overall Commons majority, losing 13 seats, as the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party gained 30 seats across the UK.
Mr Davies said: "There are no prizes for coming second in politics, we know that only too well, having outperformed expectations in many Welsh seats on Thursday without doing enough to win them.
"Jeremy Corbyn would do well to remember that his party came a distant second in this election."
But he said: "There is no getting away from the fact that this was a bad day at the office for the Conservative Party."
He said Welsh Labour "were able to fight a local campaign; hiding Jeremy Corbyn from all of their literature during the early days of the campaign - and yet still able to benefit from a late surge in his popularity nationally".
"Meanwhile, the left wing vote in Wales coalesced around Labour, with the nationalists and Liberals haemorrhaging support in most seats," he said.
"Sadly, the decision to allow the UK messaging to marginalize our own, successful brand of Welsh Conservatism meant that we were not in a position to capitalise on those shifting sands in Welsh politics."
He added: "We are proud unionists but we cannot keep fighting general elections without acknowledging the need for distinctive messaging.
"Health and education have been devolved to the Welsh Assembly for many years and the decision to allow London messaging to take centre-stage only confused our offering."
He said the Welsh Conservative local election result, when the party gained 80 seats, was proof that "locally driven campaigns work".
However, a Conservative source in Westminster said: "We had a Welsh campaign in the assembly elections, but we still went backwards."
Last year, the Tories lost three assembly seats when their share of the constituency and regional votes fell by almost four points.
However, a source close to Mr Davies said that in 2016 "London controlled the purse strings" and that the party's messages were based on polling data gathered centrally.
During the campaign, the AM for South Wales Central had accused Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns of being unwilling to take part in the BBC Wales Leaders' debate after neither Mr Davies or Mr Cairns decided to take part.
Mr Cairns, who was reappointed as Welsh Secretary on Sunday, had said it was intended Mr Davies would appear on the programme.
The BBC understands that he will outline a new management structure for the local health care system.
It comes in response to a review that recommended redesigning the system to make it simpler and more efficient.
The review said Northern Ireland had too many hospitals for its 1.8m population.
It was published in January by Sir Liam Donaldson, the former Chief Medical Officer for England.
It suggested setting up an international panel of experts to redesign the local health system so that expertise is no longer thinly spread.
The report also identified confusion about who was in charge of health care in Northern Ireland.
At present, the Department of Health is responsible for strategy and policy, while below it the Health and Social Care Board is in charge of "commissioning".
In essence, this means the board spends a large part of the health budget identifying needs and acquiring resources and services for the trusts.
The six trusts are then the service providers.
It is understood the minister wants the trusts to be directly accountable to his department, and this could have implications for the Health and Social Care Board.
It currently employs about 470 people, with an administration budget of £27m.
Alongside the board, the Public Health Agency is primarily responsible for improving health and social well-being and health protection, but it also has a role in commissioning. It is understood commissioning will not longer be part of its remit.
The Donaldson review highlighted unnecessary duplication between the department, the health board and the Public Health Agency.
The minister is expected to address this directly.
Any move to restructure the management of the health service will require a public consultation and legislation, meaning it is unlikely to come into effect for between 18 months and two years.
Sir Liam suggested that an international panel of experts be established to make some of the tough decisions regarding the future shape of services, including the number of acute hospitals.
The review highlighted that a population of 1.8m could be served by four rather than 10 hospitals.
Sir Liam said it should be agreed in advance to accept whatever proposals such a panel made.
The BBC understands that Mr Hamilton will set up an expert panel, but it will mostly be made up of local people. There will be no agreement to accept the panel's proposals in advance.
The review also pointed to a report from 2011 called Transforming Your Care which had 99 recommendations.
It focused on moving patient care away from hospitals and into the home or community setting.
Sir Liam said a time-tabled implementation plan was needed that would include an enhanced role for pharmacists and paramedics.
It is understood the minister will announce a 'transformation fund' to be taken out of any additional funding the department receives (currently £4.7bn).
The fund will be used to pay for cost-saving initiatives developed by the trusts and the implementation of Transforming Your Care.
This announcement by the minister is essentially his answer to the Donaldson report - on the question of who is in charge of the health service, Mr Hamilton says he is.
The minister vows to reduce bureaucracy and he suggests reforming a system so service providers work more closely with the decision makers.
Derby are now seventh in the Championship table, only a point outside the play-off places.
McClaren told BBC Radio Derby: "I thought we were fantastic first half, controlled the game, the gameplan was excellent and we executed it well.
"But I think, in the end, some bad decisions have really cost us."
The former England boss felt particularly aggrieved by the Rams not being allowed an advantage by referee Andy Woolmer late in the game.
"I thought that was the worst decision I have seen in a long, long time," continued McClaren.
"He accepted that and he said he blew up too soon. It could've been a two-on-one situation and we could've come away with the points.
"But, I think it was such a good game that I think a draw was a fair result.
"I am pleased for the fans. We have 3,000 here and it is a long journey. They really got behind the boys."
He does this by suggesting existing laws should be torn up - in other words RIP for Ripa, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
But the issue ahead will be whether a delicate compromise can be fashioned which will survive in parliament.
In recent years, the police and spies have talked of their fears of going dark - losing the ability to listen in to criminals and terrorists as technology evolves.
Those concerned about privacy have contended that the danger is the other way - the state being able to see and hear too much about all of us, especially as the same technology moves more and more of our lives online.
During the last parliament, proposals to provide more powers in a Communications Data Bill were abandoned after being branded a "snooper's charter".
The Anderson report does not propose any major extension of government surveillance.
Some key elements of the Communications Data Bill are now in law - for instance resolution of IP addresses came in a counter-terror bill and data retention is now in place until current emergency laws end next year.
And Anderson - the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation - says a sufficient case has not been made for the most controversial of the past proposals - that logs of web-browsing activity be kept.
Anderson does argue that while new powers may not be needed, the current powers are necessary in order to pursue not just terrorists, but a range of criminals and ensure that there are not any "no-go" areas for the state to protect citizens.
But to keep these powers, he says that stricter additional safeguards are needed.
The report is critical of the lack of transparency and the current safeguards pointing to gaps in oversight and a lack of public understanding.
The Edward Snowden revelations led to disclosure of the way in which GCHQ carried out bulk interception of data.
The Anderson report is unusual in including an annexe which gives examples of how intercepted communications and GCHQ's use of bulk data have played a role in a number of investigations.
In a recent Intelligence and Security Committee report on the same subject, such examples were redacted.
Anderson argues that bulk collection of data is not mass surveillance, as critics have charged, and is useful in "target discovery" - finding people who may then be made the subject of more intrusive interception powers.
But he argues the bulk collection of material requires "strict additional safeguards" with warrants being signed by a judge and a tighter definition of the purpose and targeting.
There is also a call for much greater transparency of the kinds of powers and capabilities that agencies like GCHQ are using.
This "avowal" of capabilities (although not the specific operations in which they are used) may prove challenging to GCHQ who have historically (until Edward Snowden came along) thrived on ambiguity about their reach.
Much - but perhaps not all - has been exposed already by Edward Snowden but the agencies have still resisted, until recently, openly confirming they carry out actions like computer hacking.
Anderson suggests hacking (or to give it its proper name Computer Network Exploitation) will become far more widespread by the state in order to overcome the spread of encryption technology.
One interesting line is that the police consider it "inevitable" that they will need to carry out hacking themselves.
The most politically tricky aspect of the Anderson proposals is likely to be the shift towards judges and not ministers signing warrants.
Civil liberty and privacy activists have long called for a greater role for the judiciary (and the report notes this is the model followed by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US) but both ministers and intelligence agencies may be initially reluctant to weaken the bond in which a politically accountable figure is made personally responsible.
Investigatory powers explained
The prime minister is thought to be more in favour of such radical change than some of the ministers who normally sign the warrants.
The spies may not be keen but also recognise that change needs to come if they want to maintain public confidence and what some call their 'licence to operate'.
Intercept is estimated to be 15%-20% of the total intelligence picture in counter-terrorism investigations, according to Home Office evidence to the report.
However, its relative value is declining as targets become more aware and encryption becomes more widespread.
The report says public authorities should not be shut out from places where they need need access to keep the public safe but there is no proposal in the report for legislating to ensure "back doors" and government access to encryption technology.
Comments by the prime minister before the election were interpreted as suggesting such a move might be on the agenda.
David Anderson says he heard no calls for such powers from the spies.
Information from social media is becoming more important.
According to the report, a snapshot of recent prosecutions for terrorist offices concluded that in 26 recent cases, 23 could not have been pursued without communications data and in 11 the conviction depended on that data.
One of the main reasons for the shift to judicial authorisation, Anderson says, is not just public confidence but the views of Silicon Valley.
In the past, intercepting communications involved asking a UK telephone provider to tap a line but now people often communicate using apps made by companies in the US - this has been especially evident in recent years in cases involving people going to Iraq and Syria or communicating with those out there.
Those companies have not considered themselves subject to UK law (despite Britain's claims they are) and so their co-operation is voluntary.
Anderson argues that they are more likely to co-operate with a warrant if it is signed by a judge and not a minister.
While there are normally nearly 3,000 intercept warrants in a year, there are typically around 500,000 requests for communications data - this covers who might have called whom on a phone or who owns a phone or other aspects of communications but not including the content of what is said or written.
The report says this kind of communications data is vital and used in investigating almost all serious crime.
However, Anderson argues for clearer definitions of what such data consists of and more independence for those who provide the authorisation within organisations.
Overall, Anderson has constructed a careful package of measures which might keep the different sides on board.
However, privacy groups will watch carefully to see how far the law which ends up being proposed is actually based on his report or if some things - like judicial warrant signing - are taken out and other things - like increased capabilities - are put in.
This report has moved the debate forward but it is still not over.
The company has also offered to help pay for the costs of the changes.
The pledge comes on the same day President Barack Obama is hosting leaders from the 567 federally recognised native tribes in Washington.
The use of Native American mascots and symbolism in sports is at the centre of a national debate in the US.
Critics say such imagery is racially offensive and it exploits native people through stereotypes.
According to advocacy groups, there are approximately 2,000 schools in the US that have Native American mascots.
Over the past two years around 12 have dropped the mascots and about 20 are considering a change.
Should the R-word be banned?
The sports company, which will have executives in attendance at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, has also said it will be among the founding members of a coalition that seeks to change Native American mascots in sports.
The initiative would give schools wanting to change their mascot access to the brand's design team, who would provide logo and uniform design services.
"This remarkable stand against racism by Adidas illustrates that the issue of ending the use of the R-word is not going away, but is instead gaining momentum as people understand the damaging impacts of this racial slur," said Jackie Pata and Ray Halbritter, leaders with advocacy group Change the Mascot, in a written statement.
The Washington Redskins, the professional American football team located in Washington, has resisted changing its name and logo despite increased criticism in recent years.
"We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER - you can use caps," said the team's owner Dan Snyder, in an interview in May 2013.
Supporters of the mascots point to long traditions and say that they highlight the contribution of native people to American society.
In 2005, the governing body of university-level basketball warned teams that they would be subject to penalties if they did not change Native American mascots.
In response, some of the teams, including the Florida State Seminoles, were granted permission to use the names and imagery by tribes.
Pu Zhiqiang is accused of "inciting ethnic hatred" and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
The trial ended with no verdict announced. Critics say the case is politically motivated.
Police scuffled with foreign journalists, diplomats and protesters who were barred from entering.
Mr Pu, who was in court over comments made on social media, is the latest to be tried in a crackdown on lawyers, dissidents and those accused of corruption. The lawyer faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.
Mr Pu's family said he had pleaded not guilty to all charges. His wife was allowed to attend the trial which lasted about three hours.
The court has not said when it will announce the verdict. The BBC's John Sudworth says that given the government's tight control of the courts, there is almost no chance of an acquittal and Mr Pu probably faces a lengthy spell in prison.
Mr Pu had posted several messages on microblogging platform Weibo questioning the authorities' "excessively violent" crackdown on Uighurs in the restive Xinjiang region.
He also alleged the Chinese Communist Party was an untruthful party, and mocked government rhetoric over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands which are also claimed by Japan.
Mr Pu has been in detention since May 2014, after he attended an event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. He participated in the Tiananmen protests as a student.
His family and lawyer told reporters that although the lawyer had lost a lot of weight and his hair had turned grey, he appeared to be in good health and had an alert mind.
In his final remarks in court, Mr Pu was quoted by his lawyer as saying: "If my Weibo posts have ever harmed anyone, I am willing to apologise."
Mr Pu also thanked his friends, as well as the detention centre which "treated me well".
Outside the court, a small group of Mr Pu's friends and supporters held a protest on Monday morning.
A number of them were taken away by police, and a BBC crew witnessed at least one woman being dragged away from the scene.
These were unusual scenes even by China's own standards for the treatment of journalists.
A large group of aggressive plain clothes policemen - many of them wearing yellow smiley-face badges - pushed, punched and harassed reporters, camera crews and diplomats away from the front of the court.
One US diplomat, who had tried to attend court as an observer, was jostled along the street as he tried to read a statement condemning China's treatment of Pu Zhiqiang.
The worsening climate for freedom of speech in China has been noted by many over the past few years, but the trial of Mr Pu, and the scenes surrounding it, are likely to be seen as a new low point.
US and EU diplomats were stopped while trying to making statements critical of the trial outside the court.
They later said lawyers and civil society leaders in China should not be subject to "continuing repression" and called on Beijing to uphold constitutional rights.
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China posted a statement online condemning the manhandling of journalists, saying that at least one journalist was "slammed to the ground" by a security officer while others were pushed, shoved and punched in the back.
International rights groups have described Mr Pu's case as political persecution. Amnesty International says there have been "repeated procedural irregularities" in his prosecution.
Pu Zhiqiang represented artist Ai Weiwei in a tax evasion case that critics complained was politically motivated. He also campaigned for the eventual abolition of the labour camp system, under which suspects could be detained for years without trial.
Although little can be found about Pu Zhiqiang on China's microblogging site Weibo, his trial has been widely discussed by intellectuals, journalists and Mr Pu's friends on mobile messaging app WeChat.
One said: "No matter what comes out of today's trial, at least one thing is clear: this result has nothing to do with 'law'."
Many of Pu's friends stood outside the Beijing court. One wrote on his WeChat: "Instead of calling today's trial the sentence of a lawyer, it is rather a public prosecution of a dictatorial regime."
A Facebook post from Taiwan's former Culture Minister, Lung Ying-tai, has also been widely circulated on WeChat. In the post, which was published before the trial, Ms Lung said: "The judge should be aware that all the Chinese people around the world are waiting for 9am today. They are waiting to see, in this great 'China Dream', how the state machine is going to deal with Pu Zhiqiang, who [simply] wrote some 600 words. Yes, Beijing, please show us. We all want to know where the progress of civilisation in this 'China Dream' is. "
Chinese media largely remain silent on Pu Zhiqiang's case. Last week, the state-run Global Times published a bylined editorial, accusing Western media of using the case to "attack China's rule of law". The author also urged the judge not to be influenced by public opinion.
They are hoping to trace the child's mother who has not come forward.
The baby girl was found at Steelstown Lane on a Friday afternoon.
It is thought that she may have been born 24 to 36 hours earlier. She was wrapped in a beige fleece and placed with a towel into a black bag inside a green paper carrier bag.
Staff at the Dublin hospital where she was taken have called her Maria.
Sgt Maeve O'Sullivan of the Child Protection Unit in Clondalkin said: "We are releasing this photograph so mum can see her little baby girl and we would ask mum to please contact us."
Police said they were only concerned for the welfare of the baby's mother and that they were not treating the matter as a criminal investigation.
They have appealed for information.
At least 20 people have been injured and 80 detained nationwide, a local rights group has said.
Images circulated on social media of injured people on the ground. There are reports at least three were shot.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government.
In Miranda state, a police officer died and two others were injured, the government said, blaming opposition activists.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles is the governor of the state. Police there confirmed the death but did not blame protesters.
The mass demonstrations came after a recall referendum process - an attempt to remove Mr Maduro from power- was suspended.
Opposition activists had gathered about 1.8 million signatures petitioning for a recall referendum, 400,000 of which were validated by electoral authorities.
But the process was halted last week after officials said the signature collection process has been marred by fraud.
The country's opposition-led parliament voted on Tuesday to open a trial against Mr Maduro, whom MPs accuse of violating the constitution.
What's behind Venezuela's turmoil?
Protesters clashed with security forces across the country, particularly in the western cities of San Cristobal and Maracaibo.
"The referendum was our constitutional right, and they have denied it. What are they scared of?" said Grimaldi Lopez at the rally in the capital, Caracas.
Using the hashtag #TomadeVenezuela or "Venezuela takeover", people shared images of injured and bloodied protesters.
Alfredo Romero, leader of a human rights NGO, tweeted a picture of an injured 79-year-old woman, and said more than 20 people had been injured in the city of Merida alone.
Mr Maduro addressed a rival rally of supporters in Caracas, saying: "Let the people decide."
Opposition leaders have called for a mass walk-out on Friday. After the general strike, if the government continues to block the recall referendum process, the opposition threatened to march on the presidential palace - something it has not been allowed to do since a march there in 2002 started a short-lived coup against the former President, Hugo Chavez.
Mr Maduro, a former bus driver and union leader, is blamed by the opposition for Venezuela's dire economic situation. The oil-rich country is facing widespread food shortages and spiralling inflation.
In turn, he has accused the opposition of having links to foreign states, the US in particular, and of seeking to overthrow him to "lay their hands on Venezuela's oil riches".
Under Venezuela's constitution, a recall referendum can be held once a president has served half of his term in office and the requisite steps are met.
So far, the opposition has completed the first step of the process.
Over 100 volunteers helped with the overhaul at the Lord's Garden at Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin.
It was built in 1435 and is considered to be Wales' oldest dated timbered town house.
The Grade II-listed gardens, originally known as The Lord's Acre, pre-date the structure.
They are first mentioned in 1282 as having been awarded to Marcher Lord Reginald de Grey along with Ruthin Castle, in recognition of the part he played in subduing an uprising by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last native prince of an independent Wales.
The Lord's Acre appears to have remained an orchard and kitchen garden to the castle's occupants for around 350 years, and many of the fruit trees there date from between 1300 and 1600.
By the time of the English Civil War in the 1640s, the Lord's Acre passed to the Nantclwyd y Dre estate, and the focus seems to have shifted more towards meadowland and ornamental gardens.
The Heritage Lottery Fund helped to finance the project with Denbighshire council, Ruthin Town Council and the Friends of Nantclwyd y Dre.
Environmental officials are investigating a "white substance" which can be seen in the Gwenfro river near Coedpoeth.
A spokesman said: "Our officers are investigating a pollution in the Gwenfro river near Coedpoeth.
"The pollutant may be dairy product."
It released transcripts in which he says he was trained in Hong Kong and South Korea to "develop Western constitutionalism in China".
In a video, he denies being maltreated since his arrest in July 2015.
The lawyer's wife and human rights activists have both said that Mr Xie was tortured in custody.
His trial appears to have been held without advance public warning, the BBC's John Sudworth reports from Beijing, and there was no way foreign journalists could verify the court transcripts which, like the video, were released on Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter.
He is one a number of prominent lawyers put on trial recently who have mostly represented land grab victims and campaigners for democratic reform. Such cases are considered highly sensitive by the authorities.
President Xi Jinping has overseen increasing restrictions on civil society while warning that Western ideals present a threat to national security.
Mr Xie has been charged with "inciting subversion of state power and disrupting court order".
"My actions go against my role as a lawyer," he said in the video released by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court.
"I want to take this opportunity to express to other rights lawyers my view now that we should give up using contact with foreign media and independent media to hype sensitive news events, attack judicial institutions and smear the image of the nation's party organs while handling cases."
Detained lawyers and human rights activists in China are often subject to similar show trials and abuses as those allegedly endured by Xie Yang. Human rights activists say that few if any receive a fair trial.
Mr Xie has worked on a number of cases considered politically sensitive by China's ruling Communist Party and was among hundreds of lawyers and activists detained in what became known as the "709 crackdown" - named after the date of the first disappearance of a group of lawyers on 9 July 2015.
It was part of the toughest government action against Chinese civil society for years. Although the majority of those held were released on bail, last year six of them were found guilty of serious crimes, with some sentenced for up to seven years in prison.
Mr Xie is now in a precarious position - he has not endeared himself to the government by defending mainland supporters of Hong Kong democracy activists.
Patrick Poon, of human rights group Amnesty International, said the Chinese authorities had wanted to use his trial "to discredit his lawyers and the western media".
On Friday, the UN human rights office demanded that the Chinese government release all lawyers and activists that it said were being held simply for defending the basic rights of Chinese citizens.
Last week Mr Xie's lawyer, Chen Jiangang, was himself detained by police.
Mr Xie's US-based wife said in January that he had been tortured while in custody.
US-based charity Chinese Human Rights Defenders says that Mr Xie informed his lawyers earlier this year that police had subjected him to extensive sleep deprivation, prolonged interrogations, beatings and death threats to get him to confess his guilt and incriminate colleagues.
John Crerar first took large format, colour photographs of the buildings in 1996, interviewing people who passed through their doors on their memories of cinema-going.
He has now re-photographed the buildings, with many still standing.
The images are being exhibited in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent.
Mr Crerar, a former Coleg Gwent photography lecturer, said: "I was going through my [film] negatives 20 years later and realised how long it had been since I'd taken the photographs.
"I thought it would be a marvellous idea to go and revisit some of these sites and I found them in all sorts of different states of repair.
"I found people are really quite interested in comparing and contrasting those buildings and plus, they have a lot of memories of those original buildings."
Mr Crerar said many of the cinemas had changed "but not as much as you might think" - becoming libraries, dance halls, theatres, and bingo halls. Others have since been demolished.
Initially inspired by the architecture of the buildings, he added that he began to notice people's interest in recalling their trips to the cinema. He now plans to re-interview people about their experiences.
"Cinema going was a really important ritual, something that people shared," he said.
"[The exhibition is] a celebration of cinema and cinema-going and I think it's a homage to that great social ritual."
Palaces for the People is on show at The Kickplate Gallery on Church Street, Abertillery, until 17 June.
Looking from the outside at The Leadership College (TLC) with its basic structure and its small classrooms, surrounded by sandy waste ground, it is hard to imagine that this is the same school that has managed consistently to deliver top-class results since its inception seven years ago.
Yet last year the school achieved a 92% pass rate in South Africa's national school-leaving examinations - far higher than the national average.
That performance is in stark contrast with a finding of the report by the Johannesburg-based Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), which suggests large proportions of South Africa's graduating students are "functionally illiterate and innumerate".
The report found that South Africa - one of the continent's richest countries - was performing worse than many far poorer African nations in terms of educating its children.
But what makes TLC's achievements even more remarkable is that it is located in Manenberg, a run-down area just 15 minutes from Cape Town's international airport, often in the news for the crime, gang violence and drug dealing that stalks its streets.
"The community itself and the township keep you down if you get into its lifestyle," says former head girl Thania Abrahams, who achieved five distinctions in last year's Matric exams.
"For me to rise above that, I had to focus on my goals."
Thania's results were good enough to get her enrolled for a degree in medicine at Stellenbosch University, one of the best tertiary institutions in South Africa.
She wasn't the only TLC student to win a place at Stellenbosch: Imraan Ismail got six distinctions and a place to study chartered accounting.
Of the 71 distinctions produced in Manenberg last year, all but three came from TLC.
TLC is a private school, run by the 2 Oceans Education Foundation, which counts Yusuf Islam, the singer previously known as Cat Stevens, among its patrons.
Thanks to its government and charitable funding, the area's academically gifted students can attend for free - even down to school excursions.
Many of TLC's learners come from tough backgrounds, broken homes together with a variety of socio-economic problems that plague the townships in which they live.
In 2015, no child accepted to TLC came from a household which earned more than 8,000 rand ($640; £510) a month.
About 90% of the students are Muslim but the founders stress it is open to all races and denominations.
But TLC does not just offer the opportunity to excel in the classroom.
The school serves as an oasis of tranquillity as it provides a safe space for the pupils who have free access there to psychologists and occupational therapists - something these children would never otherwise have access to.
The health professionals play a key role in helping the learners overcome their often traumatic circumstances which include witnessing murders, armed robberies, abusive relationships or simply a lack of affection at home.
Ashra Norton, TLC director:
"What I am particularly pleased about is that learners are now thinking about doing courses in areas like actuarial science, health, physical sciences and engineering."
However, one of the main reasons behind the success of TLC is the strict discipline coupled with the hard work put in by both pupils and teachers.
The school's navy and light blue uniform, which is given free of charge to each of the pupils, plays an important part in creating an identity and sense of togetherness in a community where gangs have filled that vacuum for many youngsters.
Meanwhile, the school organizes extra lessons in maths and science, as well as in any other subjects that pupils find problematic, over weekends and sometimes during the week for those in their final year.
"Although I'm very happy, I'll feel even better if all the other schools in Manenberg could get similar results," says TLC director Ashra Norton, who grew up in the area.
The school is doing its part here as well, however: TLC hosts joint tuition programmes with other schools in the area in an effort to help pupils keep up with their work.
The 2 Oceans Education Foundation is involved with six other schools in Cape Town, most of them in the poorer townships.
Its most recent involvement is with Langa High School, located in Cape Town's oldest black township, which had a Matric pass rate of just 34% last year.
"There is no quick fix solution," Mrs Norton says. "It requires hard work and determination to survive against extraordinary odds. We have a very strong intervention programme in the school starting from their first year in grade eight."
The programme includes providing daily sandwiches or meals that are sometimes provided by sponsors to nearly half of the 625 pupils who come from economically deprived homes.
The school has managed to raise the bar for pupils who are now aiming much higher than their parents could ever have dreamed of.
"What I am particularly pleased about is that learners are now thinking about doing courses in areas like actuarial science, health and physical sciences and engineering which was unheard of a few years ago," says Mrs Norton.
Theresa May visits President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday, as he basks in the glow of election success and she recovers from a gruelling setback at the polls.
He faced down the French establishment to secure a landslide presidential win and topped it off on Sunday with a commanding first-round lead in parliamentary elections.
Mrs May faced calls to resign after her parliamentary majority was wiped out in Thursday's general election.
Heading abroad for some international wheeler-dealing is "a classic move to shore up authority at home," one analyst told AFP news agency.
Their contrasting electoral fortunes are too glaring for observers to ignore, and some drew attention to some uncomfortable moments in history.
"This, Madame May, is victory," the French president tells his visitor as they pass crowds of his cheering supporters, in a cartoon by Patrick Blower in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
French newspaper Libération could not resist pointing out that another embattled UK Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was on a visit to Paris in 1990 when a party vote triggered her downfall.
Some commentators compare their fortunes - or misfortunes - when it comes to Brexit.
In the FT, a Ferguson cartoon depicts the two leaders at tennis - Mr Macron serving with an enormous EU-flag-themed tennis racket to the prime minister's undersized racket.
But the accompanying article is deadly serious - headlined "Emmanuel Macron will offer no mercy to Theresa May". Far from "helping Britain get off the hook of a hard Brexit", argues Gideon Rachman, "for President Macron, Brexit is looking increasingly like a historic opportunity rather than a cause for regret".
"It is advantage France," the article concludes.
That perspective is shared by the editorial director of The Economist Intelligence Unit.
France's new leader may not entirely have the upper hand. He may be heading for a landslide in parliament but it is on the back of a record low turnout, attributed to a sense of resignation among his opponents.
Polls suggest he will win upwards of 400 seats in France's 577-seat National Assembly. But his party did win a smaller share of the popular vote than Theresa May's Conservatives.
So when the two leaders sit down to a working dinner there will be plenty on the menu, not least their plans for social media companies to face fines if they fail to remove extremist material.
They share the same preoccupations, in the wake of a series of horrifying Islamist militant attacks on both sides of the Channel. Most recently, 22 people died in a suicide attack in Manchester and eight were murdered at London Bridge, including three French nationals.
Four days after Paris came under attack by jihadists in November 2015, Wembley stadium gave a rousing rendition of the Marseillaise ahead of an international friendly between England and France.
That honour will be returned at the Stade de France when the two footballing nations meet again, watched by President Macron and the UK prime minister.
The Oasis song "Don't Look Back in Anger" will be played as the players emerge, while unusually the UK national anthem will be played last and the words displayed to encourage all fans to sing along.
Not everything can be planned and choreographed, though. Mrs May will be anxious to avoid any own goals from England's defence that might leave France's trademark cockerel crowing.
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is dedicated to encouraging women students to enter the IT industry.
More than 150 delegates are expected to attend its 10th annual conference at Aberystwyth University on Wednesday.
Dr Hannah Dee, who set it up, said there was "no reason" IT should be a masculine domain.
Dr Dee, a senior lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University, has previously been named the ninth most-influential woman in UK IT.
She created the event after attending a computing conference where she was the only woman, in Prague, Czech Republic.
"It was just a little bit disconcerting. It's not unpleasant, it's just a little bit weird," she said.
She said having insufficient women role modes in the industry was one "important" factor among many, which may discourage girls from studying computing.
Dr Dee added: "I also think there is a real polarization going on at the moment on gender lines.
"Allied with that, is this kind of pinkification of of girlhood where girls are expected to be wearing pink and being girlie and doing princess stuff and boys are expected to do the creative, playing with mud kind of side of things.
"And computing... there is no reason it should be a masculine domain but it's seen as part of that STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) area, so it's seen as being for boys.
"And because childhood is so polarized now we find that girls are moving away from it."
The conference she created is named after the mathematician Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who is often cited as the world's first computer programmer.
It brings together women students, senior women in technology and employers and has been held at different UK cities, but will return to Dr Dee's workplace for its 10th birthday.
Fears have been raised in Wales that female talent is being lost due to the poor take up among girls in STEM subjects.
And academics have said the way computer science is taught in English schools "leaves girls behind".
The event's keynote address will be given by Dr Sue Black OBE, founder of BCSWomen and CEO of TechMums, a social enterprise which provides technical training for mothers in deprived areas.
Other confirmed speakers include Milka Horozova from Google and Carrie Anne Philbin, director of education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Egypt can even go through regardless if Mali fail to beat Uganda in the other Group D match.
But a win for Egypt would allow them to leapfrog Ghana and advance as group winners.
That might not be what they want, however - the group winners will remain in Port-Gentil for the quarter-finals while the runners-up must up sticks to Oyem in the north of the country.
An awful pitch in Port-Gentil has had an adverse impact on the quality of the football played there and heavy rain in the city since the weekend will only add to the problem.
"Everyone wants to play in the other city. No one wants to play in this stadium," Egypt's Ahmed Elmohamady said.
"But for us we need to win, we want to win the group. It's about getting the points, it's not about the stadium."
As a striker people expect you to score and I am here to win the trophy
Hull midfielder Elmohamady played when Egypt beat Ghana 1-0 in the 2010 final in Angola to win a third successive Nations Cup.
More recently the Black Stars triumphed 6-1 in a World Cup qualifier in October 2013, but Egypt then won 2-0 in a 2018 World Cup qualifier last November.
While Egypt have a doubt over full-back Mohamed Abdel-Shafi and 44-year-old Essam El Hadary remains their only fit goalkeeper, Ghana coach Avram Grant may be tempted to rest some first-choice players.
Skipper Asamoah Gyan will hope to feature however. The striker netted the only goal in Saturday's victory against Mali and he has now scored eight times at the Nations Cup over six consecutive tournaments.
The 31-year-old is also closing on a significant landmark as his next goal will be his 50th in international football.
"In tournaments you don't look for personal glory," he said when asked about the significance of reaching his half-century.
"Maybe after if I get on the score sheet then I can celebrate personal glory, but as a striker people expect you to score and I am here to win the trophy."
That is something he has not yet managed to do with the Black Stars winning the last of their four Nations Cup titles back in 1982.
They have looked like one of the most accomplished sides so far in this year's tournament, despite losing left-back Abdul Rahman Baba to a serious knee injury in their opening 1-0 win against Uganda.
Dalriada School, Ballymoney, was named the top senior choir in Northern Ireland.
St Patrick's Primary School, Rathfriland, won the junior choir prize.
Sixty-five choirs had battled over the course of nine weeks for a place in the final at Belfast's Ulster Hall.
Six finalists performed two songs each in Sunday's final, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster.
Dalriada School performed 'The Conversion of Saul' and 'The Lord Bless You And Keep You', while St Patrick's Primary School performed 'Can You Hear Me?' and 'Ching-A-Ring-Chaw'.
In the junior category, Holy Family Primary, Omagh, was the runner-up, and Carrickfergus Grammar came second in the senior grade.
The other finalists were Ebrington Primary School, Londonderry, in the junior section and New Bridge Integrated College, Loughbrickland, in the senior category.
Vocal coach and television presenter Carrie Grant was the special guest judge and presented the schools with their awards.
The competition is produced in association with the Ulster Youth Choir, and supported by the Arts Council for Northern Ireland.
The two winning choirs will feature on range of BBC Radio Ulster's programming during this year.
BBC Radio Ulster School Choir Of The Year is available on the BBC Radio iPlayer and video clips and photos from the competition are available on the BBC website.
Newcastle winger Rolando Aarons, Arsenal's Isaac Hayden, currently on loan at Hull, and Swansea midfielder Matt Grimes, on loan at Blackburn, have all been included for next week's game.
"It's an opportunity for new players," Southgate said.
"But also a lot of work for us to do to get the harmony within the group."
England, currently top of group nine and three points clear of Norway and Switzerland, will be without Duncan Watmore, Nathaniel Chalobah and Nathan Redmond who are all out injured.
Goalkeepers: Pickford (Sunderland), Walton (Brighton & Hove Albion), Wildsmith (Sheffield Wednesday)
Defenders: Chambers (Arsenal), Chilwell (Leicester City), Galloway (Everton), Hause (Wolves), Iorfa (Wolves), Stephens (Southampton; on loan at Coventry), Targett (Southampton)
Midfielders: Baker (Chelsea; on loan at Vitesse Arnhem), Grimes (Swansea; on loan at Blackburn), Hayden (Arsenal; on loan at Hull City), Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea), Swift (Chelsea; on loan at Brentford), Ward-Prowse (Southampton)
Forwards: Aarons (Newcastle United), Akpom (Arsenal; on loan at Hull City), Gray (Leicester City), Ibe (Liverpool), Solanke (Chelsea; on loan at Vitesse Arnhem), Wilson (Manchester United; on loan at Brighton & Hove Albion)
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Welshman Warburton missed the series-clinching third Test win over Australia in 2013 with a hamstring injury.
"It feels like all the sacrifice over the past four years and all the little things I have done have come to this moment," Warburton told BBC Sport.
The Lions were easily beaten by the All Blacks in the first Test but claimed victory in the second.
Warburton was on the bench for the opener in Auckland, which ended 30-15 to the hosts, having suffered an ankle injury against the Provincial Barbarians, but returned to the starting XV for the thrilling 24-21 triumph in Wellington.
The 28-year-old has been beset by injuries in recent years, missing six weeks at the end of the domestic season with a knee injury, while in October 2016 he suffered a fractured cheekbone that put him out of action for three weeks.
"I am delighted that my body has held up more than anything," said the Cardiff Blues flanker. "That is half the battle with me, my fitness.
"I was delighted when I heard my name read out for the third Test and to have the chance to finish a Test series and potentially to win it.
"For me four years ago does feel like unfinished business because I was gutted I could not play that third game - even though I was over the moon and it was a career highlight to win, you still, as a player want to be involved in that and have your small contribution to the game.
"So for the past four years in the back of my mind I have set my sights on this tour and I wanted to be in the Test team and play in the last game."
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Asa Hall hammered in the opener from outside the box amid sloppy home defending.
Parkin equalised from close range only for Daniel Wright to put the visitors back ahead from the penalty spot after Paul Bignot brought down Harry Pell.
But Parkin struck again soon after, again from close range to finalise the scoring before the break.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales: "For the neutral it's a great game but from our point of view I'm disappointed we didn't win that.
"I said before the game I wanted clean sheets and we didn't do it. We gave them the two goals. It's schoolboy football.
"You can't question our character and I though there were some good performances from us but I'm just disappointed with the manner of the goals we conceded."
Match ends, Newport County 2, Cheltenham Town 2.
Second Half ends, Newport County 2, Cheltenham Town 2.
Attempt missed. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Jamie Turley (Newport County).
Asa Hall (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sean Rigg (Newport County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town).
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Asa Hall.
Ben Tozer (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town).
Substitution, Newport County. Ben Tozer replaces Mark Randall.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Marlon Jackson.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Jamie Turley.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Scot Bennett.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Substitution, Newport County. Rhys Healey replaces Jon Parkin.
Attempt missed. Reece Grego-Cox (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Robert Dickie.
Attempt blocked. Marlon Jackson (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Jordan Cranston.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. Mark Randall (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Aaron Downes replaces Jack Barthram.
Attempt blocked. Mark Randall (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jon Parkin (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Daniel O'Shaughnessy.
Attempt saved. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. James Dayton replaces James Rowe.
Substitution, Newport County. Marlon Jackson replaces Jack Compton.
Attempt missed. Jon Parkin (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Jon Smith (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Joe Day.
Attempt saved. Jon Smith (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
About 3,600 Canadians died in the battle in northern France, that began on Easter Sunday, 9 April 1917.
It was the first time different Canadian military divisions had fought together under one command.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to those who fought.
"The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a turning point in the First World War and for Canada, when Canadians acted - and fought - as one," he said.
Having laid flowers at the site of the battle earlier on Sunday, Mr Trudeau attended a commemorative ceremony with French President Francois Hollande, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
The Queen also sent a message to Canadians in French and English commending their soldiers for the sacrifice they made.
The battle of Vimy Ridge, near Arras, was part of a wider British-led offensive that acted as a diversion from a French attack to the south, and proved successful in its aim.
The battle across a 7km (4.3-mile) ridge began in heavy snow and sleet and lasted four days. Four Canadians went on to earn the Victoria Cross, the British military's highest award for bravery.
Success at Vimy Ridge was the result of intense training over several months, and despite the heavy losses, helped forge Canada's identity on a global scale only 50 years after it had become an independent dominion.
Two years later, Canada was one of the signatories to the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.
Among those attending the ceremony in Vimy on Sunday was Ken Piggott, a retired Army captain from Nova Scotia. "It was an important step in shaking off British colonial rule," he told the AFP news agency. "For that reason, it is a huge source of pride for me."
Tesco's pre-tax profits in the six months to 24 August were £1.39bn, which the firm blamed on a challenging retail environment, particularly in Europe.
UK like-for-like sales - which exclude new store openings - fell by 0.5%.
Shares in Tesco initially fell 4.4%, before recovering to close just 0.3% lower at 358p.
Rival Sainsbury's reported a 2% rise in like-for-like sales during the second quarter of its financial year.
Tesco said profits fell 67% in Europe to £55m, while Asian profits, excluding China, dropped 7.4% to £314m. UK trading profits rose 1.5% to £1.13bn.
Tesco also saw margins being squeezed, in what is already a notoriously competitive retail environment. Group profit margins fell from 5.4% to 4.9%.
Sainsbury's was the only one of the "big four" supermarkets to increase its market share in the 12 weeks ending 15 September, according to the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel. Its market share rose 0.2% to 16.6%.
Tesco's market share fell to 30.2% from 30.9% over the period, although it is still considerably larger than its nearest rival Asda, which has 17.3% of the market and also saw its share drop.
Last year, Tesco announced it would be spending £1bn on improving its stores in the UK, investing in shop upgrades, product ranges, more staff, as well as its online offering.
As well as its traditional competitors, the firm is fighting an increasingly tough battle with discount supermarkets such as Aldi and Lidl.
Aldi saw UK pre-tax profits surge 124% to £157.9m in 2012, with the company saying it attracted a million more shoppers through its doors.
Tesco has also beat an expensive retreat from the US, recently agreeing to sell 150 of its Fresh & Easy stores to the investment company Yucaipa Companies.
Tesco's chief executive, Philip Clarke, said the retailer was making progress and was strengthening its UK business, but he saw little improvement in consumers' spending power.
"There is less pessimism around, but customers are still not seeing real disposable incomes improve," he told the BBC's Today Programme.
"They are, perhaps, feeling a little better about the future," he added.
Neil Saunders, managing director of retail consultants Conlumino, said that as Tesco continued with an organisational overhaul, results needed to show signs that it was moving in the right direction.
"Against this standard it is fair to say that Tesco is making some progress, especially on the UK front," he said.
"However, they also indicate some more worrying signs that there are a number of deep seated issues on the international scene that need to be addressed."
David Gray, retail analyst at Planet Retail, noted food sales had held up, fuelled by warm weather in July and August and its food-focused "Love Every Mouthful" marketing campaign.
"We expect to see further positive news on food sales in the months ahead as improvements to product ranges come through," he said.
Tesco's results came as the firm announced a joint venture with China Resources Enterprise (CRE).
The UK firm will combine its Tesco China business, which includes 134 Chinese stores, with the 2,986 stores held by CRE's Vanguard business.
Tesco will have a 20% stake in the business, which it said would have sales approaching £10bn.
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King said his firm was the only major supermarket increasing its market share.
"Our groceries online business grew by over 15% in the quarter and is now worth over £1bn in annual sales." he said.
"Our convenience business grew 20% year-on-year as customers topped up more frequently during the warm summer weather."
Sainsbury's said sales of its own-brand products had continued to rise at more than twice the rate of branded goods, with its premium Taste the Difference range growing particularly strongly.
It said the changes - costing £226m - would be phased in, with charges not ending completely until a second term of a Plaid Welsh government.
The party also unveiled plans to abolish Wales' health boards and place major hospitals under one body.
Labour warned it would mean "years of chaotic and costly reorganisation".
Plaid Cymru health spokeswoman Elin Jones said an anomaly currently exists where NHS care is free but social care is means-tested.
"A person receiving a cancer diagnosis can expect the majority of care to be free, whilst a person receiving a dementia diagnosis can expect to be means-tested and pay for a vast amount of their care," she said.
"Plaid Cymru will equalise this care.
"Plaid Cymru will deliver free personal care for the elderly and those with dementia, with a view to extend this to deliver free care for all."
Earlier, Ms Jones revealed proposals to put local councils in charge of community services, such as GPs' surgeries, district nurses and mental health, arguing delays to treatment would be reduced by integrating much of the health and social care system.
"Navigating the complexities of the health and social care system in its current form is confusing and time-consuming for patients, many of whom are in a vulnerable state," she said.
"Anyone who has waited for their social care package to be implemented, or who has a family member who has needed to move from health to social care services, will know that there are often long delays whilst they wait for bureaucratic decisions to take place."
The last re-organisation of the Welsh NHS was in 2009 when 22 local health boards and seven trusts were replaced by the seven current health boards.
Under Plaid's re-organisation proposals, which the party said could take three years to bring in, responsibility for planning and running acute and specialist hospitals would be carried out by one national hospital board.
Local authorities would manage community services, but the party said some larger authorities could devolve responsibility to large groups of GPs.
The plans were ridiculed by the Welsh Labour government as "the end of the NHS as we know it",
A spokesman for Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "Plaid is proposing little more than the break up of the NHS and condemning the health service to years of chaotic, confusing and a hugely costly reorganisation with these nonsensical plans to give local politicians direct control of planning community services, including GP care and mental healthcare, at a time when money should be invested in frontline services."
Conservative shadow health spokesman Darren Millar said "another expensive change" was not the answer to the "significant problems" facing the Welsh NHS.
Plaid believe this proposal will achieve something that has achieved Holy Grail status whenever reform of the NHS is discussed; the integration of health and social care.
The inevitable criticism will be that major re-organisation is the last thing the NHS needs at a time when it is already under severe pressure.
And it would put major new levels of responsibility and power into the hands of councillors at a time when re-organisation of local government is on the agenda as well.
The party acknowledges major re-structuring like this will be costly, but insists it can be offset by savings that could arise from the creation of a more seamless service.
All eyes will now be on the potential cost of any proposals to pay for social care, which is clearly what the party would like to do.
The sprawling works span the horizon as you drive along the M4.
In its heyday in the 1960s, nearly 20,000 people worked there. The town grew up around it.
Numbers may have dwindled but even with a 4,000-strong workforce, it still has an imposing presence in the Welsh economy.
It is still Tata Steel's biggest UK operation and one of Wales' economic crown jewels.
Another 3,000 work at Port Talbot's sister plant in Llanwern and at Shotton and Trostre.
It might be the car we drive, the tin cans for our food or the washing machine in our kitchen, but the chances are we have a piece of Port Talbot close to hand.
The steel plant has benefited from some significant investments in recent years, including £185m on rebuilding one of its blast furnaces.
But Tata has faced difficulties from different directions.
Port Talbot: The problems
Steelworks use huge amounts of energy. The Port Talbot plant uses as much electricity, for example, as the whole of the city of Swansea a few miles along the motorway.
That bill when it hits the metaphorical mat is a whopping £60m a year - 50% more than other plants in Europe. No wonder, looking long term, Tata recently secured the go-ahead to build a new power plant so it can generate more of its own power to save money.
Then there are problems in the market. Because of overproduction, the Chinese are now exporting twice as much steel to the UK than they did in 2013 and at less than the cost price of UK steel.
Tata is also unhappy about the level of business rates it pays, compared to European competitors.
In all, the plant is said to be losing millions of pounds a week.
Why is steel still so important?
Port Talbot steelworks is a big employer and pays more than double the minimum wage - starting salaries are around £30,000 a year.
It puts £200m a year into the economy just in salaries.
Economist Prof Calvin Jones of Cardiff University has studied the impact of Tata and called it "the most economically important private sector company in Wales".
The economic value of Tata - including the supply chain - was estimated at £3.2bn of output and £1.6bn of value added in Wales in 2010.
But it also supports an estimated 10,000 full-time equivalent jobs off-site.
"These are important [industries] because they are high value added and important because they're iconic," he said. "If we do see continued declines in these industries in terms of employment and output then you start to wonder what Wales is for."
STEEL TIMELINE
1902: The first steelworks at Port Talbot is founded
1923: A second Margam works is finished
1947-1953: The third Port Talbot plant is built and becomes part of Steel Company of Wales. The works employ around 18,000. By this period, the rolling mill at Ebbw Vale has become the biggest of its kind in Europe.
1962: The Queen opens the £150m Spencer works in Newport, later known as Llanwern.
1967: British Steel is formed from 14 different firms as the industry is nationalised
1980: British Steel announces 6,500 job losses with the closure of blast furnaces at Shotton after 78 years. More heavy job losses at Port Talbot and Llanwern.
1988: British Steel is privatised and becomes part of Dutch-owned Corus in 1999.
1990: More than 1,100 jobs are lost at Brymbo steelworks in Wrexham.
2001: Corus announces 6,000 UK job losses - a fifth of its workforce. They include 1,340 at Llanwern in Newport, and 90 at Bryngwyn in Swansea. The Shotton cold strip mill closes with 400 redundancies.
2002: The Ebbw Vale steelworks shuts with 850 job losses, although 300 workers move to other plants.
2007: Corus bought by Tata Steel of India
2014: Tata blames high business rates and "uncompetitive" energy costs for 400 job losses at Port Talbot.
2015: Tata Steel reported a "turbulent year" due to Chinese exports and high energy costs but Port Talbot produced an all time record of 4.19m tonnes of hot metal while the hot strip mill hit speed-of-work records.
In August, it mothballs part of its Llanwern plant for the third time in six years, with 250 job losses.
What does it mean for the local community?
Ex-blast furnace worker Tony Taylor - who retired from the plant in 2015 after 44 years - is a local councillor.
"Port Talbot is the steelworks and the steelworks is Port Talbot," he said.
"If the worst happens to this plant it will blow a cold wind through the town that no-one has ever experienced. It will be a ghost town."
He said the effects would be felt beyond Port Talbot, with workers drawn from as far afield as Bridgend, Swansea and the surrounding valleys.
Swansea University historian Bleddyn Penny has studied the steelworks.
"After World War Two, there was a conglomerate of three steelworks in Port Talbot and it was the biggest in Europe," he said.
"Steel dominates the town economically and physically - you can't really escape it in Port Talbot. From around 1961, steelmaking was more important than coal mining in south Wales and it's defined the town.
"It's hard to think of other workplaces today with 4,000 under one roof. Despite all the pain and cutbacks of recent years, steelmaking is seeped into the whole culture of the town and there's a tremendous pride there."
Many gamers have showcased a modification to video game Grand Theft Auto V, in which sticky bombs were switched with exploding Samsung phones.
But some have reported that their videos have been blocked on YouTube following a copyright complaint.
Samsung has not yet responded to repeated BBC requests for comment.
Critics have warned that trying to remove gamers' videos will only draw more attention to them.
The Galaxy Note 7 was recalled and discontinued in October after reports that some handsets were catching fire.
One US gamer - known as DoctorGTA - said restrictions had been put on his YouTube account as a result of Samsung's complaint.
"It's going to take three months to get the strike removed from my channel... I got my live stream taken away," he said in a video.
"If I submit a counter-notification to say 'sue me', I wonder what they will do. Will they sue me, the kid that has cancer and just makes money off YouTube playing a video game?"
"It really sucks, because I really worked hard on this channel."
Some viewers warned that Samsung was at risk of invoking the Streisand Effect - a term used to denotes increased publicity as a result of attempts to remove embarrassing online content.
It was first used in 2005 by Mike Masnick, founder of the website Techdirt, following a failed attempt by singer Barbra Streisand to sue a photographer who posted a picture of her seaside home.
The original download page for the Grand Theft Auto V modification, created by player HitmanNiko, has not been taken offline.
Infantino succeeds fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter, after polling 115 votes, 27 more than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, at Friday's election.
Infantino was not the favoured candidate of Caf, who had given its backing to Sheikh Salman.
Despite that, Cameroon's Hayatou - who had been Fifa's acting president in the lead-up to the election - sent Infantino a letter, dated 27 February 2016, congratulating him on behalf of the Caf Executive committee and 'the African football family':
"Be assured of the continued support of Caf, African members of the new Fifa Council, as well as our commitment to strengthening the excellent relationship between Caf and Fifa," Hayatou wrote.
After his victory, Infantino promised to restore the image of Fifa, and Hayatou backed him to fulfil his pledge.
"We are confident that you will restore Fifa's image backed by your career, skills, passion for football, understanding of the issues related to the future of football, and your desire to develop our sport around the four corners of the world," said the Caf President.
With 54 member African confederations able to vote in the presidential election - more than any other Fifa region - Caf's support for Sheikh Salman installed the Bahranian as a favourite to win.
But in the lead-up to the election, some African federations confirmed they would not be following Caf's directive, including Liberia, whose FA Chairman Musa Bility claimed that 26 African FA presidents had told him they would not be voting for Sheikh Salman.
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O'Sullivan dropped just three frames in his first four matches, but Williams held his own, scoring a fine 70 to level at 2-2 at the break.
The Englishman then capitalised on some sloppy play by the Welsh world number 16 to reach the last four.
O'Sullivan, 40, will face Hong Kong's Marco Fu on Saturday.
Fu came from 5-2 down to beat Jamie Jones of Wales 6-5 in the last of the quarter-finals in York.
"It's a bitter pill to swallow," said Jones. "I don't think I missed a lot of balls, I think he just played a bit better than me in the end."
The other semi-final will see world number one Mark Selby take on former world champion Shaun Murphy.
O'Sullivan said he was happy with his "professionalism and attitude", despite not quite hitting the heights.
The five-time world champion still scored three successive 50s, and closed out the win with little trouble after being pegged back at 2-2.
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"I made some good breaks and played some good safety to put him under pressure," said O'Sullivan. "I had to keep powering away and I felt like I had too much for him.
"It wasn't the greatest of performances but you have to do what you have to do. I am sure my game will get stronger. I am a fighter and will keep fighting until it happens."
Another tournament victory at the York Barbican, 23 years after he won his first title as a 17-year-old, would see O'Sullivan match Steve Davis' haul of six UK titles.
It would also see him surpass his fellow Essex potter - and John Higgins - in the ranking titles roll of honour, moving him clear into joint second with 29. Stephen Hendry leads the way with 36.
The win also ensures O'Sullivan remains in the top 16 of the world rankings, guaranteeing him at least £35,000 for reaching the semi-finals.
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Albert Adomah gave Boro the lead early on, heading in Stewart Downing's cross.
The goal set the tone for an energetic away display full of quality and they deservedly made it 2-0 against lacklustre opposition at the break through Grant Leadbitter's penalty.
Fulham improved but rarely threatened and their slim hopes were ended when Richard Stearman was sent off late on.
Stearman's dismissal, for bringing down substitute Jordan Rhodes with three minutes remaining, made little difference to a result that sees the west Londoners drop to 20th in the table.
Middlesbrough stay third after Burnley fought back to beat Bolton, but there is now only one point between the top three and Boro have two games in hand on the Clarets and one game in hand on second-placed Hull City.
An away win seemed inevitable as Boro were 2-0 up inside 20 minutes, through Adomah's well-controlled header and Leadbitter's low spot-kick, after David Nugent was fouled by Chris Baird.
But for all their first-half dominance, Fulham twice went close to scoring just before being booed off at the break.
Moussa Dembele, who replaced the injured Ryan Fredericks after 22 minutes, tested keeper Dimi Konstantopolous with an overhead kick and Madl's header was somehow cleared off the line by Ritchie de Laet.
The visitors continued to control things after the interval, with Adomah, Emilio Nsue and Downing all going close against a Fulham team who have now won just three times in 21 matches.
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka:
"Sometimes when we score one goal we have problems scoring the second one. Today we scored two goals quickly and after that the game became easier.
"If we were to win every single game by 2-0, it would not be a problem for me. I know we are going to score goals because we have a lot of good players.
"Adomah played the same game as he did last Tuesday, and when he plays like that he's one of the best in the league."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic:
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"We tried to be more aggressive. We made a few chances but they were more solid generally and more organised. They deserved their three points.
"For the sending-off, possibly he was the last player and I don't know whether he was in a dangerous area.
"It meant that we could not push on for the last few minutes, because we made the important mistakes at the beginning of the game.
"The result is bad, it's very clear, and we did not make a good performance. We are inconsistent - some days we do a good job and some days we don't."
Match ends, Fulham 0, Middlesbrough 2.
Second Half ends, Fulham 0, Middlesbrough 2.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Dan Burn.
Jamie O'Hara (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jamie O'Hara (Fulham).
Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Jamie O'Hara.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Jamie O'Hara.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Luke Garbutt.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Scott Parker.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. George Friend replaces Gastón Ramírez.
Richard Stearman (Fulham) is shown the red card.
Foul by Richard Stearman (Fulham).
Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jamie O'Hara (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Moussa Dembele.
Attempt missed. Jamie O'Hara (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Jordan Rhodes replaces David Nugent.
Attempt missed. Michael Madl (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Grant Leadbitter.
Attempt blocked. Moussa Dembele (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dimitrios Konstantopoulos (Middlesbrough) because of an injury.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Cristhian Stuani replaces Stewart Downing.
Moussa Dembele (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough).
Dan Burn (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Dan Burn (Fulham).
Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Luke Garbutt (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Fulham. Jamie O'Hara replaces Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Delay in match Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Zakaria Labyad (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Scott Parker.
Attempt missed. Nsue (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Scott Parker.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Andy Lonergan.
Police were called to a property in Graig Avenue after being called at about 17:45 BST on Thursday.
Katrina Evemy remains in a critical condition in hospital.
The 21-year-old man will appear before Llanelli Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Seamer Stuart Broad and all-rounder Chris Woakes have been left out but Steven Finn has been selected, despite suffering from a side strain.
Dawson, 25, played with the England Lions over the winter.
"I haven't actually seen him play a game," said Bayliss.
"I went to one or two of the Lions practices and saw him in the nets.
"From a bowling point of view, he gets a bit on the ball and he looks as though he's got something about him personality-wise.
"He can bat as well and he's a good fielder apparently."
Led by captain Eoin Morgan, England's first match will be against the West Indies on 16 March.
They also face South Africa and Sri Lanka in Group One, as well as a first-round qualifier from Scotland, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Hong Kong.
Kevin Pietersen's form in the Australian Big Bash competition, where he scored 323 runs for Melbourne Stars including four half centuries, has not earned him selection despite calls for his inclusion.
"He wasn't even discussed in the selection meeting," said Bayliss.
"We've played very well in Twenty20 cricket over the last six months. We just want to move forward with that young team."
Former Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene will be part of the coaching team for the first 10 days of the tournament, while former England T20 captain Paul Collingwood will work with the team for the duration.
Andrew Strauss, director of England cricket, said: "Their international experience, previous success at World T20 tournaments and, particularly in Mahela's case, knowledge of conditions make them ideal resources to tap into."
Hampshire's Dawson is a former England Under-19s captain who has played 105 first-class matches, averaging 34.20 with the bat and taking 110 wickets.
A slow left-arm bowler, he bowled just five overs in last year's T20 Blast competition but featured in five T20 matches for the England Lions against Pakistan A over the winter.
He took four wickets at an average of 25.50 and scored 98 runs.
"I wasn't expecting it," he told BBC Radio Solent.
""I did pretty well for the Lions in the two months I was there with them in the UAE for 50-over cricket and also the T20 series.
"In the back of my mind, I thought potentially I might have a very small, outside chance, but thankfully I've been selected and I'm very excited about it."
Broad, the top-ranked Test bowler in the world and a member of England's World Twenty20-winning team in 2010, has been overlooked.
Woakes, part of the T20 side to face Pakistan in the winter, has also been left out, with Finn, Chris Jordan and Reece Topley the preferred pace options.
Batsman James Vince has been chosen ahead of Luke Wright, who has 51 T20 caps, much to Pietersen's bemusement.
Full squad: Eoin Morgan (Middlesex) (capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Sam Billings (Kent), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), Reece Topley (Hampshire), James Vince (Hampshire), David Willey (Yorkshire).
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Ali Ismail Korkmaz, 19, died during clashes between police, civilians and demonstrators south-east of Istanbul.
The officers were given 10-year prison terms but protesters outside the court in Kayseri said that was too lenient.
The 2013 unrest was sparked by plans to redevelop Istanbul's Gezi Park but grew into wider anti-government protests.
The decision by the court, which had also sentenced four civilians to three to six years in prison and acquitted another two police officers, drew angry reaction from the gallery.
Korkmaz's mother Emel Korkmaz cursed the Turkish justice system as she left the courtroom, and the father of another victim of the Gezi protests shouted: "You are not the people's police, but the police of murderers".
As news of the sentence spread, comments appeared on social media criticising what many see as a "lenient" punishment. Images on Twitter showed people being tear gassed by police as they voiced their anger.
Speaking via a video link from a prison cell in Ankara, Mevlut Saldogan, the first policeman sentenced, admitted to attacking other protesters, but denied that he had murdered Korkmaz.
Like in previous hearings, he stated that he "did what was necessary", describing the Gezi protests as "an attempted coup".
Ali Ismail Korkmaz was beaten up during protests in the city of Eskisehir, south-east of Istanbul, in June 2013 and died the following month after more than five weeks in a coma.
The authorities decided to move the trial to Kayseri for security reasons.
Rallies against plans to redevelop Gezi Park began in May 2013 and turned into mass protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a heavy-handed police response.
Human rights organisations say thousands of demonstrators were injured by police but only a handful of cases have so far gone to court.
They say the case in Kayseri went ahead despite an attempted cover-up by the police, including the destruction of CCTV footage which was later recovered and became a key piece of evidence.
Cardiff Blues took on the Ospreys at 14:45 BST followed by Newport Gwent Dragons against the Scarlets.
The transport network was expected to be busy and there was a full city centre road closure from 12:45 until 20:15.
There were also more police officers than usual on the streets.
Cardiff council said it was not "a reflection of any specific threat but the current global climate".
Arriva Trains Wales put on 2,000 additional seats for last year's tournament, but fans reported some issues with crowding on trains.
Those travelling by train this year were advised to arrive in Cardiff three hours before kick-off. Queen Street Station was closed at 16:30.
All those leaving the stadium after the rugby have been advised to return to Cardiff Central Station, where a queuing system has been put in place, straight after the event.
Those travelling into the city by car were advised to use the park and ride facilities at Cardiff City Stadium.
Event day parking was also available at Sophia Gardens and in the Civic Centre.
A full list of road closures can be found here.
The Bardiani CSF riders' positive tests took place out of competition and they can request analysis of B samples.
Both were due to ride in the Giro but world governing body the UCI said they were "provisionally suspended" after detection of the growth hormone GHRP.
Bardiani said both would be dismissed if the positive tests are confirmed.
The Italian team, who first competed in 1982 under the name Termolan, will also be suspended for between 15 and 45 days in line with the UCI's anti-doping rules.
Pirazzi topped the Giro mountain classification in 2013. The 30-year-old was tested on 25 April.
Ruffoni, 25, won the points classification at the Tour of Croatia this year and provided a sample a day after his team-mate.
The 2017 Giro is the 100th edition of the event and starts on the island of Sardinia on Friday. The Grand Tour will span 21 stages and finish on 28 May.
Bahrain-Merida's Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali will be defending his title but Movistar's Nairo Quintana of Colombia starts as favourite.
Iglesias was performing in Tijuana, Mexico when he grabbed the drone being used to take pictures of the crowd.
He was 'semi-treated' at the side of the stage to stop the bleeding, before performing for another 30 minutes.
A statement thanked fans "for all your concern and good wishes."
A representative for the 40-year-old singer told AP the surgery would be completed on Monday.
The accident happened when Iglesias tried to give the audience a point-of-view shot from the stage. Afterwards fans posted photos and video on social media, showing the singer's bandaged hand and blood-covered T-shirt.
"Something went wrong and he had an accident," a representative for the singer revealed on Instagram afterwards.
Iglesias was advised to end his show for 12,000 fans at Plaza de Toros de Playas in Tijuana, part of his Sex and Love World Tour, as soon as he was injured, but continued to play until half an hour later when he sought further treatment.
"He was rushed to the airport where an ambulance met him there," continued the Instagram post. "He was then put on a plane to LA... to see a specialist."
The statement on Monday added: "Enrique will resume his tour July 3rd in Mexico City. We appreciate all your wishes and prayers."
A statement from Glasgow Central Mosque said Mohammad Aslam and Talat Aslam were on pilgrimage to Mecca. They were on their way to the city of Medina at the time of the crash.
The mosque described the couple, who lived in Newlands in Glasgow, as popular members of the community.
They are survived by their five children.
The statement expressed confidence in the Saudi authorities investigating the crash.
It added: "We pray Allah the Almighty grants the deceased a high rank in Paradise and gives their loved ones strength and patience at this difficult time.
"We would kindly request the family be given space and time to grieve for their loved ones and to come to terms with their sudden loss."
Six British citizens were killed in the crash, the Foreign Office said.
In addition to Mohammad and Talat Aslam, the others killed are believed to be four members of a family from Manchester.
Travel firm Haji Tours named the youngest victim as Muhammad Adam Anis, who was just a few months old, and known as Adam.
It also named the baby's grandparents among the dead, 64-year-old Khurshid Ahmed and Noshina Ahmed, 49, and family member Rabia Ahmad, 57, who were all from Manchester.
Haji Tours said it was the first accident it had been involved in during nearly 15 years of running tours there.
Mohammad Arif of Haji Tours told the BBC: "A tyre burst on the motorway and you can understand what happens on the motorway when a tyre has burst.
"It's it's a very bad time for the families here in the UK."
A Foreign Office spokesman said consular assistance was being provided to relatives.
A family friend of the Glasgow couple, Mohammad Farooq, has spoken of his shock at the news.
He said Talat Aslam was "a ladies' lady".
"All the functions, charities, all the groups, she was always there in front all the time," he said. "The ladies will be really missing her."
Mr Farooq added of Mohammad Aslam: "To me he was a very dear friend, like my own brother. Anything I needed he would just come over and say 'I'll help you out'."
A tribute posted on social media by Ali Gibran said: "Just a few hours ago it came to my knowledge, my Aunt Talat Aslam and Uncle Aslam who went from Glasgow, Scotland to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah have passed away in a car accident after they were en route to Madina after performing Umrah.
"This has put a dagger through my heart and I am still shell-shocked from the second I came to know of this horrendous news.
"My aunt was the heart of our family. So enthusiastic and a source for radiation of joy and happiness. A true gem embedded into our family. Her words sparkled in every gathering in which she took part. To lose her is one of the most agonizing feelings in my life."
The event is caused by a total lunar eclipse coinciding with another astronomical event called a supermoon.
It's the second total lunar eclipse this year, but the first since 2008 where the whole eclipse will be visible from the UK.
The entire eclipse will be visible from eastern North America, South America, West Africa and western Europe.
Skywatchers in the western half of North America, the rest of Europe and Africa, the Middle East and South Asia will see a partial one.
From the UK, observers will see the Moon pass through the Earth's shadow in the early hours of Monday morning. In North and South America the eclipse will be seen on Sunday evening.
In a total lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.
As the full Moon moves into our planet's shadow, it dims dramatically but usually remains visible, lit by sunlight that passes through the Earth's atmosphere.
As this light travels through our planet's gaseous envelope, the green to violet portions get filtered out more than the red portion, with the result that light reaching the lunar surface is predominantly red in colour.
Observers on Earth may see a Moon that is brick-coloured, rusty, blood red or sometimes dark grey, depending on terrestrial conditions.
Dr Robert Massey, deputy executive director of the UK's Royal Astronomical Society, told BBC News that the eclipse is an "incredibly beautiful event".
A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with a Moon that is nearing its minimum distance (perigee) to Earth.
The Moon takes an elliptical orbit around Earth, which means that its average distance changes from as far as 405,000km (its apogee) to as close as 363,000km at the perigee.
The coincidence between a supermoon and an eclipse means that Earth's lone companion is expected to look 7-8% bigger. But Dr Massey added: "The definition of 'supermoon' is slightly problematic.
"Is a supermoon taking place at the perigee, the day before, the day after? Does a supermoon have to be a particularly close perigee, or can it be a bit further out? It's not very well defined."
He said a supermoon was to some extent a moveable feast compared with an eclipse, where the timing can be measured precisely.
As a result, Dr Massey explained, claims of the extreme rarity of a supermoon coinciding with an eclipse were overstated.
The supermoon should also not be confused with the Moon Illusion, which causes the Moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky.
The eclipse will start at 01:11 BST, when the Moon enters the lightest part of the Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra, and adopts a yellowish colour. At 03:11 BST, the Moon completely enters the umbra - the inner dark corpus of our planet's shadow.
The point of greatest eclipse occurs at 03:47 BST, when the Moon is closest to the centre of the umbra. The sky show is over by 05:22 in the morning on Monday.
The Royal Astronomical Society says that unlike the solar equivalent, a total lunar eclipse event is safe to watch and needs no special equipment.
The next total lunar eclipse visible in its entirety from the UK will be in 2019.
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The man, who has not been named died in Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex, on Tuesday after suffering burns to his legs and body.
Suffolk Police said officers had been called to London Road North in Lowestoft town centre shortly after 17:00 BST on 4 September.
A force spokesman said an inquest would be held in due course.
Centrica said it would sell 350 million shares, worth about £770m, partly to fund acquisitions and partly to pay down debt. Centrica shares fell 22.60p to 208.50p.
The FTSE 100 index closed up 5.23 points at 6,117.25.
BT shares rose 2.6% after the telecoms group reported a 15% rise in profits.
The company also announced that it would spend £6bn over the next three years to roll out faster broadband and mobile phone services.
Rolls-Royce fell 2.3% after the engineering group's latest update. Rolls said its outlook for the year as a whole was unchanged, but added that 2016 continued to be a "challenging year".
Shares in Morrisons rose 2.4% after the supermarket group reported a rise in sales for the second quarter in a row.
On the currency markets, the pound was unchanged against the dollar at $1.4496, but rose 0.7% against the euro to €1.2708.
The blood-sucking creatures have been linked to a rise in Lyme disease in humans in the past 10 years.
Untreated tick bites can result in neurological problems and joint pain months or years later.
The local authority has set up a page on its website giving advice on how to avoid tick bites and what to do if bitten.
Ticks are small arthropods related to spiders, mites and scorpions and Britain has a number of different species.
People are most likely to come across sheep ticks, which feed on mammals and birds, in open spaces with long grass or bracken.
Highland Council's tick project co-ordinator Bob Murdoch said he knew of people who had fallen ill because of Lyme disease.
He said: "I feel it vital that we raise awareness of the issues surrounding ticks.
"Increasingly, more people are aware of someone among friends or family who has been bitten or affected by ticks.
"This is a widespread issue across the country and we should all take simple precautions like avoiding walking though long grass with bare legs or arms in the tick season of May to September.
Mr Murdoch added: "Tuck trousers into socks and inspect yourself when you get home. If you haven't already got a tick tool, this is a great idea and something we should all have handy in the car, wallet or handbag."
The council's campaign is the latest effort in the Highlands to tackle the threat posed by ticks.
In May, the European Space Agency gave £180,000 to a project to test a new app mapping tick hotspots.
NHS Highland, the University of the Highlands and Islands and Scotland's Rural College are involved in the initiative which will test the LymeMap app.
People out walking or cycling have been asked to use the app to upload information about where they find ticks.
Using GPS technology, the application also gathers details such as the height, temperature and vegetation cover of the location where a person uploads their information.
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected ticks.
Flu-like symptoms and fatigue are often the first noticeable signs of infection.
Diagnosed cases of Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics, but, if left untreated, neurological problems and joint pain can develop months or years later.
The Spitfires are without a home win since 25 October, with Allen still searching for a first success on home soil since taking charge in December.
"I can't work it out," he told BBC Radio Solent. "We'll be having a chat with the players when they come back."
Eastleigh have dropped to 13th in the National League and are without a win in five league games.
"The players don't leave home purposefully to play poorly," Allen added. "They've done well in training.
"How do we get that to come back into their home form? I'll have a think about it to myself and then I need to find that out from the players.
"They're the ones going over the white line. I've got to help and look after them, support them the best I can and get the performances out of them.
"At the moment, they're underachieving."
Pupils from three schools took part in a road safety exercise with Dyfed-Powys Police.
They used hand-held devices to check speeds in 20mph zones - and anyone going above the limit was told to pull over by officers.
The children then approached the offending drivers and warned them about the dangers of driving too fast.
Police community support officer Josh Jones said: "I think that the devastating consequences of speeding are made more powerful when they are spoken by a child.
"It had an impact on those who were pulled over and some were quite shocked as well as embarrassed.
"The idea is that it will make people stick to the speed limit - especially when near schools."
Hinchingbrooke Hospital was placed in special measures in September 2014 when it was run by Circle Health, who handed control back to the NHS last April.
The Care Quality Commission report says some improvements have been made, but concerns remain over patient safety.
The hospital is expected to comment on the report later.
CQC inspectors visited the hospital, which is near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, in October and November and found a service "in a transition period following structural management changes".
Sir Mike Richards, chief inspector of hospitals, said the inspection "highlighted a number of concerns" about how Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust "manages and monitors risk in a number of areas".
"There were also concerns regarding the A&E department including infection control practices," Sir Mike said.
"Urgent and emergency services are rated as "inadequate" overall."
The CQC highlighted areas where the trust must improve, including:
Sir Mike said inspectors also saw a number of areas of good and outstanding practice, including the chaplaincy service, "which remains excellent and supportive to patients, their families and carers".
He also praised work to help patients with dementia.
The CQC said the trust would continue to be monitored and more inspections would take place.
Ben Gummer, minister for care quality, said it was "encouraging" that progress had been made in the "leadership and working culture" across the hospital.
"However, I am disappointed that concerns remain on aspects of patient safety," he said.
"It is now vital the trust works closely with regulators to put in place the necessary improvements."
The 22-year-old former England Under-19 international made 34 appearances for the Brewers last season as they won the League Two title.
He came through the ranks at Leicester, but did not reach the first team.
"His versatility as a left-back or left-sided central defender allows us to increase competition for positions in the squad," said boss Richard Money.
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Jay Merchant, 45, was convicted unanimously at Southwark Crown Court of manipulating the key financial rate.
Jonathan Mathew, 35, and Alex Pabon, an American 38 year-old, were found guilty by majority verdict after a ten-week trial. The trio will be sentenced on Thursday.
The Libor rate is used by banks to set prices of financial products.
It stands for the London inter-bank offered rate, and underpins trillions of pounds worth of loans and financial contracts for households and companies across the world.
The jury was unable to reach a verdict, after nearly two weeks of deliberation, in relation to two other defendants, Ryan Reich, 34, and Stelios Contogoulas, 44.
Barclays declined to comment.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which brought the investigation, said: "The key issue in this case was dishonesty."
SFO director David Green, who chose to pursue the Libor cases in 2012, said: "The trial in this country of American nationals also demonstrates the extent to which the response to Libor manipulation has been international and the subject of extensive co-operation between US and UK authorities."
The SFO said it had two weeks to decide whether to seek a re-trial of Mr Reich and Mr Contogoulas.
By Andy Verity, BBC economics correspondent
Libor is not based on actual transactions. It is based on asking for a submitter's opinion - at what price could you borrow funds were you to do so?
And the trouble was that often - and especially during the credit crunch - they hadn't borrowed anything. So how could they have a clue what to submit?
Imagine you are an estate agent asked to value a house in an area where you have never done business before, and where no houses had changed hands for months. How do you know the price?
It is hard to discern between an honest opinion and a dishonest one when it is necessarily a guess.
In the credit crunch, Libor became the financial equivalent of the game of pin the tail on the donkey.
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Between 2005 and 2007, 16 banks, including Barclays, submitted daily estimates of borrowing rates to the British Bankers' Association, which used them to calculate Libor.
The jury heard the ability to organise even minor movements in the rate had the potential to generate large profits for a trader.
In May, it was revealed that a sixth employee of Barclays, Peter Johnson, had pleaded guilty to conspiring to manipulate the rate.
The prosecution said four traders - Jay Merchant, Alex Pabon, Ryan Reich and Stelios Contogoulas - asked Libor rate submitters, Jonathan Mathew and Peter Johnson, to put in rates that suited their trading at the daily setting of Libor.
It is the third case to be brought by the SFO into Libor manipulation.
Last year, Tom Hayes became the first individual to be convicted in the Libor fixing scandal, initially sentenced to 14 years in prison although that was later reduced to 11.
But in January five city brokers were cleared of helping Hayes to manipulate the Libor rate.
Two weeks after Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel delivered a hammer blow to Lewis Hamilton in Monaco, Hamilton clawed back much of the lost ground with a perfect weekend in Montreal.
On a track on which he has always excelled, Hamilton was untouchable. "I definitely think I have been at my best this weekend," he said. You can say that again, Lewis.
Hamilton equalled his hero Ayrton Senna's mark of 65 pole positions on Saturday, appropriately enough with one of the best laps of his career. And on Sunday delivered a copybook drive for his sixth victory in 10 years at the picturesque Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in one of his favourite cities.
It cut his deficit to Vettel in the championship from 25 points after Monaco - almost a clear win - to 12, a much more manageable and less imposing gap.
The win was founded on what Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff described as a "stellar" qualifying lap.
Hamilton, team-mate Valtteri Bottas and Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen had looked closely matched until the final part of qualifying. But then Hamilton produced a lap that was nearly a second faster than anything he had managed before.
Vettel got close to within 0.007secs of it, only for Hamilton to move the goalposts again and take pole by 0.33 seconds.
On a day when he was presented with a replica Senna helmet by the late Brazilian's family as a gift for matching his achievements, and told he would be receiving a genuine one at a later date, it was an appropriately Senna-esque performance.
"I would like to think so," Hamilton said. "Senna-esque; I hope now I have earned Hamilton-esque."
If that sounds like braggadocio, it isn't. It is simply a reflection of a man whose speed on one lap is undoubtedly comparable with his idol's, even if few would say that as a complete package as a grand prix driver, Hamilton is quite on Senna's level.
If that sounds like hyperbole, don't listen to me, listen to Paddy Lowe, the former Mercedes technical boss who has worked with both men during his career.
"Stating the obvious," Lowe said on Saturday evening in Montreal, "they both sit within the one handful of greats that there are in the history of the sport."
Has Hamilton got Senna's speed, I asked Lowe?
"Yeah, undoubtedly," he said. "Those great drivers are able to pull out an extraordinary lap. You kind of saw that with Lewis today. Probably on Mercedes' estimations and all their simulations, that time wasn't in the car. They didn't have it on their charts for today. They probably thought Ferrari had them after P3 and then Lewis will go out there and really dig deep.
"They can't do it every Saturday but every now and again they just go out there and something really extraordinary is required and they produce a lap where you go: 'Wow, where on earth did that come from?' And Lewis is certainly one to do that, and so was Ayrton."
Hamilton's victory was in the bag, barring technical problems, once he had converted his pole into a lead at the first corner and Vettel's front wing had been damaged as Red Bull's Max Verstappen came around his outside into second place.
It will forever be an unknown how the race would have panned out had Vettel made it into the first corner behind Hamilton, but Wolff said he suspected Mercedes had too much for Ferrari on this day.
"I think we had a very good car today, a solid car," he said. "Sebastian was unfortunate to be shaved by Max. We were good in pace today even with the Ferraris in the race. You heard they were struggling for grip and had a temperature problem. If you run in traffic, the magnitude of the problems is multiplied."
Vettel said: "The pace was there. Bit difficult to read. Mercedes were very strong in the race but it is also a different story when you can control the race and the pace."
How had Mercedes turned this around after a dismal weekend in Monaco, where they were struggling for pace from second practice?
The answer was a lot of hard work. A group was set up to analyse what had gone wrong in Monaco, and the result was a revision of the way they approached the management of the car over the race weekend.
"At any time of the day or night, when you were in the factory there was light, people were working," Wolff said. "We ran the simulator 24/7 for 10 days in a row. Nobody took a weekend off in that group and there are no silver bullets in the sport. It is just about analysing the data and trying to make conclusions.
"We looked at all areas. There was no stone left unturned. It was aero, mechanical balance, set-up work, the tyres themselves, the way the drivers drove the car."
The Mercedes has been a tricky car to work with so far this year, but in Canada at least the team were on top of it. It remains to be seen whether that continues to be the case.
If the team were below par in Monaco, the same could be said of Hamilton, and he drove in Canada as if he had a point to prove. After the race, he implied he felt the same way about the next race in Azerbaijan, where last year he was blisteringly quick but wrecked his weekend with an error-strewn performance in qualifying that ended with a crash.
"Last year in Baku I was very quick," Hamilton said. "I just had a lapse of concentration and it really threw the whole weekend off. We are going there to try and deliver what we have done this weekend."
While Hamilton romped to victory, his old rival Fernando Alonso had a predictable return to Formula 1 from his adventure at the Indianapolis 500.
Alonso drove strongly all weekend, and taking into account the power deficit between the Honda and Mercedes engines, his lap in second qualifying was actually quicker than Hamilton's. That is what he was referring to when he described the McLaren chassis on Saturday as "very competitive" in Montreal.
The race was always going to be difficult on such a power-dependent circuit with an engine that is lacking between 90-100bhp compared to the Mercedes, but Alonso was on course to score McLaren's first point of the year until he retired with two laps to go. The reason? You guessed it. Another Honda engine failure.
As Alonso pointed out, the retirement not only meant a lost point, it also guaranteed that Alonso will start the Baku race from the back as a result of penalties for using too many engines.
The engine Alonso was using in Canada was the new one fitted to the car when Jenson Button stood in for the Spaniard in Monaco, where he, too, started from the back because the car had already exceeded the permitted number of engine parts.
Asked how frustrated he was, Alonso said: "Well, definitely a lot." And the same goes for the whole of McLaren.
It became clear early during the Canada weekend that the end of the road is nigh for McLaren and Honda.
While racing director Eric Boullier was insisting publicly that he saw a future for the partnership, saying he "hoped" the partnership was together next year, and that such a scenario was "definitely" realistic, that was just PR spin. And after the race, Boullier described Alonso's retirement as "yet another gut-wrenching failure", adding: "It's simply, and absolutely, not good enough."
Behind the scenes, several sources say, McLaren are preparing to split with Honda and use Mercedes customer engines next year.
How - and indeed whether - that happens is still not completely certain. No deal has been done for Mercedes, and the mechanics of any split with Honda have not yet been worked out.
Ideally, McLaren would like to take a pause, use Mercedes engines for a while, and revive the Honda partnership when the Japanese engine is competitive. If that is not possible, a divorce is on the cards, although again the details of how that would happen remain unclear.
As things stand, though, the likeliest scenario is that McLaren will use Mercedes engines in 2018, which will provide a competitive boost.
McLaren have reached this point because they have lost confidence that Honda will ever deliver - a message made pretty clear in an interview executive director Zak Brown gave last week, the essence of which he repeated in Canada.
As it happens, a split with Honda is also the only possible way they might be able to keep Alonso next year. He will definitely not stay if the team stick with Honda. But a customer Mercedes engine in a car that is one of the best in the field would be an appealing prospect, certainly more so than a Renault team that is not yet ready to satisfy Alonso's ambitions.
Alonso would have to take a pay cut from his current $40m salary to stay, because splitting with Honda has a significant financial impact on McLaren. But he does not have a lot of options.
Renault, although interested, would not pay him that. Mercedes will almost certainly stick wth Valtteri Bottas alongside the under-contract Hamilton. Red Bull's drivers are both under contract in 2018 and, although some are claiming Ferrari might be interested in having Alonso back, Vettel is considered almost certain to extend his stay, and a partnership with Alonso is unlikely in the extreme.
Still, if the Mercedes deal can be secured, and as long as McLaren don't make a mess of next year's car, Alonso in a McLaren-Mercedes would likely be a contender for podiums in 2018 and add an intriguing new ingredient into the battle at the front of the field.
Giovanni Passamonti had denied attacking the woman while she slept on board a yacht at Dunstaffnage Marina, near Oban, in October 2012.
He was found guilty and put on the sex offenders' register.
His lawyers argued on appeal that his trial was prejudiced by references to a "victim" before a verdict was returned.
The woman should have been referred to as the complainer.
Mr Passamonti, 22, of Edinburgh, was originally convicted after a trial last year and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
Sheriff Douglas Small told him at the time it was "an extremely serious offence" which could well have ended up with a custodial sentence.
Judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal on Thursday were told that the Crown was not opposing the appeal against conviction based on two "errors" by the sheriff.
Defence lawyers pointed out the sheriff had directed the jury not to allow sympathy to play a part in their decision-making.
But they maintained that the repeated reference to "the victim" was likely to have led the jury not only to take a sympathetic view of the woman, but also to conclude that an offence had been committed.
The defence also said the sheriff erred in law in failing to give the jury directions over how to deal with a mixed statement - one which partly tends to clear the accused and partly incriminates.
Mr Passamonti was not in court to hear the successful outcome of the legal challenge.
Bob Bird was charged with perverting the course of justice and Douglas Wight with phone hacking and perjury.
The Crown Office said that, after "an extremely thorough investigation of these allegations", no criminal proceedings would be taken.
The News of the World closed down in July 2011.
Mr Bird was the former editor of the Scottish edition of the Sunday paper and Mr Wight was the news editor in Scotland.
The pair were investigated as part of Operation Rubicon, which was launched by Scottish prosecutors and police after the newspaper closed.
The paper's owner Rupert Murdoch shut down the title after it was revealed that News of the World staff had accessed voicemail messages left on the mobile belonging to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Mr Bird edited the Scottish edition of the News of the World when it ran allegations about Socialist politician Tommy Sheridan's private life.
The former MSP successfully sued the newspaper for defamation in 2006 and was awarded £200,000 damages.
Mr Bird was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice over Mr Sheridan's successful action against the newspaper.
Mr Wight was charged with perjury, conspiracy to hack telephones and multiple charges of conspiracy to obtain personal data.
A police investigation saw Mr Sheridan charged, convicted of perjury and jailed for three years after he had been found to have lied during the defamation trial. He was released after serving just over one year of his sentence.
Mr Bird gave evidence at the original defamation trial brought by Mr Sheridan in 2006 and his subsequent perjury trial at the end of 2010.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "The procurator fiscal received reports concerning Douglas Wight and Robert Bird, in connection with alleged offences between February 1995 and November 2010 and July 2006 respectively.
"After an extremely thorough investigation of these allegations, Crown Counsel decided that no criminal proceedings be taken."
Father Cardenal was one of several Nicaraguan Catholic priests sanctioned for their involvement with Daniel Ortega's administration.
He was suspended from the priesthood after refusing to stand down from his post as education minister.
He led a successful campaign against illiteracy in Nicaragua.
Cardenal said he would be "committing a grave sin" to leave his position in the Sandinista government.
"I cannot conceive of a God that would ask me to abandon my commitment to the people," he explained in an open letter in 1984, after being expelled from the Jesuit order.
Cardenal was eventually readmitted to the order in 1996.
The Jesuit priest became an adept of Liberation Theology, a religious movement centred in Latin America that looked at Christianity from the perspective of the poor and socially oppressed.
Its critics said it combined Christianity with Marxist principles.
He was one of many priests in the impoverished Central American nation who supported the Sandinista rebels' fight against the authoritarian government of Anastasio Somoza in the 1970s.
When they overthrew Somoza in 1979, Cardenal joined the new government.
He led a campaign that within a few years had reduced illiteracy rates to 13% of the adult population and served as education minister between 1984 and 1990.
His brother Ernesto is a renowned poet who served as culture minister in the Sandinista cabinet.
Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.
With such fanfare and glitz, it is hard to believe that the Indian car industry is going through its worst phase in over a decade.
Car sales fell 10% last year, and the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers predicts local car sales could fall again this year.
India's inflation rates are the highest in Asia and the economy has slowed to less than 5%.
Customers are hardly coming into the showrooms. Borrowing has become expensive over the last couple of years.
With about two-thirds of the cars delivered in India being sold on loans, higher borrowing costs means that purchase decisions are delayed.
Yet at India's car show, most manufacturers seemed to be focused on the long-term potential of the Indian market.
This year, the Auto Expo 2014 has moved out of the capital Delhi to a new, bigger location at Greater Noida, in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh.
Expecting 100,000 visitors daily, the seven-day show opens to the public on Friday.
Across the board, both small and big car makers say that they hope the show can persuade consumers here to start buying again.
So what's the mood like?
Trying to get back into the spotlight, Tata Motors has launched the first new cars from its stable in nearly four years.
Tata's offerings include a hatchback, Bolt and a basic sedan called Zest.
It may be one of country's biggest car makers, but sales fell by more than a third last year - worse than any of its Indian rivals.
It was not meant to pan out like this.
Tata's ultra-cheap, small car Nano was supposed to be the show-piece vehicle, and the firm expected it to revolutionise the industry.
But sales of the $2,000 (£1,200) Nano have been disappointing since its launch in 2009.
The company now wants to change its selling strategy.
"If you look at the market and the demographics of the buyers, we see younger buyers coming in," says Ankush Arora, senior vice president at Tata Motors.
"Obviously cheap is not what they are looking for. They are looking for the right value, something that enhances their identity.
"So we embarked on a complete repositioning of the Nano - really targeting those younger buyers."
Tata Motors has been struggling for a while now, and the man who was supposed to revive it, managing director Karl Slym, died recently after falling from the 22nd floor of a Bangkok hotel.
At the show, Tata officials seemed confident that there would be no delays to the company's turnaround plans because of Mr Slym's death.
Yet the market is not uniformly bad. For instance, US car giant Ford is sitting on months of orders.
Launching an update of its existing compact car and an all-new mid-sized sedan - the company says success in India is critical for Ford's global success.
"We are committed to investing $2bn in India," says Kumar Galhotra, vice-president of engineering at Ford.
"A billion of that is in our new plant in Sanand in Gujarat which will be operational by the end of this year.
"We start producing cars early next year, so we see a great potential in the market."
Mr Galhotra also says he expects small car sales in India to grow from about one million units in 2013 to about two million units in 2018.
That is partly why Ford is looking to make India one of its biggest export hubs. The company exports currently to 37 countries from India and aims to increase to 50 in the coming years.
Nearly one in two new cars sold in India is a Maruti, and now India's largest car maker has a new goal - reaching out to buyers in rural areas.
Launching two new concept cars — SX4 S-Cross and Ciaz, managing director and chief executive Kenichi Ayukawa says the good news is in the countryside.
"Our rural volumes have grown steadily. People in the villages have the money and want to access good cars.
"There are 100,000 villages in India and we want to tap into them. We will step up our rural sales outlets and have more mobile service network for rural customers."
Maruti Suzuki is already the strongest player in rural India with 1,300 dealerships. Six years ago only 3% of sales were in rural areas but now it is 30%.
A good monsoon and harvest have ensured that the country's farmers are willing to spend.
The firm now plans to hire thousands of extra salesmen in rural areas and to create mobile car workshops for villagers who buy its cars.
The German luxury car maker surprised everyone by revealing its A3 sedan and its Cabriolet variant at the show.
The company sold 10,000 cars in India 2013, which is more than any other high status car maker.
China may be the world's top luxury car market, but India is fast emerging as the next favourite destination for car firms.
One estimate suggests that India's luxury auto market may quadruple by 2020, when compared with last year's sale figures - while the overall global car market is forecast to grow by 40%.
Indian buyers tend to choose cars that deliver better value, so by introducing lower priced cars and financing schemes Audi has captured many younger customers.
It has a market share of 32% and plans to increase its dealerships to 40 by the end of the year.
Joe King, who is head of Audi India, says the compact luxury segment is important and the A3 will be best suited for this.
"We see the market in the first half of the year being relatively flat, but post the elections mid-year, we see a spurt.
"So I expect that the market will grow at a similar pace to last year at least in the luxury segment. We plan to exceed our performance."
It's been named Yutyrannus huali meaning "beautiful feathered tyrant" and it lived 125 million years ago.
The meat-eating cousin of T-rex weighed more than a tonne and was about as long as a double-decker bus.
Three near-complete skeletons were discovered and showed the dinosaur had sharp teeth, three-fingered hands and walked on its back legs.
The Yutyrannus huali was too big to fly, which raises questions about why it had feathers.
One idea is that they helped it keep warm, while another is that the feathers were there to attract a mate.
Earlier estimates said a single slick had formed, stretching only four miles.
Officials do not know how much oil has been spilt, but say the pipeline was running at full-capacity when it broke on Tuesday.
While the pipeline has been switched off, it is unclear how long the cleanup will take.
Shovel and rake wielding workers have been fanning out across the beach to clean up oil that is stuck to sand and rocks along Refugio State Beach, which is on the southern Santa Barbara County coast.
Officials said about 105,000 gallons (400,000 litres) spilled from the pipe and about 21,000 gallons had reached the ocean.
Darren Palmer, an official with Plains All American Pipeline LP, who owns the pipe, said it was running at a rate of about 84,000 gallons an hour when it broke.
The pipe was built in 1991 and had been tested a few weeks ago, he said.
Mr Palmer said the company takes responsibility for the spill and will pay for the cleanup.
Environmentalists are concerned that the oil may harm wildlife including birds and whales.
"It smells like what they use to pave the roads," Fan Yang told the Associated Press news agency. "I'm sad for the birds, if they lose their habitat".
The spill happened on the same stretch of beach as a 1969 spill - one that is credited with starting the American environmental movement. In that incident, several hundred thousand gallons spewed from a blowout on an oil platform, ultimately resulting in the death of thousands of seabirds and many marine mammals.
The alarm was first raised on Tuesday when authorities received reports of a foul smell near Refugio State Beach around midday (04:00 GMT).
Emergency responders found a half-mile slick in the ocean, Santa Barbara County Fire Captain Dave Zaniboni said.
They traced the oil to a ruptured onshore pipeline that was spewing oil into a rain water drain which ran to the ocean. The pipeline was shut off about three hours later.
The area has been closed to recreational and fishing activities. It is not clear how long it will take to clean up the slicks, or whether the area will be open for the coming Memorial Day weekend - a major holiday in the United States.
The Conservatives and Labour have vowed to extend a "breathing space" scheme used in Scotland to allow people time to organise repayments.
Others, including the Lib Dems, want more regulation in the debt sector.
There is widespread concern over the levels of personal debt among working households.
The City regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - has warned of an acceleration in consumer borrowing, such as loans, overdrafts, credit card debt and car finance. This echoes concerns raised by the Bank of England.
The total amount of consumer debt tops £1.5 trillion. Although this is dominated by mortgage borrowing, there is a vast array of debt products creating concern.
A Lords committee also recently called for stronger controls such as a cap on "rent to own" products.
The FCA is already conducting is own inquiry into overdrafts, door-to-door lending and other forms of loans. Consumer groups have consistently argued there should be an overdraft cap in place.
The regulator estimates that 3.3 million people are in persistent credit card debt.
The biggest focus in recent times has been on car finance deals. The value of finance deals used to buy new cars has soared to a new monthly record, according to latest figures, with motorists having spent £3.6bn on deals in March.
The fear is that households, with a regular but stagnant salary, are using their income to fund an increasing amount of debt, leaving them at risk if interest rates were to rise from historic lows.
Mike O'Connor, chief executive of debt charity StepChange, said: "In addition to better protections for people in debt, the next government should commit to action to prevent the 8.8 million people currently showing signs of financial difficulty from falling into serious hardship.
"It should work to ensure better alternatives to dangerous forms of high-cost credit, and it should act to help families build up savings to insulate them from problem debt."
More than 16 million people in the UK have savings of less than £100, according to the Money Advice Service, leaving them further exposed to a financial shock.
In five areas - Northern Ireland, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, North East England and Wales - more than half the adult population has savings below £100.
There is a risk to UK economic stability too, with lenders standing to lose much more on their consumer credit loans than they would on mortgage lending if there is an economic downturn and their borrowers default on their credit card and other personal loans.
Proposed action includes:
StepChange welcomed the breathing space scheme for those in serious debt - but said this should be extended to a year.
It said this would allow those in debt owing to issues such as family breakdown or a reduction in working hours to be allowed time to rebuild their income to prepare to repay what they borrowed.
Campaigners have also called for greater protection for those facing mental health difficulties, particularly regarding store cards and "impulse" borrowing.
Polly Mackenzie, director of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, said: "Customers are encouraged to take out complex new credit deals on the spur of the moment, at the front of a queue in a shop or in a few clicks at an online checkout.
"For people with mental health problems in particular this is leading to real financial difficulty, encouraging impulsive spending that can be a symptom of a number of mental health problems, and setting people up in credit arrangements that they often don't fully understand."
In 45 years' time, though, half of jobs currently filled by humans will have been taken over by an artificial intelligence system, results indicate.
The report, When will AI exceed human performance?, says AI will reshape transport, health, science and finance.
The study was compiled by the Future of Humanity Institute, at the University of Oxford.
It asked three keys questions about AI:
The experts believe that in the next 40 years AI will outperform humans in the following tasks:
On the big question of whether AI would be good or bad for the human race, most felt the probability for a bad outcome was low (10%), compared with a median probability of 25% for a good outcome.
The probability for extremely bad (ie the extinction of the human race) was given at 5%.
Nearly half of those questioned said that research on minimising the risks of AI should be prioritised by society.
The so-called intelligence explosion - the idea that AI systems will quickly become vastly superior to humans in all tasks once high level machine intelligence is achieved - was seen as improbable but not impossible.
Noel Sharkey, a robotics and AI expert at Sheffield University, said: "Survey results about the future can be useful within a five to 10 year range. That is the foreseeable future. Once we get beyond that, it is pure speculation."
He said it was inevitable that machines would outperform humans on many tasks but questioned whether this would make the technology comparable to humans.
"I don't know if it will ever be able to get up in the morning and understand my partner's mood or if the dog needs to go out, or to make meaningful human decisions," he said.
"And why would we want that anyway? Even if it was possible, we might reject it within 40 years."
It will fund equipment and systems layout design and prototype production.
The Successor vessels, designed at BAE Systems' Barrow shipyard in Cumbria, will replace the ageing Vanguard class from the early 2030s.
Chief of Materiel (Fleet) Vice Admiral Simon Lister called it "the most technologically advanced nuclear submarine" in the Royal Navy's history.
The funding is part of £3.3bn for the programme's assessment phase.
Previous contracts of £257m in 2015 and £328m and £315m in 2012 were awarded to BAE Systems for the initial design.
The latest cash is to fund "innovation, design and engineering" work by BAE Systems, Babcock International, Rolls-Royce and other potential suppliers.
About 6,500 people work at the Barrow site, where BAE is also building seven Astute class nuclear-powered attack submarines for the Royal Navy.
Firefighters had to physically remove the man from a crossing outside William Austin Junior School in Luton last month as he continued to help children cross.
Luton Borough Council said the school crossing patrol officer had been dismissed for gross misconduct.
It had initially suspended the man pending an investigation.
The fire engine was on its way to an out-of-control bonfire on St Ethelbert Avenue, at about 15:30 BST on 13 April.
Eyewitness Jacqui Brittain said she was "sorry" the man had lost his job but said the decision was "justified".
She said she saw the man help a group of children cross the road while the fire engine was approaching with its lights on, but then, to her surprise, he started a second crossing.
"Four of five firemen got out of the vehicle and escorted him off the road," she said.
"It was like watching a car crash. I am sorry he lost his job. It is a shame, but based on the incident that day it was justified.
"There was nothing else they could do. Nobody has been out there since. It has been without a crossing patrol for almost a month.
"I did the job for 20 years. It does need someone. It is dangerous."
The incident was recorded on CCTV.
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service has been asked to comment on the action taken against the lollipop man.
In the aftermath of the incident, it said the lollipop man had ushered "children and their parents across the road several times in front of the fire appliance".
"A firefighter spoke to the crossing guard and moved the remaining pedestrians out of the road before assisting other vehicle drivers to clear a path so we could continue to the incident," a spokesman said.
Skye and Callie were born prematurely at Kingston Hospital on 30 April.
Twelve weeks into her pregnancy, Millie discovered one of her babies had anencephaly - a condition where the skull does not properly form, leaving the brain exposed.
"I was told one of my babies will have no chance of survival," says Millie.
"My baby was only expected to live a few seconds."
Baby Skye died at just a few hours old. Twin Callie is thriving and is now seven weeks old.
"We had a couple of scares with Callie, but she is fine," says Millie.
But it was a passing comment made by a mother that led Millie to come up with a way to inform people of a death of a baby from a multiple birth.
"I was in a neonatal ward with Callie, and there were three sets of twins crying," she says.
"A parent who didn't know what I'd been through turned to me and said, 'You are so lucky you don't have twins.'
"When she said this to me, it just broke me.
"I know the mother would have felt bad if she knew how her words affected me."
"I felt there should be something like a small symbol to let people know that my baby had died.
"I thought of a butterfly coloured purple, for either a girl or boy, that could be put on cots."
The idea of sticking purple butterflies on to the cots, indicating a loss of a sibling was adopted by her local hospital.
"Our aim is to get these butterflies into all hospitals across the UK.
"Instead of stickers, the butterflies will be printed on card and laminated, and each hospital would have a template to make these themselves.
"Also, this allows parents to take the card home in their memory box."
The purple butterfly idea inspired Millie and fiance Lewis to start the Skye High Foundation to raise money to support bereaved families in their time of grief.
They are hoping to raise £10,000 for a counsellor at Kingston Hospital.
When Millie posted on the foundation's Facebook page about the purple butterfly initiative, the post went viral.
"I couldn't believe the response - there were over 1,000 shares of my post," says Millie. Now, that figure has doubled.
"I was also contacted by the Neonatal Research [group, which] has a Butterfly Project doing similar work to me.
"Charity work was something very new to me as I was very career-focused, but I am learning every step of the way.
"It was my way of dealing with what had happened - it was a turning point for me.
"I was fortunate to have a bereavement midwife.
"She was there during the birth, when Skye passed away, and when I'm having a bad day.
"But she is not a counsellor, and I think it is important that counselling is available."
Jo Bull, a specialist midwife in bereavement, helped Millie through her ordeal.
"My role involves helping women who have lost a baby before birth or who subsequently dies," says Jo.
"In Millie's case, she knew what was going to happen, and I was involved quite early on.
"But not every trust in England has a specialist midwife.
"Stillbirth rates have not been reduced in a long time.
"And, although all midwives can support parents with what they are going through, the specific specialist role is not widely available."
Jo emphasises that although she helps bereaved parents, she is not a trained counsellor.
"I am with parents on their journey until the post-natal period, and advise on funeral arrangements and help parents come to terms with what has happened," she says.
"I think we should talk about [baby death] more, as the more we talk to friends, family and others, the more likely you might hear from someone who has gone through the same thing.
"It's only beginning to be talked about, but it's still classed as taboo.
"The last thing people want who are going through this is for people to be ignoring it. It is terribly upsetting."
Millie says her main objective is to get people talking about babies who die.
"People don't talk about a loss of a baby - they feel awkward," she says.
"Even some nurses didn't know what to say.
"The thing I am most proud of is that it has got people talking about it.
"I want to support families, the butterfly idea, and anything else that can make a difference."
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Dywedodd Simon Thomas bod nifer o bobl o'r farn mai "cam gwag" oedd mynd i'r ynys yng nghefnfor India yn y lle cyntaf.
Mae ffigyrau ddaeth i law Newyddion 9 yn dangos mai 106 o fyfyrwyr sydd wedi cofrestru i astudio ym Mauritius yn yr ail flwyddyn, er bod lle i 2,000.
Dywedodd Prifysgol Aberystwyth bod y campws yn "fuddsoddiad tymor hir", gan ychwanegu eu bod wedi ymrwymo i "ddileu colledion ym Mauritius".
Cafodd y fenter ei disgrifio fel un "gwirion bost" y llynedd gan gyn is-ganghellor, ar ôl iddi ddod i'r amlwg mai 40 o fyfyrwyr wnaeth gofrestru i astudio yno yn y flwyddyn academaidd gyntaf.
Fe wnaeth y sefydliad golled o bron i £200,000 o'r fenter yn ystod y flwyddyn honno, yn ôl y ffigyrau diweddaraf.
"Yr argraffiadau cynta' yw bod y fenter yn sdryglo rywfaint ac yn cael trafferth cyflawni ei botensial fel oedd e'n cael ei ddisgrifio ar y pryd," meddai Mr Thomas, AC Plaid Cymru dros Ganolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru.
"Wrth gwrs mi oedd nifer o bobl ar y pryd yn meddwl bod e'n gam gwag gan y brifysgol i fynd i Mauritius yn y lle cynta'.
"Pwrpas y cynllun does bosib oedd i ddenu arian newydd, ffres a fyddai wedyn yn cefnogi'r brifysgol yn Aberystwyth.
"Os nad yw hynny'n digwydd mae'n rhaid tynnu'n plwg ar y cynllun."
Mae prifysgolion Wolverhampton a Middlesex yn Lloegr hefyd wedi agor campysau dros y môr ym Mauritius.
Roedd tua 90 o fyfyrwyr wedi cofrestru i astudio yn y ddwy brifysgol yn ystod eu blwyddyn gyntaf ar yr ynys.
Ond yn 2015 fe gyhoeddodd Wolverhampton eu bod yn cau eu campws nhw, bedair blynedd ar ôl iddo agor.
Mae'n bosib i fyfyrwyr Prydeinig a rhyngwladol astudio ar gampws Prifysgol Aberystwyth ym Mauritius.
Mae'n cynnig nifer o gyrsiau gwahanol mewn busnes, cyfrifeg a'r gyfraith.
Dywedodd Prifysgol Aberystwyth: "Agorwyd ein campws cangen Mauritius yn 2015 fel buddsoddiad tymor hir gyda'r bwriad o gynnig profiad addysg Aberystwyth i fyfyrwyr o ddwyrain Affrica, yr is-gyfandir ac Asia, yn ogystal ag ynys Mauritius ei hun.
"Fel rhan o'n Cynllun Gweithredu Cynaliadwyedd, rydym wedi ymrwymo i ddileu colledion ym Mauritius."
Nick Ramsay said he is happy to back Mr Davies' leadership, but if it had been him he would have acted differently.
The party's 11 AMs met on Monday to discuss the Tories' disappointing assembly election performance.
A spokesman said the members had given Mr Davies "universal backing".
Party sources had raised concerns about Mr Davies's leadership after the party's group shrunk by three AMs at the 5 May election.
Mr Ramsay told BBC Wales: "Andrew wants to continue. I am more than happy to back his leadership. He has my support.
"But if it had been me I would have probably acted differently, I would have resigned."
The AM for Monmouth had run against Mr Davies for the Welsh Conservative leadership in 2011.
He was sacked by Mr Davies in 2014, and later reinstated, from Mr Davies' frontbench team for rebelling against him in a vote on the devolution of income tax.
Prior to Mr Ramsay's comments, a Welsh Conservative spokesman had said: "Andrew RT Davies' leadership of the Welsh Conservatives was universally backed in a Welsh Conservative group meeting this afternoon.
"The focus must now switch to the big challenges facing the country in the weeks and months ahead, not least in helping to secure a future for the steel industry and holding the new Welsh Government to account."
Welsh Tory chairman Jonathan Evans has urged the party to focus now on June's EU referendum rather than who leads its group in Cardiff Bay.
On Sunday, Mr Evans told BBC Wales that party activists would be better off devoting the next five weeks to campaigning for the EU poll.
"None of us wants to see a situation... in which the Conservative Party in Wales spends that five-week period arguing about who is leading us in the assembly," he said.
The Conservatives made gains in every previous assembly poll and enjoyed a successful general election in 2015.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has said Labour is likely to seek to form a minority Welsh Government, after winning 29 of the 60 seats in the Senedd.
The new assembly is expected to meet for the first time on Wednesday.
Meanwhile Conservative AM David Melding has said he does not want to be the next presiding officer.
Mr Melding, who was deputy to Dame Rosemary Butler during the last five-year assembly term, said he was "at my best as one of life's lieutenants".
The first results are already in, with Labour claiming most of the early seats. It has scored a couple of early gains, in the seats of Vales of Clwyd and Rutherglen & Hamilton West.
To get an idea of where the main parties are likely to make gains or where the result is too close to call, have a look at our seat-by-seat forecast.
By the small hours, the results will really start to pour in, with most counts completed by 06:00 BST.
Some won't be in until lunchtime on Friday, with Berwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth Valley and Wansbeck usually last to declare.
However, the overall outcome of the election should become clear much earlier than that.
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2am More results from Scotland expected. Also keep an eye out for Conservative-held marginals Bury North and Thurrock around now - if the Tories were to lose either of these it could be a sign Theresa May is at risk of losing her majority.
2.30am Jeremy Corbyn's result in ultra-safe Islington North is due around this time.
3am Results will be coming thick and fast by now - at the rate of about five per minute. Lib Dem leader Tim Farron's result in Westmorland and Lonsdale, where he is facing a strong Tory challenge, could be interesting.
4am Two big hitters in safe seats - Alex Salmond, in Gordon, and Boris Johnson, in Uxbridge and South Ruislip - are expected to be re-elected around now. Results in key Lib Dem targets Cheltenham and Bath are also expected. The Conservatives are targeting three seats in Scotland - the first to declare is likely to be Dumfries and Galloway around now. If they take this seat from the SNP, Theresa May could be looking at a big majority overall. Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine and top target Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk are set to declare a little later.
4.30am Theresa May faces little threat in Maidenhead, but we could find out what she makes of the national results when she speaks at her count.
5am UKIP leader Paul Nuttall will find out whether he has unseated his Conservative opponent, who was a Remainer, in Boston and Skegness.
6am Brighton Pavilion should return Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas as its MP but the party is hoping to gain an extra seat in Bristol West. As dawn breaks we should have both results.
You can follow minute-by-minute updates in text and video as the results roll in, with breaking stories, social media reaction and expert analysis in our main live page. Results will appear as they are announced on an interactive map and postcode search.
There will be separate live pages for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We are also running live pages for 16 English regions - London, North East and Cumbria, North West, South, South East, South West, West, West Midlands, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northamptonshire, Beds, Herts and Bucks, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
And you can follow the latest developments and the find out the result in your own constituency.
BBC One: The BBC's election night is hosted by David Dimbleby - the 10th time he has filled this role since his first election night as host in 1979.
BBC correspondents, led by Andrew Marr, Nick Robinson, Kirsty Wark and Sophie Raworth, are at the key counts. Jeremy Vine, Emily Maitlis and polling expert Professor John Curtice are analysing the results as they come in. Mishal Husain has been grilling the key political payers - and media editor Amol Rajan watching social media reaction. The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg is on hand to provide analysis throughout the night.
Huw Edwards will take over in the morning as lead presenter. Andrew Neil will take over as lead interviewer.
The overnight programme is being simulcast on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News - and streamed live on the BBC News website in the UK and bbc.com in the rest of the world.
Viewers in the US will be able to catch up on the latest on the UK election and other international stories in World News America at 2100 GMT and join the election special from 2300 GMT/6pm Eastern. Viewers in the rest of the world can join David Dimbleby and the team from 2055 GMT.
On Twitter @BBCElection is tweeting the latest results, the BBC Politics Facebook Messenger bot will include expert analysis, and there will be Facebook Lives from behind-the-scenes of the results programme on the BBC Politics page. BBC News is live streaming the results programme on Twitter. Follow the tag #BBCElection on Twitter.
BBC Radio 4: Throughout election night, Carolyn Quinn and James Naughtie are presenting Election 2017, reporting on the key moments as they happen from 10pm on until 6am on Friday, 9 June.
BBC Radio 5 Live: Election night is being hosted by Stephen Nolan in Salford and Emma Barnett in London, who is being joined by the UK's brightest political bloggers and commentators, all on hand as the result's roll in.
World Service: Election special with Philippa Thomas and Tim Franks will be in London analysing the results with a team of experts and senior politicians. Valerie Sanderson is in Scotland.
BBC local radio: Results and analysis through the night and into the morning with a number of special programmes across the network. Here are details on how to listen to your station.
Find out all you need to know about the general election, including why it was called, in our giant Q&A. And here is a full guide to the party manifestos - setting out their policy pledges and plans.
Paying tribute to Mr Cameron during his final Prime Minister's Questions, the MP suggested a complete career change.
He said leadership roles were available as manager of the English football team, presenter of Top Gear or as the next occupant of the White House.
Mr Cameron laughed but said the posts sounded "even harder" than his own job.
The prime minister was given a standing ovation by Conservative MPs in the House of Commons, as he prepared to hand over power to Theresa May on Wednesday.
Mr Kinahan commended Mr Cameron's record in office, saying: "May we thank the prime minister for all his hard work and his leadership and particularly his commitment to the union and to Northern Ireland."
The South Antrim MP said his party was looking forward to working with the next prime minister but also offered the incumbent some career advice.
"I'm told that there are lots of leadership roles out there at the moment," Mr Kinahan said.
"There's the England football team, there's Top Gear, there's even across the big pond a role that needs filling."
Mr Cameron thanked the UUP member for his "kind remarks and fascinating suggestions for future jobs."
He added that most of them "sound even harder than this one, so I think I'll pass".
During his tribute, Mr Kinahan said the prime minister had visited Northern Ireland "often" during his six-year tenure.
He reminded him of the time he went for an early morning dip in Lough Erne, when County Fermanagh hosted the 2013 G8 summit and he invited Mr Cameron back to swim in Lough Neagh.
In response to Mr Kinahan's final question - about the threat to the UK posed by its decision to leave the European Union - Mr Cameron said Northern Ireland was stronger now than when he came to power six years ago.
Rick Minns, nicknamed Ruddy Muddy, from Wicklewood in Norfolk creates his works of art in the mud, grease and dust on unwashed vans using a tissue.
He calls it "graffilthy art" and said he hoped people would find it more interesting than the usual "clean me" often scrawled on mud-spattered vans.
No-one had complained he said, and many owners had been in touch to thank him.
"I was a bit bored at work one day, with a bit of spare time on my hands and thought it looked like a bit of fun," Mr Minns said.
"I played around with a few things and they sort of developed from there."
His drawings take between five minutes and an hour.
He uses his fingernails to roughly sketch the image, then his finger or a tissue to complete the work.
"Maybe even a cotton bud - that's about as extravagant as it gets," Mr Minns said.
He said his artwork was spreading across the region and people had spotted it in most counties in the east - and then got in touch with him via social media.
"Hopefully it gives a smile to a few other people as well as me," he said.
"All you really need though is a dirty van. That's the important bit."
Leaders Chelsea fought back from 1-0 down to secure an eighth straight Premier League win, and City's frustrations boiled over in injury time.
Aguero was dismissed for a wild lunge on Chelsea defender David Luiz, with team-mate Fernandinho also shown a red card for clashing with Cesc Fabregas in the melee that followed.
"It is a pity the game finished like this," Guardiola said. "I don't like that and I apologise for what happened.
"I don't think Aguero's challenge is intentional. Both players were strong, that is all.
"Then Fernandinho went over to defend his team-mate because of what the opponent did to Aguero.
"When (City winger) Nolito did that against Bournemouth, it was a red card for him and a three-game ban. That is why Fernandinho went to defend his team-mate, that is all.
"I have not spoken to him about it - if it is on TV, we will see about it."
Fernandinho will be suspended for three matches and Aguero will face a four-game ban because he has already been sent off once for violent conduct this season - the retrospective red card he received for a challenge on West Ham defender Winston Reid in August.
The pair will miss games against Leicester, Watford and Arsenal and, while Fernandinho can return at Hull on 26 December, Aguero will have to wait until City's trip to Anfield to play Liverpool on New Year's Eve.
Referee Anthony Taylor had angered City's players and fans with some of his earlier decisions, including a first-half challenge by Luiz on Aguero that went unpunished.
However, Guardiola refused to blame Taylor for the defeat, his first at Etihad Stadium since he took charge of City in the summer.
"We didn't win because we missed a lot of chances, not because of the referee's decisions," the Spaniard added.
"I am proud of my team and how we played - I came here to try to play the way we played in this game.
"You have to remember who we were playing, and that we created more chances than we did in our last two games against Burnley and Crystal Palace, when we won.
"But in the boxes we are not strong enough. When the opportunities arrive, we have to score goals because when we don't it is tough mentally for the players.
"It is a problem we have had all season. It is difficult for us to score goals and we concede them very easily."
Chief football writer Phil McNulty:
It is unlikely either Manchester City or Chelsea have heard the last of a shameful conclusion to a high-class game of football as players and officials from both sides became embroiled in ugly scenes.
City's frustration at what they believed was a series of injustices at the hands of referee Anthony Taylor boiled over in injury time as Aguero caught Luiz high and late, which happened after the Argentina striker clashed with the defender at a corner earlier.
Chelsea's Nathaniel Chalobah joined in and was lucky not to see red, while Fernandinho was sent off for grabbing Fabregas.
Even then, Fernandinho had to be forced to leave the pitch and with the whole situation threatening to go completely out of control, it was fortunate referee Taylor was able to blow the final whistle seconds later.
It is hard to see how both clubs can escape censure for a failure to control their players.
Former Premier League striker Jason Roberts on Final Score:
The tackle from Aguero was absolutely outrageous. It's exactly what you don't want to see in football. It was the type of challenge that can break a leg.
Former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton on Match of the Day:
Aguero lost the plot. It's as bad a tackle as you will see - I can't ever remember seeing one as bad as that.
Alex Scott, Arsenal Ladies and England defender on Final Score:
The Football Association has to act. With Aguero, you know that players can get frustrated - but what he did you know you cannot do in football, no way. The thing is, it was such a superb game of football but such a bad ending.
Former England winger Chris Waddle on BBC Radio 5 live:
Chelsea were clinical and look so well-drilled and fresh. City lost their discipline at the end, which will disappoint Guardiola. And now Aguero will be banned - that will be massive.
December is now going to be tough for Manchester City.
The audience in Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre included bereaved parents and those who were in the school on the day.
Actor Michael Sheen read a poem about "hope and healing".
He said he hoped the event would "enable the community to focus on the future".
The concert also featured Cantata Memoria, a new choral work by composer Sir Karl Jenkins, which was performed by Sinfonia Cymru and sung by a mixed choir of over 150 people along with a children's choir of 116.
On 21 October 1966, Aberfan was devastated when a colliery waste tip collapsed, with slurry engulfing Pantglas Junior School on the last day before half term.
A total of 144 people died, 116 of them children.
Mr Sheen said: "I found it incredibly moving when I read it out loud to myself, and I realised that by the time I got to the end of the poem I was practically in tears.
"It is a story about coming together, about healing - and moving forward into a hopeful future."
He said although the legacy of the day would stay "with every single person involved", he believed the community did not just want to be identified with "such a painful tragedy".
"So I hope the performance will enable them to focus on the future," he added.
Rennie Williams, who was one of the teachers to survive the tragedy, watched the concert.
She said: "Once the names came up, that caught my throat. That really upset us. Because once the names came up we could see the children's faces. And that really hurt."
Another former Pantglas teacher, Hetty Williams, said: "I thought the music was really, really wonderful. Something that everyone will remember - and they'll remember Aberfan."
"The month of October every year affects us," said Mair Morgan, also a teacher in the school.
"We like to see October go out. It's with you always on the 21 October."
Speaking before the concert, Mr Jenkins said: "We have to be mindful of Aberfan. We can't hide from the fact that it happened.
"Perhaps some will be upset - perhaps by the part where the names are intoned.
"But I'd like them to know that it's done with the utmost respect and integrity."
The ex-RFU board member has called for "serious structural change" to improve the fortunes of the the national side.
The RFU, led by chief executive Ian Ritchie, is conducting a review into England's early World Cup exit.
But Halliday, who won 23 international caps and is European Professional Club Rugby chairman, wants a separate "elite" team to manage England.
"No-one wants to see England at 8th or 9th in the world," Halliday told BBC Radio 5 live. "We all want to get back up to the top of the tree, so let's make the changes."
Stuart Lancaster's side became the first ever sole hosts to fail to reach the knock-out stages of a World Cup.
The panel selected to review England's performance has been criticised, with Ritchie instrumental in appointing Lancaster.
Halliday believes the RFU should concentrate on administering the game for the "massive majority" who play for fun, leaving the "assets" in the "shop window" to be run by an independent structure "united by a common purpose".
"You have to have everyone in the room who has any say in how the players are used, making sure selection is right, and making sure we have the right coaches," he added.
"I believe there are successful structures like that all around the world, and they happen to have won World Cups and got into finals. So why not work from them."
Unlike in countries like Australia and New Zealand, where the governing bodies also have influence over the club game, in England the clubs exist completely independently of the governing body.
And while accepting that won't change, Halliday is adamant the two entities can work closer together for the good of the English game.
"The club structure will not be broken here, it is incredibly powerful," he said. "The key is to bring it together with the union, and make certain that we use all of our resource. We need to get closer together.
"We've got a four-year window now to consider all this, and there are some great people who want to help.
"The RFU are the guardians of our sport. They owe it to all of us, the paying public - whoever you happen to be - if you love your rugby you want to see things work out."
The body of Chinese climber Ha Wenyi, 55, was spotted close to where three others died at the weekend, mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha told news agency AP.
The three were from South Korea, Germany and Canada.
All died while returning from the mountain's summit, officials say.
Ha Wenyi's body was found by climbers in an area near the top of the 8,848-metre peak where Nepali-born Canadian Shriya Shah, 32, German Eberhard Schaaf, 61, and South Korean Song Won-bin, 44, also died.
But a Nepalese guide who was previously reported missing had reached the base camp, Mr Shrestha said.
More than 300 climbers belonging to 33 different teams have received official permits to climb the mountain from the Nepali side this season, mountaineering official Dipendra Poudel told the BBC.
That figure does not include local Nepalis who are assisting the climbers, working as porters or helpers.
The mountain's worst-ever climbing season was in 1996, when 15 climbers died, eight of them in one day.
Money allocated to children's centres, which provide services to families, has fallen by 35% in five years, according to new calculations by Barnardo's.
The charity wants the government to ensure councils have the funding "to prioritise these important services".
The government said councils had a duty to meet the needs of local families.
Researchers for the charity analysed the education spending of every local authority in England and figures from the Department for Education.
Overall, they calculate that expenditure on children's centres declined from £1.2bn in 2010-11 to an estimated £740m in 2014-15.
"The evidence is stark: children's centre funding has been leaking away year after year, leading to the closure or merging of hundreds of these lifeline services across England," the charity concludes.
Local authorities are having to make tough decisions as their budgets are reduced, says the charity.
England currently has a network of about 2,800 children's centres, of which Barnardo's runs 190, providing a range of services.
These include general drop-in sessions and classes for children and their families as well as specialist help for more vulnerable families, for example counselling or learning support.
"Children's centres are a really good, low-key way of engaging with families and stepping in with support where it's needed," said a Barnardo's spokeswoman.
The charity fears funding cuts could see services which are particularly vital to disadvantaged children "dwindling away".
It backs the government's promise to provide 30 hours of free childcare every week to all three- and four-year-olds, but says that without the wider support provided by children's centres, the poorest will still lag behind their wealthier peers.
"Cuts to basic early support now will only result in in increased costs in the future " said chief executive Javed Khan.
"Without the vital support of children's centres to the poorest children and families, we are simply neglecting the seeds of more costly problems later in the shape of troubled families, crime, substance abuse and unemployment.
"Investing in the UK's children's centres simply makes sense - not only are we investing in our children, we are investing in our future."
A Department for Education spokeswoman said recent research showed record numbers of children were now using the centres.
"We want to see a strong network of children's centres in place across the country, offering families access to a wide range of local, flexible services, tackling disadvantage and preparing children for life in modern Britain.
"Councils have a duty to ensure sufficient children's centres to meet local need and to ensure they consult before any significant changes are made, including taking into account the views of local families and communities.
"Local councils are best placed to decide on provision in their communities. Since 2010, we have increased funding for early intervention to £2.4bn to help them meet local need."
The Local Government Association, which represents councils in England, said the past five years had seen about a 40% reduction in the overall amount central government provides for children's services.
"This has had consequences for children's centres and other services councils provide," said David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.
"We welcome the fact that more children and families are using children's centres but at a time when budgets are stretched there are limits to what can be achieved when councils are having to serve more families and children with less money."
BBC Sport has taken a look at the expected formations, line-ups and pen pics of each player likely to start, as well as the coaches.
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This tournament has helped Manuel Neuer cement his reputation as the world's number one goalkeeper.
An expert at the 'sweeper keeper' role because of his ability on the ball and willingness to come out of his area to clear any danger, he recorded an incredible 21 touches outside his 18-yard box against Algeria.
Remarkably, he has lost only three times in 51 appearances from Germany since his 2009 debut.
Did you know? Only Costa Rica's Keylor Navas (91.3%) has registered a better save percentage than Neuer in this World Cup (85.2%).
Described by club coach Pep Guardiola as "the most intelligent player I've coached", the experiment at this World Cup of copying his switch from right-back to a deep-lying defensive midfield role like he has done at Bayern Munich was not a disaster by any means, but Germany have looked more solid in defence and fluid in attack since he returned to full-back for the quarter-finals. The final will be his 20th World Cup appearance for Germany.
Did you know? No player has attempted more short passes than Lahm at this World Cup (450).
He started the tournament at right-back but has moved into the centre of defence because of a combination of injuries and Lahm's switch back to defence. He picked up two injuries earlier in the tournament, but is one of the first names on Joachim Low's team-sheet. He faced his half-brother, Kevin-Prince of Ghana, in the group stages for the second successive World Cup.
Did you know? He has started in each of Germany's last 11 World Cup games.
Not assured of a starting spot in central defence before the start of the World Cup, he is a contender for the team of the tournament thanks to a series of powerful displays at centre-back. Offensively, the Borussia Dortmund man has also been a key weapon, having scored two towering headers against Portugal and France. All this while battling off a nasty bout of flu.
Did you know? His mother was the first female to commentate on a football match on German TV.
A centre-back at club side Schalke, he has helped fill Germany's troublesome left-back spot with aplomb. Very much a squad player prior to this tournament, he has started every game in Brazil as coach Low started with four centre-halves across the back four. Just before the World Cup began he was in a car accident at a Mercedes event involving F1 driver Nico Rosberg, but emerged unscathed.
Did you know? Howedes has made more tackles than any other Germany player during this World Cup (15).
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After tearing his cruciate ligament in November, Khedira's World Cup dream looked in tatters.
But anyone who doubted Joachim Low's faith that the Real Madrid midfielder could last the tournament were made to look silly by his brilliant performance against Brazil.
Since he has been restored alongside Bastian Schweinsteiger, his midfield partner in crime from the 2010 World Cup, in time for the quarter-finals, Germany have looked a more solid and dangerous side.
Did you know? Khedira recorded an assist and goal in a World Cup match for the first time against Brazil.
After an injury-plagued season for Bayern Munich, he picked up a knee problem at a pre-World Cup training camp to further disrupt his preparations for this tournament. Coach Joachim Low left him out of the starting line-up for the first two matches, but Germany's vice-captain has returned to the side and bossed proceedings from central midfield in the extraordinary win over Brazil.
Did you know? Schweinsteiger has played 19 World Cup matches; only three players have played more for Germany (Lothar Matthaus, Miroslav Klose and Philipp Lahm).
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Debate may rage over Muller's best position, but whether he plays as a 'false nine', a central striker or a right-sided attacker, he will always score goals.
The 24-year-old is within reach of a remarkable second consecutive Golden Shoe award, helped hugely by his hat-trick in the opening game against Portugal.
He is already only the third player in history after Teofilo Cubillas and team-mate Miroslav Klose to score five or more goals in two different World Cups.
Did you know? Muller has scored 10 goals and provided six assists in just 12 World Cup matches.
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Often underrated for the quiet and efficient way he gets the German and Bayern Munich midfields ticking over, his performances at this tournament have brought him firmly to the fore.
His brace against Brazil were his first World Cup goals and came in a dazzling man-of-the-match performance.
He has played in all but two minutes of Germany's six matches so far and looks certain to be named in the team of the tournament.
Did you know? Kroos has had more touches than any other player in this World Cup (606) including an incredible 135 against Algeria.
Arsenal's record signing has not exactly been an overwhelming success in Brazil, with many back in Germany such as Paul Breitner arguing that he should be dropped. Spurning a good late chance to make it 8-0 against Brazil has probably not helped. He took to Twitter after the 7-1 semi-final win to say that he hoped the scoreline had not destroyed Brazil's pride. Doubt it.
Did you know? No Germany player has created more chances for his team-mates at this tournament than Ozil (15).
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It was written in the stars that Klose would secure the mantle as the World Cup's all-time record scorer from Brazil's Ronaldo, against the Brazilians, in Brazil.
When he scored with a typical close-range finish in the semi-final against the hosts it gave him his 16th World Cup goal.
Germany's leading goalscorer with 71 goals in 136 games, he is the third player to net at four World Cups and Germany have never lost a game in which he has scored.
Did you know? He has played in 23 World Cup matches which puts him second on the all-time list with Paolo Maldini, behind compatriot Lothar Matthaus on 25.
He may have been unspectacular as a player, but Jurgen Klinsmann's former assistant has helped oversee Germany's transition from efficient (read boring) to one of the most entertaining national teams on the planet. However, after losing in the semi-finals or final of the past three tournaments, the pressure might be on if he returns empty-handed again.
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Goalkeeper was seen as a problem position for Argentina going into the tournament.
After all, Romero made only a handful of appearances on loan for Monaco last season.
Worry not, the 27-year-old has conceded just three goals in six games in Brazil and saved twice as his team reached the final with a penalty shootout victory over the Netherlands.
Did you know? Romero is the first Argentina goalkeeper to keep four clean sheets at a World Cup tournament.
The popular Manchester City right-back missed out on the 2010 World Cup but he has been a key player in defence for Argentina in Brazil. The 29-year-old posted a selfie of himself after the semi-final victory on Wednesday wearing a blue wig and a bandage covering a facial cut sustained after an accidental collision with Dirk Kuyt.
Did you know? Zabaleta has made more passes in the final third at this World Cup than any other Argentina defender (64).
Another Manchester City player gearing up for a World Cup final appearance, the 33-year-old did not figure at all during the group stage of the competition or the round of 16 victory over Switzerland. He started the last two games alongside Ezequiel Garay and looks considerably different to what most Premier League fans might recall having had his ponytail cut off.
Did you know? Demichelis made eight interceptions against the Netherlands, five more than any other player for Argentina.
Close to joining Manchester United last summer, Garay caught the eye in the semi-final against the Dutch when he made a thumping clearance while holding one of his boots in his hands. Like Zabaleta, he also took a blow to the head against the Dutch, this time in a collision with fellow defender Ron Vlaar.
Did you know? Has made more headed clearances (36) than any other Argentina defender. Garay has also won 19 aerial duels, 10 more than any other Argentine player.
The Sporting Lisbon defender played for coach Alejandro Sabella at Estudientes back in Argentina. He has been linked with both Liverpool and Chelsea and was on the scoresheet in Brazil when he scored the winner in the group game against Nigeria, converting a free-kick with his knee.
Did you know? Rojo has made more tackles than any other Argentina defender (17), as well as creating the most chances from the back (7).
Very different in style to skipper Lionel Messi but arguably just as crucial to his team, his importance was encapsulated by a brilliant last-ditch block to prevent Arjen Robben from scoring during Wednesday's semi-final. The former Liverpool man, who was his team's skipper in South Africa in 2010, is the shield in midfield - despite playing at the back for Barcelona.
Did you know? Javier Mascherano has attempted a competition-high 509 passes so far. He has also made the most tackles so far - 28.
The 28-year-old, who plays for Lazio in Italy, had to be content with a bit-part role for his team's first four games of the tournament, coming off the bench in each fixture. But the midfielder has started the last two fixtures and is set to figure on the right of a midfield three in Sunday's final.
Did you know? Lucas Biglia completed 90% of his passes against the Netherlands, the highest rate of any Argentina midfielder to attempt more than three passes.
Industrious and hard-working, the Benfica midfielder is yet another player at the World Cup to find himself linked with Manchester United. The injury to the unfortunate Angel Di Maria gave Perez the chance to start against the Dutch and he did not disappoint. He was the player of the year in Portugal last season.
Did you know? Enzo Perez has completed 90 minutes just once in his 10 appearances for Argentina (v Slovenia).
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Nicknamed Pipita, the Napoli striker scored the only hat-trick at the 2010 World Cup and was third behind Messi and Luis Suarez in terms of goals scored in South American qualifying.
Came off the bench in the opening game against Bosnia-Hercegovina and provided an assist for Messi's winning goal.
Scored the only goal of the game in the nervy quarter-final victory over Belgium.
Did you know? Higuain has scored fewer goals in this World Cup than in 2010 despite playing two more games (one goal in 2014, four in 2010); firing in fewer shots in this tournament too (10, 13 shots in 2010).
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Claimed four man-of-the-match awards in his team's first four games and scored four goals, including brilliant winners against Bosnia-Hercegovina and Iran.
He also netted twice against Nigeria as the Barcelona forward showed signs that he would cement his claim to be the world's best player with a dominant World Cup.
But the 27-year-old was a largely peripheral figure against the Dutch and it has been questioned whether he is running out of steam.
Did you know? Lionel Messi has created 21 chances for his teammates, more than any other player at the World Cup.
Almost quit football to become an electrician after being rejected by Boca Juniors aged 16, Lavezzi is now on the cusp of playing in a World Cup final. The stocky winger has a tattoo of Diego Maradona on his left hip - the very same man who left him out of his 2010 World Cup squad. The cheeky Lavezzi was caught squirting water in the direction of coach Alejandro Sabella during their match against Nigeria.
Did you know? Lavezzi has fired in just two shots at this World Cup, fewer than any other Argentina forward.
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Once of Sheffield United and Leeds United, Sabella cuts a very different figure on the touchline to predecessor Diego Maradona.
He might look like a touch schoolmasterly but the 59-year-old has been a steady figure in Brazil and his willingness to build his team around the talents of Messi has seen them progress to Sunday's final.
Dywedodd yr RNLI eu bod wedi lansio bad achub am 11:00 i fynd i helpu'r dyn yn ei bedwardegau, a bod gwylwyr y glannau a hofrennydd o Gaernarfon hefyd wedi cynorthwyo.
Cafwyd hyd i'r dyn yn ei bedwardegau, oedd yn gwisgo'r offer diogelwch priodol, yn gafael yn y caiac ar ôl methu â dringo nôl arno.
Roedd yn dangos arwyddion o dansuddo, a chafodd ei drosglwyddo i Ysbyty Gwynedd ym Mangor.
The Braddan racer suffered a broken arm after falling off his mountain bike.
The 28-year-old, who also missed the North West 200, has been ruled out after the TT medical team decided his injury had "not healed sufficiently" to allow him to ride.
Kneen said: "I tried everything to get myself fit for the TT but unfortunately time is just not on our side."
Team principal Tim Martin said it was "correct decision no matter how disappointing", but has yet to announce whether anyone will replace Kneen for this year's event.
First practice takes place on Saturday.
Kneen added: "Everything was going perfectly up until the injury, the bikes were superb and I really had a chance of a result but it just wasn't meant to be.
"My focus now is on completing my recovery and bouncing back at the Southern 100."
"To miss the TT is especially hard to take as a Manxman as I am sure everyone can appreciate."
That would rule out a rise to 67, to be implemented by 2028, as well as further rises to 68 and possibly 69 or 70.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn believes people in physically demanding jobs, such as the emergency services, construction and prisons, should not have to work into their late 60s.
But scrapping the changes could cost £30bn by 2050.
The state pension age is already due to rise to 66 for both men and women from 2020, affecting people now in their early 60s and younger.
The leaked manifesto says: "Labour rejects the Conservatives' proposal to increase the state pension age even further."
If the party were in government, it would commission a new review of pension ages, hot on the heels of the official review just completed by the former business leader, John Cridland.
The new review would be "specifically tasked with developing a flexible retirement policy to reflect both the contributions made by people, the wide variations in life expectancy, and the different nature of working lives".
The implication is that people would be permitted to retire at different times and still be able to pick up the state pension in some form.
Mr Corbyn has said before that he would like a system which allows people to work on, but which recognises "that for many people the nature of their work, their health, or their disability may not allow that".
Mr Cridland did examine the problem that in some parts of the country and in some jobs, particularly manual work, life expectancy was lower, so pension claimants were in danger of getting the money for a shorter time, if at all.
But he recommended keeping the same pension age for everyone, saying there was "no effective mechanism that has been tested that would be able to target those with lower life expectancy".
Mr Cridland told ministers that the move to a pension age of 68 should be brought forward to 2037-39, with the possibility that 69 could be pencilled in for 10 years later.
A separate set of calculations from the Government Actuary looked at the possibility of an eventual switch to 70, which would affect young people now in their 20s.
The other question over the Labour Party's thinking would be cost, because the point of the changes to pension ages was to save the taxpayer billions of pounds.
"We already know the planned increases were due to save £30bn, so unwinding these will be very expensive," said Nathan Long from the investment firm, Hargreaves Lansdown.
However, the point of Labour's plan would be to prevent the creation of what it calls a two-tier system, with the better-off able to retire early on private pensions while those with the least savings have to toil for longer.
Children have been sexually abused and tortured in government detention, while rebels have recruited them in support roles and for combat, the report warns.
It estimates that more than 10,000 children have been killed. Many more have been injured or have disappeared.
Mr Ban urged both sides in the conflict to protect and uphold their rights.
While the UN has previously accused the government and rebels of grave violations against children, the report is the first to have been presented to the UN Security Council.
By Jim MuirBBC News, Beirut
Ban Ki-moon's report is useful in highlighting some dangerous trends and the way they impact on children and civilians in general.
It shows how, as the conflict has become more militarised, rebel groups have gained access to heavier weapons, making their own attacks more indiscriminate and deadly.
The same goes for the increasing use by militant jihadist groups of suicide and car bombs, in which children are often among the victims, as well as the regime's mounting deployment of deadly barrel bombs and other heavy weapons.
The report also underlines the rebels' practice of recruiting minors for combat and auxiliary roles, making them liable both to attack and reprisal. It seems that if you are old enough to fight, you are old enough to be tortured and abused in a detention centre.
The report calls on all sides to halt abuses affecting children. Depressingly, it is predictable that the appeal will fall on deaf ears.
Mr Ban's special representative for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, is scheduled to brief diplomats on the report's findings next week.
The report, which covers the period 1 March 2011 to 15 November 2013, says that in the early stages of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, violations were mostly committed by the Syrian military, intelligence services and pro-government militias.
Then, as the fighting intensified and the armed opposition became more organised, an increasing number committed by rebel groups were documented.
The report says children were arrested, detained with adults, ill-treated and tortured by government forces in large-scale arrest campaigns, particularly in 2011 and 2012.
Witnesses said the abuses included "beatings with metal cables, whips and wooden and metal batons; electric shocks, including to the genitals; the ripping out of fingernails and toenails; sexual violence, including rape or threats of rape; mock executions; cigarette burns; sleep deprivation; solitary confinement; and exposure to the torture of relatives".
Investigators documented reports of sexual violence perpetrated by intelligence and military personnel against children suspected of being affiliated with the opposition, the report says.
Witnesses said sexual violence was used to humiliate, harm, force confessions or pressure a relative to surrender. It reportedly included "electric shocks to, or burning of, the genitals, and the rape of boys and, in a few instances, of girls".
Allegations of sexual violence by rebel groups were also received, but the investigators were unable to further investigate them "owing to lack of access".
Last week, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad denied that there are any children being detained by the government and accused rebels of abducting and killing children.
The UN report also highlights the recruitment of children, both in support roles and for combat, by rebel groups, including the Western-backed Free Syrian Army. Boys aged 12 to 17 years have been trained, armed and used as combatants or to man checkpoints, it says.
"Interviews with children and their parents indicated that the loss of parents and relatives, political mobilization and peer pressure from families and communities, contributed to the involvement of children with FSA-affiliated groups," it adds.
"Many boys stated that they felt it was their duty to join the opposition."
Mr Ban said: "Of particular concern were cases of recruitment or attempted recruitment of children within refugee populations in neighbouring countries."
A spokesman for the FSA Supreme Military Council told the New York Times that members of its affiliated groups had to be at least 18 years old and did not need to use children, but that other groups might have been deploying younger teenagers.
The UN did not receive reports of formal recruitment of children by government forces, but troops and pro-government militia were said to have intimidated and seized young males, some under 18, to join them at checkpoints and during raids. Children were also used as human shields.
The report says that over the past three years, thousands of children have been killed and maimed at anti-government protests; in government air strikes and ground operations; in massacres perpetrated by both sides; in armed clashes; and chemical weapons attacks.
Investigators also said that rebel forces were believed to have carried out summary executions.
Lack of access prevented them from systematic documentation, but they cited two killings in the north-eastern province of Hassakeh, where a 16-year-old boy was shot by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and a 14-year-old boy by a Kurdish group.
The 21-year-old will replace on-loan Charlton keeper Dillon Phillips, who will miss at least six weeks after tearing a medial knee ligament.
Flatt has yet to make his debut for Wolves, but featured in five games on loan at Wrexham last season.
"He's a good lad and he's known by a few of our lads as well," manager Gary Johnson told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"Dillon's been fantastic for us, and that's the disappointing side of it that you wanted him to be part of the end game.
"If there's a miraculous recovery come the end the season, then there might be a few games for Dillon."
Cheltenham are one point clear of local rivals Forest Green Rovers at the top of the National League table.
The 20-year-old spent the first half of the season at Northampton, where he played against the U's in one of his 10 League Two appearances.
His arrival coincided with the departure of loan pair Mickey Demetriou and Terry Kennedy, who have returned to Shrewsbury and Sheffield United.
"Darnell has proven he can play at this level," said U's boss Shaun Derry.
Meanwhile, striker Rory Gaffney is back with Cambridge following a loan spell at Bristol Rovers.
Officers found a 40-year-old man and the child with serious injuries at Whitecross, near Polruan, at 11:45 BST.
The man was treated by medics but died at the scene and the young girl was flown to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth with internal injuries.
Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident and the next of kin have been informed.
Caley Thistle and Hamilton will occupy the bottom two places in the Premiership but either could be automatically relegated by ending last.
The second bottom side will go into the Premiership play-off final and meet either Dundee United or Falkirk.
"We need that performance again come Saturday," said Foran.
"It was a real mature performance. Forget about the two fantastic goals, defensively we were magnificent. Dundee must have put 30, 40 crosses in the box, we won every header - credit to the lads.
"We've just put huge, huge pressure now on Hamilton. It's a massive game for them [against Dundee on Saturday], massive game.
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"It's a massive game [for Inverness against Motherwell on Saturday] - one that we look forward to."
Foran's side are a point and five goals worse off than Martin Canning's Hamilton, who lost 3-2 at Ross County on Tuesday, with one game to go.
Both of the bottom two sides are at home on Saturday.
"Players now are playing to their best," explained Foran. "Now, we're in the right place, we're in a good place at the moment. You're still up against a good team in Motherwell. We're confident going into that game.
"We've given ourselves a chance for Saturday now.
"I don't think there's a lot of pressure on us. I think all that pressure's now gone on to Hamilton's shoulders."
Neil McCann sustained his first defeat since taking charge of Dundee, who were assured of Premiership safety by virtue of Hamilton's loss in Dingwall.
"I thought we had turned full circle but I saw a little sign tonight on maybe why we were on such a poor run before," said McCann.
"I think they've been remarkable in the three games that we've played previous to this one in terms of their attitude and drive to get us out a position and I'm delighted we're safe for the club but that isn't acceptable.
"I'm really disappointed with it and I told them that I don't care about staying up, that type of performance is not good enough."
We may currently be living through a structural change in the global economy as big as any since World War II without fully realising it.
The world economy may be becoming less integrated, with one of the important drivers of globalisation swinging into reverse.
This week the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis released its latest estimates of world trade.
This widely-followed measure showed that world trade grew by 3.3% in 2014, that's up from 2.7% in 2013 and 2.1% in 2012 but still well below the long term average of growth of 5%.
Global trade grew strongly from the late 1970s until 2008 when the global recession caused it to collapse.
It rebounded strongly as the global economy recovered in 2010 and 2011 but since then trade growth has been weak.
Before the crisis world trade generally grew faster than world GDP, so trade as a share of world output rose.
Since the recession, world trade has been sluggish and outpaced by growth. As a share of global GDP, trade has been falling.
In other words, on one important measure the world economy is becoming less integrated, as a share of world output, fewer goods and services are crossing borders.
There are reasons to think that the weakness of trade may reflect longer term factors than just the immediate aftermath of the credit crisis.
A report this week from Oxford Economics was optimistic that trade growth would pick up but identified structural reasons for its recent weakness - factors which may endure.
The first is the process of "reshoring" or bringing manufacturing that was previously outsourced abroad back to the home country.
Cheaper energy costs driven by the shale oil revolution have been one large driver of this in the US, but it appears to be a broader trend across the developed economies.
That relates to the weakness in the global goods trade, but the global trade in services has also been weaker post-financial crisis.
One reason for that may be a pulling back from overseas activity by banks.
RBS has announced it was pulling out of operations in 25 countries, driven by tighter regulation and need to conserve capital, more and more banks are choosing to focus more on their domestic markets. That slows the growth of global services trade.
Finally, Oxford Economics identified a lack of trade liberalisation. This is not to say that protectionism (using tariffs or quotas to limit imports and try to protect domestic firms) is on the rise, but that if trade is not being more regulated, it is becoming more liberalised at a slower pace.
Trade treaties and deals are estimated to have contributed around 20% to the growth of world trade between 1994 and 2007. Without the spur of additional deals, world trade growth could be slower.
An IMF report in January reached similar conclusions, arguing that there were signs of a slowing of global trade even before 2008 and it was driven by a "slower pace of expansion of global supply chains".
So, if the world economy really is becoming less globalised, what would this mean?
The traditional answer, for the advanced economies such as the UK, is to say that a more open economy has meant the destruction of certain kinds of jobs, but overall a welfare gain for the country through importing cheaper goods.
There are potentially serious consequences for countries in the developing world if the era of ever deepening globalisation is truly over.
Export-led growth has been a key development strategy for many nations and a slowing of global trade will have consequences.
Counter-intuitively enough, a less globalised economy might actually have a positive impact on financial stability.
In a speech in 2011, the then Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King argued that "global imbalances" had played a key role in the run up to the financial crisis.
He noted that during the era of the Bretton Woods agreement (by which countries fixed their exchange rates against each other and globalisation was, to an important extent, limited) between the late 1940s and early 1970s, global growth was strong and less volatile than before or since and banking and financial crisis were rarer.
On the broader topic, I highly recommend this talk by Professor Dani Rodrik.
It makes sense that weaker global trade flows leave less room for imbalances which can endanger the development of financial stability.
All of which leads me to two thoughts.
The first is that neither faster nor slower global trade growth is necessary desirable.
There are costs and benefits to rapidly increasing global trade and there are costs to diminishing global trade.
At heart, macroeconomics is all about trade-offs. But when considering something like the pace of globalisation itself, it is unclear who (if anyone) is considering these trade-offs.
We may stumble into second-best solutions - a world less globalised than is ideal, or more globalised than is ideal by accident.
A lack of policy co-ordination between economic policy authorities across borders makes this more likely.
The second is that for years our politics has taken increasing globalisation as a given.
Those who have occasionally advocated slowing have been accused of saying "stop the world I want to get off".
The world might not be stopping, but it could well be slowing.
Miles has taken 170 wickets at an average of 27.16 in first-class cricket, with a further 49 dismissals in limited-overs competitions.
The 22-year-old's previous deal was set to expire at the end of next season.
"We look forward to seeing him continue to deliver in all formats," head coach Richard Dawson told the club website.
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Orthodox believers were asked not to take part in Roman Catholic services and a Church delegation due to attend also stayed away.
But Church officials said the decision had been taken by mutual agreement.
It was one of the smallest crowds seen at an outdoor papal Mass during Francis's foreign trips.
People who did attend in the capital Tbilisi said afterwards that the papal visit was good for Georgia.
"This is a very significant event, both for the country and for faithful from the whole Catholic parish," Keti Khitarikhvili told Reuters news agency.
"He is a true pope, he is not just a religious figure, but also a very political figure. Because I think that with this visit, the role of Georgia will be raised measurably on the world stage."
With a Roman Catholic population of under 1%, it was not an obvious destination but the Pope has made a point of reaching out to Orthodox churches to overcome doctrinal differences which split the two communities in the 11th Century.
The late Pope John Paul II visited Georgia in 1999, and he was treated as the Vatican head of state, rather than a religious leader.
Georgia, a small country (population 4.3 million) in the Caucasus Mountains, shares an Orthodox culture with the regional superpower, Russia, but the two fought a brief war in 2008.
Vatican attempts to mend ties with the Russian Church have so far not resulted in a papal visit there. On the other hand, Georgia aspires to join the EU and Nato.
According to the Associated Press, only a few thousand people attended the Mass in the Meshki stadium, which has a capacity of 25,000.
The Orthodox patriarchate said on its website: "As long as there are dogmatic differences between our churches, Orthodox believers will not participate in their prayers".
One Georgian priest told AP it was a protest against Catholic attempts to convert Orthodox Christians.
"Can you imagine how it would be if a Sunni [Muslim] preacher came to Shia [Muslim] Iran and conducted prayers in a stadium or somewhere else?" Father David Klividze asked. "Such a thing could not be."
Nonetheless, the Church leader, Patriarch Ilia, had welcomed Pope Francis on Friday as his "dear brother" and toasted him saying "May the Lord bless the Catholic Church of Rome".
Georgian President Georgy Margvelashvili did attend the Mass. Other politicians may have stayed away because of forthcoming elections, for fear of upsetting devout voters.
On Sunday, the Pope is due to visit neighbouring Azerbaijan, which has fewer than 300 Catholics in its overwhelmingly Muslim population.
However, religious coexistence is a major theme for Pope Francis who visited Muslim-majority Turkey in November 2014.
The Pool 1 fixture, due to be played on 16 October, was postponed because of the sudden death of Munster head coach Anthony Foley in a Parisian hotel.
It will now take place at the Stade Yves-du-Manoir at 15:45 GMT.
The rearranged match means a new date will be agreed for Munster's Pro12 meeting with Edinburgh, which had been scheduled for 7 January.
The fixture would have been the Scottish club's first match at Myreside, where Edinburgh will play their home matches between January and May, rather than Murrayfield.
Four-year-old Mylee Weetman, from Doncaster, died in 2013 after surgery at the children's cardiac unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI).
Mylee had been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect and was starved of oxygen during surgery, the inquest in Wakefield had heard.
Coroner David Hinchliff recorded a narrative verdict.
Her mother Siobhan Casey had told the inquest no-one had been able to explain to her how or why she had died.
Mylee was diagnosed with the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot after her birth in 2009. She required an operation in 2010.
A further operation to repair damage to her heart took place at the LGI on 15 March 2013 during which she suffered an embolism, a "rare but recognised complication of this necessary surgery" according to the coroner's verdict.
Mylee died in the early hours of 21 March.
In a statement after the verdict the girl's family thanked the coroner for a "painstaking" investigation and said it had been "so distressing to relive the events around Mylee's death".
"We still, however, have many questions about Mylee's treatment at Leeds," it said.
The family expressed the hope that lessons would be learned.
Dr Yvette Oade, for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, reiterated her "deepest sympathy" to Mylee's family.
"I hope this hearing, although painful for them, will have provided the answers they needed," she said.
"The coroner concluded that while the surgery was performed correctly, Mylee sadly suffered a micro-embolic air embolism which is a rare but recognised complication of this procedure."
Mylee's death came amid concerns about death rates at the unit in Leeds. Surgery was later suspended for two weeks, but a review found the centre was safe.
Trained in the United States by Bob Baffert, American Pharoah's achievements were honoured at the Longines Awards in London.
American Pharoah was the first winner of the Triple Crown - Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes - since Affirmed in 1978.
France's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, won by Golden Horn, took the award for world's best horse race.
American Pharoah was given a top rating of 134 by a team of international flat racing experts after a season which culminated with victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
"He did it all," said Baffert. "I've had a lot of talented horses, but he just kept bringing it."
Jockey Victor Espinoza described his mount as "a once-in-a-lifetime horse to ride", while owner Ahmed Zayat said the horse was "cuddly, lovable and brilliant".
American Pharoah became a household name in the US and finished top of a 'Sportsperson of the Year' poll carried out by Sports Illustrated magazine.
The horse has been retired for a breeding career at Ashford Stud in Kentucky, where he commands a fee of $200,000 (£140,000) a time.
Golden Horn, whose Arc triumph followed a series of victories under jockey Frankie Dettori, including the Derby at Epsom, was second in the awards on a 130 rating.
Shared Belief and Treve were ranked joint third on 126.
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United supporters were mutinous after Saturday's 1-0 loss at Old Trafford.
"They have - or they had - great expectations of me, and I cannot fulfil them, so I am very frustrated because of that," said Dutchman Van Gaal.
United are fifth in the Premier League table, five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham and 10 off leaders Leicester.
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The Red Devils have taken 37 points from their first 23 games, their lowest total in the Premier League era and three points fewer than amassed under David Moyes during the 2013-14 season.
After the defeat against Southampton, Van Gaal had said fans were "right to boo" but added: "For better or for worse we have to stick together.
"We are working very hard, but we have had a lot of injuries. That you cannot change."
Van Gaal was also criticised on the club's official television channel, MUTV.
Former Reds winger Bojan Djordjic suggested that "the only corner we are turning is into some dark alley where we get robbed again".
Next up for United is a trip to Championship side Derby in the FA Cup fourth round on Friday (kick-off 19:55 GMT).
United lost defender Matteo Darmian midway through the second half following a clash with Shane Long.
Van Gaal revealed the Italian, who took an elbow to the ribs, was "spitting blood" after leaving the pitch and had gone to hospital.
However, the 26-year-old later tweeted he was "fine".
With Luke Shaw still out after suffering a double fracture of his right leg last September and Ashley Young undergoing groin surgery, Darmian is Van Gaal's only fit senior full-back.
Mr Abe was shouted at by locals, angry about the size of the US military presence on their island.
Mr Abe and US officials were among thousands who gathered to remember some 250,000 people who died in Japan's only land battle of World War Two.
More than 100,000 were civilians, and residents are resentful that they must continue to host US troops.
About 100,000 Japanese soldiers died over a period of three months in a bloody battle with Allied forces. More than 100,000 Okinawans also died, with many ordered to take their own lives by Japanese military commanders.
More than 12,000 US troops also died on the island, about 340 miles (550 km) south-west from mainland Japan.
The prime minister being jeered is something that almost never happens in Japan, but to this day there is deep bitterness at the sacrifice of so many Okinawan lives, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
Many Okinawans accuse Tokyo and Washington of continuing to treat the island like an imperial possession, ignoring the wishes of the islanders to have US military bases removed, our correspondent says.
In 1945, the strategic island was seen by the Allies as a launchpad for an invasion of Japan.
The assault never came as Tokyo surrendered following the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Okinawa remained occupied by the US military until 1972, when Tokyo regained control of the island.
However, Japan's southernmost prefecture is still home to about 26,000 US troops and several bases which occupy a fifth of the island.
A controversial project to move a US air base from an urban area to the coast has recently triggered a stand-off between the central authorities in Tokyo and Okinawa's officials.
The seven-minute show, beginning on Wednesday, will turn the works of five prominent indigenous artists into a permanent part of the city's skyline.
The show, Badu Gili, means "water light" in the language of the site's traditional owners, the Gadigal people.
Organisers say it celebrates time-honoured stories with contemporary art.
"It combines music and images to create a gateway to Australia's First Nations history and culture for the 8.2 million people who visit the opera house each year," said curator Rhoda Roberts.
The animation features works by Jenuarrie (Judith Warrie), Frances Belle Parker, Alick Tipoti, Lin Onus and Minnie Pwerle.
It will debut at 17:45 local time (07:45 GMT) on Wednesday.
Spectacular art installations most recently lit up the opera house for Vivid Sydney, a light festival.
Supporters group Club 1872 invited Macmillan Cancer fundraiser John Burkhill to the home game against Hibernian after Rangers fans abused him in July.
Mr Burkhill was mistaken for a rival Celtic fan and harassed ahead of a friendly with Sheffield Wednesday.
The 78-year-old has completed over 980 races and raised more than £400,000.
Mr Burkhill, from Handsworth, walks miles each day pushing a pram and collecting money for Macmillan after losing his wife June to cancer.
Laura Fawkes, of Club 1872, said fans were "delighted" to have helped.
"Rangers fans raised £4,025 after they heard about an incident involving John and a small number of their fans before the club's pre-season friendly with Sheffield Wednesday," she said.
"John was presented with a cheque on the pitch at Ibrox at half time to support his ambition of raising £1 million for the charity."
Mr Burkhill - who has completed the London Marathon 16 times, the New York Marathon, every Sheffield Half Marathon and countless 10ks and local races - said the fans were "absolutely out of this world" and he was "really touched".
"It was only a small number of people and the vast majority were great with me so I'm just a little overwhelmed and I thank them for helping me get that bit closer to raising a million for Macmillan," he said.
"Thank you, Rangers, thank you very, very much. They're welcome to Sheffield any time they want."
Mr Burkhill was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2013 for his fundraising.
His grandson, Daniel, wore the green wig and pushed the pram for the time Mr Burkhill was in Glasgow.
The rocky planet, known as GJ 1132b, is not dissimilar in size and orbits a star some 39 light-years from us.
This makes it close enough for any atmosphere to be examined in detail by the next generation of telescopes now in development.
To date, only very big worlds have been amenable to this kind of study.
Scientists are keen to do the same with more diminutive targets because it may be their best bet of establishing whether or not life exists beyond our Solar System.
At a separation of 39 light-years (370 trillion km), we are unlikely ever to visit GJ 1132b with a spacecraft.
But if we can identify the molecules that make up its air, this could reveal a lot about what is happening down on the surface.
In truth, GJ 1132b is very low on the habitability index.
It circles so near to its star (a "year" lasts just 1.6 Earth days) that it is being "oven roasted", as one scientist on the discovery team put it.
This means any water will have boiled away, but it could still retain a substantial atmosphere. This makes GJ 1132b more like a Venus than an Earth - although Venus receives a 15th of the heat at GJ 1132b. Venus is certainly hot, just not quite that hot.
Nonetheless, even with poor life prospects, astronomers believe GJ 1132b would still prove a useful testbed for future observations of planets that enjoy more benign circumstances.
Studying the atmospheres of distant worlds is no easy task.
It is done by probing the light from a star as the planet passes in front - as viewed from Earth.
Molecules in the air will imprint their chemical signatures on this light.
Unfortunately, most of the planets we know are so distant that the details are beyond being resolved by current telescopes.
And it is often the case anyway that the parent star is so big and bright that its glare simply swamps the delicate signatures being sought.
As a consequence, only large planets - equivalent in size to our Neptune, or bigger - have betrayed information about their atmospheres.
However, these are not so interesting as small rocky planets, which are far more likely to have a broader range of gases relevant to life.
Observing GJ 1132b is made easier because its host star is what is termed a red dwarf.
Such stars are smaller and cooler than our own Sun. They are also considerably dimmer, as a result, and this would compensate for some of the glare problem.
It is also the case that red dwarfs are 10 times more common in the galaxy than Sun-like stars.
So, just in numerical terms, this makes their planets pressing candidates for further study.
"The exciting thing is that, yes, it is probably true that the closest potentially habitable planets are going to be orbiting red dwarf stars," said Zachory Berta-Thompson, whose team found GJ 1132b.
"And if we want to study the atmosphere of such a planet, it's going to be a lot easier to do that if the planet is orbiting a small, cool star, like the red dwarf hosting GJ 1132b," the Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomer told BBC News.
The telescopes needed to do the job are not far from entering service.
Super-observatories on Earth that have mirrors up to 40m across will come online in the next decade.
But even before then, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope should be in operation.
Known as the James Webb Space Telescope, this facility will launch in 2018.
Its detectors will be tuned to probe targets just like GJ 1132b.
"The JWST will be a planet-characterising machine," commented Drake Deming from the University of Maryland, who is eager to study the atmospheres of smaller planets.
"It will have access to longer infrared wavelengths than Hubble, and it's in the infrared spectral region that we will get the most information," he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.
Details of the discovery are reported in the journal Nature.
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Freda Ayisi put the visitors in front just after half-time when she sent a low cross inside the far post.
The hosts were level just five minutes later as former Blues striker Eniola Aluko restored parity from close range.
Chelsea finished the game with 10 players after Katie Chapman was sent off for a second booking when she fouled Ayisi with three minutes left.
The result puts Chelsea one point behind leaders Manchester City in second in the WSL 1 table, while Birmingham City lie in fourth place.
Chelsea forward Eniola Aluko:
"We weren't ourselves in the first half going forward, and then we gave away a sloppy goal just after half-time.
"At the end of the day though, we got a point out of a game that we could have lost against a very difficult Birmingham side.
"Whenever we've gone behind this season we've always come back, and in the end we could have won today because we had a couple of good chances late on. "
Birmingham defender Kerys Harrop:
"We'd surprised them with our goal, but the way it came about was something we'd worked on and Freda took it really well.
"Unfortunately we then gave away a soft goal and that's unlike us; it was the first goal we've conceded in seven matches and we've given hardly any away all season.
"That's what we're good at; having the concentration and organisation at the back, so it was disappointing to concede the way we did."
Match ends, Chelsea Ladies 1, Birmingham City Ladies 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea Ladies 1, Birmingham City Ladies 1.
Attempt missed. Claire Rafferty (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Foul by Jade Bailey (Chelsea Ladies).
Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Birmingham City Ladies. Conceded by Millie Bright.
Attempt blocked. Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrine Hegerberg.
Second yellow card to Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) for a bad foul.
Foul by Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies).
Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Birmingham City Ladies. Andrine Hegerberg tries a through ball, but Charlie Wellings is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Windell (Birmingham City Ladies).
Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aoife Mannion (Birmingham City Ladies).
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Hannah Blundell replaces Ana Borges.
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Eniola Aluko.
Attempt saved. Freda Ayisi (Birmingham City Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Melissa Lawley.
Attempt saved. Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea Ladies) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ji So-Yun.
Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies).
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Millie Bright.
Attempt missed. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ji So-Yun.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Windell (Birmingham City Ladies).
Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies).
Charlie Wellings (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Gemma Davison.
Attempt missed. Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Abbey-Leigh Stringer.
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Karen Carney.
Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies).
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gemma Davison.
Ji So-Yun (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Spieth, the Masters and US Open champion in 2015, mixed four birdies with a bogey and a double bogey for a one-under-par 69 on Friday, moving to eight under par overall.
One shot behind him is countryman Troy Merritt, who shot a two-under-par 68.
But Rory McIlroy's struggles continued with five bogeys and two birdies in a three-over-par 73.
Northern Ireland's four-time major winner trails Spieth by eight shots at River Highlands but made the cut by a shot.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington scored two birdies and one bogey for a one-under-par 69 and remains three shots behind Spieth.
While England's Paul Casey finished on two under par with 68 and is one shot further back overall.
Antonio Conte's side can become champions with victory against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Friday night while Middlesbrough must contemplate a future back in the Championship after they were swept aside on Monday.
The Blues had already created a succession of chances before Diego Costa turned in man of the match Cesc Fabregas' pass after 23 minutes.
And the contest was effectively over when Marcos Alonso scored at the far post via the legs of Middlesbrough keeper Brad Guzan 11 minutes before the break.
Fabregas created Chelsea's third which Nemanja Matic converted as the hosts laid siege to Boro's goal, with the final whistle bringing contrasting emotions.
In this mood it is hard to see the league title coming from anywhere other than at West Brom on Friday night.
Baggies manager Tony Pulis was watching from the stand at Stamford Bridge and will have gone away with plenty of food for thought after a Chelsea display that oozed class and intent.
Middlesbrough - downhearted, defeated and on their way back to the Championship - were little more than cannon fodder here.
From the opening moments when Guzan turned Alonso's shot on to the bar, Chelsea were rampant, nerveless and played with the swagger, poise and menace of the best team in the Premier League.
Chelsea's nerves may have shown momentarily in those defeats at home to Crystal Palace and at Manchester United in April, but the response has been magnificent, reeling off wins in the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham and in the Premier League against Southampton, Everton and now Middlesbrough.
It is a question of when, rather than if the ebullient, effervescent Conte claims the title in his first season in England - and Chelsea will be fully deserved champions.
Chelsea's fans talk about Fabregas wearing a "magic hat", but all the magic was in his boots as he picked the visitors apart here at Stamford Bridge.
The 30-year-old was a key purchase from Barcelona when Jose Mourinho brought the title back to Chelsea to two seasons ago. But this season he will be a different kind of title-winner.
The signing of N'Golo Kante from Leicester City and Chelsea's subsequent success has meant Fabregas, who would have been first choice in almost every other Premier League side, has been marginalised and unable to claim a regular place.
When he has, however, the Spain midfielder has shown the class and quality that has made him one of the game's enduring talents in the recent era.
Fabregas stepped in here for the injured Kante and gave a midfield masterclass, and when he created Chelsea's opener for Costa he became the first player to record 10 Premier League assists in six different seasons.
He also created Chelsea's third for Matic with a glorious instinctive flick that unlocked Middlesbrough again.
Fabregas may wish to seek more regular first team football elsewhere despite being on course to claim another Premier League title winners' medal - and on this evidence there will be no shortage of takers.
Middlesbrough knew they were fighting against all the odds to try and avoid the defeat that would send them back into the Championship - and it was a battle they never looked like winning.
They were on the back foot from the first whistle and were simply overwhelmed by a Chelsea side who would not be denied. The Middlesbrough fans, who were stoic throughout, were applauded by Conte after the final whistle.
The feeling will remain that Middlesbrough have simply come and gone without contributing a great deal to this Premier League season. Could they have been bolder in pursuit of survival?
Boro have proved stubborn in defence on many occasions but have been totally undermined by a failure to score goals - and a failure to cure that obvious problem.
Aitor Karanka, the man who brought Middlesbrough up but who left in March as the decline started to accelerate, was backed by chairman Steve Gibson in January but his attacking purchases were never going to provide the answer.
Rudy Gestede arrived from Aston Villa and Patrick Bamford from Chelsea, but neither are of Premier League quality and the price was paid with relegation.
Middlesbrough look to currently have a good squad for the Championship - but this was a horribly tame end to their Premier League ambitions.
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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "We must be pleased. It was a great performance, my players showed commitment and work-rate for three important points.
"At this stage it was important to win and exploit Tottenham's defeat. Now, another step to the title. We have to rest well and prepare for West Brom."
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Middlesbrough boss Steve Agnew: "I am absolutely gutted and bitterly disappointed with the result and we have now lost our Premier League status which we took great pride in.
"I have just left a very silent dressing room.
"We haven't had enough wins and that's the key to the whole thing. Scoring goals wins football matches and we haven't done that enough this season.
"I have to say the fans all season have been outstanding - home and away has been top class and the least they deserve is Premier League football."
Chelsea will win the title if they beat West Brom on Friday. Even if they do not, they have two more opportunities to wrap up the title against Watford and Sunderland at home.
Middlesbrough will finish life in the Premier League by hosting Southampton on Saturday before going to Liverpool on Sunday, 21 May.
Match ends, Chelsea 3, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 3, Middlesbrough 0.
Hand ball by George Friend (Middlesbrough).
Foul by Willian (Chelsea).
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Adam Clayton.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Fabio.
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough).
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. John Terry replaces David Luiz.
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Friend (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Rudy Gestede replaces Álvaro Negredo.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Chelsea. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Pedro.
Gary Cahill (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough).
Attempt saved. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian with a cross.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Adam Clayton tries a through ball, but Patrick Bamford is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Foul by Pedro (Chelsea).
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Eden Hazard.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Brad Guzan (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Fabio.
Goal! Chelsea 3, Middlesbrough 0. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas following a corner.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough).
Hand ball by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough).
Fabio (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fabio (Middlesbrough).
Adlene Guedioura returns after being cup-tied, but Daniel Ayala, Calum Chambers and George Friend are out.
Paul Pogba misses out for Manchester United because of a hamstring strain, while Daley Blind received a blow to the head against Rostov and is a doubt.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ander Herrera are suspended, but Wayne Rooney, Luke Shaw and Anthony Martial could be fit.
Guy Mowbray: "With Jose Mourinho stressing that United have 'lots of enemies' this week, it might have been nice for him to catch up with a friend.
"Aitor Karanka's dismissal from Middlesbrough means he'll be one down on that score at the Riverside, with Boro's inability TO score one of the reasons for Mourinho's former assistant going.
"His successor faces a conundrum. Changes are usually made to make a relegation-threatened team harder to beat - something not usually associated with becoming more cavalier.
"Looking at their next fixtures though, caretaker Steve Agnew might as well send a team out to have a free hit against fatigued United - whilst taking Mourinho's 'probably lose' comments with a cellar full of salt."
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Middlesbrough's caretaker boss Steve Agnew: "I have to be honest, [Thursday] was a really difficult and emotional day.
"Aitor Karanka put in incredible work over the last three and a half years. I really enjoyed his work and his company during my two and a half years working with him.
"But today the players have trained well and we look forward to the weekend."
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on his side's fixture congestion: "I don't think it's a funny situation. When I watch marathons and people go to their limit, I don't think it is funny, and I don't think it's funny some of my players in six weeks play 11 matches.
"Play on Monday with 10 men, enjoying five hours the M6 coming back to Manchester. People can ask why was (Phil) Jones playing on the left with so many difficulties. He was playing on the left because he could run and Marcos (Rojo) couldn't run.
"We are living all these things and let's see if Sunday we get a point. That would be great result."
I think we might see Middlesbrough play with a bit more freedom now Aitor Karanka has gone, which was one of the criticisms he faced.
I would not be surprised if Boro get something from Manchester United on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Charles Michel said: "Several individuals with arms and explosives could launch an attack... perhaps even in several places."
This comes a week after Paris suffered a series of attacks that killed 130 people.
People in Belgium have been describing what the atmosphere is like in the Belgium capital.
Kiran from Brussels says: "Army and police are on patrol in the Sainte Catherine area of Brussels.
"Rue Neuve the main shopping street in Brussels is fully closed.
"On one main road running from north to south from the station I could see every 100m there were army trucks or police patrols.
"From my house earlier I could see a large police and army presence."
@IdairaRobayna tweets what the feeling is like in Brussels:
@OphelinhaP tweets her concerns for the coming days:
University student, Marie-Emmanuelle André-Dumont says it's been a day full of insecurities.
"Everything has been cancelled, or almost. I feel like the city is in a state of war.
"I was actually out in the early hours on Saturday when I first saw lots of police and military vehicles on the streets suddenly.
I planned to go to a concert and shopping which has now been cancelled. My little brother's soccer game has been cancelled too because there's no public transport.
It's a strange atmosphere. We never knew anything like this."
Chris Foreman is spending the weekend in Brussels with his girlfriend but says he has been in his hotel for most of the day because of the security alert.
"We were walking down the street last night looking for a restaurant and we saw at least 15 armoured military and police vehicles pass by at top speed with the sirens ringing.
"We decided to play it safe and not go to the centre.
"Today has been another 'play it safe' day and now we are thinking about how to get to the airport tomorrow and whether or not there'll be delays or cancellations etc.
"Suffice to say, all hopes of a nice city break have been dashed.
"We hope nothing happens and that life in Brussels, and the rest of Europe, can go on as normal."
@NiallForKidney tweets about the atmosphere in the city:
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The finds, including a well-preserved skull, bolster the idea that the Homo naledi people deliberately deposited their dead in the cave.
Evidence of such complex behaviour is surprising for a human species with a brain that's a third the size of ours.
Despite showing some primitive traits it lived relatively recently, perhaps as little as 235,000 years ago.
That would mean the naledi people could have overlapped with the earliest of our kind - Homo sapiens.
In a slew of papers published in the journal eLife, Prof Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Prof John Hawks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, and their collaborators have outlined details of the new specimens and, importantly, ages for the remains.
The H. naledi story starts in 2013, when the remains of almost 15 individuals of various ages were discovered inside the Dinaledi chamber - part of South Africa's Rising Star Cave system.
At the same time, the researchers were exploring a second chamber about 100m away, known as Lesedi ("light" in the Setswana language which is spoken in the region).
The finds from Dinaledi were published in 2015, but remains from the Lesedi chamber had not previously been presented, until now.
The latest specimens include the remains of at least three individuals - two adults and a child.
One of the adults has a "wonderfully complete skull", according to Prof Hawks. This tough-looking specimen is probably male, and has been named "Neo", which means "a gift" in the Sesotho language of southern Africa.
Examination of its limb bones shows that it was equally comfortable climbing and walking.
The fact that Homo naledi was alive at the same time and in the same region of Africa as early representatives of Homo sapiens gives us an insight into the huge diversity of different human forms in existence during the Pleistocene.
"Here in southern Africa, in this time range, you have the Florisbad skull, which may be an ancestor or close relative of modern humans; you've got the Kabwe skull, which is some kind of archaic human and possibly quite divergent; you've got evidence from modern people's genomes that archaic lineages have been contributing to modern populations and may have existed until quite recently," said Prof Hawks.
"You have this very primitive form of Homo [naledi] that has survived alongside these other species for a million years or more. It is amazing the diversity that we are now seeing that we had missed before."
As to how H. naledi held on to its distinctive characteristics while living cheek-by-jowl with other human species, Prof Hawks said: "It's hard to say it was geographic isolation because there's no boundary - no barrier. It's the same landscape from here to Tanzania; we're in one continuous savannah, woodland-type habitat.
He added that the human-sized teeth probably reflected a diet like that of modern humans. In addition, H. naledi had limb proportions just like ours and there is no apparent reason why it could not have used stone tools.
"It doesn't look like they're in a different ecological niche. That's weird; it's a problem. This is not a situation where we can point to them and say: 'They co-existed because they're using resources differently'," Prof Hawks told BBC News.
The researchers say that finding the remains of multiple individuals in a separate chamber bolsters the idea that Homo naledi was caching its dead. If correct, this surprising - and controversial claim - hints at an intelligent mind and, perhaps, the stirrings of culture.
By dating the site, researchers have sought to clear up some of the puzzles surrounding the remains.
In 2015, Prof Berger told BBC News that the remains could be up to three million years old based on their primitive characteristics. Yet the bones are only lightly mineralised, which raised the possibility that they might not be very ancient (although this is not always an accurate guide).
In order to arrive at an age, the team dated the bones themselves, sediments on the cave floor and flowstones - carbonate minerals formed when water runs down the wall or along the floor of a cave.
Several techniques were used: optically stimulated luminescence to date the cave sediments, uranium-thorium dating and palaeomagnetic analyses for the flowstones and combined U-series and electron spin resonance (US-ESR) for dating three naledi teeth.
By combining results together, they were able to constrain the age of the Homo naledi remains to between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago.
"We've got a geological bracket based on flowstones overlying the fossils and we've had direct dates on the teeth themselves," said John Hawks.
The team sent samples to two separate labs to perform their analyses "blind". This meant that neither lab knew what the other was doing, or what their analytical approaches were. Despite this, they returned the same results.
"This is now the best dated site in southern Africa - we threw everything at it," said John Hawks.
Commenting on the dates, Prof Chris Stringer, of London's Natural History Museum, said: "This is astonishingly young for a species that still displays primitive characteristics found in fossils about two million years old."
Apart from one well known exception (the Indonesian "Hobbit"), Prof Stringer explained, "the discovery and dating also question the usual assumption that... selection universally drove the evolution of a larger brain in humans during the last million years."
Many mysteries remain about this intriguing member of the human family tree. Not least of them is H. naledi's evolutionary history up until the point the remains show up in the Rising Star cave system.
Researchers currently envisage two possibilities. The first is that H. naledi represents one of these earliest branches of Homo - perhaps something like Homo habilis. It retains a rather primitive anatomy while evolving in parallel with the branch of the human family tree that eventually results in modern humans.
The other possibility is that it diverged more than a million years ago from a more advanced form of Homo - perhaps Homo erectus - and then reverted to a more primitive form in some aspects of its skull and teeth.
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John Clancy said there had been "some progress" but it was "not sufficient enough for us all to be satisfied children are safe in this city".
The services, which have seen a number of high-profile child deaths, are to be run by an external trust.
Mr Clancy said the move would mean "larger steps" towards improvement.
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Ofsted has rated the service "inadequate" since 2009 and improvement has "not gone far enough, fast enough", the Department for Education has said.
Child deaths include Khyra Ishaq, seven, who starved and Keanu Williams, two, who was murdered by his mother.
The Labour-run council announced earlier this week that the department, which was the subject of an undercover investigation by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme on Thursday, would be run by a trust.
The council said the voluntary decision would be finalised by its cabinet.
Brigid Jones, cabinet member for children's services, said the council would "retain control of design, delivery, and the trust itself", adding improvements included halving caseloads and reducing staff turnover.
However, Mr Clancy said it was still a facing a "huge challenge".
"It's the biggest challenge in biggest politics, certainly in local government terms," he said.
"I want a full debate in full council...also I want ordinary people in Birmingham to tell us their views," he said.
Previous "impositions" had been unpopular, but there was now more freedom to shape the services, he said.
"Here we have a chance over the summer to actually make decisions about exactly how that trust will work and I want everybody to get involved," he said.
Mr Clancy said the council accepted there had been failings for about a decade, adding morale among social workers was "low" and they did not get the recognition they deserved.
"I'm fully behind our social workers in the city and I'm fully behind social workers in children's care," he said.
Registers of Scotland (RoS) said the average price of a residential property had reached £169,402.
Overall property sales exceeded £16.5bn in value in 2015 - an increase of 8.2% on the previous year.
The number of house sales across Scotland also increased by 4.5% to 97,701. It was the highest annual figure since 2008.
The local authority area with the highest average price was Edinburgh, at £238,036 - an increase of 4.9% on 2014.
Aberdeen saw house prices rise by an average of 3.3% to £220,641, while Glasgow experienced a 5.9% increase, to reach £138,995. Prices in Dundee rose by 4% to £131,525.
Meanwhile, the average price in the Scottish Borders local authority area was £173,506 - an increase of 3.1%.
Edinburgh recorded the largest number of sales in 2015, with 11,991. This was 8.3% up on the previous year.
The capital was closely followed by Glasgow City, which saw sales rise by 12.2% to 11,616.
East Renfrewshire experienced the largest annual growth in the number of sales (13.1%), but was the only area to show a slight fall in average price. It fell by 0.6% to £227,369.
Meanwhile, Aberdeenshire saw the largest drop in volumes, falling by 11.8% to 5,108.
While the average price for all property types increased in 2015, semi-detached houses showed the largest rise - up 3.4% to £157,995.
Detached properties had the highest average price, at £249,921.
Registers of Scotland's director of commercial services, Kenny Crawford, said: "The total value of the residential property market continues to make a significant contribution to the Scottish economy."
Some Islip residents say problems have been made worse since a major overhaul of the A40's Cutteslowe and Wolvercote roundabouts began last month.
Islip Traffic Group described the situation as "dangerous".
The county council said it would support the move, but said it was unable to provide funding.
As well as a reduction to the current 30mph (48km/h) speed limit, campaigners want temporary traffic lights on the River Ray bridge during the A40 works.
Dennis Price, from Islip Traffic Group, said there had been a "very noticeable" increase in traffic though the village, with people finding it difficult to cross the bridge and the B4027.
Oxfordshire County Council said it had "fully engaged" with the parish council and understood its views.
It said it had "not reached a conclusion" on providing temporary signals on the bridge, but said traffic flows were likely to change in September.
"The council needs to be confident that any expenditure in these areas will bring about the desired results."
It is thought to be the first shipment to the UK from the Camisea project in rainforest 60 miles from Machu Picchu.
Supporters of fracking say the UK should frack its own gas, rather than importing from sensitive regions like the Amazon.
But opponents of fracking say the practice creates disturbance and pollution and fuels climate change.
The tanker Gallina, owned by Shell, is scheduled to arrive at the Isle of Grain in Kent.
The gas project at Camisea field has been hugely contentious.
A report by the human rights organisation Survival International blamed developers for bringing diseases which killed people from previously uncontacted tribes.
They were later praised for minimising environmental damage and for boosting the economy of Peru.
But the same report said indigenous people had not shared the gains.
Nick Grealy, a shale gas proponent, told BBC News: "Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace oppose fracking - but surely they would be appalled to be getting gas from the Amazon?
"I share their concern about climate change, but environmentalists are scoring own goals with this one."
Friends of the Earth replied: "We think we should leave our gas in the ground and Peru should leave its gas in the ground."
Shell declined to comment on the Peruvian shipment.
An environmental factor in the fracking debate is the comparison between the carbon emissions from fracked gas and the emissions from compressing conventional gas to ship it from countries like Peru.
The government's official adviser, the Committee on Climate Change, says current evidence suggests that "well-regulated domestic production could have an emissions footprint slightly smaller than that of imported liquefied natural gas".
The committee says that, although gas without carbon capture and storage should be almost eliminated from UK electricity production in the early 2030s, it will still be used for heating up towards 2050.
The committee estimates that burning gas is almost half as bad for the climate as coal.
There are still many uncertainties, though, over the amount of methane - a potent greenhouse gas - that leaks from fracking sites.
US President Donald Trump plans to relax regulations on methane leaks from fracking in order to accelerate America's boom in cheap energy.
Many environmentalists in the UK oppose the practice of fracking.
The process involves large volumes of water being pumped at pressure into a shale rock formation together with sand grains and chemicals, which are used to keep the tiny fractures open in the rock to allow the gas to flow.
In the UK, one shale gas well in Yorkshire has been approved, and in Lancashire construction has started at one site. Drilling is expected to start by the end of the year.
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Connor Doughton, 16, went berserk after being escorted back to his parents' house in Blackwood, Caerphilly county, by two men who were trying to stop him getting into trouble.
Michael Lee Emmett, 29, was stabbed in the liver in the attack in August 2014.
Doughton, who knew his victim, admitted murder at Cardiff Crown Court and was handed a life sentence.
The court heard that shortly before the attack, an intoxicated Doughton had been trying to fight a bouncer.
He had been smoking outside the Stonehouse pub in Cefn Fforest and had also been abusive to a woman in the street.
Once home, he went to the kitchen to grab a knife before running back outside and stabbing Mr Emmett and another man, John Williams.
Doughton then dropped the knife down a drain before he was stopped by police; he gave officers a false name, denied knowledge of the attack and spat in the face of a policewoman.
Mr Emmett, who was expecting his third child, died four weeks later after having to undergo a liver transplant in London. Mr Williams survived but suffered a serious stab wound to his back.
Judge Mrs Justice Nicola Davies said an aggravating feature of the offence was that Mr Emmett had been profoundly distressed while clinging to life at a specialist hospital unit in London.
As well as leaving behind twin boys, Mrs Justice Davies said Mr Emmett's daughter Lola would never get to know her father, known by the family as "Michaelee", because of Doughton.
After detaining the teenager, the judge also lifted reporting restrictions previously banning the press from revealing his identity.
She told the teenager: "Nothing they said or did could justify your taking of a knife - still less pursuing them down the road and in turn stabbing each of them.
"In taking the life of Michael Emmett you have robbed twin boys aged eight of their father. Lola, his daughter, born when her father was critically ill in King's College Hospital, London, will never know him."
The judge said Doughton had shown little remorse.
The court heard he had a low IQ and had behavioural difficulties from the age of 11.
He was also described as having a "severe conduct disorder" which had been caused by "genetic factors not associated with poor parenting".
He was due to be deported on Tuesday, but reports now say he will be deported on Wednesday.
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, also known in India as Chhota Rajan or "Little Rajan", is accused of multiple murders and has long been wanted by police.
Nikalje was detained when he flew into Bali airport from Sydney last month.
Police acted on a tip-off from the Australian police who say had been living there under a different name.
Nikalje, 55, is wanted in the western Indian city of Mumbai in connection with at least 17 cases of murder.
Interpol's website states that Nikalje was born in Mumbai, and is wanted on multiple charges including murder and possession and use of illegal firearms.
Charles Jamieson left the adult toys in full view of police officers who arrived at his home to arrest him.
Sheriff Alastair Brown told the 35-year-old he had "violated" his victims' home.
Fiscal depute Vicki Bell told Dundee Sheriff Court that Jamieson was caught in the act by the woman's neighbour, who saw him leaving the flat with a TV.
Jamieson, a prisoner at Perth, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft in Dundee's Hilltown on 12 December.
He admitted stealing a TV, guitar plectrum, keys and a plastic knife in addition to the adult toys.
Before jailing Jamieson, Sheriff Alastair Brown said: "When you go in to somebody's home you create in them feelings of violation and insecurity.
"And in this case it was made worse by the intimate nature of some of the items you took to your home.
"You and anyone else who is inclined to violate somebody's home must understand that this court will deal with that type of offence seriously."
Russia's Sergey Lazarev, a huge pop star in the country, is widely tipped to win with his techno ballad, You Are The Only One.
Australia, France, Sweden and Ukraine are also hotly tipped for success in the competition.
The running order for the contest was unveiled on Friday, with the UK's Joe and Jake performing second last.
The duo, both of whom are former contestants of The Voice UK, were chosen to represent Britain in a public vote in February.
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Joe and Jake qualified for the final automatically as the UK is one of the biggest financial contributors to Eurovision, so the pair did not have to perform at the semi-final.
Other finalists include Ukraine - whose entrant Jamala is the first ever Crimean Tatar to perform at the contest.
Her politically charged song 1944 is not typical Eurovision fare - its lyrics include references to Stalin, Crimea, and claims of ethnic cleansing.
The song has angered Russia, which annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, as tension between the two countries grew.
Ireland was knocked out of the contest after former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne failed to qualify in Thursday's semi-final.
It has been a bad year for Scandinavian entries.
Denmark and Norway were knocked out in the semi-finals, which were decided based on a combination of public and jury voting. Iceland and Finland also failed to make it through.
However, as reigning winners, Sweden has automatically advanced to the grand final.
The Czech Republic has also made it to the final - the first time it has qualified since the semi-final system was introduced in 2004.
Australian X Factor winner Dami Im, who was mentored by pop star Dannii Minogue, was voted through to the final with her song Sound Of Silence.
Despite being on the other side of the world from Europe, Australia was invited to join Eurovision for its 60th anniversary in 2015, when contestant Guy Sebastian finished in fifth place.
A victory for singer Sergey Lazarev would mean Russia would host the contest next year for the second time - the country first won in 2008.
Russia is known for its controversial laws regarding homosexuality, making it an unusual host for an event with a strong LGBT following.
Lazarev told the BBC the LGBT community will be welcomed to his country if he wins the contest.
"Gay life exists in Russia, he said. "There is more talk and rumours about problems than exist. I just want you to come and see everything yourself."
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The sides exchanged some fine scores in a free-flowing first half before Tyrone moved 0-11 to 0-8 ahead by the break.
Fine work by the impressive Connor McAliskey and Mattie Donnelly set up Ronan O'Neill's 49th-minute goal which left Tyrone 1-13 to 0-10 ahead.
Donnelly was dismissed late on after a black card but Tyrone had done enough.
Cavan had looked capable of extending the Red Hands after clinching promotion to Division One following a run of five straight wins.
But while the Breffnimen started well, Tyrone's greater composure and accuracy soon started to wear down Terry Hyland's side.
Cathal McCarron produced a fine display as he marked Seanie Johnston out of the contest with the former Kildare player substituted shortly after half-time.
Man of the match Tiernan McCann and McAliskey were among several other Tyrone players to impress in a strong-running display.
Gearoid McKiernan battled manfully for Cavan and kicked a number of fine points but apart from Martin Reilly's first-half efforts, didn't receive enough support in the Breffni attack.
Both sides looked sharp early on as the lead was swapped on several occasions before points from McAliskey and McCann left Tyrone 0-5 to 0-3 ahead in the 15th minute.
Cavan were on terms within four minutes after points from Liam Buchanan and Michael Argue but Tyrone began to gain an edge during the remainder of the opening period as they outscored the Breffnimen 0-6 to 0-2.
Terry Hyland's side twice cut the margin to two points after the resumption but they then endured a damaging three minutes as Liam Buchanan's harsh black card was quickly followed by O'Neill's crucial goal.
Buchanan did upend Justin McMahon with a late challenge but his exclusion from the remainder of the contest looked highly debatable.
With Cavan looking somewhat disorganised after Buchanan's departure, a superb McAlister pass released Donnelly who in turn set up O'Neill to hammer past Raymond Galligan.
Cavan responded with three unanswered scores to leave a kick of the ball between the sides again by the 53rd minute but Tyrone quickly regained control and McAliskey was close to notching a second Red Hands goal as he volleyed over the crossbar, when a catch and kick probably represented a better option.
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Donnelly's dismissal after a black card followed his earlier yellow card came too late to change the outcome.
Sean Cavanagh's closing Tyrone point was probably the score of the day as Mickey Harte was able to take the opportunity to give several of his substitutes a late run.
However, a concern for Tyrone was an apparent leg injury picked up by McCarron in the closing stages which forced him to hobble off.
Dublin emphasised their continuing status as the best team in gaelic football as they clinched a fourth straight league title with a 2-18 to 0-13 win over Kerry.
The Dubs led only 0-10 to 0-8 after a tight first half and there was still only two points in it with nine minutes left before late goals from Paul Flynn and Eric Lowndes sealed victory for Jim Gavin's side.
After Aidan O'Mahony's 51st-minute dismissal following an incident which left Dublin's Jonny Coooper on the ground, Flynn hit the opening goal on 67 as he pounced on an attempted short kick-out by Kerry keeper Brendan Kealy.
Lowndes hammered in Dublin's second goal in injury-time after being set up by Bernard Brogan.
Dublin's win completed third 100% winning record in this year's league as they clinched a ninth successive victory.
Tyrone: M O'Neill, A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron, R Brennan (0-1), J McMahon T McCann (0-1), C Cavanagh, M Donnelly (0-2), N Sludden, M Bradley (0-1), P Harte (0-1), C McAliskey (0-5), S Cavanagh (0-3), R O'Neill (1-3). Subs: C Meyler for Sludden, B Tierney for McMahon, R Donnelly for Bradley, L Brennan for O'Neill, K McGeary for McAliskey, F Burns for McCarron.
Cavan: R Galligan; P Faulkner, K Clarke, J McLoughlin; C Brady, C Moynagh, K Brady; T Corr, L Buchanan; D McVeety, G McKiernan, M Reilly; D Givney, M Argue, S Johnston. Subs: N Murray for K Brady, E Keating (0-1) for Johnston, C Mackey for Buchanan (black card), R Dunne for Argue, F Flanagan for Brady, J Brady for Moynagh.
Greece must repay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month, or face default and possible exit from the EU.
European Union leaders have broadly welcomed Greece's latest proposals for reforms - but obstacles remain.
Eurozone finance ministers are due to finalise a deal on Wednesday evening.
The agreement being formed is believed to include:
On Wednesday, the ECB again increased additional emergency funding for Greek banks to stave off fears of a bank run - the fifth time in eight days it has done so as fearful savers withdraw up to €1bn a day from domestic banks.
Only once agreement is reached will creditors unlock the final €7.2bn tranche of bailout funds.
Analysis: Chris Morris, BBC's Europe Correspondent
Alexis Tsipras is returning to Brussels with criticism ringing in his ears, from members of his own party who argue that he has given up too much.
But Greece's creditors could be about to ask for more sacrifice, from a country that has already seen a quarter of its economy disappear.
The current budget proposal from Athens relies far more on raising taxes than cutting spending - and while the European Commission is pushing for a deal straight away, the IMF in particular appears to be unimpressed.
Trust is also in short supply, and Mr Tsipras will be told he has to get any prospective deal approved in the Greek parliament almost immediately, in order to give it legal backing. If he failed, he would have to resign.
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Mr Tsipras is to meet the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the trio evaluating his proposals.
An agreement will then have to be endorsed by Greece's parliament, with some critics at home accusing the left-wing prime minister of reneging on his party's campaign pledge to end austerity.
Austria's Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling told Austrian ORF radio on Wednesday it was "unforeseeable" what would happen next should no solution emerge.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the Greek proposals "constitute some progress", but cautioned "there is a lot of work to be done and time is short".
She said however she would only consider debt relief after the current round of negotiations, which some analysts say are essential if Greece is to escape the cycle of scrambling to secure funds to pay off looming bills to creditors.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Finance Commissioner Pierre Moscovici have said they are "convinced" that a final agreement will be reached.
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Many women born between April 1951 and 1960 have claimed they were not aware that their pension age was being raised by up to six years.
Although there had been talk of a compromise solution, the new Work and Pensions Secretary has told MPs that will not be possible.
"I don't see there is a do-able policy solution," said Stephen Crabb MP.
Members of the campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) said they were disappointed, but were still hopeful that a solution could be found.
Many of those affected say they have been left without enough money to live on, and not enough time to make alternative arrangements.
Two weeks ago, the Pensions Minister, Ros Altmann, told the BBC that she was hoping to help the women.
MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee had also suggested a compromise, that would not cost the tax-payer any extra money.
They said the women should be allowed to claim their pensions early, if they wanted to, but at a reduced rate.
But Stephen Crabb rejected that, saying, "When I've discussed that, some of the women have said that's not actually what they want".
"It is just fiscally impossible," he said.
"And I think it's irresponsible for anyone in this House of Commons to try to pretend, or lead these women into thinking there's an easy decision to be made."
"I am disappointed, but still hopeful," said Marion Smulders, a co-founder of Waspi.
"There is a cross-party parliamentary group on this. I trust they will have further contact with Stephen Crabb, and hope he will re-visit this."
She said a lot of women affected would have been happy with the compromise suggested by the Work and Pensions Committee, although it would not be acceptable for everybody.
The government's state pension calculator is available here.
Under the 1995 Pensions Act, the government decided that the pension ages of both men and women would be equalised by 2020. Previously, women retired at 60, while men retired at 65.
In 2011, state pension ages were raised at an even faster rate.
The government has said that everyone was told about the changes, but many women say they never received the information.
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The first agreement was narrowly rejected in a referendum last month.
President Juan Manuel Santos says the new proposals are stronger and take into account the changes demanded by opponents of the scheme.
Those opponents, led by former President Alvaro Uribe, say the revised deal is still too lenient on Farc leaders.
The revised agreement now goes to the lower house of Congress for approval.
The peace accord is aimed at ending an armed conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people over five decades.
The two sides reached an agreement earlier this year after four years of talks in the Cuban capital, Havana.
Before beginning their session, senators held a minute's silence for those who died in a plane crash near the city of Medellin on Monday.
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Colombia's Senate has approved a revised peace accord with the country's largest rebel group, the Farc.
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Kazeem Kadiri sneaked into the woman's bed in the middle of the night after being rejected by another woman with whom he and another man had been having a threesome.
During a trial at High Court in Livingston the 29-year-old victim gave evidence from behind a screen in closed court.
Judge Lady Stacey deferred sentence for social work reports.
The court heard the rape took place at a house in Livingston, West Lothian, in November 2010, after the woman, an Edinburgh office worker, had been on night out for a birthday celebration.
She admitted she had had well over 20 drinks and had gone to bed very drunk.
During the night she was woke to find a man lying on top of her. She told him to get off her and pushed him away.
She contacted the police the next morning after realising she had been raped.
During the trial, the jury heard forensic evidence that Kadiri's DNA matched samples taken from the woman's body.
Another woman, the householder, said she had invited Kadiri and another man, Bola Sodimu, 37, back from a nightclub at 03:00.
She said she had sex with both men but then had a "lightbulb moment" and told Kadiri she wanted to take his friend, who is also Nigerian, upstairs.
She told how she had to get up and close the door after she saw Kadiri on the stairs watching them.
"One or two minutes later" they heard the sound of two people having sex in the spare bedroom.
They went to the room and saw Kadiri sitting on the edge of the woman's bed in his boxer shorts.
Kadiri, 38, denied rape and claimed his victim had consented to sex.
But the jury returned a majority verdict of guilty.
Kadiri's name has been placed on the sex offenders' register.
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They symbolised "outdated and one-sided" history education, an aide said.
The conservative government of Park Geun-hye said the books were needed to correct left-wing bias. The move caused anger and most schools refused them.
Moon Jae-in, a liberal and former human rights lawyer, was elected on Tuesday. Ms Park is in prison awaiting trial on corruption charges.
Scrapping the textbooks was one of Mr Moon's campaign pledges.
The controversial books were ordered in late 2015 and unveiled in January 2017.
Hwang Woo-yea, the education minister under Ms Park, said that they were intended to teach "the proud history of South Korea, which has achieved both democratisation and industrialisation in the shortest time in the world history".
Other administration officials said they were needed because existing textbooks were insufficiently critical of North Korea.
But critics of the project accused Ms Park's administration of trying to sanitise the rule of her father, dictator Park Chung-hee.
The government initially said that schools could only use the government-authored textbook, but rolled back on this plan in late 2016.
A spokesman for Mr Moon said the new president believed "history education must no longer be used for political purposes".
History - and how it is taught - is a sensitive issue across East Asia. Rival versions of events fuel territorial disputes, bilateral mistrust and diplomatic rifts.
More than 3,000 objects are now being installed into four galleries of decorative art, fashion and design and six of science and technology.
The new galleries represent the next phase of the £80m masterplan to transform the museum.
They will be completed in the 150th anniversary year of the Victorian building, which first opened in 1866.
Display space will increase by more than 40%, with 75% of the objects on display not having been seen for at least a generation.
The £14.1m project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Wellcome Trust and the Scottish government, with £7m of the costs being raised from trusts, foundations and individual donors.
Alongside the announcement of the opening date, National Museums Scotland launched the last phase of its fundraising appeal for the new galleries.
Edinburgh author, Alexander McCall Smith, who is a patron and long-term supporter of National Museums Scotland, said: "I love to write about Edinburgh.
"It is one of the great cities in the world - rich in history, architecture and culture.
"And the National Museum of Scotland, situated in the heart of Edinburgh, is a place which connects Scotland to the world and the world to Scotland through stories captured in thousands of remarkable objects.
"It's a place which has inspired me and, with the help and generosity of the public, can inspire many more people in years to come."
Gordon Rintoul, director of National Museums Scotland said: "We are now in the final phase of work as we progress towards opening our new galleries on 8 July.
"From Dunlop's first pneumatic tyre to cutting edge scientific discoveries from CERN, the fashion of Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, Dolly the Sheep and Picasso ceramics - we have something to appeal to everyone."
Peter Walker, a former policeman who wrote under the pen name Nicholas Rhea, lived at Ampleforth in North Yorkshire.
His daughter, Tricia, said her father's cancer had returned two weeks ago and he died at home on Friday.
His Constable series of books inspired the Yorkshire Television production, set in the 1960s, which ran between 1992 and 2010.
The programme followed the life of a young police officer transferred from London to the North York Moors.
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Ms Walker said on her Facebook page that her father had died surrounded by his family in the home he had lived in for 50 years.
She wrote he was a "Yorkshireman to the end".
His funeral will take place at Our Lady's & St Benedict's Church, Ampleforth on Friday.
Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan, experienced in running US sports teams, lead a consortium which has bought a controlling stake of 60% in the club.
They must pass the league's test for prospective owners to make it official.
"Both see the takeover of Swansea City as an exciting opportunity for long-term growth in the club in every area," the club said in a statement.
BBC Wales Sport revealed in April which of Swansea's directors would be selling all - or part - of their shares.
With the club now valued at about £100m, shares are believed to have increased tenfold in worth since the current board took charge in 2002.
Levien is the managing general partner of Major League Soccer side DC United, while Kaplan is principal of Oaktree Capital investment fund and vice-chairman of NBA franchise Memphis Grizzlies.
They are understood to be keen to buy Swansea's home ground, Liberty Stadium, which is owned by the local council, with a view to increasing its capacity.
Levien and Kaplan had initially been negotiating a deal which would have seen them acquire more than 75% of Swansea's shares, effectively giving the American consortium complete control, including the power to issue more shares.
However, the modified acquisition of 60% will see the trust retain its 21.1% stake and ensure continuity at board level with the retention of Jenkins and Dineen.
Swansea will be based in Washington DC, home of Levien's DC United, for their pre-season tour to the USA in July.
*Martin Morgan resigned from his post as a director of OTH Ltd on 4 April 2016
**Brian Katzen and Jeffrey Crevoiserat own one more share than the Swansea City Supporters' Trust, giving them less than 0.1% more of a share.
The 26-year-old took 25 wickets and scored more than 300 runs to help the Red Rose club lift the trophy in 2015.
In August, Faulkner became only the sixth Australian to take a hat-trick in a one-day international when he achieved the feat against Sri Lanka.
"He's a world-class cricketer, a true competitor. It'll be great to have him back," head coach Ashley Giles said.
Faulkner, from Tasmania, has played one Test, 59 one-day internationals and 21 Twenty20 matches for Australia.
"Finals Day at Edgbaston was one of the best days of my career so hopefully we can replicate the success of 2015 next year," Faulkner said.
"I was blown away by the support I received from the Lancashire fans."
The SDLP previously said its pledges can be paid for from £220m in what is known as the 'Barnett consequential money' Northern Ireland is to receive from the chancellor's latest budget.
The party's Foyle candidate Gerard Diver told BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan programme that this money would be going to the assembly every year.
However, budget documents made it clear the extra £223m is over a four-year period.
"My understanding is that in the last budget there was something like £233m to Northern Ireland as the Barnett consequential and as I understand it that the minute that has not been allocated or identified for any specific or particular purpose," Mr Diver said.
"Why would it not be put to address many of the very difficult issues that we're hoping to grapple with in Northern Ireland."
Mr Diver was then asked by the host of the programme Stephen Nolan: "Is that £223m a year or what's that?"
Mr Diver replied: "That's the additional money that's been allocated in the budget under the Barnett consequential to take account of the population in Northern Ireland as it currently stands."
He was asked again over what period of time the money was - "per year, per two years, per four years, what is it?"
Mr Diver replied: "I would presume that that's an annual amount."
The SDLP has insisted its pledges are fully funded based on the additional Barnett consequential.
The party said Mr Diver clarified during the interview that the £223m is for four years and not one year.
The men's four, men's and women's pair and lightweight men's double sculls who triumphed in Serbia will return in Racice, Czech Republic, from 26-28 May.
A total of 50 rowers make up the squad.
"We're excited to be moving on to challenge the best crews in Europe," said British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner.
"We have a good record in recent European Rowing Championships and I'm confident that the athletes selected will continue this tradition."
Karen Bennett and Holly Norton won the women's pair while Jacob Dawson and Matthew Rossiter triumphed in the men's pair at the first World Cup of the season in Belgrade last weekend.
Peter Chambers and Will Fletcher won the men's double sculls, while Callum McBrierty, Matthew Tarrant, Mohamed Sbihi and William Satch were victorious in the men's four.
In total Britain secured 11 medals, including three silvers and four bronzes.
Women's eight: Caragh McMurtry, Rebecca Chin, Annie Withers, Sara Parfett, Rebecca Shorten, Jo Wratten, Fiona Gammond, Katherine Douglas, Erin Wysocki-Jones (cox)
Women's pair: Karen Bennett, Holly Norton
Women's quadruple scull: Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Beth Bryan, Holly Nixon, Jessica Leyden
Women's double scull: Georgia Francis, Emily Carmichael
Womne's single scull: Victoria Thornley
Women's reserves: Alice Baatz, Rebecca Girling, Anastasia Chitty
Women's lightweight double scull: Charlotte Booth, Katherine Copeland
Men's eight: Lance Tredell, Thomas Jeffery, Sam Arnot, Cameron Buchan, Tom Ransley, Adam Neill, James Rudkin, Tom Ford, Henry Fieldman (cox)
Men's four: Callum McBrierty, Matthew Tarrant, Mohamed Sbihi, Will Satch
Men's pair: Jacob Dawson, Matt Rossiter
Men's quadruple scull: Jack Beaumont, John Collins, Peter Lambert, Jonny Walton
Men's double scull: Tom Barras, Frazier Christie
Men's reserve: Tim Clarke
Men's lightweight double scull: Peter Chambers, Will Fletcher,
Men's lightweight pair: Joel Cassells, Sam Scrimgeour
And certainly Hume sparkled brilliantly during that quite remarkable 18th century flowering of Caledonian intellectual genius.
However, the great man was not always appreciated by conventional society. His sceptical attitude towards religion, for example, counted against him when it came to obtaining salaried employment in academia.
He noted drily that, despite his prodigious written output, he had "no enemies, except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
Hume also observed: "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
Now, I am certain that our Holyrood tribunes are to the fore in commending Hume's intellect and wit. I am sure that they recognise his huge role in global thought.
But right now they are about to confront the concept of the exercise of power as they seek, once more, to "govern the many".
These and other vague recollections occurred to me as I noted the forthcoming programme of the David Hume Institute, the splendid Edinburgh organisation which commemorates the great man by fostering contemporary political, philosophical and economic debate.
Their agenda for the early months of 2016 includes, in order, the following speakers: Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie, Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie and, finally, the recently confirmed SNP leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Their topic? "My vision of Scotland for the next five years."
Right now, of course, they are firmly focused upon the next five months, leading up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May.
But their chances of relative victory in those polls will depend substantially on public reaction to the "vision thing", due to be set out in their Hume lectures and elsewhere. After exhaustive (and exhausting) conflict through the referendum and the UK elections, the parties are now seeking to replenish their strategic tanks.
It is intriguing - but not surprising - to note the extent to which comments from the opposition parties at Holyrood are predicated on the prospect, almost the presumption, of continuing SNP success.
Consider Kezia Dugdale, first up in the Hume programme. Right now, her Labour comrades are understandably expending energy in getting themselves as high up their party's Holyrood regional lists as possible.
Ms Dugdale decided to reopen the lists, removing the special status accorded to sitting MSPs. In addition to those, there are one or two eager ex MPs who rather fancy an early return to elected politics.
But why on the list and not a first-past-the-post seat? Why seek regional election and not a constituency? Because, of course, Labour stands to win relatively few Holyrood constituencies if current opinion poll indications are borne out. And of course, they won just one seat at last May's general election.
It is an indication of the party's present difficulties that there is such an almighty scramble to obtain nomination via the regional lists - especially when one recalls that, in the very earliest days of devolution, some Labour figures tended somewhat to denigrate the status of list MSPs.
However, Labour has to play the hand currently on the table and Kezia Dugdale is determined to do so with vigour and panache.
Self-evidently, Labour's pitch has to be founded on the existing pre-eminence of the SNP. They have to gain a hearing from the people of Scotland before attempting to subvert and then supplant their chief rivals.
In that regard, does it help having Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the UK Labour Party? Some insiders say yes: that it places Labour, definitively, to the left of the SNP in pitching for traditional, proletarian support.
Others say no: that voters see him as a less than credible contender for high office. Either way, Ms Dugdale is adamant. This is her shout. This is her election. She will drive Scottish Labour's offer.
Their strategy is, of course, multi-layered but prompted by circumstance. Firstly, they seek to attack the SNP on their record in office. Hence the challenges on health waiting times, on school attainment and the rest.
Secondly, they seek to posit egalitarian Labour options: such as an eventual increase in upper rate tax (when the powers come through) to fund an effort to counter the gap in educational outcomes between affluent and more deprived families.
Thirdly - and less attention has been paid to this - Ms Dugdale stresses that Labour would seek to govern consensually and in a fashion which supports the economy. In a speech, she said Labour's manifesto would be "the most pro-business" in the party's history.
Next up in the David Hume Institute calendar is Patrick Harvie of the Greens. Mr Harvie is an intrinsically optimistic individual and that attribute seems to extend to the party's prospects in May.
The Greens worked with the SNP in the referendum in a fairly companionable fashion. Sometimes more, when they shared the common objective of independence. Sometimes less, when the Greens thought the SNP were too heavy-handed in directing strategy. (The SNP dissent.)
But, for this election, the Greens are adamant that they can provide the "constructive yet challenging opposition" to the SNP which they say is missing at the moment.
Naturally, their policy priorities mainly arise from their environmental driver: opposition to fracking, support for energy efficiency and the like. But, beyond that, they will emphasise social need.
Sprint forward with me now to Ruth Davidson's lecture. Will the long-anticipated Conservative revival in Scotland happen in May? Sometime? Ever?
The steep Tory decline can be attributed to a range of factors. But perhaps chief among them was their stance on self-government - or rather the underlying sense of Scottish identity which drove that issue.
As I have noted previously, parties of the right customarily play the patriotic card. The Scottish Tories picked the wrong patriotism for their electoral prospects. Just as the Scots were reaching out to clutch the Saltire, the Tories were eagerly waving the Union Flag. They were increasingly seen as out of sync with Scottish sentiment.
For years now, indeed for decades, they have sought to quell that mismatch. They have emphasised, again and again, their credentials as a Scottish party, with Scottish interests at heart. This election will be no different.
And, as with other parties, the pitch is predicated upon countering the SNP. Ms Davidson says her party will provide "a genuine Scottish alternative" to what she characterises as the "one party state" of SNP governance.
To do this, she offers a "One Nation" approach. (The phrase traces its origins back to Benjamin Disraeli. David Cameron is said to be a fan of the 19th century Prime Minister and novelist; it seems Ms Davidson is too.)
Ms Davidson's version of One Nation is "not bowing to the big state on the one hand or genuflecting to the free market on the other." In short, the centre ground.
But she adds another element. Given the chance, she says she would govern in a "moderate, energetic" fashion - while categorically ruling out another referendum on independence. In short, a pitch to No voters and even perhaps wavering Yes voters who don't fancy an early rerun.
Now, Ruth Davidson is upbeat and buoyant at all points. She could give even Patrick Harvie a class in optimism.
But does she seriously expect to be First Minister? Thought you'd say that. Still, she will make her pitch with vigour and take her chances with the votes which ensue.
In which regard, there is occasional talk in Tory circles that they might overhaul Labour in voting share. Labour, of course, dismiss that - and even SNP strategists think it unlikely.
To Willie Rennie next, of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
You thought Patrick Harvie was cheerful? You thought Ruth Davidson was chipper? Mr Rennie outdoes them both.
I suppose, given the recent plight of his party, the options are either to smile broadly and continuously - or to slink off to the cupboard for a quiet cry.
Still, Mr Rennie is frequently effective in parliament; most notably over police service reform and related issues such as stop and search. By pursuing precise issues, firmly and vigorously, he has gained a reputation for challenging ministers, First and otherwise.
Will the public listen? Mr Rennie says he will offer a "positive, uplifting" campaign which will "seek to put the divisions of the referendum behind us".
In particular, he will revert to a classic theme for his party and its predecessors; that of liberty. He will argue against "targets, controls and top down diktats" in the public sector which, he says, are "suffocating the talents" of staff.
But, as with others, it is largely targeted at the SNP or rather SNP voters. In essence, he will argue that Yes voters should put that period behind them and listen to the Lib Dem offer on issues such as GP provision, mental health and policing.
Finally, in March, the David Hume Institute will play host to the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. She remains decidedly popular, as does her government, despite the inevitable depredations of administration.
It was once thought inconceivable that any party could win an overall majority at Holyrood in a voting system designed to prevent such an occurrence. Now opinion polls suggest the prospect that the SNP might repeat that feat.
The SNP strategy - as promulgated by Alex Salmond - has been to govern moderately and consensually within the limits of devolution while simultaneously inviting the voters to infer how much better things could be with independence.
This has persisted under Ms Sturgeon. She stresses that it will be her government's record - and forward programme - which are placed before the voters in May. Not, immediately, independence.
With regard to the prospect of another referendum, she will pursue the strategy she set out at the party's conference in Aberdeen. She said then that to propose another plebiscite "without strong evidence that a significant number of those who voted No have changed their minds would be wrong and we won't do it."
She added, however, that if such evidence were to emerge, "then we have no right to rule out a referendum and we won't do that either."
In essence, it will be - for the manifesto and, she hopes, for the election - a decision deferred and driven by the popular will. Naturally, Ms Sturgeon's opponents will seek to place the topic more directly before the people in May, challenging the SNP over their stand.
As ever, the economy will be predominant. And, on that, there are significant changes pending. John Swinney opted for a steady budget for 2016/17 - with no use of the additional power available from April to raise income tax.
But that power only allows changes across all rates - with no differentiation between standard and upper.
The new Scotland Bill will give Holyrood control of all rates and bands. That should be enacted in the New Year, provided the accompanying fiscal framework can be agreed which seems eminently likely, given that it is in the interests of both the UK and Scottish governments to strike a bargain.
In Scotland, then, we would face a debate driven by fiscal change.
A new income tax system. Reform of the council tax: the hints from inside the Scottish Government are that such reform may be substantial, allied to the assignation of a proportion of income tax to local government. Reform of business rates.
All that plus new controls over elements of welfare, also in the Scotland Bill. The SNP, like the other parties, will set out their forward thinking with regard to those extra powers. New powers, new debate.
It will be lively. It will be argumentative. But I am certain it will also be civilised. For, as David Hume noted, "truth springs from argument amongst friends."
In a report, the IEA said it expects prices to start recovering in 2017.
But it forecasts that will be followed by a sharp jump in price as supply shrinks following under-investment by struggling producers.
Brent crude touched a 13-year low of $28.88 a barrel in January.
It has since recovered somewhat, but is still far below a high of $115 in June 2014.
On Monday the price was up around 4.9% at $34.62.
Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said: "It is easy for consumers to be lulled into complacency by ample stocks and low prices today, but they should heed the writing on the wall: the historic investment cuts we are seeing raise the odds of unpleasant oil-security surprises in the not-too-distant-future."
The policy advisor expects global oil supply will grow by 4.1 million barrels of oil per day between 2015 and 2021, down from an increase of 11 million barrels of oil per day between 2009 and 2015.
It also expects investment in oil exploration and production to fall by 17% in 2016 following a 24% decline last year.
The IEA said: "Only in 2017 will we finally see oil supply and demand aligned but the enormous stocks being accumulated will act as a dampener on the pace of recovery in oil prices when the market, having balanced, then starts to draw down those stocks."
Global markets have been awash with oil following the boom in shale energy production in the US. That has spurred the Opec oil producing nations, led by Saudi Arabia, to leave oil output unchanged to drive the price of crude down and put pressure on its American competitors.
An economic slowdown in China has also adversely impacted demand for oil.
Silicone Engineering Kawasaki rider Harrison edged out runner-up, Manxman Dan Kneen, by 0.131 seconds, with Michael Dunlop third on his Suzuki.
Dunlop set a new absolute lap record with an average speed of 115.707mph.
Harrison took a hat-trick of wins over the course of the meeting, with Dunlop also securing a treble of victories.
Harrison, Dunlop and BMW pilot Kneen each enjoyed spells at the front as they traded positions regularly throughout the feature event.
"I've been trying to win that race for five years and I'm over the moon," said Bradford man Harrison after his 'big race' success.
"Everyone is pushing really hard so it's a hard race to win. The lead swapped and changed a few times but I just kept braking as late as I could and kept the head down.
"I had some bad luck issues with the bike over the last few days and missed two races but this makes it all worthwhile," added the Yorkshire rider.
Earlier in the day, Dunlop, 28, surpassed the previous best lap benchmark with a speed of 115.267 in winning a keenly fought Senior race.
The Ballymoney man enjoyed an advantage of less than a second over Kneen at the chequered flag, with Jamie Coward completing the podium, some 25 seconds behind Dunlop.
Dunlop also narrowly saw off Kneen in Tuesday's opening 1000cc race and continued his fine form by winning Wednesday's seven-lap Senior race.
Harrison won the 600cc opener on Wednesday and then got the better of runner-up Dunlop and third-place finisher Cowton in the second event for that class on Thursday, Dunlop having the consolation of a new lap record at 111.335.
Ivan Lintin took a slender triumph over Cowton in Thursday's Supertwins outing to complete a double in that class, Rob Hodson occupying the final rostrum position.
Ballymoney's Darryl Tweed made it two wins from two by ending 5.6 seconds in front of Seamus Elliott in the 400cc/125cc, with Paul Gartland third.
In the Sidecar Championship race, John Holden and Lee Cain were declared the winners over Wayne Lockey and Mark Sayers, after brothers Ben and Tom Birchall and Tim Reeves and Mark Wilkes crashed at Cross Four Ways while battling for the lead.
The Birchalls set a new lap record for the class at 101.545mph.
20 April 2015 Last updated at 21:42 BST
Jo Healey reports.
Both players finished on nine under par after 72 holes, setting up a sudden-death play-off on the 18th.
Garcia, 37, holed a birdie putt for victory after his European Ryder Cup team-mate could only manage a bogey.
Charl Schwartzel was three shots back, with England's Paul Casey and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy in the top 10.
Jordan Spieth, one of the pre-tournament favourites, and fellow American Rickie Fowler both capitulated on the final day to finish tied 11th on one-under.
Garcia finally won one of golf's four majors - the Masters, the Open Championship, the US Open and the US PGA - after 22 previous top-10 finishes.
He became the third Spaniard to win the Masters - after Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal - on what would have been the 60th birthday of Ballesteros, who died in 2011.
"To join Seve and Jose - my two idols - is something amazing," said Garcia.
Shot one: Rose teed off first, pushing his drive right into the trees, only for his ball to bounce back towards play and reappear in the pine needles.
Garcia thumped his drive almost 300 yards down the fairway.
Shot two: Rose could only punch his way out of trouble onto the fairway, while Garcia to land his approach on the green.
Shot three: The Englishman responded by landing his ball about 10 foot to the right of the hole - on a similar line to his putt in regulation play about 15 minutes earlier.
After Rose pushed it left, Garcia had two shots for victory - making no mistake with his first attempt and his ball rounded the lip before dropping in.
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North Wales Police said officers were trying to intervene as the man, in his 30s, attempted suicide in Ruabon Road, Johnstown, at about 10:20 GMT.
Supt Alex Goss said the man died in hospital despite efforts to save him. The officer's injuries were superficial.
The incident has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The watchdog said its investigators had been told the man in his 30s sustained self-inflicted knife injuries.
IPCC commissioner Jan Williams said: "Our thoughts are with the family of the man who died following this tragic incident.
"We are in the initial stages of carrying out an investigation into the circumstances and the police interaction with the man.
"We have met with his relatives to explain our role and we will keep them updated throughout our inquiries."
The striker, 28, last played for Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May, and was sent a text in June by boss Antonio Conte telling him he would not be part of the squad for next season.
Costa says the club are now demanding he return to train with the reserves.
"Why won't they let me go if they don't want me?" he told the Daily Mail.
"I have to do what I have to do. I have to think of myself. I've been a good boy here and tried to do the right thing. My desire is to go to Atletico."
Costa joined Chelsea from Atletico Madrid in 2014 and has won two Premier League titles and the League Cup with the London club.
In January, he was left out of the Chelsea side for an away match at Leicester after he was involved in a dispute with a fitness coach.
It followed reports of an offer from China that would have been worth £30m a year in salary.
"In January, things happened with the coach," said Costa. "I was on the brink of renewing my contract and they put the brakes on it. I suspect the manager was behind it. He asked for that to happen.
"His ideas are very fixed and clear. I have seen the sort of person he is. He has his own opinion and that will not change.
"I respect him as a great coach. He has done a good job and I can see that, but as a person, no. He is not a coach who is very close with his players. He is very distant. He doesn't possess charisma."
In June, Costa said Conte sent him a text telling him he would not be part of the squad for next season.
"I have not deleted the message," he added. "If people accuse me of lying, I can show them. It was clear, saying that he didn't count on me and wishing me the best for the future. Full stop."
The Spain striker was given extra time off by Chelsea last month, but now claims he is being fined for his absence and is considering legal action or seeing out the remaining year of his contract unpaid in his native Brazil.
"You know that the manager doesn't want me," added Costa.
"I am waiting for Chelsea to set me free. I didn't want to leave. I was happy. When the manager does not want you, you have to go."
The local authority, which has already described itself as being "besieged" by property developers, has set a target of building 27,000 new homes by 2030.
But the inspector said the figure needed to be closer to 40,000. Cheadle MP Mark Hunter said the council's plans showed their "ineptitude".
Council leader Michael Jones said he was "concerned" about the findings.
The Conservative leader said: "The starting point for the plan was based in 2009, [when] policies and guidelines were all different.
"What we haven't done is listen and [hear] advice when they have changed and that's something I'm very concerned about and we will look into why that is.
"We are going to recheck our analysis, our methodology, our ideas, and see how we do from there to make sure our numbers are in line so we can get it right."
Liberal Democrat MP Mr Hunter spoke out in the Commons last week about the plans by the council to build about 2,000 new homes at Handforth, near Wilmslow.
He said the report, written by independent local government inspector Stephen Pratt, was critical in other areas.
"I think it shows in large measure the ineptitude of Cheshire East Council and the way they have gone about this.
"The report says there are 'significant flaws in both the process and evidence related to the release of land from the green belt'.
"I think that's a very critical verdict the inspector has come to and I think it's round one to the objectors."
The incident involving a Jaguar, BMW and Citroen happened on the B921 between Kinglassie and Cardenden at about 14:30.
The BMW driver - a man aged 42 - is being treated for serious injuries at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
The 62-year-old woman driver of the Citroen and her young female passenger were also seriously hurt.
They were taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
Four others received minor injuries - the 75-year-old man driving the Jaguar, two passengers in the BMW and a second passenger in the Citroen.
Insp Brenda Sinclair said: "I would ask anyone who was on the road at the time and witnessed the collision to contact us immediately."
Everton striker Rooney, 31, announced his international retirement this week, despite national boss Gareth Southgate asking him to be in his latest squad.
Southgate has since said the door remains open for the country's all-time leading goalscorer to return.
"Stranger things have happened in football," McClaren told Sportsweek.
"I think we should watch this space regarding his England future.
"If he gets his form back at Everton, scoring regularly, then selection might come again. It would not surprise me if he gets the call before the next World Cup and decides to come back.
"In this game you have ups and downs, but now he has a new start at Everton and as far as I'm concerned he still has a lot to contribute for England."
Rooney has scored 53 goals in 119 appearances for England.
He returned to hometown club Everton this summer following 13 years at Manchester United, who he joined from the Toffees for £27m in August 2004, scoring a club record 253 goals in 559 matches.
He has made a positive start to life back on Merseyside, scoring twice in two Premier League games - the second, at Manchester City, his 200th top-flight goal.
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Rooney made his England debut in February 2003, in a 3-1 defeat by Australia at Upton Park, and his last international appearance was as captain in last November's 3-0 victory over Scotland at Wembley.
He was overlooked by Southgate for matches against Scotland and France in June but offered a recall for next month's World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovakia.
"In 10 years we'll look back on Wayne Rooney for England as we do with Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Charlton - as a legend," added McClaren, who managed England from 2006 to 2007. "We'll see that what he's achieved has been remarkable."
The Giants prevailed 5-4 to maintain their title challenge and remain one point behind leaders Cardiff Devils, who defeated Fife Flyers 2-1.
Alex Foster, Blair Riley and David Rutherford also netted for the Giants who recovered from a 2-0 deficit.
Luke Ferrera, Mathieu Roy, Levi Nelson and Yared Hagos scored for Sheffield.
Belfast trailed 2-1 after the first period thanks to goals from Ferrera and Roy for the hosts, Foster replying for the visitors.
Riley slammed home a rebound high into the Steelers net and Rutherford nudged the Giants ahead after James Desmarais broke into the zone and dished the puck to the eventual scorer.
Seven minutes into the third period, Nelson scored for Sheffield backhanded into the net following a rebound but four minutes later Saviano picked up a loose puck and slammed into the net.
Saviano grabbed his second after a nice offload from Desmarais, with Hagos finding the net for a late consolation with 57 seconds remaining.
The Giants had beaten Sheffield 5-2 on Saturday night at the same venue thanks to two goals from Rutherford and one apiece from Chris Higgins, Michael Quesnele and Brandon Benedict.
The Giants take a break from league action now as they prepare for the first leg of their Challenge Cup semi-final away to Cardiff Devils on Wednesday night.
Next weekend Derrick Walser's side travel to Scotland for back-to-back away games against the Braehead Clan on Saturday and against the Edinburgh Capitals on Sunday.
The left-wing MP said politics should be "comradely and friendly".
Former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn followed Tony Blair in warning against a victory for Mr Corbyn, saying Labour had a "death wish" if it shifted left.
Another candidate, Liz Kendall, said a win for Mr Corbyn - who topped a recent poll - would be a "disaster".
Labour party donor John Mills told the Guardian the election of Mr Corbyn could trigger an "SDP-style split" and the withdrawal of support from wealthy donors.
The Labour row comes after a YouGov poll for the Times that put left-winger Mr Corbyn ahead in the race and Ms Kendall fourth.
Mr Blair has warned the party would not win from a left-wing position, and one of his former advisers said MPs who helped Mr Corbyn onto the ballot paper but did not support him were "morons".
Asked about the criticism, Mr Corbyn told the BBC: "I think politics should be conducted on a comradely and friendly basis, and if people disagree with each other then say what they disagree on, and let's keep these silly remarks to themselves."
Ms Kendall dismissed calls for her to withdraw from the contest to ensure Mr Corbyn is beaten.
She told the BBC: "I'll be fighting for what I believe in until the very end."
She said a victory for Mr Corbyn would be a "disaster", saying that turning back to the politics of the 1980s and losing elections "does nothing to help the people" the party wants to help.
At-a-glance profiles of the four contenders
Mr Milburn told the BBC the party would only win the next election if it occupied the centre ground.
He added: "The alternative is that Labour lurches to the left. If it does that, frankly, it has a death wish."
Mr Mills, a donor to the Kendall campaign, told the Guardian: "If Corbyn won, I suspect what would happen is that there would be some sort of split.
"Then you would have an SDP-type party" - a reference to the Social Democratic Party formed in 1981 by Labour party defectors.
Mr Mills said he suspected "some of the major donors" would be "less likely to give".
The YouGov poll suggested Mr Corbyn could receive 43% of first preference votes, ahead of Andy Burnham on 26%, Yvette Cooper on 20% and Ms Kendall on 11%.
In a subsequent poll, for Ipsos Mori, 27% of the general public said Mr Burnham would be a good prime minister, compared to 22% for Ms Cooper, 17% for Mr Corbyn and 16% for Ms Kendall.
Mr Burnham also led among Labour supporters.
On Tuesday, former prime minister Mr Blair warned Labour would not win again from a "traditional leftist platform".
He also said people who had Mr Corbyn's politics at heart should "get a transplant".
This prompted a response from former Labour deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who said Mr Blair was wrong to "abuse" supporters of Mr Corbyn and told the party to "calm down".
Robin Gisby told MPs there was no alternative to sending trains to Finsbury Park, on 27 December.
This caused the station to be so crowded passengers could not get off trains and the station had to shut.
But Mr Gisby said he would endorse to make the same decision again.
Speaking to the House of Commons Transport Committee, Mr Gisby said: "Finsbury Park was entirely unsuitable compared with King's Cross but there was nothing else we could do.
"Any other decision would have caused even more discomfort for passengers."
A Network Rail report, published earlier this week, revealed poor planning, equipment failures and communication breakdowns all contributed to the overruns.
Physical work near Paddington was completed on time but safety validation work that should have taken two hours took 10 hours, the report said.
When work near King's Cross overran, the trains were switched to start and finish at Finsbury Park, but "not enough was done" to manage passenger flow at the station.
Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne told the committee he thought the overrun at King's Cross could have been declared earlier and communication about the use of platforms at Finsbury Park could have been improved.
Another inquiry into the overruns has been announced by rail industry body the Rail Delivery Group. This will examine the possibility of moving major engineering projects away from the Christmas period.
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) has already launched its own inquiry.
Zhai was among 300 lawyers and activists arrested since July last year as part of a crackdown on legal activism - about 20 are still detained.
In the first trial since the crackdown, he was given a three-year suspended prison sentence.
The cases have provoked international criticism and accusations they are politically motivated.
Three other activists are also facing trial in Tianjin.
Zhai's law firm, Fengrui, specialises in human rights cases
On Monday, another prominent Fengrui lawyer Wang Yu was apparently released on bail, after a video appeared in which she renounced her legal work.
But it was not clear when the video was filmed, nor whether Ms Wang was now free.
Do Chinese believe 'confession' videos?
China calls this trial "open" and says a number of journalists have been "invited" into court to cover it. The BBC's invitation must have got lost somewhere.
Very shortly after arriving outside the court in Tianjin we were stopped from filming by plain clothes policemen, had our identities checked and were then guided onto a bus and taken to a nearby hotel.
In an upstairs room, projected onto a screen was a "live transcript" from the trial. Like the lawyers and family members who have been denied access to this group of defendants for over a year, there is no way to independently assess the strength of the evidence against them, or the authenticity of their professed "guilt".
The thin veneer of openness is a sign that China well understands that the international community is watching these trials.
But it will only add to the suspicion that they are politically motivated with the primary purpose of sending a very chilling message to anyone who dares to test the authority of the Communist Party, in or out of court.
Chinese state media said the court had taken three hours to reach its verdict against Zhai, whose activism began with the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
China Daily said he had posted comments online that harmed national security and social stability, and organised protests to disturb the public order.
The Xinhua state news agency described Zhai as a paid protester and "an unemployed resident of Beijing".
The suspended sentence means he will not go to jail, but will be heavily supervised and unable to be involved in any political activities.
The detained lawyers are widely known as "709" - a reference to the date the crackdown was launched on 9 July 2015.
The families of some of those arrested said in a statement on Monday that the trial was "ridiculous and evil", and appealed for the trial to be given international attention.
The statement also alleged that the wife of Zhai was missing, with others facing the risk of being "taken away".
The family members said they were not allowed to attend the trial.
China's crackdown last year targeted the country's small human rights advocacy movement, and involved lawyers tackling cases to do with freedom of speech, religion or abuses of power.
Most of the arrested activists were released but observers say China is taking a strong line against those still in detention.
In a video of Wang Yu which was released on Monday, she denounced the head of Fengrui, Zhou Shifeng, as an unqualified lawyer.
She added that "foreign forces" were using the firm to undermine and discredit the government.
Observers said there were indications the "confession" was coerced. In recent months forced public confessions have been used in several cases in China.
Doctors are expected to march in protest at the changes which they say will lead to a drop in their salaries.
Jeremy Hunt said the proposals would benefit doctors by reducing their maximum weekly working hours.
The BMA denied it had misled its members and said the rally would be a wake-up call for ministers.
The government has indicated it will impose the new contract next year in England. Scotland and Wales have both said they will be sticking to the old contract, while Northern Ireland has yet to make a decision.
Mr Hunt told the BBC: "I think it is incredibly disappointing, the way that the BMA has misrepresented the government's position," he said.
"It's caused a huge amount of anger unnecessarily; we don't want to cut the pay going to junior doctors, we do want to change the pay structures that force hospitals to roster three times less medical cover at weekends as they do in weeks and that means that there's a 15% greater chance of you dying if you are admitted on a Sunday, compared to being admitted on a Wednesday."
He said he was willing to negotiate over safeguards.
Mr Hunt said changes to contracts would improve patient care, which was what doctors wanted.
He added: "This is a good deal for doctors. We are reducing the maximum hours a doctor can be asked to work from 91 to 72 hours, we're stopping doctors being asked to work for five nights in a row."
He called on the British Medical Association (BMA) to go back to the negotiating table.
The BMA is demanding that the government withdraw its threat to impose the new contract in England from next year.
Dr Johann Malawana, chairman of the BMA junior doctors' committee, said Mr Hunt needed to listen not just to the BMA but to junior doctors up and down the country.
"The fact is we want a contract that is safe for doctors in terms of maintaining safe, clinical care and delivers a safe NHS for patients," he said.
Commenting ahead of the rally in central London, Dr Malawana said the gathering would be "a wake-up call for ministers".
"The health secretary has accused junior doctors of misleading the public over the impact of his changes, yet at the same time he continues to conflate junior doctors' legitimate concerns and the government's rhetoric on seven-day services.
"The truth is that the junior doctor contract is in no way a barrier to seven-day services, with the vast majority of junior doctors routinely providing care to patients 24/7."
Rollout of the new nursing associate roles starts in England in December.
Research in the BMJ Quality and Safety journal linked the use of junior care roles to higher death rates.
But ministers rejected the criticism, saying the new posts were on top of investment in fully qualified nurses.
The new associate roles are seen as bridging the gap between nurses and healthcare assistants.
They will undergo two years of training and be involved in the clinical aspects of care, including medication administration.
But the team of academics, drawn from the US and Europe, questioned the wisdom of the move.
Their research used surveys of nurses and patients, staffing data and death rates.
It did not look specifically at nursing associate roles - as these were not being used in the countries studied.
But they were able to monitor the impact of using staff that assist nurses, such as the healthcare assistant role routinely used in the NHS.
The average death rate was 12.8 per 1,000 patients discharged.
A 10% increase in the ratio of fully qualified nurses was linked to an 11% fall in the chances of a patient dying.
Patient satisfaction was also higher.
Prof Peter Griffiths, of Southampton University, said: "England has one of the lowest percentages among European countries of professional nurses at the bedside already.
"Our study suggests that the NHS needs to focus on achieving safe registered nurse staffing levels as a means to achieve better outcomes including improving patients' satisfaction with their care."
The Department of Health questioned whether the way the research was carried out could give an accurate prediction of the impact of the new nursing associate roles.
A spokesman added: "Our plans complement not replace existing fully qualified registered nurses.
"This will ensure that nurses can make the best use of their time in providing outstanding patient care."
Joseph Batty, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
The charges related to two incidents on the 25 and 29 September 2014, involving the same female victim, who was based outside of the county.
Batty, of Broad Ings Crescent, Kendal, was jailed for four years at Carlisle Crown Court.
The court heard he had been disowned by his family having committed the latest in what were a "long line of sexual offences against females".
Expert assessments found he posed a "high risk" of reoffending, the court heard.
Judge Peter Hughes QC ordered that Batty should be subject to an extended licence period of four years following his release.
He will be subject to the sex offenders notification requirements for life and was also made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
The nine journalists killed in the attack left France second only to Syria, where 13 journalists were killed in 2015 in the course of their work.
In all, 69 journalists lost their lives in the line of duty, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Some 28 of those - 40% - were killed by Islamic extremists, said the CPJ.
The death toll, which includes journalists killed between 1 January and 23 December, is higher than the 61 journalists killed in 2014.
And it may yet rise: the CPJ is investigating the deaths of at least 26 more journalists during the year to determine whether they were work-related.
Syria has been the most deadly country for the press for the past four years, although the 13 deaths recorded in 2015 were a decrease on the previous year.
That reflects in part the reduced number of journalists working in the country as the so-called Islamic State expands its territorial control, the CPJ said, as well as the increased difficulty of monitoring violence in the country.
Limited access to information in other war-torn countries - including Libya, Yemen, and Iraq - may have also lowered the recorded death toll worldwide.
The CPJ publishes a report annually recording the deaths of journalists worldwide, including those who are targeted for their work as well as those who die in combat crossfire or on other dangerous assignments.
The fatalities in 2015 were more widely distributed than the previous three years, the CPJ said. At least five journalists were killed in each of Iraq, Brazil, Bangladesh, South Sudan, and Yemen.
The Charlie Hebdo massacre was the deadliest single attack on journalists - nine members of the Paris-based satirical magazine were killed, along with three police officers.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen, said it organised the attack.
Among others killed for their work this year was US-Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy. Mr Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was hacked to death with a machete as he walked with his wife from a book fair in Dhaka. He was 42.
The release of the CPJ report comes just two days after the murder of a Syrian journalist in Turkey. Filmmaker Naji Jerf was assassinated by gunmen on a busy Turkish street.
Mr Jerf was a member of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, an activist group which takes great risks to report on abuses perpetrated by IS. His death was too recent to have been considered by the CPJ for its report.
Ms Arietto has no ordinary job. She is the first woman working as chief of security at a football club in Argentina.
Employed by Athletic Club Independiente, her main task is to kick out violence from the game, an endemic problem in Argentina.
In the last 10 years, at least 66 people have died in football-related violence in Argentina, according to the NGO Let's Save Football.
Almost every weekend there is violence at Argentine football grounds.
The culprits are the so-called Barras Bravas, gangs of radical supporters who control the terraces and the streets around the stadiums, where they charge fans for parking.
Sometimes there are clashes between rival factions of supporters, before or after the match.
Other times, violence breaks out on the stands, the result of internal disputes for the control of the Barra, and the money that goes with it.
These gangs also demand money from players and clubs in exchange for their support. Independiente says $35,000 (£22,000) a month was being extorted from the club.
In some cases these gangs are - or have been - supported by football clubs' managements, and at times some have had links to the highest echelons of Argentine politics.
But this year, a new administration took over at Independiente, one of Argentina's biggest clubs, led by Javier Cantero.
Elected president by club members, Mr Cantero promised to end any ties with people who controlled the Barra.
Mr Cantero felt the backlash almost immediately.
And this is where Ms Arietto came in.
"Last May, after Mr Cantero said he would cut financial support from the club to the Barra, some 30 people burst into his office and verbally threatened him," said Ms Arietto.
"I thought that what had happened was unacceptable, so I contacted Mr Cantero to offer to help in any way I could to kick these violent people out."
This led to the trained lawyer being taken on at the club in September in time for the start of the new season.
"The good thing about being a woman is that nobody can come and pick up a fight with me," said Ms Arietto, half-jokingly.
One of her first steps was to ban from the club the people who were suspected of cornering Mr Cantero in his office. Charges have been brought in connection with the incident.
Next, the board cut off all existing financial support the Barra received from the club.
"Sometimes I get phone calls telling me that something could happen to me, that they will try to make it look like a random crime," said Ms Arietto.
"This is the normal reaction that you can expect after cutting the privileges of the criminal groups that were extorting money from the club."
Most of the time she is escorted by a police officer. On match days, she walks around the stadium, supervising security, talking to the police and mixing with thousands of fans who attend home games.
"I don't think they [the Barras] would dare to do something to me. But the idea of having an escort deters anyone from doing something unpleasant," she said.
Ms Arietto's experience in the judicial system is seen as crucial to the club's strategy to reduce football-related violence.
"We're trying to follow what was done in England, bringing these people to justice to set an example," she said.
Social inclusion
She previously worked with troubled youths from deprived areas, an experience which she said she was using in her current role.
Athletic Club Independiente, like most football clubs in Argentina, is a members-only social club. It not only offers non-football recreational activities, but also runs a nursery as well as primary and secondary schools.
These educational centres are now trying to reach out to the poorest areas in Avellaneda, just south of Buenos Aires.
"Violence in football is directly related to what happens in the slums. If we can reduce violent incidents in football, it could also help reduce criminality," she says.
The Argentine football season is now over until February. When competition resumes, so will the challenge of tackling violence.
Days after this interview, there was a reminder of the uphill battle Ms Arietto faces.
An object thrown by home supporters hit the visiting team's goalkeeper, which led to the match being called off.
She offered her resignation to the board after the incident, although it was not accepted.
Ms Arietto knows ending football violence is a slow process, but she insists she will not cave in to the hooligans.
"I deeply believe we are doing the right things," she said.
Officials have admitted the Museum of Modern Art's alarm system had not been fully functioning for several weeks.
One masked intruder was spotted by security cameras, climbing into the museum through a broken side window, having cut through a gate padlock.
The paintings are estimated to be worth just under 100m euros (£86m; $123m).
But experts say the thieves would struggle to sell the paintings on the open market because they are so well known.
The five missing paintings are Dove with Green Peas by Pablo Picasso (painted in 1911), Pastoral by Henri Matisse (1906), Olive Tree near l'Estaque by Georges Braque (1906), Woman with Fan by Amedeo Modigliani (1919) and Still Life with Candlestick by Fernand Leger (1922).
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe admitted one of the museum's alarms had been "partly malfunctioning" since the end of March, and had been awaiting repair when the theft happened.
He called the incident "an intolerable attack on the universal cultural heritage in Paris".
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In pictures: Stolen masterpieces
Officials said that the burglar entered the museum at just before 0400 local time (0200 GMT) on Thursday, and took just 15 minutes to remove the canvases from their frames and slip out of the building again undetected.
Three security guards were on duty during the night, but the theft was only discovered at around 0700 local time (0500 GMT), Christophe Girard, deputy culture secretary at Paris City Hall said.
Mr Girard added that investigators were trying to determine whether the theft was carried out by one burglar or a gang.
"This looks like an operation by a professional gang, by organised criminals," he said. "We are dealing with an extremely high level of sophistication.
"To get into the museum by disassembling a window, choose five specific works and then slip out unnoticed by the guards. That is quite impressive."
The museum, across the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower, has been cordoned off by investigators.
Winner: Oslo
Also nominated: A Doll's House, Part 2; Indecent; Sweat
Winner: Dear Evan Hansen
Also nominated: Come From Away; Groundhog Day; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Winner: Jitney
Also nominated: The Little Foxes; Present Laughter; Six Degrees of Separation
Winner: Hello, Dolly!
Also nominated: Falsettos; Miss Saigon
Winner: Dear Evan Hansen
Also nominated: Come From Away; Groundhog Day; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Winner: Dear Evan Hansen
Also nominated: Come From Away; Groundhog Day; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Winner: Kevin Kline, Present Laughter
Also nominated: Denis Arndt, Heisenberg; Chris Cooper, A Doll's House, Part 2; Corey Hawkins, Six Degrees of Separation; Jefferson Mays, Oslo
Winner: Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2
Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, The Present; Jennifer Ehle, Oslo; Sally Field, The Glass Menagerie; Laura Linney, The Little Foxes
Winner: Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen
Also nominated: Christian Borle, Falsettos; Josh Groban, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Andy Karl, Groundhog Day; David Hyde Pierce, Hello, Dolly!
Winner: Bette Midler, Hello, Dolly!
Also nominated: Denee Benton, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Christine Ebersole, War Paint; Patti LuPone, War Paint; Eva Noblezada, Miss Saigon
Winner: Michael Aronov, Oslo
Also nominated: Danny DeVito, The Price; Nathan Lane, The Front Page; Richard Thomas, The Little Foxes; John Douglas Thompson, Jitney
Winner: Cynthia Nixon, The Little Foxes
Also nominated: Johanna Day, Sweat; Jayne Houdyshell, A Doll's House, Part 2; Condola Rashad, A Doll's House, Part 2; Michelle Wilson, Sweat
Winner: Gavin Creel, Hello, Dolly!
Also nominated: Mike Faist, Dear Evan Hansen; Andrew Rannells, Falsettos; Lucas Steele, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Brandon Uranowitz, Falsettos
Winner: Rachel Bay Jones, Dear Evan Hansen
Also nominated: Kate Baldwin, Hello, Dolly!; Stephanie J Block, Falsettos; Jenn Colella, Come From Away; Mary Beth Peil, Anastasia
Winner: The Play That Goes Wrong
Also nominated: The Front Page, Jitney; Oslo
Winner: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Also nominated: Groundhog Day; Hello, Dolly!; War Paint
Winner: The Little Foxes
Also nominated: A Doll's House, Part 2; Jitney; Present Laughter
Winner: Hello, Dolly!
Also nominated: Anastasia; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; War Paint
Winner: Indecent
Also nominated: A Doll's House, Part 2; Jitney; Oslo
Winner: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Also nominated: Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Winner: Rebecca Taichman, Indecent
Also nominated: Sam Gold, A Doll's House, Part 2; Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jitney; Bartlett Sher, Oslo; Daniel Sullivan, The Little Foxes
Winner: Christopher Ashley, Come From Away
Also nominated: Rachel Chavkin, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Michael Greif, Dear Evan Hansen; Matthew Warchus, Groundhog Day; Jerry Zaks, Hello, Dolly!
Winner: Bandstand
Also nominated: Come and Away; Groundhog Day; Holiday Inn; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Winner: Dear Evan Hansen
Also nominated: Bandstand; Hello, Dolly!; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
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The Championship club are one of the oldest names in island football, having won their first title in 1947 and winning three Uptons in the 1950s.
But a lack of players has led the club to pull out of the island league.
"I am concerned for the Combination and have been for 10 years or more," Charlie Browne told BBC Sport.
"In the 1960s and 1970s football was the dominant sport, but there's a lot of other attractions for people to take part in.
"As the Combination we're fighting for membership with other organisations, it's a sign of the times really."
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The recent past has not been good for teams pulling out of Jersey football.
Last season, the island's oldest club St Martin, who merged with Sporting Club Francais in 2004, left the league, while First Tower United played in the reserve division.
Magpies pulled out in 2014 while Jersey Nomads have also fallen by the wayside, seeing a league which 10 years ago had 20 clubs in it now only have 15.
The league also changed its rules in order to stop top side Jersey Scottish from being automatically relegated from the flight after being unable to field a reserve side.
"It's very sad as Beeches have such a fantastic pedigree and their history is tremendous, one of the finest in the Channel Islands," added Browne.
"But they're really well organised when it comes to the committee, on this occasion they just didn't have the players and I really do think they'll come back.
"But I'm going to keep working hard, my priority is to go out there and sell the sport to the people of Jersey.
"It's a challenge, but I've never wanted this Combination to fail and I'm going to do everything I can to keep it going and build on it."
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The hardware business of the former Hewlett-Packard announced the plans as part of a larger restructuring effort.
It is hoped the cuts will generate some $200m (£163m) to $300m in annual savings for the firm, but they are expected to cost up to $500m in charges.
HP also issued a lower-than-expected earnings guidance for next year.
The company said it expected adjusted profit for the fiscal year 2017 to be between $1.55 and $1.65 per share.
Hewlett-Packard split into two businesses last year: HP Inc, which focuses on printers and computers; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sold its software business to focus on data storage.
"I'm proud of the progress we have made in our first year as the new HP. Our focus is clear, our execution is solid, and we are positioned well for the next step in our journey," Dion Weisler, the company's president, said in a statement.
The job cuts come as sales of personal computers around the world continue to decline.
Earlier this week, research company Gartner said PC shipments declined 5.7% in the third quarter of 2016 compared with a year earlier.
Hewlett-Packard has in the past seen profits hit by declining sales of personal computers and has already had tens of thousands of job cuts in recent years.
The Financial Reporting Council will investigate how KPMG confirmed that the bank's UK and international branch complied with UK customer protection rules from 2007 to 2012.
The probe was prompted by a Financial Conduct Authority fine of the bank.
BNY Mellon was fined £126m in April for failing to protect customer assets.
The fine was the eighth largest imposed by the FCA, and was levied over BNY Mellon's London branch failure to keep customer money safe during the financial crisis.
Tim Martin said pubs paid 20% VAT on food sales while supermarkets paid "almost nothing", enabling them to subsidise alcoholic drink prices.
He said this favoured those who held dinner parties at home.
The company has previously highlighted what it sees as unfair treatment.
"In effect, this was a Budget for dinner parties, no doubt the preference of the Chancellor and his predecessor - dinner parties will suffer far less from the taxes outlined above, whereas many people prefer to go to pubs, given the choice."
He said "the biggest danger to the pub industry" was that it was taxed differently to supermarkets.
He said the firm's business rates bill will increase by £7m this year.
It calculates supermarkets paid "less than 2p per pint for business rates, whereas pubs paid around 18p per pint".
Electricity would cost the company £4m, excise duty £7m and the apprenticeship levy £2m, according to the Wetherspoons boss.
The newly announced pub tax relief made little difference, Mr Martin added.
The British Retail Consortium, which is the trade association for the UK retail industry, said it was not helpful to "pitch" one business against the other especially when the current system was "not fit for purpose in the 21st century" and needed "fundamental reform."
In a statement it said: "The argument for business rates reform is far bigger than individual companies; it is about recognising that the current system is no longer workable for the retail industry as a whole or for any type of business for that matter.
"The total annual rates bill for the retail industry is currently £7bn - nearly one-quarter of all receipts - far more than any other industry.
"Over the next three years to 2020 the retail industry as a whole will be paying £2bn more in business rates than they did in the previous three years and supermarkets will account for a sizeable proportion of this.
"No one is a 'winner' from this revaluation." The BRC added.
On Wednesday the Chancellor provided tax relief of about £1,000 per pub in 2017, with a rateable value of less than than £100,000.
Philip Hammond said this would help 90% of pubs in England.
He also capped bills for companies losing small business rate relief and provided a £300m discretionary relief fund which local authorities could target towards individual hardship cases.
The change in business rate payments from 1 April are linked to the revaluation of property in the UK.
Mr Martin said: "Companies like Wetherspoons, on examination of the fine print of the Budget, are not, in fact, eligible for the £1,000 per annum decrease in business rates, in any event".
Mr Martin's comments came as the 900-strong chain announced its annual results.
In its results for the 26 weeks ending 22 January, pre-tax profits before exceptional items rose 42.8% to £51.4m.
Mr Martin said in the six weeks to 5 March 2017, like-for-like sales rose by 2.7%, while total sales fell 0.2%.
He said significantly higher costs and an expected fall in like-for-like sales meant the company remained "cautious" about the next six months.
Shares fell almost 3% in morning trading in London to 939p, but have risen by about a third over the past 12 months.
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The 20-year-old, who will be competing in this weekend's London Marathon, is studying for a law degree at Teesside University but she is also one of the country's leading T54 wheelchair racers, with Commonwealth and European medals to her name already.
And she is learning from the best, with 11-time Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and her husband Ian overseeing her career.
I race everything from 100m right up to the marathon. Wheelchair racing is a lot like cycling - you need to have good endurance to do those longer distances but if there are 10 women in contention coming into the final straight of a 5,000m race, then you need that sprint finish as well.
I train twice a day, six days a week with a lot of interval training to build my top-end speed and then longer-distance pushes in order to gain that endurance.
I started racing because I enjoyed it. I only thought about the competitive element later on.
Nowadays, if I don't want to train, I just think about what my rivals are doing. They will be out there working hard and if I'm not, I will be a day down on them and it helps push me on.
Tanni and Ian have got the most incredible experience to pass on to me. I'm so lucky to have them as role models and to teach me everything they know, as well as helping me to pursue my academic career plus my training.
Teesside University have been helpful in allowing me to study part-time so I can fit that around training. You need to have a good support network around you. If you have that, then you are in a good position.
I really enjoy the sport I do, I have clear goals, and I know where I want to be and what I want to do. I am lucky because a lot of people don't have that - so it doesn't seem as harsh going out with friends and things like that.
Choose a sport you love and have good time management! It is about being motivated and being a bit strict on yourself and allowing yourself that time to go out and do exercise.
You also need targets because if you don't have them, you won't do the work needed - you aren't going to go running in the morning if you haven't got a race to run in the future.
It makes a massive difference when you know where you want to be and know all the steps needed to get there. Tanni, Ian and I set targets for each year and I know all the different things I need to go and reach those targets. If I don't reach a target then I can re-evaluate and see why it didn't happen and if I do achieve it then we have to increase them next time.
Body Positive is about being ok with the way you look. As someone who is disabled, there is a lot of stigma around disability and people with disabilities being sad and needing help doing everything, but that is not the case.
Just because you have a disability, or maybe weight 10lb more than you want to - you don't have to be the prettiest person, you just have to be you.
I want to encourage people to get into sport at any level. Sport is such a powerful tool, not just in terms of health, it is also a great way to meet people and in turn it makes you more positive about yourself.
Sport has changed my life - without it I wouldn't have the opportunities to travel to the places or meet the people I have and I know it can do that for a lot of people. You just have to give it a go!
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The No Surrender Parent Club marched around the war memorial in the city before attending a service in St Columb's Church of Ireland Cathedral.
The march is held separately from the main St Patrick's Day parade in Derry.
A club spokesperson said it was a "possibility" that they could join the main event in future years, and said they would "consider" any invitation.
The Apprentice Boys of Derry is an organisation set up to commemorate the Siege of Derry in August 1689.
It is named in memory of 13 young apprentices - supporters of the Protestant King William III - who closed the gates of the walled city to stop the advancing army of the Catholic King James II.
The club decided to march this year after the success of their demonstration 12 months ago which marked their 150th anniversary.
After the parade, club spokesman Gordon Porter said: "St Patrick's Day, as you know, throughout the world is a celebration of the whole of Ireland.
"A major part of that story is the siege of Derry, which is what the association of the Apprentice Boys is all about, so it's only right that we are parading today.
"We can tell our story once again within the city of Londonderry, and it only bodes well for the city that two cultures can walk along beside each other."
When asked if the Apprentice Boys would join the main parade at any point in the future, Mr Porter said: "Possibly, in the future, there could be a situation where that might happen. If we get the invite, we'll take it on merit and we'll certainly look into that.
"At the minute we're quite happy to do this by ourselves but in the future it is a possibility," he added.
The 27 governments - collectively called the Council - wanted to limit the pay rise to 1.85% because of tough economic conditions in Europe.
The European Court of Justice says the Council "exceeded its powers" when it decided on the 1.85% figure.
The court case, affecting about 45,000 EU staff, began in January.
"The articles of the [Council] regulation that fix new amounts for salaries are annulled," the court ruling said on Wednesday.
Under the rules, staff salary adjustments take effect on 1 July, so the pay increase will have to be backdated. The move will still require a new Council regulation in line with the court ruling.
The green light for the higher EU pay rise comes as national civil services are shedding jobs and freezing or cutting staff pay.
The pay settlement for 2009-2010 was based on 2008 figures, reflecting economic conditions that were much better at the time.
A complicated formula is used, based on civil service pay in eight of the EU's richer countries and on the cost of living in Brussels. The eight reference countries account for 76% of the EU's total GDP.
The judges, who are also on the EU payroll, said the Council's only legal option to adjust EU salaries because of an economic downturn was under an exceptional clause in the regulations - but the Council had not taken that route. The Commission would have had to agree to such a move anyway.
The Commission - the EU's executive arm - drafts laws and acts as guardian of the treaties.
The court, whose rulings are binding on member states, sits in Luxembourg.
Basic gross monthly salaries for Commission staff currently range from about 2,600 euros (£2,211) for a secretary to about 18,000 euros (£15,300) for a head of department, and about 20,000 euros for a commissioner.
The special Community tax paid by EU staff is generally lower than national rates of income tax for civil servants.
EU staff in Brussels and Luxembourg also get a wide range of allowances, including a residence allowance equivalent to 15% of their basic salary.
Family-related allowances include a household allowance, a dependant child allowance, an educational allowance and a pre-school allowance.
The Commission said it was satisfied with the court's decision, which was in line with the agreed method of salary adjustment.
A Commission spokesman, Michael Mann, told the BBC that for 2010-2011 the salary calculation indicated a 2% cut in purchasing power for EU staff in Brussels, to match an equivalent cut in civil servants' salaries in the eight EU reference countries.
So to keep pace with the 2.4% inflation rate in Brussels the EU pay increase for 2010-2011 would have to be 0.4%, he said.
Since 2004 EU salaries have lost 5.3% of their purchasing power, he said.
Wardens said only 29 nests remained at the coastal site at Crimdon, near Hartlepool, with evidence suggesting dogs were let loose over the weekend.
Durham Heritage Coast (DHC), which manages the site, described the incident as "heartbreaking".
Little terns are among the UK's rarest sea birds and are protected by law. Police are investigating.
The site, which is one of 20 in the UK, is protected by fences and is watched over by wardens during the day.
A DHC spokeswoman said: "It is with great disappointment we report that Crimdon's little tern colony suffered a serious loss of 50 nests.
"With the information we have, it would appear that someone deliberately entered the site with a dog or dogs and devastated virtually every nest.
"As a Schedule 1 listed species due to its rarity, this has been very disheartening given all the time and effort put in by staff and volunteers as part of the Little Tern Recovery Project."
The site has been targeted by vandals and egg thieves in the past. In June 2013, 50 eggs from 65 nesting pairs were taken.
It is believed some eggs were also taken during the weekend incident, but the DHC said most were probably destroyed or eaten by dogs.
The spokeswoman added: "This is really heartbreaking. We hope the the remaining nests will survive and those which have lost nests may try again.
"The colony had a really bad year in 2015 and we were hopeful that this year would be a good one with all the nice weather we've had.
"We'll be reviewing our security at the site, but we are limited by the funding we have."
The birds, which arrive in the UK from Africa in April and May, need a mixture of sand and shingle to make their nests. This means they usually choose beach areas susceptible to attack from natural predators like kestrels and sparrow hawks.
Dog lover Chris Packham and cat lover Liz Bonnin travel around the UK finding out more about the animals and what makes each so special.
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I prefer dogs, as I have always loved dogs, and a lot more responsibility is needed.
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I prefer dogs, specifically because you can teach them tricks and they are so energetic whereas cats are quite lazy!
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I love dogs because you really get to know them. DOGS RULE!
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I prefer dogs because when cats stand on you their claws dig in your leg.
Mia, Wolverhampton, England
Dogs because they are more interactive and they are lovable and so cute.
Jessica, Milton Keynes
I like cats better than dogs because you don't have to spend as much money or time on them.
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I think cats are amazing because they are cute and fluffy.
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Richard Sandon, 52 and an RAF veteran, suffered a broken arm, fractured ribs and bruised kidneys in the attack near the River Nene in Peterborough.
Police said he was the victim of an "unprovoked attack", on Friday evening, when the man tripped over his dog's lead. His dog was kicked but not hurt.
The attacker was described as a 6ft 2in black man wearing a khaki jacket.
Mr Sandon said he had been trying to pull Blue, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, to one side of the towpath to allow the man to pass when he tripped over the lead.
He apologised but the man responded by punching him in the face, knocking him out of his scooter, and punching and stamping on him on the ground. He also kicked the dog, police said.
Mr Sandon was treated for a broken arm, fractured ribs, bruised kidneys and has various bruises around his face and body and remains in hospital.
"I cannot understand what sort of person would attack me and my dog Blue in this way. I am a disabled man who is obviously unable to defend myself," Mr Sandon said.
"Blue is deaf and wears a high-visibility coat which states this. Neither of us were a threat to this man."
Police described the attack, which happened at about 19:30 GMT near the bridge at Railworld, as "vicious and cowardly".
"It was an appalling and unprovoked assault on a victim who couldn't defend himself."
Officers are looking for a man described as black, slim, about 6ft 2in (1.88m), in his late 20s or early 30s.
He was wearing a khaki jacket, jeans, white boot-type trainers and a peaked black beanie hat with a red, yellow and green band around it.
The Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal is raising awareness of skin cancer and is backed by the BBC Radio Derby presenter Colin Bloomfield.
The club donated £10 for each of the 1,401 Derby fans who turned out for the match against Norwich on Saturday.
The appeal, which was started earlier this year, has already raised more than £30,000.
The Rams drew 1-1 with the Canaries at Norwich.
BBC Radio Derby launched the appeal to help protect children from skin cancer after Colin's diagnosis with stage four melanoma in 2013.
The 33-year-old presenter's openness and optimism as he battles the disease has touched thousands of listeners.
The BBC is working with the Derby Telegraph and charity Skcin, which specialises in skin cancer prevention.
The driver, 51, is accused of knocking his passengers out with a sleeping drug, then driving to a cemetery where he would rob and abandon them.
Two victims subsequently died, Russia's interior ministry said.
Gold jewellery, mink fur coats, laptops, mobile phones and bank cards were recovered from the suspect's flat.
Police video shows the suspect being arrested and interrogated on a snowy road by armed police.
The driver, who is originally from Rostov region in southern Russia, is suspected of involvement in eight robberies in the Moscow region, to a total value of 700,000 roubles (£8,600; $10,800), the ministry said on its website (in Russian).
Passengers who got into his vehicle would allegedly be offered a mandarin or a drink that had been spiked beforehand.
Unconscious, they would then allegedly be abandoned in a cemetery at Obukhovo, near the town of Noginsk, to the east of the capital.
The suspect remains in custody as police continue their investigations, the ministry says.
Unlicensed taxis - cars simply flagged down in the street by customers who then negotiate a price - have been a feature of life in urban Russia since Soviet times despite efforts to regulate the market.
A member of the public called officers after a number of tents were found on Monday on land off Falkland Road, Chandler's Ford.
Police also said a fire was reported to have been started in the area.
Three men, aged 19, 20 and 26, and a 17-year-old girl, all from the local area, have been arrested.
A police spokeswoman said they had been held on suspicion of sexual offences but would not give any more details.
She added it appeared to be an isolated incident.
The American holed five birdies to move to eight under, while Canada's Graham DeLaet had an eagle and three birdies in a 68 to reach seven under.
Ryan Moore (69) and fellow American Charley Hoffman (67) are at five under.
World number one Jordan Spieth improved to two under after a four-under 67, while England's Danny Willett (71) is the best of the Britons on level par.
"On this golf course, the leaders start getting four-to-five footers on greens that are a little inconsistent, who knows what's going to happen," said defending champion Spieth.
"I really like the position we're in. Obviously the lead would be better but we've got momentum on our side."
Haas, the son of nine-time PGA Tour winner Jay Haas, has twice finished in the top 10 this year but is in contention for his first win of 2016.
He paid tribute to the influence of his father, who joined him at Innisbrook earlier in the week.
"He came up with the swing thought I've had for three days, and I'm leading," said Haas. "Without him coming down, I might not even have made the weekend. It was very valuable.
"If it goes south, I can blame him."
After a long-running storyline and fevered guessing, Lucy's young brother Bobby was revealed as the killer.
The 11-year-old was found by his stepmother, Jane Beale, clutching what appeared to be the weapon used.
The first episode of the two-parter reached a peak of 11.9 million viewers.
The second episode at 21:30 GMT, which featured the murderer being unmasked, saw a peak of 11.2 million.
The first of two episodes on the show's 30th anniversary, in which it was suggested Jane Beale might have been the killer, had an average audience of 10.8 million.
But in a flashback episode that followed, which returned to the night 20-year-old Lucy was killed, it revealed Jane had only discovered her stepdaughter's body and that Bobby was the actual killer. An average 10.3 million stayed with soap for the revelation.
Standing in the front room of their house and clutching what appeared to be the weapon used in the killing, Bobby told Jane: "Whatever she says, she started it.
"She made everyone unhappy."
All episodes this week have had live segments, and the residents of Walford will be seen dealing with the news in a fully live episode on Friday.
The storyline has been in progress since the body of Lucy, played by Hetti Bywater, was found on Walford Common last April.
One of the biggest talking points of the night however, was the return of Ian's mum Kathy Beale, who had been thought to be dead for more than a decade after a car crash in South Africa.
Actress Gillian Taylforth, who last appeared in the soap in 2000, was seen surprising her ex Phil Mitchell with the words: "Hello Phil."
Many EastEnders fans expressed their shock and confusion at the extreme plot twist on Twitter.
Former X Factor winner Sam Bailey tweeted: "WHAT??? Cathy Beale???????"
The Sun's Dan Wootton tweeted: "KNEW IT! She's back!"
Fan Jess Euston added: "Well the biggest shock in Eastenders was Cathy Beale being alive from the dead & returning! HI CATHY."
And Gemma Shannon said: "Did anyone else have the need to Google #KathyBeale just to be sure she is meant to be dead right?"
Executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins promised her return marked the start of "one of the most earth-shattering storylines the soap has ever seen".
"Kathy is part of EastEnders history, mother to Ian and Ben and one of the most important and iconic television characters on British television," he said.
"Six months ago, we set ourselves the challenge of bringing Kathy back to the Square in a credible way. And I believe we have succeeded."
Kathy appeared in the very first episode of EastEnders on 19 February 1985 as one of the original cast members.
Her return was shot live on location to prevent her being seen by too many people before the episode aired.
Taylforth, who has appeared in The Bill, Hollyoaks and Footballers Wives since leaving the soap, said: "When Dominic approached me with his plan, I was so shocked I got into my car and burst into tears!
"Kathy has always been so close to my heart and it's absolutely wonderful to be returning to the show and reprising the role."
Lucy Beale has featured in EastEnders since her birth in 1993 and has been played by several different actresses over the years.
The soap previously went live for its 25th anniversary to reveal the killer of Archie Mitchell, played by Larry Lamb.
After Archie was murdered on Christmas Day 2009, Stacey Branning was discovered to be the culprit during a live episode in February 2010.
Pictures of their bodies have been shown on state TV and police have asked for the public's help to identify them.
Malian and international troops stormed the Radisson Blu hotel to free guests and staff being held hostage.
Three different Islamist groups have said they carried out the attack.
Warning: Pictures of the bodies in the state TV appeal, seen lower down in this article, may be upsetting for some readers.
Investigators have yet to determine the number and nationality of the gunmen.
However, Islamist group al-Murabitoun, which first claimed responsibility for the attack, has issued a new audio recording identifying the two gunmen, reports say.
They were named as Abdel Hakim al-Ansari and Moadh al-Ansari.
One security source in Mali earlier told the BBC that officials believed that the two dead gunmen had been speaking English during the attack.
The police found a suitcase with grenades in the hotel lobby and were following up "several leads" linked to "objects" left by the gunmen, a Malian police source has told the AFP news agency.
Ahead of the three days of national mourning declared by Mali, the chairman of the West African regional bloc Ecowas, Senegal's President Macky Sall, visited Bamako to show support.
He said on Sunday: "Mali will never be alone in this fight, we are all committed because we are all involved."
Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea are also observing the mourning, which started on Monday.
This list has been provided to the BBC by a security source in Mali
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its affiliate, al-Murabitoun, have both said they were responsible for the attack.
The Macina Liberation Front (MLF) which has been blamed for attacks in southern Mali, has also said its fighters carried it out.
Security remains tight around major hotels in Bamako.
Gunmen entered the hotel on Friday morning, shooting and driving their vehicle through a security barrier, one eyewitness said.
Most of the hotel guests and staff were freed hours later when Malian special forces, French special forces and off-duty US servicemen stormed the hotel to end the siege.
The MLF is a new jihadist group operating in central and southern Mali.
It is led by the radical Muslim cleric Amadou Kouffa, a strong proponent of strict Islamic law in Mali.
His group draws most of its support from the Fulani ethnic group, who are found across the Sahel.
Mr Kouffa is a close ally of Tuareg jihadist Iyad ag Ghali, who leads the powerful jihadist group Ansar Dine.
A Human Rights Watch report said the MLF militants had carried out serious abuses in parts of central Mali since January and killed at least five people they accused of being aligned to the government.
The group has attacked police and military particularly in the Mopti region, most recently killing three soldiers in Tenenkou in August.
The Malian military recently arrested Alaye Bocari, a man they say was a key MLF financier and Mr Kouffa's right-hand man.
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The Blackpool potter, 20, has won five of his 15 matches so far this season and fallen to 92 in the world rankings.
Cahill, who beat Chinese superstar Ding Junhui at the same event in 2014, said his "head was finished with the game".
"If I carry on like this I will pack it in at the end of the season," he said.
"I have had enough. I am practising and don't want to. It is hard work and I don't know what to say. I am just tired of the game."
Cahill said he would not be taking the decision lightly but had been thinking about calling time on his career for a while.
He has earned £11,625 in prize money so far this season and says he is fed up of borrowing money to enter tournaments and struggling to make a living.
He added to BBC Sport: "I am obviously only at the start of my career, but I feel like I have been playing for ages now. I feel like I am going round in the circles and bashing my head against a wall."
The victim, named in reports as 27-year-old Oliver Tetlow, was pronounced dead at the scene of the Harlesden gun attack.
Det Ch Insp Mark Lawson said Wednesday night's killing was being investigated as gang-related.
He said the victim was shot multiple times and that an automatic weapon appeared to have been used.
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DCI Lawson said: "At this very early stage in the investigation, we are exploring that the shooting was gang related, however I am satisfied the victim was not the intended target and this was a tragic case of mistaken identity."
He added officers were aware details of the murder were "circulating" on social media and called on anyone with information to come forward.
The killer is believed to have got out of a dark hatchback car before returning to the vehicle after the shooting.
The victim's family has been informed, but formal identification will not take place until after a post-mortem examination.
Nick Gibb's comments follow an inquiry into the Standards and Testing Agency ordered after a series of problems and security breaches involving primary tests this year.
Claire Burton, the agency's chief executive, accepted the report's criticisms and promised "greater strategic oversight".
Primary school tests faced a series of administrative problems this year - including an English test having to be cancelled after questions had been published in advance on a Department for Education website.
There were also accusations of a "rogue marker" as Sats test questions were claimed to have been leaked online a day before the test was taken.
This confusion had prompted an angry response from teachers' unions, which had warned of a rushed and "chaotic" implementation of changes to primary tests.
Ministers had ordered an "urgent review" into the Standards and Testing Agency, part of the Department for Education, which runs primary school tests.
The findings, published on Wednesday, concluded that the agency was "broadly fit for purpose".
But it highlighted problems, including a "lack of end-to-end strategy", a "defensive" culture and "an ineffective assurance process".
The staff of the agency were described as being "under enormous pressure" and "bruised by recent events and morale is low". There is a high rate of vacancies.
The report says the agency has an administrative budget of £4m a year and looks after contracts worth £122m.
Mr Gibb says the review "identified clear issues around strategic leadership at the agency, poor value for money and a lack of customer focus".
"Work is already under way to address those challenges and the STA has assured me it can, and will, make the changes required to prevent similar issues in future."
Ms Burton, the agency's chief executive, says: "We fully accept the findings of the review and have already taken steps to respond to the security breaches earlier this year, including restructuring the management team to ensure greater strategic oversight and improving internal processes."
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The picture of Madame Valentine Clapisson was painted by the great French Impressionist more than 130 years ago.
The original's impact has been degraded and dulled by the action of light.
But by using the latest analytical tools, conservators have been able to recover a sense of Renoir's rich reds.
"When we first brought this picture into the conservation studio for examination and removed the frame, we noticed that at the top and at the left-hand side there was a sliver of very intense colour," recalls Dr Francesca Casadio from The Art Institute of Chicago.
"This tipped us off to the fact that the mood of this painting that is now pretty cool and restrained with light purples and blues was once far more vibrant," she told BBC News.
Dr Casadio was speaking here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
She and other specialists in her field have been discussing the technologies they now use to investigate and restore artworks.
The visualisation of Madame Clapisson was produced after subjecting tiny samples of paint from the 1883 canvas to a technique known as Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS).
Pigments fade over time as the molecular structures responsible for colour are broken down through exposure to light.
SERS enables researchers to pick out even the smallest fragment of intact structure and determine its molecular composition. This was done with tiny samples taken from the newly uncovered edges of the canvas.
Dr Casadio's and colleague's investigation showed that the picture we see today has lost the impact of Renoir's use of the carmine lake, or cochineal, pigment.
Extracted from the bodies of certain insects, this crimson colour should dominate the scene around Madame Clapisson.
"The manuals from the 19th Century were already warning artists that carmine lake was a 'fugitive pigment'; it wasn't a permanent colour. And yet, the artists clearly loved it because they continued to use it over and over again even though they had more stable options available to them," Dr Casadio explained.
The study has allowed the conservation scientist to make a compelling computer visualisation of what Renoir originally saw when he stood back after signing his name on the completed canvass. Is it exactly the same?
"We can't quite say that," said Dr Casadio, who acknowledges that the mixing of pigments on a palette does not have the certainty of scientific equations.
"We can get very close to the tip of the brush of Renoir because we know the exact chemical mixture he used, but then if you and I were to make a cake with the same ingredients it may not taste or look quite the same."
Northwestern University chemist Prof Richard Van Duyne pioneered SERS. He said the Renoir demonstrated why the Raman technique was fast becoming an invaluable tool for studying artworks: "You get tremendous information about the origins of the painting, the techniques of the artist, an understanding of the fading mechanism, and the ability to restore the painting."
The picture of Valentine Clapisson was actually Pierre-Auguste Renoir's second attempt at capturing a portrait of his subject.
Initially, Valentine, the wife of Paris stockbroker Leon Clapisson, was depicted taking tea in a rose garden. But neither the artist nor the client was happy with the outcome and so the subject was moved indoors.
An exhibition based on the research opened this week at The Art Institute of Chicago.
The original picture is known as "Madame Leon Clapisson", 1883. Oil on canvas, 81.2 × 65.3 cm, Mr and Mrs Martin A Ryerson Collection. Digital recolourisation by Kelly Keegan, Conservation department, The Art Institute of Chicago
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A Toure shot appeared to take a slight deflection off David Silva before going through defender Craig Dawson's legs and trickling over the line.
City extended their lead when Toure curled a shot into the top corner.
Vincent Kompany headed in a corner as City delivered an early statement of Premier League title intent.
West Brom had a rare chance for a consolation goal when Chris Brunt crossed for James Morrison, who headed straight at goalkeeper Joe Hart.
City host Chelsea on Sunday and the only negative for them was when Toure went off late on with an apparent groin injury.
Relive Manchester City's win against West Brom
All eyes were on Sterling after the 20-year-old England forward's controversial and protracted move to City from Liverpool this summer.
But it was Ivory Coast midfielder Toure and Spanish playmaker Silva who stole the show as they epitomised the desire and energy that manager Manuel Pellegrini's side were accused of sometimes lacking last season.
Silva's darting runs, jinking feet and vision allied with the power and finishing of Toure were too much for the Baggies to handle.
Kompany will also hope his struggles of last season are behind him after he put in the type of commanding performance he is more renowned for as he marked his display with a goal.
It is obviously too early to judge but he should have marked his Premier League debut for City with a goal.
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The pink-booted Sterling, playing on the left flank, was clean through on goal just before half-time only to play his shot too close to keeper Boaz Myhill, who saved low to his left.
On the other side of the break, Sterling showed the kind of pace that puts fear into the opposition as he ran at the Baggies' goal before having an angled shot blocked away by Myhill.
"Raheem has given us the sharpness and speed to hurt teams," said Kompany. "It gives other sides things to think about. It gives us that bit of danger we need and we have so many tools to hurt teams now."
If West Brom's summer signing Rickie Lambert and fellow striker Saido Berahino needed motivating, then the signing of Salomon Rondon for a club record of about £12m prior to the match should have provided it.
However, the tactic of Baggies boss Tony Pulis to play both in attack backfired as the pair struggled to make any mark on City's defence, while the visitors dominated possession.
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Lambert did go close with a dipping and curling 25-yard free-kick, while Berahino had a great chance when he ran on to a cross but he mistimed a first-time shot from six yards with only Hart to beat.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis said: "I told the players after the game I have to take responsibility for this one. I played Saido and Rickie and that left the midfield too open. It went against the principles I have always worked to and it has given me a rude awakening.
"I won't be doing that against the big teams. You have to make sure you fill the midfield and don't get outnumbered. I wanted to be positive but that has taught me a lesson."
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany: "We have something to prove. Last season was below what we're used to doing. It was a good way to start the first game.
"We came out knowing we had a point to prove. If you'd seen the faces in training last week, I knew the team was going to be ready for this game."
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It's important to start with a win. In the Premier League normally you are going to win or lose the league by one point, so it's important to start strongly."
BBC Radio 5 live's Robbie Savage: "Manchester City were on a different planet against West Brom and better than any other team after the first weekend of the Premier League. West Brom were just beaten by a better team. Every player in a City shirt performed.
"I just think West Brom got it tactically wrong playing two in attack. Manager Tony Pulis said you can't lose a midfield battle with City, and his side have done that."
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester City 3.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 0, Manchester City 3.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Boaz Myhill.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Chester (West Bromwich Albion).
Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Claudio Yacob.
Attempt blocked. Samir Nasri (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.
Attempt saved. Victor Anichebe (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Darren Fletcher.
Attempt missed. Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Callum McManaman with a cross.
David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, Manchester City. Martín Demichelis replaces Yaya Touré.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Callum McManaman replaces Saido Berahino.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt saved. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Chris Brunt with a cross.
Attempt missed. Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Manchester City. Samir Nasri replaces Raheem Sterling.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Victor Anichebe replaces Rickie Lambert.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yaya Touré (Manchester City).
Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Craig Gardner (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Rickie Lambert with a headed pass.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Attempt blocked. Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Craig Gardner with a cross.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Bacary Sagna.
Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jesús Navas.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Darren Fletcher tries a through ball, but Rickie Lambert is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester City. Sergio Agüero replaces Wilfried Bony.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
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27 August 2015 Last updated at 12:39 BST
The citizen journalism website LiveLeak has done so.
Speaking on Newsnight, the co-founder of the site, Hayden Hewitt, defended the move in a heated debate with Michael Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News.
The discussion was chaired by presenter James O'Brien.
The France Under-21 player has agreed a five-and-a-half-year deal with the Blues, but will stay at St Etienne on loan for the rest of the season.
Zouma has made 12 Ligue 1 appearances for the French side this season.
Born in Lyon, Zouma joined St Etienne as a 15-year-old in 2009 before turning professional two years later.
He has made 52 appearances for the club, scoring four goals.
St Etienne president Roland Romeyer had previously said the player would not move in the transfer window.
Meanwhile, Blues winger Gael Kakuta has joined Lazio.
The 22-year-old, who has made just one Premier League start for Chelsea, moves to Serie A on loan until the end of the season.
He embarks on a fifth loan spell away from Stamford Bridge having previously spent time at Fulham and Bolton Wanderers, and with Dijon in France, before his time with Vitesse Arnhem in Holland.
Lazio are 10th in the Serie A table ahead of Sunday's match away to Chievo.
Photographer Doug Chalk came across the crack, 60cm (2ft) wide and 45m (50yds) long, east of West Bay on Friday.
Mr Chalk said it looked "pretty awful" and predicted part of the cliff would fall on to the beach below.
Jurassic Coast earth science manager Richard Edmonds, who has examined the crack, said it was unlikely to be a fresh break, but could be related to heavy winter rainfall in 2012-13.
"It's clearly going to fall off - I just can't tell you when," he said.
"It's quite concerning but it's part of the nature of this coastline."
Mr Chalk said he posted the picture, taken with a zoom lens, on social media to warn visitors ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend and had been "astounded" by how widely it had been shared.
"It's going to be a major fall when it goes," he said.
Mr Edmonds said the crack was at the top of the vertical cliff, but there was nothing apparent to anyone looking up from the beach below.
He urged visitors to pay attention to warning signs along the Jurassic Coast.
The data listed in the email includes credit card details, social security numbers and tax identification numbers.
Patreon says the email is a scam and the information is false.
The site allows people to make regular donations to artists for projects.
The email, tweeted by cartoonist Steve Streza, says: "Unfortunately, your data was leaked in the recent hacking of the Patreon website, and I now have your information."
It goes on to ask for one bitcoin (£213; $322) in return for not publishing the information online.
There appear to have been three transactions made to the bitcoin wallet given in the email over the weekend, but each is for a tiny fraction of the virtual currency, amounting to just a few pence, according to the Blockchain, a continuing record of every bitcoin transaction made.
About 15GB of data, including names, addresses and donations, was published online in October following the hack attack on Patreon.
At the time, chief executive Jack Conte said card details had not been stolen.
"We do not store full credit card numbers on our servers and no credit card numbers were compromised," he wrote on the company's blog.
"Although accessed, all passwords, social security numbers and tax form information remain safely encrypted with a 2,048-bit RSA key."
Security expert Troy Hunt told the BBC the hack had been made possible by site tests.
"It looks as though the breach has come about by a fundamental yet very common mistake software developers... make - taking a copy of live production data and placing it in another location that lacks the same rigorous security controls," he said.
"Often this is done for testing purposes and is a very dangerous shortcut as we've now seen."
Jane Restorick, previously known as Jane Park, was 17 when she won £1m.
Restorick, 21, from Edinburgh, admitted having 66 microgrammes of alcohol in her breath. The limit is 22.
She was caught at a McDonald's drive-thru at Straiton Mains Road on 8 October 2016.
Fiscal depute Nathan Gale told Sheriff Gordon Liddle that about 05:46, Restorick drove into the drive-thru area and staff noticed her speech was slurred.
They believed she was under the influence of alcohol and contacted the police. Officers arrived at 06:05.
Restorick was still in her car in the drive-thru and the police noted a strong smell of alcohol.
She was taken to Dalkeith Police station where the test was carried out.
Defence solicitor Stephen Mannifield said: it "was a mistake...she had consumed alcohol three times the limit and decided to transfer herself and a friend to McDonald's".
He added that Restorick had a limited record, but no previous convictions for road traffic offences. Mr Mannifield suggested that as a result of Restorick's "poor decision-making" it would be beneficial for her to undergo the drink-driving course.
Sheriff Liddle told Restorick: "Anyone with that amount of alcohol is a danger to the public.
"You could have killed someone and you would have been in a different court on a different charge and lost your freedom for a considerable period of time."
Sheriff Liddle agreed that Restorick could take part in the drive-drive course, adding that she would have to pay for it herself, fined her £900, disqualified her for 18 months and ordered that she surrender her licence to the court within 24 hours.
Last May, Restorick was fined £110 after pleading guilty to assaulting door steward Lee Rutherford at Edinburgh's City Nightclub on 1 February 2015.
Jonathon Braybrook, 26, of Chesterton Close in Wandsworth, south west London, is accused of encouraging people to invest in or sell wine via an online company, Le Bordeaux Wines Limited.
A Staffordshire Police investigation, which was prompted by a complaint from a Staffordshire company, suggested the wines did not exist.
Mr Braybrook is due to appear before Newcastle magistrates on 27 May.
The Republic parted company with Giovanni Trapattoni in September after failing to qualify for the World Cup.
"I think I'm the bad cop and he's the bad, bad cop," O'Neill, who will take over as manager, told ITV.
"I'm honoured Martin has asked me to work with him," added Keane. "I'm looking forward to working with the players and getting to the Euros."
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The Republic's next fixtures are friendlies against Latvia on 15 November and Poland four days later.
O'Neill, 61, who won 64 caps for Northern Ireland, has been out of football since being sacked by Sunderland in March while his assistant Keane, 42, was dismissed by Ipswich in January 2011.
Keane gained 67 international caps, but caused controversy as captain of his country when he quit the Republic squad before the 2002 World Cup after falling out with then manager Mick McCarthy.
"I am very lucky to get another opportunity," Keane added. "I think I have deserved another chance to get back into football. It is great to work with Martin and hopefully we won't let anybody down."
Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney told BBC Sport he and Keane had "an open conversation" when they met for the first time last week.
"I was very taken by him, I was very impressed by him and he was very passionate about a managerial role around this team," Delaney said.
"Martin wanted Roy as his assistant. I'm delighted with that, there is no problem whatsoever."
Delaney has confirmed that businessman Denis O'Brien will once again help to finance the salary of the Republic management as was the case during Trapattoni's reign.
O'Brien was believed to have contributed around half of the previous management team's salaries.
FAI chief Delaney also thanked Celtic's majority shareholder Dermot Desmond for "his very influential role in facilitating this appointment".
O'Neill began his managerial career at Wycombe and also had spells in charge of Norwich and Leicester before spending five years at the helm at Celtic.
He led the Glasgow side to the domestic treble in his first season and in 2003 took them to the Uefa Cup final where they lost in extra time to Jose Mourinho's Porto.
O'Neill also managed Aston Villa from 2006-2010 and led the club to three successive sixth-placed finishes. He spent 16 months in charge of Sunderland but was sacked after a run of eight games without a win left them one point above the relegation zone.
Delaney added: "Once Martin declared his interest, it became an easy decision to recommend to the board that Martin was the man."
The Republic reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup under Jack Charlton on their maiden appearance in 1990 but have failed to qualify since 2002.
Trapattoni, who was appointed manager in February 2008, guided the team to the finals of Euro 2012 but they lost all three matches in a difficult group with Spain, Italy and Croatia.
In World Cup 2014 qualifying they were beaten 6-1 at home by Germany and could only finish fourth in Group C, with 14 points from their 10 matches.
The 27-year-old striker has made just 11 appearances for Rochdale this season, scoring just once in League One - against Sheffield United in October.
Following their defeat by Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday, the Minstermen are five points from safety in League Two with 11 matches remaining.
Alessandra, who has previously played for Morecambe and Plymouth, will be in Saturday's squad against Barnet.
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The airport's departures board showed the 08:00 GMT FlyBe flight to London City was cancelled.
Two flights arriving at the airport from Dublin have also been cancelled, and other departures and arrivals are delayed.
All departures on Thursday night were cancelled due to freezing fog and several planes were unable to land.
The airport said Friday morning's disruption was a knock-on effect of that fog and the airport now anticipated slight delays.
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The House of Representatives held a voice vote on legislation that the Senate approved in May.
President Obama vowed again to reject the measure, but lawmakers could overturn one of his vetoes for the first time if they secure enough votes.
Saudi Arabia, a key US ally, has denied any role in the attacks.
Democratic New York lawmaker Jerrold Nadler, the bill's sponsor in the House, said of Friday's vote: "We wanted it to come to the floor, symbolically before the 15th anniversary.
"We've been aiming toward that the entire session.''
President Obama has warned of retaliatory lawsuits against the US government if American citizens are allowed to take the Saudis to court.
But Terry Strada, national chair for 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism, disagreed that the bill could backfire as the White House has warned.
"If we're not funding terrorist organisations and killing people, then we don't have anything to worry about," she said.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a former New York senator, is among backers of the bipartisan legislation.
Riyadh reportedly threatened earlier this year to pull hundreds of billions of dollars from the US economy if the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act was enacted.
The Saudi foreign minister warned the bill would strip the principle of sovereign immunity and usher in the "law of the jungle".
Separately, a bipartisan group of US senators announced on Thursday they will attempt to block the Obama administration's proposed sale of more than $1bn (£754m) in weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh has never been formally implicated in the 11 September 2001 attacks.
But two months ago Congress released 28 declassified pages from a report that reignited concerns a few of the attackers had links to Saudi government officials.
Last year, a confessed 9/11 plotter in US custody, Zacarias Moussaoui, claimed a Saudi prince had helped finance the attack.
The kingdom said it was a baseless accusation from a "deranged criminal".
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
Prof Jo Shaw, the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at Edinburgh University Law School, said some form of confrontation between the UK and Scottish governments over the proposal was inevitable.
The bill, announced by Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday, will repeal the European Communities Act and enshrine all existing EU law into British law.
It would ensure that there would not be any gaps in legislation once the UK left the EU.
But Scotland's Brexit minister Mike Russell has warned the Scottish Parliament might seek to block it if Scotland's interests were not represented in negotiations.
Under the "Sewel convention" the UK Parliament will not normally legislate for devolved matters without the consent of the devolved legislature affected.
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Prof Shaw said there were two strands to the issue: legality and legitimacy.
"The legal reality, as I'm quite sure Mike Russell knows, is that the UK Parliament remains sovereign within the British system as it exists.
"So consequently a piece of subsequent legislation from Westminster which overrode or repealed or changed part of the Scottish devolution legislation would of course take priority," she said.
"Legally I have to say I think the UK government holds most of the cards. In legitimacy terms, one could point to the Scottish government having a pretty good hand to play."
Prof Shaw said she was sure politicians on both sides of the border were "perfectly aware" the bill would be "very, very confrontational".
"It isn't a particularly consent-based approach, it isn't a particularly collaborative approach," she told the BBC.
"We've seen statements about collaboration that Mrs May made right at the beginning of her premiership have largely gone away now. She's said things like, 'well, Scotland can have its say but ultimately we drive the process here in London.'"
But she said the fact that the UK Parliament could "railroad" legislation through demonstrated the "limits of devolution".
A principle of Westminster parliamentary sovereignty is that no parliament can bind its successors.
"There may have been one parliament that enshrined the legislative consent motion into the Scotland Act 2016.
"The next parliament can then enact this measure that we're talking about today and the effect of that could be to impliedly repeal parts of the devolution settlement."
The permit will allow those living in Reading, Wokingham and Bracknell to use Smallmead Recycling Centre in Whitley.
But, residents west of Reading will be barred from using the site from 1 July due to cuts to funding.
West Berkshire Council withdrew £97,000 from its funding for waste disposal in the town, in March.
The authority decided the costs to cover the 75,000 visits to the tip each year, made by people crossing the border into Reading, were "too high".
This led to the establishment of Re3 - the recycling company which provides waste services to Bracknell, Wokingham and Reading councils - to bar West Berkshire residents from using the tips from July.
West Berkshire councillor Alan Macro said Re3's decision could lead to more fly-tipping in the area.
"What they have done wrong is that they have acted before they have an alternative for people who live in the general Reading area", he said.
Tilehurst resident Brian Pettiford - who uses the Smallmead tip regularly - said the changes will mean people living in Calcot and Tilehurst will have to drive up to 20 miles to access rubbish tips in Newbury as opposed to a 5 miles trip to Smallmead.
"I feel very bitter that we have to go to Newbury, which is over 15 miles away. It would be good if [Re3] would charge for a permit to use the tip," he said.
West Berkshire Council said financial challenges meant "some difficult decisions about the services provided" had to be made.
Four-time world champion Higgins led 3-1 and 4-3 against Robert Milkins but the world number 19 fought back to to take the last two frames for a 5-4 win.
World number one Trump was then beaten 5-3 by his good friend Jack Lisowski, the 21-year-old ranked 42 in the world.
It is the third time that Lisowksi has beaten Trump in their four meetings.
He trailed 3-2 despite breaks of 85 and 131 but Trump only scored 16 points in the last three frames as Lisowski made breaks of 63, 80 and 94.
"It's not easy playing your friend, but we're still mates after the match," Lisowski said. "I didn't practise much with Judd before this tournament because we knew we'd probably end up playing each other. I played a bit with Liang Wenbo instead and that really helped me."
Trump added: "Jack played very well and made it hard for me. He only missed one long ball in the match. Playing like that I think he would have beaten anyone in this tournament."
Matthew Stevens became the third member of the top 10 to crash out after the Welshman succumbed 5-2 to Rory McLeod, the world number 40.
Defending champion Peter Ebdon also made an early exit, beaten 5-3 by Scot Marcus Campbell.
But world number five Shaun Murphy overcame some stern resistance from Andrew Higginson before prevailing 5-3.
Ali Carter - battling with Mark Davis to secure the final place in the top 15 and avoid having to qualify for the Crucible, with defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan returning to make up the top 16 - also progressed with a 5-2 victory over Chinese wildcard Zhao Xintong.
"I don't want to have to qualify for Sheffield and if I keep winning I won't have to," Carter said. "It would be nice to be there by right and I think I deserve to be there based on what I've done there and what I've achieved this season."
Scots Stephen Maguire and Graeme Dott both reached the second round on Monday.
Maguire, who won the event in 2008 and was beaten in last year's final by Ebdon, came from 3-1 down to beat Michael Holt 5-3, while Dott - the 2007 champion - overcame Hong Kong's Marco Fu 5-2.
The visitors lost the Test series 2-0 and the one-day international series 3-0 with only Tuesday's Twenty20 left.
The closest they have come to a win was in the opening ODI at Trent Bridge where England secured a tie by hitting the last ball of the match for six.
"There will be some who will hate us, some will still love us. Sorry for letting you down," Mathews tweeted.
"It is tough times but will come back hard."
After losing Saturday's final ODI in Cardiff, Sri Lanka also slipped to sixth in the International Cricket Council's world rankings, with England moving a place above them.
Having drawn their warm-up games against Essex and Leicestershire, the tourists' only victories have come in their two ODIs against Ireland in Dublin, shortly after the Tests in England.
Their tour has also been marked by a raft of injuries, with pace bowlers Dhammika Prasad (shoulder) and Dushmantha Chameera (lower back stress fracture) and batsman Lahiru Thirimanne (lower back strain), all flying home injured.
Several others have played on despite injury - Mathews and vice-captain Dinesh Chandimal suffered hamstring niggles, while Farveez Maharoof suffered a fractured finger on his left hand.
Phelan, 53, took charge of the Tigers when Steve Bruce resigned in July after a breakdown in his relationship with vice-chairman Ehab Allam.
He has yet to be handed the job despite winning two of his opening three games while using just 13 players.
Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling was named player of the month.
Phelan beat Jose Mourinho of Manchester United, Pep Guardiola of Manchester City and Chelsea's Antonio Conte to the manager award.
"It's an honour you don't expect, being caretaker manager," said Phelan. "It's a credit to the football club and to the players for all their endeavours that have given me this achievement."
Hull defeated Leicester on the opening day before winning at Swansea, and were only denied a point against Manchester United thanks to Marcus Rashford's injury-time strike.
Sterling, 21, had a poor Euro 2016 with England but scored twice against West Ham in August - the same number of goals as he managed in his previous 25 Premier League appearances.
Middlesbrough forward Cristhian Stuani won the goal of the month award for his 25-yard strike against Sunderland.
The shadow home secretary said the 27-year fight Hillsborough families had to endure showed how the odds were stacked against families seeking the truth.
He will also ask MPs to back stage two of the Leveson Inquiry - looking at the relationship between police and press.
In April the Hillsborough inquest ruled the 96 victims were unlawfully killed.
The jury also found police errors added to a dangerous situation at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final at Sheffield Wednesday's ground where the 96 fans died as a result of a crush.
Mr Burnham said: "The 27-year struggle of the Hillsborough families exposes how the odds are all too frequently stacked against ordinary families seeking truth and justice.
"Hillsborough must mark a moment of real change when Parliament rebalances the police and criminal justice system and puts more power in the hands of ordinary people.
"We must call time on the uneven playing field at inquests where public bodies spend public money like water on hiring the best lawyers when ordinary families have to scratch around for whatever they can get."
Mr Burnham has become heavily involved with the Hillsborough campaign for justice since 2009 when he addressed fans at the 20th anniversary memorial at Anfield but was interrupted by chants demanding "Justice for the 96".
The anger of fans prompted the MP, then serving in the government as the culture, media and sport secretary, to join calls for any information held relevant to the tragedy to be made public .
He is now planning to propose an amendment to the Policing and Crime Bill which would give families a legal right to receive the same amount of funding as the police so that they can also have the best quality lawyers.
The Leigh MP believes this would put more power in the hands of ordinary people.
Mr Burnham will also repeat Labour's call for the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry to go ahead.
The first part of the inquiry, in 2011-2012, examined press ethics, but hearings into ties between newspapers and the police were put on hold amid criminal inquiries over phone hacking.
Downing Street said in February that no decision had been taken about whether to continue with the inquiry.
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Andy Burnham is to urge MPs to back a "Hillsborough Law", which would ensure legal funding for bereaved families at inquests where police are involved.
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Sandeep and Reena Mander said they were told by Adopt Berkshire that white British or European applicants would be given preference as only white children were in need.
It is not illegal for adoption agencies to prioritise on the basis of race.
A spokesman for Adopt Berkshire said: "We do not comment on ongoing court cases."
"They took the colour of our skin as the overriding reason not to progress with the application," Mr Mander said.
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has also not responded to a request for a comment.
The couple contacted Adopt Berkshire, the official adoption agency for Windsor & Maidenhead Council, to look at adoption after several failed attempts at fertility treatment.
"We said that, having thought about it for six months, it was something that we really wanted to do," Mr Mander told the BBC.
"I could tell on the phone it wasn't going to end nicely.
"She asked what background we were from.
"I said we were from an Indian background, and she said that they were 'unable to prioritise us', and they wouldn't look at our case.
"They said we should, 'seek other means of adopting a child'."
Adoption agencies are allowed to prioritise on the basis of race in order to match children to prospective parents of the same ethnic background.
But the government has also said that a child's ethnicity should not be a barrier to adoption.
Adopt Berkshire's website says children in need of adoption "will reflect the racial, cultural and religious backgrounds of the populations within the areas from which they originate."
It adds that the authority will seek prospective parents of a similar background to the child, though they would not keep children waiting to "achieve a direct match".
"Although my cultural background is Indian, I don't have any links with India, I'm a British person," Mr Mander said.
"We are a great couple, we're happily married for 10 years and financially stable.
"We have a five-bedroom house with four spare bedrooms.
"We thought we would be able to at least get to an application stage."
Mr Mander said he understood that cultural heritage was important and should be looked at, but he said a number of factors should be considered and people should not be prevented from getting to the application stage because of one particular area.
"We are angry and upset that this happens in this particular day and age," he continued.
"We know that we will be very good adopters."
The Manders are applying to Slough County Court seeking a declaration that the policy should allow them to adopt.
Their case is supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Mr and Mrs Mander have also decided to pursue adoption abroad instead of locally.
"We are now looking at inter-country adoption, which is so costly", added Mrs Mander.
She said they wanted to raise awareness about their case so that other couples did not go through what they have experienced.
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Elephant grass (Miscanthus) planted as a biomass crop is a valuable habitat for the brown hare, according to research.
A study suggests the grass can support hare populations when planted at the right scale.
Numbers of brown hares have declined in the UK over past decades, though they are still common in some areas.
Dr Silviu Petrovan of the conservation science group at the University of Cambridge carried out the research.
"What we strongly suspect is that these areas of Miscanthus are very good at replacing lost diversity in the farmland," he told BBC News.
"If you have a single block of Miscanthus with arable land and grassland fields in the vicinity (mixed farmland) it offers really high quality habitat for brown hares."
In the study, scientists from the University of Cambridge, University of Hull and The Open University radio-tracked brown hares in North Yorkshire across the seasons.
They discovered hares never fed on the grass, but they liked to sleep in it during the day, as they are nocturnal.
Even small areas of elephant grass of only 10 hectares could harbour animals.
But large swathes of Miscanthus were inhospitable, the scientists found.
Miscanthus is grown in many parts of the UK, particularly near power plants, where it is harvested and burned for fuel.
The grass requires little management and is not sprayed with herbicides.
Dr Phil Wheeler from the Open University, who led the research, said: "In some respects, although these biomass crops are alien to the UK, they mimic unfarmed or unintensively cultivated bits of farmland, many of which have been lost as farming has intensified.
"Our research suggests that for hares, diversifying farmland by planting biomass crops in small chunks might replace something of what has been lost."
But he said if biomass crops are only viable when planted over wide areas, they may end up as another challenge to farmland wildlife.
The research is funded by the wildlife charity, People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), and published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research.
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Simon Thomas' comments follow fresh questions about the party's leadership.
Speaking at the National Eisteddfod on Anglesey, AM Rhun ap Iorwerth said he would consider succeeding Leanne Wood.
Another of the party's AMs, who did not want to be named, called for a leadership contest claiming Ms Wood had "lost authority in the group".
Speaking to BBC Wales' Newyddion 9 programme, Mr Thomas said he would like his party to "concentrate on the leadership question they do have, which isn't a question around one person as leader, but the question of 'are we performing as well as we could be as an assembly group?'"
"I don't think we are so we all have to raise our game," he said.
Mr Thomas, who represents Mid and West Wales, also said it was expected that questions around leadership arise between elections.
"That's not saying anything in favour or against any person, it's just obvious it's going to be part of the discussion," he said.
"If anyone thinks they could do a better job as leader than Leanne Wood, they should stand using the party's procedures rather than say things anonymously."
According to the Plaid Cymru constitution, the leader must face re-election every two years. This usually happens unopposed.
The next opportunity to stand against the current leader will be next year.
Nesta Thomas, from Caernarfon, fell and hit a metal barrier as she left her local Morrisons on 11 February 2016, the hearing in Caernarfon was told.
She refused an ambulance but died eight days later after it was found she had fractured a vertebrae in her spine.
A pulmonary embolism due to deep vein thrombosis caused by the fracture was given as the cause of death.
A conclusion of accidental death was recorded and Morrisons, who was not represented at the case, has since installed sliding doors.
Mrs Thomas' daughter Christine told the hearing the door gave her "a heck of a shove".
The day after the incident, Ms Thomas was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor complaining of back pain where it was discovered she had fractured a vertebrae in her spine.
However, she had been suffering a chest infection, which doctors thought was getting worse, so they decided to concentrate on treating that first.
Doctor Mark Lord, who conducted the post mortem examination, said he found no evidence of a chest infection.
But he did find fragments of a blood clot, which could have been mistaken for an infection.
He concluded she died of a pulmonary embolism due to deep vein thrombosis, caused by being immobile because of the fracture.
"If she hadn't been immobile, she would not have had the clots," he said.
Coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones recorded a conclusion of accidental death.
A Morrisons spokesman said: "We were sad to hear about the passing of Mrs Thomas and our sympathies are with her family."
The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, which celebrates the village's creative heritage, is among the six nominees for this year's Art Fund Prize.
The other nominees include the Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
Norwich's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the open-air Yorkshire Sculpture Park complete the shortlist.
The winning venue will receive £100,000 at a ceremony on 9 July.
Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said UK museums had a "strong year" in 2013 and picking six nominees was "no easy task".
"It is almost as if imaginative and innovative curatorship, combined with the highest standards of presentation, is no longer the exception but the rule," he said.
The nominees are:
The award was launched in 2003 as the Gulbenkian Prize and became the Art Fund Prize in 2008. Last year's winner was the William Morris Gallery in north-east London.
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There's loads of big name acts, huge venues, thousands of people and lots of noise but what is there for kids to do?
We get the lowdown from BBC reporter Lizo.
There were minor clashes as his coffin was carried through Tunis, but the event was largely peaceful.
Sporadic protests and clashes have been reported all around Tunisia, and many workers are observing a general strike.
Unions say the Islamist-led government is to blame for the killing, an accusation it denies.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has tried to defuse tensions by announcing he would form a non-partisan, technocratic government.
His governing Ennahda party has rejected this. But Mr Jebali on Friday told reporters he would go ahead with his plan, saying a technocratic government would not require the approval of the constituent assembly.
By Wyre DaviesBBC News, Tunis
An estimated one million people took to the streets of Tunis , not just to mourn the man who had become their unofficial spokesman but also to demonstrate the strength and resilience of Tunisian civil society.
This country has polarised since the revolution of 2011. Perhaps that should not be a surprise, as revolutionaries, having achieved their initial goal, subsequently discover they have sometimes radically different views on how their society should develop. Indeed, the drama being played out on the streets of Tunisia today is not dissimilar to that we've seen in recent weeks in Egypt.
The difference with Tunisia is that few people expected such post-revolutionary political violence and upheaval here. The country which led the way in the Arab Spring is in turmoil.
Things are not beyond salvation - a renewed promise by the government this evening to appoint an administration of apolitical technocrats could remove some of the suspicions about the intentions and aims of the current, Islamist-led coalition.
But with a stalled economy, tourists staying away and gangs taking advantage of a breakdown in law and order, nor is it impossible to see Tunisia sliding further into the abyss.
A million people on Friday made their voices heard. The ideological battle between liberal, secular Tunisians and ultraconservative Islamists is a battle for the future of the country.
Some 3,000 people initially gathered outside the building in the Djebel Jelloud suburb of Tunis where Mr Belaid's flower-covered coffin lay.
Crowds chanted slogans accusing the government of murdering Mr Belaid, 48.
"With our blood and our souls we will sacrifice ourselves for the martyr," the mourners shouted.
Thousands more people then joined the coffin as it was taken on a funeral procession toward the nearby cemetery of el-Jellaz.
Hundreds of riot police were deployed in Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the scene of earlier violence.
Police fired tear gas to break up youths attacking cars close to el-Jellaz cemetery, and also at protesters near the interior ministry.
Elsewhere in Tunis, many shops shut and most public transport was not running.
This is the first general strike in 35 years.
A number of flights to and from Tunis-Carthage airport have been cancelled.
Tunisian state television said universities had been ordered to suspend lectures on Saturday and Sunday, while France said it would close its schools in Tunis.
In the city of Sidi Bouzid, some 10,000 people also gathered to mourn Mr Belaid.
In the central town of Gafsa, tear gas was fired amid clashes between protesters and security forces, witnesses and local media said.
The BBC's Wyre Davies in Tunis says tension had been simmering for many months between liberal, secular Tunisians and the Islamist-led government.
He says people who thought the violence and division had ended as the Arab Spring swept through the country two years ago now find themselves protesting on the same streets, fighting with riot police and accusing the Islamist-led government of stealing their revolution.
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Critics say that Ennahda has allowed ultra-conservative Muslim groups to impose their will on a bastion of Arab secularism.
Mr Belaid was the victim of the first political assassination in Tunisia since the Arab Spring uprising in 2011.
Thousands of people later rallied outside the interior ministry in Tunis, many chanting slogans urging the government to stand down and calling for a new revolution.
In the centre of the capital, a police officer was killed during clashes between police and opposition supporters.
Also on Thursday, demonstrators observing a symbolic funeral for Mr Belaid outside the governor's office in Gafsa clashed with police.
One policeman was said to be in a coma on Friday after being dragged from his car and beaten in the town, the AFP news agency reported.
In Sfax, crowds ransacked a number of shops on Thursday.
Tunisian media reported that more than a dozen Ennahda offices across the country were attacked late on Thursday.
Earlier, four opposition groups - including Mr Belaid's Popular Front - announced that they were pulling out of the country's constituent assembly in protest.
Mr Belaid was a respected human rights lawyer and left-wing secular opponent of the government which took power after the overthrow of long-serving ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
Current President Moncef Marzouki said the assassination should not affect Tunisia's revolution. He cut short a visit to France and cancelled a trip to Egypt to return home to deal with the crisis.
Ryan Craig, of Ashmount Gardens in Lisburn, admitted causing grievous bodily harm to Scott Vineer in 2012.
The 20-year-old will spend five years in prison with the remaining five years on supervised licence upon his release.
Mr Vineer was found with severe brain and head injuries near a disused warehouse in Lisburn after the attack.
His family were told at the time that he was unlikely to survive.
The judge at Craigavon Crown Court told Craig that Mr Vineer would "never be released from the imprisonment you subjected him to".
After the sentencing on Wednesday, Mr Vineer said: "I'm scared of what will happen when he gets out."
He added that he was "halfway between annoyed and relieved" with the sentence.
Craig was due to go on trial for attempted murder in June, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.
Mr Vineer was 17 at the time of the attack and spent three months in a coma.
He returned home from hospital six months after the attack.
Mr Vineer's mother, Helen-Louise Doney, said that when she arrived at the hospital a doctor told her she should "be prepared to say our goodbyes".
She said she was disappointed that Craig did not get a 15-year sentence.
"He knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong. He deliberately kept details away from anyone that could help Scott," Mrs Doney said.
"He should've been given the maximum, as far as we're concerned."
During sentencing, the judge said Mr Vineer has still has "significant, ongoing physical limitations" three years after the attack.
He added that while it had to be accepted that Craig did not inflict the "major injuries", he was a "willing participant" in the assault.
Craig had "clearly and deliberately involved himself" in the attack, the judge added.
Craig's barrister said his client was remorseful for what he had done.
But the judge said Craig's criminal behaviour since the assault, including a petrol bomb attack on police, would suggest otherwise.
Mr Vineer, who was best man at his mother and stepfather's wedding in August, said he is determined to live a normal life.
He said he plans to leave home in the coming years so that he can live independently.
Mae llawer o sylw wedi cael ei roi i'r ffeinal rhwng Juventus a Real Madrid tra bod proffil y tîm cenedlaethol wedi cynyddu wedi pencampwriaeth Euro 2016.
Un digwyddiad pwysig arall yn y byd pêl-droed yng Nghymru eleni yw pen-blwydd Uwch Gynghrair Cymru yn 25 oed.
Yn 1992, daeth Cynghrair Cymru fel yr oedd hi i fodolaeth dan arweiniad cyn-ysgrifennydd Cymdeithas Bêl-droed Cymru (CBDC), y diweddar Alun Evans.
Ar y pryd roedd statws Cymru fel gwlad annibynnol dan oruchwyliaeth FIFA dan fygythiad, gan fod y prif glybiau yng Nghymru yn chwarae pêl-droed yn Lloegr.
Felly beth sydd wedi newid dros y chwarter canrif?
Un peth amlwg sydd wedi aros yn debyg yw maint y torfeydd sy'n dod i wylio'r gemau. Yn 1992 roedd cyfartaledd torf mewn gêm yn 236 i gymharu gyda 306 y tymor diwethaf.
Mae ysgrifennydd presennol Uwch Gynghrair Cymru yn teimlo bod "safon y gemau ddim yn denu'r dorf maen nhw yn ei haeddu".
"Heb os, mae safon y chwarae a chyflwr y meysydd wedi gwella yn y 25 mlynedd," meddai Gwyn Derfel.
"Mae'r gynghrair yn llawer mwy proffesiynol ac mae 'na werth masnachol i'r gynghrair bellach".
Dywedodd bod hyn yn rhannol oherwydd cyflwyno trwydded ddomestig CBDC yn 2005-06, sy'n rhestru meini prawf llym sy'n rhaid i glwb eu cyrraedd os ydyn nhw am gystadlu yn yr Uwch Gynghrair.
Dim ond pedwar o'r timau wnaeth sefydlu'r gynghrair sy'n dal i gystadlu ynddi heddiw - Bangor, Y Drenewydd, Cei Connah ac Aberystwyth.
Mae'r gweddill naill ai wedi diflannu neu'n chwarae yng nghynghreiriau is y pyramid pêl-droed - yn eu plith mae Cwmbrân, enillwyr cyntaf y gynghrair, sydd bellach yng nghynghrair lleol Sir Fynwy.
Cafodd nifer y timau yn y gynghrair ei gwtogi o 20 i 12 yn 2010, gyda'r bwriad o geisio gwella safon y gystadleuaeth.
Yn ôl Mr Derfel mae'r newid wedi gweithio, ond ychwanegodd bod "63% o bobl a holwyd mewn holiadur yn dweud bod elfen o fod yn or-gyfarwydd â'r timau".
Un sydd wedi bod ynghlwm â'r gynghrair fel rheolwr a gwyliwr yw Glyn Griffiths.
Roedd yn rheolwr ar Dreffynnon rhwng 1992 a 1997, ac fe lwyddodd i gadw'r clwb yn yr Uwch Gynghrair tan 1996.
"Dwi ddim yn credu bod gwell chwaraewyr yn chwarae yn y gynghrair heddiw ond bod perfformiadau'r timau yn well i beth oedd 'na nôl yn y 90au," meddai.
Dywedodd bod yr honiad bod torfeydd yn fach gan fod dim digon o chwaraewyr lleol yn chwarae yn y timau yn ei "wylltio".
"Mi ddweda' i hyn, os ydy chwaraewr lleol ddigon da i chwarae i'w dîm yna digon teg", meddai.
"Mae hon yn gynghrair genedlaethol a phrif gynghrair Cymru. Dim cynghrair leol ydy hi. Mae rhaid denu'r chwaraewyr gorau i gystadlu yn y gynghrair."
Ychwanegodd mai'r ffordd i glybiau ddenu mwy o sylw ydy drwy "wneud mwy o ymdrech yn lleol i farchnata ac i werthu syniad eu clwb".
"Mae ddigon hawdd sefydlu academies i'r chwaraewyr gorau, ond beth am y chwaraewyr ifanc lleol hynny sydd ddim digon da i chwarae i'r academies?
"Mae rhaid cofio am y rheiny a pheidio eu 'sgubo i'r ochr... Mewn degawdau i ddod mi fydd presenoldeb y bobl ifanc hynny yn y dorf yn cefnogi'r tîm yn llawn mor bwysig", meddai.
Ers ei sefydlu mae 39 o glybiau wedi cystadlu yn y gynghrair.
Un clwb fydd nôl yn Uwch Gynghrair Cymru tymor nesaf fydd Y Barri, wnaeth ennill y gystadleuaeth ar saith achlysur hyd at 2003, cyn iddyn nhw wynebu problemau ariannol.
Mae eu cadeirydd, Eric Thomas, wedi bod yn cadw llygaid ar y gynghrair o'r tu allan.
"Mae nifer o glybiau'r de yn hapus i chwarae un safon o dan yr Uwch Gynghrair, ond nid y Barri," meddai.
"Dwi wedi bod yn cadw llygaid ar y gynghrair ers blynyddoedd ac wedi gweld ei datblygiad hi yn y blynyddoedd diweddar.
"Mae'n deimlad anhygoel bod 'nôl... Roedden ni fel pwyllgor wedi gosod cynllun pum mlynedd i sicrhau dyrchafiad, mi oedden ni'n agos y llynedd ac wedi llwyddo eleni, blwyddyn ynghynt na'r disgwyl".
Uchelgais Y Barri yw cystadlu unwaith eto ar lefel Ewropeaidd, a chyn hir fe fydd y clybiau sydd wedi cyrraedd yn lefel honno yn darganfod pwy fydd eu gwrthwynebwyr ar y cyfandir.
Ond fe fydd rhaid i'r Seintiau Newydd chwarae yng Nghynghrair y Pencampwyr heb eu rheolwr Craig Harrison, sydd wedi gadael i gymryd yr awenau yn Hartlepool. Y Bala, Cei Connah a Bangor fydd yn cynrychioli Cymru yng Nghynghrair Europa.
Mae Gwyn Derfel yn ffyddiog bydd un o'r clybiau yn mynd gam ymhellach eleni yn Ewrop.
"Mae perfformiadau clybiau Cymru ar y llwyfan Ewropeaidd yn gwella.
"Ein prif her fel cynghrair at y dyfodol yw cael mwy o sylw drwyddi draw yn y cyfryngau torfol, wnaiff gynorthwyo i gynyddu'r torfeydd.
"Dwi'n falch o ddweud hefyd bod ein cytundeb gyda S4C i ddarlledu 29 o gemau byw drwy'r tymor yn parhau, sydd eto yn hwb i'r clybiau gan eu bod nhw'n gallu manteisio o'r arian darlledu er mwyn datblygu.
"Er bod un tymor wedi dod i ben gyda rownd derfynol yng Nghaerdydd, dydy gwaith ysgrifennydd cynghrair debyg i hon byth yn stopio, a dwi'n edrych ymlaen at y tymor nesa' yn barod".
Burhan Wani, 22, who was well-known due to his prominence on social media, died in a gunfight with the Indian army on Friday.
Thousands attended his funeral on Saturday.
Divided Kashmir has been a flashpoint for India and Pakistan, triggering three wars between the nations.
Both claim the region in its entirety. A number of militant groups in Muslim-majority Indian-administered Kashmir are fighting for independence or a merger with Pakistan.
The funeral of Burhan Wani, a commander of the region's largest rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, was held in his hometown of Tral, about 40km (25 miles) south of Srinagar, on Saturday.
The Indian government said no police or security personnel were present at his funeral, to avoid a confrontation with the angry crowd.
A curfew has been imposed, with internet and mobile phone services blocked in some areas.
However, after the funeral, police stations and military installations were attacked in violent clashes across the region.
A policeman reportedly died after protesters pushed his armoured vehicle into a river in the southern Anantnag area.
Thousands of government forces in riot gear have been deployed across the state.
The BBC's South Asia correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, says this is the worst violence in the region for some years and the fear is that if it is not brought under control soon, many more people could be killed and injured.
The level of separatist insurgency violence has ebbed and flowed since 1989, but it has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, mainly civilians.
The incident in Watts Park was reported to police by passers-by who filmed a man removing the wreaths from the steps of the war memorial.
The footage shows a man kicking the floral tributes before then throwing them at about 15:30 GMT on Friday.
Police said a 29-year-old man from the city was arrested earlier on suspicion of criminal damage.
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."
China is investing heavily in a robot workforce.
In a statement to the BBC, Foxconn Technology Group confirmed that it was automating "many of the manufacturing tasks associated with our operations" but denied that it meant long-term job losses.
"We are applying robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing technologies to replace repetitive tasks previously done by employees, and through training, also enable our employees to focus on higher value-added elements in the manufacturing process, such as research and development, process control and quality control.
"We will continue to harness automation and manpower in our manufacturing operations, and we expect to maintain our significant workforce in China."
Since September 2014, 505 factories across Dongguan, in the Guangdong province, have invested 4.2bn yuan (£430m) in robots, aiming to replace thousands of workers.
Kunshan, Jiangsu province, is a manufacturing hub for the electronics industry.
Economists have issued dire warnings about how automation will affect the job market, with one report, from consultants Deloitte in partnership with Oxford University, suggesting that 35% of jobs were at risk over the next 20 years.
Former McDonald's chief executive Ed Rensi recently told the US's Fox Business programme a minimum-wage increase to $15 an hour would make companies consider robot workers.
"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15 an hour bagging French fries," he said.
They are Syria, and the Central American nation of Nicaragua - but the US is very different from either.
Syria has been embroiled in a civil war for six years, leaving 300,000 dead, so it is perhaps understandable that it did not participate in talks.
Nicaragua's reason for refusing the deal, though, is not because it wanted to burn more fossil fuels, but because the agreement did not go far enough.
The country already gets more than half of its energy from renewable resources, and plans to bump that up to 90% by 2020.
A 2013 World Bank report labelled it "a renewable energy paradise", with extensive opportunity for geothermic, wind, solar and wave energy.
When the Paris deal was being negotiated, Nicaragua said there was a total mismatch between what the document said was needed to protect the climate, and what signatories proposed to do about it.
The goal of the Paris agreement is to restrict temperature increases by 2100 to a maximum of two degrees Celsius more than before the global industrial age - and aim for 1.5C if possible.
But Paul Oquist, negotiating for Nicaragua in 2015, said he had reservations about the level of commitment made by individual countries in their pledges.
They would not restrict average temperature rises to 2C, let alone 1.5C, he said - and much more action is required.
"These voluntary commitments don't work," Mr Oquist told Democracy Now after the negotiations.
"Right now we're looking at a three-degree world, and that is catastrophic and unacceptable."
That is in sharp contrast to Donald Trump's speech announcing he was pulling out of the agreement - in which he said the Paris agreement was a deal that aimed to hobble, disadvantage and impoverish the US, to the benefit of other nations.
Not so, Mr Oquist argued at the Paris summit - developing nations are being held equally accountable for climate change - something he argued was unfair.
Historically, the US, Europe, and more recently China account for almost half of the world's carbon emissions.
The US outputs some 5.2 million kilotons of carbon dioxide every year. Nicaragua, by contrast, generated about 4,569.
EU negotiator Michel Barnier said the UK did not feel "legally obliged to honour its obligations" after Brexit.
He said "no decisive progress" had been made on key issues, following the third round of talks.
But Brexit Secretary David Davis said the UK had a "duty to our taxpayers" to "rigorously" examine the EU's demands.
And he urged the EU to be "more imaginative and flexible" in its approach.
During a joint press conference, Mr Barnier acknowledged there had been some "fruitful" discussions on the issues surrounding the relationship between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, but he struck a pessimistic tone overall.
He stressed that he was "impatient… I am not angry… I am impatient and determined" about the progress of negotiations, adding that "time is flying" and the EU was willing to intensify the "rhythm" of talks.
Behind their polished podium performances, it's clear there are major gaps between the stance of Michel Barnier and David Davis which are not being bridged.
Money is the big sticking point of course, although the phraseology around the issue is a little more elegant than that, and the language at these moments can give you a real feel for the underlying atmosphere.
Mr Barnier says that after this week "it's clear that the UK doesn't feel legally obliged to honour its obligations".
Mr Davis claims it's natural that the UK would want to "interrogate rigorously" any demand placed on its taxpayers. But he is also careful to note that Britain is a country that meets its obligations - moral as well as legal; it just expects them to be properly specified.
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The UK wants to begin trade talks as soon as possible, but Brussels insists that discussions about the future relationship after Brexit can only begin once "sufficient progress" has been made on the arrangements for withdrawal - including on the so-called "divorce fee".
Mr Barnier said that at the current rate of progress, he was quite far from being able to recommend opening parallel talks on a future trade relationship with the UK.
He cited two areas where "trust" needed to be built between the two sides - on citizens' rights and the financial settlement, stressing that 27 members of the bloc should not have to pay for obligations taken by 28.
Claiming there had been a shift in the UK government's approach, he said: "In July the UK recognised that it has obligations beyond the Brexit date but this week the UK explained that these obligations will be limited to the last payment to the EU project before departure."
No figure has yet been put on the payment, but European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested it could come in at around 60 billion euro (£55bn), while unconfirmed reports have put it as high as 100 billion euro (£92bn).
Mr Davis defended the "rigorous" line-by-line examination of the EU's demands carried out by British officials in response to the "unspecified but undoubtedly large" sum demanded by Brussels.
He added: "It will, of course, lead to difficult exchanges - nobody will pretend it was anything but a tough exchange this week - but I think the British taxpayer would expect nothing less."
Mr Davis also told reporters the talks had exposed how the UK approach was "substantially more flexible and pragmatic than that of the EU".
"This week we have had long and detailed discussions across multiple areas and I think it's fair to say we have seen some concrete progress, and Michel referred to one but there's more than that," he said.
"However, as I said at the start of the week, it's only through flexibility and imagination that we will achieve a deal that works truly for both sides.
"In some areas we have found this from the [European] Commission's side, which I welcome, but there remains some way to go."
He added: "Beyond the debates about process and technicalities, at the heart of this process, must be a desire to deliver the best outcome for the people and the businesses of the European Union and the United Kingdom," he added - particularly on citizens' rights.
In the fourth successive 0-0 draw between these two sides, North End went closest to a goal when Calum Woods volleyed against the bar.
But Brighton twice had the ball in the home net, each time denied for offside.
Brighton stay fourth, four points off top spot, while Preston remain 10th, six points shy of a play-off place.
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Chris Hughton's Seagulls have only lost two of their 18 Championship away games this season, of which they have now drawn 11.
Preston maintained their record of never having lost a home game to Brighton in 15 visits by the Seagulls to Deepdale.
Jamie Murphy was the first to be denied by the linesman's flag in first-half injury time from Dale Stephens' free-kick - and the same happened to Tomer Hemed after home keeper Chris Kirkland had spilt Murphy's low drive.
Apart form that, Woods' left-foot angled volley, which bounced down off the bar, and Sam Baldock's right-foot shot just wide at the other end were the closest either side came until Preston's Murphy glanced a late near-post header just wide.
The previous three meetings between these two sides - the October meeting at the Amex and both games in the 2005-6 season - also ended 0-0.
The last player to score in this fixture was David Nugent, who got North End's third goal in a 3-0 Championship win in April 2005.
Preston boss Simon Grayson: "They are a very strong team but off the ball we did very well. The shape was very good and defensively we limited them to few opportunities.
"Second half I thought we were the better team, so I'm disappointed we haven't won it, but two clean sheets against Brighton is a big ask from the players.
"We've got a number of games left now and we'll just keep approaching it as we have over the last few weeks. We want the players to go out and express themselves."
Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "We had a couple of good chances and so did they. On the balance of play I thought we threatened but we didn't retain possession well enough in the areas we needed to.
"They worked very hard and restricted the quality balls we were able to put in. Away from home if you can't play as well as you'd like you've got to make sure not to lose the game.
"Defensively, we were solid again. As a back four we had a fair bit to deal with.
"The only disappointment is that we didn't keep possession well enough and if you don't do that then you make life harder for yourself."
Overall crime fell by 4.7%, although an increase was reported in sexual offences and domestic abuse.
The police claimed this was partly because of a new approach to tackling these offences, which has encouraged more victims to come forward.
Recorded crimes of violence, dishonesty and anti-social behaviour were all down.
The figures cover the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015.
Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said: "Our focus is on keeping people safe. From the most violent crime which happens less frequently, to higher volume crime such as housebreaking and incidents of disorder and anti-social behaviour which impact on community well-being, Police Scotland is committed to both the prevention and detection of crime.
"Public confidence and user satisfaction in the service remains high, which is welcome, given the way policing has evolved over the past two years since the introduction of a single service.
"We are making significant in-roads in the disruption of serious organised crime in Scotland, through a different style of approach built upon collaboration and smarter working."
The figures recorded a 6% reduction in crimes of violence. The overall detection rate was 84%.
That included 55 murders recorded during the period covered by the report. Police Scotland also cleared up a number of historical cases, making the official detection rate for murder 109.1%.
There was an increase of 1.8% in domestic abuse incidents, to a total of 59,471.
There was a 9.3% increase in recorded sexual crime. There were 1,797 rapes recorded in the course of the year.
Mr Livingstone added: "Through the introduction of Major Investigation Teams, Rape and Domestic Abuse Taskforces and divisional investigation units, we have seen national specialist support being provided to local policing teams to ensure our response is as effective and responsive as possible."
The police figures indicated a small increase in the number fatalities on the roads. Two more people - a total of 192 - were killed.
The number of those seriously injured in traffic accidents fell by 5%.
More pupils than ever have achieved the literacy and maths scores needed for secondary school, according to figures from the Department for Education
Four out of five pupils got good grades in all the tests, says the DfE.
However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said schools in some council areas had performed poorly.
The results of this year's tests, taken in May by all 11-year-old state school pupils, show a one percentage point rise in those meeting the standard in mathematics (to 87%) and two percentage points in writing (to 87%).
There was a four percentage point rise in scores in the grammar, punctuation and spelling test (to 80%), while attainment in reading was unchanged on the year before, with 89% meeting the expected standard.
The government says 80% of pupils achieved the required "Level Four" standard or above in all subjects, compared with 78% in 2014 and 62% in 2009.
But Mr Gibb said schools in some local authority areas were still not doing well enough.
He announced a "crack-down" on councils, including Medway, Poole, Luton, Doncaster and Bedford, whose schools had performed poorly.
In these areas 73% of pupils achieved the required standard in all subjects, compared with in Kensington and Chelsea, the strongest performing area, where 90% of pupils met the grade.
Mr Gibb said the government was "committed to driving up standards as a matter of social justice".
"That is why I will be writing to the director of children's services and directors of education of councils that are bottom of the league tables and asking that they meet me as a matter of urgency to explain how they intend to improve the teaching of reading and arithmetic in the primary schools under their control," he said.
Overall, Mr Gibb said, he was "delighted that 90,000 more children are starting secondary school with a firm grasp of the basics compared to just five years ago".
In particular he highlighted improvements in sponsored primary academies, which have taken over some of the most seriously underperforming schools.
Sponsored academies that had been open a year saw a rise of five percentage points (to 71%) over the schools they replaced, the statistics suggest.
"These results vindicate our decision to expand the valuable academies programme into primary schools with thousands of children on course to receive a better education," he said.
"Our reform programme is driven by social justice, and we will continue to raise the bar so young people are prepared to succeed in modern Britain."
This year, some 580,000 primary pupils took the tests, but this is the last year these tests will be used.
From next summer, pupils will be assessed on a "tough" new national curriculum, which came into effect in September 2014, and will be given a scaled score where 100 will represent the expected standard.
Wada's independent commission examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics, which also implicated the IAAF, the sport's world governing body.
It says London 2012 was "sabotaged" by "widespread inaction" against athletes with suspicious doping profiles.
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Russia was also accused of running a "state-supported" doping programme.
The report recommended that five athletes and five coaches should be given lifetime doping bans.
IAAF president Lord Coe told the BBC that the Russian athletics federation, Araf, had been asked to respond to the allegations by the end of the week. The 59-year-old said that after reviewing the feedback the IAAF "would look at a range of options, including sanctions", which could result in suspension from the sport.
"I'm not putting in a time frame but I will do whatever is necessary. This is not a swift road back," he added.
The commission's chairman, Dick Pound, who led a Wada news conference on Monday, also recommended that the Russian federation is banned from next year's Olympics.
"One of our hopes is they will volunteer to take the remedial work," he said. "If they don't the outcome may be no Russian track and field athletes in Rio. I hope they recognise it is time to change."
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Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko told Interfax news agency that recommendations made on the basis of the report would be fulfilled, while the acting head of Araf Vadim Zelechenok said it was not for Wada to call for suspensions.
He also told the R-Sport TV station: "Any suspension should be discussed at the meeting of the IAAF in November. It should be proven that any violations were the fault of the federation and not individual sports people. We should be given a chance to clear our names."
The international police body Interpol says it will be co-ordinating a global investigation into the suspected corruption and doping.
The report's co-author, sports lawyer Richard McLaren, believes it shows "a different scale of corruption", even compared with football's ongoing Fifa scandal, saying actual results at international athletics competitions had been changed because of cheating.
The report also:
The report was commissioned on a "very narrow mandate" to "determine the accuracy" of allegations made in a German TV documentary about Russian athletics last December.
It claimed Russian athletes paid 5% of their earnings to domestic doping officials to supply banned substances and cover-up tests, while athletics' world governing body the IAAF was implicated in covering up the abuse.
The programme's claims of widespread doping were made by former Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) official Vitaly Stepanov and his wife Yulia (nee Rusanova), formerly an 800m runner who was banned for doping.
It included testimony from Russian athletes admitting to using banned substances and evidence of doping and corruption.
Separate doping claims were made in August when The Sunday Times and a German broadcaster claimed that leaked blood tests from 5,000 athletes over 11 years showed an "extraordinary extent of cheating". The IAAF said the allegations were "sensationalist and infuriating" and the commission's remit was widened to include them. It will report back on those claims later in the year, Pound said.
IAAF chief Lord Coe said the sport's governing body would wait for Russia's response before deciding whether to punish the country's federation.
"It is the right thing to do to get them to give us an answer," he told the BBC.
"I am responsible for the conduct of my sport and I want answers from the Russian athletics federation. I am tough enough to defend my sport but the point I would emphasise is this is not just limited to athletics or Russia.
"We clearly have to understand full scope of allegations. We will look at ourselves. We will move quickly on this. I want to see a sport which is transparent and accountable and I will do what I can to do that. It will not be a swift road."
BBC 5 live Track & Field special - Including former athletes Steve Cram, Paula Radcliffe and Darren Campbell examining the independent report on claims of corruption and cover-ups in world athletics.
Daniel Schofield, 29, shot Roy Hanson, 50, with the weapon on his farm on the Lizard in Cornwall, Truro Crown Court was told.
It happened after Mr Hanson had viciously assaulted his wife, Mr Schofield's older sister Julia Hanson, the court heard.
Mr Schofield denies murder and manslaughter.
In her evidence Mrs Hanson told the jury about her husband's temper and violence, saying that he had dangled her out of a hotel second-floor window on their honeymoon.
She had left Mr Hanson and was staying with Mr Schofield, when Mr Hanson, a plumber from St Keverne, arrived at the farm on 25 October last year.
An argument followed and Mr Hanson attacked his wife, putting his hands around her neck, the court heard.
The jury was told Mr Schofield confronted Mr Hanson with a loaded and cocked crossbow.
It was discharged and the bolt hit Mr Hanson in the chest, passing straight through his heart and a major blood vessel before exiting through his back.
They were also shown the blood-soaked bolt and the crossbow that fired it.
The trial continues.
The 29-year-old, who was out of contract at the end of the summer, is Gloucestershire's leading wicket-taker in Division Two this season with 39.
Director of cricket John Bracewell confirmed Gidman's exit before Friday's four-day game at Worcestershire.
Meanwhile, Gloucestershire have signed New Zealand all-rounder Mark Craig.
The 27-year-old, who took eight wickets on his Test debut against West Indies this summer, replaces captain Michael Klinger, who was forced to miss the Worcestershire game because of a neck problem.
Gidman was rested for the match at New Road because of "on-going niggles", according the club's physiotherapist Steve Griffin.
Alongside his 53 wickets this season, former Durham player Gidman has also scored 711 runs in the Championship, at an average of 50.79.
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"I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Gloucestershire and I'm grateful for them for giving me my opportunity four years ago," said Gidman.
"I have been flattered by the interest from around the country but I felt that Nottinghamshire was the perfect fit for my cricket and my family.
"Nottinghamshire are consistently in the trophy hunt and I am very much looking forward to playing my cricket at Trent Bridge for the next three seasons."
Bracewell told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: "Will has his reasons for wanting to leave and they are personal reasons.
"He's a Gloucestershire boy at heart, we know that. He's been very successful for us but for personal reasons he has to move.
"Statistically, he's the best all-rounder not playing Test cricket. The second division is the breeding ground for talent because a lot of the clubs know they can't purchase players, they have to make players.
"It then becomes a difficulty for the club to be able to hold onto them. That's something out of the coaching department's hands."
It was Marcelo Salas who did the damage back then with two goals in a 2-0 win - this time it was the outstanding Sanchez who punished a disjointed England at either end of a friendly game in which Chile's superiority was obvious.
Exploring his options after qualifying for next summer's World Cup in Brazil, Hodgson gave England debuts to Southampton pair Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez, as well as Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster.
But it was Hodgson's more experienced players who were at fault as a 10-match unbeaten run was brought to an end.
Check out what rating BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty awarded to the Southampton star and the rest of Roy Hodgson's England team
First, Sanchez stole in front of left-back Leighton Baines to head in the opener early on, then he took advantage of a dreadful error from Gary Cahill in stoppage time to race clear and finish coolly past the advancing Forster.
Forster was blameless, saving well in the first half from Wigan's Jean Beausejour, but it was clear early on that this revamped England line-up was struggling to pass the tests the talented Chileans would pose for them.
Lallana was bright throughout before being substituted late on, although it was a quieter introduction for Rodriguez, given his chance by Hodgson after a fine start to the season at Southampton.
Forster's fine form for Celtic, especially in the Champions League, earned him a deserved chance but his first meaningful act was to pick the ball out of the net as Chile took that seventh-minute lead.
Charles Aranguiz had seen his shot blocked but when the ball was returned into the area Sanchez was more alert to the situation than Baines and got in front of Everton's defender to head low beyond Forster.
Lallana was a lively figure and his early free-kick found Phil Jones, who saw his header saved in his usual unorthodox fashion by Chile goalkeeper Claudio Bravo.
The last team to beat England by a margin of two goals or more at Wembley were France, who came to London as world champions in February 1999 and won 2-0 thanks to two Nicolas Anelka goals
Forster will have felt better when he made a fine diving save from Beausejour as England's defence struggled to cope with the mobility and pace of Chile's attackers.
Frank Lampard was England's captain in place of the injured Steven Gerrard and he was warmly applauded before kick-off when he received a commemorative golden cap from World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst and his father, Frank Sr, after making 100 international appearances.
And he almost marked his 103rd cap with a spectacular strike, only to see his 30-yard free-kick turned away acrobatically by Bravo.
Forster did well once more to force Beausejour wide and away from danger as England's uncertain defence was undone in a manner which would have perturbed Hodgson.
Lallana continued to make a good impression, though he will have been frustrated not to have scored a debut goal when his angled shot after took took a touch off a Chilean defender and went wide after he had been played in by Wayne Rooney just before the break.
Rodriguez, in contrast, had been quiet and his first England appearance came to an end after 56 minutes when he was replaced by Andros Townsend.
England had some lively attacking moments but the second half was a tepid affair with both sides struggling to create chances.
Hodgson threw on a host of substitutes in an attempt to rescue a draw but it was to no avail and Sanchez finished England off when Cahill carelessly conceded possession with seconds left.
Some boos rang out at the final whistle, a harsh verdict perhaps, but life will not get any easier for England as they face Germany here at Wembley on Tuesday.
Match ends, England 0, Chile 2.
Second Half ends, England 0, Chile 2.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Cleverley.
Attempt saved. José Fuenzalida (Chile) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Carlos Muñoz.
Goal! England 0, Chile 2. Alexis Sánchez (Chile) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by José Fuenzalida with a through ball following a fast break.
Eugenio Mena (Chile) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Eugenio Mena (Chile).
Andros Townsend (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
José Fuenzalida (Chile) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Barkley (England).
Foul by Carlos Carmona (Chile).
Wayne Rooney (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Eugenio Mena (Chile) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (England).
Foul by Carlos Muñoz (Chile).
Gary Cahill (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Marcos Gonzalez (Chile) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Barkley (England).
Foul by Alexis Sánchez (Chile).
Glen Johnson (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gary Medel (Chile) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Barkley (England).
Substitution, Chile. José Fuenzalida replaces Jean Beausejour.
Jean Beausejour (Chile) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Glen Johnson (England).
Foul by Carlos Muñoz (Chile).
Glen Johnson (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, England. Ross Barkley replaces Adam Lallana.
Felipe Gutierrez (Chile) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Lallana (England).
Marcos Gonzalez (Chile) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (England).
Foul by Gonzalo Jara (Chile).
Adam Lallana (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Chile. Gonzalo Jara tries a through ball, but Carlos Muñoz is caught offside.
Substitution, Chile. Carlos Muñoz replaces Eduardo Vargas.
Substitution, England. Tom Cleverley replaces Jack Wilshere.
Substitution, England. Jordan Henderson replaces Frank Lampard.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Adam Lallana (England) because of an injury.
Edwina Hart said she knew the closures to install new lighting in the Penmaenbach tunnel, in Conwy county, had caused "frustration" for motorists.
She said contractors were working 24/7 to finish the work by Christmas.
Ms Hart said it was part of a £42m project to "improve the safety and resilience of this key route".
The Welsh government announced the westbound carriageway of the A55 Penmaenbach tunnel would be completely closed at night, with just one lane open during the day, for nine weeks from 18 October.
In a statement on Monday, Ms Hart said: "I have received correspondence about this issue and appreciate that the works have caused some frustration for road users.
"Unfortunately, delays were longer than normal the week before last, and poor driver behaviour impacted on our efforts to minimise queuing.
"We are unable to re-open the westbound tunnel fully each day as this would extend the overall programme considerably, result in greater health and safety risks and significantly increase scheme costs.
"However, we did remove the eastbound traffic management during the day on the weekend to minimise delays."
Additional work is also due to take place in the Conwy and Pen-y-Clip tunnels in February and March, Ms Hart added.
She said the effect on traffic and local residents would be "significantly less" than at Penmaenbach.
Those are the words of former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal before arguably the biggest match in sport this year.
On Sunday, Edgbaston will host India v Pakistan in the Champions Trophy group stage.
If previous contests are to go by, more than a billion fans from all over the world, both Pakistan and Indian natives and those with heritage from those countries, will turn their attention to the West Midlands.
Their last 50-over meeting was in the 2015 World Cup in Australia, when India ran out comfortable winners.
Former all-rounder Iqbal was born in Hyderabad in India before emigrating to, and subsequently representing, Pakistan.
The 73-year-old told BBC Sport this is undoubtedly the biggest cricketing rivalry in the world, saying: "It's similar to the Ashes [between England and Australia], but to me it's more than that because of the history, the background, the politics."
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India v Pakistan is a rivalry which has evolved from being solely about borders and political bragging rights to one where cricketing supremacy is a major source of pride.
For those living on the sub-continent, however, passion can turn into an obsession - and one often taken too far.
It is not uncommon for fans to burn effigies and hold mock funerals of their own players after a loss.
Iqbal says this behaviour is not just limited to matches between India and Pakistan.
"The fans get frustrated because they have so much hope and expectations they don't accept the team that won had played the better cricket," he said.
"It's important to mention that when India or Pakistan visit any other country and perform poorly, they get the same reaction."
It clearly matters to the fans, but what about the players?
India have had the upper hand in meetings between the two sides in recent years and their former opening batsman Aakash Chopra believes the rivalry has diminished from his country's perspective - because they always win.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Chopra said: "The players don't lose sleep over this match with Pakistan. Indian cricketers have become far more relaxed, there's no more over-the-top pressure when playing Pakistan.
"As a country, we have evolved. There was a moment when beating Pakistan was a matter of life and death and asserting your superiority as a nation.
"Pakistan legends have also resigned [themselves] to the fact that they aren't the same team anymore. Once you know you are flogging a half dead horse you don't really expect to win anything, so what's the point in having a rivalry which only has one outcome?"
Scratch a little below the surface and the mutual respect between the two teams is clear.
They, after all, share many cultural experiences and norms; languages, food, clothing. And they enjoy each other's company - most of the time.
Iqbal said: "There used to be private parties. If India were touring the players would come to my house and have dinner. There were a lot of social activities."
The recently retired Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi, 37, echoed Iqbal's sentiments.
"The players get along very well. Of course, there are exceptions like Gautam Gambhir, who dare I say isn't the friendliest - we are unlikely to be found together at a coffee shop anytime soon," he said.
"But I have enjoyed excellent relationships with Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. The three are some of my best mates."
And India's Chopra classes ex-Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar as one of his closest friends.
"We chat often, I was the first to know his son's name," he revealed.
It is estimated by Marketing Birmingham that this match alone will be worth more than £5m to the city's economy.
There is a diverse South Asian community in Birmingham and a match of this stature is creating a buzz in the West Midlands.
Gulfraz Riaz, chairman of the National Asian Cricket Council, a body which champions the voice of South Asian recreational cricketers in the United Kingdom, says multicultural Birmingham is an ideal place to host this fixture.
"If you drive round the city you see [Sikh] gurdwaras, Hindu temples, [Muslim] mosques, this match will encourage the two sets of communities to come together," he said.
"The catchment is good too. Leicester isn't too far away and that's predominantly very much an Indian hub.
"Geographically it's a great place to watch this game."
Political tension means the two teams tend to only meet in ICC-organised major tournaments, such as the Champions Trophy, the World Cup and the World Twenty20. It is also 10 years since they last played a Test series.
Iqbal said: "If you ask a common man in India or Pakistan, 'would you like to see the other team visit your country?' you would get 99% who want to see it. The other 1% would be the politicians."
Unfortunately, for both fans and neutral cricket aficionados, it seems we are still a way off seeing a Test series between the two great rivals any time soon.
Bookmakers have made India strong favourites for Sunday's match.
But Iqbal thinks the form book goes out of the window in limited-overs cricket, saying: "The team that plays well on the day wins, not necessarily the best team. To me, it's a 50-50 opportunity."
Chopra is more definite in his prediction. "India is definitely better placed. Logic says they will win," he said.
Some of the Indian and Pakistan players may be best buddies off the field, but history tells us that friendships can easily be forgotten when inside the boundary rope.
These confrontational moments from the past should whet your appetite for Sunday.
Javed Mindad v Kiran More - World Cup, Sydney, March 4 1992
Miandad was both an outspoken cricketer and gifted batsman in equal measure. En route to Pakistan lifting the 1992 World Cup, he got caught up in a spat with India wicketkeeper More. Incensed at More's excessive appealing, Miandad leapt high in the air during an exaggerated imitation of his opponent. Gentlemanly? Perhaps not. Hilarious? Absolutely.
Shahid Afridi v Gautam Gambhir - Pakistan tour of India, 3rd ODI, Kanpur, November 11, 2007
Now we know why Afridi doesn't consider Gautam Gambhir a friend. This one is simple: Gambhir was running between the wickets and collided with the Pakistan all-rounder. With their egos bruised more than their bodies, they squared up and exchanged some unpleasantries before the umpires intervened.
Harbhajan Singh v Shoaib Akhtar - Asia Cup, Dambulla, June 19, 2010
It's a tight game in the Asia Cup. Penultimate over, Shoaib throws a few verbal jabs at Harbhajan. We now go to the final over. Harbhajan on strike facing fresh-faced teenager Mohammad Amir, three runs needed off the final two balls… six.
India win. But that's not enough for a pumped up Harbhajan who makes sure to let Shoaib know exactly how he feels with a pumped up celebration pointedly aimed in the direction of the Rawalpindi Express.
The 34-year-old father was killed when his jet came down on farmland at Redmere, near RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, on Wednesday.
His squadron had just set off from RAF Lakenheath back to the US.
A memorial fund to raise money for his daughter Jade has been set up and has already raised $18,000 (£11,600).
Annie Driscoll, a friend of Major Sareen since 2005, said she set up the fund to help "his beautiful daughter Jade" and hoped it would "teach her about [her father's] incredible charity and allow his story to live through her".
Major Sareen, 34, was killed when his jet came down on farmland at Redmere, near RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, on Wednesday.
The pilot, who lived in San Mateo County, California, became a Marine Corps pilot in 2005.
He graduated from the University of San Francisco (USF) in 2004.
US ABC7 news photographer Chris Jewitt, who attended USF with Major Sareen, told the news network: "He had this confidence and this infectious smile.
"When he came in the room everyone wanted to talk to him."
Major Sareen ejected from the plane but did not survive, the US Marine Corps said.
Colonel Robert Novotny, Commander of 48th fighter wing at RAF Lakenheath, said: "We are very sad about the loss of a fellow team member. We are ready to assist in any way in the investigation."
He said Marine Corps investigators were arriving later and would lead the probe, which was expected to take two to three months.
"The mood is very sombre on the base, but very professional," he added.
The aircraft was part of a fleet of six fighter jets due to fly to California, the US air force said.
The remaining five FA-18 Hornets safely diverted to RAF Lossiemouth airfield in Moray. The aircraft had been en-route from Bahrain and were scheduled to fly to their base in Miramar.
Savita Halappanavar was 31 when she died at University Hospital in Galway in October 2012.
Her husband Praveen had issued High Court proceedings against the HSE for negligence over her death.
The deal is thought to have significant financial implications for the HSE.
But details of the agreement have not been made public.
Proceedings were due to begin at the High Court on Friday, but the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ has reported that the agreement was reached within the past few days.
Mrs Halappanavar had asked for a termination after being told she was having a miscarriage, but staff refused.
Days later, she died from infection.
The jury at the inquest into her death returned a verdict of medical misadventure.
Two subsequent reports into the circumstances of her death and the care she received at the hospital found several failings.
A report by the Health Information and Quality Authority found a failure to provide the most basic elements of care.
The 257-page report found that there were many missed opportunities, which, if acted on, might have changed the outcome for Mrs Halappanavar.
Praveen Halappanavar now lives in the US, having moved there in recent years for work.
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The 20-year-old came through the Tykes' academy as a defender, but is expected to be used as a striker by the National League strugglers.
Templeton has made three appearances for Barnsley, scoring in a 4-2 league win over Blackpool in December 2015.
He has previously been on loan with Macclesfield, and spent the first half of the campaign at Gainsborough.
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After a goalless first half, Hull's Abel Hernandez rounded Jason Steele for his 16th league goal of the season.
Uruguay striker Hernandez then turned provider as he set up Mo Diame to double the advantage from close range.
Blackburn's best chances saw Elliott Ward's tame effort cleared off the line by Andy Robertson and Ben Marshall's fierce shot saved by Allan McGregor.
Steve Bruce's Tigers have now won five of their six league matches in 2016 and moved two points clear of Middlesbrough, who face Leeds at Elland Road on Monday.
Rovers have not won in the league since a 1-0 victory against Rotherham on 11 December.
Paul Lambert's men have scored just 25 goals this season, and having sold their top scorer Jordan Rhodes to Boro in the January transfer window, they once again lacked any fluency in the final third.
Chuba Akpom could have made the scoreline even more convincing for Hull, but fired just wide from distance in injury time, as Blackburn slipped to 19th in the table.
Blackburn manager Paul Lambert:
"In the first half there wasn't much in it. The disappointing thing for me is we had the ball twice and Hull have scored two goals.
"We secured possession and made wrong decisions, and they're a good side. The front two are a handful and they've still got a lot of Premier League players in their side.
"Today I thought once the second goal went in, we looked far short. You can't play the way we did last week and then turn in that performance.
"It will drive you mad. We have to find consistency quickly, really quickly."
Hull manager Steve Bruce:
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"We've missed two or three chances late on which could have improved our goal difference but we thoroughly deserved the win in my opinion.
"I thought we were playing within ourselves in the first half and I wanted us to go and express ourselves and take the shackles off.
"We knew we had more in the tank and I thought in the second half we gave a very good performance where we could have scored three or four.
"That's as good as we've played for a long time."
His plea of ignorance took a knock today when his own company's Management and Standards Committee provided that committee with an email stream, sent in June 2008, at the bottom of which there's an unambiguous allegation that phone hacking was "rife throughout the organisation".
It also contains an indirect reference to the notorious "For Neville" email, which is widely seen as prima facie evidence that phone hacking was more prevalent than News International, owner of the News of the World, admitted at the time.
Mr Murdoch says he received the email stream on a Saturday. He says: "I am confident that I did not review the full email chain".
That's plausible - especially since the email stream shows him firing off his contribution to the 2008 email exchange three minutes after receiving an email from Colin Myler, who was editor of the News of the World at the time.
The problem for Mr Murdoch is that Mr Myler's email is short and very blunt about the importance of the email at the bottom of the chain, which is written by Julian Pike, a solicitor at Farrar & Co.
Mr Myler, in his email to Mr Murdoch on Saturday 7 June, says: "Unfortunately it is as bad as we feared. The note from Julian Pike of Farrer's (sic) is extremely telling regarding Taylor's vindictiveness".
So Mr Myler gives an incentive to Mr Murdoch to read Mr Pyke's email - which is dated 6 June 2008 and is an account of a case being brought against the News of the World by Gordon Taylor, the chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, whose phone had been hacked by the News of the World.
Mr Pike says: "He [Gordon Taylor] wants to demonstrate that what happened to him is/was rife throughout the organisation. He wants to correct the paper telling parliamentary enquiries that this was not happening when it was".
Mr Pike also says Mr Taylor wants a staggering £1.2m to settle.
Now if Mr Murdoch had read all that, he might well have been motivated also to read the email above that one, which is to Mr Myler from Tom Crone, the former legal affairs manager of News International.
Mr Crone's email contains this explosive line:
"There is a further nightmare scenario in this, which is that several of those voicemails on the Ross Hindley email were taken from Joanne Armstrong's phone [Joanne Armstrong was the PFA's in-house lawyer]".
So here we have a News International lawyer referring to a "nightmare". And said horror is yet another email - now widely known as the "For Neville email" - that is regarded as prima facie evidence of phone hacking being more widespread than News International had said at the time.
I know this is all very confusing. But what does it all mean?
Well, it shows that Mr Murdoch was given the ability in June 2008 to get a grip on the phone-hacking scandal, via this email stream.
Had he read the email stream, Mr Murdoch would surely have gleaned that the News of the World faced the serious allegation that it had misled MPs about the full extent of phone hacking at the News of the World.
However he says he didn't read the email stream.
The defence of his probity - his claim that he knew nothing of the extent of phone hacking till about a year ago - rests on his admitting that he made a management mistake by ignoring evidence of a serious problem that was put under his nose.
It is for MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to decide whether that management error is forgiveable and understandable.
Former RAF airman Ken Morgan met his wife Shirley when she was a conductress working on the bus route between Gloucester and Cardiff in 1956.
Now, Mr Morgan, 82, has paid £12,000 to buy the red and white vehicle which they keep in a heritage bus collection in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
He said it took them "back down memory lane to the days when we first met".
Mr Morgan, then aged 22, first met his wife, aged 18, on the 60 mile (97km) journey on the red and white route one bus, which cost two shillings and six pence, before asking her on a date.
He left the RAF and even trained to be a bus driver to work with her before the pair married in 1959.
"Working on the buses with Shirley really was some of the happiest times of my life," Mr Morgan said.
After seeing one of the red and white buses in a transport museum, he found a collector who had saved another one from the scrap yard who sold it to the couple.
"I offered to help restore the bus. It was the same fleet 1749 which we met [on] all those years before. It was a real labour of love," Mr Morgan said.
The couple now travel from their home in Ashford, Middlesex, to take nostalgic trips around their old bus routes on the 1949 Guy Arab double-decker.
He said: "We are a good team and it's been so nice in our retirement years to play driver and conductor again. It reminds us of our courting days.
"We had such great times. I still adore Shirley as much as I did back then."
Mrs Morgan, 78, added: "We both believe in destiny and meeting Ken on the bus that day in 1956 was just meant to be.
"I still have my original conductress badge and wear it with as much pride as my wedding ring."
The 30-year-old striker scored in extra time to knock out League One side Forfar Athletic as Rose became the first junior side to reach the last 16.
"Some of the boys haven't played senior football and it will be happy days," Kelbie told BBC Scotland.
"We have just got to look forward to it. It's just another game basically."
Kelbie has himself tasted Scotland's senior game with Alloa Athletic, Greenock Morton and Stirling Albion.
But, since 2012, he has been competing in the separate Scottish Junior Football League system and spent the last two seasons with Linlithgow in the East Superleague.
"We'll just take each game as it comes and the most important thing is the game on Saturday now," said Kelbie.
"It will be back to training on Thursday night and preparing for the Scottish Junior Cup - a replay away to Irvine Meadow.
"This will do us the world of good and we'll get a bit of fitness out of it too."
Rose have beaten Gala Fairydean Rovers of the Lowland League, Highland League sides Clachnaccudin and Wick Academy, having been drawn away from home in each round, then Forfar from League One.
Asked if the West Lothian side could overcome the odds again against the side sitting fifth in the top flight, Kelbie laughed before saying: "Let's be realistic here. We'll take the next game as it comes.
"It is an experience for a lot of boys and we'll go and enjoy it. There's no pressure on us."
Kelbie, who also had spells in Northern Irish football with Glentoran, Ballymena United and Glenavon after a sports scholarship at Northern Oklahoma College, had a couple of chances to score before his winning goal.
"I thought it had maybe slipped past us," he admitted. "I think everybody in the stadium thought it was going to penalties.
"In the second half, I cracked one off the post and I thought it was going in.
"You've just got to keep digging in and chances will come. Luckily enough, we got the wee breakthrough - happy days.
"It was a good game to watch - end to end - and luckily enough we got the victory."
"I don't see any relation between what we are signing today and the Brexit issue." (Speaking to reporters while arriving for the signing of the EU-Canada trade deal, via Reuters, 30 October)
"I believe you have to respect this referendum result. It is above all up to the British to find their own way in this situation. I believe we would be making a mistake if we, the commission, conducted the negotiations to ensure that at the end of the day, the British hold a second referendum." (Interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, 31 October)
"[The EU's four basic freedoms] will be the basis on which we conduct negotiations. We have to take two things into account: First, the need to ensure that our relationship with Britain remains positive and friendly, and the loss of momentum for the economy is kept to a minimum, because Britain is a key trade partner. On the other hand, we have to keep the 27 [non-UK] member states together and not set standards that allow everyone in Europe to cherry-pick what they happen to want." (Press statement on the annual report by Germany's Council of Economic Experts for 2016/17, 2 November)
"We should conduct these talks with Switzerland as if the Great Britain issue never existed. I can only say that the German position hasn't changed with Great Britain's decision. These are two completely different issues." (Speaking about the Swiss-EU talks on the free movement of people, at a joint news conference in Berlin with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann, 2 November)
"There is still a chance to prevent an exit, or at least negotiate a successor agreement that minimises the damage for both sides, through constructive negotiations." (Annual report for 2016/17)
"The other side of this argument may well get quite vicious after a while, because there are those around the European table who take a very poor view of the fact that Britain decided to leave. That argument, I think, will be fought very toughly, in a really difficult negotiating sense." (Speaking at the All-Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit, 2 November, via The Irish News)
"If it becomes obsessed with what the UK might or might not get, then Europe itself loses the plot." (Speaking at the All-Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit, 2 November, via The Irish News)
"What the British don't seem to understand is that many of the countries in Eastern Europe are deeply hurt and angry at the outcome of the Brexit referendum, particularly at the way their nationals were targeted as undesirable immigrants." (Speaking at the All-Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit, 2 November, via The Irish Times)
"In the course of the departure negotiations, London must recognise the fact that a majority of the population in Northern Ireland voted to stay in the European Union. The issue of the land border between our two countries is unique. And that separation must remain invisible. The Irish people cannot be divided." (Interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, 30 October)
"The course has been set for Brexit, which means an enormous burden for the [EU] apparatus... Of course, we would like Brexit to be as painless as possible to Europe and our friends in the United Kingdom." (Interview with the Estonian newspaper Eesti Paevaleht, 28 October)
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The measures include providing victims of abuse with six months' unconditional unemployment benefit to give them a new start, and outlawing imprisoned abusers from being visited by their children.
The agreement was reached after six months and 66 expert hearings.
Reports say 870 women died from gender-based violence between 2003 and 2016.
So far in 2017, at least 31 women have died along with six minors. Sixteen minors have been orphaned.
Spanish politicians have pursued successive programmes to address the issue since 1997, when 60-year-old Ana Orantes was beaten, thrown over a balcony and then burned to death by her ex-husband after repeatedly complaining to authorities about his violent behaviour.
She had been forced to divide her home with her husband on the order of a divorce court.
Among the 200 measures that received parliamentary endorsement late on Monday are:
The final form of the measures will have to be approved by parliamentary commissions on Friday - which will also monitor their implementation.
It was hailed as an "unprecedented event" by Javier Maroto, a leading figure in the ruling Popular Party.
Although there was cross-party satisfaction at the agreement, there was some criticism that some of the measures did not go far enough from the Socialist PSOE and left-wing Podemos parties.
For 2017 the ratings agency expects the world's second-biggest economy to expand by 6.3%.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng finished 0.7% higher at 21,803.18., while the Shanghai Composite closed 0.4% down at 21,803.18.
In Australia, the ASX/200 rose 0.5% to close at 5,458.50 points.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi finished 0.2% higher to 2,021.11 points.
Japan's markets are closed for a public holiday.
When they reopen tomorrow, investors will be closely watching shares of Softbank after it announced a more-than-£24bn purchase of one of the UK's biggest technology companies, ARM Holdings.
In the currency markets, the Turkish lira recovered some of its losses against the US dollar in Asian trading after the government thwarted an apparent military coup over the weekend.
The lira rose by just over 2% in intraday trading as investors' fears about the political situation in Turkey eased.
The currency had tumbled by nearly 5% on Friday following news of the coup.
But if his Manchester City side beat Liverpool at Wembley on Sunday, he has one in the bank. Lose, and he will be under more pressure with talk that he will leave the club empty-handed in the summer.
Pellegrini has not helped himself much there. His obsession with the Champions League has already ended City's FA Cup hopes - and it could finish off their Premier League title bid too.
I thought Pellegrini's selection for their FA Cup tie against Chelsea at the weekend was utterly ridiculous, but he was able to justify it with his team's 3-1 win over Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday.
That will not be the end of his rotation, though. City have basically put their last-16 tie to bed, but Pellegrini will still want to use his strongest team to nail it down completely so the club reaches the quarter-finals for the first time.
To do that for the second leg against Kiev, he will have to rest players in the league as well.
That tie comes in mid-March, between a trip to Norwich and the Manchester derby, and those are the games where he will take risks with his selection. If the Chelsea game is anything to go by, any wholesale changes will cost him.
City have got a great chance of winning a trophy in a one-off game at Wembley on Sunday but in the Premier League it is also case of now or never for them.
Their form has been patchy anyway, so it is hard to make a case for them ending up champions if they are going to prioritise a different competition.
In their position they cannot afford any more slip-ups.
Throughout the season I have always said City will win the Premier League title. Now, I don't think they will.
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City's display against Kiev was their best since the club announced at the start of February that Pep Guardiola will replace Pellegrini in the summer.
It is entirely possible that having under-performed all season, they have finally hit their best form at exactly the right time.
But they have been so inconsistent all season that there is no way you can look at just one win and say they are suddenly back on track.
For the same reason, I don't think you can blame the Guardiola announcement for their defeats by Leicester and Tottenham in the last couple of weeks.
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There are times when the City players will be thinking about the managerial situation, of course. On a basic level it comes down to wondering whether the new man will like you or not.
But I remember when I was at Celtic that they announced before the end of the 2004-05 season that Gordon Strachan would be replacing Martin O'Neill as manager, and it did not stop us from winning the Scottish Cup final.
For a player, the fact that you know a new manager will be coming in does not affect your decision-making over what you see and do during a game.
The return of Vincent Kompany, and whether he can stay fit, is likely to prove far more significant for how City's season turns out than the news about who is going to be their next manager.
Kompany, along with Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Yaya Toure, have been City's most reliable and influential outfield players since their first title win in 2012, but they have hardly played together this season.
It will definitely make a big difference if they get a run of games where all four are fully fit and firing on all cylinders.
It is Kompany, the captain, who seems to be missed particularly badly at the back when he is out injured.
On their own, City's stats with and without Kompany show important he is.
But you have to watch them play to see the difference he makes to the confidence of his defensive team-mates, and also how much more assured they appear as a unit.
I do understand why Pellegrini is desperate to succeed in the Champions League - he has already won the Premier League and Guardiola has been brought in to succeed in Europe, so this is Pellegrini's chance to leave a bit of egg on the owners' faces.
It is not totally ridiculous to say City can win it this year, either, when you consider the players they have got.
We have seen in previous years that with a little bit of luck anything is possible, even if Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid do look like they are a cut above the rest.
I hope City can go all the way to the Champions League final at the San Siro on 28 May, because it would be great to see a British team do well.
But I think their efforts to make it there will work against them in the league, because if they lose two more games then their title hopes are over.
Even in a strange season like this, where the Premier League is so competitive that a team could win the title with fewer than 80 points, it will not be retrievable.
Chris Sutton was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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Andrew Seaton, from Dorchester, Dorset, has been charged with conspiracy to murder.
The victim, a man in his 30s, was shot in the stomach at an address in Forum Court, Bury St Edmunds, on 4 August.
Frank Warren, 51, of Dorchester, and Simon Webber, 31, of Bridgwater, Somerset, have also been charged with conspiracy to murder.
Warren appeared before magistrates in Ipswich on Friday and was remanded in custody ahead of his next appearance at Ipswich Crown Court on August 25.
Webber will appear at Ipswich Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on August 25.
Four other people have been bailed to return to police in the autumn.
The victim was successfully treated in hospital for his injuries, according to Suffolk Constabulary.
The areas affected are in East Carbrain, West Carbrain, Town Centre, Seafar and Kildrum.
Scottish Water set up a bottled water distribution site at the council offices at Bron Way, Cumbernauld, for those affected.
Staff from the public utility were on site to offer advice to customers.
In a statement, Scottish Water said repairs to the burst main would be completed "as quickly as possible".
It also apologised for any inconvenience caused to customers.
They say the high numbers are due to an increase in clashes between street gangs and the security forces and rival gangs fighting each other.
El Salvador is believed to have more then 70,000 gang members.
The government has been tackling them head on.
National Police chief Mauricio Ramirez said 47 police officers and 16 were soldiers had been killed - many of them attacked while off duty.
President Salvador Sanchez Ceren has brought in 7,000 army troops to help the police carry out patrols but he has been criticised for failing to reduce the violence.
In July, gang members paralysed public transport when they ordered drivers to go on strike. They torched buses and killed at least seven drivers who did not comply.
Gang leaders have been calling for a reinstatement of a truce between the two main gangs, the Mara Savatrucha and the Barrio 18 which was brokered in 2012 and which led initially to a 40% drop in the murder rate.
But as the truce crumbled, the number of murders rose again.
President Sanchez Ceren has refused to get involved in negotiating a fresh truce, saying this would lay the government open to excessive gang demands.
His policy has been to deploy more police to areas with a heavy gang presence and to combat all crimes.
According to a 2012 UN report, Central America was one of the most violent regions in the world with Honduras the most violent country (with 91.4 homicides per 100,000 people) along with high rates in El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize.
John Robinson's father-in-law receives payment from the energy scheme for two boilers.
In a statement obtained by the News Letter, the DUP said Mr Robinson had no role in his father-in-law's business.
It added he was stepping aside to avoid the "accusation or perception of a conflict of interest".
John Robinson is a key member of the DUP's backroom team - formally as the party's director of communications and now as special adviser to the economy Minister Simon Hamilton.
He was accused in the assembly by the former DUP Minister Jonathan Bell of interfering in the RHI scheme - an accusation he denied insisting he had no link to the scheme.
Mr Bell made the allegation on Monday, speaking under parliamentary privilege.
The DUP said the claims were "outrageous".
On Monday, Mr Robinson, who now advises the economy minister, denied any family links to the Renewable Heat Incentive.
But on Tuesday, Mr Robinson told the Press Association his father-in-law applied to the scheme in August 2015, before he was married in October.
The DUP has now confirmed that Mr Robinson did not inform the department of his father in law's involvement in the scheme as he felt there was no conflict of interest.
It said Mr Robinson regrets that this has allowed a situation to develop where there is a "perception of conflict".
"John has fully supported the minister's position for maximum legal transparency around the scheme," the statement added.
"Minister Hamilton and his special adviser have been fully focused on investigating alleged fraud and abuse of the RHI scheme, investigating why warning signs were not heeded and introducing cost control measures."
The DUP added that Mr Robinson "fully supports the establishment of a thorough inquiry into all aspects of the RHI Scheme" and said that when such a probe is established he will "co-operate fully with it and he is confident that his integrity will be upheld in any such investigation."
In an earlier statement on Tuesday, Mr Robinson said: "I have never had any personal financial interest in the RHI Scheme".
"At no point have I ever advised anyone to join the Sse or sought to benefit in any way from it.
"Neither my wife nor I have ever had any role in the business nor have we received any benefit, financial or otherwise, from the business.
"I was appointed as an adviser in the Department for the Economy in June 2016. I was not involved in any aspect of the RHI Scheme prior to taking up the post."
The RHI scheme was set up by former first minister Arlene Foster in 2012 when she was enterprise minister.
Its aim was to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
However, businesses received more in subsidies than they paid for fuel, and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed.
It could lead to an overspend of £490m over the next 20 years.
In April, the United Nations held a summit in Geneva to examine the future of so-called lethal autonomous weapons systems, with some groups calling for an international ban on killer robots.
But is it possible to create robots that are, or at least seem, ethical?
That is the question being posed by one PHD student at Bangor University in Gwynedd - and with surprising results.
Christopher Headleand, 30, is researching how electronic "agents" with the most simple programming can be made to behave in a way that may appear to be moral.
"The best we can do at the moment is to attempt to simulate ethical behaviour. We are not saying these robots are ethical but in some situations they can behave in a way which appears to an observer as ethical," he said.
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, for the purposes of a simulation, I'm willing to accept it's a duck."
He tests the agents - unconstructed, motor-operated vessels with simple sensors - using virtual simulations.
These test environments allow him to see how the automated artificial beings interact when they are programmed to carry out tasks like reaching a power source - effectively food - before they run out of energy and die.
The tests have seen agents programmed to be hedonistic and self-centred, while others are utilitarian and some are even altruistic.
In the case of the latter, Mr Headleand said: "We saw some agents that were sacrificing themselves to save others.
"If you start trying to describe this using language from psychology rather than engineering, that's the point where it becomes quite interesting."
Mr Headleand pointed to the way penguins sometimes huddle to share and conserve heat in the wild, adding: "We were getting behaviour that was very similar.
"We were observing emergent behaviour such as different social classes of agents.
"Agents who were closest to the resources were really calm.
"But what was interesting, [those on] the outer circle, on the outer edges of the resources, were panicked and swerving around and constantly trying to dive in."
He added: "You start to look at these agents as simulated life, you start to anthropomorphise them."
Mr Headleand - whose work is supported by Fujitsu - said the use of robots in human affairs was becoming far more common and he believes "ethical machines" could one day play a part in certain industries, including manufacturing and the care sector.
"We are now moving towards the fact that it's life a lot more, in an everyday sense.
"But there is a safety implication there. How can humans work with these robots? How can we interact with them?
"Perhaps people would be a lot more comfortable working with robots if they displayed behaviour that appeared to be ethical."
At least 20 London boroughs have moved families to places such as Luton, Basildon, Thurrock and Milton Keynes.
Luton housing chiefs say it is putting a huge additional strain on the town's resources.
But Waltham Forest Borough Council, which has placed 57 families in Luton, says budget cuts and an affordable housing shortage forces its hand.
Tom Shaw, Labour-run Luton Borough Council's housing portfolio holder, said the council had made a complaint to Waltham Forest about its placements in Luton.
"Look, we're not happy with this," he said. "That negotiation is going on at the moment at top director level and if that doesn't work we will contemplate legal action."
He said Luton has had to spend "thousands of pounds" on providing transport for the children of families arriving from the capital who then find the nearest school is already oversubscribed.
Waltham Forest said the shortage of suitable accommodation and increasing numbers of people coming to them in crisis meant it had few options other than out of borough placements.
Its cabinet member for housing, Khevyn Limbajee, said: "Rocketing prices in the private rented sector, government cuts to benefit caps and other changes to welfare and a lack of housing availability has resulted in our residents being priced out of the market and the number of homeless households in our borough rising rapidly.
"The number of households in temporary accommodation currently stands at over 2,000.
"We spoke to Luton Borough Council ahead of families being offered temporary accommodation there and subsequently notified the council of each individual placement, once confirmed".
Luton already has more than 10,000 on its housing waiting list and has had to put more than a 100 families into bed and breakfast accommodation.
A significant number of homeless families from Waltham Forest have been housed in a refurbished former office block called Cardiff House, which is about to be sold to a hedge fund as an "income generating asset".
Among those living there is Nicola Chapman and her four children, who arrived in Luton in June.
She said: "I got evicted from my home in Leyton and the council decided it would be best for me to come here for some unknown reason.
"I'm not happy at the moment, it is giving me really bad anxiety. Also, I am having to take one of my children to school every morning and it is a 40 minute walk away.
"I have no friends or family around here. I hope I get moved very quickly. The flat is tiny, it is more like a studio flat. It is very distressing for all of us."
At Cardiff House, the BBC spoke to one nine year old boy and his parents. He is yet to be found a place at school.
"I really miss my friends. I used to be able to walk to school. They are saying the nearest one, if it can take me, is five miles away. Or I will have to go to school in London."
Meanwhile Thurrock Council has taken more homeless families than any other area outside London.
At least 266 families are currently in the area, up from just 29 three years ago.
London boroughs are buying properties locally or paying Thurrock landlords to house their residents as tenants.
John Kent, leader of the council, said: "There is nothing we can do about either of these. But the first has the effect of reducing the number of homes available for local people to buy or rent and the second forces the cost of all local private rents through the roof."
The homeless charity Shelter said out of borough placements were unacceptable.
Campbell Robb, its chief executive, said: "Uprooting homeless families and sending them away from their jobs, schools and support networks should only ever be a last resort, but shockingly it's now the norm in London."
The incident happened at about 08:45 on Tuesday in Alexander Street, Kirkcaldy. Jewellery and a money box containing a four-figure sum of cash was stolen.
One of the attackers was male, aged about 40, 5ft 10in tall and of skinny build. He had a local accent and was wearing a blue hooded top.
The second attacker spoke with a "squeaky" voice.
The second suspect was also shorter, skinny and was wearing a cream baseball cap.
Det Sgt Colin Potter, of Police Scotland, said: "This has been a distressing incident for the resident.
"I would appeal for anyone who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed anything suspicious to contact the police."
The 21-year-old spent the second half of last season on loan with the Bantams, making 10 appearances to help the club reach the play-off final.
He becomes Bradford's sixth signing of the summer.
"We saw enough of him to know that he can be an asset to us this time around as well," boss Stuart McCall told the club website.
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Ospreys are understood to be leading the chase to sign the 29-year-old former Cardiff Blues player.
Davies has a year left on his current contract at Wasps, which means potential suitors may have to pay a compensation fee for his early release.
"From our point of view there's been nothing finalised or agreed," said Young.
"But there's certainly been interest shown and it's ongoing discussions at this moment in time."
Those negotiations are believed to be at an advanced stage with Ospreys.
Davies had been linked with a return to the Blues but, despite previously confirming interest from Welsh regions, ex-Blues boss Young said there had been no approach from the Arms Park side.
The West Bromwich-based Black Country Ale Tairsters have toured more than 18,000 ale houses across 32 years.
Co-founder Peter Hill, who has downed 43,000 pints along the way, said he believed the 300,000-mile mark (482,800km) was in reach.
He said: "We are planning visits to every pub in Nottinghamshire in aid of Nottingham Children's hospital."
The Tairsters - Black Country dialect for tasters - began visiting establishments listed on a map issued by Wolverhampton brewer Banks's in 1984.
Despite some members having to bed down in a graveyard for the night after their initial visit to a pub in Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, the group went on to complete the 300-strong Banks's list over the next 10 months.
Mr Hill was among those who considered calling it a day before deciding to visit more than 1,000 pubs in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
"After Hereford and Worcester, we were going to finish up and my dad said: 'Shall we go and do something different? We could go around the coastline of Great Britain and visit every county in England, Scotland and Wales'," said Mr Hill.
"That took four years."
From 1991, the group - which began with more than a dozen regulars - moved its focus to 12 Midlands counties before embarking on a seven-year tour of every pub in Wales in 2006.
Mr Hill, a retired engineer whose father Joe died in 2014 after fulfilling his ambition of "conquering" Wales, keeps a close eye on the figures.
He said: "I record all the mileage we do and what we drink.
"I record every type of drink, whether it's lager, Guinness or the name of a real ale - everything is recorded and we celebrate everything."
Members of the group, including stalwarts John Drew, 52, and 71-year-old Malcolm Maynard, collect money for hospital charities during their travels by asking for donations from landlords.
Their tour of Wales raised about £11,000 and the men recently handed a cheque for more than £3,000 to the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust.
In a report due to be released on Thursday, Vivek Murthy recommends more regulation and taxation.
His report agrees that e-cigarettes are less harmful than actual ones, but his concern is that the devices expose children to the risks of nicotine.
E-cigarettes are devices that turn nicotine liquid into a vapour.
Because they do not actually burn any material but leave users merely inhaling nicotine in steam, they are seen by some health experts as preferable to smoking cigarettes and, by some, as a way to give up cigarette smoking.
Dr Murthy's report says there is not enough evidence that prove e-cigarettes work in this way.
For young people, he says, e-cigarette use is strongly linked with the use of other tobacco products.
Dr Murthy says nicotine usage by young people risks mood disorders, attention deficits and addiction to nicotine that could lead to the use of traditional cigarettes.
Many tobacco companies are pinning their future on e-cigarettes and other alternatives as people continue to move away from using traditional nicotine products.
Last month, Marlboro maker Philip Morris launched a new product in the UK, Iqos, which it said could mean halting sales of its conventional tobacco products.
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Father Lawrence Soper, 80, abbot of the Catholic Ealing Abbey from 1991 to 2000, is wanted over child abuse.
The crimes date back to when he taught at St Benedict's School, a private Catholic school at the west London institution.
A European Arrest Warrant may now be issued after the Metropolitan Police said Father Soper did not answer bail.
The suspect is thought to be at a monastery in Rome.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "An 80-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of an historical sexual assault.
"He was bailed to a west London police station to March 2011.
"The man failed to appear and inquiries are being made to trace him."
A message on Ealing Abbey's website from current Abbot Martin Shipperlee said: "Many of you will have read news reports concerning my predecessor.
"Accusations have been made against him concerning offences against children."
It continued: "Early in March he left the monastery in Rome where he had been living to travel to London for an appointment with the police.
"Unfortunately he failed to keep that appointment and we have heard nothing from him since and all efforts to contact him have been without success.
"I cannot comment on the details of the police investigation but I must condemn without reservation his failure to co-operate with them."
Ladd was appointed club captain last year, but has decided to leave the Women's Super League One club after deciding not to sign a new contract.
She has previously played for Arsenal Ladies and Coventry City, before joining Bristol in 2015.
The 23-year-old midfielder scored in Wales' 2-1 friendly win against Portugal in June.
His declaration comes despite earlier comments about Mexicans seen as deeply offensive by many.
Mr Trump has accused Mexico of sending "criminals" and "rapists" into the US.
He has also made building a border wall with Mexico a key tenet of his campaign and repeatedly said Mexico is "killing the US" on trade deals.
Extending an apparent olive branch, the billionaire businessman has now said he "loves Hispanics" and employs many of them.
Cinco de Mayo, translated as 5 May, commemorates the victory of Mexican troops in a battle against French forces near the town of Puebla in 1862, and is not a wider Hispanic festival. It is also celebrated more in the US than in Mexico itself.
That did not stop Mr Trump naming it a festival for all people of Hispanic origin. Plenty of people were keen to point this out:
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton quickly responded to Mr Trump's tweet, pointing out that he has repeatedly said he would deport Hispanics.
With an eye on the commercial potential, restaurant chain Chipotle tweeted that their own taco bowl was probably as good as Mr Trump's.
Mexican-American comedian and actor George Lopez tweeted in reply that Mr Trump's taco bowl was probably made by undocumented immigrants - a group Mr Trump has vowed to deport.
Steven Dennis, a writer for Bloomberg, pointed out that an Eater.com review of the Trump taco bowl called it an "insult to Mexicans".
Gabe Bergado, a writer for The Daily Dot, offered up a simpler reaction.
And Jose Antonio Vargas, a Filipino American TV producer and writer, proposed an end to taco bowls altogether.
Mr Malema, who strongly denies allegations of corruption, accuses his erstwhile ally of failing to relieve poverty.
The former ANC Youth League leader is a hugely divisive figure in South Africa after making numerous controversial statements during his short career:
"We must accept that this is the decision, but that is not the end of the road," in February 2012 when the ANC's disciplinary committee rejected his appeal against the length of his five-year suspension - and changed it to an expulsion.
"I'm not a soldier who is prepared to fall in the battle, I will die with my boots on, I will die for what I believe in.
"I did not steal from anybody... I did not kill anybody."
"It is under President Zuma that we have seen the youth of the ANC being traumatised, being expelled from their own home. It is under President Zuma we have seen a critical voice being suppressed. We have seen under President Zuma democracy being replaced with dictatorship," in March 2012 after falling out with his former ally and being expelled from the ANC.
"We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma," in June 2008 during Mr Zuma's hard-fought campaign to wrest control of the ANC from then President Thabo Mbeki.
"We are leaving this dead snake, but we must bury it, it is dead now," in September 2008 shortly before Mr Mbeki was ousted as president.
"Racism is the legacy of De Klerk. Unemployment is the legacy of De Klerk. Shortage of houses is the legacy of De Klerk. De Klerk must never be compared with Mandela," in January 2011 urging people not to credit South Africa's last white ruler, FW de Klerk, for releasing Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990.
"She, the racist little girl, must remember that Zuma is her boss," in May 2009 after Democratic Alliance (DA) party leader Helen Zille, a white woman, was elected premier of Western Cape province.
"I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys," in February 2009 refusing to have a debate with DA youth leader Khume Ramulifho.
"She's a nobody, she's a tea girl of the madam. I'm not debating with the service of the madam," in May 2011 rejecting a challenge to have a debate with Lindiwe Mazibuko, a black woman who is now the DA's parliamentary leader.
"We want to ask a simple question - are you not tired of seeing blood every year? You blood-thirsty imperialists... They can't think. They don't know politics," denouncing Nato's military campaign in Libya in July 2011.
"Botswana is in full co-operation with imperialists," in July 2011, calling for a change of government in Gaborone because of its close ties with the US - the stance which saw him suspended from the party.
"At the moment, when the imperialist forces are accepting the failures of capitalism, we should ask whether the time has not arrived for the government to make sure that the state owns the mines and other means of production," in July 2009, calling for nationalisation of South Africa's huge mining industry to end white domination of the economy.
"Mandela and his generation said: 'Freedom in our lifetime', and we want to declare today: 'Economic freedom in our lifetime'," in February 2010, arguing that nationalisation had been a policy of the ANC during the struggle for democratic rule.
"When a woman didn't enjoy it [sex], she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, request breakfast and ask for taxi money," in January 2009 after Mr Zuma was acquitted in 2008 of raping a family friend.
"Let the minister use that fake accent to address our problems and not behave like a spoilt minister," in February 2009 calling on the Mbeki-appointed Education Minister Naledi Pandor to resolve a wage dispute at a university.
"Your children must be allowed to go to school with coolie [a racially derogatory term for Indians] children," in October 2011 calling for better education for black people.
"I think parliament is for old people, don't you agree? It's not my favourite place," in January 2009, rejecting his nomination to serve in parliament.
"If I am expelled from the ANC, no problem. Life goes on. I've played my role and my name will be counted in history. There are people who are far older than me who have never played any role and their names are not relevant to the history of South Africa," in October 2011, while facing charges of bringing the ANC in disrepute.
"Not even the president can stop me. Not even death can stop me. My ideas are out there. Even if I am no more, people will continue those ideas," in September 2012, before a warrant for his arrest was issued following an investigation into alleged corruption.
It comes as a US federal judge was expected to rule on how much BP owed in Clean Water Act penalties following the environmental disaster.
Over 125 million gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf after an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010.
The settlement is the largest paid by a single company in US history .
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was one of the worst environmental disasters in US history and claimed the lives of 11 people.
In December the US Supreme Court rejected the oil giant's legal challenge over an original compensation deal agreed in 2012.
At the time BP had already paid out $2.3bn in so-called business economic loss claims out of a total of $4.25bn in compensation claims to individuals and businesses, according to Patrick Juneau, the administrator appointed by the courts to handle claims.
The settlement process is also separate from other court proceedings relating to the spill, including environmental and criminal penalties.
BP has said its costs associated with the oil spill have already exceeded $43bn even without the Clean Water Act fine.
US Attorney General Loretta E Lynch said the BP settlement was the largest to be paid by a single company in US history.
"If approved by the court, this settlement would be the largest settlement with a single entity in American history; it would help repair the damage done to the Gulf economy, fisheries, wetlands and wildlife; and it would bring lasting benefits to the Gulf region for generations to come," she said.
In a statement, Bob Dudley, BP's group chief executive, called the settlement a "realistic outcome which provides clarity and certainty for all parties".
"For BP, this agreement will resolve the largest liabilities remaining from the tragic accident and enable BP to focus on safely delivering the energy the world needs."
"For the United States and the Gulf in particular, this agreement will deliver a significant income stream over many years for further restoration of natural resources and for losses related to the spill."
Under the agreement BP will;:
BP said it expected impact of the settlement to be to "increase the cumulative pre-tax charge associated with the Deepwater Horizon accident and spill by around $10bn from $43.8bn at the end of the first quarter".
BP's share price rose 4.6% at 438p following the announcement of the deal.
The men, all from Rotherham, are Sageer Hussain, Mohammed Whied, Ishtiaq Khaliq, Waleed Ali, Asif Ali, Masoued Malik, Basharat Hussain and Naeem Rafiq.
They are due to be sentenced on 4 November.
Det Ch Insp Martin Tate said they had committed "vile crimes".
The men were found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court after more than 17 hours of deliberations by the jury.
They "sexualised" their victims, some as young as 13, and subjected them to "degrading and violent" acts.
One girl and her family told police, their MP and then-Home Secretary David Blunkett, but eventually moved to Spain to get away from the men.
After the verdict, Det Ch Insp Martin Tate of South Yorkshire Police said the trial marked the culmination of three years investigative work by police, Rotherham Council and the Crown Prosecution Service into the calculated and organised sexual exploitation of young girls.
He said the verdicts were of "massive importance" to the victims, who suffered years of abuse.
"They had to endure what no child should and have shown remarkable bravery throughout our inquiry," he said.
"I am so grateful to these women, many of whom remain incredibly vulnerable, for offering their support to our investigative team.
"I hope by hearing these brave women's accounts, other victims find the strength to tell someone what has or is happening to them."
Peter Mann, of Yorkshire and Humberside Crown Prosecution Service, paid tribute to the victims.
"In contrast to the courage and strength of the victims, these men's actions are utterly abhorrent," he said.
"They waged a campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against young girls in the Rotherham area 13 years ago.
"Sageer Hussain in particular took a leading role in befriending the young girls, and in the case of one victim, passed her on to his friends and other associates."
Ian Thomas, strategic director of Children and Young People's Services at Rotherham Council, said: "One of the families central to this case I know quite well.
"They have been to hell and back over the past 14 years.
"This family exemplify why we must redouble efforts across all our communities in tackling child sexual exploitation as a national threat."
Sean Gavin, of Charlestown Road, Manchester also stamped on 53-year-old John Terrell's head in July in a "tirade of abuse", police said.
The 28-year-old, who pleaded guilty to murder at an earlier hearing, was told at Manchester Crown Court that he would serve nearly 14 years in prison.
Duncan Thorpe, of Greater Manchester Police, said it was a "despicable" and "sustained brutal attack".
Shortly after 06:50 BST on 1 July, an eye-witness called 999 to report a disturbance outside Mr Terrell's flat on Peakdale Drive in Crumpsall, Manchester.
He was lying face down on the grass while Gavin shouted at him before punching and kicking him.
He then dragged Mr Terrell across the ground into the flat.
The only time Gavin stopped dragging him was to deliver further kicks, punches and stamps, police said.
He then walked away, leaving Mr Terrell unconscious.
Officers arrived soon afterwards and stopped Gavin before they found the victim badly injured on the floor.
He later died in hospital from his wounds.
Mr Thorpe said: "This was a sustained brutal attack on a vulnerable man.
"To this day we still don't know why he launched into the violent attack in the way that he did. He has never showed any remorse for his despicable actions."
It adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting health benefits from the most popular hot drinks.
Those who drank more than six cups of tea a day cut their risk of heart disease by a third, the study of 40,000 people found.
Consuming between two to four coffees a day was also linked to a reduced risk.
While the protective effect ceased with more than four cups of coffee a day, even those who drank this much were no more likely to die of any cause, including stroke and cancer, than those who abstained.
The Dutch tend to drink coffee with a small amount of milk and black tea without. There have been conflicting reports as to whether milk substantially affects the polyphenols - believed to be the most beneficial substance in tea.
Coffee has properties which could in theory simultaneously increase and reduce risk - potentially raising cholesterol while battling the inflammatory damage associated with heart disease.
But the study in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds those who drank between two and four cups a day lowered the risk of the disease by 20%.
"It's basically a good news story for those who like tea and coffee. These drinks appear to offer benefits for the heart without raising the risk of dying from anything else," said Professor Yvonne van der Schouw, the lead researcher.
Ellen Mason, Senior Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: "This study adds further weight to the evidence that drinking tea and coffee in moderation is not harmful for most people, and may even lower your risk of developing, or dying, from heart disease.
"However, it's worth remembering that leading a healthy overall lifestyle is the thing that really matters when it comes to keeping your heart in top condition.
"Having a cigarette with your coffee could completely cancel any benefits, while drinking lots of tea in front of the TV for hours on end without exercising is unlikely to offer your heart much protection at all."
Footage from Queensland Police shows a speeding car erratically crossing lanes on two major Gold Coast roads.
After several minutes the car stops due to a flat tyre, and a man emerges holding a large knife and a dog.
The man appears to threaten a motorist with the knife before running off the motorway in Thursday's incident.
Still clutching the dog, the man rushes into a residential area near Gold Coast Airport and enters a house.
Police said they confronted the man and he surrendered to them without incident.
A 24-year-old man was charged with a number of offences over the incident, including attempted robbery, dangerous driving and entering a dwelling with intent.
Local media named the man as Kayne Selfe and said he had been remanded in custody after a court appearance.
Police said the dog was found safe and well.
Kensington Police Service, which looks after the residents of Prince Edward Island, will be handing out fines and criminal charges as usual.
But it seems it is the possibility of having to listen to Nickelback which has really upset the locals.
"Doesn't torture go against the Geneva Convention?" asked one on Facebook.
In recent years, the band has become a source of ridicule and hatred on the web - something the Kensington Police Service were apparently all too aware of when posting their annual advice to assign a designated driver before going out for the evening.
However, conscious not everyone would heed the law, officers warned they would be out "looking for those dumb enough to feel they can drink and drive".
Writing on Facebook, they continued: "And when we catch you, and we will catch you, on top of a hefty fine, a criminal charge and a year's driving suspension we will also provide you with a bonus gift of playing the offices [sic] copy of Nickelback in the cruiser on the way to jail.
"Now, now, no need to thank us, we figure if you are foolish enough to get behind the wheel after drinking then a little Chad Kroeger and the boys is the perfect gift for you.
"So please, lets not ruin a perfectly good unopened copy of Nickelback. You don't drink and drive and we won't make you listen to it."
And in case people didn't quite get the message, they posted a picture of the offending item, still in its wrapping.
The tongue-in-cheek post has divided the community, with some criticising Kensington Police Service for making light of a serious issue, while others hit out at them failing to support Canadian music.
There were also those, however, who didn't feel they had hit quite the right note - and suggested there was another Canadian native who would work even better.
"Don't hate on Nickelback!! They are a good band. Use someone like Justin Bieber. No one will ever think twice about drinking and driving if you use Bieber," the cheeky Facebook user argued.
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Dame Lowell Goddard, who resigned last month, said in a memo to MPs that the inquiry needed overhauling.
She said the inquiry should focus less on the past and more on current standards of child protection.
New chairwoman Alexis Jay said its terms of reference would remain but an internal review of it would be held.
Last month, Dame Lowell became the third chief to quit the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), which was set up to investigate allegations made against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions in England and Wales, as well as people in the public eye.
The inquiry was set up after a string of scandals involving celebrities such as BBC DJ Jimmy Savile, who since his death in 2011 has been exposed as one of the UK's most prolific sexual predators, and the targeting of vulnerable children by organised gangs in towns such as Rotherham, Oxford and Rochdale.
The spotlight also fell on sexual assaults carried out in schools, children's homes and at NHS sites.
The inquiry was then launched in 2014 and it has announced 13 initial investigations, which include inquiries into the allegations of abuse by people of prominence.
In her memo to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Dame Lowell said she had stepped down in order to challenge the way the probe was running.
There was "an inherent problem in the sheer scale and size of the inquiry", she said - adding that its budget did not match.
"Its boundless compass, including, as it does, every state and non-state institution, as well as relevant institutional contexts, coupled with the absence of any built-in time parameters, does not fit comfortably or practically within the single inquiry model."
She said there should be a complete review, "with a view to remodelling it and recalibrating its emphasis more towards current events and thus focusing major attention on the present and future protection of children".
Dame Lowell also said:
Inquiry sources have told the BBC she lost the confidence of senior insiders.
However, Prof Jay said the panel would not be seeking any revision of the inquiry's terms of reference or introducing any new restrictions on its scope.
"To ensure that the inquiry can meet the challenges it faces, I have already initiated a wide-ranging internal review of the inquiry's ways of working," she said.
"We are currently looking at different approaches to evaluating the information we receive."
But Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC, who was director of public prosecutions from 2003 to 2008, said the probe's "overwhelming focus on the past" was "ballooning out of control" and called for its terms of reference to be rewritten.
Peter Saunders, founder of the charity National Association for People Abused in Childhood and a member of the victims' advisory panel for the inquiry, said it remained the "best hope" despite its scale.
The prime minister's official spokeswoman said the government believed the inquiry was "absolutely vital and we remain committed to doing it".
A spokeswoman for the Home Office said: "We owe it to victims and survivors to confront the appalling reality of how children were let down by the very people who were charged to protect them and to learn from the mistakes of the past."
7 July 2014 - government announces independent inquiry into the way public bodies investigated and handled child sex abuse claims. Baroness Butler-Sloss chosen as head
9 July - Baroness Butler-Sloss faces calls to quit because her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s at the time of the alleged paedophile scandal. MPs and victims claimed she was too close to the establishment.
14 July - she stands down, saying she is "not the right person" for the job
5 September - Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf named the new head of the inquiry
11 October - Mrs Woolf discloses she had five dinners with Lord Brittan from 2008-12. The former home secretary faced questions over his handling of child abuse allegations during his time in office in the 1980s. Before his death in January 2015, Lord Brittan insisted proper procedures had been followed
22 October - abuse victim launches legal challenge against Mrs Woolf leading the inquiry, amid growing calls for her resignation
31 October - victims' groups tell government officials they are "unanimous" Mrs Woolf should quit. She steps down later that day
4 February 2015 - Justice Lowell Goddard, a serving judge of the High Court of New Zealand, announced as the new head of the inquiry
November - inquiry begins hearing directly from victims and survivors
4 August 2016 - Dame Lowell writes to Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign from her post
11 August 2016 - Prof Alexis Jay announced as new head of the inquiry
In her first interview since being found with her baby in May, Amina Ali Nkeki told Reuters she also wanted to go home to Chibok, a town in the north.
She and her child are being held in the capital, Abuja, for what the government calls a restoration process.
More than 200 girls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok in April 2014.
The abduction led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, that was supported by US First Lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.
The Boko Haram group has waged a violent insurgency for several years in north-eastern Nigeria in its quest for Islamic rule.
Ms Nkeki was found three months ago by a vigilante group in a forest with suspected militant Mohammed Hayatu, who identified himself as her husband, and their child of four months.
The 21-year-old said she was unhappy about being separated from Mr Hayatu, who was arrested after they were found.
"I want him to know that I am still thinking about him," she told Reuters. "Just because we got separated, that does not mean that I don't think about him."
During the interview she only lifted her gaze from the floor once to breastfeed her daughter when the baby was brought into the room, Reuters reports.
"I just want to go home - I don't know about school," she said. "I will decide about school when I get back."
Her mother, Binta Ali, told the BBC Hausa service earlier this week that her daughter wanted the government to give her a sewing machine so she could become a seamstress.
She said the man claiming to be her daughter's husband had said he was a mechanic from the town of Mubi before he was captured by Boko Haram - and that he had organised their escape.
Earlier her brother had told the BBC that because of an increase in air strikes Mr Hayatu was no longer willing to continue fighting and they had planned to leave together.
Ms Nkeki said she had not watched the video, released by Boko Haram on Sunday, which apparently shows recent footage of some the other missing Chibok girls.
"I think about them a lot - I would tell them to be hopeful and prayerful," she said. "In the same way God rescued me, he will also rescue them."
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Annan Hospital and ward 14 at Dumfries Infirmary have been closed to new admissions.
A total of 14 patients across the two hospitals have symptoms of sickness and diarrhoea consistent with norovirus.
Routine visiting remains suspended and anyone with concerns about a relative at either site should contact the hospital for advice before visiting.
Members of the public visiting other areas of the Dumfries hospital have been asked to comply with the hand hygiene and infection control measures in place.
Anyone who has experienced diarrhoea and vomiting has been asked to allow at least 48 hours since their last symptom before visiting the hospital.
Gower MP Byron Davies spoke in a Commons debate following the attack on Wednesday which left four people dead.
Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts warned against reacting to "warped ideology" with "unworthy responses" that could promote extremism.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the Commons debate had shown "normality" and defiance of terrorism.
Arrests have been made in Birmingham and London, and there has also been related police activity at a location in Wales.
Mr Davies, a member of the home affairs committee, spoke of his experience serving under counter-terrorist command in London during the 1980s, tackling Irish and Middle Eastern terrorism.
"I know only too well the challenge that's faced by police," he said, adding that he wanted to reinforce the message about resources, saying all police and security forces fighting terrorism should "want for nothing".
Ms Saville Roberts told MPs that their return to the Commons on Thursday was "not a show of defiance" but "a show of respect for the dead and the injured".
She asked Mrs May: "Do you agree with me that we must not react to such a warped ideology with unworthy responses?"
The prime minister said the response of MPs had been "absolutely appropriate".
"It has shown gratitude for the bravery of the police and our emergency services," Mrs May said.
"It has shown respect and concern for those who have been the victims of the terrible attacks that took place but also it has shown normality
"I think that is what is important as we defy the terrorists and as we work to defeat them."
Rhondda MP Chris Bryant called for a shield to be unveiled in the Commons in honour of PC Keith Palmer, who died after being stabbed by the suspected terrorist.
The Labour member said it reflected a custom by which murdered MPs such as Ian Gow and Airey Neave were honoured.
"He was our shield and defender yesterday," he said.
Earlier, Kim Howells, the former Pontypridd MP who served chairman of Parliament's security and intelligence committee, told BBC Wales it was very "difficult" to contain terrorist threats in a democracy.
"We don't live in a police state and as a consequence of course there's a very good chance that someone will always get through.
Lord Carlile, the UK government's former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said the security services had enough powers to deal with the threat from terrorism.
"It was definitely predictable that there would be a low-technology attack of this kind somewhere," the former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader told BBC Radio Wales.
"We may have to consider the question of whether all police should be armed around major public buildings and places of public resort but those are lessons learned matters."
Welsh Assembly committees met as scheduled on Thursday following the suspension of proceedings in the Senedd on Wednesday.
Committee chairmen paused proceedings at 0933 GMT to observe a minute's silence.
Rovers said they were going to make an official complaint to the English Football League following the 26-year-old striker's move last month.
They claimed City knew the details of a release clause in his contract.
Rovers said in a statement: "The decision comes after high-level discussions between the clubs about an agreed transfer policy going forward."
Taylor, who scored 61 league goals in 118 league games for Bristol Rovers, became the first player to leave Rovers for City since Trevor Morgan in 1987.
Bristol City said they "welcomed the news" that the complaint was not being pursued.
The system for enforcing confiscation orders imposed by the courts is not working, a report by the Home Affairs Select Committee added.
Only a "paltry" 26p in every £100 is being recouped, the MPs said.
The Home Office said it was "making progress" and £1.2bn had been seized between April 2010 and March 2016.
But the committee concluded that the system for monitoring suspicious financial activity was overloaded and there were not enough skilled investigators.
Among its recommendations the MPs called for specialist "confiscation courts", with judges able to compel offenders to attend hearings.
Non-payment of a confiscation order would be a crime in itself, and prisoners would have to remain incarcerated until all debts were paid. The MPs also called for offenders to have their passport taken away until debts were settled.
"To enforce this, we recommend that no criminal be allowed to leave prison without either paying their confiscation order in full, or engaging with the courts to convince a judge that their debt to society is squared," the committee added.
Confiscation orders are issued by courts against convicted offenders and can be applied to any offence resulting in financial gain.
But even after an order has been made, there are very few incentives for criminals to either engage with the courts or pay the money back with many choosing instead to extend their prison sentences and avoid paying, the report added.
"It appears that some criminals view paying back their proceeds of crime as an option rather than a requirement - essentially a choice between payment and prison," it said.
The report also said:
Committee chairman Keith Vaz said: "At least £100bn, equivalent to the GDP of Ukraine, is being laundered through the UK every year. The proceeds of crime legislation has failed to achieve its purpose."
He said the National Crime Agency's main system for reporting suspicious transactions, known as Elmer, was "not fit for purpose", adding that it was capable of managing 20,000 reports a year, but it was currently burdened with 381,882.
As of September 2015, the total debt outstanding from confiscation orders was calculated at £1.61bn, although the committee admitted that this figure was "problematic".
A Home Office spokesman said: "We are committed to attacking criminal finances, making it harder to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime, as set out in the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.
"And there is clear evidence we are making progress in this effort; the government seized a total of £1.2bn from criminals between April 2010 and March 2016, with more assets recovered in 2015-16 than ever before."
The spokesman also said it would consider the recommendations in the report.
The man, who is in his 20s, was arrested in connection with the incident in Bessbrook, County Armagh.
Police went to a house in Charlemont Square East on Sunday night after an altercation involving several people.
The toddler was taken from the house after apparently suffering serious head injuries. She remains critically ill.
It is understood the man being questioned is not the child's father, but was in a relationship with the mother.
They had only met recently, apparently via the internet and neighbours said he had moved into the house three days ago.
Half will go to his widow, Iman, along with the home they shared in New York. The rest is shared between his son and daughter.
It was also revealed that Bowie had requested that his ashes be scattered in Bali in a Buddhist ritual.
The singer died of cancer on 10 January, aged 69.
The will was filed in a Manhattan court on Friday under Bowie's legal name, David Robert Jones.
The star's personal assistant, Corinne Schwab, was left $2m and another $1m went to a former nanny, Marion Skene.
Bowie's son, Duncan Jones, and daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, both received 25% of the estate. Alexandria was also left a home in upstate New York.
In the will, written in 2004, Bowie asked that he be cremated in Bali but if that was "not practical", then his ashes be scattered there anyway "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals".
Bowie's body was cremated on 12 January in New Jersey, according to a death certificate filed with the will.
Source: Buddha Dharma Education Association
At the time it was reported that no family or friends were present at the ceremony, in accordance with his wishes.
It is not known whether his ashes have been scattered.
Bowie had released a new album, Blackstar, just two days before his death, which has been retrospectively interpreted as his epitaph. The album is in the number one spot in the UK charts for the third week.
In human and financial terms, the burden is huge and it is hitting the poor especially hard.
Often thought of as a disease of the rich, experts say the unabating rise may be fuelled as much by food scarcity and insecurity as it is by excess.
Changing lifestyles, rapid urbanisation and cheap calories in the form of processed foods are putting more and more people at risk of developing Type-2 diabetes.
There are now 382 million people worldwide living with diabetes, according to new figures from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
More than half are in Asia and the Western Pacific, where 90-95% of cases are classed as Type-2.
China is leading the world, with the disease now affecting more than 98 million people or about 10% of the population - a dramatic increase from about 1% in 1980.
Prof Juliana Chan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong says there is a complex interplay between genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors, which have been compounded by China's rapid modernisation.
"Diabetes is a disease of paradoxes," she says.
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"It is typically an ageing disease, but the data shows that the young and middle-aged are most vulnerable. It is prevalent in obese people but emerging data suggests that for lean people with diabetes the outcome can be worse."
The big question is whether China has the capacity to deal with a health problem of such magnitude.
China spent $17bn (£10.6bn) on diabetes last year. The disease may consume more than half of China's annual health budget, if all those with the condition get routine, state-funded care, the IDF says.
"Diabetes is a silent killer in a silent population," says Prof Chan.
Men and women, trapped by stigma, poverty and misinformation, often do not seek help for diabetes until it is in its advanced stages.
Kidney failure, cardiovascular disease and blindness are common complications.
Prof Chan says China's leaders need to do a lot in terms of public health policy.
"One of the greatest challenges is that the system is not conducive to preventative care. We need to go out and find those at risk otherwise you miss the critical moment to prevent the disease," she says.
Governments are waking up to the problem, according to Leonor Guariguata, a biostatistician at IDF.
"India and China are uniquely positioned - as they are developing so fast, they have the resources to act fast and reframe their health systems," she says.
India is closely trailing China, with an estimated 65.1 million diabetics.
Kanmani Pandian is 25 years old and expecting her first baby in January.
Two months ago she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes - a disease she had never heard of.
Kanmani was lucky. In Chennai, in the south-eastern state of Tamil Nadu, universal screening is available for pregnant women.
If left unchecked the disease can lead to life-threatening complications, including foetal macrosomia, or excessive birth weight, making the delivery dangerous for both mother and child.
More than 21 million live births were affected by diabetes in 2013. In India, the condition is particularly prevalent.
Dr R M Anjana, a diabetes expert based in Chennai, says gestational diabetes is often not taken seriously "because people think it's a one-time thing or a mild affliction".
The condition disappears after birth, but within five years of pregnancy, 70-80% of women develop Type-2 diabetes, she says.
The infant is also at increased risk of developing the disease in later life.
Across the Western Pacific the disease is taking an unprecedented human and economic toll.
In Fiji, surgeons carry out a diabetes-related amputation every 12 hours on average.
"Before people seek help for foot infections they would have tried traditional medicines and herbs. By the time they come to the clinic the infection is often so advanced they need an amputation," says Dr Wahid Khan, co-founder of the Diabetes Trust of Fiji.
"People don't want to own up to having diabetes. Culturally, it's seen as an illness that leads to early death. If it's known the person has diabetes there is less chance of them getting a job for instance," Dr Khan says.
One in three people in Fiji aged 30 or above has diabetes.
"The writing has been on the wall for a long time," says Dr Khan.
Following the trend across Asia, Fiji's economy, driven by tourism, the sugar industry, gold, copper and fish exports, has produced a rising middle class.
"People would traditionally grow their own crops, catch their own fish, if you wanted to get anywhere you would have to walk. We've become more lazy and less active," says Dr Khan, adding that he also has a gripe with the confectionary and fast food industries.
In Fiji, diabetes could be prevented or delayed in 80% of cases through simple lifestyle changes, says the IDF.
Three diabetes "hubs" were opened earlier this year, and Dr Khan is urging all adult Fijians to get screened.
As part of a "massive campaign" to begin in 2014, Dr Khan says surgeons will be asked to "save rather than cut" when it comes to amputations, which are often seen as preferable to keeping patients in hospital for prolonged periods of time.
"There is no one answer to diabetes," says Dr Khan, "but we are striving for the right path."
Additional reporting by the BBC's Shilpa Kannan in Delhi.
Belles have lost all three of their opening Women's Super League One fixtures this season, after winning promotion last year.
"We know we need to strengthen because we're a very thin squad," said Harris.
"We're a couple of player's short and we need to put pressure on the players that we already have."
He added: "Those players in my view have not quite come to the standard that they've shown in training."
Doncaster made seven signings in the summer, including England striker Natasha Dowie.
However, they are currently bottom of the WSL 1 table with no points and a goal difference of minus 10 following defeats by Chelsea,Birmingham and Manchester City.
But Harris insists that the club are confident that they can "regroup" during the month-long break at the end of May.
"If you look at the run of games we've had, we've not had the easiest of starts," he told BBC Sport.
"The morale is good but when you've lost three games on the trot, it does knock your confidence a bit.
"I don't think it's a lack of belief though, I think it's just that little bit of confidence, that little rub of the green to get you going."
Mark H Durkan said he was "unconvinced of the advantages", and his decision would hold for the "foreseeable future".
The European Union said earlier this year that its 28 member states could adopt their own positions on the issue.
Each regional assembly within the UK is making its own decision.
While no GM crops are being grown commercially in the UK, imported GM commodities, especially soya, are being used mainly for animal feed, and to a lesser extent in some food products.
Mr Durkan said the relatively small size of farms in Northern Ireland could create "potential difficulties if we were to seek to keep GM and non-GM crops separate".
He said the costs of maintaining separateness could be expensive and impractical.
"Further, we are rightly proud of our natural environment and rich biodiversity," he said.
"We are perceived internationally to have a clean and green image. I am concerned that the growing of GM crops, which I acknowledge is controversial, could potentially damage that image."
The minister is responsible for all matters relating to the release of GM material into the environment, including the growth of GM crops.
Scotland banned GM crops in August.
Wales is maintaining what it describes as "a restrictive and precautionary approach to GM crop cultivation".
In England, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has said it will only allow GM crops to be planted and the marketing of GM food or feed products if a "robust risk assessment indicates that it is safe for people and the environment".
It says each proposal would be looked at on a case-by-case basis, with an emphasis on the scientific evidence.
Eighteen million farmers in 28 countries grow GM crops on 181 million hectares, which is 13% of the world's arable land.
The main producers are the USA, Brazil and Argentina, and the leading GM crops are soya and maize.
Before GM crops can be grown in the EU, they have to be authorised. So far 48 genetically modified organisms have been licensed for potential use in animal feed in the EU.
Experts carried out the procedure on Sunday evening after tests showed she had reached peak fertility.
Tian Tian, which means Sweetie, has failed to produce a cub despite repeated artificial inseminations since her arrival at the zoo in 2011.
The zoo is open but the panda enclosure will remain closed to visitors until 5 May.
Panda reproduction is notoriously difficult, partly due to the very short breeding window with ovulation occurring only once a year.
Staff had hoped Tian Tian would mate naturally with the zoo's male giant panda Yang Guang but when this did not happen, a decision was taken to artificially inseminate her using Yang Guang's sperm.
Colleagues from the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), the Leibnitz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and Roslin Embryology assisted the zoo's staff during the procedure.
Iain Valentine, director of giant pandas for The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said it would be some time before they knew if Tian Tian had conceived.
Writing in his blog, he said: "We continue to believe that it's important biologically for Tian Tian, a female in her prime, to breed and reproduce and add to a vital ex-situ population outside of China.
"If we can successfully assist Tian Tian to carry to full term, we have no doubt that she'll be an excellent mother and both our male and female's genetics will be preserved in future giant panda generations."
Some animal rights campaigners have in the past criticised the use of artificial insemination and attempts to breed the animals in captivity as there is no intention to return to them to the wild.
The two giant pandas arrived in Scotland in December 2011 and are being rented by Edinburgh Zoo from the Chinese government for a decade for an annual fee of about £600,000.
Tian Tian had previously given birth to twins in China but all attempts to produce a cub at Edinburgh Zoo have failed.
Zoo staff believe she may have been pregnant on a number of occasions but pandas sometimes re-absorb the foetus during the course of the pregnancy.
Older prisoners, and those with disabilities, now make up a larger section of the prison population.
The rise is partly down to an increase in those being jailed for historical sex offences.
The Scottish Prison Service said in future those with social care needs may be treated as a "distinct population".
Former Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has said the SPS should consider establishing a separate facility for older people.
The new report by the prison service looked at the social care needs of prisoners in jails across Scotland. The aim is to use it as a research base to shape how these inmates are accommodated and supported in years to come.
Between 2010 and 2016, the number of men aged over 50 in Scotland's prison population rose by more than 60%, from 603 to 988.
The number of men in prison aged over 65 also increased in that period, from 88 to 148 - a rise of 68%. A rise was also seen in the number of women over 50 - from 26 to 33.
These prisoners are more likely to have social care needs - such as requiring help with mobility or washing - and many would have been given that support in the outside community.
Many younger prisoners also need extra support for health needs - sometimes because their health has been damaged by drug addiction.
The report also pointed to the link between a prisoner's background and their need for social care, suggesting that those from deprived communities were more likely to require additional help to deal with ill health and disability.
It concluded: "With a population that is aging, a population drawn disproportionately from Scotland's most deprived communities and a population where almost a third describe themselves as having a disability or long-term health condition, the need for social care support, equipment and changes to the prison estate to accommodate the care of people in prison who have social care needs is likely to grow - alongside the associated costs."
Under the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act, health boards and local councils work together to provide social care services.
The report said: "Different local authority areas and NHS boards are doing this in different ways. It is not yet clear how the provision and delivery of health and social care might change as a result of integration, nor what sort of regional variation may emerge."
It concluded that the prison service would need to work in "extensive partnership" with the NHS and councils to meet the future social care needs of prisoners, and it hinted at the possibility of separate accommodation and services specifically targeted at older prisoners and those with health and disability needs.
The report said: "The percentage of the Scottish prison population who require social care support is likely to increase in the years to come.
"There is a case to be made that this population in custody could be considered as a distinct population, with distinct needs - needs that will be affected by SPS, partner organisation and governmental policy."
Responding to the findings of the report, Tom Fox from the Scottish Prison Service acknowledged that Scotland's jails are not currently geared up to fully deal with prisoners with complex needs.
He said: "We have prison staff who are trained to deal with prisoners, NHS colleagues who are trained to provide health care but there is a gap in the middle for social care which we are currently having to fill with agency staff.
"The cost in the current year for those agency staff is something around a quarter of a million pounds."
Former Justice Secretary Mr MacAskill told BBC Scotland that establishing what would amount to a secure old-folks' home "may be the answer".
He said: "Prison officers aren't trained to deal with the needs of elderly prisoners, particularly those with dementia.
"There is also a practical problem of accommodating elderly and disabled prisoners. They can't be doubled up in a cell as they may have arthritis or other mobility problems preventing them from accessing a top bunk.
"And there's the need to keep older prisoners separate from the younger, more unruly elements of the prison population."
Alec Stewart and bowling coach Stuart Barnes have taken temporary charge.
They will be at the helm for Friday's County Championship game with Yorkshire while the club search for a long-term successor to Adams, who ended his playing career to join Surrey in 2008.
"Chris Adams is someone I love talking to about cricket. I find him pretty straight on things. Of course he'll be sad to have departed this way, it's been a tough five years but I suspect it won't have come as a complete shock.
"I could say Surrey are the Manchester United of cricket, although their executive director Alec Stewart would take great offence and say more Chelsea. Either way they demand and not hope for success.
"It's a growing trend to sack a coach mid season and that can be attributed directly to two divisions and increased prize money. It's not a criticism, just a fact.
"Closely linked is the power players now have. The dressing room is increasingly influencing decisions.
"Winning Division One earns the players £351,493.85 to be shared. The second division is much lower at £87,873.46. Players not having the opportunity to win the top prize can be fatal for coaches.
"Money is nowhere near as big as football and the coaching roundabout will not reach those silly levels but expect one or two departures a summer."
Under him, the club won promotion and the CB40 in 2011, but are without a Championship win this term.
"Chris and Ian have worked really hard for the club and we appreciate their endeavours during the past five seasons," said Surrey chief executive Richard Gould.
"The club has decided it is now time to make a change in order to progress further."
Although it is uncommon for managerial staff to leave counties mid-season, Adams' departure is by no means unique.
Last summer Northants parted company with head coach David Capel, ending his 33-year association with the club, and in July 2007 Richard Pybus left Middlesex at his own request, less than six months after being put in charge of the first team.
By asking former England captain Stewart, 50, to step into the breach, Surrey are looking to ensure dressing room stability.
He is an executive director at the club, having spent his entire playing career with Surrey before retiring in 2003.
Stewart, whose father Micky also played for the county, made his Surrey debut at the age of 18 and went on to represent them for 22 years. During his domestic and international career he scored nearly 35,000 first-class runs.
He will oversee professional cricket at Surrey until the end of the season, while 42-year-old Barnes, who was appointed last October after leaving Gloucestershire, where he had been on the coaching staff for 15 years, will look after the team on a day-to-day basis.
"The club felt it was best to make this decision to help the club move in the direction they wish to move in," Stewart told Test Match Special.
"The club have made a tough decision. It's never nice to tell people they are no longer employed but sport is tough and you have to make some tough decisions and hopefully some right decisions."
Reacting to the news of Adams' departure, another ex-England captain Michael Vaughan posted on Twitter: "The first sign that cricket will become like football eventually.. A county coach sacked mid season."
Following their successes in 2011, Surrey endured a difficult season last summer following the tragic death of batsman Tom Maynard in June.
Despite the devastating effect the news had on the club and Maynard's team-mates, Adams managed to rally the side and help them avoid relegation in their first season back in Division One.
Adams, whose contract was due to expire at the end of this summer, had put his faith in Rory Hamilton-Brown as skipper in 2010, but he was allowed to leave following the death of Maynard, a close friend.
Surrey's signing policy last winter was to go for experience over youth, bringing in South African Graeme Smith as captain and former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting along with Gary Keedy and Vikram Solanki.
However, their plans were disrupted when Smith hurt his ankle in early May, an injury that has ruled him out for the season.
They drew their first two Championship matches with Smith in the side, but lost the two immediately after his injury, although they have drawn three games since.
Their one-day form has also been poor and they currently lie sixth out of seven in their YB40 group with two wins from seven matches.
Gould said they were in no hurry to appoint successors to Adams and Salisbury, but were still hopeful that this season could be a positive one for the team.
"We have particular ambitions for this season and wanted to make sure we had enough time to make changes and then hopefully deliver on some of those ambitions," he told the Surrey website.
"We need to be able to attract the best calibre of person and we're not going to set ourselves a tight deadline for that.
"We're very fortunate to have Alec Stewart available to take over for the next few months and we'll be using the time that gives us to get the very best result for Surrey Cricket Club."
Allegro's mini-movie, What are you looking for at Christmas? English for beginners, is a tale of a Polish grandfather learning to speak English ahead of a holiday trip to London and has resonated with its online audience.
He begins with prepositions and pronouns, before making mistaken, out-of-place declarations on the city bus and foul-mouthed threats in the bath.
However, it makes little mention in its three-minute runtime of the product advertised - a Polish auction website - other than an opening title and the sign-off: "And you? What are you looking for?"
Ian Henderson, executive creative director at AML, a London-based brand and advertising agency, told the BBC: "The very modest branding works in its favour, the advertiser has had the grace to get out of the way of the emotion."
"It's beautifully made and a gorgeous little film, which helps.
"But what makes it work is the emotional authenticity - we believe it completely.
"That is surprisingly hard to do in an ad."
The website's Facebook page has fielded an overwhelmingly positive reaction in the 1,200 comments beneath the video.
Some say it is the only advertisement they have watched to the end or the only one to have made them cry, and Allegro appears to be responding to as many of the comments as possible.
"My fiance is Polish and I met my mother-in-law for the first time two months ago," says one comment. "Never cried for an ad before."
The advert elicits "the greatest feelings", says another viewer.
"So our goal was achieved," replies Allegro.
The 2,500 comments below the YouTube copy of the video, however, are also interested in the breed of dog belonging to the grandfather and the violent goading toward the rubber duck.
Allegro is the fifth largest website in Poland, according to figures from web traffic analysis site Alexa Internet, and has previously put out an advert with more than 2.5 million views on YouTube.
However, English for beginners has outstripped the viewing numbers of its most recent commercials, What do you do every year?, with 60,000 views, and What do you do every day?, with 900,000 views.
"It's yet another demonstration that a good idea well executed creates its own media space," says Mr Henderson.
"Good, original ideas can come from anywhere, and don't need massive budgets to work - great news for creative ad agencies, less good for commercial TV channels who depend on big-budget TV campaigns."
The commercial is typical of the high production values associated with adverts at Christmas time.
H&M employed award-winning film-maker Wes Anderson for its offering this year.
It is nearly four minutes long, stars Adrien Brody and Peter Serafinowicz, and has been watched by eight million people on the clothes retailer's YouTube channel.
Meanwhile UK department store chain John Lewis now commands such anticipation for its Christmas advert it has brought attention to a homage-maker, the band whose music played in it, and the dog that starred in it.
By comparison, it has clocked up 56 million views across YouTube and Facebook in four weeks.
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Seventeen people have been nominated for the 12 seats on Leith Links Community Council.
Some of the other 43 community councils in Edinburgh struggle to persuade enough people to come forward.
Online voting will open on Wednesday 19 October 2016 and eligible voters in the area will receive information in the post on how to get involved.
Anyone aged 16 or over in the area can vote provided they are registered on the electoral roll.
Polling day will be on Thursday 27 October from 14:00 - 20:00 at Leith Community Education Centre.
Maureen Child, City of Edinburgh Council's convener of the communities and neighbourhoods committee, said: "Our aim is to deliver democratic processes that people can take part in and trust.
"To offer different methods of voting including online, we hope to make it easier for people to have a say and that can only be a good thing.
"We hope that by offering flexible ways to vote that it will attract even more interest in the Leith Links election.
"Community councils are an ideal way to support communities to thrive, to allow people from all backgrounds to meet and share ideas and to make change happen.
"They are a fantastic way of making public sector agencies aware of the needs of local areas, and can really help to make changes for the better."
Chances are by now you know all the gory details - allegations in the Panama Papers that the super-rich and politically connected, and even some of their relatives, have moved hundreds of thousands of dollars from their own countries into offshore accounts in Panama, Hong Kong and Singapore, amongst other places.
A lot of the international spotlight has been centred on the practice of offshore banking.
Some of the biggest global offshore banking centres can be found in Asia - Singapore, Macao, Dubai and Hong Kong, for example, are amongst the top spots for the global super-rich looking to open an offshore account.
The practice in itself isn't illegal, but Asian capitals have been under pressure to share more information about who account holders are, and where the money comes from. So will the Panama Papers force more governments to become more transparent about tax?
Unlikely, says Andy Xie, an independent economist based in China and Hong Kong.
"In Asia it's about how to hide your wealth that often hasn't been legitimately acquired," says Mr Xie. "Political power and ill-gotten wealth go hand in hand here.
"How are you going to convince people to close these doors?"
Now let's be clear - setting up an offshore account or an offshore company is perfectly legal.
But here's where it gets complicated. There is a difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance. And the devil is in the details.
Tax evasion, according to Paul Lau, tax partner with professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is when "someone has income to report and then doesn't report it."
So if you have income in that offshore account, that you haven't declared to tax authorities back in your home country, and you are required to report that income to them - then that could be illegal.
But tax avoidance is something a bit more "nebulous", as Mr Lau puts it.
"Tax avoidance is taking advantage of certain tax provisions in a way that is not within the intent of the provision, to avoid paying tax."
So that means - if you've found a perfectly legal way to avoid paying taxes because of a provision in the tax system - well, then depending on the country, you may not be doing anything illegal at all.
Lots of hedges and provisos here, but that's sort of the point.
"The world is dotted with states and territories that make a speciality of providing services whose purpose is to facilitate ways to hide assets," says anti-corruption advocacy group Transparency International.
Activists say it is time for these countries to reform the secret world of finance they operate and become more transparent.
"The enablers - the accountants, the lawyers, the business formation people - they're all involved," says Transparency International's Casey Kelso.
"They are all getting a great deal of money as a percentage of these profits from these transactions."
But reforming these offshore banking centres won't be easy. This sort of business attracts billions of dollars for offshore banking centres every year, and it's not just from individuals. Massive profit-making corporations often set up shop in these centres to pay less tax as well.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto - they're all household names - and all have admitted to being under audit by Australian tax authorities for using Singapore as a marketing and service hub.
They report hundreds of millions of dollars of income in Singapore, but pay lower tax on their money there than they would back in Australia, because of Singapore's lower tax rates.
The companies say they're not doing anything wrong, because Singapore is an important hub for them. But Australia says if money was earned from business done in Australia, tax should be paid there.
Both Singapore and Hong Kong have said they take a serious view of tax evasion and support international efforts to tackle cross-border transgressions.
The government here has been quick to point out its efforts to clamp down on any illegal activities.
"Singapore takes a serious view on tax evasion and will not tolerate its business and financial centre being used to facilitate tax related crimes," the Monetary Authority of Singapore said in a statement.
Singapore's Ministry of Finance added: "We are reviewing the information being reported in connection with the so-called Panama Papers and are doing the necessary checks.
"If there is evidence of wrongdoing by any individual or entity in Singapore, we will not hesitate to take firm action."
In fact, many Asian countries have committed to exchange more tax information by 2018 as part of the Automatic Exchange of Information initiative set up by the OECD. Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia have all signed up.
So if you're an Australian and you open a bank account in Singapore, by 2018 in theory, your government could know about it.
But critics say there's no incentive for countries who depend on offshore banking to do this. In fact, their business depends on keeping things secret.
"The livelihoods of these offshore financial centres depend on giving their clients confidentiality," says Mr Xie. "Otherwise why would people hide their money there?"
In the end, it's all about who goes first. Countries want a level playing field, because if one offshore banking centre starts opening itself to greater scrutiny, there's a very good chance their wealthy customers will flee, running to the next most secret place to park their cash.
And as we all know, where there's demand, there will always be a ready supply.
Their study in the journal Human Reproduction said smoking, alcohol consumption and being obese did not affect semen quality.
However, they warned that avoiding them was still "good health advice".
Wearing boxer shorts rather than tighter underwear was linked to higher sperm levels.
Advice for doctors
by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says men should be warned about the impact of smoking, drinking and taking recreational drugs on their sperm.
A study by researchers at the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester compared the lifestyles of 939 men with poor sperm quality with 1,310 men with normal sperm quality.
The study showed there was little difference in the number of mobile sperm between patients who never smoked and those who had a 20-a-day habit.
There was "little evidence" that recreational drug use, a high BMI or excessive alcohol consumption affected sperm quality.
Dr Andrew Povey, from the University of Manchester, said there was these lifestyle choices were hugely important for wider health but "probably have little influence" on male fertility.
He said: "This potentially overturns much of the current advice given to men about how they might improve their fertility and suggests that many common lifestyle risks may not be as important as we previously thought.
"Delaying fertility treatment then for these couples so that they can make changes to their lifestyles, for which there is little evidence of effectiveness, is unlikely to improve their chances of a conception and, indeed, might be prejudicial for couples with little time left to lose."
Wearing boxer shorts was associated with higher-quality sperm.
Dr Allan Pacey from the University of Sheffield said: "In spite of our results, it's important that men continue to follow sensible health advice and watch their weight, stop smoking and drink alcohol within sensible limits. But there is no need for them to become monks just because they want to be a dad.
"Although if they are a fan of tight Y-fronts, then switching underpants to something a bit looser for a few months might be a good idea."
There are other measures of fertility, such as the size and shape of the sperm or the quality of the sperms' DNA, which were not considered in the study.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is reviewing the evidence.
A NICE spokesperson said: "The draft update of our fertility guideline is currently open for consultation.
"However, until the update of this guideline is published later this year, the NHS should continue to follow the recommendations in the current fertility guideline."
The Commission says citizenship rules are a national prerogative, but it has raised concerns, as have many MEPs.
Last week EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said "you cannot put a price tag on EU citizenship".
Foreigners will be able to buy Maltese passports for 1.15m euros (£944,000), without having to live in Malta.
A spokeswoman for Ms Reding said "we are in talks, but it does not mean launching infringement proceedings [against Malta]".
"It is always the case that we give a member state a chance to outline, clarify its position and respond to Commission concerns."
The spokeswoman said Ms Reding's primary concern was that an applicant for citizenship should have "a genuine link to the country" - not just the ability to pay.
"We are not prescribing - we are open to clarifications from the Maltese authorities," she told the BBC.
Malta, like most of the EU's 28 countries, is in the Schengen zone, where citizens can mostly travel without passport checks. The EU single market has made it much easier for citizens to settle in another member state.
Owning an EU member state's passport entitles the holder to EU citizenship, with all the rights guaranteed under EU law.
Under the new scheme, called the Individual Investor Programme (IIP), Malta will initially issue passports to 1,800 people. Family members will also be able to get passports, for a lower fee.
The scheme is being managed by a Jersey-based company, Henley and Partners. On its website the company says applicants will be subject to strict vetting and "only highly respectable clients will be admitted". The scheme is aimed at "ultra-high net worth individuals and families worldwide".
The original price tag for Maltese citizenship, set last November, was 650,000 euros. But the government later raised it to 1.15m euros, amid criticism of the scheme by opposition MPs.
In a strongly-worded resolution last week, the European Parliament also criticised the Maltese scheme, saying "EU citizenship should never become a tradable commodity".
The MEPs urged Malta to "bring its current citizenship scheme in line with the EU's values" and called on the Commission to "issue recommendations in order to prevent such schemes from undermining the values that the EU has been built upon".
The MEPs also questioned whether Malta was complying with Article 4.3 of the Treaty on European Union, which enshrines "the principle of sincere co-operation" between member states, who are obliged to assist each other and avoid any measure that jeopardises the EU's goals.
Several EU states, including Austria, Spain, the UK, Bulgaria and Hungary, offer fast-track residence to foreigners able to invest large sums in property and/or government bonds. A permanent residence permit can often lead to citizenship.
KT McFarland, a former government official who has most recently worked as Fox News analyst, is to serve as deputy national security adviser.
Campaign lawyer Donald McGahn will be White House counsel.
The latest appointments come as a request for a recount of the votes is due to be filed in Wisconsin where Mr Trump narrowly beat Hillary Clinton.
Mr Trump confirmed the nominations in a statement from his transition team on Friday.
He praised Ms McFarland's "tremendous experience and innate talent'' which he said would "complement the fantastic team we are assembling".
Ms McFarland, who has worked in the administrations of former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, will assist retired Lt Gen Michael Flynn, who has been appointed national security adviser.
Of Mr McGhan, a lawyer who worked on his campaign, Mr Trump said he had "a brilliant legal mind, excellent character and a deep understanding of constitutional law".
Gen Flynn has drawn concern over his strident views on Islam.
The nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was rejected from becoming a federal judge in 1986 because of alleged racist remarks.
Mike Pompeo, named as CIA director, is a hardline Republican Congressman.
Stephen Bannon, chairman of the controversial right-wing website Breitbart News, is to be Mr Trump's chief strategist.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a strong critic of Mr Trump on during the campaign, was nominated as US ambassador to the UN, becoming is the first non-white female appointed to the new top team.
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will be his chief of staff.
The recount in Wisconsin is due to be filed by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Friday is the deadline for the request.
Voting-rights lawyers who urged candidates to request recounts, John Bonifaz and J Alex Halderman, say the result needs to be closely analysed.
The also called for recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's deadline is Monday, and Michigan's is Wednesday.
A Clinton victory in Wisconsin alone would not overturn Mr Trump's lead - the state provides only 10 votes in the crucial electoral college that gave him victory.
But wins in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania would have clinched the presidency for the Democrat.
The fact that the results in the three states was different from what polls predicted was "probably not" down to hacking, Mr Halderman said. Concerns over possible Russian interference had been expressed in the run-up to the vote.
"The only way to know whether a cyber-attack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence ," he wrote.
Money was stolen from St Malachy's Church in Hillsborough, Aghaderg Church, Loughbrickland and St John's Church, Dromara.
St Andrew's Church in Lisburn, County Antrim, was targeted as well.
A Church of Ireland spokesperson said the robbers used specialist equipment to break into the parish safes.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Church of Ireland Diocese of Down and Dromore said:
"Following a recent spate of robberies on church premises we have urged our clergy to be extra vigilant over the Christmas period.
"We are saddened to have been targeted in this way and hope that no further such incidents occur for us or for anyone else in this Christmas season and beyond."
The Republic of Ireland international, 27, suffered medial ligament damage in training on Thursday.
Meyler has played 28 times for the Tigers in all competitions this season but has been an unused substitute in their last four outings.
Marco Silva's side sit two points above the Premier League relegation zone before Saturday's trip to Stoke City.
Shanghai took part in the most recent tests and had the highest results.
But there were claims that the city was not representative of schools in other parts of China.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) which runs the tests has announced that Beijing, Jiangsu and Guangdong will take part, alongside Shanghai.
The Pisa tests, taken every three years by 15-year-olds, have become one of the most influential international benchmarks for education standards.
Earlier this year, England's exam regulator announced that the Pisa tests would be used as a benchmark for maintaining standards in GCSEs.
The Department for Education in England has also said it will recruit 60 maths teachers from Shanghai and bring them over to provide master classes in teaching maths in England.
The most recent results showed that Asian school systems were at the top of the rankings in reading, maths and science.
But Pisa tests include regional education systems as well as results for entire countries.
Shanghai was the single most successful education system, but there were complaints that the standards in an individual city should not be measured against the outcomes of a diverse national system, such as the United States or Germany.
The four education systems in the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, are entered separately, but there is also a combined UK ranking.
There is still no plan for a single Chinese entry in the global rankings, but the OECD says that a wider range of regions will participate.
Guangdong, China's most populated province with more than 100 million people, will take part in the 2015 tests.
Jiangsu, a densely-populated province on China's east coast, also joining the Pisa test process, has a population similar to that of Germany.
Beijing and Shanghai are also participating, with the four Chinese provinces having a population of more than 230 million.
The OECD's Andreas Schleicher, responsible for the tests, said: "Carrying out a Pisa assessment in a vast and diverse country like China is a formidable challenge."
The expansion of provinces taking part "marks an important stepping stone", he said.
"China's participation in Pisa 2015 will be conducted in full accordance with Pisa sampling procedures and standards of international comparability," said Mr Schleicher.
The Aberdeenshire station was once used by the Royal family when they travelled to nearby Balmoral.
Although no longer used as a rail station, it housed a tourist centre, retail units and a restaurant - all of which were destroyed by the blaze.
Plans have now been submitted that would see the station recreated.
Parts of the Royal Waiting Room were salvaged from the fire and a replica Royal carriage which had been on display was relatively undamaged.
The new planning application would see the station building reinstated - including the VisitScotland information centre, public library and restaurant - as well as the waiting room and carriage.
There would be a new exhibition space extending along the old platform and over the tracks, taking the form of railway sheds.
A new public square is proposed in front of the station, linking it to the nearby Victoria and Albert Halls and creating a destination point for the Deeside Way.
The plans have been submitted to the Cairngorms National Park Authority by Aberdeenshire Council, Historic Environment Scotland and a firm of architects.
It is hoped that work could start in November, with the station and exhibition space expected to be open towards the end of 2017.
Originally built in 1866, the station underwent a complete refurbishment in 2001 and was leased by Aberdeenshire Council to VisitScotland.
The board has described staffing of its obstetric service at the hospital as "very precarious" and "fragile".
One of the three consultant obstetricians who run the service left in December and a new locum has died "very suddenly", NHS Highland said.
Leave commitments for other staff have compounded the situation.
Gill McVicar, NHS Highland's director of operations for its north and west operational unit, said: "Attempts are being made to secure the services of other locums but it is likely that contingency plans will have to be put in place in the next few weeks to ensure a safe service."
Out-of-hours services could be affected, the board has said.
The maternity service at Caithness General is led by midwives.
Women assessed as being at high risk are booked in to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness as a matter of routine.
Its first outing, which aired on BBC Two last year, garnered rave reviews from TV critics, with the Daily Mail giving it five stars and describing it as "like nothing else on TV".
The series resurrected TV's anthology format - think Play for Today or Tales of the Unexpected - with six unrelated episodes, all with different characters and storylines but all set in a place linked to the number nine.
It boasted a stellar cast including turns, including Helen McCrory, Gemma Arterton, Julia Davis, Tamsin Grieg, Oona Chaplin, Timothy West and Anna Chancellor.
This time round, Shearsmith and Pemberton have managed to enlist the talents of Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman, Jack Whitehall, Paul Kaye, Jane Horrocks, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Mark Benton, to name but a few.
Shearsmith says the well-received first series was a "calling card... people knew what to expect a little bit; it's like doing a half-hour play, it's quite delicious for an actor".
"You can pull in these amazing actors, if this series was [one storyline] across six or seven weeks, we probably wouldn't have been able to get half the people," adds Pemberton.
This series includes episodes based in a French train sleeper carriage (number nine of course), a Victorian villa and a volunteer call centre.
An anthology is a very different format compared with their previous work on League of Gentleman - primarily sketch-based in the early days - and sitcom Psychoville.
Shearsmith and Pemberton star in the all the episodes of Inside No 9, although some roles are more minor.
"It felt very strange having done years of League where we play lots of different characters all week long... it's quite nice to settle into that part and enjoy playing that one person," says Shearsmith.
"They all feel a bit more real, the tone is hopefully subtler than stuff we've done before,"
The writing process for the pair was also a novelty.
"The biggest tyrannical thing is the blank piece of paper," says Pemberton.
Shearsmith says once they got going it was "a lot more work".
"Each time you're creating a new world but that's its own reward. You get to create six different worlds and that's enjoyable."
Doubtless due to their reputation, the duo were lucky enough to be allowed total creative freedom, not a privilege afforded to many in an industry often chasing ratings.
"We don't tell anyone what we're working on, we just get left alone," says Pemberton.
"That's the really successful thing about it, it's not driven by what the channel thinks they want or what the head of comedy thinks they want. It's driven by us two completely, which makes it unique."
But there is one area they don't have control over - scheduling.
And it's a source of frustration.
"We want people to watch them but because they're on at 10pm on BBC Two, they pass people by and that's the only frustrating thing," says Pemberton.
It's an obvious slot for cult comedy but Inside No 9 is probably their most accessible work yet.
"We're wise enough to think some people really love it; we're not trying to do a thing that's massively popular. It's a very niche thing although I think out of all the things we've done, these are broader," says Shearsmith.
With transmission looming closer, he admits to feeling apprehensive about the reaction.
"It's like presenting your baby to the world and them passing judgement on it. You feel protective of it, you want it to be liked," says Shearsmith.
"But that's what you learn - what the viewing figures are, what the reviews are, awards you win or don't win, it's all out of your control," says Pemberton.
"The one thing you can control is how good the programme is. We were lucky, we've been very lauded for what we've done, we've won some awards, we've not won other awards, it all evens out.
"It's a nonsense anyway, the really important thing you've got to focus on is to keep your quality of work up.
"We felt more pressure when Psychoville came out. It was the follow‐up to the League of Gentleman, an impossible thing to follow," says Pemberton.
"But Psychoville was its own thing, it had a big fanbase and we were really pleased, so this time it felt like 'we've done that second album syndrome'. Luckily, reaction to series one [of Inside No 9] was really brilliant, we were proud of it, we knew it was different."
But the bigger your body of work and the more success it brings, the more difficult it can be to pull something new out of the bag. But the pair use this challenge to spur them on.
"We strive to surprise in the worlds we're creating, you can't become lazy. I don't think we could ever be accused of doing the same thing over and over again," says Shearsmith.
Each tale is notable for its succinctness, which can leave you wanting more.
"Sometimes you feel you could have done a whole series [from one episode], it feels like six pilots," says Pemberton.
"But it only works because it is only happening in that half-hour and you don't go any further with it, you wring out all your peaks and then it's done and you never return and that's why it's good," Shearsmith interjects.
And it's clear the pair delight in wrongfooting the audience, a device enjoyed by fans of the show.
"Any element you can put into a comedy - horror, drama, emotion - none of it is what you normally get out of comedy, so it's suddenly very heightened," says Shearsmith.
"What we want is for people to watch all of them and each week to think, where's this going to go this week? That's what we enjoy about it."
The second series of Inside Number 9 begins on BBC Two on Thursday 26 March at 2200 GMT.
The announcement came after mass graves and more than 30 bodies were found in the south over the past week.
The victims were thought to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh who paid smugglers to get them across Thailand.
The military junta has given local authorities until the end of next week to eradicate camps used by smugglers.
But Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who ordered the operation, also said the problem was "from abroad and not from us".
"To solve it we must look to the source because we are merely a transit country," he said.
Last week, authorities uncovered a mass grave containing 26 bodies in the southern province of Songkhla, and since then have found more human remains and several other sites suspected to be former human trafficking camps.
The area is on a route regularly used by Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
Analysis: Jonathan Head, BBC News, South East Asia correspondent
So is the Thai government serious this time about tackling trafficking? The transfer of around 50 officers, mainly from the police, suggests that perhaps it is. Eighteen arrest warrants have been issued. But it is early days still, and there have been false dawns before.
Human trafficking was one of the first problems to confront Gen Prayuth after he seized power a year ago. Within a month the US, following years of warnings, had downgraded Thailand to the lowest level on its annual report on trafficking. The general promised immediate action. But it never came.
When the annual "sailing season" began in October, and boatloads of Rohingyas and Bangladeshi migrants began arriving on Thailand's Andaman coast, a few dedicated officials tried to stop the flow, organising their own raids and roadblocks, sending information about camps and traffickers back to Bangkok. They got little support.
Many of the bodies dug up over the past week were in a camp I was told about by a police officer six months ago. He said powerful vested interests barred him from shutting the camp down.
This problem is the responsibility of many Thai governments. But had Gen Prayuth acted last year, as he promised, some of those being exhumed from jungle graves might be alive today.
Rights groups have long said that Thai officials are both actively and passively complicit in the trade.
Three Thai local officials and a Burmese national have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking in connection with the recently discovered mass graves, and police are looking for another four people.
Thai police chief Gen Somyot Poompanmuang said on Thursday: "We have transferred over 50 police officers over this issue because commanders in local areas know who has been involved in what."
Several of those transferred are believed to be senior personnel.
In remarks reported by Reuters, the general added that in the past "there were no sincere efforts to solve this problem".
Two people were injured after two cars collided near the Upper Boat interchange just before 07:00 GMT.
The accident initially closed the main carriageway but after it was cleared a van broke down near the A4054 interchange.
One of the southbound lanes was blocked at the scene.
Whitlock, 23, gained Britain's first-ever Olympic gymnastics gold with victory in the men's floor and won his second gold on the men's pommel horse.
The gymnast, coach Scott Hann and team mate Brinn Bevan were met by crowds at South Essex Gymnastics Club, Basildon.
Whitlock said he was proud to be supported by an "incredible" club and hoped to inspire more gymnasts.
The gymnast now has five Olympic medals, earning bronze in the all-around to add to bronze in both the team event and pommel horse at London 2012.
Whitlock said it was not until he flew into UK with the rest of Team GB on Tuesday that he realised quite how much of an impact their achievements had made at home.
"It was like we were in a bubble in Rio - you could feel it slightly on social media, but it was literally when we stepped forth off that plane that we realised what an impact we'd made," he said.
"The whole of Team GB have done so well."
Mr Hann said: "All the guys have trained so hard but... it's phenomenal and an honour to be part of Team GB and this historic result."
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Director general Tony Hall said the BBC had "parted company" with the Radio 2 DJ after he failed to fully co-operate with Dame Janet Smith's inquiry.
The veteran DJ said the report included an accusation he was among celebrities who "seduced" a 15-year-old girl.
Mr Blackburn, 73, denies the allegation and says he was cleared of wrongdoing.
One of Britain's best known DJs, his Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show Pick of the Pops attracted several million listeners every week. He was the first DJ to broadcast on Radio 1 when it launched in 1967.
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Savile report reaction
In his latest statement, he accused the inquiry of being a "whitewash" and said he had been "scapegoated for giving my honest account and best recollections of those events 45 years ago".
Dame Janet's report said it had rejected the evidence given by Mr Blackburn that he had not been questioned at the time about the allegation involving the teenage girl.
In an earlier statement, Mr Blackburn said the allegation made in 1971 was quickly withdrawn.
The girl at the centre of the allegation took her own life later that year.
Mr Blackburn said that neither Dame Janet's report into Savile, nor the BBC, made any suggestion he was guilty of misconduct with the girl, nor did a coroner's inquest or a subsequent police inquiry.
Who is Tony Blackburn?
Tony Blackburn, the son of a doctor from Guildford, was the first DJ to broadcast on Radio 1 when it launched in September 1967.
He spent 17 years at the station and also presented Top of the Pops and was a weekly fixture on Noel's House Party. Prior to all that, he had broadcast on Radio Caroline South and then Radio London.
After Radio 1, he was one of the launch presenters on Capital Gold. He has also hosted Radio 2's Pick of the Pops as well as regular bank holiday specials for the stations.
He has also had shows on BBC London 94.9, BBC Radio Berkshire, the Magic network, BBC3CR and KMFM. In 2002 he won the ITV reality TV programme I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
Tony Blackburn profiled
After the publication of Dame Janet's report - which looked into abuse by the late DJ Jimmy Savile and broadcaster Stuart Hall - Lord Hall said: "My interpretation is that Tony Blackburn fell short of the standards of evidence that such an inquiry demanded."
He said it was "one of the most important inquiries in the BBC's history and that has put an even greater responsibility on everyone who took part in that inquiry to co-operate fully and to be open".
"So many survivors and witnesses have honestly and openly co-operated fully - and at great personal cost to themselves.
"As Dame Janet has said, she's rejected his evidence and she's explained very clearly why. I have to take that extremely seriously."
Speaking to the BBC News Channel, Dame Janet said both senior BBC executive Bill Cotton and a senior lawyer said they had had conversations with the DJ.
"[He] told me that no such conversation had taken place and this was not a lapse of memory on his part. They simply had not taken place and I rejected that evidence," she said.
Her report into DJ Jimmy Savile and broadcaster Stuart Hall had found the BBC repeatedly failed to stop the pair's "monstrous" abuse because of a "culture of fear".
Mr Blackburn referred to this conclusion in his own statement, saying: "Given Dame Janet Smith's concerns of a culture of fear in coming forward at the BBC, what whistle-blower at the BBC would ever come forward when they see the way they have hung me out to dry?
"Sadly, today's news agenda should have been about the survivors of abuse carried out within the BBC but, by sacking me, they have managed to take the focus off those who have suffered so much," he added.
"My lawyers are now considering all statements made by the BBC about me today and we will be taking action."
Fellow TV and radio broadcasters, including Piers Morgan and Eamonn Holmes, have been sending supportive tweets to the DJ throughout the day.
Broadcaster Nina Myskow told Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2: "It should be a black day for the BBC because of the revelations about the whole Savile episode, but in fact that's been buried very cleverly by the BBC as usual by sacking Tony Blackburn."
The English figures cover 81 local education authorities outside London and the six big metropolitan areas.
They were obtained through a Freedom of Information request by the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT).
The government said an extra ??10m was being made available for rural community transport.
The CBT inquiry was prompted by reports of school buses being axed across England.
Local authorities are obliged to provide free school transport for pupils aged between five and 16 years old if their nearest school is more than three miles away. This goes down to two miles for under-eights.
Children will special educational needs and some from low-income families also get some statutory assistance.
But councils also provide school transport on a discretionary basis, which is especially valued in rural areas.
Most of this is provided in the form of a school bus, but some children are offered subsidised rail fares.
The CBT said 38% of councils were reviewing or cutting transport to faith schools and 46% were reviewing or cutting transport to schools other than faith schools.
Meanwhile, 51% were reviewing or cutting post-16 transport.
In total, 72% were reviewing or cutting one or more areas of school transport.
CBT bus campaigner Sophie Allen said: "School buses are vital to reduce congestion and pollution, especially at peak times. In some areas, parents could have to walk almost three miles each way, twice a day, just to get their children to school.
"Parents able to drive instead will add to traffic problems, but for the quarter of households who do not have a car this will not be an option."
The campaign pointed to councils reducing their transport services back to the statutory minimum in areas such as Surrey and Durham.
The CBT said it was calling on the government to give councils extra funding to ensure that children could get to school safely and working parents were not unfairly forced to give up work.
Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said: "The scale of cuts to local bus services has left many parents struggling to afford the extra costs of driving their children to school or to juggle work with doing the school run.
"The risk with these bus cuts is that many parents who cannot afford to drive are being forced to let their children walk along routes to school that are far too dangerous, compromising child safety."
In September, a group of charities and teaching unions wrote an open letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove expressing concerns about the cuts to school transport.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Local authorities already have a legal duty to provide free school transport for pupils to attend their nearest suitable school, provided the school is beyond the statutory walking distances.
"We recently announced funding of ??85m to fund extended rights to school travel for pupils from low-income families.
"The Department for Transport has also protected the concessionary travel scheme in full and provided ??10m extra funding for community transport in rural areas."
It was announced earlier this month that the fee was changing from £1 to £2, with the airport increasing the length of stay in the drop-off zone from 10 to 15 minutes.
It led to social media criticism, and now a petition calling for a re-think.
Aberdeen Airport said the concern of some councillors had come to its attention, and it aimed to hold talks.
A spokesman added: "The drop-off charge was introduced to ease congestion and manage the traffic flow in what is a restricted area.
"Over the coming weeks and as part of our £20m investment programme, there will be a significant increase in construction traffic using our lower forecourt.
"This will significantly reduce capacity in this area and as a result, we will be encouraging passengers to use the car park.
"These measures will allow us to continue to provide a safe environment for passengers and all our customers during this time and beyond."
Rovers had lost their last two league matches and could have gone behind when Woking forward Gozie Ugwu had two great chances in the first half, but he was denied by visiting goalkeeper Scott Davies on both occasions.
Andy Cook was also close to getting on the scoresheet for Rovers in a goalless first half.
The deadlock was broken six minutes after the restart when a mazy run by James Wallace took him away from two defenders before his cross found Cook in the penalty area, and he steered home from close range.
Tollitt doubled the lead two minutes later with a powerful drive from 25 yards before the 22-year-old sealed victory with a fantastic individual goal, running from his own half before finding the bottom corner from the edge of the area.
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Match ends, Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 3.
Second Half ends, Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 3.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Cole Stockton replaces Andy Cook.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jake Kirby replaces James Norwood.
Goal! Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 3. Ben Tollitt (Tranmere Rovers).
Substitution, Woking. Chris Arthur replaces Macauley Bonne.
Substitution, Woking. Connor Hall replaces Keiran Murtagh.
Fabio Saraiva (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Max Kretzschmar replaces Charlie Carter.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jay Harris replaces James Wallace.
Goal! Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 2. Ben Tollitt (Tranmere Rovers).
Goal! Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 1. Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers).
Second Half begins Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
First Half ends, Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Ismail Yakubu (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Vaughan (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The practice of "widow cleansing", when a widow must have sex after her husband dies, was outlawed a few years ago.
Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a "hyena", admitted in a BBC interview to having sex with more than 100 women and underage girls and not disclosing his HIV status.
This led to the president ordering his arrest in July.
President Peter Mutharika had wanted Aniva tried for defiling young girls, but none came forward to testify against him.
Instead Aniva was tried for "harmful cultural practice" under section five of Malawi's Gender Equality Act for having sex with new widows.
Two women testified against him.
He will be sentenced on 22 November 2016.
The BBC's southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen says the case has attracted international media attention and sharply divided opinion as to how widespread the practice remains.
Aniva was the subject of a BBC feature into various sexual cleansing practices in Malawi.
In some remote southern regions of the country it is traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a man after their first menstruation.
Last year Malawi banned child marriage, raising the legal age of marriage from 15 to 18 - something activists hoped would put an end to early sexual initiations.
English world number 405 Shinkwin, 24, took six shots when needing a par five at the final hole for a first European Tour title, but qualifies for the Open.
Cabrera-Bello carded an eight-under course record 64 to finish the regulation 72 holes in 13 under.
Ian Poulter, the 41-year-old seeking a first title since 2012, had five bogeys in a 74 and shared ninth.
Shinkwin, from Watford, had been at the top of the leaderboard since the second round and did not drop a shot in the first 17 holes on the final day at the Dundonald Links in Ayrshire.
But he took four to get down from level with the green at the par-five 18th, leaving a seven-foot putt short. Then at the same hole in the play-off, he saw a putt from a similar spot also fail to reach the cup.
It was a third European title for world number 31 Cabrera-Bello, 33, and his first since 2012.
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Shinkwin, who beat Matthew Fitzpatrick to win the 2013 English Amateur Championship, played in last year's Open at Royal Troon but missed the cut.
Former US Open champion Graeme McDowell had hoped a first top-10 of the season would earn him a place at Royal Birkdale next week but he carded a 72 to finish on five under in a share of 19th.
The 37-year-old world number 102 has played in the Championship every year since making his debut in 2004.
France's Matthieu Pavon secured a major debut at Birkdale with a closing 66 to finish third, with Australia's Andrew Dodt claiming the last place ahead of England's Anthony Wall by virtue of his higher world ranking.
Dodt, the world number 193, had been scheduled to fly to New York on Monday for a holiday with his wife, but finished on eight under par alongside Wall, Padraig Harrington, Matt Kuchar and Ryan Fox.
Three-time major winner Harrington, who shared the lead after day two, fell away with a third-round 79 but closed with a 66.
Both players arrive on free transfers after contracts at their previous clubs were cancelled by mutual consent.
Former Wales Under-19 player James, 20, played in one Bluebirds game, as a late substitute in a 2014 top-flight match.
Goodship, 22, spent the second half of last season on loan at Huish Park, before a loan spell at non-league Braintree Town earlier this term.
He did not make a senior first-team appearance for the Cherries, but did previously score once in 10 league matches for Yeovil.
The Glovers are 16th in the table, nine points below the play-off places and nine points above the relegation zone.
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One, an American on a business trip was short of exercise as he'd just arrived on the Eurostar from Paris - but revealed he normally covered at least six miles a day. The other moaned about a crippling back problem that meant his usual daily goal - as measured by a Nike Fuelband - was far out of sight.
The first man was James Park, founder of fitness tracking firm Fitbit, the other was the author of this blog, who combines an interest in the latest gadgets with a middle-aged man's concerns about keeping his weight down and fitness levels up. The question is whether my behaviour is typical enough for Park to be on the verge of something huge - or is this just a small and unprofitable niche?
Wearable technology - from Google Glass to every kind of smart watch - is certainly hot right now, and health and activity monitoring is a key area sparking interest.
Fitbit, founded in San Francisco six years ago, claims to be the leader of the pack, with a bigger range of products and better distribution than the likes of the Jawbone Up or Nike's Fuelband.
Park, a Harvard-trained computer scientist now on his third start-up, says when he started looking at the fitness market he took his inspiration from Nintendo's Wii, which combined exercise and technology in an an entertaining way. "What was out there was either targeted at serious runners - high-end Garmin watches - or cheap pedometers," he says. "There was nothing that took sophisticated technology and made it available to the mass market."
The company started with a clip-on monitor that connected via a wireless dongle to your computer, measuring how far you walked, how many stairs you climbed and the calories expended. But it was only with the adoption of smartphones and the ability of low-power devices to sync their data via Bluetooth that Fitbit began to reach beyond a very specialist audience.
All of this is something of a gamble on human behaviour and how much information we can absorb - even when it comes to as fascinating a subject as ourselves. Park thinks the data can make a difference: "A lot of times people are shocked when they see the evidence of how much they're not exercising or sleeping," he says. "It's all about making the invisible visible and using that data to motivate people to change their behaviour."
The big question, though, is not whether we are going to buy and wear smart devices - that is happening - but just how much we want them to do. I've tried a number of fitness monitors and found that many offer too much data. The Nike Fuelband, however, puts a simple readout on your wrist of how much "fuel" you've consumed and that makes it a good motivator. If I'm short of my 3,000 fuel points - and yes, it's a rather meaningless currency - I will take the dog for a walk around the block.
There now seems to be growing convergence between smart watches and activity monitors. Fitbit's latest model, yet to appear in the UK, is the Force, a tracker worn on the wrist which gives you the time and some limited smartphone applications. It looks neat, but the display is so tiny that it won't really be able to rival more sophisticated devices.
Mr Park naturally thinks his company has got the balance just right compared with the smart watches. "You can't do too much, if you cram too much in it makes them bulky and expensive," he says. But his other competition is from smartphone apps that measure your movement. While they drain a battery pretty rapidly they are mostly free and may do enough for many people.
But Park says a device that you leave on a coffee table when you go home won't do the job properly. He says Fitbit customers, who typically are slightly overweight, are upping their activity levels by 30% to 40% after three months of using their device.
Big names, including Qualcomm, Softbank and SAP, have backed the company - among many bets now being placed on wearable technology. Much of that money will be wasted - after all there isn't room on our bodies for all of these devices. But Park is confident there are enough slightly overweight, health and statistic obsessed gadget-lovers out there to give Fitbit a good chance of surviving and thriving.
The European Court of Auditors said there were errors in allocating about 5bn euros (£4bn) from the 2011 budget.
Critics said it showed the EU's wastefulness, at a time when it was arguing for a budget increase.
Court President Vitor Caldeira said: "With Europe's public finances under severe pressure, there remains scope to spend EU money more efficiently."
He added: "Member states must agree on better rules for how EU money is spent, and member states and the commission must enforce them properly."
The court's report said most errors arose from "misapplication or misunderstanding" of the EU's complex rules, though there were some suspected cases of fraud.
It also said the failures were often down to the national and local governments responsible for overseeing the distribution of funds, rather than just the European Commission.
"A little more effort by member states to control projects properly and retrieve misused funds could go a long way, particularly in this time of economic difficulty," said the EU's Audit Commissioner Algirdas Semeta.
However, critics said the commission itself must also accept some of the blame.
"The European Commission is ultimately responsible for all EU monies spent and it falls to them to take responsibility for this report," said Martin Callanan MEP, of Britain's Conservative Party.
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"It is risible that the commission wants a 5% increase in the EU budget, yet nearly 4% of spending is affected by error. Before asking for more taxpayers' money, perhaps the commission should prioritise better spending of the money it already has."
National leaders will meet for a summit in two weeks' time to try to hammer out the next seven-year budget.
Britain has been leading demands for a freeze, saying proposals for an increase are incompatible with a time of austerity.
A number of countries which are net contributors to the budget are also arguing for restraint.
But net-recipient countries argue that the EU's spending on agriculture and regional development are valuable ways of stimulating the economy.
The first half was closely contested, but the Daggers' Corey Whitely put his side in front with a vicious cross-shot that deceived Scott Davies in the home goal.
At the other end, Andy Cook fed James Wallace, who threatened to equalise, but his shot was well saved by Elliot Justham.
After the interval, Dagenham extended their lead inside two minutes. Oli Hawkins cemented his position in the top three of the goalscorer charts when he beat Davies at the end of a fine solo run - his 17th of a productive season so far.
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Match ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2.
Second Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Scott Doe replaces Jake Sheppard.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Jordan Maguire-Drew replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Cole Stockton replaces Andy Mangan.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Corey Whitely.
Shaun Donnellan (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Craig Robson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Norwood replaces Steven Jennings.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2. Oliver Hawkins (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Ben Tollitt replaces Jake Kirby.
Second Half begins Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
First Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Corey Whitely (Dagenham and Redbridge).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Paterson was injured in Tuesday's 4-0 win over Kilmarnock at Tynecastle.
The 22-year-old was taken off on a stretcher after 15 minutes, shortly after scoring his side's opening goal.
Paterson, who is out of contract this summer, said on Twitter: "Absolutely gutted with the scan results. But these things happen in life. I will be back."
The defender, capped five times for Scotland, looked certain to move to England either in January or at the end of the season.
Hearts director of football Craig Levein said earlier this month the club would only consider selling Paterson for a "seven-figure sum".
Should the Scotland international leave Tynecastle in the summer, Hearts would be due a development fee of around £450,000.
But that fee will not apply to any cross-border move after Paterson turns 23 in October.
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Hearts head coach Ian Cathro told the club's website: "It's a bad one for Callum and everyone here is gutted for him.
"There was real concern for him last night and unfortunately that concern has been compounded with the news that he could be out for up to 10 months.
"Callum's a top-class player and we'll miss him in the first team, but we now have to look to those within the squad to step up and fill the void.
"We'll help Callum as much as we can though this difficult time."
The loss of Paterson, who is Hearts' joint top scorer this season with 10 goals, will also be felt by Scotland head coach Gordon Strachan.
Aston Villa's Alan Hutton retired from international football in October soon after being displaced as Strachan's first choice.
Head coach Ian Cathro, speaking before he learned the results of the scan, said: "He has been here since he was 16 and has grown into a good level footballer.
"He has grown into a strong man, a strong character and an important personality for everybody here. I couldn't speak more positively of him in the short period of time I have worked with him."
It is not the first time Paterson has had injury problems to contend with.
He suffered a shoulder ligament injury in a win over Kilmarnock in February that kept him out of action for nearly two months.
Paterson required surgery to repair medial ligament damage in his left knee, sustained in a Challenge Cup win over Annan Athletic in July 2014, that also ruled him out for two months.
In February 2013, he tore a ligament in his foot during training that kept him out for the remainder of the season.
Cathro said Paterson will recover from his latest setback and continue to progress his career.
"Callum will be able to achieve what he wants to achieve in the game," he said. "Irrespective of whether there is good or bad news, he will be able to go to those places.
"If there is a road bump, he will deal with that and have support to deal with that."
Head coach Cathro said he "expects to do some business" in January as he bids to "evolve the squad in how it is balanced and find players that can improve us".
That is likely to include some players who have not featured in the first four games of his tenure leaving Tynecastle.
"We would be supportive of players looking at opportunities which involved them being able to play, if the opportunities are limited here," he added.
There was better news for Hearts on midfielder Don Cowie, who was carried off with a neck injury and taken to hospital during a 3-2 defeat by Dundee last Friday.
However, he could face Aberdeen on Friday having recovered from the injury and a subsequent illness.
More than 30,000 fans have travelled to Sydney to cheer on the visitors.
Four-time former Lions head coach Sir Ian McGeechan has described the meeting at ANZ Stadium as the Lions' "biggest match" in nearly two decades.
1910: Lions lost 5-21 v South Africa
1989: Lions won 19-18 v Australia
1993: Lions lost 13-30 v New Zealand
2001: Lions lost 23-29 v Australia
Build-up to the game has been dominated by head coach Warren Gatland's call to drop veteran centre Brian O'Driscoll.
After spending part of the week relaxing in the warmer climes of Noosa in Queensland, the Lions will take to the field with the temperature set at a milder 15C.
The Test series is currently tied at one apiece after the hosts replied with a 16-15 second Test victory following the Lions' 23-21 win in the opener.
O'Driscoll had been favourite to be named captain in the absence of Sam Warburton after the flanker picked up a hamstring injury in the defeat at Melbourne's Etihad Stadium.
Instead, the 34-year-old was one of six players to make way as Gatland looked to prevent a repeat of the toothless display in which his side failed to make a single line break last weekend.
"When I go back to the UK and say 'Did I make the decision because I believed it was right, or did I make it because it was the right political decision?', I can put my hand on my heart and say I think it is the right rugby decision," Gatland said.
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In O'Driscoll's absence, Jamie Roberts - one of a record-equalling 10 Welshmen selected - will be reunited with international team-mate Jonathan Davies in the centres after he recovered from the hamstring injury that kept him out of the first two Tests.
For Australia, head coach Robbie Deans has made only one change by bringing in flanker George Smith for his 111th international appearance.
The 32-year-old - who made his last Test appearance in 2009 and retired from international rugby the following year - played in the 2001 Sydney meeting between the sides.
He will be hoping for history to repeat itself, as 12 years ago, the Aussies recovered from an opening Test loss to claim their first ever series win over the Lions with a thrilling 29-23 final victory at the same ground - then called Stadium Australia.
"To have achieved what George has throughout his career, and return to play at the highest level, after such a long break, is a testament to the quality of the man," Deans said.
The Lions last won a Test series in 1997, when they triumphed 2-1 in South Africa.
Chris Boardman has been designing Boardman Performance Series bicycles for Halfords since 2007.
Halfords would not disclose the value of the deal, but it's thought to be worth around £15m ($25m).
Chris Boardman, who won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, will remain as chairman and design director.
Boardman Bikes and Boardman International were set up ten years ago.
"This step will take the brand to the next level and their backing will allow us to further develop our research & development and extend our award-winning cycling ranges," he said.
Bicycle sales have sharply increased in recent years, thanks to the success of a number of British cyclists, including Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton.
Models in the Boardman Performance Series sell for up to £1,800. More expensive bicycles in the Boardman Elite Series are sold at independent retailers in the UK and US.
Worcestershire-based Halfords said it has no plans to sell the higher priced models in its stores.
The chief executive of Halfords, Matt Davies, said: "We have worked with Chris and his team since 2007; they have created one of the most important, fastest-growing and successful brands in UK cycling. We look forward to a continuation of the growth that both Boardman and Halfords have enjoyed with such a strong brand."
Halfords said the deal would not change the guidance on its finances for its current fiscal year.
Phillips, 33, has announced his international retirement after a 12-year career in which he won 99 caps.
He told BBC Radio Cymru he would not rule out a return to a Welsh team.
"My agent is trying to look for a club at the minute," the scrum-half added on BBC Radio Wales. "I guess over the next month or two it will sort itself out.
"At the minute there's a bit of uncertainty, but at the same time I'm looking forward to the future as well."
But Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy has ruled out Phillips returning to the region for next season.
Phillips made 60 appearances in four seasons for the Swansea-based side.
"No, I think Mike at the age he is at he's been an outstanding international and represented the Ospreys really well," said Tandy.
"We have got our nine's that we are really comfortable with so those spots are filled for us,
"But Mike is experienced and was a British Lion but we are pretty comfortable with our 9's at the moment."
Phillips, who was the British and Irish Lions first choice half-back in both 2009 and 2013, began his career at Scarlets before winning his first Wales cap against Romania in 2003.
He joined Cardiff Blues in 2005 and left for Ospreys in 2007, before moving to French side Bayonne in 2011.
His time there ended over allegations of turning up for training drunk, and he signed for Paris-based Racing 92 in December 2013.
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Newport Gwent Dragons are the only Welsh region Phillips has not played for.
"It would be nice maybe to finish my career in Wales," Phillips told the BBC's Welsh language station Radio Cymru. "But we'll see what happens over the next few weeks.
"At the moment I'm just concentrating on playing for Racing - that's hard enough as it is."
Some of Welsh rugby's legends joined Phillips' former international team-mates in paying tribute to him.
Gareth Edwards - widely regarded as the greatest scrum-half to have played the sport - said: "He was a main cog of a very proficient Welsh side for a number of years.
"He was certainly one of the best players in the world at his time; a huge contributor to Welsh rugby over the last decade or so."
Clermont Auvergne, Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies hails from the same Carmarthenshire village of Bancyfelin.
He said: "He's pretty much won games by himself. I loved playing with him. I've got a lot of great memories with him, especially on the 2013 Lions tour to Australia.
"We're both very proud of where we come from and I think he's represented himself and the area with huge pride. What he's done on the field has been spectacular."
Davies' thoughts were echoed on social media by Gloucester's former Ospreys fly-half James Hook.
"Loved the last 10 years playing alongside one of my best mates @mikephillips009, one of the top 9s in the world for so long, 99 international caps an unbelievable achievement," Hook said.
Northampton's Wales and Lions wing George North tweeted: "Massive respect for the man that is @mikephillips009. What a great international career. Been a massive part of mine."
The victim, who is in his 30s, was taken to hospital after sustaining multiple rib fractures and a broken shoulder.
Police received a report about the incident on Monday at about 18:00 BST.
The man's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Lib Dem Baroness Hamwee had asked if the £1 pay rate "for people who have committed no crime" was "something that as a society we can be proud of".
Baroness Williams of Trafford told the Lords the work by inmates was voluntary and was a way to "relieve boredom".
She said it helped meet "recreational and intellectual" needs - and was not a scheme designed to save money.
Baroness Williams, who faced jeers as she answered questions in the House of Lords, argued that any rights detainees had to work were curtailed, so their pay rights were "not the same as people who are not subject to immigration detention".
Labour frontbencher Lord Rosser argued that a Freedom of Information request in May 2014 suggested that hundreds of detainees had been paid £45,438 for 44,832 hours work.
"The saving of using detainees for £1 an hour, compared to paying employed staff on minimum wage, would be in the region of £300,000 a month.
"Who gets the benefit of this apparently considerable saving each month by using detainees at immigration centres on just £1 an hour to do necessary work, as opposed to using employed staff on the minimum wage? Is it the government or is the firm running the centre who reap treat financial benefit?"
Baroness Williams insisted the work at immigration removal centres was not about supplementing contractors, who she said were obliged to provide a minimum number of opportunities for detainees to participate voluntarily in paid activities.
But after Lib Dem Lord Paddick received a similar reply, former Commons Speaker Lady Boothroyd pressed the minister: "The question that's being asked is who benefits? That was the original question and that's the question we're all waiting to hear the answer."
Lady Williams replied: "Who benefits is the detainee."
She said that "this money is not wages as the ordinary working population would see it", adding that the rate is "being reviewed" and a report is expected at the end of the year.
Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child's room to help her but dropped it as she turned on the light.
She shouted at the handset to activate Siri and told it to get the emergency services on speakerphone as she began CPR.
Ms Gleeson told the BBC she feels it may have saved her daughter's life.
She instructed Siri to call an ambulance on speakerphone and was able to communicate with the emergency services while resuscitating Giana.
Giana, who had been battling a chest infection and bronchiolitis, was breathing again when the ambulance arrived,
The child made a full recovery and doctors have told Ms Gleeson there was no lasting damage, but that every second had been vital.
It happened in March but the story has now gone viral after Ms Gleeson contacted Apple, who alerted Australian news outlet 7 News.
"As cheesy as it sounds I wanted to say thank you," she told the BBC.
"I've only had the phone since the start of the year.
"I had played around with Siri, I thought it was a fun feature. Now I have that feature turned on all the time and it will never be turned off again."
She had previously used it to call her husband Nic, who is in the Navy, on loudspeaker while getting the children ready for bed.
The function doesn't work on all iPhone models but Ms Gleeson has an iPhone 6S.
She said that even if she hadn't dropped the phone, she may have struggled to dial the number in the heat of the moment.
"Saving me the trouble of having to physically dial emergency services was a godsend."
Created in 2006, the work depicts a group of armed officers about to be tricked by a boy on one side and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz on the other.
The "imposing object" has remained unseen since its only showing at Banksy's debut US exhibition.
Estimated to fetch between £200,000 and £300,000, it was sold for £218,500.
Described by the auctioneers as "one of his most important and arresting pieces", the "household gloss and spray paint on van" was sold along with a certificate of authenticity.
A spokesman for Bonhams, said the work had been "acquired directly from the artist" by the vendor after it appeared as the "centrepiece" in Banksy's debut solo exhibition in America.
"It was shown for the first - and only time - in an industrial warehouse in downtown Los Angeles," he said.
He added that Banksy's stencilling technique had been "artfully employed" on the SWAT van.
"His characteristic stencilling technique was inspired by an incident in which the artist was hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, he noticed the stencilled serial number," he said.
"Stencilling has since allowed him to carry out complicated graffiti pieces extremely quickly, before he melts away into the night."
The Public and Commercial Services union says a "staff crisis" in Liverpool means Holyhead will sometimes cover from mid Wales to Scotland.
The UK government is closing eight coastguard stations, including Liverpool, by 2015.
It says changes are necessary to create a 21st Century service.
But the PCS union argues that resources are stretched as talented and experienced staff are becoming disillusioned with the job, and leaving the service.
Keith Roberts, PCS branch secretary at Holyhead Coastguard, warned that lives could be put at risk.
He said that staff levels in Liverpool would be reduced to eight by the summer. It should be 23.
It means Holyhead Coastguard - which has been "paired" with Liverpool under the changes - will be called on to cover an area from Cardigan Bay to the south west coast of Scotland.
"There will be eight watchkeepers [in Liverpool] available, which is the normal minimum to cover a 24 hours period during the summer months," he said.
"So there will be long periods when Holyhead Coastguard will be responsible to cover the UK Irish Sea coast from the the middle of Cardigan Bay to the Mull of Galloway on the southwest Scottish coast plus waters around the Isle of Man."
He said Holyhead too was short staffed, with 18 watchkeepers, when there should be 23.
The union said the Maritime and Coastguard Agency needed to put urgent measures in place to address the "staffing crisis," including honouring its promises on upgrading jobs to improve pay.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "We and others have warned time and again that these closures would put lives at risk. The government must act immediately to address this dangerous decline."
Eight UK coastguard centres will be closed, with a loss of 159 jobs, under changes which the UK government has said are necessary.
The Swansea, Liverpool, Clyde, Portland, Yarmouth, Brixham and Thames coastguard stations will close.
Forth coastguard station in Scotland has already closed as a consequence of the plans.
The UK government has said the current system comprised "dispersed centres with no network of national integration" and therefore had "very limited resilience in the event of high demand or technical problems".
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said where coastguard stations were experiencing reduced staffing levels, it was bringing in existing "pairing" arrangements and other support measures as necessary to maintain operations.
"One of the key outcomes from the modernisation of HM Coastguard will be more rewarding coastguard jobs, with additional responsibilities and the appropriate pay to match; the Government remains fully committed to achieving this," it added in a statement.
"These are new roles that attract a different rate of pay, and staff will need to apply for these."
A report last December by a committee of MPs said that coastguards have been left "confused and disillusioned" by the changes to their service.
The Transport Committee said that too many coastguards were "drifting out" with "a risk that talent and expertise will haemorrhage".
Amaury Leveaux, who won gold in the 100m relay at the 2012 London Olympics, makes his allegation in an autobiography published on Wednesday.
Entitled Sex, Drugs and Swimming, it purports to offer an unsavoury behind-the-scenes glimpse at the world of competitive swimming.
In a chapter dealing with drug use, Leveaux says that top French swimming stars regularly snort cocaine, mainly - but not only - for fun.
"Some of us wouldn't spit at a little line of coke from time to time. For others it's not just a little line, it's a complete motorway covered in white powder which they zoom down at top speed," he writes.
"And then let's not be coy - cocaine is a doping agent. It is the kind of happy drug which gives you the feeling of being invincible and never tired - pushing back your limits and transforming you into a warrior ready for anything."
He says on one occasion during the Olympics a trainer came to their rooms and warned them that an anti-doping test would take place the next day.
"He specifically mentioned cocaine as one to avoid. I found that strange."
Leveaux also describes an incident at the London Games, where one of the French swimmers - he does not give the name - left a nightclub in the company of the establishment's female press officer.
"Later that night he sent me a text saying I should come round to the girl's flat - and that's where I found him lying on top of her and sniffing a line of coke from between her breasts," he writes.
The French Swimming Federation (FNF) has reacted with outrage to Leveaux's claims, with vice-president Lucien Gastaldello saying the swimmer had "shot himself in the foot" and should now repay his debts to the federation.
"Everyone is disgusted by his attitude," said Gastaldello. "He was going to do television commentaries on some forthcoming events. He can forget that. Who would speak to him now?"
Leveaux - who comes from a modest background in the eastern city of Belfort - reserves some of his strongest criticism for members of the elite Marseille Swimming Club, who have dominated the sport in France in recent years . They are, he writes, "pretty boys with big heads".
He also lays into the sport's governing body, describing the FNF as "dinosaurs" who have brought "Nothing with a capital N" to swimming.
"They squeeze swimmers like lemons and then chuck them into the rubbish bin when they are through."
Le Monde's sports correspondent Henri Seckel said the book's sensational title was a bit of an oversell and that he wanted more on what really would have "broken the code of silence in swimming" - i.e. the facts on performance-enhancing drug use.
Leveaux makes some allusions to this, but never directly.
He mentions a Russian female swimmer who he says "went back home from time to time to get testosterone injections."
He says this Russian swimmer explained to him how her team escaped anti-doping inspections.
"Every swimmer had a 'double' who had the same name on his or her passport. It was this double, who was based in the same hotel room…. that was tested after the event - without the officials ever noticing," he writes.
Leveaux, who retired in 2013, has four Olympic medals in all, and still holds the world record for 100m freestyle (short course). In the 2008 Olympics he was pipped to gold in the 50m freestyle by Brazil's Cesar Cielo, who in 2011 failed a doping test.
In the book he compares Cielo to Lance Armstrong, and in a pre-launch interview with L'Equipe magazine adds: "For cheats and paedophiles, it's the same: a bullet in the head."
While on the national team, Leveaux enjoyed a mildly 'bad boy' reputation, but he denied the book is motivated by jealousy of his more glamorous team-mates, such as Alain Bernard or Yannick Agnel.
An artist called Christo will be opening a big art project on Lake Iseo, in northern Italy, made from 220,000 plastic floating cubes.
The cubes will make a two mile-long path across the lake, and will be covered in a special yellow fabric which changes colour in the light.
The project is called 'The Floating Piers' and the the artist said it should feel like people are "walking on the back of a whale".
It took a lot of work to put the bridge together - 190 huge concrete anchors were flown in by hot air balloon then dropped into the lake to help hold the bridge together.
The 80-year-old artist who designed the bridge has created lots a famous art sculptures in the past, in Berlin and New York.
When it officially opens, 150 volunteers and lifeguards will help out along the bridge to make sure everyone stays safe.
Sheffield Wednesday's consultant engineer Dr Wilfred Eastwood said restricted entry at the Leppings Lane end led to a build-up of fans.
In a 1990 statement read to the inquests into 96 Liverpool fans' deaths, Dr Eastwood said 12 turnstiles on Penistone Road were shut.
It led to 6,000 more fans using the Leppings Lane entry.
The inquest hearing in Warrington is looking into the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans following a crush at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final at the stadium on 15 April 1989.
Dr Eastwood said the extra spectators "had to be catered for which was a factor in the build-up of the crowd".
"The police argument will no doubt be that they considered it important to avoid confrontation between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest fans."
He added it would have been possible to separate the fans by closing other turnstiles on Penistone Road, and keeping those for the North Stand open.
He said he was "completely unaware" of the closure of the North Stand turnstiles until he read about it in the newspapers on 17 April 1989.
"This was a decision with which my firm was in no way involved and about which we were not consulted or informed," he added.
Legal representatives at the new inquests in Warrington are reading out transcripts of Dr Eastwood's evidence as he is too ill to attend the inquests.
The hearing continues.
The Falcons trailed 22-10 in the final 10 minutes, but forwards Mark Wilson and Ben Harris both bundled over after relentless pressure.
Vereniki Goneva's early score had given Newcastle a 7-3 half-time advantage.
Second-half tries from George Ford and two from Semesa Rokoduguni built a lead for Bath before the late drama.
The much-improved Falcons have now won six Premiership matches this season, one more than the whole of last campaign, and move up to sixth, while Bath stay fourth.
Bath looked edgy once again following back-to-back league defeats against fellow play-off chasers Exeter and leaders Wasps.
A torrid first half started with Fiji wing Goneva being given too much space to race in under the posts, followed by England fly-half Ford missing two relatively simple penalties.
Ford, who failed to land another crucial penalty and conversion after the break, did start a clinical first 20 minutes of the second half when he strolled in to score as Bath were camped in front of the try-line.
Wing Rokoduguni produced two pieces of individual brilliance to help stretch Bath's lead to 12 points - first dotting down while being tackled by Goneva and then showing his pace after latching onto the returning Anthony Watson's pass.
But the visitors could not hold onto the advantage as big flanker Wilson was pushed over and replacement prop Harris touched down in almost identical circumstances, with Joel Hodgson coolly converting both.
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards: "The boys had belief and really stuck at it.
"We went 12 points down and just went for it. They showed a lot of courage to do that and come back against a side like Bath.
"The crowd were outstanding, especially that last five minutes, the players came in afterwards and said the crowd carried them through."
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder: "I'm very disappointed that we couldn't close out the game.
"We had a terrible first half. We were lucky we came away with anything at half-time.
"We didn't do the basics very well under pressure and that's not acceptable. The last two games we've had control and let it slip and it's just not good enough."
Newcastle Falcons: Tait; Agulla, Waldouck, Socino, Goneva; Hodgson, Takulua; Vickers, Lawson, Welsh, Green, Olmstead, Wilson, Welch (captain), Fonua
Replacements: Sowrey, Harris, Ryan, Witty, Robinson, Young, Willis, Burdon.
Bath: Watson; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Tapuai, Brew; Ford, Allinson; Catt, Dunn, Lahiff, Stooke, Charteris, Ellis, Louw, Mercer.
Replacements: Walker, Obano, Knight, Garvey, Grant, Cook, Priestland, Fruean.
Referee: Greg Garner.
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The 35-year-old beat Rafael Nadal in Miami on Sunday, to win his third title since January.
Federer, who sat out the second half of 2016 to recover from a knee injury, says rest will help him prepare for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.
"When I am healthy and feeling good, I can produce tennis like this," he said.
"When I am not feeling this good there is no chance I will be in the finals competing with Rafa," the 18-time Grand Slam winner told ESPN on court after the win.
"That is why this break is coming in the clay court season, focusing everything on the French, the grass and then the hard courts after that.
"I'm not 24 anymore so things have changed in a big way and I probably won't play any clay court event except the French."
Federer has won the Roland Garros tournament once in 2009. If he sticks to his plan, he would sit out clay events such as the Monte Carlo Masters, Barcelona Open, Hungarian Open, Madrid Open and Istanbul Open - the last clay tournament he won in 2015.
The break in Federer's season arrives during his best start to a campaign since 2006. Back then he won 33 of his first 34 matches of the year, compared to his current run of 19 wins and one defeat.
Victory over Nadal sealed a third Miami Open title and added to wins at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this term.
"The dream continues," Federer said after the win. "It's been a fabulous couple of weeks. What a start to the year, thank you to my team and all who have supported me, especially in my more difficult challenging times last year."
In his on-court interview, Federer backed Nadal, who has himself been hampered by injury, for clay success.
"I know everybody is working very hard on your team to get you back in shape, and keep going," said Federer. "The clay-courts are around, so I'm sure you are going to tear it into pieces over there."
Worldpay's prototype automatically takes a photo of a shop customer's face the first time they use it and then references the image to verify their identity on subsequent transactions.
The firm says the innovation could help reduce payment card fraud.
But one campaign group has raised privacy concerns.
At present, the test device is only being trialled internally at Worldpay. But a spokesman said that it could be deployed within five years if retailers showed interest.
The firm's existing machines are already used at about 400,000 stores across the world.
The prototype - dubbed a Pin Entry Device Camera (PED cam) - features an upward-facing image sensor.
The firm says it would store the captured images in a "secure" central database.
"Biometrics has attracted a lot of attention," said Worldpay's director of technology innovation, Nick Telford-Reed.
"But people don't want the admin hassle of registering their details. With this prototype, we would remove that hassle.
"Card users could be automatically enrolled in the system when they use their card.
"The design also means retailers would not have to find space for another device on their already busy sales counters."
Because facial recognition tech is not foolproof, Worldpay is not suggesting that shoppers be blocked from making payments if its computer system failed to make a match.
Rather, it suggests that tills would display an "authorisation needed" alert, prompting shop staff to request an additional ID, such as a driving licence.
Although chip-and-pin technology has helped reduce card fraud in stores, it has not eliminated the problem.
In the UK, thieves can still make tap-and-go payments of up to £30 without entering a Pin, and criminals have been known to spy on victims entering their codes before stealing their cards.
According to the UK Cards Association, losses from fraudulent face-to-face card transactions in shops totalled £49.2m last year.
Worldpay is not the only financial company looking into the technology to tackle card fraud.
Facial recognition's major advantage over fingerprints is that it is harder to use the information to fool people if hackers steal the biometric details.
The danger of this was highlighted by a US government breach in April that resulted in the loss of up to 5.6 million employees' prints.
Even so, privacy activists at Big Brother Watch have raised concerns.
"Whenever a company thinks of introducing such invasive technology, they must ensure the highest levels of protection are in place to safeguard people from misuse," said the organisation's research director, Daniel Nesbitt.
"It is important that a level-headed and wide-ranging debate takes place on whether facial recognition should become mainstream.
"Our privacy must not be forgotten in the rush to introduce new and potentially innovative ideas."
John Riley, 28, of Caernarfon was convicted by a jury on "overwhelming evidence" of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a 47-year-old man outside a pub in the town.
Judge Huw Rees at Caernarfon Crown Court told him he could have killed the man as a result of his anger.
As well as a broken skull, the victim suffered a bleed on the brain.
He will also now need a hearing aid following the attack.
North Wales Police Det Sgt Andy Davies said Riley was a "prolific offender" and his imprisonment would "bring a degree of relief and satisfaction to the whole community".
Judge Rees added there was a "complete lack of police presence" at the Maes on the night of the assault.
He called for the licensing authorities to be shown the CCTV footage and consider the suitability of the Morgan Lloyd pub having extended opening hours.
The doctor told Dorothy Williams, from the Conwy Valley, that he took it "as a personal offence".
Commissioner Meri Huws said it set a precedent for all health boards and she would "keep an eye on the situation".
Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board has accepted the ruling.
Mrs Williams, from Dolwyddelan, said she was "very relieved" at the decision.
She told BBC Radio Cymru she hoped the health board had "learned lessons, and do what they say... time will tell".
Mrs Williams, reported the incident at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire, at the start of May.
In her submission, she said: "My child started speaking to me in Welsh, as it is [the child's] first language. I responded in Welsh and it was clear that the doctor wasn't pleased.
"[The doctor] told us, 'I know you are Welsh but please stop talking in Welsh as I am taking it as a personal offence'."
The health board said the doctor was so concerned about the patient's safety in a clinically urgent situation that they asked her to stop speaking Welsh.
"[The doctor] took this as a personal offence because unless [the doctor] was able to communicate with [the child] directly, [the doctor] would be unable to give [the child] the urgent help [that the child] needed," the board explained.
The doctor apologised at the time and had realised that the choice of words "was clumsy and could cause offence". The family also had a written apology.
Commissioner Ms Huws said the doctor had sought to prevent the pair from communicating in Welsh and there was no legal or medical justification for it.
"That's been accepted by the health board in its statement that this situation is not acceptable or reasonable for the parent or child," she said.
"They as health service providers need to be planning and securing it where that communication can occur through the medium of Welsh."
Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it had already taken action on the matter.
"We recognise and fully accept that on this occasion there was interference by the doctor with the patient's freedom to use the Welsh language," a spokesperson said.
The six-time champion jockey, 51, won on Sir Maximilian and said illness had previously affected his performance.
"My riding was terrible, it was very weak, and I had a lot of blood tests and everything," he said.
"I didn't feel right at all in the second half of the season. I didn't know where I wanted to be.
Fallon won the Homeserve Conditions Stakes on Sir Maximillian on Chester Cup Day on Wednesday.
He has won the Derby at Epsom three times and at his peak was dubbed 'King Kieren' by adoring punters, but has barely had 100 mounts in Britain since the beginning of 2015.
At various times in his pomp, he was the number one rider for the powerful strings of Sir Henry Cecil, Sir Michael Stoute and the Coolmore racing and thoroughbred breeding empire, but has plied a considerably quieter trade in the US and more recently in Ireland.
"It was a blessing in disguise that [trainer] Michael [O'Callaghan] rang me to come back and ride in Ireland, and I had to go and do a medical, and that's when things turned around for me, and I feel great now," Fallon told the BBC Radio 5 live sports extra racing show.
"They [Irish Turf Club] have a great doctor, Adrian McGoldrick, and he's sorted me out."
Fallon declined to go into any details of the problem, but added: "I wasn't well at all, I feel much better now than I did last year, and we're back on the road again."
Now one of the weighing room's most senior figures, he insists there are no plans to bring down the curtain on one of the sport's most eventful and controversial stories.
That career has swung spectacularly from brilliant rides and big-race winners' circles, to drugs bans, a string of clashes with racing's authority and even to the dock at the Old Bailey where his high-profile trial for alleged corruption famously collapsed.
"It depends on the body," he said. "I'm lucky. Some of the boys have to waste hard, and sit in the sauna for many hours, but I'm lucky I can eat and drink what I like, and my weight's great.
"Thank God, I've had a great career and we didn't have too many injuries, so when you put them two together, you will last a bit longer."
Fallon expects to be making frequent visits to Britain when there is no racing in Ireland, and hopes Sir Maximilian may take him to a sprint race at Royal Ascot in June.
Meanwhile, he believes The Curragh-based O'Callaghan string contains a number of promising types including the filly Now Or Never, a possible for the Irish 1000 Guineas.
The run of Friday afternoon live racing on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra continues at Chester on May 6 from 14:00 BST.
Anne Ludlow landed at Heathrow after 10 days in Spain on Saturday.
However, she did not return to Belfast until over 48 hours later.
Alex Cruz, the airline's chief executive, has said he was "profusely sorry" over the incident.
He said on Monday that a power surge had caused an IT failure and that a back-up system had not worked properly.
The failure affected 75,000 passengers across 170 airports in 70 countries.
Ms Ludlow became one of that number when she arrived in Heathrow on an Iberia flight on Saturday afternoon.
She told the BBC that people had been treated "very poorly" during the incident, and that her weekend involved two days without luggage and three different bookings on flights to Belfast.
When her flight from Spain arrived in Heathrow, Ms Ludlow said she and other passengers were left on the tarmac for over three hours.
She added that the flight's stewards appeared to "have no information".
"We were getting all our information from mobiles, people texting us and the two Spanish ladies beside me were interpreting what the captain was saying because he wasn't speaking English.
"That started us off but we didn't imagine what we were going into Terminal 5 to face."
Ms Ludlow said there was "just queues everywhere" in the terminal.
She added that staff advised her to "go home, just leave the airport".
"I asked about my luggage and they said, 'well, you're not going to get it today, it's somewhere in the system and you will not get it'."
She said she was advised to either join a long queue or leave and register for her luggage online.
"I think they had no information, the ground staff were very calm but they had nothing to tell us."
Ms Ludlow also said that, unlike other passengers at Heathrow, she did not receive any letters or leaflets on her rights as a passenger and how she could claim money back.
She added: "I heard people asking for water and asking for food and they were just told to keep their receipts and they can claim it back."
Ms Ludlow said she was one of the "lucky ones", as she was able to stay with her brother who lives in London, but that she had been left with no luggage and had spent £160 to get back to Belfast.
"I'll fight to get it (the money) returned but whether I do or not is another matter."
Ms Ludlow was due to fly back to Belfast on Tuesday morning, but her ordeal was not over yet.
Her initial flight was cancelled leading to another booking, through British Airways, for an Aer Lingus flight in the afternoon.
However, when she went to board the flight she was told the airline did not have a record of her booking.
"I was told that I wasn't booked on the flight and it was actually overbooked by 14 people, but my name wasn't one of them.
"I was in a bit of a panic mode at that stage, I was a bit annoyed. But, he took all my information and eventually he tapped away and got me a seat."
She said there was "very little help" throughout the weekend from airline and airport staff.
"They should have immediately been supplying people with water, with a sandwich.
"I know that's very small and very minor but actually it settles people a little bit.
"But to tell people to leave the airport and use online (to register for luggage) when actually online isn't working, to tell people to phone up this helpline and you just get an automated messages to say you're in a queue and the queue is 30 minutes long - people can't do that."
Raytheon UK, which already employs 145 people near Broughton, Flintshire, officially opened a new hangar.
The defence systems firm has a deal to maintain long-range RAF spy planes, which work over Syria and Iraq.
But it hopes to win contracts to provide similar aircraft to other governments.
The new Hangar 119 is equipped to completely overhaul the RAF's fleet of Sentinel surveillance aircraft - most of which were built by Raytheon.
Richard Daniel, Raytheon UK chief executive said: "Our new facility in north Wales gives us tremendous potential and will enhance our economic impact in the region, where the company has contributed since 1993.
"We have created around 50 jobs in Broughton over the past 18 months, and anticipate the need for a further 200 over the next three years depending on export opportunities."
The Welsh Government have invested £1m in the facility, which First Minister Carwyn Jones is officially opening later.
The UK Government announced a £130m deal to maintain the aircraft last autumn.
The long-range spy planes are at the frontline of surveillance against so-called Islamic State (ISIS).
The five-year contract also supports another 120 jobs at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, where the aircraft is based.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "Raytheon's continued investment in north Wales is yet another strong endorsement of the confidence the company has in the skills-base and the business environment in Wales, and is further proof that this country is very much open for business."
The 44-year-old was arrested on suspicion of grooming on 28 May and released on bail. He was found dead at a property in Harlow on 31 May.
The video was posted on a Facebook page run by Christopher Wood from Essex.
Essex Police has referred the man's death to the police watchdog. His death is not being treated as suspicious.
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The dead man's name has not been released by police.
On Facebook, Mr Wood said the death had come as "shocking news" and he had removed the video "out of respect for his family".
Mr Wood describes himself on Facebook as a "hunter" who wants to "make a stand" against the grooming of children online.
An Essex Police spokesman said the force was aware of videos "filmed and published by a third party" on social media "purporting to show an encounter between the arrested man and a member of the public".
It declined to comment further.
Mohammed Rehman, 25, from Reading, and Sana Ahmed Khan, 23, from Earley, are accused of buying explosive chemicals and researching terror tactics online.
They are also alleged to have possessed videos on making explosives and tested explosive devices.
The pair, charged with preparing for acts of terrorism in the UK, were remanded in custody until plea hearing at the Old Bailey on 27 October.
Mr Rehman also faces charges of possessing articles for terrorist purposes and possessing articles giving rise to a reasonable suspicion he was planning an act of terrorism, including aluminium foil and nitric acid.
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Devon and Cornwall Police received calls from Nigel McGuire's girlfriend that she was concerned about him.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that an inspector and a call handler had "cases to answer".
An inquest found that Mr McGuire's death was an accident, the IPCC said.
Mr McGuire's girlfriend first called police at 00:50 BST on 14 May 2013 and officers visited at 01:10 and spoke to him through his closed front door, after he refused to open it.
Officers then visited him at 09:00, 10:53 and 15:11 and on each occasion knocked on Mr McGuire's front door but they did not get a response. They also spoke to a neighbour, rang Mr McGuire and left messages on his mobile.
The IPCC said at 21:15 his girlfriend called police and told them he had said "he could not go on like this", which led to officers forcing entry into the property in Plymouth at 23:20 where Mr McGuire was found unconscious and later died in hospital.
Tom Milsom, IPCC associate commissioner, said: "The force held misconduct meetings for an inspector and member of control room staff and we recommended awareness should be raised within Devon and Cornwall Police about methadone poisoning and levels of dosages that give cause for concern."
Following misconduct meetings held by Devon & Cornwall Police a police inspector has received management advice and a police staff radio operator a written warning.
The force said that since his death, "significant changes" in the way it managed incidents involving vulnerable people had been introduced.
"We would like to offer our deepest sympathies to the friends and family of Nigel McGuire who have handled themselves with dignity throughout this difficult process."
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Wales are third in Group D, four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland with five games left.
Despite that gap, Williams does not believe Wales' qualifying hopes will be over if they fail to beat Serbia.
"I don't think so. We're still in a good position halfway through," said the Everton defender.
"I live for them [games like these]. As a team, we live for these nights.
"It doesn't always come off. I think we've seen that before in the past. But of late, this is the kind of game we love, when you're up against it in a different country, you're working hard and you're backing your mates up. Once you get in that groove, it's difficult to beat.
"We're very resilient and we're a gritty team. This is another opportunity for us to go out there and show our togetherness, put in a big shift and hopefully get the result we want."
The odds are stacked against Wales, who have travelled to Belgrade without a raft of first-team players.
Their talismanic forward Gareth Bale is the most notable absentee, suspended after a yellow card against the Republic of Ireland in March.
Left-back Neil Taylor is also banned, while forwards Hal Robson-Kanu and Ben Woodburn, midfielder Andy King and defender James Collins are injured.
Despite starting their campaign with victory over Moldova, Wales' bid to reach the 2018 World Cup has stalled following four successive draws against Austria, Georgia, Serbia and the Republic of Ireland.
Defeat in Belgrade in Sunday - coupled with an Irish win over Austria - would effectively end Welsh hopes of reaching next year's tournament in Russia.
Williams, however, is not entertaining such thoughts.
"It is a big game against a tough team, it's one we're preparing to win but, if we don't, we carry on because there are still games to go," the 33-year-old added.
"While there are points available, we'll try our best to go and get them.
"It will be tough. We're not planning for that [defeat]. We're playing to win but we do understand it will be a difficult game. For the last nine days, we've been working to win."
Ah You was dismissed after he was adjudged to have made an illegal shoulder charge on Dragons full-back Carl Meyer at Rodney Parade.
The tight-head is automatically banned for Ulster's game against Cardiff Blues in Belfast on 7 April.
Ah You could face further punishment after the hearing in Edinburgh.
The 28-year-old, who joined Ulster from Connacht last summer, won the Junior World Championship with New Zealand in 2008.
Ah You signed for Connacht two years later, qualified to play for Ireland in 2013 and made his Irish debut the following year in Argentina.
The European bronze medallist from Portaferry clocked 4:11.51 to come in behind Ethiopia's world record holder Genzebe Dibaba (4:10.61).
Mageean, 24, stayed close to the lead throughout the race and moved into second place as Dibaba sprinted clear.
The Irish athlete was able to ease up close to the line in a confident run.
Those behind Mageean in the remaining four qualifying places included highly-rated America Brenda Martinez and Poland's Angelika Cichocka, who won gold at this year's European Championships when the Irishwoman took the bronze.
Non-qualifiers from the heat included Dutchwoman Maureen Koster, Morocco's Siham Hilali and Kenya's Nancy Chepkwemoi who all have faster personal bests than Mageean.
"If I didn't think I'd qualify, I wouldn't be here," said the county Down woman.
Mageean said that she had drawn inspiration from Ireland's silver medal-winning rowing brothers Paul and Gary O'Donovan.
"It was great to see them medal and gives more motivation to perform at this level. I ran my own race and I just need to stay focused for the semi-finals."
Earlier in the day Alex Wright (Leevale) battled to a 46th place finish in the 20km race walk in 1:25:25.
"I was slightly disappointed with that but my training is geared towards the 50km and there were positives," said Wright, who will also compete in the 50km event on Friday.
At present, 2,875 children are in the system, the highest figure since current records began in 1995.
It can take at least three and a half years for a child in care to be placed with a new family, and many argue that's just too long.
As part of National Adoption week, BBC Northern Ireland is showing a two part documentary looking at the intricacies of the child care system here.
Over two nights filmmakers follow 11 young people, aged between 18 months and 18-years-old, on their individual journeys through the care system.
The documentary hears from social workers dealing directly with each case, and from the families and individuals who have a child going into care as well as those hoping to provide them with a new home.
One social worker who features in the documentary, Patrick O'Connor, works in Antrim.
He has helped hundreds of children over the years and says adopting a child can be difficult but extremely rewarding.
"You're constantly dealing with issues that shouldn't happen, and that is coming from sexual abuse and physical abuse, abandonment and all those things, and one child could suffer all those things.
"The emotional impact on the child is so devastating for them, what can you do to resolve it for that child? That's the task.
"You have to build a relationship with that child that carries them through the worst of times and the best of times," he said.
A lot of people consider adoption to be an option just for couples who cannot have their own children.
However foster parent, Jackie Bradley, says that is just not the case.
She says fulfilling the role of mum and dad is just one small part of it.
"Primarily it's all about that child having permanence and finding security and stability in their life for maybe the first time ever."
Producer Rachel Hooper said the resilience of the children she spoke with was "just remarkable".
"They are carrying an enormous amount of complex need - the result of neglect and abuse that they have suffered, and they need amazing people who can take them on.
"I knew it was a big thing to do, but I had no idea just how important it was to have these carers there," she said.
"There is such a need for carers, such a need for people to say 'how can I help?'"
Rachel said one of her motivations was to help document a part of each child's life story for them to see when they are older so that they know a bit more about where they came from.
"You don't walk out when you've walked in - so it's inevitable that we'll stay in touch with them.
"I can't wait to hear about the changes in their lives and the different journeys they embark on."
Find Me A Family can be seen on BBC One NI on Monday, October 19 at 21:00 BST, with the second programme scheduled for broadcast on Monday, October 26 at 21:00 BST.
Jason McGovern, 19, died after being attacked on a night out in Omagh, County Tyrone, on New Year's Eve, 2012.
No-one has been convicted of the killing, although several people have been sentenced over a fight involving Jason and his friends that night.
Jason's brother Niall said the family feel they will never get justice.
A County Tyrone man acquitted of the "one-punch killing" was on Friday given a four-month suspended sentence for affray on the night of Mr McGovern's death.
Mark Donnelly, 23, from Greencastle was acquitted of his manslaughter in June.
"It's just someone to take responsibility is what would mean a lot to us - I don't think we'll ever get that sense of justice," Mr McGovern said.
"I think that's what makes it even harder, not only losing Jason, but no-one's taken responsibility, and that's hard to deal with."
He added: "We thought we had a strong case at the start of proceedings and look how it went.
"Nobody's been held accountable."
There were two incidents involving Jason and his friends on the night.
In the first, outside a bar, a friend of Jason's jaw was fractured in an attack. A number of people - including Mark Donnelly, 23, from Greencastle, who was cleared of Jason's manslaughter - were convicted for their roles in that attack.
Jason, who was studying performing arts at college, was injured after being punched in a second incident in the car park of a different pub.
He died at a friend's home hours after the incident.
Niall McGovern said the family's lives had been in limbo for the last four years.
"We're just glad we can put an end to that legal process and get on with our lives," he said.
"It's not the outcome that we would have liked, but we're just glad we can start moving on with our lives and start grieving.
"Every time something happened in the case, Jason's face was in the paper and it brings it all back home."
Niall McGovern said his brother had done nothing to provoke either incident that night.
"Jason definitely wasn't a provoker of any situation," he said.
"Looking back it was just a pointless argument that he didn't play any part in - he was just the victim.
"Whenever we saw the CCTV footage and you could see Jason, that was his role, the peacekeeper, the friend, he was the person who looked after people on a night out."
Jason was one of three brothers, from the village of Tydavnet, whose mother has MS.
Niall McGovern said his brother loved to help his mother and his death and been particularly difficult for her.
"He's a big loss in her life," he said.
"My mother's MS, she can't go through her own grieving process. She's very much immobile and she's doing everything in front of everyone, she can't close the door or go to a different room."
Niall McGovern was at his girlfriend's house in Galway when he received the news that his brother was dead.
"I went into the house and the phone rang, it was Dad broke the news to me," he said.
"It's unexplainable just the feeling that comes over you, I've never felt anything like that before."
"Even now, looking back, it's still hard to take in and hard to believe, the type of person Jason was, that something like that could happen to him."
He said the only consolation he could take was that his brother had lived his life to the full.
"He was friends with everyone, there was no-one he wouldn't get on with, he'd chat with everyone, young and old," said Niall McGovern.
"I suppose that's the only positive thing that you can take out of it - even though his life was short he made the most of it, he lived it to the full."
Employees of Innospection at Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Dyce were said to be "shocked" at the discovery of the potentially deadly spider.
The Scottish SPCA was contacted, and an exotic animal rescue charity in Inverness offered the spider a home.
Animal Rescue Officer Karen Hogg said: "The callers waited until I arrived. Black widows are highly venomous."
She explained: "A bite would leave you feeling very unwell and, if suffering from an underlying medical condition, it could even prove fatal."
An Innospection spokesman told the BBC Scotland news website that staff had done the right thing.
Hamilton dropped to seventh on lap one following a slow start and a clash with Valtteri Bottas' Williams at Turn One.
His Mercedes bodywork damaged, Hamilton recovered well but was unable to catch Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in second.
Rosberg's fifth win in a row, going back to Mexico last year, gives him a 17-point title lead over Hamilton.
The world champion may be concerned about his second poor start in as many races this season and Raikkonen's pace was further evidence Ferrari are strong enough to at least put pressure on Mercedes this year.
But the race effectively fell into Rosberg's lap by the second corner as problems afflicted all three of his main rivals.
In addition to Hamilton's collision, the lead Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel did not even get that far.
Vettel's engine failed in spectacular fashion on the formation lap before the race had even started, so it will never be known how much of a stiffer challenge he might have mounted to the Mercedes.
That was one Ferrari out of the running and Raikkonen's chances took a major hit shortly afterwards as he dropped to fifth after a poor start of his own.
Raikkonen fought past Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and the two Williams cars of Felipe Massa and Bottas to be second by lap seven - but by that stage he was already 12 seconds adrift of Rosberg, a gap that proved too big to bridge.
By the time the leaders' three pit stops were finished, Raikkonen was only 4.6secs behind Rosberg but the Mercedes driver was comfortably able to hold him off and finished 10 seconds clear.
Hamilton drove impressively to move back through the field with bodywork damage that will have cost him aerodynamic downforce, but ended up 19 seconds adrift of Raikkonen.
The champion's two poor starts in the first two races have effectively handed title rival Rosberg two victories, but it's coming back from adversity where Hamilton excels, and how he won his second championship in 2014 so beguilingly.
"[The reason for the bad starts were] two separate incidents," said Hamilton. "Both equally painful - perhaps this one more - but we managed to recover, again damage limitation.
"The team was hoping that potentially there would be a safety car. I had so much damage to the car, I couldn't fight with Kimi."
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo took a solid fourth from fifth on the grid, and there was another impressive showing from the new US-based, Ferrari-affiliated Haas team - Romain Grosjean taking a fighting fifth after an aggressive strategy focused on running three sets of super-soft tyres and then a final set of softs.
Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen, last year's stellar rookie, was a strong sixth ahead of the second Red Bull of Daniil Kvyat, who recovered from a poor qualifying performance that left him 15th on the grid to pass Massa for seventh on the penultimate lap.
It was a disappointing end to a difficult race for Williams, with Bottas hit with a what some may consider a harsh drive-through penalty for the Hamilton collision, taking ninth.
Stoffel Vandoorne was a solid 10th on his grand prix debut for McLaren, substituting for Fernando Alonso who was ruled out of this race by official FIA doctors because of a cracked rib sustained in his huge accident at the Australian Grand Prix two weeks ago.
Vandoorne, who out-qualified team-mate Jenson Button, dropped behind the Englishman on the first lap but Button retired on the seventh lap, prompting a shake of the head in the pits at another reliability problem for the team from Alonso, who stayed on in Bahrain to help Vandoorne through the weekend.
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The pair put on a record 192 for the second wicket, with Hales the more aggressive of the two and Root happy to play the anchor role.
West Indies were never in contention and meekly surrendered with the bat - being bowled out for just 142.
Liam Plunkett and Chris Woakes took three wickets apiece with the ball.
If the West Indies showed glimpses of ability in the first two matches of the series, there was very little of it on show at the Kensington Oval.
The gulf in class between the two teams was striking.
While England's batting order is rich in both talent and depth, the Windies' top order gifted their wickets with a succession of dolly catches offered up to close fielders.
It was a similar story from a bowling perspective as England's pacemen bullied and harassed. The hosts' options lacked penetration in the absence of the injured Shannon Gabriel and proved to be cannon fodder for the likes of Root, Hales and Ben Stokes.
England's morale will be boosted by such victories, but it should be tempered with the realisation their opponents have failed to qualify for this summer's Champions Trophy and now face an uphill challenge to earn automatic entry to the 2019 World Cup.
Both opener Hales and number three Root can lay genuine claim to being among the world's leading top order batsman in this format of the game.
Their respective innings were poles apart in style, but almost identical in terms of both runs scored and balls faced by the time they returned to the pavilion.
Hales - back in the team after injury - began how he so often does, in a circumspect manner. He nudged the ball into gaps before exploding into life once the spinners were introduced to the attack.
Four of his five sixes came off the slow bowlers, who went for a combined 60 runs in 48 painful deliveries.
The Notts right-hander, who successfully overturned an lbw decision when he was on 93, was particularly strong on the leg side where he scored 73 of his runs.
Root was his usual busy self at the crease and almost paid with his wicket early on, only to be dropped when he had made both 1 and 12.
Once set, however, he dropped anchor and finally registered three figures after eight half-centuries in his previous 11 ODI innings.
Platform laid, England were pushed beyond 300 by Stokes. The Durham all-rounder was reminiscent of former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener as he time and again cleared his front leg and muscled the ball to the boundary in his 20-ball 34.
Faced with a strip much quicker than the one which the two teams duelled on in Antigua, England's quicker bowlers relished the extra pace and bounce.
Pitching the ball just back of a length, they induced some horrible dismissals from the West Indies top order.
Only Jonathan Carter (46) offered any real resistance and backbone as the England quicks left their opponents battered and bruised - both in a mental and physical sense.
Plunkett finished the three-match series with 10 wickets at less than 10 runs each, ensuring his name will remain prominent in the selectors' minds when Mark Wood, Jake Ball and David Willey regain full fitness.
Speaking on BBC Test Match Special, former West Indies fast bowler Tino Best said the collapse to 45-6 had been "embarrassing", adding: "It's quite disappointing the way the guys have been dismissed. We call it primary school dismissals.
"Guys have to go back to their hotel room and reflect. Do you want to be an average player or do you want to be a superstar?"
England have just two ODIs against Ireland before opening their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh at The Oval on 1 June.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "I'm extremely satisfied. Over the course of the series we have displayed different skills. Root and Hales put on an outstanding partnership and our bowling performance was outstanding.
"It's a great position to be in. We had guys coming into the side who maybe didn't expect to play and made big contributions, match-winning ones.
"It was an outstanding effort from Alex Hales. A bit of time off has done him the world of good."
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England all-rounder Chris Woakes - the man of the series - is asked which part of his game he is most pleased with: "Ball, I suppose. It's always nice to contribute with the bat when required but bowling is my primary skill.
"The more you play and gain experience in international cricket, the more you feel at home. We've got some great players in the team and there are always players pushing for places."
West Indies captain Jason Holder: "Our performance wasn't up to scratch, we gifted a lot of free runs - although the bowlers were decent - and then we didn't put up a good fight with the bat at all.
"I'm frustrated, I thought we were moving in the right direction. We've got to be lot sharper in the field and take our chances, we didn't do that throughout the series.
"This group of players is what we have, I'm comfortable with what we have, we have a lot of talented players in the squad but it's about making the most of it."
The draft document outlines a string of strengths the region already has but also the challenges it faces.
Among the potential improvements is an off-road route between Galashiels and Edinburgh via Peebles.
Councillors are being asked to agree sending the document out for consultation before its final version is completed.
The Scottish Borders Cycle Tourism Strategy said the region had a "long-established" reputation for leisure cycling gained thanks to the 7Stanes mountain biking routes and other trails.
It said that in the first nine months of 2015 alone, cycling tourism had been worth about £155m across Scotland.
However, it highlighted the lack of specific economic impact figures for the Scottish Borders as an issue which needed to be addressed in order to measure progress.
The report also recognised the competition the region faced from other areas which are keen to promote cycling including Perthshire, Dumfries and Galloway and the Highlands.
Among the developments which it said could "enhance the product offering" in the Borders are:
"It is crucial for the Scottish Borders not to fall behind and continued product development is a priority in order to maintain a competitive position," the report concluded.
"Development of infrastructure and product development of the tourism offer are key.
"The Scottish Borders must have a structured strategy and action plan with the appropriate investment in order to maintain and expand its position as Scotland's leading cycling destination."
Mark Asay is the first white man in state history to be executed for killing a black victim, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The 53-year-old had been found guilty of two 1987 murders in Jacksonville. The execution took place at 22:22 GMT.
It was the first time a new drug cocktail was used.
A jury found that Asay shot his victims - Robert Lee Booker, a black man, and Robert McDowell, 26, a white-Hispanic man - on the same night after making racist comments.
Prosecutors said that Asay had hired McDowell, who was dressed as a woman, for sex, and shot him after discovering his gender.
Since the state reinstated death sentences in 1976, 20 black men have been executed for killing white victims, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
He was executed with etomidate, an anaesthetic never before used for a US execution, which will replace midazolam, a drug abandoned over fears that it was causing unnecessary suffering.
Concerns were raised after a number of prisoners appeared to suffer agonising deaths, eventually leading Florida to abandon the drug in January.
The etomidate was combined with two other drugs - rocuronium bromide and potassium acetate - before it was administered to Asay.
However, one dissenting judge warned the allowance of an unproven cocktail "jeopardised Asay's fundamental constitutional rights and treated him as the proverbial guinea pig".
In an interview with a local television station, Asay had said he did not want to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The inmate - who had white supremacist tattoos - admitted killing Mr McDowell, but denied the other murder.
"Because I pray, and I say, 'I've had all of the prison I want.' So I want out of prison, through the front door or the back," he told News4Jax.
The US has seen several sloppily handled executions in recent years, with lawyers arguing the drugs failed to properly prevent pain during the process.
Not only was this the first execution in Florida in more than 18 months, but it was also the first since the US Supreme Court found the state's method of sentencing to be unconstitutional.
The high court ruled that judges held too much sway over the decision to hand down the death penalty.
Since then, the state legislature has changed the rules so that a jury must reach a unanimous verdict in order for a death sentence to be recommended to the court.
But the new law does not affect older cases, such as Asay's.
Local newspapers say the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has asked England to pay for their own travel costs because of a court order preventing the execution of contracts.
England trained as scheduled in Mumbai on Friday and a team spokesman said "there is no change to any plans".
The first Test of a five-match series is due to begin in Rajkot on Wednesday.
The court order is reported to have been imposed by the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee, which is proposing reforms to the BCCI.
A letter from Ajay Shirke, secretary of the BCCI, to England team manager Phil Neale apologised that India cannot pay the tourists' accommodation costs.
The letter stated: "The BCCI is at present not in a position to execute the memorandum of understanding between the Indian Cricket Board and the ECB. This is due to restrictions on execution of contracts imposed on the BCCI by a court order.
"The BCCI will inform you as and when further instructions are received by the BCCI from the Lodha Committee
When asked about the situation, England batsman Joe Root said: "My biggest challenge in the morning is making sure I make the team bus.
"For whoever it concerns, I think it's very important that they worry about it and we just get on with the cricket."
There were reports that New Zealand's tour of India in September and October could be cut short because of BCCI financial issues but it continued as planned.
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9-13: First Test, Rajkot (04:00 GMT)
17-21: Second Test, Visakhapatnam (04:00 GMT)
26-30: Third Test, Mohali (04:00 GMT)
December
8-12: Fourth Test, Mumbai (Wankhede Stadium) (04:00 GMT)
16-20: Fifth Test, Chennai (04:00 GMT)
More than 60 members of the GMB union had voted for a series of 24-hour walkouts from the beginning of July in a row over pay grades.
But both sides in the dispute have now agreed to further talks on Thursday.
The union says its members have been carrying out work above their grades for which they have not been paid.
The Sellafield site employs more than 10,000 people and is in the process of being decommissioned.
Chris Jukes, GMB senior organiser, said: "The bottom line is management have made an offer which has already been rejected by our members and it will take an improved offer to settle this matter, which has been unresolved for several years.
"We have agreed to Sellafield's request for more time so management can reflect on their offer."
Sellafield Ltd, which operates the site, said it was "carefully considering" its position.
A spokesman added: "In the meantime the Sellafield site continues to operate safely and securely, as normal."
It comes after community group Energise Galashiels claimed the move would have "significant advantages".
Scottish Borders Council had initially selected the Tweedbank terminus of the Borders Railway but an alternative site in Galashiels has since emerged.
Mr Kerr, an SNP MP, said the newer option could have a greater impact.
"It's clear that the presence of such a remarkable attraction in the heart of Galashiels could be transformative for the town centre, which is still struggling to recover from long term economic challenges in the retail sector," he said.
"Although the greenfield site at Tweedbank may appear to be the more straight-forward option, I don't think it offers comparable economic benefits.
"On the other hand, a site in the heart of Galashiels could kick off a new phase of town centre regeneration."
The MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk has written to Scotland's Culture Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, to express his support for the move.
Energise Galashiels said it could provide a "major boost" for the town but also offer "greater benefits" to the region as a whole.
It said the potential visitor market on both sites was exactly the same.
The group said Galashiels had a wide choice of retail offerings and was the "prime hub" for transport in the region.
It added that putting the tapestry in the town would help its overall commercial viability.
"In the absence of a major intervention, it is doubtful that 'retail trading' will ever resolve the current level of vacancies," it said.
"Having the Great Tapestry of Scotland's home in Galashiels town centre will be an investment which will provide a massive boost to the existing efforts being made to regenerate the 'old town centre'."
The organisation said there were already a number of other projects ongoing in the town which could also boost visitor numbers to the tapestry.
"Energise Galashiels believe that securing the Great Tapestry of Scotland in a town centre location will act as a catalyst for other projects and initiatives which offer the opportunity of transforming Galashiels and regenerating an area that is key to the overall prosperity of the town," it added.
Scottish Borders Council is currently assessing the Galashiels option ahead of deciding whether to proceed with Tweedbank or change the location.
A spokesman said: "The Great Tapestry of Scotland project will now be considered by councillors on Thursday 29 September.
"This is to allow time for all elected members to be fully consulted before they make a decision on the future of this important project.
"Work will continue over the coming weeks, with very good progress having been made on both options for the Great Tapestry of Scotland."
Wenger, 67, was appointed as Arsenal manager in September 1996.
Wright told BBC Radio 5 live on Friday: "He looks tired. I feel he will go at the end of the season."
But Wenger said: "We had a little dinner, not the two of us. I appreciate you want me to rest but I'm not ready."
He added he could look tired because "I get up early in the morning".
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Wright, who played under Wenger for two seasons between 1996 and 1998, reiterated during his analysis on Saturday's Match of the Day that he believes Wenger will go.
"We were at a question and answer session and the way he was speaking and his demeanour... it's my opinion. I could be wrong," said the 53-year-old.
"I still think he has some massive decisions to make and think it could be his last season."
Wenger is the Premier League's longest-serving manager and his contract expires at the end of the season.
The Frenchman last won the Premier League title in 2004 and has been under pressure at the Emirates following league defeats by Watford and Chelsea.
However, after his side's 2-0 win against Hull, he added: "I focus on what is important: winning football games and getting the team to perform. The rest, I cannot influence.
"I have big respect for this country and this club, and I am grateful because I have worked here for 20 years. My job is to make these people happy and when I don't do that I feel guilty - that's why it's important for us to win."
The enamel "two quails" vase, is thought to have been made at Beijing's Imperial Palace at least 220 years ago.
Auctioneers Woolley & Wallis said the owner only realised its true value after he put it on eBay.
It had been estimated as being worth up to £30,000, but sold at auction in Salisbury for £61,000, including the buyer's premium.
The seller, who did not wish to be identified, picked up the vase at a car boot sale near Lymington.
When eBay bidding reached £10,000 he withdrew it and took it for a valuation.
Woolley & Wallis Asian art expert John Axford confirmed the vase bore the four-character Qianlong mark - the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty - and would have been made by Imperial command in the palace workshop between 1736 and 1795.
He said it had turned out to be an "excellent investment".
John Dixon Hart was prosecuted by East Riding of Yorkshire Council after a trading standards investigation.
Guests at Beverley Guest House complained of rooms with "dust and muck all over", mouldy showers and blood-stained walls.
One guest found mud inside a fridge and another found mouse droppings on a bed.
Hart called the rating an "innocent mistake" and said rooms were clean.
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The 53-year-old of Keldgate in Beverley appeared at the town's magistrates' court on Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty to advertising and running a guest house below the minimum standards expected.
The court heard a number of witness statements, one which read: "I could probably say, with one exception, this is the worst B&B I have ever stayed in."
Guests also complained they were given either a very basic breakfast or no breakfast at all - despite it being advertised.
Out of 277 reviews on Trip Advisor, 69 per cent rated the guest house as terrible.
One reviewer said "wouldn't recommend to an enemy" and another described the guest house as "filthy".
Another said the owner double-booked his room and he came back to find "another dude in my bed".
Beverley Guest House, formerly known as Minster Garth, had been given a four-star rating by Visit England in 2008.
However, when Hart took over the business a few years later he failed to renew the contract with Quality in Tourism/Visit England and continued to use the four-star rating without permission.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council had given him numerous warnings about misleading customers and had also offered him advice.
Solicitor Dave Robson, representing Hart, told magistrates his client accepted his "poor temperament" towards guests wasn't acceptable.
He said when he took over he had tried to do everything himself, and this combined with other pressures, led him to drink, which was reflected in the poor service.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Hart said: "I apologised to Visit England, but it was a completely innocent mistake as we were so busy keeping the guest house running we didn't take the sign down.
"People use outlandish statements that are ridiculously over-exaggerated, and this is probably one of the nicest guest houses in Beverley."
Sussex Police said two people had been arrested over two of the deaths and all three were linked to heroin.
Brighton's deputy director of public health said those who died did not appear to be habitual heroin users.
Dr Peter Wilkinson said all three were in their 20s and 30s and they may have used it on the club or party scene.
He said officials were concerned they were unaware of the dangers of using heroin, or may not have realised they were taking heroin.
He added it was also possible they had chosen to snort heroin rather than inject it in the belief it reduced risks, but warned taking heroin by any route was dangerous.
Det Insp Julie Wakeford said Sussex Police investigated all heroin-related deaths, but added: "This can be difficult at times because it is often the case that the only person who knows the source of the heroin is deceased."
Rick Bradley, operations manager for Addaction, which helps young people, said the safe option was not to take a substance.
But he said if people were intent on using a substance they should minimise the risks by taking small amounts, not "redosing", researching the substance and its effects, and obtaining it from a "trusted source".
"There is no such thing as a reputable drug dealer but there will be people who, if they're friends, are less likely to give you something that is potentially very dangerous," he added.
Police said a 26-year-old man was found dead on 21 November, a 32-year-old man died on 11 December and a 20-year-old woman died from a heroin overdose on 13 January.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested over the death of the man aged 32, and a 22-year-old man has been arrested over the death of the woman. Both men have been bailed.
The Brits played a medley of hits but Beyonce was judged to have stolen the show, premiering new song Formation.
Bruno Mars also thrilled the crowd with a performance of 2015's biggest selling song Uptown Funk.
Advertisers pay a premium for a slice of the huge audience, shelling out up to $5m (£3.4m) for a 30-second slot.
According to marketing technology company Amobee Brand Intelligence, an advert for tortilla chip makers Doritos accounted for more than 140,000 tweets associated with the brand.
The game began with a performance of the US national anthem by Lady Gaga, dressed in a sparkly red trouser suit and red, white and blue striped platform heels.
The half-time show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, opened with Coldplay's Chris Martin kneeling on the field singing the first lines of their song Yellow before transitioning into Viva La Vida.
They also performed their single Paradise, accompanied by a youth marching band.
Beyonce performed her new track accompanied by backing dancers kitted out in black berets, reminiscent of the 1970s revolutionary political party The Black Panthers.
The artists all joined up to sing Coldplay's ballad Fix You, accompanied by a montage of performances clips from previous Super Bowl half-time shows, including by Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and U2.
According to Nielsen, which measures audiences - this year's game was the third most-watched programme in US television history.
The company estimates an average audience of 111.9 million were watching throughout the game, peaking at 115.5 million for the half-time show.
In its review of the show, Variety said Coldplay were "not a popular band in certain cred-obsessed corners of the internet. They are, however, arguably the only mass-appeal pop-rock act not yet eligible for Social Security that could make a reasonable claim to the sort of universality that has become the gig's primary pre-requisite, so their booking certainly made sense".
However, it added performing with "the far flashier Bey and Mars... Coldplay seemed resigned to politely allowing themselves to be played right off their own stage".
The Guardian agreed, saying Beyonce's "charged affirmation of black female pride... could hardly have been more diametrically opposed to Coldplay's soppy indie".
"As soon as Beyonce marched onto the football field, clad in skintight leather and Michael Jackson-style military gold sashes, with a posse of impeccably choreographed female dancers dressed like '70s Black Panthers, it was time for an early bath for Chris Martin's band," it added.
Celebrities David Beckham, Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and singer Justin Bieber attended the game which saw the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10.
The A4232 was shut after a car overturned on the northbound carriageway at the junction for Culverhouse Cross just before 09:00 GMT.
South Wales Police said the driver had been taken to hospital but was "conscious and breathing".
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The Irish back was withdrawn from last week's match against Hurricanes after complaining of headaches.
He has stayed in Wellington for further tests while the Lions squad has moved to Queenstown before Saturday's third and final Test against the All Blacks.
Fellow Lion Robbie Henshaw faces a 16-week lay-off with a shoulder injury and could miss Ireland's autumn series.
Lions medical chief Dr Eanna Falvey said there is no clear return date for Payne, despite the 31-year-old progressing through a raft of tests.
"He's actually suffering from migraine," Dr Falvey said.
"He had a bang in the Chiefs game (on 20 June), but he was fully cleared from concussion.
"But he's been struggling with migraines and that's an independent process since then."
Payne missed the Lions' 31-31 draw against Hurricanes draw, and was then not involved in Saturday's 24-21 victory in the second Test.
It was the tourists' first win over the All Blacks since 1993 and set up Saturday's decider at Auckland's Eden Park.
"Jared's slightly more difficult," Dr Falvey said of the Ulster player's recovery situation.
"Thankfully all his tests have been good. He's suffering from migraine symptoms at the moment.
"The specialist is quite happy with him. He'll have a couple more minor tests, and that will give us more idea. But while he still has a headache, he won't be training."
Ireland and Leinster centre Robbie Henshaw could face a four-month lay-off after tearing his pectoral muscle off the bone.
"The muscle needs to be reattached, and that's usually about a 16-week recovery," Dr Falvey said.
"He may do slightly better, but that's probably what we're looking at."
Mr Morales, who campaigned against corruption, has taken about 24% of the 97% votes so far counted.
Centre-right businessman Manuel Baldizon and ex-first lady Sandra Torres are tied with about 19.5%.
Sunday's vote came days after the resignation of President Otto Perez Molina over corruption allegations.
With no candidate taking 50% of the vote, a second round of voting has been scheduled for 25 October.
The race for a place in the run-off is close, with Ms Torres - the ex-wife of former president Alvaro Colom - ahead of Mr Baldizon by fewer than 1,000 votes.
Electoral officials said about 70% turned out to vote on Sunday. A recount is under way for several hundred ballots before a final result will be announced, they added.
As well as a new president, Guatemalans were voting for a vice-president, a new congress and local authorities.
Many had called for the polls to be postponed in the wake of the allegations.
"The people are tired of more of the same," Mr Morales, 46, told reporters after hearing of his lead.
"Guatemala wants change and to not be governed by people with dark pasts," he said, after voting near Guatemala City.
Mr Baldizon was previously a favourite to win before Mr Morales saw a late surge of support in opinion polls off the back of the unfolding corruption scandal. Several of Mr Baldizon's allies had been linked to the scandal.
Ex-President Otto Perez Molina denies involvement in a scheme in which businessmen paid bribes to evade customs charges.
There had been calls for Guatemalans to wear black clothes of mourning as they cast their vote, amid scepticism that the poll could achieve political change.
But voters queued from the early hours to cast their ballots. Some 7.5 million people were eligible to vote.
A judge will decide on Tuesday whether to indict former President Molina.
Atkin will referee games in National League North and South this season - the sixth tier of English football.
The 32-year-old will also act as fourth official in Football League matches.
"It's significant personally but more for the game itself, where we are in football and what is happening in the world," Atkin told BBC Radio 5 live.
A report published by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee in February said sport is not doing enough to tackle homophobic abuse.
In October, a BBC Radio 5 live survey found 8% of football fans would stop watching their team if a gay player was signed by the club.
"I was slightly concerned regarding the fans and the general public but it's been extremely positive so far and probably better than I predicted," said Atkin.
"There will always be some negative or homophobic comments - especially on social media.
"But that just goes to strengthen the need for positive messages and show lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are involved in the sport, whether they are out or not."
There are no openly gay professional male players in British football.
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke was criticised last year for saying he "wouldn't recommend" a player coming out yet as they would still suffer "significant abuse".
"Within any sport, there will be gay people, but it is a choice for them to decide to come out and in the LGBT community we do not pressure people to come out," added Atkin.
"If those people do choose to, then they have our full support."
The FA's head of senior referee development, ex-Premier League referee Neale Barry, said the organisation was offering its "full backing" to Atkin.
"Our role is to support all referees, aid their development, maximise their potential and, above all, help ensure their experiences are positive," said Barry.
"Ryan's declaration marks an important moment in the game and reinforces the fact that refereeing really is open to everyone.
"He's stated that people who are happy in their own skin perform better and I couldn't agree more."
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It will be used to launch Russian Fedor Konyukhov into the stratosphere.
Cameron Balloons will build the balloon for the adventurer, who recently broke the round-the-world record.
Glynis Bensley, 47, was killed outside the Seven Stars pub in Smethwick, West Midlands, on 3 September.
The judge lifted restrictions on her killer Petri Kurti, being named.
A second defendant, Zoheb Majid, 20, of Cheshire Road, Smethwick, was jailed for ten years at Wolverhampton Crown Court, for her manslaughter.
He was found not guilty of her murder.
Judge John Warner said Kurti had been described afterwards as "boastful and not caring less" but also later "crying, saying [he] had not meant to do it".
He told the pair it had been Ms Bensley's "enormous misfortune to cross paths with you" at 00:20 GMT that night, resulting in her death.
Michael Turner QC, representing Kurti, said in mitigation he was "susceptible to the influence of older people" and his criminality should not be mistaken for maturity, adding he had some "learning difficulties".
Joe Sidhu QC, who represented Majid, said his client had played a limited role in the assault, but expressed "genuine remorse" for his part - despite going to buy a bag of croissants at a local shop after the attack.
Both defendants were also found guilty of robbery after they stole her phone, cash, cigarettes and jewellery before leaving her for dead.
A post-mortem examination found Ms Bensley suffered a fatal head injury.
Glynis' sister Dawn, said: "We are a very close and supportive family and always look out for each other - to try and explain how Glynis' murder has affected us is very hard to put into words.
"Glynis was my only sister and best friend - I would describe her as my right arm and I thought we would grow old together."
Ms Bensley was on her way home from the Seven Stars when she was attacked, West Midlands Police said.
Police said Kurti had been joined by Majid on a bicycle.
After he had robbed her, Kurti stamped on her face with such force his footprint was left on her cheek, a spokesman said.
Det Ch Insp Sam Ridding said: "Ms Bensley was tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time and was randomly picked out by the pair believing that she was a man and that she was wearing a gold bracelet.
"It was clearly the joint intention of the pair to use violence on anyone they targeted."
Martin Lindop, from West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service, said: "These two defendants had targeted Ms Bensley because she was a vulnerable female who was walking home on her own at night.
"Our thoughts are today with the family and friends of Ms Bensley."
Officers were called to Northampton Lane at about 11:15 GMT on Sunday.
South Wales Police said a woman's body was found in a white car and the death was being treated as unexplained.
Anyone with information has been asked to call 101.
The London School of Economics rose from 71st in the 2014 QS World University rankings to 35th this year.
University College London was rated seventh, Imperial eighth and Kings College London 19th.
"London is unequivocally the education capital of the world," said the city's Mayor, Boris Johnson.
Other top university cities include Boston and New York, with three universities each in the top 50, and Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong and Beijing, each with two.
QS says it has changed its methodology slightly this year to counteract a bias in favour of universities specialising in life sciences and to better reflect the qualities of institutions focusing on other areas.
This has helped London School of Economics improve its position and "to be counted, rightfully, amongst the world's top 40", according to QS head of research Ben Sowter.
LSE director Prof Craig Calhoun described the ranking as "an outstanding result for the school, its staff and our students".
"It reflects both LSE's longstanding global leadership in social science and its continued creativity," he said.
The change also benefited Warwick and Durham universities, in 48th and 61st places this year, up from 61st and 92nd last year.
Durham's vice-chancellor Prof Stuart Corbridge said he was "proud and pleased" the university had scored so well, "demonstrating the impact and influence of our research amongst the global academic community".
Massachusetts Institute of Technology was rated the world's top university, followed by Harvard in second place, with Stanford and the University of Cambridge in joint third place.
The University of Oxford was in sixth place, behind California Institute of Technology in fifth.
Of the 34 nations in the top 200, the US is dominant with 49 institutions, ahead of the UK with 30, the Netherlands with 12, Germany 11, Canada, Australia and Japan with eight each, China with seven and France, Sweden and Hong Kong with five each.
In a tweet, the president also seemed to accuse the US deputy attorney general of pursuing a "Witch Hunt".
He said: "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!"
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote a memo the White House used to justify the firing of the ex-FBI chief.
Mr Rosenstein took over the investigation into whether Russia tried to tip the US election in favour of Mr Trump after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself in March.
The deputy attorney general later appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to lead the inquiry.
The FBI and Congress are both looking at whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the alleged Kremlin plot. The inquiries have yet to show evidence of collusion.
Mr Trump also tweeted on Friday morning: "After 7 months of investigations & committee hearings about my 'collusion with the Russians,' nobody has been able to show any proof. Sad!"
His tweets come as Mr Trump marks two years since announcing his plan to run for president.
When it was first announced a month ago that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate the Trump campaign's links to Russia, the White House issued a restrained statement from the president expressing the hope that the inquiry would be conducted swiftly.
But the more a furious president has taken his defence into his own hands, the deeper the waters swirling around him have become.
He contradicted the Justice Department over the reasons for sacking the FBI Director, James Comey, telling a TV interviewer that he was fired because of "this Russia thing".
That in turn led to reports this week that Donald Trump himself was now under investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, for possible obstruction of justice.
Mr Trump's latest tweet on Friday morning represented a none-too-veiled attack on the deputy attorney general Rob Rosenstein, who appointed the special counsel.
The advice from Mr Trump's family, his legal team and his closest confidantes has been to say nothing and let the special counsel do his work.
It's advice that has been spectacularly rejected.
In other developments:
Why is Mr Trump being investigated?
Mr Trump was not under investigation before Mr Comey's firing, but reportedly is now facing scrutiny for obstruction of justice over the circumstances surrounding the ex-FBI chief's sacking, according to US media.
Special Counsel Mueller was reportedly planning to interview intelligence officials on whether Mr Trump got rid of the FBI director, James Comey, in May to hamper an inquiry into his sacked national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Mr Comey, who had been leading one of several Russia inquiries, testified to Congress last week that the president had pressured him to drop an inquiry into links between Mr Flynn and Russia.
Mr Flynn was forced out in February after he misled the vice-president about his conversations with Russia's ambassador before Mr Trump took office.
The White House has said the president "has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn".
Friday's tweet marked the first time Mr Trump has publicly acknowledged he is under investigation.
Mr Comey said he was "sure" Mr Mueller was looking at whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice, but added that to his knowledge, the president had not tried to impede the Russia inquiry.
Mr Trump is unlikely to face criminal prosecution as a sitting president, but obstruction of justice could be grounds for impeachment.
Though the president did not name Mr Rosenstein in his morning tweet, he appeared to refer to a memo the US deputy attorney general wrote.
The memo, which the White House claimed was the impetus for Mr Comey's dismissal, criticised the FBI chief's failure to follow rules and procedures in his handling of an investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email use while Secretary of State.
Mr Rosenstein appointed Mr Mueller following growing demands from Democrats to appoint an independent special prosecutor to examine the Russia allegations.
It is unlikely the president is referring to Mr Mueller in his tweet because Mr Mueller would not have been in a position to fire Mr Comey.
The Cardiff Capital Region City Deal will see £734m invested in the Metro transport scheme and £495m in other projects.
Vale of Glamorgan council became the final authority to back the deal on Thursday.
Ten councils will formally sign up to the deal on 1 March.
Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen, had already backed the deal.
The local authorities - which have committed to contribute a total of £120m - will be "locked in" to the deal for five years before any can quit.
Vale of Glamorgan council leader Neil Moore said the city deal would bring economic and social benefits to the area.
"I now look forward to working with colleagues across the region to deliver the objectives of the compact between the ten councils, Welsh Government and the UK government."
The 42-year-old tested positive for 19-norandrosterone, a metabolite of banned anabolic steroids, following an out-of-competition test in Rio on 8 September.
Durani, who is banned until 13 September 2020, was Afghanistan's sole representative in Rio.
He finished 16th in the men's javelin F44 but has since been disqualified.
The black and white photo, which shows the Queen smiling, was taken in March.
She is pictured wearing pearls, and a dress by Angela Kelly, who has served as personal assistant and senior dresser to her since 2002.
Bailey has previously snapped celebrities such as Mick Jagger, and criminals Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
The Queen celebrates her actual birthday on 21 April, and her official birthday on a Saturday in June, which this year falls on 14 June in the UK.
The photograph, taken at Buckingham Palace, was commissioned on behalf of the government's "Great" campaign, which aims to promote trade, tourism, investment and education throughout the UK.
Over the course of his career, Bailey - who was appointed a CBE by the Queen in 2001 for services to art - has taken pictures of The Beatles, Diana, Princess of Wales and models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss.
The photographer, who grew up in the east end of London, made his name working for Vogue magazine in the 1960s and has also photographed actors Jack Nicholson, Sir Michael Caine and Johnny Depp.
The 76-year-old said: "I've always been a huge fan of the Queen. She has very kind eyes with a mischievous glint. I've always liked strong women, and she is a very strong woman."
Recently-appointed culture secretary Sajid Javid said the portrait would help to support the aims of the campaign, which he said was to "showcase everything that is great about the UK to an international audience".
Fellow photographer Andy Fallon described the portrait as "classic Bailey... it's right back to the types of stuff he was doing in the 60s."
The country's royal heritage is a big attraction for overseas tourists, according to Visit Britain.
Great" campaign director Conrad Bird said the campaign had delivered economic returns worth more than £500m to the economy.
However, it will proceed with the sale of its speciality steel-making business, which employs 2,000 people in Hartlepool, Rotherham and Stocksbridge.
Tata is less concerned about the speed of the sale due to rising steel prices and a raft of government incentives.
But it leaves the future of the rest of the 9,000-strong workforce unclear.
After an initial sense of urgency to offload the loss making business, Tata has recently adopted a more relaxed approach to determining its future, as government incentives to keep the business going have come in thick and fast.
In addition to consulting on special legislation to lower pension benefits for many of the 130,000 members of the old British Steel pension fund, the government has offered hundreds of millions of pounds worth of loans and the taking of a potential 25% stake in the business.
In the meantime, the price of steel has increased, reducing pressure on its Indian owners to sell.
One of the biggest obstacles to a sale is the legacy of the British Steel Pension fund, which Tata inherited when it bought the business in 2007. It has 130,000 members and a deficit of £700m.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid will meet Tata chairman Cyrus Mistry in Mumbai on Friday ahead of a Tata board meeting.
Tata says it is pausing to consider the options and assess the impact of the UK's vote to leave the European union.
One potential bidder fears that a delay now will see the UK business "wither on the vine" while Tata refocuses its investment on its plants within the EU.
German engineering conglomerate Thyssen Krupp and Tata have held talks on combining their continental European steel operations, as global overcapacity weighs on prices and profits.
It all began when Alibaba changed the name of its popular travel booking app from Alitrip to one that means "Flying Pig" in Chinese. Its English name is Fliggy.
Over the weekend, Uighur businessman Adil Memettur criticised this decision on popular microblogging network Sina Weibo, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers.
He noted that the app is popular among minorities because it lets people whose names have unusual spellings make bookings.
"But now that Alitrip has changed its name to Flying Pig, I can only uninstall it, and maybe all my Muslim friends too, because the word "pig" is taboo to Muslims all over the world. Alibaba is an international corporation, could it take Muslim taboos into consideration?" he said.
His post quickly sparked condemnation and ridicule from other Chinese online, with some asking if this meant China had to expunge all references to pigs in popular culture and literature.
"We each have our own way of life; we do not force you to live according to our rules, but you cannot force us to change the law," said Weibo user Fireflyinred.
Mr Memettur quickly took down the post and on Sunday night he posted an apology.
Alibaba told the BBC that they decided to rebrand the app to appeal to a younger demographic. "We embrace diversity and respect all creeds and religions. The name change is meant to reflect the demographic's aspirations to pursue dreams, sit back and enjoy life," said the spokesman.
The visceral pushback stems from the fact that the pig occupies an important place in Chinese culture.
Pork is not only a staple of Chinese cuisine - the government keeps a national reserve of pork in case of market shortages - but the pig is also celebrated in folklore and the Chinese zodiac.
Online, the reaction to Mr Memettur has been intense, often descending into derogatory comments and insulting jokes about Muslims and Uighur culture.
It has also highlighted how gaps in understanding between Muslim minorities and the Han Chinese majority can arise.
Because of their relatively small numbers, concentrated mostly in the West, Muslims still do not figure largely in Chinese public discourse.
China's 21 million Muslims, comprising minority ethnic groups such as the Huis and Uighurs, make up only 1.6% of the population, with the rest from the Han ethnic majority and they have mostly co-existed peacefully.
The western province of Xinjiang, home to many Chinese Uighurs, has seen unrest with residents saying they have been economically and culturally displaced by a growing influx of Han migrants. Violence there has been attributed by the authorities to Islamist militants and separatists - rights groups point to increasingly tight control by Beijing.
In this instance some online, like blogger Han Dongyan, have called for respect and calm.
"Don't extend this to all Muslims... (Mr Memettur) has made a mistake and he can be criticised, but don't respond to an extreme with another extreme and tar them all with the same brush, this is wrong too!" he wrote in one popular post.
Reporting by Tessa Wong and BBC Monitoring's Kerry Allen.
Deas, 27, finished in a time of one minute 50.59 seconds.
The Welsh woman remains third in the World Cup standings, 19 points behind second-placed Jacqueline Loelling, with Tina Hermann well clear at the top.
Britain's Donna Creighton, 30, finished 10th at Lake Placid to secure her first top 10 result of the season.
Deas shared the lead at the end of the first run with a time of 55.16 seconds, but was beaten to gold by O'Shea, who was racing on her home track.
Switzerland's Marina Gilardoni came second, with Germany's overall World Cup leader Hermann finishing fourth.
The men's skeleton takes place on Saturday, with Dom Parsons going for Great Britain.
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