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Lord Hill, who told MPs he had gone "as a matter of principle", said it was important to set out "shared objectives" before talks start.
He acknowledged that the UK's influence over the EU had been "shrivelling" even before the vote to leave.
Brexit negotiations are set to begin as early as April.
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to work for the "best possible" trade deal, although questions persist over whether the UK will remain in the European single market and customs union.
Lord Hill, formerly EU commissioner for financial services, told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee it was vital to avoid a "dialogue of the deaf" between the UK and the other 27 EU states during the discussions.
The UK's political culture, with emphasis on confrontation rather than building relationships between different parties, sometimes looked "quite odd" to other Europeans, he added.
Ahead of Brexit talks, Lord Hill said: "If you start working out what your shared objectives are, you have got a better chance of reaching a grown-up dialogue."
Lord Hill resigned as commissioner on 25 June, the day after the result of the EU referendum - 51.9% to 48.1% in favour of Brexit - was revealed.
Having been involved with David Cameron in pushing for concessions with the EU prior to the vote taking place, he told MPs quitting had been "the right thing to do".
The deal reached in February last year, which included some curbs on migrants' benefits and removing the UK from a commitment to "ever-greater union", had been "the best deal that we could have got", he said.
On broader relations, Lord Hill said: "For a long time there's been a different basic outlook. Over a period of time the nature of our web of relationships with other European countries has been shrivelling in recent years. I think we've been less engaged."
Their 4-3 win at Stair Park keeps them two points ahead of Raith Rovers, who came from behind to beat Forfar 3-1.
East Fife beat Arbroath 3-2 to leapfrog them into third place.
Ryan Tierney scored the decisive goal as Airdrie beat Albion Rovers 2-1, and Adam Martin's late strike saw Alloa to a 1-0 victory over Queen's Park.
At Stranraer, the home side opened the scoring through Ryan Wallace but Declan McDaid levelled with a smart shot from the edge of the box.
It was 2-1 to the visitors when neat build-up play from Ross Docherty played in Craig Moore and he blasted the ball home.
Michael Moffat added a third to seemingly put them in control.
However, Ryan Thomson's bullet header made it 3-2 and his second of the game brought Stranraer level.
There was to be more drama at the death as Ayr stole victory through Paddy Boyle's breakaway strike.
Raith Rovers fell behind to Mark Millar's goal for Forfar, and then after Lewis Vaughan equalised the visitors' Jamie Bain was sent off six minutes before half-time.
Liam Buchanan and Greig Spence scored the second-half goals to give Rovers all three points.
A Thomas O'Brien own goal and further strikes from Nathan Flanagan and Chris Duggan had East Fife 3-1 ahead at half-time against Arbroath, who were briefly level through Steven Doris.
Danny Denholm reduced the arrears in the second half but it was not enough to keep hold of third place.
Andrew McNicoll, 43, from Balerno, was taken to hospital after the crash on Lanark Road in January. He later died.
Police said he had been cycling on the north carriageway of the road at the time of the crash and hit a parked car.
The concert at Polwarth Parish Church is being held at 19:30 on Friday to raise money for his parent's campaign for safer roads.
Following the crash a man was detained by police in connection with the incident but later released without charge. Police said inquiries are ongoing.
At the time Mr McNicoll's father Ian said: "Our grief, as you can imagine, is immense.
"Andrew was a fit young man with a great future ahead of him with his partner Donna.
"We are extremely proud of our Andrew and his achievements, and are devastated to have lost him."
He added: "We are setting up a memorial fund in his name to help make cycling safer in Scotland."
Emma Tapping's 7ft (2.1 metre) tree appears almost hidden under the hundreds of gifts she has been wrapping since August.
The mother-of-three has bought her children up to 85 gifts each, including 30 for her 16-month-old baby.
She said people "shouldn't judge her spending".
After putting up her tree in November, Mrs Tapping, 35, who runs a holiday cottage on the Isle of Man, shared the picture on her Instagram online photo-sharing account, and it has since been shared 27,000 times.
She said: "I'm not 'insta-famous' - I've only got a couple of hundred followers and I didn't think anything of it.
"Someone took a screen shot - wrote a caption and it was blasted all over Facebook.
"I only have 200 followers and it's been shared 27,000 times."
Mrs Tapping defended her decision to spend about £1,500 on her three children and wider family after receiving criticism on social media, with some labelling her "materialistic" and an "attention seeker".
She said the picture went viral without her knowledge and she has since appeared on ITV's This Morning programme to explain her spending, which started on 27 December last year.
Mrs Tapping said: "I didn't do it to brag and I only shared it with my friends and family.
"I'm not rich, I simply shop in a savvy way with vouchers and in sales.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I am from a huge family and this is how we celebrate.
"It's my money. I'm not on benefits so it's how I choose to spend it.
"I don't want people to judge me. I shop all year around to put a smile on their faces.
Her story has now travelled the globe and featured in the media in Australia.
In a letter this month, seen by the BBC, the high street retailer says it wants a reduction of costs of at least 5% from all its suppliers.
It also wants suppliers to pay for £3m worth of security tags and CCTV.
The Forum of Private Business has described it as a "smash and grab raid" on the supply chain.
"I am surprised at the unwholesome attitude of Holland and Barrett," said Ian Cass, Managing Director of the FPB.
"Many of their suppliers are small firms who have helped the retailer increase their margins and have been unable to put up prices themselves over the last few years."
"Sometimes it is helpful to suppliers to offer discounts to retailers in return for product placement or increased marketing of their products, which is beneficial to both parties, but this needs to be agreed by both sides, not a unilateral decision as in this case."
Holland and Barrett is owned by the American private equity company, The Carlyle Group, and has 735 shops in the UK and Ireland. Last year its profits increased by 12% to £146m.
In its letter, the company said that it increased turnover thanks to a range of new initiatives and internal investment but that suppliers were not contributing proportionately to the growth of the business:
"Indeed, during a period when there has been little or no inflation, a general fall in food prices and fuel costs at their lowest for more than a decade, we have seen our margin eroded substantially by increased product costs," it said.
"We cannot allow this situation to continue and make our proposed investment. Therefore in addition to the cost price freeze referred to above, we now require a reduction in costs of at least 5% from all our suppliers. This will be entirely separate from the 12.5% retrospective discount introduced last June in respect of stock which we ship internationally."
" As a separate measure during 2016, we are also investing £3m in security tagging and high definition CCTV to address the issue of product theft - which is nearly 2% of sales. Our suppliers will have to cover the cost in the form of invoice adjustments and/or free stock."
The letter has been greeted with dismay and anger by one small supplier, who did not want to give his name for fear of losing his contract.
"This is yet another appalling example of how big business often treat suppliers and is very damaging to everyone, especially smaller businesses."
"This move by H&B is draconian and totally unethical. H&B are not in financial difficulty nor do they desperately need suppliers help financially."
"What they will gain is a 5% increase in profits and dividends for their shareholder for nothing. What they have done to their suppliers is abhorrent."
David Sables, founder of Sentinel Management Consultants, which helps advise suppliers, said it wasn't always easy for small businesses to react.
"I'm not completely surprised by this. It's reminiscent of the type of behaviour we used to see before the Grocery Code of Practice was introduced."
"It's difficult for the smaller suppliers to know how to react because there's a lot at stake. Quite often it's a negotiating tactic, but you have to know how to respond and deal with it," he said.
In a statement, Holland and Barrett said:
"We have made significant investments over recent years to drive the growth of the brand, including a major increase to both our UK and overseas store numbers and investments in both staff training and ecommerce technologies including click and collect.
"Naturally, suppliers benefit from the resultant increase in sales this growth brings, as well as customer and brand reach.
"This latest initiative is not the start of a negotiation process but a further part of this growth strategy which we are now in the process of communicating to our suppliers."
The Forum of Private Business said it would be writing to the company to make clear its concerns.
It has a hall of shame of other companies it has accused of mistreating suppliers.
The match will be played in Hamilton on Tuesday, 14 June, three days after the first Test against the All Blacks at Eden park in Auckland.
Warren Gatland's side will then face the World Cup winners on 18 June in Wellington and 23 June in Dunedin.
"It is great our midweek match against the Chiefs has been confirmed," said Gatland, a native of Hamilton.
"For the squad it will be an opportunity for further valuable game time together ahead of the second and third tests against the All Blacks.
"For me personally it will be an honour to bring Wales to Hamilton and face the Chiefs."
The Chiefs were knocked out in the quarter-finals by eventual winners Highlanders in last season's Super Rugby campaign, having won the title in 2012 and 2013.
They are captained by Brodie Retallick, a key member of New Zealand's World Cup winning squad.
Wales' visit will come towards the end of the round-robin stage of the 2016 Super Rugby season.
"The chance for provincial players to play against international sides is a rarity in the professional era, so we are really excited by the challenge," said Chiefs head coach Dave Rennie.
"Gats is hugely respected in this community so it's a nice fit for him to bring his Welsh team home to Hamilton to take on the Chiefs."
The game has yet to be ratified by World Rugby. Wales last toured New Zealand in June 2010 when they lost 42-9 in the first Test in Dunedin and were beaten 29-10 in the second Test in Hamilton.
The All Blacks won the most recent meeting between the two sides 34-16 in Cardiff, stretching their unbeaten run against Wales to 26 matches.
Radamel Falcao's opener for the visitors was cancelled out when Lucas Tousart headed in for Lyon.
But Mbappe, 18, scored his 13th league goal of the season to keep Monaco on course for a first title since 2000.
The Red and Whites are level on points with Paris St-Germain, but boast a far superior goal difference and have a game in hand on the French champions.
Match ends, Lyon 1, Monaco 2.
Second Half ends, Lyon 1, Monaco 2.
Foul by Houssem Aouar (Lyon).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Memphis Depay (Lyon).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Maxime Gonalons (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Valère Germain (Monaco).
Maciej Rybus (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by João Moutinho (Monaco).
Offside, Lyon. Maciej Rybus tries a through ball, but Rafael is caught offside.
Corner, Lyon. Conceded by Jemerson.
Foul by Maxime Gonalons (Lyon).
João Moutinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Maciej Rybus (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Falcao.
Attempt blocked. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Maciej Rybus (Lyon) because of an injury.
Delay in match Valère Germain (Monaco) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Lucas Tousart (Lyon) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Rafael with a cross.
Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Monaco) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nabil Dirar with a cross.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Mouctar Diakhaby.
Foul by Memphis Depay (Lyon).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Monaco. Valère Germain replaces Kylian Mbappe.
Attempt blocked. Falcao (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kylian Mbappe.
Substitution, Lyon. Maxime Gonalons replaces Jordan Ferri.
Substitution, Lyon. Houssem Aouar replaces Sergi Darder.
Foul by Jordan Ferri (Lyon).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mouctar Diakhaby (Lyon).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nabil Dirar (Monaco).
Sergi Darder (Lyon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Rafael (Lyon) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Falcao (Monaco).
Scott & Charters has been operating from its Fairhurst Drive site in Hawick for more than 50 years.
It now wants to knock down its old building and put up a new two-storey structure in its place.
A statement said it would allow the company to continue manufacturing luxury knitwear in the town.
The works would be carried out in two phases, the first would see part of the existing building demolished but the rest of it retained during construction of the new facility.
Once that was completed the remainder of the old factory would be taken down.
A new access off Fairhurst Drive would also be formed and a new car park with 27 spaces created.
Resuming on 39-3, Durham slipped to 63-6, with Ryan Sidebottom (4-34) taking the wickets of Graham Onions, Scott Borthwick and Paul Collingwood.
Ryan Pringle (57 not out), Michael Richardson (33) and Graham Clark (25) delayed the hosts into the afternoon.
But Jack Brooks (3-55) took the final wicket of Chris Rushworth as Durham were all out for 192.
Second-placed Yorkshire are a point behind leaders Middlesex, who beat Nottinghamshire by five wickets on Friday to relegate the East Midlands county.
Durham's target of 421 always looked out of reach, especially after losing three wickets in 16 overs before close on Thursday.
Sidebottom finished with season-best bowling figures and he struck in his first and second over of the day to rip the heart of the Durham middle-order.
Clarke and Richardson put on 49 for the seventh wicket to make sure the game went behind lunch, while Pringle hit a spritely half-century and brought up his 50 with a six off Tim Bresnan.
But Durham slipped to their third Championship defeat of the season and remain in relegation trouble.
Cameron suffered a cardiac arrest at Pil Primary School in January and stopped breathing.
Staff administered CPR before paramedics took him to hospital.
Paula Rowlands, Cheryl Rowlands, Karen Flower-Robbins, Sarah Wallace and head teacher Neil Pryce were presented with a mayor's citizenship award.
Mr Pryce said: "I can't praise the staff enough for their response in dealing with very a serious and life threatening situation. I am immensely proud of their actions on the day.
"A small number of staff administered CPR, while others ensured that all children were cared for sensitively and given reassurance."
The five were given the award in a ceremony on Friday.
After arriving on the scene, paramedics stabilised Cameron before he was taken to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
He was later transferred to a hospital in Bristol where a device was fitted in his chest to treat any dangerously abnormal heart rhythms.
Cameron was back at school six weeks after collapsing.
Paramedic Steve Smith said: "We were just so happy to see Cameron back in school after such a short time.
"Although we were on the scene within minutes of the call, those minutes that the teachers carried out CPR saved his life really."
Bland, 43, has qualified for November's season-ending Dubai World Tour Championship for the first time.
Three top 10 finishes during September ensured Bland gained valuable points on the lucrative Race to Dubai list.
"My game's been in really good shape and I've been playing aggressively and confidently," he told BBC Radio Solent.
Bland, from Southampton, has already doubled his prize money earnings from his previous best tour year and booked himself a place in The Final Series of the European Tour for a first time, which starts with the Turkish Open on 3 November.
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"I'm focused on getting as high up the order of merit as I can," Bland added after finishing tied 18th in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday.
"I'm just outside the top 100 (ranked 127) in the world currently and I would love to get higher. I'm trying to stick the accelerator down even more between now and the end of the season.
"To do that, I've got to play and it's a massive incentive for me. I've just got to keep playing as well as I have been lately and it will give me every chance."
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Mother-of-three Lorna Moore was jailed for two and a half years after failing to tell the authorities her husband was about to join the militant group.
Her husband Sajid Aslam, 34, was part of a large network that heeded the militants' call for volunteers in 2014.
Police say 12 people from Walsall went to Syria or tried to do so that year.
Two of the men who made it to Syria have since died, while the whereabouts of others is unclear.
Ayman Shaukat, 28, was jailed for a total of 10 years with a five-year extended licence for helping Aslam and Muslim convert Alex Nash, 22, travel to Syria.
Nash, who got as far as Turkey, was jailed for five years with a one-year additional licence.
Judge Wide said Shaukat was "committed" and Nash "dedicated" to terrorism.
By Dominic Casciani, home affairs correspondent
This has been one of the most complex and challenging investigations by West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit since the Islamic State group called for volunteers to help populate its self-declared frontiers - and the investigating team were praised by Judge Charles Wide QC for how they had brought the case together.
Lorna Moore showed no emotion as she was sentenced to two and a half years - but Kerry Thomason quietly wept with relief as she received her suspended sentence.
At the centre of this case was a simple issue of mindset and motivations.
Alex Nash, who reached Turkey with his then pregnant wife, told the court in a frank letter that he was using his time in prison to learn what his religion actually meant.
Ayman Shaukat, who helped organise the travel, was however deemed so dangerous that the judge says he must be monitored for 15 years.
Muslim convert Moore, 34, originally from Northern Ireland, was planning to take her three young children - including an 11-month-old baby - to the war zone.
The trainee maths teacher sat emotionless in the dock as the judge described her as sharing the same mindset as her husband.
Sentencing at the Old Bailey, Judge Charles Wide QC described Moore as a "very strong character" and said she "knew perfectly well of [her] husband's dedication to terrorism".
"One of the troubling things about you is your facility for telling lies," he added.
He said Moore had told "lie after lie" to the jury during her trial and that some of her evidence was "nonsense".
Around the same time, a number of pregnant women from the same community were poised to travel to IS-controlled territory to give birth.
Kerry Thomason, 24, had admitted preparing for acts of terrorism by planning to join her husband, Isaiah Siadatan, in Syria while pregnant with their third child.
The judge described her as "naive" and suspended her two-year prison sentence after hearing Siadatan had threatened to send a "sleeper cell" to murder her parents.
Siadatan, 24, is believed to have been killed in the summer of 2015.
The first of the the West Midlands group to go to Syria was Muslim convert Jake Petty, 25, also known as Abu Yaqoob Britany.
His Christian minister mother Sue Boyce wept as she told jurors how she begged him not to go and later had to identify his body from video footage on social media after he was killed in December 2014.
Nash and his pregnant wife Yousma Jan, 20, were arrested by Turkish authorities and sent back to the UK.
He took sole responsibility for the plan and admitted preparing acts of terrorism, while a charge against Jan was discontinued.
In Tynwald, David Anderson confirmed plans are in place for an external assessment, the timings of which are due to be announced next month.
It follows the publication of a series of concerns from senior consultants about standards at Noble's hospital.
Mr Anderson said plans for a review have been in the pipeline since 2008.
He added the delay had been due to trying to persuade UK regulators, Care Quality Commission (CQC), to take on additional work outside the UK.
The CQC was set up in the UK as a way of checking that hospitals, care homes and care services meet national standards.
Talks are now ongoing with other health service regulators. The inspection dates will be announced in the July sitting of Tynwald.
For the majority of football clubs across Scotland, you would have to be at least in your 70s to really remember their record attendance game.
A combination of safety regulations and competing attractions means such crowds will never be seen again.
But how was the match experience in the days when the whole town turned out to watch their team? John Paterson, from Dumfries, is lucky enough to know.
A lifelong Queen of the South fan, he was a teenager when he and 26,551 others packed into Palmerston Park for the visit of Hearts for a Scottish Cup tie in February 1952.
He had first gone to see the Doonhamers with his father in August 1945 when they beat Hibs 3-0 and he has been "hooked ever since".
"In those days you had nine, 10, 11 thousand people going to the game - a poor gate was about 8,000," he said.
"But then again, there was nothing else, TV was just in its infancy and there was no Saturday afternoon sports coverage or anything like that.
"To go to Palmerston, walking down Buccleuch Street across Buccleuch Street bridge it was just a hoard of folk going there and then a hoard of folk coming back.
"For anybody trying to go in the opposite direction, it was impossible."
Queens had won promotion in the summer of 1951 back into the top division of Scottish football and there was optimism about their chances against a strong Hearts side.
"I think from memory we had drawn with Hearts 1-1 the week before and we turned up at this all-ticket game at Palmerston with a monster crowd," said Mr Paterson.
"It was amazing to see, there was hardly any room in the park. It was just an amazing day."
He watched from the left hand side of the main stand with high hopes that the south of Scotland outfit could get a result.
This was a side which the 80-year-old rates as "without question" the best Queen of the South team he has ever seen.
They boasted goalkeeper Roy Henderson - voted the club's greatest ever player in a newspaper poll nearly 50 years after his career ended - and record goalscorer Jim Patterson, as well as Scotland international Billy Houliston.
"They were a formidable team," said Mr Paterson.
"The atmosphere was phenomenal, it was the first big game that I had been to," he said.
"I had been to a semi-final against Rangers at Hampden but this was in Palmerston and you didn't know how many people were going to turn up and 26,500 turned up.
"The Terregles Street end was absolutely packed, Portland Road end you couldn't move and the Coo Shed was full to the gunnels.
"Kids were allowed to sit inside the track."
The game itself proved a step too far for Queens, they slipped two goals behind and, although they pulled one back, ended up suffering a 3-1 defeat.
"We anticipated we would be able to do something," said Mr Paterson.
"All football fans think their club can do it on the day.
"It was an anticlimax on the day but the atmosphere was fantastic.
"Maybe the occasion got to us, we hadn't played in front of 26,000 folk before - maybe that had something to do with it, I don't know."
Like any football fan, Mr Paterson gets a little nostalgic thinking about those times.
"It was a simple game, they played with two full-backs, three midfield and five forwards - with the two inside forwards being the powerhouse, running back and forward - and two wingers, Bobby Black on one and Jackie Oakes on the other," he said.
"It's the most attacking type of football, wingers get the ball, race to the corner flag, cut the ball across for somebody running onto it."
However, his passion for the game has not dimmed over the years.
"You just lived from one Saturday to the next," he said.
"Unfortunately - maybe that's not the right word - it is the same now.
"I still live from Saturday to Saturday and I still get a buzz on a Saturday when I know I am going to be watching Queens and I get a lot of pleasure out of watching them.
"Folk think I'm daft. If Queens are playing and I can feasibly get there, that's where I will be."
It is a love for the Doonhamers which he has transmitted to his family.
"I took my son when I think he was seven years old to his first game, now he is vice-chairman of the club," he said.
"And his two sons, my grandsons, are there every Saturday home and away."
One thing they won't see, however, is a crowd like their father and grandfather saw inside the confines of Palmerston Park.
"For health and safety reasons you can't get more than about 8,700 I think," said Mr Paterson.
"We are never going to draw those kind of attendances on a regular basis, unfortunately.
"If we could do that we could possibly see ourselves improving and being able to compete at a higher level."
Last season's average attendance was just a little over 2,000, which means every single one of them would have had to take a dozen friends in order to match the club's record crowd.
We modern day supporters must accept that we will never know that kind of atmosphere.
But we can still take time out to talk to fans like John Paterson to get a flavour of what it was like to be there.
Did you or a close member of your family attend your club's record attendance game? Share your memories of the day or what they told you about it via email [email protected].
11 December 2016 Last updated at 13:41 GMT
A busy city might seem like an unusual place for animals to call home but leopards, hyenas and peregrine falcons are just some of the animals living close to humans.
Many animals though, struggle to cope in a busy city environment and the programme looks into whether humans can build and adapt cities suitable for wildlife.
Leah spoke to Planet Earth II producer, Fredi Devas, about what to expect from the last programme in the series and to find out whether there will be a Planet Earth III.
This is an edited version of the session.
John in Scotland emails: Is it not the case that USA's presidential election is a totally money driven event?
Katty answers: $2 billion will be spent on this campaign but events matter too. His victory at the Denver debate didn't cost Romney a cent.
Question from @Evolve69: Why are US ballots so complicated? Why not a simple, identical, nationwide ballot with candidates names? Cheers.
Katty answers: Because each ballot has the presidential & all the local candidates as well.
Question from @TheFreeMason: Never mind what the polls say, who's REALLY in the lead at this point?
Katty answers: Short of a crystal ball - we sort of do have to rely on the polls. Sorry. But I think it is neck & neck
Question from @MikeBgolfing: 4 years ago Mitt got smoked in the primaries. What has changed to make him a viable candidate now?
Katty answers: Voters are disappointed with Obama. Romney has economic credentials & being the GOP nominee automatically gives him status.
Ewan, Scotland emails: In the event of a tie, what happens? Could President + Vice-President come from different parties?
Katty answers: If it's 269 to 269 electoral college votes, the House of Representatives chooses the president and the Senate picks the vice-president
Question from @sophie2709: Should US voters consider the world's view, which gives Obama the most backing internationally?
Katty answers: It's complicated. In 2004 Bush used global antipathy towards him to win support at home. But having friends abroad is useful.
Question from @_Stephen_Adams: There have been more female than male voters in every election since 80. Will women decide this race?
Katty answers: The campaigns seem to think so! More women vote than men in US elections, so Romney & Obama are fighting hard for female support.
Question from @Mysterion3000: From the photo, it looks like your BBC News US office needs more natural lighting.
Katty answers: It needs more everything!
Question from @strmrgn: Which Senate race do you feel is the most important to watch, and will the Democrats retain control of the senate?
Katty answers: We are watching six key Senate races. I'm focused on Massachusetts. It looks like the Democrats will hold the Senate
Andrea in the Netherlands emails: Could adverse weather like snow or hurricanes tip the balance in swing states on the day?
Katty answers: This election is so tight that yes I think snow, rain, or Sandy could affect turn out and the result.
Question from @lucyglewis: Which candidate do you think has the most momentum behind them at this stage?
Katty answers: Romney has had momentum since the first debate - I do know Obama campaign is watching this very closely.
Will Gorman in UK emails: Why were both so defensive when another candidate questioned their commitment to Israel?
Katty answers: US sees Israel as key ally in Middle East but no one running for President wants to alienate the power and money of the Jewish lobby.
Question from @redkoko: How does Romney winning election change USA/UK relations? International opinions on Romney?
Katty answers: Romney didn't win himself any friends in London - but I think the relationship will still be special, essential and strong.
Question from @rhysdgriffiths: Do you think it's a shame the other four tickets on the ballot get absolutely no airtime whatsoever?
Katty answers: It is a 2 party state and they won't win but the BBC has covered them.
Question from @Bergomi134: Why is Ohio so important/integral to the US Election?
Katty answers: Ohio is a microcosm of US. It has agriculture, manufacturing, energy, rural and urban areas. No Republican has won White House without it
Lars Tornfeldt in Sweden emails: Can Mitt Romney swear the presidential oath on the book of Mormon.
Katty answers: It would be a first! But unlikely. He took the oath as Governor of Massachusetts on the same Bible his father used in Michigan.
Question from @FunkyZedo: Why are voters disappointed with Obama - he created 5 million jobs, ended Iraq war, Bin Ladin killed, etc?
Katty answers: Expectations for Obama were high. The economy is still struggling. Unemployment is 7.8%. Not all his fault.
Question from @SmartGuyLA: Do you think there's any appetite to abolish the electoral college, a clearly outdated 18th centurey relic?
Katty answers: No.
Question from @MertensA Which state do you think will surprise people and vote against the candidate that polling suggests is leading?
Katty answers: Hmm...perhaps Florida. Romney is up but the Puerto Rican vote could tip it to Obama.
Richard in London emails: What time do you think we'll see a clear result next Tuesday night? How late will I be staying up?
Katty answers: In 2008 the election was called by 11PM - this time it could be later. It depends on a few tight counties in Ohio.
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A gay couple popular in Poland, Jakub and Dawid, mime to George Michael songs, in a YouTube video promoted with the Twitter hashtag #Polandwakeup.
George Michael, who died in December, was "the greatest gay artist of our time", the LGBT activists said.
Poland's nationalist government, close to the Catholic Church, has been accused of restricting gay rights.
Jakub and Dawid plan to get married in June - but same-sex unions are illegal in Poland, so they will go to Portugal for the ceremony.
The campaigners said the video was aimed at an international audience, in the hope that "it might force the government to make at least civil unions legal".
A European Parliament resolution in 2007 condemned homophobia in Europe, including "the emerging climate of racist, xenophobic and homophobic intolerance in Poland".
It spoke of an anti-LGBT agenda in the Polish education system, and urged the Polish authorities to stop "public leaders inciting discrimination and hatred based on sexual orientation".
Among the Polish gay celebrities backing the George Michael video project were: dancer and singer Wiktor Korszla, vloggers Piotr Sokolowski and Pawel Dworak, hairdresser Tomasz Bozek, campaigners Marek and Jedrzej Idziak-Sepkowski and drag queens Charlotte Drag Queer and Aldona Relax.
It comes as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, says English cathedral congregations have grown in recent years.
The number of people describing themselves as having no religion rose from 15% to 25% of the population.
The British Humanist Association said it was a "significant cultural shift."
The Church of England said Christianity remained the most populous faith in England, but the fall in people choosing to identify themselves as Christians was a challenge.
Spokesman the Reverend Arun Arora said: "One of the reasons may well be fewer people identifying as 'cultural Christians' - that is, those who have no active involvement with churches and who may previously have identified as Christian for cultural or historical reasons.
"They indicate a changing pattern of religious life in which traditional or inherited identities are less taken for granted than they used to be."
A spokesman for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales said: "The overall decrease in the number of self-identifying Christians is consistent with recent social attitude and social value surveys.
"While this is a challenge, the fact that six out of 10 people in England and Wales self-identify as Christians is not discouraging. Christianity is no longer a religion of culture but a religion of decision and commitment. People are making a positive choice in self-identifying as Christians."
By Robert PigottReligious affairs correspondent, BBC News
The sharp decrease in the number of people in England and Wales identifying themselves as Christian and the dramatic increase in those reporting no religion are a sign of the loosening influence of Christianity, but also of changes in the way people think about religion.
When almost 72% of the population in the 2001 census described themselves as Christian, it was clear only a minority were regular church-goers.
Religion is a question of identity as well as belief and Christian groups have been quick to claim that even many of the quarter of people who say they have no religion do believe in such things as the soul, an after-life and reincarnation.
Being "Christian" has for many people become an increasingly ill-defined practice, incorporating a wider array of spiritual aspirations and beliefs.
Perhaps with the blurring of the margin between belief and unbelief, a "soft" Christian allegiance has proved vulnerable to secular trends, a suspicion of institutions such as churches, and visible signs that Christian morality is becoming increasingly distanced from secular ideas such as equality.
Norwich 'the most Godless city'
The census shows a 7% rise in the number of people living in England and Wales since 2001 - up to 56.1 million. More than half the increase is due to migration.
The census allowed people to declare themselves Christian (all denominations), Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, of no religion or to list themselves as belonging to any other faith.
There are 14.1 million people of no religion compared to 7.7 million a decade ago. But Christianity still remains the largest religion at 33.2 million, or nearly six out of 10 people, in spite of registering a fall of just over four million.
It showed a rise in the number of Muslims, with the proportion of the population in 2011 standing at 4.8%, or 2.7 million, up 2% from 1.5 million in 2001.
The Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Sikh faiths all registered increases. There are now 817,000 Hindus, a rise of 264,000 since 2001. The Jewish faith also rose by 3,000 over the last decade from 260,000 to 263,000.
Nick Spencer, research director at think-tank Theos, said: "The census measures religious identification, not beliefs or practice. It's about what people call themselves and which group they wish to identify with.
"These figures show that we have a plural religious landscape but that doesn't mean we're atheists. Digging deeper, we see that even those who say they have no religion often have a variety of spiritual beliefs but they don't want to associate these to religious institutions."
In Northern Ireland the number of people describing themselves as Protestant fell from 53% to 48% while the Catholic population went up 1% to 45%.
In the 2001 census 390,000 people nationwide claimed they were Jedi - followers of the faith popularised in the Star Wars films - but that figure fell to 177,000 in 2011.
Only 29,267 people specifically described themselves as atheist while 6,242 put "heavy metal" down as their faith.
The BBC's Religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said: "The increasing numbers identifying themselves with non-Christian religions seem partly the result of migration and higher relative birth-rates.
"But they are also explained by a number of campaigns encouraging members of minority faiths to acknowledge their religions, assuming that the bigger their numbers prove to be, the more influence they will have."
Dr Williams, interviewed told Radio Times, said English cathedral congregations had grown dramatically in recent years and he described the idea the Church of England was fading away as a "cliche".
Last year the British Humanist Association ran a campaign to persuade people to tick the "no religion" box.
Chief executive Andrew Copson said: "Religious practice, identity, belonging and belief are all in decline in this country and non-religious identities are on the rise.
"It is time that public policy caught up with this mass turning away from religious identities and stopped privileging religious bodies with ever increasing numbers of state-funded religious schools and other faith-based initiatives. "
The Catholic Church said: "While precise figures are difficult to determine, polling shows that the Catholic population has remained consistent at 9% of the total population for many years.
"Ipsos Mori research for Cafod in 2008 pointed to there being five million Catholics in England and Wales and around one million attend Mass on a weekly basis."
The 18-year-old was injured following a disturbance at about 0450 BST on Sunday in Springburn Road.
Officers trying to trace the vehicle involved and those responsible for the man's injuries, said the incident was being treated as attempted murder.
Part of the road was cordoned off and diversions were in place to allow investigations to be carried out.
George Porter headed the home side in front with a bullet header in the first 10 minutes, having freed himself at the back post to get on the end of a Blair Turgott corner.
The two sides then exchanged penalties in quick succession. Richie Bennett equalised for Barrow before Turgott smashed in a similarly confident spot-kick into the top corner to restore the Ravens' lead.
Tobi Sho-Silva then moved into double figures for the season, nodding in Lee Minshull's header across goal.
In a much quieter second half, Sho-Silva tapped in his second and Bromley's fourth.
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Match ends, Bromley 4, Barrow 1.
Second Half ends, Bromley 4, Barrow 1.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces Shane McLoughlin.
Goal! Bromley 4, Barrow 1. Tobi Sho-Silva (Bromley).
Alan Dunne (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Barrow. Akil Wright replaces Lindon Meikle.
Substitution, Bromley. Alan Dunne replaces George Porter.
Substitution, Barrow. Ross Hannah replaces Liam Hughes.
Substitution, Barrow. Inih Effiong replaces Richard Bennett.
Jack Thomas (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Bromley 3, Barrow 1.
First Half ends, Bromley 3, Barrow 1.
Richard Bennett (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bromley 3, Barrow 1. Tobi Sho-Silva (Bromley).
Goal! Bromley 2, Barrow 1. Blair Turgott (Bromley) converts the penalty with a.
Lee Minshull (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bromley 1, Barrow 1. Richard Bennett (Barrow) converts the penalty with a.
Connor Dymond (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bromley 1, Barrow 0. George Porter (Bromley).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Emergency crews were called to the scene near Sainsbury's shortly before 07:00 BST on Sunday after three youths had "stripped off" and gone into the water but could not get out.
A member of the public alerted South Wales Police.
The youths were not injured.
The couple, who have been named locally as Donald and Maureen Macmillan, were discovered outside the house in Gravir in the South Lochs area overnight.
They ran the post office in the small community about 25 miles south of Stornoway.
Mr Macmillan was in his 70s and had been with the post office for almost 50 years.
It is not clear yet how or why the couple ended up outside as temperatures dipped below freezing.
People in the community have been shocked by the news, saying the Macmillans were well known in the community and a lovely couple.
Police Scotland said officers were at the scene and their investigation was at "a very early stage".
The deaths are currently being treated as "unexplained".
Murdo MacLennan, a local Free Church elder, has paid tribute to the couple, describing them as "lovely".
He said they would be missed in the local community.
Volunteers carrying out a study of aquatic invertebrates discovered the creatures at Low Barns Nature Reserve near Witton-le-Wear.
Durham Wildlife Trust said the Ranatra linearis is common in south and central Britain but very rare in the north.
Reserve officer Mark Dinning said: "This was an exciting find, proof that nature is always ready to surprise us."
The water stick insect hides amongst reeds and stems where it waits, camouflaged, to ambush passing creatures such as tadpoles and small fish.
It uses its long thin tail like a snorkel allowing it to breathe when submerged.
The UK has increased its contribution to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to £300m, which sends funding to 59 of the poorest countries.
But the biggest increase has been in promises in increased spending from developing countries.
Julia Gillard, chairwoman of the GPE, said this was "an enormous step forward for delivering education for all".
The summit, held in Brussels on Thursday, brought together education and international development ministers, aid organisations and United Nations agencies.
The GPE was holding a "replenishment" process, to gather funding up to 2018.
Alice Albright, the GPE's chief executive, also welcomed the addition of funds from private donors, such as the Hewlett Foundation and Dubai Cares, and the promise of support in the form of training from Microsoft.
Initial pledges worth about £1.2bn were delivered at the summit from governments and donors, including a doubling of funding from the European Union to £300m.
The UK currently remains the biggest single donor.
Former donors such as Spain have said their own financial problems mean that they will have to delay contributions.
Donations are linked to promises from recipient governments to increase their own public spending on education.
And the proposed increases from 27 developing countries are forecast to be worth £15bn over four years.
Figures published by Unesco on Thursday showed that there are still 58 million children without any access to schools - and that progress has been stalled since about 2007.
Girls are particularly likely to miss out on school.
Gordon Brown, UN global education envoy, described providing education for girls as "one of the great civil rights struggles of our generation".
Mr Brown told BBC News: "I think there is a new momentum that's come from girls leading their own campaign. They're saying 'We must have this right to education'.
"It's been forced onto the political agenda."
"I think governments are beginning to understand the connection between education and the economy. They're never going to move from being a low income country unless they invest in education," said Mr Brown.
Mr Brown said such increased spending on education by developing countries marked a significant change in attitude.
"The issue now is how we have a more effective partnership between additional aid and governmental energy in countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Yemen."
And Mr Brown said this was a problem that prompted both compassion and anger.
"There's compassion because you see a child locked out of school - the loss of hope. And there's anger because this isn't an insoluble problem. We don't need a medical breakthrough, or a technological genius, what we need is political will."
Andris Piebalgs, EU commissioner for development, said the increased funding was an act of "solidarity" with children deprived of a chance of an education by an accident of birth.
He said it should be "human nature" to want to provide education for all children.
But he also said it was to the long-term advantage of Western governments, by driving growth and expanding markets.
"It's self evident that it's an economic benefit," he said.
And he said that improving education and improving skills in developing countries would reduce the pressure for illegal migration.
The latest figures on children missing out on school, published by Unesco, show the scale of the challenge.
The international community had set a millennium goal that all children around the world would have access to a primary school by 2015 - but the updated figures show this target is likely to be missed.
Unesco's monitoring figures show there have been major advances in 17 countries, including Morocco and Nepal - reducing the number of out-of-school children by 90%.
But overall there has been little progress since 2007, says Unesco, with more than 30 million children in sub-Saharan Africa without any education.
"Most of these children will never start school and those who do are at risk of dropping out, " the report said.
Julia Gillard says that the support given to the GPE is a sign of optimism.
"We have today secured a record commitment of new funding for education in developing countries around the world.
"This exceptional result is a vote of confidence in the power of education to lift the lives of millions of children."
The Bishop of Willesden, the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent, said the union between Prince William and Kate Middleton would last about seven years.
He apologised for the remarks on Monday but has been asked by the Bishop of London to withdraw from public ministry "until further notice".
The royal couple are to marry in April.
Clarence House announced on Tuesday that Westminster Abbey would be the venue for the 29 April wedding, which Prime Minister David Cameron said would be a public holiday to mark a "national day of celebration".
However, when the news of the engagement broke, the bishop wrote on the social networking site: "We need a party in Calais for all good republicans who can't stand the nauseating tosh that surrounds this event."
The Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, who announced the suspension, said he had been "appalled" by the comments.
In a statement, he said: "In common with most of the country, I share the joy which the news of the engagement has brought.
"I have now had an opportunity to discuss with Bishop Peter how his comments came to be made and I have noted his unreserved apology.
"Nevertheless, I have asked him to withdraw from public ministry until further notice.
"I have been in touch with St James's Palace to express my own dismay on behalf of the Church."
The bishop made a number of comments on the site on Wednesday.
He said: "Marriages should be about family, not "some piece of national flim-flam paid for out of our taxes, for a couple whose lives are going to be persecuted and spoilt by an ignorant media".
He criticised the monarchy for a history of broken marriages and a "corrupt and sexist" hereditary principle, before going on to attack the "gutter press" for "persecuting" the Royal Family.
In a statement published on Monday, Bishop Broadbent said he had conveyed his own "sincere regrets" to the couple and to Prince Charles and admitted he had been "unwise".
"I recognise that the tone of my language and the content of what I said were deeply offensive, and I apologise unreservedly for the hurt caused," he said.
"I accept that this was a major error of judgement on my part. I wish Prince William and Kate Middleton a happy and lifelong marriage and will hold them in my prayers."
Graham Smith, of anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, said while he would not have used Bishop Broadbent's language, he shared his concerns about the "celebrity culture" surrounding the Royal Family.
"He has every right to raise those concerns and speak his mind on the matter, even using strong language to get his point across."
Bishop Broadbent was not believed to be among those present at the general synod or during a service of Holy Communion at Westminster Abbey attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, the Press Association news agency reported.
At the synod, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he spoke for those present in expressing "delight" at the forthcoming marriage.
The Bishop of Willesden is responsible for churches in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon.
Christine Archibald, 30, a former homeless shelter worker, is the first victim to be named after Saturday's attack at London Bridge.
Her family asked people to donate money or their time to a shelter, saying: "Tell them Chrissy sent you."
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said he was "heartbroken" at Ms Archibald's death.
Three attackers were shot dead by police after driving a van into pedestrians on the bridge, before going on to stab people in Borough Market.
The attack left seven people dead and 48 injured. Of the 36 people still being treated in hospital, 18 remain in a critical condition.
In a statement, Ms Archibald's family said they had lost a "beautiful, loving daughter and sister".
"She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected," they said.
"She would have had no understanding of the callous cruelty that caused her death."
They said Ms Archibald, from British Columbia, had worked in a shelter for the homeless until she moved to Europe to be with her fiancé, Tyler Ferguson.
"Please honour her by making your community a better place.
"Volunteer your time and labour or donate to a homeless shelter. Tell them Chrissy sent you," the statement added.
Mr Ferguson's sister, Cassie Ferguson Rowe, said her brother held Ms Archibald as she died in his arms.
Writing on Facebook, she said: "Last night in London my baby brother lost the love of his life on the London Bridge.
"In a split second his entire life was ripped away from him. Hearing his painful sobs on the phone while he's alone trying to deal with this tears me apart.
"I have no words. If you know Tyler, please be there for him now, and later when what happened sinks in, he's going to need us all."
Mr Trudeau said Canadians "stand united with the British people".
"We will continue to work together with the United Kingdom and all our allies to fight terrorism and bring perpetrators to justice," he said.
"These hateful acts do not deter us; they only strengthen our resolve."
Woods, 39, announced an indefinite break from the game this week.
Hank Haney, who spent six years with the 14-time major champion, told BBC Radio 5 live that Woods had "no choice" but to withdraw from competitive golf.
"Whatever the reason, he definitely has not practised like he did earlier in his career - and it shows," Haney said.
"Make no mistake about it, this is not a bump, this is not a hill... this is a mountain he has to climb to get anywhere near back to where he was.
"Has he lost the desire and energy? I don't think there is any doubt. Who knows when we'll see him again?"
Haney said injuries and having two young children had impacted on Woods.
He also claimed "big, big issues" in the former world number one's game meant the decision to take time out was "pretty predictable".
BBC golf commentator Peter Alliss believes Woods needs "a guru" to rediscover his magic on the course.
"Tiger might go to India like the Beatles and discover something magical," said Alliss, who hoped Woods would remain a force in the game
"He'd be a huge miss. He's been a giant in a land of Lilliputians for years."
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Woods has begun his break from golf at Beaver Creek in Colorado, where he is supporting girlfriend Lindsey Vonn as she competes in the Alpine Skiing World Championships.
The American missed the cut at the Phoenix Open at the end of last month with an 11-over-par 82 - the worst round of his professional career - and finished last of a field of 132.
Woods, who has not won a major in seven years, also withdrew from last week's event at Torrey Pines in California after just 12 holes, citing a back problem.
"I need a lot of work on my game and to spend time with people that are important to me," Woods said earlier this week.
However, he indicated on his website that he could return as early as the Honda Classic, which starts on 26 February.
Alliss, 83, says he is at a loss to explain the reasons behind the recent decline of Woods but only wants him to return if he can banish his problems.
"I'd like him to finish and play well," said Alliss. "I don't want him to remember him hitting 82 and walking off courses in a wounded state."
Paul Azinger, 55, has urged fellow American Woods to take a back-to-basics approach and stop over-thinking his swing.
Azinger told USA Today: "What Tiger has done is sacrifice a winning swing at the altar for a quest for the perfect swing. And a perfect swing doesn't exist."
The car was torched on Y Wern, Caia Park, just before 09:30 GMT on Friday but no-one was injured.
North Wales Police said this fire is not being connected to an arson attack at a derelict flat on Garner Road on Thursday evening.
An investigation has been launched into the car fire.
Saad Douma, 58, has been a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood for 35 years. He is a head teacher and as loyal a supporter as you can get of President Morsi.
"Dr Morsi, through his quietness and the wisdom, will steer us through these troubled times and bring the politicians together," he says.
Mr Douma feels that way in spite of what has happened to his own son.
Ahmed Douma, 23, is an opposition activist. The authorities have punished him on the grounds that he insulted the president on a talk show.
Referring to the deaths of protesters at anti-government rallies, Ahmed called Mohammed Morsi a murderer who had escaped justice. It was enough to have him sent to prison.
Saad Douma says he does not blame the president at all for his son's continued incarceration. Instead, he says Ahmed went too far in his criticism.
"The disagreement between us, about his ideological views, is partly because he's too outspoken," he says.
"His words go beyond the limit of our traditions and what's acceptable."
However, Mr Douma told us he thought about his son all the time.
"Only when I visit Ahmed am I sure he's ok," he says. "But when it is time to leave him, behind bars, without his freedoms, it hurts me."
In a rural area, like Beheira in Egypt's Delta region where the Doumas are from, tradition matters and people are far more likely to be conservative and to support President Morsi. That is particularly true for older generations.
In Cairo though, we meet a younger member of the Douma family. Ahmed's wife, Nourhan.
With her husband in jail, she has taken up his cause against the Muslim Brotherhood and the way it has governed the country.
We find her among opposition protesters gathered in a conference hall, chanting anti-Morsi slogans.
They are also planning huge demonstrations to coincide with the end of Mohammed Morsi's first full year in office on 30 June.
"The Brotherhood is trying to polarise people, and Egyptians know it," says Nourhan.
But she acknowledges that politics has managed to tear apart her family.
"It caused more and more problems between Ahmed and his parents," she says.
"We do still manage to meet, and even go on visits to the prison together, but we still have to avoid talking politics or watching the news together to make sure there are no controversial discussions."
Of course, the splits in the Douma family are being reflected across Egyptian society.
Back in Beheira at a busy village junction, we asked a group of people if they were in favour of this weekend's countrywide protests against the president, or not.
"The only way out is to take to the streets on 30 June because we haven't seen anything of what the president promised - he deceived us," said Islam Shahin, 29.
"He only cares for himself and the Brotherhood."
But Eid el Sherif, 40, had a very different view.
"They don't give President Morsi a chance," he told us.
"Whenever he takes a step forward, they make him go 20 steps back. People should wait until Dr Morsi's term in office comes to an end, after the four years, then judge him."
With that, the discussion became more aggressive. Raised voices, animated hand gestures, entrenched views quickly exposed.
It is sometimes difficult for Egyptians to see how their society will ever be united again. The coming days are likely to make it even harder.
But in meeting Saad Douma, I got an undeniable sense that in spite of their very different opinions about the president, he had a great deal of pride in his son, Ahmed.
When he talked of his son's childhood, Mr Douma beamed as he spoke of Ahmed's ability to stand up for what he believed in.
And in meeting Ahmed's wife, Nourhan, it was clear that whatever her feelings about the Muslim Brotherhood, she had utmost respect for her father-in-law.
Both told me they felt the splits in their family and in Egypt were temporary and that the spirit of the Egyptian people would ultimately bind their country together.
But if there are more deaths and injuries in clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi supporters - as are expected in coming days given the dangerous rhetoric there has been - other Egyptians will be less sure the divisions can be healed.
Global sales totalled €8.62bn (£6.9bn; $9.8bn) for the three months to March.
LVMH owns more than 60 luxury brands, including the Kenzo fashion line and the high-end watch labels Bulgari and TAG Heuer.
The company said the US market is strong, and "Europe remains well oriented except for France which is affected by a fall in tourism."
The Paris terror attacks in November last year led to a 50% drop at some store sales. The retailer makes 10% of all its sales in France. The company's headquarters is in Paris.
The perfumes and cosmetics part of the business saw the biggest jump in revenue in the first quarter, at 9%. Much of the boost came from strong sales from the Christian Dior brand.
But the results fell slightly short of analysts' expectations. According to a Reuters poll, industry-watchers were expecting sales to come in slightly higher at €8.72bn.
"Overall this is not very surprising, as LVMH and LVMH fashion and leather goods are so big that they can be seen as a proxy of the luxury goods sector - and the luxury goods sector is on the back foot," said Luca Solca, analyst at Exane BNP Paribas.
The retail group used to enjoy double-digit sales growth in China, with strong demand coming from the middle class. The company now faces much stiffer competition there, causing demand to slow.
Also, the Chinese government last year imposed a strict clampdown on luxury and ostentatious spending by government officials. That has led to a decline in luxury goods sales across the industry in China.
That is precisely the intention of course because it is not meant to hold power to account.
That is kept tightly in the hands of the ruling Communist Party, and the key policies have long been decided in advance.
Nonetheless, every year, the meetings do provide an occasional glimpse of something meaningful for those watching closely.
Here then are two of them for 2016; the first, a rare act of dissent that could not be stifled and the second, paradoxically, an all-too-common act of obeisance that was mysteriously hidden from view.
Much has already been written about Jiang Hong.
As thousands of his fellow delegates began arriving in Beijing two weeks ago, with their rubber stamps at the ready, Mr Jiang had different ideas.
He had already given an interview to a Chinese online current affairs magazine, Caixin, suggesting that delegates should be free to speak their own minds, rather than be compelled blithely to follow the will of the party.
Government censors promptly deleted that interview, a clear demonstration that delegates are not free to do anything of the sort.
Undeterred, Mr Jiang proceeded to give another interview to the same magazine in which he described the censorship as "terrible and bewildering".
Published along with a daring photo of a mouth gagged with masking tape, that follow-up article was deleted too.
But still far from cowed, Mr Jiang agreed to a BBC interview, conducted inside the meeting hall close to Tiananmen Square.
"If a society only listens to one voice, then mistakes can be made," he told us.
"A good way to prevent this from happening is to let everyone speak up, to give us the whole picture."
"I feel there's been an increase in things being deleted online - articles and blogs and posts on Wechat," he continued.
"This has made people worried about expressing their opinions."
Before we could finish our interview, Jiang Hong was hurried away by an official who insisted that we would make him late for his meeting - something other media outlets have experienced amid reports that delegates have been advised against impromptu discussions with the foreign media.
But Mr Jiang's determined insistence on exercising his right to free speech illustrates how China's annual parliament is not always quite so rigid and compliant as it first seems.
For the few who choose to use the opportunity, with the media access and at least the pretence of openness, it offers a precious moment in which they can push the boundaries a bit and, in doing so, highlight the debates that are often rumoured to be raging inside the ruling elite.
And Mr Jiang has done exactly that.
The response to his comments suggests that there is growing disquiet over the recent tightening of the restrictions on freedom of expression, with even one state-run newspaper weighing in with an old saying that "a thousand yes men cannot compare with one person who criticises frankly".
And so to our second moment at this year's event, one that has also lifted the curtain somewhat on the hidden tensions behind the scenes.
It came inside the Great Hall of the People as China's President Xi Jinping attended a sideline meeting of the Province of Hunan Communist Party Committee.
The Provincial Party Secretary Xu Shousheng is in mid-flow when his speech takes an unexpected change of tack.
"Before Chinese New Year," he says to President Xi, "a song by the title 'I don't know how to address you' went viral online in Hunan."
The lavish production, reportedly commissioned by the Hunan government, tells the story of one of Xi Jinping's visits to the Hunan countryside, and Mr Xu was keen to sing its praises.
"It vividly reflects [your] devotion to the poverty-stricken village of Shibadong," he tells him.
Mr Xi can be seen smiling and nodding slightly, although soon after video links of the exchange, along with references to the viral song being raised at the meeting, were seemingly deleted from the internet, with the links returning instead the familiar error message for removed content.
At a time when the main message of this year's parliament was meant to be the Communist Party's efforts to boost a flagging economy, with the looming threat of mass industrial layoffs, having the nation's top brass compose songs to each other and then crow about them, probably does not seem like the best exercise in public relations.
Nonetheless, tribute songs to Xi Jinping have become something of a musical genre in their own right in recent years, leading to speculation that such public displays of devotion are being encouraged as part of a growing cult of personality around him.
While spontaneous songs written and sung by grass roots performers - of which there are many - are one thing, for such tributes to be commissioned by senior party officials is altogether different.
Along with the crackdown on dissent and freedom of speech, as well as an increasingly ideological tone, some observers worry that Chinese politics is now taking a more authoritarian direction of the kind not seen since the days of Chairman Mao.
And with the normal political process so opaque and closed, the things we can glimpse on the edges of China's parliamentary set pieces are sometimes all we have to go on in trying to assess the truth.
The last word, perhaps, should go to Jiang Hong, the censored but still determined delegate.
"What's happening now is a lot better than what happened during the Cultural Revolution," he tells us.
"However, in terms of citizens' freedom of expression, there are still obstacles. At least I can still express my thoughts; I can voice my opinion within the boundaries of this meeting.
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The Plas Parciau care home in Old Colwyn, the Plas Isaf Residential Home in Rhos on Sea, and Colwyn Bay's Furze Mount have all closed.
Mario Kreft said: "We are saddened but unfortunately not surprised by the closures."
The Welsh Government said they were committed to social care.
Mr Kreft said: "At a time of escalating need, care homes and domiciliary care companies are afflicted by chronic underfunding.
"We are at a tipping point and unless urgent action is taken we are facing the prospect of even more care and nursing home closures which will result in extra pressure on the NHS, which is already creaking under the strain."
The Plas Parciau building and surrounding land is owned by North Wales Housing.
Owen Ingram, their interim chief executive, said: "Closing the home is not a decision we made lightly, but we have had to address that it is not a financially viable business."
At the time of closing there were 13 residents at Plas Parciau. Mr Ingram added: "North Wales Housing have worked closely with sociaservices, residents and their families to find a suitable, regulated home that best meets their care needs."
In their manifesto for the assembly elections, the Welsh Government pledged to "make social care a sector of national strategic importance".
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are working closely with our partners in north Wales to understand the challenges faced and to work to ensure the best outcomes for those receiving care.
"We are providing an additional £25 million for local authorities specifically for social services, as well as investing £60 million to support service transformation through the Intermediate Care Fund."
In England, the number of care homes has fallen over the past six years by nearly 1,500 to 16,600.
Recent evidence gathered by the Care Quality Commission shows the regulator is worried over the "pace" of care home closures.
The pair put on 242 at Bristol before Dent was caught by Shahid Afridi off Liam Dawson for 142 from 116 balls.
But skipper Klinger batted through the innings to make a List A best of 166 not out in Gloucestershire's 352-3.
Half-centuries from Dawson and Gareth Andrew (70 not out) gave Hampshire a chance, but they fell short on 342-8.
In a breathtaking display of clean hitting and pure timing, Dent was the dominant partner in a record opening stand for Gloucestershire against Hampshire - striking 14 fours and three sixes.
Australian Klinger then accelerated at the end of the innings including a huge maximum over long-on, his sixth, off paceman Tino Best, before finishing with four boundaries in Andrew's final over.
Hampshire started the chase well as opener Tom Alsop made 50 and Sean Ervine hit three sixes in his 38-ball 53.
However, just as Ervine was beginning to look dangerous he looped Kieran Noema-Barnett into the hands of Liam Norwell behind square leg.
Dawson (57) and Andrew gave Hampshire a glimmer of hope as their seventh-wicket stand of 64 left the visitors needing 69 off 38 balls.
But once Dawson was bowled by Norwell, Andrew had too much to do with the tail and was left stranded having hit four fours and five sixes in his 41-ball knock.
The driver of the black VW Golf was stopped in London Road, Rayleigh, on Friday after checks showed it had previously been stolen.
Essex Police said the motorist left the scene with the officer's arm trapped in the door before running over his foot.
He suffered injuries to his wrist and elbow. Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
The driver was white, over 6ft tall, in his 40s, with a shaved head and wearing glasses, a police spokesman said.
Claire Rafferty's third-minute own goal gave the German side the lead.
Babett Peter headed into her own net after the break to level the score, but substitute Caroline Graham Hansen's low finish gave the visitors victory.
Chelsea must now score at least twice in Germany on 18 November.
The new Women's Super League champions made a nervy start and conceded an early goal when they failed to clear a free-kick and Nilla Fischer's poked shot was deflected in by England left-back Rafferty.
Chelsea defender Gilly Flaherty then appeared to elbow Vanessa Bernauer on the half-hour mark, as Wolfsburg frustrated the hosts by pressing high up the pitch.
The Blues drew level after half-time through Peter's own goal and almost took the lead when Ji So-yun's shot was blocked and Fran Kirby fired narrowly wide.
However, Hansen's goal put Wolfsburg - who have reached the semi-finals in each of the past three seasons - in control.
Chelsea Ladies boss Emma Hayes said:
"Four weeks between games showed in the first 45 minutes so I hope our Football Association do more to prepare better scheduling because if an English team is going to win the Champions League, we have to be more game ready.
"It's geared to French, German and Swedish teams, and until we change that or listen to clubs like Chelsea we are always going to get knocked out in the early rounds.
"It took us a while to get started, and it was a poor goal to concede. Other than that there wasn't a lot between the two teams. The difference at this level is that we had two glorious chances to score and didn't and they counter us and go 2-1 up.
"For us to get a result at Wolfsburg is a tall order. We will create chances but we have been a bit vulnerable on the counter attack."
Chelsea: Lindahl, Bright (Coombs 80), Flaherty, Fahey, Davison, Aluko, Ji, C Rafferty, Kirby, Borges, Chapman (c).
Subs not used: Hourihan, Coombs, Brett, Ayane, Spence, L Rafferty, Farrow.
Wolfsburg: Frohms, Fischer, Peter, Blasse, Popp (Graham Hansen 58), Maritz, Bernauer, Bachmann, Dickenmann (Jakabfi 81), Goessling, Bussaglia (Pajor).
Subs not used: Burmeister, Jakabfi, Wullaert, Bunte, Wedemeyer.
Referee: Katalin Kulscar (HUN)
Attendance: 1,610
Payments to members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) union included £55,000 to a teacher assaulted by a pupil.
It was said to have happened when the teacher attempted to calm the pupil.
Many payouts were due to injuries caused by accidents.
They included £12,000 for a knee fracture caused by tripping over a metal door wedge and the same amount for a broken arm caused by slipping on black ice in a school car park.
Another award was £12,500 for back pain caused by carrying a heavy box without handles.
The total payouts to EIS members for the year reached £608,925.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "This year's figure of over £600,000 in compensation for teachers and lecturers injured at work demonstrates that there is still a long way to go towards the aim of eliminating workplace injuries in our schools, colleges and universities.
"The most common cause of injuries continues to be accidents such as slips, trips and falls.
"These are also the types of incidents that are entirely avoidable with correct adherence to appropriate health and safety procedures in the workplace.
"Schools, colleges and universities will never be entirely risk-free but it is essential that all facilities are as safe as possible for learners and staff alike."
Mr Flanagan denied the payouts were an indication of a compensation culture.
He said the compensation amounts would be reduced if insurance firms took less time to admit liability.
Universal Credit itself remains reserved, but ministers will use new powers to give claimants the option to be paid fortnightly instead of monthly.
The government also plans to offer to pay housing benefits direct to landlords rather than via claimants.
Opposition MSPs welcomed the move, but said the government should do more.
Holyrood is taking on a series of newly-devolved welfare powers, from personal independence payments to carer's allowances. A new social security agency is being set up and a Social Security Bill is set to be introduced this year.
The UK's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will retain overall control over Universal Credit, the single payment for working-age people introduced by the UK government. However, the Scottish government is to take on powers to introduce some flexibilities over payments.
Ministers plan to use these powers to give new claimants in areas where a digital planning system has been set up the option of twice-monthly payments, instead of the current monthly system.
Meanwhile, tenants will have the choice of having the housing element of their Universal Credit payment sent directly to their landlord.
Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman said this option would be available to tenants in the private rented sector as well as those in social housing.
She told the Good Morning Scotland programme that increasing the frequency of the payment was key to many claimants.
She said: "When you're on a very tight budget as people on benefits are, then it is very hard to budget that amount over a whole month.
"Knowing that a payment is coming to you, for the benefit that you are entitled to every fortnight, makes that budgeting exercise easier for those households and that means you can make better decisions and be more in control of your finances over those two-week periods."
She denied that her government was not going far enough and insisted any Scottish government change to the Universal Credit was dependant on what the UK government's Department of Work and Pensions systems could cope with.
In particular, she said ministers were working to change the current situation where a single benefit payment was made to a single person within a household after lobbying from women's groups.
She added: "We're in discussions with DWP about how they can deliver that change for us. So I'd hope that that further change will be something that we'll be able to do in the near future."
She also told the programme that a number of organisations had made the case for the Scottish government to top up the benefit.
She said: "I completely understand and am sympathetic towards those claims, but I have to make the point that the UK government is cutting welfare spend by £2bn in Scotland by 2020.
"We are currently spending £100m every single year to mitigate the worst affects of those benefits in a context where our overall Scottish budget has been cut by 9.2%."
Ms Freeman said another consultation will be carried out in the coming weeks to gather views on the draft regulations.
John Blackwood, chief executive of Scottish Association of Landlords, welcomed the option of direct payments to landlords.
He said: "This should help protect tenancies and minimise rent arrears which will benefit both the tenant and the landlord. It is only fair that private sector tenants have the same option to choose direct payments as tenants in the social sector."
However, Scottish Conservative MSP Annie Wells pointed to the fact the transition of some benefits could take until 2020 to complete, saying she wanted the Scottish government to use more of its powers.
She said: "I welcome the fact the UK government has given the Scottish government these powers. However, the Scottish government has now shown that they'll only use a small portion of the powers devolved through the Scotland Act. I want to see them use more of the powers.
"They've asked for a hold-off for three years to take all these powers on board. It's alright complaining and not governing, but we need to see them actually governing and using the powers they were given."
Labour's Iain Gray welcomed the changes, but also highlighted that Westminster will continue to administer some devolved benefits for some time.
He said: "While I welcome the intention to use this little bit of the welfare power which was devolved through Smith, we have this situation where the Scottish government have delayed taking on the powers over most benefits for three years, and we're not very sure about when the flexibility they've talked about is going to come in."
Meanwhile, Scottish Greens social security spokeswoman Alison Johnstone said the rollout of Universal Credit was "clearly causing serious problems" in parts of Scotland.
She said: "We look forward to seeing the Scottish government's plans for use of its 'new flexibilities' on Universal Credit in more detail because it's becoming increasingly clear that the DWP remains unlikely to improve how it operates.
"The changes the Scottish government propose are welcome and will make life easier for people receiving Universal Credit. It's important we make the most of every power coming our way."
Georgia Sigourney needed 50 stitches to her face after being savaged by the Siberian Husky named Dakota.
She was 12 at the time of the attack at the Peterborough home of family friend Sarah White in October 2014, the Peterborough Telegraph first reported.
White was convicted of possessing a dog dangerously out of control earlier this week.
Doctors said they do not know whether Georgia will be scarred for life.
She said: "When I first came back from hospital I did ask 'can you take the mirrors down?' because I'm not very used to things like that.
"I don't stay away from dogs... but I don't play with them because I want to keep my distance from them."
Her father Chris Sigourney said he did not want White - who is due to be sentenced next month - to go to prison but "she needs to appreciate that she is responsible".
The case originally went to trial last year but collapsed over a legal technicality.
The family fought for it to be heard again and a new trial took place at Peterborough Crown Court.
White claimed she was looking after the animal for a friend, but the jury found her guilty.
Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are also together, in a group featuring Norway and the Netherlands, while Scotland will face fellow Euro 2017 qualifiers Switzerland.
England and Wales are joined in Group 1 by Russia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kazakhstan.
The finals will be held in France in June 2019, with 24 teams taking part.
The seven European qualifying group winners will all progress automatically, while the four best runners-up will face a two-round play-off to fill the eighth European spot at the World Cup.
England last faced Wales in 2014, during qualifying for the 2015 World Cup, in which Mark Sampson's side went on to finish third.
The Lionesses - ranked fourth in the Fifa world rankings - were seeded in Pot A for the 2019 qualifying draw, with Scotland in Pot B, Wales and the Republic of Ireland in Pot C and Northern Ireland in the lowest, Pot E.
Scotland, who will join England at this summer's European Championships in the Netherlands, will also face Poland, Belarus and Albania in their group, with Switzerland the top-seeded team.
Qualifiers will take place between 11 September 2017 and 4 September 2018.
Group 1: England, Russia, Wales, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kazakhstan.
Group 2: Switzerland, Scotland, Poland, Belarus, Albania.
Group 3: Norway, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Northern Ireland.
Group 4: Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine, Hungary, Croatia.
Group 5: Germany, Iceland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Faroe Islands.
Group 6: Italy, Belgium, Romania, Portugal, Moldova.
Group 7: Spain, Austria, Finland, Serbia, Israel.
The image was taken on New Year's Day from a remotely operated telescope at Aberystwyth University.
The lunar impact flash - an explosion of light caused by something hitting the Moon's surface - was corroborated by a team of Italian astronomers.
Dr Tony Cook said the flashes were "notoriously difficult to record".
Dr Cook, who captured the image, said: "The meteorite would be travelling at anywhere between 10 to 70km (6 to 43miles) per second as it hit the surface of the Moon.
"That is the equivalent of travelling from Aberystwyth to Cardiff in just a few seconds, and the resulting impact would be over in a fraction of a second."
It was recorded on the southern hemisphere of the Moon and scientists believe it was probably caused by a small meteorite the size of a golf ball hitting the surface.
The first confirmed recordings of lunar impact flashes were by amateur astronomers in the United States during the Leonid meteor shower of November 1999.
"A similar meteorite hitting the Earth's atmosphere would produce a beautiful shooting star, but as the Moon has no atmosphere it slams into the surface, causing a crater the size of very large pot hole," Dr Cook added.
"Just under 1% of the meteorite's energy is converted into a flash of light, which we were able to record here in Aberystwyth."
Thomas Rees, 32, and Joshua Bradwell, 25, were in Sainsbury's on Hackney Road when a guard told them a woman had complained about their behaviour.
The protestors danced outside the Hackney Road store on Saturday night before kissing in the aisles.
Sainsbury's apologised for the incident and offered the couple a £10 voucher.
Mr Rees said he had been holding Mr Bradwell's hand and may have put an arm around his partner's waist as they were buying food on Monday evening.
But after they paid, a security guard beckoned them outside to tell them about the complaint.
Mr Rees said it "knocked me for six" and left him "analysing how I'm perceived", but since the incident they had received messages of support from around the world.
Mr Bradwell said the number of people who turned out to support them was "absolutely insane".
During the event one person was heard to shout at the group to "get off my street", but the protesters carried on undeterred.
A spokesperson for Sainsbury's, which provided biscuits and water for the protesters, said: "It's been a really great event and an important opportunity for the community to show their support.
"We do our best to make sure everyone feels welcome in our stores but occasionally we make mistakes. We are working hard to make sure lessons are learnt."
The supermarket said it was conducting an investigation into the incident.
Two years ago, a "big kiss" protest was held at a Sainsbury's store in Brighton after a lesbian couple were asked to leave when one gave her partner a kiss on the cheek.
Little has changed in Omuhoro village for generations - people live off the land and are closed off from the rest of the world.
At day break, it is milking time - one of the daily duties of the village's women.
The days are long but everyone has a role to play.
The older women walk for kilometres to collect firewood and water, while another group focuses on cooking enough food to feed the 30 or so mouths in this homestead.
The boys mainly look after the cattle and goats while the young girls help with taking care of the many children running around - there is a great sense of shared responsibility.
But since Namibia's independence in the early 1990s, a different lifestyle has begun to filter through.
A steady stream of young men and women has been opting to leave the slow village life in exchange for a fast-paced modern world.
Now some are worried this move will eventually spell the death of Himba culture.
Owen Kataparo, a Himba man who grew up in Omuhoro, has taken me back to the Kunene region, an arid and rural area in north-east Namibia to show me how his community is changing.
We are welcomed by village head Chief Nongaba. He has four wives and 19 children - he is a small man but exudes authority.
Three of his children attend school - some villagers think this is a bad idea. They say they've seen how school changes their children.
Mr Kataparo agrees.
"When these children get into school, most of the children feel shame. They think most of the children are talking about them, that they are not looking so beautiful," he tells me.
The Himba are known for their red matted braids, which are painstakingly made by mixing animal fat, ash and ground ochre, a stone found locally.
A few steps from where we are sitting, a group of women are bonding. They are smearing their bodies with the same ochre mixture.
Their mahogany skin glistens under the Namibian sun. They tell me this is their beautification ritual, and one of their distinguishing features.
It strikes me that Mr Kataparo is in western clothing - khaki shorts and a blue check shirt.
The irony is not lost on him - now a successful businessman, Mr Kataparo says he feels he needs to assimilate to fit in.
"When I'm in traditional clothes outside the village, I get strange looks. I have a few businesses and people treat me with more respect when I look like them, they take me more seriously," he says.
The young men in this village see him as a sign of success - a poster boy of what's possible. He is torn by this influence, he says.
"A lot of boys leave the village and go down into the town to try to find a job," he says.
"Some of the boys find a job, some of the boys don't find a job, and then some of them decide to take alcohol. They end up abusing their life."
For those taking the leap, the closest town is Opuwo, an hour's drive away and the capital of this region.
It's nothing to marvel at but its restaurants, supermarkets and bars offer the first taste of a completely different life.
One of the most popular hangouts for the Himba living in Opuwo is the Arsenal Bar owned by a Himba man, Seblon Nghiphangelwa, a friend of Mr Kataparo. It is one of 15 in the region and they all belong to him.
Here they come to shed the responsibilities that come with traditional living, in this world it is everyone for themselves.
"Most of my customers are Himba, they come here every day," Mr Nghiphangelwa tells me.
"Sometimes I feel ashamed when I see members of the Himba community getting drunk here. But I also feel ashamed to see them in Western clothing," he adds.
Back in Omuhoro, Chief Nongaba says this dilemma is inevitable.
As head of the village, you'd expect him to be fighting to hold on to the past but instead he is preparing his children for a life outside the village walls - by sending them to school.
But Chief Nongaba, who has never set foot inside a classroom, says it is his duty to prepare his children for a life outside the village.
"I want them to become doctors, teachers, work in government. I want them to live a different life to me, I want them to look like you," he tells me.
"Why?" I ask and without hesitation, he responds: "The world has changed."
But one of his wives, Mama Moharerwa, a tall figure with a booming voice, tells me their people belong in the village.
"The best life for us is in the village - it's how we've lived for many years, it's what we know. In the city we cannot survive."
People like Mr Kataparo are caught between the allure of modern life and a desire to save his traditional culture,
"It scares me a lot. I would prefer to die before the traditions of my people finish."
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In a video shot outside the stage door, Sherlock star Cumberbatch told a crowd of supporters about "cameras and red lights" he spotted in the audience.
"It may not be any of you here but it's blindingly obvious," he continued, adding it was "mortifying".
The actor is starring in a 12-week run of the play.
Although on-the-day tickets have been made available, the 100,000 advance tickets were snapped up in minutes when they were released in August last year.
Some tickets are currently being offered for up to £650 on secondary-ticketing sites.
In the video clip, which was shot post-performance, Cumberbatch said: "I can't give you what I want to give you which is a live performance that you'll remember, hopefully, in your minds and brains whether it's good, bad or indifferent, rather than on your phones."
He added, "there's nothing that's less enjoyable or supportive as an actor on stage experiencing that."
The actor, 39, told the assembled fans that they could feel free to take pictures of him outside of the auditorium.
"What I really want to do is try and enlist you. I don't use social media and I'd really appreciate it if you did tweet, blog, and hashtag this."
Cumberbatch is not the first actor to have criticised fans for using mobile phones during a performance.
In 2013, James McAvoy scolded an audience member whom he caught filming his performance of Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios.
Last year, during a performance of Clarence Darrow, Kevin Spacey was distracted by a ringing phone at London's Old Vic theatre.
"If you don't answer that, I will," he said.
Cacic, ranked 761 in the world, came back from a set down to win 5-7 6-4 6-4 on Bedene's 27th birthday on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, British number four Dan Evans won 6-2 6-1 against German world number 96 Benjamin Becker in the first round of the Citi Open in Washington.
Evans needed 49 minutes to win and will now face Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov.
Torquay's Josh Rees netted a first-half opener, but Jack Sampson levelled five minutes after half-time.
Dan Butler restored the lead, only for Neill Byrne to equalise soon after and Kristian Dennis put Town in front.
But Iffy Allen scored on his debut to keep Torquay in the competition.
Allen's goal came just two minutes after Macclesfield had gone in front in a game which was re-arranged after the pitch at Plainmoor was deemed unplayable on Saturday.
"I'm happy with the lads' attitude, I'm happy with how hard they worked, how much they put in and the fact that they never gave up," Torquay manager Kevin Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.
"I'm happy to be in the cup still, I thought with the chances we had we probably could have won it, but a couple of the goals we allowed were terrible defending.
"There are lessons to learn, things to work on, things to be positive about.
"I find it hard to imagine what fans think watching that because it must have been exciting, frustrating and terrorising all at once, and it certainly was for me."
Tyko, a cross-breed Corgi, was so fat he could only take a couple of steps before becoming breathless and slumping to the ground.
The dog was taken into care by the Scottish SPCA after the owner was prosecuted.
Tyko is now a healthy 12kg (2st). He was 49kg (8st) at his fattest - so has achieved a weight loss of 37kg (81lbs).
The animal welfare charity is now looking for a new home for him.
Tyko's weight had ballooned to double his normal size due to over-feeding and a lack of exercise. His owner's neighbour tipped off the Scottish SPCA.
Vets said they had never seen a dog so obese, adding that it resembled a seal.
Owner Denise Leitch was admonished at Selkirk Sheriff Court after being of good behaviour during a year-long period of deferred sentence.
The 60-year-old had bought the dog as a Christmas present for her husband but was the person charged as she was responsible for it.
She pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to provide treatment for a morbidly obese dog.
She admitted causing Tyko unnecessary suffering at her home in Earlston between 1 April and 13 October 2015.
Leitch failed to provide an appropriate diet for the dog which became morbidly obese and failed to provide treatment for its mobility and respiratory conditions.
The offence carries a maximum penalty of 12 months imprisonment, a fine of £20,000 or a disqualification from owning animals.
But Sheriff Derrick McIntyre accepted it was not a normal case of maltreating an animal.
The court heard that a Scottish SPCA officer told Leitch she had been "killing the dog with kindness."
Defence lawyer Natalie Paterson said that Tyko had been "freaked out" by a nearby firework display and rarely ventured out to exercise.
Ms Paterson said: "She has already been punished by losing custody of the dog. It was not intentional for the dog to reach that size but it is accepted she did not seek the proper treatment."
Scottish SPCA centre manager for Edinburgh Diane Aitchison said: "Tyko has lost 37kg after coming into our care weighing a massive 49.5kg.
"He'll need medication for the rest of his life as he has a thyroid problem but he doesn't let it affect him
"He's now looking for an active forever home to keep his fitness up. He loves chasing a ball, but he's not so keen to give it back.
"We feel he would be best suited to an adult-only home without any other dogs or cats."
The outbreak has so far killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
New cases have fallen sharply in 2015, but the WHO has warned that the disease could break out again.
The epidemic is the worst known occurrence of Ebola in history.
More than 500 people believed to have had dangerous contact with an Ebola patient remain under follow-up in Guinea, the WHO said in a report.
It also said several "high-risk" people linked to recent patients in Guinea and Sierra Leone had been lost track of.
Liberia has already been declared free of the disease after 42 days without a new case. It is the second time the country received the declaration, following a flare-up in June.
Sierra Leone released its last known Ebola patients on 28 September and must now wait to be declared free of the disease.
Guinea's most recent cases were recorded on 27 September.
Kodjia put the hosts ahead midway through the first half when Scott Hogan played him in and the Ivory Coast striker found the roof of the net.
The game was all but settled when Ivo Pinto was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Jordan Amavi.
Kodjia made sure of a home win in the 90th minute when he capitalised on a mistake in the Norwich defence.
A third successive victory for Villa lifted them to 11th, just three points behind Norwich, who slipped to ninth and seven points outside the play-off places.
Nelson Oliveira had the visitors' best chance, just before Kodjia's second, when he was played in on goal by Cameron Jerome, but the Portuguese could not get a shot away after a poor first touch.
Jerome also went close to scoring in the opening 10 minutes, but his effort went inches wide as Norwich's poor return on the road continued.
The Canaries have won just one of their past 14 away league games and remain without a manager following the sacking of Alex Neil last month.
Villa were denied a second before Kodjia's late goal when Nathan Baker saw his header cleared off the line by Ryan Bennett and Conor Hourihane's follow-up skimmed the crossbar.
Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce told BBC WM: "We showed a little bit of resilience and my goalkeeper has played very very well today.
"I thought we were a little bit leggy but we've stuck at it again and we've kept a clean sheet.
"We're improving. We've still got a lot to do. We weren't great again but we've done enough to win a game of football in this division."
Norwich caretaker boss Alan Irvine: "I thought we played really well for most of the game, even with 10 men.
"We dominated possession, we had territorial advantage, we got into some great positions and we fell down where we would normally be at our strongest.
"The last pass, the last cross in the final third, the last attempt at goal were the things that let us down."
Match ends, Aston Villa 2, Norwich City 0.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 2, Norwich City 0.
Ryan Bennett (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa).
Offside, Norwich City. Russell Martin tries a through ball, but Cameron Jerome is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Gary Gardner (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jordan Amavi.
Attempt blocked. Gary Gardner (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Amavi.
Attempt blocked. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Aston Villa 2, Norwich City 0. Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Johnstone.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Andre Green replaces Henri Lansbury.
Foul by Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City).
Neil Taylor (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Russell Martin (Norwich City).
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa).
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Nathan Baker.
Second yellow card to Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) for a bad foul.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Russell Martin (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Mile Jedinak.
Attempt missed. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by James Chester.
Substitution, Norwich City. Nélson Oliveira replaces Alexander Tettey.
Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Gardner (Aston Villa).
Attempt missed. Ryan Bennett (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Neil Taylor.
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Chester (Aston Villa).
Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa).
Substitution, Norwich City. Yanic Wildschut replaces Jacob Murphy.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Albert Adomah with a cross.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Gary Gardner replaces Conor Hourihane.
Attempt missed. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Jordan Amavi.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Nathan Baker.
Attempt blocked. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
It is up for seven prizes, including best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, best director for Spielberg, and best film drama.
In the latter category, it competes with Ben Affleck's thriller Argo and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, both of which have five nominations.
The winners will be announced in Los Angeles on 13 January, 2013.
There are also nominations for three British Dames - Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, as well as TV nods to Downton Abbey, The Hour and Sherlock.
In the drama actor category, British star Day-Lewis is shortlisted alongside Richard Gere, John Hawkes, Denzel Washington and Joaquin Phoenix, for The Master.
Phoenix shared the best actor prize with his co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman at the recent Venice Film Festival, but the elder actor has been demoted to the supporting actor category at the Globes.
Tom Hooper 'proud' of Globes nominations
Nominations for best actress are led by Jessica Chastain, who plays a CIA agent on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.
She is joined on the shortlist by Marion Cotillard, Naomi Watts and British stars Rachel Weisz and Dame Helen Mirren, who stars in Hitchcock, which documents the making of Psycho.
The film adaptation of stage hit Les Miserables, by British director Tom Hooper, has four nominations. It is in the running for best film - musical or comedy, while stars Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway both get acting nods.
Hooper, who won an Oscar for The King's Speech in 2010, told the BBC the nominations were a "testament" to the film's production crew, "who were largely London-based".
"It's a great moment for the industry there," he added.
However, Hooper himself missed out on the shortlist for best director.
Instead, Ben Affleck, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow and Ang Lee - who filmed the "unfilmable" novel Life Of Pi - all made the cut.
This is the first time Affleck has been named in the category, but his counterparts are all former nominees, with Lee and Spielberg going on to win twice.
Voted for by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes are an important precursor to the Oscars.
Last year's winners included Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer, Jean Dujardin and Christopher Plummer - all of whom went on to receive Academy Awards in the main acting categories.
One notable difference of opinion in recent years came over The Hurt Locker.
The Globes overlooked Kathryn Bigelow in the best director category, giving the prize to her former husband, James Cameron, for Avatar. A month later, the decision was reversed at the Oscars, where Bigelow became the first woman ever to win the best director award.
Darker tones
Another of the big differences between the two ceremonies is the spilt between "drama" and "musical or comedy" in the main categories, meaning the Globes can lavish praise on lighter films which may miss out at the Oscars.
The category has darker tones this year, however, with the inclusion of Les Miserables and Silver Linings Playbook, a comedy with a strong focus on mental health problems.
On the other hand, romantic drama Salmon Fishing In The Yemen unexpectedly received three nominations in the category, with British stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt up for best actor and actress.
Another British contender is pop star Adele, nominated for best original song for her title track from the Bond film Skyfall.
She is up against Suddenly from Les Miserables, as well as songs from The Hunger Games, Act of Valor and Stand Up Guys, which features a song from Bon Jovi.
In the foreign language category, Amour - the winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes - is up against A Royal Affair from Denmark, Untouchable from France, Rust & Bone and Kon-Tiki.
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The Golden Globes are overstated as an Oscar predictor. I don't think separating drama from comedy and musicals is that useful in a year where you have a very strong musical.
Les Miserables feels like the most traditional best picture winner at the Oscars, but the Globes put it in the musical category, so you can't tell whether it could beat Lincoln, Life of Pi or Argo at the Oscars.
In terms of best actor, I think if Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't get it, then there is something wrong with the world. Jessica Chastain should win best actress because she is terrific in Zero Dark Thirty.
It's interesting not to see The Hobbit anywhere there which I think people will be disappointed by. I think in the Oscars, too, it is going to do better in the technical categories.
The Golden Globes also recognises achievements in television and there are some notable successes for British shows and actors.
Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery is nominated for best actress in a TV miniseries, while her co-star Dame Maggie Smith is nominated in the supporting actress category.
"This continued run of success for Downton in the US awards demonstrates the affection for the show in America and shows that British writing, acting and production can match the very best of Hollywood," said the show's executive producer Gareth Neame.
BBC One newsroom drama The Hour, comedy series Episodes - starring Friends actor Matt Le Blanc - and Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes are all in the running for prizes.
Damian Lewis, the British-born star of Homeland is up against Boardwalk Empire's Steve Buscemi in the shortlist for best actor in a TV drama.
Hosting duo
Amanda Nevill, CEO of the British Film Institute, said: "With nominations for British films and talent spread across so many categories at this year's Golden Globes, the UK's world class film industry, talent and skills are once again in the global spotlight."
Claire Danes is up for best actress for Homeland, having won the award last year. But the winner of the best actor last year, Kelsey Grammar saw his show Boss cancelled after series two.
Also nominated are Bryan Cranston, Jeff Daniels and Mad Men's John Hamm.
After being hosted for three years by Ricky Gervais, this year's Golden Globes will be hosted by comedy actresses Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.
Both are up for the TV comedy actress prize, for their shows Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock.
It has already been announced that Silence of the Lambs actress Jodie Foster will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at January's event, held in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Nicholson has remained hopeful of agreeing a new deal with the 31-year-old, who scored three goals in 18 league games last season.
"Funds are very low at the moment," Nicholson told BBC Sport.
"Shaun, as is his right, needs a certain amount to be able to carry on playing for us."
Nicholson says a lot of work is being done to generate extra money for the National League club - which is still the subject of an ongoing takeover bid - to enable him to sign the former Northampton, Notts County and Bury forward.
"We're trying to raise as many funds as we can through sponsorships and through the players' fund so that maybe I can go back to Shaun and offer him something that can get him to come back," Nicholson added.
"But at the moment we're stuck in a little bit of a stalemate as I haven't got enough money to offer him, but I don't want him to leave.
"So until I take the deal away or until he signs a with somebody else, I've still got hope on that one.
"I get on really well with Shaun, so we both know exactly where we stand, but I'm having to put some work in to try and raise some money."
Annual inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) reached 1.8% last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, up from a rate of 1.6% in December.
It is the fourth consecutive month that the rate has risen and takes inflation to its highest since June 2014.
Fuel prices hit a two-year high in early February, according to the RAC.
As well as fuel, the ONS said food prices also contributed to the rise in inflation, as prices were unchanged between December and January, having fallen a year ago.
Offsetting these factors, the prices of clothing and footwear fell by more than they did 12 months ago.
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The increase in the inflation rate takes it closer to the Bank of England's target rate of 2%, which was last seen in December 2013.
Inflation is widely expected to pick up this year as a result of the weaker pound, which is making imported goods more expensive.
Earlier this month, the Bank of England said it expected the inflation rate would hit 2.7% next year.
Separate ONS figures for producer prices showed that input prices - the amount paid for materials and fuel by UK manufacturers - rose at an annual rate of 20.5% in January, the fastest pace since September 2008, and a rapid pick up in pace from the 15.8% figure seen in December.
The prices of goods leaving factories were up 3.5%
ONS head of inflation Mike Prestwood said: "The costs of raw materials and goods leaving factories both rose significantly, mainly thanks to higher oil prices and the weakened pound."
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at analysts IHS Markit, said: "While the further upturn in price pressures will fuel speculation that interest rates may start to rise later in 2017, the most likely scenario remains one of policy staying on hold over the next two years as the economy navigates through Brexit.
"Further upward pressure on prices looks inevitable in coming months as energy costs continue to climb and firms pass rising costs on to customers, pushing inflation up towards 3.0% in the second half of the year.
"Wage growth has crept up to 2.8%. However, our expectation is that it will slow, or at least remain muted, in 2017 as the labour market cools, providing the Bank of England with leeway to keep policy on hold."
Consumer inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes housing costs, rose to 2.6% in January from 2.5% the month before.
A red light is flashing. It's been set off by a jump in what our manufacturers are having to pay for imported raw materials.
They face the same fuel price hike as motorists. Metals have gone up, and foodstuffs as well.
Companies aren't passing on the full 20.5% increase yet. They have only put their own prices up by 3.5% on average.
But the ONS warns that the increases are starting to show up on the High Street.
Shoppers are already faced with higher prices for imported cars, computers and kitchen equipment, the result of the drop in the value of the pound.
Soon our own factories could be charging substantially more as well.
The premiere was streamed live to more than 160 countries from the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, London, and some fans had camped on the streets for five days to get a glimpse of the cast.
Among the actors posing for pictures were Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly.
The film is the culmination of director Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy.
Sir Peter, 53, who finished editing the movie a week ago, said: "Saying goodbye to the cast was like this agonising long torture over 10 weeks.
"But the real emotions will hit me in days to come."
The film stars Freeman as hobbit Bilbo Baggins alongside Sir Ian as Gandalf the Grey.
Both actors paid tribute to the films' strong fan base and Sir Peter told the crowds: "We hope you enjoy this film. We make it for you, for the fans and the people who enjoy these movies so I hope you like this one."
Freeman, 43, added: "The reason I'm not sad is because we are handing it over to the audience and sharing it with you. You're the best fans in the world - you're loyal and mad - so thank you so much."
His co-star Armitage, who plays dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield, agreed, and said: "It's the most amazing feeling to be here when you step out of the car and the crowd erupt because they love your character. Tonight is going to be a party, a big celebration."
Other stars who attended the film's premiere included actors Stephen Fry, James Nesbitt and Billy Boyd.
The NHS trust boards of Colchester Hospital and Ipswich Hospital will hold a public meeting outlining plans.
In a joint statement, the trusts said if the merger did not happen they would "struggle to maintain the range of patient services they currently provide".
The move comes after a review by staff, patients, clinical experts and health and local authority partners.
David White, chairman of both trusts, said: "By thinking differently and working together we can change the way we deliver care and provide excellent services that are vital for the future of the communities we serve.
"Many patients, staff and supporters have helped us to get to this stage in our partnership and I am immensely grateful for their time and effort."
A final decision will be taken by both boards around June 2018.
The new emir becomes one of the most influential spiritual leaders in the country's largely Muslim north.
As bank governor, Mr Sanusi had levelled accusations of high-level fraud and was suspended in February.
The previous emir, al-Haji Ado Bayero, died after a long illness at the age of 83 on Friday.
Mr Sanusi made sweeping reforms during his time as the Central Bank Governor, tackling widespread fraud in the financial sector. Recently, he alleged that corruption within Nigeria's petroleum industry meant that the oil production did not match its revenue and so billions of dollars had gone missing.
This move did not go down well with President Goodluck Jonathan, who responded by suspending him.
Now assuming the throne in Kano, Lamido Sanusi's frosty relations with the president will be closely watched ahead of next year's presidential elections.
The emir of Kano is the second-highest Islamic authority in Nigeria.
The state government in Kano made the decision after four "kingmakers" had met and submitted nominees.
Those eligible had to be male members of the Ibrahim Dabo family - whose clans include the Bayeros and Sanusis.
Correspondents say Nigeria's traditional leaders hold few constitutional powers, but are able to exert significant influence especially in the north where they are seen as custodians of both religion and tradition.
One of Mr Sanusi's key roles will be helping tackle the mounting insurgency by Boko Haram militants in the north.
The group has accused traditional Muslim rulers of failing to enforce its strict interpretation of the Koran.
President Goodluck Jonathan's decision to suspend Mr Sanusi from the bank on accusations of financial recklessness and misconduct had led to concern among international investors.
Al-Haji Ado Bayero had been on the throne in the northern city since 1963.
He was the longest-serving emir in Kano's history and sought to reduce tensions with Nigeria's Christians.
He was also a critic of Boko Haram and survived an assassination attempt last year blamed on the Islamist group.
They spoke of mass panic as a gunman sprayed bullets at partygoers gathered on the Bosphorus waterfront.
At least 39 people died in the IS-claimed mass shooting at the exclusive Reina nightclub less than two hours into 2017.
Another 69 are receiving treatment for wounds in hospital as police hunt down the suspect.
Metin G, who was at Reina with friends when the gunman struck, said he saw partygoers fall to the floor as the attacker opened fire.
He said 50 terrified bystanders had rushed to hide in the men's and women's toilets.
According to Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News, he said: "When we saw the attacker, who was scanning the bar, we went back and entered the toilet.
"As soon as the toilet was full, I locked the door. About an hour I was there. We continued to hear gunshots. Crying... you cannot even imagine the screaming."
Some of the victims were shot at point-blank range, according to a forensics report quoted by the Milliyet newspaper.
Mehmet Yilan, 36, a barman at Reina for 12 years, said the attacker deliberately targeted the most crowded areas of the club.
"He stormed in and immediately headed for the people to the left, which is always more crowded... I wonder if he came here before, because he seemed to know where to go," Mr Yilan said.
He told Reuters how his manager yelled at people to run.
"He was shooting randomly, but aiming for their upper bodies. He didn't want to just injure them."
Professional footballer Sefa Boydas told AFP how he had to walk over bodies to flee the club, which he had arrived at just 10 minutes earlier.
"Just as we were settling down, by the door there was a lot of dust and smoke. Gunshots rang out. When those sounds were heard, many girls fainted."
He said people appeared to be crushed as they ran away from the attacker.
"They say 35 to 40 died but it's probably more because when I was walking, people were walking on top of people," said Mr Boydas, who plays for Istanbul club Beylerbeyi SK.
"My girlfriend was wearing high heels. I lifted her and carried her out on my back," he said.
Club-goer Sinem Uyanik also described bodies lying on the ground. Her husband Lutfu was wounded in the attack.
"Before I could understand what was happening, my husband fell on top me," she said, speaking outside Istanbul's Sisli Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.
"I had to lift several bodies from on top of me before I could get out."
She said she had phoned ambulances and the police, who told her: "Don't move, or you'll be victims".
Her husband's condition was not said to be critical.
One Lebanese survivor, Francois al-Asmar, spoke to the Lebanese channel LBCI from his hospital bed, saying his passport had saved him.
"It saved my life because I was carrying it near my heart," he claimed, with a bullet striking the document.
Cousins Yunus Turk and Yusuf Kodat, who travelled to Istanbul from Alsace, north-eastern France, managed to escape the gunman's rampage.
"I think back to those moments, I can't erase them from my memory. The people panicking, the blood, the noise of the gunshots, the explosions. That's what I keep on thinking about," Mr Kodat told AFP.
Mr Turk said police who rushed to the scene led the survivors out through the basement, to spare them the horror of the main room.
"But there were already a few corpses on the terrace and there was blood everywhere and broken glass. The windows from inside going onto the terrace were broken as well," he said.
Piles of candles and floral tributes have been left outside the club in tribute to the fallen.
The club's owner Mehmet Kocarslan left a statement on Facebook saying, "Our heart is bleeding".
The third-placed Saddlers are three points behind Burton Albion in second with a game in hand and a slightly better goal difference.
"The players have put themselves on a pedestal," Whitney told BBC WM 95.6.
"They have to live up to that expectation and our players are good enough to cope with the demands."
Walsall face a potentially season-defining week when they take on play-off contenders Bradford City on Saturday before their game in hand, at home to relegation-threatened Shrewsbury Town next Tuesday.
"I've said to the players they must not let anxiety sap the energy from them - they almost have to use it as their fuel now," said Whitney. "But we're going to revel in it and try to enjoy it."
With the race for promotion to the Championship set to go to the wire, Whitney admits he has examined every possible thing he could do to try to bring an extra edge to the Saddlers' threat.
"We want to win things and, of course, I think about what else I can possibly do over these four games just to help them recover, or take the pressure off and help them with coping strategies," he added.
"We have to cope with the expectation now from some parts of the crowd.
"Momentum comes with confidence and we must not over-think things, we need to keep things instinctive."
After a distinguished junior career, Snyder became world champion last year aged just 19 and was favourite to triumph in Rio.
Goziumov, 33, improved upon the bronze medals he took at Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
Romania's Albert Saritov and Magomed Ibragimov of Uzbekistan won bronze.
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Martin, 28, has scored eight goals in 18 Championship games since joining the Whites on loan in September, in a deal which has no release clause.
"The situation with Chris Martin is over," Jokanovic told BBC Radio London.
"I bought a flat in Putney 15 years ago and then sold it. I can't ask for it back now, because it is impossible."
The Serb added: "This country is very famous for contracts. Everything is on paper and really clear."
Martin was allowed to leave Pride Park to join Fulham, with a view to a permanent deal, by former Rams boss Nigel Pearson.
Steve McClaren was reappointed by Derby in October and is keen to bring the Scotland international, who scored 43 goals in less than two seasons during McClaren's first spell in charge, back to the East Midlands.
"Fulham, quite rightly, want to keep Chris as he is a good player. We want him back, but it is out of my hands
Martin made himself unavailable for Fulham's trip to Reading on 30 December - a match that was subsequently abandoned - and then missed the defeat by Brighton on 2 January and the FA Cup victory against Cardiff on 8 January.
Jokanovic made clear he would keep Martin in west London, stating Fulham were "not a train station".
He returned to the starting line-up against Barnsley on Saturday, scoring one goal from the penalty spot and setting up the other in a 2-0 home win over the Tykes.
"Chris is a very important part of my squad," Jokanovic, 48, added.
"Our supporters know my opinion about him. He is focused to help us and he is working well."
McClaren added to his attacking options this month with the signing of David Nugent from Middlesbrough, but the former England manager is keen to strengthen his squad as County, like Fulham, target a place in the play-offs.
"We would like him back but it is not possible because there is no release clause in January," McClaren told BBC Radio Derby.
"Fulham, quite rightly, want to keep him as he is a damn good player and he's proven it for Fulham.
"There are still two weeks to go but we'll have to soldier on and Chris has to play for Fulham. There is still time and we still want him back, but it is out of my hands."
In recent days that pressure has taken the shape of calls from the Liberal Democrats and Labour, and campaign groups like Save the Children, to open Britain's doors to 3,000 children, alone and potentially in danger on the migrant trail in Europe.
Today, just hours after the PM was accused of a "disgraceful" tone towards those in need, calling them a 'bunch of migrants', the government has given a partial answer to its critics.
There will be more cash and support for aid agencies to provide help for under 18s who are already caught up in the chaos and travelling across Europe.
The government is also open to resettling more child refugees in the UK. But they have stopped short of accepting more of those who are already in Europe, maybe even just across the Channel.
Instead, they are echoing the decision they took in the summer and may allow more refugees under 18 to come here directly from the war-torn areas around Syria. Crucially, the government won't put a number on how many extra children will be allowed to come.
Sources indicate that the number will not significantly increase the current commitment to resettle 20,000 refugees from the region over the next five years. There was even discussion inside government over whether the overall number should increase at all.
There has been nervousness in government about the precedent it would set to take many more refugees from Europe, that could encourage more people to make the dangerous journey in the first place.
But the fact that the government has shifted its position at all displays how the demands of this crisis are affecting political decision-making here.
And just as the tempo picks up in David Cameron's testing renegotiations of our relationship with the rest of the European Union, the government's attitude to dealing with migration is in sharp focus. Ministers fear a backdrop of a seemingly chaotic migration on the continent could make their deal-making, and the eventual referendum campaign, even harder.
The latest figures show 756 animals were killed in Dorset, 432 in Gloucestershire and 279 in Somerset as part of efforts to eradicate bovine TB.
The government said more than half of England was expected to be free of the disease by 2019.
However, campaigners said there was no evidence killing badgers was reducing the level of the disease in cattle.
It was the first year of culling in Dorset but the third for the other two counties as part of the government trial.
The minimum target numbers for Gloucestershire and Somerset for 2015 were less than those for 2014.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss told the House of Commons: "Our strategy to eradicate bovine TB is working.
"I'm pleased to report to the House today that the three badger control areas - Somerset, Gloucestershire and Dorset - all hit their targets this year.
"The chief vet is clear: this is delivering disease control benefits and it'll help us eradicate this terrible disease."
Ms Truss also said she was considering extending the badger cull programme.
"I'm pleased to say more than half of the country is on track to be officially free of the disease by the end of this parliament thanks to the strategy we put in place.
"And the chief veterinary officer is clear that licensing of future areas is needed to realise these disease control benefits, and I'm determined to follow through on that."
Dominic Dyer from the Badger Trust said: "Despite claiming all the cull contractors have met their targets for 2015, there is no evidence the killing of badgers is reducing the level of bovine TB in cattle.
"The claims by the NFU and pro-cull politicians that badger culling is delivering a significant reduction in bovine TB are looking increasingly bogus, and the exact opposite of the truth.
"Twenty million pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent killing thousands of badgers and yet cattle TB in Somerset is on the rise."
Culling took place from 31 August to 12 October in Somerset and Dorset and from 2 September to 14 October in Gloucestershire.
The number of animals killed in each cull zone fell within minimum and maximum targets.
Last year fewer than half the target number of badgers were killed in Gloucestershire, but the minimum target was met in Somerset.
Ellen White, who captained the side for the first time, lifted the ball over the head of goalkeeper Stina Lykke to score the opener just before half-time.
Denmark skipper Pernille Harder levelled in the second half with an impressive free-kick from just outside the area.
White then claimed her second of the night, poking home from inside the area after Simone Sorensen's bizarre backpass hit her own bar.
With a much-changed line-up, the Lionesses spent long periods of the first half defending, and Denmark had an early goal disallowed.
However, the second half brought an improved performance as England posed a constant threat to the side ranked 15th in the world.
The result sees England head into the Euros having gained four wins and a draw from their past six games.
Boss Mark Sampson made 10 changes to the side that beat Switzerland, with left-back Demi Stokes the only player to keep her place in the starting 11.
And several players used their last opportunity to impress with hard-working performances to give Sampson plenty to consider before the tournament.
White's two goals were indicative of a gritty performance, which saw the forward tirelessly chase down the Danish defence.
Midfielder Fara Williams, earning her 163rd cap, controlled the midfield impressively and produced set-pieces that handed England some of their more threatening moments in the game.
Stokes showed once again why she has been a permanent fixture in Sampson's squad since missing out on the World Cup in 2015.
Of the squad of 23 players, only left-back Alex Greenwood has not featured in the past two games as she returns from a long-term injury.
After their victory against Denmark, the Lionesses travel to Valencia on Sunday for a week of warm-weather training.
Following that, the players will be given two days off before travelling out to the Netherlands for the European Championships on 13 July, with the tournament set to begin three days later.
England open their campaign in Utrecht against Scotland on 19 July, before facing Spain on 23 July in Breda and finishing the group stage in Tilburg against Portugal.
There will be commentary on all of England's matches on BBC Radio 5 live.
England boss Mark Sampson: "I'm proud of the team and our supporters.
"It was a performance full of hard-work, resilience and grit - key qualities for us this summer."
Match ends, Denmark Women 1, England 2.
Second Half ends, Denmark Women 1, England 2.
Pernille Harder (Denmark Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Millie Bright (England).
Foul by Sanne Nielsen (Denmark Women).
Laura Bassett (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Pernille Harder (Denmark Women) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Maja Kildemoes (Denmark Women) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Sanne Nielsen (Denmark Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pernille Harder.
Substitution, England. Lucy Bronze replaces Fara Williams.
Foul by Simone Sørensen (Denmark Women).
Jodie Taylor (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Katrine Veje (Denmark Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Scott (England).
Substitution, England. Jordan Nobbs replaces Karen Carney.
Offside, Denmark Women. Line Sigvardsen Jensen tries a through ball, but Pernille Harder is caught offside.
Substitution, Denmark Women. Janni Arnth replaces Luna Gewitz.
Attempt missed. Karen Carney (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Karen Carney (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Katrine Veje (Denmark Women) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Karen Carney (England).
Attempt missed. Pernille Harder (Denmark Women) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! Denmark Women 1, England 2. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, England. Carly Telford replaces Siobhan Chamberlain.
Substitution, England. Millie Bright replaces Isobel Christiansen.
Substitution, England. Jodie Taylor replaces Nikita Parris.
Hand ball by Maja Kildemoes (Denmark Women).
Attempt missed. Maja Kildemoes (Denmark Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Simone Sørensen with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Denmark Women. Conceded by Siobhan Chamberlain.
Corner, Denmark Women. Conceded by Demi Stokes.
Attempt blocked. Sanne Nielsen (Denmark Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Maja Kildemoes (Denmark Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fara Williams (England).
Goal! Denmark Women 1, England 1. Pernille Harder (Denmark Women) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Fara Williams (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Katrine Veje (Denmark Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fara Williams (England).
Substitution, Denmark Women. Nicoline Sørensen replaces Stine Larsen.
Attempt missed. Simone Sørensen (Denmark Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Pernille Harder with a cross following a set piece situation.
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It currently recycles 59.5% of rubbish but must meet the Welsh Government's target of 64% by 2020.
The trolley boxes allow recyclables - such as glass, tins and plastic - to be stored in one unit.
About 9,000 properties were given them as part of a trial and 20,000 more will be distributed in May and June.
The Welsh Government sets targets for councils each year but decided not to fine the three - Newport, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen - that missed the 58% mark for 2015-16.
In Blaenau Gwent, a similar trolley boxes scheme led to protests because some residents struggled to carry them up steps to houses.
But Anglesey's head of waste, Dewi Williams, said the trial in his area had led to "a significant increase in recycling levels" and believes the rollout will see this replicated across the island.
The trolley boxes are being funded by a £350,000 Welsh Government grant.
Campaigners said the ring road between Emersons Green and the M32 gets congested by traffic heading to the M4.
They have called for a new turn-off - junction 18A - saying it would offer direct access to the motorway and speed up traffic.
The Conservative MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, Jack Lopresti, raised the issue in the House of Commons.
He asked transport Minister Andrew Jones what the likelihood was of a new junction being created "which will support job creation as well as reducing traffic congestion".
Mr Jones replied that he had seen examples "up and down the country" where similar road projects have "unlocked growth and created jobs".
Earlier this week a 1,100 signature petition was handed to Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin MP, by several local MPs.
"I know it was very fruitful meeting with the secretary of state, and he has asked Highways England to take a close look at this," Mr Jones added said.
The foreign secretary told MPs the UK government would achieve this via the joint ministerial committee process.
Plaid Cymru hailed this as "seemingly a major concession" from UK ministers.
On Monday, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones urged the prime minister to listen to voices outside the Westminster "bubble" on Brexit.
Responding to a question from Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said: "We work closely under the joint ministerial committee to bring in the devolved administrations and to make sure that the great deal we're going to get has their endorsement and their approval."
Mr Edwards had asked the foreign secretary to ensure "in the spirit of co-operation" that the final Brexit deal was endorsed by the devolved parliaments before it was signed.
"This is seemingly a major concession from the British government and one that Plaid Cymru has been calling for since before the referendum was held," Mr Edwards said afterwards.
"Wales, as an exporting nation, has a major stake in these negotiations and it is right that the final deal should be endorsed by all four countries before it is signed."
He added: "The British government must now stick to its word and I will be seeking clarity from the prime minister and the Brexit secretary to ensure that the foreign secretary's concession today is honoured."
James Dayton's superb freekick had seemed likely to earn Gary Johnson's men a valuable point.
The hosts took the lead when Javan Vidal touched home Simon Heslop's drive from distance in his first start after recovering from stomach surgery.
York scored in the final minute of added-time as the Wrexham substitute turned in Blaine Hudson's header.
Cheltenham remain two points clear of second-placed Forest Green at the top of the National League with Wrexham up to eighth, three points behind Dover, who occupy the final play-off spot.
Wrexham manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales: "I thought from the first minute to the last, we showed the fans we still believe.
"I thought we were awesome today. We were the better side, when we could play, we played.
"It took a good goal for them to score, but we kept going.
"We have still got a chance of the play-offs."
Cheltenham Town boss Gary Johnson told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: "I thought we were unlucky because we were part of a decent football match - we didn't quite have the quality on the day to get enough chances.
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"You always feel hard done by when you've lost a game but they're not competing with us up there. It would have been nice to have got the points but it makes it still interesting. You're not going to win every game, certainly not against the top teams.
"I've got to make sure we pick the lads up. I'll slap their wrists now but we'll pick them up and we've got to be ready for another big game against Grimsby."
The party said the move would raise about £500m every year, which it said would be enough to avoid cuts to education and other local services.
Holyrood will be given limited powers over income tax rates from April, with more flexible powers later due to be devolved under the Scotland Bill.
The Scottish government has said it will not alter income tax rates until these greater powers come into force.
But that will not be until next year at the earliest.
Under the more limited powers, which have been devolved under the Scotland Act 2012, any changes in income tax rates would need to be replicated across all bands.
The Scottish government has argued that this would mean the least well-off would be hit hardest by any increase.
In his draft budget, which was unveiled in December, Finance Secretary John Swinney said he would be keeping income tax rates in Scotland the same as the rest of the UK in 2016/17.
He said he hoped the greater flexibility in setting income tax rates offered by the Scotland Bill proposals would allow the the Scottish government to introduce a "more progressive" tax regime in the future.
But Scottish Labour said its plan for a 1p rise in income tax across all bands from April would be offset by taxpayers earning less than £20,000 receiving a £100 annual boost to their income through a payment scheme.
This £100 payment, which would be administered by councils, would be "far in excess" of the additional £20 which someone earning just above the minimum wage would pay in income tax over the course a year, the party said.
Labour said someone on a salary of about £30,000 a year would pay less than £4 a week extra under its plan.
But someone on the same £144,687 wage as the first minister would pay an extra £28 a week (£1,447 a year), it said.
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Scottish Labour's proposal would mean that income tax rates in Scotland would be higher than elsewhere in the UK.
Leader Kezia Dugdale, said: "Given the choice between using our powers or making cuts to our children's future, we choose to use our powers.
"We will tear up this SNP budget that simply manages Tory cuts and instead use the power we have to set the Scottish rate of income tax 1p higher than the rate set by George Osborne. This will provide an extra half a billion pounds a year to invest in the future.
"We don't do this because we want to use the powers for their own sake. We do it because there is no other alternative to cutting into our nation's future."
Mr Swinney's draft budget is due to be debated at Holyrood on Wednesday.
SNP MSP Stewart Maxwell said questions surrounded the figures being quoted by Scottish Labour.
He told BBC Scotland: "The Revenue and Customs say it's £475m. A £50m rebate would mean it's £425m.
"There would be administration costs. Would councils have to pay the administration costs or are Labour going to pay that?
"There's an HMRC charge. The fact is there are so many questions about this policy, I don't think it gets even off the starting block."
Last week, the Scottish Liberal Democrats also proposed increasing income tax rates by 1p to raise extra funds for schools.
But the Scottish Conservatives have said that taxes in Scotland should be no higher than the rest of the UK - and lower when affordable.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said: "It would hit every basic rate taxpayer in the pocket. It would damage jobs and hurt Scotland's economic revival. And it would add ridiculous complexity to our tax system - with the lowest paid being asked to go to their local council to get a £100 cashback on a tax rise they never asked for.
"It simply isn't credible."
The Scottish Greens the ability to adjust the Scottish rate of income tax to make the tax take progressive was "extremely limited" and Labour's proposal would involve "extra complexity and cost".
The European champions looked in control when Ronaldo scored twice in the first 18 minutes.
His opener was a penalty and his second was a header from Nacho's cross - his eighth La Liga goal in four games.
But Carlos Carmona pulled one back and Duje Cop missed a penalty for the visitors with 13 minutes left.
The Croatia international, who appeared to check his pulse just before taking the kick, fired high and wide after Nacho was penalised for fouling Victor Rodriguez.
Real went seven points clear briefly, but Sevilla beat Valencia 2-1 on Saturday evening to trim that lead by one point. Champions Barcelona can take it back down to four points on Sunday at Real Sociedad (19:45 GMT).
Ronaldo's double takes him up to 10 La Liga goals for the season, two above Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in the golden boot race.
Match ends, Real Madrid 2, Sporting de Gijón 1.
Second Half ends, Real Madrid 2, Sporting de Gijón 1.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Lillo.
Attempt blocked. Isco (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Isco.
Corner, Sporting de Gijón. Conceded by Nacho.
Attempt blocked. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Isco.
Attempt saved. Duje Cop (Sporting de Gijón) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Isma López with a cross.
Substitution, Sporting de Gijón. Nacho Cases replaces Rachid.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Isco replaces Mateo Kovacic.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Duje Cop (Sporting de Gijón) right footed shot is high and wide to the right. Duje Cop should be disappointed.
Nacho (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Nacho (Real Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Sporting de Gijón. Víctor Rodríguez draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Sporting de Gijón. Víctor Rodríguez replaces Moi Gómez.
Substitution, Sporting de Gijón. Borja Viguera replaces Carlos Carmona.
Foul by Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Lillo (Sporting de Gijón) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Marcelo replaces Sergio Ramos.
Substitution, Real Madrid. Marco Asensio replaces James Rodríguez.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lillo (Sporting de Gijón).
Attempt missed. Luka Modric (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Mateo Kovacic.
Foul by James Rodríguez (Real Madrid).
Rachid (Sporting de Gijón) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Carlos Carmona (Sporting de Gijón) is shown the yellow card.
Pepe (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carlos Carmona (Sporting de Gijón).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luka Modric with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Real Madrid. Conceded by Jorge Meré.
Attempt blocked. Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pepe.
Danilo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moi Gómez (Sporting de Gijón).
Attempt saved. Nacho (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Rachid (Sporting de Gijón) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rachid (Sporting de Gijón).
Foul by Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid).
Isma López (Sporting de Gijón) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Publishers Simon and Schuster have announced a number of Miffy books will be updated "to appeal to a modern British audience".
They will feature new translations of Bruna's original rhyming verse by award-winning poet Tony Mitton.
The books Miffy, Miffy at the Gallery and Miffy at the Zoo will be the first to be re-launched in February 2014.
A variety of novelty and activity books will also be published alongside the traditional square Miffy hardbacks.
It is 50 years since the series was first published in the UK.
'What's that?' asked Miffy
'That cute little horse
'With funny stripes all over
'Why, a zebra. Yes, of course!'
Bruna created Miffy in 1955 whilst on a rainy seaside holiday, as a story to entertain his young son.
At first, he was uncertain whether the rabbit was a boy or a girl, but settled the matter by putting her in a dress for the sixth book, Miffy's Birthday, in 1970.
In Holland, she is called Nijntje ("little rabbit"). It was her first English translator, Olive Jones, who christened her Miffy.
Over the years, Bruna has written more than 30 books and at 85-years-old is still creating new Miffy stories.
More than 85 million copies have been sold around the world and they have been translated into more than 50 languages.
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On Thursday's debate
Labour leader Ed Miliband on David Cameron not taking part: "I think if you are applying for the job of prime minister, the very least people expect if for you to turn up to the job interview."
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon: ""I am hugely looking forward to this debate, because it is another opportunity to take the SNP's positive message on the progressive policies we believe in to people right across the whole of the UK."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood: "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to go in there and put the case again for Wales, but also make clear that we've got a message that will resonate with other communities right throughout the UK, especially in terms of putting the alternative to austerity."
Green leader Natalie Bennett: "I'm very much looking forward to tonight. We went through the last one which I actually really enjoyed. Lots of people were telling me to enjoy it beforehand. I wasn't sure if I would, but I did, and so really looking forward to tonight."
Conservative leader David Cameron: "Together, they pose a clear threat to the future of our United Kingdom. A coalition of chaos. The SNP acting as the chain to Labour's wrecking ball, running right through our economic recovery - and it will be you who pays the price."
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg: "Instead of Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power and using it to keep the government in the centre ground, Nigel Farage and his friends in the Conservatives and the DUP would drag Britain further and further to the right."
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The motorway is shut coastbound for the 20th day in three months as lorries queue because of delays crossing the English Channel.
Vanessa Challess, from Maidstone, who is eight months pregnant, fears what will happen if she needs to get to hospital to give birth.
"It could take me hours to get to hospital whilst in labour," she said.
"The NHS has decided that high risk Maidstone women can't give birth in their home town.
"I therefore changed trusts to give birth at the William Harvey at Ashford, thinking it was a jaunt down the M20.
''The police will not allow an escorted trip down the middle of Operation Stack and tell me to call an ambulance, but I will then have no choice on where I give birth
"We will be stranded without a car and the ambulance may well face its own delays."
Matthew Balfour, Kent County Council's cabinet member for transport, said the situation in Kent was a nightmare.
"All the roads in east Kent get completely blocked up so people can't go to the shops, they can't get to the doctor, the hospital.
"They can't pick up their children, queues are endless and it's really insufferable.
"And it means that people who run shops in the towns and the villages don't get their trade because people stay at home."
He said the chaos was costing a estimate £1.5m a day for Kent's economy.
Franscesca Murphy, an osteopath in Hollingbourne, near junction eight of the M20, said patients could not get to their appointments.
"It's having an effect on the practice with patients cancelling," she said.
"I'm losing money and losing business."
Tourist attractions Leeds Castle and Dover Castle, both accessed from the M20, said they had seen a drop in visitor numbers in the past month.
Sarah Codrington, head of marketing at Leeds Castle, said travel bulletins and overhead gantries on motorways saying that junction eight was closed were having a negative impact.
Dover Castle said pre-booked groups were cancelling their visits.
A summit meeting in Maidstone on Friday agreed to look at setting up a contraflow on the M20 to keep local traffic moving while Operation Stack was in force.
Mr Balfour said the emergency services' Gold Command would be discussing it on Monday morning and it was hoped it would be operating next week.
The contraflow plan was welcomed by drivers' organisation the AA.
"Getting some traffic moving southbound on the London-bound carriageway would certainly ease up conditions for Kent drivers," said spokesman Paul Watters.
Highways England said it was looking at the feasibility of the contraflow.
"Our highest priority is to ensure it could be done safely and we will be working with Kent Police and others in the operational coordination group to consider how it could be achieved," said a spokeswoman.
"We will report back through the Kent tactical co-ordinating group as soon as possible."
The Sporting Reminiscences Group, thought to be the first of its kind, is a partnership between The Alzheimer's Society and Alfreton Town FC.
It is hoped the project will help those with short-term memory problems.
John Glasby, of Alfreton Town, said he wanted other football clubs to host similar activities.
Mr Glasby, who is the club's community scheme chairman, said: "We're hoping with the help of The Alzheimer's Society we will become the first dementia-friendly football club in the whole country.
"I know the league authority that we play in at the moment are interested in our project because if it's successful they would be interested in rolling it out at other football clubs. Maybe even Premier League clubs will begin to take an interest."
Ronald Wade, of the The Alzheimer's Society, said the sessions could make a difference to patients.
He said: "Because of the age of some of our users, the sporting activities that a lot of them did is very much part of their early memories.
"It's the perfect format for people to engage in conversation, to support each other because they all share similar memories."
Wayne, who is one of the people taking part in the project, was 42 when he was diagnosed with dementia.
Lesley, his wife, said recalling memories of Nottingham Forest and Brian Clough at the group had been helping him.
She said: "Wayne was diagnosed pretty young and quite a few of the groups aren't applicable to him... but he loves football; it just seemed to be the right thing for him. It's fantastic."
Point of Ayr Colliery, near Prestatyn, closed in 1996 after more than 100 years of mining.
Most boys from the adjacent village of Ffynnongroyw followed their fathers and grandfathers down the pit.
However, there are fears that younger residents are in danger of forgetting the area's mining heritage.
Mike Jones, secretary of the Ffynnongroyw Mining and Village Heritage Group (FMVHG), said the pit opened in the 1880s and at its peak employed 500 workers.
He said Ffynnongroyw is packed with miners' cottages and "the sense of community must have been enormous" during the pit's hey-day.
"Ffynnongroyw was built as a mining village," Mr Jones added.
"Going back 30 years or so, it was predominantly Welsh-speaking, but we have a very transient population now and lots of people have moved away.
"The memorial is about bringing back the identity of the village.
"All the heritage is passing out of living memory.
"If you don't do something to preserve it, it's going to go.
"I think the younger generation of the village aren't aware of the heritage."
When the pit closed, only a plaque in the village centre marked the rich industrial heritage.
Now, the pit's old headgear will be erected alongside the coast road between Ffynnongroyw and Prestatyn, as a lasting memorial.
It is hoped there will also eventually be information boards and a seating area.
The FMVHG has raised about £4,500 towards the project, and rural development agency Cadwyn Clwyd has provided more than £6,000.
About 60 local people saw Flintshire councillor Carolyn Thomas cut the first sod on the new site on Tuesday.
Before installation, the headgear will be refurbished and painted by engineers.
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Rooney, 29, scored in the Euro 2016 qualifying win over Switzerland to overtake Charlton's record of 49.
Directly addressing Rooney, Charlton said: "It is a record that I am sure you will hold for a long time.
"And it is clear to see that you will go on scoring for your club and country for a long time to come.
Rooney was given his debut by Sven-Goran Eriksson in February 2003, coming on as a half-time substitute against Australia. Just six months later, he became England's youngest scorer, netting in a Euro 2004 qualifier against Macedonia.
His 50 goals have come in 107 caps - one game more than Charlton.
"I obviously cannot deny that I am disappointed that I now don't hold this record, however, I am absolutely delighted that it is Wayne, as captain of my beloved club and country, who now holds this record," Charlton added.
"On behalf of myself and everyone at Manchester United I would like to say 'Congratulations Wayne, this is a very proud moment for you and your family'."
Charlton will present Rooney with a special golden boot before the match against Estonia at Wembley in October.
Rooney "thoroughly deserves" his status as England's record goalscorer, says former striker Alan Shearer.
The former Newcastle Untied and Blackburn Rovers forward played 63 times for England, scoring 30 goals, before retiring from international football in 2000 aged 29.
"When you look at how long the record has stood then he should be a very proud person," Shearer told BBC Sport.
"It's a fantastic achievement to have stayed at the top for so many years.
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"He's been around for so many years and no-one has come in and taken the shirt off him and I can't see anyone doing that for the next few years."
Rooney has only scored six goals in major tournaments - four times at Euro 2004, once at Euro 2012 and once at the 2014 World Cup. However, only 12 of his goals have come in friendly matches, so is he worthy of the record?
"The accusation that will always be thrown at him is that he hasn't produced at a major tournament," added Shearer.
"I can understand that and also people will say there are easier games nowadays, but his record goals per games is excellent.
"It's not his fault extra teams or so-called weaker teams were put in competitions. He did his job, he scored goals and he broke the record."
Former England captain John Terry played in the same team as Rooney at the World Cup in 2006 and 2010.
The Chelsea defender said on Instagram: "Congratulations waynerooney on becoming England's top goalscorer.
"I've had the pleasure to play alongside Wayne and for me he's England's best EVER.
"I've seen 1st hand him do things with the ball that I've never seen before. A winner and a leader and so proud to see him wearing the armband captaining our country. Legend."
My plan is to get on a flight after Seattle Reign's game against Western NY Flash on Saturday.
When your nation does something like what we're doing right now, at some point you want to be a part of it.
I'll be going to the George and Dragon pub after training on Wednesday to watch the semi-final against Portugal - it will be noon here when the game kicks off.
Portugal are in the semi-final for a reason. They didn't just fall into that.
They might not have won a game in 90 minutes, but they haven't lost a game either.
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They're going to be difficult to play against and will pose a threat with individual players, including Cristiano Ronaldo.
It's not going to be an easy game, but I trust that Chris Coleman and the boys know what they are going to do and are going to come through it.
I think they are going to win, I really do.
The team's performances and results have caught the Welsh public's imagination over the last few weeks.
I think people in Wales now realise that football and the national team is something we should proud of and support hugely.
It's taken a while, but to see what's happening now has probably been worth the wait.
Everyone is behind this team.
What the Together Stronger campaign has shown is that as a nation, if we want to get anywhere we have to be together and on the same page.
It does bring you closer together. We have to be there for each other.
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They're doing something incredible, but at the same time they're enjoying it as if were having a game of five-a-side in the park with their mates.
We've got a great team who really want to do well for each other.
The quarter-final win over Belgium emphasised what we're all about as a nation. The character they had, after going a goal down, was incredible.
When you put everything together it has to be one of the best ever performances from a Welsh team.
Before the Belgium game I was training with Seattle and I quickly ran to the locker room as soon as it was over.
The game was on the big screen and I sat unmoved for about two hours.
I ended up being the last one in the changing rooms, sat by myself looking at this blank screen trying to understand what was happening.
It was quite phenomenal.
Jess Fishlock was talking to BBC Wales Sport's Aled Williams.
Babee on Board consists of two companion apps that communicate via Bluetooth.
Once an alert is triggered, people nearby with the app receive a message saying there is someone who needs to sit down.
The app containing the alert button costs £3.99, which will be donated to a children's charity.
The developers said they were charging a fee to prevent it being used by pranksters.
"We would rather give it away for free but we need to ensure there's a barrier so people don't download it for free and troll those around them," said Hew Leith, chief executive of 10X, the British innovation consultancy behind the app.
"We are donating 100% of the profits to charity."
The partner app which notifies passengers that somebody requires a seat can be downloaded for free and will activate automatically if a seat request is sent.
The two apps work "like walkie-talkies" said Mr Leith.
They require the handset's bluetooth location services and notifications to be switched on and the app is currently only available for Apple devices.
"We should be using our eyes [instead] but if you look around you, everyone whips out their phone as soon as they sit down," said Mr Leith.
"When we did user testing quite a few women said that early on in pregnancy, when they are not showing, is when they feel most ill and need a seat the most.
"But visibly you can't see the bump and you can't always see the badge because the trains get so busy."
The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) expressed support.
"Anything that helps women with a 'baby on board' to have a more comfortable journey can only be a good thing," said senior policy adviser Elizabeth Duff.
Analyst Marina Koytcheva from CCS Insight said the firm had recognised a business opportunity.
"Travelling on public transport at rush hour is an arduous task at the best of times. When you are pregnant it is even more challenging," she said.
"It is amazing what technology can do today, but it is also hard to tell how many pregnant women will be willing to pay for the convenience of finding a seat."
In 2016 the South Korean city of Busan successfully trialled a scheme of pink buttons, attached to train carriages and activated via Bluetooth badges, to alert commuters to pregnant women requiring seats.
In London pregnant commuters can get a free "Baby On Board" pin badge from the Tube network.
Bupa sponsored it for 22 years before pulling out in 2014. Supermarket Morrisons stepped in last year.
Chief Executive at The Great Run Company, Mark Hollinshead, said he was confident of finding a sponsor and was in talks with some "ambitious" brands.
The annual half marathon will take place on 11 September.
The 13.1-mile (21km) race, which is thought to be the second largest for participation in the world, takes place between Newcastle and South Shields.
Mr Hollinshead said: "We have several interesting conversations underway with some very ambitious brands but we are not in a position to announce anything."
Leah Gillooly, a lecturer in marketing at Manchester University, said there were a lot of events competing for sponsors and event organisers had to choose carefully to avoid being associated with "undesirable" brands.
In 2013, Newcastle United caused controversy when it named pay-day loans company Wonga as its sponsor.
Ms Gillooly said: "The run is a fantastic event, but the sponsorship landscape is tricky with a lot of events competing for brands.
"Organisers are commercial so they do have an eye on profit, but it's important when selecting a sponsor that they don't just choose the one offering the most cash."
She also said events can go ahead without sponsors, but they would not make as much money to put towards future events.
Morrisons said the company had been glad to back the run, but it was "focusing on other ways to reach customers".
The US government has partially closed after Congress failed to agree a budget and will run out of cash on 17 October unless its debt ceiling is raised.
In a TV interview on Wednesday, Mr Obama said he was "exasperated".
He later held talks with Congressional leaders that ended without agreement.
The US government closed non-essential operations on Tuesday after Congress failed to strike a deal on a new budget.
Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the impasse.
The shutdown has left more than 700,000 employees on unpaid leave and closed national parks, tourist sites, government websites, office buildings, and more.
However, as one budget crisis raged in Washington DC, another one - potentially more dangerous - loomed in the coming weeks.
On 17 October, the US government will run out of cash to pay its bills unless the debt ceiling is raised.
By Mark MardellNorth America editor
On both issues, the Republicans who control the House of Representatives have demanded concessions from Mr Obama and his fellow Democrats in return for funding the government's continued operation and for raising the debt ceiling.
Chiefly, the Republicans demand the repeal, delay or defunding of a healthcare reform law - dubbed Obamacare - passed by the Democrats in 2010.
Major portions of that law, which was subsequently validated by the US Supreme Court and was a major issue in the 2012 presidential election, took effect on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Mr Obama met the heads of some of Wall Street's biggest banks - including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America - to discuss the debt ceiling and other economic issues.
The bankers are members of the Financial Services Forum, a lobby group which has, along with 250 other businesses, sent a letter to Congress urging it to raise the debt limit.
Following the meeting, Mr Obama told CNBC "it's important for them to recognise that this is going to have a profound impact on our economy and their bottom lines".
Mr Obama also said he was unwilling to negotiate "with the extremist wing of one party" as the 17 October deadline neared.
"The message I have for the [Congressional] leaders is, as soon as we get a clean piece of legislation that reopens the government... until we get that done, until we make sure that Congress allows [the Department of the Treasury] to pay for things that Congress itself already authorised, we are not going to engage in a series of negotiations," he said.
As foreign markets anxiously monitored the US budget crisis, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi warned that a protracted shutdown was "a risk not only for the US, but also the world economy".
On Wednesday evening Mr Obama met Republican House Speaker John Boehner, as well as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the White House.
Mr Boehner later left the talks complaining that the Democrats would not negotiate.
"All we're asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the American people under Obamacare,'' he told reporters.
Nancy Pelosi, however, accused the Republicans of "moving the goalposts" on the budget deal.
Harry Reid said Democrats were "locked in tight on Obamacare'' and neither the president nor Democrats in Congress would accept changes to the law as the price for a deal on reopening the government.
Analysts say Mr Boehner could end the current government showdown by allowing the House to vote on a "clean" budget bill that does not alter the health law, because that could pass with a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans.
But doing so would risk his standing with the most conservative elements of his caucus.
Earlier on Wednesday, senior US intelligence officials warned the shutdown of the government seriously damaged the ability of spy agencies to protect the US.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel that an estimated 70% of intelligence workers had been placed on unpaid leave.
Also on Wednesday, the White House announced Mr Obama would cut short a planned four-nation tour of Asia next week.
He will attend regional summits in Indonesia and Brunei, but skip Malaysia and the Philippines due to the government shutdown.
The US government ceased operations deemed non-essential at midnight on Tuesday, when the previous budget expired.
National parks and Washington's Smithsonian museums are closed, pension and veterans' benefit cheques will be delayed, and visa and passport applications will go unprocessed.
However, members of the military will be paid.
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But the Gunners' largest shareholder Stan Kroenke has certainly splashed some cash - on a Texas ranch worth about £500m.
The property is spread over six counties and Kroenke, who is worth about £5bn, now owns more than 865,000 acres of land in the United States - an area three times the size of Los Angeles, or four-and-a-half times the size of New York.
Only eight people own more land than Kroenke in the United States.
But the American entrepreneur - who now owns 11 ranches - isn't the only sports owner who's enjoying the finer things in life....
Ever dreamed of building your own house? India's richest man Mukesh Ambani has done it, and he's done it in style.
The 58-year-old founder of cricket franchise Mumbai Indians, who is worth $14bn, constructed a 27-floor, 400,000 square-foot skyscraper in Mumbai.
Valued at a billion dollars (£687m), the Antilla building is thought to be the most expensive private home in the world.
Who doesn't need six storeys of underground parking, three helicopter pads, and a staff of 600 people?
Why have one yacht when you can have five mega yachts?
Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovic has built up quite a fleet thanks to his £5.2bn fortune, and is the proud owner of the largest super yacht in the world - the Eclipse.
The £1.5bn vessel boasts a 16 metre swimming pool, space for three helicopters and, of course, a dance floor.
And just in case Abramovic needs a speedier form of transport, he's also got a customised Boeing 767 private jet.
Can he park that at Stamford Bridge?
In 2014, ex-Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer fancied a new toy, so he had a root behind the back of the sofa and found £1.3bn to buy the LA Clippers basketball team.
It is the highest price ever paid for an NBA team, but a mere drop in the ocean for a man worth £16bn.
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He received 916 first preference votes and was elected on the 5th count.
Dr Barry told the BBC's Julie McCullough he had enjoyed campaigning even though he had been bitten by a dog.
Despite the low figure, it is a 4% increase from 2011's numbers, the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film said.
The research found women comprised 18% of all directors, executive producers, writers, cinematographers and editors.
It also showed women were more likely to work in the documentary, drama and animated film genres.
The Centre has been conducting the industry survey for more than a decade to track trends.
The number of female producers has held steady at 25% for the past two years, while female writers rose to 15%, up from a low of 10% in 2006.
The number of female editors between 1998-2012 has remained fairly constant in the 20%-21% range. Cinematographers have fluctuated between 2%-4%, although figures for 2012 were on the low end of the range.
No women have made it onto the shortlist for best director at this year's Oscars, while Zero Dark Thirty is the only best picture nominee to have been directed by a woman - Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow.
A separate study by the Sundance Institute and Women in Film showed women fared better in the independent film sector.
Looking at films shown at the Sundance Film Festival over the past decade - and accounting for 820 narrative and documentary films - researchers found women represented 29.8% of some 11,000 filmmakers.
There are more women working in documentary films than narrative films, but study director Stacy Smith said her research found that "as commerce moves in, females move out".
Women In Film president Cathy Schulman added: "This data shows us that there is a higher representation of female filmmakers in independent film as compared to Hollywood - but it also highlights the work that is still to be done for women to achieve equal footing in the field."
The study also found that films directed by women employ greater numbers of women behind the camera than those made by men.
The organisers of last year's Cannes Film Festival were criticised when the list of 22 films nominated for its top prize, the Palme d'Or, was entirely made up of male directors.
Officials ordered the closure of 17 schools and a community centre on Friday.
It is not yet known when they will re-open.
It is now feared that all schools built under the same private finance contract could pose a safety risk to children and staff.
In Edinburgh, this includes 10 primary schools, five secondaries and two additional support needs schools - and the Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre.
Edinburgh Schools Partnership, which operates the buildings, has now apologised.
In the meantime, about 9,000 children face having nowhere to go when schools resume after the Easter break.
Four schools in Edinburgh have closed due to structural concerns in the last month.
Miller, the contractors who built the schools ten years ago, were working under the Public Private Partnership 1 project.
A spokeswoman for ESP said: "While carrying out remedial works on Friday afternoon, a new issue came to light at two schools - Oxgangs and St Peter's - relating to an absence of header ties in sections of the building.
"The standard of construction carried out by the building contractor is completely unacceptable and we are now undertaking full structural surveys to determine whether this issue is more widespread.
She added: "Edinburgh Schools Partnership will accept full financial responsibility for investigating and resolving these issues.
"We would like to apologise to parents and pupils for all of the uncertainty and inconvenience caused, and give our sincere assurances that we will fix these issues."
An emergency meeting of the Scottish government's resilience committee was held on Saturday .
Education secretary Angela Constance said: "It is too early to assess any wider implications for schools in other parts of Scotland.
"However, Scottish Government officials have written to all local authorities this weekend to ask them to carry out any necessary checks on their own estate as soon as possible.
"We understand that all of the affected buildings in Edinburgh were completed over 10 years ago.
"We will ensure that, as more information about the nature of the issue in Edinburgh is established, this is passed on to other local authorities to assist them in this process."
The problems were first uncovered in January when a wall at Oxgangs Primary collapsed during high winds.
Three other schools were later closed after inspections revealed problems with the way walls had been built.
The schools were all expected to re-open after the Easter break.
But the City of Edinburgh Council said fresh concerns had been raised during remedial work at Oxgangs Primary on Friday.
It said Edinburgh Schools Partnership (ESP), which constructed the buildings and manages them on behalf of the council, was unable to give assurances that buildings built under the Public Private Partnership 1 (PPP1) were safe.
Luke McCullough, chairman of the Royal High School's Parent Council, said the immediate priority was how the council resolves the situation it finds itself in.
He said: "It's got pupils who are now three weeks away from sitting big exams - Highers, advanced Highers, and of course the new National Fives.
"So what arrangements are the council going to put in place for those students to get them doing something that's useful and working towards those exams as quickly as possible?"
With both teams eyeing the FA Cup semi-finals in a fortnight and struggling in the league, it is no surprise that this match lacked quality at times.
Defensive errors led to the two goals. James McCarthy nicked the ball from Miguel Britos to coolly finish.
Then seconds later Jose Holebas headed home at the far post from a corner which Everton had needlessly conceded.
It was John Stones, attempting to keep the ball alive in first-half stoppage time, who passed the ball back to Joel Robles forcing the goalkeeper to boot it out for a corner.
Admittedly, Everton's defence should have dealt better with the resultant set-piece which deflected in off Seamus Coleman.
Romelu Lukaku hit the crossbar in the dying minutes and Watford too could have sneaked victory at the end only for an acrobatic Robles save to deny a deflected Ben Watson strike from distance. A draw, however, was the fairer result.
Toffees fans may have a trip to Wembley to look forward to at the end of the month, but that has not sated some of the fans who have become dismayed by the team's performances in the league.
Last Sunday's 1-0 loss to Manchester United was their third successive league defeat and a loss which led Leighton Baines to claim the team lacked chemistry, comments he would later apologise for.
But the banners around Vicarage Road were evidence that all is not well on the blue half of Merseyside. "Martinez out" read one banner, while another said "Baines is one of us".
Martinez described the draw as a "solid performance" but his team were well below the standards his young side had set in the early stages of the season, when they were so easy on the eye.
With just two victories in 12 league matches this year, Watford lacked confidence in the early stages of the match but were more sure defensively than the team which was thumped 4-0 by Arsenal last weekend.
It was the hosts who enjoyed the best chance of the match - a fine 25-yard strike from Jose Manuel Jurado forcing a fingertip save from Robles - until McCarthy struck.
Indeed, the Hornets were finishing the first half strongly when Craig Cathcart tamely headed across to Britos, putting his team-mate under needless pressure.
The Uruguayan flapped, McCarthy nicked possession and the Republic of Ireland international finished beyond Gomes for his first goal of the season. But Everton's lead was short-lived.
Watford equalised within a minute when Robles conceded a cheap corner from which Holebas headed in at the back post.
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Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores: "It's like we forgot a little to be competitive in the Premier League. We were competitive in the FA Cup and it's time to recuperate that power - this team has played really well this season.
"It was a fair result. The most important thing for us was to have the feeling that we had the legs and the power so I'm happy.
"It was important to score as we didn't deserve to go into half-time behind. It was very hard for us, it was nice we were able to draw level before half-time."
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Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We had to work really hard for it. It was a good game, two teams with a lot of energy playing on the front foot. Watford were at their very best.
"It's a disappointment to concede from a dead-ball situation so close to half time and because of the nature of the goal, the deflection.
"We never allowed Watford to regain momentum. We were strong in the second half again and the amount of chances we created. We showed a little bit of rustiness from the last few games. Another day we would have scored the winning goal."
Match ends, Watford 1, Everton 1.
Second Half ends, Watford 1, Everton 1.
Attempt saved. Odion Ighalo (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mario Suárez.
Odion Ighalo (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Odion Ighalo (Watford).
Offside, Watford. Troy Deeney tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Adlène Guédioura (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Joel Robles.
Attempt saved. Ben Watson (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Nordin Amrabat.
Substitution, Everton. Ramiro Funes Mori replaces Phil Jagielka because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Seamus Coleman with a cross.
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Kevin Mirallas (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Watson (Watford).
Substitution, Watford. Mario Suárez replaces Etienne Capoue because of an injury.
Foul by Seamus Coleman (Everton).
Nordin Amrabat (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Gerard Deulofeu.
Offside, Everton. Tom Cleverley tries a through ball, but Seamus Coleman is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Etienne Capoue (Watford) because of an injury.
Foul by James McCarthy (Everton).
Nordin Amrabat (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Heurelho Gomes.
Attempt saved. Aaron Lennon (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Substitution, Everton. Tom Cleverley replaces Ross Barkley.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. José Holebas (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Phil Jagielka (Everton).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Watford. Nordin Amrabat replaces Jurado.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by James McCarthy.
Attempt blocked. José Holebas (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adlène Guédioura.
Foul by Phil Jagielka (Everton).
Odion Ighalo (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Aaron Lennon (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gareth Barry.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Miguel Britos.
Joseph Hedley was killed in in his cottage in Tynedale, Northumberland. The crime has never been solved.
After being demolished in 1872, a team at Beamish Museum has now used records from old maps to find the location of what remains of his home.
Now the museum plans to recreate the building in its new development.
Murdered at his cottage on 3 January 1826, Mr Hedley's body was found by concerned neighbours.
Despite the crime making national headlines and a substantial reward being offered, his killer was never found.
Even though the cottage was demolished, sketches made in the wake of his death gave an "extremely rare insight" into its history.
A team at the museum used records from old maps and descriptions of the crime to identify the approximate location of the house.
Once they had discovered the rough site, they found parts of the building in the field.
Now the museum is going to excavate the site with members of the community so it can be replicated in its Georgian area.
Project officer Geraldine Straker said his life story is "fascinating" yet "tragic".
"We really want the local community to be part of this project to recreate Joe's cottage at Beamish, so we'll be letting people know how they can get involved, from taking part in excavating his cottage, to helping plan its recreation at Beamish," she said.
The move is part of a £17m development which will see the museum's Georgian area expanded, with new features including a Georgian coaching inn.
The project, which has received a £10.75m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will also include dedicated areas for people living with dementia, a cinema and a new 1950s development with replica social housing, a cafe, shops and police house,
RWE Innogy wants to build 32 turbines in Clocaenog Forest near Llyn Brenig in Denbighshire.
The 'late' technical challenge to the legal hearing was raised only after the judge spent two days listening to arguments at Mold Law Courts.
Resident Michael Williams and 10 other people are looking at their options.
A RWE Innogy spokesman said: "The project will create an opportunity for significant community, environmental and energy benefits.
"Clocaenog Forest Wind Farm could support an injection of up to £40m into Wales' supply chain during construction alone.
"We are aware that a legal challenge against a decision by the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change to grant planning permission, was dismissed by The High Court.
"However, we understand that a request to appeal that decision has since been submitted."
The judge had reserved judgment when he received a letter from lawyers representing the energy company claiming that Mr Williams had put his claim in too late.
The campaigner said he has now been told that the date has been amended but the judge in the case has refused to reveal what his ruling would have been.
The legal action was launched after the UK energy secretary approved the turbines last September.
Emilio Palacio fled to the US a year ago, after being sentenced to jail in a libel case brought by President Rafael Correa.
Mr Palacio said he was a victim of political persecution.
Ecuador has been at the centre of another asylum case since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in its London embassy in June.
Mr Assange, who is wanted in Sweden for rape allegations, was granted asylum in Ecuador, but remains at the embassy as the British government refuses to give him safe passage.
Critics of left-wing President Correa pointed out that while his government claimed that Mr Assange was a victim of political persecution it attacked press freedom in his own country.
Emilio Palacio, a well-known columnist for El Universo newspaper, said journalists in Ecuador worked under the permanent threat of going to jail.
"I am very grateful to the American government not only for what it has done for me and my family, but also for what this decision means for Ecuadorean journalists," he told the AFP news agency.
Mr Palacio fled to Miami last year after a court sentenced him and the three newspaper owners - Carlos, Cesar and Nicolas Perez - to three years in jail each.
They were also ordered to pay $40m in fines and damages.
Their lawyers said the punishment was disproportionate and appealed.
The sentence was confirmed by a court in February, but President Correa announced shortly after that he had decided to pardon the accused.
Mr Correa brought the lawsuit after an article in El Universo questioned an army raid to rescue him from a violent protest by striking police officers in September 2010.
In an article published in El Universo in February, Mr Palacio referred to Mr Correa as "the dictator" and said the president had ordered soldiers to fire on the hospital.
The 45-year-old former Tottenham defender, who led Newport to promotion from the Conference in 2013, leaves County sixth in the League Two table.
Jimmy Dack and Wayne Hatswell have been placed in temporary charge of Newport.
Gillingham have been without a manager since Peter Taylor was sacked on New Year's Eve.
Since then a four-man caretaker team comprising Andy Hessenthaler, Steve Lovell, Darren Hare and Mark Patterson has been in charge.
"I'm looking forward to the task at hand, it's a step up for me and after watching the squad, there is development here and a fan base," said Edinburgh.
The Gills have won two of their five league games since Taylor's departure and are currently 18th in League One, seven points off the play-off places and four points above the relegation zone.
Mr Carmichael has faced calls to resign over the leak of a memo which wrongly suggested Nicola Sturgeon wanted David Cameron as prime minister.
More than £40,000 has been raised online to fund legal representation.
The MP won the support of his local party earlier this week.
Two islanders in Orkney, one of whom is an SNP member, have raised more than £40,000 through an online crowd-funding website to pay for legal representation.
Mr Carmichael has admitted an error of judgement, but opponents believe the truth about his involvement in the leaking of the memo could have altered the result in his constituency, where he finished just over 800 votes ahead of the SNP.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have said that Mr Carmichael will not face any party disciplinary action over the matter.
The SNP have been calling on Mr Carmichael - the only remaining Lib Dem MP in Scotland - to consider his position.
An official Cabinet Office inquiry found he approved the leak of an official memo by his special adviser to a newspaper during the campaign.
The document, written by a civil servant in the Scotland Office, claimed Scotland's first minister told the French Ambassador to the UK that she would prefer Mr Cameron as prime minister rather than Ed Miliband - comments Ms Sturgeon has always insisted she never made.
Mr Carmichael later said the first he had heard of the memo was when he was contacted by a journalist.
He has since acknowledged that while he had not seen the document before it was published, he was aware of its content and agreed that it should be made public.
Protests have been held in Kirkwall and Lerwick calling for Mr Carmichael to quit, but he insists he has apologised, forfeited his ministerial pay-off and will continue as an MP.
The parliamentary standards commissioner is considering whether to accept a complaint about Mr Carmichael's conduct, and Police Scotland has also received a complaint.
Mr Kumar said on Wednesday that he had to resign because of corruption probes against the leaders of his alliance partner, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Mr Kumar has found a new partner in PM Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which he defeated in 2015 in a bitterly contested state election.
The RJD has accused him of "betrayal".
Former federal minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, who leads the RJD, said Mr Kumar had colluded with the BJP to tarnish his party's image.
Mr Yadav and his son Tejaswi, who was the deputy chief minister in Mr Kumar's government, are being investigated for corruption by India's Central Bureau of Investigation.
They have denied any wrongdoing.
Mr Kumar told reporters that he had a "zero tolerance" policy on corruption, and had asked his deputy to explain the charges against him to the public.
He added that Mr Yadav refused to follow his advice.
Mr Kumar's new stint also marks his return to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
He had quit the NDA in 2013 citing differences with the BJP's decision to announce Mr Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.
The fire service was alerted to the incident at Cropton, near Pickering, at 1500 BST.
About 150 acres (0.6km-sq) of moorland have been destroyed with eight fire crews needed to tackle the fire when it was at its strongest.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said there had been a spate of similar fires in the area recently. No one was hurt in the incident.
13 October 2015 Last updated at 08:16 BST
Their mum couldn't look after them so they're being cared for by zoo staff in a special nursery of their own.
Staff are bottle feeding the cubs, who are enjoying crawling around their nursery and playing with other tiger cubs.
Dr Simon Poole was testifying in the retrial of Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, who denies supplying an illegal gun to Mr Duggan the day he was shot.
Post-mortem test showed Mr Duggan was shot in the chest and upper right arm.
He was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011 in Tottenham, north London.
His death sparked riots that swept across the capital and the country.
The Old Bailey heard the fatal shot was to the chest, entering the front right hand side and exiting the back of Mr Duggan on the left hand side.
The other bullet entered the right upper arm and tracked down a few centimetres under the skin, before exiting the arm and grazing the skin of the chest.
The doctor said he was unable to say the order in which the bullets were fired.
Stuart Denney QC, barrister for Mr Hutchinson-Foster, asked the pathologist to imagine a scene in which Mr Duggan had got out of a minicab and was heading towards a wall beside the road while a police officer had got out of a car behind the taxi and was standing on the pavement.
The jury has already heard evidence from a police officer known as V53 who described a similar situation leading up to the shooting.
Mr Denney suggested that if the police officer then fired the shot that struck Mr Duggan in the chest, the track of the bullet would have to pass from the left to the right.
He asked the pathologist: "But in fact the chest wound is right to left?"
"Yes, that's right," answered Dr Poole.
Mr Denney said: "So the scenario can't be right? The officer fires to his left and the bullet hits Mr Duggan in the chest and it should go from left to right - but it went right to left. Therefore the scenario can't be right?"
"I agree," Dr Poole replied.
Under re-examination Dr Poole agreed with the prosecution that if Mr Duggan turned to face the person who fired the shot, that would change the position of his body in relation to the person who fired the shot.
The trial continues.
Following a month-long online poll, toy maker Hasbro said the feline design had beaten competition from a robot, helicopter, diamond ring and a guitar.
"I think there were a lot of cat lovers in the world that reached out," said Hasbro's Jonathan Berkowitz.
It is the first time fans have had a say on which of the eight tokens to keep and which to lose.
"Tokens are always a key part of the Monopoly game... and our fans are very passionate about their tokens, about which token they use while they play," Mr Berkowitz added.
The Scottie dog was the clear favourite with fans from more than 120 countries who took part in the contest to decide which token should be saved, eventually securing 29% of the vote.
While the shoe, wheelbarrow and iron were neck and neck in the final hours of voting, the iron ended up with just 8% of the vote and will now be retired from the game.
"While we're a bit sad to see the iron go, the cat token is a fantastic choice by the fans and we have no doubt it will become just as iconic as the original tokens," said Eric Nyman from Hasbro.
The iron was one of the original game tokens introduced by the Parker Brothers in 1935, when the appliance was an important part of domestic life. The Scottie dog and wheelbarrow were added in the early 1950s.
Previous tokens retired in the 1950s included a lantern, a purse and a rocking horse.
The new cat design received 31% of the total vote and will be added to the existing tokens which include a race car, thimble, top hat, and battleship.
Versions of Monopoly with the new token will come out later this year.
South Caernarfon Creameries first started operating at the site near Pwllheli in 1937. It will use the money to modernise its production facilities.
The firm will also increase its first phase capacity from 9,500 to 11,500 tonnes a year.
The loan comes from the Wales Capital Growth Fund, managed by Finance Wales.
Managing director Alan Jones said: "We reviewed our business model in 2010 and decided to focus on the development of our core products of Welsh cheese and butter.
"Our Dragon branded cheese is the leading Welsh brand and is available in most UK supermarkets. This investment to develop our facilities is required to further grow the brand as well as to enable us to develop other market opportunities."
But Anglesey and the Llyn Peninsula, in Gwynedd, saw temperatures between 13C (55F) and 15C (59F) on Saturday.
The previous highest temperature in Wales this year was 18.7C (66F) in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, on 25 March.
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Robert Farmer put the English hosts ahead midway through the first period.
Belfast seized control in the second period and Michael Forney levelled before Mike Radja made it 2-1.
However, the Panthers hit back in the third period and won the game thanks to goals from Stephan Schultz, Robert Lachowicz and Juraj Kolnik.
The win takes Nottingham above the Giants, who have slipped to fifth place in the league standings.
Belfast were hoping to bounce back after two defeats at the hands of Sheffield Steelers last weekend.
The Giants are back in action on Saturday night with a meeting against leaders Cardiff Devils in Wales.
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Squash has helped him develop confidence on and off the court and now he says: "I want to get other deaf people and other kids playing squash."
"It's a community," explains Noah's dad. "And that community is very social, caring and welcoming the whole family.
"Squash is not a sport that makes deafness a disadvantage."
If you would like to learn more about squash check out our guide
As part of BBC One's Sport Relief coverage on 21 March, the sketch will see Beckham head to Peckham to join the duo in a greasy spoon cafe.
Sir David and Lyndhurst last played the wheeler-dealing Trotter brothers in a Christmas special in 2003.
Sport Relief runs between 21-23 March.
Beckham has taken part in several sketches for the charity over the years, including cuddling up in bed and sharing a bath with actor James Corden in 2012.
The brief return of Only Fools and Horses has been eagerly awaited by fans of the show, which ran from 1981.
It was regularly voted Britain's best sitcom and the 1996 Christmas special Time On Our Hands, in which Del Boy came good on his ambition to turn the Peckham brothers into millionaires, was watched by more than 24 million people.
This year's Sport Relief television coverage will come live from the Olympic Park with presenters including Gary Lineker, Gaby Logan, Claudia Winkleman, Jack Whitehall and Clare Balding.
The evening will also feature a Strictly Come Dancing special, with four Paralympians and their professional dance partners taking on a group dance challenge in the hope of taking home a Sport Relief glitter ball trophy.
Celebrity fundraisers for 2014 include Davina McCall, who will attempt to get herself from London to Edinburgh in a week - by cycling, running and swimming Windermere.
Little Mix are recording this year's Sport Relief single, a cover of Cameo's Word Up, and have just returned from a trip to Liberia with the charity.
"It was shocking to see how tough people's lives are in the slums there," said the band's Leigh-Anne Pinnock.
"Knowing how the money raised really does help change lives was inspiring and that's why I hope everyone gets involved, signs up to the Games and does their bit this year."
The public will be able to take part in a number of events over the weekend, choosing to run, swim or cycle at the Sport Relief Games.
Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton, singer Michael Ball and actress Samantha Bond are among the celebrities who have been competing in The Great Sport Relief Bake Off this month.
A new show for this year, Sport Relief's Top Dog, will launch on BBC Two in February, featuring celebrity team captains and members of the public competing to see their pet crowned the winner.
The 37-year-old suffered a punctured lung and a broken rib in a heavy fall at Kempton's BetBright Genius Adonis Juvenile Hurdle, which was won by Master Blueyes.
The Irishman is due to ride a string of fancied mounts at Cheltenham, including Unowhatimeanharry and Yanworth.
Doctors hope he may be fit for the festival, which starts on March 14.
The jockey was taken to hospital for further examination after he appeared to take a kick to the upper body from a following horse.
"Charli Parcs just stepped at the flight and came down. I got a bit of a kicking from Harry Skelton's horse Bedrock who was coming behind us," Geraghty told www.attheraces.com.
"I was sore afterwards so I gave up the rest of my rides in the day.
"The prognosis is not too bad. The doctors are hopeful that I will be back in time for the Cheltenham Festival. I'm hopeful too."
Officers were called to a disturbance on Burnham Walk at about 02:00 GMT on Saturday, Greater Manchester Police confirmed.
A 43-year-old man was found "barely conscious". He was taken to hospital but later died.
A post mortem examination is due to take place later.
The 18-year-old is being questioned in police custody.
Det Ch Insp Sarah Jones said: "We are investigating the circumstances surrounding this man's death and are making enquiries to establish what exactly took place during this disturbance.
"The man's family is being supported by our specialist officers at this very difficult time."
Anyone who saw or heard anything in the area is asked to contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers.
England's bid to avenge a 5-0 defeat in 2013-14 begins on 8 July, with every ball covered live by Test Match Special on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and online.
"They have to take Australia on with the mentality of 'we don't care about losing' because that will make the Aussies fear them more," said TMS pundit Vaughan.
"If they have any kind of worries or concerns, then they will get walloped."
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Alastair Cook's side will take on Australia with new coach Trevor Bayliss in place after displaying a revamped positive approach in the Test and limited-overs series against New Zealand.
And Vaughan, who led England to Ashes success in 2005, says he can see parallels between this summer and that successful campaign of 10 years ago.
"I can sense the country is really enjoying cricket and the way England are playing," said Vaughan.
"If England can play in the same spirit as we've seen in the ODI series, even though the Ashes are a different format, they have a chance of causing a shock.
"My concern is England haven't played this way for long enough. In 2005 we played it for 18 months, it was embedded into our brains. I don't know if this England have done it for long enough to trust themselves."
Test Match Special will have live coverage of every ball of the five-match Ashes series on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and at bbc.co.uk/cricket.
You can follow it wherever you are, with commentary on your mobile or tablet via the BBC Sport App.
The BBC Sport website will bring you live text commentary every day from 09:00 BST, as well as all the latest news, features, votes and the best of social media.
Fans can also get push alerts via the BBC Sport app to know when a wicket has fallen.
If you are outside the UK you can listen to TMS' Ashes coverage via the England and Wales Cricket Board's YouTube channel (although some territories will be subject to ECB rights agreements).
Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew will team up with commentators Ed Smith, Henry Blofeld, Simon Mann and Jim Maxwell.
Former England stars Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott, Graeme Swann, Vic Marks, Phil Tufnell and Alec Stewart will be providing their analysis and insight into the key moments throughout the series.
And they will be joined in the commentary box by former Australia fast bowler Glenn McGrath, who has already predicted a 5-0 whitewash for the tourists.
Vonn, 32, had surgery after injuring her arm in a training crash in Colorado in November.
She will compete at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in Austria on 14 January.
"It's been a tough three months with over 300 hours of rehabilitation but being able to compete again makes it worth it," she told Eurosport.
"I have already missed a few races but hopefully I can overcome that and still make a run at some World Cup titles," she added.
In February 2016 she raced with a hairline fracture of her knee, before the injury subsequently forced her to stop competing.
She also suffered a serious knee injury in 2013 which caused her to miss much of the season in both that year and 2014.
Winchester Crown Court heard the fictional "James Richards" told women using match.com he needed money to release a £100m inheritance in India.
One victim handed over £174,000.
Peter Monty Emu, 28, of Portsmouth, and Adewunmi Nusi, 27, of Hermitage, Berkshire, were convicted of money laundering. Chukwuka Ugwu, 28, and Emmanuel Oko admitted the same charge.
Oko, 29, of Waverley Grove, Southsea, also admitted fraud.
The four men are due to be sentenced next month and the Crown Prosecution Service will apply for the "ill-gotten" money to be confiscated.
The court heard how fake profiles were created on the dating site.
Women were flattered by the messages from the "attractive middle-aged man", one of which said: "I knew our friendship would grow from the first day we spoke but neither one of us could imagine the love exploding, no thundering into our hearts."
Once the relationships developed, the conspirators started requesting cash.
The women were first asked for a £700 legal fee by a fake solicitor but then the sums requested rose to up to £100,000.
One victim, Suzanne Hardman, handed over £174,000.
Suspicions were raised when one woman received the same email twice and wrote back to the sender, saying: "I wonder how many hearts you have broken".
Det Con Darrin Carey, of Hampshire Constabulary, said: "The women were duped into thinking that they were talking to a man who was genuinely looking for love on the dating website match.com.
"Unfortunately for them, they were part of an elaborate scam."
Abbey Boston, 28, of Titchfield, Hampshire, was cleared of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
Eberechi Ekpo, 26, of Portsmouth was acquitted under directions of the judge on 29 August.
A match.com spokeswoman said: "Unfortunately, there is a tiny minority of people out there who want to exploit others over the internet. We advise people to use the same common sense as they would if they were meeting someone in a bar or a pub.
"We give lots of safe-dating advice on our site and in emails to members. This makes it clear that you should never send money to anyone you meet online.
"We invest heavily in the latest technology alongside a dedicated team of people and work closely with the authorities to make dating as safe as we can."
Eighty three jobs were put at risk when Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) failed to find a bidder for the power station in Uskmouth, near Newport, in May, 2014.
But SSE confirmed the station's sale in December, 2014.
New owner, Simec Group Ltd, says it will be converted to biomass fuel.
The station, which was built more than 50 years ago, was described before its sale as the UK's least efficient coal-fired power station.
Hong Kong-based Simec said it had restarted production at the station and hopes to employ more staff as production increases.
Mr Comey was sacked by President Trump in May while leading the FBI's investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
He has never been far from the spotlight in recent years.
Hillary Clinton blames her election defeat on his decision to announce he was reopening the FBI investigation into her use of private email.
The book is due to be completed in spring 2018 and does not yet have a title.
It will contain "previously unheard of anecdotes", Flatiron Books said in a statement.
His sacking by President Trump was widely decried and the two men have offered differing accounts of their private conversations.
The president said shortly afterwards that "this Russia thing" was a factor in his mind when he decided to get rid of him.
On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Christopher Wray as his successor to head the FBI.
In his Mansion House speech Mr Carney will say individuals acted with a "culture of impunity".
But he will warn: "The age of irresponsibility is over."
Meanwhile, Chancellor George Osborne will say he plans to bind future governments to maintaining a budget surplus when the economy is growing.
Mr Osborne will give the Mansion House audience more details of the proposal he first announced in January.
Mr Carney will say markets responsible for trillions of pounds of global trade were stained by excess, collusion and abuse and "ethical drift" had taken hold.
"Criminal sanctions should be updated, with market abuse rules similarly extended and maximum prison terms lengthened," he will add.
He will say the Bank of England under his predecessor, Lord King, failed in the run-up to the financial crisis because of its arcane and ambiguous rules and its inability to identify risks in the banking system. It failed to effectively control markets where abuse was rife.
"Though markets can be powerful drivers of prosperity, markets can go wrong," according to Mr Carney.
"Left unattended, they are prone to instability, excess and abuse.
"Personal accountability was lacking, with a culture of impunity developing.
"All these factors contributed to an ethical drift. Unethical behaviour went unchecked, proliferated and eventually became the norm."
Mr Osborne, who is also speaking at the Mansion House, will say: "The public rightly asks: 'Why is it after so many scandals so few individuals have faced punishment in the courts?'
"Individuals who fraudulently manipulate markets and commit financial crime should be treated like the criminals they are - and they will be."
The chancellor and the governor will speak as the Fair and Effective Markets Review is published - a report by the Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority on strengthening controls in financial markets.
The report recommends a crackdown on rogue traders and a new Market Standards Board that would bring the "age of irresponsibility" to an end.
The review says that criminal sanctions for market abuse should be extended to traders in markets such as foreign exchange, one of the markets hit hardest by manipulation by banks.
It also says that maximum sentences for wrongdoing should be lengthened from seven years to 10.
The report argues that the Senior Managers' Regime of controls already agreed for banks should be extended to more people in financial services, including traders and brokers.
If agreed, that would mean that tens of thousands of people in financial services would be covered by the regulations which can punish wrongdoing with fines.
The Bank said it would immediately agree to be covered by the regime, including the Governor himself.
Mr Carney has reserved some of his harshest criticisms for the Bank of England itself and how it operated ahead of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.
"In the run up to the crisis, the Bank's contribution to the effectiveness of markets fell short," the Governor will say.
"Once under pressure, the Bank could not support the banking system.
"The Bank neither identified the scale of risks in the system nor spotted gaps in the regulatory architecture.
"[And] the Bank's arcane governance blurred the Bank's accountability and, by extension, weakened the social licence of markets."
The Bank of England's governance had now been reformed and more would be done to strengthen the way it operated, according to Mr Carney.
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In the Senedd, Mr Jones was asked if he stood by comments he made in 2012.
At that time he said the missile system would be "more than welcome" in Milford Haven, if it was forced to leave the Clyde if Scotland become independent.
Asked if that was still his message, Mr Jones replied: "No, and that's not going to be the case in the future."
Answering the question, from Plaid Cymru AM Rhun ap Iorwerth, Mr Jones continued: "The weapons system as it is at the moment remains at Faslane, but I certainly hope there will come a time when there is no need for nuclear weapons to be based anywhere - not in Britain, not in the US, Russia or anywhere else in the world."
The exchange came during a Plaid-led debate calling on AMs not to support plans to renew Trident, seen as an attempt to embarrass Labour, as several of the party's AMs want Trident scrapped.
At Westminster, MPs are due to vote on the issue in 2016, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn against renewing Trident while many of his MPs are in favour.
On Tuesday, Mr Corbyn's ally and former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone revealed he has been put in charge of reviewing Labour's defence policy, working alongside shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle.
The pair have opposing views on Trident renewal.
During Wednesday's debate in Cardiff Bay, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said there was "no moral justification for the possession or use of such weapons".
"There is no practical use in possessing them either, based on the security needs of the UK today, " she added.
Plaid's motion was rejected by 35 votes to 14.
Prime Minister David Cameron has described a nuclear deterrent as "the best insurance policy that you can have", to ensure that you are never subject to "nuclear blackmail".
Coginio sgons i fy nhad pan o'n i tua tair oed. O'n i'n gwneud nhw bob dydd bron, ac o'n i yn taflu bob dim mewn powlen . Odd o'n gorfod smalio bod o'n licio nhw ac odd o'n rhoi nhw yn ei focs bwyd ar gyfer gwaith. Nath o ddeud tha fi blynyddoedd wedyn bo nhw'n afiach.
Ofnadwy o embarrassing i ddweud, ond Peter Andre. Hefyd Morgan o'dd yn fy nosbarth i yn yr ysgol - dwi dal yn ffrindia' efo fo.
O'n i allan efo criw o ffrindia, ac rywsut nes i ffeindio'n hun mewn dance-off efo'r hogyn 'ma o'n i'n nabod. Oddo'n fy nghuro i, ac oedd 'na gylch rownd a ni yn gweiddi. O'n i ddim yn meddwl be o'n i'n neud, ond o'n i isho curo fo yn y dawnsio.
Felly 'nes i neidio fyny yn yr awyr a gwneud y splits! Do'n i heb wneud y splits ers oni tua 9 oed, ac o'n i'n gorfod mynd yn syth i'r 'sbyty. Nes i rili brifo a rhwygo cyhur yn fy nghoes, ond nes i ennill y dance off!
Neithiwr. Roedd Rhys Meirion yn ffilmio yma, mi ddaeth y criw draw ata i am bryd o fwyd. 'Nath Rhys ganu Myfanwy i fi, a honno oedd hoff gân fy nhaid.
Dwi mor amhendant, yn cymryd oesodd i 'neud penderfyniad. Weithia nai newid be dwi'n wisgo deg o weithiau cyn gig ac dwi'n cal job gwneud penderfyniad ar le i fynd allan am fwyd neu unrhywbeth fel 'na.
Dwi'n meddwl Ynys Llanddwyn. Mae o mor hyfryd yna, golygfeydd arbennig yno a dwi'n mwynhau mynd yno i gerdded.
Mae 'na amryw o nosweithiau mewn gwahanol ffyrdd- a dyma fi'n bod yn amhendant eto. Yn amlwg roedd pan ges i fy efeilliad, oedd hynny'n arbennig iawn. Hefyd nosweithiau efo teulu a ffrindiau, neu rhyw barti plu efo fy ffrindiau goaru i i gyd efo'i gilydd, mae nhw yn arbennig am resymau gwahanol.
Noson arall a oedd yn briliant oedd sesh ges i yn Llundain efo Tom Jones, mae o'n ddyn lyfli ac mi roedd hynny yn lot o hwyl.
Siaradus, cariadus ac amhendant.
Dwi'n meddwl, am resymau nostalgic, 'Un nos ola leuad'. Mae'r nofel hefyd wedi cael ei leoli ym Mhethesda sydd yn agos i'r ardal dwi'n dod.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Roedd hi'n canu'r blues ac fe 'nath hi ddechrau arddull newydd o chwarae'r gitâr a ddylanwadodd ar fobl fel Chuck Berry. Roedd hi'n ddynes anhygoel ac o flaen ei hamser, a dwi ddim yn meddwl y cafodd hi ddigon o glôd am beth wnaeth hi gyflawni.
Whiplash, ac o'n i'n meddwl fod o reit dda.
Coginio bwyd i fy nheulu a ffrindiau i gyd ac yna cael parti. Dwi'n hoffi cwcio i lot o bobl- mae hynny'n un o fy hoff bethau i wneud.
Mae'n dibynnu ar ba mood dwi ynddo fo ar y pryd, felly bydd rhaid mi roi mwy nag un. Les Indispensables gan Bill Withers, Clandestino gan Manu Chao, a'r albwm Tres Tres Fort gan Staff Benda Bilili.
Eto, ma'n dibynu sut hwyliau sy arnai ar y pryd.
Byswn i'n dweud rhywbeth eitha syml efo madarch a garlleg i ddechrau. Dwi'n hoffi bwyd reit rich felly ella cyri neud bwyd Mecsicanaidd. I bwdin dwi'n meddwl fyswn i'n dewis cheescake fegan dwi'n ei wneud.
Dyn cyffredin am y diwrnod, i weld sut beth ydi o i fod gyda corff ac ymenydd dyn.
Osian Williams
Heartbleed was found in security software used on many websites to ensure data was not spied upon as it passed back and forth.
About 500,000 websites were believed to be vulnerable to attacks that exploited the Heartbleed vulnerability.
The newly discovered bugs are not thought to be as serious as Heartbleed and are harder to exploit.
The software package harbouring all the vulnerabilities is known as OpenSSL and is used to scramble, or encrypt, data as it is swapped between users and a site.
Tech companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Amazon and many others all use OpenSSL.
The fresh batch of vulnerabilities was found as a result of work done to close Heartbleed and ensure other parts of the software were secure. The discovery of Heartbleed led to many big firms pledging cash to the small organisation that developed OpenSSL to help it improve its bug finding and fixing efforts.
Updated versions of OpenSSL that have the bugs patched are now available and anyone running vulnerable versions are being urged to update as soon as possible.
"They are going to have to patch. This will take some time," Lee Weiner, a spokesman for security firm Rapid7 told Reuters.
If exploited the bugs would let attackers run their own programs on a target server or stop it working. The most serious bug would let an attacker interpose themselves between a victim and the server they were using and spy on the data as it passed back and forth.
Writing on the blog of security firm Sophos, Chester Wisniewski said there was no need to panic about the latest bug reports.
"Patch early and patch often," he said. "You will likely see updates for many of your programs on your computer and Android smartphones being updated over the next few weeks."
"More persons are under threat of imminent executions in the coming days," Amnesty International said.
President Yahya Jammeh had vowed to kill all 47 death row inmates by next month, in a national speech to mark the Muslim festival of Eid.
The last official execution in Gambia took place in 1985.
The African Union called on Mr Jammeh to renounce his plans after he made the announcement on Sunday.
But according to Amnesty International, nine people, including one woman, were removed from their prison cells and executed on Thursday night.
Three of those reportedly executed had been sentenced for treason, the group said in a statement.
"The decision of the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to execute nine prisoners after more than a quarter of a century without execution would be a giant leap backwards," said Paule Rigaud, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Africa region.
She added that many of the death row inmates were political prisoners or have faced unfair trials.
A Gambian security source told AFP news agency that all 47 death row prisoners had been "transferred to one place".
Referring to President Jammeh, the source said: "The man is determined to execute the prisoners and he will do so."
The death penalty was abolished when former President Dawda Jawara was in power but reinstated in 1995 shortly after Mr Jammeh seized power in a military coup.
"By the middle of next month, all the death sentences would have been carried out to the letter; there is no way my government will allow 99% of the population to be held to ransom by criminals," President Jammeh said in an speech on Sunday, which was broadcast on national television the next day.
In response, Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi, who is the current chair of the African Union, sent his foreign minister to Gambia.
"After having learned of the imminent execution of a number of prisoners sentenced to death, President Yayi, who is very concerned, wished that President Yahya Jammeh not carry out such a decision," Beninois Foreign Minister Nassirou Bako Arifari told BBC Afrique.
Mr Jammeh's human rights record has often been criticised by international organisations, with particular concerns over press freedom.
Last year, after winning a fourth term in office in widely criticised polls he told the BBC that his critics could "go to hell" because he feared "only Allah".
The tiny West African state is a popular tourist destination.
Gillian Sawyer owed £2,735 for various periods up to 2010 and had failed to adhere to seven court orders for payment, South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court heard.
Sawyer, 48, of Plessey Road in Blyth, was previously given a suspended sentence for failing to pay and was jailed for 12 days.
Northumberland County Council said prosecution was the only option.
Colin Logan, head of financial and customer services, said: "The council has a duty to its paying residents to take action against those who will not pay.
"The council has no alternative but to continue to bring council tax defaulters to court in order to ensure payment is received for essential local services.
"Whilst sending someone to prison is a rare occurrence and will usually only happen in the worst cases, it can and will happen."
He urged anyone with payment difficulty to contact the council.
Slogans including "Irresponsible Politicians - Shame" were spray-painted in orange over the theatre's all-wood exterior, south of Calais.
The theatre's British architect Andrew Todd said it was an act of "politically-motivated desecration" by the far right.
Critics argue that the theatre is a waste of money.
Other slogans daubed on its exterior as well on walls in the neighbouring Chateau d'Hardelot included "Wart" and "The Debt".
"This was not the act of a bunch of teenage malcontents; it was a well-organised, adult, carefully-executed stunt relaying through violence the messages expressed already in the political sphere by the extreme right," said Mr Todd.
Situated about 30 miles (48 km) south of Calais, the Elizabethan-era theatre was commissioned by the Socialist-run Pas-de-Calais department at a cost of around €6m ($6.8m; £4.6m). It is due to be inaugurated with a series of performances next weekend.
But it has drawn criticism from opponents of the local government, who say it is an elitist waste of money. The far-right National Front has some of its highest scores in the region around Calais.
With seating for 400 in balconies and a pit, the Hardelot theatre is the first in France to offer the intimacy of a Globe-style design. Several well-known French directors have welcomed it as a major innovation.
Mr Todd linked the vandalism to the "febrile atmosphere preceding the British EU referendum, in which Europe's far-right parties are attempting to stoke trouble".
But he said the building was "fundamentally an incarnation of Franco-British understanding, and would remain necessary whatever the result on Thursday".
The BBC's business editor Kamal Ahmed believes Mr Price wants to apply for the role of chairman of Channel 4.
He is already deputy chairman at the broadcaster and Lord Burns, the current chairman, is due to retire shortly.
In a statement, Mr Price said he was at "the start of developing" his plans.
Waitrose's retail director Rob Collins will succeed Mr Price at the supermarket.
Mr Price has been at the head of Waitrose for nine years and said he "always had in mind that 10 years would be about the right length of time" before stepping down.
"In addition to continuing as deputy chairman of Channel 4, when I leave in April I shall be working with a major global firm to do client consultancy in the area of employee engagement and I have accepted several invitations to give guest lectures at business schools and universities," Mr Price said.
He has worked for the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, for 33 years.
Analysis: Kamal Ahmed, BBC business editor
Mr Price warned of turmoil in the sector earlier this year when profits at Waitrose dipped by a quarter.
Mr Price is 55 and appears to want one more big challenge in his career.
With the chairman of John Lewis, Sir Charlie Mayfield, not going anywhere soon (and he's younger than Mr Price at 49), the head of Waitrose has decided that the grass is likely to be greener elsewhere.
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The chairman of John Lewis Partnership, Sir Charlie Mayfield, said of Mr Price: "He has had a long and distinguished career with the partnership and his leadership of Waitrose has seen outstanding success.
"Rob Collins has been a central figure in Waitrose's management team for a number of years and his strong leadership skills and operational success have ensured that he has been a central part of the board's thinking on succession planning for some time."
The government is reviewing the future of Channel 4 and it is thought Mr Price's commercial background will help it into the future.
Kamal Ahmed said Mr Price wants "one more big challenge in his career."
During Mr Price's tenure, Waitrose enjoyed many years of rapid growth, but the supermarket price wars and the arrival of the German discounters, Aldi and Lidl, have dented profits and shaken up the sector.
Market research data from Kantar Worldpanel shows Waitrose's sales grew 2.1% over the the past three months, with a market share of 5.2%.
Fraser McKevitt, Kantar's head of retail and consumer insight, said Mr Price had "a strong track record of innovation" at Waitrose, but he warned life was going to be a lot tougher for his successor.
"The supermarket price war shows no signs of abating," he said.
"Consumers have now enjoyed more than 12 months of continually falling prices and are currently pocketing these benefits rather than splashing out on substantially more grocery items, with overall volume growth of only 2%."
Sainsbury's was the only one of the "big four" supermarkets to see sales growth of 1.1%, though its market share was static at 16.1%.
Sales at Asda, the British subsidiary of Wal-Mart, fell 3%, bringing its market share down to 16.6%.
On Monday, Asda said it was going to focus on its larger stores and halt plans for expansion in London in an effort to bolster sales and cut costs.
Tesco was also down by 1.7%, and its market share dipped to 28.1%.
Meanwhile, sales at Morrisons fell by 1.0%, taking its share to 10.8%.
Mr McKevitt said: "For the second successive month, Lidl has reached a new share high, now claiming 4.3% of the market and growth accelerating to 17.9%. Growth was particularly strong in Scotland, the scene of its 'smarter shopping' card trial. It's a similar story for Aldi, where revenues are up 17.6% on a year ago."
He said there was space for retailers to increase both their share and revenue in the online grocery market, since only 18% of households bought groceries online during the last 12 weeks.
Malaysia plane crash: What we know
A total of 283 passengers, including 80 children, and 15 crew members were on board.
The Malaysia Airlines plane crashed after being hit by a Russian-made Buk missile over eastern Ukraine, a 15-month investigation by the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) found in October 2015.
In September 2016, an international team of criminal investigators said evidence showed the Buk missile had been brought in from Russian territory and was fired from a field controlled by pro-Russian fighters.
But they said they were still trying to establish who the perpetrators were, and appealed for witnesses to come forward to assist the continuing investigation.
Malaysia plane crash: What we know
According to Dutch air accident investigators, the plane left Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at 10:31 GMT (12:31 local time) on 17 July and was due to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 22:10 GMT (06:10 local time).
The DSB said the plane lost contact with air traffic control at 13:20 GMT, when it was about 50km (30 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.
Malaysia Airlines initially said the plane lost contact at 14:15 GMT.
Footage emerged of the crash site in the Donetsk area of Ukraine - territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists - and witnesses spoke of dozens of bodies on the ground.
More amateur footage emerged, though not until 16 November, of the moments after MH17 went down.
The DSB said a missile exploded just above and to the left of the cockpit, causing the plane to break up in mid-air.
It said the crash was caused by the detonation of a Russian-made 9N314M-type warhead carried on the 9M38M1 missile, launched from the eastern part of Ukraine using a Buk missile system.
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) which reported on the interim findings of its criminal investigation in September 2016 similarly found "irrefutable evidence" a BUK missile from the 9M38-series was used.
The weapon system used was identified from the damage pattern on the wreckage, as well as fragments of shrapnel found. Traces of paint on a number of missile fragments found matched the paint on parts of a missile recovered in the area.
The Dutch investigators simulated various trajectories of the warhead to establish where it exploded and found that a 70kg warhead best matched the damage observed on the wreckage.
They showed it exploded about four metres above the tip of the aeroplane's nose on the left of the cockpit, showering the plane with fragments of the warhead.
The forward section of the plane was penetrated by hundreds of high-energy objects from the warhead, killing the three crew in the cockpit immediately and causing the plane to break up in stages:
Investigators believe it was between 60 and 90 seconds after the cockpit came off that the rest of the aircraft hit the ground.
The plane crashed in rebel-held eastern Ukraine at the height of the conflict between government troops and pro-Russian separatists.
The Dutch report commissioned three separate investigations - from Dutch, Russian and Ukrainian bodies - to look at where the missile launcher could have been located. It said the missile could have been fired from an area of about 320 sq km in the east of Ukraine.
The JIT and the government in Ukraine say the missile was brought from Russia and launched from the rebel-held part of Ukraine.
In June 2016, JIT published a photo of a large Russian-made Buk missile component found at the crash site.
In its September report, JIT used witness testimony, intercepted phone calls, photographs and satellite imagery showing scorched land to pinpoint the launch site on high ground at Pervomaiskyi, near Snizhne, in territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
It said it had been able to track the course of the missile trailer from Russia to the launch site and immediately back into Russian territory following the downing of the plane.
As for the identities of the perpetrators, the JIT has identified a "long list" of 100 possible suspects. It is continuing its work, including trying to identify the perpetrators' chain of command, and has appealed for witnesses to come forward - saying those who co-operate could face lower jail terms or immunity from criminal liability themselves.
Russian officials and pro-Russian rebels reject accusations of involvement, with the Russian foreign ministry saying the JIT investigation is "biased and politically motivated".
The Russian firm that manufactures Buk missiles has insisted the missile was a model no longer used by Russian forces and said its own investigation showed it had been fired from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
And two days before the JIT was due to publish its interim findings in September 2016, Russia produced radar images which, it argued, showed that the missile could not have come from rebel-held areas.
JIT has said it will examine the new radar data. But critics point out that Russian officials have given different versions of events since the plane was shot down.
The aircraft was a Boeing 777-200ER, the same model as Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.
The plane, manufactured in 1997, had a clean maintenance record and its last check was on 11 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines said.
Malaysia's prime minister said there was no distress call before the plane went down.
Parts of the plane were found distributed over an area of about 50 sq km.
Where debris from MH17 was found
Following the crash, there was an international outcry over the way rebels handled the debris site, leaving passengers' remains exposed to summer heat and allowing untrained volunteers to comb through the area.
This led to weeks of delays in the removal of the wreckage, but a deal made with local militias eventually allowed the work to begin.
The spread of MH17 debris near Hrabove
Crash site near village
Debris in field
Tail piece
Satellite images taken by DigitalGlobe on 20 July appear to show the large debris field near the village of Hrabove.
About 700 metres (2,296ft) down the road from the village is another patch where bodies and debris have been found.
A piece of Flight MH17's tail, with the Malaysia Airlines marking, is seen lying on its own about 100m (330ft) south of the other debris.
The 298 who perished
Malaysia Airlines' passenger list shows flight MH17 was carrying 193 Dutch nationals (including one with dual US nationality), 43 Malaysians (including 15 crew), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians and 10 Britons (including one with dual South African citizenship).
There were also four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and one New Zealander on board.
At least six of those killed were delegates on their way to an international conference on Aids in Melbourne, Australia.
Professor Joep Lange - a prominent scientist and a former president of the International Aids Society (IAS) - was among those who died.
His colleagues have described him as "a great clinical scientist" and "a wonderful person and a great professional".
Other passengers and crew included a Malaysia-Dutch family of five, a Dutch couple on their way to Bali, an Australian pathologist and his wife returning from a European holiday, as well as a Malaysian flight steward whose wife - who also works for Malaysia Airlines - had narrowly escaped death when she pulled out of a shift working on missing flight MH370.
The DSB has suggested there was sufficient reason to close the airspace above eastern Ukraine because of the conflict.
In the months leading up to the crash, the conflict in Ukraine had expanded into the airspace and a number of military aircraft had been shot down
Although the area where the jet crashed had a no-fly zone in place up to 9,754m (32,000ft), the airliner was flying above the limit at 10,058m (33,000ft).
The airspace over eastern Ukraine was busy with commercial flights that day - 160 planes flew over the region.
The flight tracker Planefinder shows how busy the airspace was in the 48 hours leading up to the disaster.
According to Flight radar24, which also monitors live flight paths, the airlines that most frequently flew over Donetsk in that week were: Aeroflot (86 flights), Singapore Airlines (75), Ukraine International Airlines (62), Lufthansa (56), and Malaysia Airlines (48).
At the time of the MH17 crash there were three other commercial airliners flying in the vicinity.
Selected flights over eastern Ukraine on the afternoon of 17 July
Pro-Russian separatists handed over the plane's "black box" flight recorders to Malaysian investigators, who in turn passed them on to Dutch authorities.
The recorders - actually coloured a deep orange to aid discovery - store key technical information about the flight as well as conversations in the cockpit.
According to the DSB, the flight data recorder showed that "all engine parameters were normal for cruise flight" until the recording "stopped abruptly at 13.20:03 hrs".
No spoken warnings were found on the cockpit voice recorder.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - whose job it was to observe the site ahead of the arrival of investigators - were the first team to visit the debris zone, however their movements were restricted by militiamen.
Responsibility for the investigation belongs to the state within which an incident occurs, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization.
As such, the Ukrainian government initiated that probe, but the DSB was asked to head the main investigation, as the majority of victims were from the Netherlands.
The separate, Dutch-led JIT has been gathering evidence for a possible criminal trial.
In July 2015, Russia vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council to set up an international tribunal into the disaster. President Vladimir Putin said it would be "premature" and "counter-productive".
South Parade Pier Ltd said it had purchased South Parade Pier in Southsea for an undisclosed sum.
The Grade-II listed pier was closed in 2012 after being deemed "a danger to the public" and at risk of collapsing.
South Parade Pier Ltd said it would continue repairing the structure, which has faced storm damage and neglect.
The consortium took control of the pier from previous owners SSP South Coast Ltd in early 2014, before the sale was completed, and started an emergency repair plan to save it.
Malcolm Belcher, spokesman for South Parade Pier Ltd, said: "Our intention is to return the pier to the people of Portsmouth.
"We remember the pier in its heyday and that's how we want it to become again.
"We want music, dancing, restaurants, bingo and amusements - plenty of fun entertainment that locals will enjoy and which will also attract tourists."
The pier's owners have also started a public consultation, asking for suggestions on what should appear on the pier, on its website.
In 2010-2011, 143 days were lost at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust compared with 763 in 2014-2015.
The trust said the figures were "concerning" and it was working to cut sickness.
Unison said doctors were emigrating, retiring early or moving to the private sector due to long hours and stress.
The BBC obtained the figures using Freedom of Information requests.
Suzy Franklin, branch secretary of Unison at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, said: "It's a huge worry, it's a massive increase and the morale is pretty low.
"Pressures on staff are unbelievable because of underfunding in the trust [because] the government is underfunding us."
Prof Roger Jones, from the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, said: "In 2014, 60% of the doctors [across the country] we helped were suffering from mental health and addiction problems and one of the causes we hear often is the additional stress they are facing in the workplace."
He said workload, bureaucracy and shortage of doctors had all contributed towards them being stressed.
"Doctors are traditionally not good at seeking help. It's important medical students are given guidance to recognise stress and how to deal with it."
Overall, stress-related illnesses for clinical staff at the trust in Plymouth increased by 70% from 6,900 days in 2010-2011 to almost 11,800 days in 2014-2015.
Dr Phil Hughes, medical director for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Derriford Hospital, said: "We are conscious that stress is a problem throughout the NHS and pressure on staff is increasing steadily as demand for services rise.
"Stress-related illnesses often result in long periods of absence so, although the trend is concerning for what it tells us about the pressures on our staff, it may not represent very large numbers of people off work."
Jo Holmes, from the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, said a new management system had resulted in an "increased level of reporting of sickness absence and recording of the actual reasons".
"If a staff member is off work with stress, we use the Health and Safety Executive stress audit to help identify the cause and plan for how this could be addressed."
The South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said a new system recording the reason for sickness was introduced two years ago, which meant the figures for the last five years could not be compared.
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust said it had changed the way it recorded sickness absence during the period so the figures could not be compared.
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to reports of a collision near Cardonald just before 09:00.
The incident, which resulted in the M8 being closed westbound for a time, involved vehicles travelling between junction 25 and 25a Braehead.
The ambulance service said five people were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Their injuries are not thought to be serious.
The route has now re-opened. Drivers heading to Glasgow Airport had been warned to expect delays.
Traffic Scotland said that all the vehicles involved in the crash had been cleared and that traffic was returning to normal in the area.
Such breathalyser-style tests would seek to show whether a mobile phone had been in use at the time of a crash.
It comes as New York officials cite an 840% increase in fines for texting while driving.
Israeli company Cellebrite is reportedly developing technology that could be used for this purpose.
The company was recently linked with the FBI's attempts to unlock the phone used by the San Bernardino gunman.
It already has technology that can check a phone's recent activity but would need to adapt this to make sure any scanning equipment was not logging the contents of texts or numbers called.
This anonymity feature would be crucial to ensure the scanning technology would not fall foul of the Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
The legislation is currently being considered by the New York Senate Transportation committee and would be the first of its kind if passed.
Dubbed Evan's Law, it has been prompted by lobbying from the group Distracted Operators Risk Casualties, founded by Ben Lieberman after his 19-year-old son, Evan, was killed by a distracted driver in New York.
UK Department for Transport figures in 2014 suggest 1.6% of drivers (more than 500,000) use mobile phones behind the wheel.
Mobile phone use was a contributory factor in 492 UK road accidents in 2014, according to RAC research.
A year of battling Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has seen unprecedented effort and resources poured into one outbreak over such a short time.
That has also meant that the more common killer diseases - malaria, tuberculosis and measles - have to a large extent been neglected.
A study published in the journal, Science, earlier this month warns that measles could cause as many deaths as Ebola after vaccinations were disrupted.
"We project that after six to 18 months of disruptions, a large connected cluster of children unvaccinated for measles will accumulate across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone," the study says.
It finds that the number of children susceptible to measles in the three countries is expected to double, resulting in between 2,000 and 16,000 additional deaths.
It is a worrying prediction in countries that had weak health systems even before the Ebola outbreak.
Sierra Leone had some of the highest rates of death from tuberculosis, malaria and measles in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The burden of Ebola, and the devastating impact it has had on the country's health system, compounds the problem.
Furthermore, a report by medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres says the Ebola outbreak has affected the attitudes of people towards modern healthcare.
"The trauma of Ebola has left people distrustful of health facilities, has left health workers demoralised and fearful of resuming services, and has left communities bereaved, impoverished and suspicious," the report says.
528,000
deaths from malaria in 2013
54%
drop in mortality since 2000
49% of at-risk people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to mosquito nets
70% of malaria patients could be treated but not all sick children are taken to a clinic
43% of pregnant women did not receive a single dose of preventative medicine
Nearly 500 health workers - most of them local - have died as a result of Ebola leaving even the most caring professional wary of rushing to help a mother in labour.
The expatriates have a specific brief - to deal with Ebola, and the remaining local work force will be expected to deal with the other health concerns.
Fighting the other big killers in the affected countries is going to be even more challenging.
WHO says it has sent out a new guidance to the affected countries to help them maintain and restart immunisation programmes.
"We are calling for the intensification of routine immunisation services in all areas, and for mass measles vaccination campaigns in areas that are free of Ebola transmission," says Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, director of the WHO's Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department.
How to beat malaria
Malaria: a major global killer
It has also recommended mass drug administration of anti-malarial medicines to all eligible people in areas heavily affected by Ebola.
People infected with malaria have been unable to get treatment during the Ebola outbreak, either because they have been too afraid to seek help at health centres or because such facilities have been closed.
But shipping in loads of drugs and enlisting the services of the remaining health workers is not going to be enough.
Health promotion - getting communities to trust the health system enough to seek care, assuring health workers that they can operate in a safe environment and reinstating normal services in health facilities and streamlining them - is where the real work is.
But with new cases still emerging each week, the focus is no doubt still going to be on Ebola.
Yardy will continue to lead the side at finals day of the FL t20 next month.
The 31-year-old took over as captain at Hove in 2009 and was part of the England team that won the ICC World Twenty20 the following year.
He had two spells out of the game in 2011 after returning from the World Cup early after suffering from depression.
Sussex won the Pro40 League and the Twenty20 title under Yardy's captaincy in 2009. The county were also relegated from Division One of the County Championship that season, but bounced back at the first attempt by winning promotion in 2010.
Yardy said: "I have decided to step down as captain in order to concentrate on my own game. There are many things I still wish to achieve as a player which will also hopefully help contribute to the team winning more silverware.
"I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone for all the effort they have put in over my time as captain and I look forward to leading the team at T20 finals day."
Cricket manager Mark Robinson added: "Michael has been an incredibly dedicated captain who has worked tirelessly and selfishly for the good of the club.
"I know he is still incredibly ambitious both for the club and himself and we wish him all the best in fulfilling those goals.
"Ed Joyce will now take over the captaincy duties until the end of the season with the same responsibilities as Michael had including the final say on selection."
We've got to stay an honest and humble team. If we keep those credentials it will serve us well
Joyce will take charge for the first time in the four-day match against Worcestershire at Hove, starting on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Robinson says his side must show spirit in order to finish the season strongly after salvaging a draw against championship leaders Nottinghamshire.
"When we've got a scent of victory we're outstanding but in some of the others we've folded," Robinson, whose side sit fourth in the table, told BBC Sussex.
"At least against Nottinghamshire we bucked that trend. We got ourselves in a pickle but got ourselves out of it.
"We didn't play as well as we'd have liked to in the first innings but there was a lot of determination to put that right."
Sussex still retain a slim chance of winning the County Championship, lying 28 points off top spot with five games remaining, and could still take the CB40 as well as the FL t20 titles.
"We've been consistent in the one-day game but in four-day we flatter a little bit," Robinson continued.
"We've got to stay an honest and humble team. If we keep those credentials it will serve us well."
David Watson, from Stranraer, made no plea or declaration.
It followed an incident in the town in the early hours of Sunday morning which left a 40-year-old man in Glasgow's Southern General Hospital.
Mr Watson was released on bail pending further examination.
There had been fears that potential tourists would be put off by the devastation caused by the winter storms.
However, Cumbria Tourism has revealed that room occupancy in June was at its highest level in a decade.
In July 80% of all self-catering places were booked up - for the first time since records began.
Ian Stephens, from Cumbria Tourism, said: "These are positive figures for the county's £2.62bn tourism industry, with an increasing number of people deciding to stay in the UK for their summer holidays and making the Lake District their destination of choice.
"The challenge now is to maintain this momentum for the traditionally quieter months of the year.
"We are planning to collaborate with a range of different organisations to launch a major winter marketing campaign to promote the area as an all-year-round visitor destination."
Simon Tricker, of "smart cities" specialist UrbanTide, said the vehicles could also make car parks obsolete.
Mr Tricker believes self-driving cars are likely to be commonplace by 2030.
He was speaking ahead of Scottish Renewables' first low-carbon cities conference, which will be held in Edinburgh in February.
"Scottish local authorities are already thinking about what city streets will look like in a decade's time - and the answers are pretty astounding," he said.
"Self-driving cars won't need parking spaces in cities - they're likely to be rented rather than owned and will just head off and carry out their next journey after dropping passengers off.
"Many car parking spaces which we now take for granted will simply become obsolete.
"The pace at which electric vehicle technology is developing means they're also likely to be electric, so will produce zero emissions as they're driven."
Other speakers at the Edinburgh conference include Asa Karlsson Bjorkmarker, deputy mayor of Vaxjo, in Sweden, who will speak about her experiences of leading Europe's "greenest city".
Rachelle Money, from Scottish Renewables, said: "With the bulk of Scotland's power now coming from renewable energy and a new Scottish Climate Change Bill in the offing, Scotland continues to lead the way in building a low-carbon economy.
"Scottish Renewables' first ever low-carbon cities conference explores the many opportunities for Scotland's cities to embrace the transition to a sustainable, clean, green economy, reducing energy costs and tackling fuel poverty, while attracting low-carbon investment and jobs, and building our industries of the future.
"Cities across Scotland are already forging ahead with ground-breaking projects to decarbonise their energy supplies, and this conference will share the experiences of some of those initiatives."
The former England international, 47, said the journalists had "ruined his life".
He said he had known his phone had been hacked but no-one had believed him.
Describing the experience as "horrendous", Mr Gascoigne linked the phone hacking with his alcoholism.
The former Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United and Everton footballer is complaining about 18 articles, all accepted to have been the product of illegal activity.
Mr Gascoigne told the court he would often change his phone number "several times a month" because he knew his phone was being hacked.
But his family had not believed his phone was being hacked, he said, while his therapist had told him he was "paranoid" and "going through a mental disorder".
His voice hoarse and shaking with emotion, he said: "I knew I was getting hacked by the Mirror.
"This continued for ages. Phone calls to my father and family were getting blocked so I changed my mobile.
"It happened again so I kept on changing mobiles, five or six times a month."
Mr Gascoigne said the experience of being the victim of phone hacking had been "so scary".
He said: "I was scared to speak to anybody... my parents, my family and kids, it was just horrendous.
"And people can't understand why I became an alcoholic."
After speaking briefly, Mr Gascoigne was told he would not face cross-examination by Matthew Nicklin QC, for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), and his evidence was going unchallenged.
He replied: "I have waited 15 years to be sat here so I am disgusted, really.
"I would like to trade my mobile phone in for a coffin because these guys have ruined my life. I have no life."
In a written statement supplied to the court, Mr Gascoigne said constant media pressure had made it very difficult for him to lead a normal and private life and had led to his family not being as close as they once were.
He said he had suffered from alcohol dependency over a number of years and had also had treatment for drug use and addiction to the drink Red Bull.
Between 2000 and 2006 he had wrongly accused people close to him, such as his stepdaughter Bianca, of going to the newspapers with stories about him, he said.
"I became obsessed about being monitored. I felt that I was being watched or listened into all the time for years and the pressure on me because of that was more than I think any sane person could bear," he said.
Former EastEnders actress Lucy Taggart, previously known as Lucy Benjamin, followed Mr Gascoigne into the witness box and described the effect the publication of a string of articles had had on her.
Her voice breaking, she said: "With each one I always felt like I had to pick myself up and dust myself off and carry on.
"But on the following day or following week there would be another article about something else and it felt like I was being punched and battered and bruised.
"It felt I was in a boxing ring without any gloves."
When phone hacking appeared in the news, Ms Taggart said she "knew it was the Mirror that had done it".
She said: "The Mirror were the worst culprit as far as I was concerned.
"The Mirror wrote the dirtiest stories and I always felt like the articles were a personal attack."
She added: "I feel like the people who worked at the paper were sadistic and their mission was to destroy people's lives."
MGN has admitted publishing 17 articles about Ms Taggart between 2000 and 2006 as a result of phone hacking.
Ms Taggart said she believed MGN had "slaughtered" her over the seven years she was targeted, describing the extent of the intrusion as "nothing short of psychological abuse".
The hearing at the High Court in London is considering what compensation should be paid by MGN to BBC creative director Alan Yentob, soap stars Shane Richie, Shobna Gulati and Lucy Taggart, former footballer Paul Gascoigne, actress Sadie Frost, TV producer Robert Ashworth and flight attendant Lauren Alcorn.
Seven of the claimants have referred to at least 109 published stories.
The court has previously heard phone hacking at the newspaper group was on an "industrial scale".
MGN said the hacking was carried out by a "trusted inner circle".
17 February 2016 Last updated at 16:00 GMT
It's made in Wales and instead of petrol it uses hydrogen gas to power the engine.
Cars like this are better for the environment because they only produce water, not polluting gases, when they're driven.
The car - which is only a test version for now - will go on a trial for 12 months later this year, with the final car set for release in 2018.
Watch the car in action...
In an unusual move, Mrs Foster said her words had not been cleared with Martin McGuinness.
Some politicians questioned whether she should have been allowed to deliver such a statement.
The first and deputy first ministers hold joint office at Stormont.
The DUP and Sinn Féin are partners in the coalition government in Northern Ireland.
The speaker, Robin Newton of the DUP, has been the subject of intense scrutiny over his links with the community organisation Charter NI .
On Monday, he faced down potentially mutinous MLAs who claimed he had breached standing orders, the provisions by which the assembly operates, by allowing Mrs Foster to continue with a statement on the 'cash for ash' affair after her executive partner said he did not want her to.
MLAs repeatedly asked him if the DUP leader was speaking in a ministerial or personal capacity.
Later, Mr Newton released a letter he had sent to assembly members acknowledging what he said were genuine frustrations and concerns in relation to the nature of the day's business.
He also said it would have been better had the assembly not been placed in this position by the executive office and he would be raising the matter with ministers.
Last week, Mrs Foster said she would outline a plan on how to recoup some of the money due to be paid out as part of the RHI scheme.
Opposition MLAs questioned why she did not present her plan to the assembly on Monday.
On Tuesday, DUP Economy Minister Simon Hamilton said he was "working very hard" on the plan with both Mrs Foster and Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, from Sinn Féin.
"In fact, the finance minister and I plan to meet later today to take our plan forward," Mr Hamilton told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"It is important that we take our time to develop a plan that is robust, that is resilient and that will, most importantly, work and achieve the aim of significantly reducing the cost of the RHI scheme to the public purse."
Katy Kouasseu, formerly of Aldridge, West Midlands, said it was her husband's right as a parent to attend the funeral of their son George.
Hundreds of people have signed a petition to support the case of Charly Kouasseu, who never met his son.
The Home Office said the ban had been issued "automatically".
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Mr Kouasseu was deported from the UK after serving 14 months in prison in 2008, it confirmed, with deportation orders not normally revoked until after a minimum of 10 years for non-serious offences.
Mrs Kouasseu, who married and started a family with her husband while working as an English teacher in Cameroon, came back to the UK in August to give birth to her son. He died an hour after being born on 16 October.
The cause of George's death is not yet known and the family are awaiting the results of a post-mortem test.
Mrs Kouasseu, who married Charly in 2010 and has two other children with him, plans to bury George on Friday in Worcester.
"We're not asking for Charly to be able to stay for a week. We just want him to come for George's funeral," she said.
"He's never met George. He's never had that opportunity. We speak on the phone, but it's not the same. For him as a father; he should be there for his son's funeral."
Mrs Kouasseu said she had decided to give birth in the UK to be near her family and had had a miscarriage in Cameroon.
"I think this is a case needing compassion, which the Home Office seems to lack," she said.
"I am incredibly sad, but not surprised."
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Mushin Ahmed was attacked just off Fitzwilliam Road on Monday 10 August.
Two men from the town have already been charged with assault with intent and were remanded in custody by magistrates.
Damien Hunt, 29, of Doncaster Road, and 21-year-old Kieran Rice, of Oakes Meadow, are due to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 28 August.
Det Ch Insp Chris Singleton, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "He was a much loved and respected member of his community and his relatives are receiving specialist support from officers during this difficult time."
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The huge, slow-moving typhoon hit land on the island of Luzon on Sunday morning.
Alexander Pama, head of the government's main disaster agency, said 10,000 people had been moved from their homes in north-eastern Luzon.
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Allen, 30, is now seventh in the world rankings following his recent victory at the Players Championship.
Birmingham player Mann, 24, booked his place at the Crucible by beating Thai talent Dechawat Poomjaeng 10-9 in the final qualifying round on Wednesday.
Mann won Junior Pot Black at the Crucible Theatre in 2007.
The championship begins in Sheffield on Saturday and continues through until 2 May.
Defending champion Stuart Bingham begins his challenge with a tough opener against two-time beaten finalist Ali Carter.
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The attempt to free Izzet Eren as he was being driven in a custody van to a north London court was thwarted by police who had bugged their car.
When armed officers swooped, Jermaine Baker, 28, of Tottenham, was shot dead.
Judge Christopher Kinch described the actions of the gang as an "attack" on the criminal justice system.
He told Woolwich Crown Court they had threatened the public and put security staff at risk.
The court was told Izzet Eren had arranged the plot via a smuggled mobile phone which was found smashed in the van.
After the police operation to thwart the plot, a replica Uzi machine gun was recovered from the bugged stolen car.
Eren, 33, who arranged for the gang to spring him from the van, is currently serving 14 years after he was caught last October carrying a loaded pistol and a machine gun in north London while allegedly on his way to carry out a shooting.
He has now been jailed for a further five-and-half years for conspiracy to escape and two years for conspiracy to carry imitation firearms with criminal intent.
These will be served consecutively following the current 14-year jail sentence which was imposed in December.
The judge said Eren he was "the motive behind the whole sequence of events", that he had "orchestrated" the escape plan and that he was "plainly a man of considerable influence" who exercised control and influence over the gang.
Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay told the court that Eren "should not have been in the UK at all" as a condition of an eight-year prison sentence that he had previously been given for conspiracy to supply drugs was that he had to be deported.
His cousin Ozcan Eren, 32, of Wood Green, had denied the same charges relating to the escape plot but changed his plea part-way through the trial.
The judge said he was a "trusted and intimate lieutenant" of Izzet Eren whose key role was to act as a look-out and check the possible routes the prison van might take. He was jailed for eight years.
Driver Nathan Mason, 31, from Tottenham, was jailed for six years and two months for the escape plot and for possessing an imitation firearm.
Gokay Sogucakli, 19, from Tottenham, pleaded guilty to the same offences. He was ordered to serve five-and-a-half years.
Eren Hasyer, 25, of Enfield, was found guilty of conspiring in the escape plot but cleared of possessing an imitation firearm with criminal intent. He will be sentenced on Thursday.
Det Ch Supt Tom Manson, from the Serious and Organised Crime Command, said the sentencing reflected "the gravity of this bold and audacious plot".
"It is clear from this investigation that the Eren cousins are dangerous and motivated criminals and were no strangers to armed crime.
"The evidence from our investigation is so overwhelming that they, and all but one of their co-conspirators, chose to plead guilty."
The IPCC is continuing an independent investigation into the circumstances of the shooting of Mr Baker during the police operation.
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Ar raglen Bwrw Golwg Radio Cymru bu Martyn Geraint yn manylu ar ei brofiad. Dywedodd bod mam a chwaer ei weinidog yn Eglwys Coedpenmaen, Pontypridd wedi cael eu hanafu ar ôl yr ymosodiad yn Arena Manceinion. Roeddent wedi mynd yno i gasglu dwy o ferched y chwaer a oedd wedi bod yn y cyngerdd.
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Yn ôl Tegwen Morris, Cyfarwyddwr Merched y Wawr: "Mae'r awyrgylch yn hyfryd ac yn gyfeillgar. Mae lot o fwrlwm yma wrth i stondinwyr baratoi ac wrth i'r ymarferion olaf gael eu cynnal yn y pafiliwn."
Yn ystod yr wythnos bydd 200 o blant a phobl ifanc yr ardal yn cael cyfle i ddangos eu talentau mewn dwy sioe gyda'r nos. Bracchi yw enw'r sioe gynradd ac fe fydd y plant uwchradd yn perfformio Y Ferch o Gefn Ydfa yn Theatr Sony, Coleg Pen-y-Bont.
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Meddai Aled Siôn, Cyfarwyddwr Eisteddfod yr Urdd: "O Bontypridd i Borthcawl, a Phontyclun i Faesteg, mae trigolion yr ardal wedi rhoi o'u gorau dros y ddwy flynedd diwethaf i sicrhau bod pawb yn ymwybodol fod Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn dod i Ben-y-Bont ar Ogwr, Taf ac Elái yn mis Mai 2017. Mae'r croeso a'r ymroddiad i godi arian wedi bod yn anhygoel.
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The 69-year-old actor has a best supporting actor nod for his role as Rocky Balboa in boxing drama Creed.
At the annual Oscar nominees' lunch in Los Angeles, Stallone revealed he'd consulted Creed director Ryan Coogler about attending the awards.
"I said, 'if you want me to go, I'll go, if you don't, I won't'," Stallone said.
"He said, 'Just go there and try to represent the film.'"
Neither Coogler nor Creed's star Michael B Jordan, who are both black, were nominated.
Stallone added: "I do believe things will change and it's a matter of time and all talent will rise to the top but it's a matter of getting a new paradigm, a new way of thinking."
Oscars co-producer David Hill told Variety at Monday's lunch event that this year's Oscar show "will be the most diverse ever".
Several top industry figures, including Will Smith and Spike Lee, have said they will not attend the ceremony after no black or minority actors were nominated in the four Oscars acting categories for the second year running.
Stallone was last nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for his lead performance in the original Rocky.
He said: "I never thought I would be able to cross this threshold again. As you get older miracles begin to diminish, I couldn't be more thrilled. My daughters look at me now as an actor rather than a bad golfer.
"I tell them I used to do this but they won't look at my videos."
The Oscar nominees lunch, at the Beverly Hilton hotel, brought together more than 150 nominees for a "class photo" ahead of the Oscars on 28 February.
British star Eddie Redmayne said he was trying to enjoy the "extraordinary ride" of his second best actor nomination in two years.
Redmayne won the best actor Oscar last year for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything. This year he is shortlisted for his portrayal of transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.
His co-star Alicia Vikander has a best supporting actress nod for her role as Elbe's wife Gerda.
Asked if the acting nominees had discussed the diversity issue, Redmayne told the Press Association: "We haven't all met together until this occasion but it's on everyone minds and the way it has been handled seems to be a positive step."
Inspector Daulatram Jogawat left the hospital on Monday, and thanked Shobhaa De for making him famous.
The writer had tweeted a picture of Mr Jogawat last month, saying the police in Mumbai had planned "heavy security" for local elections.
The viral tweet led to Saifee Hospital offering to pay for his treatment.
The hospital said Mr Jogawat was doing well after the surgery, and can lose up 80kg (176lb) in the next year. He weighed 180kg before the operation.
Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese (having a body mass index of 40 or above or 35 plus other obesity-related health conditions).
Sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass is where some of the stomach is removed or the digestive system is re-routed past most of the stomach.
Saifee hospital made headlines in January when it started treating an Egyptian woman, believed to be the world's heaviest, at 500kg (1,102lb).
Mr Jogawat told the Hindustan Times that he got "the opportunity to come all the way to Mumbai for treatment" because of De's tweet.
He added that he started putting on weight because of medical complications, and not because he ate too much.
"Honestly speaking, my weight never came in between my duty because I was physically active and had the brains to solve crimes. I was fairly rewarded for my work," Mr Jogawat said.
De later defended her tweet, saying she did not intend to offend anybody.
Jon Ashworth becomes shadow health secretary, John Healey returns to housing while there are promotions for Teresa Pearce and Ian Lavery.
Mr Ashworth has been replaced on the ruling NEC by Kate Osamor.
One ally said it was a unifying reshuffle amid criticism from some MPs.
Mr Watson said his new role would allow him to develop Labour's policy on "introducing the arts pupil premium to every child of primary school age."
He added: "There should be no class ceiling placed on anyone who wants to contribute to or enjoy our artistic, musical and sporting heritage.
"I also want our globally successful games industry to be given the recognition it deserves."
Dawn Butler, the new shadow minister for diverse communities, told the BBC the Labour leader had shown "great guts" and by bringing in "formidable" Nick Brown as chief whip showed he was "not scared" of promoting someone who was not one of his natural supporters.
Mr Corbyn has filled a number of jobs that were left empty after a mass walkout from his front bench this summer, although he has not been able to appoint a shadow Scottish secretary - with shadow Northern Ireland secretary David Anderson continuing to hold the role.
After being appointed shadow health secretary, Mr Ashworth said: "I'm doing this because I think the Labour Party needs to run a very strong campaign against what the Tories are doing to our National Health Service."
Labour reshuffle: Diane Abbott made shadow home secretary
Mr Ashworth has been replaced on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee by shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor.
He takes over from Diane Abbott, who has been promoted to shadow home secretary, while former Liberty director Baroness Chakrabarti becomes shadow attorney general.
Former director of public prosecutions Sir Keir Starmer, who left the frontbench team in June, returns as shadow Brexit secretary.
Mr Corbyn, who was hit by a wave of front bench resignations and a no-confidence vote from the majority of his own MPs in the wake of the EU referendum result, was re-elected with an increased mandate from the wider party membership last month.
Some roles had remained unfilled in the interim.
The decision to sack Dame Rosie Winterton - who was brought in to replace Nick Brown as Labour chief whip in 2010 - was met with a rush of tributes to her by senior figures including former leader Ed Miliband and former deputy leader Harriet Harman.
Neil Coyle MP tweeted: "There were plenty of spaces to fill in shadow cabinet if Nick Brown wanted one. Sacking unifying chief whip shows 'reaching out' meant nothing." His colleague Tom Blenkinsop accused Mr Corbyn of "seeking submission not unity".
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said many Labour MPs had expressed disappointment that she had gone. Dame Rosie was seen as someone, behind the scenes, who stood up for MPs' interests against the party leader, he added.
Labour's new shadow cabinet in full
But Ms Butler, who supported Andy Burnham's Labour leadership bid in 2015, against Mr Corbyn, said she believed Mr Corbyn's reshuffle was an attempt at unifying the party.
"Jeremy has shown that he is a leader," she said and was "making sure we have a full shadow cabinet to take on the government on Monday".
She said Nick Brown's return, having served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, showed "that Jeremy isn't scared of putting someone in a position who doesn't really support him but will do an excellent job as a chief whip".
"I think that shows great guts," she told the BBC.
Mr Brown was chief whip between 2008 and 2010 under Gordon Brown's premiership - during which time, BBC analysis shows that Mr Corbyn rebelled 100 times, voted with the government 511 times and was absent 254 times.
Jo Stevens, who has been brought in as the new shadow Welsh secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she agreed with Ms Butler that Mr Corbyn had reached out to unify the party.
"I was one of the senior people in Owen Smith's leadership campaign and he's offered me a place on the shadow cabinet," she said.
"The Labour Party is a collective and we're there to hold the government to account," she added. "That's why I stayed in my post in the summer and accepted the job."
Ms Stevens said there would be opportunities on "plenty of issues" to unite the party against the Conservatives.
But the decision to promote Baroness Chakrabarti, who became a Labour peer shortly after holding an inquiry into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and concluding that it was "not overrun" by racism, was met with some criticism from Jewish groups.
Board of Deputies Vice President Marie van der Zyl said: "We are disappointed, but sadly unsurprised, that once again Shami Chakrabarti and Jeremy Corbyn have spectacularly undermined her so-called 'independent' report. We hoped her report would be a potent weapon in the fight against anti-Semitism. It now looks increasingly like the whitewash was a job application."
Ms Butler was later asked on BBC Radio 5 live whether her diverse communities brief included the Jewish community.
She said: "Yes, I hope so," adding: "As you know, it's a new brief, so we are still kind of looking at what it will include in its entirety."
Later she said she would be talking to the Jewish community about their concerns about anti-Semitism in the party.
Sir Keir Starmer stood down from his shadow home office minister post in June. He will now join shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner, new shadow economic secretary Jonathan Reynolds and shadow chancellor John McDonnell on Labour's "shadow Brexit team".
Sarah Champion has been made shadow women and equalities minister.
It happened just before 03:30 GMT on Saturday in the Queens Avenue area of Cookstown.
The victim was taken to hospital for his injuries, which are not believed to be life-threatening.
The 57-year-old man is in custody assisting police with their inquiries.
Det Insp Will Tate said: "Police attended and a car and suspected firearm have been recovered.
"Anyone who witnessed this incident, or who has any information about it, is asked to contact detectives at Cookstown Police Station on the non-emergency number 101."
Mr Swann was the only candidate when the deadline for nominations closed at noon on Friday.
He will be formally ratified as Mike Nesbitt's successor at a meeting of the Ulster Unionist ruling council next month.
Mr Nesbitt announced he is to quit as soon as a new leader is appointed.
That was after the party's disappointing performance in March's election.
The UUP is now the fourth biggest party in the Assembly, having been overtaken by the SDLP for the first time.
Mr Swann said he had "submitted papers" to seek election as leader of the UUP, after "receiving support from across the party, including members of our Westminster, assembly and local government teams".
He told BBC NI's The Sunday News unionism needs "champions for the union".
"Unionism has a lot to offer but it's also making that union attractive to everybody in Northern Ireland so they know the benefits that are there and it's about promoting a positive unionism, a non-threatening unionism and a unionism that can move forward and be progressive".
You can hear more of that interview on The Sunday News on Sunday at 13:00 BST.
The UUP is due to elect Mr Nesbitt's successor at its annual general meeting on 8 April.
There had been some speculation that UUP MLA Steve Aiken would throw his hat in the ring for the leadership, but he told BBC's Evening Extra he was supporting Mr Swann's bid.
Earlier in March, Mr Swann told the BBC he was "not ruling out" a leadership bid.
The 45-year-old father of two was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011 and he represents North Antrim.
He chaired the Public Accounts Committee during the last assembly's mandate and is former president of the Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster.
Mr Swann was one of 10 UUP members who won seats in the last Assembly elections, but he said the new leader did not necessarily have to be an MLA.
"Our party rules actually allow anybody who is in good standing, and a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, to put their name forward, so there is a misconception out there," he said.
Persistent rain in the capital saw play abandoned at 15:30 BST.
However, Surrey's title challengers Lancashire also saw the opening day against Essex abandoned at Chelmsford.
Surrey, who have already won promotion along with the Red Rose county, need 17 points to guarantee going up as champions.
Victory for Northants could see them finish third if Essex fail to win nine points.
European leaders gathered in the Polish port of Gdansk for a midnight ceremony at the site where the first shots of the war were fired.
The Gdansk commemoration was seen as a slight to Russia's Victory Parade on Saturday, which has been boycotted by Western leaders because of Ukraine.
There will also be ceremonies in Paris, London, Berlin, as well as Washington.
The commemoration in Gdansk was marked with a 21-gun salute on the stroke of midnight. Beams of light illuminated a monument to Polish defenders in Westerplatte and the national anthem was played.
In a speech, Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski said the war had started with the co-operation of two totalitarian regimes led by Hitler and Stalin.
He went on to say that the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 did not bring freedom but instead communism and the Iron Curtain. Such division finally ended, the president said, with the integration of the region into the European Union.
The event was attended by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the presidents of several countries including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine.
But many other Western leaders - who are boycotting Moscow's event and for whom the Gdansk commemoration was partly organised - did not attend.
Among those in Gdansk was Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko who said it was possible to draw parallels from history and the current situation in Europe.
"Annexation and invasion, under the pretext of defending ethnic minorities... could all become the new reality," he said.
Relations between Russia and the West have been soured by Russia's annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula last year and support for rebels in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Moscow denies it is arming the rebels and sending troops across the border.
Russia, which lost more citizens to the war than any other nation, will stage its biggest-ever military parade during its Victory ceremony in Moscow's Red Square on Saturday.
Later on Friday, there will be a ceremony in Germany where President Joachim Gauck will lay a wreath at a cemetery for Soviet soldiers. The German parliament will meet in special session.
In London, a remembrance service will be held at the Cenotaph and 200 beacons will later be lit across the country.
In France, where VE (Victory in Europe) Day is a national holiday, President Francois Hollande will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
In the US, a ceremony will be held at the national World War Two memorial in Washington followed by a flypast of vintage fighter planes.
It was on 8 May 1945 that Allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, marking the end of the war in Europe. But it was not the end of WW2. It would take another three months before Japan surrendered.
Marcel Addai, 17, was found with stab wounds on 4 September on the St John's Estate in Pitfield Street, Hoxton. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sodiq Adebayo, 22, from West Sussex, will appear in Hendon Magistrates' Court in north London on Saturday.
Akeem Gbadamosi, 21, and Eugene Ocran, 19, have already been charged with murder.
Met Police officers attended the scene of the incident on Friday evening, one week after he died, to continue to appeal for witnesses.
Harry Davis struck early on to put the Buddies ahead against United.
Tony Andreu equalised but Stevie Mallan's free-kick restored St Mirren's lead before the break.
And Lewis Morgan's close-range effort in the second period gave the Paisley side a cushion, with Andreu pulling one back for the visitors.
St Mirren and Dundee United will meet again on 25 March in the Challenge Cup final at Fir Park.
Manager Jack Ross guided the Buddies to their first win since 1 March and also cut the gap on eighth-placed Raith Rovers to four points, while Ayr have a game in hand.
The hosts were ahead with less than two minutes on the clock. William Edjenguele handled and Mallan's set-piece delivery was headed into a crowded area by Rory Loy.
Defender Davis won the scramble to force the ball home and score his third goal since joining on loan from Crewe Alexandra.
The Paisley team were dominating with Billy O'Brien not even touching the ball but the goalkeeper was soon picking it out of his net after Andreu found himself unmarked and had a simple job of levelling with a low shot.
St Mirren regained the lead with a phenomenal free-kick from Mallan. Right-footed from the left side 30 yards out, he shaped to play in a cross but then whipped the ball in at Cammy Bell's right post.
It was a ridiculous piece of skill which deserved witnessing by more than a disappointing attendance of 2,766.
Both teams sustained first-half injury problems. Thomas Mikkelsen, who later headed off the post, replaced Scott Fraser for United and goalscorer Davis was taken off on a stretcher with a serious kneecap injury, Jack Baird coming on.
St Mirren got their third against the run of play. After United had survived a couple of efforts on goal, the ball fell for Morgan to convert a straightforward tap-in.
But United in general, and Andreu in particular, refused to surrender the points without a fight. The on-loan Norwich City forward scored his second with a fine low drilled shot.
The hosts hung on for a vital victory that could yet help bring them Championship survival while United remain 10 points off leaders Hibernian after missing the chance to move above Greenock Morton into third.
Match ends, St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 2.
Second Half ends, St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 2.
Attempt missed. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
William Edjenguele (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by William Edjenguele (Dundee United).
Stephen McGinn (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Adam Eckersley.
Tony Andreu (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sean Dillon (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren).
Substitution, St. Mirren. Craig Storie replaces Cameron Smith.
Willo Flood (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren).
Substitution, Dundee United. Nick van der Velden replaces Simon Murray.
Foul by Alistair Coote (Dundee United).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Kyle Magennis (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Alistair Coote (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Adam Eckersley.
Attempt blocked. Simon Murray (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Tony Andreu (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Eckersley (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Mark Durnan.
Thomas Mikkelsen (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card.
Thomas Mikkelsen (Dundee United) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Goal! St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 2. Tony Andreu (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Thomas Mikkelsen.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Kyle Magennis.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Kyle Magennis replaces Rory Loy.
Rory Loy (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Stephen McGinn.
Attempt blocked. Simon Murray (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Dundee United. Alistair Coote replaces Alex Nicholls.
Goal! St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 1. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cameron Smith.
William Edjenguele (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Sutton (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. Charlie Telfer (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Tony Andreu (Dundee United).
Almondsbury Parish Council is under fire over the future of the Hallen Centre - from which Hallen FC says it is being "evicted".
The council chairman said it had to seek new tenants to run the site who could pay the centre's running costs.
Some of those interested in taking on the lease were prepared to consider keeping the club on the site, he said.
About 100 people attended a council meeting on Tuesday to be told "expressions of interest" had been received from potential tenants who were "prepared to consider an arrangement to include Hallen Football Club".
Council chairman Cliff Hilliker said: "To make the centre viable, it has to pay for itself. We can't, as a parish council, subsidise what is effectively, a football club."
But he was shouted down by villagers who accused the council of having "got rid" of the club's management committee, which resigned last year, by making unreasonable demands in a new lease.
Mr Hilliker said the priority was to get a proper lease in place but the council wanted to make sure whoever took it over "makes it available to the people of Hallen".
The club has used the centre, at its Moorhouse Lane ground, for 21 years but the council said its auditors required it to have a formal tenancy agreement. Hallen FC has said it could not afford to sign a new lease that would have seen it covering more running costs.
It has refused to leave the site and the council wants vacant possession before it can get a new leaseholder.
Lee Fairman, of Hallen FC, said it was good to hear the council wanted the club to stay but he was concerned it was still seeking vacant possession of the building.
Former state-appointed emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose were charged for failing to protect residents from the toxic water.
Two city employees were also charged with felony counts related to the case.
Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead in 2014 after the city changed its water supply.
Attorney General Bill Schuette charged Mr Earley and Mr Ambrose with false pretences, conspiracy to commit false pretences, misconduct in office and wilful neglect of duty in office.
He also charged former city employees Howard Croft, a public works superintendent, and Daugherty Johnson, a utilities manager, with conspiracy to operate a plant that was not equipped to properly treat water from the Flint River.
"The tragedy that we know of as the Flint water crisis did not occur by accident," Mr Schuette said.
"Flint was a casualty of arrogance, disdain and failure of management, an absence of accountability."
Mr Johnson's attorney, Edwar Zeineh, told the AP news agency his client will plead not guilty.
The others and their lawyers could not immediately be reached for comment.
The water crisis made national headlines after tests found high amounts of lead in blood samples taken from children in the majority African-American city.
The contamination can be traced back to April 2014, when Mr Earley, the emergency manager at the time, decided to change the city's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money.
The acidic water of Flint River corroded the city's pipes, which leached lead into the water.
Flint switched back to the previous water system in October 2015 and federal regulators say that filter tap water is now safe to drink, but still recommend bottled water for young children and pregnant women.
So far 13 people have been charged in connection to the investigation into Flint's water supply and an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
The state brought charges against two state regulators and a city employee for official misconduct in April.
In July, prosecutors charged six health and environmental workers for concealing data that showed elevated levels of lead in children's blood was tied to the water supply.
Mr Early and Mr Ambrose face up to 46 years in prison while Mr Croft and Mr Johnson could face up to 40 years behind bars.
Mr Schuette's announcement comes a day after a report found nearly 3,000 areas with recently recorded lead poisoning rates twice as much as those in Flint during the height of the city's water crisis.
More than 1,100 of those communities had a rate of elevated blood tests at least four times higher, according to the Reuters report.
Its return was greeted with both praise and bafflement by critics, one of whom called it "familiarly inscrutable".
"After nearly three decades, Mr Lynch's visual imagination remains inimitable," continued the New York Times' reviewer.
Kyle MacLachlan reprises his role as FBI agent Dale Cooper in the 18-episode series, which began its run on Sunday on US network Showtime.
The first two episodes were screened on Sky Atlantic in the UK in the early hours of Monday morning and will be shown again on Tuesday at 21:00 BST.
The episodes saw MacLachlan's character still trapped in the mysterious "black lodge" where the original series left him in 1991.
Other characters to return included Laura Palmer, whose murder was the basis of the original show, and 'The Log Lady', played by the late Catherine Coulson.
Future episodes, all directed by Lynch himself, will see Michael Cera, Laura Dern and Naomi Watts join the cast.
According to Metro's James Baldock, the new series is "quietly brilliant... thoughtful and understated".
Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost, he went on, "have taken the format and updated it, without losing the essence of what they originally created."
Variety's Sonia Saraiya called Twin Peaks: The Return "weird and creepy and slow" but conceded it was "interesting".
"It's not especially fun to watch and it can be quite disturbing," she went on. "But there is never a sense that you are watching something devoid of vision or intention."
"Through its first two hours, David Lynch's new Twin Peaks is unsettling, weird, funny and basically impossible to review," wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Fienberg.
Yet he went on to call the first two episodes "accessibly scary, disturbing and audaciously funny as many of the best parts of the original Twin Peaks".
Writing in The Guardian, Mark Lawson said the cult show's latest iteration was more "what-is-it?" than whodunnit.
"Filled with giants, dwarves, monsters and ghosts, Twin Peaks most resembles a modern fairytale written on LSD then heavily redacted by the CIA," he wrote.
Walking Dead actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan was among those to welcome Twin Peaks' return on Twitter, praising Lynch for "outLynching the bejesus" out of his celebrated creation.
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Insurgents are using unscrupulous middlemen to sell stolen cattle, the governor of Borno state said.
Trade was suspended about two weeks ago at Gamboru cattle market - one of the biggest in Africa.
Boko Haram has stolen thousands of cattle in Nigeria and nearby Cameroon.
The group's six-year insurgency has led to the deaths of some 17,000 people, destroyed some 1,000 schools and displaced more than two million people.
The suspension of the cattle trade has affected businesses in a region already battered by Boko Haram's deadly campaign to establish an Islamic state.
Much of Nigeria's cattle trade passes through Borno and the closures have reportedly caused cattle prices to rise in Lagos, more than 1,500km (940 miles) away.
A civil-military management team has been set up to monitor the activities of cattle traders and butchers in order to stop all illegal activities, Borno Governor Kashim Shettima said in a statement.
All transactions must be vetted and approved by the new team, he added.
Cattle markets in Dusuman, Shuwari and Ngom have also been suspended. The insurgency had already forced the closure of other markets in Borno's capital, Maiduguri.
The government has also suspended all cattle imports and banned the sale of dry meat.
Thousands of cattle and goats are dying from lack of water and food after being locked in at the main abattoir in Maiduguri, Abubakar Abba of the Livestock Traders' Union told the Associated Press news agency.
Correspondents say the militants, who have pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group, are in dire need of food after regional troops cut off their supply lines.
The group has also lost most of the territory it once controlled but still carries out frequent suicide attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon.
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The Wire actor plays famous artist Julian in the art world satire, alongside Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss.
He admitted he would be "pretty scared" to meet Julian as those kind of people are "so powerful and so rich".
Asked who he was inspired by for the role, he said: "I'm sure you can guess."
He added of his character, who wears pyjamas, a sports jacket and tinted glasses: "My clothes give it away," while co-star Claes Bang hinted that the name was also a clue.
The Square, by Force Majeur director Ruben Ostlund, focuses on Bang's character Christian as the gallery he runs prepares for a new exhibition called The Square, a space in the courtyard which encourages members of the public to be altruistic.
Meanwhile, his private life starts to unravel after he is mugged and seeks the return of his belongings in an unorthodox way.
Julian's work in the gallery includes piles of gravel arranged on the floor, and a neon sign reading: "You have nothing".
Speaking about his character, West told press conference at the Cannes Film Festival: "I think they're pretty scary, these guys, the incredibly knowledgeable artists who cannot be disputed because they're talking about art, which is something there's no definite answer to.
"So I'd be quite scared of meeting someone like that. Also, because they're so powerful and so rich."
Asked about the inspiration, he replied: "We had a lot of people in mind. A lot of the interview we filmed [when Julian takes part in a gallery event] was taken from various interviews with great international artists who we looked at in great detail."
To laughter from the press, he added: "I can't remember their names. But I'm sure you can guess. My clothes give it away."
Christian is interviewed by American journalist Anne, played by Moss, and when he returns to her flat one night finds an ape in there with him - the presence of which is never explained in the film.
Ostlund said of the half-bonobo ape: "Anything can happen in a movie when a monkey appears in an apartment.
"I love monkeys and I think human beings love looking at monkeys because you're seeing yourself reflected in them."
Moss said to him: "I got an email from you saying: 'So I'm thinking you should have a monkey'. And I was like - okay!"
She said working with Ostlund was "incredibly challenging, even more than I thought it was going to be".
Moss, who stars in A Handmaid's Tale, added: "That's what I wanted - to do something different that was out of the rhythm and the norm of what I would usually do."
Moss said a sex scene was "hilarious to film" - as it is shot from the perspectives of the two characters.
"I was doing it with a camera in my face, on an apple box," she said.
Moss said sex scenes are "always awkward and uncomfortable" but added "with Ruben, it becomes a thousand times more awkward and uncomfortable because that's what he's looking for".
It has had good early reviews - despite some complaining that at two hours and 22 minutes, it is overly long.
The film 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".
It also gained four stars from Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, who called it "thrillingly weird".
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Six classic cars were set alight at the premises on the Brustin Brae Road.
Owner John Murphy said he doesn't know why he was targeted.
"I have no enemies that I know of," he told the BBC.
The collection of cars represented 15 years of work for Mr Murphy. Amongst those destroyed were a Lotus Sunbeam and an MG.
When he discovered the damage, Mr Murphy said he was devastated: "It's bad enough having a break-in but they didn't have to burn the vehicles, it's just soul destroying. I intended to use the cars for my retirement.
"There have been quite a few robberies in this area recently, they come in the hours of darkness and leave a lot of mess behind them."
The vintage car fanatic said the fire has left the cars unusable.
"I'll try to save what bits I can, but the cars themselves are gone," he said. "Once the tin work is gone, there's no way you can really fix it. The cars are history."
Lionsgate has cancelled two hours of red carpet interviews with stars including Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, after Friday's attacks left 129 dead and 352 injured.
Tuesday night's Paris premiere of Tom Hardy film Legend has been called off.
Part of Mockingjay Part 2 was filmed in Paris, along with Atlanta and Germany.
Lionsgate's statement said: "Out of respect for the very recent events in Paris, we have decided to modify our red carpet and we will not conduct interviews at Monday's Mockingjay 2 premiere.
"We will proceed with the rest of the event as planned in honour of the incredible fans who have always supported our films with such passion."
Mockingjay Part 2 is the final instalment in the young adult franchise featuring Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.
Legend - in which Hardy plays both the Kray twins - was due to have its French premiere at the Olympia Theater in Paris.
"Following the tragic events of this weekend, we decided to cancel the premiere of the movie Legend which was scheduled tomorrow, Tuesday, at the Olympia," said a statement from parent company Vivendi. "We thank you for your understanding."
Hardy was not expected at the premiere, but British singer Duffy, who stars as Timi Yuro, had been expected to give a special performance.
The Paris premiere of Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama Bridge of Spies was also cancelled, due to take place on Sunday night.
"In light of the tragedy in Paris, we have cancelled our scheduled film events," said a statement from Fox.
"Further, we stand with the people of Paris and our thoughts go out to all those affected by these horrible events."
The premieres are among several entertainment events to be scaled back or cancelled since the attacks in Paris, where targets included the Bataclan concert venue during a performance by the band Eagles of Death Metal.
Eighty-nine people were killed there. The band members were unhurt but Nick Alexander, a Briton selling merchandise at the gig, was among those killed. On Friday, the US rock band issued a short Facebook statement saying: "Our thoughts are with all of the people involved in this tragic situation."
Fans of The Eagles of Death Metal - who cancelled three shows in Germany this week - have launched a Facebook campaign to get the band to number one.
The page, which has more than 6,000 supporters, is urging people to download the band's version of the Duran Duran song Save A Prayer to show "solidarity against terrorism and support for peace".
There has been some criticism though, with some posts on the Facebook page accusing the campaign of being in bad taste.
Over the weekend concerts were cancelled by musicians including U2 and the Foo Fighters. Madonna's Saturday night show in Stockholm, Sweden, went ahead but the singer said on stage that she was apprehensive about carrying on.
"In many ways I feel torn, because it's like: 'Why am I up here dancing and having fun when people are crying over the loss of their loved ones?'," Madonna told fans.
"However, that is exactly what these people want to do. They want to shut us up. They want to silence us, and we won't let them. We will never let them."
US TV channel CBS said it would replace Monday night's episode of the new series Supergirl that was supposed to deal with a bombing, and would shelve an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles about the recruitment of young women by the Islamic State group.
In the UK, ITV did not broadcast Sunday night's episode of Jekyll and Hyde which was expected to feature a "gunfight", according to the Radio Times.
Cafodd y cwest ei gynnal i farwolaeth y Rhingyll Lee Johnson, oedd wedi crogi ei hun tra'n glaf gwirfoddol yn uned Heddfan yn Ysbyty Maelor Wrecsam ym mis Chwefror 2016.
Roedd y Rhingyll Johnson, 45, oedd yn gweithio yn yr Amwythig, wedi bod yn glaf am ddau fis ac wedi bod yn dioddef o iselder.
Clywodd y cwest ei fod ar adegau wedi ystyried lladd ei hun pan roedd dan ddylanwad alcohol.
Roedd cofnod iddo fod wedi yfed alcohol yn yr uned ar ddau achlysur, ac amheuaeth ei fod wedi gwneud hynny ar achlysuron eraill hefyd.
Ar ddiwedd y cwest fe ddyfarnodd crwner rhanbarth Dwyrain a Chanolbarth Gogledd Cymru, John Gittins, reithfarn naratif.
Ychwanegodd fod yr uned wedi "methu ag ystyried y risg yr oedd yn ei ddangos iddo ei hun ac eraill, yn enwedig wedi iddo yfed alcohol", a bod angen i'r polisi o adael i gleifion gael mynd ag alcohol ar yr uned fod yn llawer mwy cadarn.
"Mae'n anodd deall sut y gall person fod dan ddylanwad alcohol yn Heddfan," meddai.
Yn gynharach yn y gwrandawiad roedd y seiciatrydd ymgynghorol Dr Stuart Porter, cyfarwyddwr clinigol dros dro gyda Bwrdd Iechyd Betsi Cadwaladr, wedi tanlinellu'r gwelliannau mewn cynllun oedd wedi ei gyflwyno yn dilyn marwolaeth Mr Johnson.
Pan ofynnodd bargyfreithiwr iddo os oedd y risg heb ei ragweld yn ddigon trylwyr yn yr achos yma, atebodd: "O bosib oedd, ond mae rhagweld risg yn anodd.
"Fy marn i... yw y dylai sgwrs fwy heriol fod wedi digwydd am alcohol," ychwanegodd.
Yn dilyn cyhoeddi'r dyfarniad naratif, dywedodd y crwner ei fod wedi ystyried os oedd polisïau'r bwrdd iechyd wedi methu'n llwyr yn yr achos yma, ond ychwanegodd ei fod yn credu fod y polisïau presennol yn rhai da wedi iddo ail-ystyried y dystiolaeth.
Yn dilyn y gwrandawiad, dywedodd gweddw'r Rhingyll Johnson, Barbara, fod ei gŵr yn daer am gymorth i'w iselder.
"O glywed y dystiolaeth gan staff oedd wedi trin Lee yn Heddfan, rwy'n teimlo nad ydyn nhw wedi cydnabod y methiannau yn ei ofal oedd yn fy marn i wedi cyfrannu at ei farwolaeth", meddai.
"Rwy'n gwerthfawrogi fod y crwner wedi gofyn am sicrwydd gan y staff hynny fod gwersi wedi eu dysgu."
Dywedodd Dr Stuart Porter ar ddiwedd y gwrandawiad: "Rydym yn derbyn casgliadau'r crwner yn llawn ac fe fyddwn yn sicrhau y byddwn yn ymateb i'r pryderon mae wedi eu codi o ran y ffordd y cafodd y gofal am Mr Johnson ei reoli a'r angen i weithredu polisïau'n fwy trylwyr.
"Dywedodd y crwner ei fod yn credu fod polisïau'r bwrdd iechyd yn gadarn ac fe wnaeth gydnabod y sicrwydd yr oedd wedi ei dderbyn o ran ein hymrwymiad i barhau i wella safon y gofal sy'n cael ei roi i gleifion."
Clywodd Llys y Goron Abertawe fod Gordon Fleming o Groesoswallt wedi camdrin nifer o blant dros gyfnod o chwe blynedd.
Plediodd y gwr 66 oed yn euog i 24 cyhuddiad o ymosod yn anweddus ar blant o dan 13 oed.
Dywedodd y Barnwr Geraint Walters y gallai Fleming ddisgwyl "dedfryd sylweddol o garchar".
Roedd Fleming wedi ei gael yn euog o drosedd debyg yn Llys y Goron Caer yn 1992.
Bydd yn dychwelyd i Lys y Goron Abertawe ar 5 Mai i glywed ei ddedfryd.
Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said he knew the whereabouts of the men and would seek extradition. Otherwise they would face trial in absentia.
The suspects are said to be members of the armed wing of the Shia group Hezbollah, which denies any involvement.
The bomber killed five Israeli tourists in Burgas on 18 July last year.
Their bus was attacked at the airport of the Black Sea resort, and the bus driver was also killed.
Bulgaria has given the EU's police agency the names of the two suspects.
They were identified as Australian citizen Meliad Farah, 32, also known as Hussein Hussein, and 25-year-old Hassan El Hajj Hassan, a Canadian citizen.
Both suspects are of Lebanese origin and are thought to have lived in Lebanon for several years before the attack, but are no longer resident there.
They are alleged to have provided the explosive device and logistical support to the bomber, who killed himself in the attack.
Prosecutor Tsatsarov said Bulgaria needed to send a "crystal clear signal that such terrorism meets zero tolerance".
"If we cannot bring them to court in person, we will charge them in absence but we will send a clear signal that such investigations in Bulgaria end with a verdict," he said.
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green said it was pointless to re-test recipients of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) with severe conditions and no prospect of getting better.
More than two million people receive ESA, which is worth up to £109 a week.
The move has been welcomed by charities supporting those with severe illness.
Michelle Mitchell, head of the MS Society, described it as a "victory for common sense".
Shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams said it was "a welcome U-turn" by the government, but "the devil was in the detail".
"What about mental health conditions, conditions that are fluctuating, conditions that may not necessarily have a physical manifestation?" she said.
Applicants for ESA have to undergo a work capability assessment to find out if they are eligible and they are re-tested to ensure their condition has not changed. Some are re-tested every three months and others up to two years later.
Under the government's change, those who are deemed unfit for work and with conditions that will not improve will no longer face re-testing.
Conditions such as severe Huntington's, autism or a congenital heart condition are among those that are likely to qualify for continuous payments without reassessment. The criteria will be drawn up with health professionals.
Mr Green said a "key part" of making sure those who were unable to work received "full and proper support" included "sweeping away any unnecessary stress and bureaucracy".
The measure will be formally unveiled at the four-day Conservative Party conference, which begins in Birmingham on Sunday.
Andrew Grantham has claimed ESA for seven years and told the BBC having to be reassessed was frustrating and annoying.
"I've had MS since 2006... it's chronic, fluctuating and the only guaranteed thing about it is that it will get worse.
"I've had three assessments and I will have one next year. The first time, I was found fit for work and I had to go to a tribunal.
"The other two assessments, I had some really good medical evidence from my dedicated nurse and I was found not fit for work.
"These assessments are stressful for people because they don't know which way it is going to go. There is also a chance that you lose your financial security and you are told that you are fit for work and you have to look for work."
Mr Green told the BBC: "If you have got a condition that has made you unfit for work and which can only stay the same or get worse, I think it is just pointless... to just bring someone back again.
"It's the severity of the condition that matters, because indeed there are some people with MS... that can work, but we know that it's a degenerative disease so there will come a point when it may well be that they can't work.
"After that it seems to me that re-testing and reassessing them doesn't do them any good - it might induce anxiety and stress in them - and it is also not doing the system any good because it is pointless."
Currently, those in the "work-related activity group" - deemed unable to work at the moment but capable of making some effort to find employment - receive up to £102.15 a week in ESA payments.
Those in the "support group" - deemed unable to work and not obliged to do anything to improve their chances of finding work - receive up to £109.30 a week.
However, ministers remain committed to a cut to be introduced next April in the amount of money that some new recipients of ESA will receive, BBC social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan says.
From April 2017, payments will fall to £73 for new claimants in the "work-related activity" category as ministers argue that too few people in the category are moving into work.
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, welcomed the "progressive" reform to the re-testing regime, which he had set up when in office.
"I hope that the government will... move on to the fuller reform... where we lock together with the health department much more to be able to get a better health assessment of people, rather than a just strictly work assessment."
Tim Nicholls, policy manager at the National Autistic Society, said ESA was a vital benefit for those unable to work, covering basic daily living costs such as food, heating and clothes.
"The flawed assessment process can be highly stressful for autistic people who can experience high levels of anxiety meeting new people or when their routine is broken, particularly when the stakes are so high," he said.
"We will be looking out for more details from the government."
Keran Bunker, an ESA claimant who is on the autistic spectrum and has ADHD, told the BBC that the change would make people "fear trying to find employment".
Mr Bunker said he would fear taking a job which he might lose later because of health issues, only to then have to return to the lower level of benefit.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust can now set its own financial and operational priorities for John Radcliffe, Churchill, Horton and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
As part of the change local people can become members and serve as governors.
Chief Executive Sir Jonathan Michael admitted it was not a guarantee of success but said finances were good.
He added: "You've still got to run the business effectively, you've got to make sure you deliver the operational performance, you've got to make sure the books balance.
"If you lose control of that, then you get into difficulties as Addenbrooke's Hospital has done."
He said the status, which is granted by Monitor - the regulator of NHS Services in England, was a "recognition of the quality of the services provided and the efficiency of the organisation".
Becoming a foundation trust means decision making is devolved from central government to local organisations and communities, so it can manage its services to suit the specific needs of the local community.
The trust's GMB steward, Mark Ladbrooke, said: "We believe this will give trust directors a number of important freedoms and responsibilities."
GMB claims there is a "horrific problem of low pay and job insecurity" within the current organisation.
It urged the trust to look at this issue as part of its new status, and also "invest heavily in good quality staff accommodation" as well as "deal with the long standing issues around car parking for patients and staff". | Northern Ireland hope Mark Allen will face Crucible debutant Mitchell Mann in the first round at the World Championship in Sheffield.
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Queally, who guided the legendary Frankel to all 14 of his wins, produced a determined ride on the 9-2 chance.
The winner survived a stewards' inquiry into bumping in the late stages, with Tasleet second and Limato third.
The Queen left Royal Ascot without a winner this week as her horse Dartmouth finished fourth in the Hardwicke Stakes behind winner Idaho.
The David O'Meara-trained Out Do (25-1), a veteran aged eight who has needed two operations to fix a broken jaw, won the Wokingham Handicap under Danny Tudhope.
Josephine Gordon, seeking to become the only the second female jockey to win at the meeting since Gay Kelleway 30 years ago, finished runner-up on Steady Pace.
After a thrilling finish and inquiry, The Tin Man - who had won over course and distance on British Champions Day in October - emerged winner of the Group One six-furlong sprint.
"I'm a very relieved man and I'm very grateful to The Tin Man for putting up a fantastic performance, to Tom, who gave him a great ride, and everyone back at home," said Fanshawe.
Queally, who was given a two-day ban for careless riding, said: "It's very hard to get a ride here and it's even harder to ride a winner.
"I'm riding as good now as I was then (when Frankel was racing) and I will be for a few more years."
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
A fine performance this by The Tin Man, who clearly relishes the Ascot challenge.
There was argy-bargy late on as the winner interfered with the third Limato, who did the same to Tasleet, the runner-up, which didn't affect the result, but Tom Queally did receive a two-day ban.
But what a big result for Queally and for James Fanshawe.
No one doubts how good Fanshawe is, but he doesn't have as many good horses as his talents probably deserve, while Queally, forever associated with the unbeaten Frankel, hasn't seen his name up in lights so often since his retirement in 2012. It was today.
Idaho (9-2), ridden by Seamie Heffernan, was a sixth victory of the week for Aidan O'Brien as he became leading trainer for the eighth time.
Last year's winner Dartmouth, partnered by Ryan Moore, was bidding to win the race for the second year running and give Her Majesty a 24th Royal Ascot victory.
But after looking well primed turning into the straight roared on by a 70,000 crowd, he faded to finish fourth and leave trainer Sir Michael Stoute still seeking a record 76th victory at the Royal meeting.
Moore kept his cool after a slow start aboard September (11-8 favourite) to win the opening Chesham Stakes for O'Brien,
September is now the general 6-1 favourite for next year's 1000 Guineas after an impressive victory.
O'Brien, who struck 12 months ago in the Chesham with subsequent dual 2000 Guineas winner Churchill, said: "You'd be delighted with her. She has a massive engine. She's a great traveller and quickens really well."
Moore, with six victories, finished top jockey for the seventh time in eight years and his employers Coolmore just edged out a resurgent Godolphin team as leading owners.
The 25-1 chance Snoano, bred by former champion jockey Willie Carson, won the Wolferton Handicap under jockey David Allan for trainer Tim Easterby.
Oriental Fox (10-1) followed up his victory two years ago by denying Thomas Hobson a second win of the week to land the concluding Queen Alexandra Stakes.
More than 8,000 people are currently employed at the agency's 18 Scottish offices, including major centres in Dundee, Cumbernauld and East Kilbride.
HMRC said by 2021, a maximum of 6,300 staff would be based at new regional centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
A smaller unit will be retained at the national crime campus in Gartcosh.
HMRC's chief executive Lin Homer said: "HMRC has too many expensive, isolated and outdated offices.
"This makes it difficult for us to collaborate, modernise our ways of working, and make the changes we need to transform our service to customers and clamp down further on the minority who try to cheat the system."
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She added: "The new regional centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh will bring our staff together in more modern and cost-effective buildings in areas with lower rents.
"They will also make a big contribution to the Scottish economy, providing high-quality, skilled jobs and supporting the government's commitment to a national recovery that benefits all parts of the UK."
HMRC said its 18 Scottish offices ranged in size from about 1,800 people to fewer than five.
The agency said it expected between 2,300 and 2,600 full-time equivalent employees to work in the Edinburgh regional centre and between 3,400 and 3,700 full-time equivalent employees to work in the Glasgow centre.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the announcement on office closures "appeared to put significant numbers of jobs in Scotland at risk".
Speaking at Holyrood, she told MSPs she would be seeking urgent talks with the UK government to discuss the matter.
Labour's Shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said the prospect of significant job losses was "devastating" and "every effort must be made" to protect them.
"I have already contacted Labour's Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, to discuss this issue and we will use every opportunity to raise the situation in parliament," he added.
The PCS union said the closure plan was a danger to HMRC fulfilling its duties.
General secretary Mark Serwotka said: "No one should be in any doubt that, if implemented, these proposals would be absolutely devastating for HMRC and the people who work there.
"Closing this many offices would pose a significant threat to the operation of HMRC, its service to the public and the working lives of staff, and the need for parliamentary scrutiny of the plans is undeniable and urgent."
Last week, MPs on the public accounts committee said HMRC's customer service was so bad that it could be affecting tax collection.
HMRC denied that, and said it had now recruited 3,000 more staff to help.
Overgenerous offers of fuel subsidies meant the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme vastly overspent.
The minister in charge planned to close it, but it remained open for two more weeks after Mrs Foster's challenge.
The DUP said Jonathan Bell extended the scheme "following representations".
MLAs will return to the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday for an urgent discussion on public concerns over the energy scandal.
And Mrs Foster could face a motion of no confidence in her position as first minister if she does not stand aside while the scheme is investigated, the SDLP has said.
But the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds has given her his backing, saying that her opponents are engaged in a "witch-hunt".
Set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti), the RHI scheme offered incentives to businesses and other non-domestic users to install renewable heating systems, mostly burning wood pellets.
But the subsidies it paid out were greater than the cost of the fuel, meaning users could claim more cash the more fuel they burned.
Stormont could have to find about £400m over the next 20 years to cover the overspend.
BBC Radio Ulster's The Stephen Nolan Show revealed that Mrs Foster had a "heated conversation" with her DUP colleague Mr Bell, the then enterprise minister, over his plan to end the initiative in January.
Senior civil servants at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) had told him that the scheme had to close as it had gone far beyond its budget.
When Mrs Foster intervened, the source said, a deal was struck that saw the scheme remain open for a further 14 days.
Analysis
Chris Buckler Ireland Correspondent
Of course, publicly this scheme was being touted as a success. And Arlene Foster may well have been trying to protect businesses who were investing in boilers and trying to enter the scheme.
It's worth going back to February and looking at how upset politicians from all of the main parties were at the final closure of this scheme. There wasn't the outrage over it remaining open that there is now.
But at that stage for Assembly officials it wasn't about helping businesses or the environment - Stormont simply couldn't afford it. And that delay undoubtedly allowed more firms to enter the scheme, adding to the financial drain on Stormont.
The DUP said Mr Bell kept the scheme open "following representations, including those from other political parties".
The party added: "The first minister and deputy first minister supported this decision in light of the concerns expressed at the time and the fact that cost controls had already been introduced from November 2015.
"Civil servants expressed no objection to the two-week extension in light of the legal dangers of the lack of adequate notification period."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Mrs Foster must account for her role in what he described as "the biggest public finance scandal in the history of devolution".
He called on Sinn Féin, the DUP's executive partners, to sign a no-confidence motion in the first minister, which will need the support of 30 members to go through.
"If [Mrs Foster] will not stand aside, then the assembly must act to remove her from office and fully scrutinise this scandal," Mr Eastwood said.
"She has lost all credibility and anything less will further erode faith in our institutions."
The Stephen Nolan Show also revealed internal emails that suggest civil servants came under pressure from Stormont's Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) in autumn last year to delay crucial changes to the scheme that could have curbed its costs.
Deti officials became concerned in summer 2015 that the RHI scheme was running out of control and made it clear that it should be closed or at least changed to ensure it did not become unaffordable.
The department's top civil servant Andrew McCormick said he wanted the scheme to be closed in September 2015.
But emails show that Deti staff had concerns that political pressure was applied to keep the original scheme open.
In an email, a DUP official challenged a note of decisions made by the department.
Crucially, the scheme continued unchanged until mid-November.
During that period, there was a spike in applications to the RHI scheme - 429 in October and 452 in November.
When the spike in applications for the ill-fated RHI scheme took place the minister responsible was mostly away from his desk.
Jonathan Bell had been removed from office by the DUP as part of the rolling resignation policy in response to a Stormont crisis.
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The approved applications during those two months are expected to cost the public purse £485m.
Mr McCormick said "wider reluctance delayed the debate" around the scheme and prevented the changes from being made.
In a statement, the DUP said: "For the avoidance of any doubt, no-one at the then OFMDFM sought to delay the closure of the scheme.
"No DUP special advisor or any other individuals from the then OFMDFM sought to prevent the 'closure of the original scheme'."
"Indeed, the date from which the scheme was to be amended and terms of any such amendment of the scheme were a matter for the responsible minister."
Angus Milligan, 21, was given community service for choking and slapping fellow student Emily Drouet, 18, at halls of residence in Aberdeen.
Law student Ms Drouet was found dead several days later in March last year.
The university said it had discretion about students being readmitted.
The University of Aberdeen would not comment on Milligan specifically.
A spokesman said: "Under its governing procedures, the university has the power to apply its discretion to consider whether or not any student who applies should be readmitted.
"Alongside academic judgement this would include attention to a student's conduct, in particular conduct affecting other members of the university community."
Milligan admitted assault and threatening behaviour.
At Aberdeen Sheriff Court in July, he was ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work and told he would be under supervision for one year.
Tonight the Jubilee joins the Central and the Victoria line, with the Northern Line set to start on Friday 18 November.
There are plans to continue the roll out onto the Piccadilly Line and once the upgrades have been completed, one day perhaps onto most of the network.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is also looking at a 24-hour operation on the Elizabeth Line.
I've got some figures from London Underground (LU) that give some insight into how the Night Tube is being used.
On the Victoria and Central lines, after an initial surge, usage dipped but it has since picked up again:
LU said this was much higher than its predictions but it was confident it would pay for itself within three years.
And LU said it had noticed two peaks. Revellers at 01:30 BST and workers at 04:00.
Also the use of contactless payment is higher (22%) compared to during the day (15%).
Presumably that reflects a younger demographic out and about after midnight.
That could also explain why Oxford Circus is by far the busiest entry station and Stratford is the busiest exit.
The top five popular stations are:
Crime seems to have been very low and the long established methods of getting home seems to be changing.
A spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association said: "It is very early days with the Night Tube and up until now, with only two lines running, it is difficult to properly assess the impact it has had on our trade.
"Our initial anecdotal reports seem to suggest that the effect on longer journeys has been offset by people using taxis to move between venues in town.
"However we are aware of an increased demand for taxis in the suburbs, from the vicinity of Tube stations, what's become known as 'the last mile' where passengers value the guaranteed safety of a black cab to their door.
"Once the Jubilee and other lines start running all night we will be better placed to comment. "
Minicab firms have also seen an increase in Night Tube station pickups.
Uber says journeys starting within 200m (650ft) of stations on the Central and Victoria lines during Night Tube operation has increased by 22%.
And that rises to 63% for journeys starting near Night Tube stations outside Zone 1.
They say Newbury Park, Woodford and North Acton are some of the stations that have seen an increase of pickups of more than 300%.
Of course not everyone welcomes the Night Tube. Those who live by it say they are being disturbed by the noise of the trains.
But as more lines get the Night Tube, London's transport will continue to change with it.
Mary Ann Cotton, from West Auckland, County Durham, was hanged in Durham Prison in 1873 for poisoning her stepson with arsenic.
She is widely believed to have also killed three husbands, 10 children, a lover and her mother, collecting life insurance for each.
The batch of letters found in her prison cell have sold for £1,050.
They had been estimated to fetch £500-700.
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Eight other letters, written to a lodger at Cotton's home, were sold to a private collector in 2013.
Victoria House, originally from Hartlepool, failed to raise enough to buy them and donate them to the Durham County Records Office.
She had been "very upset" and said it was a case of "here we go again" with this latest sale.
"If I could save them, I would, but I haven't got the money and it's too short notice to ask people to help," she said.
As she was pregnant during her trial, Cotton's execution was delayed until after the birth of her 11th child.
The latest of her letters to be sold include one from William and Sarah Edwards, saying this daughter was being cared for.
Others relate to selling her possessions to pay for legal costs and instructing lawyers to defend her.
They were sold by a descendent of the matron at Durham Jail, who is believed to have cleared out Cotton's cell.
Tennants Auctioneers valuer Steven Stockton said there had been "a lot of interest from around the globe".
"There's a lot of beautiful things in this sale and the one thing that everyone's asking about is these letters to this awful monster," he said.
"I suppose it's something in human nature," he added.
Jonathan Spratt, Josh Matavesi and Eli Walker crossed for first-half scores, with Justin Tipuric, Walker again and Sam Parry adding further touchdowns.
Dan Biggar kicked two conversions from six shots at goal and Sam Davies one.
The result was a welcome fillip for the Ospreys as they prepare to kick off their European Champions Cup campaign against Exeter Chiefs next weekend.
The Ospreys gave a first regional start of the season to captain Alun Wyn Jones, who faces a decision over whether to accept a national dual contract (NDC) for next season or move out of Wales, and he turned in a storming display to inspire his side.
Number eight Dan Baker returned to the starting line-up in the same week he signed an NDC.
It was the Ospreys who dominated the early stages and it took just nine minutes to get their first try through centre Spratt, as he swapped passes with Dafydd Howells wide out on the right.
The home side were looking more inventive than in previous games, and Matavesi grabbed the next score on 18 minutes, running on to a chip down the middle and bursting clear from 35 metres for Biggar to convert.
Walker was next on the scoresheet, squeezing in at the corner on 26 minutes after a break by Dan Evans well supported by skipper Jones.
Carlo Canna got Zebre on the scoreboard with a penalty but Biggar missed with a long-distance shot to leave it 17-3 at the interval.
The Italians came out more strongly for the second half, with flanker Johan Meyer held up twice close to the Ospreys' line.
But Tipuric scored the bonus-point try on 58 minutes, put over by a Matavesi break after some excellent combined handling.
And Walker cut through for his second with a lovely angle off the shoulder of Biggar, who converted.
Replacement hooker Parry, who replaced a limping Scott Baldwin early in the second half, notched up Ospreys' sixth try, which was converted by Davies.
It all added up to some reassurance for the Ospreys faithful in the build-up to Europe, with flanker Tipuric getting the man-of-the-match award.
Man of the match Justin Tipuric told BBC Wales Sport:
"We're not used to losing so it was nice to get the bonus-point win and look forward to next week against Exeter.
"Our discipline was better than in Glasgow and we looked after the ball in the contact area - we were just better as a team, it's taken a bit of time to gel back together but we're on the up."
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Dafydd Howells, Jonathan Spratt, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Dan Biggar, Brendan Leonard; Paul James, Scott Baldwin, Aaron Jarvis, Lloyd Ashley, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), James King, Justin Tipuric, Dan Baker.
Replacements: Sam Parry, Ryan Bevington, Cai Griffiths, Olly Cracknell, Sam Underhill, Tom Habberfield, Sam Davies, Ben John.
Zebre: Guglielmo Palazzani; Kayle Van Zyl, Giulio Bisegni, Matteo Pratichetti, Leonardo Sarto; Carlo Canna, Luke Burgess; Andrea Lovotti, Andrea Manici, Dario Chistolini, Quintin Geldenhuys, George Biagi (capt), Jacopo Sarto, Johan Meyer, Andries Van Schalkwyk.
Replacements: Oliviero Fabiani, Andrea De Marchi, Pietro Ceccarelli, Federico Ruzza, Emiliano Caffini, Marcello Violi, Michele Visentin, Edoardo Padovani.
Referee: Gary Conway (IRFU).
Assistant referees: Sean Brickell, Greg Morgan (both WRU).
Citing commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU).
Nigel Clough's side move up to 19th, above Birmingham, who are now 20th - three points above the bottom three.
Lloyd Dyer put the visitors ahead before Lucas Akins hooked in from a corner in the second half.
Zola resigns with just two wins from 24 games since replacing Gary Rowett in December when they were seventh.
Birmingham now have just three games remaining to save their Championship status, while the St Andrew's crowd fans sang "we want Zola out" during the second half.
Lukas Jutkiewicz missed a great chance in the opening moments, shooting wide with the goal gaping after Burton goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin had spilled.
Burton's first goal came from mistake from Blues goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak, who spilled Akins shot before Dyer stabbed in from six yards.
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Match ends, Birmingham City 0, Burton Albion 2.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 0, Burton Albion 2.
Attempt saved. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Che Adams with a cross.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Damien McCrory replaces Lloyd Dyer.
Attempt saved. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City).
Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Davis (Birmingham City) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds with a cross.
Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lasse Vigen Christensen (Burton Albion).
Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Jonathan Grounds.
Substitution, Burton Albion. John Mousinho replaces Luke Varney.
Attempt blocked. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Attempt missed. Che Adams (Birmingham City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lukas Jutkiewicz.
Attempt blocked. Krystian Bielik (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Luke Varney.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Ben Turner.
Attempt blocked. Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lasse Vigen Christensen (Burton Albion).
Attempt missed. Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion).
Attempt missed. Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
Cheick Keita (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion).
Offside, Birmingham City. David Davis tries a through ball, but Jacques Maghoma is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Robert Tesche.
Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Akins (Burton Albion).
Che Adams (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Che Adams (Birmingham City).
Luke Murphy (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion).
Attempt missed. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Akins.
Attempt missed. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by David Davis.
The restoration work will help reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by locking carbon into the environment.
It is estimated there are 1.7 million hectares of peatland in Scotland, much of which is eroding.
The funding will double the amount already restored from almost 10,000 hectares to 20,000.
A significant increase in peatland restoration forms part of Scotland's draft Climate Plan, which is currently going through parliament.
It aims to increase annual targets to 20,000 hectares, with 250,000 expected to be restored by 2032.
The carbon contains greenhouse gases that are released when it is exposed due to erosion of the peatlands by the elements.
Erosion is caused by the peat either being washed away by rainfall or dried out by the sun.
Experts flatten the peat embankments using diggers and then cover over with vegetation.
Andrew McBride, a peatland specialist with Scottish Natural Heritage, told BBC Scotland: "Scotland's peatlands actually hold the equivalent of about 140 years of our emissions from Scotland - all the industry. So it's very important that we hold the actual carbon and the peat in place.
"If it goes into the atmosphere, it's actually going to exacerbate climate change and that's why we're doing this, basically to cap it and keep it in place."
Work has recently begun on a 15-hectare stretch of moorland on the Auchlyne and Suie estates in Perthshire, which involves the re-profiling of 12km of peat hags.
Two diggers will spend about four weeks re-sculpting the landscape 2,000ft above sea level.
Landowner Emma Paterson said: "One did think, well, that sounds very odd because back in the 70s my mother got grants to do a lot of draining and this seemed to be going completely the opposite way.
"Thinking on it, it's going to benefit wildlife and make the habitat better with better grazing for animals."
The work on the Auchlyne and Suie estate is costing £49,000 and was organised by the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
The park's land manager, Harriet Donald, said: "You've got a lot of vegetation on the top (of healthy peatland) so basically at the moment you're losing any species, invertebrates, bird species that use that vegetation.
"So once that comes back in, you're creating an active, healthy peatland which will benefit all manner of biodiversity."
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: "Restoring our peatlands and taking advantage of their value as a natural resource is crucial if we are to continue to build on our world leading low carbon ambitions, and reduce emissions by 66% by 2032.
"By increasing our investment more communities will be able to transform and use peatlands as an open space, regenerating it as a habitat for wildlife and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
The Sheffield athlete threw moderately in the javelin - 41.69m compared with a personal best of 48.33m - but appeared to be free of an Achilles injury that ruled her out of the indoor season.
There are 12 weeks to go before Ennis-Hill defends her Olympic title in Rio.
"My Achilles actually feels really good," she said.
"The work I've done with the medical team - and the rehab and just making sure we get it right - has really worked."
Ennis-Hill's hampered preparations have forced her to pull out of the high-profile heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis next weekend. She has already qualified for Rio 2016.
Also at Loughborough, CJ Ujah beat Great Britain team-mate James Dasaolu to win the 100 metres A race in 10.06 seconds, inside the Olympic qualifying time.
The figures are for England and Wales and show the increase between 2007-11.
A charity which works with offenders to stop them accessing images said there were many more offenders and that it was impossible to arrest everyone.
The Home Office said it was working with the police and industry to make the internet a safer place.
The figures were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the 34 police forces in England and Wales that were able to provide data for the crimes of possession of an indecent or pseudo photograph of a child and possessing prohibited images of children.
In 2007, 919 crimes were detected by the police, however in 2011, this had risen to 1,362.
For crimes that were reported to the police, the increase was 46%.
The figures were analysed and verified by the chairman of the Crime and Justice Statistics Network, Professor Allan Brimicombe.
The NSPCC said on average, up to 35,000 indecent images of children were found every day by police forces and that some offenders had been caught with more than one million images.
In 1990 - before the internet took off - the charity said there were just 7,000 hard copy images in circulation.
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Jon Brown, head of the charity's sexual abuse programme, said the challenge of eliminating this type of crime was "as significant as ever".
"We need to ensure that it doesn't get created in the first place, so we need to put significant effort in prevention and offering a deterrent for offenders."
He said he had noticed the children being abused had changed in recent years. As broadband has become more prevalent in Africa, he said more children from that continent were being abused and put online.
Mr Brown added that there was also a decrease in the age of children being abused and that more children were being encouraged to do sexual activities through webcams which were then filmed and uploaded online rather than being groomed to meet up.
"The inhibitions are too few, especially if men are in a room by themselves - it's too easy," he said.
"We need to be asking what is the male psychology that makes them view this imagery? It's not just a few sick men, it's a much larger number.
"As a society we haven't got our heads around that, we need to recognise this and have a rational and sensible conversation rather than see them as monsters or beasts."
Donald Findlater from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity, said the problem was more widespread than police figures show.
"We have to recognise the limited potential of law enforcement to fully deal with this problem," he said.
"We have to provide far better ways to prevent the crime rather than assume arrests are the way out."
He said warning notices needed to be put on the internet so that if someone searched for certain key words, a warning would come up asking if the person realised the impact this search would on their lives as they could lose their liberty, children, partner and job.
Norway has such a system in place.
"That would be one way of warning someone off. Today it might be a curiosity, but if they do it for longer they could become a danger to children," he said.
Peter Davies, chief executive at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) Centre and ACPO lead police officer for child abuse investigations, said the volume of indecent images had increased "dramatically" in recent years and now runs into millions.
"Ceop, police forces in the UK, the internet service providers and international law enforcement are becoming increasingly successful at targeting offenders and working closer than ever before to protect children from harm caused by those who have a sexual interest in them," he said.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We already expect companies providing internet services to use the Internet Watch Foundation list to block access to illegal images of child sexual abuse.
"We are also clear that if child abuse takes place, it must be thoroughly and properly investigated and those responsible arrested and brought to justice."
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said the plane came down at Hardwick airfield near Bungay at about 15:35 BST.
It burst into flames and firefighters called to the scene found one person had died, a spokeswoman said.
The male pilot was airlifted to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for treatment and is in a serious condition.
The spokeswoman added: "When the first appliance arrived it was confirmed that [the aircraft] was on fire and unfortunately we have had it confirmed that there was one deceased and one airlifted to hospital.
"As far as we are aware it was two people on board and we believe it was a two-seater plane."
Charles Christian, who lives near the airfield, was out walking when he thought he saw the plane come down.
He said it appeared to come into the runway normally, with its landing gear down and ready to land, but that he heard a small explosion after it disappeared behind some trees, a noise he thought was just the engine playing up.
Mr Christian said: "I was taking the dogs for a walk and I was walking up the back field and the plane in question was flying in and coming into land quite normally and flew right over my head.
"It flew on toward the runway, which is about a quarter of a mile away, and disappeared behind the trees to land.
"Normally when that plane lands they cut off the engine so you sort of hear it backfiring, a spluttering noise, and then it grinds to a halt.
"It was noticeable that this time there was the spluttering noise and then it stopped very quietly and then a few seconds later there was another bang, which I am guessing was the explosion."
Norfolk Police said Denton Road remained closed for investigations to be carried out and that local diversions were in place.
The incident happened at about 17:20 on the eastbound carriageway of the city's West Approach Road.
A female passenger who also fell from the motorbike was uninjured.
The carriageway remains closed while police officers carry out crash investigation work. Police Scotland urged anyone who saw the incident to come forward.
In particular, officers want to trace a male cyclist who was seen in the area, having joined the West Approach Road at its junction with Roseburn Street.
Insp Brenda Sinclair, of Police Scotland, said: "Tragically, a man has passed away as a result of this incident and my thoughts are with his family at this sad time.
"Our inquiries into this matter are ongoing and I ask anyone with relevant information to contact police on 101.
"I also appeal directly to the male cyclist to contact police immediately."
Officials refused to disclose what he was being treated for.
It was the president's second spell of medical leave this year - leading many Nigerians to question whether he was well enough to run the country.
President Buhari, 74, walked unaided from the plane after landing in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
He was greeted by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who has acted as interim leader, and was accorded a military salute.
He made no statement and immediately travelled to the presidential villa.
President Buhari, who took office in May 2015, handed over power to Vice President Osinbajo to allay concerns of a void at the helm of Africa's biggest economy.
His absence sparked numerous protests, including demands that he should resign, as well as calls for more transparency about the president's condition.
There has been speculation about his health since June 2016, when he first went to London for treatment of what his aides said was a persistent ear infection.
His spokesman said he will address Nigerians on Monday morning.
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said progress had been made but UK government welfare reforms were hindering Welsh Government ambitions.
He said it did not have the power needed to make the significant changes needed to reach the goal.
The Department for Work and Pensions said welfare reforms were helping people who can work get employment.
In 2015, almost 72,000 children were living in workless households in Wales.
The 2020 target is a long-standing goal and was restated in a child poverty strategy last year.
Mr Sargeant said progress had been made in number of areas, including improvements in the school performance of children who receive free school meals, fewer children now living in workless households and higher employment rates.
But Mr Sargeant said the Welsh government lacked the power to make some of the required policy changes.
In an update to AMs, he said: "Our commitment to tackling child poverty is not in doubt.
"However, the decisions and actions of the UK government on welfare reform, which, alongside changes in the labour market play a major part in the forecasted rise in poverty, mean that we are not going to be able to achieve our ambition to eradicate child poverty by 2020."
"The Welsh Government does not hold the primary policy and fiscal levers, especially in terms of the welfare system, needed to enable us to deliver the significant changes needed.
"The issues we face can therefore, only be tackled through new ways of working. Within a context of stretched resources and reducing budgets, we need to focus our efforts where we can have most impact with the levers we have available."
Going forward, he said a "new, whole-government approach" was needed to help tackle child poverty.
He said this included improving people's wellbeing, economic prosperity and employment opportunities.
Children's Commissioner for Wales, Sally Holland, said more than 200,000 children in Wales were living in poverty - 60% of those in homes with parents who work - which she said was "simply unacceptable".
She added: "Instead of an arbitrary target we now need to deliver an ambitious plan with specific and measurable actions that will improve outcomes for children and families in poverty."
A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokesman said: "Our welfare reforms make sure that work always pays, providing opportunity for all those who can work and safety net for those who can't work.
"Since 2010, the number of people living in poverty has fallen by 300,000 but we know there's more to do.
"That's why we're increasing the National Living Wage and taking millions of people out of income tax, to make sure it always pays to be in work."
The endless green fields scored by the river's nine tributaries, which the Vietnamese call "Nine Dragons", explain why this area is one of the world's major food baskets.
It houses the richest inland fishery and accounts for more than a fifth of the world's rice exports, although looks can be deceptive.
Encroaching sea water from the south, a proliferation of hydro dams in the north and large-scale sand mining are endangering the delta, officials warn.
As a result, an alarming 500 hectares (5 km2) of land is being lost to soil erosion every year, they say.
"The sea level rise is bringing up water so fast that our defences against it have failed," said Ky Quang Vinh, director of the Climate Change Coordination Office, a government agency in Vietnam's Can Tho, the most populous city in Mekong.
"We've stopped growing mangrove trees on the coast because they only grow if the sea level rise stays below 1.6mm (0.06in) a year, and our work shows that in Vietnam it's going up by 5mm (0.2in)."
"Several of our sea dykes have collapsed too."
As inland river water gets saltier, rice farmers across the lower Mekong delta are responding by switching to shrimp farming or growing reeds.
Salt water has been found 60km (37.3 miles) inland.
According to the Southern Irrigation Research Institute, saltwater intrusion destroyed more than 6,000 hectares (60 sq km) of rice field last year.
"Nearly half the delta population now has no access to fresh water and that's serious," says Le Anh Tuan, deputy director of the Research Institute for Climate Change.
Scientists at the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an intergovernmental body, also warn that if the sea level continues to rise at its projected rate of around one metre by the end of the century, nearly 40% of the delta will be wiped out.
The MRC covers four countries in the lower Mekong region: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
In the north, it is the pace of dam expansion that is causing most concern.
Several dams upstream are already accused of disturbing the ecology of the river, which stretches nearly 5,000 km ( 8,047 miles) from Tibet in China to the sea.
According to International Rivers (IR), an organisation working on trans-boundary rivers, China has built six "mega dams" on the river and is planning another 14 over the next 10 years.
"China's dam construction on the Upper Mekong has already had an impact downstream, especially along the Thai-Lao border where communities have suffered declining fisheries and changing water levels that are seriously affecting their livelihoods," the IR says in one report.
"By changing the river's hydrology, blocking fish migration and affecting the river's ecology, the construction of dams on the Lower Mekong will have repercussions throughout the basin."
Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam are planning to follow China's lead by building a dozen more dams on the lower Mekong.
The Don Sahong hydro dam project in Laos is especially controversial in Cambodia and Vietnam, the two countries at the basin's southernmost tip.
There is also evidence that new dams retain vital nutrient-rich sediments which replenish the river bed and which marine life depends on to survive.
According to the Mekong River Commission, roughly 85 million fewer tonnes a year of pebbles, boulders and sand are deposited in the river today than in 1992, mainly due to the construction of hydropower dams and reservoirs upstream.
"Less water and sediment from the north mean more saline intrusion from the sea in the south and more losses for the delta and its inhabitants," says La So Sinh of the Vietnamese government's natural resources and environment monitoring agency.
Even though the MRC coordinates water resources development between its member countries in the Mekong basin, critics say it is not doing enough to resolve dam disputes and their consequences.
Heads in the sand
There is a third disturbing development: the tens of millions of cubic metres a year of sand being mined from the lower Mekong river that flows through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
A World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) study suggests most extractions are happening in Cambodia and Vietnam.
"In the Vietnamese part of the delta, over 150 sand mines, spread across 8,000 hectares (80 sq km) of the river's surface, have been licensed by 13 Mekong Delta provinces," it says.
"One billion cubic metres (35.3 billion cubic feet) of sand would be needed by 2020 to fulfil the demand for construction materials in the Mekong Delta region."
Environmental campaigners in Vietnam say the government is aware of the ecological cost of allowing the mining but does not act.
"It cannot ask local authorities to withdraw licenses because private companies will then demand compensation," says Duong Van Tho from the Vietnam Mining Coalition.
There is a further risk.
"Some parts of the river within our territory are just five metres (16.4 feet) deep, so big ships just can't sail through them," says Phan Thanh Tien, general director of the Cai Cui port in the lower Mekong.
"But to expand our navigation capacity here and abroad, our only option is to dredge the river bed."
With both government agencies and private companies involved in dredging, riverside communities are left feeling more vulnerable.
"After such dredging, big ships have started entering smaller tributaries and canals, which causes big waves of water that break our embankments and flood our homes," says An Binh's community leader Pham Vam Xuong.
Experts say erratic rainfall patterns have made floods worse during the wet season.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long warned that the Mekong delta will feel the effects of climate change.
Its latest assessment report says: "National climate change adaptation plans have been formulated in all four Lower Mekong Basin countries, but trans-boundary adaptation planning across these countries does not exist."
Just when they could have joined forces to combat climate change, experts say, the countries in this region are embroiled in dam development disputes.
And the deeper their differences, the bigger the fears for the delta become.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company said the figure was in line with 2014 - the busiest since the event celebrated its centenary in 2007.
The company also said it had so far carried more than 14,000 motorcycles - a 17% increase on last year.
In 2014, more 42,000 fans visited the island during the TT fortnight.
The official figure for this year's event has not yet been released by the Manx government.
A spokeswoman for the tourism department said a full economic survey had been commissioned and that the results would be released in due course.
Steam Packet Company chief executive Mark Woodward said more than 7,000 bookings have already been made for the 2016 event, including nearly 17,000 passengers and more than 8,500 motorcycles.
David Cretney MHK said the figures reflect a "global interest in the TT."
The event, which sees racers from all over the world reach speeds of 200mph on closed public roads, will conclude with the Senior race on Friday.
Liam Byrne said different wings of the party could unite around the idea and it could win support from business "frustrated" the UK was too unequal.
Jeremy Corbyn has suggested revisiting Clause IV to reinsert a commitment to public ownership dropped in 1994.
Mr Byrne said Labour MPs who disagreed with this must produce "better ideas".
Mr Byrne, who left the shadow cabinet after Mr Corbyn's election, has since formed a campaign group called Red Shift with other Labour MPs on the centre-right of the party to formulate new ideas.
Ahead of a speech to the Policy Network think tank, he told the BBC that MPs worried about the direction of the party under Mr Corbyn's leadership must "respect his mandate and mantra" and instead of "throwing rocks at him", had to accept that Mr Corbyn's emphasis on growing income inequality was popular with the public.
By rewriting Clause IV, he said, Labour would demonstrate that it was placing the fight against inequality at the heart of the party's aims and values while also recognising that "reconnecting wealth creation and social justice" was key to the UK's future economic competitiveness.
"We have to set out what unites us in the Labour Party," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "That is why we need to rewrite Clause 4 to put inequality centre stage - where we differ we have to come up with better ideas.
"Everyone in Labour has to get with the programme and say the fight against inequality has got to be centre stage and to debate the best ideas."
Speaking during the leadership campaign, Mr Corbyn said the party could restore a pledge to common ownership within Clause IV, or set up a similar commitment, although he said this would not be a priority.
Mr Byrne, who was a Treasury minister under Gordon Brown and famously left his coalition successor in 2010 a note saying "There's no money left", said "widespread renationalisation" and other policies championed by Mr Corbyn, including big increases public spending, "risked failure" and those who disagreed with him had to put forward an alternative.
What is Clause IV?
A commitment to public ownership of industry was inserted into Labour's constitution in 1918: "To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service."
The aim was to nationalise the "commanding heights" of the economy - major industries such as coal, steel, telecommunications and railways, as well as the Bank of England and utilities such as water, gas and electricity.
All of these were taken into state ownership by the 1945 Labour government, although most private companies remained in private hands, as part of a "mixed economy".
The centre-right of the Labour Party waged a long campaign to ditch Clause IV, seeing it as an unrealistic throwback to an era of hard line socialism, arguing that the party was no longer committed to nationalising the entire economy - but it was seen as an article of faith by those on the left.
Tony Blair scrapped Clause IV soon after he became party leader, a move seen by some as a symbolic step which made the party more electable.
The original wording was replaced with a new commitment to "a thriving private sector and high-quality public services where those undertakings essential to the common good are either owned by the public or accountable to them".
He has called for changes to the remit of the Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility and reforms to capital markets as part of what he characterised as a "rewriting of the rules of the economy".
"We have got workers working harder and getting paid less. The result of all that is that we have got billionaires going up and more children in absolute poverty going up. That is not good enough. That inequality is scarring our country. We have to come up with different rules."
Rather than getting in a "head-butting contest" with business, he said Labour must work with them in areas of common agreement - such as the need for viable reforms to welfare and schools and greater investment in science.
While acknowledging there were "a lot of people in the business community who are anxious" about Labour's direction, he said there were areas where the party's views were compatible with business.
"We need to seize on building common cause with business reformers and do things differently in future.
"Lots of people in the business community do think Britain is too unequal, they do want to reconnect wealth creation and social justice and help develop a plan which creates a fairer and more equal country. We need to seize that ambition and work with it."
However, it emerged on Tuesday that no-one from Labour's frontbench will speak at next week's CBI annual conference of business leaders after Mr Corbyn refused an invitation. In past years, senior figures such as Ed Balls and Ed Miliband have taken part.
The decision was attacked by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, who tweeted: "If @jeremycorbyn is seriously saying he won't put Labour's case to the @CBItweets we may as well just give Osborne the job now."
And former MP Tom Harris said he was "giving up" on the party after a close ally of Mr Corbyn - shadow foreign affairs minister Catherine West - suggested Labour would consult the Stop the War coalition before deciding whether to back air strikes against so-called Islamic State fighters in Syria.
Daw hynny wedi i ysgrifennydd masnach ryngwladol Llywodraeth y DU, Liam Fox awgrymu na ddylai'r sefydliadau datganoledig gael feto dros gytundebau masnach.
Dywedodd Plaid Cymru na ddylai unrhyw gytundeb gael ei arwyddo heb "gymeradwyaeth" Llywodraeth Cymru.
Mae Llywodraeth y DU wedi dweud eu bod eisiau polisi masnach sydd yn cynrychioli Prydain gyfan.
Mae The Times wedi adrodd fod Mr Fox wedi ysgrifennu at gydweithwyr yn y cabinet yn cynnig pedwar opsiwn ar gyfer cytundebau masnach.
Yn ôl y papur newydd mae'n debyg ei fod e'n ffafrio "opsiynau sydd ddim yn rhoi feto i'r sefydliadau datganoledig".
Dywedodd yr Adran Fasnach Ryngwladol nad oedden nhw wedi penderfynu ar safbwynt terfynol eto.
"Rydyn ni wedi bod yn glir ein bod ni eisiau polisi masnachu sydd yn gynhwysol a thryloyw ac sy'n cynrychioli'r Deyrnas Unedig gyfan," meddai llefarydd.
"Fyddwn ni ddim yn gwneud sylw bob munud ar bolisi masnachu posib y dyfodol."
Ychwanegodd llefarydd ar ran Swyddfa Cymru: "Rydyn ni wedi ymrwymo i weithio gyda'r sefydliadau datganoledig i sicrhau ein bod ni'n cael bargen sydd yn gweithio i bob rhan o'r DU.
"Byddwn ni'n parhau i weithio gyda nhw ar y mater mwysig yma."
Mewn ymateb dywedodd Mr Jones fod Mr Fox "fel petai'n benderfynol o weithio ar gyfer un rhan o'r DU yn unig, nid y wlad gyfan".
"Mae datganoli yng Nghymru yn bodoli o ganlyniad i ddwy refferendwm. Allwch chi ddim anwybyddu dymuniad pobl Cymru unrhyw mwy nag y gallwch chi anwybyddu canlyniad refferendwm yr UE.
"Mae'n rhaid i'r pedair llywodraeth ddod at ei gilydd i gytuno ar fframweithiau DU cadarn mewn meysydd sydd wedi'u datganoli ac ar bolisïau sydd heb, ar bynciau o ddiddordeb fel masnach."
"Rydw i wedi galw sawl gwaith am Gyngor o Weinidogion y DU i fod yn gyfrifol am feysydd polisi ble mae angen cytundeb rhwng pedwar sefydliad y DU.
"Mae angen i'n perthnasau masnachu â'r UE a gweddill y byd yn y dyfodol gael consensws eang rhwng pob un o wledydd y DU os yw am fod yn llwyddiant."
Dywedodd llefarydd Plaid Cymru ar gyllid, Jonathan Edwards: "Os yw'r DU yn gadael yr undeb dollau ac felly'n gallu ffurfio cytundebau, mae'n hanfodol nad oes unrhyw gytundeb masnachu yn cael ei arwyddo heb gymeradwyaeth Llywodraeth Cymru.
"Fel arall gallai Llywodraeth y DU fod yn peryglu sectorau economaidd Cymreig allweddol yn ogystal â'n gwasanaethau cyhoeddus, gan fwy neu lai disodli'r setliad datganoledig."
If elected in the West Yorkshire seat of Shipley, she said she would be a "voice for all women" in Westminster.
She said Mr Davies had a "track record of misogyny", including trying to block laws on domestic violence.
Mr Davies said he welcomed his rival "parachuting herself" into the seat with a "politically correct agenda".
Mr Davies, who won the Shipley seat with a majority of more than 9,624 at the last election, is an outspoken critic of political correctness and what he has described as "zealous" feminism.
The MP, who has warned that men's voices are being "neutered" and that their rights must be more strongly defended, caused a stir when he was elected to the Commons equality and women's committee last year.
Announcing her candidacy on 8 June, Ms Walker - a former journalist - took a swipe at Mr Davies, suggesting that it was a "national embarrassment" that he was on the committee.
"Shipley deserves an MP that will represent the needs and interests of all its constituents, instead of one who spends constituency time on a self-indulgent anti-women campaign," she said.
"Right now if you live in Shipley, your MP is best known in Parliament as a sexist whose favourite pastime is inventing long speeches to prevent other MPs from passing important legislation such as the provision of free hospital parking for carers and compulsory sex and relationships education in schools."
Ms Walker also criticised the Conservatives' record on equality issues, saying public spending cuts had disproportionately affected women and Brexit would exacerbate the situation.
She said she would campaign for a fair immigration system after the UK's exit from the EU, more support for women's pensions and for social justice to be put at the heart of a "caring economy".
"Philip Davies' party's austerity policies hit women harder than men and pushed more women into poverty. His party's funding cuts shut vital services to survivors of violence, when two women a week die at the hands of abusive partners."
Mr Davies, who has represented Shipley since 2005 and strongly supported the UK leaving the EU, challenged Ms Walker to back up her claims of sexism with any evidence.
"I have consistently asked Sophie Walker to quote just one thing I have ever said which has asked for a woman to be treated less favourably than a man, and she hasn't been able to find even one quote from the 12 years I have spent in Parliament," he told the Observer.
"I would very much welcome Ms Walker parachuting herself into Shipley as a candidate with her extreme politically correct agenda of positive discrimination and quotas, and am very happy to let the good people of the Shipley constituency decide who they want to represent them."
Mr Davies has regularly called for more focus in the Commons on men's issues, including suicide rates and educational under-achievement among young men and what he says is the varying treatment of male and female prisoners.
In a speech last year he attacked "militant feminists and politically correct males", accusing them of fighting for equality while also seeking special protection when it suited them.
Earlier this year, he was accused of trying to block a Parliamentary bill that would force the UK to sign up to the international Istanbul Convention on preventing domestic violence by making a series of long speeches in the House of Commons.
The Women's Equality Party, co-founded by comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, was founded in 2015. Ms Walker stood for London mayor in May 2016.
The eighth film in the action thriller franchise took an estimated $532.5m (£424.7m) globally over Easter weekend.
The figure makes it the strongest worldwide debut ever - marginally overtaking the $529m (£421.8m) taken by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
However, the film's US takings were down sharply on the previous movie.
Furious 7 opened with $147.2m (£117.3m) in the US when it was released in 2015 - but the latest instalment of the series debuted with $100.2m (£80m).
The Fate of the Furious - titled Fast & Furious 8 in some territories - stars Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel, who said he felt "grateful, humbled and blessed" after the film's success.
Why is the Fast & Furious franchise so popular?
Rhianna Dhillon, film critic and host of BBC Radio 4's Seriously... podcast, said the success of the Fast & Furious franchise is down to its "universal appeal".
"They're films people of all ages can enjoy, because they have that pure, unadulterated escapism about them, children and adults alike are quite happy to watch things get blown up and smashed up," she said.
"A lot of what drags movies like The Avengers down is the plot, and Fast & Furious isn't trying to compete with those heavy, convoluted storylines. This is just cars smashing into each other and it's okay to enjoy that.
"This franchise isn't trying to be anything it's not. Ultimately, from the bottom up, it doesn't take itself too seriously."
Dhillon said the diversity of the cast is one of the key reasons the film series has seen continued box office success.
"Hollywood really underestimates minority audiences," she said. "For example, if you break down the figures, the Latino audience is huge, what with Vin Diesel's following. I think that has so much to do with it, because not many films offer that."
She added: "The franchise still attracts huge stars each time - this year as the villain we have Charlize Theron, there's an appearance from Helen Mirren. These aren't people you've never heard of, they have the most bankable movie stars in the world.
"And Dwayne Johnson has given the films a new lease of life - when you buy a star like him, you're buying his fans as well."
Find out more: The Secret of The Fast and The Furious
Despite the drop of nearly a third on the seventh film, the US performance of The Fate of the Furious is still pretty impressive - it accounted for nearly two-thirds of all US box office takings over the weekend.
Its nearest competitor was The Boss Baby, which took a further $15.5m (£12.4m) to land second place.
The film's worldwide performance was boosted by opening in China on the same weekend as other major markets, unlike the Force Awakens, which did not start screening there until several weeks later.
The Fate of the Furious saw three-day takings of $190m (£151m) in China.
More chapters in the Furious franchise, which began in 2001, are planned for release in 2019 and 2021.
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The first minister will lead a New Year debate at Holyrood on Tuesday, pledging to "earn the right" to an unprecedented third term in government.
Meanwhile, Scottish Labour will unveil its first election pledge on housing.
The Scottish Conservatives are set to focus on education.
The Scottish Lib Dems will argue on Monday that the next five years should be dominated by "a bright, green and liberal programme".
In an opinion piece in the Sunday Herald, the first minister promised a raft of new policies on health, education, social security and the economy in the run-up to polling day on 5 May.
She said: "The plans that we will set out over the next three months will - as I will also make clear on Tuesday - have the potential, over the next five years, to transform Scotland."
She also also hit back at accusations that SNP supporters were "brainwashed", saying that the suggestion was "profoundly insulting".
She said: "Those who support the SNP have not been brainwashed, they are not blind to our imperfections - instead, they are weighing them against our strengths and achievements, and against the other parties, and deciding that the SNP is the party they most closely identify with, the people they trust most to stand up for Scotland."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is due to unveil her party's first election pledge on housing in a speech to activists in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
Ms Dugdale will say that new powers over tax, borrowing and welfare coming to Holyrood offer a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity to change Scottish politics.
"Let me say this to Nicola Sturgeon - on the constitution I will take her at her word," she will say.
"She has asked Scotland to trust her and Scotland will expect her to keep her promise.
"This matters because the opportunities for the future that our new powers open up are too great to be buried under the arguments of the past."
Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives will focus on education, setting out ideas to support school leadership and improve literacy and numeracy in a new paper.
The party will also signal its backing for a Save the Children campaign aimed at ensuring all children are reading well by the age of 11.
A spokesman for party leader Ruth Davidson said: "The Scottish Conservatives will be using the 2016 election campaign to focus on the real issues that matter to Scots.
"And we know that nothing matters more to them than ensuring the next generation of young people have the same opportunities as their parents and grandparents.
"As Save the Children points out, being able to read well is one of the best routes out of poverty there is. Their campaign to ensure all children are reading well by the age of 11 sends out the right message. We now need a clear strategy from the Scottish Government to show how it can be delivered.
"We will be setting out our ideas this week - providing a real alternative to the SNP and their failure to keep our education system at the top of the international pile."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie is due to kick off the 2016 election year on Monday by meeting workers and management at a manufacturing firm in Fife.
He will say that the next five years should be dominated by "a bright, green and liberal programme" for Scotland.
Durham County Council has designated six areas in Teesdale along traditional routes to Cumbria.
The sites, which will include toilets, refuse collections and, in some cases, water supplies for animals, will be open between 26 May and 23 June.
The council said it hoped they would reduce unauthorised encampments.
The fair will be staged from 8-14 June. | The Tin Man won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot for trainer James Fanshawe and jockey Tom Queally.
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A student who admitted abusing and assaulting his student girlfriend who later took her own life will not be allowed back to the University of Aberdeen.
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Burton earned a crucial away win over relegation rivals Birmingham, with Blues boss Gianfranco Zola resigning after the game.
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An £8m fund to help restore Scotland's peatlands has been launched by the Scottish government.
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The number of detected crimes of people accessing illegal images of children has gone up by 48% in four years, according to research by BBC News.
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A man in his 80s has died after the light aircraft he was a passenger in crashed in Norfolk.
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has returned home after three months of medical leave in the UK.
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A target to end child poverty in Wales by 2020 cannot be achieved, the Welsh Government has admitted.
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Lush greenery in the lower Mekong region sprawls as far as the eye can see, an illustration of just how fertile the delta is.
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About 36,000 motor-racing fans have travelled to the Isle of Man by ferry for this year's TT festival, according to one of the island's operators.
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Labour should rewrite Clause IV of its constitution to make explicit its commitment to reducing inequality, a former Cabinet minister has said.
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Mae prif weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones wedi dweud y dylai unrhyw gytundebau masnach ar ôl Brexit gael "cydsyniad eang" pob un o wledydd y DU.
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The leader of the Women's Equality Party, Sophie Walker, is to stand against Tory MP and male rights advocate Philip Davies in the election.
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Nicola Sturgeon has vowed that the SNP will "not take a single vote for granted", as Scotland's parties prepare to crank up their campaigns for the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
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The 20ft (6.1m) minke was spotted on a beach west of Elie at about 16:00 on Friday.
A team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) led the operation to refloat the mammal at high tide.
An initial attempt failed when the whale re-beached itself, but a second attempt was made later in the evening.
The BDMLR believe the whale has now swum away and out of danger.
A spokeswoman for the organisation said: "One of the rescue team from last night has been out and walked the coastline where the whale was refloated from last night and there is no sign of it.
"Hopefully it managed to get out into deeper water and we won't see it again."
The whale is thought to have been in good condition and uninjured. A BDMLR team used pontoons to refloat it. | Volunteers who refloated a whale stranded on a Fife beach say they are hopeful it has now made its way back to deeper water. | 39,678,670 | 201 | 38 | false |
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The 19-year-old was with his parents in Bordeaux to see Wales play their first game in a major finals for 58 years, and he revelled in the "fantastic summer" as Wales reached the semi-finals.
But Wilson was no ordinary supporter.
He had played alongside six of the side that featured in the 2-I win against Slovakia when he won his first, and so far only senior cap, three years previously.
The Liverpool midfielder became Wales' youngest ever international in November 2013 when as a 16-year-old he came on as a late substitute against Belgium.
"It's everyone's dream to represent Wales and when you get that chance, which I did at a young age, you've got to relish it," Wilson said.
Wales' Euro 2016 exploits have only renewed Wilson's desire to earn a recall to the senior squad as they bid to reach the 2018 World Cup finals.
Time is on his side and he is encouraged that manager Chris Coleman, the man who handed him his debut in Brussels, and his management team are keeping a close eye on his performances for Wales Under-21s.
"They're always keeping in touch," Wilson told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's great to know he's [Coleman] keeping an eye on the Under-21s and the players coming through.
"When I'm playing for Wales Under-21s I'm always trying to do my best so if the manager is watching he can see I'm playing well.
"And here at Liverpool performing in the Under-23 league, which is a good league, gives me every chance to get back in that Welsh squad."
Corwen-raised Wilson admits his call up to the senior squad and subsequent first cap in the final game of the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign was unexpected.
"I was training at Liverpool got the phone call and they wanted me to go down and train," Wilson recalls.
"I felt I did well in training and there was a lot of injuries and my chance came, although it was only five minutes.
"It was an unbelievable feeling for me and my family and a proud moment. Maybe it did add a bit of pressure but I didn't feel it.
"I said to myself 'that's happened now, If I come back to Liverpool and keep progressing well then hopefully I'll get a lot more of this in the future'."
In contrast to his international career, Wilson is yet to make a first team appearance for his club side.
But Liverpool handed the Wrexham-born youngster a long-term contract in July after a spell on loan at Crewe Alexandra in 2015-16.
"Last season didn't go as well as I wanted and I missed a large part of the season with injuries," Wilson said.
"It was nice to be offered a new contract and now that I'm fit I can show the club the qualities that I've got and work my way up to the first team.
Wilson was given a further boost ahead of the new season when he was appointed captain of Liverpool's Under-23 side.
"It's a massive honour for me and added responsibility but one I'm happy to have," said Wilson, who was told of his appointment ahead of a pre-season game at Rhyl.
"I think I'm a leader in a different way. I'm not going to do it with my mouth on the pitch.
"Maybe if the team needs a bit of inspiration during the game, I can provide that and push them forward."
Wilson says there is "big buzz" at the club under manager Jurgen Klopp.
The German is a regular spectator of the club's Under-23 games, which also feature fellow Welsh players Jordan Williams and Ben Woodburn.
"It's great that he's willing to give the youngsters a chance if you're playing well and doing well," Wilson added.
"Everything we do we try and mirror the first team.
"When you're in there it's up to you to do well then so if I keep doing well for the Under-23s, hopefully my chance will come."
A grainy black and white image of a migrant passing a baby under a barbed wire fence from Serbia into Hungary has taken first prize in the 2015 World Press Photo awards.
Taken at night on 28 August last year by Australian photographer Warren Richardson, this man and child were part of the movement of people seeking to cross into Hungary before a secure fence along the border was completed.
"Early on we looked at this photo and we knew it was an important one," says Francis Kohn, chair of the jury.
"It had such power because of its simplicity, especially the symbolism of the barbed wire," Mr Kohn, who is also photo director of Agence France-Presse, added.
"We thought it had almost everything in there to give a strong visual of what's happening with the refugees. I think it's a very classical photo, and at the same time it's timeless."
The World Press Photo awards have been running since 1955. This year, 41 photographers from 21 nationalities were awarded in eight categories.
Sergey Ponomarev, for The New York Times, won first prize in the General News (Stories) category for "Reporting Europe's Refugee Crisis" which included this image of a man in Tovarnik, Hungary, attempting to board a train headed to Zagreb, Croatia.
Mauricio Lima, also for The New York Times, won the General News (Singles) prize for this next image.
A doctor rubs ointment on the burns of a 16-year-old fighter for the so-called Islamic State, at a Kurdish hospital compound on the outskirts of Hasaka, Syria on 1 August, 2015.
Corentin Fohlen took second place in the Spot News (Singles) prize for his January 2015 photo of an anti-terrorism demonstration in Paris, following the series of attacks which began at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
A photo of boy being taken from rubble after airstrikes in the city of Douma, Syria was taken by Sameer Al-Doumy.
From his series "Aftermath of Airstrikes in Syria", it took the top prize for Spot News (Stories).
In provincial Russia, more than 600km to the east of Moscow, Evgeny Solovyov, head coach of amateur hockey team HC Vetluga, prepares the stadium for a match.
The image is one of a series by Vladimir Pesnya, which came top in the Sports (Stories) category.
Christian Bobst from Switzerland came second in the same category for "The Gris-gris Wrestlers of Senegal".
These events, which take place in the evenings when temperatures drop, have a festival atmosphere, and include dance performances, music, and wrestling shows.
The northern Chinese city of Tianjin shrouded in haze was captured by Zhang Lei. It was the Contemporary Issues (Singles) winner.
Second prize in the same category went to Adriane Ohanesian for "The Forgotten Mountains of Sudan".
Seven-year-old Adam Abdel was severely burned after a bomb was dropped next to his family home in Burgu, Central Darfur, Sudan.
A series by Mario Cruz portraying the plight of boys known as Talibes who live at Islamic schools in Senegal, won first prize for Contemporary Issues (Stories).
In Shanxi, China, men pull a tricycle in a neighbourhood close to a coal-fired power plant. The photo taken by Kevin Frayer won first prize in Daily Life (Singles).
"A history of heavy dependence on burning coal for energy has made China the source of nearly a third of the world's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - the toxic pollutants widely cited by scientists and environmentalists as the primary cause of global warming," says Frayer.
On Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia a massive "cloud tsunami" looms in Rohan Kelly's photo, winner of the Nature (Singles) category.
First prize for Nature (Stories) went to Tim Laman for his work "Tough Times for Orangutans".
This image shows a Bornean orangutan climbing over 30 metres up a tree in the rain forest of Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Laman documents the threat to the species from fire, illegal animal trade and loss of habitat due to deforestation.
The aftermath of the 25 April earthquake in Nepal was the subject of Daniel Berehulak's series for The New York Times.
Here, villagers shield their faces from the downwash of a helicopter. Taken on 9 May 2015, the image was placed third for General News Stories.
The winners and finalists will feature in a touring exhibition which opens in Amsterdam on 16 April 2016.
He made a specific claim about EU money: "The EU invests £11bn a year on manufacturing innovation programmes of which 15% are invested here in the UK."
He should actually have said €11bn (£9bn), not pounds.
The money in question comes from the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, which has a budget of almost €80bn over seven years running from 2014 to 2020, or just over €11bn a year. The money is paid to support research and innovation projects in companies, universities and other research organisations.
Horizon 2020 replaced the previous innovation funding programme known as FP7. According to a report by consultants at Deloitte, 14.9% of FP7 funding came to the UK. And an analysis of early awards under Horizon 2020 suggests that it's about the same for Horizon 2020. Only Germany receives more. For reference, the UK's population is between 12.5% and 13% of the EU total.
The European Commission maintains a list of projects that have made successful applications. In the UK, they include quite a number from the bio-medical sciences sector - perhaps not what initially comes to mind when you think of manufacturing industry - but they're certainly technology-focused. And more money from Horizon 2020 is going to small and medium companies than under previous programmes.
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The environment charity said wind power produced the equivalent of 97% of Scotland's household electricity needs.
The contribution of wind power was calculated to be up by 16% on the previous year.
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said the use of renewables in Scotland had curbed millions of tonnes of carbon emissions.
The statistics compiled by WWF Scotland from data provided by information service WeatherEnergy indicated that in December, wind power generated in Scotland exceeded household electricity demand by 48%.
The charity has called on all political parties to put forward policies to make Scotland the EU's first fully renewable electricity nation by 2030.
Mr Banks said: "On average, across 2015, wind power generated enough to supply the electrical needs of 97% of Scottish households, with six months where the amount was greater than 100%.
And, in the tens of thousands of Scottish households that have installed solar panels, half or more of their electricity or hot water needs were met from the sun for the most of the year, helping those homes to reduce their reliance on coal, gas, or oil."
He added: "With 2016 being a critical year politically, we'd like to see each of the political parties back policies that would enable Scotland become the EU's first fully renewable electricity nation by 2030."
The airport said the blunder happened during a planned upgrade of the consultation website and it "apologised wholeheartedly".
The airport has now extended the consultation for an extra week until Monday 19 September and urged people to resubmit.
Campaigners against the new flight path said it was "shocking incompetence".
Officials are contacting 21 of the 199 people whose responses were lost, as they had included their email addresses.
Gordon Robertson, Edinburgh Airport's director of communications, said: "Edinburgh Airport has been conducting its Lets Go Further ACP consultation since June this year and has already had an excellent response with thousands of submissions.
"We have identified that responses submitted via the consultation website between 10:31 on Monday 29 August and 00:05 Friday 2 September did not save during a planned upgrade of the site.
"Although this is a relatively small number of responses in the context of the overall number of submissions, we are committed to ensuring that all who want to comment on our plans can.
"We apologise wholeheartedly for this and believe that this extension offers sufficient time for people to resubmit their input."
A spokesman for campaign group Edinburgh Airport Watch said: "This is simply shocking incompetence, even for Edinburgh Airport.
"Their consultation is fatally flawed, and for the sake of their reputation they must scrap this unnecessary and bungled ACP process now.
"We further call on the airport to reverse the changes they have already made to airspace without any consultation that are already causing misery to thousands across West Lothian, Falkirk and Fife, and to seriously rethink their deplorable approach to community engagement."
It follows a report that was published in February by Edinburgh Airport with findings from last year's trial, which saw planes take off towards the Forth, passing over West Lothian.
The trial was held to find a way for planes to depart every minute at peak times instead of every two minutes.
At the time, Stop Edinburgh Airspace Trial said noise had caused "misery" to the public.
The trial was stopped early after nearly 8,000 complaints from 567 individuals, although the report said 57% were not about trial flights but were about aircraft operating on flight paths that have existed since the runway was built in the mid-1970s.
The trial route, which was called Tutur, had been due to run from 25 June 2015 until 24 December 2015.
However, it was halted on 28 October.
No decision will be made on the new flight plan's future until the end of the year.
Cells at Colchester police station were shut last month for improvements to be made. It meant those arrested were instead taken to Chelmsford or Clacton.
But BBC News has now learned the cells at Chelmsford were closed on Tuesday because their buzzers were not working.
One solicitor told the BBC a colleague held a police interview at a client's house rather than wait for a cell.
Essex Police confirmed the Chelmsford closure but said the problems had since been fixed and its cells reopened.
The former custody suite at Braintree Police is permanently closed and the custody suite in Colchester is expected to remain closed for a number of weeks.
Caroline Woodley, a defence solicitor working in the north of the county, told the BBC: "Chelmsford was closed today [Tuesday] due to the cell buzzers not working.
"This means officers having to travel to other stations and some officers have been just deployed as a taxi service ferrying people between the two.
"Voluntary attendees at Colchester police station are finding it impossible to get into custody. We are obviously having to travel further afield which will in turn cost the taxpayer in legal aid.
"Last week my colleague and a police officer gave up trying to get into custody to do an interview and went to the client's house where a contemporaneous note interview was done instead."
She said a complaint had been lodged with Chelmsford police because they were not contacted about two of her firm's clients.
A spokesman for Essex police said the Chelmsford custody suite was shut on Tuesday "to carry out essential maintenance work" adding: "A routine inspection of Colchester police station's custody facilities has highlighted defects which could have health and safety or welfare implications for detainees.
"A programme of works has been commissioned and the custody suite will be closed for a number of weeks. Custody suites in Chelmsford and Clacton will be used to detain prisoners until Colchester's facilities have reopened."
Jim Wells said he wanted to help his wife Grace "during her fight for life".
The resignation follows his remarks at a hustings where he linked same-sex relationships to child abuse. He later apologised for those comments.
Police are also investigating an incident involving a lesbian couple during an election canvas by Mr Wells in County Down.
It is believed the Police Service of Northern Ireland is trying to establish if an offence has been committed.
Mr Wells is a Westminster candidate for the DUP in the South Down constituency.
His resignation was first reported by the Belfast Telegraph, and in a statement released on Monday Mr Wells said he was no longer able to continue his ministerial duties and give his wife "the attention she deserves".
"As many people are aware I have been focused on helping my wife during her fight for life," he said.
"Those who know my family and I, know the last three months have been the toughest of our lives as we watched my wife, Grace, suffer two successive strokes and battle through major heart surgery."
"However, as she now faces further challenges I have come to the point where I am no longer able to continue my ministerial duties and give Grace the attention she deserves," he added.
He said he had met with Northern Ireland first minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson and requested to stand down from ministerial office.
The PSNI said it had received three complaints regarding the conduct of an individual in Rathfriland in County Down on Saturday evening.
It is alleged that Mr Wells, who was doing door-to-door canvassing, called at a lesbian couple's house, and during a conversation was critical of their lifestyle.
The daughter of one of the women said her mother was upset.
She said Mr Wells had gone back to the house twice saying he wanted to apologise. But the couple would not accept the apology, because, they claimed, Mr Wells said he did not agree with their lifestyle choice.
Northern Ireland first minister Peter Robinson said he respected Mr Wells's decision.
He said Mr Wells was right to put his family first and he would "fully support" him.
Mr Robinson said Mr Wells would continue in his position until 11 May, when the new minister would take up office.
"In the meantime, I have requested that the finance minister, Simon Hamilton, assume some of Jim's duties to release some of the pressure," he added.
Sinn Féin MLA Maeve McLaughlin said Mr Wells's resignation had been the "right decision".
"Mr Wells has clearly been under increased pressure as a result of his wife's serious illness and his decision to step down was the right thing to do," she added.
"However, his position as health minister was clearly untenable after his attack on the LGBT community, which was completely unacceptable from someone holding the position."
Ulster Unionist leader Mikes Nesbitt said Mr Wells "has done the right thing" in resigning.
However, he said the controversy caused by Mr Wells's comments about same-sex relationships did not affect the unionist pact between the DUP and the UUP, in four constituencies, as the pact related to one issue, that of a pro-union stance.
Alliance leader David Ford said: "Peter Robinson was entirely aware of Jim's views at the point when he made him minister of health.
"The real question is what does that say about the leadership of the DUP that they're prepared to put somebody with those kind of views into such a sensitive post with all the responsibility it has?"
Mr Ford said there were UUP voters in East Belfast and North Belfast, where the pact exists, who do not want anything to do with the DUP, especially after Mr Wells's comments linking same-sex relationship to child abuse.
The other candidates in South Down are Felicity Buchan of the Conservatives, Chris Hazzard of Sinn Féin, the UUP's Harold McKee, Henry Reilly of UKIP, the SDLP's Margaret Ritchie and Martyn Todd of the Alliance Party.
Controversy and achievement: Jim Wells's tenure as NI health minister analysed
The Los Angeles appeal court ruled there was substantial evidence of guilt laid out at his trial in 2011.
Murray was sentenced to four years in jail, but was released last October after serving two years of his term.
The ex-medic was convicted of administering a lethal dose of an anaesthetic drug to Jackson in 2009.
In a ruling amounting to 68 pages, the court said the pop star "was a vulnerable victim and that [Murray] was in a position of trust, and violated the trust relationship by breaching standards of professional conduct in numerous respects".
The court also said that imposing the maximum sentence of four years at the original trial was right, as the evidence revealed a "callous disregard" for the singer's health and safety.
They added that it was clear that Murray "administered a number of dangerous drugs to Mr. Jackson without the appropriate medical equipment, precautions or personnel in place".
Their ruling also concluded that Murray had been wrong to leave Jackson unattended at the time.
Murray's appeal argued that the trial judge had excluded jurors from hearing evidence.
It was also argued that the judge quashed attempts by Murray's lawyers to introduce arguments about other doctors who had treated Jackson.
His legal representative Valerie Wass said that Murray's intention is to take the matter to a higher court.
In a separate development, the insurers of Jackson's This Is It tour have settled with the late singer's estate over a policy amounting to $17.5m (£10.1m).
The wrangle over the matter was due to go to trial next month.
The policy was taken out to insure against postponement or cancellation of the series of London concerts. Jackson died of a drugs overdose while preparing for the shows.
Lloyd's of London had asked for the policy to be declared null and void, saying they were not told that the star was taking powerful medication.
Details of the settlement have not been disclosed.
A series of legal cases have taken place since Jackson's death more than four years ago.
Earlier this week, his family's bid to launch a second wrongful death trial against concert promoters AEG Live was turned down.
The company were responsible for hiring Murray as Jackson's personal physician.
In the first trial in October, the jury concluded that the former doctor had been fit for the job when he was originally employed.
Dywedodd Mark Williams wrth raglen ar BBC Radio Wales y gallai hi gymryd amser i adennill ffydd yr etholwyr, yn dilyn beirniadaeth o'u record fel rhan o glymblaid Llywodraeth y DU.
Mynnodd bod cefnogaeth i bolisi'r blaid o gynnydd o 1c mewn treth incwm er mwyn ariannu gofal cymdeithasol.
Ychwanegodd fod ei gyd-aelod Kirsty Williams yn hybu cefnogaeth i fyfyrwyr fel Ysgrifennydd Addysg Cymru.
Roedd yn siarad ar raglen Jason Mohammad cyn i arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol, Tim Farron lansio maniffesto'r blaid ar gyfer y DU ddydd Mercher.
Cyfaddefodd Mr Williams fod y blaid wedi dioddef o benderfyniadau gafodd eu cymryd yn y glymblaid gyda'r Ceidwadwyr yn San Steffan rhwng 2010 a 2015, gan gynnwys torri'r addewid i beidio â chynyddu ffioedd dysgu yn Lloegr.
"Bydd hi'n cymryd amser i'r blaid adennill y ffydd yna," meddai.
"Ar ôl bod yn blaid neis yng ngwleidyddiaeth Prydain am gymaint o amser, i gael cyfrifoldeb llywodraeth a gwneud penderfyniadau anodd a gwneud camgymeriadau, beth am fod digon gonest a dweud i ni gael pethau'n anghywir sawl tro - fe wnaethon ni gamgymeriadau.
"Ond rydyn ni nawr ble ydyn ni, mae'n rhaid symud 'mlaen - gobeithio bydd pobl yn ymddiried yn y diffuantrwydd mae rhai ohonom ni wedi ceisio'i ddangos yn y blaid."
Dywedodd Mr Williams ei fod ef ei hun wedi gwrthwynebu cynyddu ffioedd dysgu a sefydlu'r dreth ystafell wely, gan ddweud fod pobl wedi diolch iddo am ddangos "ysbryd o feddwl annibynnol".
Fe wnaeth hefyd ganmol ei ragflaenydd Kirsty Williams, a gamodd o'r neilltu fel arweinydd y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yng Nghymru er mwyn ymuno â Llywodraeth Cymru.
Fel Ysgrifennydd Addysg roedd hi wedi rhoi "cymorth ariannol go iawn" i fyfyrwyr yng Nghymru drwy grantiau ar gyfer costau byw yn hytrach na ffioedd dysgu, meddai.
Bu Mr Williams hefyd yn amddiffyn galwad y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol am ail refferendwm ar amodau gadael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd, gan fynnu nad oedd hynny'n golygu ei fod yn ceisio gwyrdroi Brexit.
"Roedd y wlad yn glir o ran gadael - doedd hi ddim yn glir o ran amodau gadael. Dwi jyst yn meddwl bod rhaid bod yn ofalus gyda'r trafodaethau, achos gallen nhw beryglu Cymru a'n heconomi yn sylweddol," meddai.
The judgement upholds the court's 2009 ruling, which was challenged by a group of airlines including BA and Easyjet.
Passengers will be able to claim compensation of between 250 euros ($324; £204) and 600 euros, depending on the flight distance.
Compensation will not be due in "extraordinary circumstances".
The court did not specify what those might be, other than saying those circumstances that were beyond the control of the airline.
European regulations introduced in 2004 oblige airlines to pay compensation to passengers for certain cancellations and delays.
A further ruling by the ECJ in 2009 confirmed that delayed passengers should be treated as if their flights had been cancelled, if the delay was longer than three hours.
Prior to this, passengers had only been able to claim for meals, refreshments, two free telephone calls and, for an overnight delay, hotel accommodation and transfers to and from the hotel.
However, some airlines refused to obey this judgement and an appeal by a group of airlines and travel organisations - BA, Easy Jet, TUI Travel and the International Air Transport Association - persuaded the English High Court to refer the matter back to the ECJ in August 2010.
Allardyce, 61, left his role in September after 67 days in charge following a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Asked by MPs whether the FA looked into previous allegations against Allardyce made by a 2006 BBC Panorama programme, Clarke said no significant issues were found.
In response to Panorama, then Bolton manager Allardyce denied claims he had received illegal payments from agents.
An inquiry by Lord Stevens later suggested that he may have had a conflict of interest with his agent son Craig Allardyce, but it found no evidence of irregular payments.
Allardyce's stint as England manager lasted only one match following his appointment in July.
The former West Ham, Newcastle, Notts County and Blackburn boss was filmed in July 2016 telling undercover reporters it was "not a problem" to bypass rules on third-party player ownership and claimed he knew of agents who were "doing it all the time".
The Telegraph investigation also claimed that a £400,000 deal was struck for Allardyce to represent the Far East firm the reporters claimed to work for, and to be a speaker at events, although Allardyce said he would have to "run that by" the FA first.
Allardyce said he "made a significant error of judgement", but that "entrapment had won" following his departure from the England job.
He added: "Although it was made clear during the recorded conversations that any proposed arrangements would need the FA's full approval, I recognise I made some comments which have caused embarrassment."
Clarke said the FA is still waiting for the Telegraph and police to release the full information from their investigation.
Answering questions from MPs at a Commons select committee into football governance, Clarke said Allardyce was given a pay-off when he left England, but refused to disclose the sum.
On Friday, FA vice-chairman David Gill told BBC Sport that Allardyce's exit was a "complete disappointment" and that "no-one saw it coming".
Whales on the beaches of Rocky Harbour and Trout River were among several believed to have died in heavy ice.
The towns did not have the resources to move the decomposing whales, which experts fear could bloat and explode.
"The chance to preserve, study and examine up to two skeletons is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," the museum said in a statement.
The museum estimates there are fewer than 250 of the creatures in the Northwest Atlantic.
The move comes after a joint agreement between the museum and Canada's Fisheries and Oceans department. It is unclear how long it will take museum scientists to remove the whale entirely from either beach.
Canadian officials earlier said it was each town's responsibility to handle the dead whales.
Trout River Town Clerk Emily Butler says the 25m (81ft) whale near the town's boardwalk is bloated with methane gas.
She fears as temperatures rise, the whale corpse would start to reek or potentially explode from the build up of gas.
Police were called to Trem-Y-Cwm House flats in Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at about 13:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The body, which has not been identified, was concealed above ground in an outside area.
Det Supt Paul Hurley of South Wales Police said: "A priority for us is to identify whose body it is and to find out how the person died."
Kim Jong-nam fell out of favour years ago and has been living in China.
Japanese author Yoji Gomi said he was no longer in contact with Kim Jong-nam but believed he was "doing fine".
Mr Gomi told the BBC that he did not believe that the publication of his book in January 2012 would put Kim Jong-nam in any danger.
When his book was published, readers gained an insight into North Korea's enigmatic first family through the reported views of Kim Jong-nam.
He was the man passed over in the world's only Communist dynastic succession.
Kim Jong-nam's opinions about North Korea's future course after the death of his father Kim Jong-il were far from complimentary.
In the book, which draws on interviews and emails, Kim Jong-nam is quoted as saying he believes his younger half-brother lacks leadership qualities, the succession will not work, and that North Korea is unstable and needs Chinese-style economic reform.
Interviewed by the BBC Chinese service, Tokyo journalist Yoji Gomi said Kim Jong-nam had wanted to speak out.
But since the book's publication, he said there had "not really" been any reaction from Mr Kim and he was not in touch with him now.
"When I told him about my book, he said that we should not contact each other any more if I insisted on publishing it," said Mr Gomi.
"He wanted me to wait for a while because in Korea when someone dies you remain silent for 100 days and it wasn't then 100 days since (his father's death).
"However, I want people to know how Kim Jong-nam thinks at this particular moment when Kim Jong-un starts his new regime and nobody knows where North Korea is heading."
Yoji Gomi insisted that, far from putting Kim Jong-nam in danger, his book was actually protecting him, because "nobody can do anything while he is getting all the attention."
The author admitted he was no longer in contact with Kim Jong-nam, but he said he did not worry.
"According to an acquaintance of an acquaintance of mine, he (Kim Jong-nam) is living in Macau and is doing fine," he said.
The Bees won only one of 11 league games under the 48-year-old, who was appointed on 15 February, with four draws and six defeats.
Barnet are 16th in the table and nine points above the relegation zone with four matches remaining following Friday's 2-1 defeat at Exeter.
Rossi Eames will take charge for Monday's home game against Wycombe.
Eames, who spent almost three months in interim control of the first team after Martin Allen's departure to Eastleigh in December, was promoted from his position of development team coach to become Nugent's assistant in February.
In a statement, Barnet said the search for a new head coach was "under way".
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Cotterill, 49, who has been out of management since leaving Nottingham Forest in July 2012, has agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal.
City, currently 23rd in the table, have been looking for a new boss following the departure of Sean O'Driscoll - who replaced Cotterill at Forest last year.
O'Driscoll left the club after 10 months on Thursday, with City having won only two league games this term.
City vice chairman Jon Lansdown said: "I'm delighted that Steve has chosen to join Bristol City Football Club.
"I believe he has the drive, energy and ability to get us back to winning ways.
"He is passionate about bringing success to this club and I am looking forward to working with him to achieve that."
Cotterill added his track record of guiding clubs to relegation safety, and his experience with Forest in particular, holds him in good stead.
"If I don't turn this one around, it will be the only one I haven't," Cotterill said.
"And I've been in charge of a few big clubs - Forest were going down quicker than the Titanic.
"I turned that one around. It wasn't immediate, I went in there at the same sort of period, the back end of November when the [transfer] window was shut and you couldn't do anything in regards to players."
Cotterill started his managerial career at Irish side Sligo Rovers before joining Cheltenham Town, his hometown club, in 1997.
In five years, he led the Robins from non-league to League One and went on to take charge at Stoke City.
He then managed Sunderland alongside Howard Wilkinson before spells with Burnley, Notts County, Portsmouth and Forest.
During his time at the City Ground, Cotterill worked with then-coach O'Driscoll, but left when the Al-Hasawi family took over the club.
Cotterill spent time on Harry Redknapp's coaching team at QPR last year but declined the offer of a similar role this term.
The Robins were relegated from the Championship in May and they started life in League One with a run of 12 games without a win.
Results had improved last month but, with the club still in the relegation zone, the board opted to replace O'Driscoll.
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The decision comes despite Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge winning bronze for Great Britain in the men's doubles at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Archery, goalball, fencing, table tennis, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby will also receive no funding.
However, powerlifting was successful in its appeal to UK Sport.
It means the sport's £1.3m funding will be managed by British Weightlifting and not the English Institute of Sport, as was the case before the 2016 Olympics.
GB Badminton said it was "staggered" by the decision to reject its appeal.
But UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl said none of the seven sports had provided "critically compelling new evidence" that changed the assessment of their medal potential.
Mike Reilly, CEO of Goalball UK, said his organisation was hopeful UK Sport would find "other ways to help us secure a clear and sustained talent pathway" to Tokyo 2020.
Wheelchair rugby has been stripped of £750,000, and BBC Sport understands the Rugby Football Union (RFU) will not step in to increase support for its disability counterpart.
The RFU gives about £100,000 per year to the sport known as 'murderball', and England full-back Mike Brown headed a recent campaign to help raise funds, but there are now fears its elite team could fold.
Compared with the four-year build-up to the Rio Games, badminton is the biggest loser in cash terms, as it was given £5.7m last time.
The cut comes despite the sport hitting its medal target thanks to Ellis and Langridge winning only Britain's third Olympic badminton medal.
It is heart-wrenching - we're super devastated
GB Badminton said in a statement: "Given the strength of evidence we were able to present to justify investment, we cannot believe UK Sport has concluded they should stand by their decision and award zero funding to our GB programme.
"We have players who are on track to win medals for the nation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and our belief in those players remains as great as it's ever been. We will now take some time to consider our next steps."
Gail Emms, a silver medallist for Great Britain at Athens 2004, said she was "gutted".
She said: "It is heart-wrenching. It was bad enough in December when the initial decision was made but now we are super devastated.
"The players out there were really pinning their hopes on this. I was such an optimist; I thought it was going to be OK. We put forward a strong case. It is going to be tough now for the sport."
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Dan Roan, BBC sports editor:
UK Sport's money has transformed Britain into an Olympic and Paralympic superpower, but its 'no-compromise' approach is under more scrutiny than ever.
With falling ticket sales hitting crucial National Lottery funding, resources are undoubtedly stretched but, for the first time, sports with real podium potential are being excluded from funding, and many are now asking whether the focus on medals has gone too far.
Table tennis was another sport to be disappointed, despite Britain winning a bronze medal at the 2016 World Team Championships.
Sara Sutcliffe, Table Tennis England chief executive, said: "We're naturally disappointed, having made what we believe was a very strong case for a relatively small amount of funding.
"We overachieved on everything we were asked to do in the 2016 cycle, and did so without funding. We were left without funding because, effectively, the goalposts were moved. We will take time to absorb this decision before we decide on the best course of action."
Georgina Usher, chief executive of British Fencing, said the organisation would try to hold fundraising events to support its athletes.
"This has been an incredibly difficult period for the athletes and programme staff," she said.
"Our staff, coaches and athletes have worked incredibly hard to have got to the point where we are absolutely good enough to target an Olympic medal. Having to explain to them why the programme funding will be coming to an end is extremely tough.
"We will be appealing against this decision as we owe it to our athletes to pursue every avenue open to us to challenge this funding decision process."
Goalball chief executive Reilly was more upbeat, saying: "Though we did not fit the UK Sport criteria to move up categories, and so secure funding, we were very much encouraged by their response to our representation.
"There is certainly a sense of the board understanding the difficulties we face and an acknowledgement of our incredible success."
Nicholl said: "The sports that made representations were unable to provide any critically compelling new evidence that changed our assessment of their medal potential for Tokyo.
"Their position in our meritocratic table therefore remains unchanged and they remain in a band we cannot afford to invest in.
"This is the first time we've been unable to support every sport that has athletes with the potential to deliver medals at the next Games. We don't take these decisions lightly as we're acutely aware of the impact they have on sports, athletes and support personnel.
"To support those affected, we have put in place a comprehensive transition and support package and are working closely with these sports to help staff and athletes move out of UK Sport funding."
In December, UK Sport announced the funding for the cycles for the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020.
Archery, badminton, fencing, goalball, table tennis, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby appealed to UK Sport to review the decision on what they had been awarded.
UK Sport says it must prioritise sports with the strongest medal potential for Tokyo and the appeal process was essentially a second opportunity for officials to demonstrate why they deserve funding.
A total of £345m will be invested in 31 Olympic and Paralympic sports - £2m less than the record £347m allocated for the Rio Games.
UK Sport has set Team GB a target of winning between 51 and 85 Olympic medals, and 115 to 162 Paralympic medals in 2020.
Nick Hope, BBC senior Olympic sports reporter:
Understandably, the headlines will be dominated by news of the seven sports - including British Weightlifting's Olympics team - who have not been able to overturn UK Sport's initial funding decisions.
However, the victory for British Weightlifting's Paralympic programme should not be overlooked. UK Sport had planned to move control of the funding award for the disability sport set-up to the English Institute of Sport (EIS). This would not only have seen the closure of the entire GB Weightlifting programme (for Olympic and Paralympic athletes), but also potentially set a new precedent for how funding could be allocated in the future.
The EIS is essentially an extended arm of UK Sport - looking after anything from nutrition to physiotherapy and athlete lifestyle/welfare. Figures from several other Olympic and Paralympic sports have told me of their concerns about what giving EIS greater power would have meant for future funding decisions beyond Tokyo.
As it stands, those concerns will have been allayed somewhat - but it will be interesting to see whether UK Sport will continue to push in this direction and essentially seek greater control and governance of the funding it awards over each four-year-cycle.
A Daily Telegraph investigation says Allardyce, 61, used his role to negotiate a £400,000 deal and also offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Allardyce is yet to respond to the allegations and was due to meet with Football Association chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn on Tuesday.
The former Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham manager also appears to criticise the FA, his international predecessor Roy Hodgson and ex-England assistant Gary Neville.
"You have to let Sam Allardyce defend himself and I just hope he will clear his name," said Wenger.
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The Telegraph says it will pass transcripts from its investigation to the FA, although they run to "to many hundreds of pages" and "will take some time to collate."
Allardyce, who has only been in charge for one game and 67 days, was named England boss in July, succeeding Hodgson after a disastrous European Championship campaign.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright said it would be a "terrible shame" for Allardyce to lose his job for "non-footballing reasons".
"When you look at Sam and his career, he was never ever going to get the opportunity to manage a top-four club," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He got the England job and for him to now stand on the brink of losing that job is a crying shame."
Karren Brady, chief executive of Allardyce's former club West Ham, said she is "both saddened and disappointed" by the developments.
"This is a man who spent his whole life trying to get that job, and got it in his 60s. What a great shame if he loses that job through non-footballing reasons," she told Radio 1 Newsbeat.
Former FA communications director Julian Eccles has said Allardyce's actions are "at the very least bad judgement", and said he will have to justify his claims that third-party ownership is still prevalent.
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During the meeting with undercover reporters posing as businessmen, it is alleged Allardyce said it was "not a problem" to bypass the rules and he knew of agents who were "doing it all the time".
"I think if he is to keep his job at the very least he has to provide the evidence where he says that agents are still involved in this and he has to apologise for stating that these rules are 'ridiculous'," Eccles told BBC News.
"We cannot have such a senior figure in our game being so disrespectful of such important rules."
That view was supported by Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, who tweeted saying Allardyce "advising on getting around third-party rules" was the "biggest problem".
Third-party ownership of players was banned by the FA in 2008.
It is further alleged by the paper that a deal was struck with the England boss worth £400,000 for him to represent the company to Far East investors and to be a keynote speaker at events.
However, Allardyce told the undercover reporters that any arrangement would have to be cleared by the FA.
Allardyce is set to name his second England squad on Sunday, before the World Cup qualifier against Malta on 8 October.
John Griffith-Jones was asked at a Treasury Select Committee hearing whether the Treasury had leant on the FCA or undermined its independence.
He said that the "simple answer" was "no to both".
Acting chief executive Tracey McDermott said the suggestion was "nonsense".
Two senior FCA figures were speaking at a committee hearing called after it emerged that the inquiry, described as a "thematic review", had been scrapped.
The FCA had planned to look at whether pay, promotion or other incentives had contributed to scandals involving banks in the UK and abroad.
Ms McDermott told the committee the review had been shelved because "we didn't think that we would be able to put out something that was sufficiently useful or valuable to make it worthwhile spending resources and time on doing it".
She said the review would have duplicated other work carried out elsewhere, notably by the Banking Standards Board, which was "looking at precisely the same issue".
She said the FCA was now seeking to "build on work done by other bodies" and would be focusing on individual firms through regulatory supervision.
Banks around the world have faced huge fines from regulators for their involvement in numerous scandals.
In May last year, the news agency Reuters calculated that 20 global banks had paid £152bn in fines and compensation to customers since the 2008 financial crisis.
Ashley Keast, 25, snapped the selfie on a stolen SIM card after breaking into the property in Rotherham last year.
The victim's colleagues reported the image to police who arrested Keast at his home the following day.
Keast, of Norfolk Court, Rotherham, was jailed for two years and eight months on Tuesday after he admitted burglary at Sheffield Crown Court.
Accomplice, Anthony Hunt, 27, of Garbroads Crescent, Rotherham, was jailed for 18 months after he also admitted the offence.
Keast and Hunt broke into the property in Fernleigh Drive, in Brinsworth, on 11 September while the occupants were on holiday.
The duo stole electrical items, jewellery and an Audi A4 worth a total of about £27,000.
A spokeswoman for South Yorkshire Police said "Keast had stolen a SIM card from the property and, using another phone, took a selfie and posted it on the whatsapp messenger application,
"However, unknowingly, Keast also sent the picture to the victim's work colleagues, who became suspicious and contacted police."
When police arrested Keast at his home the following day, they found a stolen Rolex watch, worth £4,000, hidden behind a radiator.
Keast also admitted being in breach of a suspended sentence.
The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) on Tuesday found Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 50, guilty of professional misconduct.
In June, Wettlaufer admitted to using insulin to kill eight patients in two Ontario senior care homes.
The CNO investigation into Wettlaufer's actions was put on hold until her criminal trial was over.
The five-person disciplinary committee called her actions "a violation of public trust in the most horrific way possible".
Panel chair Grace Fox called the case "the most egregious and disgraceful conduct this panel has ever considered".
The CNO has faced criticism for failing to take action against Wettlaufer after she was fired from one care home in 2014 for a medication error.
Her murder victims were five women and three men and all were residents of Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London, Ontario.
They were between the ages 75 and 96 and were killed between 2007 and 2014.
Police launched an investigation into the nursing home deaths in September.
Wettlaufer resigned from the CNO a day after that. She was arrested in October on charges of first degree murder.
She was also eventually found guilty of four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault of her patients.
In June, the Ontario government launched a formal public inquiry into the circumstances around the murders amid concerns about oversight systems in long-term care in the province.
Relatives of two of Wettlaufer's victims have also launched lawsuits against the ex-nurse and the two care homes where she worked.
Firefighters were called to the blaze in a flat in Whitedalehead Road, Whitburn, at around 19:40 on Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said they gave four casualties oxygen therapy.
The patients - who also included a man and a woman - were then taken to St John's Hospital in Livingston by ambulance.
They fire was extinguished and the scene was made safe within an hour.
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The world number 10 from Antrim made the clearance against Englishman Rod Lawler.
It put Allen 4-3 ahead, and the 30-year-old went on to secure a 6-4 victory.
"It was a big buzz as I'd never made one on tour. I'm very happy and it was relief when the black went in - I was nervous and I was shaking," he said.
The maximum is worth £5,000 from the rolling prize pot for 147s at ranking events, plus a £5,000 high-break prize if it is not matched.
Allen will take on Ryan Day or Kurt Maflin in the last 16 at the Barbican.
A beaten finalist at the Barbican five years ago, Allen came close to a 147 in 2010 at the World Championship, potting 15 reds and 15 blacks before missing the green.
He then went on to make a 146 in the same competition.
However, he made no mistake against Lawler and had been eyeing up the possibility after potting just six balls.
He added: "The balls were sitting so nice from 24 and I was thinking about it from then. The reds were all sitting, none on the cushions, and you can only mess it up from there.
"I went to the toilet afterwards to calm myself down and take deep breaths, control the breathing and take the shakes away."
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The 17-year-old had just dropped serve to trail Kyle Edmund 6-3 6-4 2-1 when he angrily hit the ball out of court.
It struck French umpire Arnaud Gabas in the eye and a default followed.
"Luckily he was OK but obviously it's unacceptable behaviour from me," said Wimbledon junior champion Shapovalov.
"I just feel awful for letting my team down, for letting my country down, for acting in a way that I would never want to act.
"I can promise that's the last time I will do anything like that. I'm going to learn from this and try to move past it."
The World Group first-round tie was poised at 2-2 after Vasek Pospisil beat Dan Evans to set up a decider, but Canada's hopes ended when Shapovalov let frustration get the better of him.
He later apologised to Gabas in the referee's office before the Frenchman headed to Ottawa General Hospital for a precautionary evaluation on bruising and swelling to his left eye.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said in a statement it was "clear that Mr Shapovalov did not intend to hit Mr Gabas".
Referee Brian Earley has the power to impose a fine of up to $12,000 (£9,600) and the ITF might significantly increase that fine, and suspend Shapovalov from future ties.
GB captain Leon Smith said: "Unfortunately for the young lad this is going to get an awful lot of attention.
"This will be looked at closely and it should be as it is dangerous. Whether it's an umpire or a young kid who's at the side of the court, that really could be a serious injury, so I'm sure it will be dealt with swiftly and pretty firmly."
Britain go on to face an away tie in France from 7-9 April - a repeat of the 2015 quarter-final in London that Britain won on their way to regaining the title for the first time in 79 years.
John Lloyd, former Great Britain Davis Cup captain and player
We don't know yet how the umpire's eye is but we could see it was already closing. You don't know about permanent damage until he sees the doctor.
It's devastating for Shapovalov. He let himself down, he let his country down. He could have caused serious damage to the umpire. He will realise that he can't do that sort of thing again and he's going to get a lot of trouble in the press for this, quite rightly so because he deserves it, but he will rebound.
If you look to the brighter side we've seen some undoubted talent in him, if he can just control it a little bit. There's nothing wrong with getting emotional - we've seen great champions like John McEnroe get emotional - but you can't go to that extent and he'll have to curb it a little bit.
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Three top sport stars have answered a range of questions about tackling some of the perceived barriers to participation in physical activity.
From gym kit to changing rooms, and from body image to getting sweaty - the discussion was open and honest.
Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle MBE, Olympic swimmer Hannah Miley, and International footballer Gemma Fay talked frankly about what it takes to be a women in sport.
The Girls Get Inspired Q&A was broadcast live on the BBC website on 19 March 2015.
Here are some of the sport stars' tips for getting the sports bug.
Gemma: "I was in the pool when Hannah won her medal! Just the buzz about Glasgow and the buzz about London - it's the inspiration I get from other athletes."
Beth: "I had a big injury when I was 12 years old and it was later found out that it could have been career-threatening.
"Paula Radcliffe and Kelly Holmes had big injuries throughout their careers but they still managed to go on to achieve their dreams.
"They really inspired me."
Hannah: "My dad printed out a picture of Kaitlin Sandeno and Katie Hoff and he put at the bottom: 'One day you can beat these girls'.
"Everybody's human, everybody's beatable. But to get in and train takes that extra bit of courage - just to be a bit different.
"And ever since I've been younger, I've been a little bit different. I quite like to think I'm a bit quirky - but in a good way!"
Gemma: "Throughout my career people have always said: 'Aren't you awfully small for a goalkeeper?'
"When people continue to say that all the time, and coaches comment on it, and other people comment on it, it's hard not to let that wear you down and affect your self belief.
"But my response is that I'm sitting here and I'm the most capped player in Britain and I've done it despite the fact I'm small.
"I focus on what I'm good at.
"It's having that mental belief and being able to block out people who don't think you can."
Beth: "I grew up in gymnastics and from the age of 13 or 14 I was on the international scene.
"Growing up on TV when you're wearing a leotard there's not a lot of places to hide!
"So my body was changing, and when I was about 12 or 13 I had developed a lot quicker than the rest of my team mates, but compared to my school mates I hadn't.
"[My coach told me) it doesn't matter - every child develops in a different way and at a different way. She taught me to be proud of myself."
Hannah: "It's hard sometimes to hide away from opinions, but it's a matter of building your self confidence and realising that everybody is different.
"Don't ever be afraid or feel you have to hide."
Gemma: "When I was at school no-one went for a shower in PE. Everybody just emptied cans of deodorant over themselves.
"It was only when I went into a team environment, where we weren't allowed to leave until we'd showered because it was unhygienic, and it's quite an intimidating environment.
"I wish I could go back now and put an arm around my 13 or 14-year-old self and say: You know, it's fine. Everybody's got these bits, nobody's looking at you, everybody's thinking the same thing!"
Gemma: "I was bullied at school and that was quite a traumatic experience for me.
"But this is the beauty of sport and the people in sport, because it really helped me.
"I would hide out in the PE department and when I wasn't there I would go and hang out with my football team.
"It was a haven for me. Because when I was there I was safe.
"Eventually I talked to one of my teachers and one of the parents of a girl on my team and they managed to help me get over it.
"So I can say at that stage of my life, sport really saved me."
Beth: "There was quite a high profile case about a year ago when I did a Q&A on twitter.
"It got bombarded - not really questions relating to my sport. It turned into my appearance.
"It's difficult to cope with, but I've learned that for every one or two comments about my appearance, there's another 99 that say: you've achieved amazing things."
Hannah: "You're going to get things that are going to scare you in life or be big and daunting, but have a smile on your face and stand up and be proud of yourself."
Beth: "Instead of hanging out with your friends at home or shopping - take it to the gym.
"I go to a Zumba class during the day when most people my age are at work, so it's an older ladies' class.
"It's brilliant, I get all the gossip and I have a right laugh!
"Just having that camaraderie, that banter with friends
"Go and hang out with friends - just in a different way."
Hannah: "When you've got a group of friends to start something new, it really builds that positive reinforcement.
"It's great because you can do a physical activity and still chat to your friends about it."
Hannah: "There was one athlete who stood out when I was growing up, when I used to watch the Olympics with my dad, and that was Misty Hymen.
"She was the only person in the final who had a big smile on her face and looked like she wanted to be there.
"And from that, I've always taken that attitude."
Gemma: "Sport, physical activity - we say these words but it's just going out and letting your body feel what it's like to get sweaty, to feel that rush of endorphins.
"It might be hard for the first 20 minutes, but the next few minutes afterwards it's amazing.
"You feel so good about yourself.
"It's just daring yourself to do that."
The man, believed to be in his 20s, was barely conscious when paramedics arrived at Scotia Road in Burslem and had to be cut out of his car.
He was taken to the Royal Stoke University Hospital after the crash at 19:00 GMT on Saturday.
Both houses are said to be unsafe and Scotia Road is shut between Chatterley Street and Williamson Street.
The 31-year-old is a free agent since leaving White Hart Lane in September.
Palace are the lowest scorers in the top half of the Premier League with 22 goals and Pardew is looking for attacking reinforcements.
"We've had discussions about him and he is in that kind of nine or 10 strikers that possibly we could get," he said.
"It's a tough call for anyone who takes Adebayor - how much game time has he had? That is a question mark."
Pardew made a failed attempt to sign the Togo international in 2006 when he was in charge at West Ham.
Adebayor instead joined Arsenal from French league club Monaco. He went on to play for Manchester City and a loan spell at Real Madrid before joining Spurs in 2012.
Questions have been raised about Adebayor's attitude and commitment, but Pardew added: "Whenever he has played against me he has been totally committed and he's a dangerous world player.
"I have had difficult players before, none more difficult than [Hatem] Ben Arfa [at Newcastle]. If I can deal with him, I can deal with Adebayor for sure.
"You have only got to look at his clubs and of course, for whatever reason there has been a fall-out at Spurs, but he remains a player that can have a great impact. He's one of those players that would improve us."
On BBC Radio 5 live's weekend preview show, the guests discussed whether Palace should sign the striker. The Daily Telegraph's Jason Burt revealed the club would need to negotiate with Spurs, who still pay him £100,000 a week.
Former Leicester boss Nigel Pearson said: "He's a really good player. He'd put bums on seats. I think Alan Pardew is very capable of managing high-maintenance players. If he does decide to go for it, it won't be on a whim."
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam added: "He'll take the load off Connor Wickham. I think he'd be a good signing."
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Records tumbled like ninepins as cinemas bruised by 2014's lacklustre takings got the perfect pick-me-up: namely, one must-see blockbuster after another.
There's little doubt this year will be the most lucrative on record in terms of grosses and ticket sales. The question now is whether 2016 has enough in its locker to match it.
The answer? Probably not - though there are still more than enough so-called "tentpole" releases to keep exhibitors, distributors and cinema chains comfortably out of the poorhouse.
In terms of box-office behemoths, it's hard to look beyond 25 March and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the eagerly anticipated, long-delayed face-off between the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel.
With Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor also along for the ride, Zack Snyder's film is a powerful statement of intent from DC Comics, who also have Suicide Squad - a vehicle for its potent stable of comic-book villains - lined up for a 5 August release.
Marvel Entertainment, DC's fiercest rival, will be hoping its lucky streak continues with Captain America: Civil War (29 April), especially with the new Spider-Man - teenaged Brit Tom Holland - joining the ranks of the all-conquering Avengers.
They will also be hoping the same audiences who flocked to see Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man will be just as happy to watch Benedict Cumberbatch cast spells in Doctor Strange (28 November) in the Sherlock star's new guise as the so-called "Sorcerer Supreme".
With additional outings for vigilante Deadpool (4 February), mutant card-sharp Gambit (7 October) and the rest of the latter's brethren in X-Men: Apocalypse (19 May), comic-book aficionados will be more than sated over the next 12 months.
As this year's Fantastic Four reboot showed, though, superhero films are no longer a sure thing - especially in a marketplace where they are increasingly becoming the rule rather than the exception.
On the subject of the fantastic, you might already be aware of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (18 November), a return to the Harry Potter universe that will introduce Eddie Redmayne as curious wizard Newt Scamander.
Warner Bros are so confident of the spin-off's success that it has already green-lit two sequels, set for release in 2018 and 2020 respectively.
Star Wars will have a spin-off of its own in December with the release of Rogue One, a prequel of sorts that will dramatise events briefly referred to in the 1977 film that started the franchise.
For those who prefer their sequels a little less brain-taxing, the year will also see returns for Ben Stiller's Derek Zoolander (19 February), Renee Zellweger's Bridget Jones (16 September), Matt Damon's Jason Bourne (29 July), and the crew of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek Beyond (22 July).
Sequels, it appears, come in all shapes and sizes, be they pugilistic (Rocky continuation Creed, 15 January), dystopian (The Divergent Series: Allegiant, 11 March), phantasmagorical (Alice Through the Looking Glass, 27 May) or belated (Independence Day: Resurgence, 24 June).
The world of animation, meanwhile, has sequels of its own in the form of Kung Fu Panda 3 (11 March), Ice Age: Collision Course (15 July) and Pixar's Finding Dory (29 July).
This will be a year, in short, in which pretty much every multiplex-bound title seeking to separate us from our hard-earned will have some form of brand awareness or pre-existing cultural association.
These days you can make a movie out of anything, from a computer game (Angry Birds, Assassin's Creed) to a TV series (Absolutely Fabulous, Dad's Army) to - whatever next? - a classic or best-selling novel (The Jungle Book, The Girl on the Train).
You can even make a new movie by re-tooling an old one. Witness the conspicuously Keanu Reeves-less Point Break (12 February), the all-female Ghostbusters (15 July) and Disney's new version of Pete's Dragon (12 August).
Then again, if they can remake Ben Hur (12 August) and The Magnificent Seven (23 September), they can virtually remake anything.
Police said they were called to reports of a body at a property in Templehill in Troon at 17:15 BST on Saturday.
Jonathan Adair junior, who was 32, had recently been released from prison.
Officers said they were treating the death as unexplained and a post-mortem examination would be carried out. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
Jonathan Adair's father, Johnny Adair, is a former leader of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).
The family was forced to flee Northern Ireland in 2003 after a series of murders linked to a loyalist feud.
When he was 18 and still living in Northern Ireland, Jonathan Adair was shot in both legs in the loyalist lower Shankill area of west Belfast.
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Nick Hardwick, chief inspector of prisons, said Thameside jail in south-east London was effectively in lock down for much of its first year.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said conditions were "truly alarming".
The National Offender Management Service said action had been taken to address the concerns.
Inspectors to the Greenwich prison found:
But, inspectors said they were pleased to find:
The Howard League for Penal Reform said the situation at Thameside undermined ministers' recent calls for prisoners to work harder when they were out of their cells to earn privileges.
Campaigns director Andrew Neilson said: "Thameside is doing nothing to help prisoners turn their lives around.
"Conditions at Thameside are truly alarming."
Serco's custodial services director Wyn Jones said: "These are early days at the prison, and we accept completely the report's recommendations for future improvements.
"Among many areas of good practice across the prison identified by the report, we are especially pleased that it commended the extent to which prisoners feel safe in HMP Thameside."
"Much remains to be done, but this is a very positive start."
HMP Thameside is a category B establishment run by Serco Home Affairs and can currently hold 900 convicted and remand male prisoners.
It was opened along with G4S-run HMP Oakwood near Wolverhampton last year, creating about 2,500 prison places in total.
The 2009 champions have failed to progress from the group stage in the past two years.
"I really want people to play with freedom and have a good go at it," the 30-year-old told BBC Sussex.
"I'd rather us take risks than go any other way and that is the message I am trying to give to all the batters."
He added: "I know people will make mistakes, as I have in my career, but you have just got to accept it."
Quarter-finalists in 2010 and 2011 and then semi-finalists in 2012, Wright is aware Sussex have underperformed in T20 competition in the last two seasons.
"For the last couple of years we have started really badly and then ended up finishing quite strong," the batsman said.
"We are lucky with the crowds. Even when we have been struggling, people keep turning out and supporting us.
"We want to be in quarter-finals and at finals day and we are looking to put that right. We all know we need to play better to do that."
Wright, who has played 51 T20 internationals for England, replaced Ed Joyce as captain in February.
"It's a hugely proud moment," he said.
"Even in the warm-up games in Abu Dhabi and Dubai it was great to do.
"You feel wins and losses even more when you're captain but everyone seems in good places and it's just trying to pick the side.
"There are a few headaches for selection, which is what I want."
Sussex, who have signed former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene for their first seven T20 Blast matches, begin their campaign away to Kent on Friday (19:00 BST).
Jack Mansfield died peacefully in his sleep in Etwall in Derbyshire on Sunday, his family said.
The widower was a "strong-willed" man who lived on his own until earlier this year, when he went into a care home.
He leaves behind six children, 10 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
His youngest son Richard, 70, said his father attributed his longevity to hard work and using vinegar.
"He had a bottle by the bed until the day he died. He would rub it on his knee and drink a little bit from time to time.
"He swore by vinegar."
Born John Mansfield on 14 December 1907, he was an agricultural worker and coal-delivery man for much of his life.
He lived alone at his home, a former council house in Mayfield, until September when medical complaints saw him move to a care home in Etwall.
"He lived on his own until earlier this year when he was 108. He'd get up and get himself dressed and someone would drop over during the day to see how he was doing," his son Richard said.
Mr Mansfield and his late wife Beatrice had six children - the eldest an 83-year-old daughter Doreen.
"He hated being inside and wanted to keep working as long as he could," his son said.
"He's like a caged animal (when he's indoors) because he loves outdoors," Doreen added.
"His most popular saying was: 'I can do it myself!'"
When he got his first congratulatory card from the Queen, Mr Mansfield's first comment was: "Who's told her?", his family said.
His funeral is planned for 10 December in Mayfield near Ashbourne, where he lived most of his life.
Mourners are being asked to wear red as the centenarian was a fan of Manchester United.
The mother, whose bones were found in a forest in New South Wales in 2010, was named as Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson.
The daughter, whose skeletal remains were discovered in a suitcase near a motorway in South Australia in 2015, was Khandalyce Kiara Pearce.
Police say they both suffered "violent and deliberate" deaths.
Police from the two states are now working together on their suspected murder investigations into how and where the two died.
On Wednesday, the identification of the remains via DNA tests and blood samples was described as a major breakthrough by detectives involved in the investigations.
"This is one of the most shocking crimes imaginable; one that has not only devastated a family, but also had a terrible impact on the wider community," South Australia Detective Superintendent Des Bray said.
He appealed for assistance from the public, saying that "those responsible for these horrific crimes remain amongst us in the community, and they must quickly be caught and held to account for their actions".
Karlie Jade Pearce-Stevenson's remains were found at Belango State Forest. She was initially named "Angel" because of a T-shirt she was found with.
For the past five years detectives had been pursuing numerous lines of inquiry to try to identify the woman.
The breakthrough followed the discovery in July of the bones of a young girl in a suitcase on the side of Karoona Highway in Wynarka.
Police were later able to establish that Pearce-Stevenson was a single mother from Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
She is believed to have left her home in search of work and also to travel between 2006-08.
The pair were last seen in November 2008. The mother was 20 at the time, while her daughter was aged two.
Fulwell Acoustic Mirror was built in 1917 to help detect German airships following a series of Zeppelin raids on the North East coast.
Left to deteriorate, it has now been restored after a £68,000 revamp.
Sunderland City councillor John Kelly, said it was an important monument that "told a story" and should not be lost.
The mirror was designed to act as an acoustic early warning system against air raids after a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin over the Wheatsheaf area of Sunderland in April 1916, leaving 22 people dead and more than 100 injured.
It reflected sound detected by a microphone in front of the dish to an operator who could alert the authorities of approaching Zeppelins.
Using sound detection methods learnt in the trenches, it was designed to give a 15-minute warning of approaching enemy airships.
The concrete structure, with its rendered concave dish, is one of only six acoustic mirrors built during World War One still standing.
Mr Kelly said: "Fulwell Acoustic Mirror is a very rare, long lost reminder of the home front in the North East during the First World War.
"The restoration has give the acoustic mirror a new lease of life by preserving it for future generations almost a hundred years after it was build to defend our shores."
The project used specially developed techniques, including the use of diluted sheep droppings to carry out the repair work.
The restoration was a project between the council, Historic England and Limestone Landscape.
Shylock was said to have been installed on more than 30,000 machines worldwide, but mostly targeted bank accounts of people living in the UK.
As ever, the NCA urged the public to make sure their security software was fully up-to-date.
The action follows a similar effort led by US authorities last month.
The Zeus botnet was said to have infected more than a million computers worldwide.
The US is seeking a Russian man, Evgeniy Bogachev, in connection with the operation.
This latest action has been led by UK intelligence services, working in conjunction with security experts based in The Hague.
"The NCA is co-ordinating an international response to a cybercrime threat to businesses and individuals around the world," said Andy Archibald, deputy director of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit.
"This phase of activity is intended to have a significant effect on the Shylock infrastructure and demonstrates how we are using partnerships across sectors and across national boundaries to cut cybercrime impacting the UK."
The Shylock malware - so named because passages from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice were found within its code - affected computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Authorities were able to seize computer servers that were controlling Shylock.
However, cybercriminals are often quick to react when disrupted by server seizures.
In the case of Zeus, authorities predicted it would take just two weeks for criminals to reorganise themselves and restart the operation.
Residents in Jaywick will be moved from 07:00 on Friday, Essex Police said. Officers are visiting people to alert them to the plans.
Ch Insp Russ Cole, district commander at Tendring, said the decision was "not taken lightly".
It is just over three years since 2,500 homes in the village were evacuated ahead of a tidal surge.
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The Environment Agency has issued a severe weather warning for Jaywick forecasting rain, strong winds and potential flooding, which is expected to peak on Friday lunchtime.
A rest centre at Tendring Education Centre in Clacton has been opened to provide shelter.
Ch Insp Cole said: "Acting on all the professional guidance, a decision has been taken to evacuate the homes in Jaywick to ensure the safety of all residents.
"My officers will start calling at all residences in Jaywick this afternoon, to advise them that from 07:00 tomorrow we will be transporting people out of the town to the rest centre.
"We will also advise that from 16:00 they can of course self-evacuate and make their own way to the rest centre or to another place of safety outside of Jaywick.
"This decision has not been taken lightly and has been made in the best interests of all residents to ensure their safety until the severe weather passes."
A total of 29 local authorities have received people fleeing the war-town country since 15 November last year.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance said the response from people around the country had been "phenomenal".
The Scottish Refugee Council said it was a "good start" but more could be done on a UK-wide basis.
The UK as a whole is committed to resettling 20,000 Syrian refugees through its Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) scheme by 2020.
About 3,000 have already arrived in the UK, and more than a third of them have made homes in Scotland.
Ms Constance said: "People in Scotland were shocked by the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
"There was a groundswell of people looking to know how they could help and wanting to see our country take a stance and offer a warm welcome for those who sought refuge.
"The response has been phenomenal and we have seen the hand of friendship extended to those seeking to flee war."
Scotland has been praised for "leading the way" in efforts to resettle refugees by Westminster's Home Affairs select committee.
However Derek Mitchell, the chief officer of Cosla's migration, population and diversity team, warned that "in a way, it's the easy bit that has been done".
He said: "The refugees have all been accommodated; they have been given access to welfare benefits; the children are in school and the adults are in English language classes; some are making their first steps into employment and training opportunities.
"They have also been warmly welcomed into the communities that they now call home, and their neighbours, local churches and mosques and a host of other volunteers have gone above and beyond to help them to feel welcome."
The resettlement programme had been a "great success" but Cosla recognised that more still needed to be done to help the refugees, he said.
"Those who have been resettled through the programme are amongst the most vulnerable victims of the conflict, many having suffered significant trauma and injury - both mental and physical - and these wounds will not heal quickly or easily," he added.
"They have also had to face the unimaginable heartache of leaving behind family members, to say nothing of almost all of their worldly possessions, and we should not underestimate the many challenges that they will face as they seek to build new lives for themselves in Scotland."
The new figures has led to renewed calls for the UK as a whole to do more to help those who have been displaced by the turmoil in Syria.
Earlier this month Amnesty International accused the world's wealthiest nations of shirking their responsibilities towards refugees.
Salil Shetty, its secretary general, said the UK was a "sad example" of countries' failure to take responsibility.
John Wilkes, the chief executive of the Scottish Refugee Council, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the UK had made a good start - but more could be done.
"Sweden is taking 60,000 over a couple of years and Germany is obviously taking a lot more than that," he said.
"If we were taking our proportionate role within the EU, the figures that we would have been maybe taking would be maybe 100,000 over the five years.
"It may sound like a lot of people but in terms of overall migration and the capacity of the UK, I think there would be more than enough room in the UK to accommodate those people."
MP Stuart McDonald, the SNP's representative on the home affairs select committee, told the programme the UK-wide ambition was "fairly modest".
He said: "In Scotland, it is very positive that 29 out of 32 authorities have taken in refugees but much more can be done on a UK-wide basis."
"I genuinely think that, given the scale of the crisis, and the problems that you see across Europe and the region across Syria, we are not yet playing our part as the United Kingdom. It's not easy, it is challenging but I think we can contribute far more."
The European Commission said Britain had agreed to "modify significantly" the financing for the project, reducing the burden on British taxpayers.
In total 16 commissioners voted in favour of the project, just ahead of the 15 votes needed for approval.
EDF Energy is due to build the plant, the first in the UK in almost 20 years.
The Commission had been examining whether the funding for the project broke state aid rules.
However, it said the changes agreed by the British authorities would cut the subsidy by more than £1bn, meaning that state aid would remain "proportionate to the objective pursued, avoiding any undue distortions of competition".
The Commission said these changes made meant gains generated by the project would be better shared with UK consumers.
It estimated the project would now cost £24.5bn to build. The updated figure, much higher than the government and EDF's original £16bn forecast, includes the impact of inflation as well as interest costs for the 10 year construction period.
This is the first time that the European Commission has approved significant state aid for a new nuclear power plant - and as such, it is a big step forward for the European nuclear industry.
The decision will serve as a precedent for other countries, such as Poland and the Czech Republic, that want to know how much public money they can offer to companies as they look to expand their nuclear industries.
But the legal fight over the funding for Hinkley Point C is almost certainly not over. The European Court of Justice will be asked for an opinion.
Austria says the Commission's decision is supported by neither economic nor ecological sense.
And other member states are concerned that it flies in the face of the EU's stated aim of promoting renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.
The government had already agreed that French firm EDF will be paid a so-called "strike price" of £92.50 for every megawatt hour of energy Hinkley C generates. This is almost twice the current wholesale cost of electricity, but this was a deliberate attempt by the government to compensate for the high cost of building the plant.
However, the Commission said that if EDF's overall profits exceeded the rate estimated at the time it was awarded the contract, any gains would be shared with the public.
It said it had also defined a second, higher threshold above which the public would be given more than half of the gains, through lowering the cost of the "strike price".
"An increase in the profit rate of only one percentage point, for example, will generate savings of more than £1.2bn," it said.
It said this agreement would now last for the entire lifetime of the project - an estimated 60 years.
"These modifications will also achieve significant savings for UK taxpayers. On this basis and after a thorough investigation, the Commission can now conclude that the support is compatible with EU state aid rules," said Commission Vice-President Joaquin Almunia.
The two reactors planned for Hinkley, which will provide power for about 60 years, are a key part of the coalition's drive to shift the UK away from fossil fuels towards low-carbon power.
The nuclear power station is expected to begin operating in 2023.
The government estimated last year that with new nuclear power - including Hinkley - the average energy bill in 2030 will be £77 lower than it would have been without the new plants.
The decision was controversial, with green critics believing that the government should have offered subsidies to renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy.
Austria, which strongly supports green energy, has threatened to take the European Commission to the European Court of Justice to protest against the decision.
"There is absolutely no legal, moral or environmental justification for turning taxes into guaranteed profits for a nuclear power company whose only legacy will be a pile of radioactive waste," said Greenpeace's EU legal adviser, Andrea Carta.
However, Lord Hutton of Furness, chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, said the Commission's approval was "an important step".
"This will set in train an important time for the nuclear sector in the UK as new build projects get under way to replace the current ageing generation. It also gives certainty to other European countries looking at the UK system of contracts for difference as a mechanism to secure their own supply."
The world champion, who took his first win of 2016 in Monaco two weeks ago, beat the German by just 0.062 seconds.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was third, just 0.116secs off pole, as Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo displaced team-mate Max Verstappen for fourth by 0.248secs.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen took sixth from Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa.
Sunday's race - set to be attended by more than 100,000 people - is live on the BBC Sport website and Radio 5 live Sports Extra.
Neither Mercedes driver improved on their final runs as Vettel, who until then had been more than half a second behind, got closer than he has managed all season.
But Hamilton and Rosberg had done enough with their first laps, which were 0.4secs quicker than anyone else at the time.
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It was exactly what Hamilton wanted as he seeks to close a still-significant gap on Rosberg in the championship after a difficult start to the season.
His Monaco win cut his deficit to 24 points - but that is still nearly a complete win behind.
Wet weather is predicted for the race on Sunday as a summer chill hits Montreal and that is both an opportunity and a risk for the Briton.
He excels in wet conditions, but the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a semi-street track on a man-made island in the middle of the forbidding St Lawrence Seaway, is treacherous in good weather and more difficult again when it rains.
"It doesn't matter how far you are ahead as long as you are ahead," said Hamilton after qualifying. "In practice it was a much bigger gap. Today I didn't have the pace I had yesterday, but clearly it was enough."
Just like Vettel, Ricciardo also saved his best for last - 0.091secs behind his 18-year-old team-mate after their first runs, the Australian pushed to the edge and beyond on his final lap to assert his superiority.
Ricciardo, who clouted the wall on the exit of the notorious final chicane on his quickest lap, is determined to have a good race in Canada after being robbed of victories in both the last two races by team strategy and pit-stop errors.
However, Carlos Sainz, driving for Red Bull's junior team Toro Rosso, shattered his car against the 'wall of champions' final chicane during the second session, ending his hopes of making the top 10 shootout.
At the tail end of the top 10, Fernando Alonso has now made it into Q3 for McLaren-Honda for three races in a row and will line up behind Force India's Nico Hulkenberg.
The Spaniard's team-mate Jenson Button was 12th, just under 0.2secs adrift of Alonso when it mattered after an impressive weekend to that point.
Button said the difference between them was that Alonso had benefited from a "tow" - being in his slipstream - on the decisive lap. But a mistake by the Englishman - when he locked up at the hairpin and lost time - may not have helped either, although he claimed that he actually gained time there on his final lap despite that.
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Gunfire was heard on Friday morning at the wall - one of Judaism's holiest sites where hundreds of worshippers were attending prayers at the time.
Police say the guard shot the man after hearing him shout "Allahu Akbar".
The area, which is patrolled by armed guards, closed to visitors for about an hour but has now reopened.
The incident took place at about 07:40 local time (04:40 GMT) as the man emerged from a public toilet at the wall compound.
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A police spokesman said the guard drew his weapon and fired a number of shots at the man after hearing him shout "Allahu Akbar" (God is great, in Arabic).
The man had his hands in his pockets at the time he was approached by the guard, the spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said.
The Western Wall is part of the Temple Mount (known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif). It is venerated by Jews as a remnant from the complex which housed the Jewish temple until 70AD.
Jews go to the Western Wall to pray and leave prayers on pieces of paper between its ancient stones.
The site and the area around it has in the past been a flashpoint for violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
The building in the Nottinghamshire village - historically connected to the fictional Gotham City - closed amid financial problems and is up for sale.
Campaigners are raising money to buy it and hope Batman fans will aid them.
"We all need a superhero around occasionally, don't we?," said John Anderson, who is leading fundraising.
"We are likely to be up against the big bidders, but this is worth fighting for," continued Mr Anderson, chairman of the Gotham & District Community Venture committee.
"It would be fantastic to hear from any American friends of Gotham who might also invest in this exciting venture."
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The building was built for the Royal British Legion in 1966, but closed in January.
Rushcliffe Borough Council designated the site as an Asset of Community Value in July, allowing villagers extra time to find money for their venture.
They have already attracted more than £100,000 in pledges from residents, but are now looking for investment from beyond Gotham.
"It went on the market for £210,000 but we think we need to raise a bit more than that because it's a popular site to buy," said Mr Anderson.
Their plan, dubbed Destination Gotham, would see the creation of an expanded shop on the site, as well as a community-run café and visitor hub where the village archives can be stored and displayed.
Steve Smith, from the Gotham Geeks Podcast, thinks the appeal could work.
"I think that comic fans take their community seriously and I think if they have the opportunity to help the town that gave such an important piece of the Batman universe its name, especially with all the press about Bill Finger lately, they'd absolutely be willing to help," he said.
"The power of social media is incredible and if fans heard about something like this, they'd be willing to help out."
The African Green Revolution Forum focused on delivering agriculture-led economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
It was looking to build on an African Union declaration to double food productivity and halve poverty by 2025.
More than 1,000 delegates, including heads of state, business leaders and scientists, attended the conference.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) president Kanayo Nwanze told the Forum: "Whenever I speak on the topic of agriculture in Africa, I am filled with pride and fear.
"Pride, because our continent has achieved so much in recent years, and because it has the most extraordinary potential.
"And fear, because there is a very real danger that it will not fulfil this potential."
He observed that despite a bourgeoning middle-class in the continent, efforts to stem poverty and chronic hunger were "failing abysmally".
He told delegates that while many African economies were growing, it was on the back of a boom in extractive industries, such as oil and diamonds.
"Extractive industries do not yield jobs and income for Africa's poor and hungry," he said.
"I am proud that many African nations are becoming economic powerhouses, but without a viable agricultural sector and strong rural economy, I do not see a viable future for Africa."
'Rapid change'
Recently, the African Union - to coincide with its year of agriculture and food security - adopted the Malabo Declaration, which included a call for a greater effort to accelerate agricultural growth.
Ousmane Badiane, Africa director for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said the Forum was a timely opportunity for key stakeholders to come together to share ideas to move the continent's agricultural sector forward.
"This Forum occurred in a time of rapid change around us," he told BBC News.
"The private sector is very eager to engage, and farmers, local communities and governments would also like to engage.
"Having a place where they can come and meet, discuss and exchange ideas… is extremely important, and to sustain economic recovery through agriculture."
Dr Badiane was also a member of the Montpellier Panel - a group of African and European experts from the fields of agriculture, trade, ecology and global development - which presented a report at the Forum, arguing that investment in rural and food sector entrepreneurship would deliver jobs and wealth for Africa's poorest communities as well as deliver food security.
Challenges ahead
Elizabeth Wilson, adviser to Ireland-based charity Small Foundation and associate fellow at UK-based think-tank Chatham House, also attended the Forum.
She said: "AGRF is important because it combines high-level dialogue and cutting-edge information exchange with practical peer networking to work towards an African green revolution."
But she cautioned: "African countries face many challenges in improving national and regional food security.
"African farmers - most of whom are smallholder farmers with less than two hectares of land - often face very tough production conditions."
Ms Wilson told BBC News these included a lack of access to quality certified seeds and fertilisers, and pests and diseases.
Dr Badiane also highlighted the fact that farmers did not have access to much-needed training to develop their skills and knowledge.
"It is a fact that in most African countries you will not find the institutional infrastructure for people who would like to embrace farming and to get trained or to strengthen their skills in order to be a modern farmer," he said.
"If there was one thing for nations to do, it would be to find a way of mainstreaming access to vocational and professional training."
But the continent's farmers were a source of huge potential, he added: "In Africa, the future colour of gold is green - it's agriculture."
Ms Wilson agreed that there was "significant reason for optimism".
"If African leaders deliver on the increased political will of 2014 - creating a conducive policy environment needed for food production and agri-business to thrive - the African continent could not only meet its own food needs, but also become a major food exporter."
Installed on millions of PCs, the TeamViewer software lets people access a machine via the web.
Reports of attacks on TeamViewer users grew sharply last week, as many shared their experiences via social media.
TeamViewer said the attacks used credentials found in giant caches of data stolen from other companies.
Many people have taken to Reddit and Twitter to report their machines have been remotely penetrated by hackers abusing TeamViewer accounts.
In some cases, victims said they had lost cash from bank accounts accessible via the compromised computer.
TeamViewer blamed "unprecedented large scale data thefts on popular social media platforms and other web service providers" for the series of attacks.
During the past two weeks, hundreds of millions of hacked account details from MySpace, Tumblr and other companies have been offered for sale online.
TeamViewer said it was likely passwords stolen in those "mega-breaches" that had also been used for TeamViewer accounts were helping cyber-thieves win access to users' computers.
"They have taken advantage of common use of the same account information across multiple services to cause damage," it said.
In an interview with Ars Technica, a spokesman for the company said it had seen a "significant" number of accounts taken over but declined to give exact figures.
The spokesman denied claims the hacks were taking place because attackers had managed to penetrate its network and steal login names and passwords.
In response to the continuing attacks, TeamViewer has set up a system that will log which devices people use for the service and require them to confirm access from a new machine or device.
It said it was also introducing monitoring systems that would seek to spot when a TeamViewer account showed "unusual behaviour".
TeamViewer said users might experience "minor inconveniences" as it set up the security systems.
It added users should chose hard-to-guess passwords and set up two-factor authentication for their accounts to thwart attackers.
Paul Ducklin, writing on the Sophos security blog, recommended users set up TeamViewer to ask for approval before allowing access to a remote machine.
"That's a simple and effective way to prevent crooks from wandering in while you aren't there," he said.
Charlotte Bevan, who had schizophrenia, walked out of St Michael's Hospital in Bristol last December with her daughter Zaani Tiana Bevan-Malbrouck.
Their bodies were found days later at the bottom of Avon Gorge.
In a narrative conclusion, Avon Coroner Maria Voisin said Ms Bevan had suffered an "undiagnosed psychotic relapse".
Mrs Voisin said health professionals treating Ms Bevan, who had a history of mental illness, should have organised a multi-disciplinary meeting about her care and a proper post-birth plan of action had not been put in place.
"Once Charlotte gave birth her mental health began to deteriorate and she suffered a relapse which should have been diagnosed and managed appropriately," the coroner said.
"That failure was contributed by the fact there was no care plan.
"Charlotte was very unwell when she left the hospital unnoticed with her daughter and went to the cliff top at Avon Gorge.
"Her intention is unclear but she was found dead at the base of the cliff.
"That chain of failures contributed to Charlotte's death. Zaani's death was contributed to by a chain of failures in her mother's care."
Mrs Voisin added she would be making a Prevention of Further Deaths order to NHS England and other commissioning groups requiring them to respond outlining what action will be taken.
She also intends to seek answers about the provision of mental health services for pregnant women.
The inquest previously heard Ms Bevan, who was 30, had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act four times.
She had stopped taking anti-psychotic medication during her pregnancy over fears she would not be able to breastfeed but later agreed to start taking the drug again after giving birth, when fears about her mental state were raised by doctors.
But an independent expert said by that time it was too late as she had already relapsed.
Ms Bevan and Zaani Tiana vanished from hospital on the evening of 2 December and were caught on CCTV leaving the hospital.
Their bodies were found close to Clifton Suspension Bridge over the following two days.
Speaking after the inquest, Ms Bevan's mother, Rachel Fortune, said: "Following on from what has been said and heard in evidence, the family would urge the commissioners to fund a dedicated perinatal mental health service."
In a joint statement NHS England, Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group, University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust, and the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust, expressed their "deepest concerns" to Charlotte and Zaani's family.
"As a health community, we will act on the coroner's findings to ensure that mothers with mental health needs have access to the services and professionals they need to keep them and their babies safe during pregnancy and following the birth.
"We will now consider the coroner's conclusions and recommendations very carefully to see what other actions we can take to improve services for vulnerable mothers, their babies and their wider family."
The latest two-day strike comes as the deadlock between the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (Siptu) and tram operator Transdev continues.
A deal brokered at the Workplace Relations Commission was rejected by workers.
Another two days of industrial action is scheduled for later in April.
Said Jamal, 15, arrived in the UK and settled in Rotherham, South Yorkshire about four years ago.
He played school rugby and at Dearne Valley Bulldogs before being spotted by Super League team Castleford Tigers.
"It's not an easy thing for a person like me to get into this level", the teenager said.
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"It means nothing is impossible, you can do everything you want."
Said is playing for the West Yorkshire club's youth academy side as a full-back and has ambitions to play the game as a professional.
Off the pitch Said wants to become a cardiologist.
He has already made an appearance at one of rugby league's biggest games - the Grand Final at Old Trafford.
In his Dearne Valley Bulldogs strip he carried the ball out to the referee before kick-off at the 2016 Wigan v Warrington final.
"To be in that dream was a great feeling. It will motivate me," he said.
He was 12 when he joined the community club, based at Bolton upon Dearne, near Barnsley, and very soon he was captaining the team despite the language difficulties.
"It was a different environment for me and I couldn't speak properly but I really enjoyed it."
"For me it's a family, the support from everyone is incredible", Said added.
Duncan Henderson, his coach at Deane Valley, said : "He has gone through a real tough time in Afghanistan, things you can't imagine.
"He lost a lot of his family out there, including his father and some siblings, through the Taliban attacks."
"I am immensely proud of his success, it is thoroughly deserved."
Officers discovered the 42-year-old's body at the property in Greenend Avenue at about 10:45 on Saturday.
Detectives were treating the death as suspicious and said they believed there was a disturbance at the house at about 00:05, when someone came to the door.
They have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
A post-mortem examination was due to take place to establish the exact cause of death.
Det Insp Mark Henderson of Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team said: "The 42-year-old man was found with significant injuries and as such extensive police enquiries are ongoing to establish how he came about these injuries.
"We believe that there was a disturbance at the house around 0050 hrs on Saturday 25 February when a person or persons came to the door and I appeal to anyone who may have heard anything at this time or anyone who saw anyone hanging around Greenend Avenue to contact police at Govan via telephone number 101."
The Reds were punished after fans displayed an illicit banner and used fireworks, as well as scuffling with Sevilla supporters.
Sevilla were fined 17,000 euros (£14,242) for crowd disturbances and the throwing of objects.
Liverpool were beaten 3-1 as Sevilla retained their title in Basel.
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Matt Smith headed in Tom Cairney's corner just before half-time to condemn the Magpies, relegated from the Premier League last season, to defeat.
The visitors had strong claims for a penalty before Smith's goal but Ryan Tunnicliffe's handball went unpunished.
Fulham goalkeeper David Button saved twice from Matt Ritchie, one of five Newcastle debutants at Craven Cottage.
Manager Rafael Benitez has spent close to £45m on eight summer signings but winger Ritchie and £10m striker Dwight Gayle were largely stifled by a Fulham side which finished 20th in the Championship last term.
England international Jonjo Shelvey was among the substitutes thrown on by Benitez in an attempt to get something from the game, but the hosts held firm.
Fulham offered a threat going forward, despite the departures of prolific strike partners Ross McCormack and Moussa Dembele during the summer, with new arrivals Sone Aluko and Floyd Ayite linking up well with Smith in attack.
Aluko's appeals for a penalty after a possible push by Grant Hanley were ignored by referee Simon Hooper, while left-back Scott Malone fired just off target as Fulham chased a second goal.
Fulham head coach Slavisa Jokanovic told BBC Radio London: "My players were very organised, we stuck to the plan, we suffered together during the game and we deserve the good result.
"My job is here, and there are many big names like Newcastle, we're a big name too. It's an important competition with many clubs of big histories and both fans were really good tonight.
"This is only the start but we have to be ready for what comes next."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez told BBC Newcastle: "At the beginning we were nervous, in the second half we made the wrong decisions.
"It's a wake-up call. We will have games more difficult than this one.
"If we play for something more important than the first game of the season maybe the anxiety will be even higher, we need to make sure we can manage that and play better."
Ex-Newcastle and England midfielder Jermaine Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live: "Fulham thoroughly deserved it.
"They marshalled the game as they wanted it to go, they picked their opportunities to attack and Matt Smith was the match-winner.
"For Newcastle, it's back to the drawing board. It just didn't go their way."
Match ends, Fulham 1, Newcastle United 0.
Second Half ends, Fulham 1, Newcastle United 0.
Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card.
Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lasse Vigen Christensen (Fulham).
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dwight Gayle.
Attempt missed. Lasse Vigen Christensen (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Denis Odoi.
Offside, Newcastle United. Jamaal Lascelles tries a through ball, but Rolando Aarons is caught offside.
Substitution, Fulham. Tim Ream replaces Scott Malone.
Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Denis Odoi (Fulham).
Attempt missed. Adam Armstrong (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Jonjo Shelvey replaces Isaac Hayden.
Foul by Adam Armstrong (Newcastle United).
Scott Malone (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Floyd Ayité (Fulham) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Paul Dummett (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul Dummett (Newcastle United).
Denis Odoi (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Adam Armstrong replaces Ayoze Pérez.
Attempt missed. Scott Malone (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Floyd Ayité.
Substitution, Fulham. Scott Parker replaces Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Substitution, Fulham. Lasse Vigen Christensen replaces Matt Smith.
Grant Hanley (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dangerous play by Grant Hanley (Newcastle United).
David Button (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Denis Odoi (Fulham).
Attempt missed. Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tomas Kalas (Fulham).
Attempt saved. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Vurnon Anita.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Rolando Aarons replaces Jack Colback.
Attempt missed. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.
Foul by Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United).
Denis Odoi (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alain is from France and is known around the world as the 'French Spiderman' because of his exceptional climbing skills.
He's climbed some of the most famous buildings in the world, including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Keep an eye out for him because he'll be heading to CBBC screens on March 27, appearing on Super Human Challenge.
So how else could Nel interview the man, but while climbing up a wall!
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The Care Inspectorate said Law Nursery School in Lawside Road had "not maintained" the standard identified at a previous inspection.
The inspectorate noted that efforts had been made to improve some areas of concern.
The nursery is registered to care for a maximum of 70 children.
The report followed an unannounced visit in December 2015 which graded three areas as "weak".
These were care and support, management and leadership, and staffing.
Quality of environment was rated as "adequate".
In their report, the inspectors said: "The service had not maintained the standard identified at the last inspection.
"Several management changes have taken place, and the current head teacher only commenced in post in late October 2015.
"There was an upheld complaint about the service in June 2015 in relation to staff's approach to supporting children."
The inspection found that the children were "not fully engaged" indoors, but were seen to be "very engaged" in their outdoor play.
The report stated: "The indoor environment for the pre-school children could be developed further to offer a more challenging learning environment and be better supported by staff to extend their learning.
"We observed several examples of staff engaging with children in a manner which we did not feel respected the children or positively engaged with them."
"More work is required in relation to creating a more positive ethos across the team and service, to impact positively on outcomes for children.
A Care Inspectorate spokesperson said: "We have clearly laid out in our inspection report the areas which require improvement at Law Nursery School.
"We will continue to work closely with this nursery to support that improvement, and ensure it is sustained."
A spokesman for Dundee City Council said: "The nursery school and the children and families service will be taking forward the recommendations contained in the report."
The 24-year-old, who cannot be named until he enters his plea, is accused of raping the teenager in the toilets of a bar in Johannesburg.
Earlier in the week, the family of the alleged victim said that Mr Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, had sent her bodyguard to dissuade them from pressing charges.
The Mandela family has not commented.
Senior members of the Mandela family, including the former president's daughter Makaziwe Mandela, were in court during a brief hearing.
His bail application has been postponed until Tuesday, meaning he cannot legally be named until then.
He has been in custody since his arrest on Saturday.
The BBC understands that he will argue that it was consensual sex and he didn't know that his accuser was underage since the pub did not allow under-21s on its premises.
Under South African law, sex with someone under 16 is classed as rape whether consensual or not.
BBC Southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen says the family of South Africa's first black president have found themselves constantly in the public spotlight.
Just three months ago, another of his grandsons, Mandla Mandela, was given a suspended sentence after being convicted of assault, following an attack on a teacher after a road rage incident.
Despite a long-standing eradication programme, bovine TB still affects about 6% of cattle herds in Northern Ireland and it is on the rise.
When cattle get the disease, none of the herd can be moved off the farm unless it is to the abattoir.
Cattle that test positive are removed, culled and farmers are compensated.
There has been a long debate about the extent to which the disease in cattle is linked to badgers, which share a similar strain.
There is no definitive evidence of whether badgers infect cattle, or the other way round.
For the last year, Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture has been trapping and testing badgers in a 100sq km area between Banbridge and Rathfriland in County Down.
It is part of a five-year research and vaccination project.
Up until now, trapped badgers have been vaccinated and released. But, from this month, any badger that tests positive for bovine TB will be killed by lethal injection.
About 280 unique badgers were trapped last year.
The authorities will not yet say how many had bovine TB, but a separate roadkill survey shows that about 17% of the dead badgers tested had the disease.
Robert Newell farms 165 beef and dairy cattle in the County Down pilot area.
His beef herd contracted bovine TB last September. That means he has not been able to move any of his animals off the farm unless they are going to the abattoir.
He supports the targeted cull.
"I'm happy they're doing this, it's high time it was done," he said.
"We'd have a lot of badgers about the farm, a lot of them are healthy, but the odd one would be sick."
He said his beef calves that contracted Bovine TB were isolated from other cattle on the farm but were born and grazed in fields on which there are badger setts.
He believes they contracted it from the wildlife.
With the movement of animals restricted, Mr Newell has to hold extra stock on his farm. That means more food, housing and the renting of extra ground for grazing.
There is international interest in the project as it is different to what is happening across the UK and Ireland.
England is involved in a controversial cull with the free shooting of badgers. Wales has a vaccination only policy. Scotland is bovine TB free and the Republic of Ireland is culling badgers in disease hotspots.
Northern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey said understanding any linkage between bovine TB in badgers and cattle is a "very important piece of the jigsaw" and accepts that what Northern Ireland is doing is a form of "cull".
"It's consistent with what we're doing in cattle," he said.
"What we do with cattle is that we test and, if animals test positive, we remove. It's the exactly the same thing we're doing for the badgers. What I like is the consistency of the approach."
Northern Ireland's only badger lobby group is also supportive of the research pilot.
Peter Clarke of the NI Badger Group said they back it because it is based on science rather than the "Gatling gun" approach that was taken in England.
He said the scheme is "proportionate, has buy-in from everyone and at the end of the day, what we all want is healthy cattle and healthy badgers".
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Manuel Pellegrini's side beat West Ham to seal their fourth English league title on the final day of the season.
"Big teams cannot be satisfied with one title," said Pellegrini. "This club and players deserve more titles."
"The best team always wins the league over the course of 38 games. Manchester City timed their run at the season's climax absolutely perfectly. Everybody has played extremely well and everybody was fit at vital times."
Captain Vincent Kompany added: "We are not a team that wins trophies every now and again. If you want to be a big club this must be one of so many."
At the start of March, City had already won the Capital One Cup, and were in contention for four trophies before defeats by Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League and Wigan in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
The quadruple may have eluded him in his first season in English football, but the Chilean felt his side's fightback to pip Liverpool to the title may not have happened if they had stayed in every competition.
"It has been a brilliant season," added Pellegrini. "We were involved in all four competitions for longer than any other English team, and we won two of them as well so I am very happy.
"It was a disappointment to go out of Europe when we did and the Wigan defeat was tough to bear.
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"But when you consider that we played 14 or 15 games more than Liverpool in the entire season then maybe if we had gone further than we did, I would not be sitting here speaking about winning the Premier League."
Pellegrini feels the keys to their title triumph were his players' trust in his attacking approach that helped them score 102 league goals, and also the fact they did not give up after what looked a decisive defeat against Liverpool last month.
"There were two key moments in the season," he added. "One of them was at the beginning of the season when we had just four points from our first six away games. That is not too many points for a team that wants to win the title.
Four managers have won the league title for Manchester City. They are Wilf Wild, Joe Mercer, Roberto Mancini and Pellegrini
"At that moment, I spoke to the players and they said they believed in the way we were working, and that we should continue playing in the same way.
"I felt that too, because I did not think we had deserved to lose those points. From that moment until the end of the season I think we are the team that has taken more points playing away, so it was very important to carry on playing that way.
"The second moment was after the Liverpool game, when we did not deserve to lose 3-2.
"We never gave up hope that Liverpool could also lose points. We struggled in a difficult game against Sunderland straight afterwards when we could only draw, so it was not the best week but the team was never resigned to losing and we won our last five games to show our character."
Pellegrini gave credit to his predecessor Roberto Mancini, who was manager when they won the FA Cup in 2011 and the title in 2012, for ending the club's 35-year wait for a major trophy but said he had stamped his own style on the squad he inherited.
"We changed absolutely everything about the way this team plays," he explained.
"It was very important to have the trust of the players when I changed from the way they played before. It was not easy. Maybe if I had not won the title, it would have been a very good reason because it was my first year in the Premier League and I had to change a lot of things.
Ex-Liverpool & England striker Michael Owen: "Well deserved. It has been a pleasure to watch in one of the best title races in recent memory."
Former Man City & Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann: "They showed class and mental toughness throughout the season. Liverpool did themselves proud, just fell short."
Ex-England captain Gary Lineker: "Much credit must go to Manuel Pellegrini. Living proof that you can be a gentleman, play attractive attacking football and be a winner."
"But during the whole season I never wanted to have an excuse. I just tried to play in the way I think this team must play, and it has been a season that everybody has enjoyed - the fans, players and me also."
City will parade their trophies on an open-top bus tour around Manchester on Monday evening before the whole squad flies to Abu Dhabi on Tuesday to meet the club's billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour.
By then City are likely to have learned their punishment from Uefa for breaching financial fair play regulations, with the club facing a possible £50m fine and other sanctions.
"It is very important to celebrate but we will start working for the next season on Tuesday," added Pellegrini.
"Now that we have won the title we are going to do a balance of the year, and look at the positive and negative things and where we can improve the squad.
"As a big team, that is the way we must continue thinking.
"It was a beautiful season but you always need to continue winning and continue improving. We will start working as soon as possible to be the strongest team next year."
The Shrewsbury 24 document was handed in to 10 Downing Street by union leaders and Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson - one of the 24.
The group was accused of intimidating workers and violent picketing in Telford, Shropshire, in 1972.
They want documents relating to the case to be released.
Steve Murphy, general secretary of construction union Ucatt, said the petition was "outstanding".
"It demonstrates the determination of the pickets to win justice and also the public's support for their cause," he said.
"Parliament now has a moral duty to debate the case and the government must come clean and publish all the papers relating to the pickets' case."
The pickets were arrested five months after the 1972 building workers' strike and charged under the 1875 Conspiracy Act.
Six were sent to prison, including Mr Tomlinson.
Eileen Turnbull, the campaign group's researcher, said: "We are delighted with the progress we are making and we are convinced that the unjust convictions will be overturned."
Rail Maritime and Transport union leader Bob Crow said: "It is clear that there was a conspiracy at the highest level in 1972 to blacklist and fit up trade union activists and it is time for all the papers to be released and for those that were wrongly imprisoned to be given justice at last."
The Black Cats took the lead when Robert Huth turned a corner into his own net midway through the second half.
And before Leicester could mount a response, David Moyes' side added a second when Jermain Defoe drove in after Duncan Watmore's shot was blocked.
Substitute Shinji Okazaki flicked Demarai Gray's cross in at the near post to set up a tense finish, but Sunderland held on.
The result moves them up to 18th and within two points of the Foxes, who are yet to win away in the league this season.
Leicester are in real danger of becoming involved in a relegation battle and their return of 13 points is the worst record after 14 games of any defending champions in Premier League history.
Two wins from their three games prior to the visit of Leicester had given Sunderland fans some hope that their side have turned the corner under Moyes.
They lost in their previous outing - a 2-0 defeat at Liverpool after which Reds boss Jurgen Klopp said the Black Cats were the most defensive team he had ever seen.
However, they looked nothing of the sort against Leicester, attacking with pace and intent. Victor Anichebe - reborn under Moyes - has forged an impressive partnership with Defoe and the continuation of that will be crucial to Sunderland's hopes of climbing out of the relegation zone.
And the club's players also appear to have developed a strong team spirit, something that was exemplified in the final few seconds of the game as they threw themselves in front of the ball in a tense scramble before Jordan Pickford superbly punched away Wes Morgan's goal-bound shot.
This time last year, Vardy was being congratulated on social media by Ruud van Nistelrooy for breaking the Dutchman's record of scoring in 10 consecutive Premier League games.
Fast forward to today and the striker's form has dipped dramatically - his blank against Sunderland was his 16th game for Leicester without scoring.
Vardy got into good positions against the Black Cats. He was unlucky with a clever cushioned header that landed on the roof of the net and also nodded just wide from dangerous Marc Albrighton cross. However, the England international is not getting the service he enjoyed in an electric 2015-16 campaign.
During Leicester's title-winning season he linked up superbly with Riyad Mahrez, but the pair have rarely been on the same wavelength this season. Mahrez has found Vardy with just three passes in their past nine games and only once did the two combine against Sunderland.
There were suggestions that Ranieri was considering dropping Vardy for the Sunderland game and another match without scoring may increase the threat to his place in the side.
Sunderland boss David Moyes: "If we can win another three out of four we will be in a really good position. We are playing better and the team is getting better.
"We're much more of an attacking looking side now. We have got more options to attack and we have actually started to defend better."
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Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "We did our best today, but it wasn't enough. We have to keep working hard in training and trust the bad moment will turn.
"From the own goal you can see the luck is not with us - but we have to stay compact, stay together and react strongly."
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It is a big game at the bottom of the table for Sunderland as they head to Swansea on 10 December (15:00 GMT kick-off).
Leicester, meanwhile, travel to Portugal to play Porto in their final Champions League group game on Wednesday (19:45). The Foxes are already through the knockout stage, so their focus is more likely to be on next Saturday's home game against Manchester City (17:30).
Match ends, Sunderland 2, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Sunderland 2, Leicester City 1.
Victor Anichebe (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Attempt saved. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Danny Simpson (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Billy Jones.
Didier Ndong (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).
Attempt blocked. Ahmed Musa (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Andy King (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Danny Simpson (Leicester City) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Victor Anichebe (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Patrick van Aanholt.
Attempt missed. Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Sunderland. Javier Manquillo replaces Duncan Watmore because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Duncan Watmore (Sunderland) because of an injury.
Christian Fuchs (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Duncan Watmore (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Christian Fuchs (Leicester City).
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Andy King.
Attempt blocked. Victor Anichebe (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Sunderland 2, Leicester City 1. Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Demarai Gray with a cross.
Attempt saved. Robert Huth (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Fuchs with a cross.
Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland).
Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Sunderland 2, Leicester City 0. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Duncan Watmore (Sunderland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Victor Anichebe.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Marc Albrighton.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt missed. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez following a set piece situation.
Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Azhar's 469-ball innings in Dubai lasted 11 hours and included 23 fours and three sixes.
Only Hanif Mohammad (337), Inzamam ul-Haq (329) and Younus Khan (313) have scored more for Pakistan in a Test.
In only the second day-night Test, Pakistan made 579-3 declared, with West Indies 69-1 at the close of day two.
Pakistan are second in the Test rankings, behind India, following a 2-2 draw in the summer series against England.
They have beaten West Indies 3-0 in both the one-day and Twenty20 international series.
BBC Sport's Kalika Mehta in Dubai:
Azhar Ali's almost faultless innings showcased why the 31-year-old is considered one of the leading candidates to take over the Test captaincy when Misbah-ul-Haq departs.
Although the pitch was as flat as they come, Azhar's concentration and watchfulness was matched by the occasional flurry as he amassed just the fourth triple century by a Pakistan player.
Azhar's stock has been steadily rising following his 139 against England at Edgbaston and it is easy to see why.
The image, one of three taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, shows the Queen surrounded by her five great-grandchildren and her two youngest grandchildren.
Viscount Severn is the younger child of Edward and Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The couple decided to give their children the courtesy titles as sons or daughters of an earl, rather than the style prince or princess. It is thought this decision was made to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.
Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
Mia Tindall was born in January 2014. She is the daughter of the Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall and former England rugby player Mike Tindall.
Princess Charlotte is the daughter of William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. She was born in May 2015. She is fourth in line to the throne and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.
Savannah is the eldest daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.
Prince George of Cambridge was born in July 2013. The eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, he is third in line to the throne, after his grandfather and father. His full name is George Alexander Louis.
Isla is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips. Her father is the son of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.
The minutes from the September meeting showed members felt the problems in the global economy had not "materially altered" the outlook for the US.
However, the members of the Federal Open Markets Committee decided it was "prudent to wait" for more information before raising rate from near zero.
Some feared that a premature rate hike could harm the Fed's credibility.
Policymakers wanted confirmation the US economy had not weakened and that inflation would gradually return toward the Fed's 2% annual target.
Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said: "Simply put, the Fed still doesn't have enough confidence that the economy will remain strong enough to return inflation to the target to begin the tightening process."
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both rose 0.5% following the release of the minutes, while yields on US government debt edged lower.
The minutes showed that most policymakers still thought it would be appropriate to raise rates by the end of the year.
However, many investors think there is almost no chance of a rate rise at the Fed's next meeting on 27-28 October and only a small chance of an increase at its December meeting.
"I believe the jobs report makes an October rate hike out of the question, but if we have some strong employment reports before the December meeting, then a case could still be made from a December rate increase," said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University.
Postponing the rate rise may make it harder for regulators to act before 2015 is out.
Revised employment data from August and September showed that private sector hiring was lower than anticipated.
Wage growth has also stagnated, raising concerns about the Fed's ability to maintain its target inflation rate.
An increase from near-zero has been anticipated for months, but slow growth in the first quarter deterred the Fed from making a move in June.
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The Syrian American Medical Society, which supports the hospital, said it had been struck by barrel bombs.
There are also reports of Russian-backed Syrian government forces hitting Aleppo's historic Old City.
Clashes between government troops and rebels are occurring in several areas.
Russian and Syrian air forces resumed attacks on the rebel-held east of the city after a partial truce lapsed on 19 September. Government forces have also launched a ground offensive against the rebels.
The mounting civilian death toll has sparked international protests. The US says Russia is driving moderate rebels into the arms of jihadists.
Once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, Aleppo has been divided roughly in two since 2012.
The UN says at least 400 civilians, including many children, have been killed in the city this week as a result of Russian and Syrian government attacks.
On Saturday, air raids hit Aleppo's main trauma M10 hospital for the third time in a matter of days, medical workers say.
"The hospital is now out of service completely," radiologist Mohammad Abu Rajab was quoted by Reuters as saying.
"There's destruction to walls, infrastructure, equipment and generators. There are no more guards or staff left. It's complete darkness."
Hospital manager Dr Abu Rajan told local media that about 10 people at the hospital had been injured after it was hit by barrel bombs - improvised devices dropped from helicopters - cluster munitions, and a chlorine bomb.
Two patients were killed, while others have now been transferred to alternative facilities, the Syrian American Medical Society said.
A spokesman for US President Barack Obama condemned the bombing, which he said showed "total disregard" for medical professionals and patients.
"Reports of yet another hospital being destroyed further demonstrates the total disregard for the lives of medical professionals and their patients who need critical care because of the Assad regime and Russia's relentless campaign against the Syrian people."
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also condemned the bombing, saying the shelling of healthcare structures and personnel constituted war crimes - and the perpetrators would have to be held to account.
The Syrian army says it is gaining ground but the rebels deny this.
"They are shelling the Old City heavily after another failed attempt to gain ground," Abu Hamam, from the Failaq al-Sham group, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
"They have lost several fighters and we are steadfast."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, also reported government barrel bomb and jet attacks on the Ghouta area outside Damascus on Saturday.
In another development, it said government forces were battling fighters from the Islamic State group in Homs region.
Washington and Moscow have continued to spar over Syria, with the US dismissing Russian accusations that it was protecting a jihadist group in its bid to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to separate the powerful Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) and other extremist groups from more moderate rebels.
State department spokesman Mark Toner said the Russian allegations were "absurd".
He told reporters the US had not targeted al-Nusra for months because they had become "intermingled" with other groups and civilians.
At least 250,000 people have been killed in the conflict since it began in March 2011 with the Observatory estimating the true number to be about 430,000.
More than 4.8 million people have fled abroad, and an estimated 6.5 million others have been displaced within the country, the UN says.
The popular Caterpillar programme on Italy's Rai 2 network is gathering signatures to present to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in February.
The presenters describe the humble two-wheeler as an "instrument of peace".
They say the bicycle does not cause wars - often fought over oil.
The bike "is the most democratic means of transport available to humanity", say Caterpillar's hosts Massimo Cirri and Sara Zambotti.
They add that each kilometre pedalled generates a benefit to society of €0.16 (30.12; $0.17), compared with the social costs of using a car.
The lack of pollution and markedly fewer road casualties caused by cycles are also cited, along with the way cycles help children develop independence and bring people closer together.
The petition's proponents use the example of Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali, who ferried counterfeit documents by bike to save Jews during World War Two, as an example of how the cycle aids "liberation and resistance".
The plan is to deliver the completed petition to the Nobel Committee by bike relay.
The petition has been launched amid a surge in the popularity of cycling - in sport, leisure and for commuting in cities.
Recent Nobel Peace Prize winners include President Obama, the European Union, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Chinese human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo.
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Kendall played for the Toffees and managed them on three occasions, with his first spell in charge being the most successful in the club's history.
He led the side to two First Division titles, as well as an FA Cup triumph and European Cup Winners' Cup win.
In a managerial career of more than 700 games, Kendall also took charge of Blackburn, Manchester City, Notts County and Sheffield United.
Born in County Durham, Kendall played over 100 times for his first club Preston North End, becoming the youngest player to play in a Wembley FA Cup final aged 17 years and 345 days in 1964.
He joined Everton in 1967, losing another FA Cup final in 1968, before the Toffees won the First Division title two seasons later.
He made more than 200 appearances for the club, who described him as "one of the greatest players to pull on the Everton jersey". He also played for Birmingham, Stoke and Blackburn.
Kendall's first managerial job was at Ewood Park, before moving to Everton in 1981.
He led the Merseyside club to the league title in 1985 and 1987, plus FA Cup victory in 1984. The club also won the European Cup Winners' Cup the following season.
"Everton won't be the same without Howard," former Toffees midfielder Peter Reid told BBC Radio 5 live.
"His dressing room was lively, when you were winning and even more when you were losing.
"A great person. Very astute and a great man-manager, and just a fantastic man. I'm devastated - he was my friend as well as my boss."
Former Everton and England striker Gary Lineker said: "Brilliantly managed the best club side I ever played for at Everton. Great bloke."
Current Everton manager Roberto Martinez added: "The relationship with the crowd and the high standard he set - he brought belief that anything could be achieved.
"He put Everton on the highest step in European football in the 80s. For anyone who is representing Everton today, we have to be up at that level. It needs to be a special occasion for Howard."
After Everton, Kendall went to Spain to manage Athletic Bilbao, before returning to England at Manchester City, followed by his second stint at Goodison Park.
He had short spells at Notts County and Sheffield United, before his final time at Everton between 1997 and 1998, his last managerial job.
In a statement, Everton said Kendall passed away in hospital in Southport, surrounded by loved ones.
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Former Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall: "A great manager an even greater man. Whatever I did was solely down to him. Gentleman, friend, mentor. Will miss him. Gutted."
Former Everton midfielder Kevin Sheedy: "So privileged to have played for Everton's most successful manager. Absolutely devastated at this sad news. RIP boss."
Former Liverpool defender and boyhood Evertonian Jamie Carragher: "RIP Howard Kendall the greatest Everton manager there has been. He gave me some of my best football memories especially in the 84/85 season."
Former Liverpool player and manager Kenny Dalglish: "Very, very sad news about Howard Kendall. Total respect for him as a player manager and person. Fantastic character. Be sadly missed. A legend."
Former Liverpool managerRoy Evans: "I always thought he would have made a really good England manager, Howard, but not an FA man. Even though he was a blue he was a great friend over many years, and it's a sad, sad loss for lots of people and certainly for the Everton fans who adored Howard."
Former Manchester City player Paul Lake: "A sad day. Howard Kendall was a hugely intelligent and inspirational man who had a knack of bringing people together. He'll be sorely missed."
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, who started his career at Everton, said: "It was very sad news. I spoke to Duncan [Ferguson] this morning about it. It's a sad day for Everton. I'm sure everyone at the club feels it, and I'd like to pass on my condolences to Howard's family."
Shadow Home Secretary, MP for Leigh and Everton fan Andy Burnham: "Struggling with awful news that the finest manager in our history, the great Howard Kendall, has passed on. Thanks for the memories, Howard."
"Howard Kendall's greatness stretched across Everton's generations - as part of the midfield 'Holy Trinity' with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey in the 1969-70 title-winning side to his status as the club's most successful manager," said BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty.
"Kendall presided over a remarkable transformation in Everton's fortunes, taking a club on its knees at the end of 1983 to the finest in Europe only 18 months later after winning the FA Cup in 1984 and the title and European Cup Winners' Cup in 1985.
"He was admired by both Everton and Liverpool fans alike as a man who lived life to the full and the emotions on show at Goodison Park on Saturday will be testimony to his stature."
"As a manager Howard was so forward-thinking in his day. What he achieved typified what he was about," said former Everton defender Kevin Ratcliffe, who captained the Blues under Kendall.
"He was at Everton to win things and he did it.
"His training methods were absolutely fantastic, and pre-season meant we never got injuries in training.
"He made it a joy to attend training every day - you loved going in.
"If Howard had stayed at Everton then I think the club would have dominated in the 1980 and 90s."
The Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 35, called the Magicians, is the first such unit.
It will have eight manned helicopters and 10 Fire Scout MQ-8B unmanned helicopters for tracking targets.
The Obama administration has expanded use of drones in counter-terrorism operations overseas.
At an inauguration ceremony at the Naval Air Station North Island at Coronado, California, Vice Adm David Buss said the new squadron "points toward the future for our naval aviation forces".
"The actions today represent a clear line dividing what naval aviation once was and what it will be," he said.
Over the summer the squadron's first task will be to undergo training and develop operational guidelines.
Squadron Cdr Christopher Hewlett, who will oversee about 140 sailors, said the drones would eventually be armed.
The Fire Scout drones are expected to deploy off a new line of ships designed to operate in shallow coastal waters, called littoral combat ships, which are to be launched in the Pacific next year.
The drones can be controlled by two "pilots" up to 110 miles (177km) away and fly for at least eight hours.
The high-speed littoral combat ships can operate at shallow depths and access waters that few other ships can, Vice Adm Buss said.
The unmanned aircraft, which can operate autonomously, can provide real-time information to servicemen by travelling over dangerous areas, officials said.
One could, for example, hover above a target and maintain contact while helicopter crews returned to re-arm or gather more troops, they said.
In spring 2012 Fire Scout drones were grounded after two unrelated crashes in the same week, the Navy Times reported.
The US has acknowledged its use of drones for targeted killings of militants, and drones have reportedly been used in Pakistan and Yemen. In February it was revealed that the CIA had been operating a drone in Saudi Arabia.
US officials insist strikes by the unmanned aircraft rarely claim civilian casualties and are an effective weapon against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The items were discovered in Galloway in 2014 by a metal detectorist.
Dumfries and Galloway Council wants to see them given a permanent home in Kirkcudbright.
It is in talks with National Museums Scotland (NMS) about a joint bid to secure the hoard and now plans to lobby MSPs to bring the treasure to the area.
Councillors were given an update on the situation at a meeting this week.
The local authority has already put £100,000 towards securing the hoard but it has been estimated total costs could be up to £1m.
The final decision on where the artefacts end up lies with the Treasure Trove Panel.
The council said there remained "ambiguity" about how a partnership agreement with NMS might work.
Talks are ongoing about how much of the hoard might appear in the new gallery being built in Kirkcudbright at any one time.
Responsibility for transporting the treasure between locations is also still under discussion.
Communities committee chairman Tom McAughtrie said the council would do everything it could to keep the treasure in the region.
"We've always maintained that the hoard was found in Galloway, so it should remain in Galloway," he said.
"A partnership agreement would allow this to happen, but we're still in negotiations with our colleagues from NMS to reach a deal that's of utmost benefit to our council, and to the people of Kirkcudbright.
"This hoard will bring in thousands of visitors each year to the region, so it is vital we do all we can to secure some sort of hold on the hoard."
He said they were now set to start a lobbying campaign to try to secure the hoard.
A further update on the position is expected before the council in March.
The new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh was originally due to open in autumn 2017.
The date was then pushed back to February 2018.
Now officials have confirmed it will be after Easter before they begin moving all 14 departments from Sciennes over to the new building at Little France on the outskirts of the capital.
An NHS Lothian spokeswoman said: "We are revising our internal staff moving dates to ensure that all services move in a safe and effective manner.
"We anticipate the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Department for Clinical Neurosciences and Child & Adolescents Mental Health Services will open to patients in spring 2018.
"However, until we have the revised migration timetable agreed these dates cannot be confirmed.
"This is a huge project and it's vital that the building is fully operational before it opens to ensure we provide the best possible care to all our patients.
"Staff are being kept up-to-date with any developments on moving dates."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "NHS Lothian have made us aware of the situation and we are continuing to liaise with them to ensure everything possible is being done to ensure the new hospital opens as soon as possible."
Cumbria Police were called shortly after 16:30 BST to the crash which involved two vehicles.
A police spokesman said the A66 between Brough and the Kemplay roundabout is expected to be closed for some time and he urged motorists to avoid the route.
Meanwhile, seventeen people were injured after a coach and another vehicle collided in Tebay at 17:00 BST.
The spokesman said none of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening although the A685 was also closed.
A nine-month investigative report by the Indianapolis Star newspaper has just been published, and the scope of its claims is startling.
After reviewing hundreds of police files and court cases, the paper says "at least" 368 American gymnasts have made allegations of sexual abuse in the past 20 years.
The report claims 115 adults "at every level of the sport" are implicated in the abuse.
Dr Larry Nassar, who used to work for the body that governs US gymnastics, is the subject of two separate lawsuits alleging sexual abuse - which he denies.
And USA Gymnastics has itself been accused of failing to protect athletes.
Meanwhile, the journalists who have been investigating for much of the year believe "there is still a lot more to come out".
In August, the Indianapolis Star published a story detailing allegations of sexual abuse committed by coaches working for USA Gymnastics. It claimed that the sporting body did not report allegations of abuse to relevant authorities.
Tim Evans, one of the journalists working on the paper's ongoing investigation, told BBC Sport they first heard details of the abuse in March.
"My colleague Marisa [Kwiatkowski] was looking at another case in basketball when it was suggested she look at gymnastics," he said.
"When that initial story was published we had three women call us and say that Dr Nassar did things to them. They did not know each other and their stories were almost identical.
"We spent a month or so investigating Nassar."
In September, former club gymnast Rachael Denhollander waived her right to anonymity and, in an interview with the Indy Star, detailed the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands Dr Nassar.
Speaking to BBC World Service's Sportshour programme, Denhollander said Dr Nassar allegedly sexually assaulted her during treatment for back and wrist injuries, despite her mother being in the room.
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She said: "He would position himself so she could not see what he was doing. The other dynamic is that he was very trusted. It was very difficult to reconcile the person he was supposed to be with what he was doing, so the only conclusion I could come to was that I must be making a mistake.
She added: "That the truth has not come out in the past 18 years is something that has haunted me. The only thing that I feel now is very deep grief. I did not feel the need to come forward publicly for myself - there is nothing I gain from this for myself.
"But to be able to see the other women have a voice, that is worth everything. That is more powerful a motivation than fear."
Dr Nassar has been accused of sexual assault in two lawsuits filed by two former US women gymnasts. He denies the claims. The pair are also suing USA Gymnastics because they claim its policies allowed the abuse to continue.
Lawyer John Manley is representing the two athletes.
He told Sportshour: "Our allegations are that US Gymnastics made a choice at the highest level to cover up for Dr Nassar and others, and sacrifice children.
"Case in point: they fired Nassar in early 2015 and they didn't tell anyone, including Michigan State University, where he was allowed to continue to see young girls as a doctor, even after US Gymnastics had terminated his services because they believed he was an abuser.
"That is a stunning revelation, but they kept it secret. The reason child sexual abuse flourishes is because of secrecy.
"Our goal for our clients is to get them justice, but it is also to fundamentally change the way elite sport does business in this country."
USA Gymnastics says it severed ties with Dr Nassar in 2015 when claims were brought to its attention. It denies that allegations of abuse were kept quiet in order to preserve the sport's reputation.
The organisation says it is "proud of the work it has done to address and guard against child sexual abuse" and has passed evidence on to the FBI.
USA Gymnastics was asked by BBC Sport whether its staff knew of Dr Nassar's alleged misconduct during the period he was employed.
It responded: "When USA Gymnastics learned of athlete concerns about Dr Nassar we immediately notified the FBI and relieved Nassar of any further assignments.
"Since then, we have co-operated with the FBI while the investigation has moved forward. Our support has and continues to include refraining from making further public statements or taking any other action that might interfere with the investigation. We are grateful to the athletes for coming forward to share their concerns."
Larry Nassar was a member of the USA Gymnastics medical staff from 1986 and team doctor for the women's team from 1996. He left the Indianapolis-based organisation in 2015.
He also worked with gymnasts at Michigan State University and has a website selling DVDs of rehabilitation programs for injured gymnasts.
He was arrested and charged on 21 November for alleged criminal sexual conduct against a child, who was neither a gymnast nor a patient. The abuse is alleged to have taken place at his Michigan home.
Others have alleged that they were sexually assaulted by him, including patients at Michigan State University. The university confirmed to the BBC that its police are currently investigating about 50 complaints.
Dr Nassar's lawyer Matt Newburg told the BBC his firm was continuing a "review of the reports".
Nassar made his first court appearance this month. He faced three sexual assault charges against a girl under 13. He pleaded not guilty.
A preliminary hearing was due to take place in December but the judge granted a defence request to delay that until 17 February.
When the charges were brought in November, Michigan attorney general Bill Schuette said the case against Dr Nassar was the "tip of the iceberg".
Meanwhile, USA Gymnastics has announced it will conduct an independent review into its handling of sexual abuse cases.
In response to the Indy Star's latest report it issued the following statement: "Nothing is more important to USA Gymnastics, the board of directors and chief executive Steve Penny than protecting athletes, which requires sustained vigilance by everyone - coaches, athletes, parents, administrators and officials.
"We are saddened when any athlete has been harmed in the course of his or her gymnastics career."
Indy Star Journalist Mark Alesia told Sportshour that he believes more allegations of sexual abuse will surface.
He said: "There's a lot more to come out, we suspect, on how USA Gymnastics handles sexual abuse complaints.
"As part of our investigation we have learned that it was keeping files of sexual abuse complaints but not reporting them to authorities. If we get to those, we think there will be a lot more to report."
The shadow mental health minister and MP for Liverpool Wavertree said she was "flattered" that people had asked her to stand for the "metro mayor" role.
Another Liverpool MP, Steve Rotheram, is also considering seeking Labour's nomination, the BBC's Arif Ansari said.
Elections for mayor of the Liverpool City Region will be held in 2017.
It will cover five Merseyside councils - Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley, Sefton and Wirral - as well as Halton in Cheshire.
If they do choose to run, Ms Berger and Mr Rotheram would face competition for Labour's nomination from the current mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, who has already confirmed he will put himself forward.
Ms Berger added: "I will be consulting with family, friends and members of my constituency Labour Party in the coming days, before reaching a decision on whether to put my hat in the ring."
Ministers have championed the idea of regional elected mayors in exchange for the devolution of powers from Whitehall.
Labour's former shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said last week he was considering putting himself forward for a similar role in Greater Manchester.
Llanelli Joint Venture, a partnership between the Welsh Government and Carmarthenshire council, is advertising 2.8 acres (1.1 hectares) of land at Burry Port Harbour.
It comes with planning consent for mixed-use developments.
They include two housing development sites, as well as opportunities for shops, a restaurant, pub and hotel.
Carmarthenshire council leader, Emlyn Dole, said the development would "create an exciting new waterfront area for the town".
"The project has an emphasis on design quality and sustainability which will set a standard for other future developments to meet", he said.
A public inquiry into Grittenham Haulage Ltd resulted in the ban being imposed in December 2015.
The decision has now been made public following the conclusion of the trial.
Matthew Gordon, 30, and Peter Wood, 55, were found guilty of manslaughter in December 2016.
Mitzi Steady, four, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, died in the crash in February 2015.
Gordon, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, was the owner of Grittenham Haulage Ltd and was driving in a truck in front of the lorry that crashed.
Wood, of Brinkworth, Wiltshire, was a mechanic employed by Gordon who carried out safety checks on the truck.
The driver of the crash truck, Phillip Potter, 20, also from Dauntsey, was cleared of dangerous and careless driving.
Traffic Commissioner Sarah Bell also disqualified the firm and Mr Gordon from holding or obtaining an operator's licence for two years.
Miss Bell said: "This is a breach of trust of the highest order.
"The operator put commercial concerns first with compliance a poor second until February 2015.
"Failing to observe the rules, not setting aside proper time for quality management and control of the transport operations, running more vehicles than authorised and seeking to keep clients serviced regardless of the law, strikes at the heart of the underpinning principles of the licensing regime, road safety and fair competition.
"After February 2015 the improvement is there but not sufficient to save this licence.
"This is one of those cases that where what happened previously is so serious that the position as at September 2015 is far from sufficient to save this licence. "
Gordon and Wood are due to be sentenced on 27 January.
Eric Milligan has been a councillor in the city for 40 years.
An official inquiry into the project is investigating the delays, cost overruns, redesigns, delivery, governance and management.
The Labour councillor, who was lord provost for seven years, said with the benefit of hindsight the scheme should not have gone ahead.
The trams were originally designed to run for 15 miles from Edinburgh Airport to Leith by 2011, at a cost of £375m.
But a truncated nine-mile service, stopping in the city centre, opened in 2014, at a cost of £776m - with interest charges expected to push the final bill to about £1bn.
It was under Labour that proposals for trams were first developed. However it was not until a Lib Dem/SNP coalition from 2007 that the plans began to be executed.
The trams project then ran on through 2012 when a Labour/SNP coalition was elected.
Mr Milligan was Edinburgh's lord provost between 1996 and 2003.
Speaking to Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland, Mr Milligan said: "If all of us knew then what we know now and how difficult, how expensive and how limited the system is we probably would not have gone ahead.
"It is important that we complete what was intended between the airport and the sea port and we revitalise the waterfront area."
It stands on a patch of land that was once a barren field, but started to be settled at the end of the 1970s, mostly by people who came to Dhaka in search of work and had nowhere to live.
Today, Korail is estimated to have 200,000 residents, many of them living in small shacks with bamboo frames and corrugated tin roofs.
As I walked in, my first impressions were as you might expect - dominated by the dirt and the numbers of people living in crowded conditions.
But as I walked a little further, a different perception of life in Korail started to take hold.
Many of the paths had been concreted, there was a mosque and a school built of brick, health workers going from house to house in their white coats, and shops and stalls serving the local residents.
Some of these improvements are due to a development experiment that has been undertaken in Korail, putting the decision-making power into the hands of the people who live here.
The Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction began in Korail in 2010, with funding from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and British overseas aid.
Every 20 households banded together to form a "primary group" of stakeholders, with elected representatives of each of these groups forming community development communities.
These, in turn, elect members to the top layer, known as clusters, which are then a point of contact for outside development assistance.
Kazi Morshed, of the UNDP, explained to me how the system came up with ideas from the residents that his organisation had not envisaged - for example a creche so that the women of Korail could go out and work.
The clusters, which are asked to identify the priorities for improvement, are dominated by women.
Sumona, 23, who chairs one of them told me: "I used to be confined to my house, ignorant of what was happening around me. Now that I am in a leadership position, my husband has started listening to me, and the neighbourhood also looks to me for solutions to its problems."
On the wall next to her was a hand-drawn map of Korail's households, divided into sectors, with those in most need marked in red.
Next to it was the neighbourhood's action plan - a record of the priorities identified, and who was responsible for delivering them.
In this way, the people of Korail have asked for - and built - footpaths and drains, and negotiated with the local authority for water supplies.
But they are probably proudest of their new latrines and the transformation of a muddy piece of land used for open defecation into a block of six toilets.
It was their idea to assign each toilet to a group of 10 families, who are then responsible for keeping it clean.
Minara, another of the elected Korail women, told me there was an immediate health benefit from the toilets.
She said: "We used to get a lot of infections from the water-borne diseases, but now it's almost zero.
"We used to have to take the children to the hospital every week and spend a lot of money on medicines. Now we can save that, or spend it on food."
As I looked at the signs on the doors of the toilets - UK Aid - from the British people - I wondered how many UK taxpayers would appreciate all the different ways in which these simple toilets were life-changing in Korail, not just for health, but human dignity.
Minara smiled broadly as she told me: "I would like to thank the people who paid for this. They have given us a better life."
Beyond physical improvements to the slum, the clusters also have a role in identifying those among them who would benefit from loans or grants, or help with new skills so they can get a job.
And the empowerment goes beyond the women's contact with aid agencies and NGOs.
Shoma told me that her position representing the community has given her the courage to go to the police with a complaint about a pair of neighbourhood thugs.
In the past, contact with the police would have been avoided by anyone living in Korail, particularly the women.
Kazi Morshed of the UNDP has no doubt that the experiment has been a success, and hopes that it can be replicated beyond Bangladesh.
"The results have changed lives and livelihoods, income levels have gone up, people have savings and hope for tomorrow."
Further down the street, I could see evidence of the same organisation and identification of need at a maternity centre run by Brac, Bangladesh's dominant NGO.
The mission of its doctors was to reduce the numbers of home births in Korail, which in 2007 amounted to 86% of all deliveries.
The approach is house to house - a woman from the neighbourhood is given basic training and asked to identify any pregnant women.
When one is found, a poster is stuck up in her home with the telephone number of the maternity centre, and community health workers are sent in for her ante-natal check-ups.
I followed the team as they went to see a young woman called Beauty, seven months pregnant with her second child.
Her blood pressure was taken, and advice given on nutrition and rest, with everything recorded in a notebook kept by the patient as a complete history of her pregnancy.
More than 800,000 households have joined roughly 2,500 community development committees, mostly led by women.
166,000 households are now accessing improved water sources while 143,000 households have new toilets. Over 90% of households report being satisfied with these improvements.
More than 88,000 extremely poor women have been supported to set up their own businesses through small enterprise grants.
376,000 households now participate in savings and credit groups with more than $5m of savings and $3.7m worth of loans at the end of 2012.
Today, home births in Korail are down to 11% of deliveries, and Bangladesh is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal on maternal mortality.
In spite of all these improvements, Korail is still a tough place to live.
On the other side of the slum I saw the old style "hanging toilets", where people defecate straight into the lake, with the sky line of rich Dhaka a stone's throw away.
But from the women who had managed to bring improvements to their part of Korail, I saw an admirable confidence - a belief in their own ability not just to pinpoint what their community requires, but also to find solutions.
They now know that their voices matter, and from that, there's no going back.
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Thomas added: "It's such a good time to be a British athlete - to be around so much success."
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The advertising, apparently for a service called Sex Messenger, also contained tools for identifying whether the user was genuine rather than a bot.
It appeared on porn site xhamster, one of the world's most visited domains.
However the firm said porn sites are no more dangerous than mainstream ones.
The ad has now been removed.
The malware, which also made use of the security of cloud-based platforms to hide what it was doing, worked by directing the user to a fraudulent page once it had determined that they were running Microsoft's Internet Explorer and had identified the device's security settings.
So-called "malvertising" often installs ransomware on to a victim's machine. It loads a page containing false accusations of criminal activity and instructions for paying a fine.
"These efforts ensure that only real users will get to see the exploit kit landing page therefore excluding honeypots and security researchers alike," wrote Malwarebytes security consultant Jerome Segura in a blog post.
Although in this case the ad was popping up so often that researchers were able to study it after all.
Xhamster is currently ranked the 71st most visited website in the world by web analytics firm Alexa and attracts hundreds of millions of monthly users.
But the online porn industry does invest in security, Mr Segura added.
"There's this idea that adult sites are more dangerous to visit than 'regular' sites," he told Tech Week Europe.
"I don't believe it's entirely true especially for the top sites because they do dedicate a lot of resources to fighting fraud and malware.
"Based on what we have seen in the past months as far as malvertising goes, we have seen just as many top mainstream publishers as pornographic ones."
The firm that distributed the ad has now taken it down.
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Military equipment was being deployed to douse more than 25 fires in Knysna, they added.
At least eight people have been killed in the storms and fires that have been raging in the town and other areas of the Western Cape region.
Strong winds from the worst winter storm in 30 years fuelled the fires.
At least 150 properties have been destroyed in Knysna, according to the fire service.
The town has a population of 77,000. It lies 500km (310 miles) east of Cape Town on South Africa's famed Garden Route.
"Humanitarian support is being co-ordinated for an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 residents of the Greater Knysna area, after devastating fires," said James-Brent Styan, spokesman for the Western Cape local government ministry.
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) would assist in a water-bombing operation to extinguish the fires, its spokesman Simphiwe Dlamini said.
About 150 troops would also be deployed to make sure that criminals do not loot properties that have been vacated, he added.
In May, the Western Cape province declared a drought disaster after two reservoirs had completely dried up. It was said to have been the region's worst drought in more than a century.
Several other southern African nations were also affected by the two-year drought, which was caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon.
However, many parts of the region are now experiencing bumper maize harvests.
The studio also confirmed a Mary Poppins sequel, starring Emily Blunt, and 101 Dalmatians spin-off, Cruella.
The Mary Poppins film will also star Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote and performed in Broadway hit, Hamilton.
A Tim Burton-directed Dumbo and a "Tinker Bell project" starring Reese Witherspoon are also in development.
Also confirmed by Disney were a live-action adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's fantasy novel A Wrinkle In Time, the Dwayne Johnson-starring Jungle Cruise and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, a Christmas story based on ETA Hoffman's 19th Century tale.
The studio also confirmed writers for the projects, which include Kelly Marcel, who wrote the screenplays for Fifty Shades of Grey and Saving Mr Banks, penning the Cruella film, and Jennifer Lee, who wrote Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph, scripting A Wrinkle In Time.
While not confirming release dates for any of the films, the studio did announce a release schedule, which will see live-action films based on fairy tales released in July 2017, April 2018 and December 2019, and another two untitled films put out in March and December 2018.
The new version of The Jungle Book, a mixture of live action and animation featuring the vocal talents of Idris Elba and Bill Murray, has taken over $160m (£110m) in its first two weeks of release in the US, while live-action films Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella and Maleficent took a combined $2.5bn (£1.7bn).
Three men and a girl of 16 were found with bomb-making materials by anti-terrorist police in a raid on a flat in the southern city.
Home-made explosives similar to those used in the Paris attacks of November 2015 were discovered.
Reports suggest the girl had made jihadist declarations online.
Since the beginning of 2015, at least 230 people have been killed in jihadist attacks in France.
Last week, a soldier received minor injuries when a machete-wielding man tried to enter the Louvre museum in Paris.
The man, a 29-year-old Egyptian named Abdullah Hamamy, was shot and critically injured.
Photos from the scene in Montpellier show debris outside the door of the flat that police stormed on Friday morning.
Early reports suggested that one of the Montpellier detainees was a would-be suicide attacker.
A local news site, M6 Info, said the four were planning to attack a tourist site in Paris but a police source told AFP news agency that investigators had not been able to establish the exact target.
The suspects were arrested after buying acetone, a police source told AFP. Acetone is an ingredient used in the making of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a high explosive.
TATP, the same explosive used in bomb vests worn by militants in the Paris attacks, was found in the city along with the acetone, a judicial source said.
According to AFP, the female suspect had been spotted on social networks saying she wanted to leave for the Syria-Iraq conflict zone or mount an attack in France instead.
She recorded a video in which she pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS), M6 Info reports.
Meanwhile, France's top constitutional court struck down a law which penalised those who consult jihadist websites.
The Constitutional Council found that the law infringed on people's freedom of communication unnecessarily.
Separately, prosecutors in Denmark charged a 16-year-old girl with attempted terrorism for allegedly planning to bomb two schools in and around Copenhagen, one of them Jewish.
The girl, a convert to Islam, was arrested in Kundby, near the capital, in January last year, and had been held in custody ever since.
Prosecutors believe she was trying to prepare TATP herself. She will go on trial in Holbaek in April.
A 25-year-old man arrested in the same case has been released without charge.
Not only is he the solitary Scot at the 116th US Open, he's trying to upset all odds and become the first Scottish winner of golf's second major of the year since 1927.
Edinburgh-born Tommy Armour was the victor 89 years ago after an 18-hole play-off versus Harry Cooper, although Armour had taken American citizenship by the time that success arrived.
Another Scot, Willie Macfarlane, had won in even more dramatic style 91 years ago, aged 35, winning after a gruelling play-off against the great Bobby Jones.
The routine four rounds at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts had not been able to separate the pair. Neither could the initial 18-hole play-off. Indeed, Macfarlane only pipped Jones by one stroke at the end of a further 18 holes to ensure Scotland trumped America.
Macfarlane - from Aberdeen - was following on from a glut of Scottish success at the US Open.
North Berwick's Willie Anderson - who won in 1901, 1903, 1904 and 1905 - is one of only four players to have lifted its championship trophy four times, along with Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus. No-one other than Anderson, who died at the age of 31, has triumphed in three successive years.
There were other winners, too - James Foulis, Fred Herd, Willie Smith, Laurie Auchterlonie, Alex Smith, Alec Ross and Fred McLeod.
The 2016 tournament at Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, begins on Thursday. Knox, who was born in Inverness but now lives in Florida, tees off with Americans Jason Dufner and Harris English at 13:24 BST.
And going into his sixth major, the 30-year-old feels he can compete.
"I'm ready to go and start doing well in these tournaments," Knox told BBC Sport.
"My game feels good and I'm confident, so I've just got to relax and try to enjoy it. I'm excited that we have an extremely difficult course.
"This course is going to be very unfair to everyone at times, so it's just whoever can deal with that the best."
With narrow fairways and fast, sloping greens - not to mention a sprinkling of devilish bunkers - Oakmont is known as one of the PGA Tour's toughest courses. The 288-yard par-three eighth hole backs up that ominous reputation.
But one person who really fancies Knox's chances is the man who finished joint top (in 27th place) out of the five Scots competing at the 2015 US Open - Jimmy Gunn.
Gunn plays on the Web.com tour and will feature at the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart later this summer.
"I really do think he's got a good chance, the main reason being that he's deadly accurate," Gunn told BBC Scotland.
"He hits it dead straight and that's what you have to do there. Chambers Bay in 2015 was a little different. It was kind of wide open and you could get away with a little errant drive here and there.
"Oakmont's completely different. The rough is almost twice as thick and the fairways are narrower. He's so deadly off the tee and has pinpoint accuracy with the irons, so I think he'll do really well."
Knox's most prestigious victory to date was at the WGC Champions event in Shanghai in 2015 and Gunn believes performances like that have matured his friend's all-round game.
"Oh, 100%," he said. "The more times you put yourself in that position to win tournaments, the more comfortable you get.
"I mean how many times has he come second or lost in a play-off or something. It's great for his confidence and I think he'll do really well this week."
Armour's victory in 1927 came, interestingly, at Oakmont.
If the trophy was to be lifted by Scottish hands ever again, how Knox would love it to be his.
Ten children were among 31 people in Dorset to contract the O55 strain between July 2014 and November 2015.
The Public Health England investigation closed in March but some families said they had not been informed.
The parents of two affected children said they are "disappointed and frustrated" by the news.
The investigation also involved the Food Standards Agency and local authorities, but it now seems unlikely the source will ever be known.
Gabrielle Archer's son Isaac Mortlock was three when he contracted the bug. He suffered permanent kidney damage and may need a transplant.
Miss Archer, from Bournemouth, said: "He has to be fed through a tube. He's now five-and-a-half, has only just started school full-time and has regressed to wearing nappies,"
"He will not lead the life he would have lived."
She said she felt her family had been treated "appallingly" during the investigation, mainly due to a lack of communication.
"We have never had official information, in writing, to say the investigation had closed. We just assumed it had because after two years we are still waiting for it to be resolved," she said.
"You can't just learn to live with this - there's no closure, it's so frustrating."
Another parent, Neil Fincham-Dukes, is from Bath but visited Dorset, where the cases were centred.
He said: "I'm disappointed Public Health England hasn't spoken to us about it given the severity of the incident - it's very frustrating."
His son Joseph suffered kidney failure when he was three and his daughter Poppy, who was one at the time, also became ill with the infection.
Although Poppy made a full recovery, Joseph has long-term kidney complications.
Public Health England [PHE] has not yet responded to the comments by Miss Archer and Mr Fincham-Dukes.
However, it did describe the investigation as "extensive" and added control measures had included "extended screening and exclusion of cases and high risk contacts".
Dr Sarah Harrison, from PHE South West, said there had been no further cases of the infection since November 2015, but added the agency remained "vigilant".
She said work on a new test - using microscopic magnetic beads to investigate the source of future outbreaks of the strain - is due for completion in early 2017.
The test is being developed by the Animal Plant and Health Agency, which could also use it to look at the incidence and prevalence of E. coli O55 in animals.
PHE had said the O55 strain had never before been recorded in England.
Source: Public Health England
Two suspects were detained in the Ukrainian port of Odessa, Russia's state-owned Channel One TV reports.
The arrested men were both shown on TV admitting their involvement in the plot, after an explosion at a flat in January in which one suspect died.
A Ukrainian official confirmed to Reuters news agency the arrests were linked to a plot to kill Mr Putin.
When contacted earlier by the BBC, the spokeswoman had initially refused to corroborate the Russian TV report that linked the detention of two men to a conspiracy.
The Russian prime minister's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told the BBC "this was absolutely a plot to kill the prime minister."
The attack was to happen after next Sunday's presidential vote, the report said.
Mr Putin is expected to win the election and get a third term as president.
The BBC's Daniel Sandford in Moscow said the two men were both shown on Russian TV, one being interrogated and the other giving an interview.
In the footage, both admit plotting to attack Mr Putin. One, identified by Ria Novosti as Ilya Pyanzin, said he had been hired by Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov to carry out the killing and also by Ruslan Madayev, the suspect who died in the Odessa explosion.
The other suspect was named by Channel One as Adam Osmayev, said to have been on an international wanted list since 2007.
The plotters were planning to plant mines on Kutuzovsky Avenue in Moscow, used by Mr Putin on a daily basis, the report said.
Russian media report that Mr Pyanzin was arrested in the Odessa flat where the explosion happened. He told police that he and Madayev had flown to Ukraine from the United Arab Emirates via Turkey, with precise instructions from representatives of Doku Umarov.
According to the reports, details of the plot were found on laptops in the flat, along with a video showing Mr Putin's motorcade.
Mr Osmayev was reported to be the local fixer in Odessa and the instructor for the plotters, and had lived for a long time in London.
The Australian-born rapper opened up about her surgery in an interview with Vogue magazine.
When asked what she would change about her body, she said: "I did change something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs. I'd thought about it my entire life."
The singer was reportedly fed up of having to use extra padding in her stage costumes.
The 24-year-old, who is dating basketball star Nick Young, also said she wanted to wear underwear without underwire.
Azalea said she didn't want to initially reveal her surgery because she was concerned about her fans and didn't want to make them body conscious.
"But then, I decided I wasn't into secret-keeping," she explained.
In the interview, the rapper explains how she was often told to get into modelling when she moved to the US.
"When I first got to the States, people told me I should think about modelling," she said.
"So I went to a few agencies, but once they measured my body. They didn't like me any more."
Azalea also revealed she measured a size zero on her top and a six on her bottom, which she says gave the fashion industry a headache.
The rapper also talked about the craziest rumour she'd heard about herself.
"[It was] that I used to be a man named Corey who had a sex change," she said.
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Glenn Madden, from Urmston, was held on a European arrest warrant by Dutch police officers on 16 June and will appear at an Amsterdam court this week.
British detectives said they would seek to have the 36-year-old extradited to the UK, where he is accused of money laundering and drugs conspiracy.
His arrest follows a collaboration between Dutch and British police.
A motorcyclist suffered broken ribs when the bridge fell on to the London-bound carriageway of the M20 in Kent on 27 August last year.
Alan Austen, 63, from Darlington, in Durham, did not enter a plea when he appeared before Maidstone magistrates.
The case was sent to crown court, with the next date set for 17 March.
Mr Austen is accused of dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He also faces three counts of criminal damage.
The bridge collapse happened between junctions four and three, near the junction with the M26, which links the M25 London orbital with the M20.
The road, which is the main route to the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover, had to be shut while two large cranes worked to clear the debris.
The Bees' top scorer rolled his spot kick into the bottom right corner after he was fouled by Adam Webster.
Adam McGurk came close to equalising for Pompey in the second-half when his header from Ben Davies' cross was tipped over by Jamie Stephens.
Portsmouth slip out of the play-off places after only one win in six games while Barnet climb to 15th.
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Barnet manager Martin Allen told BBC Radio London:
"I thought it was very exciting. Obviously we're playing against one of the big spenders of the division, a club with massive tradition and history, a fantastic following home and away.
"And our team of free transfers, a humble, down-to-earth group of lads put in a proper team performance.
"I would say deserved (win), with fantastic spirit, determination, courage, and they've done our club proud tonight to beat a club like Portsmouth.
"I thought we were disciplined. Everyone stuck to their job within the team framework."
On Sunday the Lady Black Cats travel to face Arsenal, English women's football's most decorated side, in the semi-final.
A win will book their place in the final at Wembley on 14 May - exactly 28 years after Wimbledon upset league champions Liverpool at the same venue to lift the FA Cup.
Midfielder Fairweather was the "level-headed one" in the Dons' squad - which included future Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones and uncompromising striker John Fashanu - although a broken leg prevented him from playing in the 1988 final.
The 54-year-old has plenty of stories to tell from that era - throwing punches at one another in the centre circle being among them - but it is their camaraderie, spirit and determination to upset the odds which Fairweather has tried to carry with him into management.
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"They are less insane, that is definitely true," said Fairweather of his Sunderland side. "I'm not a great storyteller, but I will point the players in the direction of what we used to do.
"It is definitely about the mentality - we were the underdogs, we had to work harder than everybody else and if we did that and stuck together, then hopefully we would surprise a few people."
"In WSL 1 you have to remember that we are playing against some good sides, full of international players. We are not in that position yet - we have two internationals and a few on the fringes, so we have to try to do things outside the box and work a bit harder."
So is blaring music on a Boombox while walking into away grounds and burning team-mates' clothes - Wimbledon-style - part of that "outside the box" thinking?
"Everyone is safe in regards to that," Fairweather laughs.
A generation and gender separate Fairweather's Wimbledon and Sunderland, but their efforts in breaking the established order of English football are similar.
Wimbledon rose from non-league football to eventually win promotion to the old First Division in 1986.
They were tipped to go straight back down, but after five games they were top of the league.
Sunderland Ladies were the first team to win promotion from WSL 2 in 2014. They were also tipped to go straight down, but topped the league midway through the 2015 campaign.
Since eventually finishing fourth last season, above two-time WSL champions Liverpool and 2014-15 Champions League quarter-finalists Bristol, Sunderland have strengthened by doubling the number of players on full-time contracts to 12.
"If we want to compete like last year we needed everybody to be together, we need everyone to improve individually as well as collectively," Fairweather added.
"That is how we got to where we were and it will be the same again this year, teams will now know what we are about. There might need to be a different strategy in how we do some things, but the principles will always remain the same.
"Having 12 full-time players makes a difference. We are playing teams of completely professional players and that is where we have to think differently to other sides."
Beth Mead was the embodiment of Sunderland's WSL 1 success last season, finishing as the league's leading goalscorer in her first top-flight campaign.
Before that, she helped fire the Lady Black Cats to the top division as WSL 2 champions with 10 goals in 15 league games. In 2012, she was also their top scorer as they completed a Women's Premier League and League Cup double.
Mead talks of Sunderland's rise to the WSL 1 ranks with pride, having twice had bids for a top-flight licence denied - first when the WSL was launched in 2011 and again when it was expanded to include WSL 2.
Despite Sunderland winning the old Premier League for three straight seasons, Manchester City were admitted to England's top-tier competition in 2014.
"We haven't had it all smooth, we got rejected in our bid for WSL and we worked that little bit harder than other clubs who have been gifted it," Mead said.
"I think we have a lot more grit and determination up in the north east."
There are echoes of Wimbledon's approach in the way Mead speaks.
"The girls here have a lot of character and that is the difference between us, as opposed to those teams that can bring the big stars in. We have a group of girls that are like family, we are a close-knit team," she added.
"We are hard to break down because of just how close to we are and how hard we work for each other."
As for Fairweather's influence as manager, it comes from his philosophy on the game and not the unconventional approach from decades past.
"He tells us a few of his stories, but he has told us not to repeat them, so I won't stitch him up," said Mead. "He just tells us to be who we are - don't change. And it is working for us."
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Well, British astronaut Tim Peake explains all in a new video.
He recorded it during his six-month Principia mission on the International Space Station.
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The Northern Ireland Secretary warned that there would be "significant consequences" if there is no deal to restore Stormont's devolved government.
An election to the Northern Ireland Assembly was held last Thursday, which saw an end to the unionist majority.
Talks are being held to restore Stormont's power-sharing executive.
In a letter to MPs, Mr Brokenshire said that if the discussions fail there would be no executive or budget, causing "risks to public services".
"Ultimately, we would also be facing a second election," he added.
That, he said, would bring "disruption and uncertainty for businesses and the people of Northern Ireland".
After last week's election, Sinn Féin now holds just one seat fewer in the assembly than the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party being invited to put forward a candidate for first minister.
Ultimately, if no executive is formed, power could return to the UK parliament at Westminster for the first time in a decade.
But in his letter, Mr Brokenshire wrote that he was "not contemplating any other outcome but a resumption of devolved government as soon as possible".
Meanwhile, DUP leader Arlene Foster has said she regrets comparing Sinn Féin to a "crocodile" ahead of last week's election.
In an interview with the Impartial Reporter, Mrs Foster said Sinn Féin was able to use the comment against her.
At an election campaign event, she said she would not "capitulate" to Sinn Féin demands for an Irish language act, adding: "If you feed a crocodile they're going to keep coming back and looking for more."
Asked by the Impartial Reporter if she regretted making the remarks, Mrs Foster said: "I regret in so far as it allowed Sinn Féin to use it against me and to use it to demonise me.
"Sinn Féin mounted a campaign of demonisation against me and to a certain extent succeeded in that."
Talks are continuing between Northern Ireland's political parties and the UK and Irish governments.
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said progress in the discussions had been "slow" but he did "detect a willingness on the part of everybody to do business".
On the suggestion of another snap election, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Colum Eastwood said Mr Brokenshire "can threaten all sorts of things" but "needs to understand he has responsibilities as well".
"[The UK government] have taken their eye off the ball in the last number of months and years," he added.
"If they think they can place the blame on everybody else, they're barking up the wrong tree."
Sinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill criticised the UK government over its stance, so far, on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles and proposals for an Irish language act.
"We haven't seen anything being put on the table by the British government on how we can deliver on the key issues," Mrs O'Neill said.
"The British government need to deliver on basic human rights and not pander to the DUP."
The Alliance Party's deputy leader Stephen Farry said the parties "need to see the talks picking up the pace in the coming days".
He added: "If there was another election there would be a huge frustration from the people of Northern Ireland.
"People shouldn't be called out to the polls time after time after time, simply because the politicians can't do their jobs."
The Ulster Unionists said the Irish government had not fulfilled its responsibilities over dealing with the legacy of the Troubles.
Tom Elliott, the party's chief negotiator, said the 1976 murders of 10 Protestant workmen at Kingsmills in County Armagh, was a sticking point in the talks.
Two years ago, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told the families that his government would provide information it held in relation to the attack to a coroner for an inquest into the killings.
Some of the victims' families are unhappy with the level of information given by the Irish government.
"Unless they are going to bring us more information and bring those victims more information then I feel they are failing in their duties," Mr Elliott said.
In a statement, the Irish government said relevant material sought by the coroner "has already been provided to the inquest in accordance with the government's commitment" and it is in contact with the coroner to see how else it can assist in the inquest.
Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode said the incident was "an embarrassment to the state".
He said in a statement that investigations had found that Chief Yusuf Ogundare had conspired with his family to frame a rival chief for the disappearance.
Kidnappings for ransom are common in southern Nigeria.
The governor ordered the chief to stop performing his chieftain duties immediately - to "stop parading [yourself] as Baale of Shangisha with immediate effect".
Chief Ogundare was reported to have been kidnapped on 5 July and released by his captors six days later.
His brother, Mohammed Adams, who was paraded alongside him after their arrest, had reported Chief Ogundare missing and alleged that they had both been kidnapped by people who wanted to sell land to the chief.
Eye-witnesses told police that they had seen the chief "frolicking" around the south-western cities of Ibadan and Ilorin.
According to the governor's statement, the chief's alleged captors dropped him off in the Alausa area on 11 July in a "suspicious manner", alerting police who were on patrol in the area to investigate the matter.
Kidnappings have been on the rise in Nigeria.
The BBC's Didi Akinyelure in Lagos notes that police recently celebrated the arrest of a kidnapping kingpin but in another high-profile case, a group of children abducted more than six weeks ago have yet to be released.
Manager Neil left with Norwich nine points adrift of the play-off spots.
Balls said a "miracle" is needed for them to go up this term and Neil's successor will oversee "big changes".
"We're determined to give everything we can to get back to the Premier League, that means planning now for next season," Balls told BBC Radio Norfolk.
Speaking before Saturday's Championship home game against Blackburn, the former shadow chancellor continued: "We need to be up and running now for the beginning of the closed season, for the transfer window. We need to get a new football structure in place.
"The question we needed to ask was, is Alex Neil the right man to take us into next season? We decided yesterday that the answer to that was 'no'.
"The issue now is, can we beat Blackburn? Is the structure that we are going to put in place for next season going to work?
"Who is the right manager to bring into this football club? Can we be up and running in May and June to make what will be quite big changes on the playing side?
"Can we use second-year parachute payments to get back to the Premier League? That is what matters."
Neil led the Canaries to promotion to the Premier League as Championship play-off winners less than five months after taking charge in January 2015, but they were relegated back to the second tier last season.
Norwich were second in the Championship in October, but have won just seven of their last 24 games and dropped to eighth.
Neil's departure from Carrow Road followed a 5-1 thrashing at Sheffield Wednesday and a draw with relegation-threatened Bristol City at Ashton Gate.
"Those games taken as a whole basically meant that baring a miracle, it is not impossible, but barring a miracle we are not in the play-offs this season," Balls said.
He defended the timing of the dismissal, with the Norwich City directors convening for a scheduled board meeting after Neil conducted his pre-match press conference just hours earlier.
"I have sympathy for Alex Neil because he did some great things for this football club," said Balls.
"When he went into the press conference he went in as manager of Norwich City Football Club doing a scheduled press conference. There had not been a board meeting, no decision had been made at all, it hadn't been discussed.
"We sat down after that and we asked ourselves the long-term questions, made a decision and then told Alex straight away.
"It was never going to be a nice thing to do and never be a good time. He took it with great professionalism and dignity."
Balls described reports that a successor had already been identified before dismissing Neil as "garbage" and "untrue".
However, he admitted that Neil's future at Norwich had seriously been considered by the board in December.
"A lot of fans were saying make the change and we thought hard about it in December and decided that he was a really capable manager, he had turned things around in a season before and he had the confidence of the players in our judgement," Balls added.
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This year's Tour opened in Leeds on Saturday, with Yorkshire having beaten off competition from Edinburgh.
"We are looking at perhaps forming a bid with Event Scotland for either 2018 or 2019," Steve Cardownie of Edinburgh City Council told BBC Radio Scotland.
"We will be that much more equipped because we will have seen first hand how it operates in Yorkshire."
Up to two million people are expected to line the UK routes as the famous three-week race returns for the first time since 2007, with two stages in Yorkshire and a third finishing in London on Monday.
When the organisers were last here, they were waxing lyrical about the city
The 101st edition of the 2,277-mile, 21-stage event ends in Paris on 27 July, with Chris Froome the defending champion.
Froome became the second British winner of the race last year, following the victory of Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2012.
Yorkshire is expected to enjoy the lion's share of at least £100m in economic benefits from the Grand Depart, while the television audience is estimated at three-and-a-half billion.
Councillor Cardownie was involved in Edinburgh's 2014 bid, while Florence was also in the running.
"We've staged cycling events in the past, we've had athletic events and, of course, we have our fantastic festivals," he said.
"We are always in the market for something new, something different.
"We were working with Event Scotland with a view to bringing the Grand Depart and some of the early stages to Edinburgh in 2017.
"We were encouraged to bring that bid forward to 2014 and Yorkshire beat us to it.
"When the organisers were last here, they were waxing lyrical about the city and they could see themselves that it's good for the Tour.
"It's not just good for Edinburgh, it's good for the Tour." | Edinburgh aims to renew its bid to host the Tour de France's Grand Depart before the end of this decade. | 28,174,941 | 409 | 26 | false |
From 284-4 overnight, England lost Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali, who departed for 146, to slip to 321-7.
But Dawson and Rashid added 108, an England best for the eighth wicket in India, to see the tourists to 477.
India, who have won the series 3-0, moved to 60-0, 417 adrift, with KL Rahul on 30 and Parthiv Patel 28.
The home side's serene progress on a placid surface served to highlight how difficult it will be for England to force a consolation victory.
Indeed, with a spin attack that has been outbowled by India's throughout the series, their score may prove to be little more than par, especially with an innings defeat after making 400 in the fourth Test still fresh in the mind.
"It will be hard work for England's spinners as Rahul and Parthiv have gathered their runs rather easily," said former England spinner Vic Marks on Test Match Special.
"It looks a good batting surface and it's difficult to see how you'd get 10 wickets out there, let alone 20."
Dawson, 26, was only added to the England squad after the third Test as a replacement for the injured Zafar Ansari.
Primarily called up for his left-arm spin, the right-hander usually bats in the middle order for Hampshire and has eight first-class centuries.
After a nervy start that saw him struck on the helmet by Ishant Sharma and offer a leading edge just out of reach of Ravichandran Ashwin, Dawson showed composure, solid defence and sound judgement, as well as taking opportunities to score through the off side.
His only blemish was a mix-up that resulted in the run-out of Stuart Broad, but a six off Ashwin that was carried to the mid-wicket rope by sub fielder Axar Patel took him past the 59 made by David Bairstow against India at The Oval in 1979 to the highest score made by an England number eight on his debut.
"Liam Dawson can bat as well as any of England's late-order all-rounders," said former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on TMS.
"He plays close to his pad, the bat is close to the body and I can only give him credit for the way he batted. He got hit on the head, but carried on, and he and Rashid played splendidly."
Like Dawson, Rashid has a first-class batting record that compares to the majority of his England team-mates, but he had made only one previous Test half-century and contributed just 51 runs in seven innings in this series.
He arrived when England had lost three wickets for 34 runs - Stokes was tempted to edge Ashwin in the first over of the day, Buttler played across Ishant to be lbw and Moeen, who added 26 to his overnight 120, loosely fell into Umesh Yadav's short-ball trap.
Initially supportive of Dawson - he scored only 13 from his first 77 balls - Rashid gradually took over the role of aggressor, wristily playing beautiful whips through mid-wicket and inside-out drives through the covers.
It was the intent to score that proved his downfall, a flat-footed waft at Umesh resulting in an edge behind.
After taking early wickets, India may have hoped to be batting by about lunchtime, only to complete more than five sessions in the field by the time England were bowled out after tea.
Fatigue, scoreboard pressure and the loss of opener Murali Vijay to a shoulder injury was a potential recipe for late casualties, yet Rahul and emergency partner Parthiv were untroubled for 20 overs.
England's bowling was tidy, but the pace bowlers were offered no assistance and the spinners - including Dawson's first over in Test cricket - were only afforded sluggish, unthreatening turn.
With India captain Virat Kohli and his 640 series runs still to come, the likelihood is the visitors face a long day in the field on Sunday.
England all-rounder Liam Dawson, who made 66 not out: "The first 20 balls were probably the most nervous I've ever been but thankfully I came through it. I've watched a lot of international cricket and knew the bouncer was going to be a factor but it was a good start.
"Becoming a genuine all-rounder is my goal. Batting is my priority but I was hoping I'd get at least an over to bowl this evening so that was great."
England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who made 146: "It's going to be very hard and a big challenge. We have three days but they play spin very well. We're going to have to do very well to bowl them out twice.
"Batting this year has gone quite well, but it's tough when you haven't got a consistent number. However, wherever I'm needed in the team, I'll bat. I was batting at five at the start of the tour but now I'm batting at four. It's a good place to bat but I'd rather bat five." | Debutant Liam Dawson made 66 not out and Adil Rashid 60 to ensure England did not waste a good position on day two of the fifth Test against India. | 38,351,365 | 1,199 | 38 | false |
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More than 160 lots, many of which were donated by some of the biggest names in word football, were sold.
A Chelsea shirt signed by Jose Mourinho fetched £2,550 while a trip to watch Barcelona train sold for £3,550.
The money will be split between several charities including the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
This was the fourth Sir Bobby Auction organised by his friend Gina Long and more than £870,000 has now been raised for charities.
Ms Long, a charity fundraiser from Suffolk, said: "Sir Bobby was a colossal global figure in football and the love and respect people still have for him has been reflected in the unbelievable money-can't-buy prizes that we have been fortunate to receive."
Sir Bobby's former clubs Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven, Newcastle United and Ipswich Town all gave support and there were personal donations from Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Frank Lampard, Aaron Ramsey, Terry Butcher, Kevin Beattie, Sir Alex Ferguson, Andre Villas-Boas and Jose Mourinho.
An England shirt signed by Rooney sold for £1,820, two pictures of the Beatles fetched a total of £1,030 and a "once in a lifetime" Russian football experience donated by Zenit Saint Petersburg manager Andre Villas-Boas went for £2,050.
Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson donated a signed sketchbook of the team's memorable moments which sold for £2,550.
Sir Bobby's Online Auction raised money for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, In The Game - the League Managers Association Charity, the GeeWizz charitable foundation and West Suffolk Hospital Charity.
Sir Bobby managed Fulham, Ipswich Town, PSV Eindhoven (twice), Sporting Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona and Newcastle United. He also led England to the 1990 World Cup semi-final.
His death from cancer in 2009 sparked tributes from across the sporting world.
Advisers were concerned at the amount of time it could take to exit the ground in the event of an emergency.
The Safety Technical Group (STG) was put together to supervise various safety issues around the new stadium.
The GAA said its studies showed 38,000 spectators could get to a place of safety within eight minutes.
It said it had presented the advisers with this information.
Since the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster, emphasis has been put on the time that it takes to ensure people can get out of a sports ground to a place of safety.
The STG is made up of representatives from Sport NI, police, the fire and ambulance services, Belfast City Council and the GAA.
Under a freedom of information request, the BBC obtained the minutes of its last meeting in November 2014.
The GAA did not attend that meeting, but the minutes noted that "neither the design team nor members of the STG are aware of any stadium in Great Britain with similar exiting arrangements".
It adds that the last set of plans it had been given "indicated that the stadium did not comply with the content of the green guide/red guide", which are the safety industry's standard recommendations.
One of the group's major concerns was that any blockage on the Andersonstown Road could push the exit time limit well over the recommended eight minutes.
According to some estimates, in the event of some emergencies, it could take more than 20 minutes for a crowd of 38,000 to get out of the ground to somewhere safe.
This has been rejected by Ulster GAA, which said in a statement that it had employed an experienced design team, that the Casement Park stadium conforms to the guidance in the current red and green guide regulations, and it carried out its own extensive exercise to ensure that 38,000 spectators could be evacuated to a place of safety within eight minutes.
It said these findings had been presented to the STG group.
With approval from Stormont's Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), the GAA went ahead with a planning application and appointed a contractor, even though the safety group had been advised this would not happen before it had approved the design.
The BBC has also learned that while DCAL had been asked over a 13-month period for documentation on the proposed emergency exiting strategy, it did not provide this.
A DCAL spokesperson said on Wednesday that the STG continued to inform the design process and event management plan, to ensure all the issues raised were addressed.
It added that the stadium could not operate at the required safe capacity without a fully compliant general safety certificate.
Residents living close to Casement Park won a judicial review in December, with the judge saying the decision-making process was "fundamentally flawed".
Carmel McKavanagh of the Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents' Association said she was angry that the views of the STG had only come to light in response to the freedom of information request.
"Perhaps if we had clear sight of these minutes, we wouldn't have had to end up in court," she said.
The BBC understands that the STG has not discussed the Casement Park redevelopment since its last meeting in November.
In a statement DCAL said: "The Safety Technical Group will be fully involved in any future plans involving Casement Park, contributing to the health and safety design process at appropriate stages."
Belle Gibson, 25, gained fame in Australia after she claimed to have beaten cancer using natural remedies rather than medical intervention.
She launched a successful app and cookbook, but later admitted the diagnosis was made up.
In ruling against Ms Gibson, a judge said the blogger may have "genuinely" believed what she was saying.
"Not all human beings are rational and reasonable all of the time," Federal Court of Australia judge Debbie Mortimer said on Wednesday.
"It seems to me that, at least in some respects, it might be open to find that Gibson suffered from a series of delusions about her health condition."
Ms Gibson would be penalised at a later date, she said.
Ms Gibson's claims to have cured her cancer with Ayurvedic medicine, oxygen therapy and a gluten and refined sugar-free diet propelled her to prominence.
She capitalised on her fame with a successful app and a cookbook, both called The Whole Pantry, and promised to deliver a share of the profits to several charities.
But the money allegedly never reached the charities and cracks began to appear in Ms Gibson's story, leading her to admit her claims were untrue.
Attempting to justify her behaviour, she told a magazine: "If I don't have an answer, then I will sort of theorise it myself and come up with one. I think that's an easy thing to often revert to if you don't know what the answer is."
Justice Mortimer upheld "most, but not all" allegations brought by Consumer Affairs Victoria against Ms Gibson.
She said Ms Gibson's false claims spurred people to buy her products.
"Her 'pitch' overwhelmingly used groups likely to evoke sympathy because of their vulnerabilities - young girls, asylum seekers, sick children," Justice Mortimer said.
The fast food giant's latest British advert features a boy who struggles to find something in common with his dead father, until it is revealed they shared the same favourite menu item.
The campaign has attracted criticism from widows who called it "offensive".
A McDonald's spokesperson said: "This was by no means an intention of ours."
"We wanted to highlight the role McDonald's has played in our customers' everyday lives - both in good and difficult times," the spokesperson added.
The campaign, from London-based advertising agency Leo Burnett, first aired on 12 May and is scheduled to run for seven weeks.
In the advert, the boy asks his mum about his absent dad, who then goes on to reminisce about him.
The boy is left to wonder whether he and his father had anything in common, until he arrives at a McDonald's restaurant and orders a Filet-o-Fish and the mother says: "That was your dad's favourite too."
Bereavement charity, Grief Encounter said it had received "countless calls" from parents saying their bereaved children had been upset by the advert.
Sarah Fox's husband died two years ago. The 37-year-old from London said her seven-year-old son, who saw the advert, had only just started to understand the implications of his loss.
She said: "The advert was confusing for him and really upset him. He asked me why the boy on TV wasn't 'sad' and how he could feel happy again?
"It's an unnecessary subject to exploit for the gain of a brand."
Tania Richman, 44 from Brighton, East Sussex, said her teenage children, whose father died last year, were also "upset and offended" by the advert.
She said: "I didn't know how to handle them afterwards."
Leah Miller, 42 from London raised concerns about the lack of support advice offered after the advert.
"What are children supposed to think after watching it? That a simple meal can solve their emotional pain?
"It's irresponsible not to include any support advice or information for families affected by this issue."
The Advertising Standards Authority said it had received complaints regarding the advert, and would "carefully assess them to see whether there are grounds to investigate".
One in 29 children are bereaved of a parent or sibling by the time they are 16, according to Grief Encounter, which offers support to bereaved children and their families.
Dr Shelley Gilbert, founder and president of the charity, said: "McDonald's have attempted to speak to their audience via an emotionally driven TV campaign.
"However, what they have done is exploit childhood bereavement as a way to connect with young people and surviving parents alike - unsuccessfully.
"We fully support children and surviving parents remembering loved ones with memory boxes, family experiences which remind them of happier times and openly talking about the member of the family that has died.
"But trying to insinuate that a brand can cure all ills with one meal is insensitive and shouldn't be a way to show that a brand recognises 'the big moments in life'."
Its authors from Cambridge University say that as well as women, young people under 35 and those with health problems are particularly affected.
They estimate that four in every 100 people have anxiety.
The review of 48 published pieces of work says more research is needed to find out which other communities are at high risk.
Published in the journal Brain and Behavior, the global review found that more than 60 million people were affected by anxiety disorders every year in the EU.
North America is thought to be worst affected, with eight in 100 people having anxiety, and East Asia least affected (three in 100).
Although the proportion of people suffering with this mental health problem stayed fairly constant between 1990 and 2010, the authors said it was a problem which was rarely researched, unlike depression.
Review author Olivia Remes, from the department of public health and primary care at the University of Cambridge, said anxiety disorders could make life extremely difficult.
"There has been a lot of focus on depression - which is important - but anxiety is equally important and debilitating; it can lead to the development of other diseases and psychiatric disorders, increase the risk for suicide and is associated with high costs to society."
She added: "It is important for our health services to understand how common they are and which groups of people are at greatest risk."
It's feelings of worry, fear and unease which persist for a long time and become overwhelming, affecting everyday life.
Physical sensations such as raised blood pressure, feeling nauseous and disrupted sleeping are common.
At this point, it becomes a mental health problem and a diagnosis of a specific anxiety disorder can be given.
The difference between anxiety and panic attacks
Globally, women were found to be twice as likely to experience anxiety as men.
Ms Remes said this could be because of hormonal fluctuations or because women are more prone to stress in general, or because of their traditional role of caring for the young.
The review said people with a chronic health condition were at particular risk, "adding a double burden on their lives".
For example, 32% of people with multiple sclerosis have an anxiety disorder and 15 to 23% of cancer patients are affected.
The review noted that data on anxiety was particularly lacking in some populations, such as indigenous cultures, and some communities, like drug users, sex workers and lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Pregnant women were also found to be particularly prone to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - a form of anxiety disorder - before and immediately after the birth of their baby.
Before you begin any treatment you should discuss your options with your doctor.
There are self-help books and online courses that can offer ways to manage your anxiety.
Your doctor may also recommend that you avoid too much caffeine and alcohol, and stop smoking.
Taking regular exercise may also help you relax.
You may be advised to try psychological treatment, such as cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or mindfulness. CBT aims to challenge negative thoughts and behaviours, while mindfulness encourages the individual to focus on the here and now.
There are also different drug treatments that your doctor may prescribe.
Mental illness: How do you cope?
Stephen Buckley, head of information at mental health charity Mind, said anxiety was one of the most common mental health problems in the UK.
"Many people wait too long before seeing their GP, discounting social anxiety as just day-to-day stress.
"But it's not the same as being 'a bit shy' and it's important to seek help as soon as possible if you feel like your anxiety is interfering with your ability to do the things you normally would."
The 20-year-old beat Carlos Berlocq 6-0 6-4 in the clay court tournament.
The victory could move Edmund back into the world's top 100 and comes before GB face Belgium on clay in the Davis Cup final in Ghent from 27-29 November.
Dan Evans was selected ahead of James Ward and Edmund in the singles for GB's semi-final win over Australia.
Rada graduate Kenneth Branagh was already an established stage and television star when he directed and starred in his 1989 film of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V.
The critically acclaimed result earned him Oscar nominations for his work both behind and in front of the camera, a best director award from Bafta and a slew of other honours.
Branagh's association with the Bard continued with big-screen versions of Hamlet, Much Ado about Nothing and several other plays.
Away from Shakespeare, though, he has had mixed fortunes, typified by the drubbing he received for his unsuccessful 1994 film of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
In recent years he has had better success with his acting performances, being praised for his starring role in the BBC TV series Wallander and in stage plays such as Chekhov's Ivanov and David Mamet's Edmond.
Yet he has now made a spectacular return to directing with Thor, a comic book blockbuster inspired by Marvel's hammer-wielding warrior.
The project, he says, was "daunting but exciting and, in the end, sort of irresistible".
Branagh acknowledges he might not be everyone's first choice for a film about the Norse god of thunder who first swooped into the Marvel comics universe in 1962.
However, he suggests his experience of "heightened language, period drama and the dynastic sagas of the great and the good" stood him in good stead.
"Marvel were terrified about it sounding too solemn or too ornate or too self-conscious," he says.
"They didn't want Thor to be some sort of sword and sandals thing that would be out of step with a modern audience."
One way to avoid this, Branagh argued successfully, was to set part of the story in contemporary America.
Thus we see the headstrong and belligerent Thor - played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth - banished from the distant realm of Asgard by his father Odin to modern-day New Mexico.
Stripped of his powers and his mystical hammer Mjolnir, he joins forces with a sceptical astrophysicist - played by Natalie Portman - to stop his nefarious brother Loki wreaking havoc in Asgard and closer to home.
"The decision to be on Earth for a large part of the story was absolutely mine," says the director, whose film follows previous Marvel-inspired fantasies Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk.
With a reported budget of $150m (£90.7m) - Branagh will not specify the exact figure - Thor marks a significant step up from his previous, more modestly funded features.
For all the pressure he was under, though, he says there was no compulsion to make his film fit within the wider framework of movies Marvel is currently assembling.
The idea is for the various superheroes introduced in individual vehicles to come together as a single fighting force in 2012 release The Avengers.
Branagh, however, says he had more than enough to worry about with introducing Thor to concern himself with the bigger picture.
"We had so much to concentrate on in forming the origin story of Thor that it simply wasn't possible to consider anything else," he says.
"Over in the Thor fiefdom we got on with our own thing and were effectively given quite a lot of leeway."
Partly because of Sir Laurence Olivier's earlier film of Henry V, Branagh was, at the beginning of his career, often compared to the late actor.
Those parallels are sure to be revived with the release of My Week with Marilyn, an upcoming drama that will see him play Olivier himself in his 1950s heyday.
Partly funded by BBC Films, it focuses on the making of The Prince and the Showgirl - the film that united Olivier and Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe, with fractious results.
According to Branagh, the movie "paints a very fascinating picture of how difficult it is to make films sometimes and how difficult it is for artists to collaborate".
"This souffle of a light comedy becomes a battleground as they clash in styles and temperaments and in their relationship to punctuality.
"If I'm honest, it probably wouldn't have been the first part I would have necessarily jumped at," he says with disarming candour.
"But I try to make all my decisions based on the script, and the role of Laurence Olivier was a really beautiful celebration put together with affection and respect."
The Belfast-born performer concludes our chat with an impassioned defence of the arts in the face of swingeing government cutbacks.
"The arts are an absolutely vital part of the nation and a vital part of the lifeblood of our civilisation," he says with a fervour of which Shakespeare and Olivier would be proud.
"Importantly, conspicuously and evidentially, it is also an absolutely cut-and-dried economic success story."
Thor is out in the UK on 27 April. My Week with Marilyn will be released at a later date.
Both attackers had track records of domestic violence, depression and questions around their sexual identities.
As the self-styled Islamic State group (IS) continues to stake claim on exported attacks on the West, it has also disseminated a range of identity politics and gender norms.
The message is less about empowering individuals through religion, and more about attracting insecure and threatened individuals with a psychological need for control and simple answers.
FBI data on mass shootings between 2009 and 2015 revealed that 57% of attacks involved former spouses or family members among the victims.
Sixteen per cent of mass attackers had faced charges of domestic violence.
Domestic violence is sometimes referred to as "intimate terrorism", defined as "the use of physical abuse plus a broad range of tactics designed to get and keep control over the other person in the relationship".
Both the Orlando and Nice perpetrators, as well as the Boston Marathon bomber and a number of other high-profile lone attackers, had known records of "intimate terrorism" long before their larger-scale attacks.
Omar Mateen, the Orlando attacker who killed 49 and wounded 53 at the gay nightclub Pulse, had a history of abuse.
As early as the third grade (age eight), teachers had commented on his verbal and physical abuse towards other students, both violent and sometimes sexual in nature.
These abusive propensities carried over into his marriage. His first wife, Sitora Yusufiy, openly talked of his violent and psychological abuse, which included repeated beatings, control over her finances and isolation from friends and family.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the Nice attacker who killed 84 and injured over 300 people on 14 July, also had a history of domestic abuse.
He was known to authorities for assault and abuse of his wife. In the aftermath of the attack, neighbours described him as depressed, unstable and increasingly aggressive after his wife had left him two years previously.
His family also reported that he had seen psychologists in Tunisia before leaving for France in 2005. The family had experienced outbreaks of anger where Bouhlel would shout and break things.
It is not the case that those carrying out domestic violence should be profiled as likely terrorist suspects.
However, it is unsurprising - looking at the profile of domestic abusers - that those able to justify violence against those closest to them can be capable of normalising other violent tendencies.
There are also indications that both Omar Mateen and Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had bisexual or homosexual affinities.
Although the FBI has stated there is no concrete evidence of Mateen's homosexuality, many witnesses reported that he had been attending gay night clubs for a long time - beyond what might be considered "scoping". He reportedly used the gay dating app Jack'd and had asked out a gay friend of his at one point.
In comparison, Bouhlel's mobile phone records suggest a much more open and engaged bisexual identity, using dating sites to pick up both male and female lovers and saving a range of images and videos of men and women he had recently slept with.
Both men's histories of depression, domestic violence and hidden sexual identities seem to conflict with the rigid machismo and anti-LGBT ideology of IS. However, it is exactly this worldview that alienated and disempowered individuals are attracted to.
Violent extremist and terrorist organisations, from neo-Nazi groups to Islamic extremist networks, provide an ideological justification for the subjugation and mistreatment of women.
They also provide an infrastructure for the systematic abuse of not only women, but of all those not fitting their rigid interpretation of gender norms.
In this confined and fundamentalist interpretation of the world, all of the confusion and nuance of identity, sexuality and belonging is simplified into a structure of good and evil, right and wrong.
This narrative allows those feeling frustrated, depressed, confused and disempowered to feel in control and gives them a seemingly higher purpose.
For those questioning their identity or feeling at odds with their own sexual inclinations, IS seems to show a clear pathway of how to adhere to gender roles.
IS propaganda exports a hyper-masculine and dominant male identity while glorifying the subservient female role.
For individuals already holding discriminatory worldviews and violent propensities, these extremist organisations offer acceptance and even praise for these violent inclinations.
They encourage a further expansion of these tendencies towards mass attacks against those they deem "evil".
However, in the case of lone wolf attackers, this praise and encouragement is often from a distance, with little to no direct central contact.
IS benefits from taking credit for the enhanced inclinations of disturbed individuals, playing into the group's asymmetrical warfare tactics abroad as it loses combatants and territory in Syria and Iraq.
French President Francois Hollande calls for increased attacks on IS abroad, but this will be of little help to the European threat.
Only a multi-agency approach that not only shares information between local and national authorities but also enhances capacities of mental health and social service providers will be able to adequately prevent and respond to lone actor threats of this kind.
Police officers and Scottish Ambulance Service personnel were called at about 08:20 after the boys were found in what is thought to be a fish pond.
The boys were taken to Kirkcaldy's Victoria Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
A police investigation is under way and Police Scotland has said officers are supporting the family.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "We received a call around 08:20 on Saturday following a report of concern for two children.
"Two male twins, aged two-years-old, had reportedly drowned in a fish pond and officers attended with the Scottish Ambulance Service.
"The children were taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where they sadly died.
"Officers are supporting the family at this time. Inquiries to establish the full circumstances are ongoing."
Cowdenbeath MSP Alex Rowley said: "This is awful news and it's every parent's worst nightmare.
"The loss of two young lives from the same family is heartbreaking.
"My thoughts and prayers, and those of the whole community, are with the family."
The allegation was made by Duncan Orr Ewing, one of the most senior figures at RSPB Scotland.
The landowners' organisation, Scottish Land and Estates, said the RSPB was increasingly resorting to "wild and misleading accusations".
Mr Orr Ewing has defended his claims.
Douglas McAdam, the chief executive of Scottish Land and Estates, told BBC Scotland News: "For Mr Orr Ewing to suggest that wildlife crime is returning to Victorian levels is both irresponsible and untrue. He ought to know better.
"Official statistics in recent years have seen, overall, a downward trend in raptor persecution - even at some points demonstrating record low levels of poisoning incidents.
"It is very disappointing that the RSPB, with whom we would like to work constructively, stoop to making such wild and misleading accusations."
Mr Orr Ewing is head of species and land management at RSPB Scotland.
Responding to the criticism, he said: "We have seen major intensification of management practices on many grouse moors in the central and eastern Highlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland.
"This moorland management places emphasis on increasing the numbers of gamekeepers, to undertake high levels of predator control, more frequent and extensive heather burning, veterinary medication of red grouse, and the killing of mountain hares and deer, ostensibly to prevent tick-borne grouse diseases.
"It would be far more appropriate to describe this activity as 'grouse farming', with monocultures of heather habitat producing unnaturally high grouse shooting bags.
"Indeed, we do not believe that is possible, whilst continuing to operate within the bounds of the law."
Dr Adam Smith, director of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust in Scotland, has also questioned the RSPB's claims.
He said: "In the early Victorian period there were very few birds of prey left in Scotland and that is certainly not the situation today.
"For example, the data we do have from the Victorian era suggests very clearly that the hen harrier had been driven back to Orkney and the Outer Hebrides. It was not found anywhere on estates in the Scottish mainland up to at least the 1930s.
"Today, we are pleased there are more than 400 breeding pairs in Scotland.
"For a variety of reasons they may not be distributed right across the habitats which are suitable for them, but their national recovery is clear, so I find the RSPB's suggestion very difficult to sustain.
"Neither do the numbers of grouse being shot stand up to scrutiny as being at Victorian levels.
"Our records going back to the 1900s show how the numbers of birds shot per unit area have fallen by over half, never fully recovering from the sharp decline during the second war."
Prof Des Thompson, principal adviser on biodiversity at Scottish Natural Heritage, said: "We understand Duncan Orr-Ewing's concerns; however, we feel changes need to be supported by hard evidence.
"There is now much more forest cover for predators such as crows and foxes, which means that levels of predator control are very high on some moors managed for grouse.
"These and related matters will be examined by a newly-formed SNH group. We will use the evidence gathered by the group to inform the Scottish government's Land Use Strategy and the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy, and as a contribution to the work of the Moorland Forum.
"If people suspect any illegal persecution of raptors or other wildlife associated with any moorland management, we urge them to contact Police Scotland. We must do our best to stamp out wildlife crime."
Microsoft's Cortana netted two of the deals, the others went to Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant.
The announcements were made at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
One analyst said there would be a "battle of the giants" over the adoption of virtual assistants in 2017, since they can be built in to a variety of appliances.
Nissan and BMW have opted to work with Microsoft to bring Cortana to selected vehicles in the near future.
Ford, however, has struck a deal with Amazon meaning its assistant, Alexa, will feature in some of its cars.
And Hyundai has said it will make its cars partly voice-operable with Google Assistant.
Apple's Siri assistant is already available in certain cars as well - via the firm's CarPlay software. Many brands - including BMW, Nissan, Hyundai and Ford - have produced models that support it.
Car-makers are interested in bringing such functionality to their vehicles as a means of making them easier to interact with - and to connect home appliances to drivers while they are on the road.
With Alexa, Ford plans to give drivers the ability to close net-connected garage doors, or to play an audiobook, picking up from wherever they had previously left off.
In Hyundai's case, Google Assistant will integrate with the firm's Blue Link software. Drivers will be able to start the car, adjust air conditioning, lock the doors or send destination details to the vehicle by voice alone.
A sample command given by the firm was: "OK Google, tell Blue Link to start my Santa Fe and set the temperature to 72 degrees."
BMW discussed a handful of ways drivers might use its digital platform, BMW Connected, and Cortana in future cars - including booking restaurant tables.
"BMW Connected can provide a reminder en-route of an upcoming appointment for which no location has yet been fixed," the company said.
"And Cortana can be used to make a suitable restaurant recommendation and reserve a table."
Toyota also announced a futuristic concept car at CES, the Concept-i. It features its own digital assistant, named Yui.
"It's really going to be a battle of the giants, starting in 2017," said Adam Simon, a tech analyst at Context.
"In exactly the same way that Amazon is doing a great job at the moment of building an ecosystem in the home, there'll be an ecosystem in the car," he told the BBC.
Some car manufacturers, including Ford, are already warning drivers not to be distracted when using such products.
Last year, researchers at the University of Sussex found that using a hands-free device while driving was as distracting as picking up a phone.
"In the very long play we can see vehicles becoming a real entertainment space - an extension of people's lounges," said Jack Wetherill, a tech analyst at Futuresource.
"The real endgame is we all put our feet up and watch movies, the digital assistant does the driving."
In the short-term, he said that Amazon was likely hoping to encourage more purchases of entertainment content from its online store - such content could then be listened to in the car or watched by passengers.
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In a thrilling spectacle, and with both Barcelona and Juventus attempting to claim a treble after winning domestic league and cup competitions, it was Luis Enrique's side that eventually came out on top.
Barcelona started as if they would romp to a comfortable victory when Ivan Rakitic capped the sort of passing move that has become their symbol to put them ahead inside five minutes.
Juventus, always a danger after ending notions of an "El Clasico" final by beating Real Madrid in the last four, showed fierce resilience and with veteran keeper Gianluigi Buffon defiant, held on for Alvaro Morata to scramble an equaliser before the hour.
Redemption time arrived for Suarez, the player who ended last summer's World Cup in disgrace after biting Italy's Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini, in the 68th minute when he showed a predator's touch to pounce after Buffon failed to hold Lionel Messi's shot.
Juventus could not mount another recovery and Brazil superstar Neymar wrapped up the win in what he described as the biggest match of his life with the final kick of the game.
For all Barcelona's brilliance, built around Neymar, Messi and Suarez, Juventus ran them every inch of a compelling encounter and were left with a hard luck story to tell as they were convinced they should have had a penalty when Paul Pogba tangled with Dani Alves seconds before Suarez scored.
In the end, however, Barcelona simply had that extra touch of fantasy that places them above the rest of Europe and Enrique's side can put their names alongside those who brought the giant trophy back to Catalonia as they claimed their fifth triumph in the tournament.
As well as Suarez's happier storyline, there were other sub-plots too as Neymar made up for his own World Cup heartbreak last summer, when he was injured before their 7-1 loss to Germany in the semi-final.
And for 35-year-old Barcelona legend Xavi, he was able to say farewell after a glittering career with another Champions League win before a move to Al Sadd in Qatar. It was the perfect ending as Andres Iniesta handed him the armband.
This was a wonderful antidote to the sour taste left after a week of corruption allegations levelled at Fifa, the world game's governing body.
Barcelona's opening goal could be offered up as an example of everything the club's approach to the game is based on - and actually came after two early moments that hinted at vulnerability at the back as Juventus pressed.
Nine outfield players were involved but the decisive contributions came when Neymar played in Iniesta, who picked a perfect pass in a packed penalty box for Rakitic to beat Buffon.
Buffon has rightly assumed legendary status at Juventus and proved he is still among the elite bracket of goalkeepers as Barcelona pressed for a second, showing superb reflexes to deny Alves after originally being wrong-footed.
Juventus were left with little option other than to cling on and hope to fashion a rare opportunity and they lifted the spirits of their huge banks of supporters as Morata and Claudio Marchisio threatened with efforts that were narrowly off target.
It was impossible, however, to keep Barcelona at bay with Suarez facing a cluster of Juventus defenders in retreat before shooting inches wide then forcing a fine save from Buffon.
The pattern continued after the restart with Buffon again the man to thwart Suarez low at his near post before a thrilling interchange between Neymar, Suarez and Messi ended with the Argentine wastefully shooting high and wide.
Those missed chances came at a price, an expensive one, as Juventus broke the shackles to draw level after 55 minutes.
For all the appreciation heaped upon Barcelona's artists, it was a brilliant piece of initiative from Juventus that created the goal. Marchisio's backheel released Stephan Lichtsteiner and when Marc-Andre Ter Stegen could only turn away Carlos Tevez's shot, Morata was on hand to slide in the finish.
Suddenly, the momentum was all with Juventus but they were left nursing a sense of injustice after a minute of action that saw the final swing back in Barcelona's favour.
Juventus appealed in vain for a penalty after Pogba was wrestled to the ground by Alves but Barcelona broke away and when Buffon failed to hold Messi's shot, Suarez was in position to drill high into the net before a joyous celebration.
Neymar thought he had added a third but saw his effort ruled out because he headed the ball on to his own arm before it evaded the grasp of the diving Buffon.
He found solace in the dying seconds when another Barcelona counter ended with an emphatic finish past Buffon.
Match ends, Juventus 1, Barcelona 3.
Second Half ends, Juventus 1, Barcelona 3.
Goal! Juventus 1, Barcelona 3. Neymar (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro.
Hand ball by Dani Alves (Barcelona).
Substitution, Barcelona. Pedro replaces Luis Suárez.
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus).
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Claudio Marchisio.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus).
Attempt saved. Carlos Tévez (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernando Llorente with a headed pass.
Substitution, Barcelona. Jeremy Mathieu replaces Ivan Rakitic.
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Claudio Marchisio (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Marc-André ter Stegen.
Attempt saved. Claudio Marchisio (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Carlos Tévez.
Substitution, Juventus. Kingsley Coman replaces Patrice Evra because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Patrice Evra (Juventus) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Luis Suárez (Barcelona) because of an injury.
Substitution, Juventus. Fernando Llorente replaces Álvaro Morata.
Attempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dani Alves with a cross.
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus).
Dani Alves (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Juventus).
Attempt missed. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic following a set piece situation.
Attempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Patrice Evra (Juventus).
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus).
Substitution, Juventus. Roberto Pereyra replaces Arturo Vidal.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Juventus) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Andrea Pirlo with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Ivan Rakitic.
Substitution, Barcelona. Xavi replaces Andrés Iniesta.
Attempt missed. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Two young migrant workers from Myanmar have been accused of the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.
But the investigation into their deaths has been marred by confusion and allegations of police incompetence.
The backpackers were killed on Koh Tao island in September last year.
Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo have both repeatedly stated their innocence.
Their defence lawyers have asked for the forensic evidence gathered by Thai police to be sent to independent experts.
But the judge in the case has said that he will not rule on the matter until the first day of the trial.
"I am now deeply concerned at this developing situation," said lead lawyer Nakhon Chomphuchat in a statement.
"Without re-examination of this evidence by the Ministry of Justice's Central Institute of Forensic Science, the ability of the two defendants to defend themselves against the serious crimes they are charged of will be seriously impeded."
With no witnesses to the murders, forensic analysis is likely to be central in deciding the outcome of the case, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
Thai police have described their investigation as "perfect", despite failing to control the crime scene and the flurry of conflicting police statements issued in the first weeks of the investigation, our correspondent says.
In October, both defendants said that they had been beaten by local police into confessing to the murders.
The bodies of Miss Witheridge and Mr Miller were found on a beach in the popular tourist destination on 15 September. Mr Miller died from drowning and a blow to the head, while Miss Witheridge died from head wounds.
The victims' families have said they are keen to see the "right people" convicted.
Two-year-old Loui Legend, from Brighton, has Treacher Collins syndrome, which affects the development of the bones and tissues of his face.
He was chosen as a brand ambassador for Lulas Dudes & Dolls after his mother Karly Herriott sent in a photo of him wearing one of its products.
The company has also made T-shirts to help fundraise for operations he needs.
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Loui's condition is so severe that he has to have a tube inserted into his windpipe in order to breathe, and he is fed through a naso-gastric tube.
He also has to wear a bone-anchored hearing aid on a headband to be able to hear, and is unable to speak.
Loui requires 24-hour care and faces a lifetime of hospital trips, procedures and operations.
His parents have been raising funds for specialist operations which would improve his quality of life, but are only available in the US.
The condition is also called mandibulofacial dysostosis, and it affects the head and face.
It is believed to be caused by a change in the gene on chromosome five, which affects facial development.
Characteristics include:
Most children with Treacher Collins have normal development, but benefit from early intervention speech and language programmes.
Source: The National Craniofacial Association
The club argued the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) was wrong to award sole use to the Hammers and wanted to share the venue.
Orient said the club felt "a real sense of injustice" at the decision.
But at the High Court, Mr Justice Lewis said the LLDC was entitled to make the decision which was not "irrational".
Leyton Orient had argued they did not want to "disrupt or delay" West Ham's move.
The club said they would now have to "look to the House of Lords" to find a solution.
"Our real concern is the lack of transparency that has been shown throughout the process by a public body," a club spokesperson said.
"It is deeply disappointing that both the Court and the LLDC have made decisions based only on financial considerations, when the purpose of the stadium's legacy was regeneration of the area with a community focus."
Earlier, Adam Lewis QC, representing the club, said: "Leyton Orient does not suggest that it would be viable as a sole occupant of the stadium.
"Nor does it seek by these proceedings to prevent, disrupt or delay West Ham's move to the stadium.
"Rather, Leyton Orient wishes to be allowed back into the procurement competition... and to be awarded a concession to use the stadium jointly with West Ham."
But lawyers for the corporation said the case was "unarguable" and "lacked merit".
Leyton Orient also claimed their bid for a ground-share was not considered properly.
The LLDC turned that down on cost grounds, BBC London sports news correspondent Adrian Warner reported.
In a statement the LLDC said: "We welcome the ruling and are pleased that Mr Justice Lewis agrees that we ran a fair, open and transparent competition to appoint concessionaires for the stadium.
"We believe the agreement we have with West Ham United Football Club and UK Athletics will deliver a fantastic sporting and community legacy in east London and represents the best deal for the taxpayer."
West Ham were named as the preferred bidders to take over the Olympic Stadium in December.
However Orient chairman Barry Hearn has argued the process was flawed.
Mr Hearn has also claimed West Ham moving into the Olympic Stadium - which is about two miles and one Tube stop away from Orient's Brisbane Road ground - would affect attendances at Orient games.
He has long argued the effect could be so severe it could put the club, currently top of League One with seven wins from seven games, out of business.
West Ham, who are expected to move into their new home from August 2016, welcomed the High Court's decision.
In a statement they said: "Although the application for a judicial review would not have had any impact on West Ham United's move to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the club have always believed the process was robust, fair and transparent."
West Ham said they could now focus on plans to develop the new venue.
About 1,500 chicks were discovered close to an avian flu exclusion zone on the outskirts of Crowland on Friday.
The RSPCA said it was not possible to rehome them due to the possibility of infection.
The charity said it was possible that prior to being dumped, the chicks were being offered for sale.
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The RSPCA said the chicks' farmer had been found and it was likely the birds had been passed to a third party by a "rogue member of staff" and then offered for sale from the back of a van.
They said the farmer was co-operating with the RSPCA investigation.
Insp Justin Stubbs, of the RSPCA, said the chicks were found close to an avian flu exclusion zone, which meant they could not be sold on.
"Sadly, the owner has had no choice but to euthanise them," he said.
Some were found dead, or dying, suffering from exposure and being picked off by predators, Mr Stubbs said.
Describing the case, Mr Stubbs said: "I would consider this to be one of the most callous acts I have come across in 20 years with the RSPCA."
The charity said it wanted to hear from anyone in the area who was offered any of the chicks.
Phillip Owen, 42, was stabbed in the neck and was found dead at a property in Gloucester Road, Urmston in Greater Manchester, on 30 October 2016.
Mr Owen, originally from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was described by his family as "a really likeable person who lived life to the full".
Ashley Bosson, 25, of no fixed address, is due to appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court on 23 February.
Three new laboratories in Blantyre, Malawi, will compare heart disease data with the South Lanarkshire town.
The Scottish government is funding half the £2m project by Glasgow University and Malawi's College of Medicine.
It aims to improve Malawi healthcare and shed light on the causes of poor health in parts of west Scotland.
The five-year project follows an increase in the number of Malawians with conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and arthritis.
International development minister Alasdair Allan told MSPs at Holyrood that the partnership would benefit both countries.
He said: "Although what we do in Malawi is for Malawi's sake, in many cases our partnership working has created real benefits for Scottish people too."
Prof Iain McInnes, from the University of Glasgow, said the project represented the "true spirit of partnership".
He said: "This represents a remarkable fusion of expertise in Glasgow and Blantyre, Malawi, that will allow a transformation in the way that diseases are recognised, treated and studied in Malawi."
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The 24-year-old finally succumbed to Mladenovic, ranked 43 places higher in the world rankings at 30th, with her 18th double fault of the match.
A see-sawing match featured 15 breaks of serve, with Watson converting seven of her 14 chances.
Second seed Mladenovic will play Kirsten Flipkens in the third round.
It is the first time the games will be staged outside traditional rugby union countries, with Spain's national team 18th in the world rankings.
The finals will be played at the San Mames Stadium, home of La Liga football side Athletic Bilbao.
Newcastle United's St James' Park ground will host both European finals in the 2018-19 campaign.
Both cities will also stage the final of the European Continental Shield, a feeder competition for the Challenge Cup aimed at clubs from the likes of Russia, Spain, Germany and Belgium.
"Bilbao is an excellent destination which breaks new ground for our tournaments and we see this as a big step in the expansion of our sport across the continent," said European Professional Club Rugby chairman Simon Halliday.
Bilbao is the largest city in the Basque Country, which covers part of south west France and includes Biarritz, who play in the second tier of French rugby.
This year's Challenge Cup and Champions Cup finals take place at Murrayfield in Scotland on 12 and 13 May.
There will also be higher revving and louder engines and changes aimed at making cars "five to six seconds a lap faster", governing body the FIA said.
For 2016, bosses have approved a plan to allow teams free choice of the four available tyre compounds for each race.
The changes still need to be approved by two further legislative stages.
The changes were agreed on Thursday at a meeting of the F1 strategy group, which comprises FIA president Jean Todt, commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone and the Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren, Red Bull, Williams and Force India teams. The engine manufacturers were also represented at the meeting.
The FIA statement added that a "comprehensive proposal to ensure the sustainability of the sport has emerged".
This, it said, would be refined by the teams in the coming weeks.
The engine rules, which saw the introduction of turbo hybrid engines and a fuel restriction last year, will remain stable.
This is to give clarity for any potential new manufacturers who may be considering entering the sport.
But it is the return of refuelling which will attract the most attention - the practice was last permitted in 2009.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said: "We discussed many topics. Refuelling was banned because of cost and because the pit stops were taking too long. But we want to re-explore it and see if we can make pit stops for fuel and tyres happen in the same time it takes to change the tyres now - two to three seconds.
"We have agreed to explore this avenue and the cost involved because it could be spectacular. If it's too expensive, we won't do it."
The FIA said a "maximum race fuel allowance" would be retained. Wolff said there had been no discussion of increasing the current allowance of 100kg. He and the FIA said the maximum fuel-flow rate of 100kg per hour would stay.
There has been mounting criticism of the spectacle provided by F1 in recent years and the developments are a clear attempt to address that.
Drivers have been critical that the cars are too slow - in some races they are up to 10 seconds slower than in 2004.
The FIA said this would be addressed for 2017 by "aerodynamic rules evolution, wider tyres and a reduction in car weight".
Wolff said: "We have agreed to increase the width of the cars and tyres, and have larger front and rear wings. We want to ban the driver-aid aspect of starts, so no pre-calibrated starts and have the drivers start using hand clutches.
"For now, it will be an evolution of the current cars. But there is an appetite for more spectacular aero kit. We want to follow this up but at the moment we will go for evolution and that gives us six months to agree on a more spectacular design."
The first step in improving the show will come with the freedom of tyre choices by teams next year.
Tyre supplier Pirelli said at the weekend that it had reservations about the idea but bosses have ignored this and voted it through.
They feel that providing free tyre choice will introduce variety and uncertainty into race strategy.
The FIA statement said: "All parties agreed to work together with an intention to firm up these proposals and submit them to the approval of the F1 commission and the World Motor Sport Council of the FIA as soon as possible for implementation."
A plan to allow drivers to use a fifth engine this season, one up from the current limit of four, has been rejected.
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The 26-year-old Jamaican, who has won six Olympic golds, ran 19.66 seconds to land his seventh world title.
"This year I said I wanted to be one of the greats like footballers Pele, Maradona and basketball legend Michael Jordan," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Usain doesn't need to go for fast times unless he really wants to. For him it's about the victories, but perhaps in 2015 we'll see him run world records. He needs a pressure-free season when he can just run for fun.
"He will return to Beijing in 2015 where he started his career and that could be his last World Championships.
"He needs to shake off all his injuries. It's been an intense time for him the last six years so he just needs to relax, enjoy his track and field, and chose what competitions he wants to go to to make an impact."
"If I want to be remembered I have to pile the golds on."
Bolt, who also clinched 100m gold this week, can add an eighth title to draw level with American greats Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and Allyson Felix, if he helps Jamaica to victory in the 4x100m on Sunday.
His 200m time of 19.66 seconds on Saturday was somewhat slower than the 19.19 world record he set at the 2009 championships. Bolt also holds the 100m record, which stands at 9.58, which was also set four years ago.
Asked whether he had the ability to break more records, Bolt added: "I think the door is getting tighter. Next season I have to try my hardest to stay injury free.
"My goal is to defend my titles at the next Olympics as it hasn't been done before by anyone, and this World Championships is a stepping stone towards that goal."
He stressed that any idea of him participating in the long jump at the 2016 Rio Olympics had been shelved.
"I have to be focused," he added. I can't mess around and get injured during the long jump. It's been decided I'm not going to do it."
100m: 2008, 2012 Olympics; 2009, 2013 World Championships
200m: 2008, 2012 Olympics; 2009, 2011, 2013 World Championships
4x100m: 2008, 2012 Olympics; 2009, 2011 World Championships
The world champion admitted he was tiring as he reached the final 50m of the final.
"I was slightly tired," he added. "I came out to run as fast as possible. I ran 150m good and then my legs started getting tired. My coach said that if that happens then I should back off or I could damage muscles."
Former American sprinter Johnson, who was speaking on BBC Sport, also noticed that Bolt was suffering as he approached the line.
"Bolt ran pretty well on the curve and made a nice transition on the straight and controlled this," said the 1991 and 1995 200m world champion.
"He was running out of steam at the end though - his speed endurance wasn't quite there. He will be very, very relieved that he has been able to hold off these guys this time. He basically had it won after 100m."
A second-half penalty from midfielder Arturo Vidal, Juve's top scorer in the league and their best player this season, was enough to finish off their relegation-threatened opponents and start a party that wasn't even to be ruined by former Manchester United Paul Pogba's harsh-looking red card for a presumed spit at Palermo defender Salvatore Aronica.
When referee Andrea Romeo blew the full-time whistle, Juventus coach Antonio Conte raised his hands in triumph, embraced his coaching staff, and then picked up his daughter, the aptly named Vittoria, before walking out onto the pitch.
A huge Italian tricolour with the number 31 - the number of league titles the Turin-based side claim to have won despite two of them (2005 and 2006) being revoked after the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal - was unfurled in the centre-circle.
It was a poignant moment for Conte.
Palermo were the team against whom he had marked his return earlier in the season from a suspension he strongly disputed for supposedly failing to report match-fixing while in his previous job at Siena.
Banned from the touchline for four months, it was the hardest time of his life.
By reclaiming the title in spite of all that and in front of these opponents he'd come full circle.
The date, 5 May, was significant too.
Eleven years ago to the day, Conte was the captain of a Juventus team including current goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and Pavel Nedved, who now sits on the club's board, that won the Scudetto on the final day of the season despite being six points behind Inter Milan with five games remaining.
This, it must be said, wasn't quite as dramatic as then. The biggest shock was seeing Conte, stripped to his Y-fronts, thrown into an ice bath as his players popped the prosecco in the dressing room after they'd been forced off the pitch by invading supporters, who tore out fistfuls of turf and cut down the goal nets as mementos.
An open-top bus was readied to take the team from Corso Cairoli to Piazza Solferino to celebrate with those who hadn't been able to get a ticket at the sold-out Juventus Stadium. Fans of Torino, who earlier in the day had seen a Mario Balotelli goal consign their team to defeat at AC Milan, raising fears of relegation, were in for a long night.
And yet they have to admit, even if it is through gritted teeth, that their rivals once again deserve their title.
Unbeaten in the league last season, Juventus led from start to finish in this, and although they suffered four defeats, they are only a point behind the total they achieved a year ago with three games remaining.
Were they to win all of them they'd even break the club record set by Fabio Capello's team in 2006 before the Calciopoli tribunal intervened.
"Antonio Conte the man wants to stay 100%. Then there's the professional who, as usually happens at the end of the season, needs to sit down and speak, out of respect for the fans, for the club, for the players."
Juventus, you feel, have taken another step forward. If last season's Scudetto still had a vestige of the past in the form of Alessandro Del Piero, who bid an emotional farewell at the end of it, this one gave a glimpse into the future as 20-year-old Pogba emerged, persuading Conte with his precocious performances to adapt his system so that there's a starting place for the Frenchman within it.
Which other faces and how many will be added to the squad this summer is already the source of great discussion. A deal for Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente to join in June was agreed last January. He'll arrive on a free like Pirlo and Pogba did before him, another coup at no cost - at least in transfer fees.
Conte is keen to gain a "clear idea" of the club's intentions. He has expressed his wish for a meeting this week to go over them.
"Antonio Conte the man," he said, "wants to stay 100%. Then there's the professional who, as usually happens at the end of the season, needs to sit down and speak, out of respect for the fans, for the club, for the players."
Linked with the prospective vacancies at Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, a number of Italy's sports papers have wondered whether there's a chance Conte, who signed a new contract until 2015 only last summer, may leave Turin.
A more nuanced interpretation of his comments would be that he is reminding Juventus that winning the Scudetto isn't enough. It was once, but it isn't anymore.
When Juventus appointed Conte, they supposedly had a five-year plan. In years one and two, the foundations were to be laid in order to make a team - which finished seventh in each of the previous two seasons - title contenders again.
By year three it was hoped that they'd be in a position to win it and, if they did so, further investment would come in the summer of 2014.
Juventus, however, are well ahead of schedule.
Conte won the Scudetto in his first season and has reclaimed it in his second. Should it follow, then, that their plans need to be brought forward and the money needs to be splashed this summer? Presumably that's Conte's inference.
Juventus can't allow themselves to be satisfied with the league. They must show themselves willing to strengthen in such a way as to make themselves more competitive in the Champions League and go further than the quarter-finals where they were knocked out this season, to no disgrace, by a formidable Bayern Munich.
"We've never left anything to chance, but the bar is being raised," Conte said.
The club is confident they can match his ambition. "Conte is staying at Juve," general manager Beppe Marotta insisted.
"I'll hold my hand over fire. Like us he wants to win. We've created a model that means investing shrewdly. We want to continue this trend.
"We wanted victory in two to three years and it arrived early. In Europe there's still a gap to close. Bayern are unreachable at the moment, but we'll try with Conte who's the leader of this group."
For now, though, the planning can wait. There's a title celebration to savour.
Three of the victims at the Vidal Pessoa jail in the city centre were decapitated.
The prison was reopened to house inmates from a jail where 56 prisoners died in a riot last week.
Officials say the prison violence in the state is part of a war between rival gangs over the drug trade.
It has spread to other state prisons; in neighbouring Roraima state, 33 people were killed in clashes on Friday.
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The escalating feud is between Brazil's biggest drug gangs who ended two decades of an uneasy working relationship six months ago.
The largest and most powerful gang, the Sao Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) split with the Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command when the PCC took over drug trading routes in the south-east of the country.
Members of the PCC were targeted last Sunday in the first violent outbreak at a jail on the outskirts of Manaus.
The death toll of 56 made it the most violent jail riot in Brazil for decades.
Five days later, PCC members killed 33 people at a state prison Roraima state.
Mobile phone video shared on social media showed inmates hacking at bodies in acts of revenge.
Experts say the PCC is moving to infiltrate areas in the Red Command's home base of Rio and infiltrating Brazil's Amazon region to control cocaine-smuggling river routes.
Since it split from the PCC, the Red Command has allied itself with the smaller northern regional gang, the North Family.
The government has till now used a policy of transferring gang leaders and members to jails distant from their operating territories.
Human rights agencies have argued that the measures have had little effect and have called for a programme of capital spending to relieve chronic overcrowding and appalling conditions in the country's jails.
At the request of several of the northern states governors, the Brazilian government has promised a new prison building programme to deal with the overcrowding and extra security personnel to try to quell the mounting violence.
She will leave her current post at Queen's University, where she is Professor of Creative Writing, at the end of February.
Ms Morrissey was appointed Belfast's first poet laureate by then Lord Mayor Mairtin Ó'Muilleoir in July 2013.
To date, she is the only person to hold the post.
As Poet Laureate, she read for the Queen at Buckingham Palace as well as working with schools, community groups, prisoners and writers groups across Belfast.
She was subsequently appointed professor at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University in 2015.
When contacted by the BBC, Ms Morrissey would only say that she was "delighted" at being appointed to her new post.
She is one of Britain's leading poets, having won the £15,000 TS Eliot prize in 2014 for her collection, Parallax.
She followed fellow Northern Irish writers Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney in claiming the award, which is one of the most prestigious prizes in world poetry.
She subsequently won the $20,000 EM Forster award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2016.
Ms Morrissey has published five collections of poetry, and her works include a number of poems about Belfast.
Robin Swann said such a move would lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom and would set Northern Ireland "adrift" outside the union with Great Britain.
He also dismissed nationalists calls for an Irish border poll as "nonsense".
Mr Swann was speaking at the launch of his party's manifesto in Templepatrick.
The eight-page document set out the party's key priorities for the Westminster election and the Brexit negotiations.
He said: "Special status for Northern Ireland brings with it all sorts of connotations which effectively leaves Northern Ireland outside the United Kingdom rather than inside."
Sinn Féin, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Alliance have all called for special status for Northern Ireland post-Brexit.
In response, the Ulster Unionist leader said: "Those who promote "special status" are calling for the break-up of the United Kingdom.
"It is an attempt by some to create a united Ireland by the back door."
The Ulster Unionist leader also warned against moving the border to the "middle of the Irish sea".
"There can be no passport checks for citizens of Northern Ireland arriving in Cairnryan or Heathrow," he added.
On the prospect of a border poll, Mr Swann said such a move would only serve to "sectarianise" every election in Northern Ireland.
"One of the threats I see from a border poll is not the first border poll," he said.
"It is the fact that, according to the Belfast Agreement, we get into a seven-year cycle - with a border poll every seven years."
He also attacked Sinn Féin - which is targeting the Ulster Unionist seat in Fermanagh and South Tyrone - for taking their expenses but not their seats at Westminster.
"An abstentionist MP is no MP at all, every seat not taken weakens Northern Ireland's influence at Westminster," he said.
On the stalemate at Stormont, the UUP manifesto sets out five key reforms for restoring the institutions.
They include:
Mr Swann also warned that public confidence in the institutions had been badly damaged by recent scandals such as those involving the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, Red Sky and the Irish National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
"It is outrageous that Northern Ireland has been left drifting without a government now for five months," Mr Swann said.
He added the impact on public services was starting to bite.
"While others have been preaching about respect and supposedly standing up to the Tories, the reality is that the crisis in public services has been deepening.
"Only last week, the latest health waiting times were published which revealed over a quarter of a million outpatients waiting for an appointment."
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After a government inspector found "serious shortcomings" in its original plan for 29,000 properties, the local authority announced 7,000 extra homes.
Extra development sites have been allocated, with a number of extra greenbelt sites being earmarked around Knutsford, Wilmslow and Macclesfield.
Cheshire East's revised plan will now be submitted back to the government inspector in June.
Councillor Rachel Bailey, who is due to become the next leader of the Conservative-run council, said: "We are doing everything possible to progress the Local Plan and to speed up its completion."
The authority insisted its previous plan - for 29,000 homes - was criticised by the government inspector only because the borough's economy was likely to grow faster than anticipated.
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Brown, who can play as full-back or winger, has made 104 appearances since his professional debut in 2010.
"I believe this squad has the potential to achieve a lot and that's something I want to be a part of in the coming years," said the 26-year-old.
"There's a strong team culture and we are all determined to continue taking the club in the right direction."
Brown became the 25th player to represent Edinburgh 100 times when he led the team out to face Glasgow Warriors in the recent 1872 Cup match.
He has one Scotland cap which came in the 9-6 victory in Australia in 2012.
Acting Edinburgh head coach Duncan Hodge said: "Tom's attitude, commitment and professionalism serve as a great example to those around him and we're delighted to have him around for another two years."
The pups have been counted at the Blakeney Point reserve on the north Norfolk coast every year since 2001, when just 25 were born.
The site has seen a "dramatic increase" in recent years, the National Trust said.
"Thankfully the pupping season had finished before last Friday's tidal surge," a spokesman added.
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Rangers counted 2,366 grey seal pups at the reserve since the breeding season began in November - an increase of 1% on last year, when 2,343 pups were born.
The large reserve is an area with no natural predators, making it a "healthy environment" for seals to return to each year, the trust said.
Although their numbers have been increasing, in the last two years they have become more "static", ranger Ajay Tegala said.
"Thankfully a large number of pups had already dispersed before the coastal surge last week," he added.
Seal pup numbers are also up at other breeding sites.
A record 2,295 pups were counted on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, which may have been a result of fewer winter storms, the trust said.
A further 1,959 pups were born at Donna Nook, a reserve managed by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
Grey seal pups, which are white when born, feed on their mother's milk for up to three weeks, during which time they triple in size.
Spanish police found the pair late on Sunday during a customs check at El Tarajal, near the Moroccan border.
The two men from Guinea got first aid, having suffered from a lack of oxygen, Spain's Guardia Civil police said.
Sub-Saharan Africans often try to enter Ceuta, as a gateway to the EU.
The Mercedes 300 was found to have false number plates. Police detained two Moroccan men who were in the car when it was stopped.
It is not clear how long the man in the engine compartment had been inhaling noxious fumes for.
The two illegal migrants did not have any papers, and were identified in the statement only as "TD and AB from Guinea Conakry". They are also under official investigation now.
Ceuta and Melilla are tiny Spanish enclaves on the North African coast, which have erected formidable border fences to keep out illegal migrants.
The fences have led some migrants to resort to extreme methods to get into Spain, such as swimming into the ports or even hiding in suitcases.
Last month, a Moroccan man suffocated to death in a suitcase after his brother tried to smuggle him to mainland Spain aboard a ferry from Melilla.
He was arrested on 2 November by HM Revenue and Customs.
HMRC did not confirm the identity of the "49-year-old businessman", but Mr Chappell told ITV News he had been arrested.
The tax related to the profits he made from the department store chain before it collapsed.
Mr Chappell's company, Swiss Rock, was paid at least £1.6m by BHS following his controversial purchase of BHS from Sir Philip Green.
The Guardian reported that Swiss Rock owed £365,000 in VAT and £196,306 in corporation tax.
Speaking about Swiss Rock's tax bill in September, Mr Chappell told the paper: "There was a return that was made in error; they [HMRC] have acted upon it and we are rectifying that as we speak."
HMRC began legal action against Mr Chappell to recover the sums, but he has put Swiss Rock into liquidation, making it more difficult for the tax man to obtain the funds.
He took a total of £2.6m out of BHS, including a £600,000 salary, which he described as a "drip in the ocean" to the BBC in August.
"Did I take a lot of money out? Yes I did. But did the business fail because of the amount of money I took out? No it didn't," Mr Chappell said.
"This was just a drip in the ocean compared to the money that was needed to turn around BHS."
The loss-making chain was bought by Mr Chappell last year. It went into administration in April and the last stores closed in August, with the loss of about 11,000 jobs and leaving a pensions deficit of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Last month MPs backed a call to strip Sir Philip of his knighthood for his role in the collapse of BHS.
The Pensions Regulator has started legal action against Sir Philip, his family's companies and Mr Chappell after failing to reach a deal over the BHS pension fund deficit.
The BBC understands that the regulator wants £350m in redress from Sir Philip, but he was only willing to offer £250m.
Outplay, which is one of the UK's largest mobile developers, did not disclose how much it paid for the Derby-based firm.
Eight Pixels Square is best known for titles such as All Guns Blazing, Cartel Kings and RAID HQ.
Outplay's portfolio already includes Crafty Candy, Bubble Genius and Angry Birds POP! in partnership with Rovio.
The acquisition boosts Outplay's headcount from about 150 to more than 190 in the UK.
Outplay, which has reported 55 million downloads across its portfolio of games in the past year, said the acquisition would make the company "stronger than ever".
Co-founder and president Richard Hare said: "We've known the team behind Eight Pixels Square for more than 25 years and are delighted to bring them into the Outplay Entertainment family.
"It's great to finally work together, they are an incredibly talented and experienced team.
"The addition of their capabilities and technical expertise will further enhance Outplay's capacity to innovate and raise the bar of what's possible on mobile."
Outplay Entertainment was founded in Dundee in 2010.
The car smashed into barriers in Langworth, Lincolnshire, on Thursday after failing to stop for police.
The car's driver was airlifted to hospital, with what police described as serious injuries.
An 18-year-old man, and two women, aged 18 and 19, said to be passengers in the car, were arrested.
Lincolnshire Police said a 16-year-old boy remains in a serious condition at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, and a 15 year-old boy is receiving treatment at Lincoln County Hospital.
The force said the incident has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) due to the police's involvement.
Mr Cameron said the UK was taking its fair share of asylum seekers but said he wanted to stop people getting in "without permission".
He defended his use of the word "swarm" to describe migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
But Labour's Yvette Cooper criticised Mr Cameron for "ramping up the rhetoric".
It comes as more than 40 migrants died in an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean. Officials now estimate that 250,000 people may have crossed by boat into Europe this year.
Marking 100 days since his election victory, Mr Cameron discussed a range of subjects, including July's Budget, and pledged to extend academy schools.
In an interview with BBC News, he said:
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Asked about preventing illegal migrants getting into the UK, Mr Cameron said: "A lot of people coming to Europe are coming in search of a better life.
"They are economic migrants and they want to enter Britain illegally and the British people and I want to make sure our borders are secure and you can't break into Britain without permission."
He also defended his recent use of the word "swarm" when describing migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
The Refugee Council, which works with refugees in the UK, had described his comments as "irresponsible" and "dehumanising".
But, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the prime minister said he believed voters would understand what he was trying to say.
"I don't think it does dehumanise people. Look at what Britain's response has been.
"I made sure that we sent the Royal Navy flagship to the Mediterranean which has rescued thousands of people, saved thousands of lives," he said.
But Ms Cooper, the shadow home secretary and a Labour leadership contender, told the BBC his language was "damaging and divisive".
"There is a humanitarian crisis going on because of what happened in Syria and because of refugees," she said.
She said that instead of "ramping up the rhetoric", Mr Cameron should have practical plans to work with the French to carry out a proper assessment of the migrants.
Elsewhere, Mr Cameron set out his "vision for our schooling system", saying every school in England should become an academy.
The PM said the schools improved standards and power should be in the hands of teachers, not bureaucrats.
"That is why in the first 100 days we have brought forward legislation to transform all failing schools into academies, and for the first time taken the power to convert coasting schools into academies too," he said.
Asked about complaints by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge that paparazzi photographers were going to "extreme lengths" to take photos of Prince George, he said he had "every sympathy" with the royal couple.
But he defended the stance of most British publications not to print the photos.
"What we need to do now is persuade some of these foreign publications not to use these pictures," he said.
He said he still planned not to serve a third term as prime minister, saying: "I stand absolutely by what I said."
"One hundred days in, I think people can see we are delivering the things we said we would - a tax-free minimum wage, more apprenticeships, capping welfare, making work pay. I think it's been a strong start."
Sanchez fell into the boards after an apparent shove by Ryan Bennett, although the Norwich defender denied it was a deliberate push.
"First of all it's dangerous to have a camera there," Wenger said.
"He could've killed him. He didn't need to push like he did. I think the camera position was absolutely dangerous."
Bennett, 25, tweeted after the match to give his version of the incident, writing: "Genuinely was trying to stop not push Sanchez just to clear that up."
Chile forward Sanchez landed heavily in the cameraman's area on the touchline during the first half at Carrow Road, and although he was fit to resume he was later forced off with a hamstring injury.
Before the conflict between the Saudi-led coalition, supporting Yemen's government, and Houthi rebels began, Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East.
Now, after two years of civil war, the World Food Programme says the country is on the brink of famine.
The sheer scale of the deprivation is staggering: of Yemen's 25.6 million people, almost 19 million are in urgent need of assistance, the UN says.
Almost seven million are "severely food insecure", meaning they need food aid immediately. Two million children are acutely malnourished.
"The situation is nothing short of catastrophic," says Robert Mardini, who is director of Middle East operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and has recently returned from Yemen.
"What everyone tells you is that life has become unbearable."
But despite repeated warnings about a potential disaster in Yemen, the UN's appeal for $2.1bn to bring relief is only 15% funded. Aid agencies say government ministers gathering in Geneva for the pledging conference must now commit.
"Yemen is a forgotten conflict," says Caroline Anning of Save the Children.
She believes that the focus on Syria and Iraq is starving Yemen not just of funding, but of the diplomacy needed to try to bring the war to an end, and is hopeful the conference in Geneva may finally bring Yemen the attention it so desperately needs.
"Anything that puts Yemen on the map and gets people thinking about not letting this conflict grind on is positive."
If governments do pledge more money for Yemen, the challenges for aid agencies will remain immense.
Save the Children would like funding specifically for education, pointing out that over two million children are not able to go to school because of the conflict.
The ICRC, which has been trying to support hospitals in Yemen, would like more attention to health care, which is said to be on the verge of total collapse.
Less than half Yemen's hospitals are functioning at all, and those that are face daily shortages of staff, medicines, and electricity.
But even with extra funding in place, there will be huge difficulties delivering aid. The key port of Hudaydah, which aid agencies describe as "a lifeline" for Yemen, is now virtually closed, due to a partial blockade by coalition forces, and the destruction of cranes in air strikes.
This means that about only 30% of the supplies Yemen needs are getting into the country at all.
The ICRC has given up trying to get anything through Hudaydah, and is sending supplies through the smaller southern port of Aden.
But, points out Robert Mardini, this means "restrictions and delays" as "there are 100 checkpoints between Aden and Sanaa".
Terror of life under siege in Yemen
The UN has repeatedly called on Yemen's warring parties to keep Hudaydah open, amid fears the Saudi-led coalition may be preparing an all-out assault on the port to try to deal the rebels a major blow.
"People in Hudaydah are already on the edge of famine," says Caroline Anning. "An attack would tip them over."
Robert Mardini says the possibility of a military operation in densely populated Hudaydah "is of great concern".
At the pledging conference aid agencies will warn again that help cannot come quickly enough for Yemen's people, especially its children.
Unicef has calculated that a child is dying every 10 minutes from a preventable illness.
"A malnourished child is nine times more likely to die from a preventable illness than one which is properly nourished," explains Christophe Boulierac of the UN children's agency Unicef.
"We have got to raise awareness of the terrible impact this conflict is having."
As far as funding goes, the UN may find it is pushing at an open door: government ministers do not usually attend pledging conferences unless they intend to donate.
But there is another message from humanitarian workers weary of trying to patch up the devastation of conflict, and of watching children die unnecessarily.
"The international community [has to] get its act together" says Robert Mardini. "To get meaningful peace negotiations back on track, because humanitarian aid alone cannot solve the problem."
Raucous and raunchy, it had none of the traditional elements yet felt strangely appropriate given Burns' penchant for rousing company and, of course, his roving eye when it came to women.
The action takes place on a catwalk extension to the stage which brings performers right into the midst of the tables of haggis-eating spectators, or should that be voyeurs? Great care has to be taken not to choke at the more explicit antics.
It's essentially a fast-moving cabaret show, with constant musical accompaniment by Dumfries-based bands - Novantae and Caileag - both of which perform sets of their own in between the burlesque and the bizarre.
Into the latter category falls Diane McLean, a leading member of Dumfries Community Choir and the Electric Theatre Company and a larger-than-life lady who is clearly game for anything.
Her raunchy performance of Kirsty MacColl's "In These Shoes" will linger long in the memory - or perhaps more accurately the leather corset and red frilly knickers she was wearing while singing it.
Also hard to forget was the phenomenal physical strength, artistic agility and seductive sensuality of the male-female gymnastic/dance duo Hand to Hand, or the cheekily sexual pole dancing performance of the spectacularly muscular Edd Muir...one particularly appreciated by the women in the audience.
However, the lady who added the biggest dose of spice to Le Haggis was the show-stealing exotic dancer Empress Shah.
Her near-nude performance on a hoop suspended from the ceiling of the Spiegeltent was beautiful and spellbinding - highly sexual but never tawdry - and the fact that it was performed to a haunting rendition by Caileag's Holly Little of My Love is Like a Red Red Rose put it completely into context.
Towards the end of her aerial contortions, Burns himself strode on to present the dancer with a bunch of roses which she accepted before seductively tearing off the petals with her hands and her teeth.
I do believe the Bard might, for once, have been lost for words.
As a Burns celebration, Le Haggis was daring and unique.
But what a great appetiser for the rest of the packed weekend programme the Big Burns Supper organisers have lined up.
In his first UK interview, with former justice secretary Michael Gove for the Times, Mr Trump said he thought the UK was "so smart in getting out".
Mr Trump promised a quick trade deal between the US and the UK after he takes office in five days time.
He also criticised Nato and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration policies.
Mr Trump spoke to the Times and German newspaper Bild ahead of his inauguration on Friday.
Mr Gove - who was a prominent Leave campaigner during last year's referendum - asked Mr Trump whether the UK was "at the front of the queue" for a trade deal with the US following the Brexit vote.
"I think you're doing great, I think it's going great," he replied.
The question referred to President Barack Obama's comments last April that the UK would be "at the back of the queue" if it left the EU.
"Trump said Brexit is going to happen, and it happened. Everybody thought I was crazy," the president-elect continued.
"Obama said, 'They'll go to the back of the line,' and then he had to retract his statement."
Mr Trump added: "Countries want their own identity and the UK wanted its own identity, but I do think if they hadn't been forced to take in all of the refugees than you wouldn't have a Brexit."
Speaking about a potential US-UK trade deal, he said: "We're gonna work very hard to get it done quickly and done properly. Good for both sides."
Mr Trump also talked about the recent dip in the value of the pound.
"The fact that your pound sterling has gone down? Great," he said, "because business is unbelievable in a lot of parts in the UK, as you know. I think Brexit is going to end up being a great thing."
During the interview, held in Mr Trump's offices in Trump Tower, New York, the president-elect also said he thought Mrs Merkel was the "by far the most important European leader".
"If you look at the European Union, it's Germany - it's basically a vehicle for Germany," he said.
Mr Trump described Mrs Merkel's immigration policy as a "big mistake", but said "people make mistakes".
"I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, you know taking all of the people from wherever they come from. And nobody even knows where they come from," he added.
Mr Trump also stressed that he would "start off trusting both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mrs Merkel" on taking office, but would "see how long that lasts".
Talking about international security, Mr Trump argued that he had said "a long time ago that Nato had problems".
"One; that it was obsolete because it was designed many many years ago, and number two; that the countries weren't paying what they're supposed to pay."
Last November, Downing Street said Prime Minister Theresa May and Mr Trump discussed the need for more countries to commit to spending 2% of national income on defence, when they spoke on the telephone after the US election.
And he said he believes the West should have built safe zones in Syria - paid for by the Gulf - to limit the surge.
Other topics Mr Trump discussed included his mother's "love" of the Queen.
"She was so proud of the Queen," he said. "She loved the ceremony and the beauty, because nobody does that like the English, and she had great respect for the Queen and liked her.
"Any time the Queen was on television, for an event, my mother would be watching."
He said the Bank's forward guidance policy "is working" and had helped to secure growth.
The Bank's rate policy will now be determined not just by unemployment, but by a wider range of indicators.
But Mr Carney warned the recovery was not secure and that when rates rose, they would do so only "gradually".
By Hugh PymChief economics correspondent, BBC News
August seems a long time ago. Then forward guidance on interest rates was linked firmly to the rate of unemployment. Today with the jobless rate nearly at the Bank's 7% chosen threshold, the Bank has been obliged to launch forward guidance Mark 2.
No longer will there be a single indicator. The Bank's governor, Mark Carney, said a range of economic variables would be considered, including the output gap (the gap between potential and actual output). He gave a strong hint that rates would rise only gradually to reach 2% by 2017.
The problem for the Bank is that what seemed clear last August is now rather more complicated. Households and businesses may be scratching their heads.
However, investors took this as an indication that rates could rise next year, sending the pound higher on the money markets.
Introducing the Bank's forward guidance policy last August, Mr Carney said that the Bank would not consider raising interest rates from their current low of 0.5% until unemployment had fallen to 7% or below.
He said the policy had reduced uncertainty and encouraged businesses to hire and spend.
"Forward guidance is working - expected interest rates have remained low even as the economy has recovered strongly, uncertainty about interest rates has fallen, and most importantly, UK businesses have understood the message," the governor said.
But he said the policy needed to be revisited "as a result of exceptionally strong jobs growth".
"The unemployment rate has fallen much faster than anticipated... and is likely to reach 7% by the spring," he said.
The Bank's inflation report said that the "Bank rate may need to remain at low levels for some time to come".
"Forward guidance has clearly been effective in influencing companies' expectations of when interest rates will rise and in cementing their confidence in the recovery," said Katja Hall, chief policy director of the CBI business group.
"The Bank's new guidance will give businesses further peace of mind that interest rates will stay low for some time, until investment and incomes are growing at sustainable rates."
By Robert PestonBusiness editor
Outlining the Bank's revised forward guidance policy, the governor said the Bank would now be looking at a wider range of indicators, including wages, productivity and spare capacity within the economy.
"We have taken stock," he said. "We're still looking to maintain the momentum of the recovery, but we have to make more nuanced judgements."
The Bank will be producing forecasts on a range of indicators, and these will be based on market expectations of 2% interest rates by 2017 and a first rise in spring next year.
"On the basis of the economy following the Bank's expected path, the first rate increase is now pencilled in for the spring of 2015," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
"Rates are then projected to rise to 2% by early 2017. Beyond 2017, the message from the Bank is that 'even when the economy has returned to normal... the appropriate level of Bank rate is likely to be materially below the 5% level set on average by the [Bank] prior to the crisis'".
While highlighting the UK's improved economic performance, Mr Carney said there was still a great deal of work to do to secure the recovery.
"Households are saving less and spending more and business investment is likely to gather pace this year," he said.
As a result of this improved outlook, the Bank has increased its forecast for growth this year for the UK economy to 3.4% from 2.8%.
However, Mr Carney also warned that the recovery was "neither balanced nor sustainable", and highlighted the fact that economic activity was still below pre-financial crisis levels. He added that productivity growth had been disappointing.
"A few quarters of above trend growth driven by household spending are a good start but they aren't sufficient for sustained momentum," he said.
The hosts were bowled out for 290 and Division Two leaders Essex, set 213 to win, ended day three on 16-1.
Gloucestershire's deficit of 78 was wiped out as openers Gareth Roderick (102) and Chris Dent (72) put on 148.
When Roderick was trapped lbw, that started a collapse of eight wickets for 62 runs, with Quinn (4-87) and Graham Napier (4-62) leading Essex's charge.
Essex, who lost Jaik Mickleburgh for one in the seven overs of their run chase that were possible before the close, will open up a 23-point lead at the top of Division Two if they complete victory on Saturday.
Communities Minister Paul Givan said he will introduce legislation next week to set up the mitigation scheme.
It should have been approved by the executive but as it is not functioning, he will take the extraordinary step of bringing it directly to the assembly.
Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said Sinn Féin will support Mr Givan's legislation to mitigate the tax.
However, he maintained his argument there was never any need for fresh legislation to introduce the measure.
Speaking on the BBC's The View on Thursday night, Mr Ó Muilleoir said: "It's the prerogative of the [communities] minister to get it sorted out, but he can be assured of this - Sinn Féin will support him in opposing the bedroom tax.
"He shouldn't have introduced the issue. It is not an issue - there will be no bedroom tax."
The "bedroom tax" is a Westminster government policy which cuts housing benefits for some social housing tenants.
Under the Fresh Start deal, Northern Ireland Executive ministers had agreed to fund a mitigation policy but that plan has not yet been passed by the assembly.
Mr Givan said legislation was required but Mr Ó Muilleoir argued the scheme could be introduced under existing budget powers.
Both ministers published conflicting advice which they have been given by their senior civil servants.
David Sterling, from Mr Ó Muilleoir's Department of Finance, wrote: "I am content, having taken legal advice, that from a legal perspective the 2016 Budget Act provides sufficient legislative authority to make bedroom tax mitigation payments.
Mr Sterling cautioned that the Budget Act does not provide for the terms and conditions of any mitigation scheme.
However, he added that "there is no legal reason why these matters cannot be determined administratively".
That advice was questioned by Leo Reilly from the Department of Communities who wrote that "it would be unprecedented to introduce a new welfare scheme estimated to cost around £25m per year solely on the basis of administrative action."
Mr Reilly added that his legal advice is that legislation "is the safest legal route in the present circumstances".
The bedroom tax, which the government calls the "spare room subsidy" was expected to cost those affected an average of £20 a week.
On Thursday, Mr Givan told the BBC's Evening Extra programme that he intends to bring legislation to the assembly early next week.
"I'm asking the Speaker to reconvene the business committee, so that, urgently, this can be brought before the assembly on Monday.
"I'll be appealing to MLAs to vote for these regulations in order to protect individuals, because they should not pay the price for what has been happening here in this executive, with Sinn Féin's tactics," the DUP minister added.
It will be a unusual step for a minister to bring cross-cutting legislation to the assembly without first having executive approval.
The executive stopped functioning on Monday after Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, resigned over the DUP's handling of the botched Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
Relatives of Maxine Hambleton, Trevor Thrupp and James Craig have made an application to the senior coroner for Birmingham and Solihull.
Coroner Louise Hunt will hear submissions on 12 February before making a decision on 24 February.
Twenty-one people died and 182 were hurt in the blast on 21 November 1974.
An inquest was opened days after the attack but closed without hearing evidence in 1975 after guilty verdicts saw six men jailed.
Their convictions were quashed in 1991 and the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Barbara Mills, placed a 75-year embargo on files relating to a Devon and Cornwall Police inquiry into the West Midlands Police investigation.
It means those files are not due to be released until 2069.
In March 2015, Justice 4 the 21 campaign group met Home Secretary Theresa May and Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers to lobby for an inquest. An application for a fresh inquest was also lodged with the Attorney General.
Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was the youngest of those who died, said they want justice for their loved ones.
"All we want is one thing - justice. No more, no less," she said.
"We don't want money, we don't want an apology. All we want is justice.
"We are not political, but they've made it political because they have the key to the door."
There are crucial differences which make defusing Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions much harder than removing those of the Iranian leadership.
Firstly, North Korea already has the bomb - and dismantling a machine which exists is a lot harder than preventing its creation in the first place.
The genie is out of the bottle.
North Korea has already conducted three tests of devices (detected by seismologists). It boasts of its "nuclear deterrent" in state-run media.
Accordingly, the important question is not about if but when - in particular, when might it be able to make a bomb small enough to put on top of a missile capable of leaving the earth's atmosphere and re-entering to hit distant targets.
South Korea and Japan already feel the threat acutely because North Korea has demonstrated the use of shorter-ranger missiles, and the US fears that a missile capable of reaching the West Coast isn't far away.
The second crucial difference between the Iranian and North Korean situations is that Iranians have some power over their elected leaders through the ballot box, even if they cannot remove the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who recently voiced his concern over any deal on his country's nuclear programme.
However you view the state of democracy in Iran, there is pressure from below to deliver satisfactory economic conditions.
If the people feel government policy is failing them, they can put pressure on that government to a degree unimaginable in despotic North Korea.
This means that sanctions are much more likely to work against Iran than North Korea where the people have to suck up whatever policy Kim Jong-un dishes out.
It is impossible to know from outside exactly where North Korea stands in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. There may be sabre-rattling.
Some experts believe, for example, that fearsome missiles shown off in parades may be fakes for Western eyes.
Intelligence services and politicians in South Korea and the US may have an interest in talking up the threat.
Sympathisers with North Korea may want to talk it down.
So what's our best knowledge?
Here's how Siegfried Hecker of Stanford University, one of the world's acknowledged authorities, put it: "North Korea's nuclear weapons programme has been relentlessly expanding for a decade, and poses a real and deadly threat to the rest of Northeast Asia".
Prof Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, visited North Korean nuclear plants before outsiders were completely barred.
He wrote recently in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "During my first visit to North Korea in January 2004, North Korean officials were eager to show my Stanford University colleagues and me the plutonium bomb fuel they produced following a diplomatic breakdown with the George W Bush administration.
"Four years ago, during my seventh visit to the country and two years into the Obama administration, they surprised us with a tour through an ultra-modern centrifuge facility, demonstrating that they were capable of producing highly enriched uranium, the alternate route to the bomb".
US: First nuclear test July 1945
Russia: August 1949
UK: October 1952
France: February 1960
China: October 1964
India: May 1974
Israel: Suspected September 1979
Pakistan: May 1998
North Korea: October 2006
The ability to produce this highly enriched uranium changed the calculation because it meant that North Korea wasn't constrained by the supply of plutonium.
It opened a second route.
Prof Hecker said: "The plutonium produced in the early 1990s had been tied up for almost a decade in spent fuel, which was stored safely with US assistance and kept under international inspection. Today, North Korea may possess a nuclear arsenal of roughly 12 nuclear weapons, half likely fuelled by plutonium and half by highly enriched uranium."
If that's the state of the bomb-making capability, what about the means to deliver it?
North Korea certainly has missiles capable of hitting South Korea, Japan and territories in the Western Pacific but has not demonstrated the ability to send a rocket into space and then to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and hit the continental US (an inter-continental ballistic missile).
Here's how the US Department of Defense assessed the situation two years ago (though clearly North Korean research will have moved on): "North Korea followed its 12 February 2013 nuclear test with a campaign of media releases and authoritative public announcements reaffirming its need to counter perceived US 'hostility' with nuclear-armed ICBMs (inter-continental ballistic missiles).
"North Korea will move closer to this goal, as well as increase the threat it poses to US forces and Allies in the region, if it continues testing and devoting scarce regime resources to these programmes.
"The pace of its progress will depend, in part, on how many resources it can dedicate to these efforts and how often it conducts tests".
Which brings us to the politics.
There are signs that Russia and China wants to get back to the six-party talks (involving them, the US, Japan and the two Koreas) which broke down in 2009 when North Korea pulled out.
And according to China's Xinhua News Agency, North Korea has also indicated it wants to negotiate.
The US does not believe any negotiations would be in good faith because it sees no evidence of what its diplomats call "meaningful steps" to demonstrate a real wish to renounce nuclear weapons.
The rogue card in all this is how much Kim Jong-un needs the outside world if he wants to raise the living standards of his citizens.
Three years into his rule, few can see signs of any softening of the belief that possession of the bomb gives him immense clout.
Two men filmed themselves climbing 404ft (123m) to the capstone of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire to replace a faulty weather meter.
The footage shows the breathtaking views only usually experienced by the Cathedral's peregrine falcons.
Clerk of Works Gary Price described it as a "heart in your mouth" experience which heightens the senses.
"When you climb out of the weather door it's quite wide, but the higher you go the more narrow it gets - and that is when you question if it'll take your weight, but it will," he said.
"It's quite exposed because you can see all the way around you.
"If there's two or three of you up there, and one of you moves, you can feel the spire slightly swaying. Not a massive amount but enough to notice that it is moving with the wind."
Mr Price was joined in the work by two architectural conservators and rope access specialists.
To access the top they climbed 332 steps through the cathedral's roof spaces, then a further 144ft (44m) up ladders inside the spire before climbing out of a weather door and scaling the final 49ft (15m) outside using metal hoops in the spire's masonry.
The purpose of the work was to replace a faulty anemometer, which was working intermittently, and also plug a leak discovered after the September storms.
The teddy was found in the departure lounge of the airport in 2012. It was discovered in a carrier bag, along with a photo of two children dated 1918.
After a public appeal, the owner Robert Baker was tracked down in Cyprus.
He said he decided it was time to find the bear - nicknamed Bristol - a new home.
The photograph found with the bear proved crucial in the search for the owner. On the back of it was a note to "our darling Daddie" from two children called "Dora and Glyn".
Airport staff spent months trawling flight records to see if they could find any two passengers with the same names.
After a public appeal members of the online family history forum RootsChat.com came forward. They managed to trace the family after discovering that Mr Baker is the son of the Glyn mentioned, but they were unable to discover where he lived.
The teddy was finally reunited with Mr Baker after he was sent a newspaper cutting about the story.
Daniel Agnew, teddy bear specialist at Special Auction Services, said although the bear is "very worn and tatty", having the original photo, the provenance and the airport story "adds value".
Kodjia met Joe Bryan's flicked pass to run into the box and open the scoring before the break, beating Terriers goalkeeper Jed Steer with a low finish.
Bryan then made it 2-0 and Kodjia reached 20 goals for the season with an effort from 25 yards.
Lee Tomlin then showed great control to lift the ball over a defender on the edge of the box before adding a fourth.
City went close to making it an even bigger win as Bobby Reid and Tomlin both saw efforts hit the woodwork either side of the break.
The Robins' first win in four games lifts them above Huddersfield to 18th in the Championship.
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson: "The goal [Tomlin's] had a touch of genius about it.
"We see Lee do that sort of thing in training, but it is another thing to do it in a game.
"It was the perfect final home game for us. Some of our football and the goals we scored would have delighted any coach.
"These are exciting times here and today was a great advert for our club, with the supporters and the players showing all that is best about it."
Huddersfield boss David Wagner: "It was the worst performance of the season. We were weak defensively and did not have the right balance.
"The first 25 minutes was okay, but after that it was not a good day. Every player should have his own motivation and I don't think that was the problem.
"We have shown in the past that the squad has a good fighting attitude, but it wasn't evident today.
"The players have put themselves under pressure for the last game of the season because we need a reaction to what happened today.
"They played more like individuals and not as a team."
Members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum issued their statement on the last day of the Marrakech climate conference.
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Haiti, among others, say they will update their national plans on cutting carbon before 2020.
Delegates here welcomed the move, saying it was "inspirational".
These two weeks of negotiations have been overshadowed to an extent by reaction to the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency.
But in an effort to show that even the world's poorest countries are committed to dealing with global warming, the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) members have issued a promise to fully green their economies between 2030 and 2050.
Termed the Marrakech Vision, the plan promises that the 47 members will: "strive to meet 100% domestic renewable energy production as rapidly as possible, while working to end energy poverty and protect water and food security, taking into consideration national circumstances".
The countries involved are keen supporters of keeping the global temperature rise this century under 1.5C, a target agreed during negotiations in Paris last year.
"We are pioneering the transformation towards 100% renewable energy, but we want other countries to follow in our footsteps in order to evade catastrophic impacts we are experiencing through hurricanes, flooding and droughts," said Mr Mattlan Zackhras, a minister from the Marshall Islands.
The CVF countries also pledged to update their national climate-cutting plans before 2020 and to develop long-term plans as soon as possible.
There was also a hint of impatience among CVF members with the progress being made by richer countries.
"We don't know what countries are still waiting for to move towards net carbon neutrality and 100% renewable energy," said Edgar Gutierrez, Costa Rica's minister for the environment.
"All parties should start the transition, otherwise we will all suffer."
Other negotiators here have warmly welcomed the move here at the meeting.
"The commitments made by the Climate Vulnerable Forum today are both impressive and inspirational," said Miguel Arias Canete, the EU climate commissioner.
"They have once again shown their moral leadership in this process with real-world commitments to action. These countries are already living the terrifying reality of climate change today and their very existence is on the line. The EU stands with them and their commitment to greater ambition in the years ahead."
Much of the progress towards meeting these renewable energy goals will depend on finance from richer nations. They have promised that they will contribute $100bn a year from 2020, as part of the Paris climate agreement.
However, there are concerns that any possible pullout from the Paris agreement by the US could impact that fund.
While the America has promised $3bn at present for the initial capitalisation of the green climate fund, it has only paid some $500m to date.
Donald Trump has promised that he will stop US federal dollars being spent on global warming initiatives.
"$2.5bn dollars was supposed to be in the mail, but now that the mailman has changed that might be a bit of an issue," said Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, from the DRC, who is also the chair of the group of Least Developed Countries in these talks.
"If the US pulls out and the others cut, it creates uncertainty and that can hinder ambition.
"If they have the impression that climate finance is a fluke, and nothing is materialising, then of course it is going to hinder ambition and climate action from developing countries."
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After a rain-delayed start, an innings-best partnership of 91 between Will Smith (93) and Gareth Berg (50) carried the hosts' score past 400.
Neil Dexter claimed four of the five wickets to fall in the day with his medium pace to achieve figures of 5-64.
Joe Burns (38) edged the penultimate ball of the day behind to leave Middlesex 102-3, still 311 runs behind.
Rain meant that play got under way at 14:15 BST and Hampshire lost Sean Ervine early on when he was bowled by Toby Roland-Jones after adding just one run.
That brought Gareth Berg to the crease and the former Middlesex man hit five fours and one six on his way to a first fifty for his new side, before he was caught in the deep trying to take on Dexter.
The medium-pacer then removed Smith with a bouncer seven runs short of his first Championship century of the season to expose Hampshire's tail.
Dexter dismissed Fidel Edwards and James Tomlinson to complete his third first-class five wicket haul and end the innings.
Hampshire began brightly with the ball and debutant Brad Wheal produced a quick delivery which nipped back to bowl Sam Robson, before Edwards struck with his first delivery to pin Nick Gubbins lbw.
The away side appeared to have weathered the early pressure but with the partnership worth 69 runs and Nick Compton 32 not out, Burns edged Ervine to Adam Wheater to underline the hosts' ascendency.
Corey Whitely fired over in the early stages and although Maidstone twice came close, with Jamar Loza's shot narrowly missing the target and Alex Flisher's free-kick well saved by goalkeeper Elliot Justham, the visitors went ahead.
Whitely was the provider, finding Guttridge in the area to slot past Maidstone goalkeeper Lee Worgan.
Justham again had to come to the Daggers' rescue either side of half-time to first deny Jack Paxman's low strike then Loza, who went through on goal.
The crossbar denied on-loan striker Jordan Maguire-Drew as Dagenham sought to double their lead but they claimed all three points to hand Maidstone a fourth defeat in a row in all competitions.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Maidstone United 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Liam Enver-Marum replaces Bobby-Joe Taylor.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Bradley Hudson-Odoi replaces Jamar Loza.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Yemi Odubade replaces James Rogers.
Second Half begins Maidstone United 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Paul Benson replaces Scott Doe.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Alex Flisher (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andre Boucaud (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jamar Loza (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Maidstone United 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Luke Guttridge (Dagenham and Redbridge).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Just who is this man who once spent time in jail for protesting against the father of his predecessor, Park Geun-hye?
Ms Park is now the one in prison, awaiting trial on charges she denies, while Mr Moon - the son of refugees from the North, who spent his first years strapped to his mother's back as she sold eggs to make ends meet - prepares to lead the country.
Mr Moon's parents fled the North during the Korean War. By the time he was born in 1953, they were living on the southern island of Geoje.
According to his autobiography, his father worked at a prisoner-of-war camp while his mother sold eggs in the port city of Busan.
In 1972, Mr Moon entered law school but he was not there for long.
Mr Moon was arrested for leading the protests against Park Chung-Hee's authoritarian rule. He was sent to jail, where he passed the bar and was eventually released.
By 1976, Mr Moon had been conscripted to the South Korean army. He took part in South Korea's military operation in response to the killing of two US officers, whom North Korean soldiers attacked for trimming a tree.
Six years later, he and his friend - and another future president - Roh Moo-hyun opened a law firm in the city of Busan, which focused on human and civil rights issues.
Here, his former colleague Seol Dong-il remembers him for having "a distinctly nerdy style", spending hours preparing for court.
But Mr Seol also remembers the care with which he treated those who came to him for help.
"When workers sought advice from him, Moon used to sit down for hours to listen to them," Mr Seol told Reuters news agency.
Mr Moon and Mr Roh became leading figures in the pro-democracy movement which swept the country and led to South Korea's first democratic election in 1987.
But while Mr Roh, who came from a humble farming family, entered the world of politics, Mr Moon chose to stay in Busan and continue the fight through the courts.
In 2003, Mr Roh was elected president; Mr Moon became one of his top aides - earning him the nickname "Shadow of Roh".
On the campaign trail in 2004, Mr Moon was, according to former politician Choi Nak-jeong, "very shy" and a "ridiculously awkward" figure.
Mr Moon would later appear to agree, writing in 2011: "I always felt uncomfortable. I felt that the job was not suitable for me, as if I was wearing clothes that did not fit. I always thought 'I will go back to my place, a lawyer'."
His time in Mr Roh's government - where he was tasked with weeding out corruption - was not without controversy. In 2007, he came under fire over allegations that the government of then-President Roh had consulted North Korea before abstaining from a UN vote on a human rights resolution against the North in 2007.
Mr Moon has denied the allegations.
Then, in 2009, Mr Roh committed suicide after leaving office as corruption investigators closed in over allegations he had accepted $6m ($4.6m) in bribes.
Mr Moon was deeply affected by his death. In his 2011 memoir, he wrote: "When I drink a little, I sometimes recall my old days. Then I ask myself: 'What does Roh Moo-hyun mean in my life?'
"He really defined my life. My life would have changed a lot if I didn't meet him. So he is my destiny."
Seemingly with this in mind, Mr Moon, who is married with two children, decided to take up his long-time friend's mantle after Mr Roh's death. He first ran for president in 2012, when he lost narrowly to Ms Park.
He did, however, win the MP's seat in Busan.
And then, on 9 May 2017 - more than two decades after he helped lead the country to its first democratic elections - Mr Moon was voted in as president.
What his tenure will mean for the country remains to be seen. However, finding a way forward with North Korea will be high on his to-do list.
In a book released this year, Mr Moon revealed he still dreamed of returning to his parent's North Korean home town, Hungnam.
"I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro bono service," he wrote. "When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town."
Conalgen Enterprises SA want to demolish the former Rushden and Diamonds ground in Irthlingborough.
AFC Rushden and Diamonds, created in 2011 after Rushden and Diamonds went into administration, said the area was "in dire need" of sporting facilities.
The developers have been contacted by the BBC but refused to comment.
The company submitted an application to replace Nene Park with a four storey hotel, cinema, restaurants and a food store in December.
It includes a proposal to keep a football pitch to the far end of the site.
AFC Rushden and Diamonds vice chairman Jon Ward said: "There's no ancillary structures, no changing rooms and no stands.
"It would be useful for some Saturday morning and Sunday teams, but for a team playing at our level it wouldn't really be suitable."
The club, which has 36 teams playing in the area, has formally objected to the plan.
Nene Park, which has a capacity of 6,400, was opened by Sir Bobby Robson and was seen as one of the finest non-league football grounds before Rushden and Diamonds gained promotion to the Football league.
The stadium was developed throughout the 1990s using funds from club owner and Dr Martens tycoon Max Griggs.
However, in 2011 the club went into administration and supporters decided to create a phoenix club - and within a month AFC Rushden & Diamonds was born.
Kettering Town FC briefly moved into the stadium, but since 2012 it has been sitting empty.
The application for outline planning permission will be decided by East Northamptonshire Council.
1992 - Rushden and Diamonds are formed, playing in the Southern League
1996 - Promoted to the Conference (now called the National League)
2001 - Promoted to the Football League
2003 - Promoted to Division Two (now called League One)
2004 - Relegated back to Division Three (now called League Two)
2006 - Relegated back to the Conference
2011 - Club expelled from the Conference and becomes insolvent
Bracken the lurcher was found in a garden in Wentloog, "starving, bleeding and close to death".
The one-year-old was whimpering when a passerby heard him and called the dog wardens.
Cardiff Dogs Home said: "He is such a calm, affectionate dog and would make an ideal family pet."
Dog warden Kathryn Hubery said: "When we got there we were unable to get him out so we called the fire service."
Dan Pullen, crew manager at Cardiff Central Fire Station, said: "I actually thought he was a dark dog from the amount of blood - I wouldn't recognise him at all from what he looks like today.
"The vets have done an amazing job."
Bracken is now recovering from infected wounds, dehydration, hypothermia and low blood levels at Summerhill Veterinary Practice in Newport.
He is now being looked after at Cardiff Dogs Home until a new owner can be found.
The decision was taken after one of the students, 17-year-old Ruby Rai, told a local media channel that political science was about cooking.
Video of the interview with her and other students went viral in India.
Last year, parents of students in the state were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers.
The embarrassed state government had announced tough measures like fines and jail terms intended to curb cheating this year.
The markedly lower pass rate seen in the results announced last week was taken as an indication that the steps had worked.
That is, of course, until the footage of arts student Ruby Rai's interview was aired.
The government said that her result, as well as that of Saurabh Shrestha who came first in science and was unable to answer a simple chemistry question, had been suspended with immediate effect.
The two students, along with 12 others who excelled in the examinations, will now have to appear for a written test and interview before a panel of subject experts on 3 June, Bihar examinations chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh told Indian media.
Their handwriting will also be checked to verify if they answered their own questions, he said.
AM Adam Price said there had been a "total lack of engagement" over work on the A48 near Nantycaws.
Llangunnor Community Council invited Valero to Thursday's meeting after the road was shut for six weeks and a leak spilled into the Nant Pibwr river.
Valero said it had been "in constant contact" with affected residents.
About 30 residents from Nantycaws went to the meeting, along with representatives from the county council and Natural Resources Wales.
They have voiced concerns about longer term impacts of the work and the oil spill.
Resident Aled Davies told BBC Wales the removal of mature trees near the A48 carriageway for repair work had a huge detrimental impact.
"There's light pollution, there's sound. There's a low frequency noise... it's very depressing," he said.
Valero said it had started planting new trees along the A48.
Work began on the road in September after a defect was identified in the pipeline carrying oil products from Valero's Pembroke refinery.
But the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr AM Mr Price said there had been a "total lack of engagement" from Valero, and residents had suffered "terrible stress and anxiety."
Farmer Gareth Rees said: "The long term effects on animals and ecology... nature and wildlife... is ignored and I don't see what they're going to do to solve the problem."
In a statement, Valero said it had been in contact with those most affected by the work and oil spill, including face-to-face meetings with representatives from its agent Fisher German.
The firm confirmed it was also in discussion with the community council "regarding making a donation to support a project or projects in the local area.
"This is our way of saying thank you to them for their patience and understanding throughout the incident."
They found evidence for hydrogen and helium in its atmosphere, but no water.
Called 55 Cancri e, the world is twice the size of Earth and eight times the mass - but orbits unusually close to its host star, with an 18-hour year and surface temperatures above 2,000C.
The UK team published their findings in the Astrophysical Journal.
"This is a very exciting result because it's the first time that we have been able to find the spectral fingerprints that show the gases present in the atmosphere of a super-Earth," said Angelos Tsiaras, a PhD student at University College London and the first author of the paper.
"Our analysis of 55 Cancri e's atmosphere suggests that the planet has managed to cling on to a significant amount of hydrogen and helium from the nebula from which it formed."
Astronomers believe super-Earths are the most abundant planets in our galaxy. The term describes any world heavier than Earth but not as massive as gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter.
With its very close orbit, 55 Cancri e is a particularly exotic example.
As with all extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets", the evidence for its existence comes from tell-tale, regular dips in the brightness of its host sun, 55 Cancri. This star is 40 light-years away and extremely bright; it is also known as Copernicus and forms part of the Cancer constellation.
When a planet like 55 Cancri e makes a transit in front of its star, it typically blocks about 1% of the star's light - and this happens across all the colours of light.
"The entire planet has a signal that doesn't depend on wavelength; it's just a solid body that is blocking the light," explained Prof Giovanna Tinetti, a study co-author also from UCL.
But if the planet has an atmosphere, its "fingerprint" can be detected in how the transit affects different wavelengths, as the gases filter the star's light. These signals are much smaller, dimming the star by as little as 0.001%.
Researchers studying super-Earths have never detected such a fingerprint before.
"There are just two other observations of super-Earths," Prof Tinetti told the BBC. "They found a signal that was very flat."
One of those other examples, GJ 1214b, has been studied in some detail. Its "flat" signal could indicate that it is shrouded in clouds, Prof Tinetti said, or its atmosphere might contain heavier molecules like water - as a previous study has suggested.
"A flat spectrum can be interpreted in many ways… It's hard to get more information out of it."
Consequently, a direct measurement of a super-Earth's atmosphere has never been made, and Prof Tinetti said the team is "very excited".
They based their study on publicly available data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Using a special analysis "pipeline" developed by Mr Tsiaras and two colleagues, they tested how repeated, rapid scans of the star from Hubble's wide-field camera varied across different wavelengths, during the planet's transits.
The pattern was characteristic of an atmosphere rich in light elements like hydrogen and helium.
"It's the first time that we have a direct measurement of these components," said Prof Tinetti.
There were also hints in the data of hydrogen cyanide, a chemical used as a marker for atmospheres that are rich in carbon, relative to oxygen.
This fits with previous research, based on the 55 Cancri e's mass and radius, that suggested an abundance of carbon in its interior - earning it the label of "diamond planet".
"If the presence of hydrogen cyanide and other molecules is confirmed in a few years time by the next generation of infrared telescopes, it would support the theory that this planet is indeed carbon rich and a very exotic place," said Prof Jonathan Tennyson, another co-author from UCL.
"Although, hydrogen cyanide or prussic acid is highly poisonous, so it is perhaps not a planet I would like to live on!"
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Amoo, the 25-year-old winger who arrived from Carlisle United last summer, has signed a new one-year deal.
Midfielders Stuart Bannigan and Steven Lawless are free agents this summer.
"We will not hang about forever for them," Archibald said. "If something comes up and we need to move, we will move."
Bannigan and Lawless have been approached, along with fellow midfielder Abdul Osman, by Scottish Premiership rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Lawless was also wanted by Dundee United, but the Tannadice club will be relegated to the Championship at the end of the season.
Meanwhile, Osman rejected Caley Thistle's advances and signed a new contract at Firhill.
"The players are wise enough to know that, in football, if they get something better, they will take it and, if we get something better, we will take it," said Archibald.
"I've not had a chat with Steven for a few weeks. His wife is due to give birth. Stevie is always a bit relaxed on that. He knows we want to keep him."
Englishman Amoo, who began his career with Liverpool before spells with MK Dons, Hull City, Bury, Preston North End and Tranmere Rovers, has made 39 appearances for Thistle.
"David's had a great second half to the season," said Archibald. "David is honest enough to admit he took a long time to settle in and get going, but we saw the best of him in the second half of the season and we've said to him he has got to go and kick on.
"He has given a few full-backs tough tough games in the second half of the season, so we need more of the same from him.
"He has given us a bit of pace and creativity and popped up with five goals.
"Now he knows the Scottish game and knows what is expected of him from ourselves, we are hoping for more from him next season."
Meanwhile, Osman (knee), defender Callum Booth (foot) and forward Christie Elliott (groin) and have undergone surgery ahead of their final Premiership match of the season against Hamilton Academical.
"We are hoping they are all going to be back for pre-season, whether it's the first day or not," added Archibald.
Its Southampton Transit van factory and the stamping plant at Dagenham, east London, will shut, with union sources saying job losses could reach 2,000.
Ford said it planned to close the plants next year.
The news came a day after Ford said it had started consultations on closing its factory at Genk in Belgium with the loss of 4,300 jobs to cut costs.
The firm told the unions it was looking to close the Genk factory, which makes the Mondeo and S-Max models, in 2014.
Ford said it hoped to achieve the job losses through voluntary redundancies and redeployments.
"We will address the crisis in Europe with a laser focus on new products, a stronger brand and increased cost efficiency," said Ford boss Alan Mulally.
"We recognise the impact our actions will have on many employees and their families in Europe, and we will work together with all stakeholders during this necessary transformation of our business."
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The carmaker also announced it would be investing in a new diesel engine range at Dagenham.
Ford said the decision to close the plants was taken "against a backdrop of the severe and persistent economic crisis in Europe", which had seen demand for cars in Western Europe drop by 20% since 2007 and car sales in the region hit a 20-year low. It predicted a loss for Ford Europe of more than $1.5bn (£930m) in 2012.
Paul Everitt, head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the move was "part of wider restructuring to ensure a stronger and more competitive European automotive industry".
"The immediate priority is to help those impacted secure alternative employment. The decline in European vehicle markets and the uncertain future growth prospects has resulted in a number of vehicle manufacturers restructuring their operations.
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Ford's plan to close the two plants is part of its efforts to revive its loss-making European division, rather than a reflection of the efforts and quality of its UK workforce.
Car sales in Europe have slumped during the eurozone crisis, and Ford expects the weakness to persist.
Demand for commercial vehicles such as the Transit has also fallen as many of its business customers are in difficulty.
Ford says it is eager to scale back its manufacturing capacity to match demand, a logic that might please investment analysts but will do little to comfort those whose jobs are on the line.
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"These are difficult times for the European automotive industry as manufacturers adapt to new market conditions and changing patterns of global demand."
However, unions criticised Ford for its decision and the way the carmaker went about announcing it.
Unite said the plant closures could lead to the loss of up to 2,000 jobs at Ford, with production of the Transit van moving to Turkey.
"Ford has betrayed its workforce and its loyal customer base," said the union's general secretary Len McCluskey.
"Unite is going to fight these closures. This announcement has been handled disgracefully.
"Only a few months ago Ford was promising staff a new transit model for Southampton in 2014. The planned closures will really hurt the local economies and the supply chain will be badly hit - up to 10,000 jobs could be at risk."
The GMB union said 1,000 jobs would be going at Dagenham.
"This is devastating news for the workforce in Southampton and Dagenham. It's also devastating news for UK manufacturing," said the union's national officer, Justin Bowden.
"Ford's track record in Britain is one of broken promises and factory closures."
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PerfectHome is a rent-to-own business and has 67 stores across the UK.
Hull magistrates court convicted the company of aggressive and misleading trading practices after more than 50 sets of house keys were found at the firm's store in the city.
PerfectHome said it disagreed with the verdict and planned to appeal.
It blamed a previous store manager for a "rogue practice" that was not company policy.
Under the rent-to-own model, customers take out an agreement to buy a product, and then pay weekly instalments until they own it - similar to hire purchase agreements.
Hull city council's trading standards team launched an investigation into PerfectHome after a customer complained that she had been pressured into giving her house key to them before they delivered her television.
Trading standards officers visited PerfectHome's store on Prospect Street in Hull in September 2013 and found more keys belonging to other customers.
Lizzie from Hull, who was not part of the court case, told Radio 4's You & Yours that she had to give up her keys after buying a 50-inch TV and Blu-ray player.
She said: "I just didn't have the money to buy a TV straight away. I was paying £17.50 a week for about three years."
"On the third week when I went in to pay, they said they needed my keys in case I defaulted on paying."
"I went and got the keys cut and gave them to them. I just thought it was part of the agreement."
Hull magistrates court found PerfectHome had misled customers by failing to inform them of the requirement to provide a key before they signed the hire purchase agreement.
The retailer was fined £6,000 in total and ordered to pay £10,000 in costs.
John Sandford, principal officer at Hull's trading standards team told You and Yours: "It's misleading to apply a condition if you haven't told the customer about it."
"In these cases there's a threat they're going to use the key and hold it over somebody, which is an abuse of power and an aggressive trading practice."
Alaric Smith, finance director at PerfectHome, said: "We fundamentally disagree with the magistrates court's verdict, which we believe to be wrong in both law and fact and as such will be appealing.
"The issues in the case arose in 2013, are not and never have been routine practice, and were entirely inconsistent with company policy.
"Steps were taken at the time to ensure the rogue practices referenced in the case ceased immediately. The store manager concerned is no longer with the business," he added.
PerfectHome added it would make contact with its customer Lizzie, and asked other customers concerned about the case to contact the company.
Earlier this week, MPs criticised rent-to-own businesses for charging some customers from low incomes up to 94% a year in interest to buy washing machines and TVs.
The all-party parliamentary group on debt and personal finance wants the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, to take action.
Alex and Sian Pratchett, from Oxford, created a World Cup Panini album in 2014 to avoid spending hundreds of pounds on stickers in shops.
They now hope to draw 800 stickers for Euro 2016 before the final on 10 July.
Mr Pratchett said they were raising money for charities to give them "the motivation to keep churning out our dishevelled little men".
He said he expected the "foolhardy task" to take up to six hours a day, leaving him and his wife "shells".
Their first Euro 2016 efforts were a "dreadful mess", he said, including a portrait of Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo with a "bulging neck."
The couple's 2014 World Cup album, involving 640 stickers in 32 days, was featured in news articles around the world, including Iran, Mexico and Japan.
In 2015 they turned their "uniformly awful" drawing skills to politics, sketching party leaders before the General Election.
The couple are using the latest "sticker-drawing odyssey" to raise money for the charities which employ them - Cancer Research UK and Macintyre, which supports people with learning disabilities.
They have pledged to sketch personalised pictures of the top 100 donors.
In August 2011 he stood victorious inside Col Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound after fighters from his Tripoli Brigade broke through the defences of the ousted leader's fortress.
But the victory was a long time coming for the staunch anti-Gaddafi fighter, who spent seven years in the city's notorious Abu Selim prison, where he says he was regularly tortured.
He says he and his wife, Fatima Bouchar, were handed to the Gaddafi regime by the CIA after being arrested in Thailand and transported via UK-controlled Diego Garcia.
Now he is taking legal action against former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw over claims that Mr Straw signed papers authorising the move.
It is thought to be the first time civil action of this kind has been taken against a former foreign secretary.
Mr Belhadj had fought against Col Gaddafi for many years and had been involved with an Islamist group's attempt to overthrow the Libyan leader in the late 1990s.
Libya spy papers 'show CIA links'
Mr Belhadj - known in the jihadi world as Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq - commanded the now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).
The group was formed in 1990 by Islamist Libyans who had fought in Afghanistan against Soviet forces in the 1980s.
The LIFG waged a three-year low-level insurgency mainly based in eastern Libya, and staged three attempts to assassinate Col Gaddafi in 1995 and 1996, according to Middle East analyst Omar Ashour of Exeter University.
By 1998, the group was crushed. Most of its leaders fled to Afghanistan and joined forces with the Taliban. There, Mr Belhadj is alleged to have developed "close relationships" with al-Qaeda leaders and Taliban chief Mullah Omar, according to an arrest warrant issued by the Libyan government in 2002.
The warrant says that he was based in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, from where he ran and financed training camps for Arab mujahideen fighters.
It notes that he was born in 1966 in the Souq al-Jumaa area of Tripoli and studied at al-Fateh University, where press reports say he earned a civil engineering degree.
The warrant says Mr Belhadj travelled widely, spending time in Sudan, Pakistan, Syria and Iran. He is also said to have visited Turkey, London and Denmark.
After the 11 September attacks and the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, he and most of the LIFG leaders fled that country as well, only for Mr Belhadj to be arrested in 2004 in Thailand by the CIA and then handed over to Col Gaddafi's government.
Mr Belhadj spent time in the Abu Selim Prison, before being freed in 2010 under a "de-radicalisation" drive championed by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader.
His latest incarnation as the top Libyan rebel commander, widely credited with chasing the Gaddafi family out of Tripoli, has propelled him to international attention - along with his account of being tortured under the controversial CIA interrogation programme known as rendition.
Files unearthed from Col Gaddafi's intelligence archives and seen by the BBC documented Mr Belhadj's capture by the CIA in Bangkok in 2004, and his forcible repatriation to Libya.
Peter Bouckaert, a spokesman for Human Rights Watch - which originally obtained the documents - explained the circumstances of Mr Belhadj's transfer.
"He was rendered by the CIA, he was captured, abducted together with his pregnant wife and flown on the so-called black flight to Tripoli for his interrogation," he said.
Mr Bouckaert said Mr Belhadj was one of about eight or nine suspects who were abducted and handed over to the Libyan intelligence service.
"From the files it's very clear [CIA agents] were present in some of the interrogations themselves."
In Abu Selim prison, Mr Belhadj told the Guardian newspaper, "I was injected with something, hung from a wall by my arms and legs and put in a container surrounded by ice. They did not let me sleep and there was noise all the time."
Mr Belhadj told the BBC that after the CIA and Britain's MI6 intelligence agency got him to Tripoli in March 2004, they did not witness his torture, but interrogated him afterwards.
"What happened to me was illegal and deserves an apology," he told the BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Tripoli.
In March, the BBC revealed the UK government had authorised the rendition of Mr Belhadj and his wife, though it was not clear at what level. And on 15 April the Sunday Times published an article quoting sources alleging the authorisation had come from Mr Straw.
Mr Belhadj and his wife are seeking damages from the former minister for the trauma they say they suffered.
Papers have also been issued in the High Court to sue the UK government, its security forces and senior M16 officer Sir Mark Allen for damages in the case.
UK ministers have denied any complicity in rendition or torture. Mr Straw says he cannot comment on the claims because of an ongoing police investigation into the UK's alleged role in rendition.
The CIA has previously said it should come as no surprise that the US worked with foreign governments to help protect America from terrorists.
Moderate tone
When the rendition claims first surfaced after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, Mr Belhadj said they would not stop Libya's new rebel leadership - the National Transitional Council - from having "orderly relations" with the US and Britain.
The NTC has dismissed any suggestions that Abdel Hakim Belhadj is a former al-Qaeda sympathiser, following reports in the international media as well as statements attributed to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi himself.
"NTC members have stated time and again that the revolution has no links to al-Qaeda," said NTC spokesman Al-Amin Belhadj told al-Jazeera Television last year.
"Everyone knows who Abdel Hakim Belhadj is. He is a Libyan rebel and a moderate person who commands wide respect. Unfortunately, some circles in the West repeat these claims," he added.
Asked about his Islamist links, Mr Belhadj told the BBC that he was always an anti-Gaddafi fighter, but insisted that he was never an al-Qaeda member.
He is contesting the 7 July elections as a candidate of the Al-Watan (Homeland) Party in a Tripoli constituency.
Maamoun Abdul Karim said they included the Tower of Elahbel, built in AD103 and one of the best-preserved.
The multi-storey sandstone monuments, standing outside the city walls in an area known as the Valley of the Tombs, belonged to rich Palmyrene families.
Their demolition comes only days after IS blew up Palmyra's two main temples.
The group, which captured the Unesco World Heritage site from government forces in May, has previously destroyed two Islamic shrines - those of a Shia saint and Sufi scholar - near Palmyra, which they described as "manifestations of polytheism".
The Valley of the Tombs, in the hills to the south and west of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city, contains a series of funerary towers of various sizes.
The towers were divided into compartments, or loculi, into which sarcophagi were placed before being sealed with slabs of stone carved with an image of the deceased and painted in lively colours.
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The Tower of Elahbel was among the most prominent. It was four storeys high and could purportedly accommodate up to 300 sarcophagi.
Mr Abdul Karim told the AFP news agency that he had received reports 10 days ago that the "best preserved and most beautiful" towers had been blown up, but only just confirmed the news.
"We obtained satellite images from the US-based Syrian Heritage Initiative, taken on 2 September," he added.
On Tuesday, satellite images confirmed reports that IS had destroyed the Temple of Bel, which the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) said was one of the most important religious edifices of the 1st Century in the East.
Last month, the jihadist group blew up the smaller Temple of Baalshamin and beheaded the archaeologist who looked after the site for four decades, Khaled al-Asaad, after he reportedly refused to reveal where treasures had been hidden.
Unesco's director-general Irina Bokova has said the systematic destruction of Palmyra constitutes a "war crime" and called on the international community to stand united against IS efforts to "deprive the Syrian people of its knowledge, its identity and history".
IS has ransacked and demolished several similar ancient sites that pre-date Islam in Iraq.
The sale of looted antiquities is nevertheless one of the group's main sources of funding. It has also been accused of destroying ancient sites to gain publicity.
The Syrian authorities removed hundreds of statues and priceless objects before IS overran Palmyra, among them the carved images found in the funerary towers.
The court was told both charges against Stephen Harding, 52, from Glen Vine, had been dropped.
A two-week retrial began on 3 February after a jury of seven failed to come to a unanimous verdict in December following the first trial.
On 15 February the second jury was dismissed by Deemster Birkett after a verdict could not be reached.
The charges, which Mr Harding has always denied, dated back to a period between April and September 2012 when he was a Manx government advocate.
The Chief Secretary's Office on the Isle of Man said: "The attorney general has been suspended from his duties pending the outcome of the trial.
"The position will now be reviewed in accordance with established internal processes."
A spokesman from the Isle of Man Constabulary said Mr Harding's acquittal was a "most unsatisfactory outcome from the perspective of both the complainants and the defendant alike".
"Thankfully the heavy burden as to the question of innocence or guilt is not a matter for the constabulary," he added.
"The members of the inquiry team were tasked with conducting a thorough and impartial investigation in seeking to collate the facts of this challenging case and that is exactly what they did.
"I am immensely proud of their professionalism, dedication and decorum."
But how does tennis compare to other sports? Are men's and women's sports equal?
For a long time the men and women players were treated quite differently in tennis.
Men used to be paid more prize money than women, but in 2007 Wimbledon changed this and made it equal for both.
The men and women's singles champions will collect £1.88 million.
The runner up gets £940,000.
But now the debate is on the prominence of the women's matches and whether they should get to play on the big courts, in front of the biggest crowds, as much as the men do.
Football is one of the sports which has the biggest difference in pay between male and female players. In fact in almost a third of all sports women win less prize money than men, and football is one of them.
For example, for winning last year's football World Cup in Brazil, Germany's team received about £23m - but this year the USA team that won the Women's World Cup only received around £1.3m.
This season's men's FA Cup winners, a competition watched in more than 120 countries, secured around £1.8m in prize money. But the team who won the FA Women's Cup only got £5,000.
Men's and women's races both get television coverage especially at the Olympics where both male and female cyclists won lots of medals for Team GB.
But one of the biggest cycling races in the world, the Tour de France is only for men.
Campaigners want women's teams to be allowed to compete in the race too.
In February 2014 it was announced that England would get their first full-time professional women's cricket team, like the men have.
It was a big change and meant more money invested in the team and a big pay rise for the players.
It's a big difference from what it was like in 1995 for the players.
Back then the women's team had to pay for their own cricket blazers when they went on tour!
Nash, 27, was a member of Britain's men's coxless four that won gold in Rio, securing Britain's fifth consecutive Olympic title in the event.
The three-time world champion claimed Olympic bronze four years ago alongside Will Satch in the men's pair.
"I'd like to thank everyone that supported me," said Nash. "I'm going to take a different tack professionally."
He said he would miss working with the "most dedicated, driven and dogged athletes, coaches and support staff in the world".
He added: "I'll miss exploring the limits of fatigue and laughing about it with the lads. I'll miss lining up next to the best rowers in the world and sharing that infectious, nervous energy on the start line.
"And of course I'll miss all those times I got to cross the finish line first."
Find out how to get into rowing with our special guide.
They are demanding a pension, for which Northern Irish victims of the Troubles could be eligible.
One person injured in the 1996 blast, has called on the UK government to "support its victims".
The British government said it would "consider the position in relation to victims elsewhere in the UK".
There were no deaths, but about 200 people were injured when a 3,300lb device exploded near the Arndale Centre on 15 June 1996, devastating the busy shopping area.
Greater Manchester Police have launched a fresh review of the evidence in the hope of finally finding those responsible.
The Manchester survivors have had their views echoed by the group representing victims of the London Docklands bombing in the same year, who said the government's conduct was "appalling".
Plans for a special pension for severely injured victims in Northern Ireland were included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.
However talks on the payment, which would be funded by money devolved to Stormont, have stalled at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Sinn Féin insists injured IRA bombers should also be entitled to the pension but unionist politicians strongly object.
A spokesman for the British government's Northern Ireland Office said: "Victims' issues in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the devolved administration.
"We can see a case for awarding a pension to victims who were severely physically injured as a result of the Troubles and would like to see this happen."
He added that victims of violent crime, including terrorism, in England, Scotland and Wales could be eligible for compensation through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
A victim who wanted to remain anonymous said: "I don't understand why the UK government hasn't supported its victims. It doesn't make any sense to me."
The calls, supported by victims of other IRA bombings in England. come ahead of the 20th anniversary of the IRA attack in Manchester on 15 June 1996.
Judith Thompson, commissioner for victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, said: "Geography shouldn't be a barrier.
"People are almost worse off outside Northern Ireland... because the context of what they've suffered isn't understood in the same way."
Victims of IRA blasts also say they are entitled to money from the frozen bank accounts of the late Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi as the Semtex used in IRA attacks from the mid-1980s onwards was supplied by the country.
The UK Foreign Office said: "We are determined to see a just solution for UK victims of Gadaffi-sponsored IRA terrorism.
"The new Libyan government is aware of our position, but the significant security, political and economic challenges they are facing means progress may take time."
Towards the end of Gadaffi's rule, relatives of the victims in the 1988 Pan AM flight bombing over Lockerbie received compensation from Libya as the attack was blamed on Tripoli.
The man, who teaches at a school in Bridgend county, now faces disciplinary action by the Education Workforce Council.
But the fitness-to-practise hearing in Cardiff found allegations of sex and sexually motivated behaviour not proven.
The panel will decide on his punishment at a later date.
During a two-day hearing, it was claimed the man had told a colleague that he had sex with the pupil and said: "You know [Pupil A], I've smashed her."
It was alleged the incident took place during a continental trip and that pupils had been drinking in a bar with the teacher.
Giving evidence, the teacher said he did indicate something sexual had occurred to the colleague but said it was "banter... male bravado" and that they were not speaking as professionals.
He said he did use the words "smashed her", which he said he deeply regretted saying.
But when asked at the hearing whether he had sex with Pupil A, he replied: "Absolutely not".
He said he stayed up talking to Pupil A but said there were always other people present - although he accepted it was "inappropriate" and "may lead to rumours".
The teacher's colleague said it was "entirely inappropriate" for the teacher involved in the hearing to be alone with Pupil A and there was a "zero tolerance" of pupils consuming alcohol while on the trip, regardless of their age.
He said the teacher sent him a text that said: "Worse thing is in the same situation I'd probably do it again LOL."
The colleague said he wrote a statement about what happened the weekend after returning home.
He asked for a meeting with the school head teacher and handed over his statement, and the head teacher told the hearing the teacher was removed from his classroom and suspended.
She said she spoke to Pupil A's mother on three occasions and the mother said she did not think anything sexual had occurred between her daughter and the teacher.
While the sexual allegations were found not proven, the fitness-to-practise panel ruled that the behaviour did amount to "unacceptable professional conduct".
Chelsea had moved 12 points clear with their impressive 3-1 win over Arsenal in the lunchtime kick-off, but Harry Kane's second-half penalty ensured Spurs did not cede any ground to their London rivals.
Tottenham now have clear air in second place after defeats for nearest challengers Arsenal and Liverpool, although fifth-placed Manchester City could close back to within a point when they play on Sunday.
Tottenham's seventh successive home win was secured when Kane fired home from 12 yards after Son Heung-min was hauled down in the area by Bernardo Espinosa and referee Mark Clattenburg correctly pointed to the spot.
The hosts were without injured defenders Danny Rose and Jan Vertonghen, but Middlesbrough did not do enough to put pressure on their understudies, with the visitors failing to produce a shot on target over the 90 minutes.
Boro have won just one of their past 10 matches and are being sucked ever closer to the relegation fight, with one point now separating them from third-bottom Hull City.
This will not go down as one of the great nights at White Hart Lane - far from it - but winning when playing below par is a hallmark of all great teams so there are plenty of positives to take away.
And it should not be forgotten that Middlesbrough's campaign to date has been built on frustrating the opposition, with their 12 away games so far producing just 21 goals in total.
Aitor Karanka's men have drawn six times on the road this term and very nearly succeeded in snatching a point again, and would have done so but for Bernardo's ill-judged tackle on Son, which allowed Kane to score his ninth league goal in his past eight appearances at home.
That spared Spurs the frustration of failing to score in back-to-back league games since May 2015, having been held to a 0-0 draw at Sunderland in their last outing.
The goal aside, Spurs also came close when Christian Eriksen's well-hit shot brought a good save from Victor Valdes, while Toby Alderweireld and Son both hit the frame of the goal and Kane had an effort ruled out for offside.
"We created the chances, we just weren't finishing them," said Kane. "We are delighted with the win. No game is easy in the Premier League. We'll take 1-0."
Boro's failure to get a shot on target is perhaps as misleading statistic, as they certainly applied pressure on the Tottenham goal on more than one occasion.
Alvaro Negredo headed over the bar in the first half and in the second executed a superb bicycle kick from the right side of the area that Hugo Llloris could only watch as it flashed past his right post.
Their best chance arrived at the death when Marten de Roon flashed a volley just wide, but it would have been a barely deserved equaliser had it found the net.
Boro have attempted a league-low 56 shots on target in the Premier League this season, 16 fewer than any other team, and will need to show greater ambition in the coming months if they are to pull clear of danger.
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I think in the last few games the opponents have played very deep and closed the gaps, difficult to break down. It's important the control we showed today and the chances we created.
"I don't think they had a shot on target which is also important. I think we showed we were much better and deserved the win.
"When you don't kill the game you leave it open. In the last second you can concede, that's the Premier League. Thankfully it didn't and we are happy."
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Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka: "At the end we had a few chances to score. I said at half-time the way we had to play, without pressure.
"If you are here playing under pressure against Tottenham it is impossible and at the end we had chances to score.
"The players did their best and that is the good thing. They put everything on the pitch. Again, we have to know it will be a tough season but we are showing we can compete against every single team."
A big game awaits Tottenham next Saturday with a trip to top-four rivals Liverpool their assignment (17:30 GMT). Middlesbrough host Everton the same day, at 15:00 GMT.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Middlesbrough 0.
Hand ball by Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt blocked. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Vincent Janssen replaces Harry Kane.
Attempt missed. Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Álvaro Negredo.
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough).
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Winks replaces Dele Alli.
Attempt missed. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Fabio.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Fabio.
Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Ben Davies tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko replaces Son Heung-Min.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Patrick Bamford replaces Adama Traoré.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Bernardo.
Attempt blocked. Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adama Traoré with a cross.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Kyle Walker tries a through ball, but Harry Kane is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) because of an injury.
Foul by Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur).
Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough).
Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Calum Chambers (Middlesbrough).
Attempt missed. Adlène Guédioura (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Calum Chambers.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Foul by Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur).
Fabio (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Adlène Guédioura replaces Adam Forshaw.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Cristhian Stuani replaces Stewart Downing.
Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Middlesbrough 0. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Bernardo (Middlesbrough) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Christian Eriksen.
Attempt blocked. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Calum Chambers.
Experts told the Women and Equalities Committee that online pornography had led to increased acceptance of sexual violence and harassment towards women.
A "normalised culture of sexual harassment" in England's schools meant girls were changing their behaviours, rather than boys being challenged.
And change would come only with a shift in attitude among the wider population.
The Women and Equalities Committee is conducting an investigation into the extent of sexual harassment and violence in England's schools.
Sophie Bennett, co-director of UK Feminista, told the committee: "We've heard from girls who tell us you don't leave school as a girl without being called a slut, that to wear shorts under your skirt to prevent boys revealing your underwear in the playground is just normal behaviour.
"So there is that sense of a normalised culture of sexual harassment in schools where girls don't feel able to report it and instead change their own behaviour such as wearing shorts under their skirts."
Susie McDonald, chief executive officer of the healthy relationship charity Tender, said she had asked at one London school how sexual harassment could be stamped out and had been told "if the girls can wear trousers".
"So it's about behaviour changing among girls, rather than saying, 'Boys, don't be touching the girls,'" she said.
The expert witnesses told the committee that a large part of the problem was that the wider society tolerated such behaviour towards women and girls.
"We need to be teaching not only how girls change their behaviour - we need to be addressing the harmful attitudes that underpin violence against women and girls," Ms Bennett told the MPs.
Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, research fellow at Durham University, said it was important not to look at schools in isolation.
"Teachers in schools are also living in a world where victim blaming is prevalent and where we've got all these things that are leading to this normalisation of sexual violence and harassment towards adult women.
"To fix what's going on in schools we also need to think more broadly about changing attitudes in the general population."
The role of online pornography in sexual violence and harassment was widely discussed at the committee's hearing.
Jo Sharpen, policy manager at Against Violence and Abuse, said pornography was confusing young people's perception of sexual consent.
"Young people, because they're not getting the quality SRE [sex and relationships education] that they need in schools, are looking to things like porn to get that advice, that education, and it gives such unrealistic and harmful attitudes about gender, sex and consent."
Marai Larasi, executive director of black feminist organisation Imkaan, said young people - who could now access pornography easily on a smartphone - were being given unrealistic and unacceptable messages about sex and intimacy.
"What's happened over the past few years is pornography which would have been considered hardcore pornography, which would have operated on the peripheries, is now the mainstream pornography... and involves the routine punishment of women's bodies as entertainment.
"We are doing this to our children and young people - are boys behaving in these ways because we haven't intervened early enough and we haven't helped to actually construct them as a different version of what a young man could look like?
"We are culpable - young people are simply acting in ways that we've taught them to act".
Lynnette Smith, founder of SRE provider Big Talk Education, said schools would pay more attention to issues of sexual harassment if they knew Ofsted inspectors would ask questions.
"Ofsted needs to be asking in every school, 'What is the parental involvement, what are the results you're getting from young people, what are the questions that children are asking?'
"If schools know they're going to be asked this - and it's all part of safeguarding and wellbeing - then it will happen."
Ms Bennett said: "As it stands, sexism isn't listed alongside racist, disability and homophobic bullying in Ofsted's inspection framework, and the message that that sends out is that really sexual harassment isn't a priority, you don't need to worry about it, so it's hugely important that that changes.
"Department for Education (DfE) guidance on preventing and tackling bullying and prejudice doesn't include a single resource on sexism or sexual harassment, again sending out that same message, that this is okay, it's normal, we don't need to worry about it and it certainly isn't a priority."
A DfE spokesman said no young person should be made to feel unsafe or suffer harassment.
"Schools are safe places and fortunately crime in schools is very rare, but sexual assault of any kind is an offence and must always be reported to the police.
"We are also working with leading head teachers and practitioners to look at how to raise the quality of PSHE teaching, which includes sex and relationship education."
A spokeswoman for Ofsted said: "In all inspections, Ofsted assesses how effectively schools are safeguarding their pupils - including their effectiveness in keeping pupils safe from all forms of abuse.
"Ofsted's school inspection handbook makes clear that to be judged good or better, the leadership at a school will 'take appropriate action to identify pupils who may be at risk of neglect, abuse or sexual exploitation, reporting concerns and supporting the needs of those pupils'."
In September 2015, a BBC News report based on freedom of information requests revealed there were 5,500 sexual offences recorded in UK schools between 2011 and 2014.
Within these figures, there were 4,000 alleged physical sexual assaults and more than 600 alleged rapes, according to the information from UK police forces.
Scotland Yard said the boy from Haringey was taken to hospital on 29 August but died on 1 September.
Police were contacted after his death. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a head injury. Further tests are being carried out.
On Friday, a 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed until October.
These are teams of professionals - such as lawyers, financiers and psychologists - employed to ensure the "dynastic wealth" of the super-rich.
These offices work for families worth at least £200m, says the study.
Researcher Luna Glucksberg says their role "demands scrutiny".
The study, from the LSE's International Inequalities Institute, says more attention should be paid to the rise of such "shadowy" family offices, which are employed full-time to protect the interests of their "elite families".
The study describes how they support a "bunkered" and "fortified" way of life of the "global super-rich".
Family offices have grown alongside the concentrations of the ultra-rich in cities such as London - and researchers say they have moved on a step from buying in specialist advisers.
These are full-time professional staff, which could include investment experts, property advisers, economists, trust fund advisers and lawyers, who work for a single family, in the way that a corporation might have its own dedicated staff.
The study quotes a US report from 2010 that found that 50 of the wealthiest such family offices were looking after $500bn (£407bn).
Rather than getting external advice from bankers and financiers, these family offices will keep such information private and in-house.
Their role "goes far beyond that of private bankers", says Dr Glucksberg.
"They are about creating dynasties, ensuring generational transfers of wealth," she says.
As well as maximising financial interests and investments, such family offices can look after every aspect of the private lives of their employers.
This can be everything from buying clothes and organising holidays to arranging divorces and making financial arrangements to prevent money being lost to in-laws.
The study says that for an individual family to have a family office, they would need to be worth at least £200m and probably much more.
But there are cases of "multi-family offices" - where families worth from £80m upwards could share such services.
The growth of extreme wealth, alongside poverty and low-income families, means that there needs to be more analysis of how such wealth is perpetuated, the study suggests.
These family offices "play a crucial role" in how advantages are handed on between generations, with full-time staff able to make long-term, strategic planning, says the study.
"The rise of elite dynasties, economic inequality, and the vast concentrations of global wealth in recent times means that the role of the 'family office' in our society demands scrutiny," says Dr Glucksberg.
Alexander Cassidy crashed into Wayne Strickland's car near Livingston last July, causing it to burst into flames.
Cassidy, 29, from Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, originally faced a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Judge Lord Clark banned him from driving and called for reports ahead of sentencing on 19 April.
Cassidy admitted failing to observe slow-moving and stationary traffic which had tailed back onto the inside lane at J3 of the M8 because of roadworks on the A899.
The High Court at Livingston was told his Mercedes Sprinter van slammed into the back of Mr Strickland's Peugeot car, shunting it into the vehicle in front.
Mr Strickland, who was severely injured, was trapped in his car which almost immediately exploded into flames.
Advocate depute Jane Farquhar, prosecuting, said the fire "consumed his car and its contents" before spreading to a Kia Rio in front and the Mercedes van driven by the accused.
She said: "The accused tried immediately to get in Mr Strickland's car, which was engulfed in flames.
"He had to be dragged away because it was too hot and there were fears it might explode."
She said a doctor who was in a car further up the slip road saw the fire and ran back to offer any medical assistance she could.
The doctor saw Cassidy pacing about the scene with his head in his hands.
She heard him say: "I tried the door. I tried to get him out, but the door was jammed.
"It's all my fault! It's all my fault! If I'd been able to stop, it would not have happened."
She revealed that a post-mortem examination found evidence of traumatic injuries which could have caused Mr Strickland's death.
The father-of-two, from Inverkeithing, Fife, had multiple injuries, including a fracture of the front of the skull, broken ribs and fractures of the spine.
He also had a lacerated liver and severe fire damage to all of his body which had destroyed his skin.
However, Ms Farquhar said there was no convincing evidence of combustion inhalation, which indicated that perhaps death might have occurred on impact and not as a result of the fire.
She said Cassidy "accepts that he failed to properly observe that slow-moving and stationary traffic ahead of him".
Barry Smith, defence advocate, told the court: "Mr Cassidy is most anxious I should formally express and record on this day his most sincere regret and remorse at the tragic consequences of this accident.
"Also (he wants me) to express on his behalf his most sincere condolences to the family of Mr Strickland, some of whom are in court today."
So she embarked on the road trip of lifetime and unwittingly became an internet hit along the way, when the Facebook page about her travels started attracting more than 440,000 followers.
Mrs Bauerschmidt, from Michigan, spent just over a year on the road with her son Tim and his wife, Ramie Liddle, in their motor home, before her death last week.
They had travelled more than 13,000 miles (20,900km) and visited 34 states.
The adventure began in July 2015, when, after a routine scan, Mrs Bauerschmidt's doctors told her she had terminal cancer.
It was just two days after the death of her husband, Leo.
Her daughter-in-law said: "Tim and I had lived on the road for a couple of years, and when her husband passed we did what all families do and invited her to live with us."
"She thought about it for about a minute-and-a-half and said, 'Yes'. She was ready for an adventure."
"One of the first things we did was buy a wheelchair for her, and that was her ticket to freedom," said Ms Liddle.
"From that point, on we could go out and about on outings or do whatever she wanted."
It was Ms Liddle's idea to start the Facebook page Driving Miss Norma.
"It was just so my family would know where we were, but Norma was absolutely shocked when it took off," she said.
Ms Liddle said they had travelled from place to place, staying anything from a day to a month depending on how they felt.
And as Mrs Bauerschmidt's Facebook following had grown, they had started to get invitations to lots of events and gatherings - including an Atlanta Hawks basketball game and countless people's homes for dinner in the evenings.
The family travelled across the country harvesting hazelnuts in Friday Harbour in Washington, taking part in the St Patrick's Day Parade in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, visiting Yellowstone National Park and touring the Massachusetts coast.
They took a trip underground to visit the Consolidated Gold Mine in Georgia and Mrs Bauerschmidt even managed to fulfil one of her lifetime ambitions when she took a ride in a hot air balloon in Florida.
"In the last year, we have seen the best of the best of the people in this country," she said.
Ms Liddle said her mother-in-law had been a very humble woman with no grand needs, but she had had a very clear idea about what had been important to her.
"She had a very happy last year, and was a very simple woman who had never had any attention in her life," she said.
"And that's the beauty of this story - she was just herself."
By Annie Flury, UGC and Social News team
Gareth Jones, 28, died on 30 January 2013 when a wall collapsed on him in St Albans while working for Linley Developments in Welwyn Garden City.
Trevor Hyatt, 50, of Letty Green, Hertford and Alfred Barker, 59, of Gazeley, Suffolk admitted contravening health and safety regulations.
Sentencing is due to take place on 22 September at St Albans Crown Court.
Mr Hyatt was a contractor and Mr Barker a project manager.
Mr Jones, of Welwyn Garden City, was excavating in Mile House Lane when the incident happened.
His widow Lianne, 34, said in a statement: "I didn't just lose my husband, I lost my best friend, my future and a big part of myself.
"Gareth was a devoted father and husband; he was hard working and didn't deserve to lose his life."
The couple had a son Casey who was two-and-a-half when his father died.
Mrs Jones said: "Gareth was Casey's hero... he has had to come to terms with the fact that he will never see his Daddy again.
"Gareth was one of life's good guys and his untimely death has devastated all of those who knew and loved him."
Nick Godwin, of Slater and Gordon solicitors representing Mrs Jones, said: "Gareth's death... has robbed his young son of a father and his wife of a husband."
A contraflow system and a reduced speed limit will affect the A338 Spur Road over the two-week school holidays.
Dorset County Council said suspending the project for the break would "cost around four weeks of time, and would mean us finishing at the end of June".
The authority has advised motorists to "plan ahead".
The £22m project, which started in September, is due to finish at the end of May.
It involves a re-development of the route between the Ashley Heath Roundabout and Blackwater Junction.
Irish all-rounder Mark Adair, 19, slow left-armer Sunny Singh, 19, and former Worcestershire junior Ed Pollock, 20, a middle-order batsman, have all signed.
All three players will be part of Dougie Brown's first-team squad.
"We're hopeful that giving them more experience will ensure that they continue to develop," said Brown.
"They have exciting futures in the game," added the Bears director of cricket. "Mark, Sunny and Ed will form an integral part of the squad for the 2016 season and hopefully push towards full contracts."
Belfast-born Adair, who made his first-class debut in last season's final County Championship game against Somerset at Taunton, joined Warwickshire's academy the end of the 2012 season.
India-born, Birmingham-bred Singh, who joined the academy in 2013, has been a Second XI regular for the past two seasons. He has spent this winter at the Darren Lehmann Academy in Adelaide.
High Wycombe-born Pollock also made his first-class debut against Somerset last April, for Durham MCCU.
The former Worcester Royal Grammar School pupil, who is studying at Durham University, also played for Herefordshire in the Minor Counties Championship last summer, making 227 not out against Shropshire.
Warwickshire, now under the leadership of Ian Bell, are looking to improve on a season in which they finished fifth in Division One in the County Championship.
In limited-overs cricket, the Bears came sixth in their One-Day Cup qualifying group and, as defending champions, were beaten on home soil at Edgbaston in the semis on T20 Blast Finals Day.
PM Theresa May refused to give a "running commentary" on the talks when pressed by the SNP's Angus Robertson on membership of the single market.
Mrs May said her government would not "reveal our hand prematurely" over the UK's negotiating position over Brexit.
The first minister said "there must be greater transparency" from Westminster.
Mr Robertson, leader of the SNP at Westminster and a candidate to be the party's deputy leader, accused Mrs May and her ministers of "waffle" for repeatedly insisting that "Brexit means Brexit".
During the weekly session of prime minister's questions, he pressed Mrs May to say whether she would argue for the UK to remain part of the single market post-Brexit.
She replied that she would seek "the right deal" on trade in goods and services, but added: "We will not take decisions until we are ready, we will not reveal our hand prematurely and we will not provide a running commentary on every twist and turn of the negotiations."
In a later statement at Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that she was "concerned" by this approach.
The first minister said: "I accept that while negotiations are under way there are aspects of that which have to be done behind closed doors. But I do not think it is acceptable to have a cloud of secrecy hanging over the UK government's negotiating position.
"I don't think it's acceptable to have a prime minister who is unable or unwilling to answer the simple question of whether we should remain in the single market or not.
"The UK government I suspect right now I think is using phraseology like that to mask the fact that it doesn't yet have a clue what it is seeking to achieve let alone what its chances are of achieving that are.
"But before we get too much further into this, there must be greater transparency from the UK government so people from across the UK can judge whether or not what the UK is trying to achieve meets our national interests or not."
Ms Sturgeon, who also said she did not believe that the prime minister had a "mandate" to take the UK out of the single market, proposed setting up a series of debates at Holyrood on the impact of Brexit.
She invited opposition leaders to bring forward topics for the Scottish government to raise in the talks, saying she would not accept Holyrood being "window dressing in a talking shop" over the negotiations; "we expect our engagement to be meaningful".
Responding to Ms Sturgeon's comments, a UK government spokesperson reiterated Theresa May's view that it would "not be right to provide a running commentary or reveal our hand prematurely."
The spokesperson added: "The Department for Exiting the European Union is leading the UK's negotiations to leave the European Union and establish the future relationship between the EU and the UK.
The government has committed to working very closely with parliament, devolved administrations and a wide range of other interested parties on this approach."
During the Holyrood debate, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said she was concerned about Ms Sturgeon's talk of a second independence referendum.
She said: "The first minister declares that independence will be considered if it is the best or only way to protect our membership of the EU. Can the first minister honestly tell the chamber under what circumstances and on what issue she has ever concluded that it isn't the best option for Scotland?"
Fellow Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw accused the first minister of making a "belligerent" and "self-defeating" statement.
Ms Sturgeon replied that she sought to act in the interests of all the people of Scotland, and said it was her job to be belligerent in doing so.
Labour's Kezia Dugdale voiced backing for the first minister, but questioned whether Ms Sturgeon was seeking membership of the single market or of the European Union as a whole.
Ms Sturgeon said her preferred outcome remained full EU membership.
She added: "I've said all along that I will examine all options to protect Scotland's interests. There's no doubt that what I see as the best option is to retain our membership of the European Union, and I will be working to seek to do that. But I'll also be working along the way to seek to protect all of the aspects of EU membership that we possible can.
"That's what I mean by not ruling out any options - because if it does turn out that the only way to protect our membership of the EU is to consider, and I stress consider, whether we should be an independent country, then I don't think it's right to take that option away from the people of Scotland."
Amid speculation that UK Labour Jeremy Corbyn may not support staying in the single market, Ms Dugdale later wrote to Ms Sturgeon underlining that "Scottish Labour is an autonomous party", saying she would "continue to support" the first minister's "efforts to maintain Scotland's relationship with Europe".
Beitia, who made her international debut in 1996, became the oldest Olympic champion in a jumping event as she cleared 1.97m on her first attempt.
That gave her victory by virtue of fewer failures at earlier heights, with Bulgaria's silver medallist Mirela Demireva and Croatia's Blanka Vlasic, who took bronze, also clearing 1.97m.
Britain's Morgan Lake finished 10th by clearing 1.93m on her third attempt.
"It's weird to think that I'm top 10 in the world and I'm disappointed with it," she said.
"1.97m is a height that's within me and I'm quite annoyed about that. But I have to take a step back and think that I'm only 19 and in an Olympic final."
Lake's team-mate Katarina Johnson-Thompson cleared 1.98m in the heptathlon but did not compete in the high jump.
Rio 2016 was the first time the winner had not cleared two metres since Italy's Sara Simeoni jumped 1.97m at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
Beitia initially retired after the London Olympics in 2012 but came out of retirement to win bronze at the 2013 World Championships.
The Spaniard is also a member of parliament in her hometown of Cantabria.
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Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, died in December with the People's Defence Units (YPG) in Raqqa.
When wounded and surrounded by IS fighters he turned his gun on himself to avoid capture and a "frightening and painful death", the hearing was told.
A former chef without military skills, he told family he was on holiday.
After revealing he was not backpacking in Turkey as they had thought, Mr Lock kept in touch with his family via Facebook Messenger, the inquest in Portsmouth heard.
He sent them pictures and updates on the military training he was receiving, but never revealed he was involved in combat.
But after losing contact with him last December, Mr Lock's father Jon Plater found images online of his son with an IS fighter standing over his body in the northern city of Raqqa - considered to be the terrorist group's de facto capital.
Recording a narrative verdict, coroner David Horsley said Mr Lock sustained a leg wound that left him at risk of falling into the hands of a "cruel and ruthless" enemy.
Mr Horsley added: "He was not prepared to let that happen and used his own weapon to avoid capture. That can only be viewed as a brave action."
The coroner described Mr Lock as a "heroic young man", and added: "He died doing something he quite clearly believed passionately in."
Pathologist Dr Basil Purdue said Mr Lock's cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head.
Mr Lock's mother, Catherine, said that before he left home Mr Lock had mentioned how bad the situation in Syria was, but "it wasn't something he would constantly comment on".
He became secretive, and Mrs Lock said: "Deep down, there were things setting off alarm bells but I wasn't getting the answers."
When Mr Lock revealed he was en route to Syria, to serve with the YPG as a chef with hopes to train as a medic, Mrs Lock said she "absolutely panicked".
She tried not to be negative for fear of him severing contact and told him: "I'm proud of you, but for God's sake come home safely".
The Small Blue was discovered during survey work by the NI Environment Agency near Derrygonnelly.
It is Northern Ireland's smallest and most endangered butterfly and was last spotted here in 2001.
It was believed to have become extinct, but experts say a combination of good weather and careful land management have created conditions for its return.
Field work in the area of special scientific interest where it was located has found a large number of eggs and larvae.
Bobbie Hamill of the NIEA spotted the butterfly during field surveys.
Despite its name, the Small Blue is actually a dull brown colour and can be easily overlooked.
Ms Hamill said she and the other members of the survey team had been "really excited" when, all of a sudden, six of the butterflies fluttered by.
Catherine Bertrand of Butterfly Conservation said the rediscovery of the Small Blue "was a story of hope in really uncertain times".
She said most conservation stories were usually about loss of habitat or species.
But in places where the land was managed carefully species could make a comeback, she added.
The University of Edinburgh said the findings challenged the results of previous research.
This indicated that those who undergo elective surgery at the end of the week are at a greater risk of dying.
However, the lead author of the previous research said this latest study lacked "statistical power".
Paul Aylin, professor of epidemiology and public health at Imperial College London, said the Edinburgh researchers had looked at about 50,000 admissions, compared to the 15 million cases examined in his study.
The University of Edinburgh team looked at emergency surgery cases in Scotland between 2005 and 2007.
They tracked patients' outcomes until 2012 and found that after adjustment for other risk factors, the day a patient received surgery had no effect on their short or long-term survival.
Patients who were admitted over a weekend were more likely to be operated on sooner, the study found.
More than a third of all surgical procedures in the UK are classified as emergencies. Emergency patients are eight times more likely to die than those who elect to have surgery as they are more likely to experience complications.
Previous research has pointed to a "weekend effect" in which patients who undergo elective surgery on Saturdays or Sundays were more likely to die than those operated on during the week.
Prof Aylin suggested in 2013 that the higher risk of death could be because fewer doctors, nurses and many non-clinical staff were available at the weekend.
But the University of Edinburgh said its new study, published in the British Journal of Surgery, found no evidence to link day of the week to an increased risk of death for those undergoing emergency operations.
The researchers acknowledged they had examined a smaller number of cases than previous research but said theirs was the first to analyse a "complete national dataset".
The study was funded by the Chief Scientist's Office of Scotland.
Dr Michael Gillies, a consultant and associate medical director at the University of Edinburgh, said: "Emergency surgery is associated with far greater risks than elective surgery so it is reassuring to find that patients in Scotland are receiving the same high standards of care throughout the week."
But Prof Aylin disputed the results, saying a study sample of about 100,000 emergency admissions would be needed to detect a 10% increase in mortality.
"Given that the day of surgery is dependent on resources - staffing, theatre availability etc - clinical decision-making and workload, I would question whether the day of surgery is the most appropriate point of analysis," he said.
"The day of admission is perhaps more relevant. Also, by restricting analysis to patients who had an operation, the authors of the study have excluded patients who were admitted as an emergency, but who died before they could get to the operating table."
He added: "I would question the study's rational of only focussing on first admissions in three years- this automatically excludes a number of deaths, because by definition, if you are readmitted, you cannot have died in the index admission."
Balbirnie added 75 to his overnight score before Ireland declared on 477-6 with John Anderson hitting 74.
The ex-Middlesex man's knock meant he became only the third Ireland player to record an international double century.
In reply, the Dutch were reduced to 140-5 at the close with Boyd Rankin and Jacob Mulder both taking two wickets.
Balbirnie was in sublime form as he hit 23 fours and 2 sixes in a marathon, 336-ball knock as he joined Eoin Morgan and Ed Joyce in Ireland's double ton club.
He shared a 183-run stand with Leinster Lightning team-mate Anderson, before teaming up with Gary Wilson (39) to add another 76 for the fourth wicket.
Balbirnie rounded off an impressive showing with an unbroken 60-run partnership with Mulder (38) before Ireland's declarations.
Shane Snater was by far the pick of the Dutch bowlers as he took an impressive 5-116 in the circumstances but elsewhere the batting side were thoroughly dominant.
Rankin gave his side a dream start early in the Netherlands reply as he reduced the visitors to 9-2 before an 83-run partnership between Ben Cooper and Dan ter Braak (32) repaired some of the damage.
A couple of late wickets for Mulder put Ireland back in the box seat although Cooper remained unbeaten overnight on 81 at the close.
Day three will start at the slightly earlier time of 10:30 BST as the sides bid to recover overs lost to rain in Dublin throughout Wednesday.
Despite the unusually slow early pace, Mageean held her nerve to take third place in 4:33.78 behind surprise Polish winner Angelika Cichocka (4:33.00).
Mageean, 24, very nearly ran down Dutch favourite Sifan Hassan for the silver as she claimed Ireland's only medal at the Amsterdam championships.
The success earned Mageean her first medal at senior international level.
Mageean's impressive junior career included silver medals at both the world junior and world youth championships.
Her career was then stalled by a serious foot injury but Mageean battled back after almost two years out to qualify for this year's Olympics and her medal in Amsterdam should give her huge confidence ahead of her Rio challenge.
The Northern Irishwoman confessed to almost a sense of mixed feelings after Sunday's "messy" race.
Mageean attempted to stay on the kerb throughout Sunday's final but that led to her getting boxed in on a couple of occasions and she had to move out wide on the closing straight before launching her late medal-winning charge.
"If I had a clear run on the home straight I think it would have been a different story," Mageean told RTE Sport.
"For me, it's a fantastic place to be, to be a little bit disappointed with a medal in the European seniors.
"I'm ecstatic with a little bit of disappointment. That's a testament to any athlete who wants to do even better than they have.
"I wanted to run the shortest race, get the inside line but that means it can be messy."
Mageean added that Sunday's medal win came on the same weekend of the year that she had to undergo ankle surgery in 2013.
Meanwhile, Mageean's fellow county Down woman Kerry O'Flaherty finished a creditable 12th in the women's 3,000m steeplechase final in Amsterdam.
Cork athlete Michelle Finn was the best of the three Irish finalists as she set a new personal best of 9:43.19 to finish in seventh spot.
Meath woman Sara Treacy clocked 9:45.19 to take ninth with O'Flaherty crossing the line in 9:45.88, 3.27 seconds outside her personal best set in Letterkenny last year.
Ireland men's 4x400m relay squad suffered probable Olympic heartbreak as their fifth place in the final saw them missing out on Rio qualification by 0.20 seconds.
The Irish needed to better Japan's time of 3:04.12 to earn a spot in the world's top 16 rankings which would have guaranteed a place in Rio.
However despite brilliant closing legs from David Gillick and Thomas Barr, Ireland came home in 3:04.32.
Belgium took the title in 3:01.10 as Britain, minus individual 400m winner Martyn Rooney, faded to third spot as Matthew Hudson-Smith lost their lead in the closing metres, with Poland taking silver.
A device called FlyBag is designed to absorb the shockwaves and shrapnel caused by explosions.
If security fails and a bomb reaches the luggage hold, the idea is that the blast would be safely contained.
The trials - using old jets at Cotswolds Airport in Gloucestershire - showed that explosions on board caused no damage.
The bag involves a novel mix of four different layers of material including one based on Kevlar, which is used in bullet-proof jackets.
The idea is that the bag is not only lightweight but also strong and flexible enough to handle the energetic effects of a blast without breaking.
Current designs for hardened luggage containers are based on reinforced metal and many airlines have seen them as too heavy and costly.
The FlyBag project is funded by the European Commission and is run by a consortium of institutes and specialist companies.
One leading figure is Dr Andy Tyas, a specialist in explosives engineering from the University of Sheffield and a director of the spin-out firm Blastech.
"We're delighted with the way the trials have gone," he told BBC News.
"We've previously tested FlyBag at our laboratory in Buxton but just in the open air.
"We knew the bag expanded and the question was: how much did that expansion cause a problem for the airframe? Does that become the devastating transmitter of energy itself? And what we're seeing is, it's not doing that."
I witnessed one test for myself in which a rucksack containing a bomb was placed with other luggage inside a FlyBag in the hold of an old Airbus 320.
From a safe distance, we could hear the detonation but could not see any visible effect.
After the air and dust had cleared, I was shown how the explosion had charred some of the luggage but the bag itself had remained intact with no sign of any impact on the aircraft.
The significance is that if a bomb the same size had exploded during a flight, it would not have been catastrophic and any passengers on board would have survived.
In engineering terms, the bag is designed to cope with four separate effects of a bomb - each requiring different characteristics in response.
The first airline to show interest is the Italian carrier Meridiana.
It is hoping to certify a type of FlyBag that would hang inside the luggage compartment of narrow-body jets.
A second kind will line the luggage containers that are loaded onto wide-body planes. And a third, much smaller type is designed to be ready inside the cabin in case a passenger is found with a bomb.
"We have all the ingredients to go to market - we just needed these latest tests to prove the system," said project coordinator Donato Zangani, of the Italian consulting company D'Appolonia.
"The technology of the materials is not new but the combination of them is novel - and the trick is to be able to have a fabric only 1.3mm thick but also absorb the pressure in a predictable way," Mr Zangani told BBC News.
"It's about staying one step ahead."
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The picture appeared to reveal collaborations with Drake, Big Sean and Nicki Minaj.
But the singer's label Roc Nation has told Newsbeat the image is "totally fake".
Well as far as Newsbeat can see, it first appeared on EnvytheDJ.com in a photo gallery of the star, last week.
There have been various rumours surrounding the singer's eight album, with some stemming from a series of tweets the 26-year-old posted in May which were followed by "#Barz".
Some suggested this may the title of an upcoming track.
Rihanna has six top 10 UK albums to her name including four number ones.
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The Glasgow-based firm, which assembles generators at a plant in Dumbarton, also said revenue for the first six months was down 12% to £661m.
Reasons for the slump include the weaker state of the North American energy industry and refining markets. Revenue in that sector was down 20%.
The firm has also had costs associated with a troubled contract in Bangladesh.
It has also set aside an extra $17m (£13m) for bad debt in supplying power to Venezuela.
Aggreko said, however, that it had been winning larger orders for generating capacity to make up for power shortfalls in other developing nations, including Brazil and Zimbabwe.
Its half-year figures also show that supply of temporary power to industry has been stronger in Europe and Australia-Pacific.
There has also been growth in orders from Russia, Africa and the Middle East, despite the low oil price.
Aggreko chief executive Chris Weston said: "The trading environment in this first six months has been difficult, with the lower oil price continuing to impact a number of our markets.
"We are holding our guidance for the full year while recognising the importance of securing key contract extensions".
Aggreko has repeatedly been the major supplier of temporary power to the major sporting events but pulled out of bidding for contracts linked to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games due to delays and uncertainty.
The hosts won Friday's first one-day international by two wickets and this result puts them 2-0 up in the three-match series.
Paul Stirling (72) and Gary Wilson (65) were the top contributors as the Irish finished on 268-7.
Zimbabwe won with nine balls to spare, Ervine hitting 101 from 174 balls while Sean Williams added 43.
Ireland increased their run-rate from Thursday and with Kevin O'Brien chipping in with a half-century, they gave themselves a good chance of levelling the series.
Sikandar Raza was the stand-out bowler for Zimbabwe, his three wickets coming at a cost of 49 runs.
Zimbabwe reached the target with ease and Ervine followed up his 60 in the opener with another impressive display.
It was a tough day for the Irish attack with all-rounder O'Brien picking up two wickets.
Zimbabwe moved above Ireland in the ODI rankings into 10th place with Friday's victory and will remain above the tourists even if they lose Tuesday's final game.
South Africa's currency fell close to a record low against the dollar on Thursday morning as the markets were digesting the news.
BBC Africa business reporter Lerato Mbele says that Nhalnhla Nene's attempt to rein in spending may have unsettled some people loyal to the president.
The sacking comes as South Africa's economy is struggling to grow.
President Zuma said Mr Nene was being moved to "another strategic position", but did not elaborate on the reasons behind the decision.
He has replaced him with the relatively unknown David van Rooyen.
The rand fell to below 15 to the dollar on Thursday morning and stock prices also fell in Johannesburg as trading began, Reuters reports.
"The removal of a technocratically sound, decent, hard-working, well respected, fiscally conservative and reform-minded finance minister is a serious blow," Peter Montalto, an analyst at Nomura, told the AFP news agency.
South Africa's main opposition leader Mmusi Maimane criticised the sacking on Twitter saying that Mr Zuma "has again proven himself to be a President incapable of making the right decisions".
Another opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, said the president appointed Mr Van Rooyen because he knows he "will not stand up to him when he wants to do wrong things".
Shock, surprise and sarcasm dominate the reaction to the sacking of Mr Nene.
A cartoon called "Zuma's wrecking ball" of the president's head, cast in stone, butting everything in sight is being widely shared on social media.
The general feeling is that President Zuma has dismissed a minister who stood for integrity and prudence in managing the country's finances.
Although Mr Nene was finance minister for just over 18 months, he has already been able to stand his ground on issues of wasteful government expenditure.
He has openly criticised wage increases for public servants; questioned the management of public utilities; opposed a bailout for the national airline and did not approve a proposal to buy the president a new private jet.
In the main, investors regarded him as a safe pair of hands steering South Africa's economy in uncharted waters, especially in the midst of the recent global volatility and the steep decline in commodity prices.
South Africa's finance ministry has come under "the most intense political pressure in recent months", reports the economic news website Fin24.
It suggests that Mr Nene's removal was down to his lack of "politcal clout".
He was seen as one of the few people in government to oppose certain spending plans, including a programme to build new nuclear plants, reports Business Day newspaper.
Last week, two credit ratings agencies downgraded their assessments of South Africa.
Fitch reduced its rating to just above junk status and Standard and Poor's moved its outlook from stable to negative.
Unemployment in South Africa is above 25% and the economy is growing very slowly.
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Leigh Halfpenny kicked Wales into an early 12-0 lead but three Johnny Sexton penalties cut Ireland's deficit to 15-9 in a pulsating first half.
Wales defended heroically after the restart, before Scott Williams scored a crucial try.
A late penalty try gave Ireland hope, but Wales held firm.
Wales may only have a slim chance of winning a fifth Six Nations title in 11 seasons, but this dramatic win against Ireland was a significant one.
And, after a week where coaches and former players spoke about their worry that rugby was becoming boring, this nerve-shredding match was the perfect riposte.
As reigning champions and current Six Nations leaders, Ireland were marginal favourites for this eagerly anticipated encounter.
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Their march to the top of the table had not been universally popular, however, with head coach Joe Schmidt's approach leading some commentators to describe their domination as dour.
In a start akin to Ireland's win over England, Wales stifled their opponents with ferocious physicality in defence and ruthless efficiency with the ball, racing into an early 12-0 lead thanks to four Halfpenny penalties.
Ireland eventually composed themselves and two Sexton penalties halved their deficit. A yellow card for Wales captain Sam Warburton seemed to swing the momentum in Ireland's favour, but a Dan Biggar drop-goal cancelled out another Sexton penalty to give Wales a 15-9 half-time lead.
Wales had to repel a torrent of Irish pressure with some bloody-minded defending. And when they eventually forced a turnover, their efforts were greeted by the kind of roar usually reserved for a World Cup win.
Buoyed by the sheer noise of the Millennium Stadium, Wales sparked into life as an attacking force and replacement centre Williams made the breakthrough as he feigned a pass and dived over.
Halfpenny missed his conversion, and Wales soon found themselves on the back foot again.
A rolling maul rumbled towards the Welsh try line and, after judging Wales to have brought it down illegally, referee Wayne Barnes awarded Ireland a penalty try.
Halfpenny eased Welsh nerves with a fifth penalty to make it 23-16, but the home crowd were given a tense finish when Davies was sin-binned with only two minutes left.
Wales: 15-Leigh Halfpenny, 14-George North, 13-Jonathan Davies, 12-Jamie Roberts, 11-Liam Williams, 10-Dan Biggar, 9-Rhys Webb; 1-Gethin Jenkins, 2-Scott Baldwin, 3-Samson Lee, 4-Luke Charteris, 5-Alun Wyn Jones, 6-Dan Lydiate, 7-Sam Warburton (captain), 8-Toby Faletau.
Replacements: Jarvis for Lee (12), Evans for Jenkins (40), Hibbard for Baldwin (56), Williams for Roberts (59), Phillips for Webb (68), Tipuric for Lydiate (68), Ball for Wyn Jones (71), Baldwin for Hibbard (78).
Sin bin: Warburton (27), Davies (77).
Ireland: 15-Rob Kearney, 14-Tommy Bowe, 13-Jared Payne, 12-Robbie Henshaw, 11-Simon Zebo, 10-Johnny Sexton, 9-Conor Murray; 1-Jack McGrath, 2-Rory Best, 3-Mike Ross, 4-Devin Toner, 5-Paul O'Connell, 6-Peter O'Mahony, 7-Sean O'Brien, 8-Jamie Heaslip.
Replacements: Healy for McGrath (56), Reddan for Murray (62), Cronin for Best (62), Moore for Ross (62), Henderson for Toner (62), Murphy for Heaslip (71), Madigan for Sexton (74).
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Touch judges: Jerome Garces (France) & Federico Anselmi (Argentina)
TMO: Graham Hughes (England)
He declared his sexuality in an article for Sports Illustrated, announcing: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay."
President Barack Obama, NBA star Kobe Bryant and sportswear company Nike were among those expressing public support.
Former NBA player John Amaechi came out in 2007, but had already retired.
On Monday, Mr Obama, who last year announced his support for gay marriage, called Collins to tell him he was impressed with his courage and offer his support, the White House said.
Former President Bill Clinton called the move "an important moment for professional sports and in the history of the LGBT community".
His daughter, Chelsea, who knew Collins when they were both students at California's Stanford University, tweeted: "Very proud of my friend Jason Collins for having the strength and courage to be the first openly gay player in the NBA."
NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement: "Jason has been a widely respected player and teammate throughout his career and we are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue."
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was among several of Collins's fellow NBA players to offer his support publicly.
"Don't suffocate who u r because of the ignorance of others," Bryant tweeted, followed by the words "courage" and "support".
Sportswear company Nike, which has endorsed Collins, also supported his decision.
"Jason is a Nike athlete," its statement said. "We are a company committed to diversity and inclusion."
The reaction was not entirely welcoming: An analyst for sports broadcaster ESPN, Chris Broussard, said on Monday he did not believe that "you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle" and be a Christian. Collins had written in the article that he took "the teachings of Jesus seriously".
In the Sports Illustrated article, Collins, who has most recently played for the Washington Wizards and the Boston Celtics, said: "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.
"But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand."
He added that this month's bombings at the Boston Marathon had reinforced his conclusion that he should talk publicly about his sexuality.
"Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?" Collins wrote.
Collins, who has played 11 seasons in the NBA with six teams and is not currently attached to a team, said he had tried to suppress his feelings through relationships with women.
"When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged," he said. "I thought I had to live a certain way.
"I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue."
Collins said he decided he should go public after his former roommate at Stanford University, Congressman Joe Kennedy, scion of the Kennedy political dynasty, marched in a Boston gay pride parade.
As basketball player at Stanford, Collins competed in the national collegiate championship tournament, reaching the fourth round. He has also played in two NBA finals. His twin brother, Jarron, is a former NBA player.
Collins explained that in 2012 he changed his uniform number to 98 - a number with significance for the gay community in the US - as a gesture of solidarity.
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally killed in what has been cited as one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in the US.
Several male athletes have previously come out after retirement, including Amaechi, the NFL's Esera Tuaolo and Major League Baseball's Billy Bean. Collins is the first to do so while active in sport.
Anglesey council used to run tours of South Stack lighthouse but surrendered its lease on the building in March.
A new not-for-profit organisation, Ynys Lawd Heritage Group, said it has struck a deal with owners Trinity House and hopes to welcome visitors again within a few weeks.
Trinity House said it was still in the last stages of the tender process.
The local authority gave notice on the lease in November 2016 as part of a plan to make almost £3m of budget savings.
It was estimated the move would save about £13,000 in running costs.
John Cave, one of eight members of the new heritage group, said they were waiting on final paperwork from Trinity House but aimed to start running tours "within four weeks".
"We feel the lighthouse is a gem, for Anglesey and for Wales," he said.
"We all thought it would be a great shame if it was to close to the public so we formed this group.
"We will keep on the six part-time guides who worked here and any profit we make will be reinvested into South Stack and into other local community projects."
The 91ft (28m) lighthouse was built just off Holy Island in 1809 and is visible for 28 miles out to sea.
It attracts up to up to 19,000 visitors a year between Easter and early October.
Access to the whitewashed buildings and its tower requires some effort - with 400 steps down onto the South Stack island outcrop itself.
"We are delighted," Mr Cave added. "It's great for tourism in north Wales, the island and especially for Holyhead, which really needs people to come and visit."
The body of Amanda Duffy, who was 19, was found on waste ground in Hamilton in 1992.
Francis Auld stood trial but the case was found "not proven" by a jury. An attempt to secure a retrial failed in 2016.
The Duffy Family have written to the Lord Advocate detailing their concerns.
Francis Auld died earlier this month, reportedly from pancreatic cancer.
Amanda's father, Joe Duffy said his daughter never received justice from the Crown Office in the case.
He said a review was needed of the "not proven" verdict in Scots law and of the wording of rules governing double jeopardy.
The legal implications of a not proven verdict are the same as with a not guilty verdict: the accused is acquitted and is innocent in the eyes of the law.
Double jeopardy rules introduced in 2011 mean that an accused who was once acquitted for a crime can be retried if they later admit their guilt or significant new evidence emerges.
Mr Duffy told BBC Scotland: "Over the years we've tried to keep our own counsel about the way they've dealt with it and tried to be quite discreet about it and had faith in them and in the promises that they were making, but every time, unfortunately, they were false promises.
"We feel that Amanda has never received justice and she's never going to receive justice now with the death of Francis Auld."
Mr Duffy also referred to failures throughout the case, including the loss of some original evidence and the decision not to use new DNA samples.
He also lamented a lack of communication between Police Scotland, the Crown Office and his family over the death of Francis Auld and claimed the Crown had been consistently underprepared in the run-up to double jeopardy court proceedings last year.
In 2016, judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh rejected an attempt by prosecutors to submit new evidence.
The Crown wanted to rely on a conversation between a prison officer and Mr Auld, which took place sometime in June 1992.
The judges ruled that the new evidence was not admissible and could not be used and that the case could not go ahead.
In response to Mr Duffy's criticism, a Crown Office spokesman said: "We can confirm that a letter has been received from the family of Amanda Duffy.
"The Lord Advocate will give careful consideration to their letter before providing a full response."
Manager Jayne Ludlow has named a 23-woman squad which includes Jess Fishlock, who has just led Melbourne City to a Women's League title in Australia.
In Cyprus, Wales will be in a group with Hungary, Republic of Ireland and the Czech Republic.
Wales kick-off with a game against the Hungarians on 1 March in the annual invitational friendly tournament.
Wales Women's' Squad: Claire Skinner (Cyncoed), Laura O'Sullivan (Cardiff City Ladies), Emma Gibbon (Eastern Suburbs FC), Loren Dykes (Bristol City Women), Hannah Miles (Cardiff City Ladies), Hayley Ladd (Bristol City Women), Sophie Ingle (Liverpool), Gemma Evans (Cardiff City Ladies), Shaunna Jenkins (Cardiff City Ladies), Jess Fishlock (Seattle Reign FC - on loan at Melbourne City), Angharad James (Notts County Ladies), Charlie Estcourt (Reading FC Women), Bronwen Thomas (Brighton & Hove Albion Women), Georgia Evans (Bristol City Women), Nadia Lawrence (Yeovil Town Ladies), Helen Ward (Yeovil Town Ladies), Natasha Harding (Liverpool), Rachel Rowe (Reading FC Women), Kayleigh Green (Chieti), Melissa Fletcher (Reading FC Women), Rhiannon Roberts (Doncaster Rovers Belles), Amina Vine (Bristol City Women), Emma Beynon (Swansea City Ladies).
The vote came shortly after two bombers blew themselves up outside the meeting venue in the capital, Mogadishu.
Under a UN-backed plan, a new parliament will choose the next Somali leader on 20 August.
Somalia has been devastated by two decades of conflict and an al-Qaeda linked group controls many areas.
Its last functioning national government was ousted in 1991 and the anarchy has enabled both pirates and Islamist groups planning attacks around the world to set up bases in Somalia.
"This is an historic day - today we have witnessed the completion of a task that has been worked on for the last eight years," said Constitutional Affairs Minister Abdirahman Hosh Jabril.
Among the most significant elements of the new constitution are:
By Mary HarperSomalia analyst, BBC News
The new constitution promises many things. It says every citizen shall have the right to free education up to secondary school. It describes female circumcision - widely practised in Somalia - as tantamount to torture, and bans it. It says children should not be used in armed conflict.
All well and good. But the constitution appears to exist in a parallel universe, a fantasy land, when compared with the reality on the ground in Somalia.
Although security is improving in some parts of the country, Somalia is more a patchwork of semi-autonomous statelets than a unified territory. The Islamist militia al-Shabab occupies significant parts of Somalia, and carries out terror attacks in Mogadishu and other places no longer under its full control.
Contentious issues remain unresolved, including the allocation of power and resources between the centre and the regions. This is where ferocious arguments are likely to develop, and possibly become violent.
If this happens, the transition process - in which so much time, money and hope has been invested - would simply cause the complexion of the Somali conflict to change, rather than bringing it to an end.
BBC Somalia analyst Mary Harper says the constitution appears to exist in a parallel universe, a fantasy land, when compared with the reality on the ground in Somalia, with universal access to education and the end of female genital mutilation unlikely to happen anytime soon.
The constitution was supposed to have been put to a referendum but this was scrapped as it would be impossible to hold a vote in al-Shabab controlled areas.
Of the 645 members of the constituent assembly present, 621 backed the document and 13 voted against, while 11 abstained, reports the AP news agency.
Traditional elders will now select a new parliament, which must ratify the the document before it takes effect.
The 225 new MPs - far fewer than the current parliament - will then choose a new president, ending two decades of a series of transitional administrations.
However, the UN envoy to Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, has warned that the process to select the new parliament is already being undermined.
"We should not allow parliamentary seats to become commodities for sale or items for auction to the highest bidders at a time when we are seeking to reclaim the true stature of a dignified and respected Somali nation," he said.
A leaked UN report recently said that 70% of aid to the country was unaccounted for but the interim authority strongly denied that corruption was rampant.
The two bombers were shot as they approached the building but still managed to detonate their explosive vests, officials say.
No-one else was killed but at least one guard was injured, they say.
African Union troops and the UN-backed government have forced al-Shabab out of Mogadishu but the al-Qaeda linked group frequently stages attacks in the city.
The Islamist militant group still controls many areas of southern and central Somalia.
One of the country's most famous comedians, Abdi Jeylani Marshale, was buried on Wednesday - a day after being shot dead by two unidentified men.
It is not clear who was behind the killing but last year he was threatened by al-Shabab.
He used to make people laugh by impersonating Islamist fighters.
The meeting in Paris was hastily set up after President Vladimir Putin phoned President Barack Obama on Friday.
Russia has annexed Crimea and there are reports of thousands of Russian troops massed close to Ukraine's borders.
Earlier Mr Lavrov set out demands for a neutral and federal Ukraine, an idea Kiev called "full capitulation".
However, Mr Lavrov has categorically denied any plans for an invasion.
But he has stressed Moscow will protect the rights of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers, after pro-EU protests in Kiev led to the ousting of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych. He had faced months of protests after pulling out of an association deal with Brussels.
On Sunday the US ordered its top general in Europe to return early from a trip to Washington.
Gen Philip Breedlove, Nato's supreme allied commander Europe, had been due to testify to Congress, but a Pentagon spokesman said his return was prudent "given the lack of transparency and intent from Russian leadership about their military movements across the border".
Hours before the Paris talks were due to take place at the Russian ambassador's residence, Mr Lavrov told Russian state TV that Ukraine should come up with a new constitution "providing for a federal structure" and neutrality.
The Russian foreign minister said Moscow, the US and European Union should act as a support group for Kiev to begin a nationwide dialogue that did not involve the "armed radicals". Moscow claims that fascists have taken power in Ukraine, jeopardising the safety of Russian speakers.
In an interview on Saturday, he said Russia had been deceived after being promised "there would be no movement of Nato military infrastructure closer to our borders".
The Ukrainian foreign ministry said it deeply regretted Mr Lavrov's "patronising" remarks.
"At the point of its automatic rifles, this aggressor demands only one thing - Ukraine's full capitulation, its split and the destruction of Ukrainian statehood," said a statement carried by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Nato's outgoing Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned on Sunday that Russia's government was "[flouting] the principle that every state is sovereign and free to choose its own fate".
Mr Putin is also thought to be demanding that Washington accepts Crimea's independence from Ukraine.
Separately, Moscow is keen to tackle the issue of Trans-Dniester, a pro-Russian separatist region of Moldova on the south-western border of Ukraine. It accuses Ukraine and Moldova of "blockading" the area while the EU and the US stay silent.
US officials are divided over whether Mr Putin is seeking to ease tensions or is still planning further military action, BBC Paris correspondent Christian Fraser reports.
The Pentagon believes Moscow has massed tens of thousands of troops close to Ukraine's eastern border.
Food, medicines and a field hospital are said to be among the supplies moved into position, officials say, which would not be necessary for any spring military exercise.
UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC: "Everybody is concerned. We are concerned that there might be a further incursion in the territory of a sovereign nation."
The diplomatic push was initiated by President Putin, who spoke to President Obama for an hour late on Friday.
The next day, the US secretary of state abruptly diverted his flight from Saudi Arabia to Paris for Sunday's meeting. "We are getting closer in our positions," Mr Lavrov said on Saturday.
The White House, in its statement after Mr Putin's phone-call, said President Obama made clear that a de-escalation of the crisis could only take place "if Russia pulls back its troops and does not take any steps to further violate Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty".
As the rest of Europe put clocks forward by one hour on Sunday, Crimea aligned its time with Moscow, jumping two hours ahead. Hundreds of people waving flags greeted the time change in the capital, Simferopol.
Voters in the mainly pro-Russian peninsula backed leaving Ukraine for Russia in a referendum a fortnight ago. But the vote has been condemned as illegal by Kiev and the UN General Assembly.
The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as "vague" by the government's terror watchdog.
It emerged as Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled a draft bill governing spying on communications by the authorities.
If it becomes law, the internet activity of everyone in Britain will be held for a year by service providers.
Police and intelligence officers will then be able to see the names of sites suspected criminals have visited, without a warrant.
Mrs May told MPs the proposed powers were needed to fight crime and terrorism but civil liberties campaigners warned it represented to a "breathtaking" attack on the internet security of everyone living in the UK.
The draft bill aims to give stronger legal cover to the activities of MI5, MI6 and the police and introduce judicial oversight of spying operations.
It confirmed that Britain's secret listening post GCHQ has been intercepting internet messages flowing through Britain in bulk, as revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, "to acquire the communications of terrorists and serious criminals that would not otherwise be available".
It also revealed that the UK security services have been allowed to collect large amounts of data on phone calls "to identify subjects of interest within the UK and overseas", provided they comply with certain safeguards, set out in a supporting document also published on Wednesday.
The draft bill aims to tighten up these safeguards and put the bulk collection of data on a firmer legal footing. Taken together with the other measures, the home secretary said the bill would give the security services a "licence to operate".
While GCHQ's programmes were exposed by Snowden, this one by MI5 remained secret.
And in a way that became increasingly awkward for the security service as the drive towards being more open about capabilities picked up pace in the wake of the report by David Anderson, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, earlier in the year.
There were hints about the capability in the speech by MI5 boss Andrew Parker the week before the draft Investigatory Powers Bill was published, when he talked about how "accessing data quickly, reliably and at scale is as fundamental to our work…..without communications data for example we could not have detected and disrupted numerous plots over the last decade."
He, like the home secretary, claimed that bulk communications data was used to "identify, at speed, links between the individuals plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange in 2010".
Now - along with other capabilities - the bulk data programme is out in the public and up for debate.
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In her Commons statement, Mrs May referred to the 1984 Telecommunications Act, under which she said successive governments had allowed security services to access data from communications companies.
The data involved the bulk records of phone calls - not what was said but the fact that there was contact - with companies required to hand over domestic phone records.
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the programme, which sources said was used to track terrorists and save lives, was "so secret that few even in MI5 knew about it, let alone the public".
The government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC, told the BBC the legislation used to authorise the collection was "so vague that anything could be done under it".
He added: "It wasn't illegal in the sense that it was outside the law, it was just that the law was so broad and the information was so slight that nobody knew it was happening".
Mr Anderson has called for a "comprehensive" new law governing surveillance, which the government has produced with the wide-ranging draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
The draft bill's measures include:
Mrs May told MPs the draft bill was a "significant departure" from previous plans, dubbed the "snoopers' charter" by critics, which were blocked by the Lib Dems, and will "provide some of the strongest protections and safeguards anywhere in the democratic world and an approach that sets new standards for openness, transparency and oversight".
The proposed legislation will be consulted on before a bill is formally introduced to Parliament in the New Year, Mrs May said. It will then have to pass votes in both houses of Parliament.
Labour's shadow home secretary Andy Burnham backed the draft bill, saying it was "neither a snoopers' charter nor a plan for mass surveillance".
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Angela Constance has written to Home Secretary Amber Rudd asking for a "clear timetable" for ratification of the Council of Europe convention.
The UK government signed up to the convention in June 2012, but is yet to formally ratify it.
A private members' bill on the topic has also been lodged at Westminster.
The UK government has previously said it was studying concerns about parts of the convention cutting across local legal jurisdictions.
Ms Constance, who is to lead a Holyrood debate to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, wrote to Ms Rudd asking her to commit to the Istanbul Convention and engage with the devolved administrations over it.
The Council of Europe convention states that "it is the obligation of the state to fully address" violence against women "in all its forms", take measures to prevent it, protect its victims and prosecute perpetrators.
It was written in April 2011, and while the UK government signed up to it the following year it is yet to ratify it.
In her letter to the home secretary, Ms Constance said the Scottish government "strongly support the principles and aspirations of the Istanbul Convention".
She wrote: "I know that both our governments share a commitment to ending violence against women and girls once and for all. We wish to see a clear timetable for ratification laid out."
Ms Constance added: "There is no more time for foot dragging. It has been more than four years since the UK government signed this important convention and two years since it came to force.
"The ratification of the Istanbul Convention would ensure a focus on the further work necessary to seek to end gender-based violence once and for all and I sincerely hope that we will hear back from the UK government with a positive response soon."
Marsha Scott of Scottish Women's Aid said the UK government "has within its grasp to make history" by ratifying the convention.
She said: "The Istanbul Convention is probably the very best piece of violence against women policy that has been written ever, anywhere. It is a blueprint for how we move from small change at the margins, services that are picking up too few people, too late, to a system that is designed to end domestic abuse and violence against women."
In February, MP Karen Bradley, then a Home Office minister, said there was an issue with part of the convention about "extraterritoriality", the issue of local legal jurisdictions.
She said when the issue had been clarified and relevant legislation passed, the government would ratify the convention.
Theresa May, who was Home Secretary when the UK signed up to the convention, was asked about it during her first session of questions to the prime minister in July.
She said: "It is important to deal with the issues of gender violence and domestic violence against women and girls. That is why the government have - I led this as Home Secretary - a strategy to deal with violence against women and girls.
"We have a good record on what we have done, for example, putting into operation domestic violence protection orders and the new coercive control offence, but there is always more to do and we will be doing that."
SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford has put forward a private members' bill at Westminster calling on the UK government to ratify the convention, which is due for its second reading later in the month.
Met Police figures for 2016 show more than 7,500 offences, including attacks, robberies and thefts, recorded to date - about 22 per day.
The Met said the rise, which was mainly due to teenagers stealing mopeds and using them to commit crimes, was a "huge concern".
It has, however, denied the problem is "out of control".
Moped-enabled crime has affected other big cities in the UK but the problem is by far and away biggest in London.
The large number of tourists with mobile phones and concentration of high-end shops makes it an attractive target for criminals.
Internal Scotland Yard statistics show there have been 7,668 crimes involving mopeds to date in 2016 - up from 1,053 in the whole of 2014 and 4,647 in the whole of 2015.
Supt Mark Payne, who runs Operation Venice which was set up two years ago to tackle the problem, said: "I think it's a huge concern because it is a change in criminal behaviour.
"The fact of the matter is it's much more difficult to deal with people on mopeds than it was people who were committing those sorts of crimes before on foot or on bicycles."
The Met has drawn up a list of 200 individuals they suspect of moped-related crimes, but many escape prosecution because of a lack of evidence.
In addition, many suspects are not pursued if they are not wearing a helmet because of concerns for their safety.
Four officers from Islington in north London are facing disciplinary action over the death of teenager Henry Hicks, after an inquest jury found he died during an unauthorised pursuit in Islington in 2012.
The police watchdog is investigating the death of 18-year-old Lewis Johnson whose scooter crashed during another pursuit.
The Met said it was using an "Achilles Heel" style approach - a tactic used to catch gangster Al Capone - to stop repeat offenders who can not be prosecuted for crimes for which they are suspected. It means they are being pursued for less serious crimes, including having no insurance, no licence or other driving offences.
The police denied criminals felt they could get away because they knew officers were highly unlikely to chase them if they were not wearing a helmet and said the police were currently striking the right balance when it came to weighing up the risks of pursuing a suspect at speed.
Police have also urged moped owners to use more locks to protect their vehicles.
And there is clearly no role for a marriage guidance counsellor.
At times on Radio Wales this morning, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth spoke with the kind of tone normally reserved for obituaries.
When he came close to speculating about a future relationship between Lord Elis-Thomas and Labour, you got a sense of the bad feeling this is going to cause.
But the real zinger from Plaid is the accusation that he has misled the voters in Dwyfor Meirionnydd, and the call for a by-election.
Ironically, after years of bad feeling, particularly between him and the leader Leanne Wood, things had appeared to be getting better.
To say he has been a thorn in the side of the party is an understatement, particularly for Plaid who have been looking to mirror the iron discipline which has been such a feature of the SNP.
The first time I witnessed his trouble-making close-up was a Plaid conference in 2014 when Leanne Wood said in her speech that a vote for UKIP was a vote against Wales, which he described as facile.
The comment had particular bite because it suggested a degree of superficiality in her speech.
Senior figures in the party were furious with him, and that mistrust never went away.
As we have seen with Nathan Gill's departure from the UKIP group at the Senedd, it does not take long for internal splits to develop in this assembly term.
There are potentially big implications for the assembly.
Labour narrowly missed out on an overall majority, and with two floating votes up for grabs in the form of Lord Elis-Thomas and Nathan Gill, Plaid and the Tories may find it more difficult to put the squeeze on Labour.
Having said that, Labour has formal mechanisms in place with Plaid to discuss the budget, Brexit, legislation and the constitution so there's likely to be a willingness to make that work.
But nevertheless, Lord Elis-Thomas' eventual divorce from Plaid marks a major development in Welsh politics.
The 8ft (2.4m) diameter plastic pipes, with the longest beached segment 1,574ft (480m) long, washed up at Winterton and Sea Palling.
They came loose as they were being tugged to Algeria in north Africa for a large project.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "Other than their physical presence they pose no other danger of, or potential for pollution."
A spokesman added: "Two pipes have beached. There are 12 pipe segments.
"The remainder are either secured by vessels at sea or are otherwise anchored off the coast of central Norfolk awaiting processing.
"Guard ships are allocated to monitor the anchored pipes."
After a recent inspection the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has now rated the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust as good.
Some areas, including aspects of the once heavily-criticised maternity unit, were found to be outstanding.
The trust put the improvement down to the "sheer hard work" of staff.
It runs Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Lancaster Royal Infirmary and Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal, as well as smaller community hospitals in Morecambe and Ulverston.
CQC started regulatory action over maternity failings dating from 2011 and, after a series of follow-up inspections uncovered further problems, the trust was put in special measures in 2014.
More than a year later it was rated as "requires improvement" - one up from the bottom ranking.
Professor Sir Mike Richards, CQC Chief Inspector of Hospitals, said of the most recent inspection: "Our inspectors found that further significant improvements had taken place across the trust and it had clearly benefitted from the support provided by the special measures regime.
"This is a truly remarkable turnaround for a trust that has faced very significant difficulties - senior management and staff deserve huge credit for this.
"There are still some areas where further work is needed and the trust board knows what it now needs to do to ensure those improvements are made.
"We will return to check on progress at the trust."
The trust's chief executive, Jackie Daniel, said: "It's been sheer hard work and determination really on behalf of the staff.
"They've gone to bigger units, picked up national best practice and learned from the best.
"Also the families that tragically lost loved ones - although we can't reverse that - have been working with us, giving us feedback."
The Queen and Prince Philip were among the spectators at Royal Deeside.
The Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife also attended the event which is traditionally held on the first Saturday of September.
There had been some speculation that Prince William and his wife Catherine might also be there.
The Gathering, held at The Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park, is seen as the biggest event in the Highland Games calendar.
It has a long history and in its modern form it stretches back nearly 200 years.
Competitors take part in events including hammer throwing, caber tossing and tug-o-war.
Lonely Planet put the West Yorkshire city fifth on its list of best places to visit in Europe - saying it had shrugged off its "industrial past".
Zagreb in Croatia is named in first place, followed by Gotland in Sweden.
Leeds was praised for its "urban regeneration", "flourishing cultural scene", "thriving nightlife and "reputation for food and craft beer".
Lonely Planet's Best in Europe list is published each year, highlighting the most exciting destinations.
James Smart, Lonely Planet UK destination editor, said: "Once defined by its industrial past, Leeds is now a confident, cultural hub in the north of England.
"With major events this year, including the reopening of Leeds Art Gallery and the 50th anniversary of Leeds Carnival, there's never been a better time to head to Yorkshire and join the party."
Mr Smart said all the destinations offer "something new, exciting or undiscovered that make them worth exploring right now."
1. Zagreb, Croatia :: 2. Gotland, Sweden :: 3. Galicia, Spain :: 4. Northern Montenegro :: 5. Leeds, UK :: 6. Alentejo, Portugal :: 7. Northern Germany :: 8. Moldova :: 9. Paphos, Cyprus :: 10. Le Havre, France
Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, said it was a "fabulous endorsement" for the city.
"To be recognised as one of the top places in Europe, we can all be incredibly proud of," she said.
"It's particularly encouraging to see the quality of our city's impressive cultural, leisure and nightlife scenes acknowledged and I hope this recognition means we will soon be welcoming even more visitors from across Europe and beyond."
At number one, Lonely Planet said Zagreb was "often overlooked" in favour of Croatia's extensive Adriatic coastline.
"This booming inland capital is both cosmopolitan and edgy, combining sun-splashed Austro-Hungarian squares brimming with coffee drinkers with a heady mix of Brutalist architecture, thriving street art and urban regeneration."
God Save the Queen, the national anthem for the UK as a whole, is currently used for England during most sporting events.
However, Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins believes England needs its own anthem and presented his case in the House of Commons as a ten minute rule motion.
His English National Anthem Bill was adopted by the House.
The idea will be debated again at a second reading on 4 March.
The bill would bestow a responsibility on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to hold a consultation across the UK, and Mr Perkins suggested there could even be an "X Factor style programme" to select a song.
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Jerusalem's meaning
Mr Perkins said it "seemed incongruous" for the English to sing about Britain when their teams play against other home nations, while the Welsh and Scots sing an anthem that reflects their nation's identity.
"It reflects a sense that we see Britain and England as synonymous," he said.
"This not only denies us English an opportunity to celebrate the nation that is being represented but is also a cause for resentment amongst other countries within the British Isles who feel that England have requisitioned a British song."
But his proposal for an English anthem was opposed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for North East Somerset.
"When the honourable gentleman for Chesterfield said that now English crowds take St George's flag rather than the Union Jack, to me that's a matter of pity, of shame, that we have given up viewing ourselves as one United Kingdom, whether we are supporting England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland," he said.
"These expressions of the individual nationalism are a disuniting factor in our country, in a country that we ought to want to make more united," he said.
Mr Perkins said there had been a lot of interest in choosing an anthem when he spoke on radio stations across England.
"I won't say which area it was that thought the most appropriate choice for an English national anthem should be Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," he said.
"It will remain a secret between myself and the listeners of BBC Humberside, but it was perhaps reflective that each local area has its own sense of what Englishness means."
Campaign group England In My Heart wants Jerusalem to be adopted and arranged for a van with loudspeakers to drive around Parliament playing the song ahead of the debate.
"It's about time England was able to celebrate being English at sporting events," said group member Eddie Bone.
"Let the Scots and the Welsh celebrate theirs and then we come together at the end and sing God Save the Queen."
Another campaign group, Anthem 4 England, said Jerusalem has come out as favourite in previous polls.
Member Gareth Young said it was his personal favourite too.
"It's a beautiful song and it actually mentions and is about England, unlike its competitors," he said.
He said people wrongly think it's a hymn and also "object to the fact that it references a Middle Eastern city" but said these objections were "largely based on ignorance" as Jerusalem was a metaphor for a better place.
Using the UK anthem as the English anthem was an "unnecessary strain on relations between England and Scotland" in the wake of the independence referendum, he added.
"God Save the Queen is the British anthem and should belong equally to the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish," he said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Jerusalem would be his choice for England's national anthem, according to the ConservativeHome website.
Jerusalem was chosen as the anthem to be played for English athletes competing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi following a month-long public vote.
The England cricket team have used Jerusalem as an unofficial anthem for more than a decade - but still also sing God Save The Queen before many matches.
Land of Hope and Glory - which was used by England at the Commonwealth Games before 2010 - often comes up as second choice, behind Jerusalem, in public polls.
Toby Perkins said I Vow To Thee, My Country and There'll Always Be an England were also options.
Campaigners have also suggested creating an anthem from scratch.
Mr Aikman, who raised more than £500,000 with his "Gordon's Fightback" campaign, died aged 31 on 3 February.
Politicians including Nicola Sturgeon, Kezia Dugdale and Alistair Darling joined Mr Aikman's husband Joe Pike for the service in Edinburgh.
Celebrant Caroline Lambie, who also married the couple, told mourners "there was no-one like Gordon".
Ms Lambie, from the Humanist Society of Scotland, said that it was natural to mourn.
She added: "In a way, we are mourning that our lives will never be the same without him."
People arrived at Warriston Crematorium in Edinburgh to a recording of Highland Cathedral, played by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
The coffin was taken into the service to the strains of Forever Young by Bob Dylan.
The service heard an account of Mr Aikman's diagnosis with MND, and his successful campaign of fundraising for research into the condition.
His husband read the poem Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep.
The celebrant told the congregation that while the pain of losing Mr Aikman would diminish over time, the light he had brought into their lives would not.
Ms Sturgeon, who agreed to double the number of specialist MND nurses after meeting Mr Aikman, said she was filled with admiration for his tenacity.
She said: "Gordon faced up to his diagnosis with incredible courage and dignity.
"His campaign to raise awareness of MND and achieve better care and treatment for those diagnosed was inspirational and will make a huge difference for others in the future."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale also spoke about her memories of close friend Mr Aikman.
She said: "Today I'm saying goodbye, but also thank you.
"Gordon gave us all something so special. He gave us his friendship, his courage and the determination to make things better for those who follow.
"He did so much good in such a short space in time. We miss you terribly but pledge to honour your life in how we now choose to live ours - to savour every day."
Alistair Darling, who worked with Mr Aikman on the Better Together campaign in the lead-up to the Scottish independence referendum, described him as a true hero.
Referring to his involvement in a charity ice bucket challenge, the former chancellor said: "It takes some convincing to get me to agree to have a bucket of cold water over my head but I did it because Gordon was an inspiration.
"Truly, we have lost a hero but he leaves us greater hope that one day there will be a cure. That was what he wanted. We will not forget him."
Mr Pike said it was "so painful" to say goodbye, but said the service was about celebrating Mr Aikman's achievements.
He said: "Life is never without Gordon and never will be without Gordon.
"He is gone but I, like so many others, now see life through Gordon's eyes.
"He has made me a better person because, even when he was dying, Gordon taught us all so much about how to live."
The cremation service was followed by a celebration of Mr Aikman's life in Edinburgh city centre.
Mr Aikman, from Edinburgh, was diagnosed with MND in 2014 while he was director of research for the Better Together campaign in the Scottish independence referendum.
He went on to win cross-party support for his campaign calling for funding to find a cure for MND and for specialist nursing care.
He was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2015 and an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University for his work to transform care for people with the disease.
The case was due to be heard next week, but Betsi Cadwaladr health board will now consult on the future of services at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan.
It had planned to reduce services to midwife-led care only.
Interim chief executive Simon Dean apologised for the "difficult period of uncertainty and worry".
He added: "After very careful consideration following legal advice and despite significant ongoing concerns about the obstetric service at Glan Clwyd Hospital, we have advised the court that we no longer seek to contest the judicial review brought against us.
"I wish to make it clear that the legal process is ongoing and has not yet been concluded.
"We all acknowledge what a difficult period of uncertainty and worry this has been for our staff and patients, for which we are very sorry."
Ann Jones, Labour AM for the Vale of Clwyd, said the decision marked "a stage to move forward and for the board to work hard to regain peoples trust whilst continuing to provide vital public services".
Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar said: "I'm glad that NHS chiefs have finally caved in, but it shouldn't have taken the threat of judicial review for the health board to do the right thing."
The health board had been expected to go ahead with the plans to end consultant-led services in April, but the bid for a judicial review put them on hold.
Llyr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru's North Wales AM said: "They ignored nurses, midwives, doctors, patients and the general public on this matter and ploughed ahead without even a consultation. This arrogance from senior management must stop."
Liberal Democrats' North Wales AM Aled Roberts called it a "botched process" that had "gone on for too long".
Captain Dara Fitzpatrick was taken to hospital on Tuesday after being found in a critical condition by RNLI crew.
The surface search for her three colleagues who are still missing will continue overnight.
The air search, however, will be scaled down until first light on Friday.
The aircraft lost contact at about 01:00 local time as it was coming in to refuel during a rescue operation.
The three other crew on board have been named as Chief Pilot Mark Duffy and winchmen Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.
Irish coastguard search and rescue manager, Gerard O'Flynn said Ms Fitzpatrick was the most senior pilot with CHC which runs the contract to provide search and rescue services in the Republic of Ireland.
"She's been with the company for some 20 years and outside of her work as a pilot she did an enormous amount of work on water safety and was always available to do school visits and just highlight basic water safety," he said.
"For all of us involved in the coastguard and particularly, for her family and everybody, it does come as a complete shock, and we want to extend our sincere sympathy to all her family and indeed to her flying colleagues in CHC and simply to everybody who knew her."
Capt Fitzpatrick was the mother of a young son. Her sister, Niamh Fitzpatrick, paid tribute to her on Twitter and asked for prayers for her missing crew members.
Mr O'Flynn said the Irish naval service, the Garda (police) diving unit and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) had joined the coastguard's "hugely resourced" search operation.
He also said that a number of fishing vessels were assisting the emergency services and were "doing Trojan work out there".
"Obviously with the passage of time the chances of recovering somebody alive decreases, but we are treating this as a search operation and we don't give up hope until we absolutely have to."
I spoke to one of those who had been out and he described the conditions as quite rough with a four to five metre swell but said they had recovered some of the wreckage.
He said that the debris field covered quite a considerable area.
But the search is continuing for those three missing crew members as well as the flight recorders which may go some way to explaining what actually happened here.
The head of the Irish coastguard, Eugene Clonan, told a news conference earlier on Tuesday that it was a "very dark day" for emergency services in Ireland.
He added that as time went on, "hopes are fading that we will find the rest of the crew".
Debris has been spotted in the water and a search by two RNLI lifeboats, two Irish coastguard helicopters and several local fishing boats is focusing north of Achill Island in County Mayo.
The helicopter which crashed was a Dublin-based aircraft that had been providing support for another Sligo-based coastguard helicopter during an overnight rescue mission.
The Sligo helicopter had been responding to a distress call from a crewman in need of medical attention on a UK fishing vessel about 150km west of Eagle Island.
The BBC understands that the second helicopter, the R116 from Dublin, was sent to help the Sligo aircraft communicate with the base at Malin, as the fishing boat was too far out for the first helicopter to stay within communication range.
The Sligo crew picked up the fisherman, who had a serious hand injury, and transferred him to hospital.
Shortly afterwards, communication was lost with the Dublin-based aircraft.
Conditions were described as good when the R116 helicopter - crewed by two pilots, a winch man and a winch operator - lost contact on its final approach to Blacksod refuelling depot.
The Sligo helicopter returned to the scene and began to search for their colleagues.
Declan Geoghegan from the Irish coastguard said the accident had hit the "rescue family" hard.
"We don't know what happened and obviously there will be an air accident investigation into it," he said.
"We'll continue to search for the missing crew members until such time as we have recovered them and the flight recorder."
The Irish President, Michael D Higgins, paid tribute to Cpt Fitzpatrick on "behalf of the people of Ireland".
He said she had lost her life "while providing assistance to others".
"We are all grateful for the courage, resolution and exemplary commitment to the aims of the coastguard that Captain Fitzpatrick and her colleagues have consistently displayed.
"My thoughts are with her family at this difficult moment and also with the families of the missing crew," the president said.
The Irish Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, also offered his condolences, saying: "As the search for the Dublin-based helicopter R116 is currently under way I would like to express my sincere support and sympathies for all those involved."
The search operation is being led by the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Centre in Malin Head, County Donegal.
The Irish naval vessel, the LÉ Róisín, arrived in the search zone to assist on Tuesday morning.
It is the second fatal accident involving Irish Coastguard crew members over the past six months.
In September 2016, volunteer Coastguard Caitriona Lucas died while assisting in a rescue operation off the County Clare coast.
The mother of two was one of three crew members on board a rigid inflatable boat which flipped over during a search for a man near cliffs at Kilkee.
"Once they're done I'm going to say, 'Okay, that's goodbye to all that,'" he said in an interview with his grandson.
"At this point in my life, age 80, it'd give me more satisfaction."
The actor and director, known for such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, was recently seen in a remake of Disney film Pete's Dragon.
The Oscar-winning star of The Sting and Out of Africa is also known for founding the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Speaking to his grandson Dylan, Redford said he was "an impatient person" who found it hard "to sit around and do take after take after take".
The actor, who once studied as an artist in Paris, also revealed he was considering "going back to sketching" as he entered his ninth decade.
Redford said he had a pair of acting projects in the pipeline - "a love story for older people" and "a lighter piece".
The two films - Our Souls at Night co-starring Jane Fonda and The Old Man and the Gun co-starring Casey Affleck - will be released in 2017.
Redford's last directorial feature was The Company You Keep, a 2012 thriller in which he also appeared.
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Ryley Turner, five, got the top of his shoe trapped in the escalator at intu Lakeside in Essex on Saturday.
As the escalator kept running, his foot was drawn further into the mechanism.
Bystanders and firefighters spent more than an hour releasing him in a rescue described as a "miracle" by Ryley's father Adrian.
Mr Turner, from Grays, was visiting the shopping centre to get foreign currency for a holiday, and to go to the cinema with his son.
"We were on the escalator, about two-thirds of the way down, when Ryley started shouting 'ow ow ow'," Mr Turner said.
"His shoe was being dragged into the mechanism. I tried to pull him out, I was screaming for someone to push the stop button."
Mr Turner, 36, said hundreds of shoppers stopped to watch the rescue attempt, with a number of shoppers offering to help free Ryley's foot - including one man who had bought a screwdriver.
A member of staff from a BHS shop at the bottom of the escalator sat with Ryley and tried to keep him and Mr Turner calm.
"The people who helped were just amazing," Mr Turner said. "I wish I had their names. I would like to say thank you to everyone who helped us."
Mr Turner and Ryley's mother dropped off a thank-you card to firefighters from Grays who had assisted during the "very distressing" rescue.
"When they pulled him out, I cried my eyes out," Mr Turner said.
Ryley was left with a cut to his foot but no broken toes or other bones, an escape his father described as "a miracle".
Police officers were called to the town's High Street at 12.20pm.
The area was cordoned off and an investigation was launched.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing."
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Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani said the armed forces would get an extra $24m (£18m) to help them meet security needs.
The military would begin patrolling sports venues from 24 July, he added.
More than 80,000 police and soldiers will patrol the streets of Rio for the duration of the games.
The state of Rio de Janeiro has recently cut budgets across the board, including that of the police.
The police in Rio recently staged demonstrations against the late payment of salaries and a lack of basic necessities like car fuel and toilet paper.
Correspondents say the protests are a symptom of the political and economic woes which have engulfed Brazil in recent times.
Brazil's Senate suspended the country's President Dilma Rousseff in May, and then began impeachment proceedings against her over allegations that she manipulated the government budget ahead of her 2014 re-election campaign.
On the economic front, government figures for the first quarter of 2016 showed that Brazil was experiencing its worst recession in 25 years.
And the Olympic organising committee has had to deal with news that several famous sportsmen - including golf world number one Jason Day - have withdrawn from the games because of fears about the Zika virus.
However, the CEO of the games has said that concerns about the virus affecting the Olympics have been "blown out of the proportion."
The 29-year-old was suspended last month "pending an internal investigation into behaviour away from the club".
He helped England to a Test series win over New Zealand in November, having made just 13 Super League appearances in 2015 because of injury.
The club said his suspension has been lifted and he has been disciplined "in line with club policy".
The raids took place at informal refugee camps in the Baalbek region.
On Monday, at least eight bombers blew themselves up in the predominantly Christian village of Qaa, killing five people and injuring almost 30 others.
No group has said it was behind the attacks, but suspicion has fallen on jihadist militants from Islamic State.
IS has carried out previous suicide bombings that have killed scores of people in Lebanon.
Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) cited an army statement as saying that troops had raided Syrian refugee encampments on Tuesday and arrested 103 Syrians "for not having legal papers". Nine motorbikes were also confiscated.
Troops also searched the Qaa Projects (Masharia Qaa) camp for "wanted individuals", according to an NNA reporter in the area.
Masharia Qaa is located outside the village of Qaa, where the mayor advised residents to stay indoors after Monday's unprecedented attacks.
In the first wave of attacks, four suicide bombers blew themselves up one after the other at dawn outside a house in Qaa.
Five people were killed and another 15 wounded, including four soldiers who went to investigate the first blast.
It was not immediately clear who or what the attackers planned to target, but the house was about 150m (490ft) from a Lebanese customs border point on the road linking the Bekaa valley to the Syrian town of Qusair.
In the main square of Qaa, a statue of Saint Elias, holding his sword menacingly, stands tall and imposing.
Emotions are running high in the predominantly Christian border town, where anger is mounting towards tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in makeshift settlements nearby.
The mayor described the residents of these encampments as "ticking bombs".
As such, the suicide attacks might have been a turning point in the relationship between the Lebanese and the Syrian refugees there; from annoyance to suspicion and accusation.
The consequences for both groups could be dire.
Many residents believe that ultimately the saint will protect the town. But they are not only counting on God's intervention. People openly carry weapons, from guns to rifles, dangling from their waists or in their grasp.
They are vowing to take security in their own hands.
Soon after nightfall on Monday, 13 other people were wounded when another four assailants opened fire and detonated their explosive vests near the Church of Saint Elias, shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest"), NNA said.
People had reportedly gathered at the church for the funerals of those killed that morning.
The army later issued statements calling on residents not to gather anywhere in the area and requesting that the funerals be postponed until further notice.
Baalbek-Hermel governor Bashir Khodr also imposed a curfew on Syrian refugees living in the village and surrounding areas.
"The security situation today is above all considerations," Mr Khodr told the television channel LBC.
The militant Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah, blamed the attacks on IS and said it was postponing a religious event in Beirut on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, who visited Qaa after Monday morning's attacks, said the border villages formed part of a "fence" for Lebanon. "When a terrorist enters, he can go anywhere," he added.
Mr Bassil, whose Free Patriotic Movement party leads the largest Christian bloc in parliament, called on Sunday for municipalities to ban gatherings or camps of Syrian refugees.
Lebanon has seen repeated attacks linked to the five-year conflict in Syria, where Hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to support President Bashar al-Assad.
Bhupinder Kondal resigned from Oldknow Academy in January 2014, saying she was under "undue pressure" from governors.
Ofsted later said the school was "inadequate" and governors promoted a "narrow, faith-based" ideology.
Mrs Kondal returned after a new board was appointed in September but has now quit to seek a "fresh challenge".
In a statement the school thanked Mrs Kondal for her 13 years as principal and for leading the school through "a period of transition".
The academy's latest Ofsted report, in March, said it was "making reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures".
The education charity Ark will take over Oldknow Academy from September and is now set to appoint a new head teacher
The academy was one of 21 schools in Birmingham investigated as part of the Trojan Horse affair.
It was subsequently found that a small group of governors had tried to "make significant changes to the ethos and culture of the academy without full consultation".
Ark said Oldknow will "remain a local, non-selective, non-denominational, mixed school".
The charity, which runs 31 schools nationwide, including four in Birmingham, has promised to consult with parents, staff and pupils over its plans.
The school said a celebration event for Mrs Kondal will be held in July.
Tom Dunn opened the scoring in the first minute, while Paul Grant, Anthony Watson and Tom Homer all crossed to wrap up a bonus point by half-time.
Six further tries followed, with Grant and Watson each getting their second, before Rhys Priestland, Zach Mercer, Ben Tapuai and Ross Batty all crossed.
Mosese Ratuvou scored the French side's only try of the game.
Bath's comprehensive victory means they finish top of Pool Four.
And their superior points difference over Pool Three winners Brive, who also finished with 23 points, means they pipped the French side - their likely opponents in the last eight - to a home quarter-final.
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Fruean, Watson; Ford (co-capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Dunn, Palma-Newport, Ewels, Stooke, Mercer, Louw (co-capt), Grant.
Replacements: Batty, Obano, Knight, Charteris, Mercer, Cook, Priestland, Tapuai.
Pau: Buros; Lestremeau, Fumat, Dupouy, Ratuvou; Fajardo, Moa Teutau; Hurou, Lespiaucq Brettes Sclavi, Pesenti, Ramsay, Habel Kuffner, Dougall, Butler (capt).
Replacements: Boundjema, Jacquot, Tierney, Tutaia, Daubagna, Dupichot, Malie, Bernad.
Sin-bin: Habel Kuffner (36)
Ref: Ben Whitehouse
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Midfielder Pena and striker Herrera finalised their transfers from Guadalajara and Pumas respectively after receiving their work permits.
The Mexican market is familiar to manager Pedro Caixinha, who took charge of Santos Laguna for two years in the top flight Liga MX.
But for most Rangers fans, Pena and Herrera are unknown quantities.
BBC Scotland has enlisted the help of sports writer Omar Flores Aldana of Mexico City's Excelsior newspaper to find out more about the new faces at Ibrox.
Rangers fans will hope Pena, known as El Gullit due to a perceived similarity in appearance to the Dutch legend Ruud Gullit, brings a goalscoring threat to their midfield and the ability to go box-to-box.
The move, as far as Flores Aldana is concerned, could be a timely one for a player looking to reach the heights his early career promised. There would, however, appear to be an element of risk involved.
"When he was developing, Pena was capable of working as a link between the midfield and the forwards, but he wasn't willing to take the ball from the defence in the first place," Flores Aldana said.
"He was, however, still considered the best player in the academy by many of his team-mates.
"He made a big improvement under coach Gustavo Matosas at Leon, who convinced him to start taking the ball from the defenders. That made him a more rounded player, as he could help his defence as well as score goals.
"After this he was called into the Mexico squad for the World Cup in Brazil and although it was expected he would sign for a European team afterwards, he did not receive any offers from abroad.
"Pena then moved to Chivas Guadalajara but it was not a good fit for him and he failed to adapt. He made some mistakes in key moments and had some off-field issues. He returned to Leon but failed to rediscover his best form.
"It surprised people in Mexico that he moved to Rangers as he hadn't gone to Europe when he was playing at his best earlier in his career, but if Caixinha can get him working like Matosas did, he could be a good signing."
With 57 goals in 207 appearances in Mexico, Herrera's record suggests he is not the most prolific striker. Yet as Flores Aldana describes, it may be other qualities that attracted Caixinha, who had the player in his Santos Laguna squad during the 2013-14 season.
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Called Amazon Business, the online marketplace offers firms VAT-free pricing, VAT invoices, and software to track and limit spending.
The new venture adds to Amazon's huge range of businesses from online video, to groceries to cloud computing.
Amazon has had success with a similar service launched in the US in 2015.
In its first year of operation in the US, the business supply service generated more than $1bn (£800m) in sales. It launched a similar service in Germany last year.
The UK online business-to-business market was worth £96.5bn in 2015 according to the ONS, only slightly lower than the £119bn spent by consumers.
Amazon said there would be more than 100 million products available on the new marketplace, which would include ordinary office supplies and storage solutions as well as more specialist products such as microscopes and test-tubes.
Bill Burkland, Head of Amazon Business UK said the service would offer "a new set of unique business features - from reporting and analytics to spending limits and purchasing workflow approvals". It will also offer free one-day delivery on orders of £30 or more.
"For many small businesses this will be a welcome opportunity to get everything in one place," said Bryan Roberts a retail analyst at TCC Global.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst and stockbrokers, Hargreaves Lansdown said further competition was likely to mean keener pricing for business supplies. He said Staples and Office Depot were the businesses most likely to be affected by the increased competition.
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The central government has declared a state of emergency in the region, and has appealed for international aid.
Thousands of livestock have also died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed by the cyclone, known as 03A.
The cyclone has subsided, but officials say heavy rains are still expected.
Puntland is a semi-autonomous region within Somalia and a large part of its population relies on livestock herding and fishing.
The tropical cyclone swept through the Eyl, Beyla, Dangorayo and Hafun districts along the east coast and across to Alula on the tip of the Horn of Africa.
"So far we have confirmed the storm killed 140 people. We are afraid the death toll may reach 300 because many people are still missing," Puntland's Interior Minister Abdullahi Ahmed told Reuters news agency.
A government statement said Puntland's security forces had failed to transport 60 tonnes of aid to affected communities because heavy flooding had made many dirt roads to the worst-affected areas impassable.
"The storm has destroyed entire villages, homes, buildings and boats," the statement added.
Makeshift shelters had been built to accommodate displaced people, it said.
The government has appealed to international aid agencies to help with air-drops of relief supplies, including clean water, non-perishable food, tents, blankets and medicines.
Ten doctors and two ambulances were attending to people in need of medical treatment, the statement said.
On Tuesday, Somalia's government pledged $1m (??628,000) to help communities devastated by the cyclone.
The central government "shared the pain" of communities, Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said.
The yellow Trislander G-Joey was retired from service in June after serving the islands, Southampton and Dinard for almost 40 years.
Originally it was thought the aircraft would end up in a museum in England, but late last year talks began to keep it in Guernsey.
If planning permission is given, the plane will be kept at Oatlands Village.
The attraction was bought by Chris Coles last year and he has already asked for planning permission for a refurbishment including repairs to the brick kilns, which date back to the 19th Century, and extending the restaurant.
A further application for three barns, including one to house Joey, will be made if planners agree to remove a 35-year-old planning condition.
Mr Coles said the aim for Joey's World was to provide an "inspirational and educational message to young people" and to "reimagine Joey so that he has universal appeal".
He said he hoped to have a simple simulator for children to try flying between Guernsey and Alderney and provide supervised access to the plane's cockpit.
Mark Darby, CEO of the aircraft's owners Aurigny, said Mr Cole's "enthusiasm for displaying Joey was infectious" and he felt it would be the "perfect home".
He said: "The proposal to store Joey undercover is important because the aircraft must be protected from the elements."
Paul Belben, who is behind the 5,700-strong Save Joey Facebook group, said: "Interesting news that Joey will be housed in a new purpose-built barn, if permission is given.
"[I'm] also looking forward to seeing the arrangements for keeping Joey preserved. It will certainly be a very unique attraction for Guernsey."
Toure, 35, leaves Liverpool after three years, playing his final game in last month's Europa League final defeat.
Goalkeeper Valdes, 34, will be released by Manchester United having played twice in the past 18 months, along with 22-year-old midfielder Nick Powell.
Adebayor, 32, leaves Crystal Palace having signed for the club in January.
Manchester City will let 35-year-old defender Martin Demichelis go after three seasons at the Etihad Stadium, while midfielders Mikel Arteta, 34, Mathieu Flamini, 32, and Tomas Rosicky, 35, will not return to Arsenal next season.
Everton's released list includes two players who have spent more than 15 years at Goodison Park, 35-year-olds Tony Hibbert and Leon Osman, while Steven Pienaar, 34, brings to an end a second spell with the Toffees.
Goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, 43, leaves Premier League champions Leicester City, and Stoke City have released 34-year-old striker Peter Odemwingie.
Elsewhere, strikers Steven Fletcher, 29, and Danny Graham, 30, leave Sunderland, along with 36-year-old former England defender Wes Brown.
Clubs have also informed the Premier League of those players who will remain, with Chelsea set to retain 82 players for next season.
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They face Belgium in Lille on Friday knowing victory will clinch them a place in the semi-finals of Euro 2016.
"I'm not going to play the occasion down, I'm going to enjoy it and savour it," said Coleman.
Wales have not reached a major finals since they were beaten by Brazil in the last eight of the 1958 World Cup.
"Since that 1958 quarter-final, we have to put this down as the biggest game our country's ever been involved in," said Coleman.
Ranked 26th in the world, Wales face a side 24 places above them. However, they beat and drew with Belgium in qualifying for Euro 2016 and have already progressed further than England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
"We have done well to get this far," said Coleman. "But when you are in the quarter-final of the tournament knowing if we can get it right there are great possibilities, it is different. It is a fantastic pressure to have."
Wales may lack the strength in depth of their opponents, but they have star quality in the form of Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.
Belgium also have their world-class players, among them Eden Hazard, Kevin de Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku.
They are also in top form. They lost their opening game 2-0 against Italy but have won their three matches since.
There will be about 20,000 Wales fans in Lille for the match, but with the city just 10 miles from the Belgian border, it has been estimated there will be up to 150,000 Belgium supporters making the trip.
This has led to concerns that many ticketless Welsh fans may not even be able to get into the Lille fan zone, which holds 30,000. Paul Corkery, of the Football Supporters' Federation Cymru, warned: "Once it's full it's shut."
Belgium manager Marc Wilmots said his team will have home advantage, adding: "We have a team with a few worries. So it's good to have a 12th man."
In Wales, there are fan zones open in various locations, including Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd and Anglesey.
A butcher in Cardiff has produced a special Euro Burger, while Neil Ward, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales Trust, claimed the team's progress has even got passionate rugby union fans talking about the side.
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Unbeaten in their past three meetings with Belgium, Bale has suggested Wales are a "bogey team" for the Red Devils, who are ranked second in the world and have scored eight goals without conceding in their past three games.
The 26-year-old does so with some justification, having scored the winning goal in their last encounter - a highly charged 1-0 victory in a Euro 2016 qualifier at the Cardiff City Stadium in June 2015.
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Coleman and his players have described that as the turning point of their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, the moment they started to believe they would end their 58-year wait for major tournament appearance.
Both teams have evolved since the match in Cardiff. Wales are revelling in their Euro 2016 adventure, sweeping into the last 16 with a spectacular demolition of Russia, then grinding out a nervous win over Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, Belgium - until now significantly less than the sum of their world-class individual parts - appeared to be finally click into gear with a ruthless 4-0 second-round thrashing of Hungary.
"They won convincingly against Hungary and they looked good, but they don't always play like they can and they make mistakes like anyone else," said Coleman. "It is up to us to make sure that side comes out."
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Bale and Ramsey might grab most of the headlines but the importance of the Wales defence should not be underestimated.
Wales drew 1-1 in Brussels towards the end of their 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign thanks to excellent defensive foundations and ground out a goalless draw in the same city on their way to qualifying for Euro 2016.
"Whether that's a back four, a back five or whatever, there's never been a time going into a game with this manager that we've felt anything other than prepared," said right-back Chris Gunter.
Gunter and fellow full-back Neil Taylor often go unnoticed in the grand narrative of recent achievements, but the side conceded just four goals in 10 qualifiers and, at Euro 2016 itself, have kept clean sheets in their past two games.
Wales defence has been built around captain Ashley Williams in recent years, though it is two less celebrated players who have shone brightest in France: Ben Davies and James Chester.
Tottenham's Davies made a crucial goalline clearance in the opening win over Slovakia and has been consistently impressive in possession on the left side of Wales' three-man central defence.
Chester, meanwhile, has defied his status as a peripheral figure at West Brom with a string of solid displays.
The former Hull defender has made 14 tackles and 13 interceptions in his four appearances, while 88% of his 172 passes have been accurate.
Confidence has been a commodity in rich supply for Wales. No occasion, no matter how significant, looks like unsettling Coleman's men.
They will be the underdogs against a Belgium side whose strength in depth is the envy of most teams in Europe. However, that could suit the Welsh, who are at their most effective when counter-attacking.
Wales demonstrated against Northern Ireland how they can struggle to unlock deep-lying defences, but Belgium are expected to be on the front foot in Lille.
"They have got pace and power," said Coleman. "When it is time to defend, we will defend with our lives. When it is time to attack, we will attack with our lives. If we do that, Belgium will be in for a hell of a game."
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At least 26 others are reported to have been injured in the accident, which occurred in the city of Osmaniye as the bus was returning from a school trip.
The state-run Anadolu Agency said the bus collided with a car, lost control and veered into an irrigation canal.
Rescue teams have been searching the canal for missing passengers.
Earlier, passers-by and residents jumped into the water to try and rescue people trapped inside the bus, Hurriyet newspaper reported.
Turkish media said the children were from a school in Hatay province which borders Syria, and were on their way back from a trip to a museum and a national park.
However, Northern Irishman Rea improved his chances of retaining the title as second place saw him extend his lead over team-mate Sykes to 48 points.
There are four races left with the last two rounds in Spain and Qatar.
Once Ducati rider Davies got past the Kawasaki pairing of Rea and Sykes, he pulled away to repeat Saturday's win.
Earlier in the campaign the 29-year-old from Powys won both races at Aragon and Imola.
Rea will head to Jerez content with a 48-point cushion at the top of the championship standings.
Englishman Sykes had led for most of Sunday's race but, when Rea briefly got past with five laps left, Davies pounced to snatch the lead.
Rea, 29, slipped to third but got past his chief title rival Sykes to finish runner-up.
"I am happy with second place - it was the best I could do today," said the defending champion.
"I put everything into that race."
Negotiations have begun with Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li and a deal could be completed "within a fortnight".
Yongge and Xiu Li failed in an attempt to buy Hull City in September.
Current owners Lady Sasima Srivikorn, Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth and Narin Niruttinanon took control of the Championship club in September 2014.
Reading have so far declined to comment. Manager Jaap Stam's side are third in the league having won five successive matches.
Any deal with Yongge and Xiu Li would see the Thais retain ownership of land around the club's Madejski Stadium, currently earmarked for redevelopment, as well as the Millennium Madejski Hotel.
But the current owners are looking to sell the stadium, the club and the training ground.
Yongge is a businessman who speaks no English. His planned acquisition of Hull from Assem Allam earlier this year reportedly fell through after he failed to meet the FA's fit and proper person test.
He is understood to favour Reading as an investment because he already flies in and out of London regularly for business meetings.
Lady Sasima intends to sell all her shares in the club while the remaining two shareholders, who currently own 75% between them, would greatly reduce their financial stake.
The 27-year-old has spent his whole career with the Red Rose county and has taken over 100 first-class wickets in the past three seasons.
He made his only England appearance in the last Test of the 2013 Ashes series.
"He is a senior figure in the dressing room and has significant importance both on the field and off it," said director of cricket Ashley Giles.
Kerrigan told the club website: "I really want to find the form that got me an England call-up in 2013 and put in match-winning performances for the Red Rose, not only in our next two games this season, but in the future."
The unbeaten 28-year-old retained his title by stopping Jo Jo Dan in Sheffield last Saturday.
Promoter Eddie Hearn had called for fellow Briton Amir Khan to meet Brook at Wembley on 13 June, but has a show at London's O2 on 30 May.
"Saturday night was fantastic, I want to capitalise on that win," Brook said.
"I have told Eddie Hearn to get me out as soon as possible and I want to fight twice before the end of the summer, starting at the end of May."
Khan, 28, has accepted Brook's challenge to meet at Wembley "within the next 12 months", but is expected to fight before the end of May and could meet former WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner.
Bolton fighter Khan seemed to end speculation of an immediate clash with Brook by tweeting, "Already given my word to a fighter, will be announcing my next fight very soon."
The winner of the contest on 2 May between Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao - considered to be the best two fighters of their generation - could be a target for Khan, who suggested he would be interested in meeting Brook if the Yorkshireman beats fighters of the calibre of Khan's last opponent Devon Alexander.
"Originally we were planning Kell's next fight for July but he is itching to fight again and we could bring him back as early as May," Hearn said.
"There is no stopping Kell now and we want to get him back in action as soon as possible."
Left-armer Shamsi, 27, made his international T20 debut during June's series against England and has also featured in one Test match.
He will play the first of his three games against Derbyshire on 7 July.
"He's a very effective leg-spinner which I believe is crucial in modern T20 cricket," said coach David Ripley.
The Rt Rev Kieran Conry, whose diocese covers Sussex and Surrey, said he had been "unfaithful" to his promises as a Catholic priest.
He said his actions "were not illegal and did not involve minors".
He apologised to those "hurt by my actions and then to all of those inside and outside the diocese who will be shocked, hurt and saddened".
He said his resignation would take immediate effect, and he would now take time to consider his future.
Bishop Kieran's statement did not specify in what way he had been "unfaithful" to his promises but it will be read in all Catholic churches over the weekend.
His statement ended: "I am sorry for the shame that I have brought on the diocese and the Church and I ask for your prayers and forgiveness."
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, said: "This is a sad and painful moment.
"It makes clear that we are always a Church of sinners called to repentance and conversion and in need of God's mercy.
"All involved in this situation are much in my prayers today."
Zoe Bremner's death at Dundasvale Court, in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow, following a party, is being treated as unexplained.
Two other teenagers, both aged 15, who also took ill, have been discharged from hospital. Police said drug use was one of the lines of inquiry.
Knightswood Secondary head teacher Kay Dingwall said it was "tragic news".
"Our heartfelt sympathies and prayers are with Zoe's family and friends at this extremely sad time," she said.
"Zoe was a really lovely girl and will be sorely missed by all the staff and pupils at the school.
"We will do all that we can to help and support young people and staff who will obviously be deeply affected by this saddest of news today and during the difficult days ahead."
The teenage boy and girl who fell ill were treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Police inquiries so far have revealed that the teenagers were at a party in the Yoker area in the late afternoon.
They returned to Dundasvale Court later in the evening and contacted emergency services at about 00:45 on Sunday.
Det Insp Greig Wilkie, of Police Scotland, said: "This is very disturbing and our thoughts are with the family at this distressing time. We are currently carrying out extensive inquiries in relation to the incident.
"Our investigation will include whether any substances have been a factor in this incident. If anyone has any information which could assist our investigation, I would urge them to contact us."
Anyone with any information should contact police.
Jewels and precious metals estimated at £14m were taken when raiders bored through a wall into a vault.
The raid was planned on Friday nights at a pub and took place over the Easter weekend, in London's jewellery quarter, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Three men deny conspiracy to commit burglary. A fourth denies conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property.
Jurors were shown CCTV footage of men arriving in a white van, and from it unloading various tools, bags, metal joists and wheelie bins.
They heard that while at Hatton Garden, the men used walkie-talkies to communicate, and their mobile phones were in "radio silence".
Once inside, the men used the lift shaft to access the basement, disabled the alarm and drilled into the vault wall.
Inside the vault, raiders ransacked safety deposit boxes used by traders of jewellery, precious stones and precious metals.
Prosecutor Philip Evans told jurors "this offence was to be the largest burglary in English legal history".
He said "at best" about one third of the property had been recovered and that was mostly lower-value goods.
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The thieves bored a hole 20in (51cm) deep, 10in (25cm) high and 18in (46cm) wide through a wall at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company.
There was evidence the search for suitable equipment might have started four years ago.
The jury was shown 3D-images that revealed other damage the burglars caused.
That included broken doors and gates, and the shutter to the basement lift access which had been prised open.
The burglary spanned the weekend, with the raiders returning on 4 April with more equipment, after they were only partially successful on 2 April, jurors heard.
They were told much of the evidence had come from mobile and landline telephone data, and that the burglars had left no "forensic trace".
Mr Evans said the burglary was arranged during Friday night meetings at The Castle pub on Pentonville Road in Islington, north London.
Previously John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield and Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
Reader was described as the "Governor" or the "Master", and had been heavily involved in the planning of the raid, the court heard.
A book called "Forensics For Dummies" was found at Jones's house.
Mr Evans said they were the ringleaders and had "a great deal of experience" in planning and executing sophisticated crimes.
He said they would only have involved others who could be "fully trusted".
The trial continues.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) did not indicate if this meant Kumble would be replaced.
But Indian media reports cited sources as saying the board was unhappy with him for demanding salary increases for himself and the team.
India had a successful year under Kumble, losing just one Test.
A BCCI statement said that as current coach, Kumble - a former captain of the Indian side - would be a direct entrant for the selection process.
Kumble named as new India coach
Three former Indian players - Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman- will be responsible for choosing the next coach.
Prior to the job, Kumble had no international or first-class coaching experience but his leg-spin bowling made him India's leading Test wicket taker with 619 wickets in 132 games.
The last edition of the Premier League was stopped midway through the season in 2014 because of the ebola threat.
Sierra Leone was declared ebola free by the World Health Organisation in March.
And the first domestic football competition - the FA Cup - was completed on Saturday, encouraging the SLFA to restart the league.
But while FC Johansen picked up their first silverware by beating Republic of Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces 1-0 in a replay final, the achievement was lessened by the absence from the competition of eight out of 14 Premier League teams.
They boycotted the FA Cup in protest at the continued infighting at the SLFA and there are fears they could adopt the same stance in regard to the league, which is intended to begin in three months.
The SLFA has the power to bring in teams from the first division to fill in a gap to kick-start the league
While SLFA director of competitions Sorie Ibrahim Sesay told BBC Sport he is optimistic teams will participate, there are others who are less confident.
Blamoh Robert, the secretary general of FC Kallon said the team will only play the league if the SLFA executive committee convenes congress.
Robert told BBC Sport: "Our position still remain the same. The SLFA must respect the constitution by taking the membership to congress and address the issues affecting football.
"Then normalcy will prevail and the Sierra Leone Premier League will kick off.
"We, together with other Premier League clubs, didn't take part in the FA Cup because the executive committee has refused to convene congress and we have no regret not playing the FA Cup."
The same sentiments have been expressed by some of the other teams that boycotted the FA Cup.
The SLFA is, however, determined to go ahead with the league as has a plan to make up for any shortfall of clubs in the top flight.
"The executive committee of the SLFA has the power to bring in teams from the first division to fill in a gap to kick-start the league," Sesay added.
"What we have decided as a football association is to empower the regional football associations to run their various first and second divisions leagues within the next three months.
"We would then call for a national first division play-offs to determine the teams that will be promoted to the Premier League.
"The promoted teams will be on the standby to replace clubs that may want to boycott the league."
Earlier in 2016, a breakaway league was formed by 11 clubs and although the SLFA labelled the competition 'illegal' the governing body did nothing to stop it.
The clubs insisted that they would not to take part in any SLFA organised competition because the SLFA's board had lost "legitimacy" for failing to convene congress.
But three of the 11 clubs later joined the remaining Premier League teams to take part in the FA Cup.
Jerry Bance had been competing as a Conservative in a Toronto district but a party spokesman said on Monday that he is "no longer a candidate".
Broadcaster CBC used hidden cameras in 2012 to video Mr Bance as he attended to a leaky sink as a repairman.
In a statement he said he was "deeply regretful" over the incident.
But opposition politicians wasted no time trying to capitalise.
"He must be someone who is adept at [Prime Minister] Stephen Harper's trickle-down theory of economics,'' said New Democrat leader Tom Mulcair.
Mr Bance was filmed during an episode of CBC-TV's investigative series Marketplace, which was aiming to expose and confront workmen overcharging for simple repairs.
With the homeowner in the next room, he is seen relieving himself in a mug before dumping its contents into the sink and rinsing it out.
Canadians go to the polls on 19 October, with Mr Harper's governing Conservative Party seeking re-election.
Last week, the country recorded its second consecutive quarter of economic contraction and officially entered a recession.
Unlike the man he appears to have replaced - Briton Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed "Jihadi John" - Mr Rumaysah was a well-known and prolific figure among radical Islamists in London.
He disappeared in September 2014, shortly after being released on bail while under investigation for allegedly encouraging terrorism.
Police banned him from travelling and ordered him to hand in his passport. However, he boarded a coach for Paris at London's Victoria Station, along with his wife and children.
Weeks later, he announced his arrival in Syria by posting an image online of himself holding a rifle, and his newborn and fourth child.
"What a shoddy security system Britain must have to allow me to breeze through Europe to [IS]," he tweeted.
Mr Rumaysah, who is in his early 30s, was born and raised in the UK in a Hindu family - his original name is Siddhartha Dhar.
Following his conversion in his late teens, he took the name Saiful Islam (Abu Rumaysah is a "kunya", or nickname, which means "Father of Rumaysah"). He became a leading member and speaker for the al-Muhajiroun network, a group banned under terrorism legislation which has frequently organised and operated under different names.
When not providing bouncy castles for parties, he would regularly attend demonstrations against the US, Israel, Arab regimes or any other cause the group believed to be un-Islamic.
He would stand outside mosques on Friday afternoons, seeking to find new followers to the radical network's way of thinking. He would post videos online and rarely turned down an opportunity to speak to the media.
And when he spoke he barely hid his radical views.
When so-called Islamic State claimed to have destroyed the border between Iraq and Syria in 2014, he believed it was the moment a new Islamic regime worthy of global support had been born.
"The caliphate [a state governed in accordance with Islamic law, or Sharia] is a dream for all Muslims worldwide," he said in one of his YouTube videos.
"We can finally have a sanctuary where we can practice our religion and live under the Sharia. It is a big, big thing."
In an appearance on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live programme, he expanded on these views.
"Now that we have this caliphate I think you'll see many Muslims globally seeing it as an opportunity for the Koran to be realised," he said.
"As a Muslim I would like to see the UK governed by the Sharia. It is far superior to democracy. I don't really identify myself with British values. I am Muslim first, second and last."
In 2014, Mr Rumaysah was asked by a TV journalist whether he would condemn the killing of US journalist James Foley by IS.
He refused to answer the question - saying only that he condemned US airstrikes killing Muslims in the "caliphate".
In May 2015, he "published" a sort of travel guide for would-be fellow travellers.
The 40-page document, which opens with an image of a fictional battle on the edge of Jerusalem, is designed to encourage Muslims to stop procrastinating and join what Mr Rumaysah claims are the swelling ranks of Islamic State.
Most of the rest of the booklet is devoted to the kind of information that features in a standard travel guide: food, weather and transport.
"If you thought London or New York was cosmopolitan, then wait until you step foot in the Islamic State because it screams diversity," he wrote.
"In my short time here I have met people from absolutely every walk of life, proof that the caliphate's pulling power is strong and tenacious."
He glossed over public executions, rape of women held as slaves and other punishments meted out to anyone who does not adhere to the fighting group's ideology.
A delightful wedge to within 2ft of the 18th hole set him up for a third birdie in the last four holes to finish on 12 under par, one clear of Kuchar, who shot 68, and Jacquelin.
Scotland's Marc Warren carded a 64 and had led in the clubhouse on 10 under.
But he was later overtaken by the big-name American duo and Jacquelin.
England's Eddie Pepperel and Joost Luiten of the Netherlands also finished two shots off the pace at the tournament used by many of the field as preparation for this week's Open at St Andrews.
"I had to really dig deep," said Fowler, who carded rounds of 66, 68, 66 and 68.
"I made some great swings coming in. I saved the best swings for the last; I hit a good drive and a great wedge to get to 12 (under).
"Jacquelin gave me a scare there on 18. It's been a special week and I'm looking forward to taking this form over to the Open.
"I had heard good things (about Gullane). The Scottish crowd appreciate good shots. I really enjoyed playing in front of them."
Jacquelin had been in a strong position, starting his round on 11 under and keeping it that way at the turn.
But a bogey at the 14th dropped him level with Warren, who had finished his round before the wind picked up, and he had to sink a 10ft putt for par at the 16th.
With Fowler's late blitz, the Frenchman knew he had to hit an eagle at the last to force a play-off.
His effort was close enough to alarm the eventual winner but he had to settle for a birdie instead.
A final-round par would have been enough for to take Fowler to a play-off but the Englishman's 12-under-par lead was eroded by four bogeys and he shot a three-over par 73 to finish on nine under.
Defending champion Justin Rose shot a disappointing 76 to finish on level par.
Warren, 34, praised the East Lothian course and believes the event is the perfect way to get ready for the Open, which begins on Thursday.
"I think the course set-up this week has to be praised," he told BBC Scotland.
"It has allowed you to run the ball into the green, and with conditions being softer you can fly it all the way to the hole and we're going to see the same next week.
"St Andrews is only an hour up the road from here so the conditions are going to be very similar.
"That's why you see so many guys coming over to play this week. They can get their game in good shape and get used to the conditions.
"The beauty of playing at the Scottish Open is you can relax a little bit, hit certain shots into the wind, chip and runs, putting from around the greens, see where your game is and you've got Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare."
Scotland's Richie Ramsay, whose level par after two rounds was not enough to make the cut, has been drafted in to play at St Andrews after South Africa's Tim Clark withdrew.
Southern tweeted: "Time to get back on track. Tweet @RMTunion & tell them how rail strikes make you feel."
Dozens of passengers immediately responded, but not in the manner rail bosses might have hoped.
Marianne Powell tweeted: "You brought this on yourselves. We, your customers are suffering."
Another passenger, Simon Cox, posted: "I dislike unions but I dislike incompetent management more."
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Months of industrial action by the RMT and high levels of staff sickness have hit Southern's services, which link London with Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire.
Southern's £2,000 bid to end rail strike
Last month the RMT said workers would stage 14 days of strike action in the long-running dispute over the role of conductors on trains.
The union said it had no alternative but to take action over what it called Southern's "blatant disregard for the safety and security of passengers and staff alike".
Southern's parent company, Govia Thameslink, called the RMT's action "shameful".
Commenting on Southern's message, Another Angry Woman tweeted: "Strongly recommend you read this thread, @SouthernRailUK bc the problems are on you."
The next planned strike announced by the RMT is between 00:01 BST Tuesday 11 October and 23:59 BST Thursday 13 October.
Mick Cash, the general secretary of the RMT, said: "This is a pathetic attempt by the basket case Southern franchise to once again try to blame their front line staff for their own managerial incompetence.
"Southern GTR have wrecked services across the South East. The passengers know that and that is why the commuters themselves are mounting a legal challenge against the company. "
A Southern spokesman said: "Our aim was to get the debate going and to let people know exactly what our very fair and comprehensive offer is and how we are trying to modernise the train service for our passengers, which the RMT leadership is trying to block.
"Thousands of passengers are demanding to know what we are doing to bring this dispute to an end. We felt there was a need to let them know."
Connie Yates's and Chris Gard's son, Charlie, is receiving 24-hour treatment at London's Great Ormond Street hospital for a rare genetic condition.
With no accepted cure for his condition, the hospital believes Charlie should be allowed to die.
But his parents say pioneering US treatment could save his life.
They told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that they will continue to fight for their child's survival.
"He can move his mouth, he can move his hands. He can't open them fully, but he can still open his eyes and see us, in response to us.
"We don't feel he's in pain at all."
The couple, who live in London, want to take Charlie to the US, where they believe he may have a chance of surviving if he receives pioneering treatment.
"We just want to have our chance. It would never be a cure but it could help him live. If it saves him, amazing," Miss Yates said.
"I want to save others. Even if Charlie doesn't make it through this, I don't ever want another mum and their child to go through this."
Charlie, who was born on 4 August, was admitted to Great Ormond Street in October after developing aspiration pneumonia.
He was later diagnosed with mitochondrial depletion syndrome - a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness.
"He's only one of 16 in the whole world affected by it. Chris and I are both carriers," Miss Yates said.
"It's so unbelievably rare we would have the same fault on the same gene. Very, very rare."
Miss Yates has launched a campaign - #CharliesFight - which has raised more than £220,000 of the £1.2m she believes is needed for Charlie to receive the treatment abroad.
"I want the judge to have the belief I have in this medication. [Great Ormond Street Hospital] have never used this medication," Miss Yates said.
"The judge needs to trust us, we are his parents. We don't want him to suffer. If he is suffering then of course I would let him go."
She added: "Someone else in the world is willing to take him and help him. Why can't we try that?"
A spokesperson for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust said: "Charlie has a very rare and complex disease, for which there is no accepted cure.
"Charlie was very unwell when he was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital and has remained under 24-hour care on our intensive care unit.
"But his condition has continued to deteriorate and we now feel we have exhausted all available proven treatment options.
"We cannot imagine how hugely distressing this is for his family.
"We continue to support them in every way we can, while advocating, what we believe, is best for Charlie."
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Gannett, the owner of USA Today, made an offer of $815m (£563m) last month.
Tribune, owner of the LA Times, told Gannett the "opportunistic proposal understates the company's true value and is not in the best interest of shareholders."
Gannett is fighting back, and wants Tribune shareholders to withhold their votes for board nominees on 2 June.
That is when Tribune will hold its annual meeting. Gannett hopes the move will send a "clear message" to Tribune's board that it should "substantively engage with Gannett regarding its proposal."
In response to the rejection, John Jeffry Louis, Chairman of the Gannett Board of Directors said, "It is unfortunate that Tribune's Board would deny their shareholders this compelling, immediate and certain cash value by rejecting our offer without making a counterproposal or otherwise negotiating or providing any constructive feedback."
Gannett had offered to pay $12.25 per share in cash for Tribune as well as absorb $390m of Tribune's debt.
That offer represents a 63% premium to Tribune's closing stock price on 22 April, one day before Gannett announced its proposal.
Founded in New York, Gannett has been working to expand its ownership of regional US newspapers. Earlier this year, the publishing group acquired the Journal Media Group, owner of the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Tribune Publishing has its headquarters in Chicago and the media brand owns 11 major US newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant.
The 25-year old had trailed the world number three 7-4, but fought back and levelled the match with a clearance of 142 - the tournament's highest break - to earn himself £5,000.
Trump took the next three frames to land himself the title and an additional £100,000.
It is his first title since winning the Australian Open in July.
"It's a great feeling to beat Ronnie in a big final for the first time," Trump told World Snooker.
"You don't want to lose too many times in a row against the same player. Two times is already a lot, and going behind 7-4, I thought it was just going to be the same thing.
"I felt comfortable out there. I took confidence from making the 142 to go 7-7, and after that I didn't really miss a lot. I missed the blue in the last frame, but other than that I felt I dominated."
The Multiple Sclerosis Society's report suggests there is a "wait-and-see" approach by doctors which needs to end.
But drug watchdog NICE says while this "disease-modifying therapy" can help in some cases, the benefits need to be weighed carefully against side-effects.
It is reviewing exactly when and how some of these relatively new treatments should be used.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an incurable condition that can lead to sight loss, pain, fatigue and disability. It affects around 100,000 people in the UK.
Many have a relapsing, remitting version - where they experience flare-ups of symptoms and then have periods where symptoms ease or disappear.
The new review - a result of meetings between patients, medics, charities and researchers - suggests that contrary to some previously held views, the disease may continue to get worse during the remitting phase.
It argues that prompt treatment with disease-modifying medicines may help in these cases.
Michelle Mitchell, of the MS Society, said: "Relapsing, remitting MS has been redefined - we now know the clock never stops with this disease and neither should our fight against it.
"In the UK, the most common treatment option for MS in its early stages is currently no treatment and this needs to change for the sake of tens of thousands of people's health."
The organisation is encouraging doctors and patients to agree plans for treatment quickly - within six months of diagnosis.
But Dr Paul Cooper, a brain specialist who advises the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says although disease-modifying drugs have a role in established relapsing, remitting disease, there is still debate about their use early on in the condition.
He added: "These drugs are potent with potentially long-term side-effects and consequences, therefore we have to balance the risks and benefits.
"NICE is looking into these issues but the analysis is not yet complete and the data needs to be looked at carefully."
He says there are other things that can help people with multiple sclerosis, including better accesses to specialists and physiotherapy.
NICE plans to publish a new appraisal of drugs used to treat MS in 2017.
In the meantime, doctors can prescribe these drugs, guided by specific criteria, including the number of previous relapses.
People with multiple sclerosis can also be diagnosed with a primary progressive form of the condition where symptoms get gradually worse over time - without periods of remission.
According to the NHS, there is currently no treatment that can slow the progress of this form of the disease.
The Home Office flight was cancelled on Tuesday night after lawyers for some of the men successfully argued the country was no longer safe.
The men would be at risk of "serious harm" if forcibly deported, they said.
Toufique Hossain, a lawyer in the case, said Home Office deportation policies for Afghanistan were now "untenable".
The BBC understands some of the men had planned to board the flight voluntarily - but the flight still had to be cancelled because there were too few men willing to return.
In another hearing - held at the upper chamber of the Immigration and Asylum Court - lawyers for the men argued that they could not be "reasonably or safely" reintegrated back into Afghan society.
The security situation in parts of Afghanistan - even in the capital Kabul - had deteriorated to such an extent it would be unlawful to return the men against their will, they said.
Many provinces - including Helmand and Kandahar - had seen "dramatic increases in levels of violence", lawyers added.
The lawyers cited one case where a 22-year-old man who had lived in the UK since he was 14 was due to deported despite his poor mental health and being a known suicide risk.
The Home Office said it was unable to comment on the ruling due to election campaign rules.
The case was adjourned until 8 May.
A law firm representing eight of those injured when two carriages of the Smiler ride crashed on 2 June said interim payments had been released to help with the victims' rehabilitation.
Leah Washington, 17, who has had to have a leg amputated, is among those being represented by Stewarts Law.
The park was closed for five days in the aftermath of the crash.
Among those also being represented by the firm are Miss Washington's boyfriend Joe Pugh, 18, who shattered both knees and suffered "extensive" hand injuries, Vicky Balch, 20, from Leyland in Lancashire, and Daniel Thorpe, 27, from Buxton, Derbyshire.
Miss Balch and Mr Thorpe had been sitting in the front seats of the ride along with Miss Washington and Mr Pugh.
Miss Washington's lawyer has previously said the teenager, from Barnsley, could receive a payout worth millions of pounds after losing her leg.
Earlier in the week Miss Balch, who has turned 20 while in hospital since the crash, told the BBC she thought she was going to die in the four hours she was trapped on the ride. Her lawyer said she was "battling" to avoid an amputation.
On Friday it emerged that Mr Thorpe and another person injured in the accident - Chanda Chauhan, 49, from Wednesbury in the West Midlands - had been discharged from hospital.
Mr Thorpe, a hotel assistant manager, was treated for a collapsed lung and fractured leg, while Ms Chauhan had internal injuries and needed stomach surgery.
Merlin Entertainment, which owns Alton Towers, has said it has contacted those injured and all 16 on board at the time of the crash will receive compensation.
In a statement in the days after the crash it said: "We have recommended each of the injured guests or their families instruct a lawyer and submit a claim for compensation which we will ensure is dealt with swiftly and sensitively."
Paul Paxton, head of personal injury at Stewarts Law, said he and relatives of the injured had met the Health and Safety Inspectorate.
"The families are satisfied that no expense is being spared in the investigation into what caused the accident on the Smiler ride at Alton Towers," he said.
"The families are reassured that every angle is being thoroughly covered."
Merlin is thought to have made losses of about £500,000 a day while the theme park was closed for five days in the aftermath of the accident. It was criticised over accusations staff took 11 minutes to make the first 999 call, despite screams from passenger on the Smiler.
Alton Towers said one of its first responders - trained by West Midlands Ambulance Service - was on the scene within minutes of being called by ride staff and security staff would have called 999 as soon as an assessment had been made.
A total of 16 people were injured when the carriage they were in collided with an empty one that had come to a halt on the track ahead of them.
The £25m Airlander 10 "nosedived" during its second test flight in Bedfordshire on 24 August.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said the line dropped during a second take-off.
It said it was "certainly a factor" in the landing.
The 302ft (92m) long vehicle made a successful maiden flight last month from Cardington Airfield but sustained damage to the hull and cockpit on landing from its second flight.
A report submitted to the Air Accident Investigations Board (AAIB) by HAV technical director Mike Durham said the aircraft had first made a "successful landing" but there was an "issue with the mooring mast" which required the pilot to take-off a second time and circle the airfield while it was repaired.
It was during the second take-off that the 150ft (46m) nose mooring line dropped free and trailed beneath the aircraft.
"As a result of this, the pilot had to make a higher than desired approach to its second landing of the day to reduce the likelihood of the trailing line snagging on the fence or trees to the south of the airfield," the report said.
An HAV spokesman said: "[This] did mean we had to make a higher than desired approach, and this is certainly a factor in the heavy landing."
The report confirmed that while the mooring line had been in "contact" with a power cable, this had not contributed to the incident.
"The contact of the mooring line with the power cable happened a number of minutes before landing and in no way damaged the aircraft and did not contribute to the heavy landing," the spokesman said.
A full investigation into the incident and repair and testing of the aircraft is expected to take an estimated three to four months.
The FTSE 100 had been up more than 40 points at one point, but finished 5 points lower at 6,100.
Mining stocks saw the biggest losses, with Glencore down 5% and Anglo American dropping 4.5%.
The top rises included High Street stalwart Marks & Spencer and Primark owner AB Foods, both up about 3%.
Investors were cautious before a speech from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen due later in the day.
Markets will be examining Ms Yellen's comments for clues as to when the Fed might next raise interest rates.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) received a report of a blaze at Herdman's Mill in Sion Mills at about 14:00 BST on Sunday.
The fire quickly spread over the entire ground floor of the building.
Crews contained the fire and remained at the site into the evening to prevent it from spreading, the NIFRS said.
Nine pumping appliances and specialist high-reach and high-volume pumps were sent to the scene.
The cause of the fire is not yet known.
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The 29-year-old usually plays at centre-back or right-back but can also operate in midfield or up front.
He is the Seagulls' third loan signing in the past week and manager Sami Hyypia said: "With Aaron Hughes out injured we needed cover.
"Greg has an abundance of experience in the Championship and Premier League."
Hyypia added: "With Aaron out we wanted that level of experience to be replaced as well, so he is a good fit."
Halford has scored eight goals in 82 appearances since joining Forest in summer 2012 but he has not featured so far this season.
Albion defender Hughes, who can play all across the back line, is currently sidelined with an ankle injury while first-choice centre-backs Gordon Greer and Lewis Dunk are each one booking away from a one-match ban.
Halford, who began his career at Colchester and has had permanent spells at Reading, Sunderland, Wolves and Portsmouth, becomes the sixth loan player on Brighton's books - one more than the number permitted in a 18-man matchday squad in the Championship.
He fell to the floor after an attempted tackle on flanker Dave Ward in Sale's loss at Harlequins on 7 January but played on for the rest of the game.
The 27-year-old Samoan was not treated on the field but was assessed by the Sale team doctor after the tackle.
The report concluded it "was matter of clinical judgement by the team doctor".
"The team doctor's decision was based on his view of the injury mechanism in both real-time and following video review, and his direct assessment of the player's immediate and subsequent response to the injury event," it said.
"The team doctor was in the immediate vicinity of the player, reviewed the real-time video footage and was best placed to make that decision.
"In continuing to monitor, reassess and question the player, both during and after the match, the team doctor was continuing his responsibility to evaluate the player's condition for any signs of a suspected head injury or concussion; none was apparent."
The CMRG panel was chaired by Dr Julian Morris and includes the Rugby Football Union's director of professional rugby Nigel Melville and Premiership rugby director Phil Winstanley.
I was with the army as they detonated left-over munitions near a major battle scene.
"Here, crouch behind these sandbags," they told me as we stood, in protective clothing, a few hundred metres from the detonation site. "If shrapnel comes anywhere near, just duck."
I decided to retreat a lot further back. The thud was impressive.
We were in the devastated land which saw the last bitter fighting of the war. Many tall palmyrah trees had lost their tops.
Half-submerged in the arid ground I saw a single flip-flop and a plastic shoe. Who had worn them?
This is where tens of thousands of people cowered - trapped between the Tamil Tigers who conscripted their children and shot those trying to escape - and the army bombardments.
Large tracts are still mined. There are buildings sliced in half; buses with an end missing. Most poignant are the mundane things: someone's trousers, a plastic chair, cushions, a rusting bedstead.
I looked towards a damaged Catholic church (there are both Catholics and Hindus among the local Tamil population). The church had been cleared of mines and a Sinhalese soldier took me inside. "I'm a Roman Catholic," he told me - a minority in the mainly Buddhist military.
Sections of the roof had been ripped out, leaving a zigzag pattern of light. The soldier stood by the broken glass of a small shrine to Mary and told me he felt consoled that 13 of the 14 Stations of the Cross were undamaged.
Earlier I met a man born and bred in this place. He had lost his brother and his sister as this area was being besieged. "We were climbing over bodies," he said.
Only now, after demining, are families beginning to return to their plots in these villages, many coming on recce visits from refugee camps.
Surviving buildings are mostly unsafe and will have to be destroyed. And people here have little with which they can rebuild.
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Not far away, life seems more normal. A Tamil fisherman wades into the Nanthidakal lagoon and casts his net. There is a jetty and fishing boats here, a low causeway across which trucks trundle into the town of Mullaitivu.
There is little evidence of what happened here in 2009. Huge numbers of Tamils fled from the besieged zone across this lagoon. On its shore the body of the dead Tiger leader, Prabhakaran, was filmed, his scalp covered to conceal the fact that much of it was missing.
There is something which jars. There are many new signs in the neighbourhood, giving for instance the name of the lagoon or the government's account of what happened here during the conflict.
Indeed, a war "tourist trail" is already springing up for Sri Lankan tourists. But nearly all the signs are in Sinhala and English only - not in Tamil, the local language and, of course, the language of the people who lost so much.
This is repeated all over the area: at a museum of captured Tiger equipment; at Prabhakaran's bunker, now a tourist spot.
At the bunker there are in fact many Tamil visitors including schoolchildren from nearby, and expatriates from Germany. A Sinhalese soldier, fluent in Tamil, acts as their guide. That is impressive. But there is barely a word of Tamil on the signs.
At two places we ask the military why this is. "There was not anyone who could speak the language, but we would like to put up Tamil signs soon," one soldier says. Another, though, tells me he has mentioned it to the higher authorities - "but nobody is interested".
What does this say for reconciliation efforts in this country, whose war sprang partly from the fact that Tamils had said they felt like second-class citizens?
There are more immediate concerns. Along with the struggle to rebuild, there is little employment available.
By chance we met a former Tiger militant. He said there were no opportunities and no jobs. But he did not want war again.
The army presence is still massive. Travelling across northern Sri Lanka is like criss-crossing from garrison to garrison.
In fact the number of soldiers on patrol has fallen sharply. They have been asked to reduce their visibility. And many places like the army-run cafes and shops which had sprung up, have now been closed.
But the government says it still fears a resurgence of the Tamil Tigers and it is not loosening its grip.
In one place an officer told us the army's intelligence network had actually expanded. "We've been asked to keep a register of what people do and where they go," he said. "We even monitor schoolchildren's activities. We know what people eat for their lunch."
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Selman survived an awkward start and accelerated to reach the third century of his career.
Jacques Rudolph (58) and Colin Ingram (84 not out) played their parts in Glamorgan's best batting of the season.
Earlier the Foxes' last two wickets added 110 runs to frustrate the Welsh county's attack.
The big hitting of tail-enders Ben Raine, Clint McKay and Charlier Shreck looked to have swung the momentum in the home side's favour.
But Selman's increasingly confident innings and a mature knock from Ingram made sure that Glamorgan passed the follow-on target with just four wickets down, shortly before the close.
Leicestershire all-rounder Clint McKay told BBC Radio Leicester:
"They bowled quite nicely this morning but me and Charles (Shreck) got lucky enough to get away with a few and build that total past 400.
"(Rudolph) is a world-class player, he showed his class and batted beautifully, got them off to a nice start and we couldn't drag the scoring rate back throughout the day.
"I'd say it's even, four down on a very nice wicket, and the second new ball is going to be what makes the difference in the game."
Glamorgan batsman Nick Selman told BBC Wales Sport:
"Coming off the back of the last two games it was good to get some runs, me and Col [Colin Ingram] had the mindset of being busy and being positive.
"We got through a tough spell after lunch and reaped our reward afterwards, it was a shame to get out but hopefully Colin can kick on and get a big one.
"If we get through the new ball and get a good lead, the ball's going to be in our court."
Only 12 months ago they required a last-day victory against West Ham United at St James' Park to avoid relegation.
This time there was no escaping the drop into the Championship, confirmed by Sunderland's victory over Everton on Wednesday.
The long flirtation with the second tier is now a full-blown embrace, proof that survival only lasts so long amid poor management, bad choices and signings that were simply not fit for purpose.
So how has a club such as Newcastle United ended up in such a desperate plight and what does the future hold?
Manager Rafael Benitez is unanimously accepted as a force for good on Tyneside - the only regret being owner Mike Ashley did not sack Steve McClaren and appoint the Spaniard earlier to give him more time to mount a survival mission.
If Mike Ashley is decisive in business, he has paid a heavy price for inertia in football
And the pain of Newcastle's relegation is likely to be exacerbated by uncertainty surrounding Benitez, who has a "break clause" in the three-year deal he signed in early March.
At the time he said: "Some people can see this as special but it's normal. I am trying to stay in the Premier League and if I have a compromise for the future it's because I am convinced we will do well."
Benitez, after losing three of his first four games in charge, led Newcastle on a five-game unbeaten run with victories against Swansea City and Crystal Palace, as well as drawing from 2-0 down at Liverpool, before Saturday's damaging draw at Aston Villa.
It means that, despite relegation, Benitez has done his reputation within the game as an astute strategist no harm and will make his possible availability an attractive prospect for clubs throughout Europe with his pedigree of managing sides such as Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Napoli and Real Madrid.
Will Benitez, at 56, want to take the next step of his career in the Championship, attempting to gain promotion from a division he has never experienced, when better offers are likely elsewhere?
Will he see his next step as digging out results at places like Brentford, Burton, Rotherham and Huddersfield?
It is a hard, perhaps impossible, sell for Ashley, who would almost have to offer Benitez the keys to his kingdom to tempt him - and even then with no guarantee of success.
Benitez may believe he can do better than the Championship and the odds must be on him leaving - adding this to the long list of missed opportunities for Newcastle United.
There have been suggestions Benitez has become so hooked on the passion of the Toon Army that he will stay despite relegation, but he is a cold realist not a romantic and he will want solid promises from Ashley before even considering it.
Ashley's public utterances are rare, but he was moved to speak on the final day of last season before Newcastle got that victory against West Ham to stay up.
He insisted Newcastle were not for sale at "any price" until they won a trophy. This promises to be a very long stay unless relegation changes his mind.
Newcastle put John Carver in place after Alan Pardew departed for Crystal Palace in January 2015 and only just stayed up after he only won three games and lost 12 out of 19.
Survival and Ashley's willingness to spend offered Newcastle a chance to build, but once again poor decision-making holed them below the waterline straightaway.
Instead of ambition, Newcastle's long-suffering fans got the uninspired low-key appointment of McClaren. This was a choice that seemed long in the making, despite McClaren lacking credibility and turning up as damaged goods after failing to take Derby County into the Championship play-offs despite heavy financial backing.
Newcastle managing director Lee Charnley was the man behind McClaren's appointment, described in the usual terms as "the perfect fit". He was far from it, winning only six games and losing 16 out of 28 before he was sacked in March.
Whereas Newcastle just about got away with Carver as a holding operation, Ashley and his colleagues must now know they made a mistake not getting rid of McClaren earlier.
He was clearly a lame duck a month before his departure but was allowed to survive to lose four of his last five games in charge. If Ashley is decisive in business, he has paid a heavy price for inertia in football.
It almost smacked of "it will never happen to us" complacency.
Benitez was available and another month working with those Newcastle players might just have saved the club. He was given 10 games to save Newcastle. Not long enough, even for a man of his experience.
Ashley, it seems, will never rid himself of his reputation as a malign figure at the club, despite spending £80m on eight players since the summer. He bought Sir John Hall's 41.6% stake in the club in May 2007 and took full control later that year but has never forged a bond with the fans.
This is a loveless relationship and perhaps relegation to the Championship - even though it would make a sale of the club much harder and less lucrative - may just persuade Ashley his time is up.
Newcastle are a giant sporting institution that attract 52,000 fans to its cathedral on the hill, the magnificent St James' Park arena so close to the city with just one club to call its own.
This status cannot shield it from reality, however, and one look at the results and rampant instability that have characterised Newcastle means this demise should not come as a shock.
In their past eight Premier League seasons they have finished in the top 10 only twice - fifth under Pardew in 2011-12 and 10th under him in 2013-14. They were relegated in 2008-09 and just scraped up into 15th last season. The pattern is there.
And what about the manager's chair? Since Graeme Souness was sacked in February 2006 - admittedly before Ashley's arrival - 11 managers have been in charge in one capacity or another.
Benitez is currently at the helm and there has also been McClaren, Carver, Pardew, Chris Hughton, Alan Shearer, Joe Kinnear, Kevin Keegan, Nigel Pearson, Sam Allardyce and Glenn Roeder.
There is only so much instability a club can take and Newcastle have overdosed on it.
Newcastle's next manager must study the squad and find out who is good enough to play in the Championship - and also who wants to play in the Championship.
The Toon Army squad is heavily built on foreign imports and it will be an alien environment where the right to play must be won, often in the heat of physical battle. Is this the arena they wish to perform in?
Newcastle will be well blessed in goal with Tim Krul on the road to recovery from a knee injury and Rob Elliot and Karl Darlow providing back-up.
But it is surely the end for the likes of 30-year-old Steven Taylor, while Fabricio Coloccini is 34 and troubled by injuries.
It is likely players such as Georginio Wijnaldum, signed from PSV Eindhoven for £14.5m and Chancel Mbemba, an £8.4m capture from Anderlecht, may feel they can look for better than the Championship. Will Aleksandar Mitrovic, the striker bought from Anderlecht for £14.5m feel the same?
Ayoze Perez is a 22-year-old striker of promise who will attract interest, while others who have been around a while such as Papiss Cisse and Moussa Sissoko may not be enamoured by the second tier. Their form has been so patchy they may well form part of a clear-out.
It could be that they will have to get on with it if Newcastle do not conduct a fire sale. If they can keep those players happy then the chances of a quick return may just be improved.
England duo Jonjo Shelvey and Andros Townsend were big-money buys in January for a combined total of £24m. Shelvey has been a mixed bag and will be on a reported £80,000-a-week in the Championship, while Townsend has been a rare success.
He has looked revitalised and may also attract suitors. There have been reports he can leave for £8m in the event of relegation.
There is some promise within the squad but the trick will be to keep them together - easier said than done once the cold reality of life in the lower leagues sets in.
Aston Villa's ability to survive in the Championship has been questioned; Newcastle's fiercely loyal fans will expect them to come straight back up to the Premier League.
Newcastle did it once when they returned immediately under Chris Hughton in 2009-10. Can they do it again?
The air must be cleared quickly on Tyneside but one glance around them will deliver the evidence that there is no guarantee of a quick return ticket, as clubs with a history more glorious than Newcastle United's have found.
Leeds United, floored by financial meltdown, were last in the Premier League in 2003-04 and spent three seasons in League One before returning to the Championship, while other hugely successful clubs in the 1970s and 80s have found it tough to come back.
Nottingham Forest, European Cup winners in 1979 and 1980, have been outside the top tier since 1998-99, while Ipswich Town have been away since 2001-02.
Newcastle, at least, have huge potential and are on a sound financial footing, but Ashley must act quickly to restore faith and optimism or perhaps decide it is a job for someone else.
Benitez's future must be top of the agenda before he or another manager begins addressing the matter of reshaping a squad for the Championship.
Newcastle's relegation is the result of years of poor decisions. They cannot afford any more after this latest devastating setback.
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He said people will see "less first class in the future" with busy suburban trains having "one class" instead.
Mr Grayling suggested operators may be forced to scrap first class areas when franchises are awarded in the future.
Rail Delivery Group - which represents train operators - said it would work to increase seat numbers on key lines.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Grayling said he was "absolutely" committed to scrapping first class carriages on shorter, commuter routes, at busy times of the day, and wanted train operators to take action if passengers demanded it.
"I absolutely understand what a total pain it is if you are standing on a train for 20 to 30 minutes on the way to work," he told the paper.
"I don't really see a case for a non-long distance journey for there to be any division between first and second class. There should just be one class on the train."
"People will see less first class in the future as we start to say that on busy suburban trains you can't start segregating," he added.
The Department for Transport issues contracts to run rail franchises in England, and can include conditions such as whether first class seating should be provided.
In March, ahead of contract negotiations to run the Southeastern franchise, passengers were asked if they wanted to remove first class seats at busy times.
The contract to run the line - which serves south-east London, Kent and parts of East Sussex - expires next year.
Other franchises to be renewed in the next 12 months include the West Coast Main Line from April 2019, and the East Midlands regional contract, which has three firms bidding to run the contract from March 2018.
However, some are not due for renewal for several years, with the Northern and East Anglia franchises currently not due for renewal until 2025.
David Sidebottom, director of Transport Focus - which represents passengers - said it was important train users have a choice, "as long as that choice is not to the extreme detriment of everyone else".
"A balance needs to be achieved between the number of standard and first class carriages a train has," he added.
"However, it is clear that where passengers are being squeezed into standard class carriages while there are plenty of empty seats in first class, this balance is not being achieved.
"In the long-term we need a big increase in capacity. This means continued investment in new and longer trains to meet existing demand."
Paul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group - which represents train operators - said firms were prepared to work with the government over the issue.
"We understand passengers' frustration when they can't get a seat which is why rail companies are working together to invest and improve journeys with thousands of new carriages and 6,400 extra train services a week by 2021," he said.
"We will continue to work with governments to increase seats on key routes to boost communities, businesses and the economy."
It was found at Weybourne in Norfolk on Tuesday and is now known to be a whale which washed up almost a month ago.
Norfolk cetacean recorder Carl Chapman said a species of giant squid could have matched its description.
"The theory that [sperm] whales were chasing squid remains valid," he said, although there was no evidence as yet.
"When we heard it might be a giant squid, we thought this could be significant."
He said: "I think at the moment people are very aware of the whale sightings and we are receiving a lot of reports which come to nothing."
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The minke whale carcass was washed off the beach at high tide on Wednesday morning and found at Sheringham.
The false alarm came after a seventh whale was seen in trouble off the coast at Mundesley on Tuesday morning.
The coastguard launched a search but could find no further trace of the creature.
It is hoped the whale safely returned to deeper waters.
A sperm whale died at Hunstanton last week, the second to die there recently, and four others were found dead in Lincolnshire.
There have been 30 sperm whale deaths in the North Sea this year.
The Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, which examines all whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings in the UK, is working to establish why the whales came ashore and how they died.
This could help answer why the whales, thought to have come from the same bachelor pod normally living off the west coast of Norway, were in the North Sea.
Logan Peters was arrested in Plymouth on 7 May on suspicion of criminal damage. He was charged and released but was found dead the next day.
The IPCC will consider a complaint from the 22 year old's family that excessive force was used during the arrest.
IPCC Commissioner Tom Milsom will oversee the investigation.
Mr Milson, who will meet Mr Peters's family as part of the investigation, said: "I would like to assure them that we will look at the force used at arrest and all of the actions and decisions taken in relation to the risk assessments during Logan's time in custody.
"Additionally, we will look at the communication processes between the custody staff, and the period of detention, to determine whether all national and force policies and guidelines were adhered to."
The telecoms regulator Ofcom said Homeserve had been guilty of a serious breach of its rules on such calls.
Ofcom said it hoped the fine would send a "strong message" to all companies.
The Walsall based firm has offered to pay compensation of £10 each to the estimated 51,000 householders who were called in February and March last year.
The company blamed faulty equipment at a call centre firm which had been contracted to make the calls on its behalf.
"HomeServe identified the issue and promptly reported it to Ofcom, following an internal audit of all of HomeServe's telemarketing operations," the insurer said.
"The problem was identified as having resulted from the incorrect use of Answering Machine Detection technology via an outsourcer.
"HomeServe can also confirm that all of its dialler systems have been fully compliant with Ofcom regulations since 22 March 2011, following the rectification of the errors identified during HomeServe's audit," it added.
Ofcom's Consumer Group Director, Claudio Pollack, said: "Our rules are there to prevent consumers suffering annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety from silent or abandoned calls."
"We hope today's fine will send a strong message to all companies that use call centres that they need to ensure they are fully compliant with the rules or face the consequences."
Barclaycard was fined the then maximum fine of £50,000 for a similar offence in 2008.
The maximum potential fine was raised to £2m in September 2010.
Adam Scorer at Consumer Focus said he was pleased with the regulator's action.
"While silent and abandoned calls are usually caused by glitches in the technology rather than a deliberate act by sales staff, they are a nuisance and firms that do not control the technology show a lack of respect to consumers," he said.
Kier Starmer ordered a review after an expert said there was "no real prospect" of corruption convictions.
The trial collapsed in 2011.
The eight cleared former officers are suing South Wales Police for misfeasance in public office and false imprisonment.
Senior Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyer Gaon Hart told the court sitting in Cardiff he was brought in as a "fresh pair of eyes" to consider the evidence.
But his view that the case would fail led to him being shouted at by South Wales Police's senior investigating officer Chris Coutts.
Mr Hart told the hearing the officer was "furious".
There was disagreement, too, with senior counsel Nick Dean QC the barrister who led the prosecution which eventually collapsed.
The relationship deteriorated to such an extent the-then DPP Keir Starmer intervened to manage the disagreement.
He handed the decision to another CPS expert Simon Clements, head of the Serious Crime Division, who decided to carry on with the prosecution.
Mr Hart told the High Court that he felt the police had a "slightly zealous attitude that they clear the name of the force in some way".
Former officers Graham Mouncher, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen are suing South Wales Police.
The case is continuing.
The artwork, named The Bristol Whales, has been installed in Millennium Square to mark the city's status as European Green Capital.
It represents the threat of plastic pollution in the world's oceans, particularly plastic bags and food and drink packaging, organisers said.
It will be on show until 1 September.
The six-tonne sculpture depicts a blue whale and a humpback whale swimming through an ocean of "upcycled" bottles, collected from the Bath Half Marathon and Bristol 10k race.
A Green Capital spokesman said the sculpture was "encouraging people to act now to reduce their consumption of single-use plastics and help protect our oceans for future generations".
He said Britons spent over £1.5bn on bottled water every year and sent 15 million bottles to landfill every day, and globally eight million tonnes of plastic ended up in oceans each year - equivalent to the body weight of 45,000 blue whales.
Sue Lipscombe, from Cod Steaks, which designed and built the artwork, said: "Whales are intelligent, beautiful, charismatic animals - they've become symbols of the world's oceans.
"They have a physical strength but they also represent resilience, the potential for recovery, provided we - as custodians of the oceans - take the right steps to protect them.
"We're confident that this sculpture will fuel discussion and debate about plastics in the ocean."
Bristol became the first UK city to be named European Green Capital when it took over from Copenhagen at the start of the year.
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The engine, which was retired from service in 1963, has been restored for York's National Railway Museum (NRM) in a shed in Bury, Greater Manchester.
Low-speed test runs begin later along the East Lancashire Railway.
It marks the end of a £4.2m complex restoration project, which began in 2006 by specialist engineers at Riley and Son Ltd, based in Bury.
Tom Ingall reports on the history of the famous engine.
Labs in the US states of Washington and Louisiana began "listening" on Friday for the gravitational waves that are predicted to flow through the Earth when violent events occur in space.
The Advanced Ligo facilities have just completed a major upgrade.
Scientists believe this will now give them the sensitivity needed to pick up what should be a very subtle signal.
The theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, one of the pioneers behind the experiment, went so far as to say that it would be "quite surprising" if the labs made no detection.
"We are there; we are in the ball park now. It's clear that this is going to be pulled off," he confidently told The Documentary programme on the BBC World Service.
Gravitational waves are a prediction of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
They describe the warping of space-time that occurs when masses accelerate.
But their expected weakness means only astrophysical phenomena on a truly colossal scale are likely to generate waves that will register on even the remarkable technologies assembled at Hanford in the American northwest and at Livingston in the southeast.
Sources that Advanced Ligo might observe include merging black holes and neutron stars (very dense, burnt-out stars), and, with luck, some exploding giant stars (supernovae).
Ripples in the fabric of space-time
The technique being employed is laser interferometry.
Both Ligo labs work by splitting a light beam and sending the two halves down separate, 4km-long, evacuated tunnels.
The beams are bounced back and forth by mirrors before being recombined at their starting point and sent to detectors.
If the delicate gravitational waves pass through the set-up, the laser light should show evidence of having been ever so slightly disturbed - either lengthened or shortened.
Advanced Ligo is looking for changes in laser-arm distance that are on the order of one one-thousandth of the width of a proton.
The equipment's peak sensitivity will be to waves with a frequency of around 100 Hertz, which in auditory terms is at the low end of what humans can hear. And it is for this reason that gravitational wave detection is often described as trying to pick up the "sounds of the cosmos".
"These detectors are like microphones where we're listening to the Universe," said Jamie Rollins from the California Institute of Technology, one of the project's lead institutions.
"It's sort of like we've been deaf to the Universe until now, and turning on these detectors is like turning on our ears."
The Documentary: A New Ear on the Universe will be broadcast first on the BBC World Service on Saturday, 26 September. Presented by Aleem Maqbool, and produced by Adrian Washbourne, the programme will also be available online.
The Ligo labs first began hunting for gravitational waves in 2002. They were then switched off in 2010 to undergo their more than $200m upgrade.
The improvements suppress further the "noise" in the instrumentation that would otherwise swamp real signals.
Important contributions have been made by the project's international partners, which include the UK.
British scientists provided the technology to keep the mirrors rock steady.
"The mirrors have to be super-quiet so that they're not disturbed by anything other than a gravitational wave. So they're suspended on four pendulum stages, the last stage being ultra-pure glass fibres," explained Sheila Rowan from the University of Glasgow.
The labs have been running in an engineering mode for some weeks, but they were switched to begin formal science observations at 15:00 GMT on Friday.
Like all instruments, they will need to be tuned to gain further improvements in sensitivity.
The upgrade was designed to give the detectors a 10-fold jump in performance over the old set-up. Refinements should achieve another factor of three by the end of the decade.
"The one thing I personally like about Ligo is it's used every bit of physics I know, from the most arcane solid-state and surface physics to lasers, electronics, quantum mechanics - everything," said Vern Sandberg, the lead scientist at the Hanford lab.
"And it's a very gratifying area to work in, a very frustrating area, too. Hopefully, we will know in a few months whether it's very fulfilling," he told The Documentary.
Scientists must now wait for the Universe to comply - for two black holes to spiral into each other, or, perhaps, for a supernova to go off in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Supercomputers will be sifting constantly the data for patterns that match the expectations from simulations - and even for those signals that stand out as so unexpected they may hint at something that goes totally beyond current understanding.
"Recording a gravitational wave for the first time has never been a big motivation for Ligo," said Kip Thorne.
"The motivation has always been to open a new window on the Universe, to see what I like to call the warped side of the Universe - an aspect of the Universe we've never seen before, objects and phenomena that are made either entirely from warped space and time, or partially from warped space and time. And it's going to be fantastic when we do."
He stretches out his legs towards a large fan whirring in the corner of his office. He seems keen to cool his toes.
Hamas' deputy foreign minister is hot but he is not bothered. A smile creeps across his neatly trimmed salt and pepper beard. He's very much in the pink.
"Everyone is celebrating. We are very happy. It was wonderful," he smiles.
And the reason for his good humour: The election of a new president. Not in Gaza but in neighbouring Egypt.
When it was announced last month that the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi was to be Egypt's first democratically elected president, thousands of Hamas supporters in Gaza took to the streets to celebrate.
Gaza City's main boulevard - the Champs Elysee du Gaza, as some locals choose to call it - was filled with a cacophony of car horns and firecrackers.
Nearby, a succession of Hamas leaders took to a stage to cheer the Brotherhood's victory.
They see Mr Mursi very much as one of their own.
"The new voice, the new regime in Egypt will be more supportive for the Palestinians. Not only for Hamas but for the whole Palestinian question," says Mr Hamed.
Another reason for his upbeat mood, Mr Hamed says is what is good for Hamas, is bad for Israel.
"Israel is more isolated now. It has lost its most important friend in the Middle East. Things will not be like under Hosni Mubarak."
Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, was originally founded, in the 1980s, as a Palestinian offshoot of the long-established Muslim Brotherhood.
"At the end of the day Hamas is part of the international Muslim Brotherhood organisation," says Mokhaimer Abu Sada, Professor of Politics at Gaza's al-Azhar University.
"Because Palestinians are under Israel's occupation maybe Hamas became a militant organisation dedicated to fighting that occupation. But at the end of the day both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt subscribe to the same principles."
Some analysts believe that having a powerful and now friendly neighbour will make Hamas more confident in its ongoing conflict with Israel.
In the days after Mr Mursi was elected, Hamas militants fired scores of rockets and mortars into Israel as the Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza.
It was the first time Hamas had directly engaged militarily for more than a year, although Israel accuses the Islamist movement of allowing smaller militants groups to launch attacks.
It is possible Hamas' military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, was trying to assert itself, testing the waters as to how Israel might react given the change in power in Egypt just days earlier.
Both Mr Hamed and Prof Abu Sada reject that suggestion.
They say the Hamas firing had more to do with internal politics among Gaza's militant factions rather than being connected to Mr Mursi's election.
Either way many will be watching to see how the Muslim Brotherhood reacts if Hamas chooses to fire rockets again.
The Muslim Brotherhood has said it wants to uphold Egypt's long-standing peace treaty with Israel.
Prof Abu Sada believes the movement will put pressure on Hamas to also maintain some sort of cold peace.
"Egypt is definitely not interested in provoking Israel. Egypt is much more concerned with solving its internal problems - poverty and unemployment," says Prof Abu Sada.
"Hamas has the same issues in Gaza. Hamas is much more interested in rebuilding the Gaza Strip instead of engaging in another war with Israel. Since the last war [with Israel from December 2008 to January 2009] Hamas has largely tried to restrain other resistance groups within Gaza."
Prof Abu Sada highlights the internal dilemma, which has faced Hamas ever since it came to power: Can it successfully run a government taking care of Gaza's 1.6 million people while at the same time continuing to act as a resistance movement fighting Israel militarily?
He believes the Muslim Brotherhood will try to steer Hamas towards the former.
"The Muslim Brotherhood will try to influence Hamas in a much more moderate and pragmatic way."
And Mr Hamed, who is widely considered to be one of the more moderate voices within the Hamas leadership in Gaza, says his government does not want the Muslim Brotherhood to be forced to choose between keeping its relationship with Hamas and keeping the peace with Israel.
"We are not interested in squeezing the Muslim Brotherhood into a corner or dragging Egypt into a confrontation with Israel."
Mr Hamed cautions that much will also depend on how much power the Muslim Brotherhood eventually wrestles from Egypt's military generals.
He believes it could take several years before the shifting dynamics of power in Egypt begin to settle.
But in the long term, he sees Egypt and Turkey, with its Islamist government, as the two big players in the region with the potential to influence the Middle East's most intractable conflict, that is between Israel and the Palestinians.
In the shorter term he believes the Muslim Brotherhood will work towards easing the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
He hopes it will move to further lift Egypt's blockade of Gaza which former President Hosni Mubarak imposed at the request of Israel and the United States, when Hamas came to power.
Mr Hamed points to the fact that immediately after Mr Mursi's election, Egypt greatly increased the number of Palestinians allowed to leave Gaza through Egypt each day.
Around a thousand people are now permitted to travel each day, up from around 500 just a few months ago.
Mr Hamed says the next target would be to see the border opened up to legal commercial traffic.
Currently hundreds of thousands of tonnes of goods, mostly construction materials, pass into Gaza through smuggling tunnels from Egypt every month.
The illegal trade, which has greatly increased since the fall of Mr Mubarak, has helped fuel something of a construction boom in Gaza with new buildings being put up on just about every street corner.
"We have had a building revolution in Gaza over the past year," says Rafik Hassuna, in front of a new classroom block that his company is building at Gaza's Islamic University.
Mr Hassuna runs one of the largest construction companies in Gaza. One of biggest projects is helping build a new wide tree-lined corniche road along the strip's Mediterranean seafront.
It is a huge undertaking, given that all the thousands of tonnes of building materials have to be carted in underground.
"It's crazy!" says Mr Hassuna shaking his head.
"We suffered from Mubarak who supported Israel and its siege of Gaza."
He now wants Mr Mursi to open up the border for trade.
"We hope the Arab Spring will bring fresh rains for Gaza. There is a commercial relation between Egypt and Libya, Egypt and Sudan. We hope to establish the same relation between Gaza and Egypt. We pray for this."
But there is one reason why such an opening up might not happen.
Some in Israel have suggested that the Egypt-Gaza border should be opened up, pushing responsibility for the Palestinian territory towards Cairo.
And that is why Mr Hamed says Hamas wants Egypt to be close but not too close.
"Gaza is part of Palestine. Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine are part of one political and geographical unity. Gaza is part of the Palestinian homeland - it is not part of Egypt."
Passporting rights let firms trade across the European Union without the need for separate licences.
New finance jobs fell in every English region in July and August, the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) said.
Eurosceptics have said the UK would not be harmed by leaving the single market.
The fall in vacancies after the Brexit vote was "striking as it is the only year in the past four where this trend has occurred", the IPPR said.
There was a 13.6% drop in job adverts in London, including for administrators, managers and chief executives, the research suggests.
Outside the capital, there was a 12.8% drop in job postings in the North East, an 11.4% fall in the North West and an 11.2% decline in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Clare McNeil, IPPR associate director for work and families, said: "As one of our largest sectors, the financial sector is vital to the wider wellbeing of our economy.
"The Prime Minister needs to end doubts around whether the government will pursue access to the single market and passporting rights as high priorities in the Brexit negotiations."
Recently, data from recruiter Morgan McKinley suggested financial sector job vacancies had dropped 12% in July, but grew 4% in August.
The recruiter warned that uncertainty around the UK's Brexit negotiations was still "casting a shadow over the second half of 2016".
According to the Financial Conduct Authority, 5,476 UK firms hold 336,421 passports to trade elsewhere in EU.
And 8,008 European companies use 23,532 passports to trade in the UK.
On Tuesday Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, said the risk of the UK leaving the single market was "significant" for business.
Ruscoe and Steve Evans have taken over from Craig Harrison who is the new Hartlepool manager.
TNS defeated the Gibralter side 4-3 on aggregate and face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the second qualifying round.
"Hopefully we will be getting a go now," said Ruscoe.
TNS trailed Europa FC 2-1 from the first leg and managed to win the second leg 3-1 after extra time against opponents who had two men sent off in the match staged in Portugal.
Ruscoe will be waiting to see whether TNS chairman Mike Harris will give him and Steve Evans a long-term role.
"A few people were waiting for us to slip-up," said Ruscoe.
"We were the favourites, we were the seeded team and everyone was looking from the outside and thinking TNS should win this.
"A few people were thinking Scott Ruscoe and Steve Evans were not up to it.
"I am pleased and proud we have proved them wrong. It shows the players are behind us.
"Hopefully we will be getting a go now as a management duo.
"I will be speaking to the chairman and asking what his thoughts are."
But Ruscoe insisted talks over his long-term future must take a an initial back seat and won't affect the preparation for the second qualifying round first leg against HNK Rijeka in Croatia on Tuesday, 11 July.
"The team comes first and it's about preparing for next week," said Ruscoe.
"This Croatian side are very good. We need to be at our best and worry about them, not the situation as me as manager.
"It is going to be totally different again. We are under no illusions about how hard it's going to be.
"We are going to have a plan and be prepared."
He claimed the measure, inspired by Norway and Sweden, would restore trust in the system and reduce tax avoidance.
He also called for a specific chunk of taxes raised to be "hypothecated" - earmarked - for the NHS.
The Conservatives said Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn had said he did not favour a hypothecated tax.
Chancellor Philip Hammond will deliver his first full budget next Wednesday.
Outlining his thinking in a pre-Budget speech, Mr McDonnell urged the chancellor to "reverse the £70bn giveaway to the super-rich and giant corporations between now and 2021".
He said under a Labour government "there'll be no place to hide for tax avoiders".
'Urgent need for cash'
"Building on the successful Nordic model, we'll introduce legislation to make public the tax returns of those earning over £1m," he said.
"Transparency and fairness is at the heart of building a decent, open society. This will help restore public trust in the tax system and help clampdown on any avoidance."
Mr McDonnell said Mr Hammond must give the NHS and social care "an urgent injection of cash" when he delivers his first Budget next week.
He said the chancellor cannot continue to claim credit for improving economic growth figures while leaving health and social care without the funds they need.
"The experience on the ground of patients, doctors and nurses is of a treasured institution already drifting into the greatest crisis in its history," he said.
"Current plans from the government do not come anywhere near close to addressing the scale of the crisis, so it is essential that they now bring forward plans to close the funding gap if we do not want to lose our NHS."
'End discrimination'
He urged the government to appoint a politically neutral body, such as the Office for Budget Responsibility, to assess the levels of funding needed for the NHS in the long term, with 10-year budgets that show taxpayers their contributions are well-spent.
"Hypothecation, allocating taxes raised to specific purposes, can make absolutely clear where tax money is being spent," he said.
He accused the Conservatives of adding £750bn to the national debt since 2010, while at the same time imposing the first spending cuts on schools for 40 years and cuts to social care amounting to £4.5bn since 2010 that "have brought the system to the brink of collapse".
Mr McDonnell also called on Mr Hammond to end the "discrimination" which had seen cuts to public services "disproportionately" affect women.
He said "the cruel £3.7bn cut to Personal Independence Payment for disabled people must be halted", and he pledged that Labour would introduce a £10-an-hour Real Living Wage "to make sure work always pays fairly".
In response, the Conservatives said Mr McDonnell's speech highlighted divisions within Labour on the economy - pointing to comments made by Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn about hypothecated taxes.
A Conservative spokesman said: "Labour have today shown what a shambles they are - with the shadow chancellor suggesting a way of funding the NHS the Labour leader says won't work.
"The truth is that a strong NHS needs a strong economy, and only a Conservative government can deliver that."
In January, Mr Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I am not one that's generally in favour of hypothecated taxation but I'm prepared to consider it and look at it. The party will obviously consider it and look at it."
Asked if there would be a specific tax to raise money for the NHS under Labour, he replied: "We would guarantee the funding for the NHS. Whether we'd have a specific tax I doubt, but I'm prepared to consider it and discuss it as I'm sure all my colleagues are. But if you go down the road of hypothecated taxation then you're going to do hypothecated taxation for every other service. That's an issue."
The 28-year-old Ivorian joined the club on loan from Manchester City in August, but has scored just twice in 11 games and has not played since 27 December.
His contract allowed him to be sold to Chinese Super League clubs in January, but he chose to stay at Stoke.
"When you hear everything is fine and you don't play, it's crazy," he said.
Speaking to the BBC's World Football programme, the Ivory Coast international added: "It is more than difficult. This is something that I want to know why - the coach told me I'm training very well and my attitude is very good. It doesn't make sense. It's painful."
But Potters boss Mark Hughes says the striker is a victim of circumstance and faces competition from Peter Crouch and new signing Saido Berahino.
"He was away [at the African Cup of Nations] for a while and during that time Peter Crouch came into that side and did really well," said Hughes.
"It's been difficult for Wilf to get back in.
"We've bought Berahino in the meantime, so that's an extra striker on the books. So he's just going to have to be patient, as all players have to be."
Bony, who joined City from Swansea £28m in January 2015, said he was not tempted by the money on offer in China.
He added: "My agent told me there was an offer but I refused to go because my plan is to stay in the UK to show more - to show that I'm not at the end."
The 43-year-old, who finished fourth in the event in 2016, hit eight birdies to return a bogey-free round.
Dredge's round of 64 is his best since regaining his tour card last year.
Meanwhile, former US Open champion Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland started well and finished the day two strokes back in third.
McDowell opened with three birdies and reached the turn in only 30 shots after starting on the 10th tee.
The 37-year-old dropped just one shot, on the sixth, as he signed for a six-under 66.
"I understood today that the scoring was going to be good," Dredge said.
"It was an opportunity to go at more flags and get the ball closer to the hole.
"Without the wind, it certainly makes it a lot easier to get the score going and get the putts in."
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Police discovered chemicals and guns at a garage in the Paris suburb of Torcy, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
He said the detention of 12 suspects would be extended by 24 hours.
On Saturday, police carried out raids in several cities and shot dead a man said to be linked to a grenade attack against a Jewish shop last month.
The materials found in Torcy overnight included potassium nitrate, sulphur, headlight bulbs, and pressure cookers, Mr Molins told journalists on Wednesday.
"These are all products used to make what we call improvised explosives," he said. A handgun and a shotgun were also found.
"We are clearly confronted with an extremely dangerous terror network."
French converts
Those arrested at the weekend were targeted as part of an investigation into an attack on 19 September on a kosher grocery in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, in which one person was injured.
Mr Molins said that although two of the suspected organisers of the attack had been caught, it was not clear whether those who threw the grenade had been found.
The alleged leader of the group, 33-year-old Jeremie Louis-Sidney, was shot dead at his home in Strasbourg on Saturday in an exchange of fire with the police.
An ex-prisoner, who served time for drug-trafficking, he had recently converted to Islam.
Videos recovered from his apartment show him rapping about the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, and boasting that it was just the start.
Officials have indicated that those arrested were French converts. Several were said to have been carrying copies of their wills.
After Saturday's raids, blank bullets were fired outside a Paris synagogue.
French President Francois Hollande said there would be "total mobilisation of the state to fight all terrorist threats".
Indonesian law bans keeping endangered animals, whether dead or alive.
Cahyo Kumolo, the home affairs minister, proudly displayed his five stuffed Sumatra tigers and two Malayan sun bears during a televised tour of his home on 12 February.
There was a public outcry following the TV appearance.
Only 500-600 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild. Malayan sun bears are also rare; while there are no reliable figures for their population levels, they are classed as being "vulnerable".
The authorities say Mr Kumolo will not face punishment because he has surrendered his collection to the state. The stuffed animals are now being held by a conservation agency in Jakarta.
They are nihonium (with the symbol Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og).
Until now, the quartet have been referred to simply by the number of protons in each atom - 113, 115, 117 and 118, respectively.
The elements are the first to be included in the famous table since 2011, and complete its seventh row.
The names must go out to consultation for five months, but if there are no objections their confirmation should be a formality.
This will come from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
All four elements are extreme - the synthetic creations of scientists.
None of them exist in the natural state and were made by bombarding two smaller (albeit still very large) atomic nuclei together.
Theory predicts there are "islands of stability" where certain combinations should stick and hold together - but even then this state is usually only fleeting.
No element heavier than uranium, with 92 protons and 146 neutrons, has been seen for a prolonged period outside the laboratory.
Nonetheless, the exercise does provide scientists with valuable insights into the structure of atomic nuclei and the properties that stem from it.
As is customary, the discoverers of the new elements got the right to suggest a name.
The rules state that this can reflect a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist.
The name also has to be unique and maintain "historical and chemical consistency". This explains why there are a lot of "-iums" in the table.
Nihonium references the Japanese name for Japan. The atom was discovered at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Science.
Moscovium was named after the Moscow region, the location of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.
Tennessine recognises the US state of Tennessee and the local contributions made to the discovery by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University.
Oganesson honours the nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, who has played a leading role in the search for new elements including the one that will now bear his name.
South East Water said engineers worked overnight to carry out repairs after the burst main was discovered in the early hours of Saturday.
Properties affected were in Wadhurst, Flimwell, Stonegate and Ticehurst.
Head of engineering Desmond Brown said engineers isolated the burst and moved water around the network to limit the impact on customers.
The pipe has since been repaired.
The company later said that while there were 3,000 properties in the affected area, it had received 150 phone calls from people without water.
Exact numbers would be confirmed after an investigation had been carried out, a spokeswoman added.
About 287,000 people are living with hearing loss in Northern Ireland. It is estimated almost 2,000 are waiting more than nine weeks for treatment.
A proposed pilot scheme will try to cut audiology appointment waiting times.
It means patients will be able to go to a high street provider and have the bill paid by the health service.
A similar scheme has been operating since 2012 in England, where patients can go to Any Qualified Provider (AQP) for treatment.
More than 70% of people aged over 70 have hearing loss. Many people wait up to 10 years to seek treatment.
In some health trusts, it can take months to get an assessment and even longer to be fitted with a hearing aid.
Appointments are also required for follow-up care, such as hearing aid repairs.
Jim McGreevy lives in Crumlin, County Antrim, but his audiology care takes place at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, 12 miles away.
His wife, Margaret, said this was very inconvenient.
"We had a good service until he needed a little repair job done - we travelled into Belfast and discovered that the out-of-hours service had ceased, and to have any treatment at all he would have to make an appointment," she said.
"He couldn't use the phone, so I have to ring up and make an appointment and the time wait, we don't know."
Mrs McGreevy said not being able to communicate for a period of time can take its toll on her husband.
"He wouldn't hear someone at the door, he wouldn't hear the phone, and if there was an alarm and I was out of the house, he would not hear anything - all for the sake of a few seconds to replace maybe a little tube," she said.
The pilot scheme would treat hearing loss in a similar way to eyesight deterioration, where people can currently go to an optician as an NHS patient.
The proposed scheme has been welcomed by Jackie White of the charity Action on Hearing Loss.
"I think when people attend a hospital, they think of a problem or complaint as a medical issue, whereas if they could seek help more locally in their communities, it tends to remove the stigma that lots of people attach to hearing loss," she said.
"We'd like to see hearing loss normalised and people no longer worried to say that they have it."
The Health and Social Care Board has yet to confirm details of when and where the proposed pilot will take place.
But bad weather is hampering efforts to reach the Russian Akademic Shokalskiy, says the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
Earlier rescue attempts by Chinese and French icebreakers were foiled by the thick ice.
Seventy-four scientists, tourists and crew are on the Shokalskiy.
The vessel is being used by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition to follow the route explorer Douglas Mawson travelled a century ago.
The Shokalskiy remains well stocked with food and is in no danger, according to the team.
Despite being trapped, the scientists have continued their experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice.
AMSA which is coordinating the rescue, said the Aurora Australis was having trouble reaching the Shokalskiy because of "poor visibility".
"The Aurora Australis is travelling slowly due to the conditions to ensure the safety of all on board," the agency said in a statement on Sunday night.
Expedition member Chris Turney earlier posted a video message online saying winds had picked up and it was snowing again.
The powerful Australian icebreaker can cut ice up to 1.6m (5.2ft) thick, but it is uncertain whether it will be able to plough through the estimated 3m wall surrounding the Shokalskiy.
If this latest relief operation fails, passengers could be winched to safety by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker, which had to abort its rescue mission on Saturday.
The Snow Dragon came within seven nautical miles (11 km) of the Russian ship before stalling and being forced to return to the open sea.
The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker, who is part of the expedition, said the helicopter flew around the Shokalskiy on Sunday to see if the Snow Dragon could launch another attempt to break through the ice.
A change in wind direction and slightly warmer temperatures had caused the ice to crack and form pools of water.
But our correspondent warned that Antarctica's extremely unstable weather made predictions very difficult.
The Shokalskiy was trapped on Christmas Day by thick sheets of ice, driven by strong winds, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart - the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania.
Science volunteer Sean Borkovic earlier told the BBC: "I'll always remember this, that's for sure. It's brilliant. We've got some lovely light and the weather's pretty mild considering. The ship looks solid. I think we'll be good."
A visit from Secret Santa and a sumptuous Christmas dinner contributed to the mood of optimism.
The goal of the modern-day Australasian Antarctic Expedition is to repeat many of the original measurements and studies of the Mawson expedition to see how facets of the environment have changed over the past century.
Officers said "interference with signs" increased delays on roads around Weymouth on Sunday.
Drivers reported taking three hours to make a four-mile journey between Weymouth and Dorchester.
Organisers said despite advance warning, people had not fully understood the impact of the event.
Motorist Caroline Cooper, who said she arrived two hours late for a christening, wrote on social media: "It was a complete shambles. No diversion signs, no warning signs and nobody knew how to get anywhere."
Tim Brown said: "At no point prior was there any notice saying the road would be closed on Sunday."
Dorset Police said it would discuss feedback with the organisers to avoid issues during future events.
Insp Pete Browning said: "Unfortunately, there have been a number of incidents of interference with road signs. This irresponsible behaviour has exacerbated some of the traffic problems."
Peter Finney, Dorset County Council's Cabinet member for environment, infrastructure and highways, said a meeting would be held to discuss "all the positive and negative aspects of the event".
"We are aware of a number of issues with the traffic management for the event, including signage and marshalling. We will make sure lessons are learned and the necessary improvements are made to for any future events to keep inconvenience to a minimum," he added
Weymouth Ironman director Alan Rose said diversion signs on the perimeter of the event had been taken away or moved.
He added that more than 70,000 letters had been sent to warn people who lived on the 56-mile course.
But he said some drivers had not understood the likely impact of "biggest Ironman event the UK has ever hosted", involving 2,200 competitors.
Ironman, which takes place simultaneously at sites around the world, was previously held in Sherborne between 2003 and 2008.
A Citizens Advice league table shows that SSE had the lowest level of complaints, at just 22.5 per 100,000 customers.
EDF, British Gas and E.On took second, fourth and fifth spot respectively.
But big rivals Npower and Scottish Power came near the bottom of the league table, compiled for the April to June quarter this year.
A small supplier, Extra Energy, was worst of all the 21 firms measured, with a complaints rate that was 80 times greater than that of SSE.
The firm, which launched in 2014, apologised to customers and said it was now dealing with more complaints by its target of the end of the next working day.
"These figures reflect historic customer service issues that occurred during a period of time where Extra Energy saw our number of customers expand rapidly and unfortunately some of these complaints have taken longer than expected to resolve," said Ben Jones, the firm's managing director of operations.
Complaints are typically about late or inaccurate bills, or the difficulty some customers experience while simply trying to contact their gas or electricity supplier.
Citizens Advice said the performance of firms in dealing with complaints had fluctuated considerably in the first six months of the year.
"The latest league table shows some suppliers are getting much better at sorting out their customers' problems, but it's disappointing to see others getting worse at dealing with complaints," said its chief executive, Gillian Guy.
"Patchy and unpredictable customer service affects people in many ways - from the financial stress of being hit with a late bill, to the time wasted trying to get hold of a supplier on the phone."
The table shows that the overall gap between the best and worst firms was at its widest since Citizens Advice first started publishing its league table five years ago.
The results reveal that:
Claire Osborne, at the price comparison service uSwitch, said the latest results were encouraging, but some firms still had "work to do".
"Inaccurate bills, one of the main causes for complaints, are unfortunately much more common than we would like," she said.
"Our own research found that almost four million customers have been overcharged due to billing errors over the last year - leaving them £270m out of pocket.
"This data shows that there is more to choosing an energy supplier than price alone, so it's important to do your research before choosing a provider," she added.
Small Business, Consumers, and Corporate Responsibility Minister Margot James said: "Poor customer service can erode trust and cause unnecessary stress for bill payers.
"It's great to see that some companies are improving, but all energy suppliers should be treating their customers fairly and ensuring that any complaints are suitably addressed. If they don't, their customers will vote with their feet and switch to a different supplier."
If you have an unresolved complaint about a gas or electricity company, the Energy Ombudsman can help.
Click here for more information.
The airport said the move was "not entirely unexpected."
There had been a commitment by International Airlines Group (IAG) to free up Gatwick slots used for Belfast and Dublin services as part of its takeover of the Irish carrier.
Ryanair is among the other airlines hoping to step in.
Any new Ryanair service would, however, likely be operated from Belfast International and there have been discussions between the parties.
Belfast International said it had no comment to make.
Belfast International Airport could be about to land Ryanair for the first time.
Perhaps a more intriguing question is would a Gatwick service be the start of something bigger?
Easyjet is, of course, a major presence at Aldergove.
Insiders often say the carriers are loathe to compete on the same routes from the one airport.
It is no secret the International has been courting Ryanair.
Talks have taken place but nothing is signed and sealed.
The length of the runway saw Ryanair pull out of George Best Belfast City Airport years ago.
Nothing has changed on that front - leaving the International as the option.
Ryanair does, of course, also run services from City of Derry Airport.
Aer Lingus will discontinue its Belfast City-Gatwick route from March 27, with suggestions it was performing poorly.
It apologised to customers who have existing bookings after that date, saying they would be offered alternative options or a refund.
A spokesperson for George Best Belfast City Airport said: "The continuing commitment by Aer Lingus to Belfast City is clear."
They said the airline is increasing capacity on flights between the City and Heathrow by using larger aircraft.
He was joined by professional rally driver Ken Block as he spun around the city in a Ford Mustang.
The "wedding party", staged by actors outside the London landmark for the show, got a wave as they drove through the City of London.
The duo in Block's 845bhp 4WD Hoonicorn Mustang took a selfie on Tower Bridge.
At first it was thought it was a real wedding, but it later became clear the event had been staged for the programme.
Matt LeBlanc also tweeted a picture of himself from Canary Wharf saying: "Canary wharf is nice."
Paul Bradbury, head of retail at West Bromwich Albion Football Club, was in the capital with his wife for the weekend for a football match and caught the action at St Paul's Cathedral.
Mr Bradbury, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, said: "It was very very loud and entertaining but everyone seemed to enjoy it.
"Matt LeBlanc walked down and had a quick look of the route before he jumped in the car.
"The car seemed to stall for a couple of minutes but they got going again and made a couple of takes with the wedding party on the steps."
The new series of BBC Two show is due to start in May.
Police said four people were seen trying to drag the device off the wall of the former Nat West bank in Caistor, Lincolnshire, using a fork lift truck.
They then tried to load it through the roof of the van in the Market Place at about 03:00 BST.
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Live updates on this story and others from Lincolnshire
One eye witness said she was woken by the raid.
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"They were trying to definitely get the ATM machine out, they were ramming it against the wall
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The van was later discovered on fire at a nearby farm.
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Right to Dream retained the Junior Section crown thanks to a 3-0 victory over Co Londonderry.
Emmanuel Bam converted a penalty before doubling the lead and Kelvin Ofori added the third in added time.
David Salazar's second-half double gave O'Higgins a 2-0 win over Scottish team Hibernian in the Premier decider.
Salazar controlled before smashing in the opener and the striker volleyed home his second goal.
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Police had said they were "very concerned" for the welfare of Hanna Sabic who had not arrived at work in the city on Monday. She had last been seen at Falkirk Grahamston Station.
Officers described her disappearance as "out of character" and appealed for the public's help to trace her.
They later said she had been traced in Edinburgh at about 13:45 on Tuesday.
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A study of 8,800 people over 50 showed high blood pressure and being overweight also seemed to affect the brain, but to a lesser extent.
Scientists involved said people needed to be aware that lifestyles could damage the mind as well as the body.
Their study was published in the journal Age and Ageing.
Researchers at King's were investigating links between the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke and the state of the brain.
Data about the health and lifestyle of a group of over-50s was collected and brain tests, such as making participants learn new words or name as many animals as they could in a minute, were also performed.
They were all tested again after four and then eight years.
The results showed that the overall risk of a heart attack or stroke was "significantly associated with cognitive decline" with those at the highest risk showing the greatest decline.
It also said there was a "consistent association" between smoking and lower scores in the tests.
One of the researchers, Dr Alex Dregan, said: "Cognitive decline becomes more common with ageing and for an increasing number of people interferes with daily functioning and well-being.
"We have identified a number of risk factors which could be associated with accelerated cognitive decline, all of which, could be modifiable."
He added: "We need to make people aware of the need to do some lifestyle changes because of the risk of cognitive decline."
The researchers do not know how such a decline could affect people going about their daily life. They are also unsure whether the early drop in brain function could lead to conditions such as dementia.
Dr Simon Ridley, from Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "Research has repeatedly linked smoking and high blood pressure to a greater risk of cognitive decline and dementia, and this study adds further weight to that evidence.
"Cognitive decline as we age can develop into dementia, and unravelling the factors that are linked to this decline could be crucial for finding ways to prevent the condition.
"These results underline the importance of looking after your cardiovascular health from mid-life."
The Alzheimer's Society said: "We all know smoking, a high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and a high BMI [Body Mass Index] is bad for our heart. This research adds to the huge amount of evidence that also suggests they can be bad for our head too.
"One in three people over 65 will develop dementia but there are things people can do to reduce their risk.
"Eating a balanced diet, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, getting your blood pressure and cholesterol checked and not smoking can all make a difference." | Smoking "rots" the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London. | 20,463,363 | 557 | 27 | false |
The actor and director spoke to students taking the postgraduate course Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics.
The university said she talked about her experience and what motivated her work as UN special envoy.
Student Tazeen Dhanani tweeted Ms Jolie did "wonderfully" while Alana Foster described it as an incredible lecture.
Ms Dhanani added: "She'll make an amazing visiting professor. So honoured to hear her inaugural lecture at LSE on sexual violence, rape, working with refugees."
The star also answered questions from the students.
Prof Christine Chinkin, director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, said: "I am delighted that LSE postgraduate students have had the unique opportunity to learn directly from the valuable insights, perspectives and experiences that Angelina Jolie, UN special envoy and visiting professor in practice, brought to the class."
She added that "critical and constructive" engagement on women's human rights was "at the core of the education programme" at the centre.
Before the lesson, Jolie told the Evening Standard she was "feeling butterflies" as "this is very important to me".
The course is run by the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, which was launched last year by Jolie and former Foreign Secretary William Hague.
In 2012, the pair co-founded a global initiative to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones.
On Monday, Jolie said although she was proud of what had been achieved, "we are very focused on the next steps: taking the tools that have been developed into the field to help document crimes and support prosecutions, working with militaries to change doctrine and training, and pushing for the implementation of laws to protect the very vulnerable victims".
The actor, an envoy for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, has long campaigned for women's rights.
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Stefano Brizzi, 50, is accused of strangling PC Gordon Semple, 59, before dismembering him.
At the Old Bailey, prosecutors accused him of "living out an episode" of the US drama, in which a body is "got rid of" by dissolving it in acid.
Mr Brizzi denies murder but admits obstructing a coroner.
The Italian national said he "panicked" and felt "paranoid" after PC Semple, from Greenhithe, Kent, died during a "sex game gone wrong" at his south London flat.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC asked Mr Brizzi - who has admitted using crystal meth - about his "obsession" with Breaking Bad.
He suggested Mr Brizzi had been inspired by an episode of the show - about a chemistry teacher who makes a fortune manufacturing the drug - where character Jesse Pinkman attempts to dissolve a body in a bath.
"I accept I considered without any rationality at all. I think I was inspired by that idea," Mr Brizzi said.
"I took whatever was there, thinking maybe I can dissolve him. The bath was absolutely tiny, I had no knives, no saws, anything in particular out of the ordinary.
"I had no idea what kind of chemical I was using. I'm not saying I was not inspired by that idea. What other ways did I have to dispose of it? I couldn't bury it. I didn't know where to start."
The court previously heard officers found a "blue-green liquid" in the bath with "flesh-coloured globules floating in the water", when they searched Mr Brizzi's flat.
Mr Brizzi told the court after PC Semple died, he felt he was living in a "bad dream" and decided that, rather than call the police, he would cut up and dispose of the body.
Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said Mr Brizzi dismembered the body so no-one could find out exactly how the police officer had died.
"The condition you left the body in means the pathologist cannot tell one way or another. You could have hit him with a hammer, rendering him unconscious," he said.
He said Mr Brizzi "did everything [he] possibly could to make sure nobody would be able to find out what happened to Gordon Semple".
Mr Brizzi replied: "I tried to get away with it. I did not act out a strategy of some kind of well- thought ideas."
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They are up against William Vanderpuye who voices Rastamouse, which is also up for best children's series.
Stick Man is also nominated in the best long form category up against Aardman's Shaun The Sheep Movie.
Also in that category is Children of the Holocaust, a film for BBC Learning.
The Clangers: I am the Eggbot, which won a Children's Bafta is up for best pre-school series, alongside CBeebies' Hey Duggee: The Omelette Badge and Nick Jr's Lily's Driftwood Bay: Goodbye.
Also nominated in the children's series category alongside Rastamouse: School of Rock is The Amazing World of Gumball: The Shell and Scream Street: Resus Rocks.
The public can join in and vote in some of the categories including favourite short film and music video.
The music videos nominated are James's Moving On, Amaro & Walden's Joyride, and Benjamin Scheuer: Cookie-tin Banjo.
It is the 20th year for the British Animation Awards, and director Jayne Pilling said "the calibre of this year's finalists prove that the animation industry is in better health than ever".
The awards themselves feature sheep and are individually created by leading animation artists. This year they include Oscar-winning animators Nick Park and Daniel Greaves and award-winning author/illustrator David Melling.
This year's ceremony will be held at the BFI on London's Southbank on 10 March.
The surname database, which will soon be searchable in some libraries, is the result of four years of work led by the University of the West of England.
Its fascinating findings have been published in the Oxford English Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
You have been in touch to tell us the stories behind your last names and ask about the origins.
Darren Marriage, 36, from Taunton in Somerset, said he had always thought his surname came from a vicar.
"I am married and my wife has quickly discovered that there will always need to be an explanation given and a joke taken when using our surname," he said.
"I like having a unique surname. My main concern is my family name dying out. My father has four sisters, I have two and so far I only have a daughter. If I don't have a son my family name may end with me."
Mr Marriage's concern is justified as there are only 368 people in Great Britain with the same name.
But the name originated from a lost place called Marhach, probably in or near Aythorpe Roding in Essex, according to the dictionary.
Philippa Holister from Oxford married to become Mrs Parker but has always wondered if her maiden name had once referred to a brothel.
"Apparently it means whore house... but I would like that verified," she said.
"I liked my maiden name but once the clothes brand came out people were constantly adding what they thought was the missing L - even when I explained there was only the one.
"I liked its uniqueness. Parker is easier for work though. I rarely have to spell it."
Mrs Parker was along the right lines with the meaning of her name - the dictionary states it comes from a derivative of the old French word holier meaning "adulterer" or ''lecher'.
There are only 636 people in Great Britain with the same name.
Stuart Walker asked: "Did this name originate from the Shetland Islands and those who 'walked' on the Harris Tweed to soften and flatten the cloth?
And William Walker said: "I believe that it's from a trade in the linen industry. My forename is from my great grandfather."
They're right - it's from Middle English and Older Scottish meaning "one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it," according to the project.
There are 133,929 people named Walker in Great Britain today compared with 98,570 in 1881 and they are mainly in the north of England, the Midlands and Scotland.
Tom Amor said a relative had told him his surname came from the South West of the UK and meant living near, or upon, a moor.
But according to the dictionary his name has more romantic connections.
It's a nickname from Old French amour and the Latin amor meaning love.
There are only 1,410 in Great Britain and the main location is Wiltshire.
Andy Sumpter said: "My wife's family has the name of Spoors, from the far north of England. We have been unable to trace the origin."
It's an English nickname from the Old English spora, for someone who made, sold, or wore spurs.
The surnames Spur, Spore, Spoor and Spoore all have the same origin and they are most frequently found in Yorkshire.
Rosko De'Ath from Kent asked: "From where does my surname originate? Is it French or Belgian or is it Death that has been poshed up?"
"My wife and I are constantly having to spell it when on the phone and always asked where it comes from."
It is in fact derived from the Old English dēaþ meaning "death".
"Perhaps for someone who played the part of Death in a local pageant," the dictionary states.
"The spellings de'Ath , de Ath , D'Eath, are post-medieval, introduced to dissociate the name from the negative connotations of the word," it said.
New surnames are being created all the time, said Prof Richard Coates, who led the dictionary project.
Jeni Kent and her husband Tim Gibson from London merged their last names to become Kenson - which does not appear in the dictionary.
"Neither of us were thrilled with the idea of giving up our surnames and one of us giving up our previous identity felt somewhat unfair," said Mrs Kenson.
"Eventually we decided that as we were starting our own family, the fairest option was to merge our names - both our heritages creating something new.
The pair changed their names by deed poll and have found their new surname to be "a real conversation piece".
"It was definitely the right decision for us and it has become quite a public statement of the equality we have in our relationship," she said.
Alistair Gray and Clara Teoh from Brighton decided to merge their surnames to Greo as an alternative to getting married.
Mr Greo said: "Our surname is unique - at least the story of its creation is. My partner and I have merged our surnames: Gray + Teoh = Greo. We love it!"
"We decided to merge names as we just had a child, so wanted to ensure we all shared the same surname.
"Friends and work have been very supportive, family less so.
"We've taken the policy of not talking about it - it's best just to agree to disagree."
Mike Dingley-Jones said he believed the nine people in his family who share his surname were the only people in the world to have it.
"My mother was born Lillian Dingley in Halesowen and married a Luther Harold Jones, one of six sisters and a brother," said Mr Dingley-Jones.
"The sisters all married and my mother could see that the name Dingley would be lost so she gave it to her three children as an additional Christian name, her brother did not marry.
"Whilst I was a student there was some confusion between me and another student so I used the surname Dingley-Jones."
"It is a privilege to be unique, and something which is very special in a world full of situations and names which are commonplace," he said.
"Long may individualism and uniqueness continue."
Jennifer Staines, 23, used the name "Jason" on social media to contact three girls, two of whom were aged between 12 and 17.
After one victim's mother raised concerns, police found Staines had used a rubber penis and condoms during some assaults, the Bristol Post reported.
She admitted sexual assault charges at Bristol Crown Court.
In court, it was revealed that Staines, of Lostock Hall in Preston, had been on holiday with the family of one of the victims, and had to hide when she was using the toilet.
Another victim said that sex with Staines "didn't feel right" and happened in the dark.
Her deception was uncovered when the mother of one of the victims contacted police after suspecting a social media profile was fake.
It was this profile that led her victims to contact her, meet up and begin relationships.
Avon and Somerset Police said Staines had engaged in an "appalling breach of trust" and had "manipulated her victims".
Det Con Nadine Partridge said: "Her actions were driven by her own selfish desires and although her victims 'consented' to sexual activity with her, they were deceived about the true nature of what they were engaging in.
"The manipulation was so extreme that one of her victims still struggles to believe she was actually in a relationship with a woman, not a man."
But police said it was possible there could be more victims and encouraged get in touch.
"I believe there may be more victims out there so I'd encourage anyone who feels they may have been contacted by Jennifer Staines, posing as Jason, to come forward and speak to us", Det Con Partridge said.
"We're here to listen, believe and support you."
Barry Petticrew was arrested in October 2014 after undercover police surveillance on farm buildings near Kinawley, County Fermanagh.
When he became aware he was being watched, Petticrew tried to escape across the countryside.
Police found pipes, timer units, ammunition and high grade explosives in the buildings.
Antrim Crown Court heard the apparatus could be used for numerous small bombs, or one large device - potentially among the largest ever used in Northern Ireland.
The devices were found in an advanced state of preparation and in an area of dissident republican activity, police said.
When caught by police, Petticrew, who will serve a further three years on licence, said: "I'm not involved in terrorism. This house belongs to a friend of mine."
Judge Gordon Kerr QC said, the mechanic was a mature man who had allowed himself to be associated with dissident republicans, five years after he had been convicted of a terrorism-related offence at a Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Judge Kerr said that presented a significant threat of serious risk of harm to the community.
At the time, Belfast-born Petticrew was living in Swanlinbar, near the site of the bomb factory, but his address was given as Maghaberry Prison.
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Winger Nick Cummins and flanker Michael Hooper scored early touchdowns as the Wallabies stormed in to a 15-3 lead.
Jonny Sexton pegged it back to 15-12 with three penalties but then had to go off with a hamstring injury.
Australian fly-half Quade Cooper scored the third try in the 46th minute before Hooper got his second of the night.
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But the visitors ended the evening with 14 men after centre Tevita Kuridrani received a straight red card for a dangerous tackle on Peter O'Mahony with eight minutes left.
This was just Schmidt's second match since taking over from Declan Kidney, after a comfortable 40-9 victory over Samoa in their first autumn international, but the former Leinster coach will have plenty to ponder before the meeting with his native New Zealand in Dublin on 24 November.
Ireland's narrow defence allowed Australia to grab early control and, although the deficit was reduced to three points for a while, Australia claimed a comprehensive victory while denying their hosts a single try.
Just 24 hours earlier, the same stadium had witnessed what Irish football fans will hope is a new dawn as new managerial pairing Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane kicked off their reign with a 3-0 win over Latvia.
And there had been a similar feelgood factor in rugby circles following the appointment of the astute Schmidt - but long before the final whistle sounded there were thousands of stunned supporters silently trudging homeward after a definite reality check.
Cooper opened the scoring with a ninth-minute penalty after Ireland's offside offence, though Ireland responded with Sexton levelling from the tee on 12 minutes.
Cooper then missed what looked a straightforward penalty, but Australia were soon back in front through their first try, from Cummins in the 17th minute.
The left wing cut in to expose weakness in the home defence after a midfield break from hooker Stephen Moore.
The Irish line was breached again on 24 minutes as Hooper accepted Scott Fardy's back-handed offload for an easy run-in.
Cooper's miss from the conversion was little comfort to a clearly stunned Irish side.
Schmidt's charges did whittle away at the deficit through Sexton's penalties, and open-side Hooper was sin-binned for not rolling away, but the reality was that Ireland had rarely threatened the Australian line.
Cooper crossed for a try six minutes after the restart as confusion between Luke Marshall and replacement fly-half Ian Madigan presented the the Aussie number 10 with a gap.
And another Cooper penalty extended the visitors' lead to 25-15, Madigan claiming three back with a penalty.
Hooper scored his second try as Australian barged over after a line-out, with Cooper's conversion making it 32-15.
Even when they thought they had grabbed a late consolation try, Ireland were to be confounded - penalised for a knock-on in the build-up as replacement Sean Cronin touched down.
Ireland: R. Kearney, Bowe, O'Driscoll, Marshall, McFadden, Sexton, Reddan, Healy, Best, Ross, Toner, O'Connell, O'Mahony, O'Brien, Heaslip.
Replacements: Henshaw for R. Kearney (73), Madigan for Sexton (41), Murray for Reddan (56), Cronin for Best (65), Archer for Ross (65), McCarthy for Toner (70), McLaughlin for O'Brien (73).
Not used: McGrath.
Australia: Folau, Ashley-Cooper, Kuridrani, Toomua, Cummins, Cooper, Genia, Slipper, Moore, Kepu, Simmons, Horwill, Fardy, Hooper, Mowen.
Replacements: Tomane for Ashley-Cooper (57), Lealiifano for Cooper (70), White for Genia (65), Ryan for Kepu (65), Timani for Horwill (56).
Not used: Polota-Nau, Robinson, Gill.
Sin bin: Hooper (32).
Sent off: Kuridrani (73).
Att: 46,000
Referee: Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
Touch judges: Romain Poite (France), Stuart Berry (South Africa)
TV: Geoff Warren (England)
Interference may also damage developing US-China relations, a spokesman said.
Under the "One China" policy, the US has formal ties with China rather than the island of Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway province.
However, US President-elect Donald Trump has expressed doubts about continuing to abide by the policy.
Mr Trump had already angered China by taking a phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, and then tweeting about it.
On Monday, China said it was "seriously concerned" by Mr Trump's comments, and urged sensitivity around the issue.
But An Fengshan, a spokesman for China's policy-making Taiwan Affairs Office, went further on Wednesday, warning of more serious consequences.
"Upholding the "One China" principle is the political basis of developing China-US relations, and is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," he said.
"If this basis is interfered with or damaged then the healthy, stable development of China-US relations is out of the question, and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait will be seriously impacted," he added.
Mr An's comments came as Admiral Harry Harris, head of the US Pacific Command, vowed the US will keep challenging Beijing's "assertive, aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea".
Speaking to Australian think tank the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Admiral Harris said: "We will not allow the shared domains to be closed down unilaterally, no matter how many bases are built on artificial features in the South China Sea.
"We will co-operate where we can but we will be ready to confront where we must."
Beijing has been developing artificial islands capable of hosting military planes in the region.
It also insists on sovereignty over virtually all the resource-endowed South China Sea, despite rival claims from its South East Asian neighbours.
Washington has repeatedly said it does not recognise the claims, and has sent warships into the area to assert the right to freedom of navigation.
We find out why it's so hard to find a wi-fi hotspot in Germany, and we visit a coding school for refugees.
From mobile payment apps to digital currencies, from the blockchain to artificially intelligent insurance brokers, financial technology is one of the hottest areas for tech investment.
And London, one of the world's most important financial centres with plenty of talented software engineers, is regarded as just about the best city on earth for anyone starting a fintech business.
But will that continue to be the case after the UK leaves the European Union?
The British government certainly hopes so, and it convened the International Fintech conference in London this week to bang that message home.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Bank of England governor Mark Carney, took to the stage to tell the delegates that the UK had a unique mix of the right talent and the right kind of regulation to allow fintech to thrive.
But we hear a rather different message from the founder of TransferWise, probably the most successful fintech firm to be born in the UK.
Taavet Hinrikus, who came to the UK from Estonia to start a money transfer business that now employs over 600 people, says Brexit has made everything uncertain.
His principal concern is about access to talent because he fears skilled people are already being put off from coming to the UK.
But he's also concerned about the loss of passporting, which allows financial firms to operate across the European Union.
So would he still start a business in the UK today, I ask him?
"Probably not," he replies.
"When it comes to how easy it is to get people to come to London, we don't know how it will be in two years time... it is the right thing to consider whether you should do it in Amsterdam or Berlin or any other city in Europe."
But we get a more cheerful view from Erik Abrahamsson, who launched his social media insurance business Digital Fineprint in London last year.
He says investment did dry up for a while after the Brexit vote but now the weak pound is helping him attract overseas investors and customers because his products look cheaper to them.
Around the world people now take it for granted that you can pop into a cafe or a public space and get online via a wi-fi network.
But in Germany you will struggle - there are about half as many wi-fi hotspots per head as in the UK.
As our correspondent Joe Miller explains - from one of the few Berlin cafes that offer free wi-fi - that is because businesses fear the consequences of people using their wireless networks to do something illegal.
German law makes them responsible if someone downloads pirated content.
And as German copyright owners are very hot on defending their rights, that can prove costly.
Now there is a new draft law going through the German parliament which makes it clear that third parties should not be liable for the activities of those using wireless networks illegally.
That could make offering hotspots easier, but copyright holders will still be able to demand that access to their content is blocked on wireless networks where piracy has been detected.
Germany, like every modern economy, wants to be seen as a highly connected nation, but when it comes to public wi-fi it is still in the slow lane.
Graduation ceremonies are always inspiring events, but the one which Tech Tent attended this week in London was a real celebration of what the technology community can achieve.
We had come to see the first graduates of Code Your Future, a coding school for refugees, showing off their web development projects to friends and to the volunteers who had taught them.
The six-month course was the brainchild of German Bencci, who had heard about a similar project in Amsterdam.
He mobilised volunteers from the technology industry who taught the refugees face-to-face every Sunday, then monitored their work online during the week.
We meet him and two of the students, Arockia Ansi from India and Sentahyu Mekoonn from Ethiopia.
The hope is that the skills they have learned will gain them jobs as software developers in a country which, like many, is always short of engineering talent.
A new class has now started the course and the hope is that Code Your Future can expand with classes in Manchester and Glasgow.
The actor was honoured at the fourth annual Television Critics' Awards, which saw Breaking Bad take home the coveted best drama honour.
He credited television with "raising the bar for character-driven drama".
Fargo, inspired by the 1996 film, and prison comedy drama Orange Is the New Black dominated with three awards each.
FX's Fargo - which is airing on Channel 4 in the UK - won the award for best mini-series, beating BBC dramas Dancing on the Edge, The Hollow Crown and Luther, as well as Bonnie and Clyde and American Horror Story: Coven.
Fargo's Billy Bob Thornton, who plays the enigmatic Lorne Malvo, was named best actor in a mini series or movie - beating British contender and co-star Martin Freeman. Their co-star Allison Tolman won the best supporting actress in the same category.
Orange Is the New Black won best comedy series, with additional awards for Kate Mulgrew, in the best supporting actress in a comedy category, and Uzo Aduba for best guest performer in a comedy.
Mulgrew shared her award with actress Allison Janney, who was honoured for her supporting role in comedy Mom. Janney - arguably best known for her long-running role in The West Wing - won a second award for best guest performer in a drama, with her turn in Masters of Sex.
"This has been an amazing year for me," Janney told guests at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany beat high-profile competition including Robin Wright in House of Cards and Julianna Margulies in The Good Wife, to score the lead drama actress win for the second consecutive year.
The Good Wife, a frontrunner originally nominated in five categories, came home empty-handed.
So too did Sherlock duo Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Fellow Britons Michael Sheen, Matthew Rhys, Freddie Highmore and Hugh Dancy also lost out to McConaughey.
Top Gear's The Stig character reportedly stormed out of the ceremony after the show lost out in the best reality series to Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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Coal waste dumped in huge tips on the mountain above the village started to cascade down, becoming an unstoppable and deadly force.
It crashed into Pant Glas Junior School and houses directly below the tips, causing death and destruction.
Len Haggett, one of the first firemen on the scene, said the spirit of the rescuers was "incredible".
He was among the rescuers who found Phil Thomas buried alive.
He said: "He was terrified understandably. And he was trapped by his feet."
He added: "If he hadn't come out within a few minutes he would have drowned. The fact that young boy was alive and he'd been saved, that was elation, without a shadow of a doubt."
Here is a brief guide to what it is all about.
Settlements are communities established by Israel on land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war.
This includes the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The West Bank and East Jerusalem had previously been occupied by Jordan since the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War.
According to the Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now, there are 131 settlements in the West Bank, comprising about 385,000 Israeli Jewish settlers, and 97 outposts - settlements built without official authorisation.
The group says there are 12 settlements in East Jerusalem, inhabited by about 200,000 settlers.
Israel also established settlements in the Gaza Strip, seized from Egypt in the 1967 war, but it dismantled them when it withdrew from the territory in 2005. It also built settlements in the Sinai Peninsula, seized too from Egypt in 1967, but removed them in 1982 as part of a peace agreement with Cairo.
There are also dozens of settlements on the occupied Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 war.
Built-up settlement areas occupy about 2% of the West Bank but critics point out that the land controlled by settlement activity, such as agriculture, amounts to much more than that and requires heavy military presence.
Settlers themselves choose to live in these communities for a range of reasons - from economic, incentivised by government subsidies, to religious, based on the belief that God gave the land to the Jewish people.
What happens with settlements has proven to be one of the most intractable issues between Israel and the Palestinians, and rows about them have caused the collapse of numerous rounds of peace talks.
Palestinians say the presence of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land they seek for a future state - make such a state with contiguous territory impossible. They have demanded Israel freeze all settlement activity as a precondition for resuming peace talks.
Israel says the Palestinians are using the issue of settlements as a pretext to avoid direct talks. It says settlements are not a genuine obstacle to peace and are negotiable.
Under the 1993 Israel-Palestinian Oslo peace accords, the issue of settlements was to be deferred until final status talks - a reason why Israel objects to pre-conditions and UN resolutions on the matter.
Even if agreement could be reached on settlements in the West Bank, the issue of settlements in East Jerusalem is even more thorny.
Israel regards East Jerusalem as its eternal, indivisible capital and does not consider the sector in any way occupied - and by extension, it does not regard Jewish neighbourhoods there as settlements.
Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1980, in a move not recognised internationally.
While it has previously agreed to temporarily freeze settlement-building in the West Bank, it has ruled out a similar halt in East Jerusalem.
Not necessarily, despite appearing insurmountable. Israel has said it is prepared to make "painful concessions" for peace, and it has previously shown it will relinquish settlements - such as in Sinai and Gaza, and four small sites in the West Bank in 2005.
It has agreed to negotiate the fate of existing settlements, and Jerusalem, as part of permanent status talks.
Israel has said in any final deal it intends to keep the largest settlement blocs, which are close to the pre-1967 ceasefire line.
This position seemed to get the endorsement of the US under former President George W Bush, who, in a letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004, said it was "unrealistic" to expect a full withdrawal from the West Bank in a final peace deal.
Opinion among Israeli Jews on whether to withdraw from settlements is fairly even.
According to a June 2016 poll, 43% said they would support pulling out from all but the major settlement blocs as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians, as opposed to 46% who said they would vote against a withdrawal.
However, the current Israeli coalition government strongly supports the settler movement and there have been calls by some political figures to annex parts of the West Bank rather than withdraw.
Most of the international community, including the UN and the International Court of Justice, say the settlements are illegal.
The basis for this is the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids the transfer by an occupying power of its people into occupied territory.
However, Israel says the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply de jure to the West Bank because, it says, the territory is not technically occupied.
Israel says it is legally there as a result of a defensive war, and did not take control of the West Bank from a legitimate sovereign power.
It says the legal right of Jewish settlement there as recognised by the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine was preserved under the UN's charter.
The US describes the settlements as "illegitimate" and has refrained from calling them "illegal" since the Carter administration in 1980.
In December 2016, a UN Security Council resolution said settlements had "no legal validity and constitute[d] a flagrant violation under international law". However, like previous resolutions on Israel, those adopted under Chapter VI of the UN Charter are not legally binding.
"The war did not finish in 2008 - it continues every day, because the Russian occupiers are on our land," said protest organiser David Katsarava.
Young and old held hands and stood in silence under the scorching sun.
Many held Georgian flags and banners condemning Russia's occupation, which gave firepower to pro-Russian rebels.
"Our aim is to unite people and to give them the feeling that it's possible to change something in this war," says Mr Katsarava.
In early August 2008, Georgia attempted to recapture breakaway South Ossetia, which had fought a separatist war with Georgia in the 1990s.
The fighting in 2008 escalated after cross-border skirmishes.
Russia responded with a massive invasion. It also seized control of Abkhazia, in support of separatists there. Both regions are internationally recognised as Georgian territory.
The five-day war ended in humiliation for Georgia - several towns, a Black Sea port and military airfields were bombed by the Russian air force.
Several hundred people were killed and thousands of ethnic Georgians displaced by the conflict. Georgian villages in South Ossetia were razed to the ground.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is conducting an investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the war.
What is South Ossetia?
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South Ossetia, officially part of Georgia, is separated from the North Ossetia region of Russia by an international border. It is inhabited mostly by Ossetians, who are ethnically and linguistically distinct from other peoples in the region. Most ethnic Georgians have been displaced from South Ossetia by conflict.
Georgia, including South Ossetia, was part of the Russian empire in the 19th Century. After the 1917 communist revolution, Georgia became independent but it was declared part of the Soviet Union in 1921.
After the 2008 war, Moscow recognised South Ossetia as an independent state and began a process of closer ties that Georgia views as effective annexation.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia depend on Russia militarily and financially. Thousands of Russian troops are stationed in the two regions.
Moscow has signed strategic agreements with both regions, bringing them firmly into its sphere of influence.
While the Georgian protest was taking place Russian President Vladimir Putin was visiting Abkhazia.
Just last week US Vice President Mike Pence visited Georgia. He voiced strong US support for Georgia's territorial integrity, and the two countries launched their biggest ever joint military exercises.
A study of 814 expectant women, published in JAMA Psychiatry, showed that infection made bipolar four times more likely.
The overall risk remained low, but it echoes similar findings linking flu and schizophrenia.
Experts said the risks were small and women should not worry.
Bipolar leads to intense mood swings, which can last months, ranging from depression and despair to manic feelings of joy, overactivity and loss of inhibitions.
Researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center identified a link between the condition, often diagnosed during late teens and twenties, and experiences in the womb.
In their study looking at people born in the early 1960s, bipolar disorder was nearly four times as common in people whose mothers caught flu during pregnancy.
The condition affects about one in 100 people. The lead researcher, Prof Alan Brown, estimated that influenza infection during pregnancy could lead to a 3-4% chance of bipolar disorder in the resulting children.
However, in the vast majority of cases of bipolar disorder there would no history of flu.
So in the list of things pregnant women have to worry about, how high should it rank?
"I wouldn't say high," Prof Alan Brown told the BBC.
"The chances are still quite small. I don't think it should raise alarms for mothers."
He said seasonal flu vaccination, which is advised for pregnant women in many countries, would reduce the chances of catching flu.
Similar studies have shown a link between flu and schizophrenia
How flu could affect the foetal brain has not been completely explained.
Influenza is not thought to directly affect the foetus, but the mother's immune response to the virus could affect development.
Dr Fiona Gaughran, lead consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, said: "This highly regarded group of researchers has reported similar links between schizophrenia and various maternal infections.
"If future work confirms the link reported here, policymakers may need to consider implications for flu prevention pre-pregnancy, but mothers need not be worried.
"The overall risk of offspring developing bipolar disorder is low, even if one did get flu in pregnancy."
About 66,000 fans headed to the capital to watch the four Welsh regions in action, with the Blues playing the Ospreys and Dragons taking on the Scarlets.
Extra trains were put on amid reports of services being very busy.
Arriva Trains Wales has apologised.
A spokeswoman for the train company said: "We apologise for the inconvenience and discomfort caused to our customers travelling to the Judgement Day event due to overcrowding on certain services today.
"We were expecting our trains to be extremely busy and a number of services were strengthened and capacity increased where possible however, there is only a limit to the number of additional carriages available to us.
"Customers are advised to ensure they make their way back to Cardiff Central Station with plenty of time to catch services advertised in the normal timetable and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis."
Full road closures around the city will be in operation until 20:00.
Enhanced security measures were put into operation at the stadium, so people travelling to the games were advised to leave plenty of time.
Arriva Trains Wales said they had put on 2,000 additional seats, but fans reported some issues with crowding on trains.
Chris Bryant said his constituents in Rhondda would be the ones to suffer from the economic uncertainty caused.
It follows a TV debate where Boris Johnson was accused by fellow Tory Amber Rudd of backing Brexit in the hope of becoming prime minister.
Leave campaigner Dr Liam Fox MP accused the Remain side of "sustained personal attacks" on the former London mayor.
Referring to the debate broadcast live by ITV on Thursday night, the former Conservative defence secretary told BBC Radio Wales the tactic would be "counter-productive".
"There are more than sufficient issues in this referendum," he said on the Good Morning Wales programme.
"I personally want to leave the European Union because I want to get control of our lawmaking, I want to get control of our borders, and I want to get control of our money.
"What was really disappointing from the Remain side is that they weren't making a positive case for remaining in Europe - presumably they have one - but we weren't hearing it last night.
"We were hearing the case against Boris Johnson as the next prime minister, and I thought that was a wasted opportunity."
Mr Bryant, Labour's shadow leader of the House of Commons, told the programme: "This is not about the future of the Tory party, it's about the future of our country.
"We've got a very fragile economic recovery in the UK at the moment - everyone knows that the one thing you do not want is a bout of uncertainty that always leads to another recession, and that's my biggest fear.
"In Wales it's particularly important for us because we get so much more out of the European Union than we put in, financially or socially.
"When you have uncertainty, investors stop making investment decisions and that leads to recession.
"The people who will be hit most will be my constituents in the Rhondda."
Based on its current policies and its previous term in office from 2005 to 2007, a Law and Justice government will occupy itself more with domestic issues than foreign ones.
Although Poland's economy grew by almost a third during eight years of centre-right Civic Platform rule, the prosperity was spread unevenly.
Some parts of Poland have already reached Western European standards, but other parts are much poorer.
Youth unemployment is above the OECD average - an international benchmark figure - and many graduates see few prospects for themselves.
Poles can still earn much more in the UK or Germany and, while freedom of movement remains, they will continue to seek better-paid jobs abroad.
Law and Justice tapped into this discontent. It promised increased childcare benefits, tax breaks for the less well-off and small businesses, as well as free medicines for those over 75.
It plans to undo Civic Platform's unpopular reform to increase the retirement age for both men and women, and draft a law that will help the more than half a million Poles who took out a mortgage in Swiss francs and now face spiralling repayments.
Law and Justice plans to pay for all this with a new tax on banks, tax big mainly foreign-owned supermarkets and improve collection of sales tax (VAT).
However, improving tax collection would surely not be enough to cover a programme predicted to cost more than €10bn (£7bn; $11bn) a year. Some critics argue the plans will never be realised.
While there are concerns about a move towards more populist policymaking, the impact on the economy in the short term will be fairly limited, some analysts reckon.
Higher spending on social welfare "could boost GDP growth over the next few years", wrote William Jackson, senior emerging markets economist for Capital Economics.
But that could be undermined by Law and Justice's lack of appetite for structural reforms, he warned. And that "may lead to weaker investment and productivity growth, slowing down the process of income convergence with European peers".
In social policy a Law and Justice Poland will certainly be more conservative than many Western European countries. It opposes civil partnerships, afraid that homosexuals might somehow get the right to marry and adopt children.
It may stop public funding for married heterosexual couples seeking IVF treatment to start a family. Schoolchildren will be encouraged to be more patriotic.
Internationally, Warsaw will look to strengthen alliances with its neighbours in Central and Eastern Europe. Civic Platform's policy of influencing European Union policy through close ties with Germany will likely be shelved.
Indeed it will be interesting to see if the mildly Eurosceptic Law and Justice will take a constructive approach to shaping policy in Brussels. Law and Justice's anti-immigrant stance looks likely to set it at odds with the European Commission over migrant quotas in future.
Law and Justice has traditionally looked to Washington in defence policy, and while it has promised to increase its own military spending to 2.5% of GDP, it would like to see Nato locate significant bases in Poland - an issue where Warsaw and Berlin differ.
Warsaw's already dire relations with Moscow are unlikely to improve. Poland's former President Lech Kaczynski, the identical twin of Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, died in a plane crash in Smolensk, western Russia, in 2010.
Poland is still trying to get the plane wreckage back.
Although Mr Kaczynski has vowed not to seek revenge on his political opponents, there may be an attempt to conduct a final reckoning of the Smolensk tragedy.
Mr Kaczynski has actively encouraged wild conspiracy theories that the plane was brought down by a plot, not by pilot error as both the Russian and two Polish investigations have so far found.
Finally, there is the question of power and where will it truly reside? After losing every election since 2007, Mr Kaczynski was shrewd enough to put up the moderate and unknown MEP Andrzej Duda as his candidate for president in May this year.
The tactic worked and he repeated it by nominating Beata Szydlo as candidate for prime minister. They are the fresh moderate faces of Law and Justice.
But the party is dominated by Mr Kaczynski and it is more than likely that he will be taking the important decisions facing the country in the coming years.
Once a colonial backwater, it is now one of the world's richest cities and has a per capita GDP that is higher than the UK or France.
Sure, it helps to have one party in charge to push through policies, and a relatively malleable and compliant electorate - but other countries in the region have had the same government in power for a long time with nowhere near the same results as Singapore.
Singapore's leaders knew however that they couldn't survive on their own. With no natural resources and a tiny population, Singapore has always looked beyond its shores to thrive.
You just have to look at a map of the region to see what a vulnerable position Singapore is in.
It's known affectionately as the "little red dot" amongst Singaporeans but the reality is this wealthy city-state is literally a pinprick in a sea of bigger, more powerful neighbours.
That's why in 1967 it pushed for the creation of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Singapore was one of the founding members of the grouping which today is an economic bloc of ten member states.
But it didn't stop there - Singapore also signed 21 free trade agreements with everyone from America to China. It is part of a number of multilateral agreements too, and has more than 30 trading partners.
Singapore has had to forge partnerships in the region to stay relevant, says Gillian Koh, the deputy director at the Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore.
"We knew we would survive and thrive only if we had a bustling hinterland," she says, referring to the Malay peninsula and beyond.
"We've not just been a free port for ourselves, but we've tried to foster the idea that free trade in the region is a good thing for everyone and that we would prosper one another by that idea. Singapore is seeking to benefit from the prosperity of the hinterland by becoming the trading and services hub for the region."
Observers say Singapore has had the advantage of being part of an economic agreement in ASEAN without the political baggage.
With a small population, Singapore has always had to look elsewhere to fill jobs. Four out of ten people on this island are foreigners. This has brought with it its own problems, and Singapore's government is trying to address this. But Singapore can pick and choose who it wants to let in to the country.
"In a sense, Singapore has what Britain wants," says Simon Long, a British journalist based in Singapore with The Economist.
"If you look at Singapore's situation and ASEAN, they have a single market, they have a free trade agreement, but there's no free movement of labour."
Singapore has always used its neighbours to chart its own course of success.
Being part of ASEAN has been useful for Singapore - it's sold its products in this marketplace, and found many of its workers amongst the region's labour force.
Of course ASEAN has its limitations - its critics say it is a toothless organisation and has barely achieved anything in its five decade-long history, barring perhaps the nudging of Myanmar towards a democratic transition.
But central to the idea of ASEAN is the policy of staying out of each other's business. And being part of an economic union without the political strings attached isn't an option the UK currently has.
CCTV footage shows the trio fleeing the blast, as the manhole cover and lumps of pavement are thrown up in the air outside shops on Wellingborough Road, Northampton.
East Midlands Ambulance Service said three people sustained minor injuries.
Northamptonshire Fire Service said the cause appeared to be an electrical fault in a network junction box.
Debris from the blast, outside Abington Supermarket, damaged the sign above the shop's windows.
Laura Abbott, who works at the neighbouring Gilders country clothing shop, said the manhole was "about a metre" from the cash machine.
"These people had a lucky escape as someone could easily have been seriously injured," she said.
"I heard the explosion and it shook our building.
"It looked like the manhole cover and concrete went at least 2m (6ft) up in the air."
An ambulance service spokeswoman said: "The caller [to the emergency services] claimed to hear a large bang followed by lots of people running and screaming."
The three injured people were treated at the scene, she added.
Northamptonshire Police closed a section of the road after the explosion, which happened at about 08:00 BST on Tuesday.
The road has since re-opened, but Western Power is carrying out repairs to underground cabling.
The firm said its investigations were ongoing.
The striker went off on 59 minutes on Wednesday after a Diego Godin tackle.
He was forced to miss Argentina's World Cup 2018 qualifier against Venezuela earlier this month with a groin injury, but has played in all five La Liga games for his club this season.
The Argentine could return for Barca's Champions League tie with Manchester City on 19 October.
Prior to that tie, Messi will be ruled out of games against Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League, Sporting Gijon and Celta Vigo in La Liga, and World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Paraguay.
Sergio Busquets was also forced off with injury in the second half of Wednesday's game as Angel Correa's equaliser cancelled out Ivan Rakitic's opener at the Nou Camp.
Patrols by the force's new mounted division are due to begin later.
Two animals, named Boris and General, have been lent to Gloucestershire Police by the Met and will be stabled at Highnam Court near Gloucester.
The year-long trial, costing £195,000, will see the animals used to police large events, patrol town centres at night and search for missing people.
Ch Supt Gary Thompson said the animals will be become part of day-to-day policing.
"As a policing tool, horses are invaluable in terms of crowd control and being able to cover larger and more inaccessible areas of the county on patrol," he added.
If the trial is successful the mounted division could become permanent, a force spokesman said.
Taner Kilic was detained on Tuesday in the province of Izmir along with 22 other lawyers.
The arrests were part of a crackdown following last July's failed coup attempt.
Amnesty called the charges "a mockery of justice".
The human rights group's secretary general, Salil Shetty, demanded Mr Kilic's immediate release and said charges against him should be dropped.
"The charges... show just how arbitrary, just how sweeping, the Turkish government's frenzied pursuit of its perceived enemies and critics has become," he said.
Amnesty's Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner tweeted: "Human rights defender, Amnesty Turkey chair Taner Kilic remanded in pre-trial detention. No credible evidence presented at hearing. Shame!"
Amnesty has been a vocal critic of the crackdown on suspected coup plotters. It said last year it had "credible reports" of detainees being subjected to "beatings and torture, including rape".
Mr Kilic is accused of using an encrypted messaging application called Bylock that the government says was used by followers of the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Mr Gulen of instigating the coup attempt - a charge the cleric denies.
Amnesty said in a statement that Mr Kilic denied "ever having downloaded or used Bylock, or even having heard of it".
More than 40,000 people were arrested and 120,000 sacked or suspended in the aftermath of the failed coup. They include police, military personnel, teachers and public servants.
Last month police arrested 1,000 people and issued arrest warrants for another 3,224 in an operation across 81 provinces.
The police force also suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to Mr Gulen.
Mr Erdogan's critics say he is using the coup as a pretext to crush dissent and purge opponents.
Sergeant Paul Sherridan, from Doncaster, was on holiday when he led over 230 people to safety.
South Yorkshire Police Federation said he stepped in when local guides became lost on 16 October 2014.
The Nepali authorities said at least 39 people died and 150 were injured in the storms around the Thorung La Pass.
Sgt Sherridan, 49, was on a trekking holiday when he led a group down a 17,500 ft mountain and through a treacherous snowstorm.
He said: "At the time, I knew we were in deep trouble but I didn't want to die, I wanted to survive, and I wanted to help the others to survive as well which is what kept me going."
He said his 27 years in the force had given him the leadership skills he needed in the emergency.
Chief Constable David Crompton said: "Paul should feel very proud of his actions as had he not exhibited such determination, strength of character and courage, it could have been a very different story."
The award was presented at the Police Federation of England and Wales Bravery Awards in London on Tuesday night.
The American rock outfit will play the Pyramid stage on Saturday, 24 June, confirming rumours they would take the slot.
The announcement was made by the group during a secret show for fans in Frome, Somerset, on Friday night - their first in 18 months.
They join the line-up alongside Radiohead.
The announcement was also viewed by fans on a live internet stream of the Frome gig, with a video that saw the band sitting on the festival site four months early.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis introduced them on stage, confirming they were playing.
Singer and guitarist Dave Grohl said: "So, who knew? How did you know? You just can't keep a... secret any more."
BBC Radio DJ Jo Whiley tweeted a picture from the gig and wrote: "A very blurry Michael Eavis announcing @foofighters will be headlining @GlastoFest Saturday night. A surprise, I know."
A previous version of this story mistakenly said Ed Sheeran and Green Day have also been confirmed. This is an error and was not based on any official sources.
The 26-year-old, who has been in French football since 2007, joins alongside Ghana striker Abdul Majeed Waris.
After stints at Rennes, Monaco and Nancy, Moukandjo believes he has joined the right club at the right time.
"I'm delighted to be here at Lorient and to join an ambitious club," he told BBC Sport.
It's easy to be tempted by big money but I was not going to sacrifice my progress and development for that
"I have been in this league for sometime now and at 26 this club provides my career with the ideal stability and challenge.
"I'm not lowering my standards but taking on a great challenge. I have high standards and I aim to achieve success with Lorient."
Lorient only just escaped relegation last season, finishing 16th on 43 points.
But Moukandjo says the chance to work with the club president Loïc Fery and manager Sylvain Ripoll was a big influence on his decision to join the Brittany club.
"When I spoke to the people in charge I could see the club is heading in the right direction," he added.
"I realise they are eager to fix the lessons from a difficult season and there is a solid foundation for this season's realistic ambition and beyond.
"It wasn't difficult to make up my mind to come here. I received unbelievable offers from Asia but I prefer to continue my progress in this league and with Lorient.
"It's easy to be tempted by big money but I was not going to sacrifice my progress and development for that."
Moukandjo made his international debut for four-time African champions Cameroon against Senegal in June 2011.
An integral member of the Indomitable Lions, he started all three group matches against Mexico, Croatia and Brazil at the 2014 World Cup.
At the 2015 African Cup of Nations, when Cameroon were knocked out at the group stage, he scored in a 1-1 draw with Guinea.
Additional training for teachers, an extra £15m for community care, and improved support in the workplace were among measures announced by the PM.
Mental health experts said more funding was needed to improve services.
Mrs May's speech comes as she outlined her plans to use the state to create a "shared society".
The government says one in four people has a mental disorder at some point in their life, with an annual cost of £105bn.
Figures show young people are affected disproportionately with over half of mental health problems starting by the age of 14 and 75% by 18.
The prime minister said mental health had been "dangerously disregarded" as secondary to physical health and changing that would go "right to the heart of our humanity".
In the speech at the Charity Commission, Mrs May announced:
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC care for children and young people was a "black spot" that needed urgent attention as the pressures of social media, cyber bullying and a big increase in self-harming was a "massive worry for parents".
Mental health charity Sane said the plans needed to "be matched by substantially increased funds to mental health trusts" while Mind said it was "important to see the prime minister talking about mental health" but the proof would be in the difference it made to patients' day-to-day experiences.
Dr Sangeeta Mahajan, whose 20-year-old son Sargaar killed himself after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, said better access to services was essential.
"They don't discharge patients with adequate information," she said. "The doors were closed to us.
"We were told you either go to A&E or your GP and that is the only way you can come back to us.
"We had no direct access back to the specialist services. That is wrong."
Bed shortages have meant some patients have had to travel hundreds of miles for treatment.
Fiona Hollings, 19, was treated in a specialist eating disorder unit for her anorexia in Glasgow - nearly 400 miles away from her family home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
By Hugh Pym, BBC health editor
Mental health campaigners certainly recognise the significance of the latest initiative headed by the prime minister.
Theresa May's focus on mental illness in her first major speech on health will in itself raise the profile of the issue and reaffirm the drive to achieve true "parity of esteem" with physical health.
Promoting mental health first aid training in schools in England illustrates the prime minister's desire to see this as more than an NHS-only issue.
But there is no new Treasury money for the plans. Funding for care is still challenging. NHS Providers, representing mental health and other trusts, predicts the share of local NHS budgets devoted to mental health will fall next year.
Ministers will argue money isn't everything but it remains an unresolved part of the mental health agenda.
Professor Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, welcomed Mrs May's "new and bold vision", but added: "We have a long way to go before mental health services are on an equal footing with those for physical disorders."
Businesses also welcomed the workplace initiatives.
Simon Walker, director general at the Institute of Directors, said employers had "a real role to play" in ensuring the mental health of their workforce.
But while education leaders backed the ideas that focused on young people, they also had concerns.
Malcolm Trobe of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the major problem schools faced was a lack of access to local specialist NHS care and said government plans had to be "backed up with the funding".
Russell Hobby, of school leaders' union NAHT, agreed: "Rising demand, growing complexity and tight budgets are getting in the way of helping the children who need it most."
Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb, a former health minister, said Mrs May was announcing policies already agreed under the coalition government and called it "a puny response" to "cover up for this government's failure" on delivering, while Barbara Keeley, Labour's shadow minister for mental health, questioned why funding was not being ring fenced.
Mr Hunt said the government had endured a "slightly patchy start" with funding, but that with about £1bn more being spent on mental health than two years ago things were "going in the right direction".
In her speech the prime minister also described her wish to create a "shared society", with the state taking a greater role in ending "unfairness".
The emphasis on a "shared society" marks a contrast with her predecessor David Cameron's "Big Society" agenda, which relied on voluntary organisations rather than state intervention.
PC Andrew Ott struck William Horner with his riot shield at a tuition fees protest in London in 2010.
He and two officers were also accused of concocting a reason to falsely arrest the student.
Ott, 36, was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm at Southwark Crown Court. All three were cleared of perverting the course of justice.
Mr Horner, then aged 20, was trying to break free from a kettled area during the protest in Parliament Square, Westminster on 9 December when he was struck.
The Royal Holloway student was then arrested on suspicion of threatening to commit criminal damage.
Ott, from Rochester in Kent, PC Calvin Lindsay, 31, from east London, and PC Thomas Barnes, 31, from Kent, were accused of making up a reason to arrest Mr Horner after he was injured.
The protests saw riot police pelted with missiles including rocks and concrete blocks, and the statues in Parliament Square being daubed with graffiti, the court heard.
No further action was taken against Mr Horner.
PC Lindsay, from Leytonstone, and PC Barnes, from Greenhithe, and Ott have been on restricted duties during court proceedings.
Ott will be sentenced on Wednesday.
The words of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of Peterhead's Amity II who featured in the BBC's Trawlermen series.
He has worked at sea since leaving school in 1976.
The 55-year-old's feelings on the forthcoming referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU are clear - leave in a bid to secure a future for fishermen.
The Aberdeenshire town of Peterhead is Europe's largest white fish port, so the topic could hardly be more crucial.
The Scottish government believes that EU membership is in the "best interests" of Scotland's fishing industry.
How the UK is affected by the Common Agricultural Policy and EU fishing policies.
In 2014, Scotland exported £449m of fish and seafood to Europe - 68% of the total value of Scottish food exports into that market.
Worldwide, seafood exports are the second largest food and drink export behind whisky, and the industry supports thousands of jobs.
Peterhead alone handles tens of millions of pounds worth of fish annually.
Much stays in the UK to be processed, including for the country's fish and chip shops and supermarkets, but the European market is also hungry for the quality, fresh product, especially the likes of Spain.
Before the processors can export, the fish has to be landed. And European regulations governing catches have long been a bone of contention for those fishermen out at sea.
The technical measures for fishermen can roughly fall into three groups;
One main aim is limiting the catch of unwanted - notably juvenile - fish.
In 2013, major reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was approved.
The reform package included measures to protect endangered stocks, bring in more regional management and have more long-term planning.
Incidents of throwing dead fish back into the sea had increased due to restrictions on which fish could be landed.
Gradually eliminating discards of unwanted catches started in January last year.
Mr Buchan believes it is now time to leave European control behind.
He told the BBC Scotland news website: "Decades of failures have left us with little or no alternative but to vote for Brexit [British exit].
"All about the EU is not bad but on balance our industry has been badly treated by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are pressured by lobbyists in Brussels.
"It's too far removed, one glove does not fit all."
He explained: "I left school in 1976 to begin fishing, I have always been under the union.
"It was a common market, but over the years it got worse and worse and worse, some businesses are being strangled by regulations.
"Landing obligations cannot work unless quotas rise - it will be the final nail in the coffin.
"Processors have had to suffer hardship too, but some will think their market is out there in Europe - so they have a commercial decision to make.
"When I go to the ballot box, it's time to take that leap in the dark. I am prepared, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose."
He continued: "This is a lifetime, generational change.
"We have weathered a decline in stocks and things are on the up thanks to sustainability and responsibility - we are much wiser than we were 40 years ago.
"We need to see investment in young people now - never more so with the collapse of the oil and gas sector.
"New boats are on order, so people can see an element of a future. Will it be a future free from Europe?
"Let's try something different and allow our communities to thrive, creating work and business growth."
The Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) was formed in 1973, with the aim of protecting the collective interests of those out catching fish.
Its chief executive, Bertie Armstrong, said it was a complicated debate.
Mr Armstrong said: "Europe - and our place in it - is never far away from the forefront of politics and passionate debate. Being part of the EU affects all walks of life, but most especially fishing.
"Indeed, the very term Common Fisheries Policy stokes the strongest emotions within the industry."
He explained his organisation would not tell members which way to vote but it could highlight issues at the forefront of the debate.
Mr Armstrong explained: "For the individual voters involved, the fundamental question is whether there is scope to beneficially develop the CFP inside the EU, or, should the referendum so decide, would leaving the EU be the best option?
"Sovereignty and jurisdiction - beyond each member state's slim strip of territorial waters - is pooled and the EU uses the Common Fisheries Policy to govern every aspect of the industry. That fundamental change - the trading of sovereignty for collective control - took place when we joined.
"Collaboration is vital under any governance regime, but non-EU coastal states such as Norway and Iceland retain jurisdiction and negotiate on their own behalf."
Mr Armstrong continued: "If the UK were to leave the EU, then the UK's long-lost control over the greater part of the northern European fishing grounds would be restored.
"This is a statement of fact rather than a killer argument for withdrawal because, of course, there are other factors to consider in the balance."
He said that the UK rules would need to be in accordance with fish-stock science and be negotiated with other coastal states, including those still in the EU.
Mr Armstrong added: "Despite this, from the fishing industry point of view, leaving the CFP still instinctively sounds like a good thing - more so if the balance between that gain and the other effects of leaving the EU turned out to be positive - and of course, presuming that the UK and Scottish home nation governments could do a better fisheries management job than the EU does at the moment.
"But the whole debate is much more complicated than this, and the balance of benefits brought through membership of the EU also needs to be carefully considered - not least those provided by an open market place for our seafood products, and no doubt for many other reasons too."
He said that the free movement of labour within the Eurozone was a contentious issue, but it "undeniably" benefited the fishing and seafood processing sector.
Mr Armstrong told the BBC: "We could spend all day listing the faults of the CFP, but the major underlying one is the persistent micro-management from Brussels and lack of regional control of fisheries.
"Much better instead to manage fisheries regionally and adopt regional management for regional issues, and the recently reformed CFP did go some way towards achieving this - management has moved closer to the practitioners, but that change now needs to be developed further.
"From those politicians arguing for us to stay within the EU, we would like to see a pledge on that."
European Parliament fisheries committee vice chairman Jaroslaw Walesa believed the CFP was one of the "pillars of the EU and its greatest achievement".
He said it was designed to manage common resources and give all European fishing fleets equal access to EU fishing grounds in order to compete fairly.
"It would be pity if the Scottish fishing industry had to be out of it," insisted Mr Walesa.
He added: "Brexit means that Scottish fishermen will be cut off from the traditional fishing grounds.
"Also, if this happens, the Scottish fishing industry will not be able to benefit from EMFF - the fund for the EU's maritime and fisheries policies for 2014-2020.
"It helps fishermen in the transition to sustainable fishing, supports coastal communities, finances projects that create new jobs and improve quality of life along European coasts. So the money for, for example, gear development and innovations in new technologies will be lost for Scottish fishermen.
"Also CFP supports more sustainable stocks. Coastal states such as Iceland or Faroes are currently taking unsustainable amounts of fish, would Scottish fisherman like to join them?
"The CFP now states that we will have more regionalised policy, so Scotland will gain greater control over certain policy areas whilst still feeling the benefits of being in the Union."
A Scottish government spokesman said it believed that EU membership was in the best interests of Scotland's fishermen and farmers.
He added: "EU membership provides a range of significant benefits to our seafood sector and farming communities, including direct access to financial assistance, free access to a common food export market of over 500 million consumers, and the protections and opportunities offered by being part of a major global trading bloc.
"It is now more important than ever that those who support Scotland's continued EU membership make the case as strongly as possible.
"The Scottish government will be at the forefront of making that argument, and we will continue to support reform of the EU from within it."
The referendum will be held on 23 June. There could yet be some stormy waters on the debate horizon for the Scottish fishing industry in the final days left before the vote.
Governing body the FIA has told teams it wants to introduce a device called a 'halo', designed to protect drivers' heads from large airborne debris.
"It's not taking away anything from the driver in terms of courage or anything like that," said Australian Ricciardo.
"It's a simple little benefit that we can all gain from and no-one wants to see another fatality."
Frenchman Jules Bianchi died in July 2015, nine months after suffering severe head injuries in a crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
British former F1 driver Justin Wilson died in August after being struck on the helmet by debris from another car during a race in the IndyCar Series in the United States.
The FIA is working with F1 teams to finalise safety plans for next year.
The 'halo' is the FIA's preferred option and would be attached to the car on each side of the rear of the cockpit, with a single strut in front of the driver.
"Our head is the only really vulnerable thing at the moment," added Ricciardo.
"I honestly don't think anyone is against it. Sure, some people probably didn't have an opinion, but most people spoke up about it and said 'it's what we want'.
"With Jules and then Justin, it just seems like a bit of tradition, for what in the end?
"If this is just a little 'halo', within a race or two people will think it looks normal."
Red Bull plan to put forward an alternative concept to the halo which team principal Christian Horner said is more of a canopy design.
"It needs to be tested, which hopefully can be done very quickly," Horner said.
In the last week, supermarkets have cut prices by between 2p and 4p per litre.
Last month, diesel became, on average, cheaper than petrol for the first time since July 2001.
Petrol has also fallen in price this week, hitting 115.24p per litre on average, its lowest for three months.
Lower fuel prices have followed the falls in the price of oil.
This month, the price of a barrel of Brent Crude oil fell below $50 (£32) for the first time since January this year.
David Hunter, an energy industry analyst with Schneider Electric, told BBC Radio 5 live's Wake Up to Money programme that "faltering economic growth in resource-hungry countries like China is keeping a lid on demand for oil, while on the other hand there is a supply glut".
The International Energy Agency said that oil demand around the world is expanding at its fastest pace in five years thanks to rebounding economic growth and low prices, but global oversupply will last through to 2016.
Petrol averaged 106.4p per litre at the beginning of February, after the previous low levels in oil prices.
"The biggest factor for the future path of fuel prices remains the crude oil price - if it continues to fall, and sterling holds its value against the dollar, then further reductions at the pumps are possible," Mr Hunter said.
Diesel had been more expensive than petrol in the UK for 14 years, but its price is now falling more quickly than petrol.
Mr Hunter added: "Recently, Saudi Arabia has ramped up production of ultra-low sulphur diesel for export to Europe - resulting in steeper falls for diesel than petrol."
James Hookham, deputy chief executive of the Freight Transport Association, said the drop in prices may not last.
"We must highlight there is nothing sinister going on and prices could go up as quickly as they are falling," he said. "It is a very volatile market."
Six Royal Canadian Air Force men and a 20-year-old Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) were killed when the plane went down in February 1944.
Businessman Ken Scott, who witnessed the crash as a six-year-old boy, said he wanted to honour the seven men.
The memorial was unveiled at Elsham Wolds RAF Museum on Sunday.
Mr Scott said: "Not only do the crew deserve something better than a hole in the ground but so do the families.
"They need something which they can visit, somewhere they can feel at ease with their family members and where they can honour them."
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Miqdad Al-Nuaimi was suspended in May over tweets including: "Jews in whose name #Israeli #Zionist regime commit war crimes should worry: its's same arrogant mentality as #nazis".
The Iraqi-born councillor has now been told by letter he has been cleared.
"I feel great," he told BBC Wales. "I've always campaigned against all forms of racism and discrimination."
Mr Al-Nuaimi, a councillor for the Stow Hill ward, had been suspended as part of an internal Labour inquiry into anti-Semitism launched following outrage at comments by the former London mayor Ken Livingstone.
The councillor insisted he had a right to be critical of Israel, saying at the time of his suspension: "How can I be anti-Semitic when I myself am Semitic?"
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Army bomb experts examined a suspicious object inside a perimeter fence on Thursday morning, but said it was "nothing untoward".
Duncans Road was closed at its junctions with the Antrim Road and Beechdene Drive but has now reopened.
Police said residents from 30 houses in Dog Kennel lane who were moved during the alert could now return.
A record number of 107,500 migrants crossed the EU's borders last month.
Austria has complained that the EU has failed to address the problem of people entering via the Western Balkans.
As the leaders were meeting, officials in Austria said several dozen migrants had been found dead in an abandoned lorry near the Hungarian border.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all those at the summit were "deeply shocked" by the gruesome find, arguing that it showed that Europe urgently needed to work together to solve the crisis.
The EU's economically stronger nations had to help Balkan countries along the migrants' route - a number of which aspire to EU membership - and share the burden of arrivals, she said.
"They're facing huge challenges and as they are future members of the European Union it is our duty to help them with these challenges," she said.
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Migrants have continued to travel to Europe via the Central Mediterranean route, and the bodies of at least 51 people were found on Wednesday in the hold of a ship off the coast of Libya.
But the number of migrants travelling through the Western Balkans has grown dramatically in recent weeks, with Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans heading for Western European countries, and Germany in particular.
On Wednesday police counted more than 3,000 crossing into Serbia. The UN says a similar number are expected to enter Macedonia every day in the coming months.
"Unless we have a European answer to this crisis, no-one should be under any illusion that this will be solved," Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki told the Vienna summit.
The EU has said it will release €1.5m (£1.1m; $1.7m) in funds to help Macedonia and Serbia. But Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said the money would not solve the crisis.
"When do you plan to establish controls and prevent migrants going to Serbia and Macedonia?" he asked.
Germany says it expects at least 800,000 people to seek asylum in the country this year - far more than any other EU nation.
The EU had tried to persuade member states to accept a quota system for taking in 40,000 Syrians and Eritreans over the next two years.
But they eventually agreed last month to accept 32,500 on a voluntary basis.
Earlier German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier warned of a public backlash if only a handful of countries took in the majority of people.
His Austrian counterpart, Sebastian Kurz, highlighted the need to deal with the large number of migrants heading to the EU through Western Balkan nations.
He stressed that the "whole idea of the European Union without borders inside is in danger" if the bloc's external borders were not secure.
It is estimated that more than 2,300 people have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from north Africa since the beginning of this year.
Smugglers based in Libya are believed to be taking advantage of calmer seas to send more boatloads towards Europe.
Since the beginning of 2015, some 340,000 migrants have been detected at Europe's external borders , according to EU border agency Frontex.
That compares with 123,500 in the same period last year.
The 21-year-old former Aston Villa trainee had a trial with the League One side in December, and impressed enough for an offer to be made.
He also spent time at Walsall and Solihull Moors before moving to the Pics in February 2015.
"This is an excellent chance for me to make the step up into league football," he said.
The last professional footballer to start his career at Walsall-based Northern Premier League side Rushall was defender Zat Knight, who played Premier League football for Fulham, Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers, as well as winning two caps for England.
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People living in Cardowan, near Stepps, who currently fall under Glasgow City, want the boundary to be redrawn so they become North Lanarkshire residents.
They claimed they were disadvantaged by being in a different council area from their neighbours.
The plan, affecting 150 homes, has been put forward by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland.
It is seeking the public's views on the proposals by 6 September 2017.
The commission has proposed that the boundary be realigned at the southernmost edge of the newly-completed development.
The commission's secretary, Isabel Drummond-Murray, said: "We are particularly keen to hear from those residents and electors affected by the proposed changes, but would welcome any interested parties' views, whether in favour of the proposals or not."
It expects to report its final recommendations to the Scottish government later in 2017 or early 2018.
Their ability to maintain the value and integrity of the currency, their success in promoting economic and financial stability, depends in some measure on our conviction that they are up to the job - even if for much of the time we don't really know how they do it (and even if for much of the time, they don't really know how they do it).
Which is why it matters that they are the most scrupulously honest of institutions. Without a reputation for putting the public interest first, they don't have very much.
And at any moment that we might fear that they or their employees are motivated other than by our financial and economic welfare, well at that point the game is up.
That is one powerful reason why the disclosure, last night in the FT, that the Serious Fraud Office is probing whether so-called liquidity auctions held by the Bank of England in 2007-08 were rigged to generate fraudulent profits is as shocking as any of the revelations about alleged City wrongdoing over the past few years.
As I understand it, the SFO is looking at potential malpractice by the staff of our commercial banks, but has not ruled out that there may have been collusion by Bank of England staff.
Now the encouraging news is that the Bank is not taking disciplinary action against those who currently work for it. But it can't be confident that the SFO will not find evidence of wrongdoing by present and past employees.
Anyway, one important point is that as and when the SFO's enquiries are complete, it really matters that the Bank of England is as transparent as it can be about what happened, so that UK citizens - as owners of the Bank - can be certain that sunlight has cleansed it.
All that said, the kneejerk reaction of most to the disclosure is probably a deep sigh, that there appears to have been no opportunity lost by traders at our biggest commercial banks (you know who I mean) to scam any market that was remotely scammable.
And many will see this apparent instance as particularly nauseating, since the whole point of these liquidity auctions was to prop up the banks during the worst financial crisis arguably in history. In other words the suspicion is that they were scamming a rescue scheme, whose whole point was to keep their institutions alive and them in gainful employment.
How would any scam have operated? It is too early to say.
But I am told that the main auction being looked at by the SFO was the 2008 Special Liquidity Scheme, in which the Bank lent 32 banks and building societies £185bn, in return for collateral of £287bn, in the form of assets that the banks could not shift to anyone else (such as mortgage backed bonds).
It was a way of pumping into them cheap money that they desperately needed to keep lending and - more importantly - to meet the increasing demands of their creditors for repayment.
Without it, some of them would have been in dire straits.
For the Bank of England, it was a big, ambitious and innovative scheme, invented in the crucible of extreme financial crisis, and therefore massively open to abuse because of its novelty.
The disclosure that it may have been abused paints some of those who work for our banks as in need of serious psychiatric help.
Dutch brewer Heineken has increased its dividends on the back of net 2015 profits of €1.89bn (£1.47bn; $2.13bn), up 25% on the previous year.
Heineken said it would propose a dividend of €1.30 per share, above €1.10 paid last year.
Meanwhile, Danish brewer Carlsberg saw an annual loss of $261.8m (£181m), better than analysts had expected.
Carlsberg estimates it will generate "low-single-digit" organic sales growth in 2016 .
It reported an unexpected net profit for the fourth quarter of 78m Danish kroner (£8m) compared with a net profit of 168m Danish kroner in the same period a year ago.
In November, the company announced a restructuring programme and job cuts.
It said its Asian operations were offsetting losses in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Carlsberg gained control of Russia's top beer brand, Batika, in 2008, but it has been hit by tighter regulations and Russia's weakening economy.
Its chief executive, Cees 't Hart, said in a statement: "2015 was a mixed year for the Carlsberg Group. While our Asian business continues to perform strongly, our business in Western and Eastern Europe had a challenging year."
The company said it will unveil its new strategy for growth to investors on 16 March.
Heineken said it expected to deliver further organic revenue and profit growth, despite an increasingly challenging external environment.
Its chief executive and chairman, Jean-Francois van Boxmeer, said: "Whilst we expect further volatility in emerging markets and deflationary pressures in 2016, we are confident that we will again deliver top and bottom line growth, as well as margin expansion in line with our guidance."
The Devon side got to the quarter-final stage last season, but lost four of their six pool games in 2016-17.
"In the first 30 minutes it looked like we could hardly make a tackle," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"For whatever reason we didn't seem to do anything flat out and I think that really put us on the back foot."
Baxter added: "I am disappointed because I have a horrible feeling that too many players turned up with a bit of baggage."
Exeter, who are third in the Premiership, had England international Ollie Devoto and winger Olly Woodburn sin-binned during the tie in France.
Devoto was yellow-carded for a high tackle, an issue causing debate since new directives were introduced in January, while Woodburn went to the sin-bin after conceding a penalty try while trying to stop a Clermont break.
"Ollie Devoto, well, I cannot believe that is what World Rugby are wanting, for that to be a yellow card," said Baxter. "You're talking about contact that's about a foot off the ground.
"I need to listen to the ref mic and the TMO stuff, but by the bits and pieces we could pick up it seemed like the referee was determined to yellow card Olly Woodburn in the first half.
"There are so many reasons you could find to not make that a penalty try and a yellow card."
The Scottish Sentencing Council will look at crimes committed by young people, death by driving and environmental and wildlife offences.
It will also begin research into the sentencing of sexual offences.
The council was established a year ago in an attempt to improve public confidence in the sentences passed by the courts.
Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, who chairs the council, said: "The topics we have selected to begin preparing guidelines on are of importance to local communities and families across Scotland.
"We will take the time to properly research each area and consult widely, not only with our justice partners, but with relevant groups and the wider public.
"We welcome input from those interested and encourage you to have your say in helping to shape Scotland's first sentencing guidelines."
The council will now consider how young people should be sentenced and begin work on its first offence-specific topics.
In a statement, the council said: "Death by driving is a serious matter that affects people across Scotland. The circumstances are often complicated and this can lead to extremely difficult sentencing decisions. Fatalities have a huge impact on families and local communities.
"Environmental and wildlife issues have particular significance in Scotland relevant to tourism, rural industry and the local economy. Guidelines on environmental offences will be particularly helpful in setting down an approach to how corporations should be sentenced."
The council will also look ahead to considering theft, property offences and domestic abuse from 2018-2021.
4 November 2016 Last updated at 06:43 GMT
The hornets have already been found in the Channel Islands and more recently in Gloucestershire and Somerset as well.
Experts say traps made out of plastic bottles, baited with prawns, can help stop them spreading across the south west.
Her score beat the old British best of 6,831, set by former Olympic champion Denise Lewis in 2000.
Russia's Tatyana Chernova, who last year took the world title previously held by Ennis, was 132 points behind in second, with Lyudmyla Yosypenko third.
"I think she will [get gold at the Olympics], it's going to be tricky but I think she's got every attribute to win gold. She looks like she's coming good at just the right time, she got a personal best at the weekend and beat Denise Lewis's British record. She's such a strong personality and having that home crowd is only going to help her. She is bigger, but she's not fat. She's strong, she's a much stronger looking athlete and I bet, come the Olympics, she will look amazing. I do think it's a bit uncalled-for, the 'fat' jibes."
"I knew I was capable of doing it. It was just a case of putting it together on the day," said Ennis.
"It's something that's been at the back of my mind and I wanted to achieve, but I didn't want to put too much pressure on it."
It was Ennis's third successive win at the Gotzis event, her last heptathlon before the London Olympics.
The 26-year-old from Sheffield had led by more than 200 points after a first day in which she set a new personal best of 22.88secs in the 200m and produced strong performances in the shot and 100m hurdles.
She finished the first day with a score of 4,113 points, 33 better than her overnight total at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, when she set her previous best of 6,823 points.
Her second-day performance had cost her the world title in Daegu last year, but in Gotzis she began by equalling her personal best of 6.51m in the long jump.
She then threw a new personal best of 47.11m in the javelin, improving her previous mark by 40cm.
1 Jessica Ennis (GB) 6,906 pts
2 Tatyana Chernova (Rus) 6,774
3 Lyudmyla Yosypenko (Ukr) 6,501
4 Austra Skujyte (Ltu) 6,493
5 Lilli Schwarzkopf (Ger) 6,461
"I brought the long jump back and proved my javelin's in a better state. I'm over the moon," added Ennis.
Her efforts left her needing to complete the final event, the 800m, in two minutes and 14 seconds in order to beat Lewis's mark.
She led from the gun and, despite being passed by Chernova just short of the line, finished in 2mins 9secs to set the new mark and gain a psychological edge over her leading rivals in the run-up to the Olympics.
Ennis said she believes losing at the World Championships helped her refocus on the heptathlon.
"I've learned from those times," she commented. "I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good."
Veteran organists Georgina Jones and Grace Murphy and chorister Vivian Roberts were among those receiving medals.
The Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan made the presentations.
He said without their talent and hard work "churches and chapels would simply grind to a musical halt".
The archbishop's certificates of merit in church music recognises non-professional musicians and singers.
Georgina Jones, 88, an organist at the Dolwyddelan parish in Bangor, was shocked when she heard she would receive the certificate.
"It was very emotional. They gave me the letter to read in church.
"I was very upset when they said I was going to win an Archbishop of Wales award. I broke down, I couldn't read it all.
"Seventy years is a long time. I've played at everybody's funeral and weddings. I've been here all my life."
Vivian Roberts, 84, has been a chorister at the Church of Resurrection in Cardiff for 76 years.
He joined the choir at the age of eight, after moving to the Ely area when his father's shop closed during the depression, and he has been singing ever since.
He said he had seen many changes in his years with the choir: "It's altered a lot, it was all male, boys and men, and now it's more women. I enjoy singing with everyone."
Carol Cobert, a churchwarden who supported Mr Roberts' nomination, said that he "really has encouraged other people in the choir, he's an example to others and you don't get people like that very often."
Grace Murphy, 82, became the organist at St Cadoc's Church, in Aberpergwm, Neath Port Talbot, during World War II, when she was 14.
"My legs were dangling and I couldn't touch the pedals.
"We had an organist, but he went away to the RAF."
Although she said that modern hymns have "got more jazz in them these days", she has no plans to retire.
"It keeps me going, doesn't it? My fingers are still working. And my brain too.
"The trouble is once you start being an organist, you've got a job to finish, because you have to find someone to take over.
"There's not a lot of young people coming up to play. They put on tapes when I'm not there."
The awards were presented at a service in Llandudno at the weekend.
"I have left the Tardis - it's happened," she told BBC Radio 1 on Friday, following reports earlier this week. "I've filmed my last scenes."
After three years on the show, Coleman revealed her exit would air on BBC One "at some point this season".
She will play Queen Victoria from the age of 18 as she ascends to the throne.
The actress said she was "delighted" to be starring in "ambitious" ITV drama Victoria, which will chart the early years of the monarch's 63-year reign and her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
"She is a vivid, strong, inspirational and utterly fascinating woman in British history and I can't wait to tell her story," said Coleman.
The actress, who has also starred in Death Comes to Pemberley, Dancing on the Edge and ITV soap Emmerdale, first joined Doctor Who in 2012 alongside former Doctor Matt Smith.
She told Radio 1 Breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw it had been "emotional" leaving the show and filming her last scenes as Clara Oswald with current Doctor Peter Capaldi.
"It's been in the works for a very long time," she said, "[Writer] Steven [Moffat] and I sat down a year and a half ago and tried to work out the best place to do it and tell a really good story.
"We're not going to give any details but it will happen at some point this season... We worked out a really good story arc out so hopefully people will love it."
Coleman is about to start filming ITV's Victoria in locations around the North of England. It is being made by the producers of Poldark and has been written by acclaimed novelist Daisy Goodwin who makes her screenwriting debut with the series.
"I needed to learn to waltz, play Beethhoven," Coleman said of the role on Radio 1, "It's really fun, it's like bootcamp."
Queen Victoria, who was the UK's longest serving monarch until being overtaken by Elizabeth II earlier this month, has previously been portrayed on screen by Emily Blunt in 2009 film Young Victoria.
Coleman said she was looking forward to getting started but that it had been a tough decision to quit Doctor Who.
"There are not a lot of jobs where you get to have an alien as your best mate and get to run away from monsters... it's been so much fun, I love it," she said.
"It's such a unique beast it's been really special."
The ninth series of Doctor Who, which will be Coleman's last, debuts on BBC One tomorrow night, Saturday 19 September.
"I think I'm in denial," added Coleman. "I see Peter all the time and I still see Matt all the time, so I kind of believe I still have the keys to the Tardis."
Former FA chairman Bernstein joined in March as part of a boardroom shake-up that included ex-manager Brian Little.
Chairman Steve Hollis brought in life-long fan Lord King, the former Governor of the Bank of England, in February.
"The issues at the club are fundamental and the solutions are radical and do not lend themselves to compromise," Bernstein said in a resignation letter.
"Unfortunately it had proved impossible to implement the agreed structure and my position has quickly become untenable."
An Aston Villa club statement said Little would continue to advise chairman Hollis on "football-related matters", while a search for a new manager "remains a priority".
It added: "It is with regret that Aston Villa Football Club today announces the resignations of Mervyn King and David Bernstein as directors of the club.
"The club would like to thank both for all their efforts throughout their short time as members of the board."
Bernstein, 72, also spent five years as Manchester City chairman and said he was brought in to review the "football side of the club" at Villa.
Lord King, 67, was appointed a life peer in 2013.
The 26-year-old was hurt in England's victory in their final warm-up match against New Zealand on Wednesday.
Winfield will be reassessed early next week but is unlikely to play in England's second group game, against Pakistan on Tuesday, 27 June.
The Women's World Cup runs from 24 June to 3 July, featuring eight nations.
England will also play Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West indies, with the top four ranked sides eventually contesting semi-finals when they have all played one another.
Winfield will wear a protective cast on her hand until she can be reassessed by medical staff.
A cross-party group of assembly members will call for a legal defence of "chastisement" to be removed.
The Welsh government said it wanted to make physical punishment unacceptable by promoting "positive alternatives".
A previous attempt to outlaw the smacking of children in Wales ran into a dispute about whether the assembly had powers to pass such a law.
However, First Minister Carwyn Jones has told AMs the Welsh government believes the assembly has the necessary powers to amend the criminal law.
Four AMs seeking a ban - two Labour, one Plaid Cymru, and the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats - have tabled a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday.
They will urge the Welsh government to bring forward legislation that would end the availability of the chastisement defence for an offence of assaulting a child.
In a letter to two of them, seen by BBC Wales, Mr Jones says it is the view of Welsh ministers that it is possible for the assembly to amend the criminal law and "end the availability of the defence of reasonable punishment for those cases where it still applies to an offence of assaulting a child".
In its manifesto for the last assembly election, Labour said it would "work to make physical punishment of children and young people unacceptable through the promotion of positive alternatives".
One of the AMs seeking a smacking ban, Labour's Christine Chapman, said similar bans had been successful in several other countries.
She said: "There's a lot to suggest smacking doesn't work.
"What message are you giving out that in order for them to do what you want you have got to use physical force? Really, we are way behind other countries."
Mrs Chapman, the mother of two grown-up children, said she regretted smacking her daughter a couple of times when she was younger.
"I really wish at the time there had been information about this being wrong. I feel terrible now," she said.
She is tabling the debate for Wednesday with another Labour AM, Julie Morgan, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams and Plaid Cymru AM Lindsay Whittle.
Mr Whittle said: "This is something where the assembly could really make a major impact, one of the first big laws we could pass since the new powers."
He said enforcing a ban on smacking children would be "no more difficult than any other act of violence against individuals".
A government spokesman said: "This government is committed to work to make physical punishment of children and young people unacceptable through the promotion of positive alternatives and we believe this is the best place to start."
Conservative AM Darren Millar opposes a ban and said while did not condone any abuse of children, whether physical of mental, parents should have the right to chastise them.
"Physical chastisement is a tool," said Mr Millar, the AM for Clwyd West. "It's not the only tool but it can be extremely effective and useful, and can be far less damaging.
"I think the vast majority of parents know where to draw the line. People use it as a reasonable punishment and they ought to be able to continue to do so."
Mr Millar said in the last assembly there had been a balance among AMs against physical punishment of children, but it would be interesting to see the current situation, with many new members.
Defeat came three days after they suffered a record 5-0 Nottinghamshire derby loss at Mansfield Town.
Cooper is in charge until the end of the season and has been set a points target to earn an extended contract.
"I said to them 'you have got two managers the sack already and you are not getting me out'," Cooper said.
After losing his first game in charge 4-0 at Portsmouth, Cooper's Notts took eight points from a possible 12 before their defeat at Mansfield.
Asked by BBC Radio Nottingham if he saw defeat coming at 1-0 up, the former Swindon boss said: "I did because I know what is in the changing room.
"What you know is with the group of players that we have got, if any real pressure comes they will cave in."
Barnet manager and former Notts boss Martin Allen said it was a "comfortable win" against a side that "offered nothing" in the second half.
"They turned their back on their club," Allen said of the Magpies players.
"They let their supporters, their manager and everyone down from the way they played.
"I have interest in that club as I worked there, I have fond memories of my time there, and whoever brought those players in needs to take a long, hard look at themselves."
Notts, relegated from League One last season, are 17th in the League Two table after 43 games.
The Inverness City Region Deal, announced in March by Highland Council and the Scottish and UK governments, involves direct funding and borrowing.
But Lochaber councillor Andrew Baxter said Inverness and its surrounding areas would see most of the investment.
Highland Council said the deal would invest in projects in the wider region.
Earlier this month, the local authority said business cases for projects worth about £48m had been submitted for Inverness City Region Deal funding.
About £15m has been sought for a plan to turn Inverness Castle from a criminal and civil courts building into a tourist attraction.
Cases have also been made for an £11m Northern Innovation Hub and £10m to make vacant land at Inverness' Longman available to businesses.
The Scottish and UK governments will consider Highland Council's bids.
Mr Baxter told BBC Radio Scotland: "We are continually being told that it is a city region deal for the whole of the Highlands, but everything that I am seeing, that is being reported or coming out from the council officers suggests otherwise.
"It is quite clearly a city deal that will predominantly benefit Inverness and the immediate area and we will see little benefit beyond that.
"This was a deal that was done behind closed doors by council officials and civil servants in London and Edinburgh with virtually no input from local councillors."
Highland Council said the deal would support healthcare, affordable housing, transport and employment projects with pan-Highland benefits.
A council spokeswoman said: "The city region deal is worth £315m of investment which is anticipated to attract a further £1bn of private investment to the region.
"Cities are the engine house of their regions and the investment in infrastructure in the Inverness area will benefit the whole Highland region.
"Several projects investing in education, research and young people, as well as assisted living, will bring also benefit to a number of areas across the Highlands. The affordable housing, digital and innovative hub projects are all Highland-wide projects."
There is suspicion and mistrust in the air tonight in the Tory party.
Everyone is trying to work out exactly what happened that led Michael Gove to break his word and launch his own campaign to become the next prime minister, leaving Boris Johnson, who he has known for decades stunned, and defeated.
Of course, only the two men really know what happened. As I write, they still have not spoken to each other.
As you know, from time to time, it's worth passing on the conspiracy theories that will never be proven or otherwise in Westminster. At the end of one of the most astonishing days in politics for years, here are three different accounts I've heard today of what went on.
The truth is probably a mixture of them all. But for the conspiracists out there, here goes, and neither camp would officially deny or confirm any of the scenarios below.
Conspiracy One
Michael Gove was always a "cuckoo" in the Boris Johnson campaign team. He arrived at the Johnson's farmhouse on Sunday after the two men had done a deal on Saturday night that Mr Gove would co-chair his campaign. They had also agreed, I'm told, that he would be Boris Johnson's chancellor if he moved into Number 10.
But he arrived with his advisers in tow, having tipped off the press as to the location and timing of the meeting. At that meeting, it's claimed that Mr Gove's team demanded the list of Boris Johnson's supporters, but his campaign team refused to hand over the spreadsheet with the names of their backers.
It's suggested that Mr Gove then leaked the story to the Telegraph that George Osborne would be Mr Johnson's foreign secretary, and demanded that his former adviser, Dominic Cummings, be given a senior role in Number 10.
Then yesterday an email miraculously made its way into the public domain, written by Mr Gove's wife, Sarah Vine, that urged him to demand a significant role and to stand up to Mr Johnson. People close to Mr Johnson just don't believe that all those things were a coincidence. They claim "it was an operation" from the start and they suspect that George Osborne's influence may be behind it.
"It was proper treachery," they say, and as soon as Mr Gove announced this morning, MPs described as the "inner circle gang" all peeled off and withdrew their support for Mr Johnson.
Once it was out there, "the momentum went, the direction went". And Boris Johnson and his team weren't willing to stay and have a nasty fight.
The irony is, that Mr Gove is the man who persuaded Boris Johnson to take the political risk of backing Brexit, only, after their victory, to sharpen his knife, then stab him repeatedly in the back.
Michael Gove was persuaded to campaign for Boris Johnson after a bruising referendum contest where they worked together to persuade the country to vote to Leave.
Mr Gove believed that Mr Johnson's crowd-pulling communication skills were what was needed to sell the post-EU deal to the country, and they could work together successfully as a team, after knowing each other for decades.
But since the referendum result, Boris Johnson refused to focus on the job in hand, he messed up some of the dealings with other colleagues like Andrea Leadsom, and Mr Gove gradually lost confidence in his ability to step up to the biggest job in politics.
After other colleagues had tried to persuade him to stand in recent days, having changed his mind about Mr Johnson's abilities, he decided reluctantly that he was the man for the job.
The reason? His genuine belief that only someone who campaigned to leave the EU, can be in charge. Mr Cummings has nothing to do with it, and, as he said to me, he is not taking any part in the leadership campaign, even though another source tells me that he had said he might "offer thoughts".
This theory suggests that Mr Gove tried repeatedly to phone Mr Johnson this morning to break the news, but couldn't get hold of him, so instead he called Lynton Crosby, Boris's long-time political strategist.
Over the weekend, Boris Johnson's team started to gather support in earnest, promising an early election and an increased majority. MPs in the centre of the party mull it over, and contemplating an early election, the huge uncertainties after the referendum result, and the possibility that Labour might oust Jeremy Corbyn and improve in the polls, are circumspect about swinging immediately behind Boris Johnson.
I'm told that Boris Johnson had 81 nominations last night, not far from the 111 needed, but not enough, either, to be completely confident of ending up on the ballot.
The numbers were softer than they might have wanted as the heavy favourites, and less than the 100 or so that had been expected as he came out of the gate. Then right-wing Tories, mainly Brexiters, weren't quite ready to trust Boris Johnson and were concerned about Remainers being part of his team.
Michael Gove then, alarmed at the softness of support for Mr Johnson, concluded that he was tying himself into a project that was doomed to fail. Rather than see it through, with Boris Johnson no longer looking like he'd sweep all before him, he decided he had a decent shot, so betrayed his friend in order to do it.
There are spooky parallels to what was suggested to me a few months back.
He swears it is true, but not many people in Westminster tonight believe that Mr Gove had a sudden change of heart.
One Number 10 source told me tonight, he's guilty of a "double treachery", first betraying his friend David Cameron by joining the Out Campaign and now carrying out this political assassination of Boris Johnson too.
But MPs are utterly furious at what he has done. If he wins, getting his colleagues to trust him will be a tall order. Others feel of course that Mr Johnson is guilty of total irresponsibility, having won the referendum campaign, which he took on for his own ambition, then walking away in the face of what looked like a difficult fight.
It's of course possible that he might have beaten Mr Gove, and gone on to achieve his greatest ambition. But he, and we will now never know.
The only thing that's clear tonight is that there is one beneficiary, Theresa May. Her job and intention today was to look calm, sober, and powerful. She may well have achieved that anyway, it was an impressive launch. But the psychodrama between her rivals made her look that way just by comparison.
The show, which was broadcast before Black's death earlier this year, looked at the star's early career.
Smith's performance was previously nominated for a Bafta and won a National Television Award.
Other British nominees include Rafe Spall, for his role in the Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
The dystopian satire, written by Charlie Brooker, focused on a not-too-distant future where an implant allows humans to block other people in a similar way to social media.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes will also receive the International TV Academy's Founders Award at the gala ceremony in New York on 23 November.
BBC Two is up for the arts and documentary award for Messiah at the Foundling Hospital, which recreated the candlelit premiere of Handel's Messiah in 1750.
Channel 4's My Mad Fat Diary is up for best drama, while Sky's 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy - in which TV presenter Baz Ashmawy set his mum Nancy a number of daredevil challenges - is nominated in the "non-scripted entertainment" category.
The International Emmys honour programming from outside the US, as well as US shows created in languages other than English.
In all, the nominees span 19 countries from Colombia to Turkey and South Korea.
Arts Programming
Buenaventura No Me Dejes Mas (Buenaventura, Don't Leave Me) - Colombia
Comment Jacques Jaujard a Sauvé le Louvre (The Man Who Saved the Louvre) - France
Messiah at the Foundling Hospital - UK
Trial of Chunhyyang - A Girl Prosecuted by Feudalism - South Korea
Best Performance by an Actor
Engin Akyurek in Kara Para Ask (Black Money Love) - Turkey
Emilio de Mello in Psy (Psi) - Brazil
Maarten Heijmans in Ramses - Netherlands
Rafe Spall in Black Mirror / White Christmas - UK
Best Performance by an Actress
Anneke von der Lippe in Oyevitne (Eyewitness) - Norway
Fernanda Montenegro in Doce de Mae (Sweet Mother) - Brazil
Sheridan Smith in Cilla - UK
Best Comedy
Doce de Mae (Sweet Mother) - Brazil
Fais Pas Ci, Fais Pas Ca (Don't Do This, Don't Do That) - France
Familia en Venta - Colombia
Puppet Nation ZA - South Africa
Sensitive Skin - Canada
Documentary
Africa's Wild West: Stallions of the Namib Desert - Austria
Antes de que Nos Olviden (Before We Are Forgotten) - Mexico
Growing Up Down's - United Kingdom
Miners Shot Down - South Africa
Drama Series
Engrenages (Spiral) - France
MOZU Season 1 - Night Cry of the MOZU - Japan
My Mad Fat Diary - UK
Psi (Psy) - Brazil
Non-English US Primetime Program
Arrepentidos U.S. - El Infierno de Montoya
El Mejor de los Peores
Narco Tec
La Voz Kids
Non-Scripted Entertainment
50 Ways to Kill your Mammy - UK
Barones de la Cerveza - Argentina
Flying Doctors - Belgium
Master Chef South Africa - South Africa
Telenovela
Ciega a Citas (Date Blind) - Spain
Imperio (Empire) - Brazil
Jikulumessu - Angola
Mulheres (Women) - Portugal
TV Movie/Mini-Series
La Celebracion - Argentina
Common - UK
Soldat Blanc (White Soldier) - France
Storytelling of Hostages - Japan
Firefighters were called out at 08:40 on Saturday after one of the women called the emergency services.
Twenty-six firefighters tackled the blaze in Torridon, which they managed to get under control by 10:20.
The women got out unhurt before fire crews arrived.
Powys council currently spends £2.3m annually, subsidising 27 of the 29 routes in the area.
It held a public consultation over plans to provide just seven or eight services connecting major towns and cities like Abergavenny, Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Swansea.
But the authority has a new plan which will see 22 of the services saved.
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The double Olympic cycling champion had her mount at the rear of the field for much of the race but as her rivals tired she moved up.
But Carberry was far too strong with 13-8 favourite On The Fringe recording back-to-back wins in the race.
"It's probably the greatest achievement of my life," said Pendleton.
"I'm overwhelmed - thank you to everyone who has made this possible. I feel honoured."
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The 35-year-old, who won Olympic gold in the sprint at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the keirin at the 2012 London Games, had never sat on a horse this time last year.
But she has worked hard over the last 12 months, earning her first win at Wincanton on Pacha Du Polder, trained by Paul Nicholls, last month and the decision was made for her to ride at the Festival.
"I can't believe I did it and I got around," she added. "There are things I would like to do again but this horse is a legend. It's the most fun I have ever had."
"Well, like many other pundits, I was completely wrong to suggest that Victoria Pendleton's participation in the Foxhunter Chase would not grab the limelight from the Gold Cup.
"It did because of a magnificent, critic-muting performance from the Olympic cycling champion and her horse, a display with hardly a moment that created any more anxiety than in any steeplechase.
"Pendleton's heroic response to the extraordinary challenge of making herself a Cheltenham Festival jockey from nothing in barely a year has really caught the public imagination and will be, as it should, widely applauded.
"Cheltenham 2017 when she will have fewer sceptics and more experience will hopefully be next."
Trainer Paul Nicholls told BBC Radio 5 live: "It's great for the team that won the race, but for Victoria to finish fifth after all the doubters was superb. We would not have let it happen if we had a doubt.
"She's had a thrill and I think it's good for racing all around the world. She's ridden a winner in everyone's eyes."
BBC Radio 5 live's Luke Harvey: "That was an unbelievable performance. She rode superbly. You saw her confidence increase and she was weaving and scything through the field. That was unbelievable. Walt Disney stuff.
"She was getting a better reception than the winner. To get round at Cheltenham only 12 months after getting on a horse for a first time is amazing."
Owner Andy Stewart is hoping the rules governing amateur licences will be changed to allow Pendleton the chance to take on the Grand National fences in the Foxhunters Chase at Aintree.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "All the dissenters said she would fall off at the first, but I've had plenty of my jockeys fall off at the first. She got round nicely and the horse looked after her.
"I just hope the rules will be changed between the Category A and B licences so she can ride him at Aintree.
"She's got to have a couple more rides under Rules or the rules have got to be changed to ride at Aintree."
All 37 residents were moved out of the Angela Court nursing home, in Tipton St John, Devon, after the Care Quality Commission rated it as inadequate.
The watchdog said PSP Healthcare was failing to provide care which was safe, effective or well led.
PSP Healthcare has not yet commented on the move.
In the report, the firm said it had struggled to fill staffing posts and there had been a problem with staff sickness.
The CQC'S legal action could lead to fines or it could cancel the home's registration if it does not improve within six months.
Adrian Hughes, deputy chief inspector for the CQC, said: "When we are faced with a residential or nursing home failing their residents, our first instinct is to make sure the service improves.
"But there are times when we have no confidence that the service will improve. When this happens, we must take action to protect people.
"Since these concerns were first raised, we have been working closely with Devon County Council and the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group.
"We are now taking further action in relation to this provider and will report on this when it is completed."
It is one of the biggest hospitals in the city, serving almost two million people.
Malaria is the most common killer here, but since December last year they have had to counter another, potentially more dangerous, mosquito-borne virus: Yellow fever.
In its 16 June report, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that 345 people are reported to have died from yellow fever in the last seven months among more than 3,000 cases in Angola.
Not since 1971 has there been such a serious outbreak, and the reasons why it has happened now are complex and many.
Dr Fortunato Silva, the clinical director at Americo Boavida, says that this outbreak is more worrying not only in relation to the number of cases, but also the number of deaths.
He thinks some of the reasons for this may include the virus becoming more virulent, immunity levels amongst the population dropping and most critically, people not vaccinating as they should.
"Ninety patients have been hospitalised with fever, jaundice and haemorrhaging, since 23 February," Dr Silva said.
"There have been 33 deaths, which is a very high mortality rate. All of them had tested negative for malaria."
Angola's health system is well regarded, and there are established countrywide vaccination and awareness programmes.
Since 1989, babies have been vaccinated against yellow fever at the age of nine months, and children cannot attend school unless they have a valid yellow fever certificate.
Despite this, Dr Silva says, something is not working, and there are questions that need to be answered in terms of public health strategies.
Dr Francisco Songane, the representative in Angola for the UN children's fund, Unicef, describes what is happening as "a major crisis".
He says critical time was lost between samples being taken, tests being run, and results finally arriving three weeks later.
By the time confirmation of yellow fever came, it had spread from the densely populated area of K30, part of the capital's Viana district, and then across the entire city.
Angola - 345 reported deaths, 3,137 suspected cases
Democratic Republic of the Congo - 71 reported deaths, 1,044 suspected cases (not all linked to Angola)
Kenya - two suspected cases (travellers returning from Angola)
China - 11 suspected cases (travellers returning from Angola)
Source: WHO
Dr Songane says that though measures were immediately put in place, in a city such as Luanda, where there are "huge neighbourhoods... a sea of so many houses, so populated, the virus spread very quickly".
And to compound the already serious outbreak, there was a global shortage of the vaccine to contend with. And vaccines must be administered within 10 days of the outbreak being identified.
"The timeline was not being met," he says. "And the shortage of vaccine meant that by then it had spread beyond Luanda."
The shortage now means that the WHO now recommends cutting the standard dose of yellow fever vaccine by 80%. The smaller dose would provide immunity for at least 12 months, it says.
Further adding to the crisis was the widespread use of fake yellow fever certificates, because, as Dr Songane explains "there were also misconceptions that the vaccine will kill you, that you will get a disease.
"There is a need to counter this and get the message to the people that you can do good for yourself, your community, your neighbourhoods.
"Fake certificates will not protect you. That's the message."
Nearly all of Luanda's population has now been vaccinated, and the ministry of health is in a race against time to get enough of the vaccine manufactured for the rest of the country.
Source: WHO
Angola strictly enforces international regulations on travellers coming in and out of the country, and Dr Songane says that whilst hard lessons have been learned, every country must now enforce these regulations.
Vaccines take six months to produce and if there is another serious outbreak, global supplies will not be able to keep up with the demand.
But it is too late to prevent its spread beyond Angola's borders.
Neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a localised yellow fever epidemic in three provinces, including the capital Kinshasa. Cases related to the outbreak in Angola have also surfaced in Kenya and China.
The mosquito that carries the virus, aedes aegypti, is found in most of the country, but it is prevalent in Luanda, made worse now by uncollected refuse.
Angola is one of Africa's largest oil producers, and nearly 70% of the government's income derives from oil.
In the boom years the country invested heavily in infrastructure projects and social welfare, but now with the collapse in the price of oil, basic services like garbage collection have stopped.
Rotting rubbish can be see piling high along with sewage running through crowded neighbourhood streets.
Dr Songane argues that it is urgent that a way is found to solve the issue of the rubbish piling up.
"People cannot continue to live in these conditions," he says.
"This has become a rich and beautiful place for this mosquito to bite, and it's made worse because it bites during the day. [The rubbish] is in the streets and people are being exposed every day."
Only some of those who carry the yellow fever virus get the symptoms, but the rest, who may be unaware that they are carriers, can be bitten by the mosquito and therefore help spread the virus.
Dr Songane says the outbreak is not yet under control. He is aware that much needs to be done, but there is no sense of panic.
It is only when transmissions stop, he says, "that we can breathe. It's not over until it's over".
Guernsey Police said the tanks, ranging in volume from five to 25 litres, were taken from ramp number one after 18:00 BST on Tuesday night.
Andy Goodall, the force's crime reduction advisor, said the theft had "the potential to put lives at risk".
He said: "The crew go down there to get out to the Flying Christine in order to get to patients' aid."
Captain Peter Gill, the harbour master for St Peter Port, said the theft was "thoroughly reprehensible".
The tanks were removed from the dories which act as tenders to the Flying Christine III, the sea fisheries boat and the harbour pilot's boat.
Guernsey Police are appealing for witnesses to the theft.
Mr Goodall said a fuel tank was also taken from a private boat in St Peter Port Marina between 2 and 12 October.
He said it was important for boat owners to check their vessels regularly and lock away fuel tanks.
Eighteen people died when an RAF Blackburn Beverley aircraft came down in Sutton Wick near Drayton in 1957.
They were members of 47 Squadron, along with eight RAF police dog handlers and their dogs on their way to Cyprus, and two people on the ground.
The memorial was made by local wood carver Brian Eastoe who lived in the area at the time of the crash.
Barbara Warwick, who attended the service, said it was "very moving".
She said: "A lot of dogs were killed on the plane... and when they played the Last Post the dogs howled as if they knew."
The idea for memorial came from the Memorial Mob - a group campaigning for recognition of less well known fatal incidents involving the armed services and emergency services.
The crash was thought to be the largest single loss of life suffered by the RAF's police force.
Members of the armed services, relatives of some of those killed, and a number of RAF police dogs were present at the memorial unveiling.
Pupil's first names were mistakenly revealed by Greenleaf Primary School in east London after correspondence with Waltham Forest Council was released in response to a Freedom of Information request by a parent.
It came after classes at the school took part in a social cohesion survey. The council said it had "taken legal steps" to recall the information.
The students named were involved in a programme known as Brit - Building Resilience through Integration and Trust.
Targeted at nine to 11-year-olds, it involved lesson plans and workbooks about identity and belonging.
Pupils were asked if they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements.
They included:
Some parents complained they had not been consulted and others said it was racist and unfairly targeted Muslim children.
Parent Haras Ahmed submitted the FoI request referring to one class at the school, asking if certain children had been targeted.
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The response to him from the school and council included the line: "Our project will combine a universal teaching module with a range of tools designed to ensure early intervention for any children who are felt to be vulnerable to radicalisation."
Mr Ahmed said: "It's been a disaster from start to finish.
"Firstly we're told it's a social cohesion policy and then after various questioning they accept it's a de-radicalisation process and then to release the names of the children in such a insensitive way.
"Any parent in any school - whether they are of a Muslim faith or non-Muslim or no faith - would be appalled by their children's data, such sensitive data, are released to a member of the public."
Waltham Forest Council said: "The school has informed the families affected of the action that the council is taking on its behalf, and that the council has launched a full investigation."
The Rams are at home to QPR on Friday night and could close the gap to six points prior to Saturday's fixtures.
Rowett said: "You shouldn't be in that dressing room if you didn't think there is at least a chance.
"But you do not look at the end goal. We'll break it down into small chunks."
Meanwhile, Rowett said he expected striker Chris Martin, who is on loan at Fulham, to return to the club for next season.
"I see Chris Martin as nothing other than a Derby player next season," Rowett said.
The 24-year-old former Netherlands Under-15 keeper has made five senior appearances for the Championship club.
He had spells on loan with Rotherham and AFC Wimbledon last season, helping the Dons win promotion to League One.
"I was impressed with Kelle last season. He gives us added competition for the goalkeeping position," manager Darrell Clarke told the club website.
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He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he wants to slash joining fees from £30 to £10 and let members vote online to decide policy.
Mr Farage said: "I'm frustrated that this idea which has been around for a long time hasn't been put into action.
"And frankly I don't have the power and ability to do this myself."
Leading figures in UKIP suspect he is set to rebrand the party after the EU referendum in June.
Some also believe he could try to launch a new political movement.
The UKIP leader is an admirer of the anti-establishment activist Beppe Grillo whose Five Star Movement has become a major force in Italian politics, driven in part by engaging with voters online.
Some of Mr Farage's colleagues suspect he could use voter data collected by the Leave.EU referendum campaign and funds from its backer Arron Banks to embark on a fresh political project.
Mr Banks himself has been quoted suggesting UKIP could be rebranded or disbanded.
One UKIP politician said: "That is clearly the strand of thinking at the top.
"They're not particularly interested in winning the referendum and they'd rather replicate the SNP scenario which is lose the primary objective of the party but create such a sense of grievance you win in the polls and do rather well."
Another said rumours of a move of this sort had circulated for months, and added: "It would be very interesting how UKIP supporters would take a view of Nigel planning to disband the party with a clickocracy."
A recent report suggesting there could be a secret post-referendum plan has prompted intense discussions between senior UKIP figures about the possibility of radical change.
Sources close to Mr Farage insist there are no such plans, but acknowledge the party's structure and direction is a constant source of debate.
His critics believe he is planning an upheaval to protect his position after the referendum, which will be held on 23 June on whether the UK will remain a member of the European Union or not.
They accuse him of seeking a flood of new members, like those who flocked to vote for Jeremy Corbyn during Labour's leadership election, to strengthen his support.
Many in UKIP, including some vigorous supporters of Mr Farage, think a leadership contest after the referendum is inevitable.
Internal tensions were heightened after the former deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans was suspended.
Responding to the story, Ms Evans tweeted: "Policy can't be made at the click of a mouse. It's far, far more complex than counting a set of instant opinions."
Richard Morris lobbied the government to amend the law against incest so that it no longer applies to consenting adults aged over 21.
The petition was not opened to the public for signatures, and Mr Morris did not appear to give evidence.
The public petitions committee unanimously agreed there was "no public interest" in taking it forward.
MSPs were given the option of closing the petition under standing orders, on the basis of a Scottish Law Commission (SLC) report from 2007 which recommended retaining the offence under the current definition.
Mr Morris has written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the Queen and Police Scotland about the issue after starting a campaign on behalf of a Scottish man convicted of incest with his daughter.
By BBC political reporter Philip Sim
On the face of it, it might be difficult to understand why MSPs discussed this petition at all.
After all, it gathered a grand total of 0 signatures - in fact it was never even open to the public.
And it appears to have been submitted by a man living in Australia who claims to have "almost" written a book on the topic.
But those are the rules - when MSPs receive a petition aimed at changing a devolved law, they are duty-bound to consider it, no matter how cursorily.
Convener Michael McMahon, who said he personally found the topic "abhorrent", said that nevertheless "all petitions which fall within the committee's rules must be given our open and transparent consideration".
Questions may more readily be raised about why such a sensitive topic was scheduled for debate on the same day as one supporting survivors of abuse.
In his written submission to the committee, Mr Morris said he had also researched and "almost finished writing a book" about incest, and had written to "several major newspapers and Australian politicians".
Mr Morris said the law in its present form is "inappropriate, unfair, ineffective and discriminatory", saying public "prejudice and bigotry" about incest was caused by "ignorance", and likening the issue to historical treatment of homosexuals.
He said: "The Scots incest law perpetuates superstitious, bigoted, outmoded beliefs, and in its present form its continued existence is unjustified."
The current law on incest, the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act of 1995, defines incest as sexual intercourse between blood relatives of opposite sexes.
The last major review of the topic was in 1981, although the SLC also published a report on sexual offences in 2007 which recommended keeping the law as it stands.
Committee convener, Labour's Michael McMahon, suggested that there was "no value" in taking forward the petition, given the 2007 review and the lack of public interest.
After this view was echoed by Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw, the other committee members unanimously backed closing the petition.
Hammond, 48, joined the Premier League club at the end of April after ending his 20-year association with Reading.
"I had good relationships with all the managers at Reading and never have I bought a player that the manager didn't want," Hammond told BBC WM 95.6.
"There's no point - from a common-sense perspective, there's no sense to it."
Hammond added: "The challenge is to bring players to the club that will improve the existing squad and that the manager wants.
"The quality of the squad here is very very good and improving on that is not easy.
"There has to be a function that supports it and that's where you have a recruitment process and Tony is part of that.
"He cannot spend weekends watching games in Germany, Spain or France or even the UK - it's impossible.
"The football club purchases the player - that's where the finances come from - but Tony's right at the top of the decision making."
Having worked with the likes of Alan Pardew, Steve Coppell and Brendon Rodgers, former Arsenal goalkeeper Hammond is looking forward to getting to know straight-talking Pulis.
"Anyone who doesn't want a manager with a strong opinion is not a sensible one," Hammond added.
"You need a strong leader and, make no mistake, Tony's the leader.
"We will discuss things but ultimately he is the guy that has to get results and trust the players he has."
Seventeen-year-old winger Jonathan Leko created history when he became the first player born in 1999 to play in the Premier League when he made his debut at Sunderland at the start of April.
Leko is the latest from the Baggies' academy to graduate to the first team, while midfielder Tyler Roberts, 18, has been named in three matchday squads this season, including the last two.
Hammond was youth academy director at Reading in 2003 before becoming director of football three years later and he says the club will continue to give the next generation of players the chance to shine.
"Young player development is crucial for this club," he said.
"In my first weekend here, Leko starts and does fantastically well and I've seen the young players integrate with Tony and that's lovely to see.
"It's great source of encouragement going into the summer."
The University of Buckingham has also given local police passes to access the university at any time, as a deterrent to any drug use.
Sir Anthony Seldon, the university's vice-chancellor, says illegal drugs are a "key factor" in mental health problems among young people.
He has warned against universities "turning a blind eye" to drug use.
The search by sniffer dogs did not find anything illegal, but the university says that it wants to send a message that it is tightening checks and that it will not offer any tacit acceptance of student drug use.
There will be regular police patrols on campus, says the university.
The move is part of the university's project to improve students' well-being.
Sir Anthony has been a high-profile campaigner for universities to take more responsibility for the pastoral care of students.
He has argued that too many universities have neglected the well-being of young people who are leaving home for the first time.
As part of this, he argues that universities need to address drug use among students, which can contribute to mental health problems.
Buckingham has a project to become a "positive health university" and to challenge what Sir Anthony calls a "crisis of mental health in our universities".
He wants university staff to take a more active in role in supporting students and to intervene at an early stage if there are emotional problems.
The well-being project wants to promote a healthier campus culture and to cultivate "mental health literacy" and "emotional resilience".
"The culture of heavy drinking, a "blind eye" to drug-taking, and tacit endorsement of a "laddish culture" will be tackled head on," says Sir Anthony.
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Clarke said in October that Premier League players may suffer "significant abuse" if they said they were gay.
A BBC Radio 5 live survey in October found 8% of fans would stop watching their team if they signed a gay player.
Clarke told The Times: "If a number of top-level pros want to come out, why don't we synchronise it?"
I don't want to be part of a process that says, 'You've got to come out.' That's not right. People are cautious. Once you're out of the closet, you're out
Clarke added any announcements could be made when the fans were in a more positive mood.
"The Premier League, the English Football League and FA could do it at the start of the season," he continued. "At the start, everybody thinks it's their season, the crowds are happy, the sun is shining.
"I was asked if football is ready for top-level pros to come out and I said I'm not sure we were.
"There was a survey which said people would support gay people in their own team, but I'm worried about what they would say about gay people in the other team."
Ed Connell, from the Gay Football Supporters' Network, believes elements of the game still need to be addressed to create a "safe environment" in which players can come out as gay.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "Only a matter of months ago, Greg Clarke said the game wasn't ready yet for a player to come out. I think he was right.
"The sentiment is good, coming out as a group would be a lot easier. Until we eliminate gay banter among players or gay chanting on terraces it will not happen."
In 1990, Justin Fashanu became the first player in England to come out as gay. He took his own life in 1998, aged 37. No male professional player has since come out while playing in England.
Clarke said he did not want to persuade any players to reveal their sexuality.
"It is very difficult to get a representative set of gay top-level footballers because some of them are happy with their sexuality and don't want anyone to know," he added.
"I don't want to be part of a process that says: 'You've got to come out.' That's not right. People are cautious. Once you're out of the closet, you're out."
They claim Michelle Brown is "abrasive and discourteous" to local members.
Shaun Owen, secretary of UKIP's Delyn branch, has written to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) asking for action against her.
UKIP dismissed the letter as written by a "tiny and insignificant group" holding a "long-standing grudge" against Ms Brown.
In the letter to the NEC, Mr Owen said a motion, agreed at a meeting of UKIP's north Wales branches on 8 July, called for her removal.
It read: "That the north Wales branches call on head office to deselect/remove Ms Brown as our UKIP representative both at the local level and as our representative in the Welsh Assembly."
He stated UKIP's Wales MEP Nathan Gill, who now sits as an independent AM, was also at the meeting.
Mr Owen said: "For some time we have been appalled by the abrasive and discourteous manner of Ms Brown towards UKIP locally.
"Her lack of effort in pursuing the aims of the party both locally and nationally is of concern to members across the region."
He added he believed members would stop supporting UKIP if Michelle Brown remained in the role.
In an email to members sent on Wednesday, seen by BBC Wales, Mr Owen said the NEC had not responded.
A spokesman for the UKIP assembly group said: "The meeting the letter describes was not authorised by UKIP Wales and holds no constitutional significance in the party.
"This letter and the 'leak' to the media was made by a tiny and insignificant group of individuals who hold a long-standing grudge against Michelle Brown."
Under assembly rules, UKIP would not be able to "remove" Ms Brown as a north Wales AM.
If it did decide to expel her from the UKIP group she would continue to serve as the North Wales AM but as an independent rather than under the UKIP banner.
In February, Ms Brown denied an allegation she had smoked recreational drugs in a hotel room.
And she said she had acted "with propriety" after it was revealed she had discussed how an advert for a job in her office could be changed to help her brother get an interview for the post. | A security alert at Thiepval Barracks, Lisburn, County Antrim, has ended.
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The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission said better-off families managed to provide educational and social advantages to stop their slide.
It found less able, richer children were 35% more likely to become high earners than brighter, poorer peers.
The government said its reforms were helping disadvantaged pupils catch up.
The report for the commission, which advises the government on social mobility issues, was based on a long-term study of 17,000 British-born children born in a single week in 1970 that measured their ability at the age of five.
It said wealthier families helped their children accumulate skills valued by the labour market and they also used social networks to secure internships and employment.
That meant poorer, but more able children were often blocked from the finite number of top jobs, it added.
The report, by Abigail McKnight of the London School of Economics, said parental help may start with providing a good home-learning environment in the early years, and continue with seeking out better schools, offering help with homework and exam preparation.
Parental education level and attendance at a private or grammar school all had a significant impact over and above the influence of academic attainment, it said.
The research suggests there is a clear correlation between the social background of a child's grandfather and eventual labour market success.
The report also highlighted a "private school wage premium", where recruitment to high-earning occupations is biased towards those educated in private schools.
It said: "Not only do privately educated children achieve well in examinations and on this basis go on to have highly successful careers, but private school education also bestows a 'little extra something'.
"Some of the 'extra' is made up of soft skills - for example - presentation, conduct in social settings, accent - which have little to do with productivity and a lot to do with what economists refer to as 'signalling'."
Commission chairman Alan Milburn said nobody should criticise parents for doing their best for their children, but it was not right that the less able do better in life than the more able.
"It has long been recognised that there is a glass ceiling in British society that prevents children with potential progressing to the top. This research reveals there is a glass floor that inhibits social mobility as much as the glass ceiling," he said.
"It's a social scandal that all too often demography is still destiny in Britain. The government should make its core mission the levelling of the playing field so that every child in the country has an equal opportunity to go as far as their abilities can take them."
The report called on the government to seek policies that would compensate children who are deprived of the benefits that children with educated parents receive.
"Careful consideration should be given to the setting of homework, fostering and nurturing aspiration, high quality and age-appropriate education and careers advice, and inspirational high-calibre teachers," it added.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "This government is committed to making sure that every child, regardless of background, has the same opportunities to fulfil their potential.
"Our reforms - including the £2.5bn pupil premium - are seeing results, with disadvantaged pupils catching up with their better off peers at both primary and secondary.
"We have placed high expectations at the heart of our schools, with a rigorous new curriculum, world class exams and a new system rewarding schools that push every child to achieve their best." | Middle-class children benefit from a "glass floor" protecting them from slipping down the social scale in Britain, a report has said. | 33,655,791 | 754 | 31 | false |
The Asia-focused bank reported pre-tax profits of $589m for the January to March period.
Although that was down from a $1.4bn profit a year earlier, it compared with a loss of $4.05bn in the final quarter of 2015.
Standard Chartered was the biggest riser on the FTSE 100, with the index up 23.6 points at 6,284.52.
Investors were cheered by signs that the number of bad loans at the bank had fallen.
Standard Chartered said losses from impaired loans were $471m in the January to March period, compared with $1.13bn in the previous quarter.
The bank's chief executive, Bill Winters, said: "Although trading conditions in the first quarter remained challenging, we continue to make good progress on our strategic objectives."
In November last year, Standard Chartered said it would raise $5.1bn and cut 15,000 jobs by 2018 as part of a turnaround plan.
Elsewhere on the London market, positive results from oil giant BP and Costa Coffee owner Whitbread also gave the FTSE 100 a lift.
BP shares rose 4.3% after its first quarter results beat expectations.
The oil company reported a $485m loss for the three months to March, but on an underlying basis it posted a better-than-expected profit of $532m.
Shares in Whitbread - which also owns Premier Inn hotels as well as Costa Coffee - rose 2.6% after it reported an 11.9% rise in underlying annual pre-tax profits to £546.3m.
In the FTSE 250, shares in engineering company Cobham dived 17% after it announced plans for a £500m rights issue in order to cut its debt.
Cobham also reported a 70% fall in first quarter profits to £15m
On the currency markets, the pound rose as expectations grew that the UK would vote to remain in the EU in June's referendum. Sterling climbed 0.85% against the dollar to $1.4605, and was up 0.4% against the euro at €1.2907.
South Koreans must complete two years' compulsory military service before the age of 29 or face being exiled.
After winning bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, Ki, 27, and his team-mates' service was reduced to four weeks.
Swansea manager Francesco Guidolin said: "We want him to have more time for his holiday."
After helping South Korea's Olympic efforts, Ki left Celtic for the Liberty Stadium for a then club record fee of £5.5m.
Ki is expected to return for pre-2016-17 training in early July.
Meanwhile, Guidolin could turn midfielder Leroy Fer's loan stay from QPR into a permanent deal this summer.
The Dutchman made 10 league appearances after joining Swansea in January.
"Leroy has been a good surprise," said Guidolin.
"I didn't know him before, but he has helped the team in the last part of the season. He is a good player and it is possible he stays here.
"I don't know if he wants to stay. I think so, but he could be a good option to stay."
Team Tachyon, made up of Denbigh High pupils, won three awards while representing Wales in Austin.
Competitors had to design a miniature F1 car which was propelled down a 20m track, powered by compressed CO2.
Team members described the experience as "incredible" ahead of a celebration at Cardiff Bay.
As part of the process, the team had to give a talk to a board of 70 head teachers despite being "quite shy" - a feat the girls told Good Morning Wales they would not have been able to achieve two years ago.
In the US, the team which consists of Jessica Briody Hughes, Amy Martin, Katie Rowlands and Holly Roberts attended an F1 race at Circuit of the Americas.
Three of them also got to go into the pit of the Manor F1 team.
Though the girls said the industry was "very much male dominated", they said they had discovered there was an increase in women getting into engineering - which helps to promote F1 among younger people.
Amy Martin put the team together after being asked by a teacher and is now one of just nine people in the world to be accepted into the Randstad Williams F1 Engineering Academy.
"I'm just going to try and get through the academy, every year they knock two people out, and then hopefully have a job with Williams," she said.
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said the whole of Wales should be proud of the girls.
She said: "They are superb role models. I want to see more girls studying science, technology and engineering in our schools. Anyone who meets these girls can't be anything but totally inspired. They are fantastic."
Ground works will begin on the Mynydd Y Gwair site at common land near Felindre.
The 16-turbine farm will generate enough power for about 22,000 homes, innogy Renewables has said.
The Welsh Government approved the development following a recommendation from the public inquiry.
The project was Swansea's largest renewable energy project to date, the company said.
Three inquiries have been held into the project in the wake of strong opposition from people who claimed the turbines would spoil the area's natural beauty.
Swansea council originally granted planning permission for the wind farm in 2013 but the project went through a number of hurdles before finally being approved in July last year.
Tim James, Mynydd y Gwair project manager from innogy, said: "We are delighted to be starting the construction of Mynydd y Gwair wind farm and working with Dawnus Construction Limited.
"This project represents a significant investment in South Wales and we look forward to continue working with local companies and communities."
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also warned the firms paying them and forced the intermediary, Social Chain, to undertake to stop.
But the CMA insisted on keeping the names of the public figures and the companies secret.
Transparency campaigners said the names should be released
A CMA investigation found that Social Chain arranged for "widely followed social media personalities" to promote films, games, takeaway and dating apps, without declaring that the content was paid-for advertising. They posted the adverts on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, the government body said.
It added that Social Chain organised 19 marketing campaigns featuring undisclosed advertising in a four-month period last year.
The posts appeared on social media accounts with a "combined reach of around four million followers" and some of the campaigns "trended on Twitter, which may have increased their readership further".
Social Chain also used its own social media accounts.
The CMA wrote to 43 celebrities and 15 businesses to "warn them that arranging or publishing advertising that is not clearly labelled may result in them breaching consumer protection law".
On Thursday, it refused to name any of them, saying that it preferred to concentrate on the marketing company.
"It is important that when companies are caught breaking the rules, either in letter or in spirit, that the names of those companies, and any others involved in the offence, are made public," Peter Van Veen of Transparency International UK said.
He told the BBC: "Only through disclosing such information will any sanctions act as a future deterrent for those companies and others."
According to Daniel Knapp, an advertising researcher at the analyst firm IHS, social media advertising has become more important in recent years as consumers tire of traditional advertising methods.
They are "bombarded" by advertising and see as many as 1,000 ads per day and many people no longer trust "interruptive advertising", such as television ad slots, he said.
"So, they are looking for other ways. Social media is where young and highly influenceable people congregate and the stars have bigger followings than some brands. They are also very close to the consumers."
But Mr Knapp added that undeclared advertising was bad for the marketing industry in the long term because it risked eroding trust.
"Social media personalities can have an important influence on people's views, especially young people. It is therefore crucial that when people decide what to buy, they should not be misled by adverts on social media that read like independent opinions," said Nisha Arora, of the CMA.
The CMA also announced that it had received an undertaking from the clothing retailers Wool Overs, which it said had "cherry-picked" more favourable customer reviews for publication on its website.
The firm agreed to publish "all genuine, relevant and lawful customer reviews on its website" in future and not to "suppress unfavourable reviews", the CMA said.
Wool Overs said it had undergone a change of ownership and had begun working on a change in its practices when the CMA investigation was opened.
Social Chain did not respond to a request for comment.
He made between £2.2m and £2.25m in 2016/2017, while Claudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000.
About two-thirds of stars earning more than £150,000 are male, compared to one-third female, according to the BBC annual report.
Director general Tony Hall said there was "more to do" on gender and diversity.
It is the first time the pay of stars earning more than £150,000 has been made public.
The BBC has been compelled to reveal the information, including the pay of 96 of its top stars, under the terms of its new Royal Charter.
The total bill for the 96 personalities was £28.7m; but the figures in the report reveal large disparities between what men and women are paid.
Overall, 25 men on the talent list receive more than £250,000, compared to just nine women.
Speaking on LBC Radio, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "We've seen the way the BBC is paying women less for doing the same job... I want women to be paid equally."
When asked if Chris Evans was worth 12 of her, Mrs May - who earns about £150,000 - said: "What's important is that the BBC looks at the question of paying men and women the same for doing the same job."
"On gender and diversity, the BBC is more diverse than the broadcasting industry and the civil service," Lord Hall said.
"We've made progress, but we recognise there is more to do and we are pushing further and faster than any other broadcaster."
When asked if female talent working at the BBC would now be asking for pay rises, Lord Hall said: "We will be working carefully on our relationship with our talent."
Woman's Hour's Jane Garvey tweeted: "I'm looking forward to presenting @BBCWomansHour today. We'll be discussing #GenderPayGap . As we've done since 1946. Going well, isn't it?"
Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, who did not appear on the list, retweeted Garvey's message.
There is also a gap between the pay for white stars and those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background.
George Alagiah, Jason Mohammad and Trevor Nelson are the highest paid BAME presenters, each receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.
The highest-paid female star with a BAME background is BBC news presenter Mishal Husain, who earned between £200,000 and £250,000.
The annual report contains pay information in bands and does not reveal exact amounts. Nor does it include stars who receive their pay through BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
The figures quoted only refer to the amount of licence fee money each person receives and do not include their earnings from other broadcasters or commercial activities.
They also exclude stars paid through independent production companies.
That means some big name stars - such as David Attenborough, Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt LeBlanc - do not appear on the list.
The list also does not distinguish between people who are paid for doing multiple jobs within the BBC and those who are just paid for one.
Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman - who has now left the show - and fellow judge Bruno Tonioli were both in the £200,000-£250,000 band.
The show's other judges, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell, got between £150,000 and £200,000.
Tess Daly, Winkleman's Strictly Come Dancing co-host, was paid between £350,000 and £400,000.
Graham Norton earned more than £850,000 but this does not include payments to his production company, which makes The Graham Norton Show and pays him a separate salary.
The BBC is alone amongst the UK's major broadcasters in releasing pay details for its on-air and on-screen talent. Talent pay is considerably higher in the commercial sector.
As he left the BBC after his Radio 2 breakfast show on Wednesday, Chris Evans said it was right "on balance" that star salaries were being disclosed.
"We are the ultimate public company I think, and therefore it's probably right and proper people know what we get paid," he told reporters.
During a briefing on the annual report on Wednesday morning, Lord Hall said: "Chris Evans is presenting the most popular show on the most popular radio network in Europe.
"The BBC does not exist in a market on its own where it can set the market rates.
"If we are to give the public what they want, then we have to pay for those great presenters and stars."
Aside from Strictly, Winkleman's other BBC roles include presenting The Great British Sewing Bee and her Radio 2 Sunday night show.
Her agent said she would be making no comment.
If you ask experienced people in the world of broadcasting what they think of these salary disclosures, three clear and consistent points are apparent.
First, the BBC pays below - and sometimes much below - market rates, both at management level and in terms of top broadcasting talent.
Second, this move will prove inflationary. Those on the list will think to themselves: "Why is that inferior presenter getting paid more than me?" - and will demand a pay rise.
Third, if you thought it was tin hat time for the talent, pity the poor agents they work with.
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Casualty star Derek Thompson was the BBC's highest paid actor, receiving between £350,000 and £400,000 over the last financial year.
Amanda Mealing, who also stars in Casualty as well as Holby City, was the highest paid actress, receiving between £250,000 and £300,000.
Peter Capaldi, the outgoing star of Doctor Who, was paid between £200,000 and £250,000.
Clare Balding earned between £150,000 and £200,000 for her work on sports shows including Wimbledon Today and the Rio Olympics.
The overall spend on talent was £193.5m - down on the £200m spent in 2015/2016.
The figures also showed a decrease - from 109 to 96 - in the number of stars paid more than £150,000.
The total spend on stars with salaries of more than £150,000 was also down £5 million on the £31.9 million paid in the previous financial year.
Speaking on the Today programme, Lord Grade - a former BBC One controller - called the government's insistence that talent pay be disclosed "distasteful and disturbing".
"The net result of this is inflation," he said. "Talent salaries and wages will round upwards, they won't go down."
Former culture secretary John Whittingdale MP said: "If somebody is earning the equivalent of 1,000 households' licence fees put together… the licence fee payer deserves to know."
The annual report showed that the BBC continues to reach 95 percent of UK adults every week.
It also said the iPlayer had its most successful year to date, with an average of 246 million requests each month.
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Will there be a hard border or a soft border? Customs check points or free movement? A border in the Irish Sea?
But, for this weekend at least, the border is soft and tactile, with sky-dancing dolls spinning above it, woolly-jumper-wearing cats and kaleidoscopic orbs hanging from its hard stone walls.
The project is called Soften the Border.
For months women's groups have been turning old clothes into stuffed shapes, as well as knitting and crocheting dolls.
Their hard work is now festooning the bridge that denotes the border between counties Fermanagh and Cavan.
"We're knitting this little patch of the border together," said Rita Duffy, the artist behind it.
"These communities work together, hand-in-glove.
"I'm quite surprised, I always thought of this as a semi-detached village.
"But people actually co-operate and look after each other.
"We should be doing that locally; we should be doing it universally as well."
It is part of the Belcoo Sports and festival event, which is celebrating its 70th year.
"Because it's probably one of the longest-running festivals, it does get a lot of support and a lot of cross-border support as well," said committee member Peter Gallagher.
But Mr Gallagher has his own concerns about life post-Brexit.
"If we get to a point where we have customs checkpoints and stuff like that, the practicalities become much more difficult," he said.
"Whether it means there'll be an end to the Festival or not, only time will tell.
"But it is worrying. It's an uncertain future which I don't think any of us deserve."
But the border is everyday life here between these two villages and it's everyday concerns that have people worried.
"Will I need a passport to go to the butcher's?" one man asked.
"We hold the only cross-border St Patrick's Day parade in the world. A hard Brexit will put a stop to all that."
The 21-year-old, who won two Commonwealth gold medals in 2014, swam 20.74 to beat the mark set by Foster in January 2001 by 0.39 seconds.
"As soon as I nailed my turn, I knew it was going to be a fast swim but I didn't think it would be sub-21 seconds," Proud told swimming.org.
The Plymouth Leander swimmer was racing at the ASA's winter meet in Sheffield.
Two other British records fell at the meeting: Lizzie Simmonds swam the 100m backstroke in 56.35 seconds, while 16-year-old Imogen Clark recorded a time of 30.02 in the 50m breaststroke.
Residents of Kelly Bray, Cornwall said "on your bike", after they were told they could no longer use the hall when the local branch of the WI folded.
After the closure in November, Cornwall Federation of WIs (CFWI) changed the locks and banned villagers from entry.
However, residents said the 78-year-old hall was built for everyone and have changed the locks again.
The CFWI has declined to comment on the villagers' actions until a meeting on Wednesday to decide what action to take.
The hall, on the corner of Stokes Road and Parson's Green, was built in 1937 with the deeds saying the site was sold "for an Institute for the women of Kelly Bray".
However, the WI branch folded last November because of a lack of members.
The CFWI put up a notice "as owner of the property" saying "no-one can lawfully enter the premises" without its authorisation.
But, villagers said the hall was purchased by the village for the use of the WI ladies.
Susie Iannantuoni, of the village hall committee, said: "Christenings, wakes, dog-grooming classes and Young Farmers' pantos have all been held there.
"We were absolutely horrified to be told we couldn't carry on using it.
"So, we have put up our own notice saying we don't recognise your authority and on your bike."
The issue was referred by the committee to the attorney general who said the issue did not come under his jurisdiction.
The CFWI has asked the Charity Commission if it can rent the hall to the villagers.
The commission said it had "always tried to assist the charity in achieving such an outcome".
But, the commission said the CFWI needed to show that was "in the best interests of the CFWI charity", for it to be legal.
Members of World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing's family have also signed.
Turing, played by Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game, was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and killed himself in 1954. He was pardoned in 2013.
The signatories have asked the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and other "young leaders" to help with their campaign.
But a spokesman for the couple said it was a matter for government and they would not make any public comment.
Turing was granted a posthumous pardon by the Queen in 2013, four years after then Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered an "unequivocal apology" for the way he was treated.
Now campaigners want pardons for all of those who were convicted of similar offences.
The letter, printed in the Guardian, states: "The UK's homophobic laws made the lives of generations of gay and bisexual men intolerable.
"It is up to young leaders of today including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to acknowledge this mark on our history and not allow it to stand."
It describes Turing as "one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century" for helping to crack the Enigma code and says he was "pivotal in the development of modern computers".
The letter continues: "The apology and pardon of Alan Turing are to be welcomed but ignores over 49,000 men who were convicted under the same law, many of whom took their own lives.
"An estimated 15,000 men are believed to still be alive."
Cumberbatch, who has been nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Turing, and The Imitation Game's director Morten Tyldum are also joined as signatories by Turing's great niece Rachel Barnes and Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude Magazine.
Ms Barnes told BBC News the royal pardon given to Turing was "fantastic for all of us because he was such a great man and did so much for this country."
"But we've always considered that it is totally unjust that only Alan was given a pardon," she said. "There were 50,000 other homosexuals who were convicted and not given a pardon. We would really like this to be put right now."
An estimated 15,000 of them are still alive, she added.
An online petition has also been launched at www.Pardon49k.org, with more than 60,000 having signed it so far.
The NCA said it was taking on the investigation following a request from South Yorkshire Police last month.
Both the force and the NCA declined to comment further on the scope of the investigation.
It comes after the Jay report found more than 1,400 children in the town were abused from 1997 to 2013.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has called for a separate inspection into whether Rotherham Council covered up information about the abuse.
The report by Professor Alexis Jay, published in August, detailed how children had been subjected to trafficking, rape and other sexual exploitation over a 16-year period and how their abuse had been ignored by a range of agencies, including police, councillors and council officials.
The controversy that followed led to a series of high-profile resignations, including Rotherham's strategic director of children's services, Joyce Thacker, and South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright, who had been the councillor with responsibility for children's services between 2005 and 2010.
After Mr Wright's resignation last month, Mr Crompton said: "This represents an opportunity for the force, and the county, to move forward in light of Professor Jay's report about child sexual exploitation.
"The force has referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and is in detailed discussion with the National Crime Agency to oversee an independent inquiry into allegations of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.
"Any organisations or individuals found to be at fault will be held to account."
Derbyshire Cave Rescue Organisation (DCRO) was called out after three cavers failed to return from a trip into Gautries Hole, north of Buxton.
Heavy rain had caused a section of passage close to the entrance to become completely flooded, leaving the cavers with no way out.
They were rescued by the team using underwater breathing apparatus.
Bill Whitehouse, from the DCRO, said: "They were very experienced cavers who knew what had happened and what the consequences were.
"They did exactly the right thing and found somewhere to hold-up until help came."
He added: "Once they were beyond the flooded part of the cave they were quite safe - it's just they couldn't get out."
The team took the decision to "dive them out" because the water level was not going down and more heavy rain was forecast, meaning they could have remained trapped for a long period.
Mr Whitehouse said it was unusual for the cave to be totally flooded.
Chief executive Tim Steiner said the firm was pursuing conversations with "multiple" international companies.
It also said Amazon's recent takeover of US chain Whole Foods was a "positive catalyst" for it to boost its international presence.
Ocado had been under pressure over its delay in achieving overseas expansion.
In June, it announced a long-awaited overseas deal with an unnamed European retailer, saying it was going to help it set up an online grocery delivery service.
This also helped bolster its share price, reassuring investors who were growing increasingly sceptical of its strategy.
The retailer has been slow to branch out internationally, missing a self-imposed deadline in 2015.
Also last month, retail giant Amazon made its biggest push into traditional retailing by buying Whole Foods in a £10.7bn deal.
The shares of rival grocers fell, but Ocado's stock went up because it was felt the deal signalled a future partnership between the two or a possible takeover.
There has been much speculation that Ocado could be a potential takeover target for Amazon, which is seeking to expand its home delivery grocery business.
Mr Steiner said: "We continue to progress conversations with multiple retailers internationally to use the Ocado Smart Platform and believe that recent industry developments such as the announced acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon will be a positive catalyst in advancing these discussions."
He added: "Grocery retailing is changing and we are ideally positioned to enable other retailers to achieve their online aspirations."
The retailer, which also works with Morrison and Waitrose, said its half yearly pre-tax profits fell by £1.7m to £7.7m, because of the opening costs of its third warehouse in Andover and investment in its delivery systems.
Retail revenue grew 12.5% to £659.6m, while its customer base increased 12.7% year-on-year to 600,000 in the six months to 28 May 2017.
Ocado's shares rose 2.3% to 296p in early trading.
The All Blacks, unbeaten at Eden Park since 1994, are favourites to beat a Lions side whose only series victory in New Zealand was in 1971.
"There's always pressure on us and we don't mind pressure," Read said. "Losing would be pretty bad.
"We will go out there and expect to win."
Read was part of New Zealand's World Cup wins of 2011 and 2015, but believes the opening match against with the Lions is "probably the most important right now" in his career.
The 31-year-old has recovered from a broken thumb to lead his country. He is expecting a physical battle between the two sets of forwards after the Lions' pack helped them to impressive wins over the Crusaders and New Zealand Maori during the run-up to the first Test.
"Whoever dominates the set-piece ruck area will have a strong chance of winning the game," he said.
Lions coach Warren Gatland sprung a surprise with his selection, opting for full-back Liam Williams and wing Elliot Daly, ahead of Leigh Halfpenny and George North respectively.
Gatland has promised his side will be "courageous", adding "you have to score tries" to beat the All Blacks.
Pte Richard Hunt, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, died after his vehicle was caught in an explosion in Helmand Province in August 2009.
His mother Hazel later started the Welsh Warrior Foundation which raised more than £250,000 in eight years.
But she said the charity has now come to a "natural end" and would close.
Sunday will mark nine years since Pte Hunt, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, was hit by the explosion while on patrol.
Mrs Hunt said she hoped the charity's lasting legacy would be greater awareness of the difficulties veterans face after active service.
The charity has helped larger causes, such as Veterans With Dogs, and individual ex-service men and women in need.
"Literally just after his funeral we raised £25,000 which we sent to Help For Heroes, and we carried it on from there," Mrs Hunt said.
"One of Richard's loves was music, he played drums in a band, so we thought about a music festival for families - we had four of them.
"We had people running marathons, people doing parachute jumps - you name it, people did it."
Mrs Hunt said the charity provided some help in grieving for her son, who died just a few days before his 22nd birthday.
"You don't get over it, you learn to live with it," she said.
"His mantra would be 'if you want to go and do something, get off your backside and go and do it', so hopefully he'd be proud of it."
Mrs Hunt said the foundation also aimed to alert others to the difficulties many soldiers were facing.
She frequently spoke out about the struggles faced in getting the right equipment while on tour and a lack of support for conditions including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when soldiers returned home.
"I've learnt a lot… and they shouldn't just be left to rot on the scrap heap when they come home," she said.
"A lot of them are quite capable of going on and doing other things with the right support."
Mrs Hunt said with most British soldiers having left Afghanistan, other than for training roles, it felt like the "natural time" to wind the charity down.
She still plans to play an active role in campaigning on behalf of veterans and keeps in regular contact with her son's close friends.
"I think it's probably the hardest job that anyone will have to do - go to places like Afghanistan and fight for people who perhaps don't know you, don't understand you, don't want you there," she said.
"The British forces are the very best in the world at doing it, but we need to show them that we recognise it when they come home again."
Veterans With Dogs, which received £15,000 from the foundation, said the money would help train assistance dogs to reduce stress levels and make a "huge difference" to veterans suffering from service-related mental health conditions.
They join Welsh laverbread, Anglesey sea salt and Carmarthen ham in having the European Commission-awarded status.
Protected status means certain food and drink must be made in a specific geographical area to be given the name.
Welsh Perry and Cider Society chairwoman Sally Perks said she was "thrilled".
Protected Geographical Indication status is intended to ensure people know they are drinking or eating an authentic product from a specific area.
There are 14 Welsh products with protected status, but this is the first time drinks have made the list.
Ms Perks said: "It provides a huge boost to Welsh cider makers in getting their products recognised throughout the UK and abroad."
Police took action against Matthew Adams, Daniel Batchelor, Javier Centeno-Gomez and a 17-year-old youth, all from Suffolk, after concerns were raised.
The four pleaded guilty to a public order offence of threatening behaviour.
They were each fined £100 and banned from climbing manmade buildings.
Police said Adams, 23, of Raglan Street, Batchelor, 26, of Newark Road and a 17-year-old boy, all from Lowestoft, and Centeno-Gomez, 24, of Benacre Road, Ellough, near Beccles.
They were prosecuted following reports of a number of incidents where men were reported to be climbing on structures around Lowestoft.
The ban, which is active for two years, prohibits the four from climbing any structure more than 3m above the ground, unless it is specifically designed to be climbed, or unless they have written permission of the structure's owner and safety equipment is used.
Officers showed footage to court from the quartet's head cameras, including images of two of the group lowering themselves over the edge of the roof and hanging off the side of St Peters Court in the town - 15 storeys above the ground.
It also showed one of them parachuting from the wind turbine at Kessingland.
A Suffolk Police spokesman said the threatening behaviour offence relates to them causing alarm and distress to residents of Lowestoft through their climbing and posting footage of their exploits on the internet.
"Police felt they had no alternative but to take action due to the extreme danger of their actions. As was pointed out during sentencing, they may have fallen and not only killed themselves but innocent passers-by on the ground," he said.
Adams disputed whether they put lives at risk.
"What people don't understand is that we put a lot of training into this. I accept what I am doing is dangerous, but we prepare for it and we don't encourage other people to do it," he said.
The four appeared at Lowestoft Magistrates' Court on 10 March, where they all pleaded guilty.
They were also ordered to pay £20 victim compensation and £85 costs.
Sixteen papers have so far been granted licences, although only four were ready to publish on Monday.
This is another important milestone on Burma's journey away from authoritarian rule, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from the commercial capital, Rangoon.
Until recently, reporters in Burma faced some of the harshest restrictions in the world.
Private dailies in Burmese, English and other languages, which had been commonplace in the former British colony, were forced to close under military rule in 1964.
Subsequently, journalists were frequently subjected to surveillance and phone-tapping, and were often tortured or imprisoned. Newspapers that broke the rules were shut down.
But media controls have been relaxed as part of a programme of reforms launched by the government of President Thein Sein that took office in 2011.
Last August, the government informed journalists they would no longer have to submit their work routinely to state censors before publication.
It announced in December that private dailies would be allowed to publish from 1 April.
Some initial print runs will be a modest few thousand, while the papers assess demand, our correspondent reports.
"I foresee several hurdles along the way," Khin Maung Lay, the 81-year-old editor of Golden Fresh Land, told the Associated Press.
"However, I am ready to run the paper in the spirit of freedom and professionalism taught by my peers during the good old days."
The other three dailies are The Voice, The Union and The Standard Time.
"The Voice daily sold out soon after it arrived even though I ordered double the amount than other newspapers. People are keen to read private daily newspapers for the first time," vendor Phyu Phyu told the AFP news agency.
The four papers all had different leads. The Voice carried an update on the situation in western Rakhine state, which saw deadly religious clashes last year. It also covered a weekend concert in Rangoon by Danish band Michael Learns to Rock.
The Golden Fresh Land reported on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to Japan, as well as action being taken against corrupt government officials. Standard Time looked at violence by majority Buddhists against Muslims in central Burma last week.
The arrival of privately owned papers on the news stands coincides with the first anniversary of the election of Aung San Suu Kyi to parliament.
She has since become an energetic player in the assembly, although, like the government, she is finding it difficult to respond to the complex challenges now confronting her country, our correspondent says.
She has been criticised for failing to speak out over the recent wave of attacks on Muslim communities, he adds - an issue over which the newly-liberated media is also being censured after some inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, is to start printing its own daily newspaper later this month.
The charges allege that the Southern California (SoCal) Gas Company violated health and safety laws by failing to report and contain leaking methane.
Ms Harris said the impact had been devastating to families in the area.
The leak in Porter Ranch began on 23 October and has forced more than 13,000 people from their homes.
It has been blamed for a variety of health issues and has been described by environmental campaigner Erin Brockovich as the worst environmental disaster in the US since 2010.
Methane is also a greenhouse gas, like carbon dioxide (CO2). While it does not linger in the atmosphere as long as CO2, it is initially more damaging to the climate because is absorbs the sun,s heat so effectively.
SoCal Gas spokesman Mike Mizrahi has repeatedly insisted that his company complied with all relevant state and federal regulations in the run-up to the leak.
The firm has promised that it will be plugged by the end of February and the single well in question, a depleted oil field known as SS-25, will be taken out of use.
The use of old oil and gas wells for storing natural gas is relatively common in the United States, according to industry bodies.
But the state government says that SocCal is entirely to blame for the incident.
"The impact of this unprecedented gas leak is devastating to families in our state, our environment and our efforts to combat global warming," Ms Harris said in a statement.
"Southern California Gas Company must be held accountable."
The lawsuit filed by the attorney general seeks unspecified civil penalties and emulates similar legal moves taken in December by the Los Angeles city attorney.
The leak has been described as the biggest in California's history, forcing nearly 4,500 families living in the upmarket Porter Ranch area to relocate. About 1,200 more households are in the process of following them.
Repeated efforts to stop the leak by pouring liquid and mud down the stricken well have been unsuccessful. SoCal is now drilling a relief well to seal the damaged well.
Ms Brockovich has described the leak as a "BP oil spill on land", comparing it to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico six years ago, in which 11 people died.
The effect of the leak on human health is contested.
SoCal Gas insists there is no evidence that it poses a long-term risk but some scientists say there are not enough data for them to be sure.
1.77 million: approximate number of cows burping for a year to produce equivalent methane
1.41 million: number of cars that would need to be added to the road to have a similar greenhouse effect in a year
13,000: number of people who have been relocated so far
Calls grow for gas facility shutdown
Belching cows and the LA methane leak
All of the managerial movements for May will appear below, followed by the full list of each club, league-by-league.
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The Kiwi Recovery Plan 2017-2027 by the Department of Conservation is an attempt to scale up efforts to New Zealand's national icon.
Kiwi numbers have been falling at around 2% a year, largely due to predators such as stoats and dogs.
Once numbering in the millions, there are now only an estimated 68,000 kiwi remaining in the wild.
"This government is not prepared to accept that our national bird is at any ongoing risk of potentially becoming extinct in their natural habitat," said Conservation Minister Maggie Barry.
"This strategy focuses on growing the wild kiwi population, rather than steadying or managing decline," added Ms Barry.
As well as increasing numbers, the plan will also restore the birds' formerly safe habitats.
"It is possible to bring kiwi back from endangered to everywhere," says the report.
Success lies in managing kiwi predators.
Dogs are one of the biggest threats, with a single dog capable of setting back years of conservation work in an area.
"If kiwi don't have the predators managed, something like 5% of the chicks born every year make it to adulthood a year later," Forest and Bird campaigns and advocacy manger Kevin Hackwell told news outlet Newshub.
"That can be almost reversed completely if you control the predators."
Stoats are another threat to kiwi, responsible for approximately half of kiwi chick deaths on the mainland.
Currently, humans intervene by taking kiwi eggs, incubating them and rearing them in captivity before releasing them into the wild.
But this strategy is "expensive and very labour-intensive", according to Mr Hackwell.
"The goal is seeing our national bird being healthy out in the environment, not having to be kept behind fences or anything," he said.
The plan also ties into the government's Predator-Free 2050 plan which aims to rid the country of possums, rats and stoats.
The government has set NZ$11.2m (£6.33m; $8.10bn) aside for kiwi conservation, but a shortfall of NZ$1.3m still remains each year.
This will primarily be funded by national charity Kiwis for kiwi.
The Green Party, however, says the programme should be funded by the government, not left to charities.
"The government could easily pay the $1.3m it is asking charities to pick up," said Green Party conservation spokesperson Mojo Mathers.
"The kiwi is our treasured national bird - the government should not be leaving its survival up to charity or chance."
The public are being invited to have their say on the kiwi protection proposals before the end of January next year.
They were arrested on 16 June in a market in Inezgane, near Agadir, after being heckled by market traders.
Their case sparked a national outcry and an internet petition calling the arrest an attack on personal freedom attracted thousands of signatures.
Hundreds of lawyers offered to defend the women in court.
Women's rights campaigner Fouzia Assouli told the AFP news agency the acquittal showed that wearing a skirt "is not a crime".
Moroccan news site Tel Quel quotes the women's lawyer, Houcine Bekkar Sbai, as saying that the next step is to prosecute the people who harassed them in the market.
Ministers said the move, defeated when the SNP formed a minority government, would help tackle reoffending.
Currently there is a presumption against courts imposing sentences of three months or less.
Figures showed 60% of those sentenced to less than three months were reconvicted within a year.
In 2010 the government introduced, for the first time in Scots law, a presumption against short prison sentences, except where no other punishment would be appropriate.
Proposals to impose a six-month limit were dropped because the SNP government feared opposition parties would vote it down.
Under the law passed in 2010, the court must publicly state its reasons for imposing a short sentence.
Ministers are to launch a consultation on whether the minimum period should be extended, and by how much.
Under the proposals, offenders would serve their sentences in the community instead of being jailed, and receive help for the causes of their offending behaviour, including drug or alcohol addictions or mental health issues.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said although crime levels are falling, Scotland has one of the highest prison populations per capita in western Europe.
Two-thirds (66%) of those jailed in Scotland receive terms of six months or less.
Mr Mathseon said evidence has consistently shown short term prison sentences are ineffective in reducing reoffending.
"Prison will always be the right place for serious offenders who should be punished appropriately," he said.
"Short sentences do nothing to stop reoffending in our communities and only result in offenders going in and out of prison time and time again and reoffending upon release."
He added: "This isn't about being 'soft' or 'tough', it is about being 'smart' and acting on the clear evidence in front of us.
"We must tackle the revolving door to our prisons and I believe these proposals will give greater protection to our communities, whilst helping offenders turn their lives around and become active and responsible citizens."
Tom Halpin, chief executive of the community safety charity Sacro, welcomed the announcement.
He said: "Simply jailing offenders for a short time does nothing to rehabilitate them, nothing to challenge their behaviour and nothing to pay back to victims for the harm they have caused.
"The proposed extension to the presumption against short sentences offers a radical and progressive step for Scotland's justice system that is needed to further reduce reoffending."
The former first minister Henry McLeish, who chaired the Commission into the future of Scotland's Prisons in 2008, said: "The most important recommendation in my Prisons Commission Report was to introduce a presumption against short sentences of less than 6 months.
"Legislation was passed on three months and we now have the possibility of a more radical reform.
"Extending the existing presumption period could be of significant help to the prison service, provide more effective and appropriate help for those who are not a threat to society and with further investment in community alternatives, help cut reoffending.
"This is a bold and imaginative consultation paper and I hope it generates a positive response."
But the Scottish Conservatives said the move "could mean hundreds of people convicted of crimes like housebreaking, handling offensive weapons and common assault walking free".
It said the latest figures showed that more than 5,000 people were jailed for between three and six months last year.
The statistics included 874 common assaults, 184 drug crimes, 164 cases of handling an offensive weapon, and 210 housebreakings.
In 2013/14 there were even 13 occasions when attempted murder and serious assaults were dealt with by way of a custodial sentence between three and six months, along with 12 sexual assaults, the Conservatives said.
The party's justice spokeswoman, Margaret Mitchell, said: "Extending the presumption against short-term sentences simply gives offenders the impression that their crimes aren't serious enough to go to jail.
"Victims deserve a justice system that advocates for their interests instead of pandering to those of criminals. The Scottish government needs to get a grip.
"Instead of emptying our prisons, it should provide better, more widely-available rehabilitation programmes and throughcare to get the reoffending rate down, which is in everyone's interest."
The spectacles have been created by local communities, with trees sponsored and dressed by businesses, organisations, charities and schools.
The popularity of Christmas Tree Festivals has grown year by year, with the Church of the Holy Cross, in Uckfield, East Sussex, now celebrating its eighth year.
Last year, more than 5,000 people visited the festival, and this year the church is filled with 83 trees reflecting the wide range of activities within the town.
A variety of entertainment runs alongside the festival, with any donations received going towards the upkeep of the church and the Children's Society.
St Andrew's Parish Church, in Farnham, Surrey, is holding its first Christmas Tree Festival after holding flower festivals in the past.
All of its trees are artificial with some of the more innovative designs reflecting the organisations they represent.
Meg Daniels, one of the organisers, said it cost almost £500 a day to keep the whole parish running, and any donations received during its four-day festival would go towards the upkeep of the church.
She said the event was meant for everybody to enjoy.
In Kent, the Reverend Kevin Barnard is officiating at his first Christmas as Vicar of Westerham.
About 80 trees and wreaths decorate the Parish Church of St Mary The Virgin, sponsored by businesses, schools, families and individuals.
Many trees remain in the church for the whole Christmas period, while others return to their designers and reappear in shops, offices and homes after the festival ends.
The new vicar, who moved to the town in August, said of the festival: "I couldn't have had a better demonstration of St Mary's role at the heart of the community, just as it has been for centuries."
Liverpool-based Merseycare and Stanford University have been in talks on how the technology could work.
The aim is to have the prototype ready by June with the first patients being monitored in January.
There were 6,122 suicides in the UK in 2014 - a 2% decrease on the year before.
The app would allow clinicians to provide round-the-clock observations on people who they fear may be considering suicide.
It would work by monitoring all digital communications by a patient - emails, social media, even phone calls - and spot potential dangers.
Three quarters of suicides are in men.
If for instance someone was tracked as being at a well-known suicide hotspot, or missed an appointment, or even told a friend they were feeling suicidal, the app would alert clinicians who would then be able to contact the person and provide appropriate support.
All patients would have to voluntarily submit to being monitored.
Dr David Fearnley, medical director at Merseycare, said: "The potential is incredible."
He added: "We think we can anticipate people who may be likely to harm themselves with greater accuracy than we currently do, and therefore be able to do something about it and save their lives."
Last year, Merseycare committed itself to a zero suicide policy by 2020, meaning they hope to end all suicides of service users.
The initiative requires a new approach across the trust, from staff training to greater patient involvement.
The development of the app is part of that process, and is based on a belief that people are often more open with their friends and relatives than they are with clinicians.
"This is an opportunity to exploit technology in a way we've never been able to before in health, by providing very powerful, decision-making, statistical support to clinicians in real time for the people who are most at risk," added Dr Fearnley.
The development of the app builds on work that five NHS trusts and US hospitals are already engaged in.
Their collaboration has created technology that is already scanning all the data being inputted in the trusts, digitising and analysing it and telling medics - within hours - where danger signs, such as falls or medication problems, are emerging.
Merseycare and Stanford are aiming for patients to start using the app in January 2017; its success will then be evaluated by outside experts over the following three years.
Thousands of troops marched across Red Square in Moscow, and new armour was displayed for the first time.
Many foreign dignitaries were present, but most Western leaders stayed away because of Russia's role in Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin said global co-operation had been put at risk in recent years. His Ukrainian counterpart accused him of justifying aggression.
Russia denies claims by the West that it is arming rebels in eastern Ukraine. More than 6,000 people have been killed since fighting began in April 2014 in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
As it happened: Moscow parade
In his opening speech, President Putin paid tribute to the sacrifices of Soviet troops during World War Two. He also thanked "the people of Great Britain, France and the United States for their contribution to victory".
But he added: "In recent decades the basic principles of international co-operation have been ignored ever more frequently. We see how a military-bloc mentality is gaining momentum."
The remarks echo previous complaints by Mr Putin about what he says are efforts by the US and its Nato allies to encircle Russia militarily.
Meanwhile, at a wreath-laying ceremony in Kiev, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned Russia's portrayal of his government as fascist over the past year.
"Obviously this is done with one aim alone - to justify... the Russian aggression against Ukraine."
The victory parade in Moscow started at 10:00 local time (07:00 GMT). Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Pranab Mukherjee of India and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were among more than 20 world leaders watching the event.
Military units from across Russia - some dressed in WW2-era uniforms - marched, and more than 100 aircraft flew over Red Square.
BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall, Moscow:
Compare this year's foreign guest list with previous years. This time, instead of Russia's European wartime allies, standing next to President Putin was the Chinese President, Xi Jinping.
Other VIPs included the presidents of India, Egypt, and South Africa, Central Asian leaders, and longstanding Russian friends like Cuba and Venezuela.
Most Western leaders stayed away in protest at Russia's actions in Ukraine, sending their ambassadors to the parade instead.
Some denied it was a boycott, but the message was clear. "It wouldn't be appropriate for Western leaders to stand on a military podium with Mr Putin after Russia's annexation of Crimea," said one European diplomat.
Marching in Moscow and Donetsk
'Highlight was the aircraft'
Also on show was the new, hi-tech Armata battle tank, which has a remote-controlled gun turret and reinforced capsule for the crew, as well as the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles - each capable of delivering three nuclear warheads.
In a sign of closer ties between Russia and China, a column of Chinese troops marched in Moscow for the first time.
In pictures: Russian WW2 Victory Day
Russia's Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
Military parades on a smaller scale were also held in other cities, including Sevastopol in Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 - as well as the Ukrainian rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The US, Australia, Canada and most EU leaders avoided the celebrations in Russia - despite invitations - because of Moscow's alleged involvement in the Ukraine crisis.
On Friday, Poland organised an alternative event for those leaders who refused to go to Moscow.
Events in Gdansk were attended by the presidents of several countries, including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine. Mr Ban, the UN chief, was also there.
Certainly it drew derision from the Conservative benches and the deputy speaker had to intervene several times to calm the atmosphere.
The Labour leader accused Chancellor George Osborne of "six years of failure" - failing to meet his own targets to balance the books and to rebalance the economy.
And that F word was deployed time and again. George Osborne, he argued, had also failed on investment, productivity and tackling inequality,
In the Commons chamber, the Conservative chair of the Treasury Select Committee Andrew Tyrie acknowledged that it is the most difficult task an opposition leader faces - responding to a detailed budget of which he has no advance sight.
So a decision seemed to have been taken in advance by Labour's upper echelons to take a relatively risk-free approach, and denounce the things that were obviously going to be in the Budget rather than respond to the detail - though there was a welcome for the "surprise" sugar tax announcement.
Lower forecasts for growth were compared to the "lofty rhetoric" of the chancellor in past statements when he promised "a march of the makers".
And not for the first time austerity was criticised as a "political choice" - a point Jeremy Corbyn had made during the Labour leadership campaign and which was aimed at his internal as well as external opponents.
There was strident criticism in his speech of government cuts in personal independence payments for people with disabilities while corporation tax was being cut.
But he said little about what Labour would do instead. It took a later briefing from his shadow chancellor and close political ally John McDonnell to state that the disability cuts would be reversed by returning corporation tax to its former rate - and that Labour would accept the increase in the threshold at which the 40p rate of tax is paid.
But there was no attempt to emulate the jaw-dropping response to the Autumn Statement last year - when Mr McDonnell produced a copy of Chairman Mao's little red book.
It was an attempt at political satire - highlighting the sale of British assets to a big foreign government and the chancellor's attempts to get more infrastructure investment from a country with a less than salubrious human rights record.
But it fell flat when the chancellor parried the attack by suggesting his left-wing opposite number was waving around his own "signed copy" and had sent shadow cabinet members to "re-education camps".
The whole episode meant less attention was devoted to a government u-turn on tax credits.
But there was a price - albeit a smaller one - to be paid by taking a more cautious route this time around. As the old adage goes, it's better to be talked about than not talked about.
Jeremy Corbyn's speech lacked focus at times, and wasn't exactly full of light and shade - often delivered in the same tone of voice. Some on his own frontbench were more distracted by their phones and texts than by his rhetoric.
Some on the backbenches quite simply chatted.
And perhaps because the Chamber was so full, some Labour MPs watched him from the gallery above. The line-up was a bit like a frontbench in exile, full of people who range from being mildly to extremely sceptical of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in public or private.
As one former minister put it: "There was a good opening paragraph in his speech on Osborne's failure to hit his own targets but then he wasted the rest of it with a predictable list of cuts he didn't like. Apart from everything else he has no self discipline so can't stick to one key point."
Another former frontbencher put it more bluntly: "There was no coherent message and no credibility."
A newer MP was more positive, praising a "good effort" while another liked "his one good joke" - that the Ebbsfleet garden city had been re-announced so many times by the government, there was now one press release for every 12 homes and clearly more press releases would be needed to solve the housing crisis.
However, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell was unequivocal. It wasn't just his verdict, he said, but "right across the PLP" the view was that Jeremy Corbyn "gave a great performance".
But it's unlikely the parliamentary party were the Labour leader's target audience.
As one of his MPs put it privately: "He wasn't light footed enough to respond to the government announcements and focused on "our people" as always. But it will warm the cockles of the Corbynistas."
Amid rumours of a possible challenge to his position abounding at Westminster, Jeremy Corbyn railing against "unfairness" did nothing to make his position less secure amongst grassroots party members and supporters who like his dividing lines with the government and who will vote in any leadership contest.
Ms Rudd will argue that the UK faces an "electric shock" outside the EU, pointing to research suggesting energy costs could increase by £500m a year.
The UK, she will claim, is more at risk of Russian "hijacking" outside the EU.
Leave campaigners said the UK did not depend on the EU or Russia for supplies and EU membership pushed costs up.
EU vote: all you need to know
With three months to go until the referendum on the UK's EU membership on 23 June, both sides are focusing on the question of what leaving the EU would mean for employment, growth, domestic security and national sovereignty.
The government, which is backing EU membership, has been accused by its opponents of scaring people about the risks of EU exit.
In a speech in Kent, Ms Rudd will claim that EU membership has kept household energy bills down, providing access to cheap electricity from the continent and facilitating billions of pounds of investment in the UK's energy network and supply chain.
"Does anybody really think all of that investment would continue if we left the EU and with no extra costs," she will say.
She will highlight research commissioned by the National Grid which suggests that, although uncertain, the impact of leaving the EU on the UK's energy capability is "very likely to be negative".
The report, written by consultants Vivid Economics, warns that if the UK was to be excluded from the EU's Internal Energy Market after voting to leave, it could force up energy costs by up to £500m by the 2020s.
This, Ms Rudd will argue, is "the equivalent of British bills going up by around £1.5m and each and every day".
She will also portray life outside the EU as a direct threat to the UK's energy security, arguing that as the UK becomes more dependant on gas imports, the more EU membership is needed to minimise the risk of threats to supplies from other sources, particularly Russia, Europe's largest gas exporter.
"We have seen how countries such as Putin's Russia use their gas supplies as a tool of foreign policy, threatening to cut off supplies or drastically increase prices," she will say.
"We can't let our energy be hijacked as a political pawn to bring Europe to its knees...As a bloc of 500 million people, we have the power to force Putin's hand."
The research makes clear the UK would be able to mitigate most of these risks if it remained a member of the Internal Energy Market. Countries outside the EU, such as Norway, are members.
It also argues the short-term risk to gas supplies are minimal since the UK has a diversified source of supply, obtaining much of its gas from Norway, and is one of the largest producers of liquefied natural gas in Western Europe.
While in the event of leaving the EU, the UK would be free to strike bilateral deals with major energy suppliers, it says there could be an impact in terms of higher financing costs and access to interconnectors.
Vote Leave said there was no evidence that the single market in energy would reduce prices, citing research suggesting EU energy regulation cost the UK between £86.6bn and £93.2bn
"Amber Rudd's absurd claims simply aren't backed up by her own research," said its chief executive Matthew Elliott.
"If we want cheaper bills, less commission interference and the ability to spend our money on our priorities, then the safe option is to Vote Leave."
And Grassroots Out said the UK would have £14bn to spend as it wished if it left the EU and major inward investments would still go ahead. "This is the Government's Project Fear taken to a whole new level," said director Alex Deane.
"The UK has one of the highest carbon resources in Europe. Putin does not have the power to switch off the lights in Britain, as the energy secretary implies. In any case, we can't decide our nation's future based on whether we think Putin will smile or frown."
The EU has sought to liberalise energy markets in the past 20 years to boost cross-border trade, increase competition and reduce wholesale prices but critics argue it is being held back by gaps in infrastructure and inconsistencies in market rules.
National Grid said it was not expressing an opinion one way or another about the UK's future in the EU but wanted to inform the debate by providing evidence about different scenarios.
State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby announced the revised charges on Thursday, but the most serious charges - including second-degree murder - remained.
Gray suffered a severe spinal cord injury in police custody in April and died a week later.
His death sparked weeks of protests and later riots and looting in Baltimore.
"As is often the case, during an ongoing investigation, charges can and should be revised based upon the evidence," Ms Mosby said.
The grand jury did not return charges on the false imprisonment charges that were brought against some of the officers.
Ms Mosby brought the false imprisonment charges earlier claiming that Gray's arrest was unjustified and illegal.
However, the grand jury did return new reckless endangerment charges that were not part of the original charges announced three weeks ago.
Ms Mosby has said that Gray's neck was broken while he was being handcuffed and placed into a police van. She also said that police repeatedly ignored his pleas for medical attention.
The officers are scheduled to appear in court on 2 July.
A lawyer for the six Baltimore police officers said they "did nothing wrong", after criminal charges were announced by Ms Mosby earlier this month.
Lawyer Michael Davey said the officers "at all times acted reasonably and in accordance with their training" and accused Ms Mosby of an "egregious rush to judgement".
"As all of the facts surrounding this case come out in the appropriate form, the officers' lack of wrongdoing will be made abundantly clear."
He also said that the defence team had "grave concerns about the fairness and integrity of the prosecution of our officers".
Ms Mosby rejected a police union request to step aside and appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case.
The grand jury's decision to bring charges largely similar to Ms Mosby's may quiet calls for her to step aside.
Gray's death is the latest in a string of high-profile cases in the US where unarmed black men have died after contact with the police.
After his funeral, riots broke out in sections of West Baltimore, prompting city and state officials to deploy thousands of extra law enforcement officers and National Guard troops to keep the peace and enact a citywide curfew.
Jamie Shaul went over to put Hull ahead, but Saints led at half-time thanks to James Roby's try from dummy-half and a penalty from Percival.
Percival went over after good work from Theo Fages, before Mahe Fonua crossed to reduce the visitors' deficit.
But Percival touched down acrobatically from Fages' kick, before Danny Richardson's drop-kick sealed the win.
Saints are now almost certain to finish in Super League's top eight, with only Catalans - six points behind with three games to play - able to catch them.
Hull, who lost 45-0 when the two sides met in May, were already assured of a top-eight finish, as they stay fourth in the table.
The result could have been different had Fetuli Talanoa not had a try correctly disallowed for a push on Tommy Makinson shortly before Percival's second try, but instead Saints held on for a sixth consecutive home victory.
St Helens: Lomax; Makinson, Morgan, Percival, Grace; Fages, Richardson; Douglas, Roby, Thompson, Taia, Peyroux, Knowles.
Replacements: Walmsley, Amor, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Lee.
Hull FC: Shaul; Fonua, Griffin, Tuimavave, Talanoa; Kelly, Sneyd; Taylor, Houghton, Bowden, Washbrook, Minichiello, Manu.
Replacements: Watts, Connor, Thompson, Fash.
Referee: Phil Bentham
Several protesters were arrested during the dawn work to cut down eight trees in Rustlings Road last year.
The city council, which apologised, said it now planned to "work better with residents to get the job done".
The felling was part of a wider scheme to improve streets and remove diseased, damaging or dangerous trees.
There were angry scenes in November when work began to fell trees in Rustlings Road at 05:00 GMT.
Two women arrested were charged under trade union legislation and are due to appear at Sheffield Magistrates' Court later in January.
It was the latest in a series of stand-offs between contractors and protesters in the city.
The Streets Ahead project is a 25-year agreement between the council and contractors Amey to upgrade Sheffield's roads, pavements, street lights and bridges.
The council said it wanted to work in a "collaborative way... to regain the trust of people in Sheffield".
The council had already promised that tree felling would not now begin before 07:00. The advice of an Independent Tree Panel is to be published before work begins on replacing other trees.
A working group is also to look at plans to chop down trees in the Western Road First World War Memorial, planted to honour school pupils killed in World War One.
The council is also "to retain and improve" four other war memorials containing trees.
"Our commitment to the street trees programme remains as strong as ever, and the job has got to be done. We know we have to do better when it comes to working with people," said the council.
The council plans to replace an estimated 10,000 trees out of 36,000 on the city's streets.
Felled trees are replaced and additional ones planted, said the council.
Mr Modi's trip will last three days, and his planned engagements include meeting the Queen at Buckingham Palace and addressing thousands at Wembley Stadium.
A minute's silence has been held at a football match in the home village of Gareth Willington, 59, and his son Daniel, 32, whose boat smashed into rocks and broke up on Thursday.
One man was rescued and taken to hospital, but was pronounced dead.
The other remains missing following the incident at St David's Head.
The search has been scaled down.
Secretary of Carew FC Jeremy Griffiths, said: "The tragedy has hit the whole village, we are a small and close community."
Five lifeboats, a helicopter and local fishing boats were involved in the search.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch is investigating the sinking off Aberreidy Beach, near St David's.
Wreckage from the boat - believed to be The Harvester - has been found over a four mile (6.4km) area.
The body of Sinead Wooding, 26, was discovered by joggers near Alwoodley Crags car park in Stairfoot Lane on 14 May.
Akshar Ali, 26, of Kings Road, Leeds, and Yasmin Ahmed, 27, of Reginald Mount, Leeds, both denied the charge during a hearing at Leeds Crown Court.
They were remanded in custody and will stand trial on 13 November.　
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At the same court hearing, Asim Ali, 20, of Kings Road, Leeds and Vicky Briggs, 25, of Throstle Road, Leeds both denied a charge of assisting an offender. They were released on bail.
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The study by an expert at the University of Glasgow will be presented at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Edinburgh.
Dr Jana Jeglinski's work studied where juvenile northern gannets travel before they settle down to breed.
It concluded the seabirds travel to several different colonies before deciding where to breed as adults.
It is now hoped the results of the study will help seabird conservation.
Dr Jeglinski said: "Juvenile behaviour and ecology is a real frontier - we have almost no information on the ecology, behaviour and movement of young animals in general and seabirds in particular.
"Young gannets are roaming the seas between Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, the UK, Denmark and Norway - and even down the West African coast. Using GPS mobile phone tags is the only method that makes sense for tracking their unpredictable, large-scale movements with high precision"
Dr Jeglinski believes understanding where these young seabirds travel, and the role they play in linking single colonies into a network, could help protect seabird breeding populations better.
Together with colleagues from Exeter, Leeds and Kiel, Dr Jeglinski's team tagged 30 young birds from three different colonies - Bass Rock, Grassholm off the Pembrokeshire coast and Heligoland in Germany - with a tag fitted with a SIM card to communicate with the mobile phone network worldwide.
Over the two months of the study, some birds were found to have flown about 9,693 miles (15,600km). | Ecologists have discovered the habits of young seabirds for the first time by using mobile phone technology. | 35,096,736 | 334 | 22 | false |
The Titan Arum at Cambridge University Botanic Garden has attracted hundreds of visitors since threatening to bloom a week ago.
Known as the "corpse flower", the specimen last bloomed in 2004, although its sister plant flowered in 2015.
They emit their nasty smell to attract pollinators and are particularly pungent at night, when they heat themselves up to about 40C (104F).
The plant, named Titus after a public vote, is one of two Amorphophallus titanum at the garden. The other one, named Tiny, flowered in July 2015 - the first time one had bloomed at the garden in 11 years.
The plant's odour - variously described as akin to the scent of rotting flesh, rotten eggs or dirty laundry - can spread across vast distances in its native Sumatra to lure pollinators, thought to be carrion beetles and blowflies.
Amorphophallus titanum has the largest unbranched inflorescence (flower structure) in the world.
Its common name - Titan Arum - was coined by Sir David Attenborough as a literal translation of the Latin name was deemed "too rude" for TV audiences, according to the Botanic Garden.
The plants are categorised as a vulnerable species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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The Duchess, 34, smiled as she arrived at the National Football Museum to be met by a grinning 'Kate' lookalike.
There was also a mask of her husband William along with those of the Queen, Princes Charles and Harry, and a corgi.
William, 34, cheered as he scored during a penalty shoot-out after missing his first shot at the museum.
His shot went in off the bar in the Euro 96 computer-generated game but then asked "Katherine" to take one.
However the Duchess, wearing heels and wearing a blue Erdem coat, politely declined.
William put on white gloves to handle the orange leather ball from the 1966 World Cup final when England beat West Germany 4-2.
He met former Liverpool player Roger Hunt who played in the final and famously celebrated as Geoff Hurst's disputed goal crossed the line.
Mr Hunt said: "We were talking about the final and the weight of the ball and how heavy it gets when wet.
"He was very nice to talk to."
William declined to handle the Jules Rimet Trophy as he said he did not want to jinx England's hopes of once again lifting the World Cup.
The Cambridges later laid commemorative paving stones to the city's six Victoria Cross recipients during World War One at the Manchester cenotaph.
And William also sat in the world's first car to include graphene, a "wonder material" only one atom thick, at the University of Manchester's pioneering National Graphene Institute
The couple ended their trip by going to Francis House, a hospice which provides care for children and young adults with life-limiting conditions.
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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.
But, despite the killing of thousands of militants, the insurgent group has retaken big chunks of the country.
There are three main reasons for this resurgence.
First, the end, in 2014, of the US and Nato combat mission and the withdrawal of most foreign forces from Afghanistan reduced the risk the Taliban faced of being bombed and raided.
The group was further emboldened by the comparative lack of interest from the international community and the diversion of its attention to crisis in other parts of the world, such as Syria, Iraq and Ukraine.
As the Taliban have overrun military bases, district centres and security check-points in different parts of Afghanistan, they have seized more weapons and have been using them in their fight against Afghan government forces. They have also captured dozens of Humvees and police vehicles, which they now drive in areas under their control.
Secondly, the Pakistani military's Operation Zarb-e-Azb, launched in the North Waziristan tribal area in June 2014, dislodged thousands of mainly Uzbek, Arab and Pakistani militants, who flooded into Afghanistan and swelled the Taliban's ranks.
The Taliban also reportedly moved a big number of their own fighters from Pakistan.
And finally, although the Afghan security forces have fought well against the insurgents over the past year, they lack certain capabilities and equipment especially air power and reconnaissance.
The political infighting in the central government in Kabul and the apparent weakness in governance at different levels is also exploited by the Taliban.
The presence of several thousand foreign fighters has further complicated the situation.
Afghan government officials said in June 2015 there were more than 7,000 foreign militants in Afghanistan. The Taliban have been bolstered by militants from the Middle East, Central Asian countries and Pakistan.
About a dozen militant groups, having different goals and agendas, are fighting in Afghanistan. A few of them have challenged the Taliban's supremacy, but most of them are directly or indirectly supporting the Afghan Taliban with money and/or manpower.
The emergence of so-called Islamic State (IS) also brought the Taliban and al-Qaeda closer, as never before, by challenging the legitimacy of both groups.
Although the priorities and strategies of the Taliban and al-Qaeda are different, the two groups have been helping each other in Afghanistan, while IS has tried to undermine both groups.
The al-Qaeda leader, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, renewed his pledge of allegiance to the Taliban's new leadership and accepted the authority of the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in August 2015 and called on all jihadists (Islamist militant groups) to do the same.
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The Taliban - who remain the main insurgent group in Afghanistan - are now fighting on three fronts:
In effect, the group has been engaged in a continuous war against the US and Nato, and Afghan forces since 2001.
It has also been fighting IS since January 2015, when IS formed its so-called Khorasan Province branch, which is active across the whole of Afghanistan plus the adjacent parts of Pakistan, Iran and Central Asian countries.
The number of IS-inspired militants in Afghanistan is still low, and the group is not in a position to pose an existential threat to the Taliban in the near future, but it has created a headache nonetheless.
The third - and newest - front for the Taliban is the infighting with its own splinter group, which has diverted resources and attention.
The Taliban are very territorial and cannot tolerate the existence of other groups that challenge their supremacy and legitimacy.
In the past, they also fought against an older and comparatively minor Afghan insurgent group, Hizb-e Islami (HIG).
Since its launch in 1994, the Taliban have taken pride in their cohesiveness.
The group's unity and a devotional obedience to its founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, played a key role in its resilience and successes on the battlefield.
But this solidarity shattered in July 2015 when Mullah Akhtar Mansour was appointed new leader in a hasty transition after Mullah Omar's death was made public.
Some of the Taliban's political leaders and military commanders challenged Mullah Mansour's right to succeed and accused him of "hijacking the movement because of personal greed".
In early November 2015, a breakaway Afghan Taliban faction appointed its own leader, Mullah Mohammad Rasool (the governor of Nimroz during the Taliban regime), at a meeting of fighters in Afghanistan's western Farah province.
But the faction still hopes to reach a settlement with the main group - on the condition that Mullah Mansour is removed from leadership.
The head of the splinter group does not call himself the Amir ul-Mumineen (leader of the faithful) - the official title of the Taliban leader that makes him the political and military head and demands following his orders is a religious duty.
Soon after the splinter group was established, clashes erupted between the two sides, mainly in Zabul, Farah and Herat provinces, where the splinter group had established bases.
Fighters were killed and injured, mainly from the splinter group.
The casualties included Mansour Dadullah, the most powerful commander in the splinter group.
It is not established whether he was killed or seriously injured.
The split further entrenched when religious scholars on either side issued fatwas (Islamic religious edicts) against each other, justifying their positions on religious grounds.
At present, most Taliban leaders accept Mullah Mansour as leader.
He controls vast financial and military resources and, through recent victories on the battlefield, including the temporary capture of Kunduz in late September 2015 and the seizure of other areas in the south and north of the country, has further strengthened his position as the overall leader of insurgency.
But there are still a few Taliban heavyweights who have not publically endorsed him.
Meanwhile, both sides are lobbying to enlist the support of those prominent Taliban who have so far remained "neutral" as well as encourage others to dissent and join their ranks.
The Taliban launched their annual spring offensive in 2015, with a clear strategy to seize more territory, establish permanent bases in "secure" areas, where the leadership can live and operate in safety, and thus strengthen their bargaining position and gain maximum advantage at the negotiation table.
It is a strategy that reflects that of IS, which has established strongholds in Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, where the group has a governance structure and a functional administrative system.
The Taliban now hold more territory than in any year since 2001. But they could not manage to capture and hold towns and provincial capitals - an objective they had planned to achieve before this winter.
And anyway the expansion of the Taliban's territorial gains doesn't automatically mean the collapse of the government in Kabul.
The stalled peace process is scheduled to restart soon. A meeting involving officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the US and China is due to take place in Islamabad next week to discuss the Afghan reconciliation process and draw a roadmap for talks with the Taliban.
But fighting between the Afghan government and the Taliban will probably continue, as the talks are unlikely to result in a quick political settlement.
The two sides are likely to remain in a "mutually hurting stalemate" until they reach a political settlement.
In addition to local dynamics, the war in Afghanistan has several regional and international dimensions.
There are four main parties in the Afghan peace process - the Afghan government, the Taliban, the US and Pakistan. (Many Afghan officials have long accused Pakistan of sponsoring the Afghan Taliban insurgency. Pakistan says it has contacts with the Taliban but doesn't control them).
Unless they are all on the same page and serious about reaching a political settlement, achieving a meaningful progress is unlikely.
The resolution of the problem and the ending of the conflict needs an internal consensus in Afghanistan and a multi-faceted and multinational approach involving the US and regional players.
A gun was found in a car after it was stopped by police on the Dublin Road in Enniskillen on Friday, the court also heard.
Lorenc Dashi, 34, from Dublin Road, Cavan, Mariglen Hoxha, 21, and Arlind Rrapaj, 22, of no fixed abode in Dublin are each charged with having a firearm in suspicious circumstances and possession of an offensive weapon.
Mr Dashi is also accused of obstructing a police officer, driving without a licence and without insurance.
A detective constable told Enniskillen Magistrates' Court that the gun was found hidden underneath a false floor behind the passenger seat.
The court was told that two of the men had arrived in Dublin three weeks ago and claimed refugee status.
They had been given temporary leave to remain while their case was considered, but were supposed to remain in the Republic of Ireland.
A solicitor said the pair did not realise they were in Northern Ireland.
The two men did not speak English and one of the defendants had to translate the court proceedings as no Albanian interpreter was available.
No bail application was made and the three men were remanded in custody for two weeks.
Ex-congressman Odin Sanchez, 62, had been held by the ELN since he offered to swap places with his ailing brother in April 2016.
President Juan Manuel Santos had insisted Mr Sanchez be released before peace talks could begin in Ecuador.
He was handed over in the remote jungle region of Choco, in western Colombia.
The government confirmed Mr Sanchez's release, saying: "Odin Sanchez is now with the humanitarian commission and will leave minutes from now in a helicopter bound for [the regional capital] Quibdo."
In exchange, President Santos sanctioned the release of two jailed ELN fighters.
Nixon Cobos and Leivis Valero were handed back in the mountains of Santander, in the country's north-east.
The ELN announced earlier this week that it was also holding another hostage, a Colombian soldier previously reported missing by the army.
Freddy Moreno was seized on 24 January in the eastern province of Arauca.
The ELN said it was willing to release him, too.
The ELN, a 2,000-strong communist guerrilla army, has been in conflict with successive Colombian governments since 1964.
Last year the government signed a peace accord with the country's largest rebel group, the Farc, and Mr Santos has said he wants a deal with the ELN to bring complete peace to the country.
Talks with the the group were due to begin last October, but collapsed when the rebels refused to release Mr Sanchez.
They are now scheduled to open on 7 February in the Ecuadorean capital Quito.
Alif Miah, 33, admitted carrying out the attack on Alexandra Crawford in the city's Richmond Walk in September 2013.
He admitted assaulting the victim to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of her life.
Lord Stewart said it would have been a 10-year term but for his guilty plea.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard the wound suffered by the victim was described by an experienced paramedic as one of the worst he had ever seen.
She later had 16 metal staples inserted to close the wound.
Defence counsel Gareth Jones said Miah had been drinking and taking prescription drugs but was at a loss to explain what then happened.
Mr Jones said: "He is ashamed and horrified that he could behave in that way."
He said Miah had previously gone to university to take a course in quantity surveying but dropped out and began using drugs.
The judge extended his "best wishes" to Miah in addressing his drug and alcohol problems.
After the case, Det Insp Lorna Ferguson said: "Alif Miah now has to face the consequences of his abhorrent behaviour.
"I would like to commend the courage of the victim throughout the investigation."
The loyal (and I mean loyal) fans weren’t worried, but rewind a year and many people - myself included - were questioning Nintendo’s ability to compete realistically with Sony and Microsoft in the console market.
The Wii U - a follow-on to the wildly successful Wii - had tanked, and the new console, Switch, seemed like it would be just too basic to make an impact.
Yet at E3 this year, the company is brimming with confidence. Its strategy has paid off.
"It seems to have brought back Nintendo’s mojo,” says Tom Phillips, news editor at Eurogamer.
"You look at where Nintendo are now compared to 12 months ago, it’s really night and day. They really turned things around.”
The Switch got off to a blistering start when it came out in March. It sold almost three million units in the first month, making it the company’s fastest-selling console. The first big release - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - is now considered to be one of the best games created, with several million copies sold.
And so it serves as a timely reminder that to judge games consoles on processing power, or true-to-life graphics capability, would be like reviewing a film based solely on the quality of its CGI. What Nintendo continually delivers is creativity other publishers can’t match.
Make no mistake, the enduring appeal of titles like Mario (or Zelda) isn’t nostalgia, but reinvention.
The Switch surpassed the company’s early expectations, so now the ambition is grander. The Wii sold more than 100 million units in its eight-year life. Can that be repeated?
“I’m not going to lie to you, the Wii is something that we’re looking at,” said Nicolas Wegnez, general manager for Nintendo in the UK, told the BBC.
"We would really love to go back to that growing path of really making many more people smile playing Nintendo products.”
To help in that aim, Nintendo will once again turn to its biggest star.
Super Mario Odyssey - whose October release date was announced on Tuesday - includes the chubby plumber's first foray into the “real” world as he, in at least one level, spends some time in what resembles a real city, modelled on New York.
You’re free to roam around and do tasks on your own - press on with the main story, or distract yourself with other missions. It’s just like Grand Theft Auto, but you’re helping people instead of shooting them in the face.
There’s a new gameplay mechanic that makes use of the Switch’s dual-motion controllers; a flick of the wrists flings Mario’s new hat - called Cappy - in any given direction as a way of defeating enemies or interacting with objects.
It’s impossible to get a real feel for the quality of a game in a noisy convention centre, so I’ll leave those more qualified than me to offer the true verdict of the game when it is released.
Until then, Nintendo will release Arms - a fighting game that had people flailing their arms all around us here - and Splatoon 2, a competitive paintball shooter featuring squids, which Nintendo is positioning as its e-sports headliner.
But Nintendo’s problem is one it has faced for over a decade now. Its console relies heavily on the games made by the geniuses within its own company. Third-party games, while growing in number, often feel like second-class citizens on Nintendo's platforms when compared to the treatment on the Xbox and PlayStation. As those consoles begin to offer full 4K visuals, that gap in quality will feel even wider.
“The [4K] resolution is one thing which is part of the project but for us there is a lot of innovation when you think about it in Switch," said Mr Wegnez.
"We’re going one way which is focused on new ways of playing, new gameplay experiences."
The gameplay experience on the Switch is innovative, but it’s not the dramatic shift we saw when the Wii came out, where games went from being about pressing buttons in your bedroom to waving swords in the living room with your nan.
That leap alone was enough to propel the Wii to incredible sales, but it’s unlikely the Switch can gather that much momentum with clever hardware alone - and without more third-party titles, there is arguably a ceiling to how successful the Switch can be.
"We are not such a big company as our competitors,” acknowledged Mr Wegnez.
"We need to do things differently. We really put a lot of love in our products."
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Michael Ward, 40, collapsed in Bush Avenue in Ramsgate at about 17:00 BST on Sunday and died at the scene.
He had been stabbed in the leg in St John's Crescent before he drove to Bush Avenue, Kent Police said.
A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder and is due to appear at Medway Magistrates' Court later.
The Liaoning was returning from drills in the South China Sea.
It did not enter Taiwanese waters but did cross its air defence identification zone (ADIZ), the ministry said.
It is the latest escalation amid tensions between the two neighbours, and Taiwanese authorities have asked the public to remain calm.
In response, Taiwan's military monitored the flotilla of Chinese ships as it passed through the 160km-wide (100-mile) strait, Taiwan's defence ministry said.
China considers self-governing Taiwan part of its territory, to be reunited with the mainland by force if necessary.
Tensions have been high since US President-elect Donald Trump broke with long-standing diplomatic protocol and took a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
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The head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, Chang Hsiao-Yueh, said the authorities were monitoring China's actions and appealed for calm.
"I want to emphasise that our government has sufficient capability to protect our national security. It is not necessary to overly panic. On the other hand, any threats would not benefit cross-strait ties at all. Together we should show mutual good will."
China has increased military drills near Taiwan, and spoken of "increased levels of uncertainty" in relations with the island.
A diplomatic row was again kicked off when Ms Tsai visited the US at the weekend in transit to Central America and met officials, despite protests from Beijing.
Tens of thousands of residents have evacuated homes in northern New South Wales (NSW) and southern Queensland.
The storm has moved out to sea after hitting northern Queensland as a category four cyclone on Tuesday.
However, floodwaters continue to rise after some areas had about three times their monthly rainfall on Thursday.
"There could be people overnight that perished in that flood, we don't know at this stage," said Mark Morrow, from the New South Wales State Emergency Service.
"There could be some very distressing news."
Many pleas for help had gone unanswered because it was too dangerous, he said.
The worst-hit areas included Lismore and Tweed Heads in NSW, and the Gold Coast and Beaudesert in Queensland.
"Now is the time to leave. Do not delay. Evacuation orders are mandatory," New South Wales State Emergency Service said on Twitter on Thursday.
Authorities said flooding in some towns had not yet reached its peak.
In other developments:
The cyclone caused major damage to buildings, roads and crops when arrived on Tuesday carrying winds of up to 260 km/h (160 mph).
Tourism operators across Queensland reported cancelled bookings and anticipated long-term disruption to their trade.
Thousands of insurance claims have already been filed, but the state's insurers said it was too early to accurately assess the cost of the damage.
The cyclone is also likely to have damaged the Great Barrier Reef, marine experts warned.
John Delaney is the chief executive of the FAI and is also a board member of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI).
Last month, he was one of six people who had warrants issued against their passports by a Brazilian court. He has now said it was withdrawn 10 days ago.
Mr Delaney said he had "no knowledge of or involvement" with tickets sales.
In a statement reported by RTÉ on Thursday, the FAI boss claimed he had been the subject of "the most serious and defamatory allegations" since the warrant was issued against his passport.
He said he was now taking legal advice on the matter.
The former president of the OCI, Pat Hickey, was arrested in Brazil last month and is facing charges in relation to the alleged illegal sale of officially allocated Irish tickets above their face value.
Mr Hickey, who was granted bail after a short spell in prison, denies any wrongdoing.
In his statement, Mr Delaney said he was one of 13 OCI board members "from a range of different sports" and his role "does not involve me in the day-to-day operations of the OCI".
The FAI boss added: "I had absolutely no role or involvement in the OCI's handling of ticketing arrangements for the Rio Olympic Games and no knowledge or awareness of PRO 10 or its position as the OCI's ticket reseller.
"This appointment was not brought to the OCI board's attention."
The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies.
Dozens of people have also been hurt in the attack, local media say.
The area borders Afghanistan and is a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The military has launched offensives there but insurgent attacks continue on a regular basis.
A Taliban spokesman said the group was behind the latest attack.
It was carried out by two suicide bombers disguised in police uniforms and targeted a local administration compound in Ghalanai, the main town in Mohmand, about 175km (110 miles) north-west of the capital Islamabad.
In pictures: Suicide blasts kill dozens in Pakistan
More than 100 people were said to be in the compound, where talks were taking place between government officials, tribal elders and local anti-Taliban groups.
One official, Mohammad Khalid Khan, told Associated Press that tribal elders and police officials were among the dead.
At least two journalists were also killed.
One eyewitness, Qalandar Khan, told AP: "There was a deafening sound and it caused a cloud of dust and smoke. There were dozens on the ground like me, bleeding and crying. I saw body parts scattered in the compound."
About 25 seriously injured people have been taken to Peshawar for hospital treatment.
One of the possible targets of the attack, Mohmand's top political official, Amjad Ali Khan, was not hurt.
A local administration official told the BBC a man on a motorbike had driven up to a sitting area at the meeting and detonated his explosives. Seconds later another bomber, also on a motorbike, exploded his device at the gate of the compound.
Amjad Ali Khan said the bombers had also packed their suicide vests with bullets, which had increased the death toll.
Thousands of people have been killed in al-Qaeda and Taliban attacks across Pakistan since government forces raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
In July, a double suicide bombing in the village of Yakaghund in Mohmand, which also targeted tribal elders, killed more than 100 people.
The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in Pakistan says the army has carried out limited operations in Mohmand but has focused more thoroughly on the neighbouring Bajaur tribal region.
He says the Taliban in Mohmand are led by Umar Khalid, a little known but powerful commander whose fighters are more active in Afghanistan than Pakistan.
Umar Khalid is said to provide sanctuary to top al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders as they flee operations by the army. These are said to include Hakimullah Mehsud and Ayman al-Zawahiri, our correspondent says.
Pakistan's military says its offensives have disrupted militants in the north-west but analysts say the insurgents often escape.
The body of a 59-year-old man was found at a house in Tweedholm Avenue East in Walkerburn at about 15:10 on Friday.
Police inquiries into the death are continuing.
A spokeswoman said a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.
The claims were made by photographers John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans, who were held at a camp for a week in July.
The Foreign Office said it was closely "monitoring the situation".
The Free Syrian Army group, which is part of the opposition trying to oust Bashar al-Assad, helped them to escape.
Mr Cantlie, who is British, and his Dutch colleague, Mr Oerlemans, were both wounded in a "shooting gallery" as their thwarted captors fired after the fleeing men.
The kidnapping took place amid the ongoing conflict in Syria.
Heavy fighting is continuing in the country's second city, Aleppo, amid concerns that the army will launch a full-scale assault within days.
Activists say more than 20,000 people - mostly civilians - have died in 17 months of unrest.
Jihadists - those committed to establishing an Islamic state by violent means - have started to be seen on the battlefield in Syria.
The FSA is said to be scrutinising jihadists in Syria very closely.
They are considered to be "a real threat after the Assad regime falls", a senior FSA officer told the BBC.
Mr Cantlie told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme he and his colleague were regularly threatened with death.
"When you're held captive, you're blindfolded and you have a guy sticking a gun at your head, it's very real," he said.
"It was inferred that we would meet our God. We had sowed the seeds of our own destruction. We would be shot or beheaded.
"At one point they even started sharpening knives for a beheading. It was pretty frightening."
The photographer said he entered Syria across the border with Turkey, using the same route and guide that he had earlier in the year.
But on this occasion he and his companions were detained after passing through a camp inhabited by Islamic jihadists who, he said, were not from Syria.
"They were from anywhere but Syria," he told the BBC.
"They were from Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UK and Chechnya. A real mix."
He said there were "between 10 and 15 young jihadists from the UK" who he described as being "a mixed bunch".
Some seemed "shocked at what had happened" and may have left the camp, arguing that it was not what they had come for.
Other British captors were described by him as being "vindictive".
The photojournalist said: "I think these are disenchanted young men from the UK who are now unified under this jihadist banner. I think they took out their angst on us."
Mr Oerlemans has already told Dutch media that some of the captors were British.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the government "takes very seriously any claims or reports that indicate there are British nationals amongst foreign fighters in Syria".
He said: "We are monitoring the situation as closely as possible. Clearly, the deteriorating security situation in Syria leaves a dangerous space for foreign fighters.
"The solution lies in securing robust international action to resolve the crisis."
Mr Cantlie and his Dutch colleague escaped when four members of the FSA intervened and gave the photographers an opportunity to flee the camp.
The pair ran amidst a hail of bullets which he likened to "a shooting gallery". Both were shot.
Mr Cantlie was shot in the arm and a bullet passed through Mr Oerlemans's thigh.
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Aguero was offside when he headed in Aleksandar Kolarov's free-kick.
Vurnon Anita equalised with a low curling shot before Magpies keeper Karl Darlow excellently saved Jesus Navas and Kevin de Bruyne strikes.
City keeper Joe Hart saved from Georginio Wijnaldum late on to ensure Newcastle remain in the bottom three, just behind Sunderland and Norwich.
The England keeper's block denied the home side a winner which would have lifted them out of the relegation places.
Newcastle are now one point and a place behind Sunderland and two adrift of the Canaries, who lie just outside the drop zone.
BBC Radio 5 live summariser Alan Shearer believes Newcastle would have been assured of survival had they appointed manager Rafael Benitez earlier and the Spaniard has certainly added some steel and discipline to the Magpies.
United had not beaten City in their last 18 league games, losing the last 12, although they did at least go into Tuesday's match of the back of a 3-0 win over Swansea on Saturday.
The home fans might have feared the worst when Aguero's goal was allowed to stand but their team responded with the type of character and commitment they have been lacking for much of the campaign.
Andros Townsend's work-rate and desire on the right set the example to his team-mates and the ovation he received when substituted showed how the Magpies faithful appreciated his efforts.
Centre-back Jamaal Lascelles, who recently criticised the "heart" of the Newcastle players, also stood out with his commanding performance.
Whether Benitez can now maintain his side's improvement and steer them to safety in their final four games - which are against Liverpool, Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Tottenham - remains to be seen.
Benitez was hoping the visitors would be distracted by the first leg of their Champions League tie against Real Madrid next Tuesday.
However, City have yet to secure a top-four spot to book a place in Europe's top competition next season and, while they were not at their best, they certainly applied plenty of pressure.
Aguero's goal made him the second fastest player to reach 100 goals in the Premier League, behind Shearer, and City's failure to build on that had plenty to do with the resolve of Newcastle.
The Argentine's goal was allowed to stand but such an error could be changed at 2018 World Cup in Russia with Fifa president Gianni Infantino hoping video referees will help officials with "game-changing" decisions at the tournament.
The visitors had the boost of having centre-back Vincent Kompany back after six games out with a calf injury, but he looked rusty on his return.
The Belgium international gave the ball away to Sissoko before Hart came to his rescue by rushing out to clear, while Kompany was also booked for a late challenge on the Newcastle midfielder.
"The hardest part of coming back from injury is getting back to the level of the Premier League," said Kompany. "The more games you play the better you will feel. Overall, it was a positive day."
Winger Raheem Sterling came on as a substitute to make his comeback after five games but could not inspire his side to a winner as they remain third.
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez: "The fans appreciate the effort of the players. Everybody is trying to do everything to stay up.
"Hopefully we have momentum, but we cannot have influence on other teams' games. We have to keep believing and hopefully win the next game.
"I said when I came that it is an intimidating place for other teams. That is what we are looking for and that is what we have."
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Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini: "I am happy. We started winning the game but we could not have the control after that. We knew that it was very tough.
"The officials have nothing to do with the result. I didn't see the team with the energy from Saturday, but we play after three days at the end of the season and it is not easy for the team to recover."
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Former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer: "The one thing that stood out for me was the atmosphere. The crowd's reaction towards the players where they gave them a round of applause. There's a little bit of hope now when there wasn't a few weeks ago."
Manchester City host Stoke on Saturday (12:45 BST), prior to playing Real Madrid next Tuesday.
Newcastle's relegation battle takes them to play manager Rafael Benitez's former club Liverpool on Saturday (15:00).
Match ends, Newcastle United 1, Manchester City 1.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 1, Manchester City 1.
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United).
Foul by Fernando (Manchester City).
Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Rolando Aarons replaces Ayoze Pérez.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City).
Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Attempt saved. Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cheick Tioté (Newcastle United).
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Manchester City. Wilfried Bony replaces Jesús Navas.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Georginio Wijnaldum replaces Andros Townsend.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Moussa Sissoko.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andros Townsend (Newcastle United).
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.
Substitution, Manchester City. Fernandinho replaces Yaya Touré.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Substitution, Manchester City. Raheem Sterling replaces Fabian Delph.
Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Vincent Kompany (Manchester City).
Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesús Navas.
The long-serving DJ, who spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2, died "peacefully at home" on Monday afternoon with his wife Alicia by his side, a family spokesman said.
Sir Jimmy was one of the original Radio 1 DJs when the station launched in 1967.
He moved to Radio 2 in 1973 and filled the early afternoon slot until he retired in December 2002.
Before becoming a presenter on the airwaves, Sir Jimmy had a number of hit singles during the 1950s, including a cover of the Nat King Cole song, Too Young.
Obituary: Sir Jimmy Young
Tributes have been pouring in for the presenter, who was born Leslie Ronald Young in 1921.
BBC director-general Tony Hall said: "Sir Jimmy Young defined Radio 2 and was a true broadcasting pioneer. He will be dearly missed by his many fans."
Sir Jimmy's former Radio 2 colleague Ken Bruce tweeted: "So very sad to hear about the death of my old friend Sir Jimmy Young. One of the most able broadcasters I ever worked with."
Time Team presenter and Blackadder actor Tony Robinson said: "So sad. Such memories from my childhood and teens. I loved his versions of The Man From Laramie and Unchained Melody."
And television presenter Piers Morgan said: "Another giant of British broadcasting dies just months after his great friend & colleague Terry Wogan."
The Queen was said to be amongst the millions who tuned in to his show on the BBC.
Sir Jimmy interviewed every prime minister since Harold Macmillan, with Baroness Thatcher a guest 14 times.
Bob Shennan, director of BBC Radio, said: "He was a truly unique broadcaster who pioneered a form of presenting that generations have followed.
"He made current affairs relevant to millions of listeners and helped shape Radio 2 into the station it is today."
Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph radio critic, told the BBC: "He had an easy affability in interviews. He had a shrewd sense of when to interrupt and when to shut up.
"He wasn't a soft touch, but he brought out the softer side in many a politician, and when he went off, he was often covered by politicians. You wouldn't call Ken Livingstone a soft touch, but he was one of his understudies.
"Whoever's plan it was having him made an excellent choice because he is definitely a landmark in British broadcasting history."
Sir Jimmy's working life began as a clerk for a minister of education and a manager of a hair salon before he achieved his dream of getting a career in entertainment.
The broadcaster left the BBC after more than 30 years behind the desk after a revamp at the station to attract younger viewers by new controller Jim Moir saw him replaced.
Sir Jimmy made no secret that it was not his choice to leave, and a motion was even put down in Parliament to keep him on.
But he made up with the BBC in later years, hosting a one-off special for his 90th birthday.
Jeremy Vine, who took over the veteran's Radio 2 slot, tweeted: "Sad to see this news. RIP Jimmy."
Fellow broadcaster Tony Blackburn said in a statement: "Jimmy was a legendary broadcaster, there at the very start of Radio 1 and then, for so long, the voice of Radio 2...
"2016 has been a terrible year for losing iconic figures from our youth. Today we lost another."
And LBC radio presenter Iain Dale tweeted: "Much respect to Sir Jimmy Young who died today, aged 95. The word 'legend' is overused, but not in his case. A true icon of radio."
Corrie Mckeague's mother Nicola Urquhart asked Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue to provide expertise on the search of about five square miles (13 sq km) of land.
No evidence was found in the search but the campaign will continue, she said.
The 23-year-old was last seen in Bury St Edmunds on 24 September.
The airman, originally from Dunfermline in Fife, was based at nearby RAF Honington.
He was escorted out of Flex nightclub in Bury's town centre and was spotted several times on CCTV but the trail went cold after he entered a dead end road.
Andy King, from the search group, said: "We set out to find any evidence that he may have been hit by a vehicle while trying to get back to the airbase and his body was somewhere along the route."
Ms Urquhart, who said she had no intention of giving up looking for her son, thanked the many people who came to help.
They were split into six groups to undertake different parts of the search in King's Forest between the air base and Barton Mills.
She also said hundreds more had volunteered but she had asked only a select few to take part in the search, which began just after dawn on Saturday.
The outbreak was declared at Lliswerry High School on Monday after four people were diagnosed with the illness.
Public Health Wales said it was pleased with the uptake of vaccinations at the school but there was more work to do.
Vaccination sessions will take place at six primary schools in Newport on Friday.
Parents have been urged to ensure their children have received both doses of the MMR vaccine. The first dose is usually given at 12 months and the second at 40 months.
Symptoms include a fever, cough, runny nose, conjunctivitis and a distinctive red rash.
The primary schools scheduled to receive vaccinations are Somerton Primary School, Lliswerry Primary School, Eveswell Primary School, St Andrew's Primary School, Pillgwenlly Primary School and Maindee Primary School.
The study by The Student Room online forum suggests many students have poor guidance on what to take at A level.
Of more than 6,000 students in the study, hundreds said they found they had taken the wrong subjects to access a chosen university course or career.
The Student Room called it a "black hole" in school careers advice.
Almost a third (32%) of those who took part in the study rated their school's careers advice as "weak".
About a quarter (23%) said they did not have enough information to make informed choices about their future careers or the subjects they should study to achieve their ambitions.
The Student Room says the students who felt they received the worst guidance were often from the poorest backgrounds with no history of higher education in their family.
Among less affluent students, 39% said they had received poor information on subject choices.
Hundreds of students found their ambitions thwarted because they had not realised maths A-level was essential for a raft of degrees, including most sciences, engineering and computing, and is also sometimes required for philosophy courses, says the report.
"My school didn't tell me that maths was a requirement for the majority of chemistry and natural sciences courses, which means I am now very limited," one student commented.
Another said: "I was told further maths was only needed if you wanted to do maths at uni and now I'm at a disadvantage when applying for engineering."
Yet another lost out on a place to study medicine at one university after being wrongly told A-level biology was not needed for this particular course.
The confusion is not just limited to science and maths subjects.
"We were made to do general studies... which most universities don't actually count," said one student.
Another complained: "I had absolutely no clue that history was an extremely desirable subject when applying for an English literature degree."
The Russell Group of universities, where competition for places is intense, has published guidance advising students to pick at least two A-levels from a list of "facilitating subjects" to maximise their chances.
But the survey suggests this message is not getting through to schools.
One student said: "You're told to pick subjects which you enjoy and are good at. So I took a total mismatch of subjects with no real end goal and nobody said to me that I might struggle to find a university course because of my mixed set of A-levels."
"There is a black hole in school careers advice," said Student Room chief executive Jason Geall.
He called for the winners of the next general election "to make immediate and long-lasting changes to schools' careers advice, so that students are properly informed, can fulfil their lifetime ambitions and do not have any regrets".
A Department for Education spokeswoman said the government was "taking decisive steps to improve careers advice".
She said: "All schools have a statutory duty to provide independent careers advice and are held to account by Ofsted on the standard of the advice they offer.
"Our updated guidance, published in April, makes clear that schools should involve employers in careers advice and ensure pupils are informed about all options, from A-levels and university to vocational routes such as apprenticeships."
The fire began at Remondis on Carr Lane at about 06:00 GMT on Sunday.
Fire crews have found "containers filled with oily rags" at the warehouse, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) said.
The Environment Agency said it had not been necessary to monitor air quality.
Residents were advised to keep doors and windows closed. Those with pre-existing health conditions are urged to "keep medicine close".
The site holds an environmental permit for the treatment, storage, transfer and disposal of hazardous waste.
Firefighters are damping down and the smoke had "significantly reduced" following "good progress", MFRS added.
The Environment Agency said: "We are working with partner agencies including Merseyside Police, Public Health England and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service to ensure the risk to people and the environment is minimised."
A Knowsley Council spokesperson said: "The type of waste handled is publicly available, and there was no threat to the public's health.''
A total of 40 business premises were evacuated.
A cordon remains in place from the roundabout at Tesco down to Huyton Lane. Motorists are asked to avoid Carr Lane.
Three engines and specialist vehicles remain at the scene of the fire. At its height, 12 engines attended.
Sean McConville hit the crossbar with Stanley's first chance, but the Cobblers responded with striker Marc Richards volleying wide.
Accrington's Josh Windass fired off target and had a close-range effort saved before Richards headed in Ricky Holmes' cross to put Northampton ahead.
Matt Crooks had a late chance for Stanley, but the home side held on.
Yields are down 72% compared to 2011, research by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) suggested.
An average of 8lb (3.6kg) of honey was produced per hive this year, compared to the annual average of 30lb (13.6kg).
The majority of those surveyed (88%) said the rain and cold weather was the main reason the harvest was poor.
More than 2,700 beekeepers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were surveyed in the BBKA's annual Honey Survey.
The honey harvest was lowest in London, where hives produced an average of 5.6lb (2.5kg) of honey.
In Northern Ireland, hives yielded the highest average of 25.8lb (11.7kg) of honey - but the figure is only half the amount normally produced by bees in the area.
Earlier this year, the cold and wet conditions forced the organisation to issue a mid-summer warning to feed honey bee colonies with sugar syrup if necessary to avoid starvation.
Honey bees produce honey as a food store. Normally, this store would be enough to see them through the winter months.
The BBKA warned the worst may be yet to come, as a lack of food for bees and wet conditions mean breeding queens have been unable to produce a large enough brood to see colonies through the winter.
Peter Hutton, a beekeeper in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, described 2012 as "the most difficult year I have known in my 53 years of beekeeping".
"Bad weather in spring prevented honey bees in many areas from collecting nectar from early flowering crops such as oil seed rape, and the rain continued in many places throughout June and July preventing honey bees from foraging on later crops," he said.
In London, where yields were hardest hit, beekeeping experts said that in addition to the bad weather there was a lack of food for bees in the city.
Angela Woods, secretary of the London Beekeepers' Association, said: "Rather than putting beehives on office roofs, we encourage companies in London who want to help to look at different ways of supporting bees and beekeepers.
"We need more forage for the bees and better-educated beekeepers."
Tim Lovett, the BBKA's public affairs director, said there has been greater emphasis on "training and developing" beekeepers in recent years.
He added: "We need more resources to put into training, education and bee health research, to continue to support our honey bees and other pollinators.
"Well trained beekeepers are better equipped to deal with the adverse conditions we have seen this year.
"Without training, this year's situation might have been a lot worse."
Wildlife campaign group Friends of the Earth called on Prime Minister David Cameron to launch an action plan to help British bees.
Paul de Zylva, a senior nature campaigner, said: "A winter drought followed by the record-breaking wet summer has affected farming, gardens and bees alike.
"There is a wider issue with the decline of the more than 260 species of wild bees that don't make honey but are vital to pollinating our plants crops and trees.
"Bees need our help."
He didn't.
Instead he spoke generally about the need to adapt institutions to a post-Cold War era, invited them to participate in a "listening exercise" about how to do so, and promised them a "much more satisfying, fulfilling career" when the pain was over.
He also gave them an unexpected tour of his thinking about how "America First" translates into foreign policy, which involved a breakdown of how human rights and democratic values fit into policy making in the Trump era.
Which, it seems, is not very much.
Here's the quote: "We really have to understand, in each country or each region of the world that we're dealing with, what are our national security interests, what are our economic prosperity interests, and then as we can, advocate and advance our values."
This was decried as an ominous shift in Washington's global outlook by many foreign policy observers.
Separating interests and values in US foreign policy reflects a misunderstanding of both the country's past and its national character, wrote Eliot Cohen, the state department counsellor under George W Bush, in an excoriating take down of the speech.
It's worth reading the full text because Mr Tillerson is still a bit of an unknown quantity, and this is the first comprehensive statement he's made on his strategy
To unpack the meaning of his "America First" balance between values and policies, I turned to Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs at Harvard and a foreign policy realist.
At one level, he says, there's nothing new here: everyone understands there are trade-offs between security and economic interests on the one hand, and moral interests or democratic values, on the other - no-one better, frankly, than the experienced career diplomats in Mr Tillerson's audience.
At another level, says Mr Walt, if the Secretary of State is signalling that as a matter of policy, the US won't be putting much weight on promoting American values, there is something new here.
The past three presidents all did to some degree, whether it was supporting colour revolutions in Eastern Europe or welcoming the Arab Spring.
Mr Tillerson didn't explicitly say the US was out of that business, and he kept stressing the administration was not abandoning the values that have distinguished US foreign policy.
But it was unusual for him not to "downplay those moments of hypocrisy" inherent in governing, says Mr Walt, and instead place them right at the beginning of his speech, not "buried on page 12 and with a sense of reluctance."
Yes, traditionally it's seen as an undesirable outcome when administrations fail to achieve that difficult balance between values and broader interests. Was Mr Tillerson saying it's not necessary to try and achieve that balance at all?
More Trumplomacy:
Whatever he meant exactly - and the former ExxonMobil chief is to some degree still learning on the job - his words were interpreted through and amplified by the actions of his boss.
And so far President Trump has shown a businessman's belief that everything is up for negotiation, a transactional approach to complex matters of international relations, and an an affinity for authoritarian leaders.
Indeed, although all presidents are forced to deal with unsavoury counterparts, Mr Trump has spoken admiringly about several who exhibit decidedly un-American values.
And what of the message all of this sends?
There are two dangers in pushing this line too far, says Mr Walt: one is that it erases any distinction between the US and its adversaries.
The other is that it could encourage some governments to behave even worse, no longer fearing even rhetorical sanction from the US.
We will use all the weapons in Newsnight's arsenal to try to unpick the answer, however knotty the question.
So, if you have always wondered how MEPs are elected, how much influence the EU has in the laws adopted by the UK government, or what on earth the D'Hondt system is, then send Newsnight an email to [email protected] or tweet us @BBCNewsnight and we will take a look.
We will be answering a selection of your questions on a special edition of Newsnight: "Everything you wanted to know about Europe but were afraid to ask", dedicated to the European elections on Monday 19 May at 22:30 BST on BBC Two.
6 July 2017 Last updated at 13:26 BST
Using the GPS tracking on your phone, the game used augmented reality and meant you could catch Pokemon wherever you were.
Last summer it seemed EVERYONE was playing it, but after the buzz of its launch, it soon fell from the top of the app charts, as fewer people downloaded it.
It's just had a huge update to keep things interesting for players - but is anyone still playing?
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG Retail Sales Monitor found total sales fell by 1.5% last month, compared with November 2015.
However, when adjusted for deflation, sales were found to have risen by 0.2% in real terms.
Total food sales were found to be flat on last November, while non-food dropped 2.7% compared with a year ago.
SRC said figures for the last three months had been "promising".
Director David Lonsdale said: "Total retail sales in Scotland recorded a third successive month of real-terms positive growth, albeit at a pace less marked than in October.
"This promising news was underpinned by further improvements in grocery sales, which grew for a third month in a row - the best quarterly performance in almost three years.
"Non-food sales were heavily driven by online sales arising from Black Friday.
"Promotional and discounting activity by retailers around cyber-weekend led to electricals and electronic goods performing particularly well last month, as did fragrances."
He added: "The two months leading up to Christmas account for a fifth of annual retail spending and these figures provide grounds for optimism for the rest of this crucial trading period."
Craig Cavin, head of retail in Scotland at KPMG, added: "Online is the new black in 2016 as cyber sales drove much of the growth while stealing the show on Black Friday.
"This may well herald the tone of years to come, with increasingly sophisticated online sales technology giving consumers a convenient yet rich shopping experience without the hassle of crowds."
The world number eight, 26, won 6-3 7-5 after converting her fourth match point against the 21-year-old.
Konta lost her serve midway through the second set before fighting back to claim four of the final five games.
"It was difficult, she started very strongly. I had to raise my game and only had one little dip," she said.
Konta, whose three career titles have all come on hard courts, is two more wins away from earning her first WTA title on home soil at her opening grass-court tournament of the season.
She will face Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova, who is ranked outside the world's top 100, in Saturday's semi-final.
"I am enjoying playing each match, I am getting much surer of my footing on the grass," said Konta.
"I am enjoying working hard and executing my game plan with each match that I play.
"That is something that happens with every player. It takes time to get used to a surface."
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Meanwhile, British number three Naomi Broady has reached the semi-finals of the Aegon Trophy in Manchester after beating top seed Chang Kai-Chen.
The 27-year-old from Stockport, who is ranked 115th in the world, won 6-3 6-4 against the Taiwanese world number 109.
British men's number four Aljaz Bedene's run at the Ricoh Open ended with a quarter-final defeat by Luxembourg's fourth seed Gilles Muller.
Bedene, 27, was a break up in the deciding set but lost five of the final six games in a 6-3 3-6 6-4 defeat.
Reaching the last eight is still an encouraging start to the grass court season for the Slovenia-born player before Wimbledon next month.
The small doe got trapped between two paddles on the traditional feature at the Moor Mill Beefeater in Bricket Wood, St Albans.
It was freed by the RSPCA which said the frightened animal most likely fell into the river outside.
Kate Wright, who rescued the deer, said: "It was quite a sight for the diners having their lunch."
The animal collections officer said the muntjac was probably drawn under the building by the current and became caught up in the water wheel.
In struggling to climb out to get out of the water, the deer became stuck in the paddles.
Source: British Deer Society
"This poor muntjac was in a real fix. She was really frightened. She was thrashing about and loudly barking," said Ms Wright.
"It would have been very distressing for such a timid wild animal to find herself stuck like that, so I knew I'd have to work fast to free her."
The deer has been released back into the wild.
Seaburn's Grade II* white lighthouse will be repaired as part of Sunderland City Council's seafront regeneration.
It has been considered "at risk" since structural issues were identified in December 2014.
Council cabinet secretary Mel Speding said it had a "very special place in people's hearts."
He said it was one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city.
"It's also a really important Grade II* listed building so I'm delighted that we've been able to find the money to secure its future and take it off the at risk register," he said.
Built in 1856, the lighthouse was moved to Cliffe Park from the entrance to Sunderland's South Pier in 1983 during improvements to the harbour.
The council plans to start the restoration after the Sunderland International Airshow in July and finish in the autumn.
It has spent £10m on the Roker and Seaburn seafront since 2010, it said.
The country's Economic Survey, released on the eve of the national budget, said the measures had slowed growth.
The dramatic move to scrap 500 ($7.60) and 1,000 rupee notes was intended to crack down on corruption and so-called black money or illegal cash holdings.
But it also led to a cash shortage, hurting individuals and businesses.
The report forecast that India's economy would grow 6.5% in the year to March 2017, down from 7.6% the previous financial year.
But it also stressed that the estimate was based "mainly" on data from before the note withdrawal kicked in - causing some to suspect growth may be lower still.
India's Finance minister Arun Jaitley who will deliver the Union budget in Delhi on Wednesday, said he expected the economy to "revert to normal" from March onwards after supplies of cash in the economy were replenished.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the so-called "demonetisation" policy on November 8 last year.
Within hours the two notes were no longer accepted as legal tender - taking the equivalent of about 86% of India's cash supplies out of circulation and sparking scenes of chaos outside banks and cash machines.
Low-income Indians, traders and ordinary savers who rely on the cash economy were badly hit, with hordes thronging banks to deposit expired money and withdraw lower denominations.
"The adverse impact... on GDP will be transitional", the government's chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, wrote in the report.
"Growth slowed as demonetisation reduced demand ... and increased uncertainty," he added, saying negative impacts included including job losses and falling income for farmers.
However the report said the scheme could be "beneficial in the long-run" if corruption fell and there were fewer cash transactions - many of which are done to dodge taxes.
The government has previously said the move was a success with the banks flush with cash and significant increases in tax collection.
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This campaign has been a vector for a whole array of fake news - from the demonstrably false to the misrepresented truth. Here is the best of the worst.
We have previously written about how to spot a fake US Election report in the case of fraudulent claims about voter fraud in the Democratic primaries. It covers the use of simulacra sites to propagate false news.
These fake sites, which deliberately imitate a genuine news platform, are increasingly common and can go largely unchecked by large social media platforms where they prosper, as investigated by BBC Trending.
The most recent example to challenge this fakery comes from The Denver Post's "there's no such thing as The Denver Guardian", which calls out an entirely false claim about leaked Clinton emails.
Not only is it a false claim, it is a completely fabricated newspaper.
It also points to one of the key players in the spread of fake news during the campaign: the social media platform Facebook and its news feed algorithm.
Some sites such as Vox have called on Facebook to accept its part in the spread of fake news.
For its part, the social media giant continues to see itself as a neutral platform while tinkering with its editorial functions.
At its most basic, fake and misleading news is propaganda designed to influence an audience into a particular decision.
That could be which way to cast its vote or part of a more complicated political game.
A report in The Sun claims social media bots - automated accounts - on Twitter could sway the election.
It cites research which claims that up to 20% of US Election related tweets could be from automated accounts and that "they can negatively affect democratic political discussion rather than improving it".
While this may have been easily disproved, it is more difficult to deal with events recast as something else, even when presented with evidence.
The best example we've seen explaining this phenomena in the campaign is from Now This Election, who juxtaposed Donald Trump's account of President Obama dealing with a Trump supporter with video of the actual event.
It has been viewed more than 38 million times and shared in excess of 577,000.
Closer to home, media outlet The Canary misleads with claims that "a major media outlet just revealed who won the US election… a week in advance".
It further claims that "in October, the BBC and The Guardian both ran stories questioning the veracity of the election results".
Except the BBC story does not. In fact it assesses the validity of claims that the US election is rigged, finding that there's "no justification for concern about widespread voter fraud".
Two strikes on our fake news checklist: headline fails to deliver in the story and evidence from an original source which contradicts and is misrepresented.
Analysis by Buzzfeed News of this new generation of hyper-partisan news sites found that "three big right-wing Facebook pages published false or misleading information 38% of the time during the period analysed and three large left-wing pages did so in nearly 20% of posts."
That is not a margin of error, that is just plain wrong.
Fake news is no longer just about catching someone out with a prank site. It is lucrative.
The scale and size is now industrial. Meta and The Guardian have reported on a Macedonian connection, which Buzzfeed has since expanded, demonstrating the lucractive potential of tapping into the high volume of traffic generated from the combination of pro-Trump fabrications and Facebook's market dominance.
That article quoted one student who said that his friend could earn $5,000 (£4,035) per month, or sometimes $3,000 (£2,400) per day when he gets a hit on Facebook.
When NPR committed to the task of fact checking the presidential debates to change people's opinions, it asked whether fact checks matter and concluded that it works sometimes but is difficult to change a stubborn mind.
Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth University, reviewing the evidence in the election campaign found that it is "mostly true" that fact-checking can change people's views.
A bleaker assessment by the New York Times' Farhad Manjoo is that "... the dynamics of how information moves online today, pretty much everything conspires against truth."
By Alex Murray, BBC Social News and UGC Team
Vaughan Dodds, 45, who used to work for Durham Police, claimed he was housebound but spent the money on holidays and his children's private school fees.
Dodds, of Spennymoor, had denied a string of dishonesty charges when he appeared at Teesside Crown Court.
But he was convicted of nine charges and jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Dodds was a PC with Durham Police from 1993 until 2007 when he was dismissed for conduct reasons, a force spokeswoman said.
From February to November 1998 he was a member of the armed protection team based at Mirabella, the constituency home of the then Prime Minister and Sedgefield MP Tony Blair.
The hearing heard how Dodds claimed he could not walk more than 10 metres because he had myalgic encephalopathy (ME), and that his wife Mandy was also ill and hypersensitive to sound.
But a jury heard that the couple had gym membership and enjoyed a number of family foreign holidays.
The father-of-two was accused of fraudulently claiming income support, council tax relief and disability living allowance between 2005 and 2009.
Filling out forms to claim money, Dodds said that even the sound of toilet tissue being ripped was distressing for his wife, the hearing heard.
He claimed he had difficulty making main meals for himself and needed help getting out of bed.
But the court saw film footage of the pair at the gym and pictures of them on holiday riding a camel.
Graham O'Sullivan, prosecuting, said: "The prosecution make no bones about it. We say this money was dishonestly obtained.
"We say it was used by Mr Dodds and his wife to fund a comfortable lifestyle - a lifestyle this couple could not otherwise have afforded."
Judge Graham Cook said that the case was made worse because Dodds was a serving officer who should have known the difference between right and wrong.
Nigel Soppitt, defending, said prison would be "bleak and stark" for the former officer.
The tournament is the only major the 46-year-old has not won.
The US Open first round at Erin Hills in Wisconsin is on the same day, 15 June, as the ceremony in California.
"As I look back on life, this is a moment I'll always cherish and be glad I was present," Mickelson told the New York Times.
"There's no greater joy as a parent."
Amanda was born a day after the US Open at Pinehurst in 1999, when Mickelson finished second to Payne Stewart.
However, the American said he would have left wherever he was on the scoreboard had his wife Amy gone into labour.
Mickelson, who needs to win the US Open to become the sixth player to complete the career grand slam, has notified tournament officials of his intention but has yet to withdraw formally.
Tournament rules dictate he has until just before the commencement of his opening round to pull out.
"My daughter is graduating, she is the school president, she'll be giving the commencement speech for the school and I am going to be there," he added.
"I didn't want the USGA (US Golf Association) to be caught off guard and I wanted the alternate to know he will most likely be in.
"There is no sense in doing it (withdrawing formally) now. Something might come up with the commencement, the weather, something unforeseen, but it doesn't look very good.
"It doesn't look good for me playing but I am really excited about this moment in our family's life."
Kaspar Rorsted, who Adidas called the "perfect candidate", will take over on 1 October.
He is currently the boss of Henkel, whose brands include Persil detergent and Schwarzkopf shampoo.
He replaces Herbert Hainer, who has more than doubled revenue in 15 years in charge but has struggled to keep up with US rival Nike.
Adidas shares rose 5.4% to €88.52, while Henkel shares fell 3.4% to €77.88.
"The share price reaction speaks for itself," said Ingo Speich, an Adidas shareholder, told the Reuters news agency.
Mr Spiech, a fund manager at Union Investment, said he hoped the new boss would "end the long dry spell in the profitability of Adidas".
Adidas expects profits to have grown 10% in 2015, but its operating margin has been half that of Nike.
Mr Rorsted has worked at Oracle, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, as well as eight years running Henkel.
Steven Davenport, 18, from Chelmsford, admitted murdering Ashley Woolley in the city's Oaklands Park last December.
Mr Woolley, also 18, died in hospital after being stabbed in the neck and body.
Davenport, who is understood to have had a fantasy about murdering somebody, was jailed for life at Chelmsford Crown Court and will serve at least 18 years.
Mr Woolley's father Trevor Woolley said he would have liked to see the death penalty for people like Davenport.
Mr Woolley told how he was wrapping up presents for his children when he learned Ashley had been murdered.
"Our world stopped at that point and it has never started since," he said.
"Ashley had befriended him because he was the loner of the class and Ashley, being Ashley, said 'come on, join the party'.
"We know that his killer had a fantasy about murdering someone and Ashley, being the only one in the class that had befriended him, well he then chose him as his victim.
"We went and saw the CCTV of it and you see Ashley coming out and he runs up behind him and stabs him.
"Ashley knew nothing about what was about to happen. He stabbed him in the neck and then, on the floor, and stabbed him in the kidney and liver.
"I am still trying to get through the loss of Ash. He loved life, he was cheeky, he was funny and if he saw somebody down he would tell a joke and try and make them laugh."
Mr Woolley said he would like to see a return of the death penalty for cases such as his son's, as Davenport had shown no remorse and because of the way in which his son was lured to his death.
She is confident that conditions can be created for the UK to stay in and she is "not losing sleep" over it, she said in a BBC interview.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron aims to renegotiate the UK's EU membership terms, ahead of an in/out referendum.
"I'm optimistic that if we all want it, we'll find a good solution," she said.
"It's not about losing sleep over this, but about doing our work and creating the necessary preconditions for Britain to remain in the EU."
Treaty change is a thorny issue for the EU, as France and some other countries are known to be very wary of it. The Lisbon Treaty negotiation dragged on for some eight years before its signing in 2009, and involved two Irish referendums.
"Some of the things that David Cameron is asking for I can support," Mrs Merkel told the BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler in Berlin.
"There are other points where we have a different opinion, but we have always been able also to pursue a Europe at different speeds, to find opt-out solutions for example."
When asked whether EU treaties would be changed, she replied: "If that is really necessary then we have to consider it."
Last week, the prime minister made a whistle-stop tour of Europe trying to gather support for changes he wants before holding the UK's EU membership referendum. That vote is to take place by the end of 2017.
Tighter rules on migrants' benefits are a priority for the UK Conservatives, as they want to control immigration from the EU.
Mr Cameron also wants an opt-out from the EU pledge of "ever closer union" and more influence for national parliaments over EU laws.
Mrs Merkel was asked if she was ever irritated by UK demands in the EU. She responded with a smile and said "we know each other.... and as German chancellor I can say that I also have my own ideas of how things in the EU should be.
"The EU is a union of 28 member states that have to find compromises. Only when everyone is agreed and happy can we get proper results. That will is there. We have already found many, many solutions for many, many difficult questions - it should be like that in this case too."
There is speculation that the EU could come up with a special treaty protocol for the UK, to accommodate particular UK concerns. A similar procedure made Danish and Irish opt-outs legally binding in the past.
The shooting of a seven-year-old boy and his mother is the latest being linked to a violent turf war over drugs involving some of Massey's associates.
Christian Hickey and his mother Jayne were shot at their home on Monday.
Police sources say drugs, money laundering and respect issues are behind the recent rise in violence.
They believe the gun used to shoot Christian and his mother has been used in eight shootings in the North West - at least one of which is linked to the current feud.
The BBC has been told that following the shooting of Massey in July this year, there is "more crack cocaine and heroin on the streets of Salford than ever".
"Some of Massey's firm are peddling heroin and he would never have stood for it," the source said. "It looks like there is a battle for control of his firm."
Another source told the BBC: "Most of the so-called gangsters in Salford are just young lads and guns are so available.
"The lads have no pity or conscience, the streets are flooded with cocaine and it is only going to get worse. The police have lost control."
The source said the shootings were part of a "drugs war" in the area.
Massey, 55, a well-known figure in Greater Manchester, was shot dead outside his home and his killer is still at large.
Labelled "Mr Big", Massey was jailed in 1999 for 14 years over a stabbing and unsuccessfully stood to be Salford mayor in 2012.
Asked if crack cocaine and heroin are flooding the streets of Greater Manchester, a police source told the BBC: "There is a big problem with serious and organised crime and this (drugs) is included."
The source added it was also about "respect" and the recent shootings were about the "turf war and money laundering and not just drugs".
On Thursday, police released images of Christian in his hospital bed.
Bullet casings have been removed from his leg and are being forensically examined.
Talking about the shooting, his 29-year-old mother said: "I saw blood pouring from him, I screamed for his Dad. I knew he had been shot and I couldn't help him."
Officers made a direct appeal on Thursday to the "mothers, grandmothers, aunties and sisters of Salford to search their conscience" following the shooting, after being confronted with a wall of silence.
Detectives have issued descriptions of the two men thought to be responsible for the attack on the Hickeys.
The first is aged about 19 or 20 years old, of "chunky" build and with a local accent. The second man is only described as white.
Both men are believed to have been wearing baseball caps.
Speaking on Thursday, Assistant Chief Constable Rebekah Sutcliffe said the shooting would be "etched on Christian's memory forever".
Saturday 10 October
1. 00:15: A man is wounded in the back after being shot through the window of his house in Mossbrook Drive, Little Hulton, Salford.
2. 22:00: Police are called to a house in Worsley Road, Bolton, after shots are fired by a gunman on a motorcycle, according to witnesses. No-one is hurt.
3. 23:30: Ninety minutes later shots are fired through the ground-floor window of a house on Gorse Drive, Little Hulton, Salford. No-one is hurt.
Monday 12 October
4. 21:30: Jayne Hickey and her son Christian, 7, are shot and injured on the doorstep of their house on Gillingham Road, Eccles, Salford.
Davide Magnini, from the Italian team, won the race, with Chris Farrell from England's team coming in second.
The 10-mile race is described as one of the most difficult in Britain, beginning on the edge of Llyn Padarn in Llanberis, before going up to the summit of Snowdon and back down again.
The first race took place 1976 when a Llanberis resident put forward the idea to the village's carnival committee.
Victoria Shorrock, 45, was pronounced dead by paramedics at a house in Warrenside Close, Blackburn on 11 January. She had a number of injuries.
Her partner, Lee Grime, of Warrenside Close, was charged with murder. The charge was changed to assault when the cause of death could not be verified.
The 35-year-old had admitted the charge at an earlier hearing and was sentenced to 16 months at Liverpool Crown Court.
Lancashire Police said that when medics told Grime they would be calling the police, he "became agitated" and left the property.
He took a taxi to Blackpool and stayed at a guesthouse but was arrested following an appeal for information.
Detectives said that while Miss Shorrock's injuries included a cut to the back of her head and significant bruising, the cause of death could not ascertained "with sufficient certainty to proceed with a charge of murder".
As a result the charge was amended to assault.
Det Insp Tim McDermott said: "Victoria had a number of health issues and following expert medical opinion, it was agreed her death could not be proved as unlawful.
"Even though we can't be sure exactly what happened in the hours before she died, what is clear is Grime assaulted her, with her death following at some point afterwards.
"Victoria was a vulnerable woman who Grime took advantage of.
"He showed himself to be a dangerous and manipulative individual."
Mhairi Convy, 18, from Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, was with Laura Stewart, 20, when the Range Rover struck them in North Hanover Street on 17 December.
Both teenagers, who attended Glasgow College of Commerce, died in hospital.
Ms Convy's funeral was held in Dalnottar Crematorium, Clydebank. Ms Stewart's funeral was held in her home town of Cumbernauld on Wednesday.
Among the 400 mourners at Dalnottar Crematorium was 36-year-old Mark Hopwood, who was also injured after being struck by the vehicle.
He arrived with his arm in a sling and balanced on crutches.
The mourners lined the path to the crematorium before filing in for the funeral service followed by Ms Convy's coffin.
The 50-year-old male driver of the Range Rover was also injured in the crash and is still believed to be in hospital.
Strathclyde Police are investigating the incident.
Ms Stewart's funeral was held at Our Lady and St Helen's Parish Church in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire.
Halfpenny's contract with French Top 14 side Toulon expires this summer and he is currently weighing up his options.
The Welsh Rugby Union and Blues have offered the 28-year-old British and Irish Lion a national dual contract.
"I guess if I was a betting man I'd err on the side of it being unlikely at the moment," said Holland.
He continued: "But he's changed his mind a few times before and let's hope he does so again."
Halfpenny left Cardiff Blues for Toulon ahead of the 2014-15 season.
Speaking to BBC Wales Sport, Holland said the Blues had made the player a "very competitive" offer, but admitted there were some issues during negotiations.
"There was a bit of a stumbling block on the length of the contract," Holland said.
"Leigh was looking for a 28-month contract and the Welsh Rugby Union wanted to put a two or three-year deal on the table.
"I think the Welsh Rugby Union and all four regions will start looking at the pot of money for national dual contracts, and it would be foolish for all concerned if we did not look at spending it elsewhere."
Whatever Halfpenny's decision, Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal expects it to be made after the Six Nations.
"He is like Jonny Wilkinson, he is a very special player and he makes his own decisions," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"We will wait until he comes back to Toulon after the Six Nations and then we will speak."
Halfpenny has played in Wales' opening three Six Nations games and is expected to appear in the forthcoming fixtures against Ireland and France.
Boudjellal added: "He is like Jonny Wilkinson, he is a very special player and he makes his own decisions.
"We have spoken before but I don't know yet his decision.
"Now he is in the Six Nations and when Leigh is in a competition, he does not want to speak about this [contract]."
"After winning the league, we're desperate to make our name on the European stage and try and get the respect we feel we deserve," he said.
"We've been close in the last few years but not quite got over the line.
"We played in some big games last season, there were some big moments, and that will stand us in good stead."
Looking ahead to Saturday's campaign opener away to Racing 92 in Paris, Horne admitted that January's loss to Bath "still hurts".
Bidding to reach the quarter-finals for the first time, Warriors needed to win at the Recreation Ground but Sean Maitland was stopped inches from the line in the last minute of a 20-15 loss.
Northampton Saints and Pro12 rivals Scarlets make up Pool 3 and Horne is relishing the test.
"This is the crown jewel of club rugby and every team is up for it that little bit more," explained the Scotland international. "The games are quicker, more intense.
"It's a really exciting group, exactly what you want to be involved in.
"It's the best in Europe all going at it, so it will be good fun."
Gregor Townsend's side opened this season with 16-10 home defeat to Scarlets, although the hosts were much weakened by the absence of their World Cup stars.
Horne scored a last-gasp try in a 27-20 win over Northampton in 2013, while a 15-0 lead was spurned in the return game.
Glasgow have never met Racing 92 and have won just three of their last 14 matches against French opponents.
"We probably don't have the same budget as some of the bigger teams like Toulon and co but on our day I think we can match anyone," continued Horne.
"There is no reason for us to fear the more established teams at this level but it's a massive challenge.
"We'll be doing everything we can to make sure we qualify for the last eight. After that, it's knockout rugby and anything can happen."
On the penultimate day of competition, Oscar Pistorius won gold in his 400m title as the Stadium hosted 2012 action for the last time.
Crowds at the Olympic Park today basked in temperatures of up to 27C ahead of Sunday's closing ceremony.
As competition started on Saturday the host nation was sitting second in the overall table with 114 medals.
Cyclist David Stone added to the tally in the morning session, successfully defending his Paralympic mixed T1-2 road race title at Brands Hatch.
Swimmer Ellie Simmonds won silver in S6 100m freestyle event, failing to retain her crown.
The 17-year-old set a new personal best of 1:14.82, but was beaten by the USA's Victoria Arlen.
Simmonds finished the Games with two gold medals, a silver and a bronze.
Great Britain surpassed their 103-medal target for the 2012 Paralympics in emphatic style on Thursday as Hannah Cockroft, David Weir and Jonnie Peacock picked up medals.
Hopes are high that Weir will bring home his fourth gold medal when he competes in the London wheelchair marathon on Sunday.
Weir, 33, known as The Weirwolf of London, has already won the 800m, 1500m and 5,000m.
Competitors in the men's and women's marathons will start and finish in The Mall, completing one short and three long loops during the 26.2-mile race through central London.
Once the sport has concluded, the closing ceremony will bring the curtain down on what has been one of the most successful Paralympics in the event's history.
Organisers have sold some 2.7 million Paralympic tickets - beating targets by 200,000 and predicted sales by £10m.
Stars due to perform at Sunday's sold-out ceremony include Jay-Z and Rihanna and hundreds of performers in bandstands across the UK are expected to join in a rendition of Coldplay's Viva La Vida.
The live broadcast of the ceremony is due to start at 20:30 BST and organisers hope it will finish by 23:00 BST.
Speaking at a press briefing on Saturday the show's director Kim Gavin promised a festival of the flame.
He said: "We are known as a nation for having the most festivals.
"The festival approach is purely to celebrate the last night of the Games, and we will pay tribute to all the human spirit and achievement of the last two weeks."
He said the athletes would be on the field of play when the show starts and added: "Through Coldplay's music we are going to take you through the seasons from autumn to summer".
He said there would also be a tribute to Help for Heroes and that the Union Jack would be revealed for the national anthem in a "special way".
"I wanted this ceremony to feel less spangly and more raw," he said.
"It's more about the people and their performances."
British stars of the Olympics and Paralympics will then celebrate their success during a victory parade through the streets of London on Monday.
Julie Sharp, who was manager of the North Somercotes playgroup, took the cash over a two year period.
She also used some of it to pay for shoes, handbags and clothes.
Sharp, 49, of East Row, South Somercotes, admitted a charge of furnishing false information between April 2014 and March 2016.
Lincoln Crown Court heard she had paid herself wages she was not entitled to and paid herself at a higher rate than agreed.
Joey Kwong, prosecuting, told the court Sharp, who was responsible for paying staff wages, also overpaid her daughter when she worked for the group.
He said staff noticed her lifestyle becoming luxurious, with her collecting "rare editions of Disney figures", clothing, shoes and handbags.
The court heard Sharp justified her spending by saying she had sold gold and received PPI payments.
Mr Kwong said the matter came to light after staff complained to the group's new chair. She later handed in her notice.
Hannah Walker, for Sharp, said the defendant got into financial difficulties after taking out pay day loans to pay off her son's drug debts.
The court also heard the loss of money had led to financial difficulties for the playgroup.
Judge Simon Hirst adjourned sentencing for a hearing to determine a disputed prosecution claim that the effect of Sharp taking the money was that a child with autism did not receive council funded one-to-one assistance.
Sharp was bailed until the hearing which is due to take place in July.
The most comprehensive dating of Neanderthal bones and tools ever carried out suggests that the two species lived side-by-side for up to 5,000 years.
The new evidence suggests that the two groups may even have exchanged ideas and culture, say the researchers.
The study has been published in the journal Nature.
Until now, Neanderthal remains have been dated by a number of laboratories but many have been considered unreliable.
Now an international team of researchers collected more than 400 samples from the most important sites in Europe. The samples were purified and analysed using state-of-the-art dating methods at Oxford University.
The results provide the clearest insight yet into the interaction between our ancestors and Neanderthals, when they first encountered each other and why the Neanderthals went extinct, according to the lead researcher, Prof Thomas Higham of the University of Oxford.
"I think we can set aside the idea of a rapid extinction of Neanderthals caused solely by the arrival of modern humans. Instead we can see a more complex process in which there is a much longer overlap between the two populations where there could have been exchanges of ideas and culture."
Some previous dates had suggested that modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe for as little as 500 years.
Findings such as this have fuelled speculation that our ancestors may either have slaughtered the Neanderthals or passed on diseases to which they had little or no resistance.
The new dates suggest that the two species lived in Europe for up to 5,000 years. This backs the view of some archaeologists that relatively late advances in Neanderthal stone tool technologies and their use of jewellery were copied from modern humans.
The study indicates that Neanderthals died out in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought - between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago. This is the most accurate date obtained so far for the extinction, and it coincides with the start of a very cold period in Europe.
The new dates also suggest that modern humans arrived in Europe several thousand years earlier than previously thought, possibly as early as 45,000 years ago.
There is archaeological and genetic evidence that when modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa, the Neanderthals were already in decline. Previous studies have shown that they were low in numbers and so were increasingly becoming inbred.
The picture that seems to be emerging from the new dating is that the arrival of modern humans added to their problems, according to Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
"They were hunting the same animals, collecting the same plants and wanting to live in the best caves. So there would have been an economic competition," he said.
"But it was not an instantaneous extinction," he added. "They were not hunted down and killed by modern humans or wiped out by diseases they might have brought with them from Africa. It was a more gradual process".
Neanderthals declined in numbers over thousands of years while at the same time modern humans increased in number.
The cold spell 40,000 years ago might have been the factor that finally tipped a gradually weakening population towards extinction.
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The business lobby group has cut its growth forecast for this year to 2.4% from 2.6%.
In addition, it has has lowered its forecast for both 2016 and 2017 to 2.5% from 2.7%.
It said the manufacturing sector, which it expects to contract this year, had been hit by "falling global prospects".
"Our persistently weak trade performance and current account balance are impacting our overall growth," the BCC's director general John Longworth said.
Slowing growth in the third quarter contributed to the downgrade, the BCC said.
In November, official figures showed the UK grew by 0.5% between July and September, marking a slowdown from the 0.7% rate in the second quarter.
Mr Longworth warned there was "still a long way to go" before the UK recovery was complete.
The BCC also cut its growth forecast for the dominant services sector - which accounts for more than 70% of GDP - and said the UK could not "rely so heavily on consumer spending to fuel our economy".
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Longworth said growth in the UK was being fuelled by debt, which was behind rising consumer spending and asset prices, in particular housing.
"If it's based on debt you then lead to a boom-and-bust cycle again," he told BBC Radio 5 live's Wake Up To Money programme.
Mr Longworth noted that in the last parliament the government said it would rebalance the economy towards manufacturing and exports. But he said efforts to encourage export growth had been "a complete failure".
It expects interest rates - which have now been at 0.5% for more than six years - to rise again in the third quarter of next year.
But Mr Longworth warned: "We have been down this path before, and know that it leaves individuals and businesses exposed when interest rates do eventually rise."
Officials said an armed gang descended on the village of Witu, about 15km (9 miles) from the town of Mpeketoni.
No group has said it carried out the latest attack.
Somali Islamist group al-Shabab said it was behind the raids on Mpeketoni, near Lamu but President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed local political groups.
Lamu County Commissioner Stephen Ikua confirmed on Tuesday there had been a new "unfortunate attack" overnight.
An emergency security meeting has been called to assess the situation, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reported Mr Ikua as saying.
The "attackers used machetes and other crude weapons... the victims have cuts and injuries," local village chief Kaviha Charo Karisa told Reuters news agency.
Al-Shabab said the previous raids were in response to the presence of Kenyan troops in Somalia.
Kenyan fighter jets launched renewed air strikes on the group's bases in Somalia in recent days as part of an offensive by the African Union force.
Officials said the assaults on the villages of Anole and Kuday left more than 80 militants dead, although this could not be independently verified.
Kenya sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to help the weak UN-backed government defeat the militants.
Last week's attacks in Mpeketoni started on the evening of 15 June as locals were watching a football World Cup match on television.
Gunmen went on to carry out further assaults in villages nearby the next day.
The Kenyan government has since put out advice urging people to watch World Cup matches at home rather than gathering in bars or others public places.
The Kenyan Red Cross says about 600 households are currently taking refuge in two camps after fleeing the violence around Mpeketoni.
The band's nominations also include best track for Eez-eh and music moment of the year for their headline set at Glastonbury.
Royal Blood and Jamie T are both up for seven awards each.
The shortlists have been decided by NME readers, with the awards taking place on 18 February at 02 Academy Brixton.
Brighton rock duo Royal Blood are up for best British band and best live band, while Jamie T is up for best solo artist and best fan community.
Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Royal Blood, and The Libertines will fight it out for two of the night's biggest awards, having all been named in both the best British band and best live band categories.
Kasabian said: "2014 has been such an incredible year for us, and being nominated for eight NME Awards is a better Christmas present than getting Castle Greyskull in 1986! Thanks very much."
Alt-J and Chvrches are also up for best British band while Fat White Family and Foo Fighters are among the best live band nominees.
The best album category will be fought out between Jamie T, Kasabian, Royal Blood, La Roux, Run The Jewels and St Vincent, with this year's worst band award being between 5 seconds of summer, One Direction, U2, Bastille, Blink-182 and The 1975.
This year's villain of the year category includes Taylor Swift, Russell Brand, Bono, Nigel Farage, David Cameron and Harry Styles who has been nominated for the award for the third year in a row.
Online voting for the awards, which is open now, closes on 16 January.
NME Awards 2015 with Austin, Texas nominations as follows:
Best British band
Alt-J
Arctic Monkeys
Chvrches
Kasabian
Royal Blood
The Libertines
Best album
Jamie T - Carry On The Grudge
Kasabian - 48:13
La Roux - Trouble In Paradise
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
St Vincent - St Vincent
Best international band
Arcade Fire
Foo Fighters
Haim
Interpol
Queens Of The Stone Age
Tame Impala
Best live band
Arctic Monkeys
Fat White Family
Foo Fighters
Kasabian
Royal Blood
The Libertines
Best new band
Circa Waves
FKA Twigs
Jungle
Royal Blood
Slaves
Superfood
Best solo artist
Jack White
Jake Bugg
Jamie T
La Roux
Lana Del Rey
St Vincent
Best festival
Bestival
Glastonbury
Isle Of Wight
Latitude
Reading & Leeds
T In The Park
Best track supported by Tito's Handmade Vodka
Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
Jamie T - Zombie
Jungle - Busy Earnin'
Kasabian - Eez-Eh
Noel Gallagher - In The Heat Of The Moment
Royal Blood - Little Monster
Best video
Fat White Family - Touch The Leather
FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
Jamie T - Zombie
Jungle - Busy Earnin'
Peace - Lost On Me
Royal Blood - Figure It Out
Best music film
Nick Cave, 20,000 Days On Earth
Finding Fela
Kasabian, Summer Solstice
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death And Supermarkets
Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon
Edwyn Collins, The Possibilities Are Endless
Best film
Boyhood
Frank
Get On Up
God Help The Girl
The Inbetweeners 2
Northern Soul
Best TV show
Girls
Game Of Thrones
Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways
Peaky Blinders
Sherlock
True Detective
Dance floor filler
Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX, 'Fancy'
Jamie T, 'Zombie'
Kasabian, 'Eez-Eh'
Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars, 'Uptown Funk'
Metronomy, 'Love Letters'
SBTRKT feat. Ezra Koenig, 'New Dorp. New York'
Worst band
5 Seconds Of Summer
Bastille
Blink-182
One Direction
The 1975
U2
Villain of the year
Bono
David Cameron
Harry Styles
Nigel Farage
Russell Brand
Taylor Swift
Hero of the year
Alex Turner
Dave Grohl
Kate Bush
Noel Gallagher
Russell Brand
Taylor Swift
Music moment of the year
Alex Turner's Brit Awards speech
Jamie T's comeback
Kasabian headline Glastonbury
Kate Bush returns
The Libertines reunite
Nirvana reunite at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Best fan community
Jamie T
Kasabian
La Roux
Muse
Peace
Royal Blood
Small festival of the year
End Of The Road
Festival Number 6
Field Day
Liverpool Psych Fest
The Great Escape
Tramlines
Book of the year
Bernard Sumner, Chapter And Verse
Ian Curtis, Deborah Curtis and Jon Savage, So This Is Permanence
Jesse Frohman, Kurt Cobain: The Last Session
John Lydon, Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored
Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Steve Hanley, The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall
Reissue of the year
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pixies - Doolittle
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Best band blog or Twitter
Questlove's Twitter
Alana Haim's Twitter
Albert Hammond Jr's Twitter
Fat White Family's Facebook
Liam Gallagher's Twitter
Slaves' Facebook
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There has been concern about the EU-Turkey deal, clinched in March, since Turkey was thrown into turmoil by a coup attempt on 15 July.
"The European leaders are not sincere," Mr Erdogan complained in an interview with German ARD television.
Of the €3bn (£2.5bn) pledged, the EU has paid a token €1m-€2m, he said.
Turkey is hosting about 2.7 million Syrian refugees and Mr Erdogan said the cost to Turkey so far had been nearly $12bn (€11bn; £9bn).
"Turkey stands by its commitment with regard to refugees," Mr Erdogan said.
Before the March deal, Greece was overwhelmed by the challenge of housing migrants and refugees arriving by boat from Turkey.
But since the deal was struck the numbers crossing the Aegean from Turkey to Greece have dropped dramatically.
Turkey is taking back Syrians and other migrants intercepted off the Greek islands.
Under the deal, the EU also pledged visa-free travel for Turks to the Schengen zone - the free movement area covering most of Europe - and a new impetus in Turkey's EU membership negotiations.
"We are sticking to our promise. But have the Europeans kept their promise?" Mr Erdogan asked, referring to the visa-free travel agreement.
In Moscow, there was progress towards improving Russian-Turkish ties on Tuesday, after months of bitter tension over the Syrian conflict.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and his Turkish counterpart Mehmet Simsek discussed resuming economic ties, especially an easing of Russian trade sanctions.
Mr Erdogan is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on 9 August, Mr Simsek said. It will be their first meeting since Turkey downed a Russian Su-24 military jet on the Syria-Turkey border last November.
The possibility of Turkey reintroducing the death penalty, to punish alleged plotters who tried to topple Mr Erdogan, has cast fresh doubt over Turkey's bid to join the EU.
Since the failed coup the Turkish authorities have suspended more than 45,000 civil servants, in a sweeping purge of state institutions.
Mr Erdogan has accused followers of a US-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of subverting the state. Mr Gulen has denied any involvement.
On Monday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Turkey's EU accession talks would stop immediately if Turkey reintroduced the death penalty.
"Only in Europe is there no death penalty. Elsewhere it exists all over the place," Mr Erdogan told ARD.
He said he had no authority to restore it by himself, but he had a duty to listen to the Turkish people who, he said, wanted it restored.
"Therefore a request [for the death penalty] must be put before parliament," he said.
Turkey is a member of the 47-nation Council of Europe, which bars members from executing prisoners.
After a largely uneventful first half, Granit Xhaka opened the scoring with a deflected shot from distance, which looped over goalkeeper David de Gea.
And they doubled their lead three minutes later when Danny Welbeck headed home against his former club after a pinpoint cross from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Jose Mourinho introduced Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard to try to rescue the game, but they failed to bring the visitors to life.
The result means Arsenal remain in sixth place but are two points off United in fifth and six points off Manchester City in fourth, with a game in hand over both teams.
This victory not only reignites Arsenal's chase for a Champions League place, but also ends an unwanted record for Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger against Jose Mourinho.
The pair have endured a fractious relationship over the years, and in their previous 15 competitive meetings Wenger had never beaten a Mourinho team, with his only victory coming in the Community Shield in 2015.
Mourinho has won eight times, while the remaining seven were drawn.
Sunday's win ended the hoodoo and earned Arsenal only their 13th league win in 50 outings against the Red Devils.
There is still uncertainty about Wenger's future at the club, despite them still being in with a chance of Champions League football for the 21st consecutive season, and an FA Cup final against Chelsea coming up this month.
When asked by BBC commentator Jonathan Pearce about whether he would be interviewing Wenger next season, the Frenchman joked: "You want me to work for the BBC?"
Both teams had four shots on target during the match but it was Arsenal who made them count.
After a dull start to the second half, the Emirates came alive when Xhaka ran into space and took a shot from 30 yards out which was helped on its way by Herrera and out-smarted De Gea.
The Gunners kept up the pace and exactly three minutes and 11 seconds later, Welbeck had notched his second Premier League goal of the season.
Oxlade-Chamberlain's right-wing cross whistled over the box and Welbeck rose up between the United defence to land a bullet header.
Arsenal offered little in attack after the goals, but they did not need to.
Mourinho revealed before the match he intended to rest key players, with one eye on the Europa League semi-final second leg against Celta Vigo, in which his team have a 1-0 advantage. The European competition could represent United's best chance of reaching next season's Champions League.
The United manager made eight changes in total and his side never looked like causing a major threat.
Goalkeeper De Gea kept them in the match at half-time, producing a low stop to deny Aaron Ramsey's effort, before making a brilliant save from a rasping Oxlade-Chamberlain shot from distance.
United were undone by two quick goals early in the second half, and their only notable efforts after that came from Rooney and substitute Scott McTominay, who tried to poke home late on.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on a possible top-four finish: "We want to win our games. Some teams that are safe continue to fight. Let's focus to win our games. Every win is important. We had a bad patch and seem to have recovered from it."
On Welbeck's goal: "That's the kind of goal you want from Danny. He has all the abilities a striker needs. Hopefully, that will give him a boost."
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Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho: "We made eight changes. Of course, we knew we were not coming in our maximum power. That's a decision. We want to try to win the Europa League - it's more important than finishing fourth.
"The last trophy I won was three months ago. I didn't care about that. Thursday is the match of the season. I hope Old Trafford feels the same, because we need Old Trafford."
After the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday, Manchester United return to league action at second-placed Tottenham on Sunday, 14 May (16:30 BST).
Arsenal, meanwhile, have a midweek Premier League trip to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST).
Match ends, Arsenal 2, Manchester United 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 2, Manchester United 0.
Attempt saved. Scott McTominay (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Smalling with a headed pass.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Rob Holding.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Foul by Nacho Monreal (Arsenal).
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Francis Coquelin.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matteo Darmian (Manchester United).
Substitution, Manchester United. Scott McTominay replaces Juan Mata.
Substitution, Arsenal. Héctor Bellerín replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Danny Welbeck.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Kieran Gibbs.
Foul by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal).
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal).
Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Carrick.
Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Arsenal. Francis Coquelin replaces Granit Xhaka because of an injury.
Delay in match Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Offside, Manchester United. Michael Carrick tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Axel Tuanzebe (Manchester United).
Attempt missed. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal).
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Attempt blocked. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Petr Cech.
Attempt saved. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal).
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
A 30-day consultation on proposals for Aberpergwm Colliery, near Glynneath, is due to start on Friday, according to the National Union of Mineworkers South Wales branch.
The mine employs about 60 staff after 300 workers lost their jobs in 2012.
In a letter to workers, American owners Walter Energy said the proposals meant "significant" redundancies. They have been asked to comment.
Neath AM Gwenda Thomas said: "I sincerely hope that all the jobs in Aberpergwm can be saved. It is vital for the future prosperity of Wales that deep mining continues to exist."
Mr Morales was flying home from Moscow when his plane was forced to reroute to Vienna, amid rumours that US fugitive Edward Snowden was on board.
Mr Snowden, a former CIA contractor, is wanted by the US on charges of leaking secrets about US surveillance schemes.
The European countries have variously denied closing their airspace.
Mr Snowden was not on the flight, and is still believed to be in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
But Spanish officials admitted that they had been told Mr Snowden was on board the plane.
Several Latin American countries have condemned the incident and accused the US of influencing its European allies.
"We are simply asking the government of Spain and the other governments to clarify and explain where that version of Mr Snowden being on the presidential plane came from," said Bolivian Communications Minister Amanda Davila.
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"Who spread that fallacy, that lie?"
Meanwhile, the diplomatic row spilled onto the streets of La Paz, as thousands of Bolivians staged demonstrations against the US and four European countries.
Hundreds of protesters reportedly gathered outside the US embassy, demanding that the US diplomatic mission be closed and setting fire to US, Spanish, French and Portuguese flags.
The US wants Mr Snowden extradited on charges of leaking secrets he gathered while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), America's electronic spying agency.
Ireland's High Court on Monday rejected a bid by the US to obtain a provisional arrest warrant for Mr Snowden in the event he landed on Irish soil.
Judge Colm Mac Eochaidh said he was "compelled" to refuse the request because it did not specify where the alleged offences were committed. However, he said this should not prevent the US authorities from making a fresh application.
Mr Snowden, 30, has requested asylum in more than 20 countries.
Several Latin American nations have indicated they would give him protection if asked.
Nicaragua confirmed on Monday that it had received a formal asylum request, and indicated last week that it would give him protection.
Correspondents say the furore surrounding Mr Morales' plane has made Latin America a likely destination for Mr Snowden.
But he faces major difficulties in arranging passage from Moscow if Western European nations will not allow him to fly over their territory.
Mr Snowden's leaks have led to revelations that the US is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data under an NSA programme known as Prism.
The Guardian and Washington Post interviewed him at length last month in Hong Kong, where he fled after revealing details about Prism.
The Guardian published another video segment of that interview on Monday, with Mr Snowden predicting that the US would accuse him of "grave crimes".
Mr Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow on 23 June and has not been seen since.
He said Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the coalition against so-called Islamic State, was "definitely" supporting the YPG in Syria and the separatist PKK.
The minister was in Washington with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who met US President Donald Trump.
Tensions were high after Mr Trump said he would arm the Syrian Kurds.
Turkey sees the YPG (Popular Protection Units) as a terrorist group linked to the PKK, which has been fighting inside Turkey since the 1980s. But last week the Pentagon said it was directly arming YPG fighters as they moved towards IS's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.
On his return to Ankara, the foreign minister said Turkey had been assured that after the operation in Raqqa, territory seized from the jihadists would be handed back to the local Arab population. But he said Mr McGurk was openly supporting the Kurds and "it would be beneficial" if the US special envoy left.
President Erdogan told Turkish media in Washington that he had told Mr Trump that Turkey would hit back "without asking anyone" if it came under attack from the Syrian Kurds.
His visit was overshadowed by violence outside the Turkish ambassador's home.
Police in Washington said the clash "appeared to be a brutal attack on peaceful protesters" and video footage showed men in suits charging past police to kick and punch a group of demonstrators.
The US state department said Turkish security guards had been involved in the clash but Turkey blamed the protesters for the disturbance.
Mr Cavusoglu also took aim at Germany, after it said it would start considering alternatives to using the Incirlik airbase, which is being used by the international coalition as a launchpad for anti-IS air raids.
Turkey earlier this week refused to allow a group of German MPs to visit 250 members of the German armed forces at Incirlik.
The Turkish foreign minister said Germany was free to move its troops if it wanted to. "We are not going to beg," he said. "They were the ones who wanted to come and we helped them."
The Turkish refusal was ostensibly in response to Germany's decision to grant asylum to Turkish military officers accused of backing last year's failed coup against President Erdogan.
The prime minister was criticised for refusing to condemn President Trump's executive order on Saturday.
It halted all refugee admissions and has temporarily barred people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
At an earlier news conference in Turkey, Mrs May said it was up to the US to decide its own policy.
Mr Trump has also banned Syrian refugees indefinitely and suspended visas for people from six other countries.
The PM's refusal to openly challenge the ban had prompted criticism from politicians, including Conservative MPs.
Heidi Allen, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, said on Twitter: "Strong leadership means not being afraid to tell someone powerful when they're wrong."
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said Mrs May showed "weak failure" in standing up for British values.
"President Trump's executive order against refugees and Muslims should shock and appal us all," he added.
A holidaymaker from Glasgow says she is "upset" and "afraid" after being refused boarding for her flight home to Scotland.
Hamaseh Tayari, who holds an Iranian passport, was due to fly from Costa Rica to New York, and then from New York to Glasgow, but was stopped due to the ban.
She said staff at San Jose airport in Coast Rica were sympathetic but that "it's a crazy thing that I really didn't expect to happen to me."
Another Conservative MP, Nadhim Zahawi, who is of Iraqi origin, said a US immigration lawyer had told him he would be affected by the ban.
"A sad sad day to feel like a second-class citizen," he said. "Sad day for the USA."
Conservative peer Baroness Warsi wrote on Twitter: "The moment we once again lost a little more moral authority. The hypocrisy of the debate on #Britishvalues becomes more stark by the day."
At a news conference in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Benali Yildirim on Saturday, Mrs May said the US was responsible for its own refugee policy.
She added: "The United Kingdom is responsible for the United Kingdom's policy on refugees.
"[This] is to have a number of voluntary schemes to bring Syrian refugees into the country, particularly those who are most vulnerable, but also to provide significant financial contributions to support refugees in countries surrounding Syria."
First Minister Alex Salmond made the announcement in the Scottish Parliament.
The inquiry will try to find out why the project - with a final bill of £776m - was delayed and went badly over-budget.
The Scottish capital's trams began running on 31 May, after six years of disruption and cost increases.
Mr Salmond told MSPs it would be a "swift and thorough" inquiry.
The first minister had previously cited "considerable public concern" over the project, which he said had disrupted homes and businesses in Edinburgh.
The problems included a dispute between the city council and its contractor.
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Defending champion Djokovic - trying to win a calendar Grand Slam - beat Briton James Ward 6-0 7-6 (7-3) 6-4.
Third seed Federer, troubled by injury problems this year, saw off Argentina's Guido Pella 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3.
The Swiss will next play British qualifier Marcus Willis, who stunned world number 54 Ricardas Berankis.
Federer, without a Grand Slam title since winning at SW19 in 2012, was below his best but beat the world number 52 in two hours and five minutes.
Seven-time champion Federer, who missed last month's French Open because of a back injury, said it was "nice to be back".
"I felt great," he told BBC Sport. "I'm so happy to be here. I have worked hard since February to be here and hoped not to miss Wimbledon and to be here fully fit so we will see if I am."
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The Swiss added he was "intrigued" by the progress of Briton Willis, the world number 772.
"It is what our sport needs, where guys come from nowhere," said the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
"We have had a hard time producing those players and I am really looking forward to playing him - couldn't be more excited."
In the first match on Centre Court, Djokovic - searching for his fourth SW19 title - took the first nine games but Ward fought back in the second set, finally getting on the scoreboard in the 10th game, much to the delight of the partisan crowd.
But Djokovic - who holds all four Grand Slam titles - showed his class and big-game experience to advance.
"James was serving with a lot of precision and it was not easy to break his serve," the 29-year-old told BBC Sport.
"There is not really not much to say about the first nine games - it was flawless.
"I felt great and nerves kicked in for James. He started playing better in the second set and it got close - it was solid performance from me, though.
"This is probably the most unique experience in tennis, playing as the defending champion, on untouched grass. It is really special to feel this tradition."
In front of new coach John McEnroe, sixth seed Milos Raonic overcame Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 6-4.
"John is one of the more positive people, especially a contrast to the way he might have been on court," said the Canadian.
"He's very persistent in enforcing the positive things you do well. I think he shows that. It's good to have him here and that he has made the time possible."
Fifth seed Kei Nishikori needed a medical timeout but overcame big-serving Australian Sam Groth 6-4 6-3 7-5 in two hours and 10 minutes.
Sam Querrey was involved in an opening-round match against Czech Lukas Rosol that lasted three hours and 21 minutes. The American, seeded 28th, won 12-10 in the final set.
Querrey had lost the first two sets on tie-breaks but won the next two 6-4 6-2 to force the epic decider.
It was nowhere near the record set by John Isner and Nicolas Mahut in 2010, won 70-68 in the final set by Isner after 11 hours and five minutes of play over three days.
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The Sir Richard Hotham scheme for Bognor Regis, spread across three sites including the Regis Centre, was turned down by Arun District Council.
It is the latest chapter in a long-running saga to redevelop the area.
The council said it had responded to local people's wishes but critics said it was a wasted opportunity.
Councillors rejected the planning application because of concerns over the lack of affordable housing, the impact of extra traffic and the scheme's viability and design.
The Sir Richard Hotham Project said the company was disappointed and surprised and would take legal advice before deciding whether to appeal or to submit a modified planning application.
The Conservative-led council said in a statement it remained committed to creating new jobs in Bognor and increasing visitor numbers.
Lib Dem councillor Francis Oppler said the redevelopment had not moved forward in 10 years.
"We have no plan, no developer and we have had 10 years of wasted opportunities," he said.
More than 68 million visits were made between January to November last year.
But the figures from the Great Britain Day Visits Survey (GBDS) showed this was down 19% on those months in 2014.
However, the Welsh government said domestic overnight trips to Wales for the first nine months of 2015 increased by 1.8% on the previous year.
For day trips, the survey also showed visits generated expenditure of £2.4bn in 2015, down 1% on the previous year.
In contrast, spending on overnight visits to Wales between January to September last year rose by 12% compared to the same period in 2014.
A Welsh government spokeswoman said the fall in day visits was "not unique to Wales".
"Although the number of trips is down 19%, the spend is only down 1%, compared to a record breaking year in 2014," she said.
"Meanwhile, domestic overnight figures for the first nine months of 2015 show an increase of 2% in the number of trips and 12% in expenditure, which means that more people are staying in Wales longer and spending more, which is excellent news for Wales' economy.
"This also suggests the decrease in volume of day visitors, as reported in the Great Britain Day Visits Survey may in part be due to visitors taking longer trips instead of day visits."
The man was seen walking with two other suspects shortly before twin explosions tore through Zaventem airport.
Both men died in the attacks after detonating suicide devices, a Belgian prosecutor said.
Anti-terror raids have taken place across Belgium. So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attacks.
An online statement from the group said the locations were "carefully selected" and warned of worse to come for "Crusader states allied against the Islamic State".
The US State Department has urged US citizens of "potential risks" of travelling to Europe.
"Terrorist groups continue to plan near-term attacks throughout Europe, targeting sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants and transportation," a statement said.
Belgian prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said police were seeking a man wearing a hat and light-coloured jacket.
He said searches were taking place "in several parts of the country", adding that an explosive device containing nails, chemical products and an IS flag were found in an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels.
The raid in Schaerbeek reportedly followed a tip-off from a taxi driver who had driven the three suspected bombers to the airport.
The explosions happened in quick succession shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT), with some victims reportedly hit by the second blast as they tried to escape the first.
Another bomb was later found and destroyed in a controlled detonation at the scene.
The Zaventem mayor, Francis Vermeiren, told the AFP agency the suicide attackers used bombs hidden in their suitcases.
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About an hour after the airport blasts, another explosion struck the Maelbeek metro station near EU headquarters.
It has not been confirmed what caused the explosion but IS said it too was a suicide bombing.
Belgian officials put the death toll from both attacks at more than 30, with at least 11 killed at the airport and about 20 at the metro station.
About 250 people have been injured, many of them severely.
The blasts came days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in last year's Paris attacks which were also claimed by IS.
"This is a day of tragedy, a black day," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. "I would like to call on everyone to show calmness and solidarity."
Belgium has raised its terrorism alert to its highest level. Three days of national mourning have been declared.
Some local transport has re-opened following a shutdown, but flights from the airport have been cancelled and the airport is unlikely to open for several days. Eurostar services in and out of Brussels have been suspended.
World leaders have sent condolences and messages of solidarity.
US President Barack Obama called the blasts "outrageous attacks against innocent people" while the 28 EU leaders - in a joint statement - said the bombings were an "attack on our open, democratic society".
The UN Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said the attacks showed the urgent need to "extinguish the fire of war" in Syria so the focus could turn to IS.
International landmarks, such as the Trevi fountain in Rome and the Eiffel Tower, have been lit up in the colours of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims.
McDonald, 35, had a deal until October 2017 but is leaving a year early to coach Melbourne Renegades and Victoria.
South African De Bruyn, 39, is promoted from his position as assistant coach.
Chief executive Wasim Khan told BBC Radio Leicester: "He's a good technical coach, man manager, and a visionary."
McDonald, who rejoined Leicestershire prior to the start of the 2014 season, was in talks about his future after turning around the club's fortunes on the field.
Under the Australian, Leicestershire have gone from a team who had not won a Championship match for two years to a side who pushed for promotion this season.
Khan added: "The club has made massive strides forward in the two years that Andrew has been here and Pierre will now carry on that excellent work in what are hugely exciting times.
"What we've got with Pierre is someone who will very hungry to bring success."
Dottin (45) and Stafanie Taylor (47) helped the Windies make 114-8.
Jhulan Goswami's rapid 26 from 19 balls left India needing 10 from the last over, bowled by Dottin (3-16), but they fell short on 111-9 in Mohali.
It means England must beat Pakistan later to be sure of qualification, as a heavy defeat would risk elimination.
A Pakistan win would leave them, West Indies and England all on six points, with the two teams with the best net run-rate going through.
Renowned as one of the biggest hitters in women's cricket, Dottin did not clear the ropes on this occasion but the Barbados all-rounder's 45 from 40 balls, including five fours, provided the acceleration they required to set a competitive total.
Only captain Taylor, who added 77 with Dottin for the fourth wicket, offered support as the other seven Windies batters contributed just 18 runs between them against India's five-pronged spin attack.
India lost captain and batting kingpin Mithali Raj to the first legal delivery of the innings, but Dottin's right-arm seam was introduced for the fourth over and she took a wicket with her first ball to remove Veda Krishnamurthy, who had smashed four early boundaries.
Although India were already eliminated, Goswami and Anuja Patil (26) threatened a consolation victory in front of a growing crowd arriving early for the India-Australia men's game, Dottin held her nerve to pick up two wickets and a run-out in the last over.
West Indies must wait for England's game with Pakistan to find out their semi-final opponents. The group winners will face Australia in Delhi on Wednesday, the runners-up meet unbeaten New Zealand in Mumbai on Thursday.
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The Beijing-based Reignwood group wanted to cut membership at Wentworth in Surrey from 4,000 to 900 to make it the most exclusive club in the world.
It was to charge existing members a £100,000 debenture and increase annual subscriptions from £8,000 to £16,000.
Now the club has said existing members will not have to pay the new debenture.
Residents of the neighbouring Wentworth Estate, where houses can cost many millions, will also get reduced rates.
The club announced in October it would be charging existing members £100,000 and new joiners £125,000.
The planned charges led to a bitter dispute between golfers and Reignwood, who bought the club for £135m in 2014.
Club members and Wentworth Estate residents threatened legal action against the proposals which they said would fundamentally change its nature and character.
Residents also threatened to block roads during the European Tour's PGA championship, held at the course every year.
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A planning inspector supported Cherwell District Council's decisions on where to allocate housing in its Local Plan.
Michael Gibbard, Cherwell's lead member for planning, said it now had a "legally sound document" which clearly defined "approved sites for development".
Councillors will vote on whether to adopt the plan on 20 July.
The council proposes building 7,319 homes for Banbury, 10,129 homes in Bicester, and 5,392 homes elsewhere including about 2,361 at the former RAF Upper Heyford base.
The plan also outlines 61 hectares of employment land in Banbury and 138.5 hectares in Bicester.
Inspector Nigel Payne reduced the amount of employment land allocated in Banbury, bordering south Northamptonshire, by 36 hectares for being too large.
Mr Gibbard said: "Mr Payne supported all of the sites allocated for housing and employment with some modifications and did not propose any additional sites for development.
"His report is the penultimate stage of a 10-year process to get a new local plan adopted and having received the report, the final stage is for councillors to accept the inspector's recommendations.
"Cherwell will no longer be held to ransom by opportunistic developers and will once again be in charge of its own destiny."
Police said 23,000 attended the neolithic site in Wiltshire to watch the sun rise at 04:52 BST, while others gathered at the nearby Avebury stone circle.
The figure was down on the estimated 36,000 who attended last year and the 30,000 expected this year.
Wiltshire Police said the celebrations were "positive and peaceful".
The summer solstice usually occurs on 21 June, but can occur on 20 and 22 June.
Police said arrests were lower than in previous years, with nine people being held for drugs offences at Stonehenge and a handful being cautioned for possession of Class A drugs, while no arrests were made at Avebury.
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• On Litha, the central Altar stone at Stonehenge aligns with the Heel stone, the Slaughter stone and the rising sun to the north east
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The formula uses area, density and a drag coefficient to help competitors find the perfect twig.
It was written by Dr Rhys Morgan, from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and is to accompany a new book called Poohstickopedia.
Visit England then compiled a list of the top places around the country to play the classic pastime.
PP = A x I x Cd
PP is Perfect Poohstick
A is Cross Sectional Area
I is density of the stick
Cd is the drag coefficient of the stick
Competitors might be helped by the maths behind the formula devised by Dr Morgan.
He concluded, PP = A x I x Cd where PP is Perfect Poohstick, A is cross sectional area, I is density of the stick and Cd is the drag coefficient.
Sheepwash Bridge in Ashford-in-the-Water in the Derbyshire Peak District is at the top of the list of places where the formula can be tested.
The game was first devised by Winnie the Pooh in AA Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner and involves dropping sticks from a bridge.
Competitors then cross to the downstream side of the bridge and wait to see whose comes out first.
Pooh Bear originally stumbled across the game when he dropped a pine cone in a stream in Hundred Acre Wood only for it to float away.
It is now a popular pastime as these two youngsters demonstrate on the River Test at Mottisfont near Romsey in Hampshire.
Pack Horse Bridge in Watendlath in the Lake District in Cumbria sits fourth on the Visit England list.
The National Trust house and gardens at Mottisfont, which date from the 13th Century, are fifth and Mathematical Bridge in Cambridge also provides another spot to play.
Thomas Telford was involved in the production of the 1813 cast-iron Cantlop Bridge over Cound Brook in Shropshire which sits at number 10 among the places to play Poohsticks.
In Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner, EH Shepard illustrated the chapter "in which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in", based on Posingford Bridge near Milne's home in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex.
The bridge fell into disrepair but was restored and reopened by the author's son Christopher Robin Milne in 1979.
Dr Wollaston, chairman of the health select committee, said Vote Leave's claim that Brexit would free up £350m a week for the NHS "simply isn't true".
She told the BBC she did not feel comfortable being part of the campaign.
Leave campaigners defend the £350m figure, saying it is the UK's gross contribution and any money received back is at EU officials' discretion.
But the Totnes MP, a former GP, said: "For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue.
"If you're in a position where you can't hand out a Vote Leave leaflet, you can't be campaigning for that organisation."
Dr Wollaston said she thought there would be a "Brexit penalty" on the NHS because leaving the EU would hit Britain's economy.
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"The consensus now is there would be a huge economic shock if we voted to leave," she said. "Undoubtedly, the thing that's most going to influence the financial health of the NHS is the background economy. So I think there would be a Brexit penalty."
Dr Wollaston defended her decision to change camps saying "nobody wants politicians who make the wrong decision" and it would be "far worse" not to change her mind.
Dr Wollaston said attacks Conservatives had made on each other during the campaign were "really unfortunate", and in a blog post, said the Leave campaign's focus on immigration made it look "increasingly indistinguishable from UKIP".
In February, Dr Wollaston accused Prime Minster David Cameron of "taking voters for fools" for suggesting refugee camps like the "Jungle" in Calais could move to England if the UK left the EU.
Mr Cameron tweeted that her decision to swap sides in the referendum debate was a "powerful intervention".
Vote Leave has been urged to stop using the £350m claim by the UK statistics watchdog and the Treasury select committee but the campaign insists that although Britain gets some of the money back it does not have control over how it is spent.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Leave-backing Conservative John Redwood said he hoped Dr Wollaston would reconsider, but acknowledged the £350 million was the gross figure of the UK's contribution to the EU, before the rebate and the money that came back to the UK.
The former cabinet minister said: "Our Brexit budget has always concentrated on all the money we do send to them that we don't get back, which is about half of that gross total."
He added: "I hope Sarah will think again because she, like me, thinks we need to spend more money on health.
"We can do so out of all the money that we save and we would also be able to give that cancellation of VAT on fuel to people's households."
Leave campaigner Michael Gove has urged the government to commit to spend an extra £100m a week on the NHS by 2020 if Britain votes to quit the EU on 23 June.
Meanwhile, in a blow to the Remain campaign, Sir John Nott, Conservative defence minister during the 1982 Falklands War, has suspended his membership of the party because of David Cameron's "tirade of fear" during the EU referendum campaign, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Sir John, who famously stormed out of a live interview with the BBC's Sir Robin Day during the Falklands War, is reported to believe that Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne have "poisoned the debate" with their "frenetic" warnings about the consequences of a Brexit.
Featherstone, 27, has made 78 appearances for Pools since signing as a free agent in October 2014.
"He's really taken to the way we're trying to play," manager Craig Hignett told the club website.
"If you look at how consistent he's been over the last two months it shows what a really good footballer he is."
The Witch, as the machine is known, has been restored to clattering and flashing life in a three-year effort.
In its heyday in the 1950s the machine was the workhorse of the UK's atomic energy research programme.
A happy accident led to its discovery in a municipal storeroom where it had languished for 15 years.
The machine will make its official public debut at a special ceremony at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in Bletchley Park on 20 November. Attending the unveiling will be some of its creators as well as staff that used it and students who cut their programming teeth on the machine.
Design and construction work on the machine began in 1949 and it was built to aid scientists working at the UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in Oxfordshire. The 2.5 tonne machine was created to ease the burden on scientists by doing electronically the calculations that previously were done using adding machines.
The machine first ran in 1951 and was known as the Harwell Dekatron - so named for the valves it used as a memory store. Although slow - the machine took up to 10 seconds to multiply two numbers - it proved very reliable and often cranked up 80 hours of running time in a week.
By 1957 the machine was being outstripped by faster, smaller computers and it was handed over to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College (more recently Wolverhampton University) where it was used to teach programming and began to be called the Witch (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell).
In 1973 it was donated to Birmingham's Museum of Science and Industry and was on show for 24 years until 1997 when the museum closed and the machine was dismantled and put into storage.
By chance Kevin Murrell, one of the TNMOC's trustees, spotted the control panel of the Witch in a photograph taken by another computer conservationist who had been in the municipal store seeking components for a different machine.
Mr Murrell said that as a "geeky teenager" he had regularly seen the Witch during many trips to the museum and instantly recognised its parts in the background of the photograph.
On subsequent trips to the storage facility the various parts of the Witch were found, retrieved and then taken to the museum at Bletchley where restoration began.
The restoration effort was led by conservationist Delwyn Holroyd who said it was "pretty dirty" when the machine first arrived at Bletchley. Remarkably, he said, it had not suffered too much physical damage and the restoration team has been at pains to replace as little as possible. The vast majority of the parts on the machine, including its 480 relays and 828 Dekatron tubes, are entirely original, he said.
Said Mr Murrell: "It's important for us to have a machine like this back in working order as it gives us an understanding of the state of technology in the late 1940s in Britain."
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said his team was held by a Shia militia group thought to be loyal to the Syrian government.
The team was captured shortly after crossing into north-west Syria on Thursday, escorted by rebel groups.
They were blindfolded, bound, and subjected to mock executions, NBC said.
"We weren't physically beaten or tortured," said Engel, who has lived in the Middle East since 1996 and speaks fluent Arabic.
"A lot of psychological torture, threats of being killed. They made us choose which one of us would be shot first and when we refused, there were mock shootings."
He was told the kidnappers wanted to exchange him and his crew for four Iranian and two Lebanese prisoners being held by Syrian rebels.
"They captured us in order to carry out this exchange," Engel said.
"They were talking openly about their loyalty to the government."
Engel said they were driving through an area they thought was under rebel control, when about 15 heavily armed gunmen "jumped out of the trees and bushes on the side of the road".
The men were wearing ski masks and dragged them out of their car.
At least one member of their rebel escort was shot dead "on the spot", Engel told NBC.
But the journalists were not harmed and the NBC team was taken to a truck waiting nearby.
The NBC journalists lost their captors as they were being moved to a new location on Monday evening, when they ran into a checkpoint manned by a rebel group.
After a firefight at the checkpoint, two captors were killed and the NBC crew escaped.
They crossed into Turkey on early Tuesday morning.
NBC said it had had no contact with the kidnappers or anyone representing them after Engel's disappearance and received no request for ransom.
The broadcaster tried to keep the crew's disappearance a secret, asking major US news organisations to not report their disappearance, fearing for their safety.
Some online news organisations and Twitter users did report on Monday about speculation that the crew had disappeared.
A similar agreement was put in place after New York Times reporter David Rohde was held in Afghanistan for several months from 2008 to 2009.
The Syrian government has barred most foreign media coverage of the civil war in Syria, which has killed more than 40,000 people since the uprising began in March 2011.
Many journalists sneak into Syria with the help of smugglers.
Several journalists have been killed covering the conflict. Among them are French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier, photographer Remi Ochlik and Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin.
Anthony Shadid, a correspondent for The New York Times, also died after an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.
After the Daily Mail reported double Olympic gold medallist Farah failed to hear the doorbell when UK anti-doping (Ukad) officers called at his house, a number of his Great Britain team-mates told BBC Sport of their near-misses.
Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton and 800m runners Jenny Meadows, Michael Rimmer and Lynsey Sharp all attested to how strict the requirements of the 'whereabouts' system are.
Sharp revealed how she spent one hour a day in a Boston cafe while on holiday for two weeks because the rented apartment doorbell didn't work, while Rimmer even suggests athletes are tagged to make it easier for the testers.
So how easy is it to miss a random drugs test? The BBC's chief sports writer Tom Fordyce recalls his month on the 'whereabouts' system...
You might think it was impossible. So did I. Which was why, back in 2011, I began a month-long experiment in which I was added to something called the National Registered Testing Pool.
This is the controversial heart of the fight against doping, the 'whereabouts' system that UK Anti-Doping uses to keep track of the country's 400 or so elite Olympians. Each athlete must specify where they will be for an hour a day, seven days a week, for three months in advance, as well as where they will be training each day.
If it sounds draconian, there is logic behind the imposition. Out-of-competition testing is far more likely to catch cheats than tests only taken at big events. To be effective, these tests must be unannounced. Hence the need to specify a window of opportunity.
Being someone who considers themselves relatively organised, I could envisage few problems doing it for just four weeks. That was to underestimate the detail required and the intervention of the real world.
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On a computer programme called Adams (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System), each athlete must submit a mountain of information: their residence for every day in that month, whether home address, hotel or friend's house; their full training schedule for every day; where they will be competing - dates, venues, times - and where and when their one-hour slot will be.
The programme itself looks a little like Microsoft Outlook, albeit initially less intuitive and a little more fiddly. There is a clickable daily calendar, contacts section and area for direct messages.
Each athlete has access to a support officer who is available to help them 24 hours a day. This quickly becomes essential, because everything takes time. For every address you might stay at overnight you have to input full details - not just the name and street, but specific instructions - ring top doorbell, blue door on left, code for front gate etc.
If you spend your entire life in one place it wouldn't take very long. But sportsmen don't. Neither do sports journalists. In that month I was due to be in Southampton to cover cricket, Wimbledon for the tennis, some friends for a weekend away, a stag-do in London and a hotel or two for other work trips. That's a lot of addresses.
Then there are the spontaneous complications.
One morning my mum called, inviting me over for Sunday lunch. Among the things to remember when visiting home (flowers, better manners), emailing the drug-testers to give them her address did not come naturally.
So much for the theory. When the testers actually came, I almost missed them.
Having worked until the early hours and been up in the night to comfort my then-three month old son, I slept right through the 6.30am doorbell.
Only my partner heard it. Had she too missed it, or had chosen to ignore it and stay in bed rather than opening the door, the DCO (doping control officer) would then have tried again every quarter of an hour.
My mobile was out of action, turned off in the hope of a lie-in. The DCO could not have called it anyway. Testing cannot be done without warning if your phone alerts you first.
Had I failed to respond to the doorbell's nudges for duration of my specified hour, it would have been logged in the system as a missed test.
As a result, that morning I noted two apposite lessons: one, install a loud doorbell, and two, make sure you can hear it anywhere in the house.
But I had made another error a few days earlier that might have been just as costly.
Due to interview hurdlers Dai Greene, Jack Green and Lawrence Clarke down in Bath, I decided to set off early to dodge the traffic on the M4. Which was fine, but meant I left at 7am - half way through my specified testing window.
Because I was sleeping in my own bed I didn't think about updating Adams - 7am didn't even feel that early. The only alarms going off were on my bedside table.
You could argue that those sorts of mistakes are much more likely when you are in the early stages of learning the system. With time, making such adjustments may have become second nature.
It was also easy to make a tweak. You could change that specified hour up to 60 seconds before it is due to start, by sending a text message, phoning a dedicated number or by going online and accessing Adams. There is now a smartphone app which makes it even simpler.
The education officers will even keep an eye on your Adams and send you a message if it looks like you've neglected to put the right information - for example, if you're off to France to represent Britain in a competition and haven't altered your schedule to reflect that.
Neither was my career in danger from my month in the testing pool. Had my reputation and future been dependent on getting even the smallest details right, perhaps it would have been an hourly priority. This, after all, is an athlete's chance to prove to the world that they are working their sporting wonders in a clean and fair way.
And yet. There were enough diligent, intelligent athletes I spoke to at the time who had either had close shaves or missed a test through an arbitrary change of circumstance for you to understand how it could happen.
An injury which led to an emergency trip to the physio's. A child falling ill. A big exam the next day. Where there is stress and panic, logic can get lost.
Me? I could understand why the system is as it is. It's a tough regime to live under, but if we can't trust the sport we are watching, we may as well give up.
Vicky Godley, who started at the school in September as deputy head teacher, will start in the role on 16 April.
Geoff Cowley, acting head teacher, will return to his role as School Improvement Partner.
The school was heavily criticised in its latest validation report and for poor GCSE results last year.
Alan Brown, deputy director of education, said: "We are confident that Vicky is the right candidate to lead the school as it continues to improve.
"She has the support of the staff, pupils and parents of the school and is having a positive impact through her work with the rest of the senior leadership team."
3 October 2013 Last updated at 20:53 BST
Chris Weller, who managed Gravesend and Northfleet Football Club back in the 1990s, keeps his crocodile, called Caesar, in his bungalow in Strood, Kent.
Mr Weller has specially adapted to his home to allow his caiman crocodile - which could grow to 15ft (4.5m) - free access of the ground floor.
Adam Rushton, 37, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, denies 10 counts of misconduct in a public office and two offences under data protection laws.
The Staffordshire police constable is alleged to have committed the offences between June 2006 and October 2012.
He met all of the women through his job as a beat officer, the court heard.
PC Rushton told Birmingham Crown Court it was "not very professional" to go to one woman's home for oral sex, while separately sleeping with two others.
He denied sleeping with another woman with whom he exchanged "flirty" text messages, after her initial call about a neighbour dispute.
He also told the jury there was no truth he tricked another woman into showing him a naked picture of herself to avoid being arrested.
The constable, who was based at Longton police station in Stoke-on-Trent, accepted he had slept with one woman after his shift had finished, an act he described as "morally terrible", because he was seeing his future wife at the time.
Defence barrister Kevin Baumber asked: "In terms of any on-duty contact with any of these people, was there ever a time you left in the middle of something to go and see them?"
The constable replied: "No, it was the opposite, I never did - I never let any of my team down."
Earlier, the jury heard PC Rushton had an impressive professional record as a neighbourhood policing officer, with many letters of praise from senior officers.
Jurors also heard how the officer had twice been injured in the line of duty, once when a car was reversed into him, and once when he tackled an escaped prisoner and was left out of action for nine months.
Opening the trial earlier this week, prosecutor Duncan Bould said the allegations all related to the officer's sex life.
The prosecution told the court PC Rushton's work brought him regularly into contact with "vulnerable and frightened females".
"We say he sought to take advantage of those situations to have sexual activity of some kind with them," Mr Bould said.
The jury heard none of the women had made any complaints to the police about PC Rushton.
When he was first interviewed in April 2013 the officer had denied sleeping with all but one of the women, the court was told.
The trial continues.
The decision was made after 14 of the laureates threatened to boycott the event.
The mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille, supported the boycott, criticising the government's "intransigence".
South Africa has denied the Dalai Lama a visa three times in five years.
The 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was scheduled to start next week but organisers say it will now be moved to another country.
Attendees were planning to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid as well as honour the late Nelson Mandela, himself a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
The Dalai Lama on Thursday accused South Africa of "bullying a simple person".
It has been suggested that South Africa is trying to ally with China, which views the Tibetan spiritual leader as a separatist.
Desmond Tutu, another Nobel Peace Prize winner and a South African, also criticised the government.
"I'm ashamed to call this lickspittle bunch my government," he said.
The 23-year-old defender will join the Women's Super League side on 3 January from French club Montpellier.
The daughter of former British Lions rugby union player John and sister of Scotland rugby international Johnnie moved to France in 2013 after four successful years at Arsenal Ladies.
Beattie said: "City have their targets set on winning trophies and that's the kind of club I want to be at."
The Blues won their first major trophy last season as they beat holders Arsenal 1-0 to lift the 2014 Continental Cup.
More than 500 scientists are swapping the lecture hall for the local, sharing research with the public over a drink.
Topics include the study of social drinking and the science in films such as Star Wars, Star Trek and Interstellar.
The Pint of Science festival runs until 20 May.
Scientists Michael Motskin and Praveen Paul started the festival three years ago after inviting members of the public into their labs to show them the kind of research they do.
It was so successful that Dr Motskin and Dr Paul decided to "take the scientists to the people" and organised the first science talk in a pub, leading to the creation of the festival.
"Our approach is simple," said Dr Motskin.
"We ask top scientists to present their scientific discoveries in a down-to-Earth setting over a drink or two.
"I have seen during my own career that scientists can appear distant to people, a situation that leads to distrust and suspicion about our work.
"That is why we want to bring back the personal touch and give everyone a chance to pick the brains of the UK's most brilliant academics, away from the stuffy laboratory or lecture theatre."
The lectures are taking place in cities across the country, with live experiments, quizzes and "geeky puzzles".
Scientific themes open for discussion are:
The BBC understands gamers have been walking on to the tracks at Birmingham New Street.
Network Rail has warned that trains can reach high speeds and gamers "are likely to be distracted" when playing.
Pokemon Go developers, US firm Niantic, has not yet responded to questions from the BBC.
Updates on this story and others around Birmingham and the Black Country
Network Rail, which has put up warnings on electronic signs at New Street, controls 2,500 stations as well as tracks, tunnels and level crossings and says trains can reach speeds of 100mph (160kmh).
British Transport Police (BTP) said it had no records of trespass at Birmingham's central station related to Pokemon Go but warned of the dangers it can pose.
The online game - which is attracting millions of players - involves finding virtual Pokemon characters in real locations across the world.
Some of those locations have been designated as PokeStops, which players visit to collect items during the game, and PokeGyms, where gamers go to train their virtual monsters.
Lisbeth Fromling, chief health and safety officer at Network Rail, said: "We do have safety concerns around the locations of certain PokeGyms and PokeStops which we believe are too close to the working railway.
"We are concerned that by playing the game on or very close to our infrastructure, young people are likely to be distracted and even less aware than usual of the risks around them.
"We are in the process of making contact with the app developers and with Nintendo to share our concerns in the hope that we can work together to make the app safer."
The Challenge Cup match in Belfast should have gone into sudden death overtime, and penalties if necessary, to determine the winning team.
Overtime will now be played ahead of the league game between the sides.
The Elite League apologised for "an on-ice error and any inconvenience caused to supporters".
Craig Peacock, Mitch Ganzak on the powerplay and Colin Shields were the scorers for the Giants in Friday night's encounter.
Craig McCallum, Ryan Hayes and David Rutherford were on target for Capitals.
The #WordsAtWork campaign by the country's Diversity Council asks people to avoid expressions they say exclude minority groups.
Using "girls" for women, and "walk the talk" to people in wheelchairs, are among terms they say are offensive.
Mr Morrison was awarded the role of Australian of the Year partly for his equality campaigning.
The former military man - once chief of the Australian Army - admitted he had used some of the terms himself.
But of "guys" Mr Morrison said "I have now removed that from my lexicon as best I can. I think it's important."
Insisting the campaign was not intended to create a "language police", he said: "People use language to denigrate others and to take away their self-respect. Sometimes it happens unconsciously, but the effect is the same."
While some praised the inclusive language drive, not everyone agreed that "guys" was offensive, or that it was the most urgent problem that the Australian of the Year could be tackling.
Some wondered if the thoroughly Australian greeting "mate" - often used by and for men - would be next.
Australian National University language expert Catherine Travis also questioned whether "guys" was still a gender-specific term, telling Australia's ABC that "you guys" was now widely used of all genders.
There was broader agreement on some other terms though, including against using "gay" in a negative fashion.
The 31-year-old tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, at Musselburgh on 1 February.
Cook has not ridden since accepting an interim suspension by the British Horse Racing Authority last month.
Taking a Class A drug "the night before he was booked to take six rides, which he then rode, was a serious matter," the BHA said in a statement.
BHA spokesman Robin Mounsey added: "The ban will be backdated to when Danny stopped riding on 24 February."
Cook won the Plate at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival on Great Endeavour.
He said Labour voters were key to Remain winning but they had been turned off the debate by media pre-occupation with Conservative infighting.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had "been working very hard" but his message "hasn't been cutting through", he said.
Later, ex-PM Gordon Brown and ex-leader Neil Kinnock will stage a pro-EU rally.
Mr Brown, who played a pivotal role in the campaign to keep Scotland in the UK in 2014, will use the event in Glasgow to urge Scottish voters to vote to stay in the EU.
There will be a separate Labour rally in Birmingham.
There are just two weeks to go until the UK decides on its future in the EU, in an in-out referendum on 23 June.
The Remain campaign believes Labour voters will be essential to winning the referendum but it has concerns about turnout levels among the group.
Mr Khan, the newly-elected mayor of London, said Labour had a "monumental responsibility" to ensure it mobilised its supporters to vote in favour of continued EU membership.
"The worry that we have is, for understandable reasons because a lot of the media attention has been on so-called 'blue on blue' attacks - Boris Johnson versus David Cameron, Michael Gove versus George Osborne - Labour voters have been turned off," he said.
He said he was trying to "remind Labour voters and supporters" why it was "so important" for the UK to remain in the EU - and was calling on them to persuade friends and family to vote Remain.
Asked whether he believed Jeremy Corbyn - who has been very critical of the EU in the past - had done enough to make the case for the EU, Mr Khan said the leader had been busy campaigning around the UK.
"Jeremy has been working really hard, talking to members, to citizens around the country," he said, but added: "What's clear is that it hasn't been cutting through."
He said the town hall campaign approach was not enough on its own.
"Too many Labour voters, supporters don't understand that we are unequivocally united about the importance of remaining in the European Union," Mr Khan said.
But he said it was not Mr Corbyn's responsibility alone to get the message out, and said: "All of us have a responsibility, we can't just put it on the leader's shoulders."
While the majority of the Labour Party is in support of the UK's EU membership, a handful of its MPs are supporting an EU exit, including Gisela Stuart, chairwoman of Vote Leave campaign.
Ms Stuart has said the EU has been bad for workers, saying levels of unemployment in eurozone countries were in the "double digits".
"This notion that the European Union is this great paragon of social justice - think again," she has said.
They were detained on the Andover Estate in Islington in the early hours of the morning having been tracked by a police helicopter.
Police said they had dumped a stolen moped and other items before entering an address where they were arrested.
Officers said they were not detained in connection with a specific incident.
The number of attacks involving corrosive fluids has risen sharply in the capital in recent years.
There were 454 such crimes last year compared to 261 in 2015.
The four teenagers were "not detained on the basis of information connecting them to a specific acid attack", officers said.
The company, which makes Kitkat and Aero, says its researchers have found a way to structure sugar differently, so that it uses 40% less.
It claims this can be done without affecting the taste.
Nestle says it is patenting the findings, and it would start using the new sugar across its range from 2018.
Its scientists altered the structure of sugar so that it dissolves more quickly.
This fools the taste buds, with the effect of raising the sweetness, claims Nestle.
The company's chief technology officer, Stefan Catsicas, described the work as "truly groundbreaking research".
It is hard to generalise about how much sugar is in chocolate, as it varies from brand to brand.
But milk chocolate is typically 50% sugar - some of which comes from the milk used.
White chocolate could be as much as 60% sugar.
The amount of sugar in dark chocolate is highly variable. It can be as much as 40%, but it can have no sugar in it at all, although most people would consider that much too bitter.
Professor Julian Cooper, chair of the Scientific Committee at the Institute of Food Science and Technology, said Nestle's development was important: "This is good science. A lot of people have been looking at sugar trying to reduce the amount."
He said this would give Nestle products that use the adapted sugar the "halo-effect", in that people may think they can eat more.
But Professor Cooper, who has worked in sugar for 40 years, said Nestle's patents could spur rivals to make similar advances: "A patent is a double-edged sword. Although it protects what you have done it also tells your rivals about it."
Nestle has been cutting sugar across its range of products since 2007 when it introduced a "global policy on sugar reduction".
Other food companies have made technological breakthroughs with ingredients. Six years ago, PepsiCo, which owns the Walkers crisp brand, developed a designer salt molecule that it said would allow it to use less sodium without affecting taste.
Leigh Griffiths scored his 35th of the season just before half-time and Callum McGregor struck soon after the restart.
Sean Welsh pulled a goal back for the hosts with a penalty six minutes from time after Erik Sviatchenko was harshly done for dragging back Steven Lawless.
Celtic saw out some nervy minutes for their first win in three league games.
This game was open from the start. In the opening 10 minutes, Griffiths and Gary Mackay-Steven both went close to scoring, followed soon after by Liam Lindsay's thumping hit that Craig Gordon beat away.
Celtic had most efforts on goal in the opening half - eight to Thistle's three - and it was the last of them that proved the most telling.
Alan Archibald, Thistle's manager, would have been relatively happy with his team in the minutes leading up to the break. They had soaked up the pressure but had also threatened a few times down the other end. Parity at half-time would have done him nicely, but it was not to be.
The goal had its origins in hard work by Kieran Tierney and Mackay-Steven up the left. When the midfielder swung in his cross, Thistle lost their defensive bearings and allowed Griffiths to take over.
He controlled the ball with his first touch. As his markers evaporated, Griffiths struck his shot low past Tomas Cerny. The goalkeeper got a hand to it but could not keep it out. Yet again, Celtic's arch-marksman had done the job.
It was his eighth goal in eight games in a season that could well see him hit the precious half-century if he keeps going at his current rate.
The second half was only nine minutes old when they doubled their lead, McGregor coming in from the right-hand side of Thistle's penalty area and drilling a shot into the far corner of Cerny's net.
Griffiths could - and should - have had a second midway through the second half, but Cerny won the one-on-one battle. Colin Kazim-Richards, a second-half replacement for Kris Commons, got on the breaking ball but put a tame effort wide.
Later, the substitute set himself up with a chance, but that one went wide, too. Nir Bitton missed an easy chance also. None of these misses looked like they would have any relevance until that late penalty which could, at first viewing, could be categorised as the softest of the soft.
Welsh sent Gordon the wrong way from the spot and, suddenly, a cruise had become a bit of a bumpy ride. Celtic would have been feeling a tad queasy at the end of it, but they deserved their win.
It did not cost them, but they will ponder their profligacy all the same.
Match ends, Partick Thistle 1, Celtic 2.
Second Half ends, Partick Thistle 1, Celtic 2.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Liam Lindsay.
Substitution, Celtic. Efe Ambrose replaces Gary Mackay-Steven.
Foul by Mathias Pogba (Partick Thistle).
Nir Bitton (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ryan Edwards (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic).
Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mathias Pogba (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Substitution, Celtic. Stuart Armstrong replaces Leigh Griffiths because of an injury.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Kieran Tierney.
Foul by Christie Elliott (Partick Thistle).
Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Ryan Edwards replaces Steven Lawless.
Goal! Partick Thistle 1, Celtic 2. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Partick Thistle. Steven Lawless draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Nir Bitton (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Colin Kazim-Richards (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Amoo (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Christie Elliott (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Colin Kazim-Richards (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Christie Elliott replaces Gary Fraser.
Foul by Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle).
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle).
Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Colin Kazim-Richards (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Celtic. Colin Kazim-Richards replaces Kris Commons.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Kieran Tierney.
Gary Fraser (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Wilfried Bony steered in the opener, pouncing on a rebound off the post.
Kelechi Iheanacho turned in Raheem Sterling's cross for the first of four goals in the final 10 minutes.
Kevin de Bruyne raced past the Hull defence to poke in and then clipped in a delightful free-kick, before Andrew Robertson dinked the Championship side's consolation after a fine move.
Manchester City, who last won the competition in 2014, will find out their semi-final opponents when the draw is made on Wednesday.
Blues manager Manuel Pellegrini reiterated the importance of the League Cup to his club ahead of kick-off, particularly this season with Premier League rivals Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal already out.
And the competition holds particular significance for the Chilean, who won his first English trophy by leading the Blues to success in his first season.
Manchester City were stunned in the third round by a youthful Newcastle side last season, but they learned from this experience against Championship promotion hopefuls Hull.
The Premier League leaders fielded a strong side, dominating the tie without creating a host of clear-cut chances - at least until the final 10 minutes.
The manner in which the home side picked off a tiring Hull side in the closing stages demonstrated why they are considered the favourites to win the first silverware of the English season.
Hull, who are fourth in the Championship, were entering uncharted territory in the competition, having never previously progressed into the last eight.
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The Tigers looked to their surprise run to the 2014 FA Cup final - when they were narrowly beaten by Arsenal - for inspiration to beat City.
Several members of that team played at Etihad Stadium, but they were unable to really threaten as manager Steve Bruce's priority appeared to be containing their hosts.
Bruce made seven changes from the team which started Friday's home defeat by Derby - their first loss in 14 matches going back to early September.
But until Robertson's marvellous goal, where the Scotland international started the move inside his own half before finishing following a neat one-two, they rarely troubled home keeper Willy Caballero.
Spain midfielder David Silva made his first start for Manchester City since 3 October following an ankle injury, returning to captain the home side against Hull.
And the 29-year-old impressed with his usual touch and poise, as well as linking up with Belgium international De Bruyne to great effect.
While Silva pulled the strings, De Bruyne provided the punch.
The Belgium attacking midfielder continues to dazzle since arriving from German side Wolfsburg, taking his tally to nine goals and eight assists in 15 matches for the Blues.
Back to league action for these two high-flying teams.
Premier League leaders Manchester City go to 12th-placed Stoke City on Saturday, while Championship promotion hopefuls Hull visit Yorkshire rivals Leeds United.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini:
"The most important thing was to qualify for the semi-final but after that it was important for David Silva to have 80 minutes after a long injury.
"It was important for Bony to have 65 minutes after a muscle injury and for Kelechi, a young player, to score.
"I am very pleased because I think it was a difficult game against a good team that is at the top of the table in the Championship.
"More than that we played the third game in less than one week and we had a very good response from the team with different names."
Hull City manager Steve Bruce:
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"If we needed a reminder how cruel it was to play against the big boys, we just had one.
"After 80 minutes we just had our best spell of the match and after 87 minutes it was 4-0. It was never a 4-1.
"Defensively, apart from the goal, I can't remember them creating a chance in the first half even though they had huge possession."
Match ends, Manchester City 4, Hull City 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 4, Hull City 1.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Hull City).
Goal! Manchester City 4, Hull City 1. Andrew Robertson (Hull City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Abel Hernández.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fabian Delph.
Goal! Manchester City 4, Hull City 0. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Isaac Hayden (Hull City).
Foul by Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Moses Odubajo (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Manchester City. Martín Demichelis replaces David Silva.
Goal! Manchester City 3, Hull City 0. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Offside, Hull City. Jake Livermore tries a through ball, but Abel Hernández is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Jake Livermore (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Isaac Hayden following a corner.
Corner, Hull City. Conceded by Eliaquim Mangala.
Goal! Manchester City 2, Hull City 0. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a cross.
Attempt missed. Ahmed Elmohamady (Hull City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Fabian Delph (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Silva.
Harry Maguire (Hull City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City).
Foul by Fabian Delph (Manchester City).
Jake Livermore (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hull City. Robert Snodgrass replaces Sone Aluko.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Isaac Hayden (Hull City).
Attempt missed. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Wilfried Bony.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harry Maguire (Hull City).
Substitution, Hull City. Abel Hernández replaces Chuba Akpom.
Foul by Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City).
Sone Aluko (Hull City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Moses Odubajo.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Eldin Jakupovic.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bacary Sagna.
Substitution, Manchester City. Raheem Sterling replaces Jesús Navas.
Wilfried Bony (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ahmed Elmohamady (Hull City).
Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Hull City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jake Livermore.
A 1-0 victory at home to Slovenia on Sunday kept the Scots' hopes alive but they remain fourth in qualifying Group F, two points adrift of Slovakia in second and six behind leaders England.
Defender Robertson thinks the nation can really start to believe if Scotland beat England at Hampden on 10 June.
"If we pick up points in that game we're right back in it," he said.
"We're only two points off second and we have a massive game coming up against England at home. If we show that tempo and desire you never know what happens."
England maintained their dominance of Group F with a 2-0 win over Lithuania at Wembley on Sunday, and Scotland's recent record against their neighbours makes for grim reading.
They lost 3-0 at Wembley last November in the current campaign, and of the last 10 meetings between the sides Scotland have managed just one win and one draw.
But Robertson took heart from a slick showing against Slovenia. It took a late Chris Martin goal to win it but Scotland undoubtedly deserved the three points and should have scored more.
"From what I remember that's the best we've played in a while, especially first-half," left-back Robertson said.
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"I think they only had one shot on goal in the whole game and that's what we've been asking for.
"It does feel like a big win, and there was a bit of pressure on us. We put the pressure on ourselves, we said it was a must-win and didn't hide away from that. The gaffer and the players, we all said it was must-win so we're glad we got the three points and it opens up the group a bit."
Robertson faced Slovenia in his usual position but fellow left-back Kieran Tierney switched across to right-back, a move that raised eyebrows before kick-off.
"People were probably doubting whether one of us could play right-back but we were both confident we could do it," Hull's Robertson said.
"I thought KT was brilliant out there, even though it's uncomfortable for him, but that didn't show and I thought I played well as well. As a defensive unit the whole back four played well."
Winger Robert Snodgrass was also hugely encouraged by the performance on Sunday night, and felt the Scots got back to what they are good at.
"It was a relief in the end, but I was delighted in the way we played," the West Ham player said.
"I thought we were great. First-half we were brilliant, we passed it and moved, we created chances and if Leigh [Griffiths] takes a couple of those chances it could've been a comfortable night.
"Slovenia are a big physical side and it was up to us to go and trust ourselves on the ball. The other night against Canada we never trusted each other on the ball and I think that's sometimes when you get that losing mentality, you sort of lose faith in what the aim is."
The National Trust is looking for a "brave" and "hardy" new ranger to work on the remote Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast.
Duties will include monitoring protected wildlife, scientific research and occasionally hair-drying damp chicks.
Countryside manager Gwen Potter said it was not "the normal nine to five" and "not a job for the faint-hearted".
"Being good with PowerPoint isn't a priority," she added.
Rangers live on the island, about two miles off the coast, for nine months of the year and need to be willing to "brave dive-bombing attacks from Arctic terns", the trust said.
There is no running water - apart from the sea - and storms can leave rangers "marooned" on the islands for weeks at a time.
Workplace social life is limited to thousands of puffins, one of England's largest seal colonies - and an annual 50,000 visitors.
Ms Potter said "living here, you truly feel like you're on the edge of the world".
'We're looking for someone with a passion for wildlife and conservation - and who wants to share that passion with others," she said.
The islands have been protected for 189 years and have been a site for scientific research for decades.
Other duties will include making repairs, counting seal pups and carrying out a five-yearly puffin census.
Applications must be in by 7 February.
Black Labrador Ella fled after being hit by a car on Mersea Island on Thursday.
Ella, who had earlier escaped from Kate and Tyson Burns-Green's West Mersea garden, was spotted swimming to Ray Island and Packing Shed Island before eventually being rescued on Sunday.
The Blackwater Veterinary Surgery said she was 95% dehydrated.
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During her rescue by boatmen from Mersea, she plunged into the water again and and attempted to swim towards Tollesbury.
Hundreds watched and applauded as nine-year-old Ella was brought ashore and reunited with her owners.
Mrs Burns-Green told how, after the dog went missing, appeals for information were put out on social media.
She said: "Although she loves swimming, she usually asks before going into the water.
"It all culminated on Sunday evening when a family spotted a black Labrador on Ray Island and they rang my husband.
"Their dog pushed her out of some bushes and Ella ran off into the water and swam to Packing Shed Island.
"She ran to the end of Packing Shed Island and jumped into the water where two boats cornered her, grabbed hold of her and brought her back to shore.
"All this while the sun was going down.
"I was totally overwhelmed by the amount of love and support out there."
Emergency services received reports the plane had crashed near Summerley Airfield at about 13:00 BST.
Police, fire and ambulance crews have all been at the site, which is near Summerley Road in the village of Apperknowle.
Officers said the pilot was the only person on board the aircraft at the time.
Surrounding roads have been closed and any eyewitnesses have been urged to call 101 by police.
Monday's rally was being held outside parliament in the capital, Skopje.
Mr Gruevski, who was at the rally to address the crowd, faces wire-tapping and corruption allegations but denies wrongdoing and has refused to resign.
An anti-Gruevski protest camp has been set up outside government offices.
Power struggle in Macedonia
The camp, which still holds hundreds of protesters who say they will remain until Mr Gruevski quits, is about 2km (1.5 miles) from Monday's pro-government rally.
Descending on the mass rally, supporters of the prime minister waved red and yellow flags and chanted "Macedonia! Macedonia!" and "Nikola! Nikola!"
One demonstrator who gave her name as Snezana told Reuters: "We're here to defend our country. It's time we stand up against this dark foreign scenario."
The opposition Social Democrats accuse the government of wiretapping 20,000 people, including politicians, journalists and religious leaders.
Their leader Zoran Zaev says scores of leaked recordings reveal corruption at the highest levels of government, including the mismanagement of funds, dubious criminal prosecutions of opponents and even cover-ups of killings.
But Mr Gruevski, who has won successive elections since 2006, has repeatedly rejected the allegations.
He has accused Mr Zaev of orchestrating a coup at the behest of unnamed foreign spy agencies who, he says, want to overthrow his conservative government.
Adding to the political instability, last weekend eight police officers and 14 ethnic Albanian fighters were killed in clashes in the city of Kumanovo.
In 2001, Macedonia was on the brink of civil war when armed rebels demanded greater rights for the Albanian minority, which makes up about a quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.
Bisping's opportunity comes after Chris Weidman was forced out of UFC 199 on 4 June in Los Angeles with a neck injury.
Manchester middleweight Bisping's last fight was a unanimous-decision win over Anderson Silva in London in February.
However, the 37-year-old lost to Rockhold in their only previous meeting, submitting in the second round of their November 2014 fight.
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Gonzalo Higuain scored the only goal at Estadio Nacional, a thunderous early strike that ended his run of six international games without a goal.
But Belgium's so-called golden generation were undone by another quicksilver Lionel Messi performance, as Argentina set up a last-four encounter with Netherlands in Sao Paulo on Wednesday.
The two-time champions again failed to reach their fluid best, and it is significant that all five of their wins at this World Cup have been by a single goal.
Belgium went out with something of a whimper, lacking cohesion, creativity and precision and only threatening late on when they played one long ball after another towards Marouane Fellaini.
But on the day he equalled Diego Maradona's haul of 91 caps for Argentina, Messi stood apart, with a performance of majesty that propelled his side into the last four.
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At times, he was balletic, at others he was bold. He played 40-yard passes with the precision of a master craftsman and pirouetted away from danger time and again.
Sharper to the ball, more urgent in possession, Argentina started the quicker of the sides.
With Brazil striker Neymar confined to a wheelchair, there was a sense the tournament needed one of its superstars to produce a performance to remember. Messi did not disappoint.
Belgium did not help themselves, however. Captain Vincent Kompany gave possession away carelessly inside his own half after eight minutes, the ball running to Messi.
The Barcelona forward spun away from two defenders and clipped a pass to Angel Di Maria. His pass was deflected into the path of Higuain, who swivelled and volleyed unerringly beyond Thibaut Courtois to send the tens of thousands of Argentina fans in the stadium into raptures.
There was more Messi magic to come. Argentina's talisman danced his way through a crowd of Belgium players before being clipped on the edge of the area. His resulting free-kick curled narrowly wide but Belgium were on the back foot.
For much of the opening 45 minutes, the Red Devils were insipid, not inventive.
Kevin de Bruyne stung Sergio Romero's palms from distance and Kevin Mirallas headed a Jan Vertonghen cross narrowly wide, but there was little pace or purpose.
With Messi in the spotlight, Eden Hazard struggled to escape the shadow. Belgium were caught between wanting to throw caution to the wind and a fear of what Argentina might do on the counter attack.
An example came 10 minutes into the second half, when Mirallas lost the ball after a swift Belgium break. Higuain raced away, nutmegged Kompany and skimmed a curling shot onto the crossbar.
The introduction of substitutes Romelu Lukaku and Dries Mertens was an attempt to change that dynamic.
With time running out, Vertonghen found Fellaini, who headed over. Moments later, Ezequiel Garay almost deflected De Bruyne's cross into his own net. Hazard was replaced by Tottenham's Nacer Chadli as Marc Wilmots played his last card.
Belgium poured forward in search of a goal that might take them to extra time, but failed to produce a moment that called Romero into serious action. Messi had a chance to cap his display with a late goal, only for Courtois to smother his shot when the pair faced each other one on one.
With time running out, Belgium came again, Lukaku prodding a ball across goal before Axel Witsel fired the rebound over. But Argentina and Messi stood firm.
Match ends, Argentina 1, Belgium 0.
Second Half ends, Argentina 1, Belgium 0.
Attempt missed. Rodrigo Palacio (Argentina) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Lucas Biglia with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Axel Witsel (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt saved. Lionel Messi (Argentina) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernando Gago.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Enzo Pérez (Argentina) because of an injury.
Hand ball by Daniel van Buyten (Belgium).
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by José Basanta.
Foul by Romelu Lukaku (Belgium).
José Basanta (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Belgium. Dries Mertens tries a through ball, but Romelu Lukaku is caught offside.
Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Ezequiel Garay.
Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rodrigo Palacio (Argentina).
Offside, Belgium. Daniel van Buyten tries a through ball, but Marouane Fellaini is caught offside.
Axel Witsel (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lionel Messi (Argentina).
Foul by Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium).
Javier Mascherano (Argentina) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Argentina. Fernando Gago replaces Gonzalo Higuaín.
Foul by Axel Witsel (Belgium).
Gonzalo Higuaín (Argentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, Belgium. Romelu Lukaku tries a through ball, but Nacer Chadli is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld.
Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Substitution, Belgium. Nacer Chadli replaces Eden Hazard.
Lucas Biglia (Argentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jan Vertonghen (Belgium) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucas Biglia (Argentina).
Attempt blocked. Axel Witsel (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Marouane Fellaini (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by José Basanta (Argentina).
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Belgium).
Lucas Biglia (Argentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Argentina. Javier Mascherano tries a through ball, but Gonzalo Higuaín is caught offside.
Substitution, Argentina. Rodrigo Palacio replaces Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Toby Alderweireld (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Toby Alderweireld (Belgium).
When the race first appeared on the calendar in 1986, the world was a very different place. For a start, Hungary was a communist country under the control of the Soviet Union. It was, in fact, the first grand prix ever to be held behind the 'Iron Curtain'.
Now, Hungary is within the orbit of the west as a member of the European Union. But while the political background to the event has changed, it has held on to its uniqueness.
The Hungaroring was built on a dusty piece of land 12 miles or so outside - but in many ways a million miles away from - the boulevards, cobblestones and historic squares of central Budapest.
And yet on this unpromising natural amphitheatre, the Hungarians built a special grand prix track, with unprepossessing looks but a unique challenge.
"Like a street circuit without the houses," Martin Brundle famously remarked on F1's first appearance there; a reference to the track's tight and twisty nature. In reality, it is more like a go-kart track writ large.
Corner tumbles after corner as the track plunges and rises around its bowl of hills, the drivers subjected to a relentless cascade of curves.
The long, downhill hairpins of Turns One and Two, followed by a downhill kink at Three, then the very fast uphill sweep at Four into another long, long hairpin.
After the chicane that follows, the mid-section of the lap is a blast - left, right, left, right in a series of medium-fast sweepers that test a driver's skills and his car's aerodynamics and balance to the limit.
The incessant corners and short pit straight make overtaking very difficult, and yet still somehow the place seems to produce its fair share of great racing.
Many of the recent races there have been terrific - and Daniel Ricciardo's fighting win for Red Bull in 2014 was an all-time classic.
Perhaps it's the breathless, relentless nature of the track, which teases errors out of drivers; perhaps it's the low-grip, low abrasion surface; probably, it's both.
Whatever, with a great little race track allied to one of Europe's great cities, it is a low-key highlight of the season.
And with Lewis Hamilton chasing yet more history - a win would see him become the most successful driver here with five wins - there's plenty to play for this year too.
Fresh-faced Hamilton started something good
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Philip Hammond said £2.3bn would be spent on infrastructure - such as roads - related to housing developments.
The chancellor said the money would support the building of up to 100,000 new homes, and amounted to a "step-change" in help for the industry.
The government has also agreed to spend an extra £1.4bn on affordable housing in England.
Local authorities will be able to bid for the money under one of three existing schemes : Affordable Rent, Shared Ownership or Rent to Buy.
The Treasury estimates that could lead to 40,000 more affordable homes being built.
The money will top up the existing £4.7bn being spent on grants for affordable housing over the next five years.
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The National Housing Federation (NHF), which represents Housing Associations, said it was delighted with the announcement.
"Increased flexibility and extra investment will give housing associations the freedom and confidence to build even more affordable homes, more quickly, across the country," said David Orr, chief executive of the NHF.
Earlier this month, official figures indicated that the number of affordable homes being built in England had sunk to its lowest level in 24 years.
In the year to March 2016, just 32,110 affordable homes were completed, a 52% fall on the previous year.
However, recent figures suggest that the overall housing supply increased by 11% in the year to April 2016.
The chancellor also announced a "large-scale" pilot of the right to buy scheme for housing association tenants.
He said it would involve 3,000 tenants being allowed to buy the homes they currently rent.
A white paper on house-building will follow "in due course".
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The ceremony near the mountain village in the Kabyle region was converted into a scene of chaos by surging crowds of chanting mourners.
Hocine Ait-Ahmed was one of the first to rebel against French rule in 1954, sparking the war of independence.
Years later, he was forced into exile. He died on Wednesday in Switzerland aged 89.
Ait-Ahmed was the last of nine heroes of the independence war to die.
A state funeral was held in the Algerian capital on Thursday, which was broadcast live on TV.
However, his family refused to allow him to be buried alongside the other heroes in Algiers.
Instead, the burial took place in his home village 110km (70 miles) east of Algiers.
Ait-Ahmed had been a prominent critic of the military's control over the political system after independence from France in 1962.
Crowds attending his burial shouted "Algeria free and democratic", the slogan of the Front of Socialist Forces party founded by Ait-Ahmed.
The party remains active in the political opposition.
The city's signature parade will be held under tight security following the attacks in Paris on 13 November.
But officials have urged residents and tourists to attend, saying there are no credible threats.
Around 50 million people worldwide are expected to watch the televised event, now in its 89th year.
"I encourage people to come out. This is a way to push back on events around the world that are meant to intimidate," Police Commissioner William Bratton told a press conference.
But the New York Police Department is ramping up security by having around 200 officers from a new counter-terrorism unit on patrol, officials said.
The city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, said the police department had been "fine-tuning" its response to a possible terrorist attack - but told people not to give in to "psychological warfare".
"I think people are coming here from all over the city, all over the metropolitan region, all over the country to be a part of this parade," he said.
"We cannot let the terrorists succeed at psychological warfare. They're doing what they do to try and create fear, to try and change us."
The 24-year-old Australian Open semi-finalist was trailing 6-4 2-1 in her first-round match against Caroline Garcia of France, the world number 51.
Fit-again Briton Laura Robson suffered a 6-4 6-2 first-round defeat by fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Heather Watson could not capitalise on a lucky loser place as she lost 7-5 6-4 to Australia's Daria Gavrilova.
Former British number one Robson missed 17 months with a wrist injury, and has won just one WTA main draw match since returning last summer.
The 22-year-old, using her protected ranking of 58 to enter, saved five match points but lost in 84 minutes to the world number five.
She lost a keenly contested opening set in 40 minutes against Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, who is ranked fifth in the world after winning the titles in Indian Wells and Miami this year.
But in the first meeting between the pair, Azarenka raced 4-0 ahead in the second after winning six games in succession and soon recorded her 25th victory in 26 matches this year.
Watson, 23, lost to Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in qualifying on Saturday but went through as a lucky loser after illness forced out Yulia Putintseva.
However, the Briton was beaten 7-5 6-4 by 22-year-old Gavrilova, the world number 39.
British number three Naomi Broady lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Monica Puig in the final round of qualifying on Saturday.
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Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, is the first known British woman to travel to Syria to join the fight against so-called Islamic State.
Philip Taylor, a former teacher, told the BBC of his pride in his daughter.
The 57-year-old said: "People will wonder what sort of person does that, and what the parents think about it".
In March last year, Kimberley "Kimmie" Taylor joined the Kurdish women's fighting force the YPJ. Since then she has been involved in battles for the IS stronghold of Raqqa.
Mr Taylor said: "Kimberley knows her own mind. She is clever, down to earth and worldly. She has embraced many life experiences and that journey ultimately took her to Syria and the plight of the people there".
"I am certainly not advocating the measures Kimmie has chosen," he added.
"I told her that we need people like her in this country, that the UK would be a great place to influence change around the world, but unfortunately she doesn't agree".
Ms Taylor said she was inspired by the Kurdish people's fight for democracy and believes her female Kurdish comrades are setting an example to help solve the problems within Syria.
But the hostilities between different groups in Syria are complex.
Aside from IS, the Kurdish people in Rojava are also in conflict with Turkish armed forces.
Ms Taylor said: "The biggest enemy of the Kurdish YPG/YPJ is the Turkish army. They are occupying Rojava, they are killing civilians."
The YPJ that Ms Taylor has joined is considered a terror group by Turkish authorities, although not by the UK.
However, British citizens are strongly warned by authorities not to become involved in the Syrian war.
Her father said: "I think you have to be there and see for yourself the lives of others before you really understand. This is where Kimmie is right now. She is passionate about the injustices of this world."
"The suffering of these people doesn't touch our relatively cosy lives and we wonder why anyone would want to go to such lengths and how much difference can one person make anyway. Let somebody else do it. Preferably someone you don't know and love."
"I have never tried to indoctrinate my children in any way whatsoever, preferring to let them grow into themselves," he added.
"The media attention has been difficult for us. We are private people and like most, I suspect, would rather not have that kind of attention."
Ms Taylor did not tell her parents she was going to join in the war before she arrived. She said she misses her friends and family, but does not yet know when she will come back to the UK.
She described her parents as "the most supportive people in my life".
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Will Boyde crossed to put Scarlets ahead before Peter Horne's penalty got Glasgow back in the game at the break.
Jonathan Evans sent the hosts 14-3 ahead with a try from the restart and the visitors faced an uphill battle when Pat MacArthur was sin-binned.
Scarlets then drove for the line and Boyde touched down again while Rhys Patchell's kicking sealed the win.
The result means Scarlets leapfrog Cardiff Blues into sixth in the table, while Glasgow remain fourth after their third league loss of the season.
After Boyde's early try, Glasgow fought back and Patchell was forced to pull off a tremendous clearance kick to deny Glasgow's Rory Hughes as he chased his neat chip towards the tryline.
After a dull first half, the game's second period started dramatically as Patchell jinked his way through unopposed to offload to Steffan Evans, who fed Jonathan Evans to cross over.
Glasgow's task was made even harder after MacArthur was sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle on James Davies. Patchell kicked the penalty that followed on the way to his 12-point contribution for the hosts.
The visitors were given their second yellow card of the game when lock Brian Alainu'uese, who was making his first Glasgow Warriors start, was sent to the bin for an elbow to the back of Werner Kruger.
Scarlets chased a bonus-point win and were denied a fourth try in the last play of the game when captain Hadleigh Parkes carried the ball into the post but could not ground it over the line.
Scarlets: Aled Thomas, DTH van der Merwe, Steff Hughes, Hadleigh Parkes (captain), Steff Evans, Rhys Patchell, Jonathan Evans; Wyn Jones, Ryan Elias, Werner Kruger, Tom Price, David Bulbring, Aaron Shingler, Will Boyde, James Davies.
Replacements: Emyr Phillips, Dylan Evans, Peter Edwards, Lewis Rawlins, John Barclay, Aled Davies, Dan Jones, Gareth Owen
Glasgow Warriors: Peter Murchie, Lee Jones, Mark Bennett, Sam Johnson, Rory Hughes, Peter Horne, Ali Price; Djustice Sears-Duru, Pat MacArthur, Sila Puafisi, Tim Swinson, Brian Alainu'ues, Rob Harley, Simone Favaro, Lewis Wynne
Replacements: Corey Flynn, Jamie Bhatti, D'arcy Rae, Matt Fagerson, Langilangi Haupeakui, Grayson Hart, Rory Clegg, Nick Grigg
Referee: Gary Conway (IRFU)
Assistant Referees: David Wilkinson (IRFU) Neil Jones (WRU)
TMO: Olly Hodges (IRFU)
It is said to result from ScotRail's plan to introduce 200 new services, providing 200,000 additional seats each day.
The timetable changes are the result of the Scottish government's decision to retain 13 Class 170 diesel trains.
Public transport campaigners have welcomed the announcement.
However, they insisted additional track capacity would be needed if the Scottish government was to meet its promise of "the largest programme of benefits to rail passengers seen in a generation".
Scotland's Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: "From 2018 passengers will benefit from more seats, more services and faster journey times as a direct result of the increased funding that we are putting into the rail network.
"The retention of these units will complement the arrival of our new High Speed Trains, which will allow for new and improved intercity connections.
"They will also make our rail network more resilient, creating opportunities to run faster services on key commuter routes and offering better connectivity for regional areas."
Phil Verster, Managing Director of Abellio ScotRail, described the announcement as "a really significant moment in our mission to transform Scotland's railway".
He added: "In three years' time, the service that we provide to our customers will be unrecognisable."
The plan also promises;
Colin Howden, from public transport campaign group, Transform Scotland, welcomed the announcement, but he said unless there were "concrete commitments" to upgrade routes then the network might not be able to take the added services.
He explained: "It's certainly going to be difficult to get more trains on the route from Dundee to Aberdeen unless there is a clear and transparent decision by government to upgrade the single track rail line at Montrose.
"Services from the Edinburgh to Perth are severely constrained by capacity limitations on the Fife Coast and the long single track section on the approach to Perth.
"In our view, the most significant single improvement that could be made would be the re-creation of a direct route from Edinburgh to Perth.
"This would not only dramatically change journey times from Perth and Inverness to Edinburgh but would also reduce journey times from Aberdeen by routeing some trains via Perth. That would represent a 'rail revolution' for the Scottish inter-city network."
Sarah Beattie-Smith, from the Scottish Greens, welcomed the plan to increase services but claimed it was not enough.
She said: "The SNP seems to think that tinkering with train service numbers is enough to fix Scotland's broken public transport system. Don't get me wrong - new rail services are all well and good, but this policy falls far short from the 'rail revolution' the Scottish Government wants to brand it as.
"To properly support the people who are currently isolated by our poor and expensive public transport, we need to do much, much more."
His proposals will be published in a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk in early November.
Earlier EU Parliament president Martin Schulz called for "clarity" while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Britain needed to "clarify the substance" of what it wanted.
Mr Cameron wants to reform the EU ahead of the UK's in-out referendum.
Arriving for his talks with Mr Schulz, the PM, who also met European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker over lunch, said the British renegotiation was "going well" and pointed to the progress of the UK legislation paving the way for the referendum.
"The pace will now quicken, and I'll be again setting out the four vital areas where we need change, laying down what those changes will be at the start of November," he said.
"So we quicken the pace and quicken those negotiations in the run-up to the December Council."
Q&A: UK's planned EU referendum
The December meeting of the European Council will be a chance for Mr Cameron's demands to be considered by his EU counterparts.
On Twitter, Mr Tusk welcomed Mr Cameron's plan to write to him with the UK's demands in early November, saying: "Then real negotiations can start".
Downing Street confirmed the letter would be made public when it is sent in early November.
In the meantime, talks have been taking place between UK and EU negotiating teams, but Mr Juncker said on Wednesday that "huge progress" was not being made and reminded the UK that "it takes two to tango".
BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris said those involved in the "technical talks" accepted they had "got as far as they can" and that the negotiations needed to "move onto the political level".
The referendum has been promised by the end of 2017, but could be held sooner.
Mr Cameron has not yet set out his demands in detail, but is thought to want exemption from an "ever-closer union", safeguards for non-eurozone countries and curbs on migrants' welfare entitlement.
Speaking at a press briefing with Mr Juncker shortly before Mr Cameron's arrival, Mr Schulz said: "Both of us have made it quite clear that both the Commission and the European Parliament at all stages are willing to engage in constructive co-operation."
He said he hoped for "steps forward", adding: "Above all, we need clarity on what we are going to be discussing over the next few months."
Ms Merkel said it was up to the UK to "clarify the substance of what it is envisaging" in the coming weeks.
She said Germany would work constructively with the British government.
She added: "But it also goes without saying that there are things that are non-negotiable.
"That there are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over, for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination."
The American assumed control of Villa in 2006 after a £62.6m takeover was agreed with the club's board.
"I owe it to Villa to move on, and look for fresh, invigorated leadership, if in my heart I feel I can no longer do the job," he said in a statement.
Villa finished the season in 15th position, five points above the relegation zone.
Their Premier League status was only secured with victory over Hull City on 3 May and the future of manager Paul Lambert remains uncertain.
I don't believe it's going to be that easy to sell Aston Villa to Randy Lerner's satisfaction
Lerner, who bought the club in August 2006 from Doug Ellis, had said last month that he would address speculation regarding his own future at the club in the summer.
In his statement issued on Monday, the 51-year-old owner said he had engaged Bank of America Merrill Lynch to advise on the club's sale.
"I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit," he said.
"The last several seasons have been week in, week out battles and having now come through this last season unfortunately limping amidst very meaningful injuries and constant sale rumours, I feel further that now is the time for me to look for new ownership and thus new leadership."
He added: "I am appreciative of the support I have received, even in these last years of comparative struggle when criticism was due, and will look on with others - with fingers crossed - for stronger future performance appropriate to our size and heritage."
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News of the sale was revealed by BBC reporter Pat Murphy, who said the likely asking price would be about £200m - which is £100m less than Lerner's estimated total investment in the club.
Murphy also disclosed the involvement of investment banker Keith Harris, who did the deal in 2006 to bring Lerner to Aston Villa.
"My understanding is Randy Lerner won't sell Aston Villa unless Keith Harris gives him the say-so, such is his respect for Keith Harris," Murphy told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I believe this will move fairly quickly. But don't forget, you're looking at £200m, plus in my opinion £100m for players to save Villa from their annual flirtation against relegation and one of these days they will drop off the edge unless this is sorted out. And where are the multi-billionaires around who would go for what is now, a middle-ranking club in the Premier League?
"I'm not sure it's that attractive a prospect now. I don't believe it's going to be that easy to sell Aston Villa to Randy Lerner's satisfaction."
Villa were sixth three seasons running under manager Martin O'Neill, but have only finished in the top half of the table once in the four campaigns since his resignation.
Lambert, who replaced fellow Scot Alex McLeish, joined from Norwich City two years ago and described keeping the club up this season as "an incredible achievement".
"It needs investment, it's simple," Lambert said after the 3-0 defeat at Tottenham on Sunday. "It smacks you right in the face what the team needs. That's the bottom line."
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But Renewable Energy Systems said it was listening to the fears of locals and has already scaled back the wind farm.
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The ex-Black Cats winger punched the air at full-time in front of the away fans and was confronted by Sunderland players with a fight breaking out.
The Football Association has formally warned McClean about his behaviour.
Both clubs have been reminded of their responsibilities.
After the game, Baggies boss Tony Pulis said: "He's not the sharpest tool in the box, and that's not being disrespectful to him. But he's a smashing lad."
Researchers say fungi from the stomachs of these animals produce flexible enzymes that can break down a wide variety of plant materials.
The scientists say that in tests, the fungi performed as well as the best engineered attempts from industry.
The study has been published in the journal, Science.
Environmentalists have long criticised the current generation of biofuels that are produced from crops, such as maize, as they believe that using land for fuel instead of food drives up prices and impacts the poor.
Researchers have had some success making usable fuel from food and animal waste. But, so far, the ability to efficiently use the vast majority of cheap, waste organic material has eluded them.
The problem with turning wood chips and grasses into fuel is the matrix of complex molecules found in the cell walls of these tough materials.
Industrial attempts to break these down into the type of sugars that can be refined for fuel often require preheating or treatment with chemicals, which add to the complexity and the cost.
To solve the problem, researchers have turned to the well-known abilities of goats and sheep to digest almost anything they eat.
Researchers believe this facility is the result of the presence of anaerobic gut fungi, organisms that have existed since the time of the dinosaurs.
To test their ideas, the scientists collected fresh manure from a zoo and a stable and isolated three previously uncharacterised cultures from goats, sheep and horses.
They found that these fungi excrete enzymes that break down a wide range of plant material.
Unlike the best genetically engineered enzymes produced by the biofuel industry to date, they discovered that the sheep and goat fungi produced many hundred more of these proteins.
These were "substantially better" at breaking down a type of material found in wood - and when the researchers changed the diet of the fungi from grass to sugar, they found that the organisms changed the type of enzymes they produced in response.
"Because gut fungi have more tools to convert biomass to fuel, they could work faster and on a larger variety of plant material," said Prof Michelle O'Malley, the lead author from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"That would open up many opportunities for the biofuel industry," she said.
The scientists involved say that these types of fungi can be found in a wide variety of animals apart from sheep, ranging from cattle to elephants.
"In our work we have identified hundreds of enzymes from anaerobic fungi with commercial biotechnology potential," said Prof Michael Theodorou from Harper Adams University, UK, another author on the paper.
"We need to invest more resources to study this group of relatively unknown micro-organisms. They may hold the key to the renewable technology of effective biomass conversion. Their full potential must be explored and exploited."
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"We gave it our best shot but we can't go beyond. If the country says we don't have this money, we can't," Reuters quoted Fikile Mbalula as saying.
He said a final decision would be made by the Commonwealth Games Federation.
Durban was awarded the Games in 2015 after being the only city to make a confirmed bid.
In December, South African officials had said the country was "fully committed" to hosting the event.
The government had estimated the Games could generate up to 20 billion rand ($1.5 bn; £1.2bn) in economic benefit.
But Mr Mbalula said the government had been forced to reconsider.
"I don't want to raise your expectations and say everything looks good, it doesn't because we don't agree on the fundamentals and that is the operational budget," he told a media briefing.
The Commonwealth Games Federation said it was in the final stages of reviewing a submission by Durban and it would make a recommendation as soon as the evaluation was complete.
The possible withdrawal of Durban has sparked interest in the British city of Liverpool.
A spokesperson for the city council said: "Liverpool is interested in hosting the games in 2022. We had heard rumours that Durban might be unable to deliver the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and have already indicated to the government that we are very willing to host them instead."
The Games were first staged in 1930 and are held every four years. They feature athletes from more than 50 countries, mostly former British colonies.
The 2022 event is due to be the first time the Games are hosted in Africa.
Part-time bowler Keogh proved unplayable on a turning wicket as Glamorgan lost all 10 wickets in the morning, collapsing to 124 all out.
Duckett then raced to a hundred off 81 balls and passed 1,000 first-class runs for the season before the hosts declared on 305-7.
Glamorgan ended on 0-0 at stumps.
Keogh, who had only taken three wickets in an innings previously, bowled unchanged through the first session with fielders clustered around the bat from the start.
Only experienced left-handers Jacques Rudolph (37) and Mark Wallace (25 not out) had the confidence to last for long.
Keogh's figures were the sixth-best of all time by a Northamptonshire bowler and the best ever against Glamorgan.
Duckett dominated century stands with both Rob Newton (25) and Keogh (40) as Glamorgan had to turn to Graham Wagg's occasional spin for wickets.
The England Lions left-hander had no mercy on the Glamorgan attack and his rapid scoring allowed Alex Wakely to declare just before the close, although Glamorgan survived without scoring until stumps.
Northants all-rounder Rob Keogh told BBC Radio Northampton:
"It's been an interesting day, three-for was my previous best and I wasn't expecting that at all, but it's spinning and 450 looks a long way away for them.
"I saw their young debutant (Kiran Carlson) spin a couple and we were saying that if he can get five, then Whitey (Graeme White) or me should be getting five-for, but things went my way and I ended up getting nine.
"Ben (Duckett) is an unbelievable player of spin and he didn't let their spinners settle at all, he's in the form of his life and hopefully that sort of pitch sets him up for a trip to Bangladesh (with England.)
"Apparently there's a bit of bad weather around Saturday, but 450 behind is a lot on this wicket."
Glamorgan all-rounder Graham Wagg told BBC Wales Sport:
"It's not a 120 all-out sort of wicket, we batted quite poorly and their spinners got some purchase out of the wicket, I don't think it's acceptable to get bowled out in a session and we're looking to put that right second innings.
"(Rob Keogh) was looking to hit my footmarks and it worked for us with Kiran (Carlson) getting five-for, Rob Keogh did make it spit but there's no excuses.
"I do enjoy bowling spin but Ben Duckett played me fantastically well, take his score out and it's a different game- so hats off to the guy.
"It's going to be a heck of a task getting 450 but if we bat two days, and it is a big hope, we're going to be somewhere near- so we've got to set our stall out to bat two days."
Scientists combined models of flower evolution with the largest data set of features from living flowers ever assembled.
From this the team was able to infer the appearance of the ancestral flower.
The flower had many concentric cycles of petal-like organs in sets of three, arranged in whorls, and was bisexual.
Hervé Sauquet, from Université Paris-Sud, France, one of the authors of the paper published this week in Nature Communications said: "There is no living flower that looks exactly like the ancestral one - and why should there be? This is a flower that existed at least 140 million years ago and has had considerable time to evolve into the incredible diversity of flowers that exist today."
We are all familiar with the beauty of flowers - the reproductive structures produced by about 90 % of all living land plants. But their origin and early evolution is a mystery. This is mainly owing to the lack of fossil flowers from the time period when the ancestor of living flowers is thought to have existed.
Dr Jason Hilton from the University of Birmingham, UK, who was not involved in the study, said: "The structure and organisation of the ancestral flower has remained enigmatic.
For instance, we don't know if the oldest flowers were unisexual or bisexual, or if they were pollinated by wind or insects."
To reconstruct the appearance of the first flower, the scientists recorded the features - such as the petals and sepals - of the flowers from 792 living species.
They mapped the distribution of these features on to the evolutionary tree of flowering plants enabling them to build a picture of what flowers looked like at key points in their history - including the last common ancestor of all living flowers.
The first flower is reconstructed with petal-like structures arranged in a whorl, so each petal appears in the same plane, like a common lily (but with more whorls), rather than in a spiral, where petals overlap in a spiral arrangement around the stem, like a lotus.
"For some of the features we studied, the result was surprising, especially the fact that organs (such as sepals and petals and the stamens) were probably arranged in whorls instead of spirals, as commonly assumed for the ancestral flower," said Hervé Sauquet.
Sex evolution in flowers has been highly debated. Flowers can be unisexual or bisexual and this study infers a bisexual early flower with both male and female organs.
"This study is important as it tells us how complicated the ancestral flower is likely to be - now the search is on to find it or something closely resembling it in the fossil record. That's if the model is correct - only time (and further study) will tell," said Jason Hilton.
Iago Aspas inspired the hosts into a 3-0 lead at the break, setting up Pione Sisto's opener, scoring a fine second and forcing Jeremy Mathieu's own goal.
Barcelona fought back through Gerard Pique's header and Neymar's penalty, only for Marc-Andre ter Stegen's awful error to hand Celta their fourth goal.
Pique scored a second header late on but Celta held on for a thrilling win.
Without the injured Lionel Messi, Barcelona looked bereft of ideas at times as they failed to take the chance to go top following Real Madrid's earlier draw with Eibar, instead remaining in fourth.
The hosts appeared to start in survival mode as Barcelona dominated the opening ten minutes only for Celta to end the half threatening to utterly humiliate their opponents.
Former Liverpool striker Aspas was the catalyst, sliding in Sisto with a brilliant first-time ball after Celta pounced on Ter Stegen's poor attempted pass to Sergio Busquets, with the Danish forward providing an impressive low finish after his first touch took him wide.
Shortly after drawing a fine save from Ter Stegen, Aspas had Celta's second - controlling a long ball forward before powering away from the back-tracking Pique to calmly slot past the hapless Barcelona keeper on the angle.
Moments later Celta scored their third, Aspas causing panic by running in behind the Barcelona defence and forcing Mathieu to divert Daniel Wass' perfectly-weighted cross into his own net before Aspas could get there.
After the interval, the hosts were guilty of complacency, remaining static as Pique stole in to score before Pablo Hernandez conceded a penalty with a clumsy foul on Andre Gomes.
But Hernandez made amends in the 77th minute, charging down an indecisive Ter Stegen, whose attempt to loft the ball back to Jordi Alba hit Hernandez in the face and rebounded in for Celta's bizarre fourth.
Despite having won both previous games this season where Messi was absent, Barcelona clearly missed their talisman as they failed to unpick Celta's defence for long periods.
Neymar took it on himself to play Messi's roaming role but often found himself running into traffic, while neither Arda Turan nor Rafinha could provide the attacking thrust lost by Neymar dropping deeper.
Instead it was Pique who offered his side's most consistent attacking threat, surging forward to head in a cross from substitute Andres Iniesta, making his 600th Barcelona appearance, before also turning in Denis Suarez's ball from the right.
And while Pique was guilty of backing off Aspas for Celta's second, Barcelona's miserable night was summed up by Ter Stegen - at fault for two goals, with his late error ultimately putting the draw beyond his team in a frantic finale.
Match ends, Celta de Vigo 4, Barcelona 3.
Second Half ends, Celta de Vigo 4, Barcelona 3.
Foul by Arda Turan (Barcelona).
Facundo Roncaglia (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Pablo Hernández (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by John Guidetti.
Foul by Jeremy Mathieu (Barcelona).
John Guidetti (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Denis Suárez with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sergio Álvarez (Celta de Vigo) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Neymar (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Arda Turan with a cross.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. John Guidetti replaces Iago Aspas.
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Celta de Vigo 4, Barcelona 3. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Denis Suárez with a cross.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Sergi Gómez.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Jonny replaces Daniel Wass.
Foul by André Gomes (Barcelona).
Daniel Wass (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barcelona. Paco Alcácer replaces Jordi Alba.
Attempt blocked. Neymar (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Denis Suárez.
Attempt missed. Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nemanja Radoja.
Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pione Sisto (Celta de Vigo).
Goal! Celta de Vigo 4, Barcelona 2. Pablo Hernández (Celta de Vigo) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Barcelona. Denis Suárez replaces Sergio Busquets.
Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gerard Piqué (Barcelona).
Iago Aspas (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arda Turan (Barcelona).
Facundo Roncaglia (Celta de Vigo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Pablo Hernández (Celta de Vigo) left footed shot from long range on the right is too high. Assisted by Iago Aspas.
Attempt saved. Pione Sisto (Celta de Vigo) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.
Goal! Celta de Vigo 3, Barcelona 2. Neymar (Barcelona) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Hugo Mallo (Celta de Vigo) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty Barcelona. André Gomes draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Nemanja Radoja (Celta de Vigo) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Celta de Vigo. Marcelo Díaz replaces Theo Bongonda.
Goal! Celta de Vigo 3, Barcelona 1. Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Hugo Mallo.
Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The failure of Dunfermline Athletic's full-time squad to live up to their billing as title favourites led to the exit of Jim Jefferies midway through the season, while his successor, John Potter, was replaced with Allan Johnston at the end of the season.
Former Pars assistant Jimmy Nicholl stood down as neighbours Cowdenbeath were relegated from the Championship, with ex-Dunfermline striker Colin Nish being promoted from within as his replacement.
Stranraer's success in challenging for the title led to Stevie Aitken being poached by Championship club Dumbarton, with Brian Reid taking over at Stair Park.
Brechin City's top-four finish helped Ray McKinnon win the top job with Raith Rovers and Darren Dods has swapped his defensive duties with Forfar Athletic for the manager's seat up the road at Glebe Park.
Cowdenbeath's relegation, Dunfermline's failure to even reach the promotion play-offs and Stenhousemuir's escape from relegation after their play-off win has led to the biggest exit of players from their respective squads.
Ayr United, Airdrieonians, Dunfermline, Stranraer and promoted Albion Rovers all appear to have strengthened their squad during the summer.
Key signing: At 34, Kevin McBride was no longer a force at Premiership level, but the midfielder released by Dundee brings with him lots of top-flight experience.
Intriguing arrival: Czech midfielder Nico Sumsky will be looking to prove himself in Scottish football having failed to break into the Hamilton Accies side since joining the Premiership outfit in January and now being sent out on loan.
One that got away: Experienced goalkeeper Andy McNeil has taken a step up to the Championship with Alloa Athletic.
In: Kevin McBride, midfielder (Dundee); David van Zanten, defender (Dumbarton); Sean Crighton, defender (Greenock Morton); Alan Lithgow, defender (Stenhousemuir); David Cox, midfielder (Peterhead); Neil Parry, goalkeeper (Albion Rovers); Caolan McAleer, forward (East Fife); Adam Brown, midfielder (St Mirren). Loan: Nico Sumsky, midfielder (Hamilton Academical); Taylor Morgan, forward (Ostersunds); George Hunter, forward (St Johnstone).
Out: Andy McNeil, goalkeeper (Alloa Athletic); Ross Docherty, midfielder (Ayr United); Paddy Boyle, defender (Ayr United); Nathan Blockley, midfielder (Peterhead); Jamie Watson, forward (Annan Athletic); Robert Wilson, defender (Berwick Rangers); Bryan Gilfillan, midfielder; Jack Kirwan, forward; John Boyle, forward; Scott Gray, midfielder. Loan ended: Liam Lindsay, defender (Partick Thistle).
Last season: 5th
Prediction: 3rd. Gary Bollan's side went on an excellent end-of-season run that steered them clear of relegation and, although there have been personnel changes over the summer, they should be challenging at the top rather than bottom this season.
Key signing: Andy Barrowman has top-flight experience on his travels - Rovers' is the 14th different club shirt he has worn - and the 30-year-old will hope to contribute more than the eight goals he achieved in the same division with Dunfermline Athletic last season.
Intriguing arrival: Having been dismissed as Scotland Under-21 boss last year, former St Mirren manager Billy Stark is Rovers player-boss Darren Young's new assistant, succeeding Sandy Clark, who moved to a similar role with Dunfermline Athletic.
One that got away: Former Patrick Thistle striker Mark McGuigan's 11 goals last season helped Rovers win the League Two title last season, but the 26-year-old will be in opposition this season with Stranraer.
In: Billy Stark, assistant manager; Ross Stewart, goalkeeper (Motherwell); Andrew Barrowman, forward (Dunfermline Athletic); Mark Ferry, midfielder (Stirling Albion); Paul Willis, midfielder (Berwick Rangers); Scott McBride, midfielder (Arbroath); Yamikani Misanjo, forward (Rossvale); Callum McRobbie, forward (Shettleston).
Out: Sandy Clark, assistant manager (Dunfermline Athletic); Mark McGuigan, forward (Stranraer); Neil Parry, goalkeeper (Airdrieonians); Marc McKenzie, forward (Elgin City); Kieran Hughes, goalkeeper (Kilbirnie Ladeside); Ciaran Donnelly, defender (Kilbirnie Ladeside); Jamie Pollock, midfielder (Gartcairn); TJ McCluskey, forward (St Roch's); Scott Chaplain, midfielder (retired); Liam Cusack, forward; Scott Stevenson, midfielder; Martin McGuire, defender; Gary Phillips, midfielder.
Last season: League Two champions (and promotion)
Prediction: 10th. Darren Young led the unfashionable Wee Rovers to only their third league title. Traditionally, lack of resources mean a swift return to the bottom tier and the former Aberdeen and Dunfermline midfielder will struggle to buck that trend.
Key signing: Having only made 10 appearances, mainly as a substitute, last season for Motherwell, Craig Moore has been sent out to gather more first-team experience. He scored seven goals in 12 games for Cowdenbeath in the second tier in 2013 and, now 20, could be a potent force at this level.
Intriguing arrival: Jamie Adams was touted for the big time when he was with Kilmarnock, but the midfielder spent three years out of the game after disappointing spells with Patrick Thistle and St Johnstone. Having rekindled his desire in helping Wigtown & Bladnoch win the South of Scotland League last season, the 27-year-old is back in the senior game.
One that got away: Adam Blakeman helped steer Ayr clear of relegation trouble after arriving from Hyde in January, but the 23-year-old defender has returned to his native England to join Southport in the Conference Premier.
In: Alan Trouten, midfielder (Brechin City); Ross Caldwell, forward (Greenock Morton); Andy Graham, defender (Dumbarton); Greg Fleming, goalkeeper (Stenhousemuir); Gerry McLauchlan, defender (Brechin City); Ross Docherty, midfielder (Airdrieonians); Paddy Boyle, defender (Airdrieonians); Jamie Adams, midfielder (Wigtown & Bladnoch); Kieran Woods, defender (Cumnock). Loan: Jordan Preston, forward (Blackburn Rovers); Craig Moore, forward (Motherwell).
Out: David Hutton, goalkeeper (Dunfermline Athletic); Adam Blakeman, defender (Southport); Craig Beattie, forward (Stirling Albion); Jon Paul McGovern, midfielder (Stirling Albion); Dale Shirkie, forward (Troon); David Robertson, midfielder; Ryan Donnelly, forward; Josh McArthur, defender; Peter McGill, midfielder. Loan ended: Morgyn Neill, defender (Motherwell); Jordan Preston, forward (Blackburn Rovers); Craig Murray, defender (Aberdeen).
Last season: 8th
Prediction: 5th. Ian McCall's side struggled at the end of last season, but he appears to have significantly strengthened the squad he inherited in January.
Key signing: Ross Perry has somewhat lost his way since winning Scotland Under-21 caps with Rangers. After spending the first half of last season with Raith Rovers in the Championship, the 25-year-old headed for Northampton Town but failed to play a single game for the English League Two outfit.
Intriguing arrival: Much was expected of Dene Shields when he won a £100,000 transfer to Sunderland from Raith Rovers back in 2000. Having done the rounds in Scotland's lower leagues, he has been a scoring machine in the Maltese Premier League with Hamrun Spartans then helping Xewikija Tigers win the Gozo First Division.
One that got away: Under manager Ray McKinnon, Brechin were one of the best and most consistent part-time teams in Scotland, but the former Dundee United and Aberdeen midfielder has been enticed to the Championship with Raith Rovers.
In: Darren Dods, manager/defender (Forfar Athletic); Willie Dyer, defender (Dundee); Euan Smith, midfielder (Kilmarnock); Jamie Montgomery, forward (Dundee United); Dene Shields, forward (Xewkija Tigers); Ross Perry, defender (Northampton Town); Jonathan Tiffoney, defender (Alloa Athletic); Craig Johnston, midfielder (Cowdenbeath); James Dale, midfielder (Forfar Athletic); David Weatherston, forward (Stirling Albion); Kevin Buchan, forward (Arbroath).
Out: Ray McKinnon, manager (Raith Rovers); Callum Tapping, midfielder (Queen of the South); Bobby Barr, midfielder (Greenock Morton); Colin Hamilton, defender (Alloa Athletic); Alan Trouten, midfielder (Ayr United); Gerry McLauchlan, defender (Ayr United); Greg Cameron, midfielder (Montrose); Ryan Ferguson, midfielder (Montrose); Ewan McNeil, defender (Berwick Rangers); Steven Jackson, defender; Ben Tough, goalkeeper. Loan ended: Craig Storie, midfielder (Aberdeen).
Last season: 4th
Prediction: 8th. The 40-year-old Darren Dods, who moved from Forfar as player-manager, has his work cut out to keep Brechin challenging for a play-off place with other clubs able to strengthen in comparison.
Key signing: Luke Armstrong is looking to emerge from the shadow of a well-known father - former Middlesbrough and Ipswich Town striker Alun Armstrong. The 19-year-old English striker was picked up by Birmingham City after being released last summer by Championship rivals Boro but found himself again seeking a new club.
Intriguing arrival: At 22, English winger Sam Orritt is a late starter to the senior game having played college football with Limestone College Saints Athletic in South Carolina.
One that got away: Nat Wedderburn began his career with Stoke City before spells with Notts County, Hereford United and Northampton Town and joining the Blue Brazil from Corby Town. The 24-year-old former England Under-19 cap had become a mainstay of Cowden's midfield but has won a step up to the Premiership with Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
In: Luke Armstrong, forward (Birmingham City); Mo Yaqub, defender (St Mirren); Greig Spence, forward (Alloa Athletic); Bradley Donaldson, defender (Livingston); Jack Beaumont, midfielder (Livingston); Sam Orritt, midfielder (Limestone College Saints Athletic); Cameron Muirhead, forward (Fife Elite Football Academy). Loan: Gordon Smith, forward (Dumbarton); Andy Murdoch, midfielder (Rangers).
Out: Jimmy Nicholl, manager; Nat Wedderburn, midfielder (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Robbie Thomson, goalkeeper (Queen of the South); Darren Brownlie, defender (Queen of the South); Lewis Toshney, defender (Raith Rovers); Iain Campbell, defender (Forfar Athletic); Thomas O'Brien, defender (Forfar Athletic); Jon Robertson, midfielder (Stenhousemuir); Craig Johnston, midfielder (Brechin City); Sean Higgins, forward (Clyde); Michael Andrews, goalkeeper; Sammy Stewart, midfielder; Dale Finnie, defender; Aron Lynas, midfielder; Colini Mitchell, midfielder; Jordan Halsman, defender; James Martin, midfielder. Loan: Jack Wright (Musselburgh Athletic); Josh Wilson (St Andrews United); Josh Thomson (St Andrews United); Kyle Mitchell, forward (Penicuik Athletic). Loan ended: John Herron, midfielder (Celtic); Robbie Buchanan, defender (Hearts).
Last season: 10th in Championship (and relegation)
Prediction: 6th. With the departure of the experienced Jimmy Nicholl, Cowdenbeath saved money by promoting striker Colin Nish to player-manager, but will it prove an expensive decision in terms of their promotion hopes?
Key signing: The return of 28-year-old English winger Joe Cardle, the former fans favourite at East End Park having spent last season with Ross County in the Premiership, looks to be an astute piece of business.
Intriguing arrival: Winning the third-tier title and the Challenge Cup with Queen of the South got Allan Johnston a move to Kilmarnock, but the wheels came off at Rugby Park. The 41-year-old former Scotland winger will hope to emulate his feat in Dumfries with the Pars.
One that got away: The Pars under-performed last season under Jim Jefferies then John Potter, with the inevitable dismantling of the squad. Of the 18 players released, Ross Millen, the 20-year-old son of former St Mirren defender Andy, arguably had most potential and has stepped up a division with Livingston.
In: Allan Johnston, manager; Sandy Clark, assistant manager (Albion Rovers); Ben Richards-Everton, defender (Partick Thistle); Joe Cardle, midfielder (Ross County); Jason Talbot, defender (Livingston); Callum Fordyce, defender (Livingston); Michael Paton, midfielder (Queen of the South); David Hutton, goalkeeper (Ayr United); Sean Murdoch, goalkeeper (Rochester Rhinos).
Out: Gregor Buchanan, defender (Dumbarton); Kyle McAusland, defender (Alloa Athletic); Ross Millen, defender (Livingston); Andrew Barrowman, forward (Albion Rovers); Andy Stirling, midfielder (Stranraer); Ryan Thomson, midfielder (Stranraer); Allan Smith, forward (Stenhousemuir); Jonathan Page, defender (East Fife); Ryan Goodfellow, goalkeeper (East Fife); Scott Mercer, defender (East Fife); Declan O'Kane, defender (East Fife); Finn Graham, midfielder (Berwick Rangers); Stuart Urquhart, defender; Jim Paterson, defender; Paul George, midfielder; Jamie Wilson, goalkeeper; Alex Whittle, defender; Gavin McMillan, midfielder.
Last season: 7th
Prediction: 1st. After such a disappointing season after starting as promotion favourites last time, Dunfermline should can't afford to make mistakes this seasopn if their full-time status is to be protected - and Allan Johnston has gathered a squad that should give them renewed hope of promotion.
Key signing: Thomas O'Brien suffered relegation with Cowdenbeath last season and the 23-year-old defender will be in opposition to the Blue Brazil this term.
Intriguing arrival: Those Campbell guys can't stay apart and full-back Iain teams up again with dad and Forfar boss Dick after being on loan at Station Park last season from Cowdenbeath.
One that got away: Former Dundee United youth Dale Hilson spent four loan spells at Station Park before a permanent move last summer. His 12 goals last season helped Forfar to the play-offs, but the club having lost out in the final, the 22-year-old made the step up anyway by switching to Queen of the South.
In: Omar Kader, forward (Forfar Athletic); Iain Campbell, defender (Cowdenbeath); Thomas O'Brien, defender (Cowdenbeath); Bryan Hodge, midfielder (Stenhousemuir); Kevin Nicoll, midfielder (Arbroath). Loan: Lewis Allan, forward (Hibernian), Andrew Black, defender (Dundee)
Out: Dale Hilson, forward, (Queen of the South); Darren Dods, defender (Brechin City); James Dale, midfielder (Brechin City); Stuart Malcolm, defender (Stenhousemuir); Andrew Steeves, midfielder (Montrose); Stephen Husband, midfielder (Kelty Hearts); Paul McLellan, midfielder (Broughty Ferry). Loan: Gavin Malin, midfielder (Montrose).
Last season: 3rd
Prediction: 4th. Dick Campbell came so close to first leading his side to the title and then winning the play-off against Alloa Athletic. The 61-year-old will need all his experience to keep his part-timers up there challenging again.
Key signing: Shane Sutherland broke into the Inverness Caledonian Thistle first-team squad at a young age but has spent the last two seasons with Elgin City in League Two. He will be looking to match the 14 goals last season that helped him win a step back up a division.
Intriguing arrival: Former Peterhead ball-boy Marc Lawrence is only 16 but goes straight into the first-team squad having made three appearances last season as a trialist while the midfielder was also playing for Lewis United Under-17s.
One that got away: Former Kilmarnock, Oldham Athletic, Aberdeen, Patrick Thistle and Morecambe midfielder Gary McDonald scored seven goals in 15 appearances for Peterhead after his release by St Johnstone in February. However, the 33-year-old departed the Blue Toon at the end of the season.
In: Kevin Dzierzawski, midfielder (Queen of the South); Nathan Blockley, midfielder (Airdrieonians); Shane Sutherland, forward (Elgin City); Leighton McIntosh, forward (Montrose); Marc Lawrence (Lewis United Juveniles). Loan: Ally Gilchrist, defender (St Johnstone); Cammy Kerr, defender (Dundee).
Out: David Cox, midfielder (Airdrieonians); Reece Donaldson, defender (East Stirlingshire); Ross Smith, defender (Stirling Albion); Dean Cowie, midfielder (Fraserburgh); Gary McDonald, midfielder; Ryan McCann, midfielder; Fraser McLaren, midfielder; Dean Richardson, defender. Loan: Ryan Baptie, defender (Linlithgow Rose).
Last season: 6th
Prediction: 7th. Jim McInally's team should again be a fairly safe mid-table bet.
Key signing: After spending most of his career in Scotland's second tier and having been a regular starter with Dumbarton last season, 30-year-old winger Mark Gilhaney should be a quality performer a division below.
Intriguing arrival: Former Motherwell and Clyde defender Euan Murray, 21, returns home after becoming the first Scot to play in the Solomon Islands, signing for Western Union for their Oceania Champions League campaign. Meanwhile, 24-year-old Spanish midfielder Carlos Mazana Martinez, who played regional football in his homeland with CD Tedeon, has won a contract after coming to Scotland to study at Glasgow University.
One that got away: Paul McMullan looked a class above the rest as he helped Stenny avoid relegation via the play-offs while on loan from Celtic, but the diminutive 19-year-old winger has this season been farmed out to St Mirren in the Championship.
In: Mark Gilhaney, midfielder (Dumbarton); Stuart Malcolm, defender (Forfar Athletic); Jon Robertson, midfielder (Cowdenbeath); Stephen Stirling, midfielder (Stranraer); Allan Smith, forward (Dunfermline Athletic); Jon McShane, forward (East Fife); Alan Cook, midfielder (East Fife); Jamie Barclay, goalkeeper (Clyde); Euan Murray, midfielder (Western United); Carlos Mazana Martinez, midfielder (Glasgow University). Loan: Liam Henderson, defender (Hearts).
Out: Greg Fleming, goalkeeper (Ayr United); Bryan Hodge, midfielder (Forfar Athletic); Alan Lithgow, defender (Airdrieonians); Craig Sutherland, forward (East Fife); Chris Smith, goalkeeper (Stirling Albion); Ross McMillan, defender (Stirling Albion); Martin Grehan, forward (Arbroath); Kristopher Faulds, midfielder (East Stirlingshire); Pedro Moutinho, forward (Bo'ness United); Stewart Greacen, defender (retired); Paul Sludden, forward; Kai Wilson, defender; Robbie Duncan, defender; Gregor Fotheringham, midfielder; Lee Gallacher, midfielder; Joshua Watt, midfielder; Ryan Millar, forward. Loan ended: Paul McMullan, forward (Celtic).
Last season: 9th
Prediction: 9th. Brown Ferguson has strengthened his squad over the summer, but so have Stenny's rivals and they will do well to avoid another relegation battle.
Key signing: Paul Cairney was a regular starter with Patrick Thistle - then in the top flight with Hibernian. But, having failed to make an impression with Kilmarnock, the 27-year-old midfielder moves down two divisions.
Intriguing arrival: After a couple of loan spells with Albion Rovers from Patrick Thistle, Mark McGuigan scored 11 goals in helping the Coatbridge outfit win League Two last season after making the switch permanent.
One that got away: Goalkeeper David Mitchell has made the step up to the Premiership with Dundee at the age of 25 after six seasons with Stranraer.
In: Brian Reid, manager; Lee Mair, defender/assistant manager (Dumbarton); Paul Cairney, midfielder (Kilmarnock); Dale Keenan, defender (Partick Thistle); Max Currie, goalkeeper (Motherwell); Andy Stirling, midfielder (Dunfermline Athletic); Ryan Thomson, midfielder (Dunfermline Athletic); Mark McGuigan, forward (Albion Rovers); David Barron, defender (Greenock Juniors). Loan: Conor Brennan, goalkeeper (Kilmarnock); David McGurn, goalkeeper (Raith Rovers).
Out: Stephen Aitken, manager (Dumbarton); David Mitchell, goalkeeper (Dundee); Willie Gibson, midfielder (Dumbarton); Jackson Longridge, defender (Livingston); Grant Gallagher, defender (Dumbarton); Frank McKeown, defender (Greenock Morton); Stephen Stirling, midfielder (Stenhousemuir); Sean Winter, midfielder (East Kilbride Thistle); Barry Russell, defender (East Kilbride Thistle); Daniel Tobin, goalkeeper (Irvine Meadow); Adam Forde, forward (Kilbirnie Ladeside). Loan ended: Jon McShane, forward (East Fife).
Last season: 2nd
Prediction: 2nd. New manager Brian Reid if anything appears to have strengthened a squad that came close to winning the title last season under Stephen Aitken.
Since the Mosul offensive started, hundreds of families from areas around the city have managed to flee. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says the camp has been receiving around 50 people daily, on average, with that number likely to rise.
The entrance of one of the main gates of Dibaga looks like an open market; people selling vegetables and fruit and a small bakery for fresh Iraqi bread.
A little further into the camp, is the aid distribution centre. Long, spiralling queues of men and women - some carrying their infants - have formed as people wait for hours to get aid.
"Newcomers," I'm told by one of the men lining up to collect mattresses, pillows and blankets for the tents that are now these people's homes.
The blankets will be crucial for the coming winter months.
Everyone is on edge. The aid is there but distribution is unorganised and it is not getting to people fast enough. The camp feels crammed.
One of the residents, Assad Hassan, tells me he fled his village near the city of Nimrud, south of Mosul, a day before the Iraqi government-led offensive against IS started.
He says he was too frightened to stay to see what the so-called Islamic State fighters might do when the Iraqi forces came in. Instead he decided to make the dangerous journey out of the city.
"It was a risk I had to take," he says.
"The road out of my village was mined. There were two cars ahead of ours and they were both blown up. I was extremely scared. I felt that I could be killed at any moment.
"I left with the women and children," he adds. "My sons left the next day. They had to swim across a river under heavy gunfire."
Asked where he sleeps now, he points to the carpet we're sitting on in the courtyard of the mosque in the camp.
The UN says about 5,000 people have been displaced so far by the fighting around Mosul and are in need of humanitarian assistance.
That is a fraction of the estimated one million people the UN is expecting to flee Mosul itself once the battle starts there.
It is a humanitarian crisis Iraq is not ready for, aid agencies have warned.
"Dibaga is already very crowded and we need to expand," Bruno Geddo, UNHCR chief for Iraq, says.
"We have the tents. We now need the land to put them on and provide people with the basics - a roof over their heads."
Dibaga is surrounded by plains, but Mr Geddo says the process of acquiring land to expand the camp had been extremely slow.
In a separate area of the camp, there's an unusual sound of celebration. People from Sabaweya village have just heard that it's been cleared of IS fighters and have broken into traditional song and dance, with one woman throwing sweets at the crowd.
Despite the good news, it'll be a while before any of these displaced people are able to go back to their hometowns.
IS fighters have been putting up fierce resistance, using different tactics to slow down, and on occasions, stop the Iraqi forces' advance towards Mosul.
"They killed men from the army in our village," 10-year-old Zaman says.
She comes from a village near Mosul, and has been in the camp for three months with her mother and sister.
"I saw them kill a man. I was very scared," she says.
"My dad is with the army and they threatened to kill him too. They said: 'You either join us or we'll kill you or take you to prison'.
"They took him. It's been three months now and I haven't seen him - my baby sister was born and he hasn't seen her."
In another camp in Irbil's mainly Christian Ankawa area, a makeshift bell tower with a cross on the top has been placed at the entrance.
Most of the residents there are from the town of Qaraqosh, which was recently stormed by the Iraqi forces.
It is the country's biggest Christian town and when IS attacked in 2014, all of its 50,000 residents fled.
Fadya Yousef says she and her family have been glued to the TV since the Mosul offensive started.
"We were very happy when we heard that the [Iraqi] fighters went into our town," she says.
"I just want to go back to my hometown... Even if I live in a tent there, I'll be happy."
Qaraqosh has been contested for days, but the latest reports suggest that the Iraqi forces are in control at the moment.
Fadiya's son, Youssef, is fighting on the front line with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
"Of course, I think about him," she says.
"But there are so many mothers like me with one or even two sons on the front line. I pray for their safety."
During a speech he said the vote to leave the EU puts the break-up of the UK back on the table.
The former Labour PM argued that people voted without knowing the terms of leaving and therefore have a right to change their minds.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a second referendum is "very likely".
She told BBC Scotland that Mr Blair was "stating the obvious", adding that she believes the case for independence is "even more compelling" now than it was at the time of the 2014 referendum.
Tony Blair calls for people to 'rise up' against Brexit
The SNP argues that since a majority in Scotland voted to Remain, this represents a material change in circumstances sufficient to make the case for a second independence vote.
At the weekend, former first minister and SNP MP Alex Salmond indicated a decision on whether to hold a second referendum could come within weeks.
He said the UK government's response to Scottish plans to protect trade with Europe would be crucial.
Mr Salmond, the SNP's international affairs spokesman at Westminster, said a rejection of the plans would probably result in an autumn 2018 referendum.
Mr Blair, who was UK prime minister between 1997 and 2007, said in his speech to the pro-European campaign group Open Britain that those driving a withdrawal from the European Union "always wanted a hard Brexit".
He announced his "mission" to persuade Britons to "rise up" and change their minds on leaving the EU. He said there was "no widespread appetite" for the referendum result to be reversed, but added that he wanted to "build support for finding a way out from the present rush over the cliff's edge".
In relation to Scotland, he said: "In addition to all this, the possibility of the break-up of the UK - narrowly avoided by the result of the Scottish referendum - but now back on the table but this time with a context much more credible for the independence case.
"We are already seeing the de-stabilising impact of negotiation over border arrangements on the Northern Ireland peace process.
"None of this ignores the challenges the country faces which stoked the anger fuelling Brexit: those left behind by globalisation; the aftermath of the financial crisis; stagnant incomes for some families; and for sure the pressures posed by big increases in migration which make perfectly reasonable people anxious and feeling their anxiety unheard."
During a question and answer session following the speech, Mr Blair underlined that he was not in favour of independence.
He said: "On Scotland, let me be very clear. I want Scotland to remain in the UK. Even if Brexit goes ahead, I'm still in favour of Scotland remaining in the UK. And let's be very clear, Scotland's single market with England is of far greater importance to it economically than Scotland's interaction with the rest of Europe.
"However, I'm afraid that as we said during the referendum campaign - unlike the other side, we don't want to un-say the things we said - so when myself and John Major warned this would be a threat to the UK, we meant it. And it's true. And you can see that by the referendum coming back on the agenda."
SNP leader Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that Mr Blair was "stating the obvious" about the case for independence.
She said: "The independence argument is now very different than it was in even 2014, and is even more compelling than it was in 2014.
"What Brexit has shown is that within the UK, Scotland's voice isn't listened to and doesn't appear to count for much. So the argument for taking control and taking charge of our own future, society and place in the world becomes ever more strong."
Scotland's only Labour MP, Ian Murray, told Good Morning Scotland the Brexit issue did not make the case for Scottish independence.
He said: "It [Brexit] certainly makes the grievance towards independence more credible now but I don't see the arguments of 2014 being any more credible now than they were then.
"The economic case is worse, certainly, than it was then. If you looked at the oil figures yesterday, in terms of it being a drain on the Treasury rather than it being an £8bn benefit to the Treasury, which was being promised."
Meanwhile the Scottish Conservatives said only a quarter of people in Scotland wanted another referendum now.
MSP John Lamont said: "The SNP has tried to use Brexit to muster support for separation. It has failed.
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The prints are most likely to have belonged to craftsmen handling it before the varnish dried, according to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The discovery was made public ahead of a new exhibition on how Egyptian coffin design changed over 4,000 years.
The prints were "one of many small details that bring us closer to the ancient craftsmen," a spokeswoman said.
Julie Dawson, head of conservation at the museum, said the prints were first identified in 2005 by researchers at the Fitzwilliam but had "not been widely publicised" before now.
They were discovered on an inner coffin lid belonging to the priest Nespawershefyt, dating from about 1,000 BC.
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The officer, who was in uniform, was in collision with a silver Ford Mondeo as he walked out of an alleyway in Haverfordwest on Tuesday.
He is currently being treated at the town's Withybush Hospital following the incident on Bridge Street at 18:35 BST.
His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Now in its fifth year, the BBC Radio 2 contest challenges under-13s to write a story about any fictional topic.
A record 120,421 entries were received, with thousands of volunteers helping to whittle down the entries.
Chris Evans unveiled the six young winners in a live broadcast from St James's Palace.
"Every single young writer in this competition deserves a round of applause, a hats off and a whopping well done for creating such sensational stories," he said.
"They've all been so moving," said teacher Jen Morgan, who helped judge the prize. "It's just a privilege to read some of them."
The winners were:
Gold: Amabel Smith (10) - It's A Wide World
Silver: Hannah Sennouni (12) - Londoner Pigeon
Bronze: Lara Akhurst (11) - Blue
Gold: Sofia Zambuto (9) - Fight For Life
Silver: Robyn Fielding (8) - The Word That Wouldn't Come Out
Bronze: Emily Potts (9) - Cake Wars
Sofia Zambuto's gold award-winning story recounted a mother's desperate attempt to save her family from what appears to be a tsunami.
"Children we must move now," she wrote. "We must leave our home now. We must find a new home. The wave, the flood is coming again. Run with me now, as fast as your legs will carry you. Follow me now."
Judge Charlie Higson said the nine-year-old had "managed to achieve a piece of mature action writing, which is a very difficult thing to do well," and praised the "fantastic twist".
Zambuto had missed the deadline for the 2014 competition by 30 seconds. "I'm kind of pleased I missed it now," she laughed.
The top prize in the older category went to 10-year-old Amabel Smith's It's A Wide World, a story set in a not-too-distant future where the "government uses weight to control society".
Richard Hammond, who chaired the judging panel, called it "astonishing" and "frightening".
"The idea of the government using obesity as a controlling mechanism is such a fresh and original idea."
Cake Wars told the story of a baking contest where the contestants sabotaged each other's entries.
It was written by nine-year-old Emily Potts, who said it was inspired by her grandmother's "terrible cakes".
London Pigeon was a first-person/first-pigeon account of a bird's life, while The Word That Wouldn't Come Out described a stammer from the point of view of a stubborn word, stuck in the speaker's mouth.
Lara Akhurst's Blue was described by children's laureate Malorie Blackman as "a mature, personal story which I found immensely moving".
Celebrities including Sir Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy Irons, Sally Hawkins and Charles Dance read out the short stories during the prize-giving ceremony.
The event was hosted by the Duchess of Cornwall, who is a patron of the National Literacy Trust.
"Whenever I have a chance - and I don't often get a chance to talk on Radio 2 - I tell everybody we must never forget how important reading and story-telling is," she said.
"Like climbing though the wardrobe into Narnia, stories open doors into different worlds.
"We meet impossible people, travel to remote places and make hundreds of new friends.
"We look around with new eyes and recognise Horrid Henry next door or Professor Snape the chemistry teacher in the school down the road.
"The best stories show us what we all have in common."
1. Fairy tales: princess, charming, unicorn
2. Royalty: coronation, Queen, majesty
3. Family: BFF, grandmother, aunt
4. Shopping: Prada, make-up, shopaholic
1. Dinosaurs: stegosaurus, Jurassic, raptor
2. Superheroes: Batcave, Gotham, Avengers
3. Football: Aguero, Neuer, Suarez
4. Science fiction: teleport, continuum, tardis
An analysis of the 50 million words used in the stories showed that new technology featured strongly in children's imaginations.
One of the most common plotlines in the short story competition was achieving sudden internet fame after posting a YouTube video; while #hashtags were incorporated into the stories with increased frequency.
"Children are not tweeting and using Twitter, but they are using the word hashtag and the symbol # for dramatic effect, it is heightening tension," said Vineeta Gupta, head of children's dictionaries at the Oxford University Press.
But the top 10 nouns were reassuringly related to home, family and daily life.
You can read all the finalists, including the six winning stories, on the 500 Words website.
Coleman, 28, will miss several months after breaking his leg when playing for Republic of Ireland against Wales.
"That's one thing Seamus will want us to do, to play well and get some good results," said Jagielka
Everton - seventh in the Premier League - travel to Manchester United three days after facing Liverpool at Anfield.
"We'll all be thinking about him and, come Saturday and Tuesday, I'm sure he'll have the TV on and be cheering us on," added Jagielka, speaking to the club website.
"There'll be no incentive needed, but the circumstances over the last few days might add a bit of a motivational edge on our behalf.
"We want to go out there and play well and it will be nice if we can all get to speak to Seamus beforehand."
Coleman has undergone an operation since breaking his tibia and fibula following a tackle by Wales' Neil Taylor in Friday's World Cup qualifier.
The right-back has played 26 of Everton's 29 league games this season and Jagielka admits such leadership will be missed when the Toffees seek a first win at Anfield since 1999.
"Seamus is a massive part of the furniture," added Jagielka. "All we can do is be there for him."
Last week's debutant Baily Cargill could keep his place because Simon Francis is still nursing a hamstring injury and may not be ready to return.
West Ham welcome back Michail Antonio after a one-match ban, and Winston Reid should have recovered from a leg injury he suffered against Chelsea.
Andy Carroll and Robert Snodgrass are expected to be fit despite both needing stitches after that game.
John Motson: "This is a game in which I'm expecting goals.
"Bournemouth have conceded 36 goals in their past 15 league games, while West Ham have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last six.
"The Cherries have let in three or more goals in 10 league games this season - they really need to tighten up at the back to avoid being dragged into a relegation battle.
"But they're missing Nathan Ake, and the absence of Tyrone Mings for the next five games won't help.
"Yet it's an important game for West Ham too, as they aren't going through a great spell either.
"In short, both teams need a win to turn around a very indifferent spell."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "West Ham have done well. They've picked up, got some good results and it coincides with some key players returning for them.
"They're a different team with Andy Carroll - he's got strengths and is a huge part of their game."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "They have had a few defeats and a draw but the last game [a draw against Manchester United] would have given them a big boost and confidence.
"It's a great result to get a point at Old Trafford, especially with 10 men.
"We are expecting a difficult game. [It's] a small pitch and a good atmosphere."
Eddie Howe's side need a win - they have not had one in their past eight league matches - and I think they might do it on Saturday.
I don't see West Ham's season just petering out, because they are chasing a top-half finish - but I am backing Bournemouth to edge this one.
Prediction: 2-1
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Scott Ludlam, from the minor Greens party, said he only learned of his New Zealand citizenship last week.
Under Australia's constitution, a person cannot run for federal office if they hold dual or plural citizenship.
Mr Ludlam had been told his eligibility would be challenged in court.
The senator, who was also Greens co-deputy leader, apologised for what he called an "avoidable oversight".
"This was my error, something I should have checked when I first nominated for [Senate] pre-selection in 2006," he said, adding that he was "personally devastated".
Mr Ludlam was three years old when he left New Zealand with his family.
He said he assumed he had relinquished New Zealand citizenship when he was naturalised as an Australian in his teens.
Mr Ludlam was alerted to his status last week by a member of the public who had "done the digging for whatever reason".
The 47-year-old senator said he had been informed of a looming challenge to his eligibility in Australia's High Court.
"I could have dug my heels in, but it creates a messy and protracted dispute. That section of the constitution is crystal clear," he said.
Mr Ludlam could have surrendered his New Zealand citizenship - had he known about it - to stand for office within the rules.
The High Court has ruled two senators ineligible since a federal election last year.
The politicians, Bob Day and Rod Culleton, were initially told to repay their salaries, but the government ultimately spared them from doing so.
Mr Ludlam said he hoped that "common sense" would prevail.
"We will petition them, if they come after us, for the kind of relief that was offered to senators Day and Culleton," he said.
Mr Ludlam's vacant seat is expected to be filled by another Greens candidate.
Carron Allan, from Coldstream, crashed on the Kelso to Cornhill road at Redden Farm in June last year.
Michelle Bennett, 47, from Berwick-upon-Tweed, died in the accident.
Ms Allan made no plea during a brief hearing and the case was continued for further examination.
She was released on bail by Sheriff Peter Paterson.
The region's biggest market, Japan's Nikkei 225 index, rebounded from sharp losses on Monday to close 3.7% higher at 16,874.44
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 1.3% to finish the day at 21,436.21 points.
In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite index edged up 0.3% to close at 3,042.82.
Over in South Korea, the Kospi index closed up 0.1% at 2,011.36.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P ASX 200 ended Tuesday's session 1% higher at 5,188.80.
Shares in commodity-related firms recovered from Monday's losses. BHP Billiton shares closed up 4.92%, reversing a 3% loss on Monday.
A quarterly update from mining company Rio Tinto showed an 11% rise in iron ore shipments for the three months to March.
Rio also cut its production guidance for next year from its iron ore mines in Australia. That is due to a delay in the rollout of new transport technology for its operations at the Pilbara mines. Rio Tinto shares finished up 3.8%.
US stocks closed higher overnight lifted by strong earnings from toy company Hasbro, as well as a recovery in oil prices. The Dow Jones rose 106.7 points to 18,004.16, its first close above 18,000 since July.
Internet firm Yahoo will release quarterly earnings later on Tuesday after the close of US markets. Attention will heavily be focused on what the company plans to do with its media assets, and if any announcements will be made on that front. According to various media reports, potential suitors range from private equity firm TPG to the owner of the UK's Daily Mail.
Other American companies reporting quarterly earnings on Tuesday include motorcycle manufacturer Harley Davidson and tobacco firm Philip Morris. Financial heavyweight Goldman Sachs will announce first quarter earnings before the start of regular trade on Wall Street.
Mr Hamilton told BBC Radio Ulster's The Sunday News that it will support up to 25,000 additional assessments and 12,000 extra treatments.
This will be across a wide range of specialities including orthopaedics, gastronenterology and neurology.
Mr Hamilton said around 80,000 patients would benefit from the £30m investment.
Last month, it emerged that the number of people waiting for a first outpatient appointment in Northern Ireland has increased by nearly 37% in a year.
In December 2015, there were 236,365 people on waiting lists, compared to 171,866 the year before.
The number of people waiting more than 18 weeks for a first outpatient appointment has more than doubled.
Mr Hamilton said the funding of £30m is coming out of the extra £128m allocated to his department's 2016/17 budget.
He said that in November, £40m had been invested to tackle the issue of waiting lists.
Mr Hamilton said he "appreciated the frustration many people had" with regard to waiting lists and that he expected the figures to "go down over the months ahead".
"This is an additional £30m, over and above the additional £40m we put into waiting lists back in November, now starting to work its way through the system," he added.
"Really, from the start of this year, from January, we will have been employing £70m more on top of what we already spend through the system tackling waiting lists.
"This will keep the momentum going that we have already started in tackling our unacceptably long waiting lists."
Georgi Yaschuk, 23, of Cambridge Road, Brighton was struck by a Tesco truck when the fight spilled on to Western Road in the early hours of Sunday.
He was found lying in the road by emergency services at 02:40 BST and pronounced dead at the scene.
A 24-year-old man was arrested by Sussex Police on Sunday afternoon.
A 27-year-old man from Hove was also held on suspicion of murder earlier in the day. Both are in police custody
Det Ch Insp Tanya Jones from Sussex Police said: "This has been a fast-moving investigation and we have now arrested two men on suspicion of murder.
"However we are still appealing for witnesses who may have seen what led up to the fight which spilled into Western Road and then the victim being hit by a lorry."
In a statement, Tesco said they were "deeply shocked" to hear about what happened and their thoughts went "out to this young man's family".
The BBC understands one of them is Sergey Malinka, who was questioned as a witness in 2007 after the three-year-old went missing.
A total of four "persons of interest" - or arguidos - will be quizzed in the latest development in the case.
Interviews are being carried out by Portuguese officers with Scotland Yard detectives present.
Mr Malinka and the other suspect left the central police station in Faro after they were interviewed.
The Russian-born computer expert, who has Portuguese nationality, is likely to face more questioning on Wednesday.
A third person, who is said to be suffering from severe schizophrenia, remained in the police headquarters after the other two had left. It is not clear when the fourth individual will be interviewed.
All of those being questioned are Portuguese citizens. They have all been summoned to be interviewed; there have been no arrests.
The status of arguidos in the Portuguese judicial system refers to individuals whom police may reasonably suspect are linked to a crime.
Local Briton Robert Murat - who was himself named as an arguido in the case before being cleared of any involvement - said it was "ridiculous" that Mr Malinka had been questioned as a suspect.
Mr Murat had worked with Mr Malinka in 2006 and 2007 setting up a property website.
He told the BBC: "It's absolutely ridiculous. It makes no sense.
"They've talked to him before, in 2007, so why are they talking to him again? He's a good professional and a hard worker. I don't know Sergey that well, but he is a nice lad."
In June, Portuguese and British police searched three sites in Praia da Luz but found no evidence relating to the case.
Scotland Yard said at the time that "more activity" had been agreed with Portuguese police and the searches were the "first phase" of a major investigation.
Jeremy Cooke, BBC News at Faro Police Station
Outside the Policia Judiciaria headquarters in Faro a small group of reporters and TV crews is gathered on the pavement.
There is little sign of activity inside the unassuming white-rendered building, which is set in a quiet cobbled street.
But it is believed that, just before 09:00 local time, the first of several suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann arrived to be questioned.
Several suspects or "arguidos" have been identified following the latest investigations by Scotland Yard detectives.
Each is expected to appear voluntarily before police in the coming days. The interviews are being conducted by Portuguese police officers with British detectives observing proceedings.
The searches were the most significant in the local area since Madeleine went missing seven years ago.
The McCann family were staying in an apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal when the three-year-old was last seen.
Her parents had been at a restaurant near their apartment when she went missing.
The developments come a year after the Met launched a fresh investigation into Madeleine's disappearance codenamed Operation Grange.
Howard leaves the role after three years but will remain on the fan-owned club's board and move into a new position as sporting director.
That role will involve "overseeing the performance and development of all football matters".
Stroud, a club director and chairman of Wycombe Wanderers Trust, will begin his new role on 1 August.
Howard said: "I have been immensely proud to be chairman of Wycombe Wanderers and found it to be a challenging but extremely rewarding three years.
"Together I feel we have developed a really professional organisation and are moving towards an infrastructure which will be capable of operating at a higher level.
"However, the time has come for me to focus my efforts on the football side of the business, working in a new role which (manager) Gareth (Ainsworth) and his staff, with the support of the board, have devised in order to give us all the best possible chance of continuing the excellent progress on the pitch."
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The 33-year-old Scot has signed a one-year rolling contract and replaces Neil Adams, who resigned on Monday.
Neil leaves Hamilton third in the Scottish Premiership, four points behind leaders Aberdeen, after leading them to promotion last season.
"I'm absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to manage a club of the stature of Norwich," said Neil.
First-team coaches Mike Phelan and Gary Holt will remain in their roles, while Neil's assistant at Hamilton, Frank McAvoy, will join the coaching staff before the end of the month.
Neil will be in the stands for Saturday's trip to Championship leaders Bournemouth, with Phelan taking charge of the side.
Norwich are currently seventh in the table and only three points off a play-off place.
Neil, who took over at New Douglas Park in May 2013, has played eight times this season for Accies, but does not expect to continue as a player-manager at City.
He said he may feature for the Under-21 side occasionally to offer his experience to the club's youngsters.
The former Barnsley midfielder, who becomes the second youngest manager in the Football League behind Mansfield's Adam Murray, led Accies to second place in the Scottish Championship last season.
They went on to beat Hibernian 4-3 on penalties after their two-legged play-off finished 2-2 on aggregate to win promotion to Scotland's top flight for the first time in three years.
"I was a bit surprised to get the call from Norwich," he said. "My first task is to improve on where we are. If we can do that hopefully we can move up the league.
"I was always going to have trepidation. But I've been given the opportunity to take on a big job and I'm excited by the challenge.
"As a manager I am honest, upfront and let the lads know what I expect of them."
Neil, who also played for Airdrieonians and Mansfield, becomes the 10th Scot to manage the Canaries.
He will work alongside the Canaries' football executive board, which also includes chief executive David McNally, technical director Ricky Martin and head of recruitment Barry Simmonds.
But McNally said Neil will have the final say on transfer activity at the club.
"Alex will decide players coming in and ones leaving," he said.
"The other people are there to support him. No way is anyone going to join the club without authorisation from the manager."
In some cases they lost money on their investments as individual markets ended the year lower than they started.
The 100 share index dropped by 5% during 2015, the Dow Jones average in New York fell back during the year, and so did the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong.
But despite wild volatility, the Shanghai Composite index in China ended up over the year.
Events in China had the most potent impact on world stock markets.
A combination of slower economic growth, bungled management of its country's exchange rate, a plunge in world commodity prices linked to reduced Chinese demand, and huge gyrations on the Chinese stock market - the handling of which was also bungled by the Chinese authorities - all spilled over to other stock markets around the globe.
Ben Kumar at Seven Investment Management in London said: "China was nothing but a wild ride all year - the market was up 50% at one point and down 15% at some points."
"China has always been volatile but this year people outside the country paid attention."
Foreign ownership of shares in China is very restricted and most shares traded there are owned by domestic investors.
Even so, events in the country had a big impact on other stock markets and June, July and August were particularly uncomfortable.
"Events in Asia and the emerging markets conspired to undermine other markets," said Steve Clayton, head of equity research at the UK investment form Hargreaves Lansdown.
Mr Kumar added: "The US equity market took a big pause and suffered its worst year since 2008".
Probably the most fundamental economic trend of the year was the huge fall in the price of oil.
In May the price of a barrel of Brent Crude oil had crept back up to $67 a barrel from earlier low points in the year, but since then it has fallen steadily to end the year at just $37 a barrel.
Although this has brought some welcome relief to many consumers who buy products made from oil, the new low price threatens to undermine the economies of the world's oil producers, and is disrupting the businesses of the huge oil and gas companies that dominate the industry world-wide.
In early business, the FTSE 100 is down 34.53 points at 5,932.27.
The pound also fell again on Thursday. Sterling lost 0.4% against the dollar to $1.4115 and fell 0.4% against the euro to €1.2564.
The US Federal Reserve last night said it would keep interest rates on hold with growth prospects uncertain.
The possibility of Brexit was one of the factors that led the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold, Chair Janet Yellen said.
Radiohead headlined the first night of the Glastonbury festival with an "absorbing, challenging and achingly beautiful" set that was "typically Radiohead" according to BBC Music reporter Mark Savage.
On the last day of Glastonbury it was time for something completely different as Barry Gibb performed Bee Gees classics in the festival's coveted "legend spot".
This week saw the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book's publication. We looked at the way the boy wizard has cast a spell on the cultural landscape over the last two decades.
Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond opened up about how he thought he was going to die when he crashed a car earlier this month.
Marmalade sandwiches were raised in tribute to Michael Bond, the creator of beloved children's character Paddington Bear, who died at the age of 91.
Adele paid tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire at her Wembley Stadium concert on Wednesday and encouraged fans to donate money to help survivors.
"Real" people took to a catwalk in Manchester's city centre for a live "self-portrait of the city" - an idea dreamed up by artist Jeremy Deller.
Radio One controller Ben Cooper admitted to being concerned about recruiting new talented presenters, saying "it's really weird how it's getting harder."
Emma Watson has one and so does Reese Witherspoon. But are celebrity book clubs a great thing for reading? We looked under the cover.
Eurovision Song Contest bosses said they were fining Ukraine over its organisation of this year's competition in Kiev, whose problems included a stage invasion during a performance by the previous year's winner.
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A survey for the newspaper found a 52-48% split in favour of remaining in the United Kingdom, amid mounting speculation that a second independence referendum could be held in the autumn of 2018.
Meanwhile the Scottish Daily Mail reports that high-risk sex offenders could be given "chemical castration" drugs designed to reduce their libido. Convicts would volunteer for the scheme, which could be piloted in Glasgow.
The Scotsman leads with a warning from MPs that the UK could "crash out" of the European Union without a deal in six months. It reports that Conservative backbencher Anna Soubry claimed the government was preparing for the "swift failure" of Brexit talks.
But the Daily Express reports that MPs have be warned "don't sabotage Brexit". It says ministers want to ensure the bill gets through the House of Commons unscathed.
University leaders have called on Theresa May to allow Europeans to stay in the UK after Brexit, according to The Times. It says that the leaders of 35 Oxford colleges claim an "exodus" of academics has already begun.
The Scottish Sun reports that Rangers fans claim they were "chaperoned" to toilets at the Old Firm match at Parkhead on Sunday. The newspaper reports that supporters were monitored in a bid to stop a repeat of a vandalism spree last year.
A criminal who is serving a prison sentence for murder boasted about his crime online, according to the Daily Record.
The National reports that two out of three torture victims are turned away from a specialist centre in Scotland, due to lack of capacity.
Parents of pupils at an Aberdeenshire high school have been asked to search their children's phones for footage of a playground fight, according to the north-east edition of The Press and Journal.
The Courier leads with a story about a chronic shortage of maths teachers at Blairgowrie High School. In a letter seen by the paper, its head teacher calls for parents to step in to support pupils.
George Michael's death again features on the front page of the Daily Star of Scotland. It reports that the pop star's burial plot is under 24 hour surveillance.
Nick Clegg said the existing guidelines needed to change to reflect the "menacing" potential of the internet.
Mr Clegg said he had not yet convinced the Conservatives that all English schools - including academies and free schools - should follow the guidelines.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said teachers should be given the resources and trusted to get it right.
Mr Clegg was responding to a challenge on his LBC radio phone-in from a 17-year-old girl, who warned of pressure on children to behave like porn stars.
He said the guidance was last changed 13 years ago "and the world is a very different place now".
"In many respects it's a more liberating place, not least because of the internet but it's also a more menacing place - particularly, but not only, for young girls."
Mr Clegg said "there are lots of schools - academies, free schools and so on - who don't need to follow the guidelines, even the outdated ones".
The guidelines are contained in the national curriculum, which does not apply to academies and free schools.
"I haven't been able to persuade Michael Gove and the Conservatives to move all the way on this," he said.
"They've moved some of the way."
Mr Clegg said that guidance on pornography and cyberbullying in the national curriculum for IT "has some bearing on this".
"The national curriculum, even though that doesn't need to be taught by all schools, does sort of at least raise the expectations that schools should teach this."
He stressed that Mr Gove was a "perfectly intelligent bloke" and they had "compromised".
"He's got a well-expressed and articulate view that schools shouldn't be burdened with too many directives from central government," he said.
"But I just happen to think in this instance given how menacing this is, particularly for young girls, my own view is this is an area where actually we do need to both update the guidance... and raise the expectation that all schools do this properly in the classroom."
Mr Gove told BBC Radio 4's World at One that the government had recently reviewed the guidance for sex education.
He said that "practitioners" had suggested there was no point in attempting to update official guidance "when technology changes so rapidly".
"The most important thing is to make sure that we provide the resources that teachers need, that we trust teachers to deliver sex and relationship education in the right way, but we give them the chance to talk to experts," Mr Gove added.
A Department for Education statement added that the government review had "found that the existing guidance offers a sound framework for sex and relationship education in school.
"The best people to help schools deal with changing technology are the experts. Our sex and relationship education guidance directs schools to draw on the up-to-date advice produced by experts to use in sex and relationship education."
The statement said the government had also given almost £3m to charities providing state-of-the-art materials on cyberbullying and added: "We have told schools to access these to develop their own policies."
Lucy Emmerson of the Sex Education Forum welcomed Nick Clegg's comments: "We hope the views of the deputy prime minister will be reflected in the final version of the national curriculum.
"The latest version dropped all mention of sexual health from science and excluded naming genitalia. This has serious consequences for children's safety and health."
Between July and September, 101,000 listeners tuned in, a drop of 2,000 compared to the previous three months, according to Radio Joint Audience Research (Rajar) figures.
Radio Wales increased its audience to 340,000, with 7,000 extra listeners.
BBC Wales has not commented on the figures.
Both stations attracted record low numbers of listeners during the second quarter of this year.
The editor of BBC Radio Wales has since stepped down, while Radio Cymru has launched a separate temporary service called Radio Cymru Mwy on some digital platforms.
Listening figures do not take account of catch-up listening or podcast downloads, although Rajar said more than 98% of listening still happened live.
In commercial radio, there were increases in audiences for Capital FM in south and north Wales, while Heart gained listeners in the south but lost listeners in the north.
The girl was taken hostage on Monday and attacked in a locked room for over 48 hours, police said.
Reports say she was rescued by a passer-by who heard her cries on Wednesday. No arrests have been made.
The gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December sparked protests across India.
In a separate development, police in Delhi say they are also looking for a group of men who allegedly gang-raped a 19-year-old woman on Wednesday night.
Reports say the woman, who works as a domestic helper, was offered a lift in a vehicle by the men and then allegedly sedated and raped.
The five-year-old girl has been admitted to a city hospital in a critical condition.
"The girl was traumatised when she was brought to us. There were injuries to her lips, cheeks and chest wall. There were bruises on her neck," RN Bansal, chief of Swami Dayanand hospital, told the NDTV news channel.
Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told the AFP news agency that police had launched a probe into the rape and "attempted murder" of the girl.
There have been protests outside the hospital where the girl is being treated.
Mr Bhagat said a case of rape had been registered in connection with the attack on the 19-year-old girl, who was found semi-naked by pedestrians on a road early on Thursday.
Doctors at the city's Safdarjung Hospital said she that although she was suffering from trauma, there were no signs of external injuries.
Reports said the woman, who is married and comes from from Nepal, was on the way to her brother's house from her employer's residence in the up-market Defence Colony neighbourhood when a car carrying the men stopped to ask her for directions and offered to drop her near her home.
The issue of sexual violence against women and girls has been under intense scrutiny in India after the rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December led to widespread protests.
Six people were charged over the case, which shocked the nation. Four are on trial in a specially-convened fast-track court and face the death penalty. A fifth suspect was found dead in prison.
The sixth man, a minor, is being tried in a juvenile court. All the accused have pleaded not guilty.
Last month India passed a new bill containing harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for rapists.
Hampshire were 118-2 when Jimmy Adams fell for 61, limping to 184-4 before Overton's burst of five wickets in four overs earned him his second five-wicket haul in the County Championship (5-42).
The hosts were bowled out for 219 when Tino Best fell to Craig Overton (3-52).
Skipper Chris Rogers was removed for a duck as Somerset closed on 66-1.
Bad light stopped play on a day defined by an afternoon session that the visitors totally dominated.
Craig Overton took the wicket of Will Smith (32) just before lunch, then had Adams was caught brilliantly by Marcus Trescothick in the slips, while Tom Alsop was leg-before to Jim Allenby.
Liam Dawson was then bowled by Allenby to spark a run of six wickets in seven overs that left Hampshire's decision to bat after winning the toss looking like a poor one.
Jamie Overton did the damage, having Michael Carberry caught at cover by Rogers and Sean Ervine caught behind.
Lewis McManus, Gareth Berg and Mason Crane then all fell for a combined one run as Somerset compounded the misery of Division One's bottom side.
Hampshire coach Dale Benkenstein told BBC Radio Solent:
"In this division and this standard of cricket you should know by now you don't give sides opportunities to get back into the game.
"I felt we were really on top of them and just opened the door. We played some really loose shots.
"But to their credit once they got their chance they bowled very well. That wicket was flat and we were probably 250 runs short."
Mr Corbyn stole a march on his rivals online when he first ran for leader last year, and judging by the number of people talking about him on social media, he still has the advantage.
Mr Corbyn's personal page has more than 783,000 "likes" on Facebook, while the lesser-known Mr Smith has yet to reach 10,000.
Mr Corbyn's team claims the reach of his official page is 8.5 million people, and many more users will see pro-Corbyn content from other sources, ranging from videos of speeches at rallies to a positive take on Labour's election results to attacks on Owen Smith's background working for drugs giant Pfizer.
For his part, Mr Smith has the support of the majority of Labour MPs and Saving Labour, which campaigns online and is backed by celebrities including JK Rowling.
Underlying much of the social media activity surrounding Mr Corbyn is the assumption that he will not be treated fairly by national newspapers and broadcasters.
At the weekend some supporters began using the Twitter hashtag #WeAreHisMedia to suggest they will do the job of transmitting the Corbyn message instead. It was used 36,500 times during a mass posting organised last Saturday.
David Cameron once said that "Britain and Twitter are not the same thing", but Twitter does have an active UK user base thought to be approaching 15 million.
Facebook has many more - thought to be nearing 30 million - and Mr Corbyn has talked repeatedly about the importance of social media.
"We are getting enormous cut-through on social media and I think sometimes the national debate is framed around the political media circle that often ignores the reality of how many people get their information," he recently told the Guardian.
But most of the pro-Corbyn material on sites such as Facebook and Twitter does not come from Mr Corbyn or his team, as social media expert Carl Miller from the think tank Demos explains.
"It's not a bottom-down process, it's not a co-ordinated campaign from professional digital strategists. It allows organic grassroots movements to spring up and generate an incredible amount of noise," he says.
It's impossible to predict the outcome of this or any other election based on social media activity, says Mr Miller. But, he adds: "What all the activity shows us is how galvanised and excited the core vote really is. [Pro-Corbyn campaign group] Momentum is incredibly active, and always has been much more so than the Labour Party establishment.
"In general what I think this is doing, whether it's Momentum or other movements like UKIP, is it allows anti-establishment surges to happen. That kind of message of radical change always spreads better on social media than the 'let's keep things where they are' message."
These online movements are also increasingly spilling out on to the streets, Mr Miller believes, pointing to the large gathering of supporters at Westminster in June as Jeremy Corbyn was hit by a wave of front-bench resignations.
Momentum, which organised that event, claims a reach of 18 million across all its Facebook pages. "It's extremely important because it helps our offline activities," a spokesman said.
"Lots of people think social media exists in its own separate bubble. It really doesn't - it helps us do things like organise in 24 hours 10,000 people at the Keep Corbyn rally outside Parliament."
Mr Corbyn's team points to large crowds that have gathered in the past week to hear him speak - reportedly as many as 3,000 in Hull, and in Liverpool on Monday where estimates ranged between 5,000 and 10,000.
His supporters online posted pictures of those large crowds with the hashtag #MerseyBunker, a riposte to claims from his critics that Mr Corbyn is stuck in a bunker in London.
Some were then mocked for mistakenly posting pictures of even larger crowds gathering to see Liverpool FC celebrating their Champions League victory in 2005.
His critics claim he had agreed to a debate with Mr Smith on Channel 4 News the same evening, and say his ability to draw a large crowd online and at rallies has little bearing on his ability to win elections.
A spokesman for Saving Labour, the group set up to back the challenge to Mr Corbyn, said: "He is not in any sense addressing a wider electorate either within the Labour Party or the country.
"The reflected bubble is causing him to believe he has a social movement out there which will sweep all before it which is just nonsense, as the polls will tell you."
That group, which uses the hashtag #SavingLabour, has been posting pictures of large rallies ahead of the 1983 election in which Michael Foot was badly defeated by Margaret Thatcher.
It claims that it too has been effective online. The spokesman said it sent at least 70,000 people to the Labour Party website to join as registered supporters, giving them a chance to back Mr Smith before the ballot closes on 21 September.
Mr Corbyn has placed a lot of emphasis on the power of social media, but his team is not making any assumptions.
"Support for Jeremy on social media has grown exponentially since the start of the leadership campaign. We hope this will assist in getting our message out," a source said.
It remains to be seen how far he can convert the followers he has amassed on social media into votes, both within the Labour Party and the country at large.
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Now he wants to use art to turn the shanty town into an "art city".
Yet, according to Prof Alistair Lewis, an air pollution expert at the University of York, "it is overwhelmingly a health story".
The costs of not doing more to tackle air pollution can be measured in "thousands of deaths and billions of pounds, all passed on to the taxpayer", he says.
"The real costs here are the ones the taxpayer picks up in terms of providing extra healthcare," he explains.
"The only reason we measure NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) and particulates is because they are harmful to health."
The story goes back more than a decade, to government tax breaks for diesel cars.
Many people bought diesel cars believing they were less damaging to the environment.
But the evidence linking NO2 with health effects has grown substantially in recent years, with NO2 blamed for 23,500 deaths a year in the UK, according to official estimates.
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) gases - made up of oxygen and nitrogen - are produced when an engine burns diesel fuel.
The main nitrogen oxide (NOx) in diesel exhaust is nitric oxide (NO), which is converted to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air.
"It is a respiratory irritant which may exacerbate asthma and possibly increase susceptibility to infections," says the Department for the Environment.
According to Frank Kelly, an air pollution expert at King's College London, breathing air of poor quality can have both short and long-term effects.
In the short-term, some will feel a temporary tightness across their chest or an irritation in their throat.
After many decades of exposure, air pollution can lead to the development of a disease such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or heart disease, he says.
"Because air pollution is an invisible entity, not many people really understand the challenge it is having to their own health or their children's health."
There have been improvements in air quality over the last five decades through the introduction of a range of measures in the UK.
Emissions of nitrogen oxides have fallen by 62% since 1970, but in recent years progress has flattened off.
In 2014 the European commission launched legal proceedings against the UK for regularly exceeding NOx limits in 16 zones from London to Glasgow.
And in April this year, the UK's highest court ruled that the government must take immediate action to cut air pollution.
Prof Lewis says the costs to the NHS of not doing more to tackle NOx are "very substantial".
"The gap between what we've got and what we should have had amounts to the billion pound range in terms of costs to the UK health system," he says.
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It says between 800 and 1,000 doses of the vaccine, which has only been tested on animals, will be donated to the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in West Africa.
Canada's offer comes after the WHO said it was ethical to use untested drugs on Ebola patients.
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Work to transform the former Strand bar complex includes the demolition of existing buildings at Great James Street and Strand Road.
The new development will also include retail outlets and a restaurant.
It is hoped that the multi-million pound project will provide a boost for the local economy.
The new development was seen as a significant one for council chief executive, John Kelpie.
"We are delighted to see the successful delivery of new tourism developments which will enhance the profile of the City and District in keeping with the objectives of the Community Plan," he said.
"The development will contribute positively to the economic development and regeneration of the city and the wider north west."
Planning Committee Chairman John Boyle said he was delighted to see new plans for the city centre progressing.
"I'm confident that the new hotel will contribute to the revitalisation of this area of the city centre, with the potential to attract new investors and further enhance the profile of the area," he said.
As well as the premises on Strand Road, the new development site will also incorporate adjoining lands on Great James Street and Edward Street, which is currently a vacant site.
Milan were losing 2-0 through Luca Paganini and Oliver Kragl, when Balotelli, on loan from Liverpool, saw his penalty kept out after 48 minutes.
Carlos Bacca gave Milan hope two minutes later but Federico Dionisi extended the visitors' lead.
Luca Antonelli pulled one back and Jeremy Menez scored an injury-time penalty before Balotelli hit the bar.
Milan have only won one of their last nine Serie A matches and drop to seventh.
Their caretaker-boss Cristian Brocchi said: "This match leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. We didn't lose heart despite missing a penalty.
"We created a lot of chances, hit the crossbar twice and missed a penalty. We played for the win right until the end. We put in a good performance, we created chances."
In 1915, captain Arthur Edwards and his men, known as tunnellers, successfully detonated one of the first underground explosions behind enemy lines.
Mr Edwards, from Blaenavon, Torfaen, was later awarded the Military Cross for his work.
Historian Mark Khan said it was unusual to have such "fascinating" medical records and diaries from an individual.
In 1914, the 26-year-old mining engineer at the Blaenavon Iron and Coal company was a member of the 2nd battalion of the Monmouthshire regiment.
He was put in charge of the 4th divisional mining party - a hastily assembled group of miners turned soldiers.
On 9 April 1915, after months of tunnelling, they blew up a building which German snipers had been using behind enemy lines on the France/Belgium border.
Mr Khan, a military historian with the Durand Group, said Mr Edwards' medical records, diaries and letters "fill a gap" in terms of tunnelling history in World War One.
"This is part of this very early period of mining where there's not a huge of information known... it's a fascinating story and quite unique in many ways.
"He is a pioneer, he fights all the way through the war, wounded twice and survives - he's part of somebody who went through the whole war, did an awful lot and survives."
Detailed diagrams drawn by Mr Edwards are among the documents held at the National Archive in Kew.
They show how he engineered several networks of tunnels which became vital supply routes as well as a method of attacking the enemy from below with explosives.
In 1919, after the war, the war office sent Mr Edwards several letters asking him to pay back wages of around £9 but he does not reply and fails to turn up for a military camp in 1920.
It is the last known record of one of the men at the forefront of underground warfare.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate to 6.75% from 7.25%, with economists having forecast it would trim rates to 7%.
The repo rate is the level at which the central bank lends to commercial banks.
The bank has been under pressure to boost growth after inflation hit a record low of 3.6% in August due to falling commodity prices.
The latest cut takes interest rates in the country to the lowest level in four and a half years.
The RBI had already cut the policy rate by a total of 75 basis points this year, following rate reductions in January, February and June, on the back of low inflation.
"In India, a tentative economic recovery is underway, but is still far from robust," RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said in a statement.
"Investment is likely to respond more strongly (and boost domestic demand) if there is more certainty about the extent of monetary stimulus in the pipeline."
This size of the rate cut is a bit of surprise - so was it pressure or pragmatism that led to the 50 basis point cut?
I'd argue that central bank governor Raghuram Rajan decided this was the best window to lower rates this year.
If this year's lower-than-average rainfall leads to poor harvests and higher inflation - then making a rate cut later would have been be tough.
Also, Mr Rajan surely has one eye on US Federal Reserve.
If, as many expect, the Fed moves to raise interest rates by the end of the year - money is expected to start flowing out of emerging economies like India.
And that will definitely make it tough for the RBI to cut rates further.
Economic growth in India, Asia's third largest economy, slowed to an annual rate of 7% between April and June, down from 7.5% in the previous quarter.
Consumer inflation is also well below the central bank's target of 6% for January next year.
Atsi Sheth of Moody's Investors Service said the extent of the rate cut suggested the central bank thought underlying growth was still subdued.
"It also suggests that inflation is not the key risk at this time, in the RBI's view," she told Reuters.
Shilan Shah, an economist at Capital Economics, added that the latest cut implied the central bank might have reached a "turning point", marking the end of its easing cycle.
"The accompanying statement appears to suggest that the RBI is passing the mantle on to the government and banking sector to drive a sustained economic recovery," he said in a note.
Indian shares reversed losses after the central bank's decision, with the benchmark BSE index trading flat at 25,607.93. The index had been more than 1% lower earlier in the session.
The deal on the 2014-2020 budget was reached between member states and European Parliament leaders, he said.
The 960bn-euro (£822bn; $1.3tn) budget cuts real spending for the first time.
Speaking in Brussels as EU leaders gathered for a summit, Mr Barroso said the deal would speed up spending on youth employment.
Nearly a quarter of people aged 18 to 25 in the EU have no job, while in Greece and Spain it is more than half.
By Chris MorrisBBC News, Brussels
The deal agreed by EU leaders in February did not have enough support to be passed in the European Parliament. So something had to give, because under the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, the parliament now has the power to block the multi-annual budget if it wants.
There are still MEPs who are disappointed but the new deal looks set to be approved. The socialist group leader, Hannes Swoboda, said the compromise was "not ideal, but there are decisive improvements".
The overall ceiling on spending will not change - and that means leaders like UK Prime Minister David Cameron can continue to say that they have secured a real-terms cut in the budget for the first time. But the structure of the budget deal has become more flexible, to reflect the fact that many MEPs want to ensure that as much of the money as possible is actually spent.
In the current seven-year budget, tens of billions of euros have not been spent, and funds have been returned to national coffers. If that does not happen over the next seven years - and money is transferred from one area to another, or from one year to another, as MEPs insist it should be - then it is possible in theory that spending could rise.
EU leaders will consider mobilising 6bn euros (£5bn; $8bn) earlier than planned to help youth training schemes.
On the eve of the summit draft plans were also agreed on agricultural reform and how to rescue troubled banks.
Amid widespread resistance to the ongoing austerity measures in the eurozone, trade unions in Portugal began a 24-hour strike on Thursday.
Public transport crawled to a halt as a result of the action by unions representing more than a million workers.
The 2014-2020 budget was agreed at a summit in February but its ratification had been blocked by the parliament.
It appears that under the new deal, the figures agreed will remain unchanged but, in a concession to the European Parliament, unspent money will be transferred from one year to the next, rather than returning to national budgets as at present.
The speaker of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, urged MEPs to give it their backing.
He told reporters the deal was "the minimum" that MEPs had pushed for, but "from a psychological point of view it's progress".
If the 27 governments give unanimous approval, and a majority of MEPs back the deal, the final text will be adopted in September.
European Council head Herman Van Rompuy said in a press release that youth employment schemes should be accelerated and youth mobility increased.
Source: Eurostat, April 2013 (Figures for Greece & UK are for February 2013)
The Commission's Youth Guarantee plan would offer young people across Europe a quality apprenticeship or job in the first four months after becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.
An unemployed Czech graduate, Dagmar Hvizdosova, told the BBC "it's been one year since I got my bachelor degree in media studies - I´ve been trying to find a job in that industry, however, I haven't been successful. I've therefore decided to move abroad and go for a Master's degree...
"Here in the Czech Republic there are so many people with university degrees that it is impossible to find a job straight after school. In addition, the bachelor degree is underrated - it now has the same or possibly less value as secondary education about 10 years ago."
A source at the European Commission said an extra 10bn euros in funding for the European Investment Bank (EIB) could be used to encourage private banks to lend more to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), which account for about 99% of businesses in the EU.
The draft summit conclusions, seen by the BBC, say the leaders note "the importance of shifting taxation away from labour, as a means of increasing employability and boosting job creation and competitiveness".
In a statement on arrival, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said "what this [EU] council should be about is doing in Brussels what we're doing in Britain, which is getting control of spending, making sure we live within our means and then making ourselves more competitive, getting rid of regulations, making it easier for businesses to create jobs".
Under the bank rescue deal, bank creditors and shareholders of failed banks would take the first hits, followed by savers with deposits of more than 100,000 euros.
If that is not enough, government help would be called upon, and taxpayers would be among the last to shoulder losses.
Leaders are also expected to approve accession talks for Serbia, as well as formalising Croatia's entry into the EU next week.
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said on the eve of the summit that he hoped to see his country join within five years at most.
David Lytton, 67, from London, was discovered at Dove Stone Reservoir in Greater Manchester on 12 December 2015.
It took police more than a year to establish his identity and a "provisional" cause of death was given as "strychnine poisoning".
A full inquest is scheduled to begin at Heywood Coroner's Court at 14:00 GMT.
The death sparked worldwide interest as a police investigation was launched to identify the body of the man, first nicknamed Neil Dovestones by mortuary workers at Royal Oldham Hospital.
It was discovered Mr Lytton had lived in Pakistan for 10 years and had flown to London Heathrow, two days before his body was found.
He had no wallet, phone or documents and was identified from photos from a passenger list and picked up on CCTV in London.
His identity was eventually confirmed as a result of a DNA match with a relative in January.
It later emerged he had changed his name from David Lautenberg, the name he was born with in 1948.
Police believe he took his own life.
Det Sgt John Coleman described the case as "unlike anything I have ever known" in 20 years as a police officer.
Speaking after Mr Lytton's identity was finally established, he said: "Possibly the biggest question still remains, which is why a man with no obvious connection to Saddleworth chose to head there after returning from Pakistan."
The mystery gave rise to a number of theories about Mr Lytton's death, which were later discounted.
There was speculation he could have been making a final journey to the site of a plane crash in 1949 which killed his family, while a man from Northern Ireland contacted police to say he could be missing Hugh Toner, from Newry, who disappeared in 1994.
The former secretary of state, a veteran of dozens of Democratic debates in 2008, was clearly the more polished of the two - and she had plenty of set-piece lines at the ready.
"I'm a progressive, but I'm a progressive who likes to get things done," she said early on, in a quote seemed tailor-made to deflect any attacks by a man who has found widespread support among the populist left.
For Mr Sanders, the impassioned rhetoric that plays well during his hour-long speeches to tens of thousands of cheering fans seemed somewhat out of place at times in the debate format. His strongest moment may have come in his opening statement, when he laid out the case against Wall Street and the "billionaire class".
As the debate ground on, a few key defining exchanges stood out for both candidates:
Mr Sanders' righteous opening condemnations of income inequality and stagnant worker wages made his conciliatory position on gun control all the more apparent.
"We can raise our voices, but I come from a rural state, and the views on gun control in rural states are different than in urban states, whether we like it or not," he said.
It's the one area where Mrs Clinton is decisively running to the Vermont senator's left, and she was quick to argue the Vermont senator was "not at all" tough enough on guns and taking on the National Rifle Association.
"This has gone on too long, and it's time the entire country stood up against the NRA," she said to cheers.
Take-away: Mr Sanders stuck up for rural states, but will it fly with the majority of Democratic voters who live in urban areas?
Mrs Clinton's Republican opponents have hammered again and again on her perceived responsibility for the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which four Americans died, so one of the looming questions during the debate was how she would respond.
After a long discourse on the US military involvement in Libya, she answered with one line: "Unless you believe the United States should not send diplomats to any place that is dangerous, which I do not, then when we send them forth, there is always the potential for danger and risk."
Mr Sanders and the other candidates didn't press her, but it was an answer that could - and likely will - be characterised by a Republican opponent as indifference to the loss of American life.
Take-away: As a former secretary of state, foreign policy should be a strength for Mrs Clinton, but her answers reveal a continued vulnerability.
As expected, Mrs Clinton was also asked about the ongoing controversy over her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. While she admitted, once again, that she made a mistake, she was quick to pivot to an attack on Republicans and their congressional investigation, which she said was a "partisan vehicle" aimed at taking down her poll ratings.
"I am still standing," she said. "I am happy to be part of this debate."
Mr Sanders then chimed in with the line of the night - not to attack, but to come to Mrs Clinton's defence.
"The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails," he said, as Mrs Clinton reached over to shake his hand.
Mrs Clinton was flying so high at that point that, when asked whether she wanted to respond to Lincoln Chafee's questioning of her credibility, she offered a curt "no".
Take-away: Mrs Clinton couldn't have scripted it any better than that.
The threat of big business has been the central motivating issue for Mr Sanders' presidential campaign. Could Mrs Clinton steal a march on the Vermont senator and position herself as the candidate to take on corporate titans?
She certainly tried, and spoke about how, as a New York senator in 2007, she confronted Wall Street on their risky business practices and told them to "cut it out".
At that point, Mr Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, saw his opening and waited, with finger raised, to deliver his sharpest attack.
"In my view, Secretary Clinton, Congress does not regulate Wall Street, Wall Street regulates Congress," he said. "We have got to break off these banks. Going to them and saying, 'please do the right thing' is kind of naive."
Take-away: When it comes to populist economics in today's Democratic Party, Mr Sanders is sitting on the political high ground.
"I never took a position on Keystone until I took a position on Keystone," Mrs Clinton said at one point when defending herself against the charge that she has changed positions on issues based on political expediency.
The clunkiness of the line was typical of Mrs Clinton's difficulty, at times, in dealing with charges that her views are based on politics and not principle.
Again and again, within the give and take of the debate, Mrs Clinton left herself vulnerable to attack. Her opponents were either unwilling (Mr Sanders and Martin O'Malley) or incapable (Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee) of seizing the advantage.
Take-away: Mrs Clinton is a skilled debater, but she had her flaws. Whether it's rust or ongoing weakness, it's probably not enough to make Vice-President Joe Biden leap into the race.
The council has proposed dropping the proportion of affordable homes in any new developments by 5%.
It hopes the measure would increase builders' profit margins and encourage a rising in housing projects.
But one property developer said the change would "make no significant difference".
A report by research body the Centre for Cities said that 220 homes were built in York last year, one of the lowest figures in England.
In 2010 the council cut the requirement for the amount of affordable housing from 50% to 25% on brown-field developments and from 50% to 35% on green-field sites.
But property developer Michael Hammill said the proposed additional 5% cut in affordable housing targets was not enough allow him to make a profit on developments.
He said: "The regulatory burden that we're faced with makes some schemes which are borderline totally unviable.
"Bluntly, no it is not the answer. It's just tweaking at the edges, fiddling while Rome burns. It goes nowhere near enough. There is nothing bold in there at all."
Steve Waddington, City of York Council's assistant director for housing, denied that the affordable housing quotas were affecting new home building in the city.
"Builders can make it pay, builders are making it pay. We are seeing developments coming forward.
"We have to make sure that we have a city that provides accommodation for all its citizens."
The proposed reduction in targets will be discussed at a council meeting next week.
In response to a freedom of information request, the Ministry of Defence estimated 974 "enemy combatants" had died since the UK bombing campaign started in Iraq in September 2014.
A further 22 had been killed in Syria since air strikes began in December last year, it estimated.
The MoD said no civilians had died.
The figures cover the period from September 2014 to March 2016 and were released in response to a request made by Vice News.
The MoD said they were estimates based on "post-strike analysis" because the UK was unable to visit sites to verify the numbers dead.
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Referring to IS by the Arabic acronym of Daesh, the MoD said the strikes were part of a wider coalition operation to target command and control sites, military equipment and revenue streams such as oil infrastructure.
It said the UK took all steps necessary to minimise civilian causalities.
There were 98 IS fighters injured, the figures indicated.
Parliament approved British participation in air strikes against IS targets in Iraq in September 2014.
MPs went on to back action against IS in Syria in December 2015. While 66 Labour MPs helped the government secure a larger than expected Commons majority, the expansion of attacks was opposed by party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
In answer to a Parliamentary question last September, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said about 330 fighters were estimated to have been killed in the first year of RAF strikes in Iraq.
The UK campaign has intensified in recent months, with Typhoon and Tornado fighter jets and remotely-piloted Reaper drones targeting oilfields and bomb factories as well as mortar and sniper positions.
The latest figures suggest 318 IS fighters have been killed in the first three months of this year in both Iraq and Syria, compared with 92 in the same period last year.
The MoD last week released details of a series of strikes between 19 and 24 April in northern and western Iraq and Syria.
It said a mission on 21 April saw the first use against IS of the Enhanced Paveway III guided bomb, which had been held in reserve for "particularly challenging underground or hardened targets", on a complex of tunnels and bunkers.
The following day, Reaper drones destroyed an improvised weapons factory and workshop used for constructing car bombs in Syria, the MoD said.
Stephen Griffiths, 40, is accused of murdering prostitutes Suzanne Blamires, Shelley Armitage, and Susan Rushworth.
Mature student Mr Griffiths, of Thornton Road, Bradford, was remanded in custody by magistrates and later by a judge at the city's crown court.
Recent events have been described in some of the tabloid press as the "crossbow cannibal killings".
When asked to confirm his name by magistrates, Mr Griffiths told the court he was "the crossbow cannibal".
Asked for his address, he replied: "Erm... here I guess."
Relatives of some of the victims were in court for the magistrates' court hearing. Some wiped away tears at the start of the proceedings.
After appearing before magistrates, Mr Griffiths was then taken to Bradford Crown Court.
During this appearance, which lasted only 10 minutes, Mr Griffiths - flanked by security officers - spoke only to confirm his name.
He will next appear at the crown court via video link on 7 June.
Stephen Griffiths was arrested in Bradford on Monday
City searched for missing women
He is accused of murdering Ms Blamires, 36, between 20 May and 25 May; murdering Ms Rushworth, 43, between 22 June, 2009, and 25 May this year, and murdering Ms Armitage, 31, between 25 April and 25 May this year.
Police said body parts found in the River Aire on Tuesday were from Ms Blamires, who had lived in Barkston Walk, Allerton, and was last seen on 21 May.
Ms Armitage, also from Allerton, has been missing since 26 April and Ms Rushworth, from the Manningham area of the city, disappeared on 22 June last year.
Mr Griffiths is reported to be a psychology graduate undertaking postgraduate research in criminology at Bradford University.
He was arrested on Monday at his third-floor flat, which is on the edge of the city's red light district and a short distance from Bradford city centre.
A yellow "be aware" warning is in place from 01:00 on Friday to 09:00 BST on Saturday.
The Met Office has said thunderstorms in the south and mid are likely to be followed by widespread heavy rain, which will move up to Gwynedd.
There could be localised disruption from surface water flooding. Lightning and hail could also affect the area.
Woodgate, 36, was part of the squad that secured a return to the top flight this season but made only one appearance in the League Cup.
The centre-half played 112 games during two spells with his home-town club.
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Leicestershire Police, which used facial recognition technology on revellers at Download, said it had now destroyed the information it gathered.
It was believed to be the first time the software had been used at an outdoor event in the UK.
The trial was criticised by campaign group Big Brother Watch as "worrying".
Images of people were compared against a database of criminals who target music festivals across Europe, the force said.
Ch Supt Chris Haward said no one who came to the festival to enjoy themselves had anything to worry about.
"The software provided an efficient and effective way of picking known offenders out of a crowd - something that officers would previously have been done using paper briefings," he said.
"While it is too early to give definitive crime figures, early indications are that it has remained low."
Officers would "use their discretion appropriately" in the unlikely event of someone being wrongly identified, police said.
But Renate Samson from Big Brother Watch said the way police went about the scheme was "a great worry".
"We're very keen for bad people to be caught but we're also keen for innocent people to go about their day-to-day business, have a good time at festivals they've paid good money for, and not feel as though they're being surveyed by police," she said.
A cashless payment system was put in place for the first time in a bid to cut crime.
Thousands of revellers braved the rain at Download, held at Donington Park, to see headliners Slipknot, Muse and Kiss.
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The 41-year-old Northern Irishman, who retired in April after a record-breaking career, was honoured at a star-studded ceremony in Belfast.
He joins a list of winners that includes Pele and Seve Ballesteros.
"It's a huge honour and I'm thrilled to be accepting it so close to home in Belfast," McCoy told BBC Sport.
The former jockey, from Moneyglass in County Antrim, joked: "Like the main award, it's very prestigious, only with the lifetime award, you aren't going to win any more after that. That is the only disappointing thing about it."
McCoy, who rode more than 4,300 winners, revealed he had put on nearly two stone in weight after retiring but had come to terms with a decision he took reluctantly.
"I got pretty heavy but I've lost a bit of weight in the last six weeks or so. I'm about just over a stone above my riding weight now," said McCoy, who is 5ft 10in tall, but wasted down to as low as 10 stone during his career.
"I'm quite a stubborn, forward-thinking person so I don't really ever look back.
"It happens to everyone, it's time to move on. Sure, I'd like to be riding and some days I go to the races and I'd like to be having a go, but my time has been. I'm fine. I'm over it."
McCoy was the first jockey to be crowned Sports Personality of the Year, after winning the Grand National at the 15th attempt on Don't Push It in 2010.
He was champion jockey every year of a professional career that saw him overcome a succession of injuries, including puncturing his lungs twice.
"A previous Sports Personality of the Year winner and widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys of all time, AP was the biggest superstar of racing until his retirement this year," said Barbara Slater, BBC director of sport.
"It's an honour to celebrate his illustrious career in Belfast, Northern Ireland, his home nation, with the lifetime achievement award."
As well as his Grand National success, McCoy won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice, three Champion Hurdles and the Champion Chase.
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"It's great to receive the lifetime achievement award. There's some fantastic names on the trophy, like Sir Alex Ferguson and George Best," he said.
The Sports Personality awards, hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan in front of a crowd of 7,500 at the SSE Arena, was held in Northern Ireland for the first time.
"It will be nice to receive the award there," said McCoy, who finished third in the main category in both 2002 and 2013. "Sport has done a lot for Northern Ireland.
"I'll be very proud. I'm going to have four Sports Personality of the Year trophies in my house so that's kind of a nice thing to have.
"The main award is voted for by the public and it's nice to have that respect for what you've achieved.
"I felt very lucky that the racing public got behind me, and it was pretty much down to them that I was able to win it. It's a great occasion and a great trophy and the best sportspeople have won it."
Time away from racing has given McCoy, a father of two and occasional TV pundit, more time with his family, to follow his beloved Arsenal and play golf.
"I run and still ride out, and I'm still involved with [racehorse owner] JP McManus and school his horses some mornings. My golf handicap is probably down to 12 now," he said.
However, suggestions McCoy might take up competitive amateur cycling appear to be wide of the mark.
"I've been cycling a few times, but I had a friend who was cycling and was knocked off his bike by a lorry. I like the idea of cycling, but it's the dangers of it that I'm not too sure about," he added.
Thistle fought back from a goal down to draw with champions Celtic on Wednesday and can secure a top-half place by beating Motherwell on Saturday.
Edwards' side have a four-point lead over seventh-placed Kilmarnock with two games until the league splits.
"We need to focus on Saturday's game and put it to bed," he said.
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"Four points in between sixth and seventh, six points to play for, anything can happen in this league.
"Three points from fifth, you have to say, 'we have to look up'. We have to be really positive and say, 'yeah, why not? Why can't we go catch them?'
"But first and foremost, we have to win on Saturday."
The Firhill side are three points behind Hearts, eight points off St Johnstone and 14 behind Rangers.
Thistle were promoted to the top flight for the inaugural season of the Premiership - previously the Scottish Premier League - and have finished tenth, eighth and ninth.
"When we missed out [on the top six] last season, it hurt a lot so we'll be giving everything to make sure it's in our hands and that we get the job done and make sure we win the game," said Australia Under-23 cap Edwards on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"The way this league's gone this season - us being last at Christmas and now we're sixth, Dundee being way off it and then they were pushing for the top six - it's never over until it's over.
"We've shown that we can take points from Celtic. Kilmarnock can do it on Saturday.
"Rangers and Hearts showed that they're beatable now, they're not world beaters like they used to be so it's far from over but it's in our hands and it's important to go to Firhill on Saturday and beat Motherwell."
The man, in his 20s, got into difficulty at Alton Water reservoir in Tattingstone at about 20:00 BST. His body was later recovered from the water, police said.
The fire service has issued a warning to take care swimming in open water.
"We are asking people to stay safe following a tragic incident at Alton Water near Ipswich last night," they said.
"The best way to stay safe in or near the water is to take some sensible precautions and prevent accidents from happening," the force said on its Facebook page.
"Water is often a lot colder than you expect and it can impact on your physical capabilities. Just because you can swim well in a warm water pool doesn't mean you'll be able to swim well in cold water."
Suffolk Police said the man's death was currently being treated as unexplained "as is standard procedure".
"At this stage there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances," a spokesman added.
Alton Water is a man-made reservoir and water sports centre offering sailing and windsurfing courses.
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Figures from 2016 show that just over 33% of top-flight players are English.
"The more English players we have in the Premier League, and at the highest level, gives us the best depth to pick from," Southgate said.
He also said youth players need more games in the league, on the back of England Under-20s' World Cup win.
"It's key, you can have the best education system going but if people don't have the opportunity to display what they can do, then it's difficult for them to develop onto the next bit," said Southgate, speaking at an FA sponsor event in Milton Keynes.
"Hopefully the clubs have seen this summer that our young players are as good as any from across Europe and the rest of the world."
Southgate was appointed England manager on a four-year contract in November last year, after a spell as caretaker boss.
He says a change in mindset is needed for England to play better at major tournaments.
"Over 25 years we've only won three knockout matches, so that shows the size of the task ahead of us," he said.
"That's what we're working towards. Trying to get the players to think a bit differently, work a bit differently."
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Five from 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and one from 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment had been on patrol in Kandahar province on Tuesday. Their families have been told.
It is the biggest single loss of UK life at one time in Afghanistan since a Nimrod crash killed 14 in 2006.
The explosion is thought to have been caused by a very large Taliban bomb.
The number of British military deaths in Afghanistan since 2001 is now 404.
By Caroline WyattDefence correspondent, BBC News
This is the worst single loss of life in one incident due to enemy action for UK troops in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001.
The last time a similar number of UK casualties was caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) was in the summer of 2009, when five British soldiers died in an IED blast.
The device remains the deadliest weapon in the Taliban's arsenal. It is effective on a psychological level, as well as causing deaths and severe injury, and is relatively cheap and simple to manufacture.
The level of suspected casualties suggests a large amount of explosives were used.
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Prime Minister David Cameron said it was a "desperately sad day for our country".
"Every death and every injury reminds us of the human cost paid by our armed forces to keep our country safe," he said, at the start of Prime Minister's Questions.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)said the six soldiers were on a security patrol in a Warrior armoured fighting vehicle when it was caught in an explosion in Kandahar province.
Brig Patrick Sanders, commander of Task Force Helmand, said it suffered "catastrophic damage".
They had been travelling as part of a two Warrior patrol when the vehicle was hit at the junction of a road travelling east from Gereshk and another heading north to Lashkar Gah, the MoD said.
The BBC's Orla Guerin, in the Afghan capital Kabul, said there must have been a "massive explosion" to damage such a robust and heavily protected vehicle.
The area, she said, was sparsely populated and particularly unstable, according to Afghan officials, and insurgents were known to have planted roadside bombs there.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul said a police official in Lashkar Gah named IEDs as the biggest threat to his forces and told him insurgents were now planting them on key roads in a clear change of tactics.
Meanwhile, BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said the six soldiers had been in the country for less than a month, having flown out of the UK on Valentine's Day.
She added that the ongoing operation to recover the bodies would have been slowed down as rescuers would have faced the risk of being injured themselves by further bombs.
News emerged earlier on Wednesday that the six were missing, presumed dead. It is understood the MoD has not formally identified them.
Most of the 9,500 UK troops in Afghanistan are expected to be withdrawn by the end of 2014, when 13 years of combat operations in the country are set to cease.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the timetable for withdrawal remained on track despite this "cowardly attack".
"This will not shake our resolve to see through the mission - I believe we owe that to all the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives and put themselves at risk over the last few years," he told the BBC.
In the Commons, Mr Cameron told MPs "every possible support" had to be given to a political settlement in Afghanistan.
He said a clear message had to be sent to the Taliban that - whether UK troops or Afghan troops were there - they "will not win on the battlefield - they never win on the battlefield".
Mr Cameron said he had spoken to the UK's leading military officers, who had stressed the commitment of troops to "getting the job done".
He also said he would discuss the Afghanistan situation with President Barack Obama on his visit to the US next week to ensure they were "in lock step" about the importance of training up the Afghan army and police, and making sure all Nato partners had a properly co-ordinated process for transition.
Labour leader Ed Miliband expressed his "profound sadness" over the latest deaths and said the UK owed those who put themselves in harm's way for our benefit "an immense debt of gratitude".
Chief of Defence Staff General Sir David Richards said he was "deeply saddened" by the news.
"The courage, fortitude and determination of those servicemen and women currently in Helmand is inspirational," he said.
The Archbishop of York John Sentamu said his heart went out to those affected, and we owed a debt of gratitude to our "brave soldiers".
The last British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan was Senior Aircraftman Ryan Tomlin, of 2 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, who died from gunshot wounds in Helmand on 13 February.
The Hear'Say star claimed the tax would hit "little grannies" in modest London homes rather than the super-rich.
But the Labour leader insists the tax on homes worth ??2m or more would help fund more NHS doctors and nurses.
Accusing the PM of failing the NHS, he said: "If you've got big money you've got a friend in this prime minister."
He added: "If you haven't - you couldn't care less."
The clash came just two days after Ms Klass attacked Mr Miliband on ITV's The Agenda for proposing a tax that conjured up thoughts of "Barbie-esque houses", when really the homes she claimed it would affect were often "like a garage".
Six-point plan
"When you do look at the people who are going to be suffering this tax, it's true a lot of them are grannies who have had these houses in their families for a long, long time," she said.
"The people who are the super-super-rich who are buying their houses for ??140m, this is not necessarily going to affect them because they've got their tax rebates and their amazing accountants.
"It's going to be the little grannies that have lived in those houses for years and years."
This prompted Mr Miliband to outline a six-point response on Twitter, using a play on Hear'Say's biggest hit: "Here's why our NHS needs a mansion tax. It's Pure and Simple."
The Labour leader returned to the subject during a rowdy PM's question time by asking Mr Cameron why he backed a bedroom tax, but was against a mansion tax.
The PM said a spare room subsidy was not available in the private sector, so should not be available in public sector accommodation.
No 'Klass-act'
This prompted Mr Miliband to ask if the PM believed a person living in a ??140m Hyde Park penthouse should pay the same property tax as others.
Mr Cameron argued that his government had taken measures to address the differential, by putting up stamp duty and charging foreigners who invest, adding: "What you've had in the last week is a pasting from a pop star."
Mr Miliband hit back: "That's exactly what I expect from this prime minister - you only feel the pain of people struggling to find a ??2m garage.
"We need a mansion tax because the NHS is going backwards on your watch."
The PM taunted Labour MPs by quipping: "They are certainly not seeing a Klass-act opposite."
He said there were more nurses and doctors under his government and accused Labour of missing NHS targets in Wales.
"This was the week when Myleene Klass wiped the floor with you on TV and this is the week when a poll in Scotland showed more people believe in the Loch Ness monster than in your leadership. The only problem for the Labour Party is you actually exist."
Earlier, Mr Miliband told his 358,000 followers on Twitter that the mansion tax would contribute ??1.2bn towards Labour's goal of raising ??2.5bn a year for the NHS to help pay for thousands more doctors, nurses, midwives and homecare workers.
It would also "guarantee that patients in England will wait no longer than one week for cancer tests and results by 2020", he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he backed the plan, adding that treating higher value properties in the same banded way as lower value ones was a policy the Liberal Democrats "had advocated for a long time".
UKIP are opposed to the idea, describing it as an attack on aspiration.
The deal, agreed at talks in Tunis, is intended to lead to a single government and elections within two years.
It needs to be endorsed by both the internationally recognised parliament in eastern Libya and the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC).
The agreement is separate from UN efforts at mediation in Libya.
The United Nations special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, called it a very good basis for going forward.
In October, the UN submitted its own blueprint for a deal leading to a unified government, but neither side has endorsed it.
The UN is due to host peace talks between the two factions next week in Rome.
Libya has been unstable since long-serving strongman Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in October 2011, with militias ruling various parts of the country.
"This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for," Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the first deputy head of the GNC, said after the deal was signed on Sunday.
"If this solution receives real Libyan support - from the people and institutions - we will surely arrive in no more than two weeks or a month to a solution to solve the political crisis," he told reporters.
Under the "declaration of principles" agreed in Tunis, the two sides would set up a committee to nominate a prime minister pending elections, while another panel would review the constitution.
The GNC is supported by a loose alliance of armed groups, including Islamists, that seized the capital in August 2014.
This forced the existing, internationally recognised government to flee to the eastern city of Tobruk.
Yassar Yaqub, 28, of Huddersfield, was shot when police stopped a car on the sliproad of the motorway on Monday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said a gun was found in Mr Yaqub's car. The officers involved had not worn body cameras.
Tests are being carried out by investigators on the two vehicles stopped and an unmarked police car.
Police officers had been travelling in four unmarked vehicles before the shooting.
The car was stopped at Ainley Top near J24 of the M62 in West Yorkshire.
A non-police issue firearm, found in the Audi in which Mr Yaqub was travelling, was secured in the presence of investigators at the scene and is undergoing ballistics and forensic testing, the IPPC said.
None of the police officers involved had been wearing cameras.
So far no relevant CCTV footage of the incident has been found, the police watchdog said.
Derrick Campbell, IPCC Commissioner, said: "I would like to reassure the local and wider community that this will be a thorough and detailed independent investigation.
"We will be carefully examining all the circumstances leading up to Mr Yaqub's death, including the planning of the police operation, and the actions of the officers involved that evening."
Mr Campbell also called for patience, asked any witnesses to come forward and said Mr Yaqub's family were being regularly updated on the investigation.
Dozens of people attended a vigil on Wednesday at the spot where he was shot dead.
About 100 people, including the dead man's parents, gathered near the site to lay flowers and light candles.
Mohammed Yaqub, Yassar's father said he felt his son who he said did not have "a bad past" was "killed unlawfully".
In 2010, Yassar Yaqub was cleared of attempted murder and a firearms offence after it was alleged that he opened fire on a car in Birkby Hall Road, Huddersfield.
On Tuesday evening, protesters carrying banners reading "stop the killings" brought traffic to a halt in Bradford.
It said limits had been repeatedly exceeded in 16 areas including London, Birmingham, Leeds, and Glasgow.
Germany, France, Spain and Italy were also served with warnings over nitrogen dioxide levels.
The commission said if countries did not take action within two months it could take the matter to the European Court of Justice.
Nitrogen dioxide comes from sources including factories and vehicles, particularly diesel engines.
The commission said more than 400,000 people died prematurely in the EU every year as a result of poor air quality and that millions more suffered respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
Under EU law, when air pollution limits are breached member states have to implement air quality plans to bring the levels back down.
Friends of the Earth said it was "shameful" that the UK had breached the limits and called for new domestic legislation to protect people from pollution once it leaves the European Union.
Asked whether the UK would remain bound by any legal proceedings after Brexit, Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein said: "For as long as the UK is a member of the European Union, rights and obligations apply.
"European law applies fully."
DUP leader Arlene Foster said although some work has been done, there was no evidence of compromise from Sinn Féin.
Conor Murphy of Sinn Féin said the talks were about "process not progress" and a "step change" was needed.
NI Secretary James Brokenshire has said he will bring in legislation after Easter to collect rates if there is no agreement.
Most of the parties reported no progress after a week of meetings.
Mike Nesbitt of the Ulster Unionist Party said it was "deeply, deeply, deeply frustrating".
Mrs Foster, on the other hand, said progress had been made "on a wide range of areas".
Mr Murphy said he could report no progress "in relation to implementation of the key issues around Irish language, legacy and equality".
"The British government have continued to pander to the DUP attempts to block equality and to block progress and that's not acceptable," the Sinn Féin representative added.
Mrs Foster accused some other parties of "holding up the process in terms of their political demands".
The DUP deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, said the real issues were health, education and public services and that "some of the parties in this process have yet to mention these issues".
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the parties were "miles away" from agreement.
"If this process doesn't ratchet up in the early stages of next week then there won't be a deal," he said.
Mike Nesbitt said the DUP and Sinn Féin could "cobble together some sort of agreement in five minutes" but it would be "worthless" if the parties could not build trust and respect for each other.
NHS England said based on its latest data, 54% of women screened are getting their results on time.
Delays are being blamed on cytology labs struggling to keep staff as the screening process is replaced with another - which will need fewer staff.
A cervical cancer charity said waiting for results is "an anxious time".
Robert Music, chief executive of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said it was "concerning".
"This [the wait] may cause additional stress and potentially result in delays in treatment commencing for those needing it," he said.
Information supplied by NHS England to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire said the process measure is that at least 98% of screening results letters should be received within two weeks.
It also said based on the latest data available, 20% of CCG areas are meeting that standard and that 54% of women screened receive their results within two weeks. The longest recorded wait for a woman to receive the results from her cervical screen is 59 days, it said.
Source: NHS England
Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, had to be regularly tested after her smear test showed up pre-cancerous cells. She was pregnant at the time and could not be treated until after giving birth.
After that, she was tested every six months and then annually.
She said delays in waiting for her results would make her fear the worst.
"I always, and there is no rationale behind this, but I always thought the worst when my results have not come in and I would pester my GP and no doubt cause them trouble," she said.
Experiences like hers are not uncommon, she said, and it is an incredibly stressful time when waiting for results.
"I think this (the delays) could have been foreseen and things could have been put in place for a transition period," she said.
Dr Suzy Lishman, president of the Royal College of Pathologists, said although less than 50% of women were not getting their results within two weeks, 83% were getting theirs within three weeks.
"The effect is mainly anxiety but it is very unlikely to have an effect on their health as cervical cancer can take decades to develop."
Figures issued by NHS Digital for the year 2115-16 showed 89.1% of women across England got their results letters within the two weeks.
An NHS England spokesperson said cervical screening turnaround times are closely monitored.
"A way of analysing tests which will identify more women who are at risk and save more lives is being introduced. However, the transition is impacting on turnaround times as new system is implemented.
"This will be completed in 2019 and in the meantime NHS England is working with hospitals to increase capacity and cut backlogs."
John Crossley, the deputy chief examiner in cytology, said uncertainty leading to the changes in testing had been a difficult period.
Labs were unwilling to train staff in the current screening process when it was going to be replaced with a different process, HPV screening.
"It's been a balancing act and the scales are starting to tip, he said.
Mr Music said HPV primary screening had been shown to be a more effective test.
"However while the change from cytology to HPV testing as the primary screening method will inevitably mean changes to the workforce, we must not let this impact turnaround times for tests or let the situation get worse," he said.
Mitigation plans, where larger labs help out the smaller ones, have been put in place which Mr Crossley said was the best Public Health England could do.
"I understand the psychological effects of waiting for results, the anxiety it can cause," he said, "but patient care is not being affected."
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Six Danish MPs will visit Nauru and Australia to find out if a similar hard-line immigration regime could work in Europe.
The proposed visit follows publication of more than 2,000 reports revealing widespread abuse at the centre.
Australia's government has dismissed many of the reports as "unconfirmed".
One of the Danish politicians attending the trip will be Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen from the socialist-green unity party Enhedslisten.
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"We are really worried by the reports about conditions on Nauru and Manus Island," she told the Guardian.
"For me the visit is an opportunity to ask critical questions about the model."
Martin Henriksen, a member of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party, explained that Denmark could maintain refugee camps in Kenya or Greenland.
"Australia has found an interesting model," he told Danish radio station 24syv.
"The government will continuously assess different migration policies by looking at the experiences of other countries - including Australia."
Jacob Mark, from the Socialist People's Party, emphasised the trip was a fact-finding mission, not a policy endorsement.
"It is also important for those of use who do not agree with the policy to see it with out own eyes," he said.
Marcus Knuth from the ruling Venstre party, Dan Jorgensen from the Social Democrats and Simon Emil Ammitzboll from the centre-right Liberal Alliance will also attend the trip.
Over two-thirds (68%) of people with asthma who responded to a survey by the charity said their sex lives have been directly affected by their condition.
Callie-Anne, 31, said her sex life with her husband was put "on hold" because of her severe asthma.
The charity said it may be a sign that people do not have the disease under control and they should seek advice.
Callie-Anne said she was not surprised at the results of the survey as "people are suffering in silence".
"It's just not spoken about. I've been asked how it affects my children, my work, my studying, my social life by many doctors, consultants, healthcare workers and just general people even on the asthma forums.
"It's very rare anyone asks how it affects my relationship with my husband and no-one would ever ask how it affects the intimate part of our relationship."
But she said her condition has a significant effect on her love life.
"I often start wheezing loudly during sex and feel like my chest will explode because I can't get air out of my lungs. I have to stop so I can take my inhaler and catch my breath.
"This can be really embarrassing and frustrating and for a long time after I was diagnosed I was too scared to have sex or be intimate."
The charity said a number of respondents echoed Callie-Anne's experience and reduced the amount of sex they had, or stopped having it altogether.
Nearly half (46%) of the 544 people who responded said they would be more sexually confident if they did not have asthma.
The survey found that just under 15% felt their asthma had contributed to a relationship finishing, with one respondent revealing that theirs had been ended in an ambulance, during an asthma attack "because my boyfriend said I was causing him stress and he couldn't cope. I ended up going to the hospital alone".
A number also said they have been admitted to hospital because an orgasm triggered an asthma attack, while others reported problems with performing oral sex because of breathing difficulties.
The charity is hoping more asthma sufferers will now talk about how it affects their love lives.
"We were not expecting the level of response we received to our survey, nor the degree to which so many people are struggling with their asthma," said Dr Andy Whittamore, Asthma UK's in-house GP.
"The condition can have a tremendous impact on people's ability to have fulfilling love and sex lives, causing embarrassment and discomfort.
"As a result, some people may feel too embarrassed to speak to their GP or asthma nurse, but if their asthma symptoms are preventing them from having a healthy love life their asthma may not be under control and they need to seek help."
Callie-Anne said an honest conversation between her and her husband put them back on track.
"We had been keeping our feelings to ourselves out of fear of burdening each other with more stress. But this was making things worse.
"One day I sat him down and explained how I felt about my severe asthma and that I was worried he no longer wanted me. He looked at me like I was crazy.
"He said he was scared to initiate sex because once when he did, it triggered my symptoms and I had an asthma attack. He also said he didn't know how to approach the issue with me because of my mood swings and felt helpless that he couldn't help me.
"We're now more open and honest with each other and, when it comes to sex, we've learned to just roll with it. If I start getting symptoms and I need to stop to use my nebuliser or inhaler, we just laugh and joke about how hot I look with a nebuliser mask on."
Don't be embarrassed: Remember that asthma is a common condition and it is likely that your date/partner will not mind if you need to use your inhaler on a date or during sex. If you are in a relationship, communication with your partner is key and can help you both feel more confident about your asthma and better understand each other's needs.
Know your triggers: If you get any difficulties with triggers such as alcohol, different smells and even an allergy to latex, it is worth talking it through with your partner in advance so you can make any necessary adjustments.
Take note of your symptoms: If you notice that you are getting asthma symptoms during sex, such as coughing, wheezing or shortness of breath, it is probably an indication that your asthma is not as well controlled as it could be. If this is the case, you should make an appointment to see your GP or asthma nurse.
Reduce your risk: The best way to avoid getting asthma symptoms during sex is to manage your asthma well. There are several ways you can keep your asthma in check, including: taking your medicine as prescribed, checking your inhaler technique with your GP or asthma nurse, using a written asthma action plan and going to regular asthma reviews.
Speak to someone: Do not be afraid to speak to your GP or asthma nurse about how asthma may be interfering with your personal life, your relationships, or your sex life. You can also call to speak to nurses on the Asthma UK Helpline.
Source: Asthma UK
The disorientated male pup was spotted at Liverpool's Ice Festival at Pierhead on Wednesday morning and was coaxed back into the water.
RSPCA animal welfare officer Matt Brown said he was uninjured but needed help finding his way.
He added: "He was a little reluctant, perhaps he wanted another go on the ice, but after some encouragement, off he went and we watched him swim away."
Mr Brown said no-one knew how the pup made his way to the ice rink.
An RSPCA spokesperson said animal welfare officers believed the seal may have come from the Mersey.
Anyone finding stricken seal pups that appear not to be in immediate danger is advised to monitor the animal, but to call the RSPCA if the mother does not return within 24 hours.
A healthy pup will look big and fat without a neck, whereas a poorly pup will look thin, the organisation said.
He averaged 20.4 points and 6.6 rebounds in five games.
The 28-year-old last played in the NBA in 2012 with the Dallas Mavericks.
He has spent the past four seasons playing in the Chinese Basketball Association and is considered the second most popular player on the mainland, after Yao Ming.
The LA Lakers did not disclose Yi's contract details, but reports say he is signed for one year, with a veterans' minimum of $1.1m that could reach $8m with bonuses.
"We're excited to have a player of his worldwide accomplishments," LA Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said in a statement.
"We look forward to bringing him to training camp and hopefully having him make an impact on our team."
The LA Lakers has been trawling the bottom of the NBA table for the past few seasons and recently lost their top player, Kobe Bryant, to retirement.
Basketball has a huge following in China, where an estimated 300 million people - the population of the United States - play the sport.
The mainland is a highly-lucrative commercial market for many NBA teams, where stars like Lebron James and Kobe Bryant are household names.
Earlier this year, a Chinese businessman Jiang Lizhang became a minority holder in the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The site is set to "double in size" by 2026 with ten new buildings including two tower blocks, 1,400 properties and a multi-storey car park.
More than 7,000 people, including about 3,000 BBC and 900 ITV staff, are employed at the £650m site which first opened in 2011.
MPs in Salford called for the expansion to include more jobs for local people.
Salford Council said plans to expand MediaCityUK formed the second phase of a 20-year plan to transform the former docklands.
A spokesman said the 10-year build would create hundreds of new jobs for the area.
Rebecca Long Bailey, Labour MP for Salford and Eccles, called for firms in MediaCityUK to make "real investment in quality apprenticeships for local people".
"I would like to see companies in MediaCity agree to aim for a minimum percentage of apprentices who live locally."
Her Labour colleague Barbara Keeley, the MP for Worsley and Eccles South, also said: "The way that MediaCity was established it probably didn't generate enough new opportunities for local people to get jobs and that is something that needs to happen.
"I know the BBC has got a great apprenticeship scheme and I think the more organisations that advertise their opportunities locally that take on young people, and develop relationships with schools and academies locally the more that will help," she added.
Former Salford MP Hazel Blears complained in 2012 that only 26 of 680 new BBC jobs created in Salford had gone to local residents although the BBC said it had to recruit on skills and experience "not postcode".
In 2006, the 200-acre site was chosen by the BBC to relocate some of its departments to the North of England and the Salford Quays site was developed in a partnership with Salford City Council, developer Peel Holdings and development bodies.
The first phase of MediaCityUK, which is now complete, includes office and studio space for BBC departments, the relocation of ITV Granada and the Coronation Street set, along with 250 digital firms and the University of Salford journalism department.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative wanted to display the cartoon, which won first prize at an event in Texas.
Two gunmen were shot dead by police outside the event earlier this month.
Washington transport authorities on Thursday banned political, religious and advocacy adverts on the subway.
The transport authority in the US capital voted unanimously to suspend advertisements it describes as "issue-oriented".
AFDI founder Pamela Geller strongly criticised the decision to ban the advert, describing it as an attack on free of speech.
Ms Geller commented on her website that "rewarding terror with submission is defeat, absolute and complete defeat.
"These cowards may claim that they are making people safer, but I submit to you the opposite. They are making it far more dangerous for Americans everywhere."
The advert calls for Americans to support free speech and features a bearded, turban-wearing Muhammad waving a sword and shouting: "You can't draw me!"
In reply, a cartoon bubble portrays an artist grasping a pencil and saying: "That's why I draw you."
Ms Geller insists the cartoon is a "political opinion" which does not contain any violence.
Her organisation, described by critics as a hate group, has run controversial adverts on subways and buses in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco as well as in Washington's Metro in 2012.
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Officials in both Austria and Bolivia said Mr Snowden was not on the plane.
France and Portugal reportedly refused to allow the Moscow-Bolivia flight to cross their airspace.
Mr Snowden is reportedly seeking asylum in Bolivia and 20 other countries to avoid extradition to the US.
Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca told reporters on Tuesday that France and Portugal had closed their airspace over the "huge lie" that Mr Snowden, 30, was on board.
"We don't know who invented this lie, but we want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales," he said.
Austrian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Schallenberg said Mr Snowden was not on board the Bolivian leader's aircraft.
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The Bolivian defence minister, also on the flight, pilloried the US after the unscheduled landing.
"This is a hostile act by the United States state department which has used various European governments," Ruben Saavedra said.
The Falcon aircraft was reportedly allowed to refuel in Spain before the jet went on to Vienna. President Morales was said to be at the airport in Vienna discussing his return route to Bolivia early on Wednesday.
French officials said they could not confirm whether they had denied permission for President Morales' plane to fly over their territory. Portuguese officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Bolivian president had been on a visit to Moscow, where Mr Snowden, a former CIA contractor, has reportedly been holed up in an airport transit area since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June.
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President Morales told Russian television that Bolivia had not yet received an application from Mr Snowden, however, his request, if sent, would be considered.
"Bolivia is ready to accept people who disclose espionage if one can call it this way," he said.
Mr Morales and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been in Moscow for a meeting of gas-exporting countries.
President Maduro said he had not formally received an asylum request, but expressed support for Mr Snowden, saying he "deserves the world's protection" from the United States.
"Why are they persecuting him? What has he done? Did he launch a missile and kill someone? Did he rig a bomb and kill someone? No. He is preventing war," he told Reuters news agency.
Mr Snowden withdrew his application to Russia after President Vladimir Putin said he could stay only on condition that he stopped damaging Russia's "American partners" with his leaks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
He is wanted by the US on charges of leaking secrets he gathered while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), America's electronic spying agency.
On Tuesday, National Intelligence Director James Clapper apologised for telling Congress in March that the NSA did not have a policy of gathering data on millions of Americans.
He said in a letter to Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate intelligence committee, that his answer had been "clearly erroneous".
The leaking of thousands of classified intelligence documents prompted revelations that the US has been systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data.
Wikileaks, which says it is advising Mr Snowden, said most of his asylum requests had been handed to the Russian consulate at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport late on Sunday for delivery to the relevant embassies in the capital.
House prices in some national parks can be up to double what they are in the surrounding area, said a report from Lloyds Bank.
It found that buyers in England and Wales pay an average £125,796 extra for living in a national park.
Homes in the New Forest had the highest premium, and were the most expensive.
Houses there cost on average £259,066, more than double the cost of homes outside the park boundary.
However anyone in search of spectacular countryside might find better value in the mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales.
Homes there cost an average of £173,779, just 5% more than other properties nearby.
Over the past ten years, prices have risen fastest on Exmoor, which straddles Devon and Somerset, with a 47% increase between 2004 and 2014.
Lloyds Bank said one reason for the price rises was the fact that many homes in national parks are purchased as second homes - or holiday properties.
"The disadvantage is that the resulting high property prices have made it very difficult for many of those living and working in such locations to afford to buy their own home, said Marc Page, Lloyds Bank mortgages director.
"This situation has deteriorated in recent years, as prices have risen more rapidly than earnings," he said.
A recent survey by the National Housing Federation (NHF) found that many rural areas were relatively more expensive than London, once the level of local earnings was taken into consideration.
Northumberland National Park was excluded from the report, because of the low number of house sales.
The demonstrations had gone on for months, through the bitter Ukrainian winter, and culminated in forcing President Viktor Yanukovych from power.
When Volodymyr Bondarchuk found out that demonstrators had been shot dead, near Kiev's Independence Square, he repeatedly rang his father's mobile phone. There was no answer.
His father Sergiy, a physics teacher and member of a Ukrainian political party, was 52.
Volodymyr can vividly remember the badly damaged hands of other dead protesters as he searched for his father's body at the morgue.
Two years on and he feels proud of the way that civil society in Ukraine has rallied behind the banner of reform, but he feels "betrayed" by Ukraine's political class, which he says has failed to root out corruption and change the system of governance.
"They are using the same methods as they were using two years ago."
It's a sentiment echoed by the reformist MP Serhiy Leshenko, an independent MP who is still formally part of President Poroshenko's political grouping, but has now become a sharp-tongued critic of the government.
Mr Leshenko describes efforts to install Volodymyr Groysman, an ally of President Poroshenko, as the new prime minister as "business as usual."
"Now we see everything as it was in Yanukovych's time."
The former journalist believes a new Ukrainian government has to demonstrate zero tolerance towards corruption, but he claims Mr Groysman is not the right man for the job because "he is a product of the system".
It is true that Mr Groysman, a former city mayor of Vinnytsia and former deputy prime minister, is a career politician and close to the president.
However, his allies point to his previous successes in office.
Artur Arutyunov, an MP and member of President Poroshenko's party, describes Mr Groysman as "one of the best mayors in Ukraine's history", and exactly the man who can unite the president and the cabinet, and push through much-needed reforms.
Some progress has been made in Ukraine to do away with clumsy, Soviet-era bureaucracy, which is ripe for corruption.
However a number of reformists have left the government in recent weeks claiming that the vested interests of the political elite stand in the way of true change.
On Monday night there were reports that negotiations to install Mr Groysman as prime minister had stalled.
If he does take office then the pressure will increase on President Poroshenko to deliver a stable and genuinely reformist government for Ukraine.
Volodymyr Bondarchuk, whose father's photo is now part of a permanent memorial to those killed during the Maidan protests in 2014, believes Ukraine's politicians are not fighting for democracy and ideals "but to control access to money".
Cynicism and frustration towards post-Maidan politics, and the lack of change, in Ukraine is growing.
War veterans who fought in the ongoing conflict in the east of the country were involved in another small anti-government demonstration last week.
Volodymyr believes the government should heed the warnings.
"There are a lot of people in this country who volunteered… who know how to handle a weapon and I would not recommend the government to play games like this," he says.
It runs until Sunday on the Crichton Campus with more than 70 different acts expected to perform.
Local headliners are Zoe Bestel and Claire Hastings while musicians from around the world are also involved in the festival.
Organisers said ticket sales already achieved would guarantee even bigger audiences than at last year's inaugural event.
Festival director Linda Butterworth said: "We are proud to show that Dumfries can represent Scotland with this top quality international event.
"News of our success has spread around the world.
"We put the success down to lots of factors - brilliant venue, great programme, amazing volunteers, meticulous organisation and carefully selected international, national and local acts of the highest quality."
She said they hoped they had created "something special" this year.
"You don't have to play the ukulele to enjoy the festival but if you do come be prepared to be won over by the fantastic atmosphere and leave clutching a brand-new ukulele and a list of new friends," she added.
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But Zayn left the group in March 2015, leading to some people questioning the band's future.
Now, The Sun newspaper has said that the Harry, Liam, Louis, and Niall will be going their separate ways after the release of their fifth studio album next March.
Martin's been getting fans' reactions to the news.
The surface was deemed unsafe after two March concerts by the British singer.
Brisbane Lions against Adelaide - the climax of the women's Australian Rules football season - will now take place on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
Brisbane chief Greg Swann said the club had been "absolutely let down".
"Our question is why the grass was sown, knowing that there were games coming up. Why that's been allowed to happen is beyond us," he added.
The Gabba will be the venue for the opening Ashes cricket Test against England in November.
"This is a very unfortunate situation to be dealing with," said Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland.
"As long-term tenants of the Gabba, we're very sympathetic to the Brisbane Lions and the AFL's situation.
"Since the recent damage to the centre wicket block, we've had very constructive talks with Stadiums Queensland and have been given reassurances from them on the quality of the pitch for the first Test of the Ashes."
The incident is the deadliest to hit the Hajj in 25 years, with 769 people dead, more than 130 of them from Iran, and 934 injured.
Mr Rouhani described the crush as "heart-rending".
Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric has defended the authorities, saying the stampede was "beyond human control".
King Salman has ordered a safety review into the disaster.
Iran and several other countries have criticised Saudi authorities for the way they handled safety issues.
Iran's outrage also has political motivations, as its battle with Saudi Arabia for regional influence sharpens week by week, correspondents say.
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Deadly pinch point at Jamarat Bridge
As criticism of the Saudis intensifies, so has the Saudi response. The intervention of the country's top religious leader is no surprise. Nor is the grand mufti's assertion that fate and destiny are inevitable.
Such fatalism has resonance in the Islamic world, but it won't still a growing clamour of criticism.
Some of those who've been attending Hajj, including survivors of the crush, have been expressing a sense that the Saudis - despite all the billions they've spent on improving the Hajj infrastructure - have not done enough to ensure the safety of the majority of the pilgrims on the ground.
This has been magnified on social media, where the Saudi authorities' placing of the blame on the pilgrims themselves for not following safety instructions has been seen by some as evidence of a lack of sensitivity towards those who come to the Hajj from poorer countries.
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Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh was visited by Interior Minister Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef who is also deputy prime minister and chairman of the Supreme Hajj Committee, on Friday evening, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
"You are not responsible for what happened," the grand mufti said.
"As for the things that humans cannot control, you are not blamed for them. Fate and destiny are inevitable."
The cleric's remarks came after Iran's Supreme National Security Council accused the Saudis of "incompetence" and urged them to "take responsibility" for the deaths.
And on Saturday, Prosecutor General Sayed Ibrahim Raisi said that Iran would seek the trial of the Saudi royal family over its "crimes" in "international courts", Isna news agency reported.
Saturday was the final day of the Hajj, with no further serious incidents reported.
The crush occurred on Thursday morning as two million pilgrims were taking part in the Hajj's last major rite.
The pilgrims throw seven stones at pillars called Jamarat, which stand at the place where Satan is believed to have tempted the Prophet Abraham.
With temperatures around 46C, two massive lines of pilgrims converged on each other at right angles at an intersection close to the five-storey Jamarat Bridge in Mina, a large valley about 5km (3 miles) from Mecca.
It is also the second disaster to strike in two weeks, after a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing 109 people.
Deaths reported so far by nationality
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Thirty-five films will compete for the £30,000 prize during five days of screenings and events in the city.
The festival opened with the screening of specially commissioned films in English and Welsh, while a jury choose the winner of the international selection of short films.
Organiser Berwyn Rowlands said it was important there was a festival that celebrated LGBT films.
"Politically, gay people are in a much better position in the UK than they were 10 years ago," he said.
"We can get married, we can adopt children, we have rights in the workplace.
"But I think we are still relatively invisible, and so there are still many stories about gay existence that don't make it on to mainstream television or cinema."
This year, 17 countries are represented on the Iris Prize shortlist. Their films tackle issues such as growing old and illnesses, while a number of horror films have also been submitted.
While the festival screens films focused on LGBT communities, its research shows about 30% of the audience are heterosexual.
Alongside the main prize, a Best of British shortlist of 15 films from across the UK will compete for a prize equivalent to production support worth £20,000 towards their next feature.
The Welsh language film Afiach was shown as part of the festival's opening night. It was commissioned as part of the new Iris Stories strand of films that explore LGBT communities in Wales.
It was written by Bethan Marlow, and tells the story of a lesbian couple affected by a cancer diagnosis.
"I was very keen to write a lesbian story that was not about the fact that they are lesbians, that it went beyond that," she said. "I wanted to set it in a very surreal world, but telling a very true story.
"One of the successes of the Iris Prize Festival is that it goes beyond the LGBT community, and hopefully it's a stepping stone to the rest of the world watching the film. I hope it can cross those boundaries, as it's a universal story that everybody can relate to."
Ms Marlow said mainstream TV programmes and films continued to cast stereotypical characters, though the portrayal of LGBT communities was improving.
"Stereotypes definitely still exist. I think it's better, much better, than it used to be," she said.
"Hopefully we are in a place where we can start challenging that, with stories that are interesting and complex and that go way beyond people's sexuality."
Afiach will be shown on S4C on Saturday 15 October at 22:30 BST.
A boost of A$29.9b ($21.4b, £15.4b) over the next decade reflects concern over military expansion in the region.
The white paper reiterates Australia's objection to the reclamation of land in the South China Sea and urges ASEAN and China to agree on a code of conduct.
China says it is "seriously concerned" and has expressed its "dissatisfaction" over the defence strategy.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying asked Australia to "take realistic actions" to work with China to maintain peace and stability in the region.
"In the hopes of relieving tensions and the possibility of an arms race, we hope that relevant countries can give up joint drills and stop increasing their military presence in the region," Ms Chunying said.
The largest investment outlined in the White Paper on Thursday is for submarines to replace Australia's current diesel and electric-powered Collins Class vessels. At a cost of more than A$50b it represents Australia's largest-ever defence procurement.
About 25% of the additional spending will be put towards the most "comprehensive regeneration of our Navy since the Second World War", the Defence document says.
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the threats faced by Australia were not limited to foreign conflicts, but also included terrorism, cyber-warfare and climate change.
"[This] is a plan to become more powerful on land and in the skies, and more commanding both on the seas and beneath them. It is a program to be more resilient in the cyberspace, to be more innovative with technology, and to have greater situational awareness thanks to our advanced intelligence capabilities," Mr Turnbull said on Thursday.
The selection of a new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a job for the agency's executive board.
There are 24 of them and they are representatives of the IMF's 187 member countries.
The big economies have their own seat on the board. That includes the US, China, Japan and the UK. Others are grouped into constituencies, so that one executive director represents a group of countries.
They will try to choose a new managing director by consensus. But if they cannot agree, they can make the choice by voting.
The votes they cast are weighted by the country's subscription to the IMF, known as its quota. That in turn is roughly related to the nation's share of the world economy.
But the weights are behind the times.
China and many other emerging economies are underrepresented. Western Europe gets more than its share of the votes.
Here are some examples: China's share of the global economy (using a measure known as purchasing power parity GDP) is 13.6%, but its share of the vote is 3.82%.
The UK and France each account for 2.9% of PPP GDP, but each has 4.3% of the vote.
The discrepancies are less marked if you use the main alternative to PPP, but they don't disappear.
The European Union (EU) has a total share of the vote of about a third. So if they can unify behind a single candidate that is an important start.
This time they are backing one person, Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister. But Europe has not always been so disciplined.
In the 1980s, the European Community, as it was then called, tried and failed to unite with the result that developing countries had an important role in the choice between two candidates.
Admittedly, both were European, so it was not the kind of influence that emerging economies would like to have today.
If the EU can persuade the US to back their candidate, that would bring the total votes to nearly 50%.
The reason the US might be persuaded is the fact that the IMF's biggest current problem is the euro area - though some say that is a compelling reason for not having a European in charge.
There's another reason the US might like a European. When the IMF and the World Bank were created after the World War II, there was an understanding that a European would run the IMF and an American the World Bank. In addition, the US gets to choose the number two at the IMF. It's currently John Lipsky, who is running the shop during the interregnum.
Giving the top IMF job to a non-European would open up those other positions to non-American candidates.
Leaders of the G20 major developed and emerging economies have repeatedly said in summit communiques that the leadership of all the international financial institutions should be chosen in a way that is open, transparent and based on merit.
Openness and merit do not rule out a European, but they don't sit well with a presumption that Europe will supply the next IMF boss.
Clinicians' concerns had been raised at a meeting of NHS Grampian's board last month after the Scottish government announced the decision to have four such centres was under review.
Ms Sturgeon said: "There is no dubiety, there will be a major trauma centre in Aberdeen."
She said there would be also be centres in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In response, Labour said the "apparent U-turn" had come at the last minute.
The Conservatives said voters may ask why it had taken until the final days of the election for the "unequivocal commitment".
And the Liberal Democrats said no-one in the north east would believe what was being said until the trauma centre was "actually in place‎".
It had previously said it was working on such a car but did not say when it would be available.
The news, reported by Chinese language website TechWeb, will put it head to head with rival Google.
The firm will work with an unnamed car manufacturer, according to Baidu's senior vice president Jin Wang.
He made the announcement at the China Cloud Computing conference.
The firm has previously teamed up with BMW to develop semi-autonomous car technology.
The head of Baidu's deep learning lab Yu Kai has previously told the press that the firm does not agree with Google's view of a completely autonomous car, looking instead to develop a vehicle that will retain the traditional pedals but give the driver greater freedom.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a key battleground for tech firms, with self-driving cars seen as one of the first practical applications for the technology.
Baidu's rise in the field of artificial intelligence suffered a setback last week when Stanford University -which runs an AI test to see whether computers can recognise and sort images - banned Baidu from competing for the next year.
The web giant was stripped of its 2015 title after it emerged that it broke the rules over how many tests it could run.
Google announced last month that its prototype self-driving cars would take to the public roads this summer around its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
It also recently revealed that its cars had been involved in 13 minor accidents over the six years of tests.
MacPhee remains assistant coach with McGinn's national team, as well as Ian Cathro's number two at Tynecastle.
"The work he does behind the scenes regarding the opposition is second to none," said Aberdeen winger McGinn ahead of Friday's meeting in Edinburgh.
"Hopefully he does well, but not too well too soon."
MacPhee was on the coaching staff with Cowdenbeath and St Mirren before joining Michael O'Neill's backroom team with Northern Ireland in 2014.
The Scot's reputation grew as O'Neill's side reached the last 16 at this summer's European Championships, culminating in his recent move to Tynecastle.
"Austin's a top man," McGinn said of the 37-year-old. "He is very thorough in his work.
"I'm obviously pleased for him that he is involved in a club job now and he's doing well for himself.
"He is still involved with Northern Ireland as well and that experience will stand him in good stead with Hearts.
"He is highly regarded and it just shows that, with him doing well under Michael O'Neill with Northern Ireland, he is getting recognised.
"He works a lot on set-pieces and, knowing him, he will obviously make sure that Hearts are well organised at set-pieces and hard to break down as well."
Aberdeen, in third place, are three points ahead of Hearts in the Scottish Premiership going into Friday's game at Tynecastle, their last before a three-week winter break.
"It's obviously an important game off the back of two great results for ourselves over Motherwell and Hamilton," McGinn added.
"There's always a great atmosphere at Tynecastle, always an intense game and two good sides going at it and wanting to win the game.
"It's obviously the last game of 2016 and you want to go out on a high."
The tournament between the island's junior side and those of Scotland, Ireland and Denmark will take place between 23 July and 1 August 2017.
The winners will go through to the main tournament in New Zealand.
"I think we can do quite well. We've got to do some hard work to get ready for the tournament as Ireland and Scotland will be strong," said Chris Minty of the Jersey Cricket Board.
The Under-19 sides of the 10 full members of the ICC have already qualified for the event between January and February 2018, as have Namibia who were the best-placed associate member nation at the World Cup earlier this year.
The winners of the tournament in Jersey will join them, along with four other regional champions.
Jersey are no strangers to staging ICC tournaments, having hosted World Cricket League events in 2016, 2013 and 2008 as well as a number of Twenty20 tournaments.
"It's great that the ICC are entrusting us once again for a tournament," Minty told BBC Sport.
"It's testament to the quality of our facilities and our infrastructure."
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A survey of 1,500 women saw 52% cite the problem and also found a third had been subjected to unwelcome jokes and a quarter experienced unwanted touching.
TUC head Frances O'Grady said it left women feeling ashamed and frightened.
She told BBC Radio 4's Today: "It makes us miserable at work where we just want to do our job and be respected."
She also called it a "scandal" that so few women felt their bosses were dealing with the issue properly.
Sexual harassment at work can take many forms, from inappropriate comments and jokes about a colleague's sex life to unwanted touching, hugging or kissing and even demands for sexual favours, the TUC said.
The Citizens Advice Bureau says sex discrimination can occur when people are applying for promotion or flexible working and when decisions are made about who is chosen for redundancy, or training and development opportunities.
BBC News website reader Imogen said: "For three years whilst at university I worked as a lifeguard. A male colleague only a year or two older than me would constantly grope me on the poolside in front of swimmers and other members of staff.
"I would constantly tell him it made me uncomfortable but he just continued and would joke that I 'loved it'.
"One evening, he followed me into the stockroom, with the door shut and the lights turned off. He immediately began aggressively groping my bum and grabbing my breasts and repeatedly asking me why was I snitching on him and why was I spreading lies about him.
"In tears I ran to my line manager to tell him what had just happened. The company did nothing."
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The TUC found that in nine out of 10 cases the perpetrator was male and nearly one in five women (17%) said it was their line manager, or someone with direct authority over them.
Some 79% of women who said they were victims of sexual harassment did not tell their employer.
Reasons given included fear that reporting would affect their relationships at work (28%) or their career prospects (15%).
Nearly a quarter (24%) of those who did not report abuse said it was because they felt that they would not be believed or taken seriously and 20% said they were too embarrassed.
The proportion of women facing harassment is higher among the youngest workers - nearly two-thirds (63%) of the 138 women aged between 18 and 24 surveyed said they had been sexually harassed at work.
Young women were often on casual contracts, such as temporary agency or zero-hours contracts. They were also likely to be in more junior roles, all of which may be factors in sexual harassment, said the TUC.
The survey also found:
Ms O'Grady added: "They have to ask why it is we are not stamping this kind of behaviour out. We have been calling for tougher action from employers and we want the government to send a clear signal that this kind of behaviour is unlawful.
"I think the most worrying fact from these findings is the number of women who simply don't feel able to report it. "
One young woman told the TUC anonymously that in her previous job she worked in an almost exclusively male salesroom.
"Sexual comments about me or others, either to me or overheard in my presence, were a fact of daily working life. Some of those comments were violent in nature," she said.
The Citizens Advice Bureau urges people to act as quickly as possible if they fall victim to sex discrimination or sexual harassment at work, suggesting:
Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project which helped with the report, said many people would like to think that workplace sexual harassment was a thing of the past.
"In reality it is alive and well, and having a huge impact on tens of thousands of women's lives."
Men have also been victims of sexual harassment at work, with one, Simon, telling BBC News: "I frequently get touched on the upper arm, called 'darling' or 'sweetheart'.
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The 21-year-old was walking in the town's Church Street at about 22:00 when she was attacked from behind.
The attacker then pulled the woman into a doorway before sexually assaulting her.
She managed to fight the man off, before seeking help and contacting the police.
The suspect was described as white, bald, aged between 30 and 40, around 5ft 7in in height, with a medium build and stubble.
He was wearing a royal blue hooded top - with the hood down - which had white tassels attached and blue denim jeans.
Officers reviewed CCTV images, with inquiries revealing a group of four people and a person with a dog walking along King Street at the time of the incident.
The four people were carrying umbrellas and crossed the road at the junction of King Street and Church Street, continuing along King Street.
The dog walker also continued along King Street.
Police believe the five may have significant information.
Det Sgt Stephen Bell said: "A young woman has been left extremely distressed by this ordeal.
"She was very brave and fought her attacker off but it is imperative we trace the man responsible.
"I would appeal, particularly to the five people who were seen in the area at that time, and to anyone else who was in the vicinity to get in touch with us.
"It's possible you saw the suspect and thought nothing of it at the time, but if you were in the area or you have any knowledge of the suspect or crime, please do contact us."
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It was caused by limestone rock underneath buildings being eroded by water, making a big hole in the ground.
A third of the hotel fell into the hole, and more than a hundred holiday makers had to be taken to safety.
Millions of dollars of damage is caused by sinkholes in Florida every year.
As the exit poll came in showing the Conservatives possibly losing their majority, Neil wonders if Theresa May's campaigning might be to blame.
Perhaps she will retreat...
For Ruth Davidson, Neil thinks there will be no such disappointment.
And he imagines the Scottish Liberal Democrats' leader Willie Rennie has simply enjoyed his campaign.
Mhairi Black managed to hold her seat in Paisley.
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Neil wonders if Kezia Dugdale can take credit for Labour's Scottish successes.
Neil thinks Nicola Sturgeon is feeling the pressure as SNP seats tumble.
A giant of Scottish politics is defeated by the Scottish Conservatives in Gordon.
The UK is heading for a hung parliament, and Theresa May's gamble has spectacularly backfired.
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Work began on Tuesday at his grave in the city's Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Romanov family members who were killed by revolutionary Bolsheviks in 1918 are buried at the cathedral. Alexander III was on the throne from 1881 to 1894.
The Russian Orthodox Church wants DNA proof for the remains before canonising two of the murdered Romanov children.
The Investigative Committee, a state body, says new checks are needed on those remains. Archive documents are also being re-examined.
In 1998, DNA tests authenticated remains found in a mass grave in the Urals in 1991.
But the tests did not convince some Church members, because the remains of two - Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria - were found only in 2007, at a different spot in the Urals.
Samples were taken in late September from Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and from the bloodstained uniform of Alexander II, Nicholas's grandfather, killed in 1881.
Officials say those DNA results will be published soon.
Nicholas II succeeded Alexander III, but was overthrown in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which established a Communist dictatorship.
The tsar and his family died in a hail of bullets in a cellar after being exiled to Yekaterinburg in the Urals region, 1,430km (889 miles) east of Moscow.
The Belfast Telegraph is hailing its front-page splash as an exclusive.
The former first minister and DUP leader, Arlene Foster, has written that she believe a political deal with the Tories, which would facilitate DUP support for a minority Conservative government, is imminent.
Mrs Foster has also said she is determined to restore power-sharing executive at Stormont as Thursday's deadline looms large.
The Telegraph also features an opinion piece from celebrity economist David McWilliams.
He argues that demographic changes in Northern Ireland are making a united Ireland more likely and that the Dublin government must have a plan to deal with a pro-united Ireland majority, even if many south of the border do not wish to consider the possibility.
The News Letter's lead, "Son's justice plea after reunion with mother", is the story of a Portadown man the paper says was "forcibly removed from his mother as a baby by the Catholic Church".
He is now appealing for "justice for the victims of abuse at former mother and baby homes".
Eunan Duffy was separated from his birth mother in a mother-and-baby home in Newry in 1968 but has now been reunited with her after discovering he had been adopted in February 2016.
Mr Duffy, 49, is calling on the PSNI to treat "forced adoptions" as a form of human trafficking.
Also in the News Letter is the claim from Conservative peer Lord Patten that the DUP is "toxic" and that any Tory-DUP deal will result in the Conservatives looking like the "nasty party".
Inside the paper, a two-page feature focuses on the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The articles are based on the work of Sandhurst historian Aaron Edwards, who was brought up in north Belfast, and has now published a new history of the organisation.
He writes that the "spectre of paramilitarism" is likely to continue in Northern Ireland until the political environment changes.
"Time to do a deal call from church leaders" is the Irish News front page headline.
The paper describes a letter sent by the churchmen, appealing to Northern Ireland politicians to strike a deal on restoring power-sharing at Stormont, as a "dramatic intervention".
The letter, signed by five prominent church leaders, was sent to the leaders of the five main parties and warned that if the impasse continues then the most vulnerable people in society were being put at risk.
The Irish News front page shows a jubilant Down Gaelic football manager, Eamonn Burns, hugging the county's full-back after the Mourne men won their Ulster championship semi-final clash against Monaghan on Saturday night in Armagh.
On the inside pages, the paper reveals that bonfire material has been dumped on Bloomfield Walkway in east Belfast.
The Irish News says the incident comes just days after they revealed that Belfast City Council has been storing thousands of pallets on behalf of Twelfth night bonfire builders.
The site off the Upper Newtownards Road features graffiti critical of both the Irish News and the BBC, possibly due to media coverage of the bonfire issue and how materials are gathered for them.
And finally, in a scene reminiscent of the shark attack horror film Jaws, the Daily Mirror's front page picture features tourists fleeing "shark terror" in Majorca.
The distinctive fin of the species breaks the water as an 8ft Blue Shark, described as a "killer" by the paper, closes in on swimmers.
When it was captured later, however, it was found to have been suffering from a head injury - possibly caused by human hand - and had to be put down.
It says it can be just as damaging as physical abuse, especially as technology can now reach remote corners of the world.
When young British actress Emma Watson spoke up for gender equality at a United Nations meeting, she didn't know she was making herself a target of relentless stalking by a global mob.
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Neither did video-game developer Zoe Quinn know that she would suffer abuse as a result of stepping into a male-dominated world. She became the target of harassment after details of her private life were released online by an ex-boyfriend. His revelations led to accusations that she had had a relationship with a gaming journalist in an attempt to get positive reviews for her game. The events sparked what became known as Gamergate, a campaign that some argue is about ethics in journalism, but others consider it to be a largely misogynist hate campaign.
Similarly, Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence found herself the victim of a "sex crime" after her nude photos were leaked and endlessly distributed in the digital space.
It is time for a "world-wide wake-up call", says the UN.
1. Online harassment from abusive SMS messages to tracking movement through geolocation
2. Intimate partner violence - for example, threats of disclosure of intimate communications or "revenge porn"
3. Culturally justified violence - from forwarding a sexist joke to starting a Facebook group that promotes rape
4. Sexual assault - technology is used to lure women into situations that result in rape or other forms of physical violence
The UN estimates 95% of all aggressive and denigrating behaviour in online spaces is aimed at women.
UN Women's Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says: "Online violence has subverted the original positive promise of the internet's freedoms and in too many circumstances has made it a chilling space that permits anonymous cruelty and facilitates harmful acts towards women and girls."
Digital gender violence is no longer a first world problem, technology experts say, as it seamlessly follows the global spread of mobile devices and the internet.
Neither is it one that is easy to tackle, since digital technologies are double-edged swords - they can make also make women feel safer and more independent.
With one in every three women a victim, the World Health Organisation considers violence against women "a global health problem of epidemic proportion", ranging from domestic abuse to street harassment, sex trafficking, rape and femicide.
Social media has fuelled this pandemic, say experts.
But there are also examples of how technology and social networking can work as allies against gender-related violence:
"The internet is available to everyone, and so is its violence. The perpetrators are no longer limited by geographic or physical boundaries," says Baroness Patricia Scotland, former UK attorney general and founder of the Corporate Alliance against Domestic Violence.
But violent online behaviour ranges from virtual harassment and public shaming to the desire to inflict physical harm - and the internet may then become a tool to turn virtual violence real.
Only 40 years ago, sexual harassment and domestic violence were viewed as normal. Today we see the same pattern of subordination in cyberspace. Cyber-harassment is seen as trivial
A survey by the Washington-based National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) found 89% of victims in domestic violence programs reported some form of abuse through technologies, often across multiple platforms.
The NNEDV's Kaofeng Lee says: "Intimidation, threats, and access of information about victims aren't new tactics within the context of domestic violence. But the use of technology means that the harassment and abuse can be much more invasive, intensive, and traumatising."
University of Maryland's Professor Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, charted the popular response to internet death and rape threats and found that the disseminated messages are sometimes dismissed as so-called harmless locker-room talk or juvenile pranks.
1 in 3
women worldwide experience some form of violence in their lifetime
73% of women who are online have experienced gender-related violence
1 in 5 feel that the internet is inappropriate for them
27 times more likely to be abused online than men
And the report button social networking sites have introduced to help users flag up abuse is "just a virtual Band-Aid for a potentially dangerous real-world problem," she adds.
Professor Citron has lobbied for laws in the US to criminalise revenge porn but she encounters powerful critics who argue such legislation would infringe on freedom of speech.
A recent UN study asks industry players such as internet service providers, mobile phone companies, social networking sites, gaming sites and websites to play the part of digital gatekeepers.
1 in 5
female Internet users live in countries where gender-related online abuse is unlikely to be punished
74% of countries fail to take appropriate actions through courts and law enforcement agencies
65% of female victims prefer not to report cyber violence for fear of social repercussions
The report says tech companies need to "explicitly recognise cyber violence against women and girls as unlawful behaviour" and provide "relief to victims and survivors".
But the picture is bleak so far. Statistics reveal that one in five female internet users live in countries where gender violence is unlikely to be legally punished.
King took to the stage to thank the "spectacular" cast of Beautiful before singing hit song You've Got a Friend.
Before the show, the 73-year-old told BBC News she was "so excited" to see the London company's efforts.
Singer Petula Clark and record producer Mark Ronson were among the first night audience at the Aldwych theatre.
The former received a round of applause when her name was mentioned during the show, which tells of King's formative days as a songwriter and her gradual emergence as a solo artist.
As well as You've Got a Friend, the show features such timeless King classics as I Feel the Earth Move, So Far Away and Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
There are also performances of other songs from the 1950s and '60s, among them Oh! Carol - a song written and performed by Neil Sedaka, King's former boyfriend.
According to the show's American writer, Douglas McGrath, Beautiful is "about a girl who works hard, achieves her professional dreams and has her heart broken by the boy she loves.
"She thinks it's all over, but then finds something more beautiful in her life than she realised was there before."
Beautiful opened on Broadway in January 2014 and went on to win two Tony awards, one of them for its lead actress Jessie Mueller.
Katie Brayben, from Lewisham in south-east London, plays King in the London production, having previously appeared in the Almeida theatre's stagings of American Psycho and King Charles III.
"We were looking for someone with the essence of Carole," producer Mike Bosner told BBC News. "We weren't looking for an impersonation.
"Katie is self-effacing, warm and vulnerable, yet she has a lot of strength. People see a lot of Carole in her."
As well as charting her early career, Beautiful also dramatises King's troubled first marriage to fellow songwriter Gerry Goffin, who died last year aged 75.
At the end of Tuesday's opening night performance, King said the cast had "done [Goffin] proud" and that he would have "loved" the evening had he been there.
Other characters in the show include Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, songwriters who enjoyed a friendly but sometimes competitive relationship with Goffin and King in 1960s New York.
Weil, who was in attendance on Tuesday along with Mann, said the show was "both authentic and honest, if heightened for dramatic reasons".
"Not a lot of people know about this part of Carole's life, which amazes us," she continued.
"We thought everyone knew she was an amazing songwriter, long before Tapestry [the 1971 album that made King's name as a solo performer]."
"London has always been very kind to songwriters, so I hope they recognise the show in the same way," said Mann.
Beautiful presents a string of familiar songs by Weil and Mann as well as ones by Goffin and Weil - a tactic that has seen the show likened to Jersey Boys.
The Broadway and West End success, later filmed by director Clint Eastwood, told of Frankie Valli and his time with '60s chart-toppers The Four Seasons.
Yet producer Paul Blake played down comparisons to that and other so-called "jukebox" musicals, saying the show was "a female empowerment story that happens to be about Carole".
"Not everyone is involved in the Mafia like Frankie Valli was," he told BBC News. "But all women know what's it like to feel unappreciated."
"I was very interested in these four songwriters and fascinated by what they did with their lives," said McGrath, an Oscar-nominated writer and director whose films include the 1996 version of Jane Austen's Emma.
"I wanted to show people who love their songs where they came from, and to show that some of the romance and hope and heartbreak they hear in them came from real life."
King admitted she had been "terrified" of seeing the original production and that it took her "a while" to attend a performance.
"I just want [audiences] to have a great evening," she told the BBC. "They know the music, I know that already, because I know our songs were hits in the UK."
Reviews of the London production have been generally positive, with The Times' critic saying it offered "a thoroughly pleasant night at the theatre".
The musical, Dominic Maxwell went on, was "slick, beautifully played [and] terrifically tuneful" in which Brayben "sings even better than the real thing".
The actress, Paul Taylor wrote in The Independent, "gives a wonderfully endearing performance... in a piece that shows King evolve from hired hit-maker to empowered solo artist".
The show, said the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts, is "sweet and happy as pie". "It milks the tear ducts, gives you a long list of searing songs and will send many a couple home arm-in-arm".
Yet The Guardian's Michael Billington expressed some reservations, saying Beautiful "lacks the drama that some of us still hunger for in a musical".
Beautiful, which also stars former Dempsey & Makepeace and EastEnders actress Glynis Barber as King's mother Genie, is currently booking to 13 June.
Behind the glitz and the glamour, there are the unnamed, but certainly not undervalued, mechanics.
They are the sport's unsung heroes. Often working 18-hour days and away from their families for months at a time every year, theirs is a demanding existence.
If they are not sweating profusely in searing temperatures changing tyres, they are furiously working through the night to rebuild a technically complex Formula 1 car after a driver has thrown it into the barriers.
And danger is also never far away, with mechanics putting their lives on the line every race weekend, as this year's Spanish Grand Prix highlighted.
There, only the quick feet of the McLaren jackman averted a collision when Fernando Alonso's brakes failed as he entered his pit box.
Further down the pit lane, however, a Lotus mechanic was less fortunate.
Romain Grosjean was unable to stop on a slippery surface and he clattered into the front jackman, pitching him into the air.
Fortunately, he was unhurt, save for needing an ice pack to nurse a sensitive part of his body that had taken the full force of the handle of the jack he was holding.
In a sport where every second counts, mistakes are impressively rare. For keeping the cogs of the F1 machine turning smoothly, mechanics are the stars of this, and any other season.
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But it wasn't only a good weekend for Palace - Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool kept up the chase at the top, while Arsenal and Manchester City played out an entertaining draw.
At the bottom, Hull joined Palace in earning a big win.
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Three first-half saves by Wayne Hennessey set the tone for an outstanding victory by Crystal Palace over Premier League leaders Chelsea. Prior to the arrival of Sam Allardyce, I've seen Palace capitulate having gone 1-0 down away from home. Not so anymore.
I sat behind the dugout at Stamford Bridge and marvelled at the performance by the manager. I saw Allardyce tell Luka Milivojevic in no uncertain terms not to stick his foot where it didn't belong after a first-half tackle on Eden Hazard. The message being that with 11 men on the pitch Palace had a chance of winning this match and the manager wasn't prepared to countenance any self indulgence from any player who might undermine his plan.
With Milivojevic firmly back in his box it was left to Hennessey to continue performing in the second half as he did in the first, demonstrating superb goalkeeping with confidence and stature. It worked.
This player is fast becoming a favourite of mine. Fernandinho can play full-back or in midfield and wherever he plays these days, he's as safe as houses.
The difficulty the Brazilian has is he and the team are missing a fit Vincent Kompany. I have no doubt that if Kompany plays, Shkodran Mustafi doesn't win the header that produces the Arsenal equaliser and City go on to win.
What is also clear to me is that City are getting better under Pep Guardiola and whilst there will be changes of personnel next season, Fernandinho will be part of Guardiola's future.
As for Arsenal, I was perplexed by the muted reaction of their players when Theo Walcott equalised. Muted celebration when you equalise in a game like this? Strange.
You would have got odds of 11-1 for Crystal Palace to win 2-1 away at Stamford Bridge. The bookies are notorious for giving nothing away, which gives you an indication of the enormity of their victory against Chelsea.
The man responsible for thwarting most of the advances from the league leaders, and has done so for Palace since his arrival on loan to the Eagles, has been Mamadou Sakho. He has been immense for Palace who, despite Chelsea's many chances, failed to take advantage of them largely due to the out of form Diego Costa.
Allardyce must be congratulated for getting Sakho to Palace. Since his arrival the Eagles have not stopped soaring. If there was a tackle or header to be made he won it and at no stage did the defender look in the least bit fazed by the pressure posed by the Blues, who have an impeccable home record.
The big question for Allardyce and Palace is can they lure the Frenchman away from Liverpool (who still retain his contract) and get him to play for Palace on a permanent basis? If Liverpool were to get a top four place, and their chances seem to improve with every game, I can see Jurgen Klopp seriously thinking about retaining the services of the player to bolster his squad.
What a wonderful finish by Eric Dier. He might have been a tad fortunate the way the ball fell for him in the Burnley penalty area, but there was nothing remotely lucky about the way the defender tucked it away.
Dier's progress for club and country has been meteoric, although this season we've seen the occasional glitch here and there, especially in the Champions League games at Wembley.
Nevertheless, the defender strikes me as a solid individual with leadership qualities, the sort of defender a manager can depend upon in a crisis.
His goal against Burnley will do his confidence a power of good. I've not seen Dier smile in an interview for a long time. It's always good to see a player with a smile on his face.
His touch with his right foot was measured, but the finish with his left was deadly. If you are going to open your Premier League account this was the way to do it.
I didn't know an awful lot about Robertson before this game although I had seen him play before. However he looks like one of those cultured left-footers who has the ability to manipulate the ball in tight situations.
I can't really commend Robertson's performance without talking about the efforts of Hull's manager Marco Silva. The response he has got from his players has been quite remarkable not to mention their level of performance since he took over from Mike Phelan. This victory over West Ham has given Hull a real chance of survival in the Premier League.
As for West Ham I am delighted that the club have finally released a statement supporting their manager and removing any speculation concerning Slaven Bilic's immediate future at the club.
Bilic has handled the difficult transition of moving to a new stadium brilliantly. He rid the club of the poisonous Dimitri Payet and almost certainly guaranteed the club another season in the best league in the world. I should think West Ham did have 100% in faith in Bilic. Now all they have to do is show it.
With no Harry Kane to look to for inspiration, Spurs gave the mantle to Dele Alli in the attempt to keep the pressure on Chelsea and it's working.
His performance against a Burnley side who have taken big scalps at Turf Moor this season epitomised a young lad who appears fearless on the ball.
The 20-year-old moves gracefully over the ground and his general awareness is outstanding. The way he found Son Heung-min for Tottenham's second goal was quite brilliant. The only feature I don't like about Alli's game is his obsession with making contact with his opponent in the opposition's penalty area and making out he's been impeded.
Penalties should be awarded, not prized out of referees. If he wants to be a Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard, he must eradicate that from his game and promote the things that make people want to pay good money to see him. That way he can be anything he wants to be.
That was a world-class ball from Kevin de Bruyne for Leroy Sane to score Manchester City's opening goal against Arsenal. To hit a defence splitting 60-yard, first-time ball takes some doing.
For one hour, De Bruyne was the best player on the park. He hit the post with David Ospina beaten and he was instrumental in City's second goal.
Arsenal, meanwhile, should be concerned. They are fighting for a top-four position and an FA Cup final place and, for some inexplicable reason, their fans seemed to be subdued for long periods against City.
The Arsenal players showed real backbone to bounce back in this game on two occasions. There is still a lot to play for and the team deserves their wholehearted support regardless of what some fans might think of their manager.
It's great to see Philippe Coutinho back in sparkling form again. Regular readers will know that it has been N'Golo Kante, Eden Hazard and Coutinho who are my three Premier League stars competing for the player of the season award.
Had it not been for his injury sustained earlier in the year, Coutinho might have canvassed enough votes to render himself the clear favourite to receive the prestigious award, as opposed to Kante or Hazard who have both had injury-free seasons.
Coutinho's goal against Everton was simply superb in a Merseyside derby that snapped, crackled and popped. That said, Ronald Koeman's disapproval of the Liverpool bench's insistence that the referee must issue a card every time a foul is committed was justified.
Ross Barkley made two poor challenges and was lucky to stay on the pitch but that was the decision of the referee. Please let us not descend to coaching staff trying to get players sent off. Referees don't tell them how to do their job.
If Leicester City's game against Stoke was anything to go by, then the Foxes really should have dispensed with the services of Claudio Ranieri much sooner. Central to this performance was Demarai Gray, who appears to be becoming a driving force behind Leicester revival.
Gray produced two glorious saves from Stoke keeper Lee Grant and was a constant menace throughout the game. The Potters were in similar battling mood as they were against Chelsea two weeks ago, when Phil Bardsley seemed determined to get a second yellow card regardless of the cost to his team or their future fixtures.
Similarly Ryan Shawcross's tackle on Gray reminded me of Manchester United's Nobby Stiles' tackle on Eusebio in the 1968 European Cup final at Wembley. Shawcross seemed so concerned about Gray's pace and willingness to run past players and, like Bardsley, took it upon himself to take the player out regardless of the consequences.
Fortunately, Shawcross only received a yellow card. It should have been a red just for the cheek of it!
It's been some time since I picked Christian Benteke in my Team of the Week, but it's good to see him back. The former Liverpool striker led the line for Crystal Palace beautifully against Chelsea and gave David Luiz and Gary Cahill a torrid time in every department.
If he wasn't challenging them in the air and putting them under pressure he was heading away corners in his own penalty area. However, it was his partnership with Wilfried Zaha that really excited me. These two boys were responsible for Chelsea's demise with great link play and two sensational goals.
It was Palace's second goal and the chip over an advancing Thibaut Courtois by Benteke that was pure genius. It wasn't just about the skill but the way the striker held his nerve and waited for Courtois to go to ground before he chipped him that was most impressive.
A beaming Allardyce came into the press room and said "I bet you weren't expecting that?" He got that right as well.
What a week Wilfred Zaha has had. He scored a sensational goal for Ivory Coast in midweek and continued in the same vein against Chelsea. It wasn't just Zaha's confidence on the ball that was so impressive - we know he can play - but his overall contribution to the collective team effort was outstanding.
There is a lot of talk about the Ivorian joining Spurs in the summer. An attractive move for the player I must admit. Who wouldn't want to add the possibility of playing Champions League football to his international career?
However, may I suggest that Zaha, having had a disappointing period at Manchester United, takes a pause before considering White Hart Lane. Another season at Crystal Palace under the tutelage of Allardyce may be more beneficial to his overall development.
Spurs have enough Fancy Dans in their line-up without adding to them. Palace, on the other hand, are in desperate need of flair and exuberance in an otherwise functional, but effective outfit. Still, if Zaha insists on a move to the Lane, who could blame him?
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has released a list of 92 businesses throughout the UK who have broken minimum pay rules.
The arrears owed by the 92 employers to their staff has been calculated to be over £1.8m.
Business minister Nick Boles said there is "no excuse" for failing to pay staff properly.
The Scottish businesses on the list were:
Mr Boles said: "Our policy of naming and shaming employers who ignore the law means there are consequences for their reputation as well as their wallets.
"In April we will introduce a new National Living Wage which will mean a pay rise of over £900-a-year for someone working full time on the minimum wage and we will enforce this equally robustly."
Monaghan hit five unanswered points in four minutes to move into a 0-7 to 0-2 lead but Dean Rock's six points helped the Dubs lead 0-10 to 0-9 at half-time.
A Diarmuid Connolly penalty extended Dublin's lead to 1-11 to 0-9.
McManus struck seven of the next eight scores to put Monaghan ahead but Dublin hit the final two scores to win.
Cormac Costello's 67th-minute point brought the sides level and substitute Bernard Brogan's injury-time score earned the Dubs a fortunate victory.
Both teams went into the game on a maximum four points and after the sides were level at 0-2 to 0-2, Monaghan struck a quickfire five straight scores with Owen Duffy and the Hughes brothers Darren and Kieran also on target for the Farney men.
However, Dublin outscored Monaghan 0-8 to 0-2 during the remainder of the first half as indiscipline allowed Rock to fire over a series of frees as Paddy Andrews started to win his battle with Colin Walshe.
Monaghan suffered a blow before the break as Kieran Hughes had to be carried off with an apparent leg injury.
The Dubs looked in control early in the second half as Connolly netted his penalty to increase their lead to 1-11 to 0-9 after Paul Flynn had been fouled.
However, instead of pushing on, the Dubs' play began to become increasingly laboured four straight McManus frees cut the margin to a single point with 15 minutes remaining.
Flynn's 58th-minute point doubled Dublin's lead but Monaghan were ahead in the 66th minute helped by three more McManus points - including his fourth effort from play.
But as Monaghan then appeared to make the mistake of looking for the finishing line, Cormac Costello's second point levelled the contest before sub Brogan kicked what proved to be the winning score in the first minute of injury-time.
Fintan Kelly appeared to be working the ball towards an equalising chance for Monaghan a minute later but was off-target with his over-ambitious effort.
ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIXTURES/RESULTS
Saturday
Division 1
Dublin 1-14 0-16 Monaghan
Division 2
Armagh 1-10 0-12 Fermanagh
Sunday - 14:00 GMT (unless stated)
Division 1
Cork v Roscommon, Pairc Ui Rinn
Donegal v Mayo, Ballybofey
Down v Kerry, Pairc Esler
Division 2
Derry v Galway, Celtic Park
Laois v Tyrone, O'Moore Park
Meath v Cavan, Pairc Tailteann
Division 3
Longford v Kildare, Pearse Park
Offaly v Sligo, Tullamore
Westmeath v Tipperary, Mullingar
Limerick v Clare, Newcastlewest
Division 4
Wexford v London, Wexford Park, 13:00
Antrim v Leitrim, Corrigan Park
Carlow v Waterford, Dr Cullen Park
Louth v Wicklow, Gaelic Grounds
Opener Najeeb Tarakai hit 90 in India as Afghanistan made 184-8 with Barry McCarthy taking 4-33.
Ireland were 65-2 after 6.1 overs when rain halted play and they were set a revised target of 111 in 11 overs.
The Irish were undone by Rashid Khan's 5-3 in two overs and managed just 93-9 with Paul Stirling top-scoring on 34.
Afghanistan won Wednesday's opener by six wickets and a formidable total of 184 set them on course to clinch a series win.
Tarakai's 90 came off 79 balls while Mohammad Nabi (34) and Karim Janat (20) also added quick runs.
Ireland were in good shape on 65-2 when the covers came on and they would have levelled the series if no further play had been possible.
But they came back out and the fall of captain William Porterfield for 22)triggered a collapse with seven wickets falling for a mere 14 runs.
"It was frustrating when the rain came down," said Porterfield.
"We had momentum before it, and it was quite a long break which meant we didn't have the full 20 overs to play with.
"It was always going to be difficult needing to score 40 odd off four-and-a-bit overs."
The teams return to the Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground for the final T20 on Sunday before five ODIs and an Intercontinental Cup game at the same venue.
Chinese media said the first body had been found - but only 36 hours after the landslip - and that the chances of finding survivors were slim.
The miners' camp, 70km (45 miles) east of Lhasa, was destroyed by thousands of tonnes of rock.
Rescuers have been hampered by freezing weather, altitude sickness and risks of further landslides.
Xinhua news agency said that as of 10:00 local time (02:00 GMT) no survivors had been found and later reported that the first body had been discovered at 17:35 local time.
"The miners' survival chances were slim due to the scale of the landslide," it quoted one rescue worker as saying.
The landslide took place at 06:00 local time on Friday at the mine, which lies at an altitude of 4,600m (15,000ft), burying 83 workers.
Some 2,000 police, firefighters and doctors have been sent to the disaster site, setting up temporary accommodation at a safe distance. About 200 bulldozers have been deployed to shift rock.
Xinhua said cracks on nearby mountains suggested there could be further land slips.
"Temperatures as low as -3C have affected the sniffer dogs' sense of smell," it added.
More than 300,000 cu m of debris had been removed by midday on Saturday.
The mine in Maizhokunggar county, which produces copper, as well as some silver and gold, is operated by a subsidiary of state-owned China National Gold Group, China's biggest gold producer.
President Xi Jinping is said to have ordered authorities to "spare no efforts" in the rescue operation.
Most of the workers were ethnic Han Chinese from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, with two reported to be ethnic Tibetans.
Police said the area that collapsed was up to 4 sq km (1.5 sq miles).
Chinese officials believe the Tibetan plateau has huge resources, including millions of tonnes of copper, lead, zinc and iron ore.
Critics claim that Beijing's interests are driven by a desire to exploit the region's rich mineral wealth.
The government argues its investment brings modernisation and better living standards for local Tibetans.
The landslip came on the same day as a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern Jilin province.
Some 28 people were killed at the Babao mine in the city of Baishan.
Another 13 miners were rescued after the explosion.
It follows reports that a 25-year-old woman was attacked as she walked on a footpath in Wythenshawe Park at about 04:00 BST on Sunday.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has appealed for any witnesses or anyone in the area at the time of the attack to come forward.
The investigation is ongoing and extra patrols have been set up in the area, said police.
An IFA Disciplinary Committee opted not to punish Carrick Rangers over a touchline ban irregularity, which resulted in Carrick staying up.
The Northern Ireland Football League have now fixed provisional dates for the promotion play-off.
Warrenpoint may face Institute on June 14 and 17 if they win their appeal.
If 'Town fail to be reinstated to the top flight, Ballinamallard and Institute will play the second leg of their play-off on Wednesday 15 June.
Ballinamallard won the first leg 2-1 at Institute on 6 May before off-field events led to the postponement of the second leg.
The IFA granted NIFL an extension to the season due to the uncertainty of the various appeals and Arbitration processes.
However only players eligible to participate in the first leg of the play-off are eligible to play in the second leg.
Proposed play-off games have a 19:45 kick-off.
The Daniel Adamson has been used as a tug ship on the Mersey, a troop carrier in World War One and a gin palace on the Manchester Ship Canal.
It was restored to its former glory last year thanks to a lottery grant.
The charity that fought to save it from being scrapped in 2004 said it was the UK's last steam tug-tender ship.
The Daniel Adamson Preservation Society (DAPS) said the only other British tug-tender was not steam-powered.
The ship set sail earlier from Ellesmere Port along the Manchester Ship Canal for Mode Wheel Locks, Salford.
Georgia Hayes from the society said it was a "very proud day".
She said it was particularly exciting for those aboard the vessel who worked on it when it used to sail on the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1980s.
Ms Hayes said the society had promised that the ship, which was decommissioned in 1985, would make trips along Manchester Ship Canal when it applied for lottery heritage funding.
DAPS said the ship, which was built in 1903, was bought by the Manchester Ship Canal Company in 1936 when it was put to use as a VIP passenger vessel.
It has been listed 15th on the national register of historic ships, DAPS added.
The Daniel Adamson is expected to arrive at Mode Wheel Locks in Salford at about 17:00 BST.
The man was pulled from the water at Wells-next-the-Sea at about 09:30 GMT but could not be saved.
Coastguards said the "tragic incident" was a reminder that quaysides have various trip hazards.
A spokesman said: "A member of the public called the coastguard to say that they had seen a man stumble and fall in to the sea from the quayside."
Mike Puplett, from Humber Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, said: "This man was unresponsive when he was pulled from the water.
"This tragic incident serves as a timely reminder that quaysides, harbours and pontoons are working areas where ropes, fishing baskets and other equipment can get under your feet as you walk along."
Norfolk police said officers were investigating the circumstances around the death.
Adopted as a toddler, he was unable to make contact due to his sister's age - she was only 16.
"I took it into my own hands," he says.
"The internet's so wide-ranged now, you can find anybody."
Michael says it took him just five minutes to find her profile page.
Luckily, the approach was not entirely unexpected.
"She messaged me back more or less instantly and said 'I think you're my brother'."
Michael and his sister are among a growing number of adopted children searching for their birth relatives using social networks and the wider internet.
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Michael's story is a positive example - they now meet up regularly. Yet until Michael had contacted her, he had no way of knowing whether his sister even knew she was adopted, let alone that she had a brother.
"This is what worried me at first," says Linda, Michael's adoptive mother.
"What if she didn't know that she was adopted? What if she didn't know that she had a brother? There's so many 'what ifs', it's quite risky really.
"I was in the room while he was on the computer.
"He said 'ah mum, I think I've found her'. I panicked. I said 'Oh Michael, please be very careful what you say'."
It is a trend which is causing great concern among adoption specialists.
So much so, the British Association for Adoption and Fostering met in Cardiff to discuss the issue.
"I think Facebook, and other social networking sites, has the potential to blow adoption out of the water," says Helen Oakwater, an adoption specialist, speaking at the conference.
"The thing that Facebook allows to happen is it allows the birth parents and the child to reconnect at a much earlier age.
"So, a couple of years ago, birth parents might have been able to reconnect when the child is 18, 19, 20... nowadays it's actually happening with children at 13, 14, 15."
This age difference presents a potentially volatile situation as a naturally rebellious adolescent now has the means at their disposal to find and make contact with their birth siblings without the support and guidance which typically runs alongside such life-changing moments.
"Some, within a few months of making contact with their birth families are actually seeing the birth families regularly, and in a number of cases have gone back to live with them," says Helen Oakwater.
"What we're also seeing is that for some of them [it's] already starting to fall apart - because the birth parents haven't changed.
"They're the same birth parents behaving in a similar way to the way they were behaving when the children were removed by the court, and by social workers."
For Lucy - not her real name - finding her grandparents' address on the internet led to an upsetting ordeal with her birth father.
"When I was 14, I used the internet to trace my birth grandparents' address," she recalls.
"I wrote to them, and my birth father rang me a few days later. I was so excited at first, he made himself seem like a lovely father.
"At first it was all 'how are you my darling daughter?', but the next time it would be abuse and foul language.
"He would phone every night when he was drunk and rant at me. My birth father is not a nice guy."
Paul Harrison, from digital firm Carve Consulting, believes that a young person's desire to share themselves openly online cannot be stopped.
"I think for young people that act of sharing - we live in a decade of openness - is almost preconscious, they do it without almost thinking.
"So it's about a) understanding it and b) having, I believe, open, meaningful, honest conversations with the children and talking about what might happen because it probably will."
Ms Oakwater agrees, adding that it's too late to try and stop adopted children from searching for relatives online. Instead, preparations for contact, and education around the emotional impact, should be introduced at an earlier age - pre-empting a child's desire to start searching.
"The genie is out of the bottle. Children are going to go on Facebook.
"We need to empower the child, we need to help the child make sense of their past.
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"They need to understand what really happened to them, so they can look back and get a sense of their early years that's really balanced and they can understand that it's not their fault."
To that end, the BAAF has published a book entitled Facing Up to Facebook, designed to guide worried parents through these difficult stages.
"What you're going to say to a seven-year-old is different to what you'll say to a 14-year-old," continues Ms Oakwater.
"You need external people to help a child work some of that stuff through.
"We have to face up to the intrusion of Facebook and actually get adoption support and therapeutic help in place earlier and longer."
For the Department of Health and NHS England that means the start of a challenging journey for the health service over the next five years.
This week's high level gathering for NHS chiefs in Liverpool has given a taste of things to come.
The NHS Confederation conference brought together the great and the good from the service and they heard the first major speeches of this parliament from the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the head of NHS England Simon Stevens.
Mr Hunt got his key message across to the NHS leadership the day before the conference when he said in interviews that the time for asking for more money was over.
The Chancellor allocated £2 billion more for the NHS for the current financial year in his last autumn statement, and £8 billion more above inflation was promised for 2020.
In effect Mr Hunt was saying we have given you the funding you asked for and now its time for you to get on with the job within agreed budgets.
He conceded that the efficiency savings required by 2020 would require a huge effort, but the Department of Health would do its bit to help.
The latest government plan to cap spending on agency nurses and doctors, he indicated, should save the NHS in England £400m this year.
In his speech to the confederation, Mr Hunt repeated his conviction that better procurement by the NHS could cut spending significantly.
He pointed to a review by Lord Patrick Carter for his department on ideas for further savings which was due out in the autumn. Implementation of these ideas could, he said, start in January.
It was hardly surprising that Simon Stevens' speech to the conference did not depart from the Health Secretary's message.
Early on in a parliament with a newly elected majority government is not the time to rock the boat.
Mr Stevens told his audience there would be no extra money this year and it was time to press ahead with efforts to save cash and make better use of NHS resources.
So how did all that square up with health trust chiefs and others running front-line services at a time of increasing financial pressures?
They kept their peace, all too aware that causing trouble with a new administration and moaning about money would not do them any favours.
But talk of a looming deficit of £2 billion or more in the current financial year, more than double what was racked up in 2014/15, has not gone away.
Increasing demand for care continues to squeeze budgets and push hospitals into the red.
There was scepticism around the margins of the conference about the ability of the NHS in England to find anything like £2 billion of efficiency savings to cover the projected deficit.
Action on agency costs was welcomed, but there were doubts about whether £400m worth of savings could be found this year.
The regulators, Monitor and the Trust Development Authority, will continue to press hard for cost reductions.
There is an understandable view in Whitehall that hospital chiefs will always paint a gloomy picture about their finances. But there are warnings that cash buffers held by trusts have run low.
Rainy day money which was covered over-spends in the past is in short supply.
The stakes are high. The Chancellor George Osborne who has demanded £3 billion of savings across government this year will be in no mood to write new cheques for the NHS.
But the parlous financial state of some parts of the service was highlighted by the decision to parachute new top management into struggling health economies in Essex, Devon and Cumbria.
Things may stay quiet for a month or so, but as attention turns to autumn and how the demands of winter will be financed the noises off will get louder.
The long term future of the NHS has its challenges, but for policymakers and managers the short term is what matters most.
The study, by Oceana environmental group, says more than a third of fish is being mislabelled in and around Brussels' European Union institutions.
In EU canteens, where many European officials eat, 38% of fish is wrongly labelled.
Oceana's executive director, Lasse Gustavsson, called it "total chaos".
"The EU needs to clean up its fishy business, take responsibility and urgently improve traceability and labelling of seafood," he said.
The investigation inspected DNA from over 280 samples in 150 restaurants in Brussels' tourist and EU areas. Overall, 31.8% of fish was mislabelled.
Oceana says that in 14% of cases, cod was replaced by the less expensive pangasius, a type of catfish.
Around 95% of what was labelled bluefin tuna - a sushi favourite - was in fact the cheaper yellowfin alternative.
Sole was substituted 11% of the time with other flatfish.
The report is the latest in a string of "food fraud" cases. A recent study for Which? found a quarter of dried oregano sold in shops in the UK and Ireland contains other ingredients.
In a more drastic case, a criminal ring in China was found selling rat, fox and mink meat as mutton.
The orchestra, along with violinist Nicola Benedetti, will perform eight concerts at seven venues across the state of Florida, beginning on Monday.
Touring is expensive, particularly with a 90-piece orchestra.
But the RSNO believes it will build its profile and encourage sales of the 200-plus recordings it has made over the past few decades.
Peter Oundjian, musical director of the RSNO, said Florida was now an "enormous centre of culture in North America".
"People who loved the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Boston Symphony have all retired down there.
"Over the past several decades they have built fantastic concert halls so they can continue to have great music."
Dr Krishna Thiagarajan, the RSNO's chief executive, said part of the orchestra's mission was to be a "cultural ambassador for Scotland".
But he added: "Scots all across the world find us whenever we show up."
Dr Thiagarajan said: "One of the interesting aspects is to see different halls, different acoustics and interact with people that act differently.
"Scottish audiences are slightly more reserved even when they are completely enthusiastic about the performance.
"American audiences share their enthusiasm quicker."
Superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti will be joining the RSNO on the Florida tour.
The 29-year-old, who started her professional career with the orchestra, was not even born when the last tour happened.
She is expected to be a major draw for American audiences - along with the eightsome reels the RSNO plan to play as an encore.
Mr Oundjian told BBC Scotland: "Nicola is quite extraordinary.
"She is one of the most magical artists today. She has some quality inside her that as soon as she takes that instrument you feel something extraordinary is happening."
The RSNO will perform at Fort Lauderdale (Broward Center), West Palm Beach (Kravis Center), Sarasota (Van Wezel), Vero Beach (Indian River Symphonic Association), Gainesville (University of Florida), Fort Myers (Barbara B. Mann), and Daytona Beach (Peabody Auditorium).
It will perform two programmes that will include Brahms: Violin Concerto op. 77, D major, and Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4. op. 36, F minor, as well as Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
The murals are to be unveiled across Northern Ireland as part of an anti-racism project.
They have been painted in areas which have suffered race hate attacks.
The project, called Band Of Brothers, focuses on the role of 303 (Polish) RAF Squadron, which was stationed in Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1944.
Band Of Brothers is the brainchild of Ballyhalbert-based journalist and RAF historian Pete Bleakley.
"Having worked closely with both the Housing Executive and loyalist communities during 10 years in community television, it occurred to me that perhaps events 75 years ago in the skies over Kent could help positively shape events on the ground in Belfast in 2015," Mr Bleakley said.
"The Battle Of Britain, and our freedom as a nation, was won in no small way by the bravery of those Polish pilots, whose wartime motto was, 'Love Demands Sacrifice.'
"They fought ferociously for their freedom and ours. The Poles were part of us then and they are part of us now."
The first mural is in the Shankill area of west Belfast and tells the story of 303 squadron and its performance and sacrifice in the Battle of Britain.
The Battle of Britain was fought between July and October 1940 between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe and is seen as a pivotal moment in Wold War Two.
"Historians now agree that Polish squadrons like 303 turned the Battle of Britain at a critical time," Mr Bleakley added.
"The RAF was on the ropes. They [303 squadron] had experience over Poland and in the Battle of France, so when they were unleashed against the Luftwaffe they went in very hard.
"On their first combat day - 1 September 1940 - they shot down six ME109s, so they had a very significant impact immediately.
"They were there to kill Germans in revenge for what the Germans were doing in their homeland. There's a very rich vein of shared history - the history of our two countries goes back a long way."
Vanda, the daughter of one of the Polish airmen, said the murals made her feel proud.
"My father came to Northern Ireland and was put into Ballyhalbert aerodrome along with 303 squadron and 315," she said.
"I'm very proud and when I look at these murals today of what they achieved, [the men] gave their all in defence of this country.
"But I will also feel very sad, because at the end of it all the goal was to go back to their war-torn country and start afresh, but they didn't really get that chance."
Police are still hunting the driver of a van that killed 13 at Barcelona's Las Ramblas. A 14th victim died in a second attack at Cambrils.
Ministers say the jihadist cell behind the attacks has been dismantled.
But police are still hunting for the van driver and an imam missing from a mosque in the town of Ripoll.
The special Mass is being celebrated at the iconic, Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia.
Some reports in Spanish media say the jihadist cell had intended to target the Sagrada Familia with explosives.
PM Mariano Rajoy is also attending the Mass, where there is tight security.
On Saturday the royal couple laid a wreath at the site of the attack at Las Ramblas, accompanied by Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau and Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
Catalonia has always been fiercely independent but the royals' presence brought shouts of "Long live the king!"
The king and queen earlier met victims of the Barcelona attack in the city's Hospital del Mar.
Later on Sunday, Barcelona FC will hold their first league game of the season, with 100,000 expected at the Camp Nou, where there will be a minute's silence.
On Saturday, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said the jihadist cell behind the attacks, believed to be about 12 strong, had been fully dismantled, despite the continuing search for the driver.
Catalan Interior Minster Joaquim Forn was more circumspect, stressing that the police operation could not be considered over until all those suspected of being part of the cell were in custody.
Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, believed to be the van driver who escaped after the Barcelona attack, remains the focus of the manhunt.
However, there is also a search for an imam of the mosque at Ripoll, the town north of Barcelona where a number of the suspected cell members came from.
The apartment of the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, was raided on Saturday.
The imam apparently left the mosque abruptly in June and has not been seen since. The mosque president said he had told him he wanted to go back to Morocco.
Police sources and Spanish media say Mr Es Satty may have died in an explosion at a house in Alcanar, south of Barcelona, on Wednesday night.
Catalonia police say the cell was preparing a much larger attack and the house may have been a bomb factory.
Police have remove dozens of gas canisters from the house and have carried out controlled explosions.
El Pais says police have found biological remains of at least three people in the house but their identities are yet to be determined.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it had carried out the Las Ramblas attack, though it is not clear whether any of the attackers were directly connected to the group or simply inspired by it.
The Muslim community of Ripoll has condemned the attacks.
A notice posted on a Ripoll mosque said: "Faced with this criminal act, the Annour Islamic Community of Ripoll reiterates its complete commitment to the fight against any form of terrorism, and we hope that those responsible for this attack are arrested and taken before a judge as soon as possible."
Catalan police have set up major roadblocks throughout the region, warning people there may be significant travel disruption.
But Mr Zoido said the nation's current alert level would not be raised as there was no warning of another imminent attack.
Thursday's attack in the Catalan capital saw a van driven at high speed along Las Ramblas where it smashed into dozens of people walking along the pedestrianised avenue popular with tourists and residents.
Hours later, early on Friday, there was a second van attack in Cambrils, west of Barcelona. A woman was killed and police shot dead five suspected jihadists.
These names of the dead have so far been released:
Two unnamed Portuguese nationals are also confirmed dead.
The whereabouts of seven-year-old Julian Cadman, a dual British-Australian national apparently separated from his injured mother during the attack, remains unclear. He was widely reported to be missing.
However, the Catalan police, responding to inquiries, tweeted that they had neither been looking for nor found any missing child. The victims and the injured had all been located, they said.
Catalan emergency services gave a new breakdown of the injured on Saturday:
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The eight-year-old, trained in Berwickshire, Scotland by Sandy Thomson, faces his biggest test to date when lining up in Haydock's Betfair Chase.
The list of opponents in yet another high-quality staging of the Grade One race is due to include dual winners Cue Card and Silviniaco Conti and the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Coneygree as he returns from a year off because of injury.
Seeyouatmidnight, on whom Hughes will wear the black, yellow and white silks of the trainer's wife Quona, is the winner of seven races, most recently when putting in a striking display at Carlisle in October.
All that said, it's probably fair to say that the horse, who was also third in Scotland's Grand National in April, has not yet registered with the wider racing public.
And despite demonstrating his good form so recently, and having snow-softened ground conditions in his favour, he's received only limited coverage in the build-up to Haydock, the first leg - before Kempton's King George VI Chase at Christmas and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March - in the Jockey Club's £1m 'Steeplechasing Triple Crown'.
Hughes, himself just about the most in-form rider in the country after a string of wins including a rare five-timer, plus two seconds, from seven mounts at Musselburgh in Betfair Chase week, told BBC Sport:
"I just feel that the horse never got the credit he deserved [after Carlisle]. If he was ridden by a top jockey - your Ruby Walshes or your Richard Johnsons or Barry Geraghty - and trained by a big Southern trainer, he might have been more in the press.
"At the end of the day I think the world of this horse - Sandy and his wife worship him - and it's great for us and our careers to be part of him.
"I think the horse deserves his chance to be there but obviously we respect the opposition because of them winning Grade Ones, and we haven't. On ratings, we have to find a bit, but it's only his second season [chasing] and hopefully he can improve.
"We're coming here off the back of a good run and hoping that he can mix it with these good horses."
Hughes, 31, by quite some way leading jockey on the Northern circuit from the currently side-lined Henry Brooke, is seen as the 'professional's professional', a jockey who's enjoyed considerable success but who's renowned for keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
All of which made his jubilant reaction to Seeyouatmidnight disposing of his sole rival at Carlisle, the talented Bristol De Mai, the more eye-catching.
The horse felt, he enthused, like "driving a Ferrari" and having "never touched a twig [of the obstacles]" he believed that he'd "never come up the hill as fast as that. Ever."
Reflecting on those quotes, Hughes, who's looking for his first victory at Grade One level, said:
"Looking back, I probably got a bit over-excited, but the way he was just lobbing his way round impressed me, and then when I asked from the third-last he surprised me; Carlisle is a steep hill and he powered up it.
"I've not had that many nice horses to ride but he feels like a very nice horse, and I hope that he can show the public how good we believe he is."
Victory at this level for the horse that's become something of a standard-bearer in his region would come at an opportune time.
No one doubts the ability of national hunt trainers based north of the Trent, but the fact remains it's short on major investors, and most of the racehorse owners with the biggest cheque books tend to look to stables in the south.
Apart from Seeyouatmidnight, one can see few others taking on the power of the south at the springtime festivals at Cheltenham and Aintree: probably only the Malcolm Jefferson-trained Cloudy Dream - another Hughes mount - Simply Ned and Eduard, both part of the Nicky Richards team, and possibly Grand National hope Highland Lodge.
It's all rather ironic because the word regularly used about flat racing in the north of England and Scotland is "flourishing"; all too often similar chat about jumping includes early mention of the description "beleaguered".
Work to try to improve things is underway, and the latest initiative, specially designed to provide an incentive to owners, is the 'Northern Lights Series', various series of races staged at courses north of Doncaster with a finals day at Carlisle in December 2017.
A big win in the meantime for a Scottish horse like Seeyouatmidnight would add priceless extra publicity.
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The last suspect in custody, a 30-year-old man, arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, was released on Saturday.
Eleven other people were previously arrested and released with no further action.
Four people died as a result of the attack in London last month.
They were Kurt Cochran, aged 54, Aysha Frade, 44, PC Keith Palmer, 48, and 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes.
The attacker, Khalid Masood, 52, also died.
The inquests into the deaths of the victims opened and adjourned last week.
Masood drove his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and then ran into the Palace of Westminster grounds armed with two knives.
On Thursday, an inquest heard Masood died at the scene from a single gunshot wound to the chest after he was shot by police.
In total, his attack lasted 82 seconds.
Optometry student Vithiya Alphons was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia after returning for her final year in 2015 and needed a stem cell transplant.
Despite a global appeal, no suitable donor was found and doctors were forced to use her mother's cells.
Miss Alphons took a year out to recover and has now finished her course.
"I was not going to allow cancer to get in the way of getting my degree and my dream of becoming an optician," she said.
Thousands of people signed up to the stem cell donor register following the appeal by Miss Alphons and the Anthony Nolan charity.
She is now helping to highlight the need for more ethnic minorities to sign up as donors.
Miss Alphons, from Walthamstow, London, said it was tough returning to her studies. She was unable to attend lectures and had to rely on recordings and PowerPoint presentations.
She said she was able to get through it with the support of her friends, family and university supervisors.
"I just hope that my story will help encourage anyone who is going through tough times to not give up - anything is possible," she said.
The quake was the fourth to hit the area in three months and devastated some areas.
Local authorities in some villages have urged people to leave as temperatures continue to drop, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.
But many of the residents who own livestock are refusing to go, as it would mean abandoning their animals.
"What left is there to do? Who will look after them?" one man asked.
La Repubblica said some people refusing to leave devastated areas had demanded tents from the local authorities "so that no-one is forced to stay in their car".
A Benedictine monastic community in Norcia, one of the hardest hit towns, has also chosen to stay. The members say they want to "be present for the people of Norcia".
The monks were working hard to rebuild from the damage of the previous quake. But tremors near the city on Thursday rendered the monastery uninhabitable, according to a statement on its website.
"Unfortunately, [the earthquake] has brought many of the townspeople to the brink of despair and more damage than any of us can yet assess.
"As before, we are busy at work trying to respond to the crisis on multiple levels."
On Sunday, Norcia's local basilica, which was undergoing repairs, was destroyed.
For others, the uncertainty and devastation caused by the quakes has pushed them out of central Italy.
Andrew Shearn, a resident in Amandola, relocated to Milan over the weekend and says he will stay there "until it stops". He said that, luckily, he could work from the northern city.
"People are scared. Anyone who has an alternative has left the area. People are ready to start rebuilding, but they are too apprehensive until [the earthquakes] stops.
He told the BBC he was cleaning up his house from the previous earthquake when the latest one hit.
"I was standing outside my house taking in the view when the tremors started.
"It's incredible that something built with stone walls can just swing side to side. Tiles flew off my roof. And the noise - there's this low, deep-down noise in your head, all around."
He says the older people have been most affected by the disaster: "I was talking to an 80-year-old woman - she has lived here her whole life and has never seen anything like this.
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Both teams know each other well from qualifying - Wales drew 0-0 in Brussels and won 1-0 in Cardiff when Radja Nainggolan's misdirected header let Gareth Bale in to score the winner. Will the Red Devils get revenge in France?
Injured Belgium and Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, a BBC pundit in France, explains which areas he thinks will decide the tie, why his side have found their form, the importance of Eden Hazard and how his own comeback is progressing.
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Belgium lost to Italy in their opening game at Euro 2016 and only sparkled briefly as they beat Republic of Ireland and Sweden to get out of Group D in second place. They came to life with an impressive 4-0 win over Hungary in the last 16.
Kompany: You have seen in this tournament that Belgium got the job done in our group, but we were not great until the Hungary game, when we produced a big performance.
The key for us against Hungary was for everyone to play down the situation we were in, because we were very relaxed from the start in that game. Ultimately the big teams who have been able to perform in this tournament are the ones who have done the same.
Once you have produced a big performance like that, it gives everyone a lot of confidence.
Our squad is on a cloud right now and the players have every right to be positive about our form going into the quarter-finals - and about our chances of going much further in this tournament.
Like a few people have said, that is as much the case for the Wales squad as it is for Belgium. We have both ended up on the good side of the draw and I think all the teams left in there have got a chance and can dream of the final.
The Wales team will not need to watch a lot of videos before the game, because they know us so well - and we know them so well too.
Our games in qualifiers were very close and the last team to make a mistake was us, so you learn from your mistakes. In that sense I think and I hope it is advantage to us this time.
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Chelsea forward Eden Hazard has had a poor season in the Premier League but was the star of the show against Hungary, scoring one dazzling solo goal and making another as his side strolled to a comprehensive victory.
Kompany: Wales and Belgium are very strong on the counter-attack, so whichever team attacks could be the more exposed.
That was the case in the Hungary game - as soon as we scored, they showed their hand a little bit and showed that they were going to be positive. It all of a sudden transformed the game for us, in a good way.
The main player everyone wanted to talk about after that game was Eden Hazard. For us he has been a revelation in this tournament because he has never performed this way for us before.
If he can keep performing the way he did against Hungary, then it puts him into a completely different bracket for me.
If he is fit enough to play and can maintain this level then we are talking about a player who is as good as the top two in the world - Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The way Eden played against Hungary was like art, it was beautiful - and that is what everyone is expecting from him again against Wales.
Kompany was ruled out of Euro 2016 at the start of May when he had surgery after suffering a groin injury playing for City against Real Madrid and was told he would be out for four months. He suffered five injuries during the 2014-15 season, playing 22 games out of a possible 59 for his club and will miss pre-season under new manager Pep Guardiola.
Kompany: I have spoken to Pep a few times now and I also met him briefly when he came to Manchester at the end of May. We have had some positive conversations and he has some very big ambitions for the club.
I am really looking forward to next season - my rehab is going well. For the injury I had and at the stage I am at, it is the best it could have been.
There is no date set for me to play again but I am recovering really well. Initially it was pretty long injury - as has been mentioned, I was looking at about four months out. But we will see.
Could I come back earlier? I am conscious I am not allowed to push it too much and also conscious I need to look after my body first and foremost.
I know what I have got to offer - when I have felt good I have felt I could achieve such a high level of football so the only thing I am doing at the moment is looking after my body and making sure I make the right calls every single time - living the right life to play the most amount of games possible in the future.
Tuesday, 15 March - Champion Day
Favourite Annie Power, ridden by Ruby Walsh, powered to victory in the Champion Hurdle, the highlight of the opening day.
Race report and full results
Wednesday, 16 March - Ladies' Day
Sprinter Sacre beat favourite Un De Sceaux to win the coveted Queen Mother Champion Chase for a second time.
Day two report and full results
Thursday, 17 March - St Patrick's Day
Even-money favourite Thistlecrack justified his tag to win the World Hurdle in impressive style. Tom Scudamore's mount, trained by Colin Tizzard, was barely troubled in the three-mile race.
Day three report and full results
Friday, 18 March - Gold Cup Day
The 9-4 favourite Don Cossack and jockey Bryan Cooper held off the challenge of Djakadam to win the Gold Cup.
The winner, trained by Gordon Elliott, led home an Irish 1-2-3 with the runner-up and third-placed Don Poli both trained by Willie Mullins.
Leading English fancy Cue Card fell with three fences to go.
Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton finished fifth in the Foxhunter Chase on Pacha Du Polder.
Gold Cup report and full results
A search operation was launched after a fishing vessel saw the kayak floating about three miles offshore with no-one on board at 17:45 on Friday.
A man was subsequently spotted in the water off Musselburgh, close to where the River Esk flows into the Firth.
Aberdeen Coastguard said that a search and rescue helicopter recovered the man's body from the water.
Police Scotland said that they had been called to Goose Green Place, near the shore in Musselburgh, after the man was found.
A police spokesman said: "Inquiries are continuing to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death."
The RNLI Kinghorn lifeboat, two fishing vessels and search and rescue helicopter 131 from RAF Boulmer had been involved in the search.
The kayak had been found about three miles off Port Seton.
They were held in the UK in 2013 after an extradition request from the Rwandan government and denied involvement.
District judge Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates' Court said there was a real risk they would not get a fair trial in Rwanda.
The Crown Prosecution Service indicated it would appeal against the ruling.
Vincent Brown, also known as Vincent Bajinya, Charles Munyaneza, Emmanuel Nteziryayo, Celestin Ugirashebuja and Celestin Mutabaruka were accused of playing an active part in the killings.
An estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis but including some moderate Hutus, died between April and May 1994.
An attempt to extradite four of the men, who are all of Hutu ethnicity, was thrown out by the High Court in 2009 on similar grounds.
The new judgement brought applause from friends and family of the men in the public gallery.
The men have undergone a series of legal hearings during which their defence lawyers argued their lives would be in danger if they were returned.
They face charges including genocide, crimes against humanity, premeditated murder, and participation in acts of devastation, massacres and looting.
The Rwandan government has given assurances they would not face the death penalty.
In the latest ruling, the judge said: "From the evidence I heard and read I have no doubt at all that the overall picture of Rwanda is of an authoritarian repressive state that is not less so than it was and is probably more so than in 2008-9, a state that is stifling opposition in a number of ways.
"There is evidence that the state is suspected of threatening and killing those it considers to be its opponents or they simply disappear at home and abroad.
"There is evidence that suspects can be tortured in secret camps where basic human rights are ignored."
She said she did not the find the extradition requests were compatible with the Human Rights Act 1998.
A new law allowing dual citizenship for the descendants of those forced out in 1492, known as Sephardic Jews, was passed in June.
It came into force on Thursday.
Friday's move, however, follows a government decision to fast-track those who had applied for citizenship under a previous law.
The older law had required them to relinquish their other nationality.
Most of the group are from Morocco, Turkey and Venezuela, Spain's Federation of Jewish Communities said.
Justice Minister Rafael Catala said the decision had been made so they would not have to file another application.
Those seeking citizenship under the new law need to have their ancestry checked by Jewish authorities.
They must also demonstrate basic knowledge of Spanish, pass a test about Spanish culture and prove a modern connection to Spain.
Tens of thousands of Jews were expelled in 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition, which the government has called a "historic mistake".
Those who remained had to convert to Catholicism or risk being burnt at the stake.
The citizenship programme was first announced in 2012.
The wing section, known as a flaperon, had been examined in France by international aviation experts.
French authorities launched searches on and around Reunion for more debris but none was found.
The Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people veered off its course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.
The Malaysian government had previously said it believed that the flaperon belonged to MH370.
French investigators had until now been more cautious on the provenance of the debris.
But on Thursday they said a technician from Airbus Defense and Space (ADS-SAU) in Spain, which had made the part for Boeing, had formally identified one of three numbers found on the flaperon as being the same as the serial number on MH370.
The magistrate charged with conducting the investigation and an aviation expert had gone to ADS-SAU headquarters on Thursday.
The families of those aboard - who were mostly Chinese - have been angered by the apparent discrepancies in statements by French and Malaysian officials, and have accused the authorities of hiding the truth.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has been co-ordinating the deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have gone down, thousands of miles east of Reunion.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that the search would continue as "we owe it to the hundreds of millions of people who use our skies".
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know
Will debris solve MH370 mystery?
Police were called to Princess Way at around 03:00 GMT on Sunday. A man, 34, was taken to Morriston Hospital but later died.
No weapons were used during the incident, but his death is being treated as suspicious.
The 23-year-old arrested man is in custody at Swansea police station.
The area remains cordoned off while police examine the scene.
The man's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.
Wang Yi said he urged Ri Yong-ho to abide by UN resolutions in a meeting on Sunday in the Philippines.
He did not say how Mr Ri replied.
Saturday's resolution banning North Korean exports and limiting investments in the country was passed unanimously.
Mr Wang said sanctions were needed, but "are not the final goal", and he urged dialogue. He said he had told North Korea to remain calm, and not provoke the international community with more tests.
The Chinese envoy also urged the US and South Korea not to increase tensions, saying that the situation was at a "critical point", but also a juncture at which talks could be resumed.
US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley earlier said North Korea was facing "the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation".
Pyongyang tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July, claiming it now had the ability to hit the US.
However, experts doubt the missiles can hit their targets.
The tests were condemned by South Korea, Japan and the US, and prompted the drafting of the new UN sanctions.
China, North Korea's only international ally and a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, voted in favour of the resolution after negotiations with the US that Ms Haley said were "tough".
Beijing has often protected Pyongyang from harmful resolutions in the past.
Russia, which the US has also criticised for its economic links with North Korea, also voted for the sanctions.
Top diplomats including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are gathered for a regional forum under the aegis of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in the Philippines' capital, Manila.
North Korea's nuclear programme is expected to be a major issue but there are no plans for a bilateral meeting between Mr Tillerson and the North Korean representative.
Speaking earlier as he sat down for talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, Mr Tillerson said the sanctions were a "good outcome".
Can the US defend itself against North Korea?
Jonathan Head, BBC South East Asia Correspondent
The steady advances in North Korean missile technology have lent a sense of urgency to US diplomacy in Asia, and Rex Tillerson's attendance at the Asean Regional Forum is well-timed.
The US wants a show of unity at this forum in condemning North Korea - uniquely, Mr Tillerson will find himself in the same room as his North Korean counterpart, Ri Yong-ho, although the two are very unlikely to speak to one another.
Mr Tillerson will also be holding bilateral meetings with his Russian and Chinese counterparts. Just by being at this diplomatic talkfest Rex Tillerson will offer a striking change of tone. In the first seven months of the Trump administration his voice has been subdued on Asia, whereas the president's comments have been seen by many Asian officials as erratic and at times inflammatory.
However there are important differences over how best to deal with North Korea. The US believes pressure must be ramped up on Pyongyang, to get it to reverse, not just freeze, its nuclear and missile programmes.
Many Asian countries fear the Trump administration's growing anxiety and anger over North Korea's missile tests risk escalating into a dangerous confrontation; there is still a broad consensus in this region that engagement, however frustrating, is the only way forward - so the US bid to have North Korea expelled from the Asean Regional Forum will meet plenty of resistance.
US President Donald Trump tweeted to say the sanctions would cost the North more than $1bn (£0.7bn).
The export of coal, ore and other raw materials to China is one of North Korea's few sources of cash. Estimates say that North Korea exports about $3bn worth of goods each year - and the sanctions could eliminate $1bn of that trade.
But China's participation will be key and top US diplomats say they will be keeping a close eye on Beijing to make sure it consistently abides by the sanctions.
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Earlier this year, China suspended imports of coal to increase pressure on Pyongyang.
However, repeated sanctions have so far failed to deter North Korea from continuing with its missile development.
Beijing is also furious about the deployment of a US-funded missile defence system in South Korea and wants it to be scrapped.
North Korea has is yet to officially respond to the new sanctions. A senior official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency: "We will make our stance clear when things are determined."
But ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun earlier said nuclear action or sanctions taken by Washington would lead to an "unimaginable sea of fire" engulfing the US.
The isolated state's repeated missile and nuclear weapon tests in breach of UN resolutions have been condemned by neighbours in the region.
But South Korea says it may hold direct talks with the North during the Asean summit.
Its foreign minister said she was willing to talk to her counterpart from Pyongyang, if the chance "naturally occurs".
Altogether, 27 nations are sending representatives to the Asean Regional Forum.
Asean's 10 member states issued a joint statement saying they had "grave concerns" over North Korea's actions, which "seriously threaten peace".
Dan Evans, 29, from Abertillery, found four £50 tickets for Australia v Wales on 10 October among his mail at work.
After his Facebook campaign was shared thousands of times, he reunited them with Neil Pugh, 59, of Penarth.
Mr Evans said he was "totally chuffed" social media had come to the rescue and Mr Pugh admitted he was "relieved".
"I did offer him a reward but he wouldn't take anything but thanks," added Mr Pugh, a chartered accountant, who said his experience was "fraught".
"I paid £210 for each ticket on [ticket reselling website] Viagogo. I am relieved as much as anything because I bought four tickets and had taken the money from three friends for them.
"I hadn't told them about it but they have found out since."
Mr Evans, a technician, who works at Coleg Gwent's Ebbw Vale campus, discovered the tickets had inadvertently slipped into one of his parcels on Wednesday.
When he tried to telephone Mr Pugh on a number printed on a receipt he could only reach his voicemail, so he posted a notice online.
Mr Evans, who says he is "not the biggest rugby fan", was never tempted to cash-in when approached by people wanting to buy the tickets nor fooled by pretenders claiming to be Mr Pugh.
"I was getting a little bit worried. I gave myself a deadline - I was thinking, by the end of Friday, if I had not heard from them online I would have to ring round all the different ticket providers (to trace Mr Pugh)."
But after the Facebook campaign received 550 likes and more than 3,600 shares, Mr Pugh's daughter spotted it and got in touch.
"I'm totally chuffed. I can't describe it, to be honest," Mr Evans added.
Customers of RBS and its subsidiaries, NatWest and Ulster Bank, were unable to use Visa debit and credit cards.
An RBS spokesperson said the breakdown had "minimal customer impact".
It said the problems affected "a small number of people" conducting higher value and international transactions.
The problems started at 7.45am and were resolved by 9.15am, the bank said.
On Thursday, the bank was fined £56m by UK regulators over its huge systems crash in 2012, when 6.5 million customers - equivalent to 10% of the UK population - faced problems that lasted in some cases several weeks.
Also on Friday Barclays online customers experienced some difficulties with their service for a short time. A Barclays spokesperson told the BBC: "Barclays online banking service was unavailable for around an hour earlier today.
"All other services were up and running as usual during this time however we apologise to those customers that were impacted. We are currently investigating what caused this to prevent it happening again."
The Istanbul club confirmed on Sunday that Mancini had met club directors, posting a photo of the 48-year-old with chief executive Lutfi Aribogan.
The Italian replaces Fatih Terim, who after failing to agree a new contract.
exactly a year after he led them to their first Premier League title.
Galatasaray have made a disappointing start to the Turkish league season, picking up only one win from their first five games.
They are in a Champions League group with Real Madrid, who beat them 6-1 in their opening game, Juventus and FC Copenhagen.
Terim, 60, is one of the most influential people in the club's history, having led them to six of their record 19 domestic titles, as well as the 2000 Uefa Cup following an 11-year spell as a player.
Mancini won three successive Italian league titles and two Italian Cups with Inter Milan, before winning the FA Cup and Premier League with City.
The Italian's first match in charge will be Wednesday's Champions League clash at Juventus.
The Buddies, who face Dundee United in the Challenge Cup final on Saturday, had won just two league games before the turn of the year.
But after shipping out 10 players and bringing in 10 in January, the club's form picked up and they have won four of their last six Championship outings.
"We took an educated gamble in terms of making so many changes," Ross said.
The Buddies remain bottom of the Championship table but their fine recent run has brought them within one point of Ayr United, having played a game more, and a further three behind Dumbarton.
Players such as Rory Loy, Stelios Demetriou, Stephen McGinn and Cammy Smith signed on at St Mirren during the January window.
And while Ross credits January's sizeable squad overhaul for getting the Buddies back in the survival fight, it is not something he would want to repeat.
"Before the January transfer window opened, James (Fowler, his assistant) and myself spent a long time assessing what we needed to do and, for want of a better expression, we rolled the dice," Ross said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"We ended up with 10 players going out and 10 coming in, which is pretty remarkable and something, as a manager, I would prefer not to do ever again.
"However, with the ones we managed to recruit, some of those players I had worked with before and I trusted. Some we've been fortunate with, they've just been the right characters and the right fit for what we've wanted to try and do.
"The chemistry within the group off the pitch and on it is very good and that's been reflected in the performances and the results."
Ross took charge of the Paisley outfit in October 2016 following the sacking of Alex Rae, with the Buddies still without a league win at that stage.
As well as kick-starting their league campaign, Ross has helped guide them to the Challenge Cup final and is desperate to ensure they do not leave Fir Park empty-handed.
"For us it's a terrific opportunity to go and lift silverware and for the players to win a medal," he added.
"In an ideal world a cup win for us and a draw down at Somerset Park (where Ayr United host Dumbarton in the league) would be perfect, but let's get the cup win first and whatever happens there we'll deal with afterwards."
The final day of the two-week inquiry heard from Lincolnshire County Council which said the Eastern Bypass would reduce congestion and promote growth.
Residents objected to the scheme which would close a route into the city from three villages.
The inquiry concluded on Friday with a decision expected in the coming months.
The multimillion-pound project has been delayed by protests from villagers in Cherry Willingham, Reepham and Fiskerton because the proposed route would close Hawthorne Road.
They claim they would be forced to use a longer and more dangerous route, and want a road bridge installed.
But Simon Randle, representing the council, told the hearing the bridge would be too expensive.
He said that whilst there would be losers from the scheme, this had to be balanced against the wider objectives of reducing congestion and promoting growth and investment in Lincoln.
Councillor Richard Davies, speaking after the inquiry, said: "What we've seen is a culmination of two weeks really useful work.
"Everybody has had an opportunity to make their views heard we've debated some of the issues and we've had the opportunity in open discourse to really discuss in particular some of the objections."
The council's previous plans to link the A158 Wragby Road with the A15 Sleaford Road were rejected by the government in 2014 because of safety concerns over a bridge.
It has since been redesigned but still does not take traffic.
Former shadow welfare minister Helen Goodman made the move without the blessing of interim party leader Harriet Harman.
Ms Goodman says 40 MPs back her attempt to reject the Welfare Bill.
Ms Harman has said that if the party "opposed everything" it would "succeed on nothing".
Earlier this week, she said Labour had to recognise that one of the reasons it lost the general election was because it was not trusted on welfare spending.
She has urged the party to abstain on the Welfare Reform Bill, warning against "blanket opposition" to reform.
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said: "There is now the prospect of the acting Labour leader either being forced to back down in the face of opposition from her own side, or Labour being divided in a Commons vote."
A Labour Party spokesman said it would make its intentions clear "fairly shortly".
Bishop Auckland MP Ms Goodman, who has left Labour's front bench to join the Treasury select committee, had announced the move on Twitter, writing: "With 40 other MPs I've put down a motion to reject Tory Welfare bill, because it will push more children esp in big families into poverty."
Other Labour MPs wrote of their support on Twitter, with Warrington North's Helen Jones tweeting: "Glad so many MPs are supporting our motion to reject Tory Welfare Bill, which will push families on low wages further into poverty."
The US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) gave retrospective permission after Mayweather had the drip of saline and vitamins on the eve of his 2 May fight.
But the NSAC says only it could approve the drip, and not Usada.
Pacquiao wants a rematch, according to the AFP news agency.
Usada said it granted unbeaten American Mayweather, 38, a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) for the infusion, in accordance with NSAC regulations.
But NSAC executive director Bob Bennett told BBC Sport: "Anyone should know worldwide, if you fight in the state of Nevada we are the sole authority for approving a TUE.
"Usada has been known historically as the premier performance-enhancing drugs-testing organisation and they have an outstanding record. But they do not have the authority to authorise a TUE to a fighter in the state of Nevada."
Mayweather's drip, administered to combat dehydration after a tough training session, had already attracted controversy.
A report claimed he received favourable treatment from Usada in being given permission to have it. It said, although the substances in question were not banned, an IV drip "can dilute or mask the presence of another substance that is already in the recipient's system".
Usada said the report was "riddled with significant inaccuracies and misrepresentations", while Mayweather highlighted his own anti-doping stance.
"I follow and have always followed the rules of Nevada and Usada, the gold standard of drug-testing," he said.
"Let's not forget that I was the one six years ago who insisted on elevating the level of drug-testing for all my fights."
Bennett explained the process of successfully obtaining a TUE, adding that it was very rare for one to be granted so close to a fight.
"The process is you go online and you submit an application with supportive evidence from your doctor. Upon our receiving it, we give the application to our doctor. After his review we will determine if a TUE is approved.
"We are very meticulous, we look a each TUE very thoroughly before our doctors make a final decision. We want to do all this for the health and safety of the fighter.
"I don't recall a time when we have authorised a pre-fight TUE for an intravenous drip. I'm not saying it hasn't ever happened, but I don't recall it."
BBC Sport's Ade Adedoyin in Las Vegas: "The Manny Pacquiao camp are quite unhappy about his situation.
"They point to the fact that before Pacquiao went out to face Mayweather he asked for permission to have an injection of painkillers but was denied by the NSAC.
"One of his business advisors has spoken to the media and has been saying how ironic it is for Mayweather to be in this situation now.
"He has also says that perhaps the best way forward is for Mayweather and Pacquiao to have a rematch."
Pacquiao has been addressing the media in his native Phillipines and has called for a rematch.
The 36-year-old was refused an anti-inflammatory shoulder injection before his fight with Mayweather - the richest in the history of the sport - after failing to notify the correct authorities.
He later blamed the injury for his points defeat, claiming it stopped him using his right hand.
"That is why I want a rematch," AFP news agency quoted him as saying. "One without any injury and with fair play. No favouritism. Not one where the Mayweather camp gets to dictate all the terms and conditions.
"The Mayweather camp accused me of using performance-enhancing drugs. Now look what happened. The truth has finally came out and I was vindicated.
"If needed, the NSAC should impose the appropriate sanction to sustain its credibility and to show the world they did not give preferential treatment to the Mayweather camp."
The 32-year-old hit 12 boundaries in his 127 before driving Chris Liddle (4-54) to extra cover in the 44th over.
Nick Browne (42) and Varun Chopra (41) provided good support as Essex posted 315-8 under gloomy skies at Chelmsford.
Phil Mustard made 90 and Ian Cockbain struck 79 in the chase, but the visitors struggled to keep up with the run-rate and they finished on 286-8.
Cook, who can play in all of Essex's matches until England's first Test against South Africa in July, was given a life on 67 when he was dropped on the mid-wicket boundary by Jack Taylor off paceman Liam Norwell.
But the rest of the innings was chanceless, as England's all-time leading Test run-scorer brought up his three figures off 110 balls.
Just as Gloucestershire looked well set on 175-2 and ready to accelerate, Mustard fell swiping Matt Quinn to Cook at deep square-leg 10 short of an eighth List A hundred.
Cockbain, off the back of his match-winning century at Lord's on Sunday, continued to fight valiantly to bring the equation down to 60 runs off 30 balls, but then skied Ravi Bopara (3-34) to Cook ending any chance of victory.
Essex have now won their opening three matches in the competition, while Gloucestershire have lost two out of three.
Islington Council said the poster in Highbury Fields, north London, had been put up "in error" by a junior worker.
It read: "Please do not attach or affix any structures or objects to the park furniture and trees at Highbury Fields including the benches and lamp posts."
A council spokesman said it had now moved the notice to a nearby noticeboard.
The notice, which asked residents to respect the park and be responsible, was spotted by Nadi Jahangiri, an architect who lives nearby.
He said: "A lot of people have been putting signs up on the trees about lost cats and so on with drawing pins - it really annoys me.
"I walked up to it to rip it down, only to find it was telling people not to attach anything to trees!"
He continued: "Lots of people soon gathered around laughing.
"There was lots of grumpy huffiness and indignation about our taxes being used for this.
"If you want to stop someone doing something, doing it yourself is an odd way to go about it - but that's Islington Council for you."
A spokesman for the council said: "This was a mistake by a junior member of staff who thought they were doing the right thing to protect the trees.
"Yesterday we removed the sign to a nearby noticeboard as intended."
Andrus Nomm was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement while working for the now defunct file-sharing site.
The US is currently trying to extradite Mr Dotcom, who founded Megaupload, from New Zealand to stand trial.
Mr Dotcom denies wrongdoing.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has alleged that Megaupload's staff had "operated websites that wilfully reproduced and distributed infringing copies of copyrighted works" over a period of five years, causing more than $400m (£260m) of harm to copyright owners.
Nomm - a 36-year-old Estonian citizen - agreed to this damages estimate as part of his plea, according to a press release from the DoJ. He had been living in the Netherlands before he travelled to Virginia to make the deal with the US authorities.
The DoJ added that Nomm had acknowledged that through his work as a computer programmer for Megaupload, he had become aware of copyright-infringing material being stored on its sites, including films and TV shows that had contained FBI anti-piracy warnings.
It said he had also admitted to having downloaded copyright-infringing files himself.
"This conviction is a significant step forward in the largest criminal copyright case in US history," said assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell.
Hong Kong-based Megaupload was one of the world's most visited "cyber locker" sites when its domain names and assets were seized in January 2012, at the request of the US authorities.
Mr Dotcom has long maintained that he had not encouraged users to upload pirated material, and has said he cannot be held responsible for what others had stored on his service.
At the end of last week Friday he tweeted: "I have nothing but compassion and understanding for Andrus Nomm and I hope he will soon be reunited with his son."
In an interview with Radio New Zealand, Mr Dotcom's lawyer attempted to play down the significance of the latest development.
"Mr Nomm [was] interested in just getting one year and being done with this, essentially [he] lost on procedure rather than merit," said Ira Rothken.
"It looks like a scripted guilty plea that was more of a Hollywood public relations stunt.
"Andrus Nomm was involved particularly in video streaming and... video streaming is never a copyright crime in the United States.
"The other points that were made during his plea bargain was that he claimed that no filtering was going on - but the failure to filter was at most a civil issue and not a criminal issue.
"And then he also said that Kim Dotcom evidently did not care about copyrights, not withstanding the robust notice and takedown policies of Megaupload. And the notion that someone does not care is also not a crime, it's not even a civil wrong."
Mr Dotcom and five other individuals face charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud.
An extradition hearing for Mr Dotcom and three of the other accused is scheduled to take place in Auckland in June.
It found Kentmere inpatient unit at Westmorland General Hospital, Cumbria did not meet national standards and placed those using services "at risk".
The 12-bed ward treats people with acute psychiatric conditions.
MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron, said it would be "absolutely outrageous" to lose the ward.
The report, published in March, outlined that the Kentmere Unit and associated Health Based Place of Safety did not meet the expected standards set out in national guidance, including same sex accommodation.
This "placed people who use these services at risk and did not provide an environment which supported good care and treatment".
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said it was a "longstanding issue" which it had tried to improve over a number of years but "all possible options" had been "exhausted".
The trust said the CQC "validated its concerns" that the alterations that had been made were "not sustainable" and that should not continue to be tolerated.
Lib Dem MP Mr Farron said it would be an "outrage" for people to have to travel for mental health services and he "strongly supports" making changes and upgrading the ward to make it safer for patients.
He said: "The one thing that is utterly unacceptable is any thought that we would close mental health services in Kendal and lose ward 4."
The unit is expected to permanently close by the end of June.
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat made his comments as a British-Irish council meeting was being held in Wales.
The implications of leaving the EU were discussed at the summit by the first and deputy first ministers.
The talks were hosted by Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones.
In a BBC interview, Mr Muscat, whose country assumes the EU's presidency in January, said: "There will be issues relating to borders, especially the Irish issue, which I think is one of the most politically sensitive issues. I think there is a political willingness from everyone to have it resolved."
The prime minister of Malta also said EU leaders were not "bluffing" when they said the UK will be left without access to the single market when it leaves the bloc if there is no free movement of people.
"This is really and truly our position and I don't see it changing," he said.
The talks in Cardiff were also attended by the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, James Brokenshire, as well as Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said it was still not clear what Brexit would involve and said Prime Minister Theresa May should have been there.
"I think the British prime minister should have been here today," he said.
"She is a new British prime minister, this was her first opportunity to attend the meeting of the British Irish Council and to meet with the devolved institutions and the crown dependencies and I think it was a missed opportunity on her behalf."
This is the third summit for the normally biannual group in 2016, after an emergency session also hosted in Wales following the EU referendum.
Varying approaches to early years education and child care are also expected to be on the agenda.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers claims the promotion of ideal body images is reducing both boys' and girls' confidence in their own bodies.
Last year, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image recommended all children took part in compulsory body image and self-esteem lessons.
The union will discuss the issue of body image among pupils at its annual conference in Liverpool next week.
In a survey of 693 members across the UK, the union found 78% thought girls suffered low self-esteem and 51% thought boys had low confidence in their body image.
In addition, 59% of staff said that worries about body image made female pupils anxious and 30% said it caused anxiety in male pupils.
Some 55% said that girls were "ultra-sensitive" to comments about their appearance and 27% said boys took comments to heart.
Pressure to achieve the perfect body meant girls were likely to go on a diet, according to 54% of staff and boys were prone to start excessive exercise regimes, said 30% of those surveyed.
Asked where the pressure came from, 94% of those surveyed said they believed the media, including television, magazines, music videos, adverts and social media was the biggest influence on female pupils and also on male pupils (68%).
Peers of the same sex were also highlighted as a key cause of pressure on female pupils to look good by 83% of respondents and on male pupils by 54%.
A teacher at a secondary academy in Wandsworth, London, said: "I find that boys who are shorter than their peers are extremely sensitive and manifest either disruptive behaviour or are very withdrawn."
One early years teacher in England said: "I work with four to five-year-olds and some say things like, 'I can't eat cheese, it will make me fat!'"
A teacher at a secondary school in Northern Ireland said: "In my year 11 GCSE English class, the girls all openly admitted to feeling pressure about body image and many of the boys confessed to it too, although they said that usually they wouldn't admit to it affecting them.
A head of department at a secondary school in Exeter said: "Digital and social media are a nightmare with 'anonymous' sites that slate students in the most appalling terms on their appearance, personality and anything judge-able."
"Despite knowing about airbrushing, the girls still feel the need to aspire to unrealistic notions of beauty."
Association of Teachers and Lecturers general secretary Mary Bousted said: "Young people are under tremendous pressure to have or maintain often unrealistic body images portrayed in the media.
"ATL members report that this not only impacts on female pupils but increasingly leads to low self-esteem, lack of confidence and anxiety in male pupils too.
"With academic and other social pressures, young people already have enough to deal with."
Last November, Central YMCA Qualifications announced plans for a UK qualification in body image.
The award - body image and the relationship to well-being - will cover topics such as body image in the media, self-esteem, diet and exercise and aims to help young people aged 11 to 14 build a more positive body image.
It is hoped the qualification - currently with the exams regulator, Ofqual, for approval - will be rolled out in secondary schools in the UK from next year, possibly as part of PSHE (personal, social and health education) or free study periods.
After failing to qualify for a second straight Nations Cup the fans and players of the 2013 champions will have to watch from the sidelines again.
The 27-year-old says the reality of their failure will really hit home when the tournament kicks off on 14 January.
"I felt bad - not just me but Nigerians as a whole are not happy," he admitted
"Seeing teams playing in the Nations Cup and you see yourself at home you know you're not going to the Nations Cup that's when i am going to feel bad."
"You know you don't have to dwell on that, we don't have to kill ourselves about that.
"We have to work towards the next one and keep pushing hopefully we will qualify."
Before they can think about reaching the next Nations Cup in Cameroon the Super Eagles have the 2018 World Cup qualifiers to negotiate.
Nigeria are currently top of their World Cup group with two wins out of two and continue their campaign at home to Cameroon in August.
The New York-based judge upheld the US government's contention that Mr Modi was entitled to immunity as a sitting head of government.
A rights group filed the civil suit against Mr Modi in September on the eve of his maiden visit to the US.
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the religious riots.
The riots were sparked by a fire on a train at Godhra in Gujarat that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims.
Mr Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat at the time of the riots, came under intense criticism for his handling of the riots. Human rights groups say he failed to take measures to prevent retribution against Muslims
Mr Modi has denied any wrongdoing and Indian courts have cleared him of all charges.
In September, The American Justice Centre filed a lawsuit against Mr Modi, which claimed that he did nothing to stop the riots.
The 28-page complaint also charged the prime minister with "committing crimes against humanity, extra-judicial killings, torture and inflicting mental and physical trauma on the victims, mostly from the Muslim community".
Judge Analisa Torres's dismissal of the lawsuit comes ahead of a planned visit to Delhi by US President Barack Obama to attend India's Republic Day celebrations on 26 January at Mr Modi's invitation.
The US and European countries boycotted Mr Modi for more than a decade after the riots, but have largely embraced him after he led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide election win last year.
Mr Modi visited the US in September and held talks with Mr Obama, where the two leaders called for a "new agenda" between the two countries.
Warren and Richie Ramsay finished third for Scotland in the inaugural tournament in St Albans behind Denmark.
The format involved 16 nations, with each of the six holes distinguished by a theme like closest to the pin.
"With so many other sports appealing to kids, to try to reinvent golf can only be good for the game," Warren said.
"It is taking it to a new audience. It is much faster, a more instant format, which in this day and age, is hugely important.
"If golf was left the way it was, it would slowly die out, but new formats like this bring new people to the game and gives people a new appreciation of what golf's about."
The 16 nations were split into four groups, with the top two advancing to the quarter-finals. Both team members teed off, with one ball then being chosen and alternate shots being played.
Among the themes for the six holes were a long-drive contest and a 40-second shot clock, with a prize of £850,000 for the winning country.
Warren says traditionalists should not treat the innovation as a threat to the longer format of the game, but see it as a means to making the sport more attractive to a younger audience.
"It's still golf. You're still going to have majors and the standard, traditional events that are going to be four-day stroke play format," Warren said.
"But there's definitely a place for this. Traditionalists will have to get on board or they are going to be left behind. It's as simple as that.
"Golf, like every other sport, is evolving and trying to attract new people to the game and, at the end of the day it's still hitting a golf ball around the golf course and trying to beat your opponents.
"It was pretty exciting with all the new things that were going on, like the entrance to the first tee, the shot clock on the fourth hole and some new innovations. The crowds were great and it was a real fun atmosphere to play in.
Warren's next tournament will be the BMW at Wentworth and he has still to qualify for this year's Open at Royal Birkdale.
The Scot's ambition is to break into the world's top 50 and he believes he has almost returned to full fitness after nine weeks off the course with a "shoulder issue".
"A couple of years ago, I was round about top 50 in the world and that was great. You start playing in all the WGCs and all the majors," Warren said.
"That would be the main goal at the minute. It is what I feel my game is capable of and there have been little signs of that in the past and hopefully I can show more of that in the future."
Three teams are battling to finish top of the table, Bath and Leicester will fight it out for the all-important fourth play-off spot and Harlequins and Northampton will aim to secure an automatic European Champions Cup place for next season.
The only certainty is that bottom side Bristol are already relegated.
BBC Sport takes a closer look at how things could shape up once the final whistle blows on Saturday.
It appears so. Over the past 10 seasons, only Saracens (twice), Northampton, London Irish and Leicester Tigers have tasted victory away from home in the semi-finals.
In 2016, Saracens thumped Tigers 44-17, while Exeter edged to a tense 34-23 win over Wasps at Sandy Park.
So who is going to enjoy the home comforts on 20 May?
In short, if Premiership leaders Wasps beat reigning champions Saracens at the Ricoh Arena, Wasps and Exeter will get home ties.
A win for Sarries makes sure their semi-final will be at fortress Allianz Park. However, the omens for Saracens fans are not good - Wasps have won all 10 league matches at home this campaign.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young said he "thought the game would have a prize on it" when he saw the fixture list at the start of the season. The prize could well be a Premiership final if history is anything to go by.
If Exeter overcome Gloucester at Kingsholm, they will guarantee themselves a play-off match in the south west, but their fate could be decided in Coventry.
Potential semi-finals:
Since the 2005-06 season when the top four started automatically qualifying for the play-offs, only Saracens, in 2015, have won the trophy after finishing fourth.
In fact, only fourth-placed finishers Leicester, in 2008, and Northampton, in 2013, have made the showpiece event at Twickenham.
On Saturday, 10-time champions Leicester are in prime position to claim the final play-off spot for a third-straight campaign - they effectively need just a losing bonus-point at Worcester.
Bath, runners-up in 2015, must take home all five points at Sale, and hope Warriors do them a favour at Sixways with a big win.
The battle for sixth spot is fairly complicated. If Northampton beat Harlequins and Quins take away no points, Saints will finish sixth and qualify for the European Champions Cup in 2017-18.
A losing bonus-point for Quins, and only four points for Saints, means the two teams finish level on points, but Quins will qualify for Europe on virtue of having more wins.
This is where it gets even more confusing. The team that finishes seventh enters a play-off with the seventh-placed Top 14 club in France, and eighth and ninth-placed sides in the Pro12, with the winner earning a Champions Cup spot.
The play-offs and final take place over the last two weekends in May.
After Saturday's results, Gloucester, Saints, Quins and Newcastle could all finish seventh.
However, if the Cherry and Whites finish eighth in the Premiership, which is likely, and win their Challenge Cup final against Stade Francais on 12 May, they will enter the play-offs for the Champions Cup instead of the seventh-placed side.
Make sense? Hopefully it will all become clearer by the end of Saturday.
Premiership - round 22 (all games kick off at 16:00 BST on Saturday)
Bristol v Newcastle
Gloucester v Exeter
Northampton v Harlequins
Sale v Bath
Wasps v Saracens
Worcester v Leicester
European Challenge Cup final - Murrayfield
Gloucester v Stade Francais - Friday, 12 May (20:00 BST)
European Champions Cup final - Murrayfield
Saracens v Clermont - Saturday, 13 May (17:00 BST)
Premiership play-offs - TBC
Saturday, 20 May (14:45 BST and 17:30 BST)
Premiership final - Twickenham
Saturday, 27 May (14:30 BST)
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The winner of the prestigious award has been selected from a list of 376 candidates - 228 are individuals and 148 are organisations.
However, who or what they are is meant to be kept closely guarded secret.
Despite this, a list of front-runners has emerged - including Syria's White Helmets, and the negotiators of the Iran nuclear deal.
A number of less obvious suggestions to win the prize have also been rumoured, including Donald Trump for his "vigorous peace through strength ideology".
Syria's White Helmets, volunteers who pull victims from bombed buildings in the war-torn country, appear to be the public's favourite choice. A petition backing them for the prize has more than 304,000 signatures.
But the committee is known for defying expectations.
Last year, the prize went to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a group lauded for helping their country's transition to democracy, instead of Angela Merkel - who was widely thought to be in the running for her work with refugees.
Around 500 tonnes of the molluscs are clogging parts of the Scandinavian coast, threatening native species.
In jest, Denmark's embassy in China turned to social media, inviting Chinese tourists to eat the shellfish.
Following a ravenous response from netizens, companies like internet giant Alibaba offered to help out.
This all started with the embassy's post in late April (in Chinese) on Twitter-like site Weibo about the oyster problem.
It explained how the Pacific oyster species was introduced from Asia about a decade ago but numbers have increased so rapidly they now surpass their local counterparts.
The post has received more than 15,000 responses to date, including offers to "eat them to extinction".
Some have even asked for free trips or an "eaters visa" to Denmark.
The embassy has continued to play along, declining free trips but saying they would forward the "creative ideas to relevant officials".
As the post became a national talking point, Alibaba - the dominant online marketplace in China - got in touch with Danish officials, later announcing they had "agreed on further collaboration".
Its online shopping unit Tmall said it was in talks with customs authorities in Hangzhou over ways to expedite the process of bringing the oysters - and other agricultural products - into China.
The embassy even held a live internet demonstration on Tmall showing different ways to eat an oyster. Instead of downing it raw with a drizzle of lemon or tabasco sauce, which is popular in the West, many Chinese foodies prefer them crushed then grilled with mashed garlic and chilli sauce.
Danish embassy officials told the BBC they had also received "serious requests" from other e-commerce firms wanting to take on the unwanted seafood.
But they stressed it was "important that the relevant food authorities in both countries agree on the import/export situation and then practical things can start from there".
It isn't just e-commerce firms whose appetites have been whetted. Chinese travel agencies are also pitching a "special gourmet tour" to Denmark.
"Let's help the Danes eliminate these oysters invaders!" wrote one Beijing tour operator, which is also offering a certificate after completing the trip.
Danish fisherman and tourism industries are already feeling "optimistic" about the impact of the viral news, according to embassy officials.
"Since these Pacific oysters took Chinese headlines for more than one week, many local seafood traders in Denmark have received business requests, as many as 10 on a daily basis.
"Danish travel agencies that offer tailored oyster tours to the Western coast of Denmark have also got back with an increase in their business, mostly from Chinese tourists."
It helps that 2017 had already been designated an official China-Denmark tourism year, with a roster of programmes in place.
Alibaba and Denmark also signed a memorandum of understanding in March to increase Danish exports and promote the Nordic country as a tourist destination.
Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen also happened to be in China on an official visit this week.
He met his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang in Beijing on Wednesday and signed a range of trade deals, including one to export Danish pork and organic produce to China.
They also agreed on the loan of two Chinese pandas to a zoo in Copenhagen. There was no word on whether the molluscs crisis was mentioned though.
There is also the question of whether the online appetite will materialise on the ground, given China produces about 80% of the world's farmed oysters.
Additional reporting by Tessa Wong.
No-one was injured when paving slabs shattered in Archer Street at about 17:30 GMT.
Opera singer Burak Gulsen described his "great shock" when the explosion happened in front of him.
"First I thought it was an attack. Everyone was screaming and I saw the pavement flying," he said.
The Met said it is not being treated as a terror-related incident.
Mr Gulsen, 39, from Dalston, north London, said he was about 5m (16ft) away from the flying pavement slabs on the opposite side of the street.
"After it happened a police officer came along and told people to move away. It was a great shock," he said.
"After that everything was normal again. People were eating, laughing, talking."
Recommendations for a new site on council-owned land either in Cockett or Llansamlet were thrown out in 2013.
It followed campaigns in opposition to proposals for the particular areas.
Swansea council's scrutiny programme committee said the authority found it a "difficult and emotive, issue".
The report, which is going before a special meeting of councillors this week, added: "The process has drawn criticism from councillors and members of the public.
"The issue has caused a lot of tension and ill-feeling and has likely damaged the reputation of the authority."
The committee also found the authority followed through on the process agreed in 2010, but opinions about whether it was the best process were expressed.
The former greyhound racing track in Cockett and Peniel Green Road in Llansamlet were the sites put forward as the preferred options but now all options are open as the search has restarted.
The report also recommended Gypsy and traveller families should be involved at the earliest stage of any new process, rather than the end of short-listing of sites.
Llansamlet already hosts the city's only traveller site which is full and cannot be expanded.
Swansea council has a duty to find more space.
Officials in Chester intended to scrap one of two annual Winter Watch parades in the city because large crowds are expected for the truck on 3 December.
Council Leader Samantha Dixon wrote that she would be "sorry" to see a community event "cancelled to make way for a 'commercial' proposition".
The parade has now been rescheduled.
The diary clash came about as the result of a local business group organising the appearance of the Coca-Cola truck on the same day as the first Winter Watch parade.
CH1ChesterBID's chief executive Rita Waters said: "It's important we diversify our offer to make sure the city appeals to a broad range of visitors and that's why we've committed to other major events like the Coca-Cola truck."
The drinks company's vehicle is making 46 stops on its Christmas tour.
What's Winter Watch?
Dating back to the 15th Cenury, Winter Watch features local officials parading around Chester before handing the keys to the city over to the police - who were known as the City Watch - before merrily celebrating Christmas in the knowledge the city was in safe - and sober - hands
In an internal email released following a Freedom of Information request from a local resident, Cheshire West and Chester Council events coordinator David Atkinson wrote: "It has been deemed that the new event should take precedence over the Watch due to the number of people involved."
He added that there was not a suitable alternative date for the Watch.
As the cancellation announcement was made, Ms Dixon emailed a council official to say: "I want it made clear publicly that the decision to cancel this Winter Watch parade was made without the knowledge or agreement of the administration."
Opposition councillor Jill Houlbrook wrote: "As a long-time supporter and participant I'm really disappointed."
On 3 November it was agreed the first Watch event would be rescheduled for 17 December.
The authority's culture spokesman Louise Gittins said: "Given the potential scale of the Coca-Cola event - which is known to attract up to 10,000 people - it was decided that the Winter Watch Parade should be re-scheduled in the interests of public safety.
"The Winter Watch Parade on 10 December is unaffected."
Tracey Dyke was charged with 15 counts of burglary, three counts of fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit burglary and one count of theft by finding.
The 30-year-old, of no fixed abode, was due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The letter, posted on Kingston Police's Twitter and Facebook accounts, was met with a mixed response online.
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George Hanratty, 32, of Aberdeen, appeared at the city's sheriff court.
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Instead, we waste staggering amounts.
So says Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, head of an independent panel of experts advising the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization on how to tackle the problem.
Some 40% of all the food produced in the United States is never eaten. In Europe, we throw away 100 million tonnes of food every year.
And yet there are one billion starving people in the world.
The FAO's best guess is that one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted before it is eaten.
33%
of all food is wasted
$750bn
cost of waste food
28% of farmland grows food that will be thrown away
6-10% of greenhouse gases come from waste food
39% of household food waste is fruit and vegetables
The latest report from the expert panel of the UN Committee on World Food Security concludes that food waste happens for many different reasons in different parts of the world and therefore the solutions have to be local.
Take Chris Pawelski, a fourth generation onion farmer from the US. Mr Pawelski has spent months growing onions in the rich, black soil of Orange County, New York, but the supermarkets he sells to will only accept onions of certain size and look.
"If it's too wet or too dry, the bulbs simply won't make the two-inch size that's required," he says.
"There might be imperfections and nicks. There's nothing wrong with that onion. It's fine to eat. But the consumer, according to the grocery store chain, doesn't want that sort of onion."
In the past, rejected onions would have been sent to rot in a landfill. Now Mr Pawelski works with a local food charity, City Harvest, to redistribute his edible but imperfect-looking onions.
City Harvest says in 2014 it will rescue 46 million pounds - about 21 million kilograms - of food from local farmers, restaurants, grocers and manufacturers for redistribution to urban food programmes.
In rich countries, supermarkets, consumers and the catering industry are responsible for most wasted food. But supermarkets have come under particular pressure to act.
UK supermarket chain Waitrose is attacking food waste in all parts of its business. The upmarket grocery chain cuts prices in order to sell goods that are close to their "sell by" date, donates leftovers to charity and sends other food waste to bio-plants for electricity generation. The idea is for Waitrose to earn "zero landfill" status.
But then there are consumers like Tara Sherbrooke. A busy, working mother of two young children, she works hard to avoid wasting food but still finds herself throwing some of it away.
"I probably waste about £20 worth of food every week," she says. "It's usually half-eaten packets of food that have gone past their 'best before' date."
In the UK, studies have shown that households throw away about seven million tonnes of food a year, when more than half of it is perfectly good to eat.
Part of the problem is poor shopping habits, but the confusion many consumers have with "use by" and "best before" food labels is also a factor. "Use by" refers to food that becomes unsafe to eat after the date, while "best before" is less stringent and refers more to deteriorating quality.
Plus, as Prof Pinstrup-Andersen points out, food in wealthy countries takes up only a relatively small proportion of income and so people can afford to throw food away.
In developing countries, the problem is one not of wealth but of poverty.
In India's soaring temperatures fruit and vegetables do not stay fresh on the market stall for long. Delhi has Asia's largest produce market and it does have a cold storage facility.
But it is not big enough and rotting food is left out in piles. There is not enough investment in better farming techniques, transportation and storage. It means lost income for small farmers and higher prices for poor consumers.
In terms of calories, farmers harvest the equivalent of 4,600 calories of food per person per day. But on average only 2,000 of those calories are actually eaten every day - meaning more than half the calories we produce are lost on their way from farm to dinner fork.
There is enough food for everyone, just a lot of inefficiency, the FAO report concludes.
The environmental impact of all this wasted food is enormous. The amount of land needed to grow all the food wasted in the world each year would be the size of Mexico.
The water used to irrigate wasted crops would be enough for the daily needs of nine million people. And wasted production contributes 10% to the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries.
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York, is one project trying to reverse that environmental damage. The plant takes food scraps from local schools and restaurants and converts them into energy. Inside towering, silver eggs food waste is mixed with sewage sludge to create usable gas.
The pilot programme is particularly timely. New York City's restaurants will be required to stop sending food waste to landfills in 2015 and will have to turn to operations like these as alternatives.
So progress is being made. Waste food is high on the agenda politically and environmentally.
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Irwyn Wilcox was relieved of his duties at Fishguard's Ysgol Glannau Gwaun in November 2015.
In a joint statement on Monday, the local authority and school governors said one allegation of gross misconduct against Mr Wilcox "was upheld".
Details of the misconduct allegation have not been revealed.
"This has been an unsettling period for the school community," the school statement said.
"The local authority, governing body and staff now look forward to working together in the future in the best interests of the school."
Pembrokeshire council said temporary management arrangements of the 250-place primary will remain in place until a permanent head is appointed.
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The 31-year-old France international spent last season on loan at Marseille.
Gomis scored 21 goals in 33 games for the French club and they were keen to keep him, but he has opted for Turkey.
"I have a lot of friends from Turkey, and also [Didier] Drogba and [Aurelien] Chedjou have told me that the best team in Turkey is Galatasaray," Gomis told the Galatasaray official website.
The move is subject to international clearance.
Gomis joined Swansea on a four-year contract from Lyon in 2014 as back-up to former Swans striker Wilfried Bony and the Frenchman scored 10 goals in his first campaign, including five in his last six games.
But his scoring rate dropped and after 17 goals in 71 games, Gomis was loaned to Ligue 1 side Marseilles last summer.
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Last year the High Court ruled Devon County Council unlawfully changed the direction of traffic in Totnes, after traders claimed business was suffering.
The council appealed, saying it made the area safer.
But the Court of Appeal has upheld the decision, leaving the authority facing a six-figure legal bill.
Read more on this story as it develops throughout the day on our Local Live pages
Campaigner Peter Richardson, the writer, director and actor known for the Comic Strip Presents, said: "We're going to have a big party.
"Totnes will be a proper market town again."
Mr Dimbleby was among campaigners who marched in 2014, describing the traders as "the life blood of this community"
Devon County Council changed the traffic flow through Totnes in 2013 which meant vehicles could no longer be driven up the High Street from the bottom of the town.
The Court of Appeal decision means that the traffic flow will be returned from 3 May.
The legal costs already stand at more than £100,000, against a backdrop of the council having to save £110m over the next four years.
A Devon County Council spokesman said: "The County Council is obviously disappointed with the outcome of the appeal.
"We will comply with the ruling and remove the current signing so that traffic will be able to travel up the high street.
"We anticipate that the volume of traffic will increase in Fore Street, and would like to advise pedestrians to take extra care to avoid injury or accident."
That is despite the fact that new controls on lenders were brought in by the regulator several months earlier.
There were 3,216 complaints about short-term loans in 2015/16, compared to 1,157 the year before.
However Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) remained the most complained-about financial product.
There were 188,712 complaints about PPI over the year, a drop of 8% on 2014/15.
Complaints about packaged bank accounts - where customers pay a fee, but enjoy benefits like travel insurance - more than doubled to 44,244.
Claims management companies, rather than individuals, were responsible for filing most of them.
The main complaints about payday lenders involved:
New controls on payday lenders were brought in by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in January 2015.
After that date, interest charges were capped at 0.8% per day of the amount that was borrowed.
Stricter affordability checks were brought in a year before that, in 2014.
As a result of the new controls, and bad publicity, many payday lenders left the market.
Complaints about pet insurance also rose during the year, by 38%. Among the issues that caused disputes were:
Emrys Hughes, 65, worked as a tractor driver in Llanidloes when he suffered near fatal and life-changing injuries on 16 November, 2015.
Mold Crown Court heard he would never walk again.
Sundorne Products (Llanidloes) Ltd admitted a health and safety charge and was fined £180,000 and £7,650 costs.
The court heard Mr Hughes was walking in the yard but was in the blind spot of the mechanical shovel driver.
He was struck with force as the vehicle was being driven at some pace to get a momentum to load refuse.
It was described as "an accident waiting to happen" because the yard had no system to separate pedestrians and moving vehicles and no pedestrian walk ways.
Mr Hughes was in intensive care for weeks afterwards, and stayed in hospital until April last year.
His partner had to give up work to care for him, and they moved to a specially adapted bungalow.
"My life has changed considerably since I lost my legs," he said in a victim impact statement.
Prosecutor Craig Morris said the company fell well below the required standard and failed to implement practises recognised in the industry to keep pedestrians and vehicles apart.
An investigator viewed CCTV footage from the yard for the previous two weeks and saw about 90 instances where there were moving vehicles close to pedestrians in the yard, with nothing to stop them being there at the same time.
Judge Niclas Parry said that the financial penalty was not intended to reflect "the devastating injuries" he had suffered, and said the events were "truly shocking".
The court was told Sundorne Products cooperated with the Health and Safety Executive, pleaded guilty at an early stage and was "truly remorseful", continuing to support Mr Hughes.
It installed pedestrian fencing and had appointed a health and safety manager following an audit.
According to reports, Kyrgios was heard calling the tournament a "circus" and complaining about the ball kids during his win over Andreas Haider-Maurer.
The 20-year-old was fined $1,500 (£984) and could trigger a 28-day ban if he incurs $5,000 in fines before February.
It was his second code violation warning in a week.
The world number 32 will face a one-month ban if he receives another fine for verbal or physical misconduct, with the penalty stemming from the suspended ban he received for a sexual comment about Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend during a match in August.
Kyrgios had criticised the Shanghai surface on Monday, describing conditions as "crazy" when a cameraman was ejected for repeatedly talking during points.
"They were talking in the middle of the points. I was just expecting a lot more obviously from a Masters event," Kyrgios said.
"You're not going to see Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal playing on a court like that. They're always playing on centre court where things usually go pretty smoothly."
Kyrgios and his doubles partner Bernard Tomic entertained the crowd for different reasons on Tuesday when they had a putting competition on court during a medical time out and played rock-paper-scissors to decide who received during one sudden-death point.
The Australian pair beat Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock 7-6 (7-3) 7-5 to reach the second round.
Kyrgios also plays Japan's Kei Nishikori in the second round of the singles competition on Wednesday.
An analysis of 13,000 IVF pregnancies suggested the freezing process might be better for the mother and the baby's health.
However, some fertility specialists argue there would be fewer pregnancies if freezing was more widely used.
The study's findings were presented at the British Science Festival.
Most of the time in IVF clinics in the UK, eggs are taken, fertilised and the resulting embryos implanted. This is thought of as using fresh embryos.
However, about one in five cycles of IVF in the UK uses frozen embryos - these were "spare" embryos kept from a previous IVF attempt.
There have been concerns that freezing may pose a health risk. However, the latest analysis, which is also published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, suggests that freezing may have better results.
It reported a lower chance of haemorrhage, premature birth and deaths in the first few weeks of life.
Lead researcher Dr Abha Maheshwari, from the University of Aberdeen, said: "Our results question whether one should consider freezing all embryos and transfer them at a later date rather than transferring fresh embryos."
She told the BBC more research was needed and that it was "a controversial topic".
"It is a debate we should be having now," she added. "It needs further exploration about what we do in the future."
Why frozen embryos might have better results is unknown and the researchers acknowledge the results are "counter-intuitive".
One theory is that stimulating the ovaries to release more eggs, as part of normal IVF, may affect the ability of the womb to accept an embryo. Freezing the embryo until later would allow it to be implanted in a more "natural" womb.
However, data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority says that in 2010 frozen embryos were less likely to result in pregnancy. There was a 23% success rate for frozen and a 33% chance for fresh embryos.
Dr Maheshwari argues that new techniques in the past few years have greatly increased the success rate.
However Prof Alison Murdoch, the head of the Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life, Newcastle University, said: "It is of some concern that conclusions have been drawn, incorrectly, that we should routinely freeze all embryos and transfer them in a future menstrual cycle.
"There is ample evidence to show that this would result in fewer pregnancies even if the outcome for those pregnancies were better."
The director of IVF at Hammersmith Hospital in London, Stuart Lavery, said it would be "incorrect to conclude from these findings that we should stop performing fresh transfers and freeze all embryos".
However Mr Lavery said it provided reassurance that frozen embryos were as safe as fresh ones.
It was a view shared by Dr Allan Pacey, the chairman of the British Fertility Society and a researcher at the University of Sheffield.
He said: "I think this is interesting because some people are nervous about frozen embryos and there have been various headlines about this study or that which suggest that frozen embryos may be a worry.
"What's really useful is that it shows that from the point of view of the woman's health during labour, and some early measures of the baby's health, frozen embryos do all right and are arguably better."
Glentress Forest near Peebles is considered to be one of the UK's premier mountain biking venues and gets more than 300,000 visitors a year.
An enhanced visitor centre and potential cabin site are among the masterplan proposals.
Scottish Borders Council will meet to discuss the plans next week.
Councillors are being asked to agree to approve the draft scheme as a basis for a 12-week consultation.
The authority would then receive a further report on that feedback in order to formally agree how to take the project forward.
The "development vision" being put to the council outlines how the site could develop over the next 20 years.
Among the proposals are:
Once the plan has gone out to consultation it will be brought back to the planning and building standards committee to seek final approval.
Captain McShane and USA international Williams had to be separated by team-mates in the 83rd minute of the game.
The incident was not seen by match official, but was caught on video. Both players have until Friday to respond.
Reading manager Brian McDermott has spoken to both players since the incident and taken disciplinary action.
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The Royals lost the game 2-1 to a late Adam Forshaw goal moments after Matej Vydra had missed a chance to win it for the visitors.
Speaking before the charges were confirmed, McDermott said his side must move on from the incident.
"Football is a high-octane game," he told BBC Radio Berkshire. "We all want to win and it's one of those things.
"It's a volatile situation when you lose in the last minute. We've had a chance to win the game and we don't take it.
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McDermott, who returned to Reading for a second spell as manager in December, refused to say he was "disappointed" in his players' actions.
"These things happen, we're all human beings," he said. "This is what life is about, there's a lot worse things going on.
"The boys will apologise. We know it's not right, but this is a sport where we're trying to get to that league above.
"It's happened and we have to deal with it the best way we can."
Appearing on ITV's The Agenda programme on Monday, the ex-Conservative chairman opted to display a headline reading: "No 10 takes Eton mess off the menu."
Lady Warsi said she wanted to make a "serious point" about social mobility.
No 10 said PM David Cameron was also concerned about the issue.
Mr Cameron attended Eton, as did his chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, policy chief Jo Johnson, minister Oliver Letwin, and the chancellor's chief economic adviser Rupert Harrison.
Education Secretary Michael Gove recently said the number of Old Etonians in Mr Cameron's inner circle was "ridiculous".
"I don't know where you can find a similar situation in any other developed economy," he told the Financial Times.
Baroness Warsi, who is also the Minister for Faith and Communities, said: "Michael was making an incredibly serious point that it can't be right that the 7% of kids who go to independent school end up at the top tables, not just of politics, but banking, and law, and every other profession.
"What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove."
But the PM's official spokesman said: "I think that is the light-hearted section of the programme. I think that's the explanation.
"The prime minister has spoken about the importance of greater social mobility. That is absolutely at the heart of the government's education reforms. He appoints the people who he thinks are the best people to do the jobs."
Asked if Mr Cameron continued to have full confidence in Lady Warsi, the spokesman replied: "Yes, he does."
The spokesman was "not sure" whether the PM had caught the programme.
Burrell referred to "the perverted homosexual spirit" during a sermon at a church in Houston, Texas.
The singer had been the host of Bridging the Gap - a weekly radio show broadcast on Texas Southern University's KTSU-FM.
Earlier this week Ellen DeGeneres cancelled the singer's appearance on her talk show.
The university then announced that the Kim Burrell show "is no longer airing as part of KTSU Radio programming".
In a video published after the sermon, Burrell said she made "no excuses or apologies" for her comments.
"To every person who is dealing with the homosexual spirit, that has it, I love you and God loves you but God hates the sin in you and me. Anything that is against the nature of God," she added.
DeGeneres, who is a well-known advocate of gay rights, tweeted after Burrell's comments to say the singer "would not be appearing on my show".
Williams still appeared on the show without Burrell, and told DeGeneres: "The world is a beautiful place, but it doesn't work without inclusion and empathy."
"There's no space, there's no room for any kind of prejudice in 2017 and moving on," he added.
Explaining her decision to cancel Burrell's performance, DeGeneres said she had experienced "a lot of hate and prejudice and discrimination because of who I choose to love".
She added that Burrell "said some very not nice things to say about homosexuals, so I didn't feel that was good of me to have her on the show to give her a platform after she was saying things about me".
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Matt Greenwood, from Walsall, West Midlands, has been given nine months to live after the cancer spread from his hip to his lungs.
Included on the Oxford University engineering student's list is a skydive, road trip around America and a hot air balloon ride with his father.
Matt thanked people for their support.
He said: "The support has been unbelievable from all directions, just an outpouring of love and it's really, really been moving."
Arlene Foster said that "if there's an election, there's an election".
She described Sinn Féin's demand that she stand aside during an investigation into the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme as "ludicrous".
The RHI scheme is approximately £490m over budget.
Speaking to the Impartial Reporter newspaper, Mrs Foster said: "We want to see an independent inquiry probably more than anybody".
"While others have been engaging in hysteria over Christmas I've been actually working to try and find a plan and work through all of this with my ministerial colleague Simon Hamilton," she said.
The RHI was set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) under the stewardship of Mrs Foster in 2012 to encourage businesses and other non-domestic users to move from using fossil fuels to renewable heating systems.
It was an attempt by the NI Executive to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
But flaws in setting the scheme's subsidy rate left it open to abuse as claimants could earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
'Conflict of interest'
Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams said at the weekend that the DUP leader's refusal to step aside during an investigation into the green energy scheme was "unacceptable".
He also hinted that Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness could resign if Mrs Foster remained in post.
Mr Adams suggested there was a "clear conflict of interest" if she remained.
However, the first minister described Sinn Féin's position as "a purely political demand and not one that serves any genuine purpose".
Also writing in the Belfast Telegraph, Mrs Foster said the party "demand an independent inquiry free from any political interference, but they then make the holding of it conditional on my stepping aside".
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster, her party colleague, Economy Minister Simon Hamilton, said that if Sinn Féin wanted an election "then we say bring it on".
"I'm saying categorically that the first minister will not be stepping down from her post, so the corollary from that is that if Sinn Féin are threatening an election then that is the more likely outcome".
For France this huge stretch of the Pacific - as big as Western Europe - remains strategically valuable. Atomic testing on the atolls enabled France to keep the nuclear clout it needed to remain one of the world's leading powers.
There are five island groups - the Society Islands, the Tuamotu archipelago, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas Islands and the Tubuai Islands. Tahiti is the most densely-populated island.
European contact was gradual; the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and British were credited with the discovery of one or more of the islands. In the 18th century European traders and missionaries came, bringing diseases that wiped out much of the indigenous population.
The missionaries tried to put a stop to local religious practices, nudity and other aspects of indigenous life. Some forms of Polynesian culture were lost for many years.
Tahiti, in the Society islands, became a French colony in 1880. France later annexed other islands to form the French Colony of Oceania. In 1946 the islands became an overseas territory and in 2004 gained "overseas country" status.
Pro-independence movements flourished in the 1970s and over time the islands took more control of internal affairs, culminating in a statute granting increased autonomy in 1996.
In 2014, French Polynesia's assembly adopted a resolution asking France to pay nearly $1bn in compensation for the environmental damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests. The resolution was tabled by the ruling anti-independence party without the support of the territorial government, signalling a major rift within the party's ranks.
French Polynesia enjoys a high standard of living, but wealth is unevenly distributed and unemployment is high.
Tourism is an important money-earner; travellers favour Tahiti and Bora Bora. Boasting a year-round warm climate, volcanic peaks and tranquil lagoons, it is easy to see why the islands are popular. French Polynesia is, though, prone to typhoons.
Population 277,000
Area 4,167 sq km (1,609 sq miles)
Major languages Tahitian and French
Major religion Christian
Life expectancy 73 years (men), 78 years (women)
Currency
Head of state: The president of France, represented by a high commissioner
President: Edouard Fritch
Edouard Fritch became president of French Polynesia in September 2014 after his predecessor, veteran politician Gaston Flosse, was forced to resign over a conviction for corruption.
Mr Flosse stepped aside after failing to secure a pardon from President Francois Hollande over the conviction, which was upheld by France's highest court in August.
Mr Flosse was convicted for running a vast network of phantom jobs to support his political party in one of the biggest cases of its kind in French legal history. He was sentenced to a four-year suspended jail term, a large fine, and banned from public office for three years.
Edouard Fritch is number two in the governing Tahoeraa Huiraatira party which Mr Flosse still heads. He has served several times as a minister and was formerly Speaker of the French Polynesia assembly.
There are two daily newspapers. TV and radio services are provided by the French public overseas broadcaster, the Reseau Outre-Mer, and by private operators.
Multichannel TV is available; channels include French and international stations.
The incident happened in Silverstream Crescent in the north of the city on Friday morning.
It was reported to the PSNI just after 08:00 BST. The Police are treating the incident as criminal damage.
The victim lives alone and was very distressed by the incident, a relative told the BBC.
The 64-year-old, named locally as George Laird, was fatally injured at the Norbord plant in Cowie.
He was taken to Forth Valley Royal Hospital following the incident on Wednesday afternoon but died overnight.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said that a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive was under way.
He added: "Police in Stirling were called to an industrial site off Station Road in Cowie at 5.40pm on Wednesday July 13 after a man sustained serious burns as a result of a work-related incident.
"The 64-year-old was transferred by ambulance to hospital, where he has since passed away.
"A joint investigation between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Police Scotland will be carried out in order to establish the full set of circumstances."
Karl Morris, managing director of Norbord Europe, said: "Safety is Norbord's top priority and we are deeply saddened by this incident.
"We express our profound sympathy to the family at this very difficult time.
"We are co-operating fully with Police Scotland and the HSE on their joint investigation to ascertain the cause of the accident."
Carolyn McCall said heightened airport security measures and worries about air travel would understandably lead to a "cooling off" among passengers.
But history showed that passenger growth always resumed despite tragic events, she said.
The comments came as Easyjet posted its fifth straight year of record profits.
After the downing of a Russian aircraft last month, killing all 224 people on board, the UK government suspended services to Sharm el-Sheikh airport pending a security review.
It is a popular tourist destination, although Ms McCall said the route remained a small service in the context of Easyjet's size.
On Tuesday, Russia's FSB security service confirmed that the passenger plane was brought down by a bomb, as traces of explosives had been found in the debris.
Ms McCall told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that by the end of Tuesday, all Easyjet passengers would have been brought back to the UK from Sharm. The airline was limited to two flights a day because of capacity constraints at Sharm airport.
She said that increased airport security following the Russian jet crash, and attacks in Paris on Friday, was inevitable.
"It will take a little longer to get though airports, but I do not think that passengers will mind because it has to be safety first," she said.
Ms McCall said she did not expect any lasting impact on trading, with fewer passengers flying following the attacks. "There's always a cooling off after tragic events," she said. "But it does resume after a period of time, and I think that we will see this here."
Easyjet is the second biggest carrier in France, with 1,000 employees there.
Meanwhile, annual pre-tax profits at the carrier, which has just celebrated its 20th birthday, jumped 18% to £686m, boosted by what the airline said were "favourable economic and consumer trends".
Revenues rose 3.5% to £4.68bn, with passenger numbers up 6% to 68.6 million in the year to end-September.
The figures do not include any possible impact on Easyjet services of last month's Egypt attack.
But Ms McCall said in a statement that the trading outlook for the group as a whole was strong.
"Our outlook for the longer term is positive. We expect demand in our markets to be sustained and for Easyjet to continue to be a winner in its markets. We will see passenger growth of 7% a year."
Easyjet's load factor, a key industry measure of how many seats are filled per flight, rose to 91.5% from 90.6%.
The airline also announced the appointment of its first head of data science, to accelerate the airline's use of artificial intelligence.
By using complicated computer programmes to analyse huge amounts of data on everything from online searches to the food and drink bought on aircraft, Easyjet says it can improve efficiency and revenues.
Richard Emery, who has worked in civil litigation for 20 years, said he would take a group complaint to the ombudsman or the courts.
He believes that a loophole in Santander's security system was exploited by fraudsters.
But Santander said that victims failed to keep a passcode private.
One of these victims was Alex Luke, from London, who had £180,000 stolen from her account.
"I had a call from someone I thought was BT," she told the BBC. "They had all my personal details and they said that they needed to put security on to my computer to prevent me losing everything.
"So they got me to log on to my Santander account and get a security code."
She later discovered that nearly all of her money had gone from her account. Her bank managed to recover £40,000 but Santander refuses to compensate her for the rest of the missing money.
Mr Emery, who runs 4keys International, argued that there was a loophole that allowed fraudsters, posing as BT, to gain access to the money - and others had suffered the same fate.
"If Santander customers create a new account payee, they have to authorise it with a One-Time Passcode system or OTP. But there was a huge loophole - you could amend an existing payee, changing their account and sort code numbers," he said.
"All other banks prevent a change to existing payees' account details. They should now compensate all customers affected. Whilst the customer holds the first key to the door, Santander holds the second key and in these cases they left the door open and the crooks exploited it."
But Santander does not agree.
"We refute Mr Emery's position that there is a loophole," a spokesman said.
"The security for amending a payee and a new payee was the same. If the customers had not given access to their account and shared their individual one-time passcode with a third party, then they would not have lost their money."
However, within three weeks of Mr Emery's objections, which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Money Box, Santander had upgraded its security.
Mr Emery said he was planning to take a group case to the Financial Ombudsman or, if that failed, file a collective civil action against Santander.
Fraudsters are continually changing the way they target bank customers, according to Action Fraud - the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cyber-crime.
Thieves have been stealing large sums of money from victims' bank accounts by intercepting calls, or tricking people into revealing details of texts sent by banks, as in the case of Alex Luke.
Meanwhile, many companies are having their coffers emptied by scam emails, such as community football club Laurel Park FC, in Lower Earley, near Reading in Berkshire, which supports 400 young players in 27 youth teams.
It was conned out of nearly £30,000 when the club's treasurer received what seemed to be a genuine email from the chairman along with invoices from a supplier, which he paid.
But the account details were those of a fraudster and despite pleading with their bank, Barclays, the club has taken a big financial hit and faced closure
Ian Jobson, the club's development officer, said: "Because we requested the payments to be made, Barclays believed we were liable for the loss. The fraudsters got away with it."
Barclays said they had already warned businesses and community projects of rising "CEO fraud".
"This scam is a tragic case of criminal theft by a fraudster impersonating the chairman in an email to an employee within his business. We acted swiftly to recover any funds that remained in Barclays accounts at the time this was reported. We hope that the police urgently investigate this matter and bring the criminal to justice," the bank said.
Geraint Jones, 25, bit Gwynant Jones after approaching him from behind at the Academy bar in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, on 31 October 2015.
Swansea Crown Court heard Jones did not intend to bite the ear off, saying it happened when he was pulled away.
Jones, from Aberystwyth, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm but was cleared of doing it with intent.
He said: "When I approached him, my intention was to bite his ear. It's a horrible thing to do but it was not my intention to bite it off.
"My intention was to bite his ear in order to shock him."
Prosecutor Ian Wright said: "He approached from behind and placed his hands on his shoulder before biting his left ear - ripping the lower section off."
Mr Jones was dressed as Colonel Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya, as part of a "bad taste" pub crawl.
Jurors were told Mr Jones' ear lobe was found on the floor by a barman, but it could not be reattached.
James Hartson, defending, said: "Before this incident, he is not a man who is known for being violent.
"He has described what he did as disgusting and reprehensible, he is not for a moment excusing his behaviour."
The court heard Jones had been in the army but left the forces to take up history and politics studies.
"He has worked in some of the most dangerous and hostile places in the world," added Mr Hartson.
Gwynant Jones, a mobile app designer from Machynlleth, Powys, said: "All I can remember is being at the bar and then suddenly feeling a lot of pain.
"I leaned forward and I think that's when my ear must have ripped off and I saw lots of blood."
Judge Geraint Walters released Jones on bail, telling him to expect jail when he is sentenced in March.
"The custody threshold is well past," he said. "His behaviour that night was quite bizarre, it's a very rare form of violence.
"This young man was completely innocent. He hadn't put a foot out of line or said a word, but he lost a significant part of his ear, which may or may not be reconstructed."
David Strang said the evidence was clear that such sentences did not cut crime and called for a "more creative approach" to community-based options.
Since 2010 the Scottish courts have operated a presumption against prison sentences of three months or less.
The Scottish government has yet to publish its response to a consultation on increasing that to 12 months.
Speaking on the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Strang, who was formerly the chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police, said sending more people to jail to serve shorter sentences would result in reconviction rates spiralling as well as an increase in offending.
He said: "The evidence is very clear that if you want to reduce crime then you don't send people to prison for a short time.
"People who are released from a short sentence of less than 12 months, over half of them are reconvicted within one year.
"So I would have thought that one purpose of the criminal justice system is to prevent future crimes, to reduce reoffending, and that if you send someone to prison then the damage that that does leads to them reoffending more than if you had given them an alternative."
Mr Strang called for a more creative approach to community-based alternatives to prison, including fines and payback orders, which he said were much cheaper and far more effective.
He said that keeping a convict in prison for a year costs between £30,000-40,000 in Scotland, whereas a community payback order costs less than £10,000 a year.
The Scottish courts have a presumption against imposing prison sentences of three months or less unless it can be shown that no other alternative is appropriate.
Mr Strang said he understood that ministers were inclined to back plans to increase the period to 12 months.
He added: "I think there is quite a punitive attitude in Scotland in that somehow people feel that unless someone is sent to prison then they haven't really been dealt with properly for their crime.
"It's really important to get the message over that that's not the case. We should only be imprisoning people who need to be for the sake of either the seriousness of the offence that they've committed or particularly to protect the public from harm."
Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr said: "Short-term prison sentences can play an important role in our justice system, and it would be ludicrous to end them.
"We cannot fetter judges' discretion without full consideration of the consequences and wider policy context.
"There are many offences and circumstances where a custodial sentence of up to 12 months could be an appropriate punishment, and we need to allow judges the choice to hand down such sentences if they deem it necessary."
A Scottish government spokesman said the prison population remained "unacceptably high" and that it was setting out plans to invest in community sentences and electronic monitoring.
He added: "We have consistently stated that the consultation responses on extending the presumption against short prison sentences would inform our decisions and it is only right that we take the time to consider these views.
"We'll continue to discuss how best to take this forward with the relevant stakeholders.
"There will, however, always be some crimes where a custodial sentence is absolutely justified."
RSPB Scotland says it is the latest in a series of incidents around the North Glenbuchat Estate on Strathdon.
But the estate has released video which it believes shows the bird alive and well after contact was lost with it.
The young male Golden Eagle was lost from satellite tracking systems at the start of the month.
Police have been searching the area around the estate for evidence of the eagle or the tracker.
Nothing has been found and an appeal has been made for information about the disappearance.
Numbers of golden eagles in Scotland reached very low numbers in the mid-19th Century, but have been steadily recovering since then.
RSPB Scotland said last year there had been a 15% rise since 2003, when the last survey took place, from 442 to 508 pairs.
There are not thought to be any golden eagles in the UK except in Scotland.
North Glenbuchat Estate director Laura Sorrentino said: "We have been made aware today of statement sent to media outlets by RSPB appealing for information on the whereabouts of a satellite-tagged golden eagle whose transmitter appears to have stopped working.
"RSPB suggests that the bird has died and that no data had been recorded from its transmitter since March 5 or 6 when it was last recorded in the vicinity of our estate.
"The estate head keeper filmed what he firmly believes to be the eagle in question yesterday afternoon at 2.17pm and that film was sent to the wildlife crime officer later yesterday. We will also be contacting RSPB."
She added: "The estate is shocked by the clear implication that the estate may have been involved in the disappearance of this eagle.
"There was an incident six years ago when a dead eagle was found on estate land and at that time the estate issued a very robust statement condemning the poisoning of birds of prey and emphatically denying any involvement.
"There is no evidence that the estate has been involved in any wrongdoing or criminal activity."
RSPB Scotland Head of Investigations Ian Thomson said: "As soon as we became aware of this bird's disappearance, we notified Police Scotland, in line with PAW Scotland (Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime in Scotland) protocols, who concurred that the circumstances were suspicious.
"These tags are very reliable and the sudden cessation of transmissions strongly suggests the bird has died.
"Had the bird succumbed to natural causes, we would expect to continue to receive data and to be able to locate and recover the body of the eagle with ease."
The bird's last recorded position was in Glenbuchat just before nightfall on 5 March.
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association said: "The SGA learned of this case at mid-day, Friday, so know nothing at this stage. Our message is clear, though. If any SGA member is convicted of a wildlife crime, they will be removed from the organisation.
"Our members have been actively involved in the counting of eagles on their ground for several years now and many have played, and continue to play, an active and necessary role in the conservation of the species in Scotland."
The Scottish government has ordered a review of satellite-tagging data following a spate of disappearances.
Overlooking the beach, just over a sandy ridge, is the Irish outpost of the US president-elect's business empire - Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Doonbeg.
The golf course, designed by Greg Norman, and the five-star accommodation attracts well-moneyed guests - and generates valuable tourism revenue for County Clare.
In Doonbeg village, just a two-iron away, people are grateful to Donald Trump.
Many people work at the resort.
"I've met Mr Trump twice," one employee told me proudly.
"I spoke with him for a few minutes. He's a very nice person."
Publican Tommy Comerford said the billionaire has brought benefits.
"For us in Doonbeg who need investment, we think it's very important to have an investor like him," he explained.
"Mr Trump had to spend a lot on restoring the golf course, after severe storm damage in 2014.
"A couple of hundred people are employed there, and they seem to be very happy."
Rather incredibly for such a small village, Doonbeg has connections not just to Donald Trump, but also to the vice president-elect - Mike Pence.
He visited Doonbeg a few years ago, looking for information about his great-grandparents, who were from the area and emigrated to America in the 1850s.
Tommy Comerford said his sister pointed Mr Pence in the direction of a local man who turned out to be related to him.
The bar owner recalled how Mr Pence dropped into his pub: "He came across as a lovely man, and we had a great chat with him."
Across the street from Comerford's Pub is another local institution - Tubridy's Bar and Restaurant.
Tommy Tubridy told me he expects the remarkable links to the top two men in the next White House administration to draw more American visitors.
"Bookings are up and business is up," he said. "And I understand business is looking very good for the golf course in the next 12 months."
It's no surprise that this tiny seaside village on the wild Irish western seaboard is now being nicknamed "Trumptown".
But economists, politicians and businesspeople in the rest of the country are wondering what wider effect Donald Trump's tax and trade policies will have - in particular, how far he will go to try to stop jobs in US companies going outside America itself.
The Republic of Ireland has built its economy by using a low corporation tax rate of 12.5% to attract big American multinationals.
Some of the biggest names in information technology and the pharmaceutical industry are among the 700 US companies that have relocated to the Republic.
They employ around 140,000 people in the country.
According to the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland, which represents US companies, the total value of American investment is just under £250bn.
The vital relationship Ireland has with the US explains why remarks by Stephen Moore, a senior economic advisor to Donald Trump, made major headlines in the Irish media.
Just after the presidential election, Mr Moore told The World At One on BBC Radio 4 that the new administration would cut the US corporation tax rate from 35% to 15-20%.
He went on: "If we do that, you're going to see a flood of companies leaving Ireland and Canada and Germany and France and coming back to the United States."
Mr Moore was more measured in later comments.
The government agency charged with attracting foreign direct investment to Ireland, the Industrial Development Authority, has played down the prospect of US firms leaving.
It has said there are many reasons why American companies come to the country, including access to markets and talent.
But economist Dr Owen O'Brien, from University College Cork, believes the Trump administration's tax plans may cause problems for Ireland.
"I think it will affect more long-term investment rather than short-term," he said.
"The likes of Google and Intel and Boston Scientific and all those companies which are operating in Ireland are very happy with what's going on here - they have trained their graduates, they're very successful firms.
"But I think that once the pressure comes on, companies could think of moving."
Back by the golf course on the Atlantic coast, people talk up Trump.
The Doonbeg dollar may be on the rise - but the wider picture for Ireland is less clear.
After revealing earlier this month that an approach last year was rejected, the supermarket giant has offered the equivalent of 161.3p a share for the retailer.
The offer represents a 63% premium to Home Retail's share price on 4 January.
A deal will depend on the sale of the Homebase DIY chain that Australia's Wesfarmers has agreed to buy for £340m.
Home Retail said that combining the two companies would create "a food and non-food retailer of choice for customers" and optimise use of their combined retail space.
John Rogers, Sainsbury's chief financial offer, said he was confident that shareholders in both Sainsbury's and Home Retail would back the deal.
The £120m of annual savings expected by 2019 was also a "conservative" figure, he added.
Sainsbury's expects to make savings by moving Argos stores into supermarkets as leases expire, as well as removing "duplication and overlap" and selling its own clothing and homeware ranges through Argos.
However, it said making these changes would cost it £140m in the first three years.
Steve Clayton, head of equities research at Hargreaves Lansdown, described the offer as a "bold play" by Sainsbury's.
"It is looking to buy a struggling business when the supermarket itself is fighting strong headwinds," he said.
"The takeover will be a considerable strain on management time when they already have quite a lot on their plate."
Like-for-like sales at Argos fell 2.2% in the 18 weeks to 2 January.
Home Retail shares, which had traded at about 100p before the approach by Sainsbury's, were flat at 152.9p on Tuesday, while Sainsbury's rose 1.8% to 249p.
Sainsbury's had until 17:00 on Tuesday to make an offer for Home Retail.
It now has three weeks under takeover rules to carry out due diligence on the Argos owner, meaning it must make a firm offer by 17:00 on 23 February or walk away.
Under the cash-and-shares deal, Home Retail shareholders would receive 0.321 new Sainsbury's shares and 55 pence in cash for each share.
To reflect the proceeds of the Homebase sale, investors would also get about 25 pence per share and payment of 2.8 pence in lieu of a final dividend.
The chain's shareholders would own about 12% of the combined group if a deal progresses.
Home Retail said it "believes in the prospects for the standalone company", but that the possible offer provides an "attractive opportunity" for shareholders.
Business leaders left the White House manufacturing council after the backlash against how he reacted to the far-right rally last weekend.
The clashes culminated in a woman's death and nearly 20 wounded when a car ploughed into a crowd of anti-fascists.
Mr Trump's reaction has sparked outrage and generated global headlines.
His announcement on Twitter came as the heads of 3M, Campbell Soup, Johnson & Johnson and United Technologies announced their resignations on Wednesday.
Mr Trump said: "Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both."
Before Mr Trump's announcement, the Strategy and Policy Forum announced it was a joint decision to disband the council.
Businesses have been under pressure to distance themselves from Mr Trump over his handling of the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
On Monday, Mr Trump belatedly condemned the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that rallied in a small Virginia town on Sunday.
But in a rancorous news conference on Tuesday he backtracked and again blamed left-wing counter-protesters for the violence too.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, a member of the Strategy and Policy Forum, released a separate statement on Wednesday saying he strongly disagreed with Mr Trump's recent statements, adding that "fanning divisiveness is not the answer".
"Constructive economic and regulatory policies are not enough and will not matter if we do not address the divisions in our country. It is a leader's role, in business or government, to bring people together, not tear them apart," he said.
Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup Co said she could not continue to participate in the advisory panel after Mr Trump's comments. Activists had called on Campbell Soup, among other firms, to take action.
Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
The calculus for business leaders working with the Trump administration has changed quickly.
After the Charlottesville violence, Ken Frazier of Merck abandoned the president's manufacturing council and quickly drew the president's Twitter ire.
At that point there was some media speculation - through unnamed "corporate leaders" - that the wise move would be to wait out the storm rather than pick a fight with the president.
Companies like Boeing and General Motors had tangled with the president in the past, and they (and their stock prices) generally ended up the worse for it.
This time was different. As more corporate chiefs headed to the exit, the riskier move - from a business as well as political perspective - became staying put. The president, despite further tweets and verbal swipes, was unable to staunch the bleeding. His rhetorical gymnastics on the Charlottesville situation only made matters worse.
In the corporate world, there's always talk of "leading indicators" - tell-tale signs that help predict what's to come.
Is the collapse of the Trump regime's corporate entente a sign his fortunes are in a tailspin? Or is the man who ascended to the presidency without their help perfectly capable of staying there now that they've abandoned him?
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The president was under pressure to explicitly condemn white supremacists who were behind Saturday's far-right rally, where violent clashes left a woman dead and nearly 20 people injured.
The rally, supported by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, was in protest of the removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
But Mr Trump reversed course on Tuesday and instead appeared to defend the rally's organisers.
He condemned the driver of the car who rammed into a crowd of counter protesters and killed a woman, but said those who had marched in defence of the statue had included "many fine people".
Mr Trump's remarks were welcomed by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
At a memorial service in Charlottesville for Heather Heyer, who was killed in the weekend clashes, her mother delivered a powerful message.
"They killed my child to shut her up. Well guess what, you just magnified her," she said before the crowd erupted into a standing ovation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has faced accusations of racism in the past, said the government may press hate crime charges against the man accused of driving his car and killing Ms Heyer.
Speaking in Miami about undocumented immigration, he said: "In no way can we accept or apologise for racism, bigotry, hatred, violence, and those kind of things that too often arise in our county".
Vice-President Mike Pence, who has been on a diplomatic tour of South America, said he was cutting his trip short to return to the US after a visit to Panama. He told reporters travelling with him that he stands by Mr Trump's words.
Former CIA director John Brennan said in a letter to CNN that Mr Trump's words are "despicable", "dangerous" and "a national disgrace".
He added that "we will not allow the few to divide the many".
Two Republican ex-presidents also weighed in. In remarks implicitly critical of President Trump, George HW Bush and son George W Bush called on the US to "reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms".
Their joint statement adds to a growing chorus of Republicans condemning Mr Trump's opinions on race.
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That's about as far as it's safe for an obvious foreigner to go.
Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is keeping a low profile and ruling Mosul, Iraq's second city, with a relatively light hand at the moment. It is sharing control with an array of other rebel forces - dissident Sunni tribes, disgruntled former army officers, adherents of Saddam Hussein's old Baath Party, and others.
But Isis is Isis, and it has a proven track record of abducting foreigners - most recently, 49 Turkish citizens from the consulate in Mosul, who are the focus of intense negotiations to obtain their freedom.
But for those of Mosul's two million or so inhabitants who didn't flee as the rebels moved in - and for the few who have come back since - life has ironically in some ways improved, at least for the moment.
Residents say the many checkpoints, blast-walls and barriers which hampered movement round the city when government forces were there, have been taken down, making moving around much easier.
Also gone are the frequent bomb attacks and shootings - not surprising perhaps, since the rebels behind them are now in charge.
The flow of traffic going in and out of the city on the main road indicated that, superficially at least, things are back to normal.
More vehicles seemed to be heading in to Mosul than coming out, and those that were coming out certainly weren't crammed with desperate refugees.
"We're just off for a family visit," said one man at the wheel of a car full of smiling women and children.
"Apart from services, things are fine. It's safe. But people are worried, they don't know what will become of Mosul," he added.
"They're frightened that the army may try to fight its way back in. We're afraid of shelling, and bombardment from the air."
Most of those coming out of the city complained about severe shortages of water, electricity and petrol. Supplies of the latter have shot up to seven or eight times the price in nearby Iraqi Kurdistan.
Women said they were not being obliged to wear the veil, although many were doing so.
All said that Isis was not bothering them.
But Isis militants are reported to have destroyed some of the symbols of the city's rich cultural heritage.
Statues to the 19th-Century composer and musician Othman al-Mosuli and the Abbasid-era poet Abu Tammam are said to have been smashed, and the tomb of Ibn al-Athir, a 12th-Century historian who travelled with Saladin, has been razed.
The tomb of the prophet Noah has apparently survived so far, despite government predictions that it would be destroyed.
Has the leopard changed its spots, or is Isis just biding its time, deferring for the moment to other rebel groups it may end up clashing with, and pragmatically courting public support to make it more difficult for it to be isolated and uprooted?
"Unlike the old al-Qaeda in Iraq under [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi, who went after the local population, these guys are posing as the protectors of the people against a tyrannical Shia regime in Baghdad," said a senior Kurdish politician.
"They're handling it much better, and that makes them more dangerous. It will be harder to turn the tribes against them."
When the provincial capital of Raqqa in Syria fell to Isis and other rebel groups last year, militant rule was at first relatively moderate.
But later, Isis fought with the other factions and drove them out, including the official al-Qaeda franchise, the Nusra Front.
Isis then imposed its own extremely harsh brand of Islamic rule, banning music, imposing strict dress code on women, implementing severe punishments such as beheadings and amputations, and destroying churches and monuments of any kind, which it regards as idolatry.
No wonder that beneath the surface, many people in Mosul are anxious about their future.
The current calm may not last for long. And it's hard to envisage almost any future scenario that does not involve further turmoil.
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.
Morecambe frontman Rhys Turner struck his first goal since his summer switch from Oldham as the Shrimpers led inside eight minutes at Gresty Road.
Crewe were caught out by a long ball down the middle, allowing Turner to thunder a 20-yard finish past Ben Garratt.
But Ryan Lowe set up a 19th-minute equaliser when Chris Dagnall connected with the Crewe captain's cross from the by-line, and Kiwomya was on hand to finish high into the net after Barry Roche had pushed the initial effort out.
Crewe were ahead three minutes before the break thanks to another excellent delivery from out wide, this time from the rampaging Ollie Turton, Jones diverting the ball into the far corner.
Peter Murphy should have levelled in the 59th minute, but the midfielder took too much time and placed his shot straight at Garratt.
Crewe had the edge in the attacking stakes to earn only their second win in 14 league and cup outings.
The margin of success could have been greater when Lowe picked out substitute Callum Saunders at the far post, only for the youngster to lift his finish over.
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Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 2, Morecambe 1.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 2, Morecambe 1.
Attempt missed. James Jennings (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Ryan Wintle replaces George Cooper.
Attempt missed. Ryan Edwards (Morecambe) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
James Jennings (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Wakefield (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Liam Wakefield (Morecambe).
Foul by Danny Hollands (Crewe Alexandra).
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tom Lowery (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Callum Saunders (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Saunders replaces Chris Dagnall.
Foul by Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra).
Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lee Molyneux (Morecambe).
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Molyneux (Morecambe).
Substitution, Morecambe. Paul Mullin replaces Rhys Turner.
Attempt blocked. Rhys Turner (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Tom Lowery replaces Alex Kiwomya.
Perry Ng (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cole Stockton (Morecambe).
Ryan Edwards (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).
Substitution, Morecambe. Kevin Ellison replaces Aaron Wildig.
Substitution, Morecambe. Lee Molyneux replaces Luke Conlan.
Attempt missed. Rhys Turner (Morecambe) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by James Jennings.
Attempt saved. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Peter Murphy (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Cole Stockton (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Nearly a decade on, Britain still has only that same 68-mile (109km) stretch of track, but China has built itself the longest high-speed network in the world.
At more than 12,000km (7,450 miles) in total, it is well over double the length of the European and Japanese networks combined.
So if you want to get a sense of what the future of rail travel might look like, China would seem to be the place to come.
As it stands, train technology doesn't seem to have changed much for decades.
The UK may have just received its first Hitachi-made Super Express high-speed train capable of running at up to 140mph (225km/h), but this is hardly a quantum leap forward.
The much-loved InterCity 125 - as its name suggests - could do 125mph back in the 1970s. And France's TGV and Spain's AVE travel at more than 190mph.
So when will we see truly superfast trains bulleting through the countryside, capable of speeds of several hundred miles per hour?
A lot of hopes are being pinned on "evacuated tube transport" (ETT) technology, inside China and elsewhere.
Friction is the enemy of speed, and air friction increases the faster we go. This means the current upper limit for conventional high-speed trains is about 250mph.
So the theory is that by running trains through vacuum tubes, and raising them off the tracks using existing maglev [magnetic levitation] technology, drag could be reduced to near zero.
These ETT trains could potentially travel at over 1,000mph.
The Rand Corporation's Robert Salter proposed an underground version of such a transit system back in 1972. But it is only now that an overground version, based on the Hyperloop concept proposed by Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, will be trialled in California next year.
China is already testing the technology - albeit on a small scale.
Dr Deng Zigang, from the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory at China's Southwest Jiaotong University, has built just such a system: a 6m radius vacuum train tunnel, and he has begun testing.
But these are early days. Reports suggest Dr Deng's small train has so far only reached speeds of 15.5mph (25km/h), and there are many who doubt whether such technology will ever become a reality.
"Viable public transport needs a lot more than experiments," says Prof Sun Zhang, a railway expert from Shanghai's Tongji University.
"It needs to be achievable in construction, they have to be able to control the risk, and they have to have concern about the cost.
"So my personal view," he adds, "is that, at this stage at least, this is just a theory."
Jeremy Acklam, transport expert at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, agrees that a combination of maglev and vacuum technologies would be "very much more expensive" than traditional high-speed rail. "We need to ask ourselves how much extra speed is worth?" he says.
Maglev tech is expensive because the repelling magnets and copper coils use a lot of electricity, and the track infrastructure is far more complex than conventional steel rails.
"Achieving a vacuum across a long distance is a significant engineering challenge," says Mr Acklam.
Then there are the safety issues.
How would passengers be evacuated if the train broke down, and how would the emergency services gain access?
There's also the obvious point that many people might not like travelling in a tube with no windows to look through.
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While TV screens and video projections could make the experience less claustrophobic, it would still take some getting used to.
Despite such drawbacks, Mr Acklam still believes that the hyperloop concept is one "whose time has come".
Meanwhile, Japan is powering ahead with maglev technology.
In October last year it approved plans to build what will be the world's fastest train line, capable of whisking passengers between Tokyo and Nagoya at more than 310mph (500km/h).
If the line is eventually built, for a cost of a little over $50bn (£34bn), it will be the world's first inter-city maglev line, shaving a whole hour off the current journey time of 1 hour 40 minutes.
China, of course, does have its own maglev line in Shanghai, carrying passengers from the international airport in Pudong into the city.
But it is often held up, not as a shining example of the benefits of high-speed rail, but of the pitfalls of pursuing big infrastructure projects for their own sake.
The line does indeed whoosh passengers into the city at breathtaking speed, but not to the city centre, meaning travellers then have to find other ways to complete their journeys.
And for many, now that the metro has been extended all the way to the airport, this offers a regular, reliable and cheap alternative.
While we're waiting for these superfast trains to arrive, we'll have to make do with more conventional high-speed trains.
China's lead in the technology means it has become the partner of choice in more than a dozen countries. And it is in talks with many more.
No other country has seen such a rapid expansion of mass transportation.
And things look set to stay that way.
China is planning to double the size of its network again within the next five years or so and has recently confirmed plans to build a $242bn high-speed rail link to Moscow.
The benefit of all of this railway construction, at least in the short term, has been obvious in the form of a huge investment-driven boost for the economy.
And in such a vast country, reducing journey times has been good for business.
The train journey from Beijing to Guangzhou - now the world's longest unbroken high-speed rail journey at 2,298km - now takes eight hours rather than 20, and costs just over $100.
The main question for China is whether such a massive expansion is commercially sustainable.
"We're still seeing large growth in air and rail travel around the world," says Mr Acklam. "There doesn't seem to be a reduction in the need to travel in the digital era.
"Business always demands more speed."
The RAF, also called the Baader-Meinhof gang, killed more than 30 people in an anti-capitalist terror campaign in the 1970s and 80s.
In 1998 an RAF declaration said the "urban guerrilla project" had ended.
Shots were fired at an armoured security van near Bremen last June, but the militants could not open its doors.
The three fled the scene - a supermarket car park in Gross Mackenstedt - in a Ford Focus, having failed to grab the cash that was inside the van. The two security men inside were unhurt, German broadcaster NDR said.
Police have only now identified the robbers' DNA from fingerprints, naming the suspects as ex-RAF militants Ernst-Volker Staub, 58, Daniela Klette, aged 57, and Burkhard Garweg, whose age is unknown.
Experts on the RAF believe the militants may be running out of money as they get older, and not that they are staging robberies in order to finance a new urban guerrilla campaign.
Born from the radical student movement of the late 1960s, the RAF comprised mainly middle-class youngsters who saw themselves as fighting the West German capitalist establishment.
At the peak of the group's popularity, around a quarter of young West Germans expressed some sympathy for the militants.
Their critics denounced them as murderous nihilists - desperate for a cause but with no real political goals.
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According to investigators, the militants drove up to the security van in a VW van, which they then reversed into a wall, blocking the target vehicle.
The three wore masks and camouflage gear. Video footage from surveillance cameras showed them armed with two Kalashnikov assault rifles and a grenade launcher.
At least three shots were fired - a bullet burst one of the van's tyres, another shattered the windscreen and a third was found embedded in the van's armour.
The Ford Focus getaway car was found abandoned a week later in woodland near Gross Ippener - about nine minutes' journey from the crime scene.
NDR reports that DNA from Klette and Staub was also found after a similar armed robbery in Duisburg, in the Ruhr region of western Germany, in 1999.
The RAF had links with radical Arab militants in the Middle East and targeted German bankers, businessmen, judges and US servicemen.
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North Yorkshire Police said the new search might uncover a "significant" lead in their investigation. Specialist officers and a police dog were used.
The detective leading the search said he thought some people in the community had lied to his officers.
Miss Lawrence disappeared from her house on Heworth Road in 2009.
The new line of inquiry comes ahead of her 41st birthday, on Friday.
Officers have also carried out house-to-house inquiries in the area and are contacting former residents.
Miss Lawrence, who worked at the University of York, had been due to start a shift at 06:00 on 19 March but did not arrive.
Searches of the area were made but she was not found and police have since treated her disappearance as murder.
Det Sup Dai Malyn said: "My team and myself are determined if anyone is lying to us, with the right legal reasons considered, we will be arresting people who continue to lie.
"I am convinced people have information they are sat on or they have lied to us previously."
Miss Lawrence's father, Peter, said he was appalled. "If the police believe they have been lied to, they must have reason to say so.
"To lie in these circumstances is just dreadful."
Referring to the re-examination of the alleyway, Det Sup Malyn said: "I am interested in this alleyway and whether it was significant in Claudia's disappearance.
"We are looking at it with fresh eyes and I do feel from judgement and experience it is worth revisiting these scenes.
"We still don't know if Claudia left for work... or whether something happened overnight within her house.
"If the latter is the case, the person or persons responsible, in my view, would have used the rear alleyway as the front door leads onto a busy main road. This is why this specific piece of information needs to be fully investigated."
Det Sup Malyn said searching Miss Lawrence's home again in 2013 using fresh forensic techniques had produced new information.
"I am confident doing this type of work does lead to people coming forward with fresh information."
CCTV recording equipment in the neighbourhood would also be checked again.
"I firmly believe keeping the focus on and seeking the public's help we will get that breakthrough. I am determined and we won't give in until we get an answer," said Det Supt Malyn.
Peter Lawrence said he said he hoped today's search would jog someone's memory or "someone's conscience".
"We all know someone out there knows what happened to Claudia and the family just need to know. It is wearing us down."
Miss Lawrence's mother, Joan, said: "It's a nightmare every single day.
"All the time you look out of the window in the morning and you wonder where she is."
A review of the case in October 2013 led to two arrests but no-one has been charged.
A 60-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder last May and was later released from bail.
A 47-year-old man was held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice last July and remains on bail while inquiries continue. | Detectives searching for missing chef Claudia Lawrence have re-examined an alleyway behind her home in York for fresh clues. | 31,611,678 | 694 | 30 | false |
The "exceptionally diverse" shortlist - whittled down from more than 60 entries - includes a gothic mystery and a teenage romance.
The award recognises both author and editor of a debut novel for children aged seven and over.
The winning author will receive a cheque for £1,000 at a ceremony in London on 10 July.
The shortlist includes Winter Damage by Natasha Carthew (edited by Rebecca McNally), CJ Flood's Infinite Sky (Venetia Gosling) and Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones (Mara Bergman).
Other contenders include Julie Mayhew's Red Ink (Emily Thomas), Alex the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Montgomery Ross (Rebecca Lee & Susila Baybars), Fletcher Moss' The Poison Boy (Imogen Cooper and Barry Cunningham) and Geek Girl by Holly Smale (Lizzie Clifford).
The winner will be decided by a judging panel led by Julia Eccleshare, children's books editor of The Guardian.
"This year's shortlist is exceptionally diverse," said Eccleshare.
"Here are seven very different books. But, not only are they all very well written, they all feel exceptionally fresh and original: these are stories we haven't read before, and that is very exciting."
Judges include Wendy Cooling, Tamara Macfarlane, author and owner of Tales on Moon Lane bookshop, former librarian Alec Williams, and last year's winning author Dave Shelton.
Shelton won for his enigmatic tale A Boy and A Bear in a Boat. Previous winners include 2012's Annabel Pitcher for My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece and 2001's Marcus Sedgwick, for Floodland.
The award is unique in honouring the editor of the winning title, highlighting their role in bringing new work to the fore.
The award was set up in memory of the prize-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase - who both died of cancer in 1999. | Seven books by new children's authors have been shortlisted for the annual Branford Boase Award. | 27,234,367 | 468 | 22 | false |
They could also be told where to live under plans agreed after months of disagreement on how to handle more than one million migrant arrivals last year.
Chancellor Merkel said the deal reached at late-night talks held "an offer" and "duties for everyone".
The integration legislation would be a first for post-war Germany.
Under the deal, new arrivals would be given subsidised courses to help them integrate into German life, with language courses and job training.
There are also plans to remove barriers to the labour market and create 100,000 low-paid jobs for asylum seekers.
One such scheme was launched this week by the University of Potsdam, just outside Berlin. It is holding courses helping refugees who are trained teachers make the transition to teaching in German schools.
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The deal came after several hours of talks between Mrs Merkel's CDU/CSU conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD).
Mrs Merkel said Germany faced two challenges: to control the flow of refugees into Europe with the help of other European countries, and to register and integrate those who have already arrived.
"We will have a German law on integration - this is the first time in post-war Germany that this has happened," she said. "It is an important, qualitative step."
Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel of the SPD called it a "historic step" towards acknowledging the "modernisation and opening of our society".
Mrs Merkel has faced huge criticism - from within her coalition as well as among the German public - for allowing more than a million migrants to enter Germany in 2015.
But migrant numbers have slumped in recent weeks as Balkan states began tightening their borders, and an EU deal with Turkey aimed at easing the mass movement of people into Europe came into force.
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. | Migrants arriving in Germany will be required to learn the language under a new integration law proposed by the ruling coalition. | 36,048,397 | 458 | 27 | false |
A series of tweets about fake weather conditions in Middle Eastern countries began appearing on Thursday afternoon.
The accounts are the latest in a series of large corporate Twitter feeds to have been breached.
The BBC said that it now has control of all three accounts and all inappropriate content has been deleted.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "We apologise to our audiences that this unacceptable material appeared under the BBC's name."
The attacks began in the early afternoon on Thursday. At the same time, BBC staff were alerted to a phishing email that had been sent to some BBC email accounts. It is not yet clear if the two are related.
The email contained a link that if clicked on could expose password details.
The BBC weather Twitter feed, which has 60,000 followers, was among those affected.
Alongside the standard tweets from the weather feed such as "'last night was chilly" some more bizarre comments began emerging.
They included: "Saudi weather station down due to head-on collision with camel."
Another read: "Chaotic weather forecast for Lebanon as the government decides to distance itself from the Milky Way."
The group claiming responsibility has previously spread messages in support of Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad.
The BBC's Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds were also affected.
Faris Couri, BBC Arabic's editor-in-chief said in a statement: "Today at around 11.00GMT, BBC Arabic's twitter account @BBCArabicOnline was hacked. Since then, several pro-Assad news tweets were published by the account.
"We strongly condemn such action and apologise to our audiences," he said.
The attacks on the BBC are the latest in a series of hacks on high-profile Twitter accounts.
Last month Burger King and Chrysler saw their Twitter feeds hijacked while a quarter of a million Twitter users had their passwords stolen.
"The BBC is an obvious place to attack as it a trusted brand and so anyone who wishes to broadcast a message can reach a audience that are likely to pay attention, certainly initially," said Prof Alan Woodward from the department of computing at the University of Surrey.
"The most likely source of the hack is via social engineering - someone managing to elicit the password by fooling the user who keeps the password," he added.
Increasingly experts are now calling for Twitter to step up security and offer two-factor authentication, essentially a disposable, single-use password for its users.
Writing about the hack on his blog, security consultant Graham Cluley said it was unclear how the password had been cracked.
"The good news is that the hack doesn't appear to have been done with the intention of spreading malicious links or scams. Instead, it appears that the Syrian Electronic Army are trying to spread political messages about Syria instead," he said.
"You should always use hard-to-guess, hard-to-crack, unique passwords for your online accounts that you are not using anywhere else on the web." | Several BBC Twitter accounts, including its weather, Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds were hijacked by a group calling itself Syrian Electronic Army earlier. | 21,879,230 | 657 | 33 | false |
President Ma Ying-jeou demanded Japan "return justice and dignity to them".
The call came a day after Japan and South Korea reached a landmark deal on the issue of "comfort women".
Estimates suggest up to 200,000 women were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WW2. Many were Korean - but others came from China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.
Taiwan's government says it wants immediate negotiations with Japan on the issue.
"We hope the Japanese government can do better and take better care of the comfort women's welfare and dignity. Our stance has not changed," President Ma told reporters.
China's foreign ministry said Japan must "accurately face up to its history of aggression".
"As for whether Japan can do it, if its words and actions are consistent from start to finish, we will wait and see," spokesman Lu Kang said, Reuters reports.
A commentary in the state-run Global Times said families of Chinese "comfort women" wanted a similar apology from Japan after the deal with South Korean victims.
"I am very angry and upset, so are many other relatives. If Japan apologises to the victims in South Korea, why don't they apologise to Chinese victims?" asked Zhou Guiying, whose late mother, Guo Xicui, was used as a sex slave.
Just 23 "comfort women" remained alive in China as of August 2014, the paper reported. Only four are thought to remain in Taiwan.
The head of a group of Filipino victims of sexual abuse by Japanese soldiers during WW2 welcomed the deal with South Korea.
But Rechilda Extremadura told Kyodo News that former "comfort women" in her country should be compensated too.
"The Philippine government has completely neglected the issue of Japanese wartime sex slaves. That is why justice remains elusive for these aging victims," she said.
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Japan has repeatedly apologised or acknowledged its responsibility for wartime sex slaves, most notably in a 1993 statement by the then-chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono.
It had also resisted giving greater compensation, arguing that the dispute was settled in 1965 when diplomatic ties were normalised between the two countries and more than $800m in economic aid and loans was given to South Korea.
A private fund was also set up in 1995 for the South Korean victims and lasted for a decade, but money came from donations and not from the Japanese government. | Japan must apologise and compensate Taiwanese women used as wartime sex slaves, the island's government says. | 35,193,432 | 551 | 33 | false |
His assistants will be Alan Mulvanny and Douglas Ross, with Bobby Madden the fourth official.
There will also be two goal-line officials in place with Kevin Clancy and Don Robertson fulfilling these roles.
In the other semi-final, a day before, John Beaton will take charge of Hibernian's clash with Dundee United.
Beaton will be assisted by Graham Chambers and Stuart Stevenson while Euan Anderson is the fourth official. Andrew Dallas and Alan Muir will be the goal-line officials. | Craig Thomson will referee the Scottish Cup semi-final between Rangers and Celtic on Sunday, April 17. | 35,974,857 | 113 | 23 | false |
United won the League Cup, the Europa League and finished sixth in the league in Mourinho's first season in charge.
Asked if he was targeting the domestic title this season, he told BBC Sport: "We are better prepared for that."
United have signed Romelu Lukaku and Victor Lindelof so far this summer.
"This season is going to be more difficult but I think we have also better conditions to fight for the Premier League," Mourinho told BBC Sport.
"I think this season we are a little bit better equipped. We are against fantastic teams, against amazing investments.
"But I believe in our group, in our spirit, in our empathy, in our togetherness. I trust my boys and we are going to try."
As Europa League holders, United qualified directly for the Champions League group stage.
"We went to the Europa League as one of the top teams, we go to the Champions League and we are not one of the top teams," Mourinho added.
"We have to better, much better, for that objective. The base of everything is to find what I call a happy dressing room."
United sold record goalscorer and club captain Wayne Rooney to Everton earlier this month - and Mourinho says other players must now step up.
"Wayne was a very positive influence," he said. "We cannot say we are going to improve the group because Wayne left. No way. Or the other way around.
"He was such an important guy and good guy for us. I just think it is a new period without that face, without that leader.
"And now it is time for other people to come up."
Midfielder Michael Carrick, 35, has succeeded Rooney as club captain.
Mourinho said: "Knowing that probably it is Michael Carrick's last year, the people that are behind him, they have to prepare themselves for that."
So can that new leader be 24-year-old France midfielder Paul Pogba?
"I would say he is the leader of the young guys," said Mourinho. "He is probably the oldest of the young guys.
"He has big experience at such a young age, at the same time he's still the kid that come from the academy, the way he is in the club, the way he is in the group, in the training ground.
"He is still that kid from the academy but with his experience, with his status and with his quality on the pitch, where he is also a key player for us, I think Paul has conditions to be in a couple of years such an important guy in the club."
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United have spent £106m this summer to sign Everton striker Lukaku (£75m) and Benfica central defender Lindelof (£31m).
Manchester City took their spending beyond the £200m mark by signing Monaco left-back Benjamin Mendy on Monday, while Chelsea have also spent more than £100m.
Mourinho says the fees being spent are "amazing".
"This season we spent a lot of money on a striker. If we don't do that, we have no striker," he said.
"It is obvious that nowadays, especially for the strikers, the amount of money is amazing.
"Next season we are not going to spend a lot of money on a striker. This season we had to do it. Investment is overall and it is every team."
It is 13 years since Mourinho won the Champions League for the first time while managing Porto - and he says he is "ready for 13 more".
"When time flies it is because you enjoy that time. When time looks very slow it is because you are not enjoying," said the former Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid boss.
"Thirteen years was like a finger click.
"I would like the next manager to arrive and to find a much, much, much better club and team than the one I found at every level.
"I found an amazing club with an amazing history but not one ready for me to win. I want the next one to win too."
West Ham spent £16m on Monday to sign former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez from Bayer Leverkusen.
Mourinho said: "Every team has fantastic players. When I look to West Ham, just as an example, Chicharito, could he be a Man Utd striker? Of course he could.
"Yes, still. And he is playing for West Ham, which is not normally a candidate for the title. Every club is getting good players."
United's Premier League campaign begins at home to the Hammers on Sunday, 13 August.
The Scarlets are set to sign the Wales full-back on a National Dual Contract (NDC) with the WRU, after Halfpenny left Toulon in the summer.
Davies wants Halfpenny, 28, back in Wales after three seasons in France.
"Talks are ongoing," Davies confirmed to BBC Wales News' Welsh language Newyddion 9 programme.
"I think the Union and the regions are eager to ensure that the best Welsh players play in Wales.
"Those discussions are ongoing but there is no development that can be announced as yet."
Davies refused to be drawn on which of the four regions Halfpenny would be joining if he agreed to return to Wales.
"We're looking forward to bring him back to play his rugby in Wales so that he's considered as one of the game's heroes and that the kids and the next generation can see one of our best players play in Wales," Davies said.
Halfpenny has spent three seasons in Toulon after joining from Cardiff Blues but is set to link up with the Scarlets rather than his former region.
The WRU would pay 60% of his contract as part of the NDC, with the Scarlets contributing the other 40%.
"The regions are always looking to retain, first of all, and then repatriate our leading players to play rugby in Wales," added Davies.
"It's important for the young generation to see their star players being readily available for them to watch most weekends."
Scarlets general manager Jon Daniels remained coy on whether Halfpenny was heading to Llanelli.
"We are preparing for next season with the squad that we have got," said Daniels.
"If there is anything on Leigh Halfpenny in the near future, I am sure the Welsh Rugby Union will be making that statement when they are ready to do so. Until then we are getting on with our preparations.
"We have a squad here who has been working hard for a good couple of weeks and we are looking forward to the challenge."
The artwork, titled DHEAD, was donated for the fundraising ARTAID 98 exhibition in the city in 1998.
Bowie died on 10 January this year after a private 18-month battle with liver cancer.
His portrait is going on sale at Lyon & Turnbull's contemporary paintings sale next week and is valued at between £3,000 and £5,000.
A one-time art school student, Bowie's paintings focus on abstract head studies influenced by the bizarreness and esotericism of 1930s era German Expressionist art.
Charlotte Riordan, picture specialist at Lyon & Turnbull, said: "Best known of course as a singer/songwriter, Bowie's entire career was spent actively blurring the lines between the art forms of music, performance and design; the visual playing as big a part as the aural."
The reasons are diminishing support from the Pakistani government, a realisation that the "Kashmir jihad" is going nowhere and a promise of amnesty by the Indian government.
"It's no use staying on here," says former militant Mohammad Ahsan who lives in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
He is now preparing to leave for his home in Srinagar valley on the Indian side.
"The jihad is over, and poverty is catching on to us; it's better to live on your own land and around your own people than in virtual exile where one day you'll be forced to beg for a living," says Mr Ashan.
He has managed to put together 130,000 Pakistani rupees ($1,500; £960) to buy air tickets to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, for himself, his wife and two children. From there he will cross into India to reach Srinagar.
Militant circles say there are about 3,000 to 4,000 former Kashmiri fighters stranded in and around Muzaffarabad.
Fighters without a cause
Anti-militant rallies in Pakistan
Many want to return home, but some do not have the means to pay for the journey.
India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir - they have fought two wars over the territory.
A Line of Control (LoC) divides a narrow strip of Pakistan-administered Kashmir from the bulk of the region, which is held by India.
Beginning in 1988, thousands of Kashmiri youths from the Indian side crossed over the LoC into Pakistan to train in guerrilla warfare, arm themselves and then go back to fight Indian forces in their homeland.
They kept Kashmir on the boil for a decade during the 1990s, but were increasingly frustrated when Pakistani groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Al-Badr and Harkatul Mujahideen started to gain ascendancy in the "Kashmir jihad".
These groups brought with them greater resources to eclipse local groups, and professed foreign religious ideologies that were less tolerant of local sensibilities.
By the mid-2000s, after tens of thousands of Kashmiris had been killed in the uprising without shaking Indian rule, the futility of the militant-driven movement was becoming obvious and there was increased international pressure on Pakistan to withdraw support to these groups.
The gradual winding down of the movement has left the bulk of the native Kashmiri fighters in a state of suspended animation.
Those who could raise funds for a journey back home decided to test an earlier offer of amnesty by the Indian government.
Others have simply been sulking as return routes across the LoC - which would be a much cheaper option - are still closed to them.
During 2011, roughly 100 former militants left Pakistan along with their families and returned to their native villages on the Indian side.
Their fate was closely watched by fighters still stranded in Pakistan.
"Nothing bad happened to them," says Rafiq Ahmed, another former fighter in Muzaffarabad who has been in touch with some of the returnees.
"They were held by the Indian police for debriefing for a few days, and were then released. They are now living normal lives."
Thus emboldened, more than 500 fighters have returned to their native homes on the Indian side during the first five months of 2012, says Ghulam Mohammad, a former insurgent who is close to the people involved with the repatriation issues of Kashmiri militants.
"Most of them were married and they have also taken along their families - some 1,000 to 1,500 people in all," he says.
Mr Mohammad says that between 10 and 15 former fighters are leaving Pakistan every week, along with their families.
They fly to Kathmandu on a Pakistani passport. From there they cross into India and reach Kashmir, where the returning men report to the local police to confirm their arrival.
"The Kathmandu route has two advantages; it is familiar to former militants and their 'handlers' who used it in the past to smuggle militants into India, and it is away from the public glare and therefore suitable to keep this exodus under wraps," he says.
The insurgents' departure comes amid reports of drastic cuts in the money which militant circles say the Pakistani security establishment used to pay them for their activities.
According to these circles, the practice of disbursing funds to various groups for operations inside Indian-administered Kashmir was stopped by the military government of former president Pervez Musharraf in 2006.
In recent months, they say, Pakistan has halved the funds which it still pays to these groups to meet their establishment expenses - such as office rent, stationery, transport, fuel or food.
Militant sources say that these funds can barely support small groups of core activists within each of roughly a dozen Kashmiri militant organisations that still run offices in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan denies giving the insurgents any support other than moral and diplomatic backing for their movement.
Although many former militants say those who have gone back in recent months have benefited from the Indian amnesty, some who have already returned to the Indian side told the BBC they have been disappointed by the lack of opportunities in their native land and are finding it difficult to rebuild their lives.
He has promised to "fight" the NFL over a "manufactured" controversy and the NFL Players' Association wants a federal court to decide by 4 September.
The Patriots are alleged to have deflated balls to give themselves an advantage in an AFC Championship game.
An NFL investigation found Brady, 37, damaged the sport's "integrity" with his role in the 'deflate-gate' saga.
On Wednesday, lawyers for the NFLPA, on behalf of Brady, asked a judge to either rule on the case, or put an injunction on the ban so that Brady can practice before the season opener on 10 September.
The quarterback says neither he or the Patriots did anything wrong.
The Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 to win the AFC Championship and reach the Super Bowl.
But it was later found that many of the balls used in the game were underweight and had been deliberately let down to make them easier to throw and catch, suiting New England's game.
Brady was subsequently handed a four-match ban.
The NFL upheld that punishment on Tuesday and claimed that Brady had ordered the destruction of his mobile phone during the investigation in a bid to cover up his actions.
But responding on his Facebook page on Wednesday, Brady refuted the charge and wrote: "To suggest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong."
Considered one of the best quarterbacks ever, he added: "There is no 'smoking gun' and this controversy is manufactured to distract from the fact they have zero evidence of wrongdoing.
"I will not allow my unfair discipline to become a precedent for other NFL players without a fight."
The Patriots have also criticised the sanction, while the NFL Players' Association it called an "outrageous decision".
The former Pop Idol winner said he left with "joy in my heart that I have been able to take part in one of the most loved shows on British television".
The 37-year-old praised his professional partner, Karen Clifton, saying that the partnership with her had been "the most wonderful thing".
The BBC said the show "fully respects" his decision and wishes him well.
In a statement, Young said: "To be a part of Strictly has been a long-time ambition of mine.
"As a performer, a viewer, and a fan of the show, to dance as a contestant was an experience I always hoped for.
"I have made some great friends, and am in awe of their performances week in, week out.
"I have found a creative partnership with Karen that has been the most wonderful thing to experience."
Young said he would be "eternally grateful" to his dancing partner for "her direction, talent and guiding me through three wonderful dances that I will be able to show my grandkids in years to come."
He went on: "Unfortunately, I am leaving the show for personal reasons. I leave with joy in my heart that I have been able to take part in one of the most loved shows on British television."
The singer did not elaborate further on why he was leaving the show.
Clifton said Young had been fun to work with.
Writing on Twitter, she said: "I'm so sad that Will has decided to quit the show and I know it wasn't an easy decision for him.
"It was great dancing with him, he was such fun to work with and I wish him all the very best for the future."
Other members of the show took to the social media site to express their sadness at the announcement.
Professional dancer Natalie Lowe, who is partnered with athlete Greg Rutherford, wrote: "its been an absolute dream working & getting to know u. Your calm energy, smile & eyes are infectious & Light up the room."
Former Hollyoaks actor Danny Mac said he was "gutted" to lose Young from the show but everyone "fully supported" his decision.
Birds of a Feather actress Lesley Joseph uploaded a photo of herself with the singer and said she was "sad" to hear the news.
Young thanked everyone involved in Strictly and described them all as a "unique family".
He said in a statement: "I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And finally thank you to the BBC for supporting me throughout my journey. I wish my compatriots so much luck, and although I am back to being a viewer again, I'm certainly going to 'keeeep dancing'!"
The BBC said: "Due to personal reasons, Will Young has decided to withdraw from Strictly Come Dancing. The show fully respects his decision and wishes him all the best for the future."
Young and his partner Clifton were joint fourth on the leader board at the end of week three after scoring 31 points for a salsa dance during a movie-themed week.
He drew criticism from head judge Len Goodman who told the pair he thought there was "not enough salsa" in the routine.
The couple were due to dance the Viennese Waltz to Say Something by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera on Saturday's show.
The programme will proceed as normal with a results show on Sunday when the third celebrity will be eliminated.
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More than 90,000 officials have been deployed across the country, which is recovering from 27 years of war.
The process is reported to have started smoothly in the capital, Luanda.
Following fears that criminals could impersonate census officials to gain entry to people's homes, residents have been urged to be wary about opening their doors.
Angola's National Statistics Institute director Camilo Ceita also said that no census-taker would knock on their doors at night to collect data.
Officials hope that having accurate information about the population will help the government improve its planning and provision of services.
The BBC's Zenaida Machado says a team of census officials has gone to the airport to collect information from travellers who are going away for the next two weeks, while the survey is being carried out.
The authorities say the long conflict and "other post-war priorities" - which our reporter says could have included securing the peace and improving the infrastructure - have made it impossible for the census to take place before now.
The process is estimated to cost about $200m (£120m).
The World Bank estimates that Angola's population at about 21 million.
When the last census was carried out in 1970, the population was around six million.
The results of the present count are expected in several months' time.
Angola is Africa's second biggest oil producer. It has a small number of extremely wealthy people but most of its people live in poverty.
The Australia Day public holiday marks the arrival of Britain's First Fleet on 26 January 1788.
Celebrations are held around the country, but many Indigenous Australians refer to it as "invasion day".
Fremantle council said it would hold a "culturally inclusive alternative" on 28 January instead.
The celebrations would include citizenship ceremonies that have previously happened on Australia Day.
"We were never trying to say to people they couldn't do anything or shouldn't do anything on Australia Day," Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt told the West Australian newspaper.
"That's for other people to judge. We're simply offering what I think is a really good alternative."
However, prominent Aboriginal elder and former Western Australian of the Year, Robert Isaacs, criticised the city's decision.
"That's not in the spirit of the Australia way," he told the ABC, adding the decision did not "stand up" with him.
He said the council "should not be playing around with white politics and black politics".
The League Two club hope to build an initial 11,000-capacity stadium, which could be expanded to 20,000, on the site of Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium.
Merton Borough Council has recommended granting the application subject to conditions and legal agreement.
AFC Wimbledon have played their games at Kingsmeadow since 2002, which owners last month voted to sell to Chelsea.
The planning application also seeks permission to build 602 residential units, along with retail and commercial space and a leisure club.
It was originally submitted in November 2014 and has been subject to two rounds of statutory consultation.
More than 20,000 responses were received with just under 900 objections during both rounds.
"I believe we've addressed all the issues raised and have made a strong case for the scheme to be approved," said AFC Wimbledon chief executive Erik Samuelson.
If planning permission is approved, The Dons will seek tenders to carry out the £20m demolition and building work on the Plough Lane site, which is currently home to stock car and greyhound racing.
Construction could begin towards the end of next year, with the club taking up residence for the 2018-19 season.
The Dons Trust, owners of AFC Wimbledon, have already voted to sell Kingsmeadow to Chelsea for the Premier League club to use for women's and youth matches.
The sale, approved by 98%, is conditional on approval of plans for Plough Lane.
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The 19-year-old has made 12 appearances and scored four tries for Saints in his breakthrough season for the club.
Forwards coach Dorian West and fly-half Stephen Myler says Mallinder Jr fully deserves his chance in the first team.
The allegations come a day after official results from Wednesday's poll gave Mr Mugabe a seventh term in office and his Zanu-PF party three-quarters of the seats in parliament.
Eleven people in Harare and 20 from Mashonaland Central province say they were attacked by known Zanu-PF supporters after the results were announced,
The MDC has called the poll fraudulent.
Its leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, 61, has vowed to take legal action to contest the results.
He has also said his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would no longer work with Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and would boycott government institutions.
By Andrew HardingAfrica correspondent
The two parties have been in a coalition since 2009, after the last election sparked widespread violence.
The 11 people who claimed they were attacked in a township in the capital Harare sought refuge at the MDC party headquarters on Sunday, the BBC's Brian Hungwe reports from Harare.
Both they and those from Mashonaland Central province, north of the capital, allege that they were attacked by Zanu-PF supporters who went door-to-door ordering MDC supporters and their families to pack their bags and leave.
An MDC spokesman, Douglas Mwonzora, said the attacks were well planned. But a spokesman for Zanu PF, Psychology Maziwisa, denied his party was attacking opponents.
The MDC warns that it may not be able to control its angry supporters if the reports of attacks continue, our correspondent reports.
The party has appealed to the Southern African grouping, Sadc, to intervene to prevent the situation getting out of control, he adds.
Some in the MDC have called for a campaign of civil disobedience to isolate Zanu-PF.
Zimbabwe's perplexing election
Mr Mugabe, 89, won 61% of the vote in the presidential poll, against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's 34%.
Results from the parliamentary election also handed the MDC a defeat. It won just 49 seats compared with Zanu-PF's 158.
The US and UK have expressed concern at the poll results amid the opposition's claims of electoral fraud.
But the Jacob Zuma, president of regional power South Africa, extended his "profound congratulations" to Mr Mugabe and urged all sides to accept the outcome.
On Sunday, MDC party treasurer Roy Bennett told the BBC's Newshour programme that there was a "seething anger simmering across the length and breadth of Zimbabwe... for the fact that they have had their rights stolen."
He condemned Zanu-PF as "a bunch of kleptocratic geriatrics who should have retired long ago".
Asked about possible mistakes that the MDC had made, and about the quality of Mr Tsvangirai's leadership, Mr Bennett hinted that "nobody's indispensable" and that current events "will deal with those who have been exposed as not having the people's interest at heart".
Monitoring groups disagreed over the conduct of the election.
The most critical account came from the largest group of monitors, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), which had 7,000 workers observing the vote.
The organisation said problems with voter registration had left up to one million people unable to cast their ballots, mostly in urban areas regarded as MDC strongholds.
On Saturday, one of the nine members of the election commission resigned over the way the election was conducted.
Commissioner Mkhululi Nyathi said in his resignation letter: "While throughout the whole process I retained some measure of hope that the integrity of the whole process could be salvaged along the way, this was not to be."
However, the African Union, which had 70 observers, said its initial report suggested the election was "free and credible".
The AU's mission chief Olusegun Obasanjo said there had been "incidents that could have been avoided" and asked Zimbabwe's election authorities to investigate claims that voters had been turned away from polling stations.
The southern African regional bloc, Sadc, with 560 observers, broadly endorsed the election as "free and peaceful", but said it would reserve judgement on the fairness of the process.
Mr Mugabe has had a troubled relationship with the West since launching his programme to seize white-owned land in 2000 - a move widely seen as destroying Zimbabwe's economy.
In contrast, many African leaders still respect him for leading the fight against white minority rule in the 1970s.
Mr Tsvangirai has seven days from the declaration of the results to lodge a legal challenge to the Constitutional Court.
The court then has 14 days to deliver a judgement. If the court upholds the results, Mr Mugabe must be sworn in within 48 hours of the ruling.
If it orders fresh elections, these must be held within 60 days.
Mr Mugabe has governed Zimbabwe since independence from the UK in 1980.
The 20-year-old Briton tried to do a human plank exercise on a pole and slipped, landing heavily on her foot and injuring her knee.
"It was something so stupid," Franklin told BBC Sport. "I was trying to do a human plank, hanging off a pole, when I hit my foot on the floor and did something to my knee.
"I couldn't walk but then had a steroid injection, so I was able to paddle again."
She also aggravated a back problem when competing at the Under-23 European Championships in Macedonia in July, but was able to continue training, albeit it with a reduced number of sessions.
The back injury has been a more of a long-term problem, but it is something which Franklin hopes to sort out properly after the World Championships, which start on Wednesday at Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, USA.
"I've had a fracture on one of the joints that comes off the spine for a few years," said Franklin, who won world silver last year. "It flared up at the Under-23 European Championships so I had to ease off my training.
"It's not a massive problem, because I had to taper my training anyway, and I've been paddling with no pain, so I should be fine. But after the Worlds, I'll have a scan and possibly have some good time off to get it sorted."
Franklin is part of a 16-strong team racing in the five-day event.
They went out to the United States on 6 September and have done a session a day on the water to allow the canoeists to get used to the course in Maryland.
Franklin has had her best season to date this year since joining the senior squad in 2009, having won her first World Cup gold medal on home water at Lee Valley and following it up with another victory in Augsburg last month.
"I was quite young when I started racing, but I'm slowly moving my way into the medals and winning more," said Franklin, who will compete in the C1 and K1 events at Deep Creek Lake.
"Canoeing is one of these sports where you could win one race and not win a medal in the next. But my results show my pace is getting better - I just need more consistency."
Two-time Olympic silver medallist David Florence will defend the C1 and C2 titles he won in Prague last year and is in good form following silver in the C1 and bronze in the C2 with Richard Hounslow at the last World Cup in August.
The visitors led when John Stones' sloppy pass allowed Nathan Redmond to round Claudio Bravo and slot in.
City improved after being booed off by some home fans at the break, equalising when half-time substitute Kelechi Iheanacho prodded in Leroy Sane's low cross.
Pep Guardiola's side controlled the second half as they searched for a winner, but Saints keeper Fraser Forster produced splendid saves to deny Ilkay Gundogan and David Silva.
City's inability to grab a second goal means ex-Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Guardiola has failed to win in five successive matches for only the second time in his managerial career.
However, the point was still enough to lift the Blues back above Arsenal and Liverpool to the Premier League summit.
Southampton stay eighth after extending their unbeaten league run to a fifth game.
City's recent struggles are barely believable after the swaggering start they made to the season, when they won all of Guardiola's opening 10 matches.
The former Spain international had been forced to defend his tactics following Wednesday's 4-0 Champions League defeat at his former club Barcelona, which came after their first loss of the season at Tottenham and the subsequent home draw against Everton.
But there were signs of the home support becoming frustrated with his team's build-from-the-back approach, not least when many could be heard jeering their team off at the break after Stones' error.
City lacked aggression and tempo in the opening 45 minutes, allowing an organised Southampton side to contain them and then burst forward on the break.
Guardiola had to act - and he did that decisively at the break.
Off came Kevin de Bruyne - City's stand-out performer this season - with young striker Iheanacho introduced in his place.
As a result, City had much more purpose and drive, typified by the desire showed by Iheanacho to beat Saints defender Virgil van Dijk to Sane's cross and prod in the equaliser.
Stones is the only player to feature in every match of Guardiola's reign following his £47.5m summer move from Everton, impressing his new manager with his composure and ability to play out comfortably from the back.
But critics have argued the England international is guilty of over-playing, leaving himself open to making mistakes. They were proved right on both counts when he gifted Southampton the lead.
After receiving the ball just outside his own area, Stones tried to pass inside to returning skipper Vincent Kompany - instead playing it behind his captain and straight to Redmond.
The 22-year-old thought he had redeemed himself five minutes later, guiding in De Bruyne's curling free-kick with a far-post volley - but it was ruled out for offside and instead his impact on this game will be remembered for the wrong reasons.
Stones has now made four errors leading to goals since the start of last season - more than any other outfield Premier League player.
Southampton arrived at a sunny Etihad Stadium with the intention of ending a miserable record of six successive defeats at the ground.
Arguably this was their greatest opportunity in recent seasons, having showed they were starting to click under new manager Claude Puel while City had been toiling.
The Frenchman saw his side earn just two points in his first four games after replacing Ronald Koeman, but any doubts about his appointment appear to have been curtailed by a rich vein of form.
Saints were compact and organised defensively, while not afraid to use the pace of Redmond and Dusan Tadic on the break.
True, their goal was gifted to them and they also managed just one other shot on target - but despite not creating many chances, they did threaten to stretch City on a number of occasions and deserved a point for their work-rate and commitment alone.
City manager Pep Guardiola: "The second half was much better. The first half wasn't really good. Of course our mistake was bad. The way I want to play is not to pass to the striker.
On the second-half recovery: "They did it for themselves in the second half. They changed the game, I didn't change the game. We did think we were going to win it, but Southampton didn't make it easy. They have good defenders and are good at everything.
On the displays in the winless last five games: "We have to analyse what is the situation. In the period, apart from at White Hart Lane against Tottenham [losing 2-0] it's been good. Against Everton and Barcelona - when it was 11 v 11 - the displays were as good as those in the first 10 games."
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Southampton boss Claude Puel:
"We can be satisfied with this point, we played against a good team and it was important to keep a good structure. We took our chances to score and after we defended well.
"My players played just two days ago in the Europa League, they were tired, but showed good spirit and organisation.
"Against fantastic players it was good to take a point and not disappointing. It was hard to defend at the end of the game but I am very satisfied."
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The not-so small matter of a Manchester derby for City. The Blues aim to end their winless run when they visit United in the EFL Cup fourth round on Wednesday (20:00 BST).
Southampton are also in midweek cup action, hosting top-flight rivals Sunderland on Wednesday (19:45 BST).
Match ends, Manchester City 1, Southampton 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Southampton 1.
Foul by Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City).
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Virgil van Dijk.
Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by José Fonte.
Fraser Forster (Southampton) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by John Stones following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Sam McQueen.
Substitution, Manchester City. Nolito replaces Leroy Sané.
Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.
Attempt blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Offside, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse tries a through ball, but Nathan Redmond is caught offside.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.
Substitution, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse replaces Charlie Austin.
Foul by Jesús Navas (Manchester City).
Charlie Austin (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jesús Navas (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Steven Davis (Southampton).
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Vincent Kompany.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Raheem Sterling with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by José Fonte.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by José Fonte (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Steven Davis (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Charlie Austin (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sofiane Boufal.
Attempt saved. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.
Offside, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg tries a through ball, but Cuco Martina is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Oriol Romeu.
Substitution, Southampton. Sofiane Boufal replaces Dusan Tadic.
Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho.
Substitution, Southampton. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces Jordy Clasie.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by José Fonte.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Cuco Martina.
McDonald 31, who arrived from Morecombe in the summer, has the option of another year, depending on appearances.
Brown, 19, joined from Brentford in July and has featured in three games for the Saints.
"We are working hard to re-sign as many of the squad as we can," manager Tommy Wright told the club website.
"Gary has been excellent since coming to club and Scott is a younger player that has already featured and has a good, long term future at club. It's important to tie down our talented younger players."
Peter Lower kicked the 19 year-old in the stomach after losing his temper.
Lower was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court for causing actual bodily harm to the escort.
The married father of two was sacked from his job as a sergeant with Avon and Somerset Police earlier this month over the November 2009 attack.
At the conclusion of his trial at Bristol Crown Court in September, Lower was cleared of three charges of rape, one charge of assault by penetration, one charge of sexual assault, two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a single charge of false imprisonment.
At Friday's sentencing hearing, his defence said in mitigation that while Lower "may lack moral backbone, moral fibre and was a weak-willed individual", he felt ashamed at what he had done.
The court also heard that Lower, formerly of Banwell, North Somerset, was going through divorce and had lost his career, after being in the police force for over 20 years.
Sentencing him, Judge Richard Bromilow said he was "troubled" by the escort girl's "obvious vulnerability".
He told Lower: "You kicked her intentionally in the stomach which was bound to cause her hurt.
"It did not need medical attention, but it was plainly a very nasty incident."
He added that it was difficult to measure the effect of the assault, which happened a long time ago.
"You have accepted the relationship was dysfunctional and you have paid heavily for it," the judge said.
"You have lost two things that are very important to you: your character and your family."
Presiding officer Elin Jones tweeted there would be "no room at this inn" for the US president after Commons speaker John Bercow's opposed Trump speaking to MPs on a state visit.
But Mr Hamilton said visit by Mr Trump to Wales should be "encouraged".
The assembly said Ms Jones was duty bound to uphold the assembly's values.
In a letter to Ms Jones, Mr Hamilton said he was concerned by Ms Jones' comment on Twitter.
"He is now the elected President of the United States of America, and is actively seeking a trade deal with the UK," he said.
"The USA is Wales's most important global ally and trading partner, with 22% of Welsh exports going to the United States.
"It would be highly irresponsible to put Welsh jobs at risk by banning President Trump from visiting the Senedd.
"In fact we should actively encourage the UK Government to add Wales to the itinerary of his upcoming state visit."
"We are the National Assembly for Wales, not a student debating society," he said, adding that the rules of the assembly make clear the presiding officer must demonstrate impartiality.
"Mr Bercow has been accused of breaching the impartiality rule," he said.
"I hope you will agree that such controversy surrounding the office of Llywydd [the presiding officer] would be undesirable; not least because it could easily lead to calls for you to consider your position," he added.
A spokesman for the assembly said: "The Llywydd has demonstrated her respect and adherence to the principle of political impartiality consistently in her dealings with all Assembly Members."
He added that Ms Jones was "duty bound to uphold the values which underpin the assembly's constitution and the Assembly Commission's work, such as our support for this week's LGBT History Month celebrations".
He said there had been no official request or invitation for the assembly to take part in the state visit of Mr Trump.
Elaine Hopley, 45, crossed the finish line of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in Antigua on Sunday morning.
Her time for the event, dubbed "the world's toughest row", was 59 days, 19 hours and 14 minutes.
She was raising money for Alzheimer Scotland and completed the "totally epic" challenge in a boat named after her mother, Jan.
Ms Hopley, an experienced endurance athlete from Dunblane, near Stirling, was the fastest woman to cross the Atlantic solo in the 30-year history of the race.
She has two sons, Guy and Harvey, who turned seven and nine during her time at sea.
She said it was hard being away from her family over Christmas and New Year.
"Seeing them all here today is just fantastic," she added.
She described the gruelling rowing challenge "unlike anything I could have ever imagined".
"There were some terrifying thunderstorms where lightning bolts were incredibly close to the boat, but I pulled on through," she said.
The 45-year-old is an outdoor instructor and previously won the inaugural Women's Scottish mountain bike cross country series then repeatedly defended her title during the 1990s.
She also completed solo rides between Land's End and John O'Groats, and throughout Australia, New Zealand and Chile.
Before setting off on the Atlantic challenge, from the Canary Islands in December, Ms Hopley said her mother, who was diagnosed with dementia played an important role in inspiring her crossing.
She said: "I love adrenaline sports and it has always been a goal and dream to cross an ocean, that for years has remained unfulfilled, as I have needed to support my mother who was diagnosed with dementia.
"I feel the need to raise funds for this little understood disease and this crossing is dedicated to her."
The overall race winners were Anglo-American quartet Latitude 35, who broke the race record to finish in just under 36 days.
The benchmark UK index rose 16.75 points, or 0.3%, in early trading to 6271.39 after the market was closed for the Bank Holiday on Monday.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals led the way, rising 2.1%, closely followed by Dutch information solutions group Relx, which was up 1.9%.
The biggest fall was mining giant Anglo American, dropping 4.5%.
It comes amid ongoing weaknesses in the commodities sector, and follows Anglo's sale of a shuttered Australian mine for A$25m (£12.2m; $18m) on Thursday.
Also down were commodities trading firm Glencore and Chilean miner Antofagasta, both falling 1.7%.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.22% against the euro to €1.36 and 0.05% against the dollar to $1.49.
Jasmine Gregory, of Ulfgar Road, Oxford, had been drinking on the morning her 14-month-old daughter Robyn died in August 2014.
Gregory, 24, said she became distracted while giving Robyn a bath at their home in Grove, Oxford Crown Court heard.
Judge Ian Pringle described it as a "tragic and wholly avoidable event" and "so wholly wrong and atrocious".
The court heard the child drowned and that Gregory found her lifeless body.
Robyn's father said in a victim impact statement "every day is torture" since his daughter died.
Gregory, who was convicted of manslaughter by a jury in just over four hours on Wednesday, made the sign of the cross before being sentenced and was seen crying in the courtroom.
The judge said he did not underestimate the loss she felt but said she acknowledged she "led a chaotic lifestyle".
"You should have known if you bathe a child in an adult bath you never leave it unattended," he said.
Det Con Andy Matheson, of Thames Valley Police, said: "This has been a tragic case from the start.
"A young mother has lost her young baby and the extended family have lost the future they would have had with the child."
Senior crown prosecutor Kirsty Allman said the result was a "just outcome".
She said: "This was not merely a terrible accident. Gregory was clearly negligent in leaving Robyn unattended in the bath."
The latest polling shows many people believe Mr Abbott is the least competent Australian leader in 20 years. He fares even worse when it comes to being trustworthy, according to a December Fairfax Ipsos poll.
And it is trust and competence that matter most to the public, say political pundits.
It is not unusual for prime ministers to struggle in their first term, says lecturer at the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Dr Zareh Ghazarian.
Over the past 20 or 30 years in Australian politics it has taken most new prime ministers time to "find their feet", says Dr Ghazarian.
"One of Australia's most successful prime ministers in terms of winning elections was [conservative] John Howard but he had a horrid first term in government," he says. Mr Howard went on to be the second-longest serving Australian prime minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
"The problem for Abbott seems to be a bit deeper than that and it goes to issues of trust, credibility and competence," he says.
"What matters is that the government presents itself as competent and is seen to be getting on with the job."
But after a series of economic and policy stumbles by the coalition government, opposition leader Bill Shorten is now leading Mr Abbott on six of 11 key attributes including competence, trust and having a firm grasp of social policy, according to the Ipsos telephone poll of 1,401 voters. The poll, taken between 4 and 6 December, has a margin of error of 2.6%.
Policy wins and losses for Tony Abbott in 2014
Wins
The government started well. In July, it delivered on an election promise to repeal the former Labor government's levy on the country's biggest greenhouse gas emitters. It also dumped a 30% tax on coal and iron ore mining profits.
In cabinet, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has delivered on the government's promise to stop the flow of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat. Boats are now turned back and those who make it to Australia are detained in offshore camps with little chance of permanent settlement in Australia.
The government has also kept its promise of reversing most of Labor's climate change policies. Along with the carbon tax, it scrapped the Climate Commission and plans to halve the country's legislated renewable energy target.
This week, Australia was rated the worst performing industrial country in the world in terms of climate change in an annual analysis done by two European non-government organisations.
International criticism has had a small impact, with the government finally agreeing to contribute A$200m (£106m; $166m) to a UN-backed Green Climate Fund to help poor nations mitigate the impact of global warming.
But polls indicate the public is more worried about the economy than the environment.
The government's inability to explain why it delivered such a tough budget earlier this year and its failure to get all of the budget savings through a hostile senate explain the public's dissatisfaction, says Dr Ghazarian. The government does not have a majority in the senate.
"I don't think the government has effectively explained why they have made the decisions they have made, especially regarding economic issues," he says.
There are rumblings of discontent within the coalition, too. After the Victorian coalition lost the state election in November, former conservative premier Jeff Kennett said the Abbott government was a "shambles'' and its performance a major factor in the defeat of the state government.
Coalition members say also that criticism of the government's own shipbuilding company, which is based in South Australia, by Defence Minister David Johnston, contributed to a 9% swing against the Liberal Party in a recent South Australian by-election.
Treasurer Joe Hockey has also performed poorly. Most notoriously, he said an increased petrol tax would not hurt low-income earners because they "either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far", a claim that was widely disputed.
But Michelle Grattan, professorial fellow at University of Canberra and one of the Canberra Press Gallery's most experienced political journalists, says a cabinet reshuffle could be dangerous.
"A reshuffle that was received badly publicly and internally in Coalition ranks would be a disastrous way to start the year," she wrote in an article for the independent news and analysis site The Conversation.
She said Mr Abbott's attempts to "reset" his government's rhetoric - in several instances he has conceded he has broken election promises - could also bring him undone.
"We're asked to swallow a distinction between his broken promises and Labor's," she wrote.
But is all of this enough to make his cabinet colleagues ponder a change of leader?
It proved disastrous for Labor, which ditched Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for Julia Gillard before switching back to Mr Rudd, only to lose the 2013 election. The Victorian government's leadership switch last year is cited as one of a number of reasons it lost the November election.
They have to tough it out with Mr Abbott, says Dr Ghazarian.
"Parties that change leaders are doomed."
Four crew members died when the Rescue 116 aircraft hit Blackrock Island on the County Mayo coast on 14 March.
Two bodies were recovered soon after the crash, but Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith have not been recovered.
A boat is expected to comb the seabed later and Garda (Irish police) divers will search the scene if necessary.
Sea searches for the two men were scaled back in April and plans were made to resume in the summer when seas were expected to be calmer.
Aerial surveys are also planned in the coming days.
Capt Dara Fitzpatrick was the first crew member to be found - she was rescued from the sea hours after the crash but died later in hospital.
The body of her co-pilot Capt Mark Duffy was recovered from the submerged wreckage of the helicopter more than 10 days later.
The wreckage was discovered about 60m west of Blackrock Island, in waters about 40m deep.
The helicopter had lost contact with the Irish Coastguard at about 01:00 local time on 14 March, as it approached Blacksod refuelling depot.
The crew had been supporting another coastguard helicopter that had been deployed to take an injured fisherman to hospital.
The Irish Coast Guard said the open water and shoreline search operation for the crew was one of the largest in the history of the state.
Tigers have previously said they are keen to bring in a marquee signing at inside centre, but 34-year-old De Villiers opted to stay in his homeland.
"We had discussions and thought we may have had a deal, but we move on," Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester.
Meanwhile, wing Gonzalo Camacho has signed a new one-year contract.
A shoulder injury has kept Camacho out of action for two years, meaning he has yet to play for Tigers.
But he made his international comeback for Argentina against Australia in the Rugby Championship this summer.
Cockerill added: "Gonzo has had a tough time and has worked really hard.
"We have agreed a contract with him so let's hope he is injury free and gets back to how we know he can play."
Michael McLarnon, 22, was fatally wounded in Etna Drive in Ardoyne, north Belfast, on 28 October 1971.
The Committee on the Administration of Justice is due to publish a report by the Historical Enquiries Team.
It is expected to show that the killing was not carried out by the man who admitted it.
Mr McLarnon's death was the subject of a BBC programme in 2006.
Hampshire confirmed a one-year deal for the 34-year-old, after he initially announced it on his Instagram page.
Edwards was forced to return home early last season after breaking an ankle during a football match in training.
"It's been a tough year for me after my horrendous injury," Edwards wrote. "Hampshire kept faith in me even tho (sic) I'm not 100%."
Edwards, who has played as a Kolpak signing for the last two seasons, made just two County Championship appearances in 2016 before injury.
In 2015, he took 45 Championship wickets to help Hampshire avoid relegation from Division One.
"Fidel was desperately unlucky with his injury at the start of the year," Hampshire director of cricket Giles White said.
"He's worked tirelessly to get back towards full fitness since suffering the injury and we're pleased with the progress he's made so far."
He has been seen on the show's famous red sofa since 1999 but announced in September he was leaving the programme.
"Whether you've been with us for the past 15 years or just this morning, I hope you've found it worthwhile," he said.
Football Focus presenter Dan Walker will take Turnbull's place on the show.
"Thank you for letting me into your home in the morning, whether it's the kitchen, the living room, or - as I'm often told - the bedroom," Turnbull joked as he closed the programme on Friday.
"I've had a wonderful time with my friends and colleagues who have had a lot to put up with over the years.
"I've always believed it's a privilege to broadcast anywhere on the airwaves. To present this programme though has been a special honour."
Prime Minister David Cameron was among those who praised the presenter in a special tribute video.
"You've brought us the news from around the world, from war zones to the White House, but for the last 15 years we've seen you presenting from one iconic location - the BBC Breakfast sofa," Mr Cameron said.
He added Turnbull would now be free to enjoy those "long-awaited lie-ins".
'14 TV wives'
Many of Turnbull's co-presenters joined him on set to pay their own personal tributes to him.
Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood concluded her segment by displaying "Goodbye Billy, we love you and we will miss you" on her weather screen.
"I've learned a huge amount sitting next to Bill," co-host Louise Minchin said.
The programme's sports presenter, Sally Nugent, said: "I am genuinely going to miss you terribly, it's going to be wonderful for you not getting up in the middle of the night, but you've been the most brilliant friend to work with."
The tribute video also joked Turnbull had "14 TV wives" during his time on the programme, referring to the multiple presenters he's worked with over the years.
One of them, Sian Williams, said: "We were sofa man and wife for more than a decade, we've known each other for over quarter of a century, you're a kind and loyal friend, so thank you for that."
James Corden was among the famous faces seen in the video. He said: "Bill, you beautiful specimen. For much of your life you were my morning glory."
Asked to recall some memorable moments from his time on the show, Turnbull said: "I remember nearly getting into a fight with a ventriloquist dummy called Bob. And here was a moment where I actually wore a sweater made from dog hair. I couldn't get the stuff off me for weeks."
Walker will join the programme from Monday, presenting from Monday to Wednesday with Louise Minchin.
Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty will continue to front the show in the second half of the week.
16 January 2017 Last updated at 11:23 GMT
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Oxford schoolgirl, Martha Fernback, died on 20 July 2013, after swallowing half a gram of 91% pure MDMA powder in the city's Hinksey Park.
Anne-Marie Cockburn has written a book which she hopes will help other parents to talk openly about drugs.
Copies of 5,742 days will be left in public places in Oxford on 19 July.
Ms Cockburn hopes people will take the book - named after the number of days Martha lived - away to read, then bring it back to the same spot for someone else.
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Speaking to BBC Radio Oxford, she said: "I don't want to become a bore, but what I am trying to say is the risks when Martha died are still there.
"Talk about drugs and talk about Martha as the example and say half a gram is far, far too much - they almost need to know what not to do if they are going to do it anyway.
"That's radical, but had I been brave enough to have that conversation with Martha, I could still have her here."
She said she had been told the half a gram of 91% pure MDMA powder taken by Martha was "enough for between 5 and 10 people".
To mark her last day spent with Martha at Sandbanks beach in Dorset, the day before she died, Ms Cockburn will also hold a public picnic in the park at Hinksey Lake, where Martha died.
Alex Williams, 17, of Sycamore Road, Botley was handed a community sentence in March for selling drugs following Martha's death.
An inquest into how she died recorded a verdict of accidental death.
You can hear an interview with Ms Cockburn on BBC Radio Oxford, on Sunday morning at 08:00 BST.
Valerie Armstrong died on Wednesday night.
The youth who cannot be named because of his age is accused of causing death by dangerous driving and having no insurance.
Police told the court the teenager co-operated with officers in interviews.
A constable said the teenager showed remorse and stayed with Mrs Armstrong until an ambulance arrived on Tuesday night.
The teenager wept during the court proceedings.
Mrs Armstrong, a mother of three young children, was walking her dog in Colin Glen Forest Park when the incident happened.
She died in hospital on Wednesday night surrounded by her family, who have decided to donate her organs.
A 15-year-old boy remains on police bail in connection with the incident.
The hosts, who won the treble in 2015, could not initially break through a resolute Warrington, who led 6-0 at half-time with Chris Sandow's try.
Brad Singleton and Ryan Hall crossed to put Leeds in front after half-time.
Kevin Penny's converted score gave Warrington a two-point lead and Zak Hardaker failed with a 30-metre penalty which would have earned Leeds a draw.
Leeds 10-12 Warrington as it happened
In their first competitive match since the departures of veteran trio Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai, Leeds lost captain Danny McGuire to injury just before half-time.
Youngster Jordan Lilley stepped into a half-back position to good effect, producing the pass that sent Hall over, giving the home side a 10-6 advantage.
But at no time was Sinfield's absence felt more than four minutes from time, when last year's Man of Steel Hardaker was unable to land a kick that would have ensured a share of the spoils in the season's opening match.
Warrington finished sixth at the end of a disappointing 2015 campaign, but the performances of half-back pairing Sandow and new recruit Kurt Gidley - as well as their powerful forward pack - pointed to encouraging times ahead for Tony Smith's side.
Ex-Great Britain coach Brian Noble on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra:
"They've set a high standard, both of these teams.
"Leeds were hindered a little with the loss of McGuire, but no excuses. Warrington found enough quality in their attack and we saw some sublime touches from Sandow.
"Leeds were dead and buried at one point, so the win comes down to how well Warrington defended, especially in the scramble moments when Leeds thought they were getting over the line."
Leeds Rhinos: Hardaker; Briscoe, Watkins, Moon, Hall; Sutcliffe, McGuire; Galloway, Burrow, Cuthbertson, Ferres, Ablett, Delaney.
Replacements: Singleton, Garbutt, Keinhorst, Lilley.
Warrington Wolves: Russell; Lineham, Evans, Currie, Penny; Gidley, Sandow; Hill, Clark, Sims, Hughes, Westwood, Westerman.
Replacements: Dwyer, King, Jullien, Cox.
Referee: James Child
Attendance: 16,168
The 27-year-old former lawyer and one-time air stewardess has been in this job only a few months.
And like the other fresh-faced recruits of Ukraine's new police force, she's been trained to deal with all sorts of trouble.
"It can be stressful at first," says Eka Zguladze, the Deputy Interior Minister who is almost as young and has transferred to Ukraine the lessons she learned when rolling out a similar police reform programme in Georgia a few years ago.
"For some, it's seeing death for the first time, or arresting an armed man, or coping with a small child who has swallowed his tongue before the medics arrive.
"But since the new force has been on Kiev's streets, there's not been one allegation of corruption."
It is very different from Ukraine's old "militsiya" police force who were more likely to harass you for a bribe than help maintain law and order.
On Valerie's belt is a pistol. Pinned to her shoulder is a tiny camera constantly monitoring her performance and recording the often colourful behaviour of the miscreants these new recruits have to deal with. The video is posted on social media and broadcast on a reality TV show.
One clip shows a police patrol car stopping a drunk driver slumped behind the wheel.
First he tries to get them to talk to his "powerful contacts" on his phone. Then when they move in to arrest him, he suddenly pulls a gun on them. It turns out that he himself is a long-standing law enforcement officer, attached to the Interior Ministry - he shows them his badge.
In the end they manage to disarm him and lead him away.
Not surprisingly cases like this have gone down well with the public.
The number of emergency calls requesting police help has quadrupled.
Part of the aim is to increase public respect for law and order. So far, in Kiev at least, it seems to be working.
But today Valerie isn't fighting criminals. The highlight of her day was helping a bird in distress.
A large, ailing stork had been found by the roadside. It seemed to be cold or malnourished.
She wrapped it in an emergency foil blanket and drove it to the vet near the zoo.
"You never know what awaits you when you go out on patrol," she says, "It's all so interesting."
Her colleague Valery Vilkevich, 30, is also an animal lover.
A former biology student, he moved to New York to stay with his uncle and dreamed of joining the city's police force.
He even did an internship with them. But Manhattan was no place to pursue his passion for breeding carrier pigeons.
So when he heard about the new police force being set up in Kiev, he flew back to join up.
Today his first call-out was for a case of alleged anti-social behaviour - a complaint that workmen repairing a flat were chucking rubbish out of a third floor window.
Three Prius police cars (courtesy of Japan) with their blue lights flashing converged on the courtyard. Five police charged up the stairs.
It was clearly overkill, especially when they could find no wrongdoing. But the woman who had summoned them was grateful anyway.
And part of the aim is to be seen to be visible and ready to help - a public relations exercise.
Next call-out was for a dispute between neighbours.
It too seemed trivial enough - an old lady angry because the man next door had constructed a balcony that obscured her access to sunlight.
He had called the police because he said she kept verbally abusing his wife and toddler.
In fact there was a political undercurrent. He was from Russian-speaking Donetsk in the East and she was a Ukrainian-speaking patriot.
"She is insufferable!" said the man.
"Just look what that scumbag did!" complained the woman.
"No need to use insulting language," said Valery, trying to calm them down.
As they continued to raise their voices, he rolled his eyes and cocked a mock gun to his forehead to signal he had had enough.
"We are trained to be helpful and peaceful," he explained later.
These young recruits have to play the part of social workers as well as law enforcement officers - a much needed social service for citizens who never before have had someone in authority prepared to listen patiently to their daily woes.
But it is also an expensive use of police time and possibly a distraction in a place deluged by bigger problems.
Ukraine also needs to get to grips with the large scale corruption and smuggling which have blighted its economy.
This is a country desperately trying to remake itself on all fronts at once, against the odds and against the clock.
Ms Zguladze is optimistic. The police reform is going so well that she has speeded up the rate at which it will be expanded across the country.
It is an ambitious vision.
Only 2,000 officers covering Kiev so far and another 2,500 for Odessa, Lviv and Kharkiv either in training or starting to hit the streets.
But how many more will be needed to cover a country of 42 million people?
And for all the flashing blue lights on their cars, their energy and compassion, these patrol officers have limited powers.
When they arrest someone, they take them to the local precinct to be processed by the old militsiya, with whom they are barely on speaking terms.
"Sometimes at the precinct, the detainees we've brought in are released before we've even done the paperwork," said Badri Gogokhiya, a former philosophy teacher aged only 22, but already in command of his team.
The old guard in the back offices know they are on the way out.
Why should they co-operate?
And how long before they actively try to sabotage these reforms, especially in towns far away from Kiev and the careful scrutiny of Ms Zguladze's Ministry?
This is one small reform among the many which Ukraine is trying to implement.
It is the best tangible example of success and so it has been seized upon by the government to convince the population that the country really has started to change for the better.
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Lillis made a hash of collecting Paul Taylor's cross in the 89th minute, spilling the ball and allowing substitute Gwion Edwards to head home.
Rochdale took the lead twice in the first half only for Peterborough to peg them back.
Andy Cannon volleyed the opener eight minutes in, firing through a crowded penalty area to beat Ben Alnwick in the Posh goal.
Shaquile Coulthirst threatened the Dale goal on a couple of occasions before Marcus Maddison raced onto Hayden White's pass down the right flank and fired wide of Lillis for the equaliser.
Dale were back in front in the 31st minute when Jermaine Anderson clipped Joe Rafferty's heels and Ian Henderson slammed the resulting spot-kick straight down the middle of Alnwick's goal.
But the visitors were quick to restore parity, Chris Forrester blasting a fierce drive past Lillis from 25 yards.
After an evenly contested second period Posh won it late when Lillis spilled Taylor's cross and Edwards headed into the unguarded net.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Rochdale 2, Peterborough United 3.
Second Half ends, Rochdale 2, Peterborough United 3.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Hayden White.
Goal! Rochdale 2, Peterborough United 3. Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Donal McDermott (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gwion Edwards (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Rochdale. Sanmi Odelusi replaces Callum Camps.
Hand ball by Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United).
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Niall Canavan.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Ben Alnwick.
Harrison McGahey (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United).
Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United).
Callum Camps (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Forrester (Peterborough United).
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Donal McDermott (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Forrester (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Peterborough United. Tom Nichols replaces Shaquile Coulthirst.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Niall Canavan.
Attempt blocked. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Callum Camps (Rochdale) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Shaquile Coulthirst.
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Rochdale. Donal McDermott replaces Nathaniel Mendez-Laing.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Substitution, Rochdale. Calvin Andrew replaces Joe Bunney.
Attempt missed. Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Harrison McGahey.
Attempt blocked. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Ian Henderson (Rochdale).
Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Andrew Hughes.
Attempt missed. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Gwion Edwards replaces Jermaine Anderson.
Second Half begins Rochdale 2, Peterborough United 2.
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The £25m Airlander 10 "nosedived" during its second test flight in Bedfordshire on 24 August.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said the line dropped during a second take-off.
It said it was "certainly a factor" in the landing.
The 302ft (92m) long vehicle made a successful maiden flight last month from Cardington Airfield but sustained damage to the hull and cockpit on landing from its second flight.
A report submitted to the Air Accident Investigations Board (AAIB) by HAV technical director Mike Durham said the aircraft had first made a "successful landing" but there was an "issue with the mooring mast" which required the pilot to take-off a second time and circle the airfield while it was repaired.
It was during the second take-off that the 150ft (46m) nose mooring line dropped free and trailed beneath the aircraft.
"As a result of this, the pilot had to make a higher than desired approach to its second landing of the day to reduce the likelihood of the trailing line snagging on the fence or trees to the south of the airfield," the report said.
An HAV spokesman said: "[This] did mean we had to make a higher than desired approach, and this is certainly a factor in the heavy landing."
The report confirmed that while the mooring line had been in "contact" with a power cable, this had not contributed to the incident.
"The contact of the mooring line with the power cable happened a number of minutes before landing and in no way damaged the aircraft and did not contribute to the heavy landing," the spokesman said.
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Torin and Jacques Lakeman, aged 19 and 20 and from the Isle of Man, were found in a room above The Grapes pub in Stoneclough, Bolton, last December.
The pair had booked accommodation there as part of their trip to watch Manchester United play on 29 November.
Toxicology tests revealed they had taken "five to six" times the lethal dose of the drug.
Bolton Coroner's Court heard how Torin had ordered MDMA - the active ingredient in ecstasy tablets - on a website called Agora from an anonymous vendor called Stone Island.
They accessed the site via the "dark web" - a part of the internet that cannot be found using normal search engines.
After the match at Old Trafford, the former Castle Rushen High School pupils returned to the pub where it is believed they took the drugs.
Their bodies were discovered two days later.
The court heard both brothers had a troubled history of alcohol and drug abuse, and had been hospitalised on a number of occasions on the Isle of Man.
However, their father Ray Lakeman said the pair were "best friends" who appeared to be getting their lives back on track.
Jacques was an aspiring chef and Torin was in his second year of studying physics at Aberystwyth University.
Returning a narrative verdict, coroner Alan Walsh said the pair died due to the misuse of ecstasy.
He said he would be writing to home secretary Theresa May to address the issue of buying illicit substances online.
He added: "I can't underestimate the impact these deaths have had on friends and family of Jacques and Tobin, and their deaths also highlight a greater problem - the ability of young people to obtain drugs through the dark web, and anonymous suppliers operating behind a veil."
The newspaper behind the sensational headline says it obtained a confidential, anonymous report by a group of Russian military specialists, including those working for the top secret company that produces surface-to-air missiles such as the Buk.
The Russian-made Buk has long been the "leading scenario" of international investigators trying to find out what brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July last year, killing 298 people.
But this detailed, technical Russian report says the Buk was fired from territory held by Ukrainian forces rather than pro-Russian rebels.
Until now speculation in Russian media has been dominated by claims that MH17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet.
So the revelation that Russia, too, believes it was a Buk does appear significant.
And yet as early as 21 July 2014, Russia's ministry of defence said the Boeing 777 had fallen in an area within the range of a Ukrainian Buk-M1 missile launcher.
The same statement said a Buk battery had been detected in Zaroshchenske, a town also named in Wednesday's Novaya Gazeta report.
The military experts assert that this town was under Ukrainian military control at the time.
Ukrainian officials insist the area was already in rebel hands.
But by naming a new location, the report casts doubt on the town of Snizhne, where international investigators say a Buk missile launcher was seen being driven only four hours before the plane was shot down.
Two Russian-based, independent military experts, Pavel Felgenhauer and Vadim Lukashevich, have told the BBC the credibility of the leaked report is questionable because it is anonymous and its source has not been revealed.
Novaya Gazeta's deputy editor Sergey Sokolov told the BBC that he did not know the names of military experts who worked on the report but he was familiar with their company.
Mr Sokolov pointed out that the newspaper was given access to the report on condition of anonymity, and it considered it important to pass it on to the public.
Mr Lukashevich, an aviation analyst, believes parts of the report are questionable but sees the latest Russian version of events as more plausible than before.
"Only now they have started this clear, systematic and competent campaign; they are beginning to involve specialists," he said.
"They have finally thrown away the smokescreen of lies, gradually realising that the end is near."
Military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said: "I believe this report is a disinformation ploy to shift the blame from the Russian military to the Ukrainian military."
Whatever the truth about the report, it is not the only new information to emerge about MH17, all apparently with the aim of helping investigators get to the facts.
Last week, pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine presented a map, purportedly found in a basement in Donetsk, that showed where Ukrainian army divisions were stationed, apparently with Buk missile launchers.
And there were more revelations to come from the rebels on Wednesday.
Leading Donetsk official Andrey Purgin alleged that flight MH17 was illegally switched from an air traffic controller in Kiev to another further east who changed the plane's course toward an area with Ukrainian Buk missile launchers.
Mr Purgin said he had passed all his information to international investigators in the Netherlands.
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Two-time world champion Mark Williams, Wales' top ranked player, was the last home winner back in 1999.
A total of 10 Welsh players are in the field for the event that sees John Higgins defending his title.
"I'm feeling good. I have been working hard on the table and in the gym and my form is good. I am looking forward to playing," Stevens told BBC Wales.
"It's a long time since a Welshman won our Open and it is going to be difficult for us to win it this year, even with 10 entrants.
"Out of the 10, there aren't many with great experience, but they will enjoy playing in this environment.
"But someone has got to win it. It's a funny old game and hopefully it can be one of the Welsh players."
Stevens beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the third round last year, before losing to Marco Fu.
"Beating Ronnie O'Sullivan last year showed that in best of seven frames it levels itself out," Stevens said.
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"But it was the first time in a number of years I had beaten him and I hope I can replicate that form."
Duane Jones is the first Welshman in action, facing world number one Mark Selby at 10:30 GMT on Monday.
Stevens is paired with Irishman David Morris and the duo begin their campaigns at 20:00 GMT.
In an unusual move, the handset, priced at £59.99, will be available exclusively on e-commerce site eBay.
The ZTE Open runs applications written in the web-based HTML5 language rather than a unique company-owned platform.
Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox web browser, says the phone will inspire a "new wave of innovation".
A spokesman for the Chinese manufacturers ZTE said the handset was aimed at first-time smartphone users.
The phone is already on sale in Spain, Colombia and Venezuela, via telecommunications company Telefonica, and ZTE says the Open will be available "soon" on eBay in the UK and the US.
It will be not be locked to a specific mobile network operator.
The phone features a 3.5in screen and 3.2-megapixel camera and is powered by a 1GHz processor.
Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at consultancy firm Ovum, said the decision to sell the phone on eBay "is an admission by ZTE that most carriers around the world are not yet ready to sell Firefox OS devices".
He added that "being different isn't enough" in a marketplace already crowded by Google, Apple and Windows.
"If you have to explain to people why Firefox provides a better user experience, then it's not particularly compelling."
A minute's silence was held before the home game in the Championship against Ipswich Town.
A special programme filled with people's memories has been sold.
The tragedy at the FA Cup sixth round was the worst loss of life at an English football ground before the 1980s.
On Wednesday, the anniversary date, a pitch-side service will take place at 15:00 GMT with a special book of remembrance dedicated listing the dead and placed on display in the Macron Stadium's reception.
Flags will be flying at half-mast all week.
On Saturday, when the team play Preston North End at home, players will wear a special third shirt emblazoned with 33 names of the dead.
Money raised from the sale of 1,000 of these replica shirts will be presented to a young person's charity.
Some estimates claim 85,000 people were at the match between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City in a ground which should have held at least 20,000 fewer fans.
Bolton played their last game in 1997 at Burnden Park, which was demolished in 1999.
A memorial was unveiled by the late Nat Lofthouse in 2000 at the Asda store built on the site.
Non-avian dinosaurs were found to have "bird brains", larger than that of Archaeopteryx, a 150 million-year-old bird-like dinosaur.
Once regarded as a unique transition between dinosaurs and birds, scientists say Archaeopteryx has now lost its pivotal place.
The study is published in Nature.
A recent discovery in China which unveiled the earliest creature yet discovered on the evolutionary line to birds, also placed Archaeopteryx in less of a transitional evolutionary place.
Bird brains tend to be more enlarged compared to their body size than reptiles, vital for providing the vision and coordination needed for flight.
Scientists using high-resolution CT scans have now found that these "hyper-inflated" brains were present in many ancient dinosaurs, and had the neurological hardwiring needed to take to the skies.
This included several bird-like oviraptorosaurs and the troodontids Zanabazar junior, which had larger brains relative to body size than that of Archaeopteryx.
This latest work adds to previous studies which found the presence of feathers and wishbones on ancient dinosaurs.
"Archaeopteryx has always been set up as a uniquely transitional species between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds," said lead author Amy Balanoff, of the American Museum of Natural History and Stony Brook University.
By studying the brains of closely related dinosaurs, she said that Archaeopteryx "might not have been so special".
"Large forebrains are typically correlated with things like increased cognition and parental care of the young, while not flying, they were definitely doing other things with these enlarged brains.
"A lot of these characteristics that are distinctive within birds evolved much earlier in the history of Theropods . It's interesting that the brain followed this pattern as well. The large brain evolved before flight earlier than was previously thought," Dr Balanoff told BBC News.
Epidexipteryx - a very small feathered dinosaur discovered in China and first reported in 2008 (above). It had four long tail feathers but there is little evidence that it could fly.
Jeholornis - this creature lived 120 million years ago in the Cretaceous. It was a relatively large bird, about the size of a turkey. First discovered in China, and reported in 2002.
Sapeornis - lived 110 to 120 million years ago. Another small primitive bird about 33 centimetres in length. It was discovered in China and was first reported in 2002.
Xiaotingia, a chicken-sized dinosaur which dates back 155 million years to the Jurassic Period, reported in 2011.
Aurornis, which means "dawn bird" lived about 160 million years ago, about 50cm tail to beak reported in China in 2013.
By compiling CT scans, the scientists created 3D reconstructions of dinosaur skulls as well as modern bird brains. They also calculated the total volume of each digital brain and determined the size of major anatomical regions such as the olfactory bulbs, cerebrum, optic lobes and cerebellum.
"The story of brain size is more than its relationship to body size," said co-author Gabriel Bever, of the New York Institute of Technology.
"If we also consider how the different regions of the brain changed relative to each other, we can gain insight into what factors drove brain evolution as well as what developmental mechanisms facilitated those changes."
Adrian Thomas at the department of zoology at Oxford University, who was not involved with the study, said the picture now is much more complicated than "dinosaurs couldn't fly and Archaeopteryx could".
"There were a whole group of more or less distantly related feathered dinosaurs, some were gliding down from trees, some were flapping, and it all seemed to be happening at the same time.
"Rather than a straight [evolutionary] path that led Archaeopteryx to birds, the picture now is that there were lots of dinosaurs exploiting the advantages of gliding and flight. The birds are the ones that carried on successfully to the present day," Prof Thomas told BBC News.
But he added that the "processing power required for flight is relatively simple" compared to walking and running.
"So it is interesting, but not a great surprise, to see increased brain size in these dinosaurs associated with their highly agile lifestyles."
They said the increase of about 1,000 would help to generate up to £3m for the local economy.
More than 300 acts have been lined up to appear over the four-day programme on the Raehills Estate near Beattock from 8 to 11 June.
The list of headliners includes Gogol Bordello, Boney M., Cat Power, So Solid Crew, 2ManyDJs and Admiral Fallow.
Founder Adam Curtis said that although attendances were increasing he did not anticipate the event getting much bigger.
"We have got record numbers expected down in the field so it has crept from 8,000 to 9,000," he said.
"We are hoping for next year, for the 10-year anniversary, we should be at 10,000 people.
"The total number we are pushing to with the festival will probably stay under 15,000 so we are most of the way there."
The Eden Festival's value to the area's economy and visitor sector has been recognised by Dumfries and Galloway Council which this year provided the organisers with an £18,000 grant as part of its major events strategy.
Council events champion Adam Wilson said that was "pumping millions" into the region.
"For Moffat and Lockerbie and Dumfries, tourism is really important and there are a lot of people feel that actually the council isn't doing enough for the tourism industry," he said.
"I think it is a very significant strategy that we have - it is very important and it is working."
The man was found Dartmouth Apprentice site, in Dartmouth, on Saturday evening. Two men were arrested and are being held at Torquay Police Station, officers said.
The 1830s St Barnabas Church building is now a supported living project.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the man was treated by paramedics, but later died.
The building was a church until 1973.
Robert Gerrard, 53 and from Liverpool, was named on a register of alleged criminal fugitives in February 2014 and gave himself up in October 2016.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine into the UK in a £60m drugs plot between May and June 2013.
Gerrard was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for 14 years.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Gerrard travelled to Rotterdam and met international drug traffickers with the plan of importing drugs from Latin America to Europe.
The NCA appealed for help to find him following an October 2013 raid on a cafe in the Dutch city.
Police believe Gerrard and others were using it as a front for a drugs smugglers' global operations centre.
When he handed himself in, Gerrard told officers the pressure of being on the run had "got too much" for him.
Greg McKenna, regional head of investigations for the NCA, said: "After being on the run and evading justice for so long, Robert Gerrard is finally where he belongs.
"He was fundamental to the plot to smuggle cocaine into the UK and fled in an attempt to avoid the long prison sentence he has now received.
"Gerrard featured in our Most Wanted campaigns and handed himself because he couldn't cope with the pressure of staying on the run.
"Other fugitives should learn from his example - we won't stop hunting you, and we won't stop making your life on the run as uncomfortable as possible."
The NCA said Michael Moogan, aged 31 and from Liverpool, is still wanted in connection with conspiracy to import cocaine into the UK.
Alex Hales (31) and Gary Ballance (57) came into the England side but both got out playing loose shots when well set.
Joe Root then hit 85 from 89 balls but fell in the penultimate over as England finished on 250-8 from their 50 overs.
Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (91 not out) and Umar Akmal (65) kept them in contention, and Shahid Afridi saw them home with seven balls to spare.
England must now decide on their XI to face Australia in Melbourne when the tournament begins on Saturday - with the biggest decisions resting over who joins pacemen James Anderson and Stuart Broad in the bowling attack.
Rarely tested in Monday's comfortable win over a lacklustre West Indies side, England rang the changes at the Sydney Cricket Ground to give their remaining squad members a run-out.
Hales and Ballance, who did not feature in the recent tri-series against Australia and India, were given a final chance to press their credentials as Ian Bell and James Taylor sat out, while Anderson and Broad - rested against the Windies - returned in place of Chris Woakes and Steven Finn.
Opener Moeen Ali failed to build on his 46 against West Indies, getting a leading edge to cover for four.
Though Hales and Ballance added 64, both players fell tamely to leg-spin as Hales gave Sohaib Maqsood a simple catch at mid-wicket off Afridi, while Ballance picked out the same fielder on the leg-side fence when trying to attack Yasir Shah (3-45).
Captain Eoin Morgan swiftly followed, edging to slip when trying to lap-sweep his third ball.
Root eventually found a durable partner in Chris Jordan (31 not out) as England reached the 250 mark off the last ball of their innings.
After Broad and Anderson removed Pakistan's openers, Jordan and James Tredwell - battling for those bowling places - took a wicket apiece, inducing false shots from Younus Khan and Haris Sohail as Ballance threw himself around in the deep to take the catch on both occasions.
It left Pakistan's hopes resting with the vastly experienced Misbah, who added 133 with Akmal to keep his side in contention, and by the time Akmal edged Broad to keeper Buttler, Pakistan still needed 40 from 33 balls.
When Maqsood (20) fell with eight needed from 14, the stage was set for the big-hitting Afridi, roared on by a noisy Pakistan fan contingent inside the SCG.
The veteran all-rounder did not disappoint, blasting Broad for successive fours in the penultimate over.
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Elizabeth and Ann grew up in different countries after their mum gave Ann up for adoption and moved to America.
Ann didn't even know she had a sister until recently.
Now after all this time the two have finally met.
Check out the moment the sisters saw each other for the first time.
Bob McColm, 59, will take over on 23 March from Alison Gomme, who announced her retirement last October.
Mr McColm, who has 30 years' experience in the UK's prison service, will lead an island staff of about 140.
He said: "I will place a strong focus on meeting the rehabilitation needs of prisoners to keep them out of custody."
He added: "I'm aware of the work taking place to reform the island's criminal justice system and the important contribution to be made by the prison and probation service."
Mr McColm has served as governor at HM Young Offenders Institute Lancaster Farms, HMP Garth, HMYOI Thorn Cross, HMP Kirkham and HMP Altcourse.
The Manx government said he also led the transformation of HMP Risley from a failing prison into one with significant performance improvements.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) affects two-thirds of babies in their first year and is a major cause of hospital admission in the UK.
Early trials of the jab, which uses a harmless virus instead, have shown promising results in adults.
Experts said that although still years off, an RSV vaccine was much needed.
RSV is especially dangerous in those born prematurely or with other respiratory problems.
It also causes severe illness in otherwise healthy infants and is responsible for one in six admissions of children to hospital in winter months.
In the developing world it is second to malaria as a killer of children under one.
A vaccine has long been sought, but success has been hampered by trials in the 1960s when immunised children went on to have extreme reactions when faced with the infection.
It took researchers a long time to work out what went wrong and other vaccine prototypes over the years have failed to produce sufficient immunity.
The latest vaccine, developed and initially tested by biotechnology firm Reithera, uses genetic engineering to trick the immune system into thinking that it is dealing with RSV.
This "viral vector" technology is the same as that used in the new Ebola vaccines.
It contains a harmless virus that cannot cause illness, and which has been modified to produce some RSV proteins on its surface, the journal Science Translational Medicine reports.
Researchers from the Oxford Vaccine Group tested two candidates - one using a chimpanzee cold virus never before used in humans and the other a harmless pox virus - in 42 adult volunteers.
In tests with a nasal spray and injection, the vaccines were found to be safe and produced an immune response.
It is the first stage in many years of trials.
The team is about to embark on tests of another vaccine using the same technology that is being specifically designed for use in children.
Other types of RSV vaccine are in development and US researchers recently announced positive results in older adults.
Study leader Dr Christopher Green, a clinical research fellow at Oxford University said what was particularly exciting about the viral vector technology used in their trials was that similar vaccines, including ones for malaria, had already been successfully used in infants.
"This is encouraging data," he said. "The results of this trial are a positive signal that prevention of RSV is achievable."
Dr Charlie Weller, senior portfolio developer at the Wellcome Trust, said the results were "extremely promising".
"The next steps will be key in order to determine whether the immune responses induced by this vaccine are sufficient to protect against RSV, particularly in the very young and very old, who are at a higher risk of infection."
Dr David Elliman, immunisation expert for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "This [RSV] has always been considered an important infection and one you would want a vaccine against."
The circles, which may have been used for festivals or rituals, at West Kennet near Avebury are now believed to have been built in 3300BC.
New radiocarbon dating tests have been carried out by Historic England.
Professor Alex Bayliss said finding "palisades of this time is completely unprecedented in British archaeology".
The structures stretched over 4km (2.5 miles) and were built with more than 4,000 trees.
Professor Bayliss said: "We've discovered a completely new type of monumental structure at a time when we didn't think any existed in Britain.
"There are palisades later and earlier but these are different."
She said the tests were carried out using charcoal samples excavated by Professor Alisdair Whittle, from Cardiff University, 30 years ago.
When the palisades were found in the original excavation in 1987 and the early 1990s, it was believed they were built in about 2500BC.
But Professor Bayliss said developments in radiocarbon dating techniques now enabled them to be more accurate.
She said the palisades were "probably used very briefly" and were "definitely burnt down deliberately".
She said speculation about their purpose included a festival or that one enclosure could have been for women and the other for men for rituals.
Professor Whittle added it was a "wonderful set of results".
"It's significant because it places the construction earlier and it's a period about which we don't know a lot," he said.
"It also shows us a lot of later activity of either people gathering seasonally or even permanently in what seems to be quite large numbers.
"It deepens our understanding of people coming to that area at a time when Avebury and Silbury Hill were being constructed."
Desire has announced that despite drilling to a depth of 1,300m at its Jacinta well in the North Falkland basin, there were no hydrocarbons.
The company's shares fell 29% on the news, despite Desire saying that it would now drill to 1,670m.
On 6 December, Desire's shares tumbled 50% after another well was capped.
Desire's shares, which reached 170p in October, closed down 29.4% at 42.5p.
When exploration off the Falklands began earlier this year, the share prices of several companies rose in expectation of an oil and gas boom.
But analysts say drilling results have so far proved disappointing.
And in November there were reports that ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company not owned by a government, had decided that the islands contained insufficient hydrocarbons to make exploration profitable.
Rev Faith Green Timmons cut short Mr Trump as he attacked his Democratic rival's support for global trade deals.
"Mr Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we've done in Flint, not give a political speech," said the Bethel United Methodist Church pastor.
"Oh, oh, OK, that's good," the Republican nominee responded, shuffling papers on his podium.
He went on to make a few remarks about fixing Flint's drinking water problems, but some in the crowd began to heckle.
One woman shouted out that the real estate magnate had used discriminatory housing practices in his buildings.
The businessman responded: "Never, you're wrong. Never would."
The pastor interrupted again, this time to reproach Mr Trump's hecklers, saying: "He is a guest in my church and you will respect him".
Mr Trump abruptly ended his speech, which had lasted six minutes.
The road will save the need for a 24-mile detour when three bridges near Royal Wootton Bassett are closed for rail electrification upgrades.
Network Rail spokesman Julian Burnell said it would be "cheaper to close a few roads" but they wanted to minimise disruption to motorists.
The work on the bridges will start in March and last until 2017.
The project involves reconstructing two bridges on Marlborough Road and Broad Town Road and work on the A3102 Bath Road.
The track will also be lowered under the listed Hunts Mill bridge to create the additional space needed for the overhead electrification.
Work on the Marlborough Road/Broad Town bridge will take place between March 2016 and September 2016.
The work on the A3102 Bath Road bridge is due to take place between October 2016 and March 2017.
In a BBC interview, Aisha Buhari suggested his government had been hijacked by only a "few people", who were behind presidential appointments.
She said the president did not know most of the officials he had appointed.
Mr Buhari, who is on a visit to Germany, has responded by saying his wife belonged in his kitchen.
Standing alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a news conference, the president laughed off his wife's accusations.
"I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room," he said.
The remarks earned him a glare from Chancellor Merkel.
Mr Buhari said that having run for president three times and having succeeded the fourth, he could "claim superior knowledge over her".
Mr Buhari was elected last year with a promise to tackle corruption and nepotism in government.
But in the interview with Naziru Mikailu from BBC Hausa, Mrs Buhari said: "The president does not know 45 out of 50 of the people he appointed and I don't know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years."
She said people who did not share the vision of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were now appointed to top posts because of the influence a "few people" wield.
"Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position," she said.
His wife's decision to go public with her concerns will shock many people, but it shows the level of discontent with the president's leadership, says the BBC's Naziru Mikailu in the capital, Abuja.
Aisha Buhari campaigned vigorously for her husband in last year's election in Nigeria, organising town hall meetings with women's groups and youth organisations across the country.
However, she kept a low profile at the start of the administration and was barely seen or heard. She was restricted to her work on the empowerment of women and helping victims of the Boko Haram conflict in the north-east of the country where she is from. This is one of the reasons why this damning interview has caught the attention of many Nigerians.
It is a significant blow for Mr Buhari, who has a reputation for being a tough, no-nonsense president.
Her comments also bolster accusations that his government has been hijacked by a small group of individuals.
Critics say a large number of people have been appointed because of their relationship with those people in one way or the other.
Mrs Buhari was prompted to to speak out in an effort to end those practices so that party loyalists who contributed to his election victory could benefit.
Her critics say she is speaking out only because she failed to convince the president to appoint her own people.
However, as the closest person to the president, she must have exhausted all avenues before criticising him in the media.
The comments could also mark a turning point for a government that has clearly struggled to deal with economic recession and is facing growing disquiet within the ruling party.
The Nigerian economy, battered by low global oil prices and a currency devaluation, officially entered recession in August for the first time in a decade.
Oil sales account for 70% of government income.
The president famously remarked at his inauguration that he "belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody".
Asked to name those who had hijacked the government, she refused, saying: "You will know them if you watch television."
On whether the president was in charge, she said: "That is left for the people to decide."
Mrs Buhari, who at 45, is 23 years her husband's junior, said he had not told her whether he would contest the 2019 election.
"He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again."
Nigerians have been weighing in on Twitter to give their judgement on the first lady's frank interview:
Asked what she regarded as the government's major achievement, she said it was to improve security in the north-east where militant Islamist group Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009.
"No-one is complaining about being attacked in their own homes. Thankfully everyone can walk around freely, go to places of worship, etc. Even kids in Maiduguri have returned to schools," Mrs Buhari said, referring to the city which was once the headquarters of the militant group.
Cooke hit 94 runs off just 54 balls as Glamorgan passed their target of 318 with two balls to spare on Tuesday.
It was the county's highest run-chase to win a limited overs game in Cardiff.
"Chris Cooke was amazing, he's done it for us so many times over the last two years so all the accolades should go his way," Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport.
Cooke's innings came at the end of a run-filled day as Kent's Darren Stevens scored 110 off only 64 balls to help set Glamorgan a daunting 50-over target.
Colin Ingram's first Glamorgan century kept the home side in the match in reply, but they still needed 103 off the last eight overs.
A heavy shower then made life more difficult for the Kent bowlers, while Cooke also survived being caught off what subsequently proved to be a no-ball following a review.
"Personally it's a great feeling to contribute to a win like that for Glamorgan, chasing over 300 is a great team effort and we all played our part," Cooke told BBC Wales Sport.
"It was a hell of an effort from Colin Ingram up top to lay the platform for the big sloggers to come in at the end.
"The rain break actually helped us. David Lloyd came in and played a brilliant cameo and that got the ball moving, after that I thought it was on."
Glamorgan, whose first game in Group B was a washout against Nottinghamshire, now have one point after overcoming their two-point deduction for a poor pitch last season.
Over the next six days, they have two more games in Cardiff against Essex on Friday before hosting Hampshire on Sunday, travelling to Birmingham on Monday and then a home game against Sussex on Wednesday.
"For this first week we want to give it our best shot and see where we are on Sunday, but I think that sort of win will give us quite a lot of momentum on Friday," said Rudolph.
Cooke added: "The schedule's a bit crazy but it has been for the last couple of seasons and it's the same for everyone so we just need to get on with it."
Glamorgan hope to have Graham Wagg available for the Essex match after the all-rounder missed the first two games due to concussion.
The James Stevens No 10 lifeboat, which served in St Ives, Cornwall, is said to be one of only two remaining boats of its kind.
The 35ft (10.6m) vessel was restored in 2002 and had been in use for pleasure trips around St Ives.
But it was seen submerged in Hayle Estuary on Wednesday morning.
Alex Pym was out walking his dog when he saw the boat at about 09:00 BST.
He said the lifeboat had previously been used for trips in St Ives harbour but had been moored in the estuary for at least a year.
It is not known who owns it.
The vessel was one of 20 bought by the RNLI in the late 1890s paid for with a legacy from James Stevens, a property developer from Birmingham.
The only other remaining James Stevens boat is the No 14, which is in regular use and maintained by the Frinton and Walton Heritage Trust in Essex.
The non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) will be rolled out by the NHS from 2018.
It should cut the number of women who need riskier diagnostic tests in pregnancy that can cause a miscarriage.
But critics fear the new test, although optional, may lead to more women aborting babies with Down's.
A world without Down's syndrome?
Down's syndrome is a genetic condition that typically causes some level of learning disability and characteristic physical features.
The NHS already offers screening to women 11 to 14 weeks into their pregnancy.
At the moment, an ultrasound scan, the mother's age and other factors such as smoking are combined to assess the likelihood of a baby having Down's.
Anyone with a greater than one-in-150 chance of giving birth to a baby with the condition is offered an amniocentesis, in which a needle is used to extract a sample of amniotic fluid surrounding the foetus for testing to get a clear diagnosis.
It is a risky procedure and most of the women who are referred for amniocentesis will not have a baby with Down's. Yet one in every 100 who has the test risks having a miscarriage.
NIPT is a simple blood test that can more accurately inform women about the odds of their unborn child having Down's, or indeed other genetic disorders such as Edwards' and Patau's syndromes, before deciding whether or not to have amniocentesis.
Experts estimate NIPT could avoid more than 6,000 of these invasive procedures each year. This means that there could be a reduction in the number of miscarriages related to amniocentesis from 46 to approximately three per year.
Some charities and patient organisations have welcomed the move, but others are concerned about the possible ramifications.
People with Down's syndrome, their families and campaign groups expressed anger at not being consulted before the decision to roll out the screening.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is currently considering the range of ethical issues raised by the new test and will publish its findings in early 2017.
Dr Anne Mackie, from the UK National Screening Committee, said: "We will closely manage the roll-out of non-invasive prenatal testing to give us a better understanding of the impact it has on the decisions women and their partners make following their test results.
"Key to ensuring we get this right is the work we are doing with patient groups, scientists and clinicians, to help us develop balanced informative resources for the public and health professionals."
The figure for the six months to December compared with a profit of $5.35bn for the same period in 2014.
Lower commodity prices slashed revenue by 37% to $15.7bn, sending underlying profit down 92% to $412m.
BHP, one of the world's biggest mining companies, took the axe to the interim dividend.
It has abandoned its long-held policy of maintaining or increasing dividend payments to shareholders, reducing the payout from 62 cents a share to just 16 cents.
Chairman Jac Nasser said BHP now believed the period of weaker prices and higher volatility would be prolonged.
The decision to cut the dividend had not been made lightly but was a "determined response to changing markets", he said.
The size of the dividend cut was worse than analysts had expected.
Shaw and Partners analyst Peter O'Connor said: "Given months of anguish and market debate regarding the dividend, we expect that 16 cents while disappointing, is a cashflow positive and therefore will likely be absorbed by the market."
After an initial fall, shares in BHP Billiton rose 2.7% to $17.64 in late morning trading in Sydney but have fallen 47% in the past 12 moths.
The company pledged to pay a minimum of 50% of underlying profits in dividends in the future.
Mr O'Connor commented: "While the [profits] miss looks big in percentage terms, the numbers are quite frankly disappointingly low anyway."
Chief executive Andrew Mackenzie said: "With improved financial flexibility and a portfolio of high-return growth options, we are well positioned to grow."
Mining companies such as BHP have been under intense pressure as a slowdown in China's economy results in lower demand for key commodities, such as iron ore and coal.
BHP also revealed a new operating model with fewer layers that aimed to create a more agile company.
The changes will result in Jimmy Wilson, head of the iron ore division, departing, along with Tim Cutt, head of petroleum operations.
It took a charge of $858m after tax for costs associated with the November collapse of a dam at the BHP-owned Samarco mine in Brazil that killed at least 17 people.
Mr Mackenzie said: "Supporting the response efforts, rebuilding communities and restoring the environment impacted by the dam failure remains a priority and substantial progress has been made."
Dean Dalla Valle has been assigned to lead BHP's response to the incident and will be based in Brazil. The executive will retain responsibility for the Jansen Potash project in Canada.
BHP Billiton is one of the world's largest producers of major commodities including iron ore, metallurgical coal, copper and uranium, and has substantial interests in both conventional and shale oil and gas and energy coal.
BHP was founded in the mid-1800s in Australia, while Billiton's roots can be traced back to a tin mine in Indonesia in 1851. The Anglo-Dutch company merged with BHP in 2001 to form a global mining giant.
However, that merger was partly undone last year when it spun off some smaller assets, including aluminium, nickel and manganese, into a new company called South32.
Since listing in Sydney last June, its shares have fallen by 40% to A$1.22.
The accident happened just after 23:00 GMT on Wednesday on Belmont Hill, Caerleon.
A 21-year-old from Caerleon was pronounced dead at the scene and a 16-year-old girl from Pontypool, Torfaen, was taken to Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital.
Gwent Police is investigating.
8 March 2016 Last updated at 13:40 GMT
On International Women's Day, these women who are braving the cold to swim outdoors say exercise not only keeps them fit but also does wonders for their mental and emotional wellbeing.
"It's the freedom, the great expanse of air. It gives you a real boost," explained one woman.
"The swimming gives me lots of natural positive energy that lasts all day," said another.
Police recorded 550 homicides in 2011-12, 88 fewer than the previous year and the lowest number since 1983.
Offences such as pickpocketing, shoplifting and bicycle theft rose 2%, the only crime category to show a rise.
Separate data, based on interviews with 46,000 adults, suggests crime levels are broadly flat.
They were conducted as part of the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), previously known as the British Crime Survey, which asks people whether they have been the victim of any offences during the past year.
About 9.5 million incidents took place, according to the survey respondents.
The
ONS figures
show crime recorded by police forces fell by 4% to below the four million mark for the first time since 1989.
By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
The fall in homicides is quite remarkable - and does not appear to be a statistical fluke.
It reflects an overall decline in levels of violence recorded by police - 762,000 incidents, the fewest number since counting methods changed a decade ago.
Statisticians say the figures broadly mirror reductions elsewhere in the developed world, so it would be unfair of politicians, police or doctors here to claim the credit for a phenomenon that appears to be driven by something more fundamental.
Nevertheless, officials believe that efforts to bear down on domestic and family-related violence, which account for two-thirds of killings, is a key factor in the homicide fall.
Police and probation officers have made huge strides in recent years in identifying people who are at risk of attack and ensuring violent criminals are monitored more effectively.
Officials said the fall in homicide figures was not unique to England and Wales and there had been reductions in Europe, Asia and North America since the mid 1990s.
The number of homicides rose from around 300 a year in the 1960s to about 1,000 a decade ago. The number last year was the same as in 1983.
The figures also show attempted murders also fell substantially, indicating that the fall in homicides was not principally because surgeons were saving people's lives through advances in medical techniques, said BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.
The "other thefts" category also included people stealing items from garages and sheds and rose 4% the previous year. More than 1.1 million such incidents were recorded by police last year.
John Flatley, head of crime statistics at the ONS, suggested the increase was mostly driven by rises in thefts of metal, mobile phones and bags left unattended in pubs and bars.
He added the CSEW indicated that pickpocketing had risen 17% in the last two years and this "might represent an emerging upward trend mirroring that seen in the comparable recorded crime category".
Mr Flatley said the estimated 5,000 offences committed during last summer's riots had been "swallowed up by the larger volume reductions we've seen elsewhere".
The recorded crime figures also show:
Policing Minister Nick Herbert said the figures showed crime has continued to fall despite the challenge of reduced police budgets and "give the lie to the spurious claim that there is a simple link between overall police numbers and the crime rate".
He said the introduction of elected police commissioners in November would make forces more accountable for "areas of local concern" highlighted by the ONS.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said the figures were a "credit to those officers and staff who have faced the challenge of major efficiencies while continuing to tackle crime in our communities".
Separate crime figures were previously released by the Scottish Government and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. In 2011-12, Scotland's eight police forces recorded 3% fewer crimes than the previous year, while offences in Northern Ireland dropped 1.6% year-on-year.
It's been six months since Britain's first official astronaut blasted off to the International Space Station.
He's been a busy man. Here are some of the firsts and records he's achieved while he's been up there...
Tim set the world record for the fastest marathon in space - 3 hours, 35 minutes and 21 seconds.
He ran the London Marathon in April, at the same time as runners on Earth, but on a treadmill aboard the ISS.
Take a look at the training and special equipment he needed to make it possible...
Tim says his spacewalk outside the ISS is his finest moment from his time in space.
As well as a chance to take a great selfie, Tim had to complete the spacewalk to carry out repairs to the space station - 250 miles above the Earth!
Tim sent a one-minute message to the Queen in a video link live from the International Space Station.
He thanked the Queen (after she sent him her own good wishes) and said he hoped his journey would help make the world a better place.
Perhaps his message of thanks to the Queen got him into her good books, because she is making him a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to space research and scientific education.
Whilst others who were honoured by the Queen found out on Earth, Tim heard the news while he was up in space!
Tim Peake completed a tricky mission while in space - he had to operate a rover that was back here on Earth!
His task was to get the robot across a sandpit, made to be like the surface of Mars, and into a cave to look for targets.
It was all part of a European Space Agency project that aims to learn how astronauts can control equipment remotely.
The plan is for astronauts to do this when rovers are sent to Mars in the future.
A judge has banned Jonathan Hughes, 48, from an area of Rhos on Sea, Conwy county, using disorderly behaviour and setting up unauthorised camps.
Hughes has since moved into a flat, the court in Llandudno was told.
He received a three-year criminal behaviour order after admitting harassing a seafront cafe worker.
Prosecutor James Neary said police had received 23 separate complaints about his camp in a shelter near the seafront at Rhos Point, including issues about the smell and litter.
He had previously lived rough at Caernarfon, Gwynedd, which had also prompted complaints, the court heard.
Mr Neary said Hughes' behaviour had had an "impact on the community".
Hughes, who represented himself, was given a 10-week curfew between 16:00-06:00 GMT and he was ordered to pay £100 compensation and £170 costs.
British Transport Police said the man was assaulted after "exchanging words" with another man just before 13:00 on Saturday.
Police said he was pushed on the concourse by his attacker, then attacked on the station platform. The victim did not need hospital treatment.
The attacker was black and was wearing a white t-shirt and carrying a red bag.
Police said they wanted to hear from anyone who was at the station at the time, or who witnessed the assault.
Ducati rider Davies took his fourth win of the season at the California circuit despite still suffering the effects of a crash at Misano three weeks ago.
The Welshman has been recovering from a spinal injury and a thumb fracture.
Davies finished 1.2 seconds ahead of Rea, with pole setter Tom Sykes third and Italy's Marco Melandri fourth.
The three British riders were involved in a three-way battle at the front, although Yorkshireman Sykes fell off the pace in the latter stages of the 25-lap race.
Northern Irishman Rea maintains his record of having achieved a podium finish on each of his visits to Laguna Seca since 2014, the double world champion having shared a win apiece with Kawasaki team-mate Sykes last year.
Milwaukee Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty crashed with 15 laps remaining of the first race of the eighth round of the championship, with England's Alex Lowes also coming off.
"It was important to bounce back with a win, although my priority today was just to finish the race and maybe get a podium. Once I hit the front I didn't want to overstep the mark with the front end," said Davies after the 24th victory of his career in the series and his third at the American track.
Rea, winner of eight races this season, added that Davies "deserved a lot of credit for coming back from our crash at Misano".
"In the first part of the race I was sitting comfortably and thought that I had enough pace to pull away but then I couldn't get grip off the rear and couldn't pull out of the corners the way I wanted to."
After Sunday's race at the same venue, the championship takes a five-week break until the next round in Germany.
Warrington Wolves also have a derby date, paired with Cheshire neighbours Widnes at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Wigan Warriors host Castleford Tigers, whom they also met at this stage of the competition in 1986 and 2014.
St Helens' conquerors Hull FC will host Catalans Dragons at the KCom Stadium.
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The four quarter-final ties will be played on 24-26 June.
There are no teams from outside Super League left in the competition after Batley, Oldham, Toulouse, Dewsbury and Halifax were all beaten at the sixth-round stage.
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Black-tailed godwits usually stick with the same mate for life, but a 12-year-old male at Welney Wetland Centre on the Norfolk-Cambridgeshire border obviously has other ideas.
An RSPB spokesman said the godwit's infidelity was "unique in our experience and fascinating behaviour".
Several chicks have hatched but it is not yet known which of the bird's mates is the mother.
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There are only two other breeding pairs of black-tailed godwits at the reserve, both of whom have also hatched chicks in a more traditional family unit.
Experts at the wetland reserve described the situation as "precarious" and speculated that "these normally monogamous birds [might be] trying a new tactic this summer".
Dr Viola Ross-Smith from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), said: "Black-tailed godwits generally pair with the same partner for life, but will divorce if their partner does not arrive back on the breeding grounds at the right time, or look for a new partner if their old one dies, so it could very well be the case that bigamy is new to Welney."
The majority of other 60 breeding pairs in the UK spend the summer at the RSPB's Nene Washes reserve near Peterborough before migrating to Africa for the winter.
Black-tailed godwits are classified as "near threatened" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Knight alleges Dre was responsible for two attempts on his life.
And he claims Dre agreed to pay him 30% of his earnings for life, including his share of Apple's 2014 $3bn (£2.45bn) purchase of Dre's Beats products.
Dre's lawyers have dismissed the claims, saying he has had no contact with Knight for 20 years.
Knight and Dre were co-founders of Death Row Records.
Knight is currently in jail awaiting trial for murder. He is accused of running over and killing industry colleague Terry Carter in January 2015 in a car park in Los Angeles.
In the case filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Knight said he had been defending himself as another man, filmmaker Cle Sloan, allegedly pulled a gun on him.
Several months earlier, Knight was shot seven times at a Hollywood nightclub in a party thrown by R&B singer Chris Brown.
The case, referring to Dre by his given name, alleges that "Andre Young is responsible for both crimes."
A lawyer for Dre told Rolling Stone: "Given that Dre has had zero interaction with Suge since leaving Death Row Records in 1996, we hope that Suge's lawyer has lots of malicious prosecution insurance."
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Adam was a regular in his first three seasons with Stoke, but has only played 34 games since the start of 2015-16.
The Scot, 30, has started for Stoke in their past two games but he will not feature in the World Cup qualifier against England on 12 November.
"He's in good physical condition at the moment. That's really encouraging for him and for us," said Hughes.
"In the past, Charlie will admit himself that, in games, to keep the intensity he plays at and the energy that he shows, he has found it difficult to complete 90 minutes on occasions.
"It's difficult when you're out of the side. You have to keep your focus and Charlie has been able to do that."
Adam, who has 26 caps, revealed last week that Scotland manager Gordon Strachan has not spoken to him in more than a year.
After been overlooked, Adam says he is now looking no further than Stoke's next Premier League game at home to Bournemouth on 19 November.
"Football can change from one week to another," he told BBC Radio Stoke. "I'm just enjoying the way I'm playing and hoping that's good enough to keep me in the team.
"If the team keep performing well, then you've got a good chance of staying in."
After their poor start to the season, Stoke have now climbed to 12th in the league.
Now into his fifth season at the Britannia Stadium, former Rangers, Blackpool and Liverpool playmaker Adam has made a total of 130 appearances for the club, but only 71 Premier League starts.
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Its female stars Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence also picked up best actress and supporting actress prizes for their roles in the 1970s-set movie.
Loosely based on a real-life FBI sting operation, it tells of con men enlisted to bring down a corrupt politician.
Steve McQueen's historical tale 12 Years a Slave received the top honour of the night, winning best film drama.
It was the only award the movie was given, after going into the evening with seven nominations.
McQueen and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o had all received nods but came away from Sunday's event empty-handed.
Collecting the award, McQueen said he was "a little bit in shock" and thanked his wife for finding the book by Solomon Northup, on which the film was based.
The other film awards were spread around a number of movies.
Matthew McConaughey was named best actor in a drama for his role as Aids patient Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club.
The actor said the award was "unexpected, but graciously accepted".
His co-star Jared Leto won the best supporting actor prize for his depiction of a transgender woman.
Cate Blanchett collected the best actress in a drama award for her part as a disgraced socialite in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.
Leonardo DiCaprio, meanwhile, won best actor in a comedy or musical for The Wolf of Wall Street.
DiCaprio, who won his second Golden Globe from nine nominations, thanked director Martin Scorsese for his mentorship and for "allowing me to stalk you to make this movie".
Alfonso Cuaron was named best director for Gravity - the only award the space movie picked up on the night.
The Mexican beat McQueen, Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and American Hustle's David O Russell to the director prize.
The screenplay award went to Spike Jonze for Her, a romance about an office worker who falls in love with a computer-generated voice.
Italian film The Great Beauty won the title of best foreign language film, while Disney's Frozen took home the best animated feature award.
Robert Redford's film All is Lost won the best original score prize, while Irish band U2 won best original song for Ordinary Love, as featured in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
British band Coldplay and US country star Taylor Swift had also been in the running for their songs from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Paul Potts film One Chance respectively.
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12 Years a Slave only won one of its seven Golden Globe nominations, but it was for the biggest prize of the night, best drama film. That means it's still likely to have a strong showing at the Academy Awards.
Its main rivals seem set to be American Hustle, which took home three big awards, and space thriller Gravity, which picked up the prestigious best director award for Alfonso Cuaron.
The results come too late to affect this week's Academy Award nominations, for which ballots have already been cast.
But the spread of results indicate that Oscar honours could well end up being shared between several films in March, rather than one movie sweeping the board.
U2 said working on the film completed a decades-long journey with Nelson Mandela that began with them playing an anti-apartheid concert some 35 years ago.
"This man turned our life upside down, right side up,'' said frontman Bono. "A man who refused to hate not because he didn't have rage or anger or those things, but that he thought love would do a better job."
As the first major ceremony of the awards season, the winners are a likely indication of who will be shortlisted when the Oscar nominations are announced later this week.
The TV categories featured a number of double award winners.
Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra was named best TV movie/mini-series, with Michael Douglas beating co-star Matt Damon to the best actor in a TV movie, series or mini-series prize.
Although the film was released in cinemas around the world, it was only shown on cable channel HBO in the US.
"The only reason you're not here is I had more sequins," Douglas told Damon as he collected his award.
Breaking Bad also came away with two awards - best drama series and best actor in a drama for its star Bryan Cranston.
It was the first Golden Globe for Cranston, having been nominated for the same award every year since 2011. He was also nominated in 2003 for his role in TV comedy Malcolm in the Middle.
He called the award "a lovely way to say goodbye" after the series ended after five years in September.
Police caper Brooklyn Nine-Nine also collected two prizes - best comedy or musical TV series, and best actor in a comedy for Andy Samberg.
Ceremony co-host Amy Poehler won best actress in a TV comedy or musical for her role in Parks and Recreation, while House of Cards star Robin Wright was named best actress in a drama series.
Elisabeth Moss won best actress in a TV movie or mini-series for BBC drama Top of the Lake, while veteran actor Jon Voight collected best supporting actor in a TV movie, series or mini-series for Ray Donovan.
It was a generally disappointing night for British talents, most of whom came away empty handed.
Jacqueline Bisset was the only Briton to win an award - the prize for best supporting actress in a TV series, mini-series or TV movie - for her part in BBC drama Dancing on the Edge.
Other British stars who missed out included Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Michael Sheen, Idris Elba and Christian Bale.
Poehler and 30 Rock star Tina Fey hosted the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the second year running, earning big laughs with jokes about George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep.
Thousands of women have complained that they were not given proper notice.
Women born after 6 April 1951 should all have been warned that they would not get a state pension at 60, as their retirement age is gradually raised.
Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann said adverts were also placed in papers and magazines about the changes.
However, a campaign has resulted in a petition signed by 137,000 people and a series of hearings and debates in Parliament - the latest of which is on Monday.
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.
Some of those born between April 1951 and 1960 will not qualify for a pension until the age of 66.
Campaigners belonging to Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) say some women had very little notice that they would not get a pension at 60.
They are calling for "transitional arrangements" for those affected.
Baroness Altmann called for a slower timetable in 2011 before she was pensions minister.
However, she said that agreeing to the campaigners demands would, in itself, be unfair to younger women. She told the BBC that the state pension age for women had been rising for six years and was now at 63, and that reforms in April meant it would be more generous.
She added that the letters sent to women had been clear, although she accepted that not everyone would have received them if the Department for Work and Pensions had out of date contact details.
The government's state pension calculator is available here.
McFarland, 69, won two league titles with the Rams as a player in the 1970s and had a two-year spell as boss in the 1990s.
Former club president John Kirkland, who sat on the board between 1981 and 2002, has returned to the club.
They are joined by David Williams, a lawyer and business adviser to Rams chairman Mel Morris.
The rest of the board includes Morris, chief operating officer John Vicars and chief financial officer Stephen Pearce.
"These appointments provide us with a group rich in talent, knowledge, experience and love of the club," Morris told Derby County's website.
The Cessna Citation fuselage was bought by Milton Hall School in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, earlier this month.
After being carried by crane on to a playing field, the plane was fenced off and gutted, with jet washing and construction of new wings still to do.
"The children just want to get inside it, but we need to make it safe first," said school media manager Jon Baker.
He said hours of work had been put into clearing out insulation, flight information cards and other rubbish from inside the jet.
The school, which has limited space for expansion, purchased the jet for an undisclosed fee and has been fundraising in order to pay for its renovations.
"We've also been planning out the inside space and how it will look as a classroom - it'll comfortably fit half a class when we're finished," Mr Baker added.
"The children have been writing stories about how they think it got there. A couple of the reception classes have turned their classrooms into airports.
"It's been a catalyst for inspiring creative writing."
The school hopes the jet will be ready for use as a classroom by June, with the space set to be used as a a hub for ICT and media studies.
The US airline will buy $200m (£159m) worth of shares in the Chinese firm and the two will "seek to increase cooperation".
China Southern is the latest of China's top airlines to bring in an investor from outside the mainland.
The deal should offer American Airlines more possibilities to tap into China's growing aviation market.
China is one of the biggest sources of tourists to the US, with Chinese carriers aggressively expanding their fleets and range of overseas destinations to cater to the strong growth in traveller numbers.
For both China Southern and American Airlines, the deal is expected to improve access to smaller cities, increasing the number of routes both firms can offer between the world's two largest travel markets.
China Southern is the last of China's three major airlines to bring in a strategic investor from outside mainland China.
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific holds about 18% in flag carrier Air China while US airline Delta bought a 3.6% stake in China Eastern in 2015.
Under the latest deal, American Airlines will own a 2.7% share of its new partner.
In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, China Southern said the two sides would work together to share transport, staff and airport facilities - as well as cooperating on code sharing and passenger loyalty programmes.
The deal comes as Beijing says it wants to improve efficiency and competitiveness of its state-owned airlines by pushing more strategic investment from private capital.
Both MPs say they have broken no rules and have referred themselves to the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards and Sir Malcolm has been suspended from the Conservative group of MPs in Parliament.
Reporters for the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches posed as staff of a fake Chinese firm.
It is claimed that Mr Straw was recorded describing how he operated "under the radar" and had used his influence to change EU rules on behalf of a firm which paid him £60,000 a year.
On the subject of payment, Mr Straw is heard saying: "So normally, if I'm doing a speech or something, it's £5,000 a day, that's what I charge."
Sir Malcolm is reported to have claimed he could arrange "useful access" to every British ambassador in the world.
He is heard saying: "I am self-employed - so nobody pays me a salary. I have to earn my income."
There are no rules banning MPs from holding other sources of employment, and many do. Opinion is divided on whether this is a good thing.
For some, having work outside of Parliament means MPs have a broader range of experience and are less likely to be "career politicians".
But critics of the current policy, including Labour leader Ed Miliband, say banning second jobs would increase public trust in politicians.
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The Commons Code of Conduct states that MPs must not act as a "paid advocate" - taking payment for speaking in the House, asking a parliamentary question, tabling a motion, introducing a bill or tabling or moving an amendment to a motion or bill or urging colleagues or ministers to do so.
They have to declare their financial interests, including paid employment outside Parliament, in the Register of Members' Financial Interests.
There are also guidelines for ministers leaving office: former Cabinet members must normally wait three months after leaving office before they can accept any kind of paid employment, and should not lobby existing ministers on behalf of any organisation for which they are employed for two years after leaving office.
It is the job of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to look into complaints against MPs. The commissioner reports to the Committee on Standards, which then decides on a course of action to take against an MP, including recommending suspension from the Commons, if this is necessary.
MPs vote on whether to implement the recommendations.
They are both political veterans and former UK foreign secretaries.
Jack Straw, 68, has been Labour MP for Blackburn since 1979. He was a shadow Labour spokesman throughout the 1980s before serving as Home Secretary, from 1997, in Tony Blair's first term as PM, becoming Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and then holding a series of other front bench roles until Labour lost power in 2010. He is due to step down as an MP in May.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, 68, was MP for Edinburgh Pentlands from 1974 to 1997 and has been MP for Kensington and Chelsea/Kensington since 2005. He was on the Conservative frontbench from 1975 to 1997, including spells as transport, defence and, from 1995 to 1997, foreign secretary. He is currently chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, which oversees the UK's intelligence agencies.
Both MPs have said they have not broken any of the rules governing MPs' outside interests.
Mr Straw, the Labour MP for Blackburn, said he had been discussing options for when he leaves Parliament after May's general election. He said he had followed the letter and the spirit of the rules, saying he did not agree with Mr Miliband's call to change the law.
Sir Malcolm, the Conservative MP for Kensington who chairs Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, said he had never accepted an offer from the fake firm, saying it was a "preliminary" discussion "about what they had mind".
He said he had "nothing to be embarrassed about". He said the allegations were "unfounded" and he vowed to fight them "with all my strength".
President Mahamadou Issoufou is hoping to secure a second term in the impoverished West African nation.
His main rival, Hama Amadou, is currently behind bars accused of trafficking babies, a charge he strongly denies.
The run-up to the vote was marred by accusations of repression and a row over identification documents.
The authorities announced that roughly 1.5 million people without ID papers would be able to cast their ballots by having witnesses vouch for them, in a move that was condemned by opposition leaders.
Niger is rich in natural resources, including uranium and oil, but is one of the poorest countries on Earth, ranking last in the UN Human Development Index.
Voting took place under tight security and was delayed in some parts of the capital Niamey, owing to late delivery of ballot papers.
There had been fears of jihadist attacks by groups based in neighbouring Nigeria, Mali and Libya.
Meanwhile, President Issoufou says his government foiled a coup plot in December.
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One of the candidates in Sunday's presidential election, Ibrahim Hamidou, was arrested for casting doubt upon December's alleged coup but was released in January against the wishes of state prosecutors.
Aside from Hama Amadou, a former prime minister, other well-known figures among the crowded field of 15 presidential candidates included Mahamane Ousmane, Niger's first democratically elected president.
A run-off will be held if no candidate secures an outright majority.
Niger is seen as an important ally of Western powers in the fight against militant Islamists in the fragile Sahara region.
However, the country is far from stable. Corruption, food shortages and porous borders remain serious problems.
An average of 5.1 million viewers watched the first episode of the second series of Poldark, a drama set in 18th Century Cornwall.
Victoria's third episode was seen by an average of 4.8 million.
However, that figure rose to 5.2 million when viewers watching on ITV+1 were included.
The series stars Jenna Coleman - best known for her role as Clara Oswald in Doctor Who - as Queen Victoria.
The X Factor was the most watched programme on Sunday evening, with an average of 7.6 million viewers tuning in to the third episode of ITV's singing competition.
Critics were broadly positive about the return of Poldark, which stars Aidan Turner.
The Guardian's Sam Wollaston wrote: "Weekends, with the nights beginning to close in, are better places with Poldark back."
Ian Hyland in The Daily Mirror said: "The breathless opener surely calmed any fears that this series of Poldark might not be as good as the first.
He added: "It was great to see all the old favourites back... to be honest, they had me at 'Previously on Poldark.'"
Jan Moir in The Daily Mail said the show was "on cracking form".
She particularly praised the episode for the scenes in which Turner was seen shirtless, adding: "On this show, the Great British Take Off is a sure sign that autumn is here and all is well in the world."
But Carol Midgley in The Times gave the show three stars, and questioned whether Turner's character had been made unrealistically virtuous.
"One did start to wonder, are they at risk of overdoing the righteousness of Saint Ross? He's so perfect he's approaching caricature," she said.
"What with standing up for the poor, rescuing and marrying servant girls and defending people's honour... the next step surely is walking on water."
Writing in The Telegraph about the two programmes, Allison Pearson said: "Despite a strong cast, a first-rate script and impeccable historical pedigree, Victoria feels less true than the made-up story on BBC One.
"Of course, that may well change as the young Queen grows up. For the moment, the smart money in the great Sunday-night telly battle has to be on the irresistible Poldark."
The first series of BBC One's Poldark was broadcast in March 2015 and quickly became popular with viewers.
In July, the BBC confirmed a third series has already been commissioned.
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A review of the deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1988 and 2000 found an "almost routine use of opiates had almost certainly" shortened the lives of some patients.
The investigation, launched in 2014, was due to conclude in December 2017.
The government said the work was now likely to end in spring 2018.
Police investigated the deaths of 92 patients but brought no prosecutions.
During a written parliamentary statement, health minister Philip Dunne said: "As a consequence of the greater number of families now in contact with the Panel and the increase in the volume of material the Panel is reviewing, the Panel now expects to complete its work in spring 2018."
The Gosport Independent Panel is headed by the former Bishop of Liverpool James Jones, who led the Hillsborough inquiry.
Jersey skipper Luke Campbell hit a penalty over the bar before Scott Linton netted with a spot kick of his own to put the visitors ahead.
The hosts were level before half-time though through midfielder Cav Miley.
David Gormley's dipping effort after the break was fumbled by Jersey keeper Ryan Le Couteur but the referee ruled that the ball had not crossed the line.
Martin Cassidy and Paddy O'Toole took charge of the island side after former Aston Villa boss Brian Little stepped down from the job earlier in the month.
They had to watch on as Campbell blazed his penalty over after substitute Rupert Murray was pushed over in the box by Clyde defender Michael Oliver.
Linton's low penalty at the other end just about found the back of the net despite Jose Figuero getting a hand to it.
Jersey were not behind for long as good work from Murray set Miley through one-on-one with goalkeeper John Gibson and the Jersey midfielder kept his composure to slot the ball home.
The hosts found it harder to clear their lines after half-time, playing into a strong wind, and Clyde went closest to a winner when Gormley's awkward effort was fumbled towards his own line by Le Couteur but his blushes were spared by the referee and his assistant.
O'Toole and Cassidy had been assistants under Little, but remain unsure of their future roles, with the Jersey FA expected to name a new manager in the next few weeks.
Cassidy confirmed after the final whistle that he will hold talks with the JFA this week and is keen on the job.
The 30-year-old defender tested positive on Wednesday for high levels of growth hormone HCG, which was found to be caused by the illness.
Frankfurt play Nuremberg in a relegation-promotion play-off tie on Thursday - and Russ is available.
"Despite this tragic diagnosis the player has said he is ready to play," read a Frankfurt statement.
"This is something that has been confirmed by the doctors."
The club have not confirmed the location of the tumour.
Russ has spent almost his entire career with Frankfurt, aside from a spell with Wolfsburg between 2011 and 2013.
Thursday's match is the first of a two-legged tie, with Frankfurt participating after they finished 16th in the Bundesliga.
One couple was conned out of £600,000 over a 10-year period, trading standards officials said.
They were conned out of £300,000 in a "land banking" scam, buying expensive pockets of land with false promises of development.
A similar amount was lost on shares bought from abroad, sold as investments but in fact worthless.
The county council said such mail scams targeted the elderly and lonely and often involved bogus lottery wins, clairvoyants and inheritance frauds.
The couple's son, who asked only to be identified as Michael, said he was still dealing with bailiffs over the debts.
"My mother has sufficient pension income for her immediate needs so it hasn't left us completely cleaned out of money" he said.
"I'm afraid we've ended up in a situation where, out of my father's lifelong habit of saving and investing, the criminals have had the greater part of it and the rest of us are left with relatively little."
Trading standards officers highlighted the case as part of Scams Awareness Month.
They said the average age of a mail scam victim in Derbyshire was 77, and 90% have recently been widowed or live alone. Bereavement, isolation and loneliness were common factors, they added.
Manager Steve Allen said: "We think they started with mail scams, maybe smaller amounts of money.
"Over time they started to get fraudulent telephone calls, signed up to a land banking scam and the information was shared. "
Both men and women are now being told it is best not to consume any more than 14 units a week, which is around six pints of beer, and those should be spread over three days.
But science shows that even then there is still some risk of developing alcohol related illnesses.
Pregnant women are also now being advised not to drink at all.
The guidance, issued by the UK's chief medical officers, marks the first full review of alcohol guidelines since 1995.
Dr Michael McBride, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, said: "Many people drink alcohol, and most do so in ways that do not significantly put them at risk of alcohol-related harm, but new evidence has emerged on the potential risks and benefits from alcohol consumption.
"That is why over the past two years, my colleagues and I have been working to produce revised alcohol guidelines.
"Informed by a number of expert panels, we have looked at the medical and clinical evidence, as well as the evidence around how such guidance affects behaviour.
"Individuals will make their own judgements as to risks they are willing to accept from alcohol, whether to drink alcohol, and how much and how often to drink. These guidelines should help people to make informed choices."
Dr Tom Black, of the British Medical Association, said people drinking more alcohol than in the past had become the "norm".
"The main problem nowadays isn't the problem drinkers, the alcoholics, as such," he said.
"It's the middle-class or retired people drinking a lot of wine or spirits and doing it on a chronic, daily basis.
"The result is we're seeing a lot of liver disease [and] a lot of other diseases tied into it - physical, psychological and social problems."
Addiction NI, a charity helping those with alcohol and drugs problems, said there was a need for society to "change our relationship with alcohol".
"There is a need for a major alcohol awareness campaign to help people understand alcohol," Thelma Abernethy, the charity's chief, said.
"We have legalised it, normalised it and include it as part of our weekly grocery shop, but yet do not realise that it's the world's most powerful drug, which can have a negative impact on individuals families and communities."
In a statement, the Campaign for Real Ale consumer group, said: "The best kind of health advice is that based on clear and undisputed evidence.
"We are uncertain whether there is sufficient agreement among experts to support these new guidelines."
Winston Reid returns following five weeks out with a groin problem but Sam Byram and Mark Noble are both suspended.
Everton's on-loan forward Enner Valencia is ineligible to face his parent club.
James McCarthy may not play again this season because of a hamstring injury.
Muhamed Besic is nearing a return after missing the entire campaign with a knee injury.
Jonathan Pearce: "West Ham need three points for safety. Everton need to improve their away form to finish in the top five. They are favourites here even though they haven't won outside of Goodison Park for nearly three months.
"They've only lost once against the Hammers in 17 meetings. Romelu Lukaku has a lethal hit-rate against them. They also have pace in key attacking areas to trouble the patched-up home side.
"Injuries to Michail Antonio and Angelo Ogbonna, plus suspensions for Sam Byram and Mark Noble, leave Slaven Bilic short of numbers. Too many of his summer signings haven't come up to scratch.
"There is much work to be done before they're safe."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic on a possible summer move for John Terry: "We are going to see. I'm a big admirer of John, he is one of the best that ever played, not only in that position but in general.
"He won everything, he did everything and we are talking about an England captain, a true leader.
"We are pretty well covered in that position, we have quality and we have experience, but we will see. You never say never."
Everton manager Ronald Koeman on Romelu Lukaku: "He has scored 24 goals and with five games to go he can reach a really high total.
"But I think he is improving in the rest of his football. He is doing better pressing and running in the channels. He is now a better striker for the team than he was last year.
"If someone is interested, for sure they will call the board and then we will speak about it but we will try to do everything to keep him at Everton next season."
When they are on the road, the Toffees just don't seem to create the same number of chances that they do at home, so I am going to go for a draw here.
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On Wednesday, his coffin was seized by the Italian authorities and taken to a military base near Rome after a funeral was halted amid angry protests.
Rome city authorities had banned any burial in the city.
Priebke was extradited from Argentina and jailed for life in Italy over the 1944 killing of 335 civilians.
"The agreement satisfies the family and ethical and spiritual requirements," said his lawyer, Paolo Giachini, adding that there would be "a small ceremony for relatives" following the funeral.
The whereabouts of the burial are unknown but Mr Giachini is reported as saying that "we had contacts to bury the coffin of Priebke both in Italy and in Germany".
A cardiologist has offered to have the remains interred in his family's grave near Verona, but the local mayor is said to be against the proposal.
The German embassy in Rome has said it had not been contacted by Priebke's lawyer and had no request for a burial, the Italian news agency Ansa quoted embassy sources as saying.
Argentina - where Priebke lived for nearly 50 years before being extradited to Italy - refused to fulfil his wish to have his body repatriated for burial beside his wife.
Priebke's hometown in Germany also refused to take the body, over fears that any place of burial could become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.
He was one of the SS officers overseeing the killing of men and boys at Rome's Ardeatine Caves in March 1944, one of the worst massacres in Italy during World War II.
In a reprisal for the killing of 33 German soldiers in Rome by resistance fighters, 335 Italian civilians were shot dead.
Though Priebke admitted his role in the massacre, he never expressed any remorse and maintained he was following orders.
In a video message recorded before he died - and released posthumously by his lawyer - the former SS officer repeated the defence he had given at his war crimes trial.
He said he had received direct orders from Adolf Hitler to carry out the massacre.
Priebke was extradited in 1994 after investigative journalists from US television network ABC News tracked him down in Argentina.
In 1998, he was sentenced to life in prison. However, he pleaded that he was too old and sick for jail, and was soon allowed to switch to a regime of house arrest.
The Vatican issued an unprecedented ban on holding Priebke's funeral in any Catholic church in Rome, but a Catholic splinter group, the Society of St Pius X, tried to hold a ceremony on Tuesday outside the city, in Albano Laziale.
Identified only as Erika, she said she was targeted by firms who asked her to invest in wine and jewellery, but then began demanding thousands in cash.
Erika has appeared in a video as part of the ScamwiseNI Initiative - a joint campaign by the PSNI, the Department of Justice and the Policing Board.
They said many victims are elderly.
According to estimates from the Consumer Council, more than 300,000 people in Northern Ireland have been the victim of scams over the past three years.
The ScamwiseNI Initiative urges people to familiarise themselves with the various ways fraudsters try to access their money, including doorstep sellers, email fraud, unsolicited texts and cold callers.
Sharing her experience, Erika said: "It all started with me buying some fine wines.
"I felt quite proud about it, you know, me as an investor."
She was then contacted by other "firms" who tried to sell her more items including diamonds and gold.
The scammers then began "demanding money" for tax and storage.
"Every time they asked for money, I would pay out," Erika said.
When she did not have enough money left to pay their demands, the scammers persuaded her to take out a £15,000 loan.
"I'm still paying that off," she said.
"If, by doing this, I can just save one person from falling for these scams, I think I'll have done a good job."
The PSNI said their latest campaign was a response to the Consumer Council's figures and a "rising number of scams being reported".
However, Ch Supt Simon Walls said: "It's very hard to be definitive about the level of scamming because one of the problems, we think, is there are high levels of under-reporting of scams.
"The Consumer Council estimates that 17% of the population of Northern Ireland [314,840 people] have been scammed, and that's a huge amount.
"There are other studies that suggest 21% of the older population have been scammed."
He added: "Our experience is that some scammers will target elderly people, lonely people and vulnerable people, and our experience also is the impact on those members of society - those that maybe have small amounts of money or fixed incomes - the impact of a scam can be much greater on them."
Policing Board Chair Anne Connolly said many people "feel more embarrassed about being duped than angry at being robbed" but she urged victims to come forward.
"Many people who are scammed feel they are to blame for falling for it, but it's not their fault. If you have - or know someone who has - been a victim of fraud, no matter how small, you should report it to the PSNI or Action Fraud."
"Scams are cruel and can have a devastating effect on victims," Justice Minister Claire Sugden said.
"The attackers often target the elderly, but the reality is that no one is safe from the threat of their, often sophisticated scams."
The games between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins have been moved to Miami instead.
Players said they were worried about contracting the virus and passing it to their partners.
Zika is suspected to cause birth defects in babies whose mothers had it while pregnant.
Zika: What you need to know
Puerto Rico recorded its first death from Zika last week.
The island has seen more than 600 cases of the virus.
In a statement, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) said Commissioner of Baseball Robert D Manfred Jr "had no choice" but to relocate the games because so many players had partners who were pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
The statement also said baseball would hopefully be played in Puerto Rico again "in the near future" and that those concerned would "continue to support the growth of the game in Puerto Rico, where an outstanding baseball tradition has long made the island an important venue for the game".
More than 20 countries are reporting cases of Zika, which is spread by mosquitoes.
The country which has been worst affected by the outbreak, Brazil, is due to host the Olympic Games in August 2016.
The authorities there said in February that there was no chance the Games would be cancelled due to the outbreak, and that there was no risk to players or spectators except for pregnant women.
Since then, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said sexually transmitted transmission of Zika is more common than previously thought.
Horizon Nuclear Power said the work will give it a better understanding of the geological conditions offshore from the proposed Wylfa Newydd site.
Samples will be taken from the seabed and coastline throughout July and August.
The company claims the £8bn plant will employ 1,000 people once it begins working in the first half of the 2020s.
Site Development Director Charlie Tasker said: "Although we'll be working 24 hours a day, we'll ensure the work doesn't cause any inconvenience to local people or tourists by keeping lighting and noise to an absolute minimum.
"We'll be keeping a distance of more than 800 metres from the Cemlyn Bay nature reserve at all times."
"The choice is clear, the time is right," Mrs Thorning-Schmidt said.
The opposition centre-right bloc, led by former PM Lars Loekke Rasmussen, has been leading in the opinion polls.
But it would likely need the support of the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to push laws through parliament.
Reacting to the decision to hold the vote in 23 days' time, UK PM David Cameron cancelled plans to travel to Copenhagen on Thursday at the start of a tour of several European capitals.
Declaring the election date, Mrs Thorning-Schmidt said her government had succeeded in bringing about economic recovery.
"Denmark is back on track, we are out of the crisis. It's time to ask the Danes if they want to maintain this direction," she said.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt became Denmark's first female prime minister in 2011, as head of the Social Democrats, ending 10 years of centre-right rule.
She has pledged to raise welfare spending, while Mr Rasmussen's Venstre (Liberal) party wants limits on public sector growth.
Welcoming the early vote, he promised to focus on creating jobs in the private sector.
The vote had to be held before 14 September under election regulations.
Although the Liberals had been ahead in the polls, the Social Democrats have been catching up in recent weeks and some surveys have them overtaking Mr Rasmussen's party.
Support for the Danish People's Party has also been rising amid tensions over immigration.
Guiseley, looking for their fourth straight win, had to dig in early on with two clearances on the line as the hosts flew out of the blocks.
Boreham Wood continued to press, but a combination of Femi Ilesanmi missing a glorious chance and great work from goalkeeper Jonathan Maxted kept it 0-0 at the break.
The visitors came into the contest more in the second half but both sides struggled in front of goal as Boreham Wood drew 0-0 for the third time in four games.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Boreham Wood 0, Guiseley 0.
Second Half ends, Boreham Wood 0, Guiseley 0.
Substitution, Guiseley. William Wells replaces Elliot Green.
Ashley Palmer (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card.
Simon Walton (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Ben Nunn (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Kevan Hurst.
Ashley Palmer (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Jake Cassidy (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Boreham Wood 0, Guiseley 0.
First Half ends, Boreham Wood 0, Guiseley 0.
Substitution, Guiseley. Derek Asamoah replaces John Rooney.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
How many of this year's attendees, though, will try to top the outfits of the past that made a lasting impression - and not always for the best reasons?
One of the most outrageous gowns in Oscar history must surely be the infamous dress that Icelandic pop star Bjork swanned in on in 2001.
Marjan Pejoski's creation was roundly mocked at the time but later took pride of place at a Bjork retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Two years before winning her Oscar for Moonstruck, Cher turned up to present one in a startling Bob Mackie creation topped with a massive feathered headdress.
"As you can see, I did receive my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress," she joked before giving Cocoon's Don Ameche his supporting actor Oscar in 1986.
Australian costume designer Lizzy Gardiner deserved a lot of credit in 1995 for attending the Oscars in a dress made up of 254 expired American Express Gold cards.
Gardiner, who shared her award for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with fellow Aussie Tim Chappel, later auctioned off the gown for charity.
Angelina Jolie went out on a limb by revealing a bare leg as she arrived at the 2012 Academy Awards in this black Atelier Versace ballgown.
Her exposed flesh swiftly went viral, with online pranksters adding it to images of everything from the Statue of Liberty to Whistler's Mother.
Celine Dion certainly reversed the trend at the 1999 ceremony by wearing a white Christian Dior tuxedo - backwards.
In an interview, the singer said she was only wearing her diamond-encrusted sunglasses because their makers had pledged $50,000 to one of her favoured charities.
Not to be outdone, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone dragged themselves down the red carpet at the 2000 Oscars as Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow respectively.
Parker's green gown mirrored the one Lopez had worn at that year's Grammys, while Stone's pink confection aped the dress Paltrow had won an Oscar in 12 months earlier.
Gwyneth Paltrow returned to the Oscars in 2002 in a gothic Alexander McQueen number she hoped would bring "a little bit of punk" to the occasion.
"I still love the dress but I should have worn a bra," the actress let slip 11 years later.
More recently, music star Pharrell Williams refused to be outflanked at the 2014 ceremony by turning up with wife Helen with a pair of Lanvin shorts.
By the time he came on stage to perform his Oscar-nominated song Happy, though, he was back in his more familiar casual gear - and hat.
And then there is Jenny Beavan, the British costume designer who Stephen Fry ungallantly likened to "a bag lady" at last year's Bafta Film Awards.
Undeterred, she rocked up at the Oscars two weeks later in a leather jacket adorned with a flaming skull. "I look ridiculous in frocks," she said later.
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Organisers said turnout was 510,000, while police said about 98,600 took part during the peak of the march.
The annual rally, marking the day Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, was to demand full electoral freedom.
It came after an unofficial referendum on how to choose Hong Kong's next chief executive drew close to 800,000 votes.
China says it will introduce universal suffrage for the 2017 election - but wants the final say over who can run.
The Hong Kong government said the 10-day referendum had no legal standing.
While organisers put the number of those joining Tuesday's rally from Victoria Park to the city's Central district at more than half a million, the University of Hong Kong's public opinion programme estimated a turnout of between 154,000 and 172,000.
The organisers' figure would make the march the largest since 2004, when 530,000 were estimated to have taken part in a pro-democracy demonstration.
The annual 1 July rally first gained prominence in 2003, when half a million people demonstrated against proposed anti-subversion laws which were later scrapped.
Roads around Victoria Park were closed off and footage showed key roads jammed with marchers.
Reports said protesters were still in the park as the first marchers arrived in the Central district four hours later, giving an idea of the scale of the rally.
Security was tight, with about 4,000 police officers on patrol.
After the march, hundreds of protesters staged a sit-in in the Central district. Police said the sit-in was "unauthorised" and began removing some of the participants in the early hours of Wednesday.
Some demonstrators linked arms in a bid to resist being moved.
At the scene: Juliana Liu, BBC News, Hong Kong
Chanting "genuine democracy" and "CY Leung step down", tens of thousands braved the heat and rain to march for full voting rights.
CY Leung, the current chief executive, was elected in 2012 by a committee of just 1,200 members, who were believed to be largely loyal to the Chinese government. The protesters fear that in 2017 the shortlist of candidates to replace him will selected by a similar group, making universal suffrage essentially meaningless.
But that is exactly what is likely to happen, unless there is some kind of compromise.
A senior Hong Kong government official told reporters recently that the next chief executive must be appointed by Beijing.
Speaking earlier at a ceremony to mark the 17th anniversary of the former British colony's return to China, Hong Kong leader CY Leung said that the government was trying hard to forge a consensus on political reform.
"Only by maintaining Hong Kong's stability can we sustain our economic prosperity. Only by sustaining Hong Kong's prosperity can we improve people's livelihoods," Mr Leung said.
The unofficial referendum, organised by campaign group Occupy Central, allowed the public to decide which of three proposals - all of which involved allowing citizens to directly nominate candidates - to present to Beijing.
Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 following a 1984 agreement between China and Britain.
China agreed to govern Hong Kong under the principle of "one country, two systems", where the city would enjoy "a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs" for 50 years.
As a result, Hong Kong has its own legal system, and rights including freedom of assembly and free speech are protected.
Klinger (140) put on 76 with David Payne (32) as Northants leg-spinner Seekkuge Prasanna finished with 5-97.
The home side, dismissed for 418, made an early impact with the ball.
Northants were struggling at 28-2 but Rob Newton's unbeaten half-century left them 120-3 at stumps on day three, trailing Gloucestershire by 122 runs.
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The PSNI twice came from behind to level at Seaview before David Cushley's second goal and a late Paul Heatley effort sealed the Crues' win.
Andrew Waterworth and Paul Smyth both hit two goals in Linfield's victory.
Kirk Millar and Mark Haughey were also on target for the Blues.
After his late winner at Dungannon on Saturday, ex-Ballymena United man Cushley put Crusaders ahead in the sixth minute at Seaview after good work by Michael Carvill but Owen Moody levelled on 42 after Sean O'Neill had parried a Lukasz Adamczyk effort.
Carvill nodded the Crues back into the lead before the break but Paul McDowell levelled again on 52 after a superb ball from Andrew Blackledge.
The PSNI held out until 10 minutes from time with Gavin Whyte hitting their woodwork but the Crues pressure eventually yielded Cushley's second goal of the night on 80 minutes and Heatley added a further goal in injury-time.
Goals from Waterworth had Linfield in control at 2-0 up after only 15 minutes at Windsor Park as he tapped in a Chris Casement cross before outpacing the Ards defence four minutes later.
Smyth extended the advantage to 3-0 on 18 minutes after a Niall Quinn cross and Millar chipped in the fourth on 31, although it appeared to take a slight deflection.
Ards improved after the break but their penalty appeared a soft award after Gareth Tommons and substitute Joe McKinney both tumbled in the area, with Michael Ruddy slotting the spot-kick.
Kyle Cherry and Guillaume Keke (twice) went close to pulling another goal back for Ards but Haughey headed in Linfield's fifth on 79 before Smyth completed the scoring six minutes later.
Meanwhile, Warrenpoint Town defeated Glenavon 3-1 at Mourneview Park to book their place in the final of the Mid-Ulster Cup.
The Championship leaders will meet the winners of Wednesday's second semi-final between Armagh City and Loughgall.
Stephen Murray scored Town's opener midway through the first half and a minute later Warrenpoint doubled their lead when John McGuigan headed into the top corner.
Declan O'Brien bundled a Guy Bates cross over the line to pull one back in the 31st minute, but McGuigan ensured Town's passage with the help of a deflection off David Elebert on the hour.
Elebert was twice denied by superb goal-line clearances from Point captain Stephen Moan as Matthew Tipton's side held out.
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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said 12,059 cars were sold in Scotland - 17.5% down on a year ago.
That compared with a fall of nearly 20% for the UK.
Industry leaders blamed the drop in part on consumers bringing forward purchases to avoid a rise in Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).
New VED rates came into force on 1 April, making all new cars - apart for those with zero emissions - subject to an annual flat rate charge.
Despite last month's fall, Scottish sales were up about 1% overall for the first four months of the year.
Dumfries and Galloway was the worst performing area of Scotland in April, with registrations down by more than 42% over the year.
Source: Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
Scottish Motor Trade Association (SMTA) chief executive Sandy Burgess said: "With the strong March and the added incentive of beating the new rules on Vehicle Excise Duty coming into play on 1 April there was always going to be something of an 'emergency stop' in the results.
"The tail-off was evident across our dealers showrooms and even online inquiry levels have softened.
"There may also have been the 'double whammy' effect as a result of the media speculation around the introduction of a new scrappage scheme to take the older less efficient diesel engine cars off the road.
"Ironically of course an introduction of such a scheme may well serve to bring a degree of ignition to the new car market."
He added: "Given the strength of the new car market over the first four months of the year, with numbers still up on 2016 by 1%, the retailers have fantastic levels of outstanding pre-owned vehicles and the message we are hearing is still a very encouraging 'business as usual' for anyone looking to change their current vehicle."
Scarlets trailed Toulon 24-6 inside 30 minutes before losing 31-20 and face them again in Llanelli on Sunday.
"We need to start from the start, not give them a lead and then wake up," Patchell said.
"Defensively we need to sort out that first 20."
"The attacking game worked well but we need to match that with intensity in defence."
The Scarlets are in third place in the Pool 3 table with just four points after three rounds and are 10 points behind Saracens and five behind Toulon but Patchell says the Welsh region can win the reverse fixture.
"There's no reason why we can't get something out of the group," the Wales international told BBC Wales Sport.
"We're playing some really good stuff in attack and there's no reason we can't turn them over next weekend.
"Then in the last two weekends of the competition, it's all to play for.
"I think we probably gave ourselves a bit too much to do in the first 20 minutes really, they built a comfortable lead and we only got going after 25 minutes.
"When we did get going we looked dangerous and you could see they were worried about it."
Powerhouse France centre Mathieu Bastareaud, who earned the man-of-the-match award, was a key figure in the early demolition of the Scarlets defence.
"He speed-bumped me for the first try," Patchell said.
"I went in low and went as hard as I could but unfortunately when you're giving away forty kilos, there's going to be a bit of momentum.
"Bastareaud played very well and he's someone we're going to have to keep an eye on next week."
Scarlets will hope that Wales centre Jonathan Davies recovers from a hamstring injury, while international flanker Aaron Shingler should be available after paternity leave.
He takes his 46-man squad for a camp in north Wales on Monday and will announce a smaller party between 36 to 38 at the end of the week.
So with the players trying to impress against a dominant Irish squad, who is likely to be in, who will be left out and which ones still have the jury out?
Former Wales captain Rob Jones watched the game for BBC Radio Wales, and gives us his verdict on the team.
"This was a hugely, hugely disappointing in terms of the gulf between the two sides.
"We saw a second-string Welsh team against a second-string Irish team and they were dominant in every single area.
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"I don't think too many players have put their hands up and are pushing Warren Gatland to put their name on the squad list.
"The only thing I'd say, particularly on behalf of the backs and the back row, Wales were always on the back foot and it's always hard to impress under those circumstances.
15 Hallam Amos: I thought he was okay especially as Wales were on the back foot. He is one who can develop for the future. Whether he's right for this World Cup I'm not quite sure at the moment. But bearing in mind he can play at full-back and the wing that gives him a chance.
14 Alex Cuthbert: He is a player who is under pressure. He might keep his place because of the lack of depth but he's not anywhere near the form that he showed a couple of seasons ago.
13 Tyler Morgan: He was in and out of the game, made mistakes as everyone did. I think the management believe he is one for the future. Not the greatest game, but I think he'll make the squad.
12 Scott Williams: He is obviously going to go to the World Cup and hopefully his leg injury won't be too bad.
11 Eli Walker: I thought Eli Walker was good. I thought he looked sharp, he did a lot of good things and he's an exciting player and we don't have too many of them. He did put his hand up.
10 James Hook: I think he's given James Hook an opportunity because the whole of the Welsh public want him there. On this performance has he done enough when you consider they've got Biggar, Priestland and Anscombe who did well when he came on? He probably hasn't, in my eye. At this stage, he may not make it.
9 Mike Phillips: I think Warren Gatland wants Mike Phillips to perform because he wants Mike Phillips to go to the World Cup, but it's about justifying that selection. We didn't see enough behind a beaten pack.
1 Nicky Smith: The pack were disappointing at the set-piece and the front row have to take a lot of the responsibility.
2 Richard Hibbard: He will be one of three hookers in the squad. I don't know what order they will be, but he will definitely be one of them.
3 Aaron Jarvis: We have tight-head concerns and I don't think Aaron Jarvis or Scott Andrews are quite up to the level we want them to be at.
4 Jake Ball: Again I think he is a certainty to make the World Cup squad. But he was playing in a badly beaten pack.
5 Dominic Day: He didn't have a great international debut. He may have played himself out because we have enough strength in the second row.
6 Ross Moriarty: Like Dan Baker he had a tough time. It's difficult to judge because Wales had no forward momentum.
7 Justin Tipuric: Was good and creative as always, but he was always going to be in the World Cup squad.
8 Dan Baker: Again he was under pressure at the back of a scrum that was struggling and a lineout that couldn't get any forward momentum.
Lloyd Williams: When he came on when the game was different looked a bit sharper and got the backline moving a little bit quicker.
Gareth Anscombe: He was quite impressive off the bench.
Scott Andrews: We might need three or four tight-heads because of the injury to Samson Lee, but I think it's significant Tom Francis wasn't playing today - perhaps they have decided he's one they will look at further down the line.
Kristian Dacey: Not sure he made enough impact because of the tough competition at hooker.
Taulupe Faletau: He gave them a bit of go forward when he came on but we know what he brings and he will go to the World Cup.
Matthew Morgan: He's an exciting player and he can play anywhere. He probably tried a little bit too hard and made errors. I don't think he will figure in Warren Gatland's philosophy.
Current Wales squad:
Props: Scott Andrews (Cardiff Blues), Rob Evans (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Paul James (Ospreys), Aaron Jarvis (Ospreys), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Nicky Smith (Ospreys).
Hookers: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues), Richard Hibbard (Gloucester), Ken Owens (Scarlets).
Locks: Jake Ball (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Racing 92), Dominic Day (Bath), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Rory Thornton (Ospreys).
Back-rows: Dan Baker (Ospreys), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), James King (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, capt).
Scrum-halves: Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Mike Phillips (Racing 92), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues).
Fly-halves: Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), James Hook (Gloucester), Matthew Morgan (Bristol), Rhys Patchell (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Priestland (Bath).
Centres: Cory Allen (Cardiff Blues), Jack Dixon (Newport Gwent Dragons), Tyler Morgan (Newport Gwent Dragons), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Scott Williams (Scarlets).
Wings: Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), George North (Northampton Saints), Eli Walker (Ospreys).
Full-backs: Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon), Liam Williams (Scarlets).
Robert Jones was speaking to BBC Wales Sport's Richard Williams.
The insect was discovered at Ivinghoe Beacon by National Trust entomologist Peter Brash.
He believes it is the first recorded sighting of the species in the Chilterns.
The rare sighting of the fly, which is listed as a priority for conservation action, fulfils a decades-long ambition for the insect expert.
"Nobody knows much about this enigmatic hoverfly," he said.
"I first saw a picture of the Phantom hoverfly 23 years ago and immediately wanted to see it.
"Some say it only survives for around 10 days as an adult, whilst others say that it stays in the tree canopy and only descends to the ground to breed."
The Phantom is rare to Britain because its preferred habitat of scrub near woodland on chalk is uncommon.
Mr Brash said perfect conditions for the insect had been created at the trust's Ashridge Estate.
The 27-year-old last week told the BBC he had received death threats "every day" after a video was posted online in which he apparently mocks Islam.
Smith said he had previously been "ignorant to people's religion".
He could still be banned or expelled by British Gymnastics.
The video, filmed by Smith and obtained by a newspaper, appears to show him laughing while retired gymnast Luke Carson mimics Islamic prayer practices.
"I visited two mosques in London that I was invited to," wrote Smith on his official Facebook fan page.
"I was ignorant to people's religion. And I apologised for offending those who follow the faith.
"We can all exercise our right of freedom of speech but, being in the public eye and someone of sporting influence, it's my responsibility to exercise it in good taste, and on that part I messed up."
Earlier in the trial at Preston Crown Court, Cregan admitted killing Greater Manchester PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes in a gun and grenade attack.
Later on in proceedings he also pleaded guilty to killing father and son David and Mark Short.
Three other men were convicted over the murders of the Shorts.
Luke Livesey, 28, and Damian Gorman, 38, were found guilty of their part in the murder of Mark Short in a shooting at the Cotton Tree Inn, Droylsden, in May 2012 as well as the attempted murder of three others in the same attack.
Jermaine Ward, 24, was convicted of killing David Short at his Clayton home in August.
Cregan, Livesey and Gorman murdered Mark Short following a decade-long feud between two local families, the court heard.
Fearful of retaliation attacks by the Short family, Cregan then planned the killing of his father David in a gun and grenade attack, the jury was told.
Cregan was cleared of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark, although he was found guilty of a grenade attack on her home minutes after David Short was killed.
The double murderer then went on the run for weeks before luring the two PCs to their deaths with a fake report of a burglary in Abbey Gardens, Mottram, on 28 September.
He handed himself in to police immediately after killing the officers, a crime in which he again used his "calling card" grenades.
Following the trial, PC Bone's father Paul said the killings were "unreal - the level of callousness is beyond my comprehension".
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said: "All four of these murders were planned assassinations, meticulously calculated by their perpetrators.
"Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
"These men, and others like them, make themselves out to be 'Mr Bigs', glamorising themselves as some kind of folk heroes who rule through violence, intimidation and reputation.
"But in reality they spend their miserable lives looking over their shoulders to see who is coming after them and their families."
Anthony Wilkinson, 34, had previously admitted his part in the murder of Mark Short's father, although he was cleared of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark.
He was also found guilty of possessing a gun with intent to endanger life.
Francis Dixon was cleared over the killing of David Short and all other charges.
Leon Atkinson, 35, Ryan Hadfield, 29, and Matthew James, 33, were cleared of all charges including any involvement in Mark Short's murder and the attempted murders at the Cotton Tree Inn.
Mohammed Imran Ali, 32, was found guilty of assisting an offender by taking Cregan, Wilkinson and Ward to hide out in Yorkshire knowing they had murdered David Short.
The 23-year-old arrives from French club La Rochelle, where he had been on loan from Sydney's North Harbour Rays.
"He is a wing with exceptional pace and has, this past season, gained valuable experience in the Top 14," said Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomons.
"I believe he will add a vital edge to our attack and look forward to having him with us next season."
La Rochelle recruited Northam as medical cover for Samoa international Alofa Alofa in September.
He made five appearances for the Top 14 club, including three European fixtures.
"The boys here have told me the club's moving in the right direction and they've got a good team atmosphere," he said.
"What am I looking to add to the mix? I'm hoping to bring my speed and pace to the game, to execute and finish on some of the backline plays."
Group leader Colin Galloway said the city was no longer welcoming to businesses or tourists "because it seems we prefer to have vagrants".
He said he has seen "no action" while on a homelessness committee and wants police to forcibly put people in care.
Hampshire's Police commissioner called the comments "disgusting".
Police and Crime Commissioner Michael Lane described the language used as "appalling and offensive".
He added: "I am clear that the challenges of people living with vulnerabilities need to be dealt with in partnerships... it is a complex issue."
Matt Downie, director of policy at homelessness charity Crisis, said: "Referring to people as 'unwelcome detritus' is offensive in any circumstances, but it is all the more toxic when those people are homeless or struggling in desperate circumstances.
"Whether homeless or not, people who beg are often some of the most vulnerable in society and they deserve better than to be treated as a nuisance."
Portsmouth City Council estimates its number of rough sleepers has risen from 37 last autumn to 60 in May.
In a motion due to be debated at the full council meeting next week, Mr Galloway said there was "a lot of good intentions but virtually no action" on the homelessness committee.
"Portsmouth City is no longer a welcoming city to either business or tourist because it seems we prefer to have vagrants," he added.
"These beggars, vagrants, rough sleepers, homeless, troubled folks or whatever label you want to put on them must be removed from our city and placed in specific care whether they want to or not."
He called on police to "help us clean up this unwelcome detritus".
At the Portsmouth City Council meeting on Tuesday, Mr Galloway is set to urge council leader Donna Jones to write to Mr Lane to instruct police to "help the council to remove the ever increasing beggars and rough sleepers that are beginning to dominate the city".
Mr Galloway has been approached for comment.
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The London mayor is launching a report emphasising the importance of giving young people information about getting a job when they leave school.
The report calls for "impartial, independent and personalised careers education".
Mr Johnson says there needs to be an "easy to navigate" careers system.
The London Ambitions report sets out a blueprint for establishing a more substantial role for careers education, in both primary and secondary school.
The plan calls for a fixed entitlement, after fears that careers is an area too easily neglected.
Mr Johnson describes it as a "pragmatic way to tackle some of the challenges that young people face when trying to make the right career choices".
The proposals would establish a right to at least 100 hours of careers information, including one-to-one advice, talks from employers, work-related guidance or time spent in work experience.
Schools should have a published careers policy, showing information such as links with local businesses, and schools should have a designated governor responsible for careers.
The report also calls for all secondary schools to have up-to-date, accessible information about the local jobs market, which could be used by pupils, parents and teachers.
There should also be more co-operation between groups of schools to share ideas and expertise.
The report highlights that London's labour market is different from the rest of the country. The workforce in the capital is younger, better educated and more international than anywhere else in the country.
The type of jobs available are increasingly likely to require high levels of qualifications or skills. The report says that by 2022, 60% of jobs in London will be at degree level.
The report argues that young people need to understand their local jobs market so that they can make informed choices.
Report author, Deirdre Hughes, said: "There is a clear moral, social and economic purpose to improving careers provision for all young Londoners.
"Support for young people has stalled and most are getting a raw deal. It is not enough to just to pay lip service to careers support for them.
"More young people must be given the chance to gain more experiences of the world of work and be inspired to see possibilities and goals that are worthwhile and relevant to them."
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, backed the report's call for advice to start in primary school.
"There is widespread agreement that there's a real benefit in talking to children at an early age about the jobs they might do when they're grown up and how important their primary school learning really is in terms of future opportunities. Careers advice shouldn't have to wait until children get to secondary school."
The report follows successive warnings that the careers system needs to be strengthened and that a lack of good advice is a barrier to social mobility.
Last week the head of the CBI said that careers education needed to be taken much more seriously - and the education select committee has warned that careers services have been neglected.
Tom Harrison - who calls himself Mr Gorilla - took six-and-a-half days to do the 26.2 mile route on his hands and knees, "gorilla-style", in aid of The Gorilla Organization.
Mr Harrison crossed the finish line on The Mall with his sons and had a medal presented by conservationist Bill Oddie.
He said he felt "tired but happy".
"Prior to this, the most I had crawled in one go was a mile, so I found the first day of the marathon really exhausting," he said.
"Each day became its own little marathon.
"I'll be glad to get the costume washed as it's getting a little bit fruity.
"I think I've started to smell a bit like a gorilla."
The father-of-two, a Met Police officer who lives in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, started his attempt on 22 April, crawling the streets of the capital for between 10 and 12 hours a day.
He originally aimed to raise £1,500 but said the reaction to his challenge had been "incredible".
"The fact it went global has been completely unexpected, but brilliant," he said.
Mr Harrison was joined outside Buckingham Palace by his two sons, Nicholas, six, and Alex, four - also dressed as gorillas.
They were watched by a crowd of around 100 people.
Mr Harrison, 41, originally from Worcester, was inspired to take on the challenge by his passion for the work of the charity, which runs conservation projects in several African countries.
The charity's executive director Jillian Miller, described his efforts as "incredible".
"He's now officially our highest fundraiser ever," she said.
"He feels very strongly, as the father of two little boys, that he wants to help preserve biodiversity for future generations."
The world's second-biggest economy grew by 6.9% in 2015, compared with 7.3% a year earlier.
The numbers mark its slowest growth in a quarter of a century, but that did little to rock investor sentiment.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed up 2% at 19,635.81 points, while the mainland's Shanghai Composite wrapped the day 3.22% higher at 3,007.74.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 reversed earlier losses to close up 0.55% at 17,048.37.
On Monday, Japanese shares hit a one-year low as oil prices dropped below $28 a barrel for the first time since 2003.
In Australia, while investors had traded cautiously earlier in the day, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.91% at 4,903.10.
Some energy-related shares made gains on Tuesday, having fallen a day earlier on oil price worries.
BHP Billiton shares were up 0.7%, while Santos shares moved out of negative territory during the day to gain 1.9%.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index also reversed earlier losses to close up 0.6% at 1,889.64.
Official numbers released on Tuesday showed producer prices in the country fell in December for the 17th month in a row. On a brighter note, however, the pace at which prices have been falling slowed.
Police were called at 09:50 GMT after shots were fired at the Marriott Hotel in Old Shire Lane, Waltham Abbey.
The victim, a man in his 20s, got into a passing couple's car which was driven to the nearby Volunteer pub where they tried to get him help.
He was treated by paramedics but died. Armed police units were at the scene as officers sought witnesses to the attack.
Police said there was no evidence of terrorism.
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Ch Supt Luke Collison, of Essex Police, said: "We will be constantly reassessing the information we receive as the investigation progresses to ensure that the safety of the public remains paramount."
Essex Police said it has yet to identify the victim.
They have appealed for witnesses to contact the police.
The force said it was liaising with the Metropolitan Police and other forces.
The vessel was intercepted by Israeli naval ships off the coast of Gaza and forced to head south, the charity which chartered the ship said.
The charity, headed by Col Muammar Gaddafi's son, said it wanted to reach Gaza, but would not risk violence.
In May, Israeli forces clashed with another convoy, killing nine on board.
On Monday, an Israeli military inquiry said it had found mistakes were made at a senior level during the operation, which sparked international outrage, but the troops had been justified in using force.
The Libyan-chartered Amalthea left Greece on Saturday, carrying food and medical equipment, as well as 15 pro-Palestinian activists and 12 crew members.
Egyptian officials at El-Arish, some 50km (30 miles) to the west of Gaza, said the ship docked at the north Sinai port late on Wednesday.
By Malcolm BrabantBBC News, Athens
According to the ship's owner, Alex Angelopoulos, the Amalthea did not suffer a mechanical breakdown - the story about engine failure was a ploy, invented by the Cuban captain, after the Israelis surrounded the vessel and gave him an ultimatum to change course away from Gaza.
The captain was trying to buy some time for the Libyan charity to muster international diplomatic support to pressure the Israelis to let the vessel through. He restarted the engines around midday local time and is now underway.
Mr Angelopoulos earlier said this expedition was a risky venture, although he prided himself on taking chances.
He said he was motivated by humanitarian reasons, but he is also acting in the tradition of Greek shipowners like Aristotle Onassis, who made fortunes by breaching embargoes.
"As soon as the ship arrives in El-Arish, Egyptian authorities will unload its cargo and hand the aid to the Egyptian Red Crescent, which will deliver it to the Palestinian side," Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said earlier.
The vessel was intercepted by Israeli navy boats some 100km (60 miles) off the coast of Gaza and blocked from heading any further towards the east.
An Al-Jazeera correspondent on board said that Israeli navy boats had formed a "wall" on one side of the Amalthea and forced it towards El-Arish.
Israel's navy began shadowing the vessel overnight, after warning that it would not be allowed to break the naval blockade of Gaza.
The Amalthea resumed its voyage mid-morning on Wednesday after idling for a few hours in international waters.
The Israeli military said the ship had run into engine trouble, but the ship's owner later told the BBC that it was a ploy by the captain to buy time for the Libyan charity to muster international support.
A spokesman for the Gaddafi Foundation said those on board would not resort to violence.
"First and foremost, we want to arrive in Gaza," Yussef Sawani told Al-Jazeera TV. "If this is impossible, we don't want to subject anyone to danger."
Israeli officials denied the group's reports that they were given an ultimatum to change course by midnight or face a forceful takeover.
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The 92m (302ft) Amalthea, renamed Al-Amal (Hope) for the mission, is loaded with 2,000 tonnes of food, cooking oil, medicines and pre-fabricated houses, the group says.
For the past three years, Israel has enforced a tight economic blockade on the Gaza Strip, only allowing in limited humanitarian aid.
It says this is necessary to stop weapons for Palestinian militant groups inside Gaza being smuggled in, and to put pressure on the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the coastal territory.
Egypt has also closed its border with Gaza, only opening it occasionally.
The blockade, maintained by Israel and Egypt, was widely described as "collective punishment" resulting in a humanitarian crisis for Gaza's 1.4 million people.
Last month, Israel announced it would ease restrictions by allowing consumer goods into the territory while banning or restricting trade in weapons and materials that could have a military use.
Meanwhile, Israel's parliament voted on Tuesday to strip an Israeli Arab lawmaker of some key privileges for joining the flotilla of aid ships that tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza in May.
The Knesset decided to remove Hanin Zuabi's diplomatic passport and funding for legal defence.
Some MPs complained that by penalising an Arab member, the parliamentarians were endangering democracy, but others said that it was her actions which threatened freedoms and rights in Israel.
Ms Zuabi, an MP with the left-wing Arab nationalist Balad party, said the Knesset was punishing her out of vengeance and was threatening co-existence between Jews and Arabs.
Eight weeks old Velu was born to mother Heleen on 24 June and lives in the Budongo Trail at the zoo with 18 other chimpanzees.
Heleen is from a group of nine chimpanzees who arrived at Edinburgh Zoo from the Netherlands in 2010.
The chimps started life in a research lab, then were rehomed to Beekse Bergen Safari Park, before Edinburgh.
Sophie Pearson, team leader for the Budongo Trail at Edinburgh Zoo, said: "We are delighted with the arrival and successful integration of Velu into our chimpanzee group.
"Still very young, Velu will look like a baby for another five years or so.
"He currently has a beautiful pale, pinky-coloured face which will darken as he gets older and has a mass of spiky hair.
"His father is either 38 year old Louis or 21 year old Rene, two of the males in our group. Later on we will do a paternity test to confirm."
Ndubuisi Vitus Amaku said the resort state's subsequent order to deport Nigerians living illegally there was like "rubbing salt on their wounds".
Meanwhile, police in Goa have made the first arrest in the murder case.
Tensions have been rising since a Nigerian man was stabbed to death last week and five others were wounded.
Soon after the killing, nearly 200 Nigerians blocked Goa's main highway for several hours to protest against the killing, and police arrested 53 of the protesters.
Police blamed the killing on rivalry between local and Nigerian drug traffickers, and Goa's Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar asked the police to track down Nigerians living illegally in the state and deport them.
There are about 40,000 Nigerians living in India and Mr Amaku says he is concerned about the safety of his people.
"Indians need to understand that a large number of Nigerians are living legally in India and even if some are living illegally, there are laws in place to deal with that and those should be implemented," Mr Amaku told BBC Hindi's Divya Arya.
He criticised the Goan authorities for plans to deport those living illegally in India.
"If Nigerians are living illegally you don't wait till their compatriot is murdered before you go around picking them up and threatening them with deportation - that is like rubbing salt on their wounds."
Earlier in the week, another Nigerian diplomat had warned of repercussions against Indians living in Nigeria if Goa did not stop "evicting Nigerians" from the state and failed to arrest the killers.
More than 800,000 Indians live in Nigeria and they own approximately 100,000 businesses there.
Mr Amaku said the official's statement was made in the context of the murder and that he felt "aggrieved" like all other members of the Nigerian community.
Indian foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said he was sure that the row could be settled "amicably".
"We have been assured that the investigation (into the murder) is under way," news agency AFP quoted him as saying.
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The 15 second clip from the new film Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, does not give away any of the latest storyline.
It shows a huge army of Stormtroopers and the character Finn, played by John Boyega, holding a blue lightsaber and facing an enemy in a forest.
The film is due for release in the UK in December.
An Egyptian foreign ministry statement said the move - which has not yet been announced - reflected "poor judgement".
Shortly after, Egypt's president met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, who is in Cairo for talks.
US officials were said to be unhappy President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently ratified a new law regulating NGOs.
The law states that NGOs are prohibited from conducting activities that "harm national security, public order, public morality or public health", strictly controls their funding, and gives the government the authority to monitor their activities.
Violations are punishable with sentences of one to five years in prison and a fine of 50,000 to 1,000,000 Egyptian pounds ($2,820 to $56,400).
Eight civil society organisations warned in June that the legislation ushered in "unprecedented levels of repression" and would criminalise the work of many NGOs in Egypt, making it impossible for them to function independently.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post cited US officials as saying that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had notified Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry by telephone of his decision to withhold $195m of the $1.3bn Egypt receives in military aid, and to reallocate to other countries $65.7 in additional military aid and $30m in economic aid.
The unspent money would be held in a bank account until Egypt showed some progress on "key priorities" such as human rights abuses and the law regulating NGOs, the officials added.
Egyptian officials gave the US assurances earlier this year that the NGO law would never take effect, according to Reuters news agency.
On Wednesday morning, the Egyptian foreign ministry issued a statement criticising Mr Tillerson's decision.
"Egypt sees this measure as reflecting poor judgement of the strategic relationship that ties the two countries over long decades and as adopting a view that lacks an accurate understanding of the importance of supporting Egypt's stability," it said.
A copy of the foreign minister's schedule sent out to journalists on Wednesday showed that he would not be meeting a US delegation led by Mr Kushner in Cairo, although the meeting did later go ahead.
President Sisi has launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent since leading the military's overthrow of his predecessor, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
Human rights activists say more than 1,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands arrested since then. Most have been supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, but liberal and secular opposition activists have also been targeted.
The security forces have also been accused of committing flagrant abuses, including torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions.
Former US President Barack Obama froze some military assistance in 2013. He insisted the restrictions would continue until Egypt showed "credible progress" towards democracy, but ended up restoring the military support in 2015 because it was "in the interest of US national security".
In April, three months after taking office, President Trump said he wanted to "reboot" relations with Egypt and declared that he was "very much behind" Mr Sisi.
Mr Sisi praised Mr Trump's "unique" personality and reportedly sought an increase in the $1.3bn in military aid that Egypt receives annually to him help battle an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula by jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.
The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership submitted a bid in January, which was backed by the chancellor in the March budget.
Supporters claim it could create 3,000 new jobs by 2030.
Other proposals include the return of regular commercial flights to the airport, which were stopped last year.
The news paves the way for Blackpool and The Fylde College to submit a planning application for an Energy Headquarters to be developed on the site, to train onshore oil and gas specialists.
Councillor Mark Smith, cabinet member for business and economic development at Blackpool Council, said it was "fantastic news and a key element of Blackpool Council's vision for jobs and growth".
"With this in place we can move forward with our plans that will create up to 3,000 jobs - from manufacturing to office jobs and crucially taking advantage of the Fylde Coast's unique opportunities in the energy sector including renewables and off-shore oil and gas," he said.
A spokesman for Balfour Beatty said the company was "delighted" at the decision, adding: "We have been working closely with both local and national government to secure the opportunity for this important site in the north west as a focus for redevelopment."
Balfour Beatty bought the site in 2008 and have been working with the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, Blackpool Council and Lancashire County Council to develop the area after closing the airport in October last year.
Enterprise zones are part of the government's long-term economic plan to support business growth by giving cheaper business rates, superfast broadband and lower levels of planning control.
The enterprise zone status at Blackpool Airport comes into effect in April 2016.
He had been held as part of investigations into a huge corruption scheme at state oil company Petrobras.
Mr Mantega served as minister from 2006 to 2015 under the governments of former Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
He was detained at a Sao Paulo hospital where his wife was receiving treatment.
But the judge who ordered the former finance minister's arrest revoked his decision due to illness in his family.
Authorities were not aware of his family's health problems when the temporary arrest was initially issued, said Judge Sergio Moro.
Lawyers for Mr Mantega have not responded to requests for comment.
The arrest comes just days after it was announced that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would face trial on charges of corruption.
Prosecutors say Lula accepted 3.7m reais ($1.11m; £867,000) in bribes connected to a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme at Petrobras.
The former president has consistently denied the allegations, calling them politically motivated.
Police executed warrants for eight arrests and 32 seizure operations in five states as well as the capital, Brasilia, on Thursday, prosecutors said in a statement.
Apart from Mr Mantega, engineering groups Mendes Junior and OSX Construcao Naval SA, which belong to former commodities tycoon Eike Batista, have also been targeted in the probe known as "Operation X Files".
Federal police said the investigation centred on allegations of corruption over the construction of oil platforms for Petrobras in 2012.
Mendes Junior and OSX Construcao Naval SA could not immediately be reached for comment.
HMS Richmond will be deployed for two months to board and seize vessels off the coast of Libya, he said.
It will be the UK's contribution to an operation which is expected to be approved by the European Union.
Suspected traffickers will be taken to the nearest European port to be prosecuted in that country, he said.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the offer of the frigate, which will be officially made at an EU force conference on Wednesday, was a sign of a more aggressive response to the migrant crisis.
"However, Richmond would only operate in international waters - at least 12 miles off the Libyan coast," he said.
"That raises questions as to how effective this new phase of the mission will be."
Giving evidence to a Lords Home Affairs sub-committee, Mr Brokenshire said HMS Richmond would initially spend two months in the Mediterranean, with the possibility its deployment would be extended.
It is "appropriate to use military assets" because "we can't tolerate having crime on the shores of the EU", he said.
The frigate would be able to provide surveillance and reconnaissance over "vast areas", said the minister, assisting an Italian-led mission which had seen up to 4,400 people a day rescued from boats.
Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokeswoman said the European Council was expected to make a decision next month on whether, and when, to press ahead with operations to "board, search and seize" smugglers' boats on the high seas.
"We are effectively putting Richmond on the table so that if a subsequent decision is taken to get the operation kick-started, we would deploy it," she said.
Asked whether the ship would simply be ferrying migrants picked up from boats to Italy, the spokeswoman replied: "This is about boarding, searching and seizing smugglers' vessels. I don't think I have said once that it is a passenger carrying service, and it is not."
HMS Bulwark has already been involved in a search and rescue mission, saving the lives of migrants crammed into fishing boats and rubber dinghies as they made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe.
More recently a survey ship, HMS Enterprise, has been carrying out surveillance, identifying migrant flows and gaining information on the activities of the people smugglers.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "The Royal Navy has rescued thousands of people from peril but we've been clear we have to tackle the gangs behind this, which is why it's important the mission moves to the next phase."
Royal Navy frigate HMS Richmond is a sophisticated warship which can be deployed to a wide range of roles.
Europe has been struggling to deal with a huge influx of refugees - most are fleeing the conflict in Syria but large numbers are also escaping from violence and poverty in Afghanistan, Eritrea and Kosovo.
In the latest developments, Hungary has closed its border with Serbia by building a new razor-wire fence.
Several other countries have tightened their border controls, including Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
The vast of majority of Syrian refugees have fled to neighbouring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron visited refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, and pledged more aid money to help those countries deal with the surge.
He said a failure to boost spending for such camps would mean many more people would try to reach Europe.
The UK has agreed to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years but the prime minister has come under pressure to do more.
Lyndsey Vaux, 30, of Platt Bridge, Wigan, Greater Manchester, was taken to hospital on 22 May but later died.
Gillian Reid, 56, of Closebrook Road, Worsley Hall, and Becky Reid, 31, of Hayward Road, Atherton, will appear before magistrates in Bolton.
They are also charged with assaulting a woman in 2008.
It has been described as a "new hope" for tackling the parasitic infections which affect millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by testing three million compounds.
The new drug is now entering safety tests before human trials.
The three diseases are all caused by similar parasites, leading scientists to believe one therapy might be useful against the trio.
Combined, the three parasites infect 20 million people and kill 50,000 each year, the research team said.
While there are some drugs to treat the infections, they are expensive and toxic and often need to be given via an intravenous drip, making them impractical in poor regions.
The researchers tested three million compounds, made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis, to find those that could kill multiple parasites in the laboratory.
One was then used as the basis of thousands of modifications to make the original 20 times more potent.
Tests then showed the upgrade - codenamed GNF6702 - could treat Trypanosoma brucei, Trypansosoma cruzi and Leishmania infections in mice.
Dr Elmarie Myburgh, one of the researchers based at the University of York, told the BBC News website: "What makes it special is the fact it is targeting all three parasites. That's the first time it has been done, so it is quite special.
"To me this is obviously a big deal, I'm in this field to try and make a difference, to get to a cure, and we're working hard in the hope that it gets to patients.
"There's been very little incentive to spend a lot of money on these diseases as they affect a very poor, and yet large, population."
Further refinements to the compound are taking place as the researchers ensure it is safe before starting human trials.
The drug works by attacking the parasites' proteasomes. The structures recycle waste proteins in the parasite.
But crucially the chemical does not affect similar processes in mammalian cells.
Richard Glynne, from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, told the BBC that attacking the proteasome was "not by design, more by serendipity".
It had been thought the proteasome was too similar across all species to develop a drug that would not be toxic to the patient.
However, he said there may ultimately need to be three separate drugs: "It may be a single drug for all three diseases may not be the best strategy.
"The biology of the diseases is different. For example in sleeping sickness the parasite is in the brain, so you need a drug that gets into the brain, so there are tweaks that may be required."
Dr Stephen Caddick, the director of innovation at the Wellcome Trust research charity which helped fund the study, told the BBC News website: "These are pretty nasty, highly prevalent parasites and affect people living in the most poverty-stricken parts of world. We need to make more progress.
"We continually face challenges getting medicines to those people and making affordable medicines is an important first step.
"This is quite an important piece of research, I'm excited by it, but there's still a long way to go."
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Bellfield, 47, was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for murdering the schoolgirl.
He made the admission during an investigation into whether he had an accomplice, police said.
Milly's family described the news as "devastating for a family which has already had to endure so much".
Surrey Police revealed it had arrested a man in his 40s who has since been released without charge.
Detectives from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team made the arrest following new information regarding an accomplice being involved in the abduction and rape, but not murder, of Milly Dowler.
They said no evidence had been found to support that claim.
In a statement issued through solicitors, Milly's family said they had been made aware of the recent arrest and Bellfield's admission.
Milly was kidnapped while on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.
Tom Symonds, BBC home affairs correspondent
Bellfield wasn't arrested and charged until detectives connected him with two other horrific murders - those of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange and the attempted murder of a young woman called Kate Sheedy.
But this admission today makes little difference.
Despite admitting what he's done, he is serving what is called a whole life tariff - so he will never be released.
Milly's body was later found 25 miles away in Yateley Heath, Hampshire. Experts could not say how she died.
Bellfield was found guilty of abducting and murdering the teenager following a trial at the Old Bailey where a judge described him as a "cruel and pitiless killer".
He was already in jail for the murders of Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, when he went on trial accused of killing Milly.
Bellfield, who now calls himself Yusuf Rahim, lived 50 yards from where Milly vanished but did not become a suspect until he was arrested by police in London for the other crimes in 2004.
The takeover will expand the electric car maker's clean energy business.
Some investors had opposed the move, citing a conflict of interest.
But Tesla said the tie-up was "overwhelmingly" approved by 85% of shareholders not affiliated with the energy business.
Earlier this month Mr Musk made an appeal to investors, predicting that SolarCity could add $1bn of extra revenue to Tesla next year, despite it having been loss-making until now.
He said the two firms would move towards "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy" by generating and storing clean energy and providing transport that uses it.
Tesla has had a tricky 2016, with its share price tumbling 20% since the start of the year.
There are concerns US president-elect Donald Trump will follow through on a pledge to strip away government subsidies for electric vehicles, which have allowed the firm to compete better on price against petrol and diesel cars.
And it also suffered a setback in May when a man was killed driving a Tesla Model S while using the Autopilot function - though a preliminary US National Transportation Safety Board report into the incident said the driver had been speeding moments before he collided with a lorry.
It is also having to ramp up vehicle production ahead of the launch of its Model 3 sedan next year, which is aimed at the mass market.
The firm faces competition from other similarly priced electric cars that will become available first, including General Motors' Chevy Bolt and BYD's Qin EV300.
The claim: The UK exports five times as much to the EU as it does to the Commonwealth.
Reality Check verdict: Yes we do. The UK's exports of goods and services to the Commonwealth in 2014 were worth £47.8bn. The comparable figure for the EU was £228.9bn. It's worth noting that the UK does plenty of business with countries that are part of neither group - for example, we sell twice as much to the USA as we do to our biggest EU partner, Germany.
Is he right?
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show our exports of goods and services to the Commonwealth in 2014 were worth £47.8bn.
The comparable figure for the EU that year was £228.9bn, which is slightly less than five times the Commonwealth figure.
So the figure the former prime minister used is accurate. But why did he choose this one? We have historical links with the Commonwealth, but our biggest customer in the Commonwealth is only our thirteenth biggest in the world.
There are 52 other countries in the Commonwealth. We know from the ONS Pink Book (table 9.3) which are our biggest customers in the Commonwealth. The top five are India, Australia, Canada, Singapore and South Africa.
But some of the Commonwealth countries are very small, including Nauru and Tuvalu, both of which have populations of about 10,000.
What other figures could he have used? In 2014 we exported £88bn of goods and services to our biggest single customer, the USA, which was twice as much as our second biggest customer, Germany.
We sell more than half of our exports to seven countries, four of which are EU members.
Source: ONS Pink Book. Note: The figure for the Netherlands may be enlarged by the so-called Rotterdam Effect, in which goods being shipped from its ports are counted as exports to the Netherlands.
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Rooney, 30, made his 116th appearance for England in Sunday's World Cup qualifying victory over Slovakia.
But his value to the team has become a hot topic after he spent most of the game playing in a deep midfield role.
"I don't think he's a striker anymore," said Shilton, who won 125 caps. "We are trying to fit him in, but he's not a midfield player for me. Never will be."
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Shilton, 66, added: "He is spraying a few balls around, but I don't think he's being very effective.
"I thought he should have retired after the Euros. It's not because he could break my record. Far from it. If he does and he plays well, fine."
Rooney did not touch the ball once in the Slovakia penalty area but England's captain and record goalscorer says the debate over his role in the team has been an "overreaction" following the 1-0 win in Trnava.
"I played in that role and helped us win the game," Rooney, who has scored 53 goals for his country, told Sky Sports: "Too much is getting made about it."
In his post-match interview, new England boss Sam Allardyce said it was "not for me to say" where Rooney should play and said the Manchester United forward could play "wherever he wanted".
But former Norwich, Blackburn and Celtic striker Chris Sutton, who won one cap for England, said such an approach was damaging.
"With Rooney in a deep-lying midfield role for most of the match, Harry Kane was isolated up front and it killed his game," Sutton told the Daily Mail.
"Rooney can't pick and choose where he plays, it's not a testimonial.
"He is a lovely passer and technician but if he's not playing to Kane's strengths then the whole team suffer."
Fellow BBC pundit Alan Shearer added: "I did think he was too deep in that particular game. I thought we had a ball-playing centre-half and a sitting midfielder so I didn't think there was any need for him to keep on going and getting the ball off the back four, even deeper than the back four at times.
"I thought he would have been better served playing in the number 10 role and getting the ball and threading passes through further up the field, but they won the game so no one can complain," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.
Rooney says he will retire after the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia, by which stage he is likely to have overtaken Shilton as England's most-capped player.
Customers will be able to choose to use the free power either on Saturday or Sunday, between 9am and 5pm.
British Gas said consumers should see savings of about £60 a year.
But experts said it will not necessarily be the cheapest deal on the market, and advised people to shop around with other suppliers.
Most of British Gas's 11 million customers will not be eligible immediately, as only 2.4 million of these currently have smart meters.
For the first time, smart meters enable energy firms to work out the time of day when people are using power.
The move follows an announcement by British Gas in April that it had lost 224,000 customers in the first three months of 2016.
British Gas said the new FreeTime tariff will be the cheapest dual fuel deal on offer from the company.
But independent energy expert Ann Robinson said consumers can find lower tariffs elsewhere.
"Consumers need to think about the small print, shop around and see if there's a better deal out there," she said.
However, she welcomed the innovative use of smart meters, saying people might be prepared to change habits to save money.
"It's worth thinking about cooking your major roasts and stews, or doing two or three rounds of laundry on the same day," she said.
Experts expect other suppliers to follow suit.
Large energy suppliers have now installed 2.75 million residential smart meters across the UK, less than 6% of all meters, according to the latest government figures.
In total, 53 million smart meters are due to be installed by 2020.
British Gas said it would install a smart meter for anyone who wanted to go on the new tariff, as long as they were eligible.
Why are we using less energy than we used to?
Monday's 1-1 draw with Finland in World Cup qualifying Group I was their first competitive fixture.
They were granted membership of Uefa in May and Kurtaj has been in touch with national team staff.
"I'm on this letter of the players they can call," said the 25-year-old. "It's just up to me if I perform well."
Of Albanian descent, Kurtaj was born in Prestina, now the capital of Kosovo, just as the old Yugoslavia was beginning to break apart.
His early career was spent in Germany with Hertha Berlin, Neustrelitz and Carl Zeiss Jena and he arrived at New Douglas Park last summer after leaving Czech outfit Banik Most.
Kurtaj was a regular starter last season as Accies battled to avoid relegation from the Scottish Premiership.
His international prospects were hampered by an early season injury, but now he has made his first two appearances of this campaign, he is aiming to be part of a squad that has ignited the passions of his compatriots at home and abroad.
"I am definitely trying everything," he said. "I want to say that every Kosovarian is very proud of this performance in the first game.
"It was really nice to see the 90 minutes and I was really happy with the draw.
"People in the world can definitely look forward to this team."
Some players who are eligible to play for Kosovo but have previously represented other nations are still waiting to be given permission by world governing body Fifa to switch nationality.
"A lot of players are still waiting for clearances and they have a really strong team," said Kurtaj.
"For everybody, for my family, friends and every Kosovarian, it was emotional. People are really impressed with this Kosovarian team."
Accies lie sixth in the Premiership table after recording their first league win of the season in their last outing against Ross County.
While pleased with the club's business during the transfer window, player-manager Martin Canning is still in the market for a full-back.
Canning will monitor the free agents who are available but insists any new signing will need to be good enough to immediately challenge for a place in the starting line-up.
"We've recruited well again," Canning said. "At the start, we were slightly weaker in our starting XI, but the squad was stronger.
"Now our starting XI is as strong, if not stronger, than last season.
"If I could, I'd still look to bring in a full-back. We had two or three things happening in the last couple of weeks that haven't come off, which is sometimes the case.
"We're keeping an eye out to see if anyone's available and if they're the right person.
"At the moment, the two full-backs we've got, Grant Gillespie and Darren Lyon, are doing really well, so it's got to be someone who can come in and do us justice in terms of coming into the team."
It was the 32nd ATP title of the Scot's career as he prepares for the French Open at the end of the month.
In a rain-interrupted match, the top seed needed just over three hours to beat the world number 24 Kohlschreiber.
"It was a really tough match, he served very close to the line and I was getting frustrated," said Murray, 27.
He became the first Briton to win an ATP-ranked event on clay since Buster Mottram in Palma in April 1976.
Murray, playing in his first tournament since marrying long-term girlfriend Kim Sears last month, added: "I didn't realise I was the first Brit to win on clay for so long, so that's obviously an honour."
He and Kohlschreiber could meet again in the second round of this week's Madrid Masters.
The final resumed on Monday after heavy rain stopped play on Sunday evening with Kohlschreiber leading 3-2 in the first set.
Both players confidently held serve to take the opener into a tie-break, and it was world number three Murray, watched by new coach Jonas Bjorkman, who got the mini-break to snatch the set after almost an hour.
Murray had three break points at 4-3 up in the second set, but Kohlschreiber held his nerve and then broke Murray in the 11th game before serving out to level the match.
There were no breaks in the third set and Murray clinched victory on his second match point in another tie-break when Kohlschreiber, the winner in Munich in 2007 and 2012, sent a backhand long.
The new charge has a maximum penalty of seven years rather than 15. Greenpeace says it is still "wildly disproportionate".
Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise vessel was seized by Russian forces as activists tried to scale an offshore oil platform.
All 30 people on board were detained.
Two of them are freelance journalists.
So far all bail applications in the case have been refused.
By Steve RosenbergBBC News, Moscow
The dropping of piracy charges against the Arctic 30 is not a huge surprise.
Even Vladimir Putin had said he didn't think that the 30 people arrested on board the Arctic Sunrise were pirates.
But why change charges now?
The Russian authorities may be calculating that "hooliganism" is a more credible indictment than "piracy", making it easier for Moscow to argue to the world that Greenpeace committed a crime.
The new charge is still a serious one, though - if found guilty of hooliganism, the detainees could be sent to prison for up to seven years. But under Russian law, punishment could also be limited to a fine.
Vladimir Markin, the head of Russia's main investigating agency the Investigative Committee, told Russian news agencies that the charges had been reclassified.
But the investigators did not rule out more serious charges at a later date - in particular the use of violence against officials.
The refusal of the detainees to give evidence also gives the authorities reason to consider other offences such as terrorism and espionage, Mr Markin said.
Last week, 11 Nobel prize-winners wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging him to drop the charges of piracy.
The presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the president had no power to influence the courts.
Mr Putin said last month that the activists had violated international law but it was "absolutely evident that they are, of course, not pirates".
Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia said that there was no case for either piracy or hooliganism charges.
"The Arctic 30 are no more hooligans than they were pirates," he said in a statement.
"This is still a wildly disproportionate charge that carries up to seven years in jail. It represents nothing less than an assault on the very principle of peaceful protest."
Earlier Greenpeace Russia programme director Ivan Blokov told the Interfax news agency he was surprised the Russian government had refused to attend international court hearings in Germany over the detentions.
The Netherlands took the case of the Dutch-flagged ship and its crew to the UN tribunal in Hamburg on Monday.
The Russian foreign ministry released a statement pointing out that Moscow had opted out of UN Law of the Sea dispute procedures, which infringe upon sovereignty, in 1997.
All 30 people who were on board the ship are in pre-trial detention in the northern port city of Murmansk until late November. They have complained of being held in harsh conditions,
They were detained when Russian security sources stormed the ship five weeks ago following a protest against drilling for oil in the Arctic.
Greenpeace denies any wrongdoing and is calling for the release of the detainees, who come from 18 countries, and the Arctic Sunrise.
The former Hearts and Kilmarnock boss, 41, took over at Central Park in March after being sacked by Raith Rovers during the previous month.
He could not prevent the Blue Brazil from finishing bottom of League Two.
However, Cowden kept their league place after a penalty shoot-out win against Lowland League champions East Kilbride.
Chilwell Road and High Road in Beeston have been closed to allow an extension to the city's tram network to be built.
Businesses said they were making "the best of a very bad situation" by holding the party to remind potential customers they were still open.
The city council said the total closure would allow work to progress faster and a compensation package was in place.
The £570m project, to create a tram link between the centre of Nottingham and Beeston and Chilwell, is due to be completed in 2015.
The road was closed to traffic on Monday but traders said they were trying to treat it as a "temporary pedestrianisation".
The event, on 30 March, will include street entertainment, face-painting and an outdoor stage for bands.
Julie Cameron, owner of Cameron House, a gift and furnishings shop, admitted some of the 80 businesses affected had already left but others had decided to stick it out.
"We just thought it was an opportunity to get the local people round and the people from Nottingham to come down and see for themselves just how fabulous the businesses are, the fact we are still open.
"And we can let them know how to get here and where the car parks are - we are making the best of a very bad situation," she said.
Councillor Jane Urquhart from Nottingham City Council said: "Rather than having a series of small closures that would change it seemed better to have a permanent arrangement that people could get used to."
She said the council had worked closely with retailers and had created new parking spaces nearby to try to help with the situation.
The largest cut, of £1.9m or 3.6% , will be made in Walsall, in the West Midlands, Pulse magazine data shows.
Two Merseyside clinical commissioning groups (CCG) in Sefton and St Helens as well as Isle of Wight and Scarborough, North Yorkshire are also facing cuts.
But data, from 127 CCGs in a freedom of information request, shows overall spending will rise by 4.15% in 2017/18.
What is mental health?
The figures come after NHS England said in its Five Year Forward View for mental health, in February 2016, there was a need for CCGs to spend an additional £1bn by 2020/21.
It also required CCGs to increase their spend on mental health services in line with budget increases.
And an NHS England spokesman said: "CCGs as a whole are on track to achieve the mental health investment target in 2016/17."
In response Prof Simon Brake, chief officer for NHS Walsall CCG, said: "Walsall CCG benchmarks nationally as high-spending, falling within the upper quartile as an outlier.
He said it had "invested significantly more in previous years in mental health than CCG peers ahead of the national requirements to make investments and there was a "lower than average funding growth of only 1.4% compared to the national average of 2.14%".
A spokesman from NHS South Sefton CCG said: "We have assurance from our main mental health providers... they will be able to deliver the must dos set out in the Five Year Forward View for mental health within the budget allocations for 2017/2018 and 2018/2019."
NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG said the figures did not take into account other work it was doing on mental health.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP Committee, said cuts go "against government pronouncements that mental health will have priority" and that they would have a "damaging effect".
Marjorie Wallace, from mental health charity Sane, said despite the recent Prince William and Prince Harry's Heads Together #oktosay campaign, "cuts to services across the country continue and people seeking help are still being failed".
"A recent report found that 40% of the mental health trusts in England had seen cuts to their budgets, and figures show mental health trusts received none of the extra £8bn funding for the NHS over the last four years," she added.
Kieran Church, 30, died at The Shires shopping centre, Trowbridge, having suffered a "catastrophic haemorrhage".
Security officer Jordan Rose, 20, held on suspicion of manslaughter was later told he would face "no further police action".
A conclusion of accidental death was recorded by coroner David Ridley.
Summing up, at Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner's Court, Mr Ridley said: "The most appropriate conclusion is sadly Kieran died as the result of the unintended consequence of a deliberate act."
The court heard Mr Church, also known as Kieran Hayes, was homeless and addicted to drugs, and often stole bottles of alcohol.
He was initially stopped by Mr Rose after leaving a Sainsbury's store with bottles of brandy, but handed the drink back.
Later that afternoon security staff in Asda saw Mr Church take two bottles, hiding them inside his jacket before leaving the store, the inquest was told.
Mr Rose, a SIA-licensed guard, was en-route to a police station to hand in CCTV footage of the earlier incident when he saw Mr Church.
Asda security guard Denise Thomas told the court she saw Mr Church walking in the direction of the car park.
"As he was walking away I politely and calmly said, 'Excuse me', and he ignored me," she said.
"A Sainsbury's security guard I didn't know ran at the male suspect from behind and he forcibly pounced on him."
After the inquest, Mr Hayes's partner shook Mr Rose's hand and told him: "We don't hold you responsible - it was an accident - and that's from all the family."
Best known in France for her instrumental role in legalising abortion in the 1970s, she went on to serve as the first president of an elected European Parliament.
Ms Veil, a liberal, later re-entered French politics, returning to the cabinet in the 1990s.
President Emmanuel Macron described her as "inspiring" and the best of France.
She became one of the 40 "immortals" of the Académie Française in 2010 - a great honour in France.
Ms Veil was France's minister of health from 1974-79, in which role she made access to contraception easier and fought a long battle to legalise abortion.
The law which did so, passed in 1975, is known as "la loi Veil".
Simon Veil became an MEP in the 1979 European elections, and she was elected as president of the parliament.
She later went on to become the leader of the liberal grouping within the parliament, and stood down as an MEP in 1993.
She again became a French minister, before being appointed to the constitutional council of France.
Born in Nice in 1927 as Simone Jacob, her whole family was arrested by the Germans in 1944.
Her father and brother were transported to eastern Europe and were never heard from again.
The teenaged Simone was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and then Bergen-Belsen with her mother and oldest sister. Her mother died shortly before liberation.
Her other sister, Denise, had joined the French Resistance and was imprisoned at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
The three sisters survived the war but the eldest, Madeleine, was killed in a car crash in the 1950s.
Ms Veil was married to the late Antoine Veil for more than 60 years and the couple had three children.
The man in the middle is never far away from being the subject of terrace cat-calls and social media meltdowns. Long-faced coaches aren't shy of making subtle jibes in news conferences, side-stepping fines with careful words, but leaving no-one in any doubt about what they thought of an official.
Of course referees make mistakes - some more than others. But how does such a public stamping of feet help rectify that?
But the shrill blasts of indignation are now coming from another level - the boardroom.
In the past few weeks a couple of owners have made their views public. Leigh boss Derek Beaumont took his coach's place in an after match conference to launch a volley at the standard of refereeing after his side had lost.
And using his programme notes this last weekend, Hull supremo Adam Pearson also had a go at officialdom.
But what purpose have those public declarations served?
Such deliberately aired criticism from such senior figures has just made the job of each individual referee so much more difficult now. The licence for fans to abuse officials has been rubber stamped by people who should know better.
Hunting season for the man in the middle has, unwittingly or otherwise, been legitimised.
Of course referees make mistakes - some more than others. Of course some referees have bad games, or a bad run of games. But how does such a public stamping of feet help rectify that?
Rugby league has always prided itself on the complete respect it affords to the man who blows the whistle. Players call him 'sir' and try to bite their lip at even the most unjust of decisions.
But once club owners decide they can spit the dummy out, after their players have been doing such a grand job of keeping their discipline down the generations, the long, slow decline has begun.
Referees are a long way from being perfect - as are players, coaches, even owners for that matter.
There are always plenty of issues to be addressed, not the least of them the number of senior and experienced officials currently in the game.
But there are channels for concerns to be raised privately. Coaches can pick up the phone and speak to the head of referees Steve Ganson each week. Owners can raise their general concern at the regular Super League meetings they attend.
Making such a pubic display of hammering the referee - via an emotional outburst immediately after losing to the current best team in the country, or in a considered programme piece after a third successive Super League defeat - does nothing except erode the institution of the man in the middle.
We don't want that to happen.
"We haven't got enough of them, and they aren't good enough," said Derek Beaumont. It's not exactly a catchy buzz phrase for the recruitment posters.
There needs to be a private conversation between all concerned parties to improve performances that need improving.
Public attacks on named, or unnamed officials, just slows down the process of potential refs wanting to join the ranks of the maligned.
And more current refs - all of them honest and diligent, whatever else you might think of them - may prefer to hang up the whistle rather than be harangued from on high.
They lost 3-2 on the night at York Hall against a strong Kazhak team who will face Cuba or Columbia in the final.
At light-heavyweight, Liverpool's Tom Whittaker-Hart saw off Arman Rysbek to secure a first victory in WSB.
Patrick Mailata ended the match and the season in style with a third round stoppage of Nursultan Amanzhilov.
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Daniel Bradley, 53, was last seen by a friend in Manchester on Sunday.
It is believed he had booked a trip to Belfast and boarded the ferry on Monday night. He was seen on the ferry in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
RNLI and the coastguard carried out searches on Tuesday.
Police are investigating whether he got off the ferry or if he fell overboard. Anyone who saw him is asked to contact Merseyside Police on 0151 777 2265.
Merseyside police are also liaising with officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Greater Manchester Police.
Daniel is described as 5ft 7in tall, with a slight athletic build and short grey hair.
When last seen, he was wearing a black jacket with a white emblem on the left hand side, a white/light coloured shirt, a blue or black tie, black trousers and black shoes.
The loss is not as deep as the £610m recorded in 2015, but it is the fifth year in a row the bank has lost money.
The bank, in which the Co-operative Group still has a small stake, was rescued from the brink of collapse by a group of hedge funds in 2013.
So far, no bidder has declared themselves, but the bank said it was "pleased with the interest to date".
It was forced to offer itself for sale after it was unable to reach a strong enough footing to satisfy the Bank of England's regulatory requirements.
The bank blamed low interest rates and the higher-than-expected cost of its turnaround plan for its failure to meet the Bank's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) rules.
The PRA had welcomed the bank's decision to put itself up for sale.
But the planned sales raised concerns from the former business secretary, Sir Vince Cable, and two Treasury Committee MPs.
The Co-op Bank has four million customers and is well known for its ethical standpoint, which its board said made it "a strong franchise with significant potential" to prospective buyers.
England international Gibbs, 27, has agreed a four-year deal.
Poland international Krychowiak has started just 10 games for the French club since joining from Sevilla for £28m last year.
They are the Baggies' fifth and sixth major signings of the summer.
Krychowiak won two Europa League titles with Sevilla and won the Trophee des Champions, Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France last season at PSG.
The midfielder, who has 45 caps for Poland, said: "I had a lot of offers from Spain and Italy. But this is a very ambitious club. There's a good atmosphere here."
Gibbs had also been in talks with Watford and Turkish side Galatasaray this summer, while Krychowiak had reportedly been interesting clubs including Chelsea and Juventus.
"They've made some good signings and I feel this is a good move for me," said Gibbs, who has been at Arsenal since the age of 14.
Gibbs has 10 England caps, the last coming in a 2-0 win over France in a friendly at Wembley in November 2015.
"We have recruited another quality addition; an England player with bags of experience at Premier League and Champions League level," said Albion chairman John Williams.
Since the end of last season West Brom have signed Southampton striker Jay Rodriguez, 28, for about £12m, Egypt defender Ahmed Hegazi, 27, on a season-long loan deal, and former England midfielder Gareth Barry, 36, for an undisclosed fee.
Scotland winger Oliver Burke joined last week from German club RB Leipzig on a five-year contract for a reported fee of £15m.
The Baggies have also signed China striker Yuning Zhang, 20, who has started a two-year loan in Germany with Werder Bremen.
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The Algeria international, 20, joined Spurs in January 2012 after a trial period at White Hart Lane.
He made his first-team debut in a win at Southampton in December 2013 and has since established himself as a first-tem regular.
Bentaleb played at the 2014 World Cup and made 35 appearances for Tottenham last season, scoring one goal.
Olaseni Lewis, known as Seni, was an ambitious 23-year-old IT graduate with a degree from Kingston University and plans for postgraduate study.
In August 2010 he was physically well with no history of mental illness.
But within two days of uncharacteristically odd and agitated behaviour - and 18 hours after being brought to hospital - he was all but dead, having collapsed during prolonged restraint by police.
He never regained consciousness and died three days later.
Seni was restrained three times - first by hospital staff and then by police - for 45 minutes before his collapse.
The IPCC investigation was completed in the autumn of 2011.
The family's solicitor Raju Bhatt said: "The family is faced, 12 months on, with no progress.
"The IPCC appear to recognise that 'confusion' and 'oversight' served to undermine their investigation."
The death raises uncomfortable questions in light of the inquest into Sean Rigg's death.
Mr Rigg, 40, died at Brixton Police Station in 2008. An inquest found police used "unsuitable" force.
At the inquest into Mr Rigg's death the South London and Maudsley Trust (Slam) admitted deficiencies in protocols between themselves and the Metropolitan Police.
The Met suggested they regularly look at how police and mental health practitioners work together.
So two years after Sean Rigg's death, why did things continue to go wrong?
It is not known why Seni Lewis began acting oddly, although he might have smoked strong cannabis.
When he failed to settle his family took him to Mayday University Hospital, Croydon.
His subsequent distressed behaviour concerned Accident and Emergency staff.
His family agreed he should be taken to a place of safety - known as a section 136 suite - at Maudsley Hospital to protect himself and others.
All the time he was showing signs of growing distress.
His father and friend joined him at the Maudsley and he was given medication.
But it was clear Mr Lewis was scared and uncertain what would happen next.
During the afternoon, he managed to leave the hospital, going to Denmark Hill Station - followed by hospital staff, his father and friend.
Police were called and Mr Lewis was coaxed back.
Mr Lewis's parents agreed he should stay in hospital for treatment, rest and assessment.
Mother Ajibola Lewis said: "We knew he wasn't well and needed help - more than we could give."
Staff agreed to admit him as a voluntary patient.
But admitting him required another journey - NHS managers insisted his home address meant he must go to Bethlem Royal Hospital several miles away.
Having helped Mr Lewis settle there his family left giving contact details.
At about midnight Mr Lewis's friend called the hospital to check on his welfare and was told he had been taken back to Mayday Hospital.
Staff were trying to get in touch with his family - apparently unaware they already had contact details for his mother.
The friend provided the details again and Mr Lewis's mother was informed he was taken to Mayday A&E after a "collapse".
His family have since gathered an outline of what transpired after they left Bethlem Hospital.
Mr Lewis had become increasingly agitated at their absence - especially when told he could not leave.
He understood he was there voluntarily.
The family said eventually it appears he was sectioned, restrained and held face down on the floor while medication was administered by hospital staff.
Police were called after he allegedly damaged a door and were asked to to help take Mr Lewis to the seclusion room.
His family understand that despite being handcuffed and struggling he was never violent.
Once inside the seclusion room he was held forcefully face down on the bed and then on the floor by police.
The restraint lasted 45 minutes and involved 11 officers.
Further medication was forcibly injected and - no longer struggling - he was left on his own lying face down on the floor, the Lewis family understands.
He was then seen motionless. In reality he was all but dead.
Following attempts to resuscitate him he was taken by ambulance to Mayday Hospital and put on life support, dying shortly afterwards.
The IPCC then investigated.
Mr Bhatt told the BBC none of the restraining officers have ever been put on notice that their conduct was under investigation.
They have not been interviewed, under caution or otherwise. Their written accounts remain untested.
Mr Lewis's case will offer more food for thought to new IPCC chairwoman, Dame Anne Owers.
She has already expressed concern that failure to interview police under caution undermines the search for the truth.
The IPCC has said it awaits advice from the CPS before proceeding, while the Met said it was unable to comment.
Meanwhile Slam claims it has striven to improve policies and practice.
An inquest is due next spring.
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Roger Mitchell revealed it would essentially have been a Dundee United takeover of Dundee.
The new club would have been called Dundee United City Football Club.
"Some people don't want to remember that that deal was done - those two teams on a Friday night had merged," Mitchell told BBC Scotland.
Mitchell was speaking in October ahead of a forthcoming BBC series about the history of Scottish football.
Although the deal eventually unravelled, Mitchell says the new club would have played in Tangerine at Tannadice Stadium.
"They had come up with a new name. They had come up with the strip they would play in," recalled Mitchell, who left the SPL in 2002, four years after helping to launch the organisation.
"We had been told about that. We were ready to deal with it and what that meant for promotion and relegation.
"It was a crucial moment. It was two historic clubs merging."
The boys had told the school in the small, northern town of Therwil it was against their faith to touch a woman outside their family.
Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said shaking hands was part of Swiss culture and daily life.
A local teachers' union said the exemption discriminated against women.
The case has propelled Therwil, a town of 10,000 people in the Basel-Country canton, to the centre of a national debate about Swiss identity. A similar case has been reported elsewhere in the region.
Christian Amsler, head of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education, suggested that the school may have tried to get an "unpleasant problem out of the way" but had simply made a mistake.
There has been little support for the school's decision to grant special dispensation to the boys, who are 14 and 15 and have lived in Switzerland for several years.
Therwil Mayor Reto Wolf said the community was unhappy with the decision taken by the school, which is run by the local canton.
"In our culture and in our way of communication a handshake is normal and sends out respect for the other person, and this has to be brought [home] to the children in school," he told the BBC.
Felix Mueri, the head of the Swiss parliament's education commission and a member of the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party, said the decision sent out the wrong message. "Today's it's the handshake and what will it be tomorrow?"
Muslim groups also disagreed with the school's response.
There was no reference in the Koran justifying a refusal to shake a woman teacher's hand, said the Swiss Federation of Islamic Organisations. Saida Keller-Messahli of the Forum for Progressive Islam urged the Swiss not to give in to extremist demands.
However the smaller Islamic Central Council of Switzerland said that a handshake between men and women was prohibited. "After the sex attacks in Cologne (on New Year's Eve), they asked Muslims to keep their distance from women; now they demand they get closer to them," spokesman Qaasim Illi told Swiss media.
The justice minister said such dispensation for children was not her idea of integration.
The beleaguered school has tried to find a compromise, by deciding that the two pupils should not greet either men or women with a handshake.
Headteacher Juerg Lauener said the school had no reason to adjust its policy, unless the local authorities ruled against its decision.
Local education officials said the school had taken a pragmatic approach, but agreed it was not a permanent solution as rules should be the same for all pupils.
Swindale Beck, which flows into the River Eden near Haweswater, was straightened 200 years ago to clear land for grazing.
However, the lack of natural bends and faster flowing water meant gravel was washed away, making it less easy for Atlantic salmon and trout to spawn.
A kilometre-long channel mirroring its original course has been dug, with the water now directed into it.
The project, involving United Utilities, the RSPB, Natural England and the Environment Agency, will also alleviate flooding by slowing the flow of water through the valley.
In February, her party confirmed it received a donation of about £435,000 from pro-union business people.
The DUP said the money from the Constitutional Research Council (CRC) was spent on pro-Brexit advertising.
The Electoral Commission said it is not investigating the donation.
The CRC is chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
The DUP said about £425,000 was spent on the Brexit campaign.
There are concerns from the DUP's political opponents that three donors associated with the CRC have not been named by the DUP.
On Thursday Sinn Féin said it will would meet the Electoral Commission to discuss "concerns" over what it has described as "dark money".
Arlene Foster said, "We have satisfied ourselves that it was all kept within the rules, and we are satisfied the money came from UK business people.
"This is a re-heated story. We dealt with it at the time of the Assembly election and here we are dealing with exactly the same thing.
"Sinn Féin are trying to deflect from the real meaning of this election, which is all about the union."
Mrs Foster was asked if she knew the full identity of the other individuals who gave the money.
She said she did know who had made the donation and she was "satisfied that the people who gave it had every right to give the donation".
"We have answered all the questions the Electoral Commission have asked us.
"It is satisfied we have done everything in accordance with the law and I am satisfied. As far as I'm concerned that's the end of the matter".
The DUP leader said there was "no issue" with her judgement.
"Behind all of this, is that people didn't like that we were part of a national campaign in relation to Brexit and we took our position up as a UK party. There's nothing to see.
"Sinn Féin has brought millions of pounds into Northern Ireland throughout the years and no-one has known where that money has come from.
"It does frustrate me that we are talking about these issues instead of issues around the union."
Mrs Foster also spoke about her party's performance in March's assembly election.
"The last election was a perfect storm. We were under incredible attacks from all sides. Personally I was being buffeted by everyone.
"The fact that we came out with over 225,000 votes was a good result, given where we were."
Mrs Foster said she would continue to engage with the Irish language community. In April she met with a number of Irish language groups.
The meetings came after she said in February that her party would never support legislation to give official status to the language.
"I have yet to be convinced there is an need for such an act but we are still talking about it.
"There has been very much a use of Irish language to batter people, we've seen it in the chamber and when I meet people who genuinely do love the Irish language and the way they speak to me, through drama or literature, it is different," she said.
The Scottish Atlas of Palliative Care has been compiled by academics based at the University of Glasgow's Crichton campus in Dumfries.
It includes maps, tables, lists and diagrams showing which services are available, at what level, and where.
The atlas contains previously-unavailable data on palliative care services across Scotland.
The team behind it is led by Prof David Clark of the Crichton-based End of Life Studies Group.
He said it would be a vital resource for policy-makers, decision-makers and "thought leaders" across Scotland.
The project was part-funded by the Scottish government.
A spokesperson said the atlas would support a range of work to fulfil a vision that, by 2021, everyone in Scotland who needed palliative care would have access to it.
Emergency services were called to Coronation Terrace, Nantyffyllon, Bridgend county, at about 07:50 GMT on Thursday.
The Coal Authority has now carried out an initial assessment of the collapse.
A statement said investigations "indicated that the collapse is unlikely to be coal mining related".
Following the collapse, a fire service spokeswoman said a man was assessed, but he was not hurt.
The Coal Authority said the hole measured three metres by 3.2 metres (9ft by 10.4ft) and was four metres (13ft) deep.
A statement published on its website added: "The collapse goes up to the edge of a residential building and extends slightly underneath the road.
"Our initial site and desktop investigations have indicated that the collapse is unlikely to be coal mining related.
"However, we are continuing to work closely with the council while they carry out further physical investigation works.
"If these investigations reveal that the cause was due to unrecorded historical coal mine workings we will undertake repair works as required."
Reeves is best known for TV shows Vic Reeves Big Night Out and Shooting Stars, but has said that he considers himself an artist before anything else.
"I think everything I do is art. I don't really differentiate between painting, acting or comedy," he said.
The exhibition, at The Grand on the Leas in Folkestone, runs to Saturday.
Reeves studied art at Sir John Cass College in Whitechapel, east London, and his work includes unusual self-portraits, quirky celebrity paintings, landscapes and distorted animal pictures.
"I think putting your imagination on canvas or a television screen is the same thing," he said.
"If you've got an idea you have got to have an outlet for it.
"So if it's painting, poetry, singing or acting it all comes out somewhere."
The comedian lives in Charing, near Ashford, with his wife Nancy Sorrell and their family.
He said selling the paintings would be like losing close friends.
"But if you have 250 friends you have to weed a few out, don't you?" he said.
The exhibition was organised with auctioneer and valuer Michael Hogben, from BBC TV show Bargain Hunt, who met Reeves when he was setting up a performance art piece in a local pub.
The art will be auctioned on Saturday with prices starting at £50.
McCarthy claimed before the game that he only had eight fit first-teamers.
And the average age of the 10 outfield players who started the 2-1 loss against Palace was under 20.
"They played like men. If they get one game or 150 games in Ipswich Town's first team, that one is going to leave a lasting memory with them," he said.
Ipswich went into the game after starting the season with five successive victories and they are one of two sides in the Championship with a 100% record.
But former Millwall, Sunderland and Wolves boss McCarthy made 11 changes at Selhurst Park against Premier League opposition.
"They'd have seen my team and thought 'if we don't beat this mob we're in trouble', but as soon as you start thinking that, it puts that seed of doubt in your head and you've got that fear factor and I think we contributed to making it that way by the way we played," he told BBC Radio Suffolk..
"I told them before the game: 'Leave yourself proud of your performance. If your mum and dad are here, let them be proud of it. Don't miss an opportunity to perform well'.
"I think there are players there who could come in and play (in the Championship). I'm not saying they are going to play 40 games (this season) but if we need a bit of help - we haven't got a big squad - they've all given me a bit of comfort and confidence that I've got a bit of back-up."
The tactic has emerged after Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit smashed a fake credit card fraud racket.
Officers realised crucial evidence in the investigation was concealed on a suspect's iPhone - but it would be unobtainable if the device was locked.
So a covert team seized it in the street while the suspect was on a call - beating the security settings.
The street seizure of the phone was dreamt up by detectives from Operation Falcon, the specialist Metropolitan Police team running investigations into major fraud and related crimes organised online.
Gabriel Yew had been under investigation for the suspected manufacture of fake cards that gangs were using across Europe to buy luxury goods. Detectives suspected that he was using an iPhone exclusively to communicate to other members of the network but knew if they arrested him, he could refuse to unlock it and they would never see incriminating evidence.
They considered whether they could legally force a suspect's finger or thumb on to the device's fingerprint reader to unlock it, but found they had no such power.
However, they concluded they could stage their own lawful "street robbery" - using a similar snatch technique to a thief - and in June a team set out to do precisely that.
Undercover surveillance officers trailed Yew and waited for him to unlock his phone to make a call - thereby disabling the encryption.
One officer then rushed in to seize the phone from Yew's hand - just as would happen in a criminal mugging. As his colleagues restrained the suspect, the officer continually "swiped" through the phone's screens to prevent it from locking before they had downloaded its data.
"The challenges of pin code access and encryption on some phones make it harder to access evidence in a timely fashion than ever before," said Det Ch Insp Andrew Gould who led the operation.
"Officers had to seize Yew's phone from him in the street. This evidence was crucial to the prosecution."
The phone revealed a motherlode of information on Yew's efficient business-like practices. He had orders for fake cards and there was evidence linking him to four men who were subsequently convicted and a further 100 potential suspects.
Detectives also uncovered Yew's "factory" with thousands of blank credit cards ready to be programmed.
Yew pleaded guilty to fraud and weapons offences and at a sentencing hearing this week at Blackfriars Crown Court was jailed for five and a half years.
The victim was critically injured in an attack at a house in Thomas Russell Park in the town last week.
The accused, Michael O'Connor, did not speak throughout the hearing at Belfast Magistrates' Court, but he nodded to confirm he understood the charge.
There was no bail application and he was remanded in custody to appear again by videolink on 29 December.
The court was told Mr O'Connor, of Westrock Grove, Belfast, was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of attempting to murder the victim, but no details of the attack were revealed.
A detective constable said police could connect him to the charge.
It is understood the woman has been living in the house with her young child for a number of years.
Michelle Brown used derogatory comments about the Labour MP for Streatham, Chuka Umunna, in a call in May 2016 to her then senior adviser Nigel Williams.
Ms Brown said her language was "inappropriate" and has "apologised to anyone that has been offended by it."
UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said it does not condone her personal views.
Ms Brown, who called Mr Umunna a "coconut", was also recorded using an abusive remark about Tristram Hunt, who was then Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.
Mr Williams, who was her senior adviser for 12 months, was sacked by Ms Brown in May.
Ms Brown said in a statement: "The point I was making is that because of his considerable wealth and privilege, Chuka Umunna cannot possibly understand the difficulties and issues that the average black person faces in this country any more than I can, and I stand by that assertion.
"I do however accept that the language I used in the private conversation was inappropriate and I apologise to anyone that has been offended by it.
"As far as the language I used about Mr Hunt is concerned, it was a private conversation and I was using language that friends and colleagues often do when chatting to each other."
Ms Brown's comments have been referred to the assembly's standards commissioner.
Mr Oakden said UKIP "obviously does not condone the personal views expressed by Michelle Brown".
"We will conduct an investigation into this matter, the findings of which will be passed through to our National Executive Committee so that they might consider disciplinary action," he said.
"We will also investigate whether a UKIP member and official surreptitiously recorded a private telephone conversation with Michelle Brown and then disseminated it without her consent, more than a year after the event."
Mr Williams said he believed Ms Brown should resign from her seat and UKIP's national executive committee should remove her from the party.
The assembly's Labour Group condemned the "absolutely outrageous language" and said "anything less than immediate suspension would be a clear endorsement of Michelle Brown's racist slur."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "This racism reflects poorly on our parliament - The National Assembly for Wales - and that's why her party should take action on this."
This is not the first controversy Ms Brown has faced - in February, she was forced to deny claims she had smoked "recreational drugs" in a Cardiff Bay hotel room.
Her spokesman said the smell was caused by the AM smoking a strong tobacco product.
The antidote, naloxone, can be given by friends and family members of addicts - and even their children. It has reportedly saved hundreds of lives.
But does the opioid blocker make heroin addicts feel it is safer to use heroin more often?
Karl Price was just nine-years-old when his 12-year-old brother started using heroin.
Growing up in Birmingham surrounded by the drug, it seemed inevitable that later he too would succumb.
"One day I was in a block of flats, and a guy offered me some, and I said yeah," he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "I was 18."
"Within three weeks of taking it for the first time. I was completely hooked and homeless."
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The next four years of Karl's life were a combination of addiction and crime, focused only on feeding the cost of a habit that sometimes ran to "hundreds of pounds a day".
The drug ravaged his life.
He saw his ex-partner die of an overdose.
And on three occasions he came to the brink of dying too, but was saved each time by naloxone.
The single injection of the antidote works by disabling the opiate receptors in the body, blocking the effects of heroin.
It is an intra-muscular injection, meaning it can be injected straight into a person's arm or leg.
Naloxone was used to treat the singer Prince when he overdosed on opiate painkillers on an earlier occasion before he died.
Despite still being a prescription-only drug in the UK, since October 2015 it has been legal for trained carers, hostel managers, drug users, and addicts' friends and family to carry naloxone in case of an emergency.
Even some toilet attendants and lifeguards, who may encounter accidental overdoses or intentional suicide attempts on the beach, have been trained to administer the antidote.
Stacey Smith, from the drug charity Change, Grow, Live, runs a scheme that has trained 6,000 people to use naloxone in the past year, saving 241 lives so far.
"It sounds scary to have to inject someone, but it's really simple. It takes 10 minutes to train someone," Stacey says.
When it comes to training children, for example those whose parents are heroin addicts, careful consideration is given on a case-by-case basis.
"It sounds quite horrible, a child injecting a parent to stop them dying," she points out.
"But the alternative might be that they see their parent die. That's the reality of it."
The increased availability of naloxone in the UK comes at a time when more people than ever are dying from heroin and morphine overdoses.
Figures released this month by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that deaths from overdoses in England and Wales more than doubled in the past three years - from 579 in 2012 to 1,201 in 2015.
ONS researcher Vanessa Fearn says that this has been partly driven by a rise in the purity of heroin and its wider availability over the past three years.
"Age is also a factor in the record levels of drug deaths, as heroin users are getting older and they often have other conditions, such as lung disease and hepatitis, that make them particularly vulnerable," says Vanessa.
In the US, which is in the clutches of a heroin and opioid epidemic, naloxone is reported to have saved 27,000 lives between 1996 and 2014.
But its use has sparked a debate, with critics arguing that by reducing the risk of overdose, the problem of addiction is perpetuated rather than eradicated.
It is true that naloxone does nothing on its own to cure addiction.
In the case of Prince, he was revived by naloxone from an overdose of the opiate painkiller called Percocet.
But six days later he died of an overdose of another opiate painkiller, fentanyl, when no one was around to administer naloxone.
Does an antidote make heroin addicts feel it is safe to use more of the opiate, potentially put them off seeking help with recovery?
Stacey Smith says no.
"Drug users will always take risks because of their habit. Nobody plans to overdose," she explains.
"This kit is a last resort, but of course it's part of a whole approach that includes advising drug users on injecting safely and trying to get them into treatment."
Karl Price agrees, saying safety is not a consideration that even enters an addict's head.
On one occasion, he was given the naloxone injection by a friend when he overdosed in a 10p public toilet - a terrifying experience for both of them.
"Having a naloxone injection is not a pleasant experience. It takes all the drugs out, so you go into instant withdrawal," he says.
"I can remember coming round and feeling really ill - cold, shivering, aching.
"But without it I would have died. I've been so lucky, and I think that can give you that moment of realisation to get help," he explains.
Now 12 months clean, and working as a recovery coach for other drug users for CGL, which has services all over the UK, Karl has trained to use naloxone and is encouraging others to do the same.
"Not that many people, even drug users, are aware of it," he says.
"And at the end of the day, if you've got an antidote to something - does anybody really need to die from a heroin overdose?"
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
Islamist group al-Shabab told Reuters news agency it was behind the attack on MP Isak Mohamed Rino.
Another MP, Mohamed Ali, was wounded in the blast, which comes as the government hosts a security conference.
Pro-government forces have made gains from al-Shabab in recent years but the al-Qaeda-linked group still controls many southern rural areas.
Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed condemned the car bomb as a "cowardly attack".
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Sunday opened a three-day conference, saying the "culture of lawlessness that has plagued Somalia for the last 23 years is coming to an end".
Al-Shabab frequently stages attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere.
Somalia has been ravaged by constant warfare since 1991, when Siad Barre was ousted.
The app will answer any questions which parents and children may have about their hospital stay.
It will also allow children to create a profile so that clinicians know things such as their favourite colour.
Later, it may be used to offer insights into treatments.
Watson is an AI platform that is already advising doctors on treatments in a dozen cancer hospitals in the US, trawling through data - it can read 40 million documents in 15 seconds - to offer insights into possible treatments.
It may eventually do similar things at Alder Hey but is starting with a more simple patient/doctor app, designed to make hospital visits run more smoothly.
The hospital is working with the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre on developing the app.
For the next few months, hundreds of Alder Hey patients and their parents will be asked a range of questions on everything from parking, to what they would like to eat, to their favourite games and films, and what they want their bedroom to look like.
They will also be asked what questions they have about clinical procedures, general anaesthetic, and surgery. A team of experts from the Hartree Centre and IBM, will use this information to train "Watson" to anticipate and respond to questions from patients and families before they come into hospital.
Mr Iain Hennessey, a paediatric surgeon and director of innovation at Alder Hey, told the BBC: "Helping our patients and their families prepare properly for coming into hospital will really reduce their anxiety and could mean we can get them better and home faster.
"So much of medicine is about looking after people. It is roughly a third of what we do and it is a neglected part. How we communicate with patients hasn't changed much over the last 100 years. A leaflet is seen as cutting edge and a website of patient information is award-winning."
He said that later, the platform may offer "more hardcore diagnostics" but said governance around using patient data was "a nightmare".
"I wanted to get this off the ground quickly and using patient records takes time, is costly and can cause controversy. Alder Hey is famous for caring and that's what I wanted to build on."
Future applications could include summaries of patient notes, spotting trends across the hospital and the AI could even be used to offer treatment and care options.
IBM's European director for Watson, Paul Chong, commented: "I'm thrilled to see IBM Watson technology applied to help doctors and their patients in the effort to improve the lives of children and their families."
The 14 MPs had to resign their seats after losing appeals against the convictions in October.
In late November, President Baldwin Lonsdale dissolved parliament when it failed to form a unity government.
But the head of the electoral commission has warned there was not enough time to prepare for the vote.
John Killion Taleo told AFP they were using an electoral roll from July 2015, which was not up to date.
There are concerns that deceased voters have not been removed, and that many young voters who have since turned 18 - the voting age in Vanuatu - will not be able to take part in the polls.
A total of 263 candidates are standing for 53 parliamentary seats.
Former Solomon Islands prime minister Sir Francis Billy Hilly, who is leading a group of foreign election observers, also told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that they faced challenges in flying to remote polling stations.
Air Vanuatu has reportedly cancelled some domestic flights due to engine problems.
Vanuatu has seen political instability in recent years with several changes of prime ministers.
Last year, the 14 MPs were convicted of bribery while the president was abroad.
In his absence, then-parliamentary speaker Marcellino Pipite was the acting president, and he used his powers to pardon himself and the others.
On his return, Mr Lonsdale overturned the pardons. The Supreme Court later ruled the pardons had been unconstitutional.
Rikki Neave's naked body was found in woodland near his Peterborough home in November 1994. He had been strangled. The investigation reopened last year.
James Watson, 35, from Peterborough was arrested and bailed in April and re-arrested in Portugal on 2 August.
Officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire travelled to Lisbon to fetch him.
He was initially bailed until June and re-bailed until September, but last month police confirmed he had left the country.
He was traced to Portugal where local police detained him in the capital. He did not resist extradition.
Rikki Neave was last seen leaving his Welland estate home for school on the morning of 28 November 1994.
His body was found the next day in a wooded area about five minutes walk away.
He had died as a result of compression to the neck, post-mortem tests found.
Rikki's mother, Ruth Neave, was cleared of his murder at a trial in 1996. She later admitted child neglect and cruelty and was jailed for seven years.
A Crimewatch appeal broadcast on the 20th anniversary of Rikki's death led officers to release an e-fit of two teenage boys they wanted to talk to in connection with the case.
The pair had been seen walking out of the woods where Rikki's body was found on the morning of 29 November.
Stargazers across Scotland photographed the Aurora Borealis on Wednesday night.
Scotland is one of the best places in the UK to observe the Northern Lights, which are related to activity on the sun.
On Wednesday night, the aurora was visible from the Isle of Skye, as well as Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and North Berwick in East Lothian.
Lancaster University's AuroraWatch UK said that 2017 had started quietly for aurora watchers, but overnight on Wednesday and Thursday the UK received "a whopping 13 total hours of elevated geomagnetic activity".
Five of those hours had activity strong enough to trigger amber-level alerts to the displays. Amber is AuroraWatch UK's second highest alert for chances of seeing the Northern Lights.
The rise in the activity was due to what is known as a negative polarity coronal hole high-speed stream.
BBC Radio Scotland's Brainwaves programme has looked at the science behind the Northern Lights, a phenomenon that some scientists believe could become harder to see from Scotland.
The mother-of-two, from Cardiff, joined tens of thousands of demonstrators in a protest against government cuts on Saturday.
Ms Church said she attended in "a show of solidarity" with other protesters.
A Treasury spokeswoman said it was continuing to cut the deficit, which was the best way to deliver economic security.
Ms Church, 29, has been a vocal critic of the Tories.
Families, students and campaigners from across the country took part in the march, which made its way from the financial district to parliament.
Among them were comedian Russell Brand and Ms Church, who carried an End Austerity Now placard.
Her mother Maria Cooper also joined the march wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words 'Prosecco socialist' in retort to her daughter's critics.
Speaking at the march, Ms Church said: "I'm here today in a show of solidarity with everyone here, it is a massive turnout - everybody who thinks that austerity isn't the only way and thinks it is essentially unethical, unfair and unnecessary."
Asked if she was inspired by the surge of the Scottish National Party she said "absolutely".
"We are in one of the richest nations in the world and social inequality is unacceptable," Ms Church added.
"I'm immensely proud to be here. I think this is a brilliant movement and it is for the common good. We are here to make a stand."
It follows Ms Church's appearance at an anti-austerity rally in Cardiff in May.
The Treasury said: "Income inequality in the UK is lower than 2010 because the government's long term plan is helping working people, with two million more in work, unemployment falling and wages rising well above inflation. The Government has taken millions out of income tax, and ensured that the richest 10% contribute the most to paying down the deficit.
"But the best way to help people across the UK is to deliver lasting economic security, which is why we're continuing to work through the plan to cut our deficit - still one of the highest in the developed world - to ensure a recovery for working people, especially in these times of international economic uncertainty."
Officers were called to The Downs in Harlow at lunchtime on Thursday after reports a man had been attacked.
Emergency services attended and the man was taken to hospital in London with stab wounds, Essex Police said.
His injuries are not thought to be life threatening. The men on the CCTV images are thought to be in their late teens or early 20s.
Officers would also like to talk to the driver of a vehicle who may have witnessed or have information about the attack.
Residents in The Downs area are being asked to check their gardens and bins for any hammers or similar weapons that may have been discarded.
Ben Lake, the country's youngest MP at 24, defeated the Lib Dem's leader in Wales, Mark Williams, after two recounts, taking 11,623 votes compared with 11,519.
Meanwhile, Conservative Glyn Davies has retained the Montgomeryshire seat, taking 51.8% of the vote share.
Chris Davies held Brecon and Radnorshire, taking 20,081 votes against the Lib Dem's 12,043.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said Mr Lake fought "an energetic and positive campaign" and would make "an excellent MP".
She said his addition to the three seats the party held in 2015 would give Wales "a formidable voice to defend Wales" in Westminster.
Mr Lake said the win had been "unexpected".
"We have been able to run a very positive campaign and also engage with a lot of young people," he added.
The chair of the Welsh Lib Dem national executive committee Carole O'Toole called the Ceredigion result "a sad day for liberalism in Wales".
She added: "Mark Williams has worked tirelessly for the communities of Ceredigion and for Wales since 2005, leading campaigns to change the legal definition of child neglect, to secure a better deal for milk farmers, and standing up for rural Wales.
"This is a difficult result for us following the results in last year's assembly elections and we will need to take stock and consider how we move forward from here."
Birmingham, winners in 2012, knocked out holders Arsenal on Sunday in the last eight, while Chelsea beat fellow top-flight side Sunderland.
Current league champions Man City, who have never reached an FA Cup final, earned a late win at Bristol City.
Both semi-finals are scheduled to take place on Monday, 17 April.
Liverpool have never won the competition but have reached the final on two occasions, in 1995 and 1996, and beat Notts County Ladies 2-0 at home in the quarter-finals.
This year's final on Saturday, 13 May, will be held at Wembley, where it has been staged since Chelsea beat Notts in the 2015 final.
Man City and Chelsea, the top two sides in the league for both of the past two seasons, had been drawn to face each other in the FA Cup semi-finals in each of the past two years.
The draw for the last four - carried out live on BBC Radio 5 live - guaranteed that the 2017 final cannot be a repeat of any previous final, as Birmingham met Chelsea in the 2012 final.
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The 24-year-old, who joined from Leinster in 2011, can play on the wing or at full-back and has scored seven tries in 26 games for the Tigers.
Director of rugby Richard Cockerill said: "Niall has been a very important member of the squad here for the last two seasons.
"He is a good young player who is developing really well."
Morris, who began his career at Blackrock College, said he believed his game had improved a lot since he joined the Tigers.
"I've had great support from the coaches and the players, and I want to continue to play here and do my best for the club," he added.
The length of his new contract has not been disclosed.
The Met Police said officers were attacked when they arrived to close the event, in a disused building in Lambeth, late on Saturday.
Fourteen officers were injured and eight people arrested, the force said.
In a social media message, organisers of the event accused police of "bashing people senseless".
Police said the unlicensed music event was shut down shortly before 07:00 GMT.
They described being attacked with missiles by the group and said criminal damage was caused to cars and private property.
They said a member of the public, a man, was also treated by London Ambulance Service.
Commander Mak Chishty said: "Last night police faced hostility and attack; this is completely unacceptable. "
Southwark Police tweeted a picture of broken chairs and other debris writing: "Tired and bruised having had all of this, and more, thrown at us. Yes, that includes the propane tanks."
The injuries sustained by police were described as "minor" and they were treated at the scene.
BBC reporter John Sweeney was woken in the early hours of the morning by the sound of the crowds outside his north Lambeth home. The footage above was filmed from his window.
"It was like a dark ballet, choreographed by Edvard Munch - many of the people were wearing Halloween and Day of the Dead costumes," he said.
"It was mad - and it was maddening. I've just been going around with Syrian refugees to find a little boy and I never felt under threat. But here I was in my own house, scared because outside someone was sat on the roof of my car."
He said most of those involved appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s and did not seem to be local.
"It was about 3am and the police were outnumbered. There was a kind of rain of bricks, poles and spiky bits of wood being thrown at them. The police were going forward, and being beaten back.
"There was a fire in the street, being fuelled by wood from our neighbour's fence.
"These people, for no reason, were deliberately seeking to hurt people who happened to be wearing a uniform, defending other people's property. This was collective madness and collective badness."
He said he had another reason to be concerned about his car - the ashes of his father were in the boot.
"If it had been on fire, I wouldn't have minded losing the car - but I didn't want my dad's ashes being disrespected."
Crowds first gathered on Black Prince Road at Albert Embankment, across the river from Westminster, before dispersing down Lambeth Road on to Lambeth High Street and nearby Whitgift Street.
They reportedly charged at police, set fire to bins and chanted "scum" and "pigs".
One witness described the scene as "mayhem".
A resident told BBC Radio London: "There was a lot of smashing going on, a lot of banging. It was difficult getting home."
Others took to social media to vent their frustration at the disturbance.
Rhodri tweeted: "They're now gathering on my street. There are families here with young kids that don't deserve this disruption. #Lambeth."
The event - called Scumoween: A Nightmare On Scum Street - had been advertised on Facebook to take place in Whitgift Street, starting at 20:00 on Saturday and lasting until 06:00 on Monday.
Of 13,000 invited guests on the social networking site, about 4,000 said they planned to attend.
On Wednesday, organisers had advised: "Stay peaceful, stay calm. Patience and numbers is in our favour. Do not antagonise the police. We don't need to.
"At the end of the day we want to leave them remembering our good attitudes, we just came to dance, we are not their enemy."
However an updated message on the event's Facebook page, posted after the disturbance, accused police of "bashing people senseless" and "letting their dogs go at people almost unrestrained".
"The police were not interested to talk through peaceful resolutions," the message added.
Anyone with any information about the disorder is urged to contact police by calling 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Water leaked into an underground shaft on Friday morning when more than 100 workers were inside.
Most have been rescued from Mir mine in eastern Siberia, according to diamond company Alrosa, which runs it.
However, the company said reports that those still missing had been located were not true and the search continues. Divers have reportedly arrived at the scene.
The town of Mirny in Yakutia has declared a state of emergency.
One man was rescued on Saturday morning.
He is in intensive care at a nearby hospital with a bruised lung, but his life is not in danger, Alrosa said.
Chief Executive Sergey Ivanov said every effort was being made to find the other workers.
The company said 142 people had been brought safely back to the surface so far.
The adjacent open-pit mine, one of the world's largest excavated holes, is no longer operational, as mining has moved underground.
However, flooding of the exhausted quarry may have caused the problem, according to local emergency services, as water leaked into one of the active mine's pumping stations.
The crater contained some 300,000 cubic meters of water, the equivalent of 120 Olympic-size swimming pools, the emergencies ministry said.
The Liverpool defender, 25, was one of seven players to say they did not want to play in the tournament after being selected in the preliminary squad.
He has not played for Cameroon since 2015, but Broos told BBC Sport: "I hope he will change his mind."
Matip was cleared to play for Liverpool by Fifa on Friday after confusion over his availability during the tournament.
Cameroon said he had refused a call-up and Fifa rules state a player may be blocked from featuring for his club if he refuses to play for his country - but world football's governing body dismissed the case.
"I'm very happy that this problem is solved and he can play again for Liverpool," Broos added.
"He made the decision not to come with us to the African Cup. I respect his decision but I also think the Cameroon Federation had to do what it has done because they are the Fifa rules and it's too easy to say 'no, I don't come'.
"But this problem is solved. For me, there is no problem any more and I still hope, as I have done since I was coach of Cameroon, that he will come back and play with us again."
Matip, who has 27 caps, was not included in Cameroon's final 23-man squad for the tournament in Gabon.
The ex-Marine and US Senator had been in hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for more than a week and died surrounded by his children and wife of 73 years.
Glenn is best known for circling the earth in 1962 aboard the Friendship 7 space capsule.
His achievement marked the moment the US caught up with the Soviet Union in manned space exploration.
Glenn is expected to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
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"Though he soared deep into space and to the heights of Capitol Hill, his heart never strayed from his steadfast Ohio roots. Godspeed, John Glenn!" Ohio Governor John Kasich said in a statement.
After returning to Earth, Glenn was elected in 1974 as a Democrat to the US Senate, where he served for 24 years.
He blazed another trial in 1998 - 36 years after his historic flight - when he became the oldest man to travel to space, at age 77.
The only son of a plumber and schoolteacher, Glenn was born in 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio.
His father would recall how the boy used to run around the yard with arms held wide, pretending to fly a plane.
Glenn retained a lifelong love of flight and was piloting his own aircraft as recently as five years ago.
He married his childhood sweetheart, Annie Castor, and they had two children, David and Lyn.
Glenn's wife still has the $125 diamond engagement ring he bought for her in 1942.
He became a combat pilot, serving in World War II and the Korean War before joining America's space agency.
Glenn earned six Distinguished Flying Crosses and flew more than 150 missions during the two conflicts.
After setting the transcontinental flight speed record as a test pilot, he joined Mercury 7, America's first class of astronauts.
On 20 February 1962, he blasted off solo from Cape Canaveral aboard a cramped capsule on an Atlas rocket to a new frontier for Americans.
He spent just under five hours in space, completing three laps of the world.
"Zero G (gravity) and I feel fine," was Glenn's remark on weightlessness.
His capsule's heat shield came loose, leading Mission Control to fear he would be incinerated on re-entry, but the craft held together.
After splashdown in the Atlantic, Glenn was treated to a New York ticker-tape parade.
During his political career he was briefly considered as a running mate for Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter.
But Glenn's star dimmed after a meandering keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention that led Mr Carter to call him "the most boring man I ever met".
He vied himself to be the party's White House standard-bearer in 1984, but was beaten by Mr Carter's Vice-President, Walter Mondale.
Glenn's business career, which included an investment in a chain of Holiday Inns, made him a multi-millionaire.
When he returned to space in 1998, despite the misgivings of his wife, he said in a news conference from orbit: "To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible."
In 2011, Glenn received the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian award.
A year later, President Barack Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Mr Obama said in a statement on Thursday that Glenn had "spent his life breaking barriers".
Nasa tweeted that he was "a true American hero".
"Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad astra."
Amelet Francis was found seriously injured in a flat in Kerrycroy Street, Toryglen, at about 14:55 on Friday.
Police and ambulance attended but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 53-year-old man was arrested in connection with her death and taken into police custody. A full report on the incident will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Fereydoun is a 40-year-old from Karaj, south-west of the capital Tehran. He has just been made redundant after 15 years with the state-owned carmaker, Iran Khodro.
"I used to have a job assembling Mercedes-Benz cars," says Fereydoun, "but now, because of the sanctions, Daimler has cut its ties with Iran and as a consequence I lost my job. I'm self employed now but I'm struggling to put food on the table."
Fereydoun is one of many Iranians now facing hard times as the sanctions against Iran's already struggling economy begin to bite.
He says he knows he is lucky to at least have a temporary job.
Unemployment is soaring in Iran, especially among the younger generation. The official rate is 14%. But, unofficially, it is much higher.
Growing numbers of Iranians now have no steady source of income. It is a grim prospect at a time when the cost of living is soaring.
Pirouz, a university professor in Tehran, says he is finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet.
"I live alone," he says. "I used to spend about $300 every month on living expenses, but now I am paying more than $650."
Rising prices have been compounded by recent economic reforms, which saw state subsidies on petrol and utilities being phased out.
Like most Iranians, Pirouz receives a monthly payment of $30 from the state to help cope with the new higher prices, but he says that it is simply not enough.
For people in business the sanctions are definitely making life much more difficult.
"The sanctions mean that it is impossible to transfer foreign currency," says Ravan, a businessman from Tehran. "My business has been left with a huge load of debt. Thousands of people in my position have gone bust."
"In the past few weeks, the prices of goods in my sector have been changing on a daily basis," says Sharouz, who imports camera systems for automatic doors in shops and offices.
"I agree a price today, but by the time I go to sign the contract the following day the price has already gone up and yesterday's deal has been cancelled."
In an article for the popular Khabar website, political analyst Mohammad Irani recently lambasted the government for its failure to address the problem.
"If you complain, all you hear is: 'Don't you live in this country? You should know it's because of the sanctions'," he wrote. "But if you want to overcome a crisis or challenge you've got to admit that it exists, and not just dismiss it."
The growing feeling of crisis has seen many Iranians rushing to convert their savings into dollars. As a result Iran's currency, the rial, has plunged to record lows in the past couple of weeks.
"I don't know how I can cope," Saeed, a student, wrote in an email. "The rate for foreign currency is rising by the hour."
In response, the government has ordered exchange bureaux to stop selling dollars, unofficial street dealers have been threatened with arrest and prosecution and the central bank has warned that anyone carrying foreign currency must provide a bank receipt or risk being arrested.
In another sign of just how seriously the government is taking the situation, Iranians recently found that not only had the authorities blocked access to financial websites showing real-time exchange rates, but it was no longer possible even to use keywords like "dollar".
Gold prices have also rocketed in Iran as people have put their savings into gold coins.
The price of a gold coin - the way the gold price is measured in Iran - now stands at $500, more than double what it was a couple of years ago.
The price of gold coins is particularly significant in Iran because when young people get married, the "mehrieh" or "bride price" - the money the husband will pay his wife if they get divorced - is usually agreed in gold coins. For a country with a high divorce rate, it is a big problem.
"I'm thinking of all those poor husbands," says Matin in an email. "How will they ever be able to pay if their wife decides to get a divorce?"
The sanctions are also having an impact on Iranians living abroad.
Ehsan, a student in Malaysia, said it was getting really difficult for his family to send money to him.
"Many people I know have given up and gone home," he says.
Nazy, who is studying in India, said her problems were being made worse by traders taking advantage of the plunging value of the rial.
"Currency exchange here is a rip-off," she complains. "The touts will get huge commission and charge as much as they wish as Iranian rial falls."
So how do people feel about the rights and wrongs of the sanctions? If the calls and messages to BBC Persian are an indication, then emotions are very mixed.
"These sanctions are pointless," says Hadi. "The regime's rulers have already filled their pockets with our country's money, so it won't affect them. It will just be the people of Iran who suffer."
But Mehrdad says: "There's no other option. Sometimes you have to choose between the bad and something worse. The international community has to choose between military action or intensifying the sanctions."
"The sanctions will have no effect on changing Iran's decisions about its nuclear programme," says Navid. "Iran's dependence on the West will be minimised and... it will benefit Russia and the East."
But despite the difficulties they now face, many Iranians remain convinced that one day things will get better.
Fereydoun, the former car worker from Karaj, remains upbeat.
"Things are tough and I'm unemployed as a result of sanctions, but no doubt the future is ours," he says.
"We'll withstand all the pressure so that we can turn the corner and that the next generation... can live in a strong Iran later on."
The camera has gone into operation at the Blackhall Place-Benburb Street junction on the Luas red line.
Motorists breaking a red light will automatically receive three penalty points and a fine of up to 120 euros (£88).
Penalty points will increase to five if there is a court conviction.
The first such system in Ireland has been introduced in response to the large number of collisions between road vehicles and trams at the junction.
Since the Luas went into operation in 2004 there have been 338 collisions between trams and vehicles and 95% have occurred on the red line, which serves Saggart and Tallaght to the city centre.
One of the worst junctions for collisions was identified as the Blackhall Place-Benburb Street junction in Dublin 7.
It is understood the system could be rolled out to other junctions.
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The Cherry and Whites lost 23-18 to basement side London Irish on Sunday, eight days after defeat at Worcester.
Humphreys' seventh-placed side host local rivals Bath on Saturday in search of a first win in three matches.
"We will bounce back, but these last two weeks have not been acceptable for this club," said Humphreys.
"To produce two of the worst performances of the season back-to-back is hugely disappointing and frustrating."
Gloucester are five points behind sixth-placed Harlequins but Sale and Bath both have a game in hand.
"We have been architects of our own downfall," added Humphreys. "The top six is now a long way off and we understand that. If you want to be a top six place, you have to come to places like Worcester and win."
Cornelius Van Der Wetering, 54, was last seen in the Tomich area, about 30 miles from Inverness, on Wednesday 28 December.
Highland police said the body of a man in his 50s was found in a wooded area at about 15:30 on Thursday, near where Mr Van Der Wetering was last seen.
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
As with all sudden deaths, a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
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The Conservative MPs, who represent Sussex, Surrey and Kent constituencies, said the scheme for the airport near Crawley would be "a disaster" for communities and the environment.
They said there was "serious local concern" at the plan.
Gatwick said it had sought to engage with communities and politicians and would continue to do so.
Reigate MP Crispin Blunt, one of the members of the newly-formed Gatwick Coordination Group, said: "If Gatwick expands in the way that's planned, it will need many tens of thousands of new people working there, and they are all going to need somewhere to live.
"The airport at the moment are providing a preposterous suggestion that these people are largely going to come from existing communities in Croydon and Brighton. Well I'm afraid that's just simply not the case."
Mr Blunt also said no new railway line had been proposed.
He said the London to Brighton commuter line was already "the busiest commuter line in the country" and at capacity.
The other four MPs behind the campaign are Sir Paul Beresford, who represents Mole Valley, Mid Sussex MP Sir Nicholas Soames, Sir John Stanley, who represents Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, and Charles Hendry, MP for Wealden.
Crawley Conservative MP Henry Smith, whose constituency includes the airport, said he was invited to join the group but declined to endorse the press release.
He said: "Whilst I think Gatwick needs to make a stronger case on how it would invest in upgrading Crawley's infrastructure if the airport were to expand, I think it premature to rule out an additional runway until the Davies Commission investigating aviation capacity has reported next year."
Gatwick has submitted three plans for a new runway to the Airports Commission.
Airport bosses have set out improved public transport plans including new train platforms, new rolling stock and improvements to junction nine on the M23, and have suggested 120,000 jobs would be created by the building of a second runway.
A statement issued by the airport said: "We believe an expanded airport at Gatwick is in both the local and national interest and look forward to working with all our stakeholders to demonstrate that."
East Sussex and West Sussex county councils have backed Gatwick expansion because of job creation, the economic boost and as a solution to providing UK aviation capacity.
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Some reports have suggested the prime minister, David Cameron, could call the vote in June.
Ms Sturgeon said a "longer period" might be needed for a campaign for continued UK membership.
The Conservative MSP, Alex Johnstone, said there would be "enough time" for people to make an informed decision.
Mr Cameron is seeking to renegotiate the terms of UK membership with other EU leaders before calling the "in/out" referendum.
At the weekend, he said he was "hopeful" of reaching a deal with other EU leaders in February and that the referendum "would follow".
He has previously committed to holding the ballot before the end of 2017.
Ms Sturgeon said she wanted the UK to remain in the EU, even though she believed a vote to leave could hasten another referendum on Scottish independence.
She urged Mr Cameron to get away from "a very narrow focus" on renegotiation issues and "get out there" to make the case for continued membership.
Otherwise she said he would lose ground to the leave campaign and be guilty of a "failure of leadership".
A Downing Street source said the debate over the UK's future relationship with the EU could not properly begin until renegotiation was completed.
Tory MSP Alex Johnstone said: "It's important that this [the EU referendum] is done quickly and that the referendum takes place as soon as we have a deal on the table.
"There will be time, there will be opportunity for people to look at that deal and consider it.
"But that can take a month or two months. It doesn't take two years.
"It's certainly enough time for people to judge the deal and for people to make an informed decision," he said.
A Scottish Labour spokesperson said: "It's essential that as many people as possible have their say."
The operation began on Thursday, when the LÉ Niamh arrived on the scene and deployed two rhibs (inflatable boats) to the vessel.
The rescued migrants on board received water, food and medical assistance where required.
This is the ship's 20th operation since its deployment to the Mediterranean.
LÉ Niamh is currently en route to another vessel 9km south of its current location where it is expected to begin a further operation.
Germany international Hummels, 27, signed a five-year deal with the champions on Monday after the move was confirmed earlier this month.
The two clubs have agreed a "silence" over the fee, although it has been reported Bayern have paid about £30m.
Meanwhile, midfielder Mario Gotze says he will not leave Bayern this summer despite being linked with Liverpool.
The 23-year-old, who has been named in Germany's preliminary squad for Euro 2016, has only made 11 league starts this season, but says he wants to stay and impress new manager Carlo Ancelotti.
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss takes charge at the Allianz Arena this summer, replacing Manchester City-bound Pep Guardiola.
"I look forward to the new season in Munich and will do everything possible to be in top shape for my first training session under Carlo Ancelotti," said Gotze.
Bayern won the German title for a record fourth year in a row this season.
A fresh stimulus package put forth on Friday, worth 11.8tn Korean won ($10.5bn £6.7bn), is part of a larger economic stimulus plan worth 22tn won.
South Korea is targeting a growth rate of 3.1% for the year.
Analysts say even with additional stimulus it may not achieve its target.
South Korea's export-led economy has been hit by slowing global demand for its goods, together with sluggish consumer demand at home.
The proposed injection of funds is an attempt to counter the impact of a flagging economy with government spending.
"The government proposed a supplementary budget ... to deal with revenue shortages and 5.6 trillion won to help overcome the Mers outbreak, improve water resources management, support the working class and stimulate local economies," the government said in a statement.
Analysis: Stephen Evans, BBC South Korea correspondent
"Compare and contrast" might be the call from Europe.
As the governments in London and Berlin stick tightly to "austerity" and reining in public spending as economies slow down, South Korea goes in the opposite direction and increases government borrowing to spend and pump the economy up.
South Korean growth this year is forecast to be just over 3%. For many developed economies, that would be satisfactory but for South Korea it is far slower than they have come to expect.
This deceleration is caused primarily by the slowing of the Chinese economy but the outbreak of Mers raises a fear for the future. Accordingly, some of the extra spending is targeted at hospitals and clinics which failed to cope when the illness first appeared.
Tourism, as an industry hit hard by the outbreak, will also get some money. Farmers will benefit because of the ongoing drought.
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A total of 184 people have now contracted the deadly Mers virus in South Korea and the government reported a new case on Friday. However, there have been no fatalities reported over the past three days.
Thirty-three people have died since it was first detected in May, making it the largest outbreak outside the Middle East.
Mers has killed 400 people in Saudi Arabia since 2012.
The 32-year-old former Dundee United and Rangers forward joined the Kirkcaldy club this summer.
Director of football Craig Levein said he and Hearts' head coach thought it was an "exciting" appointment.
"Jon is somebody that both myself and Robbie Neilson know from our respective times at Dundee United," he said.
"We believe he has all the attributes to develop into a great coach."
Daly is a replacement for Jack Ross, who left his player development manager post in October.
No reason has yet been revealed by the club or the former Clyde, Falkirk and St Mirren defender for the 39-year-old's exit.
Dublin-born Daly began his career with Stockport County and had spells with Bury, Grimsby Town and Hartlepool United before moving to Scotland to join the Terrors in 2007.
He signed for Rovers in August after being released by Championship rivals Rangers at the end of last season.
Daly, who also played for Republic of Ireland at youth level, has made 11 appearances, nine of them starts, and scored once, for the Kirkcaldy outfit, who lie fourth in the table.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went to Mosul on Sunday to congratulate his troops on "liberating" the city, but he stopped short of declaring victory.
The militants were said to hold an area about 180m (590ft) long and 45m wide.
The battle for Mosul has taken almost nine months, left large areas in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than 920,000 others.
Commanders from the US-led coalition that has provided air and ground support to Iraqi forces said the urban combat had been most intense since World War Two.
Although Mr Abadi made no formal declaration of victory on Sunday, he stressed that it was "just around the corner".
Using a pejorative term for IS based on an Arabic acronym of its former name, he said the "remnants of Daesh are besieged in a few inches" and expressed "appreciation for the heroic forces determined to put an end to the myth of Daesh for good".
"One or two pockets are still controlled by IS militants who have no more than two options: to surrender or to be killed," he added.
On Monday morning, Iraqi army officers estimated that only a few dozen militants were still putting up resistance in a small part of the Old City, near the western bank of the River Tigris. Most of the civilians left there were believed to be members of the militants' families, who were being used as human shields, they added.
The BBC's Jonathan Beale in Mosul says a steady stream of civilians, weak through hunger and lack of water, is still being led out of the Old City.
Search and rescue teams have also been pulling out many bodies from mountains of rubble, our correspondent adds.
The UN estimates that the fighting on the ground and air strikes have damaged more than 5,000 buildings and destroyed 490 in the densely-populated Old City alone.
"It's a relief to know that the military campaign in Mosul is ending. The fighting may be over, but the humanitarian crisis is not," said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Lise Grande.
"Many of the people who have fled have lost everything. They need shelter, food, health care, water, sanitation and emergency kits. The levels of trauma we are seeing are some of the highest anywhere. What people have experienced is nearly unimaginable."
IS militants overran Mosul in June 2014, before seizing control of large parts of northern and western Iraq. The following month, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first and only public appearance as IS leader at the city's Great Mosque of al-Nuri, and gave a speech proclaiming the creation of a "caliphate".
IS blew up the mosque almost exactly three years later as Iraqi troops prepared to retake it - a move Iraq's prime minister called a "formal declaration of defeat".
Our correspondent says the jihadists may have lost militarily in Mosul, but this is not their end in Iraq nor the end of their twisted ideology.
IS still controls territory in three areas of Iraq - around Hawija, 130km (80 miles) south-east of Mosul; around Tal Afar, 65km west; and from Ana to Al-Qaim in the Euphrates river valley, 250km to the south-west.
IS also holds a string of towns along the Euphrates in Syria, including Albu Kamal and Mayadin, but its stronghold of Raqqa is besieged by US-backed fighters.
Jos Buttler's 73-ball century helped the tourists to 399-9, with Ben Stokes, Alex Hales and Joe Root passing 50.
Quinton de Kock's unbeaten 138 off 96 balls kept the Proteas in contention.
But the loss of wickets at key times halted the home side's momentum before rain ended the game with them on 250-5 to give England a 1-0 series lead.
The second ODI in the five-match series is in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
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The batting effort of captain Eoin Morgan's men represents a continuation of the dramatic improvement in England's limited-overs cricket since their woeful World Cup of 2015, when they were eliminated in the first round.
Since then, they have won a one-day series against World Cup runners-up New Zealand and Pakistan, as well as being narrowly beaten 3-2 by world champions Australia.
They have also won five consecutive Twenty20 internationals since the World Cup in an overall run of seven successive T20 wins.
On Wednesday England attacked throughout most of their innings, with Jason Roy taking early advantage of some tame home bowling on a benign pitch. He scored 48 off 30 balls before he was first man out, caught by Farhaan Behardien at cover off Morne Morkel.
Roy's opening partner Alex Hales then came to the fore, adding 62 runs with Joe Root to take England to 130 before he too was caught at cover, by AB de Villiers off the bowling of Marchant de Lange for 57.
Buttler then came to the wicket, where he would remain for 17 entertaining overs of clean hitting that propelled the tourists towards their huge total.
Buttler did not feature in the victorious Test series against South Africa, but he demonstrated why he is so valuable to the one-day side by hitting 11 fours and five sixes in an innings of 105 from 76 balls.
Remarkably, the 25-year-old Lancashire player's hundred was the slowest of his four centuries in ODIs, with his quickest being the 46-ball ton he scored against Pakistan in Dubai last year.
In a particularly destructive three-over spell near the middle of England's innings, he scored 34 runs off the bowling of JP Duminy and Behardien.
He lost both Root (52) and Morgan (23) as partners during his innings before he fell himself, caught at cover by De Villiers off Imran Tahir.
A rapid 57 from Stokes (off 38 balls) and minor contributions from Moeen Ali and Chris Jordan maintained some momentum, but the tourists eventually fell just short of their best-ever ODI total of 408, scored against New Zealand at Edgbaston last June.
The odds swung even further in England's favour when David Willey bowled Hashim Amla for just six in the third over of South Africa's reply.
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But Amla's opening partner, De Kock, and replacement at the crease, Faf du Plessis, counter-attacked with the largest partnership of the game - 110 in just 83 balls - before the latter picked out Hales with a pull to the deep off Moeen to depart for 55.
The potential for rain meant the Duckworth-Lewis total was never far from South African minds, but the loss of wickets at key times meant they were never able to keep pace.
De Villiers has not been in good form during the recent Test series between the sides but has three centuries in his last six ODIs. He fell to a brilliant running one-handed catch from Stokes at wide long-on off the bowling of Ali, who also dismissed Rilee Rossouw after Reece Topley had caught and bowled Duminy.
The rain eventually came to deny the game a fittingly dramatic finale with 16.3 overs remaining, De Kock and new partner Behardien at the crease and the home side 150 runs short.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "It is not a satisfying way to win the game but to start the series with a win is a big bonus. We put in a monumental effort with the bat and played with the aggressive brand we have done in the recent past.
"We spoke at the start of the series that we wanted to start in the right manner and the way the openers went about their business really set the tone for the innings.
"Jos [Buttler] is the only player we have in the changing room who is capable of getting a 40 or 50-ball hundred. I have played with a lot of guys around the world and he is up there. The chance to promote him up the order and give him the chance to build an innings is important for his game and we benefit when it comes off."
Nick Browne and Jaik Mickleburgh had shared an opening stand of 108 when Jofra Archer removed Browne (55) and Tom Westley in consecutive deliveries.
Mickleburgh (54) and Dan Lawrence also made fifties before teenager Lawrence became Archer's third victim for 65.
Essex lost captain Ryan ten Doeschate for 83 and James Foster (42) late on as they closed on 337-6.
Ian Cameron, 46, died at the Kellingley Pit when equipment fell on him in 2009.
The company admitted failing to ensure powered roof supports were properly maintained and it also admitted health and safety breaches at the coal face in March.
UK Coal was ordered to pay a further £218,000 in costs.
Leeds Crown Court had heard that Mr Cameron died as a result of his injuries when a powered roof support (PRS) lowered spontaneously, crushing him against large amounts of debris that had accumulated within the walkway of the support.
It emerged a valve within the PRS had become worn and defective.
The Health and Safety Executive's Mining Inspectorate found powered roof supports installed where Mr Cameron worked had been salvaged from another coal face at the mine, and assessed by UK Coal as fit for transfer with limited maintenance.
The PRS was one of several hundred supplied by Joy Mining Machinery Ltd. The company had failed to notify UK Coal of a similar malfunction in Australia in 2008.
Joy Mining was fined £50,000 after admitting breaches of health and safety rules at an earlier hearing.
Mr Cameron's death was one of three at the Kellingley colliery since 2008.
Don Cook, 50, died in a rock fall in September 2008 and Gerry Gibson, 49, died in September 2011 after a roof collapsed.
In a statement, UK Coal said: "We deeply regret any injury, or loss of life, which is felt deeply throughout our company; and our thoughts today are with the family and friends of Ian Cameron at this difficult time.
"The historic level of fatal accidents is totally unacceptable to the new management team and a full review of health and safety has been carried out across the business. Significant progress has been made and safety remains our number one priority."
Mr Cameron's widow, Carol, said: "Every day I feel empty and every day I wish he was still with us, where he should have been. All of our family have been devastated by the tragic death of my lovely husband Ian.
"I am glad that justice has been seen to be done in bringing both UK Coal and Joy Mining to account for their obvious shortcomings in health and safety and the proper maintenance of machinery, which resulted in Ian's death back in 2009."
Following last season's near-miss in the play-offs, the Saddlers have won just twice in 10 matches this term, and are now into the League One drop zone.
Whitney was "hurt" by their worst loss since April's 4-0 defeat at Bradford.
"If we have too many of them I'm going to be queuing up at the dole office," the 45-year-old told BBC WM.
"Some players have got to realise what they do has a consequence. It affects my family. It affects my mortgage.
"It was woeful. Men against boys. We were outpowered in every position. We have to start learning quickly."
He continued: "I have to apologise to the supporters who came. I never thought one of my teams would lay down like that.
"We have to forget about who wants to play pretty football and who wants to entertain. We need players who can fight.
"The naivety of some of our defending was beyond belief. I can't keep covering them for the mistakes they're making."
Walsall, who have dropped to 21st as a result of Wimbledon's point at Coventry on Wednesday, next host 17th-placed Millwall on Saturday.
They then visit Bramall Lane to face Sheffield United in the EFL Trophy, but the following Saturday's scheduled return in the league has been postponed due to too many Walsall international call-ups.
Andreas Makris (Cyprus), Liam Kinsella (Republic of Ireland Under-21s), Simeon Jackson (Canada) and midfielder Maz Kouhyar, who has been called up for the first time by Afghanistan.
With a revised putting technique, the Australian held off Sergio Garcia with a level-par 70 to win on nine under.
Former Masters champion Scott has been forced to return to a conventional short putter following a ban on anchoring putters to the chin or chest.
"I have made some nice progress in all areas, especially noticeably on the greens," said the 35-year-old.
The last time Scott won a tournament with a short putter was more than five years ago at the Singapore Open.
He then switched to a broomstick at the 2011 Match Play Championship and went on to win seven titles with an anchored putter, including his first major at the 2013 Masters.
Scott began the final round by sinking a 15-foot putt to birdie the par-four first and then buried a 10-footer at the fifth to move two strokes clear.
Garcia, 36, who had been bidding for a ninth PGA Tour title, had to settle for second place after bogeying the 16th and 17th holes, before rebounding with a birdie at the last for a 71.
The translucent, shell-like structure resting on boulders, will be placed on the lawn of the London gallery from 26 June to 19 October.
The building will house a cafe and also be the venue for the Serpentine's annual Park Nights series of events.
The first Pavilion was designed by Zaha Hadid in 2000.
Ai Weiwei, Oscar Niemeyer and Jean Nouvel are among the other artists and designers who have previously been commissioned to create the temporary space in Kensington Gardens.
According to the Serpentine, the annual attraction has drawn some 300,000 visitors every year.
Radic's building, which will occupy 350 sq m (3,767 sq ft), is designed to draw visitors inside during its four-month life and encourage them to interact with the space in different ways.
The architect, whose work is largely found in Chile, said the fibreglass shell will "house an interior organised around an empty patio, from where the natural setting will appear lower, giving the sensation that the entire volume is floating".
He added it will have an amber-tinted light at night, "attracting the attention of passers-by, like lamps attracting moths".
Interviewed in the Guardian, Radic said he was interested in fragile, temporary structures like roadside stalls.
The 48-year-old added: "They are taking a big risk by choosing me. I'm not inside the common place of the architect.
"It is really hard for me to do something so fast. But risks can be exciting."
The article also described how the model for his Pavilion building was created using a cow's udder stuffed with newspaper.
Julia Peyton-Jones, director of the Serpentine, called Radic's design "excitingly futuristic".
She added it "appears like an alien space pod that has come to rest on a Neolithic site".
Former nurse Malcolm Webster, 52, was found guilty in May of murdering Claire Morris in Aberdeenshire in 1994.
Webster, of Guildford, Surrey, had also denied attempting to kill Felicity Drumm in New Zealand in 1999.
He was jailed for life for the crimes, committed as part of a plot to claim almost £1m in life assurance money.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Bannatyne said Webster - who must serve 30 years before he can apply for parole - had committed "cold-blooded, brutal and callous" crimes for financial gain.
He said: "The murder of your then wife was an appalling one and all right-minded people will be utterly shocked."
Ms Morris' family said Webster was a "monster".
Her brother, Peter Morris, said he believed that 30 years was "the correct sentence for an extremely dangerous criminal".
He told BBC Scotland: "It's more important that he's taken from society because of the damage he can cause to women.
"I would hate for that to happen to anyone else."
He also announced his intention to set up a foundation in his sister's name, aimed at improving the after-care for people involved in serious court cases.
Mr Morris said he wanted bereaved family members to be treated as important people rather than "second-class citizens".
Webster was found guilty after Scotland's longest-lasting single accused criminal trial, which began on 1 February at the High Court in Glasgow.
The jury, of nine women and six men, took less than four hours to find Webster guilty of all the charges, as part of frauds to obtain hundreds of thousands of pounds in life assurance.
The fatal crash in 1994 was originally treated as an accident.
Webster said he had swerved to avoid a motorcyclist.
However, the crash was later reinvestigated, after concerns were raised in the wake of the second crash, in Auckland.
New tests showed Ms Morris had traces of drugs in her system.
Ms Drumm, who also suspected that Webster had also been spiking her food and setting fire to their homes, alerted the authorities in New Zealand after surviving a car crash in which Webster was driving.
After the crash she realised he had cheated her of her life savings and was set to gain a huge payout in the event of her death. Webster then returned to the UK.
In a chance meeting, Ms Drumm's sister later told a UK police officer of her concerns, and this proved to be pivotal in the case.
Webster was also found guilty of intending to bigamously marry Simone Banarjee, from Oban, Argyll, to gain access to her estate.
He pretended to have leukaemia, and during the deception he shaved his head and eyebrows.
In January 2008 police warned her about Webster's past as they closed in on him.
She told BBC Scotland that at first she found what they were saying hard to believe.
"I thought it was complete nonsense. This could not be the Malcolm Webster that I had known and loved," she said.
But looking back Ms Banarjee said she now realises the danger she was in.
"I do believe I am very lucky," she said. "I think if it wasn't for Strathclyde Police things may have turned out very, very differently."
Ms Banarjee described Webster as a "clever man" and said people's first impression of him was of a "fine, well spoken, nicely dressed person with nice manners".
But she said she thought his intelligience made him very dangerous.
She added: "He learns from everyone he meets. If I had my way I would make sure that he is in solitary confinement for the rest of his days because he will learn and if he is ever released he will be an increasing danger to anybody else he meets."
Advocate depute Derek Ogg QC said in his closing speech that Webster was "a most cruel, practised deceiver" who, if convicted, would become one of the most notorious murderers of modern times.
However, defence counsel Edgar Prais QC said that although Webster was a "liar", a "thief", a "philanderer" and a "rat bag", he was not a killer.
The family of Webster's first wife have since asked him to hand over her grave.
Claire Morris' brother Peter wants to replace her headstone in Aberdeenshire, which still bears her married name and refers to a "dear wife".
Mr Morris asked Webster, through his solicitor, to hand over the lair - but the request was rejected.
Aberdeenshire Council had earlier confirmed that changes to the gravestone, at Tarves, needed the authority of the owner.
Meanwhile, police are also investigating concerns over the deaths of three children at a hospital in Abu Dhabi where Webster worked in the 1980s.
Lancaster left the role on Wednesday after England's early World Cup exit.
Gatland's Wales beat England at Twickenham to help the hosts' demise and he has been linked with a move.
"Warren is happy in Wales and as far as I am concerned he isn't going anywhere. He is staying with us until 2019," said WRU chairman Gareth Davies.
Gatland's Wales contract takes him to the end of the 2019 World Cup in Japan, and this month he told a radio station he intended to see out his contract before returning to his native New Zealand.
However, Lancaster's departure from England has seen a number of top coaches linked with the England job - including Gatland.
Former RFU chairman Martyn Thomas believes England have the resources to tempt top coaches from all over the world.
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"If I was in the RFU I'd talk to Gatland, I'd talk to [Australia coach Michael] Cheika," said Welshman Thomas.
"I would probably try to talk to [New Zealand coach, Steve] Hansen but I think in truth I think he is unlikely to be in the market, regardless off the money.
"Jake White obviously counting himself in, and there are one or two others out there."
Thomas believes Gatland emphasised his credential by steering Wales to the quarter finals of the World Cup despite being robbed of a number of front-line players through injury.
Wales progressed from Pool A - the so-called pool of death - with their 28-25 win at Twickenham a major factor in England's unwanted record of becoming the first host nation to fail to reach the knockout stages.
"He did an amazing job even with all the impediments that were put in his way in this World Cup, and it would be a very sad day for Welsh Rugby if he was to depart," added Thomas
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"The RFU is the richest union in the world by a million miles and having made an absolutely astronomical fortune out of this last World Cup they would throw at it any amount of money that they choose to.
"And money speaks. From a moral aspect I would hope - as a Welshman - Warren Gatland stays where he is.
"But one understands that careers can be short and anything can happen and people will chase the crock of gold at the end of the rugby rainbow if there is one."
Gatland is already Wales' longest serving coach, having replaced Gareth Jenkins, who was sacked after they failed to progress from the pool stage at the 2007 World Cup.
He won the first of his Grand Slams in 2008, and the second four years later.
He also steered Wales to the semi-final of the 2011 World Cup when they lost 9-8 to France despite playing more than an hour with 14 men after captain Sam Warburton as sent-off.
Gatland signed his current contract in December 2013.
The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel prizes, said it had received "a personal letter" saying he was unable to attend next month's Nobel ceremony "due to pre-existing commitments".
Dylan, the organisation said, felt "very honoured" and wished he could receive the prize personally.
The singer is required to give a Nobel lecture between now and next June.
The 75-year-old will not be the first recipient of the prestigious award to have been a no-show at the prize-giving ceremony.
Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing, winners of the prize in 2005 and 2007 respectively, were among others who did not attend the event.
"The prize still belongs to them, just as it belongs to Bob Dylan," the Academy said in a statement.
"We look forward to Bob Dylan's Nobel lecture, which he must give - it is the only requirement - within six months counting from December 10, 2016."
Dylan's win was a major talking point when it was announced last month, as was his apparent silence on the matter.
Some interpreted this as a sign he was ambivalent about the award, though the Academy later said he appreciated it "so much".
The veteran rock star was awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
The Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet will be held in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
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The company launched its first local service, STV Glasgow, in June, and an Edinburgh channel is to go live in January.
Each station is run in partnership with local universities and colleges.
The broadcaster says the stations would deliver "local news and current affairs content" while helping media students train in a live TV environment.
The Aberdeen application has been submitted in partnership with Robert Gordon University and North East Scotland College, the Dundee bid with Abertay University and Dundee and Angus College, and the Ayr proposal with the University of the West of Scotland.
Bobby Hain, director of channels at STV, said: "We have demonstrated our ability to engage with local communities and deliver relevant, local content across STV's multi-platforms, including the current STV Glasgow licence and our apps serving Scotland's largest cities.
"STV believes that, working closely with our education partners, we can successfully deliver compelling services in these three additional areas across the 12-year licence."
STV Glasgow is run in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University, and reaches a monthly audience of more than 500,000 people.
A group of residents had challenged the Texas senator's eligibility for the presidency. He was born in Canada to a Cuban father and American mother.
But Judge Jeff Masin found that Mr Cruz met the constitutional requirements.
New Jersey's Lt Governor, Kim Guadagno, is now expected to review the decision.
Sen Cruz's main rival for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump, has also questioned his eligibility for the presidency.
"There's a big question mark on your head," the billionaire businessman said at a debate in January. "You can't do that to the party."
The South Jersey Concerned Citizens Committee and law professor Victor Williams, a presidential write-in candidate, argued in court in on Monday that Sen Cruz's birth in Canada meant he could not be a "natural-born citizen" as envisaged by those who wrote the US constitution.
They claimed he was a naturalised citizen and that presidents had to be born on US soil.
Sen Cruz's lawyer argued that he was a natural-born citizen because his mother was American.
On Tuesday, Judge Masin dismissed the challenge, while acknowledging that "absolute certainty as to this issue is only available to those who actually sat in Philadelphia and themselves thought on the issue".
"The more persuasive legal analysis is that such a child, born of a citizen-father, citizen-mother, or both, is indeed a 'natural born citizen' within the contemplation of the constitution," he wrote in a 26-page decision.
Judge Masin added that his decision might be adopted, modified or rejected by Lt Gov Guadagno, New Jersey's secretary of state, who is authorised to make a final decision on the matter. She must transmit the names of candidates to appear on the primary ballot to county clerks by Thursday.
A similar legal challenge was rejected a court in Pennsylvania, where Sen Cruz will appear on the state's Republican primary ballot later this month.
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Button returned to Frome, Somerset, to turn on the Christmas lights and drove his car around a special track.
Speaking to a cheering crowd, Mr Button acknowledged 2013 had been a "difficult year" but that he now knew "what not to do for 2014".
The 2009 world champion tweeted "after a long hard season that ended with a reasonable result at Interlagos it's time to go home!! Frome here I come."
During Prime Minister's Questions, he proposed new restrictions on work visas, and a higher salary threshold before people are allowed into the UK.
Home Secretary Theresa May has asked the government's Migration Advisory Committee to come up with firm proposals by the end of the year.
Non-EU migration was 290,000 in 2014, an increase of 42,000.
Total net migration - the difference between the numbers entering and leaving the country - reached 318,000, close to its 2005 peak.
The government is still aiming to get net migration below 100,000, and with free movement enshrined in EU law, Mr Cameron has more freedom to act in relation to people coming from outside Europe.
Mr Cameron told MPs: "In the past it has been frankly too easy for some businesses to bring in workers from overseas rather than to take the long term decision to train our workforce here at home."
He said the advisory committee would consider:
Currently, someone applying for a tier-two visa, covering skilled workers, must normally have been offered a job earning at least £20,800 and to have at least £945 in savings.
Sir David Metcalf, who chairs the Migration Advisory Committee, said migration levels could be reduced but warned of "unexpected side effects" on productivity and the economy.
Skilled migration levels from outside the EU have been rising recently, he said.
"It's always worth checking that you've got the system right - we never get it completely right but we may be able to do it better," he said.
"Given that the democratically elected government is suggesting reducing the numbers of skilled workers coming in, it's right that we - as an evidence based committee - should have a proper look at this."
The proposals were questioned by Simon Walker, of the Institute of Directors, who said the "supposedly lower" cost of migrant labour was a "red herring". Just 4% of the institute's members who hire from abroad do so because of cost of labour, he said.
Mr Walker also said any increase in the cost of visas was "essentially a tax on employing people from abroad".
He added: "This seems particularly odd given how dependent the UK economy is on international skills and expertise.
Manufacturing organisation EEF said the government was "penalising employers" and the proposals were likely to lead to "a far less business-friendly immigration policy".
CBI deputy director general Katja Hall said: "We understand the public's concerns around immigration, but limiting highly skilled workers from coming to the UK is not the answer.
"They bring their skills and ideas to this country, pay their taxes here and boost growth. We need to keep up-skilling our population, but at the same time as attracting the best and brightest global talent."
Labour said trust in David Cameron's ability to control immigration had been "eroded by broken promises".
"British businesses should be looking to employ people in the UK, so it's good that the government have finally listened to the calls we've made for years to use and promote British skills first," said shadow immigration minister David Hanson.
UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said that without action to address the free movement of labour within the European Union, all other measures to control immigration were "window dressing".
"What I am alarmed about is this government is going to give migration control a bad name," he told the BBC News Channel.
"If we are going to restrict the rights of GPs who have come here from India to make a difference and work for our NHS but at the same time allow people, potentially not just with no skills but maybe with criminal records from other EU countries an automatic right to come here, we are going to give the idea of migration control a bad name."
The House of Commons, he added, should hold a vote every year to decide how many work visas are issued.
And Conservative MEP David Campbell-Bannerman said quotas should apply to European Union migrants as well as other foreign nationals.
The list includes former HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan, the founder of Phones 4u John Caudwell and the hotelier Sir Rocco Forte.
But Britain Stronger in Europe said Vote Leave could not find a business to officially back it, as those listed supported it in a "personal capacity".
A referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU will be held on 23 June.
Last month, bosses of 36 of the largest listed companies in Britain signed a letter urging voters to remain in the EU.
Vote Leave also announced that its business council would be chaired by John Longworth, who resigned his role as director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) earlier this month.
The council, made up of business leaders, will talk to businesses around the country to make their argument for an EU exit.
It will make the case that EU membership is holding back British business and will initially be made up of members from the board of campaign group Business for Britain.
By Joe Lynam, BBC business correspondent
The pro-Brexit camp has striven to counter the impression that most big companies prefer to remain in the EU. A third of FTSE 100 bosses publicly supported staying in last month.
This business council, under the auspices of Vote Leave, tries to address that by bringing together entrepreneurs and former company leaders who all want Britain to quit the EU.
There are some colourful names on the list and a few well-known bosses including the former HSBC boss Michael Geoghegan, Tim Martin from JD Wetherspoon and Phones 4u founder John Caudwell.
Many, like Sir Stuart Wheeler and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse David Ross, have ties to UKIP and the Conservatives.
But there are no current FTSE 100 chief executives or chairmen and only 13 out of the 250 signatories are women - including Sir Rocco Forte's sister Olga and his niece Alex Polizzi.
Mr Longworth's resignation followed his suspension for saying the UK's long-term prospects could be "brighter" outside the EU when the BCC had an official position of neutrality on the referendum.
Mr Longworth said: "If we Vote Leave, liberated from the shackles of EU membership, jobs will be safer, Britain will be able to spend our money on our priorities and we can look forward to faster growth and greater prosperity in the future."
Matthew Elliott, Vote Leave's chief executive, said it had a "growing list of business supporters".
Mr Elliott said: "Vote Leave will make that case, that whilst the EU might be good for big multinationals, for smaller businesses it acts as a job destruction regulatory machine.
"Brussels hinders smaller businesses, particularly those firms who can't afford to lobby Brussels to curry favour.
"Jobs, wages and our economy will thrive when we take back control and Vote Leave."
But Business Secretary Sajid Javid, who is supporting the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, said businesses could see "we are stronger, safer and better-off in a reformed EU".
"Survey after survey shows that small businesses - the backbone of our economy - want to stay inside the EU rather than take a leap in the dark," he said.
Sir Michael Rake, chairman of BT and a fellow supporter of the In campaign, said the majority of businesses were in favour of staying in the EU.
And he said the Leave campaign were "not coming forward" with the recommendations of how the UK could operate if it we were to leave the union.
"Many of the options that are talked about - Norway, Switzerland, Canada - are not realistic," he said.
They "would require us to have the same commitments, the same free movement of labour, the same migration policies and pay into the budget as we currently do - without any influence."
Emma Pullen, MD of the British Hovercraft Company
John Hoerner, former chief executive officer, Tesco Clothing UK and Central Europe
Luke Johnson, chairman of Patisserie Valerie
Jon Moulton, founder of Better Capital LLP
Rupert Hambro, director of Theo Fennell Plc
Pasha Khandaker, president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association
Damon de Laszlo, chairman of Harwin Plc
John Sclater, former president of Equitable Life
The train is blocking the line between Castle Cary, Somerset, and Westbury, Wiltshire. Network Rail said services will be affected for at least 48 hours.
It was pulling 38 wagons filled with stone and ballast, seven of which derailed on Monday.
The accident has caused significant damage to track and equipment.
Services from Taunton to Westbury and between Weymouth and Westbury are severely disrupted.
One commuter told the BBC: "I'm travelling up to London for a series of meetings.
"I will just have to wait and see how long it takes as a result of the disruption."
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Operator GWR said trains will be amended or cancelled, with replacement road transport provided where required.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "We are working closely with GWR and South West Trains to put in place contingency plans... including diverting London-West of England services via Bristol.
"The derailment is significant with the line currently blocked and likely to remain out of use for at least the next 48 hours."
The Grade I listed property opened in 1911 as the headquarters of the Royal Liver Assurance Group.
Owner Royal London Group, who acquired the building in its centenary year as part of a takeover, has instructed CBRE to sell the landmark site.
CBRE said it expected the sale of the "iconic symbol of Liverpool" to attract strong interest from investors.
The building is home to the two fabled metal Liver Birds, which watch over the city and the sea at Liverpool's Pier Head.
Along with the Cunard and Port of Liverpool building, the Royal Liver building forms part of Liverpool's Three Graces.
The news follows last month's announcement that Liverpool's Grade II listed Municipal Buildings will be sold off as part of £90m of savings by the city council over the next three years.
The increase means Nicola Sturgeon's salary entitlement would rise to £151,269. The UK prime minister is currently paid £149,440 a year.
Scottish cabinet secretaries will get £108,203, and backbench MSPs £61,777.
The Scottish government confirmed Ms Sturgeon and her ministers will continue with a voluntary pay freeze tying salaries to their 2008/09 level.
The extra cash will be put into a public spending fund.
The Scottish Parliamentary salaries scheme now directly links MSPs' salaries to public-sector pay rises in Scotland using the annual survey of hours and earnings published by the Office for National Statistics.
Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw, a member of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, told the Finance and Constitution Committee on Wednesday: "Using this index, I can confirm that an increase of 1.8% will be applied in April 2017."
The committee was told that non-MSP staff working directly for the parliament would get "about the same" as the 1.8% rise.
The corporate body's submission to the committee said the pay boost for MSPs is expected to cost a total of £200,000 as not all members are expected to claim the full entitlement.
Historically, MSPs were paid 87.5% of an MP's wage but Holyrood voted to scrap this scheme in 2015 in favour of the new system after agreeing it would be "politically unthinkable" to accept the 9% increase then on the table.
A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said party leader Ruth Davidson would increase her private charitable donations commensurately with the increase, as she did last year.
Swansea's win at Sunderland means that Hull must win at Selhurst Park to stand a realistic chance of survival.
Silva said: "I always said that the fight would go on until the end of the season.
"It is possible to have another twist. It is a fight between ourselves, Crystal Palace and Swansea."
Sunderland and Middlesbrough are already down, while a win for Hull would take the fight to avoid 18th place to the final day of the season.
Should Hull and Palace draw, the Eagles would be safe and the Tigers would need a seven-goal swing in goal difference on the final day to stay up ahead of Swansea.
"The pressure lies on Hull. They have to win the game, we have to draw it," said Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce.
"We play not to lose - that is the key element. Whoever deals with the pressure better is a big factor.
"Our crowd will be a big help as long as they get don't nervous. If they get nervous, they can pass that over and that will make us a bit more nervous.
"We have to deal with the emotion of the game on Sunday and come out on top."
Crystal Palace will monitor injury doubts James Tomkins, Yohan Cabaye and Scott Dann.
The Eagles will also assess Joel Ward, who broke his nose at Manchester City, and Andros Townsend, who is managing an Achilles problem.
Winger Lazar Markovic will miss Hull's final two games of the season after injuring his ankle against Sunderland.
Defender Omar Elabdellaoui returns to the squad after missing seven games with a back problem.
Simon Brotherton: "This is a huge game for both clubs - but while Palace boss Sam Allardyce says it is bigger than a cup final, Marco Silva has stressed the need for Hull's players to stay calm.
"A Swansea win on Wearside has left Hull needing a victory to stand a realistic chance of staying up.
"Three points for the Swans coupled with defeat for Hull would see the Tigers relegated, while a point wouldn't send them down mathematically - but would leave them teetering on the brink.
"The stakes could hardly be higher."
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Palace have been all over the place defensively recently, and three defeats in a row have put them back in trouble.
A point would do for the Eagles here, though, and that is what I think they will get.
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George Harry scored from the spot for Wrexham a minute into the second half after Torquay keeper Brendan Moore brought Izale McLeod down.
The visitors broke back and levelled the scores as Luke Young was fouled and Jamie Reid levelled from a penalty.
The hosts almost found a late winner but Iffy Allen fired over.
Torquay United remain in 21st place but are now just a point off safety after Woking were beaten 4-2 at home by Maidstone United.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "I am not pleased at all, it was the poorest performance we have served up.
"There was a lack of enthusiasm, passion and desire, for me. The standard I want at the football club and we have set in recent weeks, this was nowhere near that.
"If the players want to be at the club going forward, they need to perform a lot better than that."
Match ends, Wrexham 1, Torquay United 1.
Second Half ends, Wrexham 1, Torquay United 1.
Ntumba Massanka (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jordan Lee replaces Ruairi Keating.
Substitution, Wrexham. Iffy Allen replaces Paul Rutherford.
Goal! Wrexham 1, Torquay United 1. Jamie Reid (Torquay United) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jamie Reid replaces Damon Lathrope.
Antony Barry (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Wrexham. Antony Barry replaces Leo Smith.
Substitution, Wrexham. Ntumba Massanka replaces George Harry.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Shaun Harrad.
Goal! Wrexham 1, Torquay United 0. George Harry (Wrexham) converts the penalty with a.
Second Half begins Wrexham 0, Torquay United 0.
First Half ends, Wrexham 0, Torquay United 0.
Rob Evans (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
George Harry (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
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Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
It began after a lorry was hijacked in the city.
Two masked men approached the driver as he was making a delivery to Ederowen Park in the Galliagh area at about 12:30 BST.
An object was loaded into the back of the lorry and the driver was ordered to take it to Strand Road police station. The police have now declared it a hoax.
The lorry stopped at Buncrana Road. Staff were advised to leave St Columb's College in Derry.
People were also moved from business units in the Springtown Industrial Estate.
Chief Inspector Tony Callaghan, the Foyle Area Commander, condemned those behind the alert.
"This security alert caused a great deal of inconvenience to the people of Derry, including those who work in businesses close to the scene and also those who travel along Buncrana Road and Springtown Road, both of which are major arterial routes," he said.
"However, we must all remember that despite the major inconvenience caused, this was undoubtedly a frightening experience for the lorry driver.
"Today a man was going about his normal day-to-day work when he was confronted by masked men and ordered to drive with what he was told was a bomb to the police station.
"It is the people of the city who bear the brunt of the inconvenience and any potential destruction, so we would appeal for everyone's help in showing the perpetrators that this is not what anyone wants for the city."
It is made up of Eurosceptics from the cross-party Grassroots Out campaign, UKIP and Leave.EU - but not Vote Leave.
It follows infighting between the rival groups pushing for an EU exit, notably between Leave.EU and Vote Leave.
It is up to the Electoral Commission to decide who becomes the official remain and leave campaigns.
The campaigns chosen by the elections watchdog will get access to £600,000 in public funds, TV broadcasts, free mailshots and a spending limit of £7m.
GO Movement's board members will include UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Conservative MPs Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove. Businessman Richard Tice, from Leave.EU, is expected to be chairman.
It said its application for official designation had the support of Conservative, Labour, DUP and UKIP politicians.
"Each of these groups is represented with their own GO groups, headed up by the David Davis MP, Kate Hoey MP, Sammy Wilson MP, and Nigel Farage MEP, respectively," it said.
However, the DUP denied it was involved in the group, accusing GO Movement of "utter codswallop" for saying it was.
"We are appalled with them. This is not the way people who want to cooperate to achieve Brexit should behave," a DUP spokesman said.
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GO Movement claimed that Vote Leave - a rival umbrella group which includes business leaders, Tory MPs and UKIP MP Douglas Carswell among others - was considering whether to join, but it is believed there have been no formal discussions.
A Vote Leave spokesman said: "We wish this new campaign well and are willing to work with anyone who wishes to campaign to leave the EU."
Previous merger attempts between Leave.EU and Vote Leave were scuppered by what appeared to be personality clashes and differences on tactics.
Mr Farage, Mr Bone and Mr Pursglove are expected to attend a Grassroots Out rally on Friday following the conclusion of the key Brussels summit.
Britain Stronger in Europe, which campaigns for the UK's continued membership of the 28-member bloc, is the main group vying to become the official 'Remain' campaign.
The Electoral Commission will make its decision after the PM calls the poll, which could be held as early as June 2016 if a deal on the UK's renegotiation is agreed at Thursday's summit of EU leaders.
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Earlier this month, the high court had ruled that the voluntary religious practice of santhara was a form of suicide and, therefore, illegal.
Jains had protested against the order, saying suicide was sin, whereas santhara was religion.
On Monday, the top court said it would take up the issue for consideration.
Legal experts say they expect the case to take several years to come to a conclusion.
Jainism is one of the world's most ancient religions, and Jain monks lead a life of extreme austerity and renunciation.
Santhara - also known as sallekhana - is a controversial practice in which a Jain gives up food and water with the intention of preparing for death.
Some human rights activists say the ritual is "a social evil" and should be considered as suicide.
In its order, the Rajasthan high court agreed that it amounted to suicide and made it a criminal offence.
Members of the Scottish Parliament's economy committee were responding to huge challenges in the sector caused by the drop in the price of oil.
The committee made a number of recommendations aimed at protecting North Sea jobs.
It said it hoped a sustainable industry could emerge from the downturn.
In recent months, oil has plunged to its lowest price in 12 years, with a barrel of international benchmark Brent crude dropping below $28 in Monday's trading.
Six thousand jobs have been lost offshore - 30,000 in support industries and 30,000 in the service sector, according to one union estimate.
In a bid to protect the industry and the skilled workforce, the MSPs said there should be no rush to begin decommissioning.
Committee convener Murdo Fraser MSP, said Scotland's oil industry had a "vital status" within the Scottish and UK economy.
He said: "The challenges the industry is facing as a consequence of the significant and sustained fall in the price of crude oil represent a serious threat to our economic wellbeing, especially to the livelihoods of those employed in the industry and those communities who depend on it.
"In our evidence sessions, we heard from the trade unions, industry representatives and Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce about the impact and what needs to be done.
"What was clear to the committee is that there is a shared determination to protect and promote the industry, to secure a sustainable future in the face of current challenges.
"We call on all those involved to continue to work together to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas rather than rush to decommissioning."
Deputy convener Dennis Robertson MSP, who was criticised for claiming the industry was "booming" earlier this month, said: "In light of recent job losses, there is also a real fear that many highly-skilled workers may be lost to the sector.
"It is important that the industry reflects on this point to ensure that essential skills are retained in the workforce when the downturn stabilises with the possibility of recovery in the future."
Scottish Labour said the government should undertake an "urgent assessment of the oil jobs crisis on the wider economy" in light of the report.
Public services spokesman Lewis Macdonald said: "The jobs crisis in the North Sea has seen thousands of jobs lost not just in the North East but across Scotland and the whole of the UK in the supply chain.
"How many more reports does the Scottish government need to see before it understands how serious the situation is, and acts accordingly?"
Blair Logan, 26, also faces charges of assault to injury, danger to life and attempted murder.
He made no plea or declaration at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.
Cameron Logan, 23, died in the blaze at the family home. His girlfriend Rebecca Williams is in hospital. His parents were treated for smoke inhalation.
Blair Logan was remanded in custody following the private court appearance.
Ms Williams, a journalist with Global Radio, was initially taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in a critical condition.
She was later transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where she is now said to be in a stable condition.
On Monday, forensic officers were continuing their investigations at the house.
Ross Hannah's 19th goal of the season from close range put the home side ahead, but the lead did not last.
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Full-back Tomkins, 27, has a foot injury that requires surgery to see the extent of the damage, while captain O'Loughlin, 33, has a calf problem.
Both players will miss Friday's play-off semi-final with Hull FC and then a potential Grand Final on 8 October.
England host the Four Nations tournament starting in late October.
Forward O'Loughlin suffered his latest injury setback on Friday, hurting his calf in the warm-up before the win against Catalans Dragons that secured a home semi-final against Hull FC.
"Wigan have only 20 players available from a squad of 35 but there is a tremendous spirit and confidence amongst this group that thrives in adversity," said chairman Ian Lenagan.
"Despite all of the challenges that the club have faced this year I, head coach Shaun Wane and the squad believe that we can defy the odds to make this an excellent season end."
The Four Nations, in which England face Scotland, New Zealand and Australia over a three-week period, starts on 28 October.
Gwynfor Thomas, who was chairman of the council's scrutiny committee at the time but later resigned, began a four-week suspension on Wednesday.
Aled Davies, leader of the council's Conservative group, began a two-week suspension on 11 April.
A third councillor, Gary Price, has appealed a five-month suspension and it was recommended it be reduced to three.
This amendment would need to be approved by the council's standards committee after May's local elections.
Powys council has arranged for neighbouring councillors to cover for Mr Thomas, who represents Llansanffraid, and Mr Davies, who represents Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llansilin, during the suspension period.
It follows prosecutions by Powys' trading standards under different sections of the Cattle Identification (Wales) Regulations 2007 and Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations, over charges relating to the tagging of cattle on farms, and found guilty.
The suspensions relate to code of conduct breaches, bringing the council into disrepute, as a result of the prosecutions.
Subduing angry bulls has long been practised in the state as a sport and a ritual that forms part of the local harvest festival.
The Indian Supreme Court banned the sport in 2014, under an Indian law aimed at preventing cruelty to animals.
But an executive order has now taken bulls out of the law's purview.
The move comes after days of escalating tension in Tamil Nadu, with angry protesters insisting that the ban disrespected Tamil culture and should be overturned.
Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao has approved the executive order, allowing the tradition, known as "Jallikattu", to resume on Sunday.
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On Thursday, Tamil Nadu chief minister, O Panneerselva met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his help to tackle the crisis.
Following Mr Modi's assurance, the federal home minister cleared the state government's proposal for the executive order.
A day later, the Supreme Court agreed to a federal government request to withhold judgment on whether to reverse its ban.
A government official in Tamil Nadu said the executive order was prepared with a view to ensuring "survival and well-being of the native breed of bulls and preserving cultural traditions".
In the last few days, a number of Tamil celebrities have lent support to the protesters.
They include five-time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand and Oscar-winning music composer A R Rahman. Both have tweeted in support of the demonstrations.
An exhibition of open-air inflatable sculptures has been unveiled in the grounds of a historic Borders house.
XXX is the work of Steve Messam and comprises three large-scale installations.
They have gone on display at 18th Century Mellerstain House north of Kelso.
Mr Messam said the artworks had to be directly experienced in the environment to be fully appreciated and he hoped they would bring people to Mellerstain.
The 23-year-old victim from Brighton was hit by a Tesco lorry when the fight spilled on to Western Road.
He was found lying in the road by emergency services at 02:40 BST and died at the scene.
A 27-year-old Hove man arrested on suspicion of murder is in police custody, Sussex Police said.
Western Road from Montpelier Road to Norfolk Square was closed for investigations but has since reopened.
Det Ch Insp Tanya Jones from Sussex Police said: "This has been a fast-moving investigation and we have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.
"However, we are still appealing for witnesses who may have seen the fight which spilled into Western Road and then the victim being hit by a lorry."
In a statement, Tesco said: "We were deeply shocked to hear about this incident and our thoughts go out to this young man's family.
"We are co-operating fully with the police in their investigation.
"Clearly, this is a very difficult time for our colleague but we will provide him and his family with all the support they need."
A Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) report found "multiple failings in care and treatment" at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital.
The baby's mother complained about his care, after a medical device that relieves pressure on the brain was fitted shortly after he was born.
NHS Grampian said it apologised unreservedly.
The baby was born in October 2014, and was fitted with the device to drain excess fluid the following month.
The child was readmitted in August 2015 due to concern about his condition.
He was then transferred for specialist treatment in another health board area, but died on 12 August.
The SPSO said: "Our investigation determined that there was a lack of clarity regarding the roles of each medical team, and that there was a lack of communication between consultants when Baby A's condition was not improving.
"We also found that the neurosurgical team had not kept reasonable records, nor had they appropriately assessed Baby A before and after operations.
"We identified significant delays in Baby A being reviewed after he under went operations, and a delay in clinicians contacting the specialist centre for advice on the management of Baby A.
"Finally, we considered there to have been a lack of communication from the neurosurgical team and Baby A's parents."
NHS Grampian said in a statement: "It is clear we failed Baby A and therefore failed his family.
"The distress of the family was further compounded by the extremely poor standard of our communication with them.
"There can be no excuses for our conduct in this case and we apologise unreservedly.
"We accept all of the recommendations put forward by the Ombudsman in this case."
Everyday appliances, all of a sudden transformed into intelligent, thinking and analytical machines.
And then think - how much would you pay to own the technology behind those devices?
That might help to explain why Softbank's eccentric chief executive Masayoshi Son is paying close to a 50% premium for the UK's ARM Holdings.
ARM doesn't make the chips that will eventually go into some of these devices, but it does design many of the chips used in smartphone devices (Apple and Samsung for instance) and other sensory devices today. ARM makes its money from charging a small royalty on its intellectual property.
"Softbank's acquisition is a huge bet on the future," says Marc Einstein of Frost & Sullivan in Tokyo.
"Masayoshi Son has a vision of the future of the telecoms and IT industry which will be designed around artificial intelligence, robots and the Internet of Things."
It's a big gamble, but then the Japanese technology entrepreneur has always been known to take big risks.
In a recent interview with Fortune, Nikesh Arora - the previous number two at Softbank - said this of his former boss: "Masa has an idea per minute. Recently he presented his views of 'The Singularity' to the Softbank board. He's also building a robot with a heart."
AI taking over?
The Singularity, if you didn't know already, is when artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence. And Mr Son is a believer.
In an interview last month with the Nikkei, Mr Son said: "The Singularity is coming. Artificial intelligence will overtake human beings not just in terms of knowledge, but in terms of intelligence."
Crazy talk? Perhaps not, but the question is... how long will that vision of the future take to materialise?
And if you're going to spend $30bn (£22.7bn) on an investment, it had better start to pay off soon.
Industry experts tell me that that Mr Son has made a lot more money than anyone else in Japan - but he's also probably lost more money than anyone else in Japan too.
Softbank is currently in debt to the tune of around $100bn. The chief executive financed many of his acquisitions by borrowing heavily, but has recently been selling stakes in some of those purchases to help pay down this debt.
"Look at Softbank's investment activity in the first dotcom boom," says Harminder Singh, university lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology. "Some very ambitious plans that didn't work out."
"The departure of the previous heir-apparent Nikesh Arora may be an indicator of the tension this decision may have caused," Mr Singh explains.
"While the departure was publicly amicable, it's a fair bet that a decision to buy ARM, especially at such a high price, was not something Mr Arora was comfortable with."
It's probably helped that the sterling has weakened by more than 10% since Brexit - and conversely the Japanese yen has strengthened, making the ARM acquisition much cheaper for Softbank.
But cheaper doesn't mean cheap - and many Softbank investors will be wondering how long it will take for Mr Son to turn this gamble into returns for shareholders.
"It's really about the investment horizon," says Mr Einstein. "Is the Internet of Things going to happen in the next year? No. But the next 10, 20 or 30? Much more likely."
Mr Son is known to have an eye for potentially transformative industries and trends. He was an early investor in Alibaba and saw the potential in e-commerce before anyone else did. Shareholders in Softbank will be hoping that this pricey punt will pay off.
The four-time Olympic gold medallist won two of the three races with his Land Rover BAR team to finish top of the leaderboard with 26 points.
Groupama Team France are level on points but trail by one race win to the British boat's two.
Ainslie hopes to skipper Britain to a first America's Cup win in 165 years.
Portsmouth is the seventh stage of a lengthy qualification process that will count towards the 2017 America's Cup Challenger Series, the winner of which will take on Oracle in the 2017 America's Cup in Bermuda.
Ainslie said: "I was pleased with the way we regrouped for the final two races. We fought hard and kept going to come away with two wins.
"It was a day to keep your eyes open and keep fighting all the way because there were always opportunities to gain and lose."
Defending America's Cup champions Oracle Team USA are three points back on 23 alongside Softbank Team Japan.
Imre Marton, from Oxford, received threats and hundreds of Facebook messages from 22-year-old Charlie Howells, from Wantage in Oxfordshire.
She was jailed for two years in April but is due to be released in August.
Mr Marton said Howells told him: "I will make you ugly so no one else will want to be with you."
He said: "Everybody was laughing about it, it was just a joke. They thought I should feel lucky because I had a girl following me around in love. But this is just a terrible feeling.
"She knew where I worked, what I did in my free time, where I lived, she went to my house a couple of times. All the time, I had to look over my shoulders because she could be there."
Howells bombarded Mr Marton with love notes and rode his route for hours on end after learning his timetable off by heart.
She was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court to two months in jail for harassment and for two years for breaching a restraining order.
Mr Marton said: "She's locked up but she'll be out soon. The police are fitting my house with panic buttons. It's so crazy, I just want to run away.
"But if I press the panic button and there's a knife in my stomach, what good is that? I'm not bulletproof.
"It is difficult to prove and speak out, slowly it's killing you but you have to make some moves. You can't give up, that's my message to other victims."
Det Insp Ivan Reaney said victims of stalking are "strongly advised" to report it to the police.
He added: " In many cases, the conduct of the stalker might appear innocent, but, when carried out repeatedly and is unwanted, it may cause significant alarm, harassment or distress to the victim."
Prisoners serving determinate sentences are released automatically halfway through their terms, and some can qualify for earlier release depending on their behaviour in prison.
Posh were counting the cost of last Saturday's defeat at Walsall which deprived manager Grant McCann of three of his first-choice midfielders to injury and suspension.
Lively front men Craig Mackail-Smith and Junior Morais toiled for the hosts but found Southend's defenders in miserly mood.
Yet the match between the two play-off hopefuls soon followed the pattern of the respective clubs' progress of recent weeks, with Southend slowly turning the screw on their faltering opponents.
Ryan Inniss had just hit a Posh post after a smart turn and shot when Jason Demetriou broke the deadlock on the stroke of half-time.
The Cyprus international full-back glanced home Marc-Antoine Fortune's deflected cross to bag his first goal for the Shrimpers.
Phil Brown's men came on even stronger after the break and Fortune slotted home a through ball from Anthony Wordsworth on the hour.
The points were all but sealed four minutes later when Wordsworth took advantage of Posh's dithering defenders to crash in Southend's third goal from 18 yards.
Peterborough substitute Tom Nichols hit a classy consolation from Marcus Maddison's pass, but Michael Timlin fired in a fourth for the visitors in time added on.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Peterborough United 1, Southend United 4.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 1, Southend United 4.
Goal! Peterborough United 1, Southend United 4. Michael Timlin (Southend United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nile Ranger.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ted Smith.
Attempt saved. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Luke O'Neill (Southend United).
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke O'Neill (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United).
Hand ball by Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United).
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Michael Timlin.
Substitution, Southend United. Luke O'Neill replaces Marc-Antoine Fortuné.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Attempt blocked. Theo Robinson (Southend United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Goal! Peterborough United 1, Southend United 3. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Marcus Maddison.
Delay in match Ryan Inniss (Southend United) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Nile Ranger (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United).
Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southend United. Nile Ranger replaces Simon Cox.
Foul by Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United).
Adam Thompson (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United).
Attempt saved. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Southend United. Theo Robinson replaces Jermaine McGlashan.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Paul Taylor replaces Martin Samuelsen.
Goal! Peterborough United 0, Southend United 3. Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jason Demetriou.
Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United).
Goal! Peterborough United 0, Southend United 2. Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Simon Cox.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Ryan Tafazolli.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Tom Nichols replaces Junior Morias.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Morgan, 20, has been out since suffering a shoulder injury in Wales' World Cup quarter-final defeat by South Africa in October.
He is set to return in the Pro12 against Edinburgh in Newport on Sunday.
Asked if Morgan is good enough to challenge British and Irish Lion Davies, Jones replied: "Yes."
Former Wales flanker Jones told BBC Radio Wales: "Jonathan is a very good player, experienced and has different strengths to Tyler.
"But I think Tyler has something as a player that can add to a team at the 13 position.
"So he has a long way to go yet. He's still very young and we don't want to paint people to be something they're not quite at the moment.
"The potential is there, but potential doesn't earn you a living."
Davies, the 27-year-old Clermont Auvergne centre, was absent from the World Cup because of a knee injury.
Morgan benefited with a tournament call-up to take his caps tally to three.
"Well we've all seen the potential with Tyler," added Jones.
"His last game of rugby was against South Africa and he did really well that day."
Jones hopes Morgan can thrive in the latter stages of the Dragons' season to earn a place on Wales' three-Test tour to New Zealand in June.
"I think it's important for him - he's 50 games away from becoming the standard of player he wants to be.
"And in those 50 games he's got a lot of errors to make and a lot of rugby to play.
"How nice would it be that he could go down to New Zealand and to challenge Jonathan Davies for that 13 shirt.
"And that's what the national selectors will be looking for.
"Tyler is desperate for a run of games and we sincerely hope that he can start that on Sunday against Edinburgh."
28 April 2017 Last updated at 08:27 BST
But it's also a sport that has been growing in popularity in the UK for many years.
So is it all about pom-poms, fancy costumes and rhyming chants?
Watch Whitney's report to find out about all the hard work that goes into being a cheerleader.
Iain O'Hara was at Keepers Pond, Blaenavon, at 12:30 BST on 5 June, when fire lighters were pushed into the back wheel and set alight.
He filmed the blaze and put footage on Facebook in order to try and catch the culprit.
Gwent Police has appealed for information about the incident.
Mr O'Hara from Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent, said he was warned by customers that the van was on fire and managed to escape unharmed.
While he is still able to use it, Mr O'Hara said paintwork has been damaged and he must buy new parts for machinery.
"If a compressor had gone up, myself and whoever I was serving could have been seriously injured or killed," he said.
Sussex raced to 87-2 in what was scheduled to be a nine-over contest.
Captain Ross Taylor (40 not out off 19 balls) and young North Walian Phil Salt (28 not out) had set up a challenging Sussex total.
Paceman Marchant de Lange claimed the early wickets of Luke Wright and Chris Nash in his first over.
Glamorgan have revealed that batsman David Lloyd will be out for two to four weeks with an arm strain, while Sussex did not field fast bowler Tymal Mills who made his comeback from injury against Hampshire the previous night.
Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport:
"It wasn't ideal, the umpires did a good job getting us onto the field and if you look at the scorecard of just over ten runs an over, we would have backed ourselves to give a good opportunity to win this game.
"A bit hit and miss (with the ball), but Salt played really well. He ran at Marchant who bowls quickly and hit him nicely, so credit to them.
"Overall we've been playing some good cricket and there's a good spirit in our environment, so it would be nice to get in a full game on Sunday (at home to Essex)."
Sussex batsman Phil Salt told BBC Sussex:
"It was a stopping wicket, but they bowled quite well- I got off to a flier but didn't kick on as I would have liked.
"It was quite a big learner for me watching how Ross played his innings, it's important for me to see how top international players play that sort of situation.
"I started playing at St Asaph in North Wales, around seven or eight, but my parents moved to the Caribbean for work and that's where I started playing properly. I'm not your normal English batsman, I like to be exciting and T20's my favourite format."
The staff at Community Safety Glasgow (CSG), an arms-length council body, want better pay for shift work.
The union Unison said 18 of its members - more than 90% of the staff - would take part in the action from 19:00 until 19:00 on Sunday.
CSG said it had "business continuity plans in place" to ensure monitoring of Glasgow's CCTV network.
Unison Glasgow branch secretary Brian Smith said: "These members work 12-hour shift patterns, providing a 24-hour service every day of the year.
"Other workers in CSG and Glasgow City Council on similar shift patterns receive an additional annual payment of £7,500. It is just a question of equality and fairness.
"We have given the employer years to sort this out through a promised job evaluation scheme which has now been shelved. Our members have been left with no option but to take strike action."
Another 48-hour strike has also been planned for Thursday 17 March until Saturday 19 March.
A spokesman for CSG said: "Public safety is paramount and we have business continuity plans in place to enable us to continue to monitor the city's CCTV network."
The 20-1 shot, ridden by Daniel Tudhope and trained by David O'Meara, denied Ryan Moore a fourth win of the day.
The jockey had earlier secured a 575-1 treble - on Ballet Concerto in the Spring Mile Handicap, Tupi in the Cammidge Trophy Stakes and Kool Kompany in the Doncaster Mile Stakes.
Donncha was third, with Gabrial fourth.
"He was held up slightly on the far side of the field, so to get that win was a real result," O'Meara told ITV.
"It means an awful lot. You like to hit the ground running - sometimes you come here and loads of bubbles are burst, but it's nice to win. It tells you you've probably done the right thing over the winter."
BBC Sport horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
The relief from the betting industry as Bravery's last-gasp success defied a Ryan Moore four-timer was palpable.
They could have done without a massive pay-out on combination bets on Moore's mounts a week before the potential uncertainties of the Grand National.
There was not so much relief as delight from the winning team, which has endured near-misses in this most competitive of races in the past, but finally nailed it.
And what a way to start the new season: David O'Meara admits to taking time to find his feet after a move of stables within Yorkshire, but things are well on track again now.
The 31-year-old appeared at Bucharest municipal court in Romania, charged with producing and distributing indecent images of children as well as blackmail.
He was remanded in custody.
Ronan Hughes, a 17-year-old from Coalisland, took his own life in June 2015 having been the victim of what the police call webcam blackmail.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it had been liaising with a number of agencies in a variety of jurisdictions as part of the investigation, including the Romanian Police, Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism, the National Crime Agency, and Europol.
PSNI's Detective Superintendent Gary Reid said PSNI detectives are currently in Romania assisting with the investigation.
"This has been complex and protracted and we are grateful to our colleagues in our partner agencies for their assistance to date," he said.
Det Supt Reid confirmed the man would be tried in Romania with the assistance of the PSNI.
"We'll be taking over our information that led to today's arrest," he said.
Calling on anyone else who finds themselves in a similar position to Ronan Hughes to contact police, he added: "We understand people might be embarrassed by it but we would say please, set that aside.
"If you don't feel comfortable speaking to us, speak to a third party because we don't want any more deaths."
This is potentially a huge success for the PSNI.
At the time of Ronan Hughes' death, few expected any arrests to be made.
The police warned at the time that catching anyone involved would be extremely difficult because they were based "on the other side of the world".
Ronan's parents said they believed their son had been targeted by a gang based in Nigeria.
The PSNI publicly agreed that the blackmailers were probably based somewhere in Africa.
But privately their investigations led them in a different direction.
The PSNI's specialist cyber-crime unit was able to trace the computer used to blackmail the teenager.
They then worked closely with police in Romania.
A number of PSNI officers then flew to Romania to arrest the suspect.
The police will hope this arrest will send a strong message that distance doesn't protect from detection and prosecution of suspected internet crimes.
Ronan was tricked into sharing intimate images of himself online, and some of them were then sent to his friends when he failed to pay a ransom.
Just hours later, the teenager, who was a pupil of St Joseph's Grammar in Donaghmore, took his own life.
Earlier this month, the PSNI said that 100 webcam blackmails had been reported to them this year.
They said people of all ages have been targeted, adding that cyber-stalking was becoming a "prevalent issue" in Northern Ireland.
Webcam blackmail involves overseas criminals scouring the web for people they can build a rapport with, before deceiving them into performing a sexual act on video.
The footage is recorded and then used to blackmail victims for money.
TNS, who won their 11th title in 2016-17, play the first leg at home on 27 June, with the return leg on 4 July.
In the Europa League, Bala Town face FC Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Connah's Quay Nomads have HJK Helsinki (Finland) and Bangor City play Lyngby BK (Denmark).
The first legs are scheduled for 29 June, with the return on 6 July.
Bala and the Nomads will have home advantage in the first leg, while Bangor will start away in Denmark.
If TNS beat Europa, they will face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the Champions League second qualifying round.
But Saints interim manager Scott Ruscoe says they are keeping their minds on beating Europa FC first.
"It's not a bad draw logistically for us because it's going to be close with direct flights, things like that," said Ruscoe, who is in charge following Craig Harrison's departure to take over Hartlepool.
"I'm just pleased we didn't pick out the Armenian side or had to go to Kosovo, because that would have been difficult going into the unknown.
"We've seen enough of Europa FC, they're a decent side and... beat Lincoln to the title who were always thereabouts in [qualifying for] Europe."
Ruscoe revealed that the away leg on 4 July will be played in Portugal, possibly in Faro, as the pitch at the multi-sport Victoria Stadium in Gibraltar failed a Uefa inspection.
"A week Tuesday we'll be at Park Hall and after that in Portugal," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"We're very happy to be at home first, you can put your stamp on the tie early on.
"We're good at home. Touch wood, we can get off to a good start, we can suss them out... but our clear message will be to play our normal way."
Hammond's treble, plus tries from Val Rapava Ruskin and Sam Betty, gave Warriors a 35-7 half-time lead.
Further scores followed through Ben Howard, a penalty try which saw Enisei wing Igor Kurashov sent off, Sam Ripper-Smith and Max Stelling.
Mikhail Gachechiladze and Valeri Morozov scored the Russians' tries.
Kurashov was shown the red card 12 minutes from the end for illegally knocking the ball out of Hammond's hands as the Worcester wing threatened a fourth try.
Worcester's victory means they climb above Enisei to finish third in Pool Three.
Warriors: Howard; Humphreys, Braid, Te'o, Hammond; Shillcock, Baldwin; Rapava Ruskin, Taufete'e, Alo, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Taylor, Betty, Cox.
Replacements: Singleton, Bower, Daniels, Kitchener, Ripper-Smith, de Cothi, Eden, Stelling.
Enisei-STM: Gaisin; Kurashov, Baranovs, Gerasimov, Simplikevich; Kushnarev, Shcherban; Morozov, Gasanov, Pronenko, Saulite, Gargalic, Gachechiladze, Temnov, Rudoi.
Replacements: Magomedov, Polivalov, Grey, Elgin, Budychenko, Uzunov, Mikhaltsov, Orlov.
Sin-bin: Kurashov (30)
Sent-off: Kurashov (68)
Ref: Daniel Jones
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A brace from Marc Richards and another from Matt Taylor saw the hosts seemingly cruising at 3-0 up with 16 minutes to go, but they were made to sweat in the end as goals from George Miller and Zeli Ismail set up a grandstand finish.
Both sides had early chances, Sam Hoskins denied by Ben Williams and Marc Richards heading over for the Cobblers while Tom Walker fired over for the visitors.
Neil Danns also saw his effort saved by Adam Smith before Danny Mayor shot wide from the edge of the box as Bury pushed for the opener.
Chances continued to fall at both ends and in between efforts from the lively Hoskins and Paul Anderson for Northampton, Bury defender Antony Kay should have done better with a close-range header which he could not keep on target.
The deadlock was broken in the 36th minute when Taylor's free-kick was fired into the bottom corner of the net by Richards.
It was almost 2-0 before the break when Hoskins raced through but he was denied by Williams, who also thwarted JJ Hooper.
After the restart Taylor was just off target from a free-kick and Hoskins fired over before again denied by Williams as Town looked to build on their lead.
That second goal arrived in the 64th minute, when Hoskins earned a penalty which Richards converted for his second goal of the afternoon.
Hooper fired wide before the Cobblers made it 3-0 in the 71st minute with another trademark Taylor free-kick, the midfielder finding the top corner of the net.
That goal looked to have killed off Bury, but they reduced the arrears in the 74th minute when Miller headed home after being set up by Danns following a free-kick.
The visitors then pulled another goal back in the 82nd minute when Ismail netted from the edge of the box.
Bury pushed for an equaliser and they almost got it in stoppage time when Kay saw his shot saved by Smith.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 3, Bury 2.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 3, Bury 2.
Hand ball by Neil Danns (Bury).
Hallam Hope (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Lewin Nyatanga replaces Marc Richards.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
Neil Danns (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Neil Danns (Bury).
Attempt saved. Antony Kay (Bury) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town).
George Miller (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Attempt blocked. Danny Mayor (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jacob Mellis (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Northampton Town. John-Joe O'Toole replaces Jak McCourt.
Attempt missed. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Bury 2. Zeli Ismail (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hallam Hope with a cross.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Paul Anderson.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by George Miller.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Bury 1. George Miller (Bury) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Neil Danns.
Foul by Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town).
Hallam Hope (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. JJ Hooper (Northampton Town) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Marc Richards (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Niall Maher (Bury).
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Bury 0. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Danny Mayor (Bury) is shown the yellow card.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Mayor (Bury).
Attempt missed. JJ Hooper (Northampton Town) header from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Northampton Town 2, Bury 0. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty Northampton Town. Sam Hoskins draws a foul in the penalty area.
The Jamaican, who has been struggling for fitness, won both his heat and the final in 9.87 seconds in wet conditions at the Olympic Stadium.
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"I really wanted to run faster," said Bolt, 28, who defends his world title next month. "But it's getting there."
Meanwhile, Britain's double Olympic champion Mo Farah received a great reception as he won the 3,000m.
Farah, 32, was competing in England for the first time since allegations of doping were made against coach Alberto Salazar, claims which Salazar and Farah both deny.
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, returning to the scene of her greatest triumph, ran 12.79 in a world-class 100m hurdles - just 0.25secs off the personal best she set on this track three years ago.
On the weekend when she will decide whether to compete at next month's World Championships in Beijing, the 29-year-old looks like she is finding her best form in her first season back since giving birth to her son, Reggie.
Besides Farah, other British winners on the night were 20-year-old Anguilla-born sprinter Zharnel Hughes, a member of Bolt's training group in Jamaica, in the 200m, and Laura Weightman, who triumphed in the 1500m.
Bolt had only raced once over 100m in 2015 before Friday, recording a time of 10.12 in April, because of a pelvic problem.
But his times on Friday were season's bests and equal sixth-fastest times of the year over the distance, although they are still behind American Justin Gatlin's world-leading time of 9.74.
Competing on the track where he won three gold medals at London 2012, Bolt started poorly in the final but overpowered his rivals in the last 10m.
America's Michael Rodgers was 0.03secs behind in second, while Bolt's compatriot Kemar Bailey-Cole was third in a personal best 9.92.
Significantly, British 100m champion CJ Ujah ran under 10 seconds for the second time in his career, equalling his personal best 9.96 on a chilly London evening.
Bolt promised to put on a show for the fans who endured a rain-soaked evening in east London to watch him compete in the first of a two-day Diamond League meeting.
As is always the way with the sport's principal showman his performance was more than a dash to the line: there was a lap around the track in a classic convertible to open the night and the habitual fooling around at the start line before he got down to business.
There are those who question whether we will see the Jamaican, who has run the three fastest times in history, at his best again, because of age and injury.
But he won his heat effortlessly - running into a headwind - and while winning the final was more of a challenge, he still clocked a world-class time.
Thousands roared his every stride, flags waving and flashbulbs popping, simply pleased to see an athlete who transcends his sport back on the track.
The Jamaican said in his press conference on Thursday he was not intending to lose in Beijing, where he won the first of his three Olympic titles.
Importantly, he has time to improve ahead of the Worlds and is closer to the heels of Gatlin than many had previously thought.
Gatlin, a two-time drugs cheat, has run under 9.8 secs in the blue riband event four times this year - 9.74, 9.75, 9.75, 9.78 - while Bolt has now run just three 100m races.
While the year's top three 100m sprinters, Gatlin, Asafa Powell and Trayvon Bromell, were not competing in London, Bolt's times in the Olympic Stadium were a loud and clear message that a successful defence of his 100m and 200m world titles is not fanciful talk.
The knee injury which hindered him last season has healed, while the pelvic problem which forced the Jamaican to withdraw from Diamond League meetings in Paris and Lausanne this month doesn't, on Friday night's evidence, seem to be serious.
And his form will be a relief to those who regard Bolt as the saviour of an event clouded by doping and feared Gatlin would easily win a sprint double next month.
With less than a month until the World Championships, it was a night full of promise for 21-year-old CJ Ujah, which suggests he can compete with the best in Beijing.
He finished ahead of Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the fourth-fastest man this season, and compatriot James Dasaolu, who was ninth in a disappointing 10.19.
"It's crazy to run in front of my home crowd. I just want to build on this ahead of Beijing," said Ujah, one of five men to go under 10 seconds on the night.
"This is my first time running in the stadium, so this is all quite new to me - the atmosphere was just electric."
Zharnel Hughes produced a stunning personal best of 20.05 to win the men's 200m in a time that only two Britons - John Regis and Adam Gemili - have bettered.
"I didn't expect the PB because last week I had a niggle in my hamstring. I was just thinking relax and get to the line," said Hughes, who earned his British passport last month.
So dreadful were the conditions on occasion, the men's pole vault was suspended until Saturday, with world record holder Renaud Lavillenie apologising to the crowd afterwards.
When the women's 400m runners opened the racing the rain had abated and defending world champion Christine Ohuruogu went on to finish fourth, 0.18secs adrift of the season's best 50.82 she set in Monaco last week.
There was a personal best 51.48 for Welsh athlete Seren Bundy-Davies in the same race, while in the men's 110m hurdles her compatriot David Omeregie set a personal best 13.50 in the heats.
With British Athletics selecting their squad for the Worlds on 27 July, Laura Weightman made a statement of intent by winning the women's 1500m.
"I've had a tricky few races recently and that made me lose a bit of confidence, so this has really brought it back and told me that I am in the right place."
Mr Megraw was one of the 16 murder victims who became known as the Disappeared.
His remains were found in a drainage ditch on Oristown bog, near Kells, by contractors called in to prepare the site for forensic excavations.
DNA tests have positively identified the remains as those of Mr Megraw.
The coroner for the city of Dublin has accepted this as evidence of identification and will shortly authorise the release of the remains to the family.
In a statement, Brendan Megraw's brother, Kieran, said the family are relieved that he has been found.
"He has been alone for nearly 40 years and now we can bring him home and lay him to rest with our mum and dad," he said.
"We want to thank all those who have supported us over the years."
He added: "Brendan was found because more information came in to refine the search area and we are hugely grateful for whoever provided it.
"We hope and pray that the suffering of those still waiting for the return of their loved ones will soon be brought to an end".
Mr Megraw was 23 when he was abducted from Twinbrook in Belfast in 1978, and murdered by the IRA.
He had recently been married and was awaiting the birth of his daughter.
His kidnappers had drugged his wife, Marie, in their home as they waited for his return, and as they took him away they warned her not to worry or contact police.
The Megraw family were only told by the IRA in 1999 that he was one of the Disappeared and his body had been dumped on the bogland near the town of Kells in County Meath.
Three previous searches for Mr Megraw, the most recent in 2010, were unsuccessful.
The Disappeared were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.
Separate searches have also taken place on bogland a few miles away from where Mr Megraw was buried in County Meath for the remains of Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright, both of whom were abducted by the IRA in October 1972.
It is also suspected Joseph Lynskey, a former Cistercian monk taken from the Beechmount area of west Belfast in the summer of 1972, was also buried somewhere in the region.
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.
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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.
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Carlisle's Brunton Park home was rendered unusable, and they are playing games at three alternative venues.
Coleman was frustrated because Stanley have had two League Two games postponed because of waterlogging.
"Can I start by apologising if I have caused any offence," he said.
In an open letter on the Accrington website he continued: "The quotes published were just a small snippet of a longer interview.
"In that interview, my sympathy for the people who have suffered massively from the floods was made abundantly clear.
"I have no issue with your football club, this was a catastrophic flood and I wish you the best of luck in overcoming the hardship it has caused."
Carlisle have been given a boost in their attempts to restore Brunton Park to a playable state after learning they are eligible to apply for contributions from the Premier League Fans Fund.
Keith Curle's side played the first of their 'home away from home' games at Preston's Deepdale ground last weekend, beating Notts County 3-0 in front of 3,067 fans.
They will also play matches at Blackburn's Ewood Park and Blackpool's Bloomfield Road.
"My main point over this whole affair is that it is now pot luck over whether a team plays Carlisle as an away fixture or on a neutral ground - how can this be fair?" Coleman continued.
"I am not suggesting for one minute that this is favouring Carlisle in the actual game - it clearly favours the opposition, which makes the victory over Notts County even more creditable.
"Could you imagine the league sanctioning the game on 6 February [between the two teams] being played at Ewood Park, which would be tantamount to a home game for us?
"The main benefactors from this whole situation are the possible handful of teams that will not have to face Carlisle United on their home pitch."
National League side Gateshead were forced to play games away from their International Stadium home at the end of the 2012-13 season after their pitch was deemed unsuitable for matches.
They played matches as far afield as Boston in Lincolnshire, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and coincidentally, Carlisle.
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Kenyan and Somali government soldiers entered south-western Bardere town, which has been under al-Shabab control since 2008, backed by heavy weapons and air support, residents told the BBC.
A Somali army commander told the BBC troops took the town without a fight.
Pro-al-Shabab media have also confirmed the loss of the town.
The al-Qaeda-linked group is battling Somalia's government for control of the country.
A drone strike in the same town last week killed two al-Shabab commanders, residents said.
Thousands of soldiers from Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have been advancing on Bardere over the past few days.
"We did not meet any resistance. There were only small skirmishes. This is not a force that the extremists can resist," Somali Col Abbaas Ibrahim Gurey told the BBC's Somali Service.
Residents who remained in the town told the BBC by phone that some fighting had taken place outside Bardere.
The loss of the town, which is near the Juba River about 460km (285 miles) west of the capital Mogadishu, will be a big blow to the group, BBC Somalia analyst Mohammed Mohammed says.
It will lose the financial benefits brought by controlling an area rich in agriculture and will also lose access to roads that link to other parts of the country and to neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia, he says.
African Union (AU) troops have been in the country since 2007 helping various UN-backed governments fight al-Shabab - and there is now a force of more than 21,000 in the country.
Kenyan soldiers joined the AU mission after 2011 when al-Shabab fighters crossed the long, porous border and kidnapped several people, including tourists.
Al-Shabab has staged several attacks in Kenya in retaliation, including the siege of a university campus in Garissa in April and an attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi in 2013.
The AU and Somali military have recently been stepping up their operations in the Gedo region in order to recapture Bardere.
Over the last four years, the militants have been driven from most of the key towns they once held but they still control rural areas in the south.
Somalia has seen clan-based warlords, rival politicians and Islamist militants battle for control since the fall of long-serving ruler Siad Barre in 1991.
A Ford Fiesta and Mitsubishi Lancer collided on the B803 Coatbridge Road, near Glenmavis, at 19:50 on Thursday.
Four people in the Mitsubishi were hurt - a man, aged 36, a woman, 33, and two boys, aged 13 and two. The man is in a serious but stable condition.
Two males, aged 17, and two girls, aged 14 and 15, suffered minor injuries in the Fiesta.
Police said that the man who was a passenger in the Mitsubishi had suffered a serious head in the crash which caused extensive damage to both vehicles.
The woman and children who were in the car with him were released from hospital following treatment.
The occupants of the Fiesta were treated for minor injuries at Monklands Hospital.
The road was closed for several hours as crash scene investigators examined the site.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Jordan Palmer admits killing Terrence Ojuederie, 42, in their cell at HMP Peterborough but denies it was murder.
The court heard Mr Palmer, 26, may have taken the synthetic cannabis drug Spice before the attack and his defence said it may have been taken involuntarily.
He was swaying when his cellmate was found on the floor, the trial heard.
Prison officer Mohammed Abubaker told Peterborough Crown Court Mr Palmer had called him to his cell in the early hours of 9 December 2015, saying he felt sick.
He said Mr Ojuederie, who was from Watford, was awake on the bottom bunk and he "seemed fine".
He said he then asked if Mr Palmer had taken any Spice, to which the prisoner replied "I don't know".
Mr Abubaker said Mr Palmer then called him back to the cell at about 01:30 GMT, stating: "I don't know what I've done, I don't know what I've done."
He returned to the cell to find Mr Palmer swaying from side to side, holding his palms upwards and with his cellmate lying on his back on the floor, Mr Abubaker told the court.
"All he [Mr Palmer] was saying was 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry'," he said.
When Mr Palmer was met by police, he told them "I don't know what happened", the court heard.
When cross-examined by defence QC Abbas Lakha, Mr Abubaker said there was nothing to suggest a fight or argument in the cell before the incident.
Mr Lakha said it was not disputed that Mr Palmer, whose address was given in court as HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, killed Mr Ojuederie.
But he said it was possible that the defendant had "involuntarily" used Spice and and the effects "might have led him to launch the attack".
The trial will continue on Wednesday.
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United's surprise 2-0 defeat by Southampton saw them consigned to Thursday's Globe semi-finals.
However, Club NI won their third successive group game to reach the last four as they beat Middlesbrough 2-1.
They will face Co Antrim in the semis after two Christopher McKee goals helped see off Strikers 2-0.
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Rangers will face American side Global Premier Soccer Bayern in the other last-four tie.
The Glasgow club booked their semi-finals berth by defeating First Choice Soccer 2-0 while GPS progressed after a 1-0 win over Dublin club Cherry Orchard at Castlerock.
United went behind against Southampton after a Ben Pleavin own goal and Frank Lovett's superb solo goal sealed the Saints' victory.
County Armagh will be United's opposition in the Globe semi-finals at the Coleraine Showgrounds (15:30 BST) in a game which will be shown live on the BBC Sport website.
Meanwhile, the semi-finals line-up in the Premier Section will see Ghanaian club Right To Dream facing Newcastle United and O'Higgins of Chile up against Mexican side Club America.
Newcastle held their nerve to progress to the last four as they defeated Japanese side Komazawa 2-0 with Oisin McEntee's first-half headed goal followed by a second-half Matthew Longstaff penalty.
Thursday's Premier semi-final between Right to Dream and Newcastle will also be streamed live on the BBC Sport website.
THURSDAY'S SUPER CUP SEMI-FINALS
PREMIER SEMI-FINALS
Right To Dream v Newcastle Utd, Coleraine Showgrounds, 19:00 BST - live on BBC Sport website
O'Higgins v Club America, Scroggy Road, Limavady, 19:00
PREMIER GLOBE SEMI-FINALS
Strikers v Osasco, Broughshane, 17:00
Co Antrim v First Choice Soccer, Riada Stadium, Ballymoney, 17:00
PREMIER VASE SEMI-FINALS
Vendee v Co Fermanagh, Parker Ave, Portrush, 17:00
GPS Bayern v Otago, Castlerock, 17:00
PREMIER BOWL
Co Tyrone v Co Armagh, Clough, Ballymena, 15:30
Co Down v Komazawa Uni FC, Riada 2, Ballymoney, 15:30
Co Londonderry v Beijing Morning Star Utd, The Warren, Portstewart, 15:30
JUNIOR SEMI-FINALS
Club NI v Co Antrim, Riada Stadium, Ballymoney, 19:00
Rangers v GPS Bayern, Seahaven, Portstewart, 19:00
JUNIOR GLOBE
Co Armagh v Man Utd, Coleraine Showgrounds, 15:30 - live on BBC Sport website
Co Tyrone v Chivas Guadalajara, Anderson Park, Coleraine, 15:30
JUNIOR VASE
Cherry Orchard v North Dublin SL, Anderson Park, Noon
NC Elite v Sheffield Utd, Broughshane, Noon
JUNIOR BOWL
Swindon Town v Co Down, Clough, Noon
Middlesbrough v Southampton, Parker Ave, Portrush, Noon
JUNIOR SALVER
Plymouth Argyle v Co Londonderry, The Warren, Portstewart, Noon
Co Fermanagh v Strikers, Castlerock, Noon
JUNIOR SHIELD
First Choice Soccer v M Sports NZ, Riada 2, Ballymoney, Noon
Dundalk SL v Colina, Scroggy Road, Limavady, Noon
Jeronimo Yanez shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights last July, and the aftermath was live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend.
The shocking 10-minute video shows a calm, polite encounter between the two men that escalated quickly.
Mr Yanez says he feared for his life and Mr Castile did not follow orders.
The 29-year-old police officer was found not guilty on charges of second-degree manslaughter and two felony counts of intentional discharge of a dangerous weapon for endangering the safety of Mr Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her four-year-old daughter, who were both in the car at the time.
He has since been fired from the police force.
The case - one of a series of deaths of black men and boys at the hands of US police - has prompted widespread outrage.
The dashcam footage from Mr Yanez's patrol car, released by Ramsey County on Tuesday night, appeared to show a routine traffic stop.
Mr Yanez was seen approaching Mr Castile's white sedan while another officer stood near the passenger's side.
He told Mr Castile he pulled him over because a brake light was out before he asked for his driver's licence and insurance.
Mr Castile handed him a piece of paper and said: "Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me."
"OK. Don't reach for it, then," Mr Yanez is heard saying while appearing to reach for his own weapon. "Don't pull it out."
Mr Yanez again repeated "don't pull it out" in a loud voice as he drew his own gun and fired inside the car multiple times.
The officer ordered Ms Reynolds, who is heard screaming, not to move and began shouting expletives.
After the shooting, the second officer escorted Ms Reynolds' daughter from the backseat of the vehicle.
Ms Reynolds is heard explaining that her boyfriend was reaching for his ID, to which Mr Yanez replied: "I told him not to reach for it."
The officer called for emergency responders and later is heard saying: "I don't know where the gun was."
The footage appeared to corroborate Ms Reynolds' account of the incident. which she filmed immediately following the shooting.
But the video, played for the jury during Mr Yanez's trial, did not show what was happening inside the car and what Mr Castile was reaching for just before he was shot.
A jury cleared Mr Yanez on Friday, sparking protests in the city of St Paul.
7 June 2017 Last updated at 08:25 BST
The interchange has five suspended levels and cars going in all directions.
After eight years of construction, the Huangjuewan interchange was completed last week on the outskirts of Chongqing, a gigantic city in southwest China.
The structure balances five layers of traffic, with the highest 37 metres above ground. No less than 15 ramps have been built to allow vehicles to move from one level to another, in eight directions, according to the municipality's website.
An official on Chongqing's urban and rural construction committee told a Chinese news agency called Xinhua that the complex design was necessary to link the city's core, airport, and expressway, with each ramp leading to a different zone.
This navigational nightmare has set the internet ablaze.
"If you miss a ramp, you will reach Chongqing one day later," warned one user on the social network Weibo.
"My GPS told me: go where you want and leave me alone!", a commenter joked, while another christened the city "Chongqing, the city that you'll never leave."
One driver was more reassuring: "Huangjuewan, a legendary bridge in eight directions and five stories: I took it without a GPS and without getting lost!"
Gen David Petraeus said the action could cause problems "not just in Kabul, but everywhere in the world".
Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center, plans to put copies of the holy book in a bonfire to mark this week's anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The White House and Nato have also expressed concern over the plan.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday that "any type of activity like that that puts our troops in harm's way would be a concern to this administration".
By Paul AdamsBBC News, Washington
The Dove World Outreach Center may only represent a handful of people, but its incendiary plans haven't emerged out of nowhere.
The role of Islam in America has become a hot button issue with social and political implications.
While most Americans would probably take issue with exhortations to burn the Koran, there is clearly widespread concern about the influence of Islam.
Protests over the planned location of an Islamic centre close to Ground Zero in New York, and similar controversy in Murfreesboro, Tennessee have highlighted popular anxiety about Islam in America.
Earlier this year, an opinion poll found that 53% of Americans view Islam unfavourably, with only 42% biewing the religion favourably.
Reports about young American Muslims being radicalised on the internet have helped to stoke fears about the nature of a religion indelibly associated, since 9/11, with a violent assault on the US.
Far from subsiding over time, anxiety seems to have deepened. As a result, American Muslims say they feel more isolated than at any time since the 2001 attacks.
Earlier, the US embassy in Kabul issued a statement condemning the plans by the non-denominational church in Gainesville, Florida.
"It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort," Gen Petraeus said in a statement to US media. "It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems.
"Not just here, but everywhere in the world, we are engaged with the Islamic community," added Gen Petraeus, who heads a 150,000-strong Nato force against a Taliban-led insurgency.
Meanwhile, Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday blasted the church's plans, telling reporters that burning Korans violated the Nato alliance's "values".
"There is a risk that it may also have a negative impact on security for our troops," news agency AFP quoted him as saying.
Mr Jones said the church was "very concerned" after hearing Gen Petraeus' warning and was taking his words seriously. He said the church was praying on the matter but he said the group had "firmly made up our minds".
"How long do we back down?" he said on CNN.
Furious debate
News of the bonfire has sparked protests in Afghanistan and Indonesia.
Is mosque debate fanning flames?
In Kabul on Monday, about 500 protesters chanted "long live Islam" and "death to America" as they set fire to an effigy of Mr Jones.
The controversy comes at a time of already heated debate in the US over a proposal to build a mosque and Islamic cultural centre two streets from Ground Zero, site of the 9/11 attacks, in New York.
The planned protest by Mr Jones's previously little-known 50-member Florida church, whose website labels Islam "violent and oppressive", has prompted protests elsewhere, too.
Thousands of mostly Muslim demonstrators rallied around Indonesia last weekend.
Claims that US soldiers have desecrated the Koran in both Afghanistan and Iraq have caused bloodshed in the past.
There were deadly protests in Afghanistan in 2008, when it emerged that a US soldier deployed to Iraq riddled a copy of the holy book with bullets.
And further lives were lost in Afghan riots in 2005 when Newsweek magazine printed a story alleging that US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet.
The story later turned out to be false and was retracted by the magazine.
Tuilagi, who last played for England in 2014, has been sidelined for 15 months with groin and hamstring problems.
But he is set to return when Leicester face Harlequins on Friday, a match Jones said he would "probably" attend.
Tuilagi, 24, is not in contention for England's next game, against Ireland on 27 February.
Leicester coach Richard Cockerill said on Wednesday he thought Tuilagi had "not played enough rugby at club level, never mind Test level", but added: "If Eddie decides to pick him because he is playing well enough then so be it."
Asked later if Tuilagi might be ready for the Wales game, Jones said: "We'd like to think that but I've seen the comments by Richard Cockerill so I'll have to get on that Leicester hotline."
Tuilagi has scored 11 tries in 25 England appearances but his career has been blighted by off-field disciplinary issues, including jumping into Auckland harbour.
He also pleaded guilty to assaulting two female police officers, but later said he had "owned up to what I've not done".
Jones was much cooler on the international prospects of Sale's Danny Cipriani, whom he described as "a long way away" from an England recall.
The 28-year-old fly-half, who last week announced he will rejoin Wasps next season, made his England debut in 2008 but has only amassed 14 caps.
"Danny needs to play well. There's no use talking to the press about it. You've got to dominate club rugby and show all the skills of a Test player," Jones said.
"He's not good enough to be in the squad at the moment. We have two outstanding 10s in Owen Farrell and George Ford.
"To beat those two, Danny has a long way to go, but he's a capable player. It's a matter of how hard he wants to work at his game."
Jones also issued a warning to aspiring England players of the standards needed to catch his eye.
"This isn't a kindergarten class," he said. "If you want to play Test rugby, they have to keep me interested.
"I don't have to keep them interested. Why should I keep them interested?
"Their game has to be so outstanding that I am saying, 'Goodness me, I've got to get that guy in the squad.'"
England top the Six Nations table after wins over Scotland and Italy in the opening two rounds, but Jones said he is not entirely satisfied with the way his team have played so far.
"I wouldn't say I'm happy with where we are," said the Australian, who replaced Stuart Lancaster as head coach in December. "I think we're going in the right direction, but I don't think we should get too excited at this stage.
"It's that consistency of performance in the set-piece. First game, our line-out was excellent and our scrum wasn't great. Second game, our scrum was good and our line-out wasn't great.
"Our defence throughout has been outstanding so that's been a strong point. But our breakdown and attack has fluctuated between very good and very poor."
Jones praised back row forwards Billy Vunipola and Chris Robshaw, as well as centre Jonathan Joseph.
"Billy Vunipola has got the potential to be a really good player," he said. "And in the last game, Chris Robshaw played close to one of his best games for England: really high work-rate, very industrious.
"So those guys have come through and obviously Joseph in the last game was really industrious in attack."
Full-back Mike Brown says Jones' management style is less structured than Lancaster's.
"Eddie keeps players on their toes," Brown said. "As soon as you get in that comfort zone, Eddie - tough character that he is - will notice that.
"He works us hard, but I'm also enjoying what he's brought to training, and the way he wants to play suits me down to the ground.
"We're trying to play really quick - we haven't managed to do that yet in the first two games, but the way we're training, when we get out on the field we can really hurt teams.
"We're going to have to step up our performance against Ireland."
On Friday, the US State Department said their move came after a Russian policeman attacked a US diplomat near the US embassy in Moscow.
That US diplomat has now been expelled from Moscow, along with one other embassy worker.
The Kremlin accused the men of being CIA agents.
Russia's deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said both US embassy staff were expelled for "activities incompatible with their diplomatic status".
State department spokesman John Kirby said the two Russian officials, who have not been named, were told to leave on 17 June.
Mr Kirby said that earlier that month, a Russian policeman attacked a US diplomat near the US embassy in Moscow.
"The action was unprovoked and it endangered the safety of our employee," he said. "The Russian claim that the policeman was protecting the embassy from an unidentified individual is simply untrue."
Russia said earlier this week that the US official was a CIA agent who had refused to provide his identification papers and hit the policeman in the face.
Last month, US officials said harassment against US diplomats by Russian security and intelligence services was on the rise.
The Washington Post said last month that included breaking into the homes of embassy staff, rearranging furniture and even killing a family pet.
Russia has denied the allegation that security staff mistreated the US diplomat. It said the diplomat worked for the CIA and had refused to show ID papers.
"Instead of the CIA employee, who was in disguise, as we understand, it could have been anyone - a terrorist, an extremist, a suicide bomber," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
In response to seeing its two diplomats ordered to leave Washington, the Kremlin announced its move on Saturday.
"After their unfriendly step two employees of the United States embassy had to leave Moscow," Mr Ryabkov said.
"They were declared persona non grata for activities incompatible with their diplomatic status."
No official response has been made by Russia to the allegations of harassment of US diplomats. A statement to the Washington Post said there had been US provocation against Russian diplomats.
Duffy, 57, and Hibs counterpart Neil Lennon, 45 were sent to the stand as tempers flared at Easter Road.
Morton's Kudus Oyenuga was sent off for a tackle on Jordan Forster and Hibs' Darren McGregor was dismissed for violent conduct on Wednesday evening.
"I acted immaturely - but I am not 12 years old," Duffy said.
Lennon claimed afterwards that Duffy had asked him for a "square go" - a fight - but Duffy denied that in a statement on Thursday.
Lennon and McGregor, 31, were incensed by 24-year-old Morton substitute Oyenuga's tackle on Forster in added time.
"It's a disgraceful challenge right in front of my technical area," Lennon told BBC Scotland after the match.
"Then he gets up and Darren McGregor confronts him and he feigns a head butt. I have the Morton staff in my technical area having a go at me and then I have the Morton players, acting the big hard men, having a go at me.
"So, I think I have been harshly done by, I think my players have been harshly done by in that incident as well."
In his post-match interview, Duffy said: "There was obviously a bit of a fracas. Neil wasn't happy with Kudus's challenge. The referee was going to send him off anyway.
"Obviously there was a few people involved, myself included. I think it would be wrong for that to deflect from our team's performance tonight.
"Maybe it was handbags with a few things inside the handbags. It's one of these things that happens sometimes. I'm sure Neil will say the same. It's emotion, it's passion.
"To be perfectly honest I never really get involved in things like that. But sometimes you've got to stand your ground for your team and that's what I've done but the referee saw fit to remove me and that's his decision to make.
"I have been involved in the game a long, long time and that's the first time I've ever been sent to the stand. I'm disappointed about that. He [the referee] said he sent me to the stand for irresponsible behaviour."
Lennon said he would wait to see referee Nick Walsh's report before deciding his next step, but insists the club will challenge the red card shown to McGregor.
"I will look at it and if I have to defend myself I will," he said. "I'm definitely appealing [against the McGregor dismissal]. That's a disgrace. An absolute disgrace."
The result kept Hibs 10 points clear at the top of the Scottish Championship while Morton moved a point above Falkirk into second.
"We're actually good friends away from the game, I've got a healthy respect for him," Lennon said of Duffy. "He's done a brilliant job but I'm not having that.
"We're in a really strong position [in the league]. I wanted to win tonight, my team wanted to win tonight. It's okay, we kept a clean sheet, we got another point."
Phillip Monk, 61, inappropriately touched girls aged between seven and eight while working at Maesybryn Primary School, near Pontypridd, Newport Crown Court was told.
Mr Monk denies 23 counts of indecent assault of a person under the age of 14.
The offences date from 1984 to 1995 and the trial continues.
On Monday the court was told Mr Monk, of Penycoedcae, Pontypridd, molested the girls - three of whom were in the same class at the Llantwit Fardre school - when they came to his desk to have their project work marked.
Prosecutor Suzanne Thomas said of one alleged victim: "He would put his hand up her skirt on a regular basis.
"It would happen whenever she was having work marked by Mr Monk."
The court heard that the victim recalled two further incidents which took place outside the classroom.
Miss Thomas said: "First was an occasion when he took the children to the local community centre to plant oak trees. He had his hand up her skirt as they walked around."
She said that the girl remembered being intimately touched during swimming lessons when Mr Monk would hold her in the water.
"This was making her feel special she thought she was one of his favourites," added Miss Thomas.
"It was only when looking back as an adult she realised what he had done wasn't right."
Bettina Bunte, 51, was employed through an agency to work at the Kent County Council-run centre in Whitstable.
She wrote a novel based on her own experiences of a love affair between an 18-year-old and a married man 28 years older using "graphic vocabulary".
The council said it "took action" following concerns after its release.
Ms Bunte's novel, entitled The Lost Soul was written under the pseudonym Cass E Ritter.
The story charts a love affair between a married laboratory technician called Lom and an 18-year-old student called Nina and is based on Ms Bunte's own experiences.
In a statement, the authority said: "Ms Bunte was employed through an agency to work at one of our children's centres.
"Following the publicity around her self-published novel and concerns raised by staff and parents, managers met her to discuss the issues.
"It was felt the most appropriate action was to stop her employment as agency cover.
"She will no longer be working for us."
Ms Bunte, who did not work directly with children but held an administration role, said the authority's actions were "out of proportion and judgemental".
She said: "I did describe a relationship that was passionate. I described it in fairly graphic vocabulary.
"Some novelists stop at the bedroom door, I went in with them and I tried to describe a relationship that was central, that was passionate and I described it in fairly graphic detail."
But she added that she had received permission from her superiors at the centre in Joy Lane to speak to the media about her novel and it was after that KCC took the decision to dismiss her.
She had worked at the centre for four years.
Atletico who are managed by Diego Simeone made it all the way to last years final and won't be easy opponents for Leicester.
They've played each other before in the 1997-98 UEFA Cup, that time they lost 4-1 to Atletico on aggregate.
This could be the perfect opportunity for Leicester to get their revenge. The first legs of the quarter finals will be played on the 11 & 12 April and the second legs will be the 18 & 19 April.
Robert Harrison Brown, of Camborne Road in Bristol, is due to appear before magistrates on Thursday.
The attack in Dean Lane, Bedminster, took place at 23:30 BST on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old victim is being treated in hospital and is in a serious but stable condition.
Wilson, 37, died on Monday after he was struck by debris in Sunday's Pocono IndyCar 500 and crashed into a wall.
The FIA has tested a number of new designs, and is planning more - including the possible introduction of a protected, closed canopy cockpit.
"We must make something," said the FIA's F1 director Charlie Whiting.
"Even if it's not 100% in terms of protecting the driver under all circumstances.
"If it improves the situation, it has to be good. There must be a way."
The FIA has been looking into various methods to provide better protection for drivers' heads since Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa was hit on the helmet by a bouncing spring during qualifying for the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Cockpits enclosed by a fighter jet-style canopy had been considered, but were dismissed because of concerns about the strength of the cover.
However, the death of Wilson, who competed in F1 for Minardi in 2003, has brought the issue of open cockpits into question once again.
Brazilian former Formula 1 driver Lucas Di Grassi believes it is only a matter of time before closed canopies are introduced.
He wrote on Twitter: "Canopies will be used in every single formula (open-wheel) series in the future. Not only for safety, but for aerodynamic improvement."
However, former Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti believes the introduction of closed cockpits could bring with it other safety concerns.
"I think it probably brings on more problems than we have at the moment," Andretti, a four-time IndyCar champion, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"The vision, potential to be trapped and many other aspects. It is not the fix-all situation."
by BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson
"Formula 1's governing body has been making incremental but significant steps forward in head protection ever since the fateful Imola weekend in 1994, when Ayrton Senna was killed by a suspension arm piercing his helmet.
"The key difficulty has been finding a solution that increases head protection while not raising other safety issues, such as driver visibility and egress.
"Following the rejection of canopies and a forward roll-hoop a couple of years ago, on various grounds, a number of different ideas have come up.
"One has been dubbed the 'halo' - an oval structure emerging from behind the driver's head supported by a curved vertical strut at the front of the cockpit.
"Another is a series of vertical fins placed around the cockpit at angles which minimise the disruption to vision but which would deflect large objects.
"Research will not stop until an answer is found."
The Home Affairs Committee called the conditions a "disgrace" and said some councils were doing far more than others to take in those in need.
It called on ministers to compel more local authorities to sign up to a scheme for housing asylum seekers.
The government said it was working to ensure "safe, habitable" accommodation.
It promised to look in detail at the report's findings.
The committee looked at the "dispersal" scheme used to place asylum seekers around the UK.
It found applicants were concentrated in a small number of some of the most deprived areas - placing pressure on local schools and healthcare services - while the voluntary nature of the scheme meant some councils took none.
Since 2012, accommodation has been provided to asylum seekers via six regional contracts delivered by three providers:
The report said poor accommodation was the most significant problem identified in the evidence it had received, which focused largely on contracts administered by G4S and Serco.
One woman reportedly said: "I put anything I can under the doors".
She added: "The rats run up the stairs, and out of the store cupboard into the living room.
"I am frightened for the children... twice they said they were sending pest control - nobody arrived."
Another house was "very dirty".
"The carpet was very smelly and dusty. The kitchen was full of mice; they even ran across the dining table while we were eating," the report said.
A different client reported that "the presence and noise of rats triggered flashbacks as he shared a cell with rats when he was detained and tortured in his country of origin".
But MPs said insects were a more widespread problem than rodents, with one woman stating: "Since we had moved into this house, all of my children had bites on their skin. The GP said that it was due to insect bites."
In another property, a woman had a blanket on the floor, reporting that "the carpet was dirty and smelt of urine when she moved in".
"She had tried hard to wash it, but could not get rid of the smell, so she had had to buy a blanket to cover the floor to put her baby on," the report said.
Some families complained they could not put their children down to play, because of dirty carpets, and some had "been told to go to a charity shop to buy a throw to place over the sofa".
The committee called for measures to increase participation by councils in the dispersal scheme, adding if some continued to fail to sign up, the government should use powers to compel them.
Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the committee, said: "The state of accommodation for some asylum seekers and refugees in this country is a disgrace."
She added: "It is completely unfair on those local authorities and communities that have signed up and are now taking many more people, when so many local authorities in more affluent areas are still doing nothing at all."
But David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association's asylum, migration and refugee task group, said councils were "stepping up to the plate", with more than 200 becoming dispersal areas.
For Labour, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: "It is simply unacceptable in 21st-Century Britain that people fleeing war and persecution are being placed in such disgraceful conditions.
"Many councils across the country are willing to step up and take in refugees.
"But ministers must now come forward with proposals to ensure all local authorities play their part."
A Home Office official said: "The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection, and we are committed to providing safe and secure accommodation while applications are considered."
It "worked closely with our contractors to ensure they provide accommodation that is safe, habitable, fit for purpose and adequately equipped" and was regularly inspected, they said.
"We will consider the committee's recommendations and respond in full shortly," the official added.
It came after markets around the world fell sharply on Wednesday.
The Dow Jones closed up 15.12 points at 15,881.86. The S&P 500 index gained 9.6 points, to 1,868.93 while the Nasdaq index climbed just 0.37 points, to 4,472.06
Before Wall Street opened, markets had been lifted by comments from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi.
The ECB kept interest rates on hold, as expected, but Mr Draghi said the eurozone central bank would "review and possibly reconsider" its monetary policy in March.
Oil gains also helped lift investors' spirits.
Brent crude rose 5% to $29.25 per barrel, while US crude climbed 4.2% to $29.53 a barrel.
"Petroleum markets are showing signs of stabilising after the recent run of weakness, and we see some scope for a technical correction, particularly if global equity markets are able to recover their recently misplaced confidence," said Tim Evans, of Citi Futures.
The gains boosted energy stocks, which have been hit hard as the price of oil has tumbled.
Pipeline company Kinder Morgan saw a 15.6% increase in its stock price.
Shares of natural gas company Southwestern Energy climbed 19.24% after announcing it would cut 1,100 jobs in 2016.
The cost of digging it up and moving it back across the Irish border is furthering delays.
Seventeen sites containing 273,000 tonnes of waste were identified some years ago.
Twelve of them have been cleared with 93,000 tonnes of waste sent back under a cross-border agreement.
But the five remaining sites were the most significant, Agriculture and Environment Minister Michelle McIlveen told the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Four new sites have also been uncovered in County Tyrone this year.
Ms McIlveen said it was unacceptable that the situation was continuing, even though waste repatriation began in 2010.
She said she had pressed the issue at a meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council and expressed her disappointment about the pace of progress.
"The issues that I understand are in relation to cost, but also with regard to a lack of capacity for land waste in the Irish Republic," said Ms McIlveen.
The five historic sites still to be cleared are in Cookstown, County Tyrone; Crumlin and Portglenone in County Antrim; and two in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.
Two of the four sites found this year were in Galbally, with the others being in Ballgawley and Sandholes in County Tyrone.
The cross-border agreement on waste repatriation was signed following the threat of European fines over the illegal landfills.
Ms McIlveen also told the assembly that since the introduction of a new marker dye last April, the reporting of dumping of fuel-laundering waste had gone down.
But she said that between May 2013 and April 2016 her officials had cleared 3,141 tonnes of diesel sludge, with the bulk of the 423 cases found in counties Armagh and Down.
She said between May 2013 and June 2015 there had been five convictions for the dumping of fuel-laundering waste, producing fines worth £25,000.
She said two other cases were still before the courts.
Forty per cent said the UK should take in more.
One thousand people were interviewed by telephone between Friday and Sunday in a ComRes poll for BBC Newsnight.
There were sharp divisions on class and age - with middle class and younger people more favourable to taking refugees.
The poll was an attempt to gauge public opinion after the publication of photos showing the body of three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi after his family's ill-fated attempt to reach Europe.
The largest group supported more refugees being allowed to come and live in Britain - 40% of respondents.
Thirty one per cent said Britain should take fewer refugees, and 26% said the number should be about the same as it currently is.
Of those polled, 17% per cent said the UK government is doing "a good job" dealing with the migrant crisis - compared to 38% who said the German government is doing well.
On Monday, after this poll was conducted, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the UK would accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years. Vulnerable children and orphans would be prioritised, he said.
Q: Do you think that Britain should allow more or fewer refugees from countries such as Syria or Libya to come and live in this country? Or do you think Britain should take the same amount of refugees as it does currently?
The findings also show how far-reaching the pictures of Alan Kurdi picture was - 78% told the pollsters they had seen the image - but people did not agree that the picture should influence Britain's response to the European migration crisis.
Sixty four per cent of people who had seen the photos said that such images should not influence immigration policy.
However, those who had seen the pictures were considerably more likely to say the UK should take more refugees (44% to 24%).
The poll showed a 14-point swing in opinion towards Britain accepting refugees under an EU quota system, when compared with June.
There was also an 8% swing towards people saying it is the responsibility of the EU, rather than the individual countries, to deal with the crisis.
Did you see the images of the drowned Syrian boy Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach?
ComRes found a sharp division in attitudes based on class. Fifty-four per cent of adults in the traditionally middle class ABC1 social grade were in favour of more refugees, compared with 24% in the working class C2DE group.
Younger people between 18-34 were most likely to be in favour of the country taking more refugees.
The poll shows how carefully the government has to tread as it offers help for refugees to come to Britain. Conservatives are aware that if they are seen to be too generous to refugees, they risk losing support to UKIP ahead of the upcoming EU referendum.
More on the poll with Allegra Stratton on BBC Newsnight on Monday 7 September at 22:30 BST on BBC Two. You can also watch on iPlayer (UK only)
A northbound white Vauxhall Corsa crossed the carriageway on the A77, towards Holmston roundabout, and hit a silver Citroen car, at 15:30 on Sunday.
The 73-year-old man and 71-year-old woman who were travelling in the Corsa were taken to Ayr Hospital.
The driver of the Citroen C8 was also taken to hospital and released after treatment. Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash to contact them.
Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiya said the Iran deal represented the best option for regional stability.
He was speaking after talks with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is trying to win support for the deal in the Sunni-dominated Gulf.
Gulf states accuse Shia Iran of stoking unrest in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
They fear the nuclear deal will encourage the Tehran government to boost support for proxies who are fighting Sunni forces across the region.
The US has argued that the deal, aimed at preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon in exchange for sanctions relief, will make the region safer.
On Monday, Mr Kerry discussed the nuclear deal with members of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) - a regional body bringing together Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
He later told reporters "it was crystal clear that the US and GCC" regarded their partnership "as indispensible for the security of the region".
He said the US had agreed to speed up the transfer of weapons - including missiles - to its allies in the Gulf, as well as to co-operate more closely with them against Islamic State (IS) militants and al-Qaeda.
The main topic of Monday's talks has been the US effort to allay Arab concerns over the 14 July nuclear deal with Iran. Saudi Arabia and its closest allies fear that the deal will make it more, not less, likely, that Tehran will eventually build a nuclear bomb.
A separate trilateral meeting between the US, Russian and Saudi foreign ministers has been focusing on Syria. But Gulf Arab governments also have mounting security concerns closer to home.
Despite being the most prosperous and stable part of the Arab world, the six Gulf Arab states now find themselves facing a twin threat of domestic terrorist attacks from two ideologically opposed foes: Sunni and Shia extremists.
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Mr Attiya said he welcomed the nuclear deal as "the best option among other options".
"We are sure all efforts exerted make this region very stable, very secure," he said.
He also echoed Mr Kerry's comments on Syria, emphasising the need for a political solution to the conflict between rebel groups and the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking earlier in Cairo, Mr Kerry acknowledged regional concerns over the nuclear deal - but insisted it would lessen the threat from Iran.
"If Iran is destabilising, it is far, far better to have an Iran that doesn't have a nuclear weapon than one that does," he told reporters.
The deal was reached in Vienna in July after marathon talks between Iran and six world powers, including the US and Russia.
The agreement envisages lifting economic sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iranian nuclear activity, which are intended to stop the country from developing a bomb. Iran has always insisted that its nuclear work is peaceful.
While in Doha, Mr Kerry is also due to meet foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia and Russia to discuss the conflict involving IS in Syria.
Russia and Iran are allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while the Saudi government and the US have called for him to leave office.
However, all sides are opposed to IS, which has emerged as a major player in Syria's civil war.
On Monday, a Kremlin spokesman criticised US plans to provide air cover for Syrian rebel groups fighting President Assad's forces, as well as those fighting IS.
"Helping Syrian opposition, let alone helping with financial or technical means, would lead to a further destabilisation of the situation in the country," Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The US, working alongside Turkey, is hoping to drive IS from northern Syria by carrying out air strikes to support selected rebel groups.
She decided to have the operation after losing both her mum and sister to breast cancer.
Newsbeat's been charting her progress over the last few months and Claira tells us she's doing really well.
The 27-year-old carries the BRCA 1 gene which gives her an 85% life chance of also getting the disease.
"I feel great," she says.
"I've stopped taking pain killers and I'm super pleased with my new boobs."
"I've recovered faster than I expected, my boobs look better than I expected and I was in far less pain than I expected."
"Going into this I tried my hardest not to have too many expectations and certainly not to focus on them," she explains.
"I always knew that whatever happened during that operation and indeed after it I would deal with as and when it happened.
"I focused on how lucky I was to be in the situation I was in, to know what I know and that I was able to do something about it.
"This experience has been one of huge personal growth for me," she says.
"It has challenged and changed a lot of what I thought I knew about myself and my life," she goes on.
"I can only describe the whole experience as life-changing in the best possible way. I'm happier than I have ever been.
"I want everyone reading this to understand that your personal happiness is in your hands."
She feels huge gratitude to those who looked after her: "I want to say thank-you to surgeon, Tibor Kovas, and his team at Guy's Hospital for doing such a great job.
"My journey doesn't end here, it starts," she says.
"I will be working more with the charities Genesis and Breakthrough Breast Cancer to raise money, awareness and to help women who are planning the same procedure," she ends.
Claira will be the focus of a documentary for BBC Radio 1 Stories, due to be broadcast later this month.
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It alleged that RBS intends to cut 40% of its permanent IT staff, or 650 jobs, as well as 230 contractors.
The bank said no individual job was at risk and no figures had been finalised.
An RBS spokesperson said: "We have not consulted on any headcount reduction, instead sharing a direction of travel with Unite which is subject to change."
Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer, said: "Royal Bank of Scotland is continuing with its savage jobs culling program with today's announcement of a 40% in IT staff, totalling nearly 900 staff.
"The decade of slashing jobs has done nothing to boost morale, increase consumer confidence or improve the bank's performance."
RBS, which is 73% owned by the government, has been restructuring ever since it was bailed out in the financial crisis.
Its global workforce has shrunk from 226,000 in 2007 to about 77,000. It has not made a full-year profit in a decade.
In May, it announced it was shedding nearly 250 IT posts as part of an overhaul of its back-office operations.
In London in 2016, RBS employed 2,200 full-time and contract IT staff. By 2020, Unite claims, there will be just 950 full-time staff.
RBS said in a statement: "Inevitably as RBS becomes a simpler, smaller bank focused on the UK and Ireland, our technology function will undergo reorganisation and will reduce over time.
"Our proposed plans are designed to reduce the number of contractors we employ and strengthen our permanent workforce and while we are downsizing in London, we are reinvesting in other UK hubs."
RBS has a bad track record with IT, suffering problems as recently as April. On the day it announced its first quarterly profit since 2015, its subsidiary NatWest was beset by complaints about glitches in its online banking system.
In June 2015, hundreds of thousands of payments failed to reach the accounts of RBS customers.
In 2012, more than six million customers had their wages, payments and other transactions disrupted when a software update was corrupted. The bank was fined £56m by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Mr MacGregor said: "Unite is angry that the massive scale of IT job losses will sap morale, productivity and faith in the company.
"RBS's fixation with cutting employee numbers, restructuring and offshoring work that could reasonably be done by displaced staff within the RBS IT community is unacceptable,"
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Taylor Crozier managed the feat on an 81-yard par three at The Playgrounds at Bluejack National in Montgomery, Texas.
Crozier's achievement earned him a hug from 14-time major winner Woods, who has been off the PGA Tour with back issues - and a mention on Twitter.
"First hole at The Playgrounds and this happened," Woods tweeted, along with a video of the shot.
Delegates said the situation was at an alarming level. Representatives of the US and UN are also at the meeting.
Thousands of people have fled Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat, heading south to Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
On Friday Myanmar - also known as Burma - said it had seized a boat packed with 727 migrants off its southern coast.
It said the migrants - more than 600 men, along with women and children - were "Bengali".
The term is used to describe both describe Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority as well as immigrants from Bangladesh.
Together those two groups make up the bulk of the 2,600 migrants the UN recently estimated were stranded at sea.
The crisis began earlier this year when Thailand cracked down on overland migrant routes, forcing people smugglers to use sea routes instead.
Myanmar said those aboard the boat picked up on Friday had been taken to a naval base in the Irrawaddy Delta.
It came a week after Myanmar intercepted 200 migrants - its first such rescue, which came amid criticism the country has failed to enough to help those stranded and stem the crisis.
In Bangkok, Myanmar's foreign ministry chief Htin Lynn said his country would co-operate in dealing with human trafficking.
But he also told delegates that on "this issue of illegal migration of boat people, you cannot single out my country.
"Finger-pointing will not serve any purpose. It will take us nowhere."
In his opening remarks, Thai Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn said "the influx of irregular migrants... has reached alarming levels".
He added that "the root causes that motivated these people to leave must also be addressed", in comments apparently directed at Myanmar and Bangladesh.
US assistant secretary of state Anne Richard also urged swift action to save the lives of migrants out at sea.
There is a growing consensus on how to help those migrants caught out by Thailand's sudden move against smuggling networks. Migrant boats will no longer be pushed back to sea by Malaysia and Indonesia, although Thailand will still nudge those it finds in the direction of those two countries.
Money is being found to help support those who have already landed. Thailand has even dropped its objection to the US flying military surveillance aircraft over its territorial waters. After their harrowing voyages, the migrants should now get fair and humane treatment.
Addressing what's causing the flow of migrants is clearly going to be more difficult. The Bangladesh delegation acknowledged that many are poor economic migrants from its shores, but stressed "external factors" driving others - a veiled reference to the harsh treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Almost no-one is using the word Rohingya, though. The Burmese delegation objects to this, and has warned against what it calls "finger-pointing". Consensus on the Rohingyas is still a very distant goal.
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Friday's talks include representatives from 17 countries affected by "irregular migration in the Indian Ocean".
The US, Japan and Switzerland have sent observers and there are officials from the UN refugee agency UNHCR, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration.
However, correspondents say many of those attending are not ministerial-level and the talks are unlikely to produce a binding agreement or even a plan of action.
Most countries are unwilling take in the migrants, fearing that by accepting them they will encourage more to make the journey.
Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to stop towing boats out to sea and to give temporary shelter to those who have landed. Thailand has only said it will stop rejecting the boats.
More than 3,000 migrants have landed in Indonesia and Malaysia in recent weeks.
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Eight-year-old Fabi was moved from Chester Zoo, where he fathered seven cubs with a female who was born at Paignton.
The move was necessary after Paignton's 14-year-old male, Tenang, had to be put to sleep because of illness in June,
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered, with just about 300 believed to remain in the wild.
The zoo said the decline in numbers has been caused by habitat loss, poaching and "human-tiger conflict", making the breeding programme vitally important to the future of the species.
It is hoped Fabi will mate successfully with Paignton's female tiger Shakira.
Curator of mammals at the zoo, Neil Bemment, said initial signs from Fabi were good
"He is settling in very quickly to his new surroundings and early signs are good, with lots of encouraging vocalisations," he added.
Fabi and Shakira are important genetically, with both of them ranked in the top 15 Sumatran tigers in Europe, because their blood lines have not been "over represented" or diluted.
Stewart Muir from Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust said: "We hope that Fabi and Shakira will breed successfully and help us to help the dwindling population of Sumatran tigers."
State media called the drills "annual routine training, mainly involving the shooting of shipboard artillery".
China opposes the joint US-South Korea exercises, the latest of which begins on 5 September.
Those drills are intended as a show of force to North Korea, following the sinking of a South Korean warship.
The Cheonan went down on 26 March near the inter-Korean border with the loss of 46 lives.
International investigators say a North Korean torpedo sank the ship, but Pyongyang denies any role in the sinking.
The Chinese exercises are taking place off the eastern city of Qingdao, Xinhua news agency said, and are due to run until 4 September.
China also held air exercises over its east coast in August, in what was seen as a response to the joint US-South Korea drills.
Washington and Seoul are engaging in a series of exercises in the wake of the Cheonan incident, some of which are taking place in the Yellow Sea, which lies between the Korean peninsula and China.
The latest drill, which will run until 9 September, "will focus on anti-submarine warfare tactics, including detecting and destroying North Korean submarines", an unidentified military official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
China says the drills could destabilise the region and strongly opposes them.
They also come at a time of tension between China and several nations over conflicting territorial claims in regional seas.
In July US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angered Beijing when she said a peaceful resolution of territorial disputes between China and several South East Asian nations in the South China Sea was a "national interest" of the US.
Defender Davies, 30, put a picture on social media of two large scratch marks on his neck just over an hour after the game.
But Davies tweeted on Thursday: "I agree there was no malice in it.
"I didn't even notice until HT. It was just a war wound I thought I'd share."
Swansea boss Garry Monk had earlier dismissed suggestions a Swansea player maliciously caused scratch marks on the face of Davies.
"Had anything untoward gone on you'd have seen a reaction on the pitch," Monk said.
"It was a very clean game, there was no malice that I saw on the pitch at any point.
"I think we're just guessing what that message really means. You'd have to ask him, I don't think it's directed at any Swansea player."
Former Aston Villa and West Brom player Davies tweeted a picture with the caption "And they say Diego Costa is "physical" #Scarface #Claws.
Chelsea striker Costa was banned for three games for violent conduct after he clashed with Arsenal's Laurent Koscielny.
Monk, a former centre half himself, said the battle between defender and striker can be a physical one on the pitch.
"I wouldn't say it's part of the game, but sometimes you get into battles. You can get a scratch or a cut from anything," Monk added.
"It could be unintentional, it can be intentional, I've seen it throughout the years."
Monk hoped the physical nature of football would not be diluted by increased scrutiny and said: "It should be physical. We should never take it away from the game.
"We've cut it down in terms of reckless challenges and rightly so, but for me the physical part of it is what fans pay to see as well.
"They want to see teams fighting each other for the ball, but in the right manner."
Whistleblowers told BBC Scotland last week that surgical teams were prevented from seeing A&E patients to speed up times and hit targets.
Dr Catherine Calderwood was asked to visit the hospital by health secretary and city MSP Shona Robison.
She said the findings of her investigation would be made public.
Two Ninewells doctors told BBC Scotland that surgical teams were being bullied and prevented from seeing potentially seriously ill patients in the emergency department. They said hospital managers wanted these patients moved to the surgical department, so that a box could be ticket saying they had been discharged from A&E.
One doctor said they had "never experienced emergency care which is so aggressive in terms of getting patients out of the department", amid an "utter fixation to the four hour target".
During a Holyrood debate on the health service, Ms Robison said she had been given assurances by NHS Tayside about the situation at the hospital, but said she had asked Dr Calderwood to investigate "to restore confidence".
Dr Calderwood said: "While we have received reassurances from the board about the system here in Tayside, when serious allegations like these are made, it is absolutely right that they are fully looked into.
"I am here today with a completely open mind to listen to staff and look at the systems in A&E and the medical and surgical admissions units. I want to be completely satisfied that the reassurances provided by the board are correct and stand up to scrutiny.
"There will be an opportunity for staff, including trainees, to speak to me without management and on a confidential basis if necessary. I am equally happy to listen to views from any staff at NHS Tayside who wish to contact me outside of today's visit, to ensure that all views are listened to.
"This is an important issue, and I will consider the visit over the course of this week. As the Scottish government has confirmed, these findings will be made public."
While the rock legends were found not guilty of plagiarising Spirit's song Taurus in June, Judge R Gary Klausner said the case was not frivolous.
He ruled there was no evidence that the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe "harbored nefarious motives".
For that reason, the estate was not obliged to repay the band's legal fees.
The trust for Wolfe, who was better known as Randy California, claimed Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant stole the opening riff for 1971's Stairway to Heaven from Taurus, a short instrumental released three years earlier.
But a jury found that Taurus "was not intrinsically similar" to Stairway's opening.
Page and Plant, along with their publishing company Warner/Chappell, sought to recoup $793,000 following the verdict, arguing that their insurance company would not cover the legal fees because the copyright claim was so old.
Their lawyers argued that the case was an attempt to "shake down" the group.
The judge acknowledged that the band had succeeded at trial and had shown a right to compensation - but in the end it was up to his discretion, and he sided with Wolfe's trustee.
Wolfe died in 1997. Meanwhile, the lawyer for his estate has promised to appeal the original decision.
"The lawsuit was objectively reasonable, and we are confident that any appeal will be successful," Francis Malofiy told Rolling Stone.
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Lucy Alexander, from Worcester, wrote an open letter appealing for "children to be kind ALWAYS and never stand by and leave bullying unreported".
She said her son Felix, 17, was subjected to "cruel and overwhelming" taunts on social media since he was 10, which eventually became unbearable.
The sixth form student was hit by a train on 27 April.
Her plea came at about the same time the mother of Asad Khan, an 11-year-old boy from Bradford who was found hanged, pleaded for anyone who knew about him being bullied to come forward.
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In a letter published in the Worcester News, Ms Alexander said: "His confidence and self-esteem had been eroded over a long period of time by the bullying behaviour he experienced in secondary education.
"People who had never even met Felix were abusing him over social media and he found that he was unable to make and keep friends."
Family charity BullyingUK has given advice on how children and young people can help if they see someone being bullied.
"If you tell a teacher what has happened then the bully shouldn't find out that you've done that," said the charity. "The teacher should be able to quietly alert other teachers and keep an eye on the situation so that the bully is caught red handed and has only themselves to blame."
An inquest heard he made friends at Pershore High School, where the staff described him as bright and kind, after facing difficulties at his previous school.
"He was, however, so badly damaged by the abuse, isolation and unkindness he had experienced that he was unable to see just how many people truly cared for him," wrote Ms Alexander.
"I write this letter not for sympathy, but because there are so many more children like Felix who are struggling and we need to wake up to the cruel world we are living in.
"Be that one person prepared to stand up to unkindness. You will never regret being a good friend," she wrote.
Ms Alexander's family are raising money for Place2Be; a charity that offers counselling to young people.
The title was handed out by ACES Europe, a not-for-profit group based in Brussels. The initiative is supported by the European Commission.
ACES Europe said no additional money would be given for the honour, but the city council was able to apply for EU funding.
The aim of the title was to get more people playing sport, and ultimately tackling obesity, the council said.
ACES Europe vice president John Swanson said it was a "great award" and up to the city to decide what to do with it.
The title was won with the support of Stoke's two major football clubs - Stoke City and Port Vale - as well as other sporting bodies and its university, the council said.
The authority said it hoped the title would attract more visitors to Stoke.
A series of events is being planned for next year to celebrate the city being awarded the accolade.
Stoke is one of several European cities to be awarded the title, which is announced annually, alongside a Capital of Sport accolade, which has gone to Turin in Italy.
There is a maximum of one city in the UK awarded the title each year if it meets the required criteria.
Applicant cities are judged on their sporting facilities, residents' level of participation, the success of local teams and sporting events. It is the first time a British city has been awarded the title in three years.
Sport England said the title was "well-deserved". Mr Swanson said the decision to award the title to Stoke was "unanimous".
"We witnessed a great deal of passion and commitment to regenerate the city," he said.
The European Commission said it welcomed the ACES Europe award initiative and supported it with EU grants.
The claim: General secretary of drivers' union Aslef Mick Whelan said on Tuesday morning that rail safety, at the centre of the Southern rail strikes, has deteriorated in recent years.
Reality Check verdict: Slightly more people were hurt getting on and off trains last year than the year before, but overall there has been no significant increase in the past decade.
The unions who are behind Tuesday's strikes on Southern trains say the dispute is about safety on the railways.
Southern wants to give control of train doors to drivers and says there will still be a second member of staff on board.
Unions argue removing a conductor who is responsible for opening and closing the doors makes it more dangerous for passengers getting on and off trains at stations.
The number of people falling between the train and the platform while getting on or off a train was up slightly last year but lower than it was two years ago, according to the independent Rail Safety and Standards Board.
Overall, it concluded, over the past 10 years there had been "no significant increase" in the number of people falling between the train and the platform.
In 2015-16, it recorded eight passengers' deaths on the railways, up from four in 2014-15 and the highest number since 2006-07, but none of them resulted from people falling between a train and the platform when getting on or off a train.
Two fell between a train and the platform, but both incidents were after the doors had closed and the train had set off.
The regulator makes a clear distinction between people hurt getting on and off trains and those falling between the platform and a train arriving or departing.
The other fatalities were caused by passengers falling in front of a train, on to the track or on to the electric rail.
The Rail Safety and Standards Board also recorded a murder, a passenger who died after a violent assault and a passenger killed when a road sign was blown down in high winds.
There are some concerns about station safety, but the railway's safety watchdog, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), does not believe the driver controlling the doors of trains is the problem.
The sheer number of people using the railways - journeys are up by 57% in the past decade - is creating overcrowding at some stations.
This causes particular problems when the platforms are curved, making it harder for staff to see what is happening.
The ORR said in July that most train companies managed the safety of passengers on the platform well and had good systems in place but "careful assessment of the different risks caused and controls needed to dispatch trains safely and efficiently" was needed as drivers increasingly took over the opening and closing of doors.
However, Ian Prosser, HM chief inspector of railways, was emphatic in a letter to the Transport Select Committee last month.
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But Clive Palmer, who retired from politics last year, is seizing attention again - this time with poetry.
His verses, which he posts on social media, have been prolific in recent weeks. They are brief and at times bewildering, just as some described his parliamentary stint.
So how does Mr Palmer explain it?
"Poetry doesn't really have a meaning," he told Fairfax Media. The famously large man attributed his creativity in part to a recent diet.
"When you're on diet you think about food a lot, and poetry sort of comes from within you."
His compositions have amused - and confused - his more than 70,000 followers.
One newspaper columnist wrote: "No, we don't know what it means, and neither does Clive." Another speculated: "Maybe he's gunning for a new career as Australia's edgiest poet."
The poems have been read by YouTube comedian Lewis Spears, who joked Mr Palmer was "a modern Shakespeare". They will also be recorded by an electronic music duo, Peking Duk.
Mr Palmer is not the first Australian mining magnate to gain attention for poetry. Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, once wrote a critically derided poem titled "Our Future", which was later fixed to an iron ore boulder.
"Wordsworth talked about poetry being the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, and I think in Clive's case the origin of poetry comes from a spontaneous overflow of hunger," said Associate Prof Bronwyn Lea, who teaches poetry at the University of Queensland.
"But I think it has its own kind of joie de vivre."
Although the poems "don't display a good deal of skill or attention", Prof Lea suggested frequent mentions of "Moondog" and "Mockingbird" could be references to two famous Americans - poet Louis Thomas Hardin and novelist Harper Lee.
"It's a little bit in the tradition of Yoko Ono and her 'action-poems' which were popular in the 1960s, smashed up with a recipe," she told the BBC. "But that would be reading a lot into it."
In 2015, Mr Palmer was invited to the Queensland Poetry Festival to read from a self-published book of love poetry he wrote in the 1980s. He has also revealed his favourite writers include Robert Frost, TS Elliot and William Shakespeare.
"I'd encourage him to continue reading those poets as well as to read broadly among contemporary Australian poets," Prof Lea said.
Ms Bennett said she would not stand for re-election when her second two-year term in office expires this summer.
The Australian former journalist said she intended to remain "fully engaged" in the Green Party after stepping down.
Green peer Baroness Jones and London mayoral candidate Sian Berry have said they do not want the job.
Baroness Jones tweeted that she had "no leader ambitions", while Ms Berry wrote on Facebook that she "definitely will not be standing in the election for a new leader".
Ms Bennett said she had been "proud to lead a party through a period of phenomenal expansion and increased impact".
An ex-journalist who worked for the Telegraph, the Independent, the Times and the Guardian, she became party leader in September 2012.
She succeeded Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's MP for Brighton Pavilion.
Earlier this month, she defended her leadership after the Greens lost four councillors in local elections in England, and won a 2.5% share of vote in the Welsh Assembly elections, behind UKIP.
In a statement, Ms Bennett said: "With the support of our passionate members and supporters we have been able to achieve much in a relatively short period.
"There's greatly increased public understanding that when you want the honest, caring, committed view - one that isn't guided by the views of the latest focus group or fear of a tabloid backlash but by fundamental principles and values."
Ms Bennett took part in televised leaders' debates ahead of last year's general election.
Last year, she had to apologise to members following a radio interview in which she blamed "brain fade" for her inability to explain a series of party policies.
Speaking to the BBC following her decision to stand down as leader, she criticised the "soundbite" culture in politics and the media.
"I'm not smooth," she told Radio 4's World At One.
"Sometimes I get stuck for words. But what I think is, we also need to think about what kind of politics we want. Some of our political reporting is very much aggressive attacks on quite minor points, refusing to engage in the broader issues and that really doesn't do the public, the voters, any kind of favours."
Ms Bennett said she did not know who would run for Green Party leader.
Richard Mallender, chairman of the Green Party Executive, thanked Ms Bennett for "her outstanding leadership over the past four years."
Baroness Jones said it was a "really tough job" and she was "disappointed" Ms Bennett was stepping down.
"What we need now is some new people to come forward," she said. "There is incredible talent in the party who are not well known because they are not elected."
Nominations for Ms Bennett's successor will open on June 1 and close on June 30.
A campaign period will run from 1 July until 24 July, at which point a one-month balloting period will begin with the result to be announced at the party's autumn conference in Brighton in early September.
It's a toxic problem, corroding trust in everything from politics to sport to international aid.
But what can be done to stop it? How about a more creative approach to deterrence?
The development charity, One, which has warned of corruption as a "trillion dollar scandal", has come up with ideas for hitting the corrupt oligarchs where it hurts.
In their first class travel.
The charity is suggesting an airline ban for first class travel for those guilty of corruption. Airlines can have restrictions on passengers who have behaved badly on board - so why not have a corruption blacklist?
They might be indifferent to public opinion and can buy enough PR covering fire, but do they really want to be jockeying for position in economy?
The anti-poverty campaigners say the idea would be to "make it more difficult and less enjoyable for the corrupt to spend their ill-gotten gains".
The ultra-rich might appear to inhabit a parallel world, but they might not look quite so smug going through the in-flight options on Ryanair.
The third world development campaigners say they want to start a conversation about smarter ways to tackle corruption.
The concept is to challenge the luxury lifestyles as well as to tighten the legal loopholes.
Another idea put forward is to encourage banks to put an international block on credit cards of those guilty of corruption.
There are also ideas borrowed from the ethical consumerism that pushed free-range eggs or fairtrade goods on to supermarket shelves.
There could be a "corruption free" kitemark for luxury goods, with the idea of accrediting firms to show there is no corruption in their supply chain.
They also suggest less secrecy about the buying, selling and true ownership of high-value objects and transactions.
Because if you know who seems to have an endless stream of money for buying paintings, jewels, high-end cars or property, it raises the question about where they are getting their cash.
These are ideas to be floated, rather than fully-formed policies. But the aim is to make corruption and money laundering a cultural target.
And it reflects the frustration that even when corruption is evident, the beneficiaries, whether individuals or corporations, seem to be able to step around any restrictions.
Mr Cameron is reported to be considering an international agency to tackle money laundering and high-level tax evasion.
But the scale of the challenge has been laid bare by the Panama Papers, shining a light on a globalised world of power, politics, anonymous assets and immense wealth.
The prime minister has to show that the democrats can keep up with kleptocrats.
Before a previous G20 summit, the One campaigners estimated that corrupt activities were siphoning away a trillion dollars a year from the world's poorest countries.
It claimed that this really was a matter of life and death as money that should have been spent in developing countries on health and nutrition was disappearing into the bank accounts of the corrupt.
"Corruption hits the poorest hardest," says David McNair, One's director of transparency.
He says it's wrong to think of corruption as something that happens "out there" and far away. It's a question for regulating financial networks in London and New York.
The One campaigners want Mr Cameron to commit the UK to do more to challenge secrecy in the ownership and beneficiaries of companies and trusts.
It has set out a list of formal proposals, aimed at clarifying corporate ownership, improving public disclosure and removing hiding places for corrupt assets.
"Corruption is a global problem - and it needs a global response."
Local media reported that police were treating the incident as minor trespass and were investigating.
The sign on Mount Lee is made of 45-foot (13.7m) tall letters.
Voters in California approved the legalisation of marijuana in a ballot held at the same time as the presidential election - on 8 November.
The prank has not caused lasting damage to the sign, however, as parts of both "O" letters were covered by tarpaulins to make them look like a lower-case letter "E".
The Los Angeles Times reports that a single person was recorded on security cameras climbing the sign to hang the materials.
A similar prank took place in 1976, to mark a relaxation in the state's marijuana laws.
Share markets have now erased much of their losses suffered in the wake of last week's UK vote to leave the EU.
The Dow Jones ended up 235.3 points, or 1.3%, at 17,929.99, and the S&P 500 gained 28.09 points, or 1.36%, to 2,098.86. The Nasdaq added 63.43 points, or 1.33%, to 4,842.67.
Hershey shares surged 16.8% on news that Mondelez had made a takeover bid.
"We're reversing the Brexit as it becomes evident that it was more of a political vote and decision than an economic decision," said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management.
Major gainers on the Dow included Boeing, Caterpillar, General Electric and IBM, all of which rose more than 2%.
Financial stocks were broadly higher after the Federal Reserve gave the green light to 31 of 33 banks to return capital to shareholders following stress tests. JPMorgan Chase rose 1.5%, Goldman Sachs 2.1%, and Wells Fargo 0.8%.
The 36-year-old, from West Cornforth, was driving a Peugeot 206 which was involved in a collision with a VW Polo on the A688 West Auckland bypass.
The driver of the other vehicle, an 18-year-old woman, was taken to hospital with back and neck injuries.
Durham Police has appealed for witnesses to the incident, which took shortly before 19:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The successor to Hubble has been locked tight inside a giant chamber where it will undergo a series of tests to simulate conditions off Earth.
Engineers must first pump out all the air, and then chill down the telescope to fantastically low temperatures.
In about 30 days' time, they should be ready to start the checks that ensure JWST's spectacular mirrors can focus light properly.
"The operational temperature on orbit is about 30 kelvins - 30 degrees above absolute zero; but we're going to test JWST to slightly lower," explains Juli Lander, a US space agency (Nasa) engineer on the project.
"We're going to see if we can push on the hardware and the instruments a bit to give us a little margin on orbit," she told BBC News.
JWST is on track to be launched on a European Ariane rocket in just over a year from now. It will carry technologies capable of peering even deeper into space than Hubble - to detect the light coming from the very first stars to shine in the Universe.
The development phase it has now entered at the Johnson Space Center in Texas is its final thermal-vacuum test; and this will confirm Webb does not have "a Hubble problem".
If you remember when the veteran space telescope first went into orbit in 1990, it had difficulty focussing images of the sky because its monolithic primary mirror was ever so slightly misshapen. Visiting astronauts had to fit corrective optics to the observatory - to, in effect, give Hubble a set of spectacles.
JWST is designed in such a way that the same mistake cannot be repeated - but the systems that should guarantee its perfect vision must first be demonstrated in the extreme conditions they will experience in space.
Lander explains: "One of the lessons from Hubble was if you have one big mirror then you could have a problem. Whereas on JWST, we have 18 separate mirror segments and each mirror has motors on the back that we can then align to make all the mirror segments perfectly in focus."
Fibre optics will feed light to different parts of the telescope to see how the mirrors bounce the signal into Webb's four instruments.
An important goal of the coming weeks is to calibrate all of the optical systems - to have a benchmark against which engineers can begin to understand and troubleshoot any anomalies that might occur when Webb is stationed at its observing position some 1.5 million km from Earth.
Once it fully gets going, the Johnson testing regime should last about a month. It will then take another month for the telescope to be brought back up to ambient conditions, to allow the door of the 17m-high chamber - built originally to run the rule over Apollo hardware - to be opened.
Webb's next destination is California and a satellite factory belonging to Northrop Grumman. The telescope still has to be attached to the spacecraft "bus" that will shepherd it in orbit - and to the colossal sunshield that will shade its delicate investigations of the distant Universe.
As industrial prime contractor on the project, Northrop Grumman has produced a film to explain its work and the near three-decade effort that has gone into developing the biggest ever space telescope. It can be watched online.
One of its most amusing moments is when Nobel Prize winner and chief scientist John Mather considers whether Webb's optics could sense the heat energy of a bumblebee at a distant equivalent to that of the Moon. It could, he concludes: "You have to take a time exposure to get something that sensitive; the bumblebee shouldn't move. The bumblebee has to hold still, but of course the most distant Universe looks as though it is standing still."
Northrop Grumman astrophysicist Alberto Conti has been travelling through Europe to promote Webb with the film. He says he hopes the epic scale of the project will prompt many young people into a STEM profession.
"We need to show people that not only the science is cool but that it’s really inspiring. And every single bit counts," he told BBC News.
"It doesn’t matter if you're an engineer or a scientist trying to figure out how you can do it; you just want to excite a new generation. It takes a village, as they say; it takes a lot of people to build complex machines like this."
The James Webb Space Telescope is a joint endeavour between the US, European and Canadian space agencies.
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The former military Alouette aircraft crashed at Breighton Aerodrome, near Selby, North Yorkshire, on 17 July 2016.
Nigel Feetham, 36, from Hedon, East Yorkshire, died a week later in hospital.
Investigators also noted there was "no technical failure" with the helicopter.
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In its report, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the aircraft exceeded the 1,361kg limit by nearly 15kg.
All four passengers suffered head, back, chest and leg injuries when the aircraft crashed to the ground of the former World War Two airfield, which was hosting a 1940s-themed event at the time.
The AAIB said the flight manual for the SE-313B Alouette II helicopter stated if the aircraft was carrying excess weight then it "must be handled 'gently' at higher speeds and shallow approach angles are required".
It also recommended pilots "reduce speed before attempting sharp manoeuvres".
Investigators said the pilot had been "inviting different people for flights during the course of the day".
But for the fatal flight, he agreed to take four passengers he "hadn't originally planned to", which meant the helicopter "exceeded the flight manual limitation for maximum weight".
Witnesses said they heard a "crack" and a "very loud bang" after the aircraft performed several steep manoeuvres. The main rotor blades hit the tail boom before the helicopter crash landed, the AAIB said.
Airfield owner, the Real Aeroplane Company, said the helicopter was visiting the site where private owners of classic aircraft had gathered for the weekend.
After insisting Scotland were "red-hot favourites" to win at Murrayfield on Saturday, Jones has now changed tack.
He joked that he would apologise to Scotland coach Vern Cotter and is happy for his side to assume that mantle.
"The more talking he does about us, hopefully the less he's concentrating on England," said Laidlaw.
Laidlaw, who will win his 47th cap in the Six Nations opener, the same tally as his uncle Roy Laidlaw, was nonplussed about who should be considered favourites.
"You'll have to phone the bookmakers," he said. "I'm not a betting man. We just have to control the controllables. We will roll up our sleeves and we'll certainly be giving it our best shot.
"We'll go out there with confidence. We have to. We want to turn Murrayfield into a place that is extremely hard for visiting teams to come.
"We need to move on from the World Cup now. We've under-performed in the Six Nations in the past but no-one other than ourselves is going to give us a helping hand.
"We need to grab the opportunity. It's going to be a tough game. England have good players and a strong set-up but we know the task ahead."
Scotland have not beaten England in their last eight attempts since 2008, with one draw in 2010. They have only won their first game of the Six Nations once, in 2006, and have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004.
But Laidlaw, who was buoyed by watching Scotland's World Cup quarter-final performance against Australia back for the first time on Monday evening, says the Scots are "totally fixed" on consigning those statistics to history.
"Clearly Scotland have under-performed in the tournament in the past but us as a team, this is our time in the jersey. If we can be the team who turned that around, that would be a great legacy for us to leave for the next group.
"The Six Nations is a momentum-based tournament so if you can win early it gives you confidence. Winning your home games is also extremely important. History shows a defeat in the first game is not good, so it's a big game this weekend. We understand that.
"Watching the Australia game for the first time in full, I got excited. I was able to take the emotion away from it and crikey, we played some good rugby. It gave me a great feeling.
"The anger will never disappear but we can use it in the right way. I got a lot out of it. We played well but we could have played even better."
The two men were suspected members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a militant group accused of links to previous attacks on bloggers, police said.
Mr Neel was hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes at his home in the capital Dhaka last week.
It was the fourth such killing of a secular blogger this year.
Police say the two men being held are key suspects in Mr Neel's murder.
Mr Neel's attackers had tricked their way into his home by saying they were looking to rent a flat.
Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government is indifferent to attacks on bloggers by Islamist militants.
In May, secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by masked men with machetes in Sylhet. He was said to have received death threats from Islamist extremists.
In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka. Blogger Avijit Roy, who courted controversy by championing atheism and also tackling issues such as homosexuality, was killed in Dhaka in February.
Ensus stopped production at Wilton on Teesside in February 2015 blaming significantly reduced demand in Europe.
Commercial director Grant Pearson said, although the market had not picked up, government moves to increase the use of bioethanol in petrol could lead to increased demand.
Redcar MP Anna Turley said it was "a sign of confidence in the region".
The plant opened in 2009 but was mothballed in 2011 due to US competition and dwindling demand.
Production restarted in October 2012 after conditions improved but paused again in April 2013 because of rising energy costs and a poor harvest.
The facility was then taken over by German firm CropEnergies AG in July 2013 with production restarting the following October.
It stopped again at the beginning of last year.
At the time of the takeover Mr Pearson said it was good news after the firm's "rollercoaster ride".
The plant converts wheat into fuel grade alcohol, animal feed and carbon dioxide for the food and drinks industry and employs about 100 people.
The company expects to start the trial in July at the latest.
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said it was "beyond belief" that Carál Ní Chuilín was unaware of safety concerns until a committee meeting last month.
A safety expert said the 38,000-capacity stadium could not be evacuated safely in certain emergencies.
The minister said she was "confident" her role would stand up to scrutiny.
In a statement, Carál Ní Chuilín said Mr Nesbitt's comments were "without foundation".
"It is unbelievable that Mr Nesbitt would try to seek some form of political gain by suggesting that I would put people's lives in jeopardy in order to build a sporting stadium," she said.
"This issue is well above petty political point scoring.
"I have repeatedly stated that I will not compromise on safety and that no stadium will open without a valid safety certificate. That was the case for the Kingspan Stadium at Ravenhill and it will be the case for Windsor Park and Casement Park.
"It is encouraging, however, to note the new found interest of Mr Nesbitt in GAA stadia and I look forward to seeing him in the future in the new and safe Casement Park."
Last month, Paul Scott of Sport NI and the Safety Technical Group examining Casement, briefed the Culture, Arts and Leisure Committee about the redevelopment plan by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
Mr Scott said there was the potential for a disaster at the new stadium, like the Hillsborough tragedy.
He also told the committee he was put under "undue pressure" to approve plans for the new ground by officials from the minister's department. He said his concerns about safety had been "largely ignored".
Afterwards, Ms Ní Chuilín said she first heard of his allegations when he appeared before the committee. She said she was "absolutely confident that had concerns of that nature been raised with my officials before I would have heard about it".
However, on Wednesday, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said it was "frankly inconceivable that a senior official in possession of the sort of briefing Paul Scott would have given, focused as he was on the possibility of a Hillsborough-style disaster in a 38,000-capacity stadium, would sit on that knowledge".
Mr Nesbitt called on members of the Committee for Culture Arts and Leisure to vote on Thursday to begin an inquiry.
Ms Chuilín has asked for a full review of the Casement Park project and has refuted the allegations.
A new consultation process is due to take place ahead of any fresh planning application.
Ms Ní Chuilín has said safety would always remain paramount.
Former Fifa officials Chuck Blazer, Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb are among those being sued by world football's governing body, which has submitted documents to US authorities.
Fifa has been in turmoil since allegations of corruption in May 2015.
In total, 41 individuals and entities have been charged by US authorities.
A US investigation exposed widespread corruption at the top of world football and Fifa esitmates millions of dollars were diverted from the sport illegally through bribery, kickbacks and corrupt schemes carried out by the defendants.
In a statement, Fifa described itself as a "victimised institution", with new president Gianni Infantino saying those convicted "abused positions of trust".
He added: "They caused serious and lasting damage to Fifa, its member associations and the football community.
"The monies they pocketed belonged to global football and were meant for the development and promotion of the game.
"Fifa as the world governing body of football wants that money back and we are determined to get it no matter how long it takes."
Infantino, 45, was elected as Fifa chief last month following the suspension of predecessor Sepp Blatter, who had been in charge of the governing body since 1998.
He said that once the money had been recovered, it would be directed back to its original purpose to benefit and develop international football.
Ifantino added: "These dollars were meant to build football fields, not mansions and pools; to buy football kits, not jewellery and cars; and to fund youth player and coach development, not to underwrite lavish lifestyles for football and sports marketing executives. "
Defender Scott Wharton gave the U's the lead against the run of play 10 minutes before half-time, glancing Harrison Dunk's corner across Glenn Morris and into the net.
Cambridge had previously been saved by the post when Andre Blackman's effort from distance bounced back off the inside of Will Norris' upright, before Norris produced a superb stop to keep out Jimmy Smith's effort from the edge of the box.
After the interval, Leon Legge nearly doubled the lead with another header from a corner, only for substitute keeper Yusuf Mersin to turn his effort over the bar.
With a minute to play, United sub Gerry McDonagh ran through on goal and was brought down by Josh Payne, who was sent off, with Luke Berry sealing the win from the subsequent penalty.
Shaun Derry's side must win at Wycombe next weekend to have any chance of making the top seven, while hoping for favourable results elsewhere.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crawley Town 0. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Josh Payne (Crawley Town) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Penalty Cambridge United. Gerry McDonagh draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Josh Payne (Crawley Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Medy Elito.
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town).
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Connolly (Crawley Town).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Harrold (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Matt Harrold (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Gerry McDonagh (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United).
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Jordan Roberts replaces Enzio Boldewijn.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Matt Harrold replaces Kaby.
Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Josh Payne (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
James Collins (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Kaby (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Collins (Crawley Town).
The site has been accused of tampering with its Trending Topics feature, promoting "progressive" views and websites over content presenting views from the American right.
Mr Zuckerberg has denied the reports - which first appeared on tech news site Gizmodo - were accurate, though the site did concede that the feature was controlled by human editors rather than a popularity algorithm.
After Wednesday's meeting at the company's headquarters in California, he wrote on his Facebook page: "This afternoon I hosted more than a dozen leading conservatives to talk about how we can make sure Facebook continues to be a platform for all ideas across the political spectrum.
"Silicon Valley has a reputation for being liberal. But the Facebook community includes more than 1.6 billion people of every background and ideology - from liberal to conservative and everything in between.
"We've built Facebook to be a platform for all ideas. Our community's success depends on everyone feeling comfortable sharing anything they want. It doesn't make sense for our mission or our business to suppress political content or prevent anyone from seeing what matters most to them."
Facebook earlier confirmed to the BBC that those travelling to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, included:
It is understood that several others declined Mr Zuckerberg's offer.
Matthew Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, wrote in a statement: "We will not be attending this meeting. We know one meeting cannot possibly resolve all of the above mentioned issues."
Glenn Beck, writing on his Facebook page, said: " It would be interesting to look him in the eye as he explains and a win for all voices if we can come to a place of real trust with this powerful tool.
"While they are a private business and I support their right to run it any way they desire without government interference, it would be wonderful if a tool like Facebook independently chose to hold up freedom of speech and freedom of association as a corporate principle."
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Heads and principals who have played a key role in turning around a school or college will get the letters, with a copy going to the education secretary.
Sir Michael Wilshaw set out the plan as he confirmed a switch to more frequent, but shorter Ofsted inspections.
Heads said the changes could make inspections fairer and more effective.
The plans are designed to encourage school leaders who put their careers on the line to tackle troubled schools.
In a speech in London, Sir Michael said: "Those leaders who are taking risks, putting themselves out and disseminating good practice beyond their own institution need to be celebrated as exceptional reformers."
On the move to shorten inspections, Sir Michael said it would "reduce the burden of inspection without losing the rigour which parents and the public rightly expect of Ofsted".
The new inspections will last a single day, rather than two days as at present, and be led by two senior inspectors or HMIs.
"Make no mistake, this a very different inspection model to what has gone before," Sir Michael said.
"The starting assumption of HMIs will be that the school or college is good. This should engender an atmosphere in which honest, challenging, professional dialogue can take place."
The changes are due to come into force in September along with changes to the way Ofsted inspectors are hired and managed.
More Ofsted inspectors will be drawn from staff in good and outstanding schools and colleges, for example.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "While we welcomed Ofsted's plan to carry out short inspections of 'good' schools rather than full inspections, we felt that schools likely to be downgraded, or upgraded, should immediately have the required full inspection rather than being kept in limbo. We are reassured that our advice has been acted upon.
"We are also pleased that the emphasis in Ofsted's revised school inspection handbook will be on assessing schools on the outcomes they achieve for students, particularly in terms of the progress made at school.
"We believe it is right that the inspection system should focus on outcomes, rather than telling schools how to teach. This is a step in the right direction."
Moore, 33, was picked by captain Davis Love III after losing to Rory McIlroy in a play-off at the Tour Championship.
Love III, who skippered the US team beaten in 2012, named Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar and JB Holmes as his other wildcard choices on 12 September.
This year's Ryder Cup will take place at Hazeltine National in Minnesota from 30 September to 2 October.
Love III made the announcement during the half-time break of Sunday night's televised NFL match between Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys.
The selection of rookie Moore, who is the world number 42, means there is no place in the US Ryder Cup team for two-time Masters champion and world number seven Bubba Watson, 37.
"Ryan fits so well with what we have in place. He's an easy-going, thoughtful guy, but don't be fooled. Ryan's a great match-play player with an incredible match-play record," said Love.
"He has guts and determination and everyone saw that on Sunday. We are thrilled to have him with us."
Brooks Koepka is the only other rookie in the US team.
Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Jimmy Walker, Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker and Zach Johnson qualified automatically by making the top eight of the money list.
US wildcard picks
European captain Darren Clarke has named Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and rookie Thomas Pieters as his three wildcards.
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Two years ago the American team travelled to Scotland in the knowledge that they would not be fielding their strongest possible line-up.
At the time, the most in-form US player was Billy Horschel. He had not been selected because the team was picked before his late surge through the PGA Tour play-offs, culminating in Tour Championship victory at East Lake.
Chris Kirk was similarly inspired, winning the Deutsche Bank Championship, finishing fourth at the season finale and second to Horschel in the play-off standings. He too was absent from the American team.
The US have ensured they don't suffer a similar fate this time by introducing what is unofficially known as the "Horschel rule".
The 26-year-old was the Championship club's top scorer last season, with 20 goals in 48 games in all competitions.
Lansdown also said the Robins would not sell Kodjia to any Championship clubs.
"It would have to be a mega price to prize him away and it would have to be a Premier League side," Lansdown told BBC Radio Bristol. "People have talked about five or six million - no chance."
The former Angers front man, who signed for the club in July 2015 for around £2m, played 90 minutes as City beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 on Saturday in their first match of 2016-17 and their first home game in the fully-redeveloped Ashton Gate.
"We wouldn't sell him to anybody in in the Championship because we're looking to compete in the Championship this year, and he's an integral part of that," Lansdown added.
"If it's not £10 million-plus, we're not even looking at it. If it's £10 million-plus from a Championship club, we're still not looking at it.
"If somebody comes in with the right offer, you've got to look at it."
Uche Ikpeazu gave the U's the lead six minutes into the second half, running onto Conor Newton's pass and firing a rising effort past Ben Garratt.
Newton had missed the best chance of the first half, which the hosts had dominated, shooting wastefully off target when well placed following Harrison Dunk's pass.
Full-back Greg Taylor doubled the lead on the hour, robbing Chris Dagnall and unleashing a stunning effort which flew home via the underside of the crossbar.
Despite being comprehensively outplayed, Crewe found a way back into the match eight minutes later through James Jones, who fired a fine low effort across Will Norris from just outside the box.
Piero Mingoia came closest to building Cambridge's advantage and sealing their fourth straight league win, forcing Garratt into a parry after being played in by Ikpeazu.
The U's are now seventh, having been bottom until the end of September.
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Match ends, Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1.
Substitution, Cambridge United. George Maris replaces Luke Berry.
Attempt missed. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United).
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Ben Williamson replaces Uche Ikpeazu.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Harry Davis.
Conor Newton (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Cambridge United. Max Clark replaces Harrison Dunk.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is saved in the top left corner.
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Daniel Udoh replaces Ryan Lowe because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) because of an injury.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 1. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Lowe.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Leon Legge.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Charlie Kirk replaces Chris Dagnall.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Billy Bingham replaces Danny Hollands.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Oliver Turton.
Foul by Conor Newton (Cambridge United).
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Crewe Alexandra 0. Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Goal! Cambridge United 1, Crewe Alexandra 0. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Conor Newton.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Jon Guthrie.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
It said those travelling to the continent should take plenty of food and water and check with travel operators before starting out.
The Port of Dover says roads are clear and it is not expecting severe delays.
Last weekend drivers queued for up to 14 hours because of extra French security checks.
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Traffic going to the Port of Dover traffic should use the M20/A20, while drivers not planning to cross the channel should consider routes such as the B2011, A256 or A258, which may not be suitable for HGVs, KCC advised.
The Port of Dover said anyone travelling to the port should be "properly prepared".
KCC said it has delivered 52,300 2-litre bottles of water to the Dover coastguard from where it can be distributed to delayed motorists if necessary.
Writing on the Conservative Home website on Thursday, Charlie Elphicke, Tory MP for Dover and Deal, said: "It seems every summer there is travel chaos in Kent.
"If this happened at Heathrow there would be uproar.
"But it's somehow seen as okay for tens of thousands of holidaymakers and truckers to be stuck in the sweltering heat all day long without water, food, information or toilet facilities," he wrote.
"You can't help but get the impression that travelling from the Channel Ports is looked down upon and far less of a priority than the elite jet-set."
The pair were appointed in December when Martin Allen departed to become manager of National League Eastleigh.
"Henry was instrumental in bringing through a number of our talented youngsters while he was academy manager," a club statement said.
"Everyone at the club would like to wish Henry all the best for the future."
Barnet say Newman left the club on Sunday, after winning four of 11 games in joint charge with Eames.
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Coleman says he will step down when his current contract expires at the end of the 2018 World Cup campaign.
He guided Wales to the Euro 2016 semi-finals in their first appearance at a major tournament in 58 years.
"Hopefully we'll be able to persuade him to stay on because what we've done over the past few years has been sensational," Roberts said.
"I haven't spoken to him about it yet. The plan is to get to Russia. I'm hoping there's 12 months until that decision has to be acted upon.
"During that time I'll certainly be talking to him about it. I know how much he's enjoyed the experience leading this group of players, leading the team behind the team, and leading the nation.
"He's obviously done a remarkable job. Anything's possible in football. Things change very quickly. Hopefully on this occasion Chris will change his mind."
Coleman's side drew 1-1 away to Serbia in their recent World Cup qualifier to remain unbeaten in their group.
Wales are currently four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland in group D, with four matches remaining.
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Only the winners of the nine European World Cup qualifying groups will advance automatically to next year's finals in Russia, while the eight best runners-up enter the play-offs.
However, Roberts still believes finishing top is a realistic aim and is not ready to concede that Wales cannot win the group.
"All we can do is focus on the games coming up in September. Win those and see where it takes us," he said.
"But we know that we have to take maximum points really, and that's well within the reach of this group of players.
"The aim is to finish top of the group. If that doesn't happen we'll have to aim for the play-off spot. But we're prepared for either [scenario]."
After beating Moldova in their opening game in the group, Wales have drawn their last five matches.
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But Roberts says the coaching team have been happy with the performances.
"We've created more chances than the opposition in each of those games. So it's fine lines," he said.
"When we look at the games against Serbia - in the home game, they had one effort on target and they scored. And yet again last week they get one effort on target and they score.
"It's very difficult to stop a team for 90 minutes from getting one effort on target.
"Based on statistics, we've been really unlucky not to get maximum points out of most of the games, apart from [the 1-1 draw] with Georgia. That's the only game we didn't deserve maximum points.
"But we are where we are. We've got to continue to work hard. And we've got to continue to be effective in that final third, in particular in open play."
But Russia said the partnership agreement, also signed by two other ex-Soviet states Georgia and Moldova, would have "serious consequences".
The pact is the issue that triggered Ukraine's current crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said making Ukraine choose between Russia and the EU would split it in two.
A week-long ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in restive eastern Ukraine expired on Friday at 22:00 (19:00 GMT).
Rebel spokesmen had indicated they were willing to extend it to 30 June.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in Brussels to sign the pact, had said he would take a decision on an extension on Friday evening, after he arrived back in Kiev.
There is a general sense of irritation or perhaps even anger here that Moscow has failed to convince countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia not to sign this historic free trade deal today with the EU.
Moscow has economic concerns about these deals - it is worried that the Russian market could be flooded by cheap goods from the EU that would hit Russian producers.
More pressing for Moscow are the geopolitical concerns here - the whole idea of former Soviet states, countries that Moscow still views as being within its sphere of influence, drifting towards Europe and one day possibly becoming part of the EU - that really grates with Moscow, particularly in the case of Ukraine.
There's a lot of concern about what could happen in eastern Ukraine - the ceasefire announced a few days ago by Mr Poroshenko, and the ceasefire announced by armed separatist rebels, is due to expire today. It's unclear how things are going to develop later.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had said he would welcome an extension, but not if it were simply an ultimatum for separatists to lay down their arms.
Mr Putin insisted on a long-term ceasefire to allow for negotiations between the Ukrainian government and separatists, urging Mr Poroshenko to embark on a "path of peace, dialogue and accord".
Mr Putin said: "There is bloodshed in the south-east Ukraine, humanitarian catastrophe, tens of thousands of refugees have to look for shelter, on Russian territory."
Mr Putin said that "attempts to force on the Ukrainian people an artificial choice between Europe and Russia brought [a split] to society, a painful internal confrontation".
The refusal of Mr Poroshenko's predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, to sign the EU deal, under pressure from Russia, had led to protests in Kiev and his eventual overthrow this year.
In Brussels, Mr Poroshenko hailed the 1,200-page Association Agreement as a turning point, describing it as a "symbol of faith and unbreakable will".
"What a great day! It is a historic day, maybe the most important day since independence," he said.
Mr Poroshenko also said he saw the signing as the start of preparations for joining the EU bloc.
The pact binds the three countries more closely to the West both economically and politically.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy described the pacts as a "great day for Europe".
But Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said there would "undoubtedly be serious consequences for Ukraine's and Moldova's signing".
The Kremlin immediately said it would take "all the necessary measures" against Ukraine.
Russia has warned it will hit Ukraine with punishing trade restrictions.
It could withdraw Ukraine's duty-free benefits as a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The European Council on Friday also issued a policy statement on Ukraine, setting out key steps it expected to happen by Monday, including the return of three key checkpoints to Ukrainian forces and the "launch of substantial negotiations on the implementation of President Poroshenko's peace plan".
Mr Poroshenko set out a 15-point peace plan on 20 June. It involves decentralising power and holding early local and parliamentary elections.
It also proposes the creation of a 10km (six-mile) buffer zone on the Ukrainian-Russian border, and a safe corridor for pro-Russian separatists to leave the conflict areas.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia the EU was prepared for "drastic measures" if there was no speedy progress on Mr Poroshenko's peace plan.
French President Francois Hollande said more measures would be taken if there was no progress after Sunday, when he and Mrs Merkel will speak to Mr Putin by phone.
Fighting is said to have continued in some areas of eastern Ukraine despite the ceasefire.
But rebels have now released four international observers captured more than a month ago.
More than 420 people have been killed in fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, the UN estimates.
The separatists have declared independence, claiming that extremists have taken power in Kiev.
Their move followed Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Shiloh Moore, 21, of Elmbridge Road, Deptford, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates and was held in custody.
Two others are in custody after being charged with the same offence.
Nassem, 17, was killed on 26 September when he crashed his car after a concrete block was hurled at it on the Turnham estate in Brockley, south-east London.
Tershan Thompson-Williams, 21, of Seager Place, Deptford; and Remi Moore, 22, of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton; were charged with violent disorder earlier this month.
Mr Thompson-Williams is due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court later this month, and Mr Moore in November.
Officers were called to reports of a fight on the estate which flared up before the car was attacked.
The suspects ran off afterwards, leaving passers-by to rush to the aid of Nassem and two friends who were in the car with him. A post-mortem examination revealed Nassem died as a result of multiple injuries.
A Muslim cleric in Izbat Marco, a village in Beni Suef province, said he saw the boys, aged nine and 10, take pages of the Koran and urinate on them.
A Coptic priest said local Islamists attended demonstrations calling for revenge for the desecration of a Koran.
Human rights groups say allegations of contempt of religion are on the rise.
Seventeen cases have been filed since the 2011 uprising, many of them against Copts, who make up about 10% of Egypt's 82 million people.
Tensions have also been heightened in the past month by the posting online of Innocence of Muslims - an amateur video made by a Coptic Christian in the US which mocks Islam and has sparked violent protests worldwide.
A neighbour of the boys detained in Izbat Marco said he doubted the allegations were true because they were illiterate and could not have recognised the Koran.
"We brought one boy and asked him if he knew this is the Koran. He didn't know it was the Koran. He can't even read or write, like most kids in the village," he told the Associated Press news agency.
The neighbour said a police office had detained the boys for their own safety because Islamists from outside the village had gathered at the mosque calling for revenge.
"We begged him to leave the kids. They can't spend night outside their home. The officer said he feared for their lives and he wanted to keep them with him."
On Thursday, a senior security official in Beni Suef, Gen Attiya Mazrou, said police had been ordered to release the boys, but that they would remain under investigation.
The entertainment organisation has tweeted that WWE Network will start in the UK and Ireland on 19 January.
The subscription video-on-demand service will be available just before the Royal Rumble 2015, which takes place in the US on 25 January.
"This time we really mean it," said WWE CEO Vince McMahon, confirming the news in a video statement.
"You've been waiting a long time for the WWE Network and we thank you for your patience."
In October, the company blamed delays to the launch of the UK branch of the service on ongoing "discussions with potential partners".
It promised an announcement of the new date by 1 November, but this was again delayed.
WWE is currently broadcast exclusively on Sky Sports with pay per view events such as WrestleMania and Royal Rumble sold for £15 on Sky Box Office.
Sky signed a new deal in 2014 with WWE to broadcast 12 pay per view events every year from January 2015 until 2019 exclusively in the UK and Ireland.
At the time managing director of Sky Sports, Barney Francis, said: "WWE is brilliant entertainment and I am delighted to once again extend our relationship with them.
"WWE is hugely popular with our viewers and now they can continue to watch all the big events and weekly programmes with us."
The WWE Network was launched in the US just before WrestleMania XXX in April 2014 and costs $9.99 (£6.16) a month with a minimum six-month contract.
Users get access to library matches and a daily live show as well as pre and post-match extras.
In the UK, subscriptions will be priced at £9.99 and there will be no minimum commitment.
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Mr Carney said he believed that those chosen should represent the diversity of great British historical figures.
He wrote a letter in response to a Conservative MP who is disappointed that the appearance of Sir Winston Churchill on a new £5 note leaves no female characters on the currency.
Mr Carney said discussions began on his first day in office on Monday.
Mary Macleod is the Conservative MP for Brentford and Isleworth and chairwoman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Parliament.
She told Mr Carney that the decision to leave no women on banknotes when Elizabeth Fry is replaced by Sir Winston Churchill was "completely unrepresentative of the role that women have played and continue to play in our country's history."
"The symbolism of having no women on our banknotes leaves a chasm where there was once inspiration."
In reply, Mr Carney said that it was not the Bank's intention to leave women unrepresented and that he was already discussing with his new colleagues the best way to ensure that the currency celebrated a diverse range of figures, both now and in the future.
"Like you, I consider Sir Winston Churchill to be an excellent choice to appear on a banknote," he said.
"However, I fully recognise that, with Sir Winston replacing Elizabeth Fry as the character on the £5 note - in the absence of any other changes to the Bank of England's notes - none of the four characters on our notes would be a woman."
"That is not the bank's intention."
Mr Carney added that he expected to make a public announcement once his discussions have been completed, no later than the end of July.
The Bank of England issues nearly a billion banknotes each year, and withdraws almost as many from circulation.
Notes are redesigned on a relatively frequent basis, in order to maintain security and prevent forgeries. Other security features include threads woven into the paper and microlettering.
The most recent new design from the Bank of England was the £50 note, which entered circulation in November. This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.
Close by, his neighbours make bricks, grow vegetables and run shops such as cafes, a bakery, a barber's salon and a tattoo studio.
All the workers are inmates living at Punta de Rieles, a progressive "open" prison just outside the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.
"We never imagined we would have something like this," said Campo, 50, who has spent 23 years behind bars for bank robbery.
"It's a model prison which offers opportunities you don't find anywhere else."
With incidents of prison violence recently hitting the headlines around Latin America, particularly in Brazil where more than 100 people died in January alone in a series of riots, the liberal philosophy behind Punta de Rieles offers an alternative view of how correctional institutions can be operated.
Its director, Luis Parodi, is a former schoolteacher who believes that "if the context changes, the man changes" and who runs his prison based on three fundamental elements: work, education and culture.
"We want to provide the best daily life possible, so prisoners can sleep peacefully and do not feel humiliated, scared or fearful," Mr Parodi told the BBC.
By creating a "village" which mimics the outside world as closely as conditions allow, he hopes to ease the rocky transition when prisoners return to freedom.
Many of the 630 inmates at Punta de Rieles are approaching the end of their sentences.
With the national re-offending rate estimated at around 50%, Mr Parodi often tells departing prisoners to "call me before you think about stealing something", and gives out his personal phone number.
Uruguay's prison population has more than doubled since 2000. Prisons are currently 9% over their capacity.
In this nation of 3.4 million inhabitants, 10,416 people were serving custodial sentences in 2016.
In 2009, a UN Special Rapporteur expressed concern about the country's penitentiary system, describing "sub-human conditions" in which inmates at one prison were held "like animals in metal boxes" for nearly 24 hours per day.
At Punta de Rieles, prisoners can circulate freely within the prison boundaries until 19:00.
Many use mobile phones to stay in touch with the outside world, and some are allowed tablets or computers.
Inside the cells, which are typically shared between four people, they are allowed to have televisions, games consoles, refrigerators and musical instruments.
Families can visit three times per week, and overnight stays have been allowed since 2015.
In many cases, family members assist inmates who run businesses which sell their wares outside, like Cesar Campo's carpentry workshop.
Of 38 active "companies", 35 were started by prisoners themselves, and another is run by several former inmates who still return to work at the prison.
All business owners pay a small tax, which is used to provide micro-credit loans for inmates opening a new venture.
Successful start-ups are also registered with Uruguayan tax authorities, and Luis Parodi's latest initiative enables prisoners to open bank accounts from inside.
Another of Mr Parodi's unconventional ideas was to create a security force comprised almost entirely of unarmed female guards.
"At first I was scared, but not for long," said Ines Marcos, who has been working at Punta de Rieles for three-and-a-half years. "I wouldn't say we're like their mothers, but we give the right advice, like a guide or a sister who helps them out."
Sport and cultural activities are offered to complement education programmes.
A colourful music studio in the main cell block rumbles with noise at all hours of the day as bands practise.
"Instead of staying inside, cutting your arms or building up rage against the police, we do something positive," said Santiago Garrido, 28, who plays in a rock group and teaches guitar to fellow inmates.
"It's a way of channelling our energy. If we didn't do this, our heads would be thinking about other stuff," he added.
"The need to save ourselves is fundamental."
Garrido's group is currently working on an album that will be recorded at a studio outside the prison.
With members of a theatre workshop, he frequently performs at other penitentiaries and in public, including a show at the Uruguayan parliament last year.
Adriano Baraldo, 29, is an actor and singer who is serving a 19-year sentence for armed robbery.
"I recognise that I've done bad things," he says.
"I shouldn't have left my children [to grow up like] orphans."
"Prisons are the sewer of the capitalist system, but people can always learn to recycle themselves."
The 25-year-old former Newcastle United trainee made 110 appearances for the U's over three seasons, but was restricted by injuries last campaign.
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The final result came in Fermanagh and South Tyrone where UUP's Tom Elliott lost to Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew.
Former SDLP party leaders Mark Durkan, Margaret Ritchie and Alasdair McDonnell were toppled in Foyle, South Down and Belfast South.
In Foyle, Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion won by 169 votes after a recount.
She is the first non-SDLP MP to win the seat since the Foyle constituency was formed in 1983.
Mr Durkan said the loss "hurt" and apologised to former SDLP leader John Hume, who was the constituency's MP from 1983 to 2005.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a "very difficult night" for the party and paid tribute to the party's three former MPs.
Meanwhile, the DUP celebrated a resurgence with a 10% increase in their vote share, a return to a level of support they last enjoyed in the 2005 general election.
The confirmed results saw the DUP win 10 seats, Sinn Féin win seven and independent candidate Lady Sylvia Hermon retain her seat in North Down.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said she was "absolutely delighted" with the result, and that it showed the voters had bought into the party's vision.
Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin's northern leader, ruled out the prospect of the party taking its seats at Westminster.
The Conservatives are on course to be the largest party but may not have an overall majority, which may make Northern Ireland's 18 MPs crucial in the balance of power.
In South Down, Ms Ritchie lost to Sinn Féin's Chris Hazzard while the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly won the seat in Belfast South from Dr McDonnell.
The UUP's Danny Kinahan lost his seat in South Antrim to the DUP's Paul Girvan.
Politics here has turned another corner.
The middle-ground parties have been wiped from Westminster and the DUP will be Northern Ireland's only voice on the green benches.
Playing the union and border poll card has paid off for the DUP and Sinn Féin.
The polarisation of politics has moved to another level.
The upshot may well be a coming together of the unionist parties while the SDLP are likely to look south to Fianna Fail to find their way back from the wilderness.
Lady Sylvia Hermon retained her seat in North Down but had her majority of over 9,000 votes cut to around 1,200 by DUP candidate Alex Easton.
The DUP's Jim Shannon, Jeffrey Donaldson, Gregory Campbell, Gavin Robinson, Ian Paisley, Nigel Dodds, David Simpson and Sammy Wilson retained their seats in Strangford, Lagan Valley, East Londonderry, Belfast East, Belfast North, Upper Bann and East Antrim.
Sinn Féin's Paul Maskey, Mickey Brady and Francie Molloy also retained their seats in Belfast West, Newry and Armagh and Mid-Ulster while Barry McElduff won in West Tyrone.
A total of 109 candidates stood across Northern Ireland and 1.2m people were eligible to vote.
The general election exit poll indicated that the Conservatives will be the largest party at Westminster but may not secure an overall majority.
If this proves correct, Northern Ireland's 18 MPs may become crucial in the formation of a government.
The discovery could explain why seabirds such as the albatross swallow plastic, causing injury or death.
The smell, similar to the odour of rotting seaweed, is caused by the breakdown of plankton that sticks to floating bits of plastic.
About 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic and may keep some in their bellies, putting their health at risk.
The rate of plastic pollution is increasing around the world, with a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic waste recorded in the oceans in 2014.
Scientists think seabirds associate the smell of plastic with food - and are tricked into swallowing plastic waste.
"These seabirds actually use odours to find their way around in the world and to find food," said Matthew Savoca, of University of California, Davis.
"We found a chemical on plastic that these birds typically associate with food, but now it's being associated with plastic.
"And so these birds might be very confused - and tricked into consuming plastic as food."
In experiments, scientists at the University of California put microbeads into mesh bags and dangled them in the ocean.
After three weeks at sea, they analysed the plastic for chemical signatures.
Nothing was found on new plastic samples, but three types of plastic in the sea acquired a distinctive chemical smell.
The chemical - dimethyl sulfide - has a characteristic sulphurous odour associated with boiling cabbage or decaying seaweed.
It is also produced in the oceans through the breakdown of microscopic algae or phytoplankton, which collects on plastic.
Seabirds with a keen sense of smell, including albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, can detect this odour, which they associate with food.
Thus, smells as well as visual cues - such as shiny plastic - may attract seabirds to plastic.
Co-researcher Prof Gabrielle Nevitt, also from UC Davis, said species such as petrels were likely to be affected by plastic ingestion.
"These species nest in underground burrows, which are hard to study, so they are often overlooked," she said.
"Yet, based on their foraging strategy, this study shows they're actually consuming a lot of plastic and are particularly vulnerable to marine debris."
The researchers are calling for more research to see if other animals - such as fish, penguins and turtles - are also drawn to plastic by chemicals.
And they say it might be possible to develop plastics that either do not attract algae or break down more quickly in the environment.
Even knowing which species are most at risk based on the way they find food is informative - because it helps us - the scientific community - figure out how to best allocate monitoring and conservation effort to those species most at need," said Dr Savoca.
The research is published in the journal Science Advances.
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They said he had severe dementia.
Sommer, 93, was one of 10 ex-Nazi officers found guilty in absentia in Italy of one of the country's worst civilian wartime massacres.
He was convicted for his role in the murders of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in August 1944.
The Nazis, who were retreating in northern Italy ahead of Allied troops, surrounded the village early on 12 August and in the space of a few hours murdered men, women and 119 children.
Sommer was serving at the time in an SS Panzer division. He now lives in a nursing home in Hamburg-Volksdorf and tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi criminals.
Hamburg lawyer Gabriele Heinecke, who has campaigned on behalf of the victims' families to put him on trial, said she was unhappy with the way specialists had reached the conclusion that Sommer was suffering from dementia.
When asked by Berlin website Tageszeitung if she thought dementia could be faked, Ms Heinecke said: "Of course. In matters of pensions it's something that happens every day."
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For years, attempts have been made to put Sommer on trial in Germany, and prosecutors in Hamburg said if he had been deemed fit he would "with high probability have been charged with 342 cases of murder, committed cruelly and on base motives".
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The big Belfast clubs, who between them have won the cup 64 times, go into the tie on the back of contrasting results.
Glentoran, eighth in the table, hammered Portadown 5-0 while second-placed Linfield lost to Coleraine.
"Saturday is going to be blood and thunder and after Tuesday's win I just can't wait for it," said Haveron.
"If we give anything like we did in the win at Portadown we will not be far away, I can tell you that.
"The win is good for confidence because you walk into the dressing room and everybody is buzzing.
"That is the way you want it to be, a vibrant dressing room which everyone wants to be a part of."
Haveron was appointed Glentoran manager just over three months ago, succeeding Alan Kernaghan, when the east Belfast side were two from bottom in the Irish Premiership.
Under the former Carrick Rangers boss, the Glens have amassed 21 points from 15 matches, and Haveron expects them to continue climbing the table.
"Against Portadown, we could have scored every time we went forward, but it was one performance and we are not going to get too carried away with it because we have stuttered and stumbled over the last lot of weeks," he added.
"We have drawn games we should have won and dropped points we shouldn't have.
"It is going to take a bit of time and some rebuilding, but there is so much potential at this club to really kick on and be competitive on a regular basis with the likes of Crusaders and these other teams."
The pressure on Linfield has been turned up a notch following Tuesday's home defeat by Coleraine which saw them slip seven points behind Premiership leaders Crusaders.
The Blues were runners-up in three competitions last season, leaving former Northern Ireland striker David Healy still waiting to celebrate his first trophy as manager of Linfield.
They will be without central defender Jimmy Callacher, a former Glentoran player, for Saturday's crunch cup match as he serves an automatic one-match ban for his dismissal in the Coleraine defeat.
The blaze is believed to have started on one of the stalls at 14:10 GMT Thursday, with hundreds of people leaving as it was tackled.
Traders returned at 15:00 but a Swansea council spokesman said an investigation into its cause needed to take place before it reopened to the public.
Fire officers were also making sure it is smoke free.
The home side won 3-0 in a raucous atmosphere to secure Brazil's seventh gold medal in Rio.
Brazil football hero Neymar was at the Maracanazinho arena to watch the final, 24 hours after his team won gold.
The USA earlier came back from two sets down to beat Russia 3-2 and win bronze.
Brazil's victory made amends for 2012, when they lost to Russia after missing two match points.
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The London went down off Southend-on-Sea in Essex, with 300 crew on board.
The gun carriage which has been raised was the first complete one to be recovered from the ship, which is lying about 20 metres below the surface.
Historic England hopes it may provide clues as to why the ship sank.
Archaeologist Alison James says it's a significant find.
It's the sort of thud made in the 1980s by doomed reports promising a "paperless office". Anyone who remembers that much-mocked slogan might well shrug off this latest idea as overheated punditry.
Or perhaps they should think again, as the world's first completely paperless public library is scheduled to open this summer in Bexar County, Texas, in the United States.
Bexar County's so-called BiblioTech is a low-cost project with big ambitions. Its first branch will be in a relatively poor district on the city of San Antonio's South Side.
It will have 100 e-readers on loan, and dozens of screens where the public will be able to browse, study, and learn digital skills. However it's likely most users will access BiblioTech's initial holding of 10,000 digital titles from the comfort of their homes, way out in the Texas hinterland.
It will be a truly bookless library - although that is not a phrase much to the liking of BiblioTech's project co-ordinator, Laura Cole. She prefers the description "digital library" - after all, there will be books there, but in digital form.
"For us this was just an obvious solution to a growing problem," she says.
That problem was "explosive" population growth around San Antonio, in suburbs and satellite towns way outside the city limits.
"We've had to look to how we provide services to these unincorporated areas," she said.
"While the city does a beautiful job in providing public libraries, these can only easily be used by people living there".
San Antonio's book-rich public libraries will be unaffected by the project.
Bexar County, by contrast, never had a public library service. "I think we're at an advantage there," Ms Cole said. "They've never had a library with books - there's not even a bookstore here."
This sets it apart from earlier bookless library experiments at Newport Beach, California, and Tucson, Arizona - which both reverted to offering real as well as e-books, by public demand.
As well as offering digital books to 1.7m people, the $1.5m BiblioTech project has a big community education remit. It will partner with local schools and run digital literacy courses and will stay open late into the evenings.
The project's instigator, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, sees it as a pilot for a county-wide scheme. Other sources of funding will be sought to build up the services.
Interestingly, Judge Wolff is a keen collector of first editions, the bibliophile ushering in the bookless future: "But the world is changing and this is the best, most effective way to bring services to our community."
Judge Wolff has cited Apple founder Steve Jobs as inspiration for the BiblioTech.
But the project has also gained impetus from the success of the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) bookless engineering school library which opened three years ago, the first paperless academic library. UTSA's director of libraries Dr Krisellen Maloney has worked with the BiblioTech team and sits on its advisory board.
Outside Texas, bookless libraries have also made most ground in the academic sector, with the swiftest change in science, maths and engineering libraries.
The first such facility in the UK is likely to be at Imperial College, London, which last year announced that over 98% of its journal collections were digital, and that it had stopped buying print textbooks.
Even so, it was still paying around £4m per year in subscriptions to publishers, even after concerted efforts to negotiate better digital deals for universities.
It's clear that bookless libraries are not a cheaper option for cash strapped colleges and local authorities. Producing digital versions of text books can be even more costly, given that users will expect more regular updating and interactive features.
There are some libraries which will never go bookless, because their collections contain books that are important historical artefacts in themselves.
Although many of these rare texts are being digitised under schemes such as that run by Google, these books as physical objects remain essential resources for researchers.
Christopher Platt, director of collections and circulation at the New York Public Library (NYPL), argued that accessing a digital version of a book was sometimes not enough.
"People travel from all over the world to our library, not just to access an item, but to touch it and feel it to get a sense of it that speaks to the overall importance of the work," he said. "This is not sentimentality, it's an important fact."
However the NYPL is also embracing the digital world with enthusiasm and is deeply committed to offering digital material.
Last year the library made 880,000 e-book loans - a fivefold increase over 2008, Mr Platt said. The library has 91 branches around the city, he added: "If you look at e-book loans as a virtual branch, it would regularly be number two or three in terms of monthly usage."
Contrary to some reports, the NYPL is not reducing its holdings of books - although some 1.5 million books in the stacks of its famous Central Library building on 42nd Street in Manhattan will be relocated in underground vaults as part of a refurbishment scheme beginning this year.
The space will be used to create a "spectacular" new public library , but it will not be bookless. "In fact, far more books will be visible than ever in the past," Mr Platt said.
But bookless does not mean cheap. Publishers were charging libraries up to five times the normal hardback price for an e-book of a popular title, he said. And certain types of book - illustrated children's titles, how-to manuals - simply did not work as well as e-books, especially when some library e-readers were still text-only.
This was just one of many reasons, he felt, that bookless libraries would not be sweeping the board just yet.
A major issue was to obtain guarantees of a consistently good reader experience across all platforms and technologies - something which NYPL, along with 200 other big libraries across north America, and increasingly elsewhere, is working towards in a new coalition, readersfirst.org.
In the UK, however, the major issue was not so much bookless libraries but library-less boroughs. Authors have been particularly active in campaigns to resist funding cuts that are leading to public library closures.
Children's author Alan Gibbons is a passionate believer in the role of libraries, especially school libraries, but he's also a keen user of the panoply of "e" and "i" prefixed devices.
But he has misgivings about the notion of a bookless library. "We have to manage the change intelligently. The danger is that reading becomes utterly atomised". Otherwise there could be the "obliteration of minority and mid-list authors".
He argues that the library space and the librarian are crucial elements. Books could be replaced by e-readers, but virtual space could not replace library buildings. "The only issue for me is how new readers are made, and I don't see that happening in social networks."
Working in international schools in China and Thailand, Mr Gibbons noted that even in the most elite schools where very child was given an iPad, the school library, stocked with real books, was seen as an essential resource.
Christopher Platt at New York Public Library has another take on the bookless future: "It's still early game. We've been 100 years getting the print stuff right, so it could be a while before we get the e-stuff right."
About 12 caravans pitched up at Bottisham Village College in Cambridgeshire on Thursday evening.
It issued a statement saying "a large group from the travelling community moved on to parts of the college grounds", leaving the school "no choice" but to close.
Police said they were aware and were working closely with the head teacher.
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On its website, the college said: "Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we regret to inform you that Bottisham Village College will be closed on Friday 15th July and there will be no trips or other activities taking place."
Parents were expecting to collect a number of children returning from school visits to Derbyshire, Shropshire and Normandy later.
The college has arranged for an alternative drop-off point for coaches.
One village resident said she was "disappointed" the caravans had moved in "because we know there's going to be a mess left over there and its going to cost the school money to put the mess right".
Kate Evans, executive principal of the school, said staff were "doing everything in our power to resolve this situation quickly", working with both the police and their own solicitors "to bring this matter to a close".
"Around 12 trailers are currently on the school grounds having moved there last night," she said.
"This has caused disruption to the school, students and parents and we do ask the travellers now to move on as swiftly as possible."
Cambridgeshire Police confirmed officers "were in contact with the head teacher of the school and have a police presence in the area".
Daniel Jones was caught with the tag his brother Paul had been ordered to wear by a court.
Jones, 32, of Great Clifton near Workington, admitted perverting the course of justice when he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court.
Judge James Adkin heard the other brother was jailed for eight months for his role in the offence last year.
Judge Adkin said the criminal conduct "undermines the authority of the court".
A 25-year-old man suffered a fractured skull during the attack on Waverley Bridge at about 03:30 on Sunday 23 July.
Detectives want to trace the men pictured in the area at the time of the assault.
Anyone who recognises the men is urged to contact police.
Det Con Graham McIlwraith, of Police Scotland, said: "The victim suffered a serious head injury as a result of this incident and police have been conducting various inquiries including viewing several hours of CCTV footage from in and around Edinburgh city centre.
"The males pictured are believed to be of significance to our investigation and anyone who can assist in tracing them is asked to come forward
"Similarly, we would ask these males to get in touch with police and help with our investigation."
Irate Indians have been battling it out with mocking cricket fans from other countries, most notably Pakistan.
The hashtag #IndvsNZ, which was trending on Twitter during the game, quickly turned into a battleground.
India were bowled out for 79 in pursuit of 127 on a slow surface in Nagpur.
India's poor performance initially led to much agony and hand wringing on Twitter by disappointed fans.
Some even tried to be sporting about it:
But that didn't help to stop the mockery, some of which came from Indians, but most from gloating Pakistan fans.
This predictably led to a slanging match on the social media platform:
All the heartburn and anger overshadowed the performance of the Indian women's cricket team which convincingly beat Bangladesh in their own game.
And it has also set the mood for India's high stakes encounter against Pakistan, which will take place in Kolkata (Calcutta) on Saturday.
In total, 238 incidents were reported in 2016/17 in buildings at least 10 storeys high, down more than half (52%) on 2009/10 when there were 499 fires.
It was also a drop on 2015/16 when there were 314 incidents, Scottish Fire and Rescue figures showed.
The statistics were released as investigations continue into the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London.
At least 80 people were killed when fire tore through the 24-floor tower early on 14 June, with the building's cladding suspected to be central to its spread.
The Scottish fire service's figures also revealed that casualty rates have decreased in buildings of more than 10 storeys, with 45 recorded in 2016/17, almost 30% down on the previous year when the figure stood at 64.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) assistant chief officer David McGown said: "The SFRS attends at every emergency and has an agreed standard operating procedure in place which sets out how fires in high-rise premises should be dealt with, utilising appropriate training and equipment, including high-reach appliances.
"Whilst it is encouraging to note an overall reduction in the number of fires affecting domestic properties, we are not complacent.
"We routinely carry out operational assurance visits at high-rise premises for the purposes of checking facilities and arrangements for firefighting and firefighter safety.
"In addition, we have specific safety information relating to high-rise premises available on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service website.
"This includes tried and tested national advice regarding what to do in the event of a fire, should the fire occur in the flat you are in or elsewhere in the building."
In the past year, firefighters carried out 70,743 home fire safety visits, which help detect risks in the home.
They have also carried out more than 2,400 operational assurance visits at high-rise properties where communal facilities, such as stairwells, are checked for the purposes of firefighting and firefighter safety.
All high rise building built since 2005 must be fitted with sprinklers but there is no obligation to fit the potentially life-saving systems in older tower blocks.
Earlier this week, BBC Scotland revealed that more than 300 residential high rise buildings in Scotland do not have sprinklers.
It led to calls for the systems to be retrofitted in the buildings. The Scottish government said it would consider evidence about sprinklers as part of a wider review of fire safety in high rise buildings.
Maybe that's a downside of a building designed to blend in with its surroundings as much as possible.
More likely, however, is that it was an indication of my inability to follow directions properly.
Nonetheless, when I did finally overcome my own ineptitude, I discovered a house which looks very much at home in the rolling south of Scotland hills.
A sharp turn out of the village of Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway - the one I missed first time round - sets you on the right track.
Then you spot its wooded front, large glass sections and sloping turf roof.
It already looks like part of the landscape and, you get the feeling, that impression will only increase over the years.
But that kind of building does not come without a fair bit of time, effort and expense.
Farmer Neil Gourlay and his wife Mary set out on a project he described as a "lifelong dream" about five years ago.
I spoke to him in 2009 about his goals for the property.
He said he was keen to create a house which was "something different" but which would also be environmentally-friendly.
This week, with the building complete, I went to visit to ask him if it had ultimately met expectations.
Showing me around the property, it is clear the Gourlays have a great deal of pride and sense of achievement about how the farmhouse has turned out.
"We had an idea to build a house on this farm because it had no house on it," he explained.
"I had got right scunnered by putting money into shares and thought maybe a better thing to do was invest in property on our own land.
"I got rid of the shares and that is what financed a fair bit of this."
It was via a cousin of Mrs Gourlay that they were put in touch with architect Mark Waghorn.
His brief was to produce a house which suited the area and was also as self-sufficient as possible.
Construction work got under way in August 2011 and took about 20 months to complete.
Storm-damaged trees and railway sleepers helped to provide the timber, dry stone walls from outdoors are continued inside the building and the wool from about half of the Gourlays' flock of 3,000 sheep helped to provide the insulation.
Then, near the end, the turf which was removed to make way for the building was stuck back on the roof at a slope similar to that of the local landscape.
The house gets its electricity from a nearby wind turbine, its water comes from a bore hole deep underground and is heated by solar panels.
The only real foreign invader is an Austrian Kachelofen - a large clay wood-burning stove - which helps to provide warmth along with ground source heating.
It means that, overall, the house can more than meet its own energy needs.
That is something which, Mr Gourlay admitted, appealed to his "miserable" side.
"This house will never have a utility bill in its life," he said.
"Most of what is being used in this house has been crafted out of something somebody else has thrown away."
His architect is also pleased with how his vision has become a reality.
"I am delighted with the end result," said Mr Waghorn.
"The most important thing to me is that it is a house that is visibly connected to the landscape.
"That is very important because I have gone on to become more interested in living and working in rural areas."
And his client, who project-managed and had a very hands-on approach to most of the building work, is also happy with the outcome.
"Yes, I am delighted because, if I am not, it is all my own fault," said Mr Gourlay.
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Unison said 1,841 jobs supporting teachers in schools had disappeared since 2010.
The posts included classroom assistants, technicians, cleaners and librarians.
The union said the cuts were impacting on the workload of the support staff who remained - with teachers and pupils also affected.
Council umbrella group Cosla said the job losses were due to cuts in government funding for local authorities.
But the Scottish government insisted councils' overall spending power to support local services was to increase by £241m in his budget.
Unison surveyed about 900 members who work in schools to get a sense of the impact of what it described as "stealth cuts".
The findings of the research included:
The number of teachers in Scottish schools rose last year for the first time in several years, according to government figures. Councils are now obliged to maintain the ratio of teachers to students so cannot easily cut teacher numbers.
However councils - which have faced years of tight budgets - still decide how much to spend on the education service overall and can decide how many staff are needed in other roles.
Carol Ball, the chairwoman of Unison's education committee, said there were 7,000 more pupils attending Scottish schools now than in 2010 and that the sums "just don't add up".
She told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: "In terms of support staff, who obviously assist especially with children with additional support for learning needs, what we're seeing on the ground is that that support has not increased.
"The resources that are necessary to fully support these children are not there and are not in the classroom."
Ms Ball said Unison members were also not receiving adequate training.
She added: "We fully support the mainstreaming of children with additional support needs. However, the resources need to be there.
"The special training needs to be there and they're not receiving that training. That puts extra strain on them and we want the best possible start for our children."
Dave Watson, Unison regional manager, added: "The Scottish government has targets to reduce inequality in educational outcomes. Sadly, it is children from the most deprived backgrounds that need the access to libraries, or help from librarians. They are less likely to have computers, printers or quiet warm places to do homework. "
Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) warned that the cuts would lead to an "unsustainable situation" where schools and staff were asked to achieve more with less.
"This leads to increased stress amongst staff, and the potential for associated health problems to emerge - which can then compound workload pressures due to staff illness," he said.
Analysis by Jamie McIvor, BBC Scotland education correspondent
Councils have faced tough budgets for years.
Dramatic, controversial cuts have been relatively few and far between - councils argue they have tried their best to prioritise the most important local services including education.
Instead, the impact of tight budgets has often been felt through so-called stealth cuts: cuts in budgets or staffing which may not have an immediately obvious impact, grab headlines or attract widespread public comment.
The effect of these stealth cuts tends to take two broad forms; either the remaining staff find their workload increases or work ends up not being done.
Some may use evidence of stealth cuts as an argument that councils need more money or at least more freedom to raise money.
Others may argue individual councils are taking the wrong decisions or that it may be possible to find ways of delivering services more efficiently to make up for the impact of cuts or monetary pressure.
The survey comes as councils across Scotland deliberate over their budgets for the year ahead.
A Cosla spokesman said Unison was "absolutely right" about the impact on-going cuts are having an impact on services, and warned that any further cuts to councils in the Scottish government's forthcoming budget would "lead to real job losses and have a real impact on services".
He added: "Parents should be in no doubt that losing classroom assistants, technicians, cleaners and librarians does have a detrimental impact on their child's experience at school.
"Compounding this is the impact such significant job losses has on existing staff who are having to do their best to cover.
"Despite the best efforts of councils to maintain services, the reality is that the infrastructure around a lot of service areas is really starting to crumble."
Education Secretary John Swinney said the Scottish government valued the work of school support staff, and wanted to put in place the mechanisms to ensure they fulfilled all that was expected from them.
He told the BBC: "If we look at the most recent information that we have, particularly for additional support for learning staff, we've seen an increase in classroom assistants over the course of the last 12 months.
"But undoubtedly there have been pressures on local authority staff and local authority budgets as there have been right across the public sector because of the financial climate in which we're operating."
He added: "The steps we're taking are designed to, across the board, close the attainment gap and to focus the whole of the system on improving the achievements of young people within education."
Mr Swinney added: "The proper training and support has to be in place for all individuals that are supporting young people who have additional support needs.
"If we have a policy agenda which the Scottish government and local authorities are signed up to, which is about getting it right for every child, we have to make sure that in every single circumstance the staff that we're expecting to provide that support are equipped with the knowledge and the experience and the techniques to ensure that young people can be properly supported.
"I think that's a very substantial issue that comes out of this survey that has to be taken seriously by local authorities."
He told the Today programme one option was for Britain "staying within a reformed EU".
The ex-PM said he would not disclose conversations he had had in Europe - but insisted he was not speaking "on a whim".
The government insists Brexit will give the UK greater control of its borders.
Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said Mr Blair "hadn't really listened to the nature of the debate going on in the pubs, the clubs and school gates".
"We have to respect the referendum result," Mr McDonnell said, adding that Labour could "negotiate access to the single market".
Mr Blair spoke to the BBC after he argued in an article for his own institute that there was room for compromise on free movement of people.
He told Today the situation in Europe was different to when Britain voted to leave the EU - a move Mr Blair described as "the most serious it's taken since the Second World War".
He said France's new president, Emmanuel Macron - whose political party was formed last year - was proposing "far-reaching reforms" for the EU.
"Europe itself is now looking at its own reform programme," Mr Blair said.
"They will have an inner circle in the EU that will be part of the eurozone and an outer circle."
When pressed on what evidence there was to suggest European nations would compromise, Mr Blair said: "I'm not going to disclose conversations I've had within Europe, but I'm not saying this literally on the basis of a whim.
"They will make reforms that I think will make it much more comfortable for Britain to fit itself in that outer circle."
He said "majorities" of people in France, Germany and the UK supported changes around benefits and with regards to those who come to Europe without a job.
"I'm not saying these could be negotiated," Mr Blair said.
"I'm simply saying if we were looking at this from the point of view of the interests of the country, one option within this negotiation would be Britain staying within a reformed European Union."
He said the majority of EU migrants in the UK are "people we want in this country".
EU leaders have previously said the UK must accept free movement of people if it wants to stay inside the single market.
But in his article for the Institute for Global Change, Mr Blair said senior figures had told him they were willing to consider changes to one of the key principles of the single market.
"The French and Germans share some of the British worries, notably around immigration, and would compromise on freedom of movement," he wrote.
But last week the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital - the key principles of the single market - were "indivisible".
Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to control EU migration and has reiterated her commitment to reducing net migration to the tens of thousands.
She has said that outside the single market, and without rules on freedom of movement, the UK will be able to make its own decisions on immigration.
Mr Blair also said more was known now about the effects of the Brexit process on the UK.
"We know our currency is down significantly, that's a prediction by the international markets as to our future prosperity. We know businesses are already moving jobs out of the country.
"We know last year we were the fastest-growing economy in the G7. We're now the slowest."
Mr Blair accepted Labour was behind its leader Jeremy Corbyn "for now".
But he warned if Brexit was combined with leaving the single market, and "the largest spending programme Labour had ever proposed" the country "would be in a very serious situation."
Mr Blair said leaving the single market was a "damaging position" shared by Labour and he urged the party's leadership to champion a "radically distinct" position on Europe.
But Jeremy Corbyn said Labour's position on free movement was "very clear", adding: "We would protect EU nationals' rights to remain here, including the rights of family reunion."
Responding to Mr Blair's comments, the party leader said: "I think our economy will do very well under a Labour government.
"It will be an investment-led economy that works for all - so we won't have zero-hour contracts, insecure employment.
"We won't have communities being left behind."
Mr Blair has previously said Brexit was an issue he felt so strongly about, that it tempted him to return to politics.
But Labour MP Frank Field, who backed Brexit, said he did not think Mr Blair was "a person to influence public opinion now".
"We're now set on the course of leaving [the EU]. We actually need a safe harbour to continue those negotiations when we're out.
"And I wouldn't actually be believing those people who are set on destroying our attempts to leave, who are now appearing as wolves in sheep's clothing."
Richard Tice, of pro-Brexit group Leave Means Leave, said Mr Blair's comments "demonstrate how out of touch he is with British voters".
"The former prime minister believes that freedom of movement is the only issue with the EU, when in reality the British people also voted to leave in order to take back control of our laws and money and no longer be dictated to by the European Court of Justice," he added.
Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman said Mr Blair's assertion that Britain could find a way to remain within a reformed EU was a "dodgy claim, as opposed to a dodgy dossier".
"We've heard this all before. David Cameron was given such assurances and in the end the EU did nothing for him.
"If they do nothing for Cameron, they're not going to do anything for Blair, I'm afraid."
The sanctions target the leaders of two rival administrations that have been vying for power amid the chaos after the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
All three face travel bans and asset freezes.
The measure comes two days after the leaders of a new unity government arrived in the capital, Tripoli.
It is not clear how the new administration, led by the Presidency Council, will be able to take over state institutions there, given the stiff opposition it faces.
Since 2014 Libya has had two competing administrations, one in Tripoli backed by powerful militias and the other about 1,000km (620 miles) away in the eastern port city of Tobruk.
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There has been a growing momentum behind the UN-backed Presidency Council, since they arrived at a navy base in Tripoli on Wednesday.
The EU appears to be playing its final cards to capitalise on that positive drive. It hopes these targeted sanctions will tip the balance in favour of the new government and expedite the process of implementing Libya's contested political agreement.
In the past 24 hours, residents in Tripoli and other parts of western Libya have been sporadically gathering in public squares in support of the new government. The few militias in the capital who appeared to pose the biggest threat have largely gone silent, for now.
Rival politicians are also softening their tone, though they still maintain their opposition to the new government. But these public scenes have not been repeated in eastern Libya, and the parliament there has still failed to convene to put the proposed unity government to a vote.
The names were published in the EU's official journal, which said they played a central role in obstructing the establishment of a unity government.
Western powers have recognised the new government as Libya's sole legitimate administration but it faces opposition in eastern and western Libya.
In December, some rival lawmakers signed up to the United Nations agreement to form a unity administration, but the deal has not yet been backed by all the country's many militia brigades that formed after the uprising.
The deal saw the formation of a nine-member Presidency Council, which includes the unity Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj who arrived on Wednesday in Tripoli with some of his deputies.
On Thursday, the UN said it will consider lifting sanctions on Libya's estimated $67bn (£46.8bn) sovereign wealth fund if the government can regain control of the country.
Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj was born in Tripoli in 1960 into a prominent local family. His politician father, Mustafa, held office under King Idris, whose 18-year monarchy ended in 1969 when he was overthrown by Muammar Gaddafi.
Al-Jazeera TV has described Mustafa Sarraj as "one of the founders of the modern state of Libya after its independence from Italy".
During the Gaddafi era, Fayez Sarraj was not prominent politically but did hold several posts at the Housing Ministry.
After the uprising in 2011, he became a member of the National Dialogue Commission - a group trying to establish national consensus and unity in Libya.
He was later nominated for membership of the House of Representatives for the constituency of al-Andalus in Tripoli.
The choice of him as prime minister was seen as a compromise as he is not affiliated to any political party involved in the power struggle.
The 19-year-old helped the Lady Glovers to promotion to Women's Super League One last season.
She suffered the injury in the first-half of the Lady Glovers' 6-0 Spring Series defeat by Chelsea Ladies on Sunday, before eventually having to be substituted in the 75th minute.
Jamie Sherwood's side face Bristol City Women on Wednesday.
Chris Porter reportedly damaged both ankles when jumping from a second-storey window to flee the knifeman who killed 21-year-old Mia Ayliffe-Chung.
Frenchman Smail Ayad, 29, has been charged with murdering Miss Ayliffe-Chung, from Wirksworth in Derbyshire.
In a Facebook post, Mr Porter described Mia as an "absolute gem".
"I'm truly devastated and heartbroken about what has happened and I'm still in shock," he wrote.
"Never thought I'd be heading back through that airport without Mia."
Mr Porter, from Kent, has been discharged from hospital and flown back to the Gold Coast.
He also wrote "get well soon" in reference to 30-year-old Tom Jackson, from Congleton in Cheshire, who was seriously injured when the knifeman struck at his head.
A 46-year-old local man, named by a friend as Grant Scholz, who ran the hostel also suffered non-life threatening injuries in the attacks.
As well as the murder charge, Mr Ayad has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, one count of serious animal cruelty and 12 counts of serious assault, in relation to 12 police officers.
The attacks happened at Shelley's Backpackers accommodation in the Home Hill area of Queensland at about 23:15 local time on Tuesday.
Police are investigating reports that Mr Ayad had an unrequited romantic interest or an "obsession" with Miss Ayliffe-Chung.
Supt Ray Rohweder, of Queensland Police, also said there was an indication that he had taken cannabis on Tuesday evening.
Police have confirmed he shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack but said there is no indication that radicalisation or political motives were involved.
Mr Ayad was due to before Townsville Magistrates' Court on Friday by video link, but did not appear as "he had caused a disturbance".
It is the fourth time the petition, brought by former boss Martin Foyle and Revenue & Customs, has been postponed.
With some debts settled, the Bulls will meet creditors on 15 August to finalise a Companies Voluntary Agreement to sort out the rest of the outstanding bills.
Hereford begin the new season in 12 days' time against St Neots.
However, it is not yet clear where that game, scheduled for Edgar Street, will be played as the Bulls' home is still closed on safety grounds.
That has led to a number of pre-season friendlies being cancelled with other matches, including one against Turkish giants Besiktas, being played in West Yorkshire.
After being expelled from the Conference Premier for not settling their debts, the Bulls were accepted into the Southern Premier League for 2014-15 but were hit with a transfer embargo after the league initially chose not to implement it.
Monday's decision by the Royal Courts of Justice in London has satisfied the league, for now, that Hereford are worthy of their place in the division.
"I am pleased to confirm that Hereford United Football Club has transferred appropriate funds to all known football creditors apart from a few who have not, as yet, notified officials of their required details," Southern League chairman Ken Turner said.
"However, the amount covering these outstanding payments has been deposited in the account of a third party.
"Consequently, subject to receiving confirmation of receipt of all the amounts transferred and also subject to any actions taken by other authorities outside the control of the League, Hereford United (1939) Ltd will remain in membership of the Southern League and the Registrations Embargo placed on the club on 30 June will be lifted."
Despite being given more breathing space, the club still face the threat of potential liquidation when they return to court in 35 days if the structure of the CVA cannot be agreed.
A study of GP-recorded diagnoses show the incidence has fallen by as much as half.
Researchers said fewer children were being misdiagnosed, but there had also been a real decrease in some causes of the condition.
Other European countries and the US had reported similar declines, they added.
Epilepsy is caused when the brain's normal electrical activity result in seizures.
Data from more than 344,000 children showed that the annual incidence of epilepsy has fallen by 4-9% year on year between 1994 and 2008.
Overall the number of children born between 2003-2005 with epilepsy was 33% lower then those born in 1994-96.
When researchers looked in more detail and included a wider range of possible indicators of an epilepsy diagnosis the incidence dropped by 47%.
Better use of specialist services and increased caution over diagnosing the condition explains some, but not all, of the decline in the condition, the researchers reported in Archives of Diseases in Childhood.
Introduction of vaccines against meningitis and a drop in the number of children with traumatic brain injuries, both of which can cause epilepsy, has probably also contributed to falling cases, they added.
Study author Prof Ruth Gilbert, director of the Centre for Evidence-based Child Health at University College London, said: "The drop is consistent with what has been seen in other countries so it is reassuring that we are seeing the same pattern.
"We're getting better at diagnosing and deciding who should be treated and then there is also probably an effect of factors like fewer cases of meningitis."
She said in the past, there was an issue with variable diagnosis and some children being treated who did not need to be.
"There is a more rigorous approach and that is partly down to NICE guidance.
"It is very troubling to have a misdiagnosis because once you have a diagnosis it sticks and that does blight the life of a child."
Simon Wigglesworth, deputy chief executive at Epilepsy Action, said: "It may indicate a reduction in misdiagnosis rates in children, which we know to be high. However, our discussions with leading clinicians suggest that this may not be the complete picture.
"They tell us that they are not seeing a reduction in the number of children with epilepsy presenting at their clinics and epilepsy remains one of the most prevalent neurological conditions in children in the UK."
It reported a 12% rise in 2014 pre-tax profit to £1.45bn, on revenues that rose 4.6% to £11.5bn.
The giant group owns a host of agencies around the world, including JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, and employs some 175,000 people in 111 countries.
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell told the BBC there was some evidence things were picking up in the eurozone.
However, he said most global economic growth would continue to come from the US and China.
"We are seeing a little bit of an improvement [in the eurozone] we saw a stronger Q4 and as we go into the first few months of this year January was stronger for the eurozone as well. So there are grounds for a little bit more optimism," Sir Martin said.
But he warned the upcoming election contained risks to economic growth, whichever party wins the poll. He described the choice facing voters as a "Morton's Fork" - a specious piece of reasoning in which contradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion.
"It's a difficult choice either way. If you vote Conservative, you are faced with a referendum over the EU, either in 2017 or 2016. If you vote Labour, Labour seem to have a platform of criticising or bashing business so you worry on that count too," Sir Martin said.
On the subject of the UK's membership of the European Union, he said: "The issue is whether you can get any change [in Europe] before 2016 or 2017. I think the prime minister has drawn the potential date for a referendum forward to 2016, which would be better news. Less uncertainty as a result.
"But the key issue is our position in Europe ,that's where the patterns of trade [are] whether we like it or not. They are not with the Brazils and Russia and Indias and Chinas. They are more with Germany and France and Italy and Spain.
"But reform it from within, best to be inside the tent rather than outside the tent," he added.
Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis said they had registered the new event's name, which will be The Glastonbury Festival team present the Variety Bazaar.
The organisers say it will be separate from Glastonbury and will be at a different location.
There was no indication from Mr Eavis if this affects Glastonbury's future.
However, fellow organiser Emily Eavis tried to clarify the situation by tweeting: "We're still planning an event in the future at a different location - which we are calling Variety Bazaar. But Glastonbury Festival will always be called Glastonbury and will remain at Worthy Farm."
Mr Eavis revealed the name to Paul Cannon of Glastonbury FM and admitted he was taking "a huge risk".
"I've been a risk taker all my life. I mean 47 years of taking risks really and so far touch wood, I haven't come unstuck so far. This might be one risk too far, I don't know," he said.
There has been speculation about the future of the festival for some time.
Glastonbury will not take place in 2018 to give the Worthy Farm land a chance to recover but Mr Eavis had said he was keen to fill that year with "something special" because at his age of 81 he did not want to miss out on any festivals.
In June it was revealed the organisers had been in talks with the owners of the nearby Longleat estate to host a festival in 2018 or 2019, but in September organisers said they would not hold an event at another site next year.
In a statement on the Glastonbury Festival website, the organisers said: "We will be taking our next fallow year in 2018, in order to give the farm, the village and the festival team the traditional year off.
"There are no plans to hold an event at another location in 2018."
In December Mr Eavis said the 2019 Glastonbury Festival could be held at a site 100 miles away from Worthy Farm, "towards the Midlands" to help protect the main site.
He said the new site would be used every five years to help the land at his farm recover.
Her appointment came amid a second-term shuffle of President Obama's foreign policy team. Ms Rice succeeds Tom Donilon, who has held senior national security posts in the administration since President Obama took office.
Ms Rice is known to be a close confidant of the president, but she has also been seen as controversial and has been heavily criticised by some Republicans.
However, there is nothing they can do about this appointment - Ms Rice's new post requires no Senate confirmation.
During his first administration, President Obama appointed her to work in New York as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
Ms Rice was given cabinet rank, in a sign of Mr Obama's plan to work more closely with UN member states than the administration of George W Bush had.
Ms Rice worked in the Bill Clinton administration but backed Mr Obama for the Democratic nomination because of his opposition to the Iraq war.
Although seen as a close ally of the president and a member of his close circle of advisers, in December 2012 she withdrew her name for consideration to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
Ms Rice had been at the centre of Republican criticism over the Obama administration's response to a deadly attack on a US consulate in Libya earlier in the year.
When taking up her role at the UN, Ms Rice had already indicated she would advocate tough action to end the killing in Sudan's Darfur region.
She visited Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, while working on the National Security Council.
"I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required," she said in an interview with the Atlantic Monthly in 2001.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 2007, she supported the idea of military action to force the Sudanese government to halt the massacres.
In her role as UN ambassador, Ms Rice has been credited with representing US interests in negotiations over sanctions against Iran - although some critics say the eventual agreement was not as tough as the US might have liked.
She worked to gain approval in the UN Security Council for military involvement in Libya. But Ms Rice was not able to win support from Russia and China on action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Ms Rice, a protege of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, was the youngest assistant secretary of state in history when appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997, dealing with African affairs.
The New York Times reports that the Clinton camp, during Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination, regarded Ms Rice's support for Mr Obama as a defection.
However, she and Mrs Clinton, as US secretary of state, have had to work closely together in the Obama administration.
Ms Rice told the New York Sun that she was drawn to support Mr Obama because of his position on Iraq, saying that he had made "the same unpopular choice I had made" despite huge pressure in Washington to support the war.
Born in 1964, Susan Rice is married to an ABC producer, Ian Cameron, and has two children.
Growing up, Ms Rice dreamed of becoming a senator for the District of Columbia. She graduated in history from Stanford University, then went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where she completed a D Phil in international relations.
During her stint in the Bill Clinton White House, she was described as "brilliant" but also "authoritarian" and "brash". According to the New York Times, she acknowledges "a certain impatience at times".
She is no relation of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The accident - involving a man thought to be in his 20s who had been working at the side of the road - happened on the B9170 Cuminestown to New Deer road at about 09:20.
The Scottish Ambulance Service and Police Scotland were called to the scene.
Police Scotland said: "Sadly a male has died as a result."
The road was expected to be shut for some time to allow an accident investigation.
The man sustained puncture wounds to his hands and forehead.
Irwin's widow, Terri, later tweeted that the tiger had been "hot and bothered" and scratched the man, adding that both animal and keeper were "ok".
Irwin died in 2006 when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef.
Australia Zoo said in a statement that the animal, a 12-year-old male Sumatran tiger called Ranu, had "scratched" the keeper while walking through bushland at the zoo during a routine morning session.
Ranu "became overly interested in his surroundings and when his handler approached him to change direction, he swatted his paw resulting in a scratch on his left wrist, bicep and right side of the forehead," the statement said.
Ambulance service officials told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the 41-year-old keeper had sustained "two deep puncture wounds and deep scratches". He was treated at the scene and later taken to the hospital.
"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin and his family founded the Australia Zoo in Queensland. Ranu is part of an attraction called The Tiger Temple which houses Sumatran and Bengal tigers.
The zoo said both tiger and keeper are doing well, and that the keeper would be returning to work "in the coming days".
As for Ranu, he will be continuing his normal "enrichment routines" at the zoo.
In its profile on Ranu on its website, the zoo called the tiger "cheeky" and said he "is continually challenging the others around him".
"With Ranu, the handlers have to keep in mind that he is the boss and it is very important to be patient with him," it said.
Swiss Federer, 33, beat the Canadian, 24, 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 on Pat Rafter Arena to clinch his 83rd career title.
The world number two becomes the third man, after Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl, to secure 1,000 ATP wins.
"I've played a lot of tennis over the years so to get to 1,000 wins means a lot to me," said Federer.
"It's a special moment, no doubt about that. I will never forget this match."
The 17-time Grand Slam champion, who lost to Lleyton Hewitt in last year's Brisbane final, is the first player since Lendl in 1992 to reach the milestone.
He has now won at least one tournament every year since 2001, an unbroken run spanning 15 seasons.
Federer now heads to Melbourne to begin preparations for the Australian Open, which begins on 19 January and is a Grand Slam he has won four times.
The Swiss has been in fine form in Brisbane, brushing aside Australian qualifier James Duckworth in 39 minutes and then beating Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in 53 minutes to reach the final.
Federer began strongly in final, breaking Raonic's serve in the third game before going on to take the set 6-4.
He broke in the opening game of the second set, but Raonic broke back for 2-2 and then dominated the tie-break, winning seven successive points to seal the set and level the match.
Federer was under pressure early in the third but Raonic failed to capitalise and the Swiss recovered to break in the 10th game and secure victory in two hours and 13 minutes.
Raonic said: "We all know today is a significant milestone for Roger. When we came out and they listed all the things you've won, I thought you must have been playing for 2,000 wins."
The sport's governing body began its own investigation into Rafael Callejas and Alfredo Hawit after they were among 16 football officials arrested by US authorities in Zurich in December 2015.
Hawit and Callejas pleaded guilty to racketeering and wire fraud conspiracy charges in the US earlier this year.
They are due to be sentenced in 2017.
Fifa's ethics committee says the men, both Honduran nationals, took bribes from marketing companies over the awarding of commercial rights for World Cup qualifying matches.
It said the bans would come into force immediately.
Hawit, a former Fifa vice-president, was interim president of Concacaf when he was held in Switzerland last year. Concacaf governs football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Callejas, Honduras' president between 1990 and 1994, was a member of Fifa's marketing and TV committee when the arrests were made in a dawn raid at the same hotel where seven other top Fifa officials were held in May 2015.
The pair were arrested on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes, at the request of the US authorities.
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Speaking at the time, US attorney general Loretta Lynch said: "The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous. The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable."
Callejas will be sentenced in the US on 27 January, while Hawit, who has also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, will be sentenced on 24 March.
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He wanted to be part of the "festival of sport in my country and shine a light about what you can do whether you have a disability or not".
But it was not that simple.
The athlete, who has retained his 200m T42 title at the Rio Paralympics, explains his journey and belief "sport is not all about winning medals, it's about the legacy - the footprint you have on other people".
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The movie mogul was at the helm of the studio when it produced films including The Godfather and Paper Moon.
He later worked at MGM and co-wrote the screenplay for 1981 Joan Crawford biopic Mommie Dearest, picking up a Razzie for the worst film of the year.
Yablans also produced a number of movies independently.
He was born in New York and scored early success in the film industry working on Paramount's promotion for the hit 1970 tragi-romance Love Story, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw.
Yablans became president of the studio in 1971, remaining in the post for four years, during which time significant films including the first two parts of The Godfather and Chinatown were released.
The Hollywood executive took on the struggling MGM in the early 1980s, but his tenure there proved short-lived.
Towards the end of his career, he headed a company which made family-friendly entertainment and undertook the production of a series of animated features based on the stories of the Bible.
His outfit was also responsible for the HBO costume drama Rome, which was screened from 2005-7.
Authorities said the statues were looted from the Koh Ker temple in Siem Reap province, which also houses Angkor Wat, during the civil war.
The statues which were returned from the United States, depict mythological figures Duryodhana, Balarama and Bhima.
Experts said the statues were hacked off their bases and smuggled out, eventually ending up with collectors.
A ceremony was held in the capital city Phnom Penh to welcome the statues back.
"In a long 40-year journey, surviving civil wars, looting, smuggling and travelling the world, these three statues have now regained their freedom and returned home," Deputy Prime Minister Sok An said.
He said the government was asking other museums to return similar objects.
"The facts are now established. These precious symbols of our heritage have returned to their rightful owners," he said.
The 158cm (5ft) statue of Duryodhana was stolen in 1972 and was sold at a London auction in 1975.
It was nearly auctioned again at Sotheby's in New York, but the sale was stopped after Cambodian authorities launched an appeal.
The statue was transferred back to Cambodia in early May after a long legal struggle.
The second warrior statue, Bhima, was bought in 1976 by the Norton Simon Museum in California.
After months of discussions, the museum agreed to return its statue as a "gift" to Cambodia last month.
The third statue of Balarama was returned as part of an agreement between the Cambodian government and Christie's auction house in the US.
Their return follows two statues from the same temple which were repatriated in June last year, after being displayed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for two decades.
Supermarket produce was allowed in some competition categories in the show in Quedgeley, near Gloucester.
A Quedgeley Community Trust spokesman said the bought items were not judged directly against home-grown ones.
Trust chairman Kevin Tudor described the reaction in national newspapers to the decision as "a storm in a teacup".
He said supermarket fruit and vegetables were allowed, but only in a small number of categories in which the award was for a display, rather than the produce itself.
"It's quite clear in the schedule that we're not judging shop-bought against home-grown produce," he said.
"It's like in flower arranging, you don't need to have grown the flowers to enter a display.
"It's a storm in a teacup. We've been doing it [like this] since 2012."
He added that it was "only because a parish councillor, who said it was disgusting, brought it up that we're talking about it, and she didn't know the full facts".
As well as for vegetables, there were awards in categories including flower arranging, art, photography and cake-making at the show, which took place on 11 July.
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Butt, 41, came through the junior ranks at Old Trafford and played 387 games between 1992 and 2004.
He worked as a reserve team coach and coach of the under-19s since returning to the club in 2012.
Executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward said: "Nicky has the club's heritage and traditions in his blood. He is the natural choice."
Butt said: "As someone who learned his trade in the United youth set-up, it's a huge honour to be given the chance to lead the academy and instil its values and attitudes to create future generations of Manchester United players."
The move follows the "root and branch" review of United's youth teams outlined by Woodward after the departure of director of youth academy Brian McClair in June 2015.
Paul McGuinness left his role as under-18s coach last week.
United say Butt's role cannot be compared to McClair's former job because United's academy has been restructured.
Woodward said Butt will bring "passion, energy and experience" to the position.
He added: "In the last four years, some 15 academy graduates have played for the first team, playing a total of 173 appearances - a record of which the club is very proud."
Butt won six Premier League titles and the Champions League during his time at Old Trafford, and won 39 caps for England.
He was appointed assistant to caretaker manager Ryan Giggs for the final four games of the 2013-14 season following David Moyes' sacking.
Fred McClenaghan, 54, now faces a retrial over the killing.
Marion Millican, a 51-year-old mother of four, was shot in the chest at her workplace in Portstewart, County Londonderry in March 2011.
No further details of the decision reached by the Court of Appeal in Belfast can be reported for legal reasons.
The victim had been in a relationship with McClenaghan, formerly of Broad Street in Magherafelt, Co Derry, which ended months before the killing.
He was found guilty of the murder following a previous retrial in 2014 and ordered to serve 16 years in prison.
But on Wednesday the Court of Appeal ruled the conviction should be quashed.
Judges also decided it was in the public interest to order a second retrial on the murder charge.
A reporting ban has been imposed on the reasons for their decision until the fresh trial is complete.
The timing of his rib stress fracture could have been worse, but it has thrown into jeopardy a carefully drawn-up plan aimed at having his game in peak condition for April's Masters.
Lengthy periods on the range testing new equipment during the Christmas break are being cited as the cause of his injury.
These, perhaps along with his strenuous gym routine, caused the problem which left him unable to compete in this week's Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
McIlroy's participation in the Dubai Desert Classic at the start of February must also be in considerable doubt. He has the reputation of being a quick healer, but rib problems can be hard to shift and he is no position to take any chances with his recovery.
The Masters is the 27-year-old's biggest priority. It is the one major to have eluded him and he would become only the sixth golfer to accomplish the career grand slam were he to claim a first green jacket.
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This year he will be attempting to complete the full set for the third time and he has acknowledged that the longer he wait goes on, the harder it will be to complete this rare feat.
Players are always looking for the formula that helps them play their best golf in the biggest weeks. For 2017 McIlroy had decided upon a busy build up to Augusta and was planning to compete in eight tournaments before April's opening major.
Despite his injury, the Northern Irishman completed last week's BMW South African Open, losing a playoff to England's Graeme Storm. Then came the MRI scan which showed a stress fractured rib and a frustrating prescription for rest.
American orthopedic surgeon, Sandy Kunkel, who has extensive experience of sporting injuries, told the Golf Channel that the nature of McIlroy's setback is extremely rare in golf.
"They are typical in rowing or upper body weight bearing athletes," Dr Kunkel said. "Stress fractures are caused by an accumulation of micro-trauma.
"They are tiny fractures or cracks in the bone. Usually the body just heals them. If you do not give it time to heal, it can result in a full fracture.
"Typically, an injury of this sort will take a minimum of six weeks to heal."
That time frame would eliminate McIlroy's planned appearances in Dubai, Los Angeles and Florida. Suddenly the clock would be ticking rather quicker ahead of the Masters.
Realistically he might be able to return for the World Golf Championships gathering in Mexico at the start of March. Thereafter he plans to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill and then the WGC Matchplay in Austin, Texas.
If he plays them well it would probably provide enough pre-Masters golf but if there are kinks in his game that need ironing out, he will be under unwanted pressure in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
All he can do now is follow doctors' orders, knowing that the immediate chance of returning to the top of the world rankings has, for the moment, gone.
McIlroy is desperate for a speedy recovery, but knows it is one that he cannot rush.
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From Rio
If there is one stadium in this sport that is the natural home to great goals by number 10s in yellow, it is the Maracana, arguably more soulless now but still the scene of glorious memories provided by Pele, Zico and now Brazil's great hope of this World Cup, Neymar.
And 28 minutes into the last-16 game between Colombia and Uruguay, the new poster boy of South American football - and this tournament - put himself alongside Neymar and Argentina's Lionel Messi with a goal to treasure, and one fit for the Maracana.
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The 22-year-old showed great awareness to glance over his shoulder to check the positioning of both himself and Uruguay keeper Fernando Muslera even before Abel Aguilar's header came in his direction.
Then came the technique, cushioning the header on his chest while twisting to set up a glorious 25-yard left-foot volley that lost nothing aesthetically by crashing down into the net off the bar.
If Rodriguez had hinted at his potential greatness with goals against Greece,Ivory Coast and Japan in the group stage, this was the moment he joined those other perfect 10s in the World Cup - Messi and Neymar.
He had a Colombian legend to live up to when he took on the mantle of the number 10 - the flamboyant Carlos 'El Pibe' Valderrama, he of the wild hair and glorious talent.
No matter. 'El Nuevo Pibe' - 'The New Kid' - had arrived.
And his arrival made the Maracana forget the man who was not here - Uruguay's Luis Suarez - and his lamentable explanation of how he came to bite Giorgio Chiellini, with both him and his teeth apparently stumbling accidentally into the Italian's shoulder after a loss of balance.
Suarez was present in spirit as Uruguay's fans rose to the siege mentality created by coach Oscar Tabarez with masks, flags and a noisy show of support. The bottom line, however, is after their questionable defence of Suarez in recent days, Uruguay's departure may not be mourned by too many in Brazil outside their own camp.
In some ways, the evidence presented here showed why they were prepared to erect such a dubious apologist shield around Suarez. Without him, they are a shadow of the side they are with him.
Instead, and of a far more savoury nature, the Maracana was the playground of a new world star - and someone who presents a real danger to Brazil when they meet Colombia in their quarter-final in Fortaleza on Friday.
Rodriguez is now the World Cup's top scorer with five goals. While Suarez is back in Uruguay in shame, the smiling Colombian is the fresh and acceptable face of this tournament - and with power to add to his reputation.
Rodriguez could pass for Cristiano Ronaldo's younger brother. He is clean-cut, respectful and was quietly spoken as he dealt with Colombia's adulation after the game.
In the absence of the great goalscorer Radamel Falcao, cruelly deprived of this World Cup by injury, Monaco team-mate Rodriguez was left with a burden he has so far carried with ease.
Jose Luis Alarcon Rojas, of Colombia's RCNR Radio, said: "Once Falcao was injured, James Rodriguez was the first name in coach Jose Pekerman's selection. He is a young boy who is loved in Colombia, a star.
"No Falcao meant he was more important to Colombia and he has responded to the responsibility. He was always popular but this will make him more popular."
And what of his meeting with Neymar in Fortaleza?
"Neymar is the young champion of Brazil while James is the young champion of Colombia, but he is our star and he is playing like our star."
The boy from Cucuta started his career with Envigado in Colombia before, at the tender age of 17, his talent took him to Argentina and Banfield.
After winning the Primera Division, he moved to Porto, helping them secure three titles and the Europa League.
Last summer he joined Monaco for £38.5m, but goals like those against Uruguay, and his second was also a thing of beauty in a team context, will be attracting the attention of others who may wish to prise him away from the Principality.
When he was told Tabarez had mentioned his name in a list that included Argentina great Diego Maradona, Messi and Suarez, he said: "It is always a matter of great pride that someone like him has said these things. All I want to do is help the team."
A player of balance, nurtured by the wise Pekerman, who has placed great trust in him, he has the ability to contribute to the team ethic, as proved by his second goal, while demonstrating great individual virtuosity.
As his goal was replayed on the Maracana's big screens, gasps of appreciation swirled around the stadium. It was his shirt and his name that could be seen and heard as elated Colombians celebrated in the streets snaking away from the Copacabana on Saturday night.
Colombia may have lived in the shadow of the South American superpowers such as Brazil and Argentina in the past. In Rodriguez they have a player who can help them step into the light - starting in Fortaleza on Friday.
The versatile player says he has spoken to new boss Brendan Rodgers but admits there is, as yet, nothing to sign as his current contract draws to an end.
"I'm happy," he said. "I want to stay, but the longer it goes on, you start to wonder if it's going to happen.
"I've spoken to the manager and he wants me to stay, which is important for me. You want to feel wanted."
The 30-year-old, who can play in defence and midfield, started his second spell with Celtic after leaving Aberdeen in 2010
"Hopefully we can come to some kind of agreement soon," said Mulgrew, who only made 20 appearances last season in an injury-disrupted season.
"There's no offer on the table yet, but I think it's moving towards that this week."
Mulgrew says he wants to be part of what he believes will be a time of progress at the club under Rodgers.
"The new manager's plans for the club are great," he said after coming on as a substitute in Scotland's 3-0 defeat by France on Saturday.
"It's exciting times ahead for Celtic. I hope I can be involved in that because I think there's a few big years coming up.
"It's not as quick as just signing it. These things are never quick.
"There's bits and pieces that need tied up, things need done, but hopefully we can get it done as quickly as possible." | Gary Haveron believes his Glentoran side are in the right kind of form to topple cross-city rivals Linfield in Saturday's stand-out Irish Cup match.
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NHS Borders said a number of patients were suffering from "gastrointestinal symptoms".
Ward 12 has been shut as well as a bay in Ward 16 and a bay in the hospital's stroke unit.
Visitors to Ward 12 have been "strongly discouraged", with relatives and carers asked to "carefully consider" visiting.
New MRI, CT and mammography scanners will replace existing machines in hospitals in each of Wales' seven health board areas.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said it showed the Welsh Government was "putting our money where our mouth is".
The machines should be in place by the end of March 2017.
Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital got a new MRI scanner 12 months ago and it is similar to the machines which will be rolled out to other hospitals.
MRI manager John Furnish said: "This machine has greater capabilities - it can scan giving a higher signal level in the images, which makes them much better to look at, better resolution and there are certain areas where we can do techniques we could not do before."
Alison Lee, radiology directorate manager at the Aneurin Bevan Health Board, added: "I think we're up against a rock and a hard place at the moment with the demand in patient scans going up and this development ensures that patients receive a scan of the best diagnostic quality that we can give."
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Trophy holders Ross County were held 1-1 at home by Raith Rovers, with the Championship visitors taking the penalty shoot-out bonus.
Greg Stewart scored a hat-trick as Dundee hit back from 2-1 down at half-time to demolish Dumbarton 6-2.
A second-half double from Louis Moult gave Motherwell a 3-1 win at Annan Athletic.
Partick Thistle needed two goals in the last eight minutes to see off Queen of the South and Massimo Donati scored on his Hamilton debut in a 3-0 win over St Mirren.
Dundee picked up their first win of the newly-formatted competition, with Stewart and Kane Hemmings picking up where they left off last season.
Stewart curled in a free-kick after 16 minutes but Dumbarton replied through strikes from Frazer Wright and Gregor Buchanan.
Dundee equalised three minutes after the break as Stewart and Rory Loy combined prior to Hemmings beating Mark Brown.
Darren O'Dea's 73rd-minute header put the hosts back in front and Stewart made it 4-2 a minute later, before completing his hat-trick with 10 minutes left.
Hemmings completed the rout with five minutes remaining with another calm finish from six yards from Kevin Holt's pass.
East Fife top the section on eight points from three matches, last season's League Two champions coming from behind to beat Peterhead.
Jordan Brown opened the scoring for the Blue Toon at New Bayview but the home side hit back through Jonathan Page and a Paul McManus penalty to take maximum points.
St Johnstone made it two wins from two, Danny Swanson converting two of the three penalties they were awarded in the first half against Falkirk.
A scrappy third goal from Joe Shaughnessy after the interval rounded off a comfortable Saints win.
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Falkirk are one of four teams on three points after Elgin City beat Brechin City 4-2 at Borough Briggs.
Craig Gunn (2), Daniel Moore and Daniel McHardy got the home goals, with Willie Dyer and Alan Trouten replying for the visitors.
Dundee United lead the way after their second penalty-shoot out bonus in three outings.
The Tannadice side came from behind at Inverness Caledonian Thistle, with Stewart Murdoch curling in a sweet strike to cancel out Scott Boden's header.
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Dunfermline Athletic are a point behind United, having played a game less, following a comfortable win at local rivals Cowdenbeath.
Andy Geggan set the Pars on their way just before the hour mark, powering home a Kallum Higginbotham corner, and completed the scoring after Lee Ashcroft knocked in a Higginbotham free-kick.
Raith Rovers secured a penalty shoot-out bonus point after holding Ross County to a draw.
The Championship visitors opened the scoring in the 18th minute when Erik Cikos turned Lewis Vaughan's ball across the face of goal into his own net.
County levelled with 15 minutes left thanks to Brian Graham's penalty after Jason Thomson had fouled the striker.
The Fifers came closest to winning it through Iain Davidson's long-range strike and a Jean-Yves M'Voto header but they came away with another point despite missing twice in the shoot-out.
The penalties went to sudden death and midfielder Ian McShane could not covert after Kevin McHattie had put Rovers 4-3 ahead.
Rovers now top Group D with eight points from three matches.
Alloa Athletic move into second place after a 2-0 success at Montrose. Greig Spence put the visitors ahead on 33 minutes before Isaac Layne doubled their lead five minutes after the break.
Queen of the South remain on top despite shipping two late goals in a 2-1 loss at Partick Thistle.
Steven Lawless struck a last-gasp winner as the Jags fought back to move level on points with the group leaders.
The Championship side took the lead moments into the second-half courtesy of a Liam Lindsay own goal but Chris Erskine's composed finish following a scramble in the box brought Thistle level nine minutes from the end.
That set the stage for Lawless to volley home in the dying minutes to seal a second win from two matches for Alan Archibald's side.
A double from Adam Brown gave Airdrieonians their first win in the competition.
Brown struck in either half against Stenhousemuir, who were level briefly in the second half thanks to Mark Gilhaney.
Louis Moult played through the pain barrier to net a second-half double as Motherwell beat Annan Athletic to collect their first points of the tournament.
The striker is due to have groin surgery next week but he started in the absence of the injured Scott McDonald and Jacob Blyth and he proved the match-winner with two clinical finishes in the space of three minutes.
Marvin Johnson gave Motherwell the lead from near the byline in the 16th minute but Rabin Omar headed Annan level with their first effort on goal a minute before the break.
Motherwell pushed for an early response after the interval and Moult had a header blocked in the goalmouth before restoring their lead in the 61st minute when he chested home from close range after Johnson's brilliant cross.
The former Wrexham striker then turned his man 40 yards from goal before running through and finishing into the corner of the net.
Rangers lead the way after making it three wins from three games against East Stirlingshire on Friday evening.
Massimo Donati marked his return to Scottish football with a debut goal as Hamilton eased to victory against St Mirren.
Ali Crawford put Accies in front on 13 minutes, putting the finishing touch to a superb sweeping move.
Dougie Imrie added number two, smashing home from 16 yards after reacting quickest to a loose ball.
Donati put some gloss on the scoreline 20 minutes from time, the former Celtic and AC Milan man firing home a low shot into the bottom corner.
Ayr United move to the top of the group on goal difference from the Buddies after Brian Gilmour scored the only goal of the game after just 11 minutes to edge out Edinburgh City at Somerset Park.
Morton are riding high with eight points from three outings after stunning Premiership Kilmarnock in Ayrshire.
Killie boss Lee Clark brought in 11 new players in the summer, and gave five of them home debuts, only for the hosts to be booed off the park.
Gary Oliver put Morton in front with a delightful goal. After being fed by Jai Quitongo, the striker took three defenders out with a silky dummy before sliding the ball past Jamie McDonald.
Quitongo, the son of former Hamilton and Hearts winger Jose, pounced on a mistake by defender Jonathan Burn to race in on goal and fire home from a tight angle to give the Championship side a great chance of reaching the knockout phase.
Clyde remain bottom of the section despite picking up their first points, with a 6-5 shoot-out victory.
Peter MacDonald put Barry Ferguson's men ahead just after the break but they were pegged back to 1-1 by Jordyn Sheerin's 64th-minute strike for Berwick Rangers.
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Forte struck midway through the first half, while Collins scored with the last kick of the match to up a home tie against Peterborough.
Graham Burke tested Grant Smith early on, with the Wood keeper getting down low to palm his stinging effort out for a corner. From the resultant kick, Adam Campbell's trickery got him into a shooting position, but he fired just wide.
Kenny Davis did well to deflect Stanley Aborah's shot wide, while at the other end, Anthony Jeffrey had the visitors' first sight of goal, curling a 20-yard effort over.
County took the lead when visiting defender Joe Devera misjudged the bounce of a pass and Forte nipped in to intercept before lashing the ball past goalkeeper Smith.
Genaro Snijders blasted wildly over from eight yards early in the second half, while visiting stopper Smith then made a sprawling low save from Campbell.
Bruno Andrade had a couple of chances for the visitors, but failed to test Adam Collin in the home goal, and just after Wood sub Jamie Lucas went close with a header, Collins cracked home a second goal deep into added time.
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Match ends, Notts County 2, Boreham Wood 0.
Second Half ends, Notts County 2, Boreham Wood 0.
Goal! Notts County 2, Boreham Wood 0. Aaron Collins (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Stanley Aborah.
Attempt saved. Jamie Lucas (Boreham Wood) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Jeffrey (Boreham Wood) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Stanley Aborah (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Jonathan Forte (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood).
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Joe Devera (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Stanley Aborah (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood).
Substitution, Boreham Wood. David Stephens replaces Mark Ricketts.
Attempt missed. Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Notts County. Alan Smith replaces Adam Campbell.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Genaro Snijders.
Delay in match Stanley Aborah (Notts County) because of an injury.
Robert Milsom (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Uchechi (Boreham Wood).
Attempt missed. Bruno Andrade (Boreham Wood) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Stanley Aborah (Notts County).
Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Jamie Lucas replaces Morgan Ferrier.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Danny Uchechi replaces Angelo Balanta.
Genaro Snijders (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood).
Corner, Boreham Wood. Conceded by Haydn Hollis.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Femi Ilesanmi.
Corner, Boreham Wood. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Angelo Balanta (Boreham Wood) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Joe Devera.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Boreham Wood. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Stanley Aborah (Notts County).
It was rolled out in part of the city in 2014 while the African National Congress (ANC) was still in power, to encourage people to cycle.
Opposition parties had criticised the ANC, saying the money should to used to provide services for poor people.
Mayor Herman Mashaba says the project would only be looked at once all the city's roads had been tarred.
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He is from the Democratic Alliance which won control of the city in August elections, with the support of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
The EFF had marched to former mayor Parks Tau's office, unhappy that the city had set aside 70 million rand ($4.9m; £3.7m) for cycle lanes in rich areas of the city while residents in Alexandra township still lived in squalid conditions.
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The news of the cycle lanes received a mixed reaction when it was announced in 2014.
While some felt it was a vanity project for the city's growing elite, others welcomed the vision of encouraging more residents to get out of their cars and cycle instead.
However, the move to halt the project has largely been welcomed.
The decision seems to show the influence of firebrand Julius Malema, whose EFF was merciless in its criticism of the lanes during its election campaign.
The EFF joined forces with the DA, which now runs Johannesburg.
The debate about infrastructure v the needs of the poor is a longstanding one here and it is a difficult balancing act.
Johannesburg fancies itself a world class city and meeting that ambition comes with a hefty price. But its managers also have to wrestle with the reality that many residents are still without basic services such as housing, water or proper sanitation, or proper roads.
While it would take a lot more than would have been spent on the lanes to relieve poverty in the city, this gesture may help to send the message that those who live on the fringes of Johannesburg's skyscrapers have not been forgotten.
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Looking around for his fellow villagers, he passes rows of vividly embroidered traditional dresses, pineapples with red ribbons tied round their middles in bows, and thousands of sombreros like his own.
This is the Guelaguetza, a folk festival in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca that attracts thousands of visitors from across Mexico and abroad.
It is also home to some of the strangest dances on the planet.
Indigenous dancers descend on Oaxaca for the second half of July from the hill villages that surround the colonial city.
In the Turkey Dance, men dressed up in large baskets pretend to be fighting turkeys, squawking and pushing each other over as the real thing calmly looks on.
The animal theme continues as people pretend to be angry bulls, charging at and headbutting their dance partners who flip bandannas provocatively over their heads.
At the end of each troupe's performance, the dancers throw gifts into the crowd, usually local sweets, herbs and basketwork.
One group, though, throws large mangoes and the scrabbling crowds race to protect their children's heads.
"Why are they throwing all the presents over there?" asks Gloria Castaneda, a tiny Zapotec woman with long grey braids.
"Throw them here, to us!" she yells, elbowing her neighbours out of the way to get to the front.
The dances, costumes, foods and high-pitched conversations of these Zapotec and Mixtec peoples seem things of an ancient past - and indeed, these peoples existed alongside the better-known Aztecs and Mayans.
This celebration of Oaxaca culture is the annual display of a civilisation that is undergoing a revival, especially among the young.
"The resurgence has to do with 'Indianness' now being considered stylish," says anthropologist Howard Campbell, an expert on Zapotec culture at the University of Texas at El Paso.
"Young people are interested in the language and culture because people all over the world now consider 'Indianness' cool, exotic, primordial and romantic."
On the way to collect orange mushrooms for the Cuajimoloyas mushroom festival, Sonia, an older Zapotec woman explains to her young friend, Isabel, the medicinal properties of hundreds of the plants they pass.
"This tree is good for sensitive teeth," she says, her arm round its trunk. "Pick the bark off, crush it with some water and rinse your mouth with it every day for three days."
"In many Zapotec communities, there is a generational gap," says Carlos Solle, a scholar of Mexican indigenous linguistics.
"The old people and the young people speak Zapotec, but those in the middle only speak Spanish."
A common explanation for this is that the middle-aged have spent long periods in the US, often working illegally.
Despite the great distance there is a regular trickle of Zapotecs into the US, with the main destination being Los Angeles.
Almost all the villagers who live in the forested mountains of Oaxaca, the Sierra Norte, have relatives there.
"I have hardly ever left the forest except to go to Los Angeles," says one man, who asked to be known only as Victor.
"But I didn't have any papers, so eventually I had to come back. My kids speak Zapotec, but I don't - they learned it off their grandparents while I was away."
However, Lynn Stephen of the University of Oregon, who has studied the Zapotecs of the Teotitlan del Valle region for 27 years, does not think there is a generation gap.
"There is certainly more interest now and support for speaking Zapotec," adding that the revival of the Zapatec language is happening in places where it had been thought lost.
"What has changed greatly is that there is much more of a sense of pride in speaking Zapotec and people seeing it as an asset.
"The Zapatista movement of the 1990s opened an important political space in Mexico for other indigenous movements and for many communities to regain pride in being indigenous," she says.
Some of the Zapotecs, though, were proud of their heritage and practising autonomy long before the Zapatista uprising in the neighbouring state of Chiapas in 1994.
Juchitan, a city known for its dominant women, has a tradition of indigenous intellectualism and in 1981 elected the Coalition of Workers, Peasants and Students to its city government.
The coalition set up a Zapotec radio station and literacy campaign before being thrown out of office by Mexico's then ruling party, the PRI, two years later.
Nevertheless they continued to promote all things Zapotec, and Juchitan Zapotecs have been able to retain much of their culture.
"Even the rich and powerful in that town are Indian and proud of it and speak the Zapotec language," says Professor Campbell.
Back at the Guelaguetza, the largely indigenous audience is shrieking with laughter at the latest dance troupe, who shrilly insult their partners' dancing ability in between dances.
"Strong stuff," says Mrs Castaneda, pouring her third cup of locally brewed liquor out of a petrol can.
"This is one of my favourite things about the Guelaguetza."
"We do have to be careful with giving these girls sympathy," the expert in radicalisation tells Newsbeat.
"We don't want to let another 15-year-old girl think she won't get into trouble if she goes."
So far in 2015, Islamic State fighters have ramped up an already aggressive propaganda drive.
One of their key aims is the recruitment of women from Europe and the UK. This is where social media is playing a new, sinister role.
"The latest estimate is around 550 Western women and I would agree with that figure.
"I currently monitor 90 because they blog or tweet prolifically," Melanie explains.
"They are fairly well informed about Islamic State. They are victims in that it is a pretty ruthless propaganda drive, but it is their choice," says Melanie.
"These girls are totally on board ideologically. They are not blind to the atrocities being committed.
"But they are misinformed about the danger.
"No one really knows what the conditions are like on the ground.
"Airstrikes are a massive deal and they won't really have any access to healthcare. They can't leave the house without an escort.
"Because of the shifting conflict they will constantly be on the move."
Many of the Twitter accounts Melanie Smith monitors share images of a happy and idyllic lifestyle.
"Recently we've seen women who have broken out... saying it is cold, there is no electricity. They are shrouding their concerns in their blogs," says Melanie.
"One of them tweeted about seeing a body which had frozen to death in the street. But they manipulated it to criticise the person.
"It's a warped way of saying things aren't great here.
"It has definitely been difficult for IS to support their own forces."
"The trigger for [running away] is liaising with people who are actually there," Melanie tells Newsbeat.
Many Westerners who have recently joined IS "already know someone there".
She adds: "The Bethnal Green girls already had a friend out there. And the girls from Manchester had a brother out there.
Others have been able to get "constant advice from people out there online".
Some have posted practical tips on booking flights, evading detection at the airport and crossing the border into Syria from Turkey.
"Tareena Shakil is from Birmingham. She went over with her toddler and was married off to a jihadi fighter.
"She realised she had made a mistake and broke into an official building where her passport was being kept."
Melanie says that when Tareena returned she said it had been an "impulse decision".
She was arrested immediately and her passport was revoked.
"Things are not what they seem. It is a very dangerous place to be, especially with children."
Melanie Smith is from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London.
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The notice, outside a house in Portugal Place, bears transcriptions in both classical languages stating cycles will be "removed or destroyed" if parked.
But it drew criticism after a picture was posted online, with some pointing out mistakes in the Greek message.
Others said the presence of a bike suggested the sign "hadn't worked".
It is not known how long the warning, behind a building previously used by the Greek Orthodox Church, has been in place.
Classicist Prof Mary Beard, from Newnham College, said the Latin part of the sign translates as "two wheels [cycles] left/abandoned here will be removed".
Selwyn College classics lecturer Dr Rupert Thompson said: "It's trying to say, 'bicycles left here will be destroyed'."
He agreed there were inaccuracies in the Greek warning.
"It's definitely trying to be ancient Greek but it's not quite.
He said both lines of the Greek had used the wrong letters, while one word carries the opposite meaning to that apparently intended.
"The second word, 'ΛΗΦΘΕΝΤΕΣ', actually means 'taken' not 'left'," he said.
"I don't know what to make of it really, but it's very amusing and it's absolutely great to see this in the city."
Both Prof Beard and Dr Thompson, however, agreed the Latin and Greek interpretation of the word "bicycle" was correct.
"Two wheels" was, they said, the best way to describe a bicycle, which was not invented until the early 19th Century.
Many commenting on Twitter called the sign "elitist", while one wrote: "I feel tempted to add some Anglo-Saxon graffiti."
Neither IS nor its Egyptian affiliate, which calls itself Sinai Province, is thought to possess missiles capable of hitting an airliner at cruising altitude, and neither has a track record of aviation attacks.
But five days on from the crash, which killed all 224 people on board shortly after take-off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, David Cameron has said it is "more likely than not a terrorist bomb" brought down the plane, and the UK has grounded flights from the resort.
British military officials are now on their way to Egypt and security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport is under intense scrutiny. Julian Bray, an aviation security analyst, told the BBC it is "highly probable" that even a relatively unsophisticated terror group could get a bomb on to a jet leaving the resort.
"It is unlikely a passenger would be able to carry it on board the aircraft, but it is quite likely it could have been taken into somewhere like the cargo shed and then into a container in the plane," he said.
"All passenger aircraft nowadays carry cargo as well, which often comes as a complete sealed unit, and the concern is that at airports like Sharm security is lax around cargo.
"A lot of the airports in the Far East and Middle East are running on a shoestring and they have to turn round aircraft and cargo as fast as possible.
"That leads to skimping on security procedures."
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Egypt has criticised suggestions that a bomb was involved in the crash. Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal said the country's airports all comply with international security standards.
Investigators are yet to reveal any information from the aircraft's black box recorders and there is no concrete evidence of a bomb attack.
US media reported on Tuesday that a military satellite detected a "heat flash" over Sinai at the time of the crash, suggesting an explosion, but officials said they have not ruled out a technical malfunction.
On Wednesday, Sinai Province, which first emerged as jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis - or Champions of Jerusalem - in 2011, reiterated its claim of responsibility in an audio recording circulated on social media, but refused to give any details about the method used.
"We brought it down by God's help, but we are under no obligation to reveal the mechanism we used," the statement said. "So search the wreckage of the plane, and find your black box and analyse it."
The data retrieved from the black boxes may reveal whether a bomb was involved. If Sinai Province's claim is corroborated, it will be the first IS attack against a passenger aircraft - a grisly milestone for the terror organisation.
Spectacular attacks against civilian targets - especially planes - have so far been the preserve of IS's much older rival, al-Qaeda, which was behind 9/11.
AQAP, al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, claimed responsibility for two bombs discovered unexploded on cargo planes in 2010 - one in London and one in Dubai. The 300-400g devices - large enough to bring down a plane - were hidden in printer cartridges aboard cargo flights from Yemen.
Both packages were destined for Chicago and timed using mobile phones to detonate over the US mainland.
And in 2010, the CIA said it had foiled a plot by AQAP to smuggle a technically advanced bomb on board an airliner bound for the United States.
By contrast, IS has so far focused on taking land and hostages, and inspiring lone wolf attacks in other parts of the world rather than planning its own sophisticated operations.
Many analysts have been waiting for a high-profile terror attack by IS, according to Dr HA Hellyer, a Middle East expert with the Royal United Services Institute. But the scale of the Metrojet attack would nonetheless be a surprise, he said.
"I don't think anybody expected an attack on a plane, maybe on a hotel or a kidnapping ... but nobody expected something this large," he said.
"I don't think it will surprise anyone such a radical and extremist group has targeted civilians, but certainly the nature of this attack is very dramatic."
If the attack is confirmed it would be a significant propaganda coup for IS, according to Dr Hellyer. "It would mean that they've taken out a huge number of civilians at once, and struck a blow against two of their enemies at once, Russia and Egypt."
And it will remain a success of sorts for IS even if investigators rule that the plane was brought down by a technical fault, he said.
"If it turns out that they didn't do it, that is still a victory in a sense. We are having this conversation now. They have managed to dominate the discussion, and that in itself is a communications victory."
He starred in plays, TV series and films.
One of his most popular roles was as the father in the 2013 comedy The Noble Family, in which he makes his three spoiled children believe he has cut them off from the family fortune so they are forced to get a job.
He had also starred for two decades in the play Senora Presidenta.
In Senora Presidenta (Et ta Soeur, in the French original) he played not one, but two female roles, and often added political quips to the script.
After Vega was diagnosed in 2010 with myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of bone marrow cancer, he temporarily retired from acting to get treatment.
His daughter Marimar announced last week that he would not return to acting after his health had deteriorated.
Vega, who was born in Mexico City in 1946, became an actor after studying philosophy.
His two daughters, Marimar and Zuria, also chose acting as their careers.
He died in Mexico City with his daughters, son Gonzalo and wife Andrea at his side.
Mexicans expressed their condolences to the family under the hashtag #GonzaloVega, where many also fondly recalled his most popular roles.
A funding package for the International Convention Centre Wales has been agreed by the hotel, the Welsh Government and NatWest.
The venue, projected to open in June 2019, will accommodate up to 5,000 delegates in a 1,500-seater auditorium and separate exhibition hall.
It would be the largest centre of its kind in Wales and south west England.
The Celtic Manor hosted world leaders at the 2014 Wales Summit of NATO while its adjoining golf course staged golf's 2010 Ryder Cup.
Excavation work has already begun on land next to the hotel and existing convention centre, overlooking the Coldra M4 junction 24 roundabout.
A 2,500 sq m plaza will be constructed as a welcome and additional exhibition area and 700 parking spaces will be built underneath the centre.
A joint venture company will construct and manage the centre as an equal partnership between the Celtic Manor and the Welsh Government.
Celtic Manor Resort chair Sir Terry Matthews said: "This International Convention Centre has been many years in the planning and I am delighted that we are now in a position to build and deliver this facility that will be such an asset to Wales.
"In the past, we've been forced to turn away hundreds of millions of pounds of business because we did not have the capacity to hold the largest conferences. Not any longer."
Economy and Infrastructure Secretary Ken Skates AM added: "This will be a major asset for Wales, enabling us to compete with any venue in the UK and indeed Europe to attract and host key events that make a huge contribution to the economy."
Danny Hall, 25, and Josh Robinson, 22, both from Kent, came off Austria's highest mountain pass, Grossglockner High Alpine Road, on Friday morning.
Mr Robinson's mother, Jennifer, said it felt like she had "lost two sons".
Mr Hall's mother, Michelle, said the pair were "two lovely lads" who shared "a special bond".
Mr Robinson's father, Marcus, said Josh was "kind, gentle, loving" and dreamt of becoming a Top Gear presenter.
"That was a little dream he had. They made videos and practised. The boys together were very amusing. I think they would have made fantastic presenters," he said.
"He really was a good person, such a lovely person. If I could honestly be half the man he was in his short life then I'd be happy."
Mrs Robinson said: "Josh meant more than the world to me."
Mr Hall was "like a son", she added. "They were like brothers. It feels like I have lost two sons."
The pair had been taking part in the Great European Rally, an eight-day drive through seven countries, beginning in Belgium and finishing in Hungary.
Police said the driver lost control of the pair's Seat Leon while driving about 8,000ft (2,400m) above sea level. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.
Mr Hall's mother, Michelle, said her son was a "bubbly character" who "lived life to the max".
She said: "Everywhere he went he would put a smile on anyone's face."
Mr Hall's parents said he had been excited about taking part in the Great European Rally and had repeatedly told friends and family he was "loving life".
In the last text he sent to his mother he said the rally had been one of the best experiences of his life and one he would "treasure forever", Mrs Hall said.
Of the friendship of the two young men, Mr Hall's father, Brian, said: "They just had the same sense of humour and they loved cars. If you watch their videos they rubbed off on each other all the time."
Mrs Hall added that the pair had known what they were doing and had not been taking part in a race, as police in Salzburg had at first suggested.
Officers have since said the pair were not racing before the crash and are treating it as an accident.
"They were two sensible lads, two lovely lads that had a special bond together and we want to get them home together," she added.
The pair had filmed updates and spoken of the dangers of the trip on social media before they died.
Mr Robinson's father said they had known about the some of the roads on the trip being "notorious for accidents".
He added: "As a father I thought don't be silly, be careful. But he was a young man with his own business about to purchase his own house.
"His age was more like 25-26 than 22. He was very mature for his age."
Mr Robinson, a civil engineer, had a love of cars and extreme sports and was a self-taught mechanic, his father said.
He said he could have imagined his son taking part in further car rallies if he had not been killed.
Mr Robinson's father said the pair had been wearing their seat belts at the time of the accident.
Since the pair were killed, there has been an outpouring of tributes on both of their Facebook pages.
Mrs Hall said it was "touching" so many people cared about the two men.
Now both families are in the process of trying to bring the bodies of the two men home.
"We want them home as soon as. If we can speed things up in any way shape or form, the process, we will do it because we want our baby back," Mrs Hall added.
Ian Paterson, of Altrincham, has denied 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man.
Judith Conduit said a blood clot was found during the procedure in 2001 and another surgeon did not have the correct implements to remove it.
She went to a hospital 94 times in 12 months as part of her recovery, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
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Mr Paterson, of Castle Mill Lane, Ashley, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, was employed by Heart of England NHS Trust and also practised at privately-owned Spire Healthcare hospitals.
He is alleged to have told Mrs Conduit she had Dercum's disease, a condition he had only seen twice before in his career.
She said: "He [Mr Paterson] said he could not keep removing the lumps because he was removing too much breast tissue and the only way forward would be to have a bilateral mastectomy."
Mrs Conduit said she was rushed to another hospital after the blood clot was discovered near to her heart during the procedure in July 2001.
The patient, then aged 47, had seen Mr Paterson in May and September 2000 when he removed lumps from her right and left breasts, which turned out to be benign fatty tissue, the court heard.
Breast surgery expert Prof Philip Drew, a senior lecturer in general surgery at the University of Hull, revisited her case.
While a number of operations carried out by Mr Paterson would appear reasonable to most surgeons, Prof Drew said, he thought the mastectomy was not.
He stated Mrs Conduit's condition was "mislabelled" as Dercum's.
The trial continues.
Celeste Smith, 19, from Saltash in Cornwall, was spotted on Plymouth Hoe on Monday afternoon after being missing since last Tuesday, police confirmed.
People from Saltash organised a search of the area, handing out flyers to passers by.
Devon and Cornwall Police treated the teenager's disappearance as a "high priority".
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The GMB hailed a decision by the Court of Appeal to reject an attempt by the company to overturn a previous ruling allowing it to negotiate for workers.
The court confirmed the GMB's right to ballot staff for union recognition.
Lidl said it was disappointed but would "respect the decision and the ballot process will receive our full support".
Lorraine Gaskell, regional organiser for the GMB, said: "Despite Lidl's repeated attempts at union-busting, the courts have today upheld a massive victory for workers' rights.
"The company has shown a shocking lack of respect for their own staff's wishes and wasted shareholders' money with this frivolous appeal.
"This will pave the way for workers at Bridgend to negotiate their pay and conditions via their democratically selected union reps."
A Lidl spokesman said: "We believe that our employees are fairly represented within the business, without having to engage with unions and creating a fragmented workforce.
"The proposed bargaining unit does not reflect the Lidl ethos of one company, one team.
"Our commitment to fairness across our entire workforce forms a central part of our core values. Our preference is to have open and direct lines of communication with our employees."
The Grade II public convenience, at the top of Whiteladies Road, in Clifton, is still in use and was built by Glasgow-based W.MacFarlane in the 1880s.
English Heritage said these "often humble structures" were "important to the streetscene of our cities".
Bristol City Council, which owns the cast-iron urinal, said it "remained very well used and appreciated".
An English Heritage spokesman said: "Historic elements of the public realm, including street furniture and public facilities, are particularly vulnerable to damage, alteration and removal and where they survive well, they will in some cases be given serious consideration for designation."
He said the urinal was a "relatively rare surviving example of a once common type of building" and represented the "civic aspirations of the authorities in the Bristol suburbs in the late Victorian period".
"In times of austerity, facilities and structures such as this set of urinals are under increasing threat, and where there are found to be deserving of protection English Heritage will recommend to the Secretary of State that they be added to the National Heritage List for England," he said.
Maggie Shapland, from the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society said: "We are really glad it makes it harder to destroy our heritage by raising awareness and we are highly delighted to keep part of our historic streetscape."
Two other similar structures were listed in Bristol in 1977 on Horfield Common and Mina Road Park.
The Oscar-winning director, who is currently working on a film in Krakow, served 42 days for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old before fleeing the country.
Polish prosecutors have confirmed they will question the 81-year-old, who has both Polish and French passports.
Polanski said he had "confidence in Poland's justice system".
"I will submit myself to the procedure and we will see," he told a TV news channel, "I hope everything will be alright".
Poland generally does not allow extradition of its citizens, but has an extradition agreement with the US who filed a request at the beginning of January.
Polanski was arrested in 2009 by Swiss authorities after travelling to Zurich to attend a film festival, but avoided extradition.
His movements are restricted by a warrant in effect in 188 countries, but he has avoided extradition by travelling between France, Poland and Switzerland.
The director is working on a new film, An Officer and A Spy, about a 19th Century French scandal dubbed "the Dreyfus affair".
He won an Oscar in 2003 for directing The Pianist, a harrowing story set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw that mirrored his own childhood experiences.
Both sides have one win from two matches so far, the Scots following up an opening day win over Ireland with defeat to France in Paris.
"I've learned in the last couple of years that our Six Nations can make or break with only one game," said the Harlequins wing.
"It's important we get a result here."
Wales opened their campaign with a resounding win over Italy in Rome, but are also now in need of a win to keep their title challenge alive having lost to England in Cardiff last time out.
Scotland have not beaten the Welsh since 2007 but Visser insists that fact is not weighing heavily on the squad.
"The stats don't lie. Wales are a good team," he said.
"We've had some narrow defeats against them in recent years. I remember losing here by three points a couple of years back.
"Going to the Millennium Stadium is hard but it's obviously a different game at Murrayfield. I remember sitting in a press conference before we played France last year and it was a similar story and we beat them.
"Statistically it (the third game) is always a key game. If we get a win then we are in a good position going forward and a position we want to be in."
Visser will start on the wing in place of the injured Sean Maitland and is looking forward to linking up with in-form full-back Stuart Hogg, who has scored three tries in two matches in the tournament so far.
"I remember when I first joined Scotland back in 2012," Visser recalled.
"He was just a young boy and seeing what he's grown into in the last couple of years has been brilliant. It's only going to benefit the players around him, especially the wingers when we link up with him.
"There's some stiff competition at full-back worldwide but especially in attack he's one of the best out there."
Wales' record points-scorer Neil Jenkins echoed Visser's view that this is a match neither side can afford to lose if they wish to retain any hope of competing for the title.
"If you win one out your first two then the third game is always massive," said Jenkins, now the Wales kicking coach.
"It can get you back in the mix for the championship. For both sides this is huge and both need to win to give ourselves a chance of staying in the championship and winning it.
"Scotland have been very good. They had an outstanding win against Ireland and were very close in Paris a week later to coming away with a victory. Probably looking back they will be disappointed they didn't win that game. We know it's going to be a tough game, it always is up here."
Inflation in the eurozone was 0.2%, unchanged from July and below analysts' forecasts of a slight increase.
The ECB has introduced a number of stimulus measures, but the inflation rate still remains some way off the bank's target of just below 2%.
Separate data showed the unemployment rate remained at 10.1% in July.
Analysts had been predicting a slight fall in the jobless rate.
Eurozone inflation remained unchanged as prices of food, services, and industrial goods rose by less than in July, while the drop in energy prices was not as sharp.
In March this year, the ECB stepped up its attempts to stimulate the eurozone's economy, cutting its main interest rate from 0.05% to 0% and its bank deposit rate from minus 0.3% to minus 0.4%.
The ECB has stepped up its programme of quantitative easing, and is now buying €80bn worth of bonds a month.
The bank's rate-setting Governing Council is due to meet next week, although analysts are not sure whether it will announce new policy measures at the meeting.
"It looks to be a very tight call as to whether or not the ECB acts on 8 September or decides to maintain a 'wait and see' stance as to how the Eurozone economy is performing - we marginally lean towards the 'wait and see' view," said Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight.
However, Stephen Brow of Capital Economics said: "There is a strong case for the ECB to announce further policy easing. This could come as soon as the bank's meeting next week."
HM Inspectorate of Probation said higher-risk individuals were "managed well" but the picture was "more troubling" for those of medium and lower risk.
"Too many people get too little meaningful attention from probation staff", the report said.
The Wales Probation Trust has been asked to comment.
It was the first such inspection in Wales since the UK government introduced its Transforming Rehabilitation Programme.
It looked at the quality of probation work carried out with criminals by two organisations under the umbrella of the trust - National Probation Services Wales (NPS) and the Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC).
While the NPS was working with higher risk individuals more effectively, the CRC's work with medium and lower-risk offenders was called into question.
"Overall, the work of the CRC in Gwent was troubling," the report said.
The CRC, which is run by Working Links, had an "impressive" community hub but its ways of working were "still in a state of flux", with staff morale "low", it added.
Inspectors found one in four people identified as low-risk had only one telephone call every six weeks as supervision.
The report said one in three of these should also have contact with unpaid work supervisors or other intervention staff if those arrangements were to work as intended.
"Inspectors concluded that this means too many people get too little meaningful attention from probation staff," the report said.
"Without meaningful contact, individuals are unlikely to develop the will to change their attitudes and behaviour."
Chief Inspector of Probation, Dame Glenys Stacey, added: "Assessing the risk that someone might pose is not an exact science and risks change over time.
"But, in our view, someone's circumstances can't be kept under proper review through a telephone call every six weeks.
"Some other aspects of the CRC's work are not operating as they should and it is taking a long time for things to bed down.
"Staff morale is low and sickness absence high, although we did find committed responsible officers working hard to support people and to help them to change."
She said the CRC was "performing relatively well", but this was sometimes "at a cost to other work that should be done".
Dame Glenys called on NPS Wales to ensure the quality of its work did not vary from place to place.
The report made a series of recommendations, including calls for improved access to rehabilitation and for the CRC to introduce measures to monitor how it was working and to keep its workload and staff numbers under review.
The court rejected a petition by bar owners to overturn the ban, which restricts liquor sales and consumption to bars in five-star hotels.
The southern state wants to shut bars in a move towards total prohibition within 10 years.
Kerala has India's highest per capita alcohol consumption at more than eight litres per person yearly.
The national annual average for alcohol consumption is estimated to be about 5.7 litres per person.
The government wants to make the southern state free from alcohol in the next 10 years to "protect youth from destroying their lives".
The order means that nearly 700 bars will be gradually shut in the state, which is popular among both domestic and foreign travellers.
Bar owners argued in the court that the ban would severely hit the state's income from tourism and also make many people jobless.
But the state said its priority was to protect the health of the people.
Doctors and activists have also highlighted rising alcohol abuse, blaming it for many road accidents and even marital breakdown. They say hospitals and rehabilitation centres in Kerala are packed with patients suffering from alcohol-related diseases.
The authorities, however, have made some concessions to impose the ban gradually.
Shops will continue to sell alcohol and bars have also been allowed to keep serving weaker alcoholic drinks such as wine and beer.
The company said pre-tax profit climbed by more than 15% in 2016 to £7.8m, while sales were 6.3% up at £179.8m.
There was a strong performance from its packaging distribution business, which increased sales by 9% to £155.9m.
Macfarlane said organic sales growth was "challenging" in the first six months of the year, but strengthened in the second half to 3%.
Its performance was boosted by contributions from a series of acquisitions last year, including Nelsons for Cartons and Packaging, Colton Packaging Teesside and the packaging business of Edward McNeil.
Sales in Macfarlane's manufacturing operations were down by 9%, at £23.9m, which the company largely attributed to "management actions to rebalance the mix of products in our labels business".
As a consequence of its acquisitions, the group's net bank borrowing at year-end stood at £15.3m, up from £11.6m the previous year.
Chairman Graeme Bissett said: "We will continue to focus on opportunities in sectors with strong growth prospects (including internet retail, third party logistics and national accounts) and to deliver high standards of service to all customers across a wide range of sectors.
"We will also maintain our programme of acquiring good quality businesses to augment organic growth.
"This is a strategy based on taking positive action, which has served all stakeholders in our business well in recent years and we remain confident that it will continue to do so."
Imperial College London said greys were first imported in the 1890s and it was thought they advanced rapidly as they could adapt well to new habitats.
But it is now thought humans assisted the expansion, with the 11th Duke of Bedford, Herbrand Russell, blamed with dispersing greys from Woburn Park.
"Their spread is far more our fault," said Dr Lisa Signorile at the college.
Dr Signorile compiled a DNA database of nearly 1,500 grey squirrels in the UK and Italy during her PhD studies at Imperial College London and the Zoological Society of London.
Her research was published in journals Biological Conservation and Diversity and Distributions.
Rumours a "super squirrel" had developed over the decades that could adapt better and spread further across Britain were quashed in her findings.
But she concluded the only way greys could have travelled so far was by human intervention.
Dr Signorile said "one of the worst offenders" at spreading them was Herbrand Russell.
He was involved in many successful animal conservation projects at Woburn Park in Bedfordshire, but he released and gifted many greys around the UK.
He also released populations in Regent's Park, likely creating London's epidemic of greys, Dr Signorile said.
"It was a time when we didn't know invasive species could cause so much damage," she said.
Sources: Forestry Commission / Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
The study also suggested new ways needed to be found to tackle the spread of grey squirrels in places where they are not yet established, including areas of Scotland, as they carry diseases that only kill red squirrels.
"The public needs to be aware of the risk of even accidentally moving squirrels," said Dr Signorile.
Morgan Power, 17, from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, died on 12 February, following the M4 crash near Swansea.
In a tribute, his family said they were "heartbroken" and everyone who knew him was in "a state of shock".
His father, Karl, who was driving the Peugeot Partner van is recovering from his injuries at Morriston Hospital.
The tribute from Mr Power's mother Claire and brother Jay, 14, said the engineering apprentice was a keen sportsman who wanted to follow in the footsteps of his dad who was his "idol".
"He was so close to all of his family - we are all heartbroken and will never forget the wonderful, laid back Morgan," the tribute read.
Police are trying to track down drivers in the area at the time of the incident as they try to put together a full picture of what happened.
They were shot in their car near the settlement of Otniel, in the deadliest such attack for over a month.
It comes amid a surge in attacks, mainly stabbings, on Israelis since the beginning of October.
Elsewhere, two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with Israeli troops, and another died after being wounded in clashes on Thursday, Palestinians said.
The Israeli military say the gunman opened fire on the car carrying the father, son and other members of the family.
Israeli media identified the victims as Yaacov Litman, 40, and 18-year-old Natanel. Another son, aged 16, was wounded.
A security operation is under way around the Palestinian village of Yatta, near Otniel, as Israeli forces search for the attacker.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the killing, vowing to "find the heinous murderers and... bring them to justice".
Meanwhile, two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with Israeli troops on Friday, Palestinian health officials said.
Yusuf Awad, 22, was killed near Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry said, while 23-year-old Hassan Jihad al-Baw was shot dead in Halhul, north of Hebron, Palestinian medics said.
Earlier, Palestinian Mahmud Shalaldeh, 18, who was shot by troops in clashes in Hebron on Thursday, died from his injuries.
The clashes erupted following the funeral of Mr Shalaldeh's relative, shot dead during an undercover Israeli raid on a hospital in Hebron to seize a suspect in the stabbing of an Israeli.
Twelve Israelis and dozens of Palestinians have been killed in recent unrest.
Many of the Palestinian fatalities were attackers in near-daily stabbings of Israelis, shot by their victims or security forces.
The surge in violence began in September when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over, amid rumours that Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex.
Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
Nugent, 47, was Slade's number two and has previously had spells as caretaker manager at Swansea and Leyton Orient.
The League One side sacked former Orient and Cardiff boss Slade on Monday after less than six months in the job.
Nugent will be assisted by first-team coach Simon Clark and Chris O'Loughlin, who has joined the staff at The Valley.
Charlton have dismissed reports linking O'Loughlin with the manager's job, stating he will not become their new boss.
O'Loughlin has had a spell as manager of Belgian side Sint-Truiden, which is part of a network of European clubs owned by Charlton owner Roland Duchatelet.
The Irishman has also been head coach of AS Vita in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and had stints on the coaching staff at Orlando Pirates in South Africa and Melbourne Victory in Australia.
The Addicks, who are 15th in the table, host Port Vale on Saturday.
Police said the woman had been injured in the incident on Maryhill Road, near the Tesco store, at about 13:20.
Paramedics attended and she was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. There is no information available on her condition.
Police closed off a section of Maryhill Road to investigate the crash but it has since re-opened.
But he says blocking out the emotion and drawing on how close they came to beating the Wallabies will help them launch their autumn series in style.
Laidlaw previously said he would take the pain of that controversial last-minute defeat "to the grave".
"When we take the emotion out of it, it is a game we could have won," he said.
"If we can use that as a positive again, that can help us because we were in the game for 80 minutes.
"But we understand that defensively we need to be stronger this time around. We gave away five tries so Australia will probably be thinking they can cause us problems.
"So we need to be real tight in our defence, real tight in our driving maul and our forward play so we are not giving away cheap points.
"If we get our stuff right, we feel as though we've got a strong game plan. We just need to stay in the moment and stick to our game plan. If we do that, we think we can be in the game."
While Laidlaw believes the way Scotland competed in that quarter-final "gives the team real confidence", he acknowledged the challenge of matching the Wallabies' Test-match intensity by Saturday.
Australia played six Rugby Championship games- winning three, losing three - between August and early October, and looked far more match-sharp than Wales in opening their November series against all four home nations with a crushing 32-8 victory in Cardiff last Saturday.
But Laidlaw thinks extra preparation time - Scotland have been in camp since early last week - and a change of focus to more rugby-specific training, rather than fitness, will help the hosts.
"We are in a better place now than we have been before going into first games in championships," added the Gloucester scrum-half, citing their "poor performance" in the first game of this year's Six Nations against England as evidence.
"We have had a pretty good hit-out to mirror a game. We are excited and we will be ready to go.
"It's an important game for us at home in front of our people, and when our studs hit the ground at the weekend we are going out there to meet fire with fire."
Australia full-back Israel Folau, who is set to win his 50th cap at Murrayfield on Saturday, insists the Wallabies have forgotten about the controversy that overshadowed their last meeting with Scotland.
"Obviously it was a decision made by the referee, it had nothing to do with the players," said the 27-year-old, who missed the World Cup quarter-final through injury before returning for the semi and final.
"I can understand from a Scottish supporters' point of view that it was very disappointing, but for us as players, we have looked past that.
"This week is a new game for us. We are going into it starting from zero. The guys have forgotten about what happened last time.
"It was no surprise to us how Scotland played and it will be no different this week. We are expecting a very tough, challenging game."
Scientists want these ubiquitous gadgets to be put to work helping them detect and investigate earthquakes.
The devices contain accelerometers and a team at the Berkeley Seismic Laboratory says the mechanisms are capable of monitoring tremors.
An app is being developed that will record the shaking during major events and then report the data back to a central server over the cell network.
The high numbers of smartphones now in circulation mean researchers could get very detailed information on who felt what, and where.
It is the sort of insight that is useful for future hazard assessment and risk planning, but real-time data could also eventually play an important role in California's earthquake early warning system.
This aims to give people precious seconds' advance notice that a big trembler is on its way.
"Nowadays, smartphones carry all sorts of sensors, and we can put these to use in unexpected ways," explained Qingkai Kong. "Right now, we can only detect earthquakes above about Magnitude 5.0, but with better accelerometers in future smartphones we would hope to detect smaller ones as well," he told BBC News.
The University of California, Berkeley, researcher was speaking here at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
He and colleagues were not sure at first that mobile phones would be up to the task of being pocket seismometers. So a selection of the gadgets was put on the lab's "shake table".
This instrument can simulate various grades of tremors. It is usually employed to test the robustness of various construction techniques, to provide confidence that buildings will not collapse during an earthquake.
The results clearly demonstrated that the accelerometers - used primarily in phones as part of the mechanism to tilt the screen - could pick up the shaking.
The confounding issue, of course, is that phones are rarely left alone on a flat surface - they are moving around with their owners.
But the team believes it can solve this problem as well, and has developed an algorithm that will subtract the human "noise" in the data.
"The pattern recognition algorithm sees typical human activities such as walking, running and driving, and we use that information to disengage those activities from the earthquake signal," said Mr Kong.
This algorithm is rarely fooled, he added.
Berkeley's project is very much in its early stages and the team hopes soon to start recruiting more people into its research project. It is likely to issue a test app to thousands of volunteers across the San Francisco Bay Area next year.
This is a region that lives with the knowledge that a major quake could happen at any time. A Magnitude 7.9 event in 1906 flattened San Francisco; and Berkeley itself sits right on top of the Hayward Fault, which many scientists suspect will deliver the next big blow to the Bay Area.
Having good reports on the amount of shaking in an earthquake from different locations is invaluable data.
The level of disturbance a person feels will depend on many things: the number and quality of buildings close by, and the nature of the soils on which they are built, etc. It is even possible for individuals on opposite sides of a street to have quite different experiences.
Shaking reports help planners identify weaknesses in construction standards and are used to raise the level of preparedness for the next big event.
Moreover, a smartphone seismic network has potential to feed directly into the early warning system.
This relies on being able to detect the faster-moving but not-so-damaging P-waves of a seismic event ahead of its S-waves, which cause most destruction.
How much warning an individual gets will depend on how far they are from the epicentre of a quake.
It can though amount to several seconds - time enough for individuals to take cover in a doorway, for trains to slow, for planes to be passed a message to abort their landing, and for surgeons to finish a delicate procedure.
The current generation of smartphones does not have the sensitivities yet to participate in such a programme, but the performance being promised by tech companies for future accelerometers suggests the dream may soon be fulfilled.
Being everywhere and always on, smartphones would then not only provide a dense source of data for the warning system but be the means also to issue its alerts through dedicated tones and messages.
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Their heads move some 6m/s (20ft/s), at each peck enduring a deceleration more than 1,000 times that of gravity.
But researchers reporting in Plos One say that unequal upper and lower beak lengths and spongy, plate-like bone structure protect the birds' brains.
The findings could help design more effective head protection for humans.
For years, scientists have examined the anatomy of woodpeckers' skulls to find out how they pull off their powerful pecking without causing themselves harm.
The birds have little "sub-dural space" between their brains and their skulls, so the brain does not have room to bump around as it does in humans. Also, their brains are longer top-to-bottom than front-to-back, meaning the force against the skull is spread over a larger brain area.
A highly-developed bone called the hyoid - which in humans is just above the "Adam's apple" - has also been studied: starting at the underside of the birds' beaks, it makes a full loop through their nostrils, under and around the back of their skulls, over the top and meeting again before the forehead.
However, Ming Zhang of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a co-author of the new work, said that he and his colleagues wanted to get to the bottom of the problem numerically.
"We thought that most of the previous studies were limited to the qualitative answer to this question," he told BBC News.
"More quantitative studies are necessary to answer this interesting problem, which would aid in applying the bio-mechanism to human protective device design and even to some industry design."
First, the team had a look at woodpeckers in a controlled environment: two slow-motion cameras captured images of the birds striking a force sensor that measured their pecking power.
They found that the birds slightly turn their heads as they peck, which influences how forces are transmitted.
The team also gathered computed tomography and scanning electron microscope analyses of woodpecker skulls, laying out in detail how the parts fit together and where bone density varied.
With those data in hand, they were able to use a computer simulation to calculate the forces throughout the birds' skulls in the process of pecking.
The team's simulations showed that three factors were at work in sparing the birds injury.
Firstly, the hyoid bone's looping structure around the whole skull was found to act as a "safety belt", especially after the initial impact.
The team also found that the upper and lower halves of the birds' beaks were uneven, and as force was transmitted from the tip of the beak into the bone, this asymmetry lowered the load that made it as far as the brain.
Lastly, plate-like bones with a "spongy" structure at different points in the skull helped distribute the incoming force, thereby protecting the brain.
The team stresses that it is the combination of the three, rather than any one feature, that keeps woodpeckers pecking without injury.
A worker at the hospital said that colleagues were under tremendous pressure, after a "major incident" was declared on Monday 2nd January.
The Western Health Trust confirmed it was due to a high volume of patient numbers.
However a Trust spokesperson said the incident was "stood down" within hours.
It is also understood that there were trolley waits at Altnagelvin.
The Irish News reported on Tuesday that the hospital had to implement a "full 999 divert".
In a statement to the BBC the Western Health and Social Care Trust said:
"The Trust activated its business continuity measures before Christmas and this supported the Trust's operation through the outbreak of Norovirus.
" (Monday) 2nd January 2017 proved a particularly difficult and challenging day and the emergency plan was enacted for a period of time to deal with a pressurised period in our ED (emergency department).
"This measure was stood down shortly afterwards".
In a report in November 2016, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) found that staff at Altanagelvin's emergency department were "burnt out".
Newly released figures also show that more than 400 patients had to wait at least 12 hours at emergency departments over the Christmas period.
The figures were obtained by the BBC from the Health and Social Care Board.
From Christmas Eve to 2 January, 462 patients had a wait of at least 12 hours to be admitted, discharged or transferred.
The Health and Social Care Board has apologised for any "distress and inconvenience".
The pressure was most acute in Antrim Area Hospital, where 165 patients faced at least a 12-hour wait.
At the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, 94 patients had to wait the same period of time while there were 60 patients affected at Craigavon Area Hospital.
In the Western Health Trust, 33 patients waited at least 12 hours in Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital while the same number waited 12 hours at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
In Belfast, 28 patients faced a 12-hour wait at the Royal Victoria Hospital and 24 others waited in excess of 12 hours in the Mater Hospital.
The hospital which had the fewest 12-hour waits was the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, with nine cases.
From December 24 to 29, there was a 9% rise on the number of attendances at emergency departments compared to the same period last year.
There was an increase of 14% on those visiting the emergency department in Antrim Area Hospital, while the increase was just 4% at the Royal Victoria.
In a statement, the board said there was a very high level of demand on urgent care services because of winter illnesses, including the norovirus.
It said it is working with health trusts, primary care colleagues and other key partners to alleviate the pressure.
"Plans have been put in place across the Health and Social Care system to manage increased demand at this time of year.
"However, given the extent of the increase in demand, some patients have had to wait more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital.
"We fully understand the distress and inconvenience this causes to patients and their families and apologise to them for it."
Figures showing the amount of patients who had to wait more than four hours are due to be published on Thursday.
The Movistar rider powered up the famous Mur de Huy climb to take his third victory in a row.
The Spaniard, 35, finished just a few metres ahead of Etixx-Quick Step's Julian Alaphilippe and Dan Martin on the Ardennes course.
Anna van der Breggen won the women's race, as Britain's Lizzie Armitstead came home in 28th place.
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The US requested the arrest of Richard Ammar Chichakli, a Syria-born American, who has been on the run since 2005.
Mr Chichakli, who faces 20 years in jail in the US, is accused of being Bout's chief financial manager.
He has repeatedly denied the allegations, saying he never worked for the convicted arms dealer.
US agents captured Bout, an ex-Soviet officer, in a 2008 sting operation in Thailand. He was jailed for 25 years last April.
Mr Chichakli, 53, who apparently entered Australia using fake documents, was captured after applying for a job as an armed guard.
"The man was found to be a person of interest through a routine background check, and was not offered a job," said a Victoria state police spokesman.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration announced Mr Chichakli's arrest in a statement late on Thursday.
"The international law-enforcement community has long recognised Richard Chichakli as a key criminal facilitator in Viktor Bout's global weapons trafficking regime and his arrest means the world is safer and more secure," said DEA administrator Michele Leonhart.
Mr Chichakli, a trained accountant, is accused of trying to buy planes that would have been used to transport weapons.
He is also accused of several counts of money-laundering, fraud and conspiracy.
The DEA said Mr Chichakli faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the nine counts if convicted.
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Photographer Eric Luke sometimes wonders about him.
He took this photo in 1977 when he travelled north from Dublin to cover the Queen's Silver Jubilee visit for the Irish Press.
There was trouble that culminated in a street battle between rioters and the Army. The boy stands, hemmed in by police and soldiers, in the shadow of machine guns.
His earnest face struck a chord with the photographer.
"That trip was my baptism of fire," said Luke. "There was a lock-down and there were a lot of protests.
"I was with (Irish Press photographer) Colman Doyle. I used to go to the north when I was off duty and cover events like the hunger strikes."
In later days, there were more positive pictures - he came to Northern Ireland to cover visits from US President Bill Clinton and U2.
Eric Luke had a ringside seat on history unfolding. He was present for the great highs and deep lows in modern Ireland.
But he also has that yearning to record the everyday wonder of Irish life.
He started off with the Irish Press and then moved to the Irish Times. In a career of more than 40 years, he won many awards for his work.
But at the end of this week, Luke will be zipping up his camera bag and closing the door on the Times newspaper office for the last time.
The world of photography has changed utterly since he began his trade in the old days of the newspaper dark room.
It was a room that no-one entered without knocking. Photography was a dark art. Walk into the dark room and taste the sting of chemicals.
Watch a photographer butterflying fingers across the developing paper as it lies in its bath of developer and wonder as ghostly faces and familiar places emerge from the shadows to make a print.
Luke, from south Dublin, got his first job with the Irish Press in 1973 when he was 19 years old.
But he had fallen in love with photography long before that. He set up a dark room in his home when he was just a schoolboy and would go off to concerts, taking pictures of rock stars like Phil Lynott and Rory Gallagher, sending his work off to the papers.
In newspapers back then, there were no fast-track schemes. Would-be photographers started off at the bottom.
"The Irish Press brought me in to the dark room and that was how my apprenticeship began," he said.
"But after a few months, it was straight in at the deep end. The Press had 17 staff photographers and 1,500 employees. There were three newspapers - morning, evening and Sunday - and there were six editions of the Evening Press.
"In ways, it was just like the internet now. We had strict time limits and deadlines to meet."
The young photographer's first big state diary marking was the inauguration of Irish President Patrick Hillery in 1976.
"A team of seven photographers were sent from the paper. As I was the most junior, I was basically put in what was deemed the poorest position, on a balcony facing a doorway.
"I would see the procession enter the courtyard before disappearing from view a few seconds later. In among all the dignitaries, I spotted his daughter, Vivienne. She popped her head out to see her dad, the new president of Ireland. I grabbed three frames and in the middle one, I got lucky.
"It was only for a fraction of a second, but it made for a really good picture. Back at the office, everyone was queuing up for the dark room. I went and pleaded to put my rolls in early and jump the queue. That was the picture of the day, the front page of the Evening Press."
Sometimes, a picture is about being in the right place at the right time.
For Luke, that was what happened with the death of the Irish writer Francis Stuart in 2000. He was husband to Iseult Gonne, daughter of Maud Gonne - the woman who was a muse to W B Yeats.
He later married Finola Graham. He was 97 years old when he died.
"I had travelled to Clare to photograph the artist, Finola Graham, who was Stuart's wife," said Eric.
"When she opened the door, she said: 'Francis has just died'.
"'I will leave you to it,' I said. But she said: 'No, you must come in.'
"I asked was there anything I could do to help her... and she said: 'We need to lay him out'."
Luke helped her prepare her husband's body, as she waited for family and friends to arrive. It would be a huge funeral. But Eric Luke had arrived in that little pause before the drama and the flurry of a funeral begins.
The scene was stark, sombre and compelling.
"There was a bare light bulb dangling from the ceiling. She had got out his books and his manuscripts. It looked like a backdrop from an Abbey Theatre set," he said.
"Amazingly, just by the way it happened, I was there to photograph it."
It was at another funeral, on a grander world stage, that Eric Luke took another picture to remember.
He travelled to India for Mother Teresa's funeral in Calcutta. There had been some dispute between the state and the nuns about where she would be buried. The state favoured a more public grave, he said, but the nuns had their own ideas.
"I was fortunate in that some children brought me to a place away from the media, on to a roof top," he said.
"The state was handing over her remains to the nuns. It was a very historic picture. The state wanted to put her in a big grave, but the nuns said she would be buried under the floor of the mother house."
His photograph won him a prestigious World Press Photo News award.
Regular markings are part of the cut and thrust of a daily newspaper.
But the old easygoing world of concerts and music has been hijacked by protocol.
"I have been to a lot of concerts. Rory Gallagher played every venue, everywhere. I remember him at the old Carleton cinema in Dublin. You could just walk in, go straight up to the stage and take the pictures. Rory was this guy strolling about in his jeans and denim jacket - what a fantastic experience," he said.
"Compare that to U2 who played at Belfast's Odyssey in 2015. You need accreditation, you are told certain song numbers when you can take pictures, it is all very controlled."
It's that control that makes the job of finding that unusual picture all the more difficult.
It is the spontaneous look sideways or hand gesture that makes the story. In a strictly controlled environment, that is more difficult to clinch.
As a photographer, Luke has also often been drawn to the pictures of a life that is fading fast.
He is a social historian - taking moody shots of an old-style barber's shop or capturing a saddle-maker's shop in the week before the builders moved in to sweep it away and make room for a fancy juice bar.
There are some things he shall not miss about life as a press photographer.
"I won't miss the paperwork or the doorsteps or the endless waiting about for hours for VIPs, followed by 30 seconds of taking pictures," he said.
When Luke closes the door on Friday, he has other adventures planned.
He has a love of the islands around Ireland and wants to photograph ordinary people getting on with their lives, miles away from the press pack and the PR control.
"I think us photographers are all outdoor people, we have spent our lives outside," he said.
He may have closed the door on the day job, but he will always be a photographer - just one with fewer deadlines and more time to gaze.
BBC Radio 5 live pundit Waddle believes Rooney, who is yet to score this season following United's 3-1 Champions League win over Club Brugge, is best suited to playing behind another forward.
Waddle said: "United are lacking a presence, someone up front who can control the game and score goals.
"They need a poacher in the box."
He added: "Rooney doesn't seem to have somebody he can play with and that is why they need to buy a top-class number nine for him to play behind."
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Memphis Depay, who played on the left wing, scored two of United's three goals against Brugge, with midfielder Marouane Fellaini, who came on for Rooney, adding a third.
Manager Louis van Gaal claimed last season that United had not challenged for the Premier League title because they lacked a 20-goal striker.
Since then, the Dutchman has allowed Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao to leave and has not signed a replacement, although Javier Hernandez has returned from a loan spell at Real Madrid.
Captain Rooney has played as United's most advanced player in their first three games this season.
The England international, 29, stretched his goalless run for his club to nine matches before being replaced by Fellaini, who headed United's final goal in their play-off first-leg win over Brugge on Tuesday.
Waddle added: "At the moment Rooney is lacking confidence. He is isolated and doesn't look composed in front of goal.
"He is physical, he's got good pace and a great range of passes, which is why he's best played behind the striker.
"Van Gaal keeps saying he's got four centre-forwards and doesn't need another one. I think he's got four number 10s. I don't think he's got an out-and-out number nine."
As well as Hernandez, who came on against Brugge, teenager James Wilson is United's other striking option.
The attack happened in the Dhu Varren Park area of Portrush shortly before 03:00 GMT on Sunday morning.
It was reported that a group of men assaulted two others, smashed the windows of a car and damaged the windows of a house.
The other man, 69, was treated in hospital for cuts to his head.
The arrested men are being questioned in connection with grievous bodily harm with intent, criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon.
The survey of 500 employers found 69% were concerned about not being able to find enough highly-skilled staff, compared with 55% last year.
The report showed that demand for low-skilled workers would continue to fall.
Tackling this skills gap has become a "top business priority", said CBI deputy director general Josh Hardie.
The survey says this could become even more difficult after the decision to leave the European Union.
"Not only will we have our existing UK skills shortages to address, but potentially reduced access to migrant skills will also impact businesses," says the CBI's report on the survey results.
Neil Carberry, the business group's director of employment and skills, said it was "absolutely critical" that businesses had clarity on the status of EU nationals currently working in the UK.
The CBI's education and skills survey examines the recruitment needs of firms employing more than three million staff between them.
The results show a changing jobs market, with employers saying they need to recruit more skilled staff, while cutting the number of low-skilled jobs.
But there are concerns about whether there is an adequate pool of such well-qualified staff, with more than two-thirds of firms not confident there will be enough staff to meet demand.
There are also problems with basic skills, with the survey showing almost a third of businesses had concerns about the literacy and numeracy levels of their new recruits.
But employers were more likely to rate "attitude to work" as more important than formal qualifications.
Rod Bristow, president of Pearson UK, and co-sponsor of the survey, said: "Employers don't just value what people know; they value what they can do. By far the most important 'skills factor' centres on attitudes and aptitudes such as ability to present well."
Improving careers advice was also seen as important and in a separate survey, the Baker Dearing Educational Trust, which supports University Technical Colleges, found that young people particularly benefited from direct contact with employers, such as work experience and talks from employers.
The CBI report reflects doubts about the government's proposed apprenticeship levy, which will take a levy from bigger employers to pay for targets for more apprenticeships.
The report warns that employers want "better quality training places" and do not want to pay extra for current training to be "rebadged".
Mr Hardie said the levy scheme "will need a genuine change of direction if it is to work" and he warned that employers still did not have enough practical information about the proposals.
"As it stands the levy system will work in Whitehall but it won't work in Walsall," he said.
But Petra Wilton, director of strategy at the Chartered Management Institute, said: "We need to stop knocking the apprenticeship levy and remember why it exists, we're failing to invest in the future and hurting our international competitiveness."
Mr Carberry said skills would be the key to the UK's competitiveness, regardless of what type of trading arrangements were concluded after the UK ends its EU membership.
"If you want a high skills, high pay UK, it's all based on skills."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: "We are introducing the apprenticeship levy so that businesses have the talent they need to grow and thrive.
"We will continue to work closely with businesses of all sizes to design the levy around their needs and the need of their employees."
The campaign,on Change.org, follows reports of poor working conditions in factories that make Apple products.
A separateSumOfUs petition, with more than 43,000 signatories, calls for the iPhone 5 to be made "ethically".
Apple acknowledged the demands. Its chief executive earlier said it cared about every worker in its supply chain.
The Change petition was organised by Washington-based communications worker Mark Shields.
It calls on Apple to "release a worker protection strategy for new product releases", saying that injuries tend to spike at times when staff are under the most pressure.
It also praises Apple's commitment to allow the non-profit Fair Labor Association to monitor the suppliers, but urges the company to publish the results with details of where each identified violation occurred.
The SumOfUs movement focuses its efforts on the firm's next major smartphone update.
"Every time a Foxconn worker is killed or disabled making an Apple product, Mr Cook bears personal moral responsibility," wrote Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the campaign's executive director.
"Apple is going to have much bigger longer-term problems than paying a few extra dollars for its products if it loses its lustre with ethical consumers," she added.
The petitions follow a New York Times investigation into working conditions in Chinese factories used by Apple.
An anonymous Apple executive told the paper that the firm just had to say the word to bring about change.
"Suppliers would change everything tomorrow if Apple told them they didn't have another choice," he is quoted as saying.
It prompted acompany-wide email responsefrom Apple's chief executive, defending the firm's position.
"Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern," Tim Cook wrote.
"Every year we inspect more factories, raising the bar for our partners and going deeper into the supply chain. As we reported earlier this month, we've made a great deal of progress and improved conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers," he added.
The company also referred the BBC to its most recentSupplier Responsibility Progress Report.
The document says that Apple conducted 229 audits throughout its supply chain in 2011. It says that is an 80% increase on 2010, including more than 100 first-time audits.
The issue about overseas working conditions hit the headlines two years ago when 137 workers at Apple supplier Wintek in eastern China were injured after they used a poisonous chemical - n-hexane - to clean iPhone screens.
Last year four workers were killed in two separate explosions at factories manufacturing iPads.
Taiwanese factory owner Foxconn, which employs an estimated 1.2 million workers in China, has come in for some of the closest scrutiny, amid claims that at least 18 of its workers have attempted suicide over the past two years.
The New York Timesrecently reported workers' accountsof 20 people being "stuffed" in a three-room apartment and a riot set off by "a dispute over paychecks".
It also noted that Apple's previous audits had turned up cases of under-age workers and staff being paid less than the minimum wage at unspecified locations.
The paper said that Foxconn disputed the accounts of crowded living accommodations and the causes of the riot, and said that it had "never been cited by a customer or government for under-age or overworked employees or toxic exposures".
Apple tends to be singled out because of the huge profits it makes - and many of the other big tech firms outsource manufacturing to Foxconn and other Chinese suppliers.
Despite recent reports, workers in China do not appear to have been dissuaded from applying for jobs at the firms.
China'sCUTV station recently reportedthat Foxconn's efforts to recruit an additional 100,000 workers to its Zhengzhou campus attracted long queues of young jobseekers, including staff from one of its Shenzhen plants.
The Team Sky rider, one of race leader Chris Froome's key helpers in the mountains, came off on a descent.
Welshman Thomas, who was second overall at the start of the stage, suffered a broken collarbone after being brought down by Polish rider Rafal Majka.
"I'm just thinking of the devastation of leaving the Tour and another Grand Tour," Thomas told Team Sky's website.
Thomas also crashed out of the Giro d'Italia in May - caused by a police motorbike - on stage nine, when he was Team Sky's race leader.
His absence will be a blow to Froome, who is trying to win a third successive Tour de France and fourth title in five years.
"I crashed at the Giro on stage nine, and it's stage nine again here. I was lying second overall on both days as well. It's just so disappointing." Thomas continued.
"Everyone was nervous, everyone wanted to be at the front and a few people were battling to get between myself, Froomey and the rest of the boys.
"I let Majka in and then he came down right in front of me on a straight bit of road. I had nowhere to go, went over the top of him, and landed on my collarbone.
"Team doctor Jimmy [Juan Mercadel] said he thought it was broken but I got back on the bike and carried on down the descent, but when I got on the flat I knew something was wrong.
"Then the race doctor said exactly the same so I ended up stopping then, went for a scan, and it's broken."
Thomas won stage one of this year's race and wore the leader's yellow jersey until Froome took it after stage five.
The 31-year-old crashed on the damp descent of the Col de la Biche, just under halfway through the mountainous 181.5km stage from Nantua to Chambery.
It was Thomas's fourth crash of the Tour, having also gone down on the second, fourth and eighth stages.
He was not the only rider to crash out with Richie Porte, one of the race favourites, a notable casualty.
Hanes Llandoch, in St Dogmaels, will plant the apple tree Pig Aderyn, which is believed to have been first brought to the abbey by monks from Normandy in the 12th Century.
The charity has received nearly £250,000 from the Big Lottery Fund for the three-year initiative.
The orchard's produce will eventually be turned into cider and work is expected to begin in September.
It will also provide training and education opportunities for people in the community, including workshops on how to brew cider.
Nia Siggins, who works for the charity, explained: "Two years ago we organised that evacuees who came to St Dogmaels during the war visited the village again.
"They were in their eighties and we went around the area showing them what had changed.
"One of the things that came out of those discussions was the fact that many said there were more apple trees when they were children.
"They were asking, 'where have they gone, where have all the apple trees gone?'"
The trees will be planted in fields close to the ruins of the monastery and the charity hopes to sell the cider in the future.
Ms Siggins said: "There's a famous anecdote [that] the Bishop of St Davids came to the monastery in St Dogmaels once and he found that some of the monks were getting drunk often.
"That's been documented. So we hope to have a blend Drunk Monk or something."
The project would offer something "for all ages", she added.
Michael Curran, 62, walked free from Leeds Crown Court earlier after a judge directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts on the two charges.
The allegations related to his time as a teacher at St Williams residential school in Market Weighton in the 1980s.
The trial continues into the case of James Carragher and Anthony McCallen.
Both plead not guilty to allegations of abuse.
Ex-principal James Carragher denies 50 counts of indecent assault between the 1970s at the East Riding of Yorkshire site, and 12 other serious sex offences.
Earlier in the trial, the jury heard how the 75-year-old, of Merseyside, was jailed for seven years in 1993 and 14 years in 2004 for sex offences.
The jury was also told how the former chaplain at the home, 69-year-old Mr McCallen, also of Merseyside, was convicted of abusing two boys in the 1990s.
He denies 18 indecent assaults and seven other serious sexual offences.
Mr Curran, from Teesside, was acquitted of one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and another of indecent assault.
Despite fielding a strong side, the Championship club went out in the first round for the third time in four years.
"I have no complaints about the result, I have hundreds of complaints about the performance," he told BBC Suffolk.
"We didn't get about them. They were faster to the ball, better in the air and better in the tackle."
McCarthy was particularly unhappy with how his side failed to increase the pressure as the game went on.
"Why we should be as flat as that, I don't know?" said McCarthy said.
"We had nobody on the pitch that really grabbed it and said 'lets get the tempo going' and that for me is really disappointing.
"We're out of it and I'm bitterly disappointed, I'm fuming at the minute."
Sky Atlantic's supernatural horror Penny Dreadful, set in Victorian London, won for original music, production design and make-up and hair.
BBC One's Sherlock won the sound and editing awards in the fiction category.
Mackenzie Crook won his first Bafta, for comedy writing, for Detectorists, which he starred in with Toby Jones.
Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright was honoured in the drama category for her rural police thriller.
The BBC One drama is one of four programmes leading the nominations at next month's Bafta TV awards, where it is up for three alongside The Missing, Line of Duty and Marvellous.
Julian Farino, the director of BBC Two's fantasy-biopic Marvellous - which starred Toby Jones as Neil Baldwin - was also honoured at Sunday night's Craft Awards ceremony, hosted by Stephen Mangan.
Staff on ITV talent show The X Factor won the entertainment craft team award, beating rival teams on BBC One shows The Voice and Strictly Come Dancing.
Other winners included the 2014 FA Cup Final (ITV Sport), Channel 4's Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, ITV's The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies and Messiah at the Foundling Hospital (BBC Two).
Work on BBC One's Doctor Who, Paedophile Hunter and Dispatches' Children on the Frontline on Channel 4, the BBC's Winter Olympics 2014 coverage and The Musketeers (BBC One) was also honoured.
Hilary Briegel was handed the evening's special award, for her work as a vision mixer on programmes including Absolutely Fabulous, Only Fools and Horses, Newsnight, the Wimbledon Championships and the Olympic Games.
Sherlock - starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman - has now earned nine Baftas in four years.
Penny Dreadful, whose cast includes Helen McCrory, Eva Green and Simon Russell Beale, also triumphed in the original music category for Abel Korzeniowski's score.
British Academy Television Craft Awards winners in full:
Special award - Hilary Briegel
Breakthrough talent - Marc Williamson (The Last Chance School)
Costume design - Phoebe De Gaye (The Musketeers)
Digital Creativity - Live From Space: Online
Director, factual - Dan Reed (The Paedophile Hunter)
Director, fiction - Julian Farino (Marvellous)
Director, multi-camera - Paul Mcnamara (2014 FA Cup Final)
Editing, factual - Jake Martin (Grayson Perry: Who Are You?)
Editing, fiction - Yan Miles (Sherlock)
Entertainment craft team - Dave Davey, Robert Edwards, Falk Rosenthal (The X Factor)
Make up and hair design - Enzo Mastrantonio, Nick Dudman, Stefano Ceccarelli (Penny Dreadful)
Original music - Abel Korzeniowski (Penny Dreadful)
Photography, factual: Marcel Mettelsiefen - (Children On The Frontline, Dispatches)
Photography and lighting, Fiction - Mike Eley (The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies)
Production design - Jonathan McKinstry, Philip Murphy (Penny Dreadful)
Sound, factual - Mike Hatch, Kuz Randhawa, Matt Skilton (Messiah At The Foundling Hospital)
Sound, fiction - John Mooney, Douglas Sinclair, Howard Bargroff, Paul Mcfadden (Sherlock)
Special, visual and graphic Effects - MILK VFX, REAL SFX, BBC WALES VFX (Doctor Who)
Titles and graphic identity - Mark Roalfe, Tomek Baginski, Ron Chakraborty (Winter Olympics 2014)
Writer, comedy - Mackenzie Crook (Detectorists)
Writer, drama - Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley)
The plaque in Dudley will mark where Edwards grew up before signing for Manchester United as a teenager.
Sir Bobby told the crowds Edwards had been "like a brother" to him ahead of the unveiling.
The plaque was unveiled on what would have been Edwards's 80th birthday. He died from injuries sustained in the 1958 Munich Air Crash.
The tribute at Priory Park will mark where the player "honed his skills" near his childhood home on the Priory Estate, said Dudley North MP Ian Austin.
Mr Austin, who helped organise the event, said Edwards was "the greatest footballer that ever played".
Sir Bobby has described Edwards as his "hero".
He previously told BBC Sport: "I feel terrible trying to explain to people just how good he was, his death was the biggest single tragedy ever to happen to Manchester United and English football.
"I always felt I could compare well with any player - except Duncan. He didn't have a fault with his game."
Sir Bobby replaced ex-England manager Sam Allardyce to unveil the tribute. Allardyce left his role as England manager after The Daily Telegraph claimed he offered advice on how to "get around" transfer rules.
Mr Austin said Sir Bobby, who survived the Munich plane crash, had been Edward's best friend and he was "delighted" he was to unveil the tribute.
Edwards was one of the eight Busby Babes who died in the air crash in which 23 of the 43 passengers on board died.
David Brickwood, 74, was stabbed five times on 26 September 2015 in a "violent and dreadful" attack at his Northampton home. He died in hospital.
"Northampton knows who did this," Gary Brickwood said. "Dad was one of their own. I can't believe they'd let it go."
No-one has been charged.
Mr Brickwood - a grandfather and father to sons Gary, Dale and Nathan - died after being attacked in his home in Lindsay Avenue, Abington, in the early hours of the morning.
Gary, the eldest son, went to the house after being told of his father's death by his brother Dale.
He said: "I saw all the blood on the stairs. I'll never forget it.
"I asked the cop, 'Is my dad dead?' He hung his head and said, 'Yes'."
A scrap metal dealer, Mr Brickwood was known to keep money in his home and Gary maintains this was the motive.
He said: "I don't think they meant to murder dad, but this was planned. He was watched. This was set up."
A BBC Crimewatch reconstruction showed one or more people breaking in, confronting Mr Brickwood and stabbing him before leaving with cash and jewellery.
Dale, who identified the body, said: "Seeing my poor dad dead, and seeing wounds on his head, then having to ring my brothers and tell them Dad's been murdered, the screams down the phone... I will never forget."
One year later the family is still searching for answers.
Gary added: "I saw Dad several times the day before he died, but I ask myself, 'Why didn't I stop by just one more time?'"
"I'm driven by grief and anger.
"People know who did this, but they're afraid to speak. I'm not.
"I go to the cemetery twice a day, but I can't mourn.
"Our dad was Abington and there are people in Northampton who know who did this - they're gutless and spineless."
He added: "I really believed they would come together to get justice for our father."
The family will hold a candlelit vigil on Monday.
Police are also expected to re-appeal for information.
Successful applicants will be granted one of 100 new licences to perform at designated locations on the network.
Only soloists and duos will be allowed to audition to access the 1,800 bookable slots each week shared by the current crop of 250 buskers.
"Busking has become an essential part of London Underground's identity," said LU managing director Mark Wild.
Ed Sheeran, Bob Geldof and Jessie J are among the stars who have previously busked on the Tube.
Musicians are being asked to apply online by 13 August.
Shortlisted applicants will then audition in front of a panel of music experts and operations directors at Transport for London (TfL) at a range of busking hotspots and music venues around the capital.
Deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries Justine Simons said: "London is a world leader for culture.
"Around every corner there is a cultural gem bringing our city to life, and nowhere is this more apparent than with the atmosphere buskers create on the Underground."
Mr Wild added: "This new wave of auditions will bring in a range of musicians who will continue the strong tradition of entertaining our customers with a high standard of music."
The occupants of the car managed to escape from the vehicle before it was hit at Cleghorn level crossing in Lanark on Saturday evening.
It was struck by the Virgin service from Preston to Glasgow, which was carrying around 60 passengers just before 19:00.
The incident caused widespread disruption and services were re-routed as a result of the collision.
British Transport Police (BTP) said its officers were investigating how the vehicle came to be on the tracks.
In a statement published on Saturday, a spokesman for BTP said: "Just after 18:46 we were called to Cleghorn level crossing in Lanark following reports that a car was struck by a train.
"Officers from British Transport Police and Police Scotland are on scene and are being supported by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
"Fortunately, all occupants of the vehicle were able to exit before it was struck by the train. There are no reported injuries at this stage.
"Our priority is to ensure the safety of everyone on board the train and the vehicle's occupants and look to understand how the car came to be on the tracks."
BTP also said the Rail Accident Investigation Branch and Office of Rail and Road have been notified.
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has now called for operators to bring costs down with better planning and co-operation between firms.
The review covers the period since 2011 when capital investment averaged about £12bn each year.
It looked at 58 projects, covering three-quarters of the total spend.
The capital investment figure was much higher than average during part of the period studied, as firms took advantage of the high oil price to develop new fields and extend existing ones.
The investigation found less than 25% of projects were delivered on time. The average project went 35% over its initial budget. Four of the projects more than doubled in cost.
One cost nearly £500m, after almost trebling in budget, and it is still is not complete.
Another cost £4.5bn, after going more than a third over budget. The report does not link the findings with specific named projects.
Nine of the projects were delayed by at least two years. It found that half of projects did not deliver on what they set out to do in their field development plans.
The review concluded there was no link between problems arising and the scale or complexity of the project, but that delays and costs increased due to the way in which projects were approached.
Among the lessons learned was the need to define projects before they started, and to be more realistic about budgeting, with better recognition of the skills of the project manager.
Firms are being told they should work together as teams. Contracts should be nailed down early, and accountability should be clear. It is also pointed out that it is best to keep projects as simple as possible.
The oil and gas industry suffers from more volatile costs than others, reflecting the volatility of the oil price. Rental costs for drilling rigs and other specialist equipment can soar at times when a lot of spending is under way, and they slump at other times.
Since the oil price began its fall in mid-2014, projects have become more predictable on timing and on cost. The report said there were only 10 major projects now under way.
The biggest overruns have been for floating production platforms. Development of brownfield drilling sites has also been more problematic than subsea projects and putting new platforms in place.
Gunther Newcombe, operations director at the OGA, said investment in recent years had been important to the whole economy, supporting thousands of jobs.
"There are encouraging signs that the ability to deliver projects in line with cost and schedule commitments has been improving recently," he said.
"This is aligned to the effort we have seen the industry making in the areas of production efficiency and operating costs over the last 18 months."
Chris Claydon, chief executive of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, said: "Making real change will come down to people, culture and behaviours.
"To make the step change necessary to improve project performance will require innovative leadership and a truly collaborative approach. This thought-provoking report highlights how much there is still to do".
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English top-flight clubs have opened their chequebooks like never before and are preparing to roll out their new signings.
There will be new kits on the pitch, some new faces in the dugouts - including a Dutch legend taking charge in south London - and several new rules to adjust to.
Armed with TV money and the riches of the Premier League, top-tier clubs have taken spending to a new level.
As of 10 August - a day before the start of the season - teams had invested £1.034bn on signings, which means the league as a whole is on course to surpass the record £1.165bn spent last summer, with three weeks of the transfer window still remaining.
Much of this is down to Manchester City's outlay. Boss Pep Guardiola has splashed out over £200m on new signings - the first time an English club has reached that figure in a single window.
Their deals include the £52m move for left-back Benjamin Mendy - a world record for a defender - from Ligue 1 champions Monaco, the capture of right-back Kyle Walker from Tottenham for an initial £45m and the £43m transfer of midfielder Bernado Silva, again from Monaco.
Manchester United have completed the biggest deal of the summer so far by paying Everton £75m for striker Romelu Lukaku, while manager Jose Mourinho returned to former club Chelsea for £40m midfielder Nemanja Matic.
Wayne Rooney's glittering career at Old Trafford came to an end as he completed a return to boyhood club Everton, who also brought in goalkeeper Jordan Pickford from Sunderland and defender Michael Keane from Burnley, both for deals that would be worth £30m, as well as £23.6m midfielder Davy Klaassen from Ajax.
Champions Chelsea parted with £60m to add striker Alvaro Morata to their squad, Arsenal finally completed a club record £46.5m deal for frontman Alexandre Lacazette and Liverpool brought in £34m winger Mohamed Salah.
Newly promoted Huddersfield Town and Brighton both broke their club records on more than one occasion as they look to survive in their maiden Premier League campaigns, while Newcastle - the other team to come up from the Championship - acquired winger Jacob Murphy from Norwich for £12m.
Tottenham, who finished second last season, have yet to bring in a single player this summer.
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All bar three Premier League clubs stuck with what they had, but the most intriguing managerial appointment was ex-Ajax and Barcelona defender Frank de Boer being installed at Crystal Palace following the shock resignation of Sam Allardyce.
The 112-times capped Dutchman, Palace's first permanent non-British manager, won four Eredivisie titles as boss of Ajax, but lasted just 14 games in an ill-fated spell at Italian giants Inter Milan last season.
The revolving managerial door at St Mary's continued to turn in the summer, as former Alaves boss Mauricio Pellegrino became Southampton's fourth manager in the past four years after replacing Claude Puel.
Watford dispensed with Walter Mazzarri and replaced him with Marco Silva, who resigned as Hull City manager after being unable to save the club from relegation to the Championship. Portuguese Silva was described as "one of the most sought after head coaches" by Hornets chairman Scott Duxbury.
And having named Craig Shakespeare as caretaker manager following the dismissal of Claudio Ranieri in February, 2016 champions Leicester City confirmed him on a three-year permanent deal.
A new season brings new rules - and some are more drastic than others:
Bans for diving
Players who dive or feign injury in English football will face bans under new Football Association regulations.
Under the new rules, passed by the governing body at its annual general meeting in May, a panel will review footage each Monday looking for cases of simulation.
Any player unanimously found guilty of diving will be given a suspension.
No pitch designs
Pitch patterns and designs will no longer be allowed at stadiums in the Premier League.
Rules state that the playing surfaces must contain no markings other than the traditional horizontal and white lines.
Meanwhile, Tottenham will play their home games at Wembley this season - as White Hart Lane is renovated - while Brighton's Amex Stadium and Huddersfield's John Smith's Stadium will host Premier League football for the first time.
A new ball
The official competition match ball will be the Nike Ordem V, described as giving "optimal touch and feel with its updated bladder".
A hi-vis version will be introduced when the clocks change from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time in the autumn.
Enhanced away experience
Fans travelling across the country to support their teams on the road this season will be able to take in the action from closer than ever before.
Premier League clubs have agreed to a new rule where away supporters will be seated together at all stadiums and at least one block of away fan seats will be made available pitchside.
Tickets for away fans will remain capped at £30.
Video replays for doctors
Video technology will be allowed into technical areas in an effort to better protect players from the damages of concussion.
Club doctors and physios will now be able to watch replays of any injury sooner after it has happened. Previously, footage could only be reviewed in the tunnel.
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Former England captain Alan Shearer:
The top seven already are nailed on, I don't see any surprises breaking into there. Everton will be sixth or seventh and the rest we know.
Only one team can win it. City brought Guardiola to the club to win the Premier League and the Champions League and he has to win something this year. United boss Mourinho will feel exactly the same.
As for Chelsea, I sense there is something brewing there that isn't nice. They need to get in another two or three players to have a chance of retaining title.
BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty:
Guardiola has embarked on some spectacular - not to mention costly - renovation work on his defence. City's attacking riches are already in place and look for Gabriel Jesus to emerge as a Premier League superstar this season. This makes City the champions.
There has been turmoil around Stamford Bridge this summer, with Diego Costa's discontent providing the backdrop along with questions about Conte's own future before he signed an improved two-year deal. No title - but a very good shout for a cup.
The Premier League turn 25 years old on 15 August 2017 and BBC Sport has produced five features, each covering a five-year period during the last quarter of a century of the English top flight.
Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick, Paolo di Canio's shove, Steven Gerrard's slip and "Aguerooooo" - relive all the best moments below:
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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is anticipating a battle to retain the Premier League crown. He said: "It is different in other countries where there are two clubs fighting for the title. This league has six teams that are very strong and we have to be ready to fight for this season."
Spurs are yet to do any business but full-back Danny Rose expects additions - however, "not players you have to Google and say, 'who's that?'"
Will Rafael Benitez finish the season at Newcastle? The Spaniard responded to rumours of a move to the Far East by saying: "I don't know because my Chinese is not so good."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was asked about new signing Sead Kolasinac and described the Bosnia defender as having "the force of an animal". A scary proposition for Premier League forwards.
Huddersfield will not let promotion get to their heads, with boss David Wagner saying: "We will not change our idea or our identity just because we are in the Premier League. People will recognise us as Huddersfield Town."
(All kick-off times BST)
Friday, 11 August
Arsenal v Leicester (19:45): Arsene Wenger will become the first manager to take charge of a Premier League match in 22 different seasons.
Saturday, 12 August
Watford v Liverpool (12:30): Hornets defender Jose Holebas received the most Premier League yellow cards (14) last season.
Chelsea v Burnley (15:00): The reigning champions have lost their opening match of the campaign in only one of the previous 25 Premier League seasons (Leicester v Hull last season).
Crystal Palace v Huddersfield (15:00): Eagles winger Jason Puncheon (42) was the player to have the most shots without scoring a single goal in the Premier League last season.
Everton v Stoke (15:00): Toffees striker Wayne Rooney (198) is two short of becoming the second player - after Alan Shearer (260) - to score 200 Premier League goals.
Southampton v Swansea (15:00): The Saints have not started a top-flight season with a home victory since 1988-89 - 4-0 against West Ham.
West Brom v Bournemouth (15:00): The Baggies scored the most Premier League goals from corners last season (16).
Brighton v Manchester City (17:30): City averaged more than 50% possession in all 38 of their Premier League matches last season.
Sunday, 13 August
Newcastle v Tottenham (13:30) Only Barcelona's Lionel Messi (25) has scored more league goals in the top five European leagues than Spurs striker Harry Kane (21) in 2017.
Manchester United v West Ham (16:00) Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho is unbeaten as a manager in opening matches of a Premier League season (won seven, drawn one).
As ever, you will be able to follow coverage of all 380 Premier League games across the BBC this season.
The BBC Sport website will bring you live text commentary on each round of matches, while you can also listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
Football Focus will kick off your weekends on Saturday lunchtimes and then follow the goals going in on Final Score on Saturday afternoon, both on BBC One.
Match of the Day will once again be your highlights show on Saturday evenings on BBC One, followed by Match of the Day 2 Extra on Sunday lunchtimes and Match of the Day 2 rounding off the action after Sunday's fixtures.
The Premier League Show (on Wednesday, 16 August - then every Thursday on BBC Two) returns, while younger viewers can watch MOTD Kickabout every Friday morning on CBBC.
Missed any of the shows? Catch them again on BBC iPlayer throughout the week.
Comprehensive coverage will also be available across the social media platforms, including BBC Sport on Twitter, on Facebook and Instagram. You can also follow updates from Match of the Day on Twitter, on Facebook and the new Instagram page.
Want all the biggest sports news and analysis sent direct to your phone or tablet? Then download the BBC Sport app and sign up to football notifications.
The 88-year-old king was widely revered but had been in poor health in recent years, making few public appearances.
He was seen as a stabilising figure in a country hit by cycles of political turmoil and multiple coups.
Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn will be the new monarch, the prime minister has said.
After two days of speculation and rumours surrounding the king's deteriorating health, the palace announcement confirming his death finally came early on Thursday evening.
"His majesty has passed away at Siriraj Hospital peacefully," a statement said, adding he had died at 15:52 (08:52 GMT).
In a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha said Thailand would hold a one-year mourning period, that flags would fly half-mast and all entertainment functions must be "toned down" for a month.
In a later statement he urged vigilance, saying national security was a top priority.
"Everyone will need to be alert in every region and throughout the country to ensure safety," he said.
The king's death comes as Thailand remains under military rule following a coup in 2014.
A palace official, speaking to crowds outside the hospital, said the body of the king would be moved to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok on Friday.
King Bhumibol was widely respected across Thailand, and thought of by many as semi-divine.
Hundreds of mourners gathered outside the Bangkok hospital where he died, stricken with grief at the news.
Many held pictures of the king and wore yellow or pink clothing in his honour.
"How will Thailand live without you, father?" cried one distressed man.
"I lost one of the most important people in my life. I feel like I haven't done enough for him," said another.
Throughout the first part of the day the king's supporters had sung royal songs and recited prayers at Siriraj Hospital. Many wore carefully chosen colours - pink for good health or yellow, the royal colour.
Most knelt holding pictures of King Bhumibol, facing the part of the hospital where he was receiving treatment.
By early afternoon the mood had begun to change. With all of his children at his bedside, rumours were circulating that the 88-year-old had passed away.
The tears began to flow, and in between songs the call of God Save the King was shouted with an almost visceral desperation.
Then just before 19:00 local time, the news was official. A wave of emotion swept through the crowd. Many clung to each other and wept.
Thailand's father figure, a beacon of stability in a divided and worried country, had died. A new, more uncertain era has begun.
In pictures: Thailand mourns King Bhumibol
Although the prime minister said Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn would become the new monarch, he added that the official proclamation would be made at a later date.
He said the crown prince had confirmed that he would perform his duty as heir to the throne, but had asked for time to mourn his father's death.
The crown prince, who is 64, is much less well known to Thais and has not attained his father's widespread popularity. He spends much of his time overseas, especially in Germany.
Profile: Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn
Strict lese-majeste laws protect the most senior members of Thailand's royal family from insult or threat. Public discussion of the succession can be punishable by lengthy jail terms.
Given the pivotal role the king has played in maintaining the balance of power in Thailand's volatile political environment, the succession will be a formidable challenge for the government, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
King Bhumibol, who was born in Cambridge in the US state of Massachusetts, acceded to the throne on 9 June 1946 after his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, died.
Though a constitutional monarch with limited official powers, many Thais looked to King Bhumibol to him to intervene in times of high tension. He was seen as a unifying and calming influence through numerous coups and 20 constitutions.
However, his critics argued he had endorsed military takeovers and at times had failed to speak out against human rights abuses.
Following the death of King Bhumibol, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has become the world's longest-reigning monarch, having been on the throne for 64 years.
How King Bhumibol shaped modern Thailand
The world's longest-reigning monarchs
Tributes have been flowing in from across the world.
US President Barack Obama called the late king a "tireless champion of his country's development".
"I had the honour of calling on his majesty the king during my visit to Thailand in 2012, and recall his grace and warmth, as well as his deep affection and compassion for the Thai people," he said.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that he hoped Thailand would honour King Bhumibol's legacy of commitment to universal values and respect for human rights.
Asian leaders were quick to express their condolences. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the late king as "one of the tallest leaders of our times".
In Northern Ireland, people have been commemorating the suffering of the 36th Ulster Division and the loss of more than 2,000 of its men in the first few days of the battle.
However, thousands of men from what is now the Republic of Ireland also fought for the British Army, in the ranks of the 16th Irish Division, which lost about 1,200 men in a single action in September during the Somme.
The British Pathe news reels from the time do not convey the mass killings of World War One.
It was death on an industrial scale.
There were 420,000 British casualties alone in the Battle of the Somme - the price paid for moving the front line just four and a half miles (7.2km).
Inside a public library in Dublin's Pearse Street are the archive files of a soldier with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, to which we have been given access.
An injured Sgt Joseph Flanagan, with a fashionable handle-bar moustache, is seen in one photograph sitting to the right of the nurse with his cap on his lap.
He survived the Somme and can be seen in another photograph with his son and grandson, Hubert.
"He was wounded in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, lost an arm and was subsequently discharged," Hubert says.
"The fact that he lost an arm may have made him very lucky, because he lived so long afterwards."
Thomas Kettle, a scholar, a Dubliner and a former Nationalist MP for East Tyrone, was not so lucky.
Kettle was in Belgium at the start of the war to raise guns for the Irish Volunteers and witnessed atrocities carried out by the Germans and that prompted him to join the British army.
Most of the soldiers in regiments from what is now the Republic of Ireland did not get involved in the fighting at the Somme until September 1916 and, like the 36th Ulster Regiment, they too suffered heavy casualties.
The Dubliner was among those who died at Ginchy on 9 September 1916.
Ronan McGreevy, an Irish Times journalist and the author of a book, Wherever The Firing Line Extends, believes Thomas Kettle's life reflects how Ireland was changing at the time because of the Easter Rising.
He says that before he died, Kettle prophesised that if he was killed "he'd be remembered as a bloody British officer while those men who fought and died in the Easter 1916 Rising would be remembered as heroes".
Proof of that prophecy, his family believe, is the length of time - 21 years - it took his supporters to get his bust erected in St Stephen's Green in the centre of Dublin.
Declan Kettle, the great-grand-nephew of the former MP, says of his relative: "He made a huge contribution to Ireland and Irish history, not just in politics but in education.
"He was the first Professor of Economics in the National University. He achieved so much in such a short period of time that he would also have been a huge contributor had he lived."
It is a curiosity of history that a fellow officer, Emmet Dalton, held Tom Kettle as he lay dying and placed a crucifix in his palm.
It was the same Emmet Dalton, who later became an IRA leader against the British in the Irish War of Independence and who also cradled IRA leader Michael Collins and reportedly also placed a crucifix in his palm a few years later as Collins lay dying at Béal na mBláth in County Cork, shot by republican anti-treaty soldiers during the Civil War.
The Islandbridge War Memorial and Gardens along the banks of Dublin's river Liffey are dedicated to the almost 50,000 Irishmen, mainly from what is now the Republic, who died fighting in WW1, including the Somme.
Until relatively recently they were largely written out of Irish history, not least because they died fighting in British uniforms, even though as late as 1924 thousands of Dubliners honoured those who died in the war.
But that amnesia is no longer the case, according to the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan.
He says it is important that the Republic of Ireland as a state is now giving "full recognition and careful consideration to the many thousands of people from this island who lost their lives in pursuit of freedom in the First World War".
"I regret very much", he adds, "it hasn't been possible to do so. And we will be acknowledging during July the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division, and it's entirely important and appropriate that we so do."
Also in the coming weeks the French President, Francois Hollande is expected to come to Islandbridge to pay his country's tribute to and to honour those Irish men who sacrificed their lives on French soil.
Shane Harrison's TV report will be broadcast as part of BBC Newsline on BBC One Northern Ireland at about 18:30 BST on Thursday, 16 June 2016.
Dalman rejected a newspaper report suggesting there was fresh impetus in attempts to sell the club.
Owner Vincent Tan would consider offers at the "right price" but Dalman said there had been no serious bids.
"We do not want anything to disrupt our mission for this year, which is to have a real go at it in the Championship," Dalman told BBC Wales Sport.
"We are really looking forward to this season. We are very excited about it."
The speculation centred on a brochure for prospective buyers put together by Dalman's company WMG.
It is understood this brochure has been in existence for years and is routinely available should the club receive any approach about a possible sale or sponsorship.
But the Tan and Dalman are keen to quell fresh speculation as Warnock embarks on his first full campaign as manager, after galvanising the Bluebirds following a poor start in the Championship last season.
In addition to Cardiff, Tan has interests in MLS side Los Angeles FC, Bosnia's FC Sarajevo and Belgium's Kortrikt Voetbalt CBVA.
Market Cross Jewellers in Yarm was broken into in November, and the Middlesbrough branch was targeted in January.
The men, aged between 19 and 31, have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
Money, watches and diamonds worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were taken in the raids, police said.
A 24-year-old local man has also been charged with criminal property and drugs offences and another man, also 24 and from the Manchester area, has also been charged with firearms offences.
Four men will appear at Teesside Magistrates' Court and three men will appear at Manchester Magistrates later.
A 24-year-old woman and two men from the Manchester area, aged 20 and 28, remain on bail.
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The 17-year-old was recognised after becoming the first British woman in 84 years to win four gold medals at one Commonwealth Games.
She edged out fellow shortlisted nominees, Para-cyclist Sophie Thornhill and golfer Bradley Neil.
Fragapane triumphed in the vault, all-around, floor and team events at the Games in Glasgow.
"I would just like to thank everyone for your support," said Fragapane.
"I'd like to thank my mum and dad because they've been so supportive."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, she added: "I've won a few trophies but did not expect to win this.
"It was scary speaking to so many people. It was so emotional, it was just horrible.
"I still can't believe I've won it. It's absolutely incredible; I'm so overwhelmed."
Born in Bristol to a British mother and Sicilian father, there are elements of Latin dance to her routines, which also draw heavily on hip-hop and other performances she takes a shine to on YouTube.
Fragapane's Commonwealth gold medal haul was the best British performance since the 1930 Games in Canada, when Joyce Cooper triumphed in the 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 440-yard freestyle relay and the 440-yard freestyle.
Previous winners of the young personality award include tennis player Andy Murray, footballer Wayne Rooney and diver Tom Daley.
It says that 25 years ago 12.7 million children under five died, but this year the figure is projected to drop below six million for the first time.
But aid agencies warn that huge challenges remain.
They point out that the UN target of reducing child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 will not be met.
The rate fell by 53% over this period, the report says.
"We have to acknowledge tremendous global progress," said Unicef's deputy executive director Geeta Rao Gupta.
"But the far too large number of children still dying from preventable causes before their fifth birthday... should impel us to redouble our efforts to do what we know needs to be done".
* Figures from World Health Organization Child Mortality Report based on the upper bound figure for deaths of children under five per 1,000 live births in 2015
The report says that 16,000 children under the age of five still die every day. Many become victims of preventable illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhoea or malaria.
And almost half the deaths are linked to malnutrition, the document says.
The greatest risk is during the first few days after birth - 45% of all deaths occur before the child is a month old.
The report also highlights the stark inequality of life chances for the world's children.
It says that those born in sub-Saharan Africa have a 1-in-12 chance of dying before their fifth birthday. In wealthy nations the risk is 1-in-147.
Greggs, which has shifted from being a traditional bakery to focusing on food-on-the-go, said total sales rose by 5.6% in the 13 weeks to 1 October.
Like-for-like sales, which includes shops that have been open for more than a year, rose by 3.4%.
The company's new menu includes gluten-free options and lower calorie soups.
"The popularity of our summer menu including an extended range of Balanced Choice salads and yoghurts supported sales growth in the period," it said in a statement.
"We also saw continued strong growth at breakfast time, helped by our strong coffee offer and value deals."
The Newcastle-based firm said it had opened 103 new outlets so far this year, including 41 franchises. It closed 58 stores, leaving it with a total of 1,743 shops, 143 of them franchises.
It has refitted 145 stores and by the end of the year expects to have completed 200 refurbishments.
The company is now two years into its five-year strategic plan to shift from being a traditional bakery to focusing on the £6bn food-to go market.
Earlier this year, it announced the closure of three of its 12 bakeries as part of the plan to refocus the business. In its latest statement it said the Twickenham bakery would close next month.
The company is also investing in its supply chain and said its new distribution centre in Enfield would open in the the next few weeks.
Greggs said its expectations for the year as a whole remain unchanged and that while it anticipated "general industry-wide cost pressures" next year it expected to make further progress with its strategy.
The victim, 25, died at the scene after his Kawasaki motorcycle collided with a silver Audi A4 on the A128 slip road to the A13 at Orsett, Essex.
Police were called just after 11:00 BST on Saturday. The driver and passengers in the Audi were not hurt.
Officers have appealed for anyone with dash-cam footage or information to contact them. The road has been closed while inquiries take place.
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The fires are bad news for the people and animals who live near the forests.
Wildlife experts are worried that up to a third of the world's orangutans could be at risk because of the fires.
Watch Ricky's report to find out how people are trying to put the fires out.
The 18 items, mostly jade and from the Fitzwilliam Museum's permanent collection, are believed to be worth millions of pounds.
Cambridgeshire Police said a group of people were involved in the break-in at about 19:30 BST on Friday.
A University of Cambridge museum spokesman said a thorough investigation of security measures is under way.
"These works are a highly important part of our collection and their loss is a great blow," he said.
Forensic examinations have been carried out at the scene and CCTV footage is being examined.
Police patrols have also been increased in the area around the museum.
A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Police said the haul is thought to be worth "millions of pounds".
Det Ch Supt Karen Daber, leading the investigation called Operation Tundra, said a team of detectives was working closely with staff at the Fitzwilliam, the principal museum of the University of Cambridge.
"The items stolen are very valuable and are of great cultural significance, so we are absolutely committed to recovering them and bringing those who stole them to justice," she said.
"In particular, we are keen to hear from anyone who may have been in or around the Fitzwilliam Museum between 6pm and 8pm and may have heard or seen anything unusual or suspicious.
"While this is an exceptional crime that we are taking very seriously, it is also worth remembering that this type of offence is extremely rare.
It follows a theft at the Oriental Museum at Durham University where Chinese jade and porcelain items were stolen.
They have since been found and five people have been arrested and questioned about the raid.
Mrs Daber refused to speculate on whether the two thefts were linked.
Among the stolen items in Cambridge were six pieces from the Ming dynasty, including a jade 16th Century carved buffalo, a carved horse from the 17th Century and a green and brown jade carved elephant.
A jade cup and vase which is carved with bronze designs was also stolen along with an opaque jade brush washer.
Eight pieces from the Qing dynasty were taken, and a table screen from the Qianlong period and a jug and vase from the 18th Century make up the rest of the stolen items.
Their exact value has not been released.
A university spokesman said the museum had a policy of not attaching monetary values to artefacts in its collection.
Welsh ministers decided last week that the taxpayer should not offer a £210m guarantee to the proposed development near Ebbw Vale.
The team behind the scheme - which would cost £433m in total - has pleaded with the Welsh Government not to walk away from the idea.
"It's a private sector project now," Mr Skates told BBC Wales.
He added: "It would be for the Circuit of Wales team to come forward with a project that is financed by the private sector, that can operate on its own two feet without any demand on public resource."
Mr Skates said the Welsh Government would be focusing instead on its own scheme for a £100m auto-industry business park in the town, which it claims could create 1,500 jobs.
"We're making sure that we can create a world class cluster of tech companies in the part of Wales where, God knows, we need to make more opportunities for employment," he said.
"It needs to be done sooner rather than later and that's why we're hitting the ground running."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said he wanted to see evidence that the new technology park could deliver the 1,500 jobs outlined by Mr Skates.
He said the Welsh Government had a "poor track record" on job creation in the area.
"We've had an enterprise zone in Blaenau Gwent since 2011, but just 8 jobs were created in 2014/5, which is a lamentable record," Mr Davies said.
"How can we possibly have confidence that this new scheme can deliver anywhere near the 1,500 jobs they claim?"
The project, first unveiled in 2011, has been dogged by controversy.
Its backers - the Heads of the Valleys Development Company (HoVDC) - had wanted the Welsh Government to underwrite 80% of the cost, revised down to about 50% when ministers asked for a rethink.
Alongside the circuit itself, which would have hosted the British leg of the MotoGP for at least five years, there were also plans to bring BMX and mountain biking, indoor skiing and concerts.
Michael Carrick, the founder of the project, said on Monday it was "too important" to walk away from.
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"There is no reason why the wife of the head of state should get a budget from public funds," wrote its creator Thierry Paul Valette, an artist and equality campaigner.
A charter that codifies her role is now in preparation, according to the French media.
The French constitution gives no official status to a president's spouse, although they are typically allocated an office in the Elysée Palace, an assistant or two, and security guards.
They are also expected to accompany their partner at official engagements and often become involved in charity work.
In a TV interview during the campaign, he said that, if elected, he would want the role of first lady to be "defined".
"She [Brigitte Macron] will have a say on what she wants to be," he told TF1 in April, "I want to get out of French hypocrisy... When a person lives with you, she must have a role and be recognised in this role."
He then insisted she would not be paid by the taxpayer.
Nonetheless, "hypocrisy" is exactly what his critics are shouting.
During his campaign, Mr Macron vowed to stamp out nepotism.
His conservative rival, François Fillon, had been embroiled in a scandal over payments to his wife, which is thought to have cost him the presidency. She was allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of euros for little or no work.
In response to the outcry, Mr Macron said he would ban politicians from employing relatives.
"Do as I say, not as I do," tweeted French politician Thierry Mariani last month. An ally of Mr Fillon, he linked to an article about speculation over Mrs Macron receiving official status and a budget.
Brigitte Macron is certainly getting a lot of attention, in her homeland and worldwide.
French newspaper Libération called her "omnipresent". "The French elected a man, but it is a certainly a couple that lives in the Elysée," wrote Voici magazine.
"Brigitte! Brigitte! Brigitte!", shouted the crowd when she took the stage after her husband was elected in May. Brigitte T-shirts have featured in fashion magazines. ("Our new fashion crush", said Elle magazine.)
But she has also been targeted by abuse, often related to the 24-year age gap between her and her younger husband.
In his petition, Mr Valette made clear the criticism was not personal. "We fiercely denounce all sexist attacks against Brigitte Macron and we do not question her skills," he wrote.
The unofficial first lady receives about 150 letters a week, according to French media. New staff could help her deal with the post.
There are no known plans to give her a salary, but she could get extra money for employees and expenses. One argument is that this creates jobs.
She told Vanity Fair magazine she wanted to use her husband's presidency to "change the lives of disabled people and their families".
Meanwhile, President Macron's popularity has fallen (only 36% of people are satisfied, according to recent poll), leading some critics to speculate that he may be trying to boost his image via his wife.
Others have accused the couple of copying the US model, specifically looking to Michelle Obama, who played a very active role during her husband's time in the White House.
However, the US role of first lady is also unofficial.
"This is pointless as it is nothing new," political analyst Olivier Rouquan told RMC radio. He claims that Mrs Macron has no higher profile than any of her predecessors. He cited Yvonne de Gaulle and Claude Pompidou, as wives that also had a big public image.
"I do not understand how one could institutionalise the status of first lady. It has no democratic meaning," he said. "We do not elect a presidential couple."
Her immediate predecessor certainly had a very different profile. Journalist Valérie Trierweiler was never married to President François Hollande. Their relationship began as an affair, they split up while he was still in office and she later wrote a kiss-and-tell memoir.
And before that, President Nicolas Sarkozy had two consecutive first ladies while in office.
He and his wife Cecilia divorced soon after he took office. He then met and married singer Carla Bruni, who was swiftly rated as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world, according to Forbes magazine. (It was 2010, and Michelle Obama was number one.)
The Macrons have been together for more than 20 years and married for 10.
However, as the petition says, "We do not know who will be the next president..."
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The new champ had the joint lowest score on the final day - overtaking favourite to win American Jordan Spieth, who had been leading the competition - to claim golf's famous green jacket.
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Police said the blue Ford transit van overturned into a hedge under a bridge on Maesgwyn Road, Fishguard, at about 10:15 BST on Tuesday.
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Known as White O'Morn in the 1952 film, the privately owned building in Connemara, County Galway, has been derelict since the 1980's.
Each year, thousands of fans flock to the locations in County Mayo and County Galway where the film was made.
Many have taken stones from the cottage as souvenirs, adding to the dilapidation.
A visitor once boasted that every stone in her fireplace had come from the Quiet Man cottage.
Protected status will make the removal of stones and other items illegal.
In the movie, directed by John Ford, retired American boxer Sean Thornton (John Wayne) returns to the village where he was born and falls in love with Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara).
The scene in which Wayne kisses O'Hara at the door of the thatched cottage is one of the most famous in the history of film.
The Quiet Man cottage was an historic family home dating back to the pre-1820s.
A local family were still living there at the time the movie was made. Only exterior shots were filmed in Ireland. All interiors were shot in Hollywood.
Records show the cottage existed on the same site as far back as 1820.
It is expected the council will announce its decision in July.
Campaigners have been appealing for protected status and restoration of the building for almost 20 years.
An online petition was immediately signed by star of the film, Maureen O'Hara.
To date almost 9,000 people have signed it.
Speaking in 2014, the actress said: "If you think about Duke, John Ford and all the people who worked on the picture, it is sad to see the cottage in shambles.
"How can anyone say anything but wonderful things about it, and see to it that it is restored for them and in their memory - and for Ireland."
Foundation for Peace represents those affected by the 2005 attacks, where suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured more than 770 in London.
The exhibition features artefacts belonging to the Met's Crime Museum.
The force said displaying such items was "always going to be" complex.
Items from historic and recent crimes are displayed at the exhibition in the Museum of London.
Nick Taylor, chief executive at the Foundation For Peace said people affected were living with the "physical and mental consequences" of the 7/7 terrorist attacks every day.
He said trauma manifests itself in different ways and "anything like this" can act as a trigger for post traumatic stress.
He added: "People may not able to go out or get dressed, they may feel depressed and not be able to go out to work - or even be able to do normal tasks we take for granted, like getting up in the morning."
Acts of terrorism could traumatise victims a long time after the event, he said, so 10 years since the attacks did not mean people were not still struggling.
Met Police assistant commissioner Martin Hewitt said the exhibits gave insight into the force's detective work and were "fascinating stories".
He added: "We have used an ethical panel to scrutinise and discuss the proposed selection to ensure that we are sensitive to both the victims and the officers involved, and their families.
"Under no circumstances did we want the museum to glamorise crime, or the criminals involved."
Speaking to Newsbeat from the US, Ben Winston says that the reports "were really weird and came from nowhere".
"The idea that America struggles to understand English people is a slightly odd idea considering the amount of English actors," he says.
"I don't think anyone's worried about his [Corden's] voice at all."
Corden's first night on The Late Late Show on Monday, has generally been considered a success.
"They say you should never read reviews and you try not to, because you have to take them with a pinch of salt because, well, they could be terrible tomorrow," Winston says.
"But I have seen them and it's exciting. They've been so kind and lovely and really seemed to enjoy the show."
Unlike pretty much every other chat show host in the US, Corden does not sit behind a desk, despite trying one out in rehearsal.
"It was strange because he felt too far away," says Winston.
As soon as he came out from behind the desk though, "it just felt right".
The first set of guests on the show were high profile stars, Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis, and Winston says viewers can expect a lot more big names on the programme.
"I hope we get One Direction on the show. They're not in America now until the summer, so I don't think they're going to come on any time soon," says Winston, who has worked with the singers before, on their This is Us film.
"But we've got David Beckham on Monday. We've got Simon Cowell the week after, so we're definitely having our British contingent."
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American officials hailed the agreement as "a significant step forward" in the fight against IS.
Turkey is already allowing US planes to operate from two Turkish airbases.
Turkey has already conducted a handful of strikes against IS, but it will now be fully integrated into the strategy of the wider anti-IS coalition.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said it would probably take "a few days'' to put the agreement into practice.
He added that "co-operation with the Turks and the expansion of that co-operation remains a work in progress" and that talks were continuing with Turkey "with regard to border issues".
Last month Turkey launched its first strikes on IS militants since the group began its advance through Iraq and Syria in 2013.
It had previously been reluctant to take military action, but that position changed after a number of attacks within Turkey that were blamed on IS.
However, Turkey has been targeting militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq as well as Islamic State militants.
Observers say PKK fighters have been on the receiving end of far more attacks than IS.
Turkish officials deny that the campaign against the Islamic State group is a cover to prevent Kurdish gains.
The government has previously faced criticism at home and abroad for not doing enough against IS, despite being part of the international coalition fighting it.
The incident, involving at least two riders, took place shortly after the Joey's Windmill section of the course.
The race was immediately red-flagged and two riders were taken to hospital after being treated at the scene.
The organisers have not released any details about the identity or condition of the riders involved.
Racing was held up for more than an hour before the action resumed.
The Dundrod 150 event is part of the Ulster Grand Prix bikes meet which concludes with the main day of racing on Saturday.
The second leg in Lobamba should have been played on Tuesday but was postponed for what Fifa said were 'logistical reasons' after reports in Swaziland had said the Djibouti squad were stranded in Kenya.
Swaziland's progress to the next round was almost certain after their emphatic 6-0 win in the first leg.
The hosts made sure of the victory in a much tighter home leg at the Somhlolo National Stadium.
Sandile Hlatjwako put the hosts ahead early in the game with a sixth minute strike.
Djibouti made their presence felt with an unexpected equaliser 16 minutes later through Mohamed Issa Liban.
But Sandile Hlatjwako got his second of the game in the 43rd minute to further boost Swaziland's aggregate advantage.
With no more goals in the second half, Swaziland secured an 8-1 win overall to advance to the next knock-out round where they will play Nigeria.
Former Cheltenham and Bristol Rovers coach North joined the Spitfires to work alongside Todd in October 2015.
Strevens, who is serving a seven-game suspension for spitting, takes on a player-coach role at an Eastleigh side just two points adrift of the National League play-off spots.
"I'm doing it for the best of the club, myself and the players," said Todd.
Todd, who previously played for North while he was an assistant manager at Torquay United, told BBC Radio Solent: "It just wasn't working and I decided to let him go.
"I thank him for his effort and time at the football club but you move on because that's football."
Eastleigh, eighth in National League, host Bromley on Tuesday in search of their third straight victory.
There were victims from 18 countries on board, although most were Spanish or German. Here are some of their stories.
A group of 16 students, 14 girls and two boys, and two of their teachers, from Joseph-Koenig school in Haltern, western Germany, were travelling back from a Spanish exchange programme on the Germanwings flight.
As many as 40 pupils had wanted to go on the trip and the school decided to hold a lottery to identify the 16 who would eventually go, local German media reported. Their Spanish counterparts had visited last year.
A girl in the group nearly missed her flight after she forgot to bring her passport. She rang her host family who rushed 50km (30 miles) to the airport, delivering it just in time to allow the students to board the plane, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Carol Friday, 68, was a nurse and her 29-year-old son Greig, an engineer. They were on holiday in Europe before Greig was due to start a teaching job.
Their names were released by the foreign ministry in Australia, along with a statement from the family asking for privacy, according to ABC News.
"Carol was a loving mother of two, a devoted wife to her husband, Dave, and a sister to three brothers," the statement said.
Greig was to have turned 30 on 23 April.
"He was a loving son to Carol and Dave and an exceptional brother to his sister, Alex. He was adored by all his family and friends."
The small town of Sant Cugat del Valles near Barcelona is mourning the loss of six residents or local employees, among them three generations from the same family.
Juan Padro lost his ex-wife in the crash. His daughter and granddaughter, both called Emma, also died.
He told reporters in Barcelona: "There is nothing that can be done or that anyone can say, that changes the fact that I have lost such loved ones.
"It makes no difference to me whether it was an accident or whatever. For me, I don't want to know. It doesn't interest me."
Twelve-year-old Emma was the youngest member of the family to lose her life. She studied at a local middle school and been a member of a tennis club.
Flags have been flying at half-mast in the town and a minute's silence has been held.
Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio and her seven-month old son Julian Pracz-Bandres were on the flight, her husband has said.
She is a Spanish citizen but had been a resident of Manchester for seven years. Marina was an editor and colourist in film and video post-production.
Pawel Pracz said his wife and son were in Spain for her uncle's funeral.
"She bought the tickets at the last moment, and decided to return to Manchester quickly as she wanted to return to her daily routine as soon as possible," he said.
Originally from Hull, Paul, 28, was studying hospitality and hotel management at Cesar Ritz College in Lucerne, his family said.
He had just finished his first year at the college and was on holiday with friends from Barcelona before flying back to the UK through Duesseldorf.
Martyn Matthews, a 50-year-old from Wolverhampton, was a senior quality manager.
He is thought to have been travelling to Germany for a business meeting.
He leaves behind a wife, Sharon, and two children, Jade and Nathan.
Maria Radner, 34, had performed in Richard Wagner's Siegfried at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu. The theatre said Radner, along with her husband and baby, were on the plane.
Radner, who was born in Duesseldorf, had performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as in London and other locations, according to her biography on Italartist Austroconcert, a talent management company.
Just before her death she was described as a rising star of Wagnerian opera.
Oleg Bryjak, 54, was born in Kazakhstan and had performed in Paris, Zurich, London, Los Angeles and other cities, according to his website.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu, where the two singers had finished their performances the night before the flight, offered condolences on Twitter.
Little is known about the man who flew the plane for the first 20 minutes of its journey, but he has been named by German media as Patrick Sonderheimer. On Thursday it emerged he had gone to bathroom shortly after take off, leaving co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in charge of the aircraft.
When he returned he found the cockpit door locked. Recordings show Mr Sonderheimer banged repeatedly on the door, in a vain attempt to regain access. Bild quoted security sources as saying that he then used an axe to try to break it down.
French radio station Europe1 interviewed a former colleague of the captain, identified as Dieter. He said Mr Sonderheimer was married with two small children and was "one of our best pilots".
"I'm 100% sure that he did everything he could," said Dieter. "I knew him very well... he was a very good man. He had a great sense of humour."
The radio station did not name Mr Sonderheimer, but referred to him as "the commander" of the Airbus.
Asmae Ouahhoud el Allaoui married her husband on Saturday in the north-eastern Spanish town of La Llagosta, local officials said.
The pair were moving to Germany together. The man's name has not been released.
Milad Eslami and Hossein Jawadi were journalists covering the Iranian national football team matches in Austria.
They travelled to Spain for El Clasico - the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
They were grounded at Barcelona airport, before getting on the Germanwings flight, as they did not have a return flight booked.
Among three Americans to have died was Yvonne Selke, who worked as a contractor for the Pentagon's satellite mapping office. She was travelling with her adult daughter Emily.
A family statement described them as "two wonderful, caring, amazing people who meant so much to so many".
The third US citizen killed in the crash was named as Robert Oliver, a resident of Barcelona who worked for a clothing company.
Maria del Pilar Tejada, and Luis Eduardo Medrano were among the victims, Colombia's ministry of foreign affairs confirmed.
Tejada, 33, was studying at a university in Cologne. She had travelled to Barcelona to visit her partner, also a Colombian.
Medrano, 36, was an architect travelling across Europe.
He was someone with "an excellent sense of humour, sporty, very thoughtful, healthy and studious", and "a very good friend", Andres Agredo told El Tiempo newspaper in Colombia.
Sebastian Gabriel Greco and Gabriela Lujan Maumus were both 28, Argentine media reported.
Maumus was a bass player in a rock band and the daughter of a firefighter.
She was scheduled to play this Sunday with her band Asalto al Parque Zoologico (APZOO) in the popular district of La Boca, Buenos Aires.
Israel's foreign ministry has said 39-year-old Eyal Baum, who had been living in Barcelona, was travelling to Duesseldorf for work.
His family in Hod HaSharon has been notified.
A Flemish news site is reporting that a Belgian victim was 59-year-old Christian Driessens.
He was reportedly born and raised in the Congo before coming to study in Mons. He met a Catalan girl there and moved to Spain. He was said to be living in Palleja near Barcelona.
Christian Driessens has a goddaughter, Sandrine Driessens, from Liege.
A Mexican woman who had lived in Barcelona for several years was on the plane. She was travelling to Cologne to attend a food technology fair, along with some of the other Catalan passengers.
The Mexican government says two other citizens were among the passengers.
Mexican media have named the victims as Daniela Ayon, Dora Isela Salas and Carles Milla, although their identities have not been officially confirmed.
The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo identified the two Japanese passengers on board as Satoshi Nagata, a man in his 60s, and Junichi Sato, a man in his 40s.
Located about six miles from the town of Pembroke, it covers about 6,000 acres (2,400 hectares) of land on the south Pembrokeshire coast.
The range was opened in 1938 after the War Office requisitioned land from the Cawdor Estate, and was used until 1945 for tank training.
After the Second World War, farmers used the land, before it was taken on by the military in 1951 when the Korean War started.
Between 1961 and 1996 it was used by German tank units as part of an agreement which saw the British Army use the Bergen-Hohne Training Area in Germany.
The German forces had a shortage of suitable tank training areas while the British Army needed more room for their exercises.
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Castlemartin Range is now one of two armoured fighting vehicle training areas in the UK where direct live firing exercises and vehicles manoeuvres take place.
The other is at Lulworth Cove in Dorset.
It is used by the Army, Army reserves and cadets, and occasionally the Royal Air Force and Royal Marines.
Apart from a short break over Christmas, it is in use all-year round, for 44 weeks in total from January to mid-December.
Firing exercises take place at day and night, and each month the MoD releases a firing warning notice.
In June, firing was scheduled to take place between 09:00 BST and 16:30 and 18:30 and 23:30.
Writing in his "behind the scenes at Castlemartin Training Area" blog on the MoD website last August, deputy training safety officer, Steven Philipps-Harries said: "Last year 153,566 man training days took place here and that training involved the firing of more than three million rounds of ammunition."
Part of the Pembrokeshire coast path passes through the eastern side of the range and is closed to the public on firing days.
When the range is active, red flags and red lights at nights are used, and the road from Bosherston and St Govan's Chapel and the footpath from St Govan's Head to Broadhaven is closed.
The coastal danger area can extend anything between three nautical miles (5.6km) and 12 nautical miles (22km) between Little Furznip and St Govan's Head off the Pembrokeshire coast, depending on what weapons and ammunition are being used.
People who want to take a boat into the coastal exclusion zone during firing exercises have to call range control or radio the range safety craft to be given a safe route.
All other areas of the range are out of bounds to the public, and during non-firing times the range danger area is patrolled by serving military staff.
Troops training there are also briefed to challenge any civilians they see on the range.
It was a rare example of the Cold War turning hot - pitting the US and its allies against the USSR, North Korea and communist China. It was marked by dramatic swings of fortune and a devastating death toll.
Estimates vary, but at least two million Korean civilians, up to 1.5m communist forces, and around 30,000 US, 400,000 South Korean and 1,000 UK troops are believed to have died.
For two of the three years that the war was under way, both sides were actually trying to negotiate a peace.
When a ceasefire was eventually signed, on 27 July 1953, no-one could have guessed that 50 years later, the two Koreas would remain technically at war.
A peace treaty has never been signed, and the border continues to bristle with mines, artillery and hundreds of troops.
A draw was enough for Gary Naysmith's side with rivals Annan and Queen's Park dropping points.
Clyde survived a goalmouth scramble before a shot from the hosts' Jordan Kirkpatrick went narrowly wide.
Steven Campbell went close for East Fife with a strike that just cleared the crossbar but the visitors did not need to score to seal promotion.
Match ends, Clyde 0, East Fife 0.
Second Half ends, Clyde 0, East Fife 0.
Mark McLaughlin (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Insall (East Fife).
Attempt missed. Chris Smith (Clyde) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, East Fife. Conceded by Mark McLaughlin.
David Marsh (Clyde) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Marsh (Clyde).
Kevin Smith (East Fife) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Clyde. John Gemmell replaces Ross Millen.
Kevin Smith (East Fife) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kevin Smith (East Fife).
David Marsh (Clyde) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Hand ball by Kevin Smith (East Fife).
Jason Kerr (East Fife) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Gormley (Clyde).
Foul by Steven Campbell (East Fife).
Sean Higgins (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, East Fife. Jamie Insall replaces Ross Brown.
Substitution, Clyde. Paul Slane replaces Jordan Kirkpatrick.
Foul by David Gormley (Clyde).
(East Fife) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Jonathan Page.
Jordan Austin (East Fife) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Gormley (Clyde).
Attempt missed. Patrick Slattery (East Fife) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Sean Higgins (Clyde) is shown the yellow card.
Kyle Wilkie (East Fife) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Marsh (Clyde).
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Gary Naysmith.
Hand ball by Jonathan Page (East Fife).
Attempt missed. Sean Higgins (Clyde) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Mark McLaughlin (Clyde) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Naysmith (East Fife) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mark McLaughlin (Clyde).
Corner, Clyde. Conceded by Jonathan Page.
Foul by Jonathan Page (East Fife).
Jamie Watson (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kevin Smith (East Fife) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Kirkpatrick (Clyde).
Karl Swift, 33, from South Yorkshire, was found by police in New Road in the early hours of Friday.
He was taken to hospital but died on Saturday morning, a spokesman for West Midlands Police said.
Two men aged 23 and 58, also from South Yorkshire, were arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm on Friday but later released on bail.
A force spokesman said they believe there was an "incident" at the William Shenstone pub before Mr Swift left, and are appealing for witnesses.
Chris Munday said, with hindsight, 120 acres (50 hectares) of farm on the edge of Cardiff should have been omitted.
The Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales (RIFW) is being investigated by the assembly public accounts committee.
Auditors found taxpayers may have lost £15m on the sale of 15 sites.
RIFW, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Welsh government, sold 15 sites in one deal for £21m in March 2012 to a Guernsey-based company called South Wales Land Developments.
In June, auditors said they found flaws in the sale process, weaknesses in advice to the board, and potential conflicts of interest.
The District Valuer, in the Wales Audit Office report, valued them at £36m, if they had been sold separately.
The most valuable site in the village of Lisvane, near Cardiff, was sold for £15,000 an acre (£37,500 per hectare).
Large parts of that land could now be worth up to £2m an acre (£5m per hectare) if planning permission is agreed.
The site, earmarked for housing by Cardiff council, is currently at the centre of a planning appeal.
Mr Munday told the committee on Tuesday: "Hindsight is a great educator. With the benefit of hindsight we would not have included Lisvane."
He said there was a "time imperative" to get RIFW established within a specific time-frame to meet EU deadlines on funding.
Another senior civil servant told AMs the background was one of officials considering a "fire sale" of all the Welsh government's assets in the face of recession.
Deputy permanent secretary James Price said: "That was seriously being considered at the time - put the whole lot up in one block - and discussions about the fact we might lose half of it being completely acceptable from a policy perspective, because there was such a need to get investment into the economy.
"That's not what happened here, but that must have been at the back of people's minds who were thinking of putting this land in."
Luisa Mendes was found at a home in Briar Close, Leamington Spa, on 25 October 2012 after calling Warwickshire Police saying she was being beaten.
Control room operators failed to send out an officer quickly enough after wrongly categorising the call.
The force has apologised and said a settlement had been made to her family.
An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said her plea was treated as a nuisance call and an officer was dispatched the following day.
After failing to get an answer at the door, the officer left. Paramedics subsequently found Ms Mendes.
Solicitors for her family said she was heard to scream and hang-up when she made the call.
The call operator rang back and two men answered, denying there was a problem.
However, Ms Mendes, originally from Portugal, confirmed she was being beaten and was heard saying "don't beat me, don't touch me".
The operator told the men police would attend within the hour but did not categorised the call as "violence", solicitors Hodge Jones and Allen said.
No-one has been charged over her death, the firm said. Three police officers received final written warnings over her death.
A narrative verdict was recorded by a jury at the inquest of the 44-year-old in June.
The hearing was told her death was due to a catastrophic bleed to the abdomen caused by a rupture to her spleen which was the result of a "deliberate application of force by a third party".
In a statement, Warwickshire Police said they accepted mistakes were made and a "full and final settlement" had been made to the family. A written apology has also been sent to the family from the chief constable Martin Jelley.
"The IPCC reported back to Warwickshire Police in May 2014 and rightly identified actions delivered by individuals needed to be addressed and also made some overall recommendations for Warwickshire Police that have all now been implemented. The IPCC has confirmed it is content with our actions."
The fire began in the kitchen on the ground floor of the Regent Plaza hotel, before spreading through the building, local media report.
More than 70 people were injured as the fire trapped guests with few escape options, forcing some to fashion makeshift ropes from bedroom sheets.
Several reports said that foreign nationals were among the injured.
Television footage showed knotted lines of sheets hanging from the building's windows.
"We tied the bed sheets together to make a rope, and used that to climb down from the fourth floor," injured man Khalid Mehmood told the AP news agency from his hospital bed.
"We also had to jump mid-way, as the bed sheets weren't long enough."
The Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Karachi mayor, Waseem Akhtar, as saying there had been no emergency exit in the building.
Firefighters rescued other guests from the side of the building with ladders.
Another hotel guest, Inna Iqbal, said she had to avoid breathing in smoke before escaping by ladder across the rooftops.
"We were trying to just minimize the smoke damage," she told reporters.
"We had to break the window at one stage, we felt it was filling up the room too much."
Dr Seemi Jamali, from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, told Reuters news agency that 75 people had been brought to hospital, but most were in stable condition
"All patients are safe and secure. And we have only five patients now left in the emergency," she said. "The rest of the people who died on the spot, perhaps, were 11."
Three doctors were among the victims, she added.
No 1 Ledbury Road in Hereford is due to close on March 31.
Alternatives proposed by Herefordshire Council are further away, a family says, which will eat into short breaks for relatives with disabilities.
The council said it has commissioned a number of new respite services "as a single Hereford-based centre wasn't suitable for everyone".
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It was initially earmarked for closure in March 2016, but given a year-long extension.
Melissa Boyle's son Fergus, 14, and daughter Gwen, 13, both use the council centre, which is delivered by Wye Valley NHS Trust.
Both have Cockayne Syndrome - a rare genetic disorder which degenerates the body and shortens young lives.
They are both visually and hearing-impaired, cannot eat anything that poses a risk of choking and need help to wash, while Gwen's sleep is often broken by seizures.
Mrs Boyle and husband Ben, who run The Velvet Bean chocolate shop in Ledbury, split their care between them.
Mrs Boyle said the new options for respite include a centre in Worcester, while another in Presteigne, Wales, would mean a journey of two hours from the family home.
"There are gaping holes in this provision," she said.
"What quality of life does it give them if need to spend hours in the car and then to get up at the crack of dawn to go to school the next day when they are away from home for one night for a short break?"
In a statement, Herefordshire Council said it had worked closely with "families, professionals and providers".
Families unhappy with the services available can take a direct payment instead to "allow them to access services they feel better suit their needs", the council added.
The Republican-led House of Representatives insisted on delaying President Barack Obama's healthcare reform - dubbed Obamacare - as a condition for passing a bill.
More than 800,000 federal employees face unpaid leave with no guarantee of back pay once the deadlock is over, as certain agencies and national parks also close.
Under the US presidential system, different branches of government can be controlled by opposing parties. Currently the Senate is controlled by the Democrats, while the Republicans control the House of Representatives.
This legislative conflict has led to the current gridlock and subsequent partial shutdown of government, the first for 17 years.
With the US political system seemingly in legislative paralysis, is American politics broken? Experts give their views below.
The problem with American politics is that Tea Party activists have taken over the Republican Party.
They come from small, rural districts and now are demanding that House Speaker John Boehner practises extremist politics.
Boehner could end this stalemate today by allowing a continuing resolution to go to the floor for a vote without repealing Obamacare. It would pass and this crisis would be resolved.
However, conservatives have warned that if Mr Boehner allows a floor vote without their support, they will depose him and elect another Speaker.
This crisis is not so much a governability problem as a war within the Republican Party. It won't be resolved until prominent Republicans demand that the House takes action.
"Broken" is a very strong word. In one way American politics is working exactly how the founding fathers intended when they created the separation of powers.
But they always assumed that at times of need, the "energy" of government would overcome the separation of government. They never anticipated that there would be this polarisation of politics.
We're now in a situation where the intentions of the founders are being overcome by the nature of the political parties and the lack of middle ground between them, so you could say American politics is broken.
I don't think it's irreparable but you now have to have a supermajority [60 out of 100] in the Senate [to pass legislation], and the Republicans showed in 2009-10 how the lack of 60 Democrats in the Senate could be exploited to tie up the work of the upper house.
I don't imagine the Democrats will lie down and play dead even were the Republicans to become the single party of government in 2016.
Charges that America is broken are a longstanding trope of the US Christian Right. Such charges harken back to a fictitious 1950s shared cultural values.
Employing this measure, changes of the last 60 years indicate that American is "broken". But that fictitious narrative fails to include those on the socio-economic margins eg women, African-Americans, Latinos, and LGBTs, who are now moving at pace into the mainstream.
For these benefactors of change, America is not broken - it is increasingly realising its potential as a representative democracy based on justice and equality.
Change has left those previously occupying places of privilege outraged.
With more states allowing same-sex marriage, the working class accessing affordable healthcare, immigration reform afoot and a black man in the White House, the Tea Party has had enough. This government shutdown is not the culmination of their outrage, it is only a beginning.
There's no doubt that the federal budget process is broken, and there is wide acceptance of that. The federal budget system doesn't work. Congress hasn't passed a regular budget in many years now, [instead] they've appropriated money based on continuing resolutions and other special procedures.
The instability caused by the Obamacare health law is because it was passed in 2010 on a wholly partisan basis. Not a single Republican voted for the law in either the House or the Senate.
In recent decades the most enduring federal legislation has been bipartisan. So I would blame President Obama for ramming through legislation that only his party supported.
The battle over Obamacare is unique and has been poisoned, initially by President Obama.
That said, it used to be that both parties had both liberal and conservatives. But over the last few decades the Republican Party has become more conservative and the Democratic Party has moved far to the left.
In the UK, where you have a parliamentary system, if the prime minister's party loses a floor vote in parliament you have to have a new election - it's a vote of no confidence.
In the US, we have a situation where the administration's proposed policies can be blockaded by a minority in either House of Congress - and that can bring the government to a standstill.
The unusual thing in this case is that this radical faction, the Tea Party, have chosen to use the national budget [and] are demanding that the healthcare programme be modified or abandoned in return for funding government.
It's a form of political extortion.
It is broadly unacceptable to the American people, and the Tea Party will be hurt by it.
The system is stretched, the system is challenged. But the system itself is not broken. Eventually public pressure will come to play on the Republicans and will force them to accept some compromise solution. Both sides must find a face-saving way through this conundrum.
The House Speaker, Mr Boehner, has chosen not to confront the radical minority in his party, but rather to accommodate them.
A stronger or more principled House leader would've said "enough is enough". But he hasn't done that. So another reason the system is not broken is because it is a personality in a critical position who is not doing his job properly.
I don't think the system is broken, the system works. The problem right now is that the two political parties, who are fairly evenly matched in political support across the country, are having a crucial argument about the direction of the country.
This is not unusual; there have been prior times in American history where there have been substantive and critical fights over different issues.
We have an out of control federal budget, we have a gigantic deficit, and we're having a critical debate over what to do about those problems.
I don't think there is a serious structural problem in the US political system, we've just come to a fork in the road about the direction that the country should move in. The system is handling it, we're just at loggerheads over what to do about it - in particular where we should go with the growth and size of the federal government.
The [shutdown] goes to the basic structural problem in the US constitution.
It's a separated system with separate institutions sharing in power, so that means that each of the major institutions of national government can exercise a veto against any decision they don't like - and that's exactly what's happening.
Historically compromise has usually been available. [But] now you have an extremist group in the Republican Party holding the system to ransom.
What you have seen over the last 20 years in Congress is a kind of procedural arms race, and this is the latest example of it - one party, and it's usually the Republicans, finding some procedural device, [and] attaching this rider to a resolution to throw a spanner in the works and stop the government working.
I wouldn't say it's at breaking point but we've seen an escalation of the use of veto points. The "arms race" has been escalating and the parties have become increasingly polarised.
Prices rose in the single currency area by 0.4% in July, from 0.5% in June.
The ECB considers that an inflation rate of below 1% poses a risk of deflation.
Separate figures show that unemployment in the region fell slightly to 11.5% in June compared to 11.6% in May.
The new inflation figures from the European Union's statistical office, Eurostat, show that the rate remains persistently below the ECB's target rate of 2%. Prices have risen at an annualised rate of less than 1% for the last ten months.
Central Bank governor, Mario Draghi, has previously warned that he would deem inflation below 1% to be in a "danger zone", which could lead to prices tipping into a deflationary spiral.
Deflation - falling prices or below zero inflation - in the eurozone has come a step closer.
Several individual countries have already had at least a brush with it. Spain's new figures show a fall in prices over the previous twelve months. Greece and Portugal already had inflation below zero.
It can be a serious problem - not inevitably; it depends on the circumstances. But it is clear that the European Central Bank is very keen to avoid deflation.
The new figures increase the chance that the ECB will embark on a full scale programme of quantitative easing (QE), buying financial assets such as government debt with newly created money in an effort to push inflation up (yes really).
It's a sign of how weak the eurozone economy is that this debate is underway just as the US Federal Reserve seems close to ending its own QE programme.
In June the ECB introduced a package of measures to boost growth and tackle the threat of inflation.
It cut interest rates, including reducing the bank deposit rate to below zero, and made available cheap long term loans to banks. It promised to stand ready to take more action if inflation continued to fall.
Brian Tora, from the investment managers J.M. Finn and Co said it was hard to see what more the ECB could do if inflation fails to respond to the measures already taken.
"They could instigate a programme of asset purchases. But it's more complicated for the ECB than for a central bank that's just responsible for one nation state."
The ECB has not undertaken large-scale asset purchases in the same way as the UK and US central banks.
"But it's worth remembering that [Mr] Draghi said last autumn it would do whatever it took to keep Europe out of recession," said Mr. Tora.
Analysts also point to a fall in energy prices as contributing to lower inflation.
"There is undeniably a very real risk that eurozone consumer price inflation could go lower still ... barring an appreciable rise in oil and gas prices resulting from geopolitical factors hitting supplies,'' said Howard Archer, economist at analysis group IHS.
Core inflation which excludes food and fuel costs was unchanged for July at 0.8%.
The eurozone jobs data provided a gentle pointer in the opposite direction, however, towards stronger growth.
The number of registered unemployed in the eurozone stood at 18.41 million in June, down 152,000 from May.
The unemployment rate in the 18-nation single currency region June dipped to 11.5% compared to 12% a year ago.
In the wider 28-member European Union the jobless rate also edged lower from 10.3% in May to 10.2% in June.
Austria's unemployment rate is the lowest in the region at 5%, followed by Germany at 5.1%.
However, Greece, with an unemployment rate of 27.3% and Spain, at 24.5%, are still grappling with severe levels of joblessness.
Jonathan Loynes at Capital Economics said: "There is still a lot of spare capacity in the labour market, adding to the downward pressure on wages and prices."
A study of prescriptions showed that between 1995 and 2010, the proportion of adults being given more than five drugs doubled to 20.8%.
Dundee University researchers say the findings raise "significant concerns" about adverse drug interactions.
The number of adults dispensed more than 10 drugs tripled to 5.6%.
The 15-year study looked at prescribing data for all 310,000 adults resident in the Tayside region between 1995 and 2010.
As well as the soaring rates of drug prescriptions, it found that elderly people, especially those living in care homes or more deprived areas, were more likely to be prescribed more than 10 drugs.
Prof Bruce Guthrie, who led the project, said potentially serious clashes between drugs prescribed for different conditions was "common".
He said: "Prescribed drugs significantly improve a range of health outcomes, but they can also cause considerable harm - approximately 6.5% of all emergency hospital admissions are attributable to adverse drug events and at least half of these are judged preventable.
"Our study shows there has been a significant rise in the numbers of people receiving multiple drugs.
"This raises concerns because the simultaneous use of large numbers of drugs, what we call polypharmacy, can cause serious harm in some patients."
In 1995, one in 17 adults in the Tayside area were prescribed drugs with potentially serious interactions.
By 2010, that number had more than doubled to one in eight - with 44% of people aged 70 or older prescribed drugs which could have serious interactions.
Prof Guthrie said: "Drug regimens are increasingly complex and potentially harmful. More research is needed to better understand the impact on people's health of multiple interacting drugs."
Warwickshire's Willis, 25, beat Sugita, seeded fourth in the Roehampton tournament, 1-6 6-4 6-1.
The British number 23 needs to win another two matches - starting with Russian teenager Andrey Rublev - to secure his main-draw place.
Compatriot Joe Salisbury, ranked 706th in the world, caused another upset, beating Italian Alessandro Giannessi.
On Monday Britain's world number 554 Dan Cox overcame 16th seed Thiemo de Bakker.
Britain's Katie Boulter, Edward Corrie and Gabriella Taylor also won their first-round matches, but Daniel Smethurst is out after a 6-3 7-6 (8-6) defeat by France's Calvin Hemery and Maia Lumsden lost to Czech Tereza Smitkova 2-6 6-2 6-2.
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Epping Forest Council agreed to buy the two drones in January 2016, saying they would be useful for planning, investigations and emergencies.
The council said it now hopes to be able to use the drones from June onwards, if staff pass pilot tests.
Concerns about the use of drones have been voiced by Big Brother Watch.
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Each drone cost £1,500 with a further £2,000 spent on software and training.
In a report put to the council at the time, one use suggested for the drones was to "spot people living in sheds".
Nobody from the Conservative-run council would be interviewed on the matter, first reported by the Telegraph.
In a statement, the council said: "We are still in the process of putting together training and documentation, including a policy.
"This policy will ensure usage fully conforms with the Human Rights Act, Data Protection Act and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act."
Dan Nesbitt, of Big Brother Watch, said drones did not offer any "unique benefit" over existing means of gathering information.
Officers said there was no access to the County Tyrone town via Liskey Road as a result of the incident.
The PSNI warned in a tweet that the alert in Townsend Street was likely to cause some disruption to residents in the area.
The scene will remain closed until lunchtime while officers carry out further enquires.
Sinn Fein councillor Karina Carlin said she heard a bang in the town about 20:30 GMT on Tuesday.
"I went to the scene after the noise but I didn't see anything," she said.
"The police then arrived at the scene and set-up a cordon," she said.
"The police were trying to get residents out of their homes last night, but I urged them not to because there wasn't going to be any meaningful searching until this morning."
Police were called to the address in Hennef, western Germany, on Monday after an explosion was reported.
Firefighters arrived to find the man's garage in flames and more ammunition went off as they tried to put it out.
The owner, a private collector, said he had bought the munitions at a flea market.
Reports suggest the force of the explosions threw objects up to 10m (32ft) into the air.
No injuries were reported, but homes near the scene were quickly evacuated.
The nearby Highway 560 and a stretch of railway were both closed as bomb experts feared more munitions could go off.
Experts were called to secure the remaining grenades and destroy them via a controlled explosion in a field.
German media quoted police as saying the grenades had probably been triggered by unseasonably warm temperatures.
The collector now faces possible weapons charges over the incident.
The historic role was put up for grabs by Marlborough Town Council following the retirement of veteran crier Alfie Johnson after 21 years.
Despite a uniform, bell and added bonus of being the town's Ale Taster included in the job perks, the town council admitted it may have been "optimistic".
But town clerk Shelley Parker, said a man had come forward who was "perfect".
Although the role these days is "entirely ceremonial", Mr Johnson said it was important a crier was a "man of the people" and not pompous.
"We've had one in this town for 800 years since the charter of King John in 1204 and it's a tradition," he said.
"It's a thing you don't want to lose because once you lose these old fashioned things - it's gone forever."
Mark Wylie, a professional town crier from nearby Calne, agreed it would not "seem right" if the town did not have "someone striding around in their tights" shouting out the news.
Despite "lots and lots of interest" in the contest initially, the town council admitted that hopefuls may have been put off by the time commitment.
But Ms Parker said a gentleman "well known locally" had come forward who fitted the role perfectly if not the uniform.
"Our current town crier is a very different shape, he's smaller and rounder and the new crier is taller and thinner, so we're going to have to have a new uniform made," she said.
"As to the tights - there are britches but we wouldn't make them [town criers] wear them if they didn't want to."
But Leanne's brave battle against breast cancer, and her incredible approach to finding out that the disease had returned and was terminal, has given him the strength to cope.
It has defined his new life as a single parent to two young children and continues to provide the inspiration to chase his snooker dreams.
"She is what gets me through everything," the 32-year-old told BBC Sport, prior to his debut appearance at this week's UK Championship in York. "She was given the all-clear in 2014, but we found out the cancer had come back and was terminal on 31 December last year.
"We were due to go a New Year's Eve party and she just said, 'Don't stop the party for me'. And that was how she was.
"She was an amazing woman. Her attitude was 'I will beat it'. As long as she had that mentality, it made it a lot easier for me to be able to deal with it. She had that mentality throughout - until she couldn't fight any longer. She was an inspiration to so many people.
"She fought the hardest thing in life and when I play snooker I feel no pressure because it really doesn't matter; it's a game of snooker."
The couple, from Grimsby, thought they may have "a year or two" left after her terminal diagnosis together with their children, Georgia, six, and Freddie, three. They were intent on making the most of every precious moment they had as a family.
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But with her immune system so weak, Leanne got pneumonia in February, meaning she could not have chemotherapy. That allowed the cancer to grow at an aggressive rate and she died on 15 March.
Curtis-Barrett said: "You think, 'What have we done to deserve this?' You take life for granted, but we thought we would be able to have time together after Leanne recovered from the cancer the first time."
The initial diagnosis when she was just 27 was grade three invasive - "the worst it could be" - but they were told that a mastectomy could clear it up completely.
After the operation, Freddie then had to be delivered six weeks early and two weeks later Leanne started chemotherapy, followed by radiotherapy. She finished treatment in February 2014, and was soon given the all-clear.
Eighteen months later the nightmare news came. Following Leanne's passing, one of the hardest parts was telling Georgia, who had not seen her mum for six weeks because she was in hospital in Hull.
Leanne was transferred back to Grimsby and Georgia was set to visit on the day her mum died.
"Georgia came running over to me after school saying 'we are off to see my mummy'," he explained. "That was tough. She really struggled immediately afterwards, but is now doing amazingly."
A keen dancer, Georgia has even won a local award for her efforts in raising nearly £10,000 for the Pink Rose Suite - the Breast Care Unit based at Grimsby Hospital which looked after Leanne.
Freddie was too young to grasp what was happening at the time.
Curtis-Barrett added: "Georgia has had to have a psychiatrist and help from the Macmillan nurses, who have been fantastic.
"But we got to June and she told me that she was off to dance for mummy. She had told her dance school teacher and she went out and danced in front of 1,000 people.
"Georgia is a mini-Leanne and like a mother hen. Freddie will speak about mummy but all he knew really was cuddles. He was only saying a couple of words. But he has started asking questions since he has gone to school, saying 'where's my mummy? Why doesn't my mummy pick me up from school?'"
Curtis-Barrett has had counselling too, which has been a "part of the coping mechanism". The support network provided by his family and friends - including Leanne's sisters Bridget and Lisa - has been every bit as vital and enabled him to juggle his work in the police force and get his snooker career back on track.
But it was close friend and world number 87 Allan Taylor, who pushed him into getting back on the tour.
"Allan said I needed a hobby and if it wasn't for him pushing me then I wouldn't be playing again," he explained.
Curtis-Barrett first started playing snooker at the age of three when his granddad bought him a table. He was making breaks of 60 plus by the age of 10 and was a promising player as a junior, rubbing shoulders with future world champions Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy.
"I lived with my Nana and Granddad when from the age of 15 when my parents split up," he explained. "But I gave up snooker when I was about 19 for two years when my granddad died. My heart just wasn't in it. I had such a close bond with him and it wasn't the same."
He did return to the sport after a two-year break and had a couple of brushes with the pro game, playing against some of the sport's biggest names when snooker became a bit more accessible to amateur players under supremo Barry Hearn.
And there was always a nagging "what if?" feeling in the back of his mind.
"I knew I had the talent but I had that break and the players I used to compete against continued through the ranks," he said. "That was one question I asked myself because I looked at what players like Mark Selby, Shaun Murphy and Judd Trump have achieved so wondered what can I achieve?"
Marriage, children, work and a lack of time prevented him from giving snooker his full focus but he carried on playing for fun - only starting to play more regularly when Leanne was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013.
"She encouraged me to play and it was my escape a couple of times a week." Now it is a huge part of his life, and even though giving up would make life a lot less manic, "that's not going to happen - I love it," he explained.
Curtis-Barrett earned a two-year tour card by qualifying through Q School in May and although he has made his children his priority, he intends to give snooker more of his time next season when Georgia and Freddie are more settled.
The experience of coming up against the legendary Jimmy White during a recent tournament in Germany - and his first-round win over Matthew Selt at the Home Nations event in Belfast - has made him even more determined to succeed.
He faces Joe Perry in the first round of the UK Championship on Thursday - and playing in York will have special significance.
"That was where Leanne and I got engaged," he explained. "We were together for 15 years and she loved York. We always used to go there for her birthday."
He will have plenty of support with friends from the Ray Edmonds Snooker Centre in Grimsby where he practises, and a bus load of supporters organised by his dad all making the trip.
And at least the financial cost of competing is not a major concern thanks to long-time friend Richard Gilliat, who owns Grimsby-based TR Carpets, and is sponsoring him.
The money side means very little. Snooker is a hobby, escapism, and a social event all in one.
It also brings provides a comforting reminder of Leanne.
"She was my focus and still is my focus," he added. "She would have definitely wanted me to play. One thing I do use when I play snooker that she used to use - certainly when she was going through cancer - is a poem in one of the Rocky films called Sunshine and Rainbows.
"'The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place... and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit... It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward...how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done.'
"The words are fantastic. I read that to myself before I play and I just think of her. It's tough but you have to get on with it, don't you?"
The Irish were also furious at the British attorney general's decision not to prosecute Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers involved in an alleged shoot-to-kill policy.
The information is disclosed in declassified files dating from 1988.
The Irish government's concerns were relayed at meetings in February 1988.
Irish Justice Minister Gerry Collins and Energy Minister Ray Burke made their views clear to British ministers.
At their first meeting at Stormont Castle in Belfast on 2 February, Mr Collins called it "a serious setback".
Among the issues that caused Dublin concern were the alleged "shoot-to-kill policy, the seriousness of which it was impossible to exaggerate; a cover-up involving senior RUC officers; a covert Special Branch operation in Irish jurisdiction and the disturbing circumstances of the removal of [John] Stalker from the Stalker Inquiry".
Mr Stalker, the deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester, was replaced as officer in charge of the investigation into an alleged RUC shoot-to-kill policy in north Armagh in 1982 by Colin Sampson, chief constable of West Yorkshire, in June 1986.
He was suspended after allegations he was associating with criminals in Manchester.
But he was later cleared of misconduct and reinstated with immediate effect.
On 5 February 1988, Mr Stalker claimed he had been taken off the Northern Ireland inquiry because his investigation showed that trained RUC squads had shot dead six unarmed republicans and then embarked on a cover-up.
Mr Collins told Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King that confidence in the RUC had received a "devastating setback" and north-south security co-operation would suffer when it was known that the RUC was shielding officers strongly suspected of serious crime.
In the Irish view, the Stalker-Sampson report should be published and all those against whom there was evidence of wrongdoing should be prosecuted, he said.
The Court of Appeal's decision to uphold the convictions of the Birmingham Six had serious consequences for confidence in the administration of justice.
Those prisoners should be released, he said.
This was one of the most serious and emotional issues in Mr Collins' public life and its impact in Ireland could not be over-emphasised, he told UK ministers.
Mr King said he appreciated both the strength of feeling and the calm way in which the points had been expressed.
He most regretted that the events of 1982 cast a cloud over the RUC.
However, in considering whether or not a prosecution was warranted in the Stalker-Sampson cases, Attorney General Sir Patrick Mayhew had been statutorily bound to consider the public interest.
Mr Collins pressed for prosecutions, not just disciplinary proceedings.
At the resumed meeting in London on 10 February, Mr King said "in strict confidence, Mr Stalker had done a lot of good work".
He added: "Some of the things which he was now saying in public were helpful, in particular his endorsement of the view that there had been no official shoot-to-kill policy and that it would be wrong to mount further prosecutions at this stage.
"However, the speculation that there had been some form of Cabinet plot to remove him from the inquiry was absolute rubbish."
On the Birmingham Six, Mr Collins asked "whether there was really no hope of clemency".
The case "smacked of a mighty cover-up", he said.
Mr King said three of the most eminent judges in the land had heard the case and there was "no question of his being able to reach a different and better conclusion".
The Irish minster said "he spoke in deep sorrow, not in anger" when he said that recent decisions "had done colossal damage to trust and confidence".
The 23-year-old will ride alongside fellow Welshmen Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe in Australia's Tour Down Under from 14-22 January.
Doull left Team Wiggins to join Team Sky for the 2017 season.
"My big aim for the year is that big week in April in the Tour of Flanders," Doull told BBC Radio Wales.
The Olympic gold medallist says the race, which starts and finishes in Adelaide, will be "a big step up" for him.
He continued: "I've raced on the road to a decent level before, but never anything world tour.
"I'm looking forward to getting my first proper race with Sky under my belt and doing my job and trying to put a good performance in for the team."
Team Sky's leading riders for the southern hemisphere race, including Colombian Sergio Henao and Dutchman Danny van Poppel, will look to thrive in the race as well as Thomas and Doull.
"We'll be going into the race with multiple options with Sergio and G [Thomas] potentially for the overall title and Danny for the flat days, so there won't be any days off," Doull said.
"We're working hard for the whole period, but I think that's one of the aims of doing the race anyway is to get a good workload in before the bigger races later in the year."
Doull is aware of the impact the Tour Down Under can have on his career, much like how Thomas and Rowe have benefitted from their own experiences in the competition.
"Speaking to people like Luke and Geraint, they say it's a really good way to start your year," he said.
"You have to come out to Australia quite early, do a couple of weeks of training then obviously straight into the first world tour race of the year.
"It's going to be good to get a good one under my belt quite early. It's a nice way of doing it as well, getting away from the cold and the winter of Cardiff and escaping to the sun and getting a consistent block of work done.
"There's no distractions and no problems like ice on the road."
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Algae and blanket weed meant people struggled to use rowing boats and large steam boat rides had to be stopped.
But over the past year it was drained, dredged and deepened and now includes wildlife habitats and a shingle beach.
Boat rides are due to return, along with a new drop-slide and a sand and water play area.
The lake was one of the park's major attractions when it was formally opened in 1921 by founder Charles Wicksteed.
Its water is supplied by the River Ise, but over the years large amounts of sediment collected, reducing the lake's depth to less than half a metre (20in).
Its restoration was given the go-ahead after the park secured a £1m Heritage Lottery grant and donations from Northamptonshire County Council and Kettering Borough Council.
The charitable trust that runs the park paid for the remainder of the work.
A new walk-through aviary is also part of the latest development, along with paths around the entirety of the lake for the first time.
There are also plans to create a children's play island in the middle of the lake. A statue depicting children's play will also be unveiled when the park reopens in the New Year.
Managing director Alasdair McNee said: "The scale of the project is indicated by the fact we had to dredge 50,000 cubic metres of silt from the lake, and during the project we also discovered that two of the bridges which serve the Wicksteed Park railway had to be replaced.
"But the lake is now returned to former glories and work has been done to preserve it for future generations."
President Assad is accused of killing tens of thousands in a war with an estimated death toll of 200,000.
In his first interview with the BBC for over four years he insists he is in power to protect Syria "when it's under attack, not to flee and run away".
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The situation in Syria has become almost completely dominated with the battle to stop the militant group Islamic State.
In September, an American-led coalition began airstrikes on IS extremists who have taken control of key areas in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
President Assad says IS terrorists are behind many attacks on his forces but that doesn't mean he'll team up with America to beat the black-clad Islamists.
He says his government "cannot be in alliance with the country which support the terrorism".
He is referring to help the American-led coalition offered rebels fighting the Syrian army in the civil war.
Assad also claims the Islamic State ideology "has been supported by the royal family" in Saudi Arabia.
Professor Gareth Stansfield is a Middle East expert at the University of Exeter and thinks there is little evidence to support Assad's claim.
"The government of Saudi Arabia has gone to great lengths to publicly distance itself from the Islamic State and denies any accusation that it has provided support to the organisation - formally or otherwise," he explained.
President Assad accuses the Americans of "trampling over international law".
"They don't talk to us and we don't talk to them. Sometimes we talk through a third party and they convey a message, but there is nothing tactical."
Professor Stansfield says: "It's unlikely that there will be direct dialogue between the Assad regime and the US, but it would seem logical that there has been some form of communication.
"The evidence would suggest it [communication] has happened as the Assad regime seems rather relaxed about the ongoing use of its airspace," he added.
The use of "barrel bombs" - barrels packed with explosives - has been repeatedly condemned by human rights groups.
President Assad's forces are believed to have killed thousands of people in Syria using them.
"This is a childish story," President Assad responded.
"The army uses missiles, bullets and bombs, I haven't heard about them using barrels or maybe even cooking pots.
"There are no indiscriminate weapons, when you shoot you aim and when you aim you aim to protect civilians against terrorists."
The pictures you see here obviously show the scars of war in a country many say is now a "failed state".
But President Assad says: "We cannot talk about a failed state. Talking about losing control is something completely different.
"There is an invasion of terrorists coming from abroad and the government is doing its job in defending and fighting for its country."
"The fact that Mr Assad has started giving interviews again must be a sign that he is feeling more secure," says interviewer Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor.
"I have always believed that Bashar al-Assad is the chairman of the board of the family business."
President Assad wouldn;t admit that he had made mistakesduring his country's four year-long crisis.
He says: "I never said we made mistakes in handling this. I always said that anyone could make mistakes."
Professor Stansfield says: "Personally, I think he is viewing the way that Western powers are responding to the Islamic State threat as being an opportunity for him to drive a wedge between them and the opposition forces against him.
"He does this while at the same time containing the Islamic State - before it can become a threat to the survival of his regime."
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The 17-year-old from Bradford, who cannot be named because of his age, denies the charge and another count of making a pipe bomb.
Prosecutors said on the day Mrs Cox died he posted a picture of her killer online saying "Thomas Mair is a HERO".
Jurors heard he was arrested after he put a photo of a homemade bomb online.
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Mrs Cox was murdered by Mair on 16 June in Birstall, West Yorkshire, just days before the EU referendum in which she had campaigned to remain in the EU.
Barnaby Jameson, prosecuting, said the boy was a part of neo-Nazi youth group National Action and on the day of the killing he had made a number of comments on social media.
In one he wrote: "We need more people like him to butcher the race traitors."
Mr Jameson said: "[His] political views were so extreme that he celebrated in the murder of a democratically elected MP - presumably because she had voted to remain in the EU.
"In [his] view this was race treachery."
The jury was also shown footage of the boy at a National Action demonstration in York.
Mr Jameson described the organisation as "white supremacist" and known to be "anti-Muslim, anti-black, anti-semitic and anti-gay".
Messages were discovered on the boy's phone from members of a National Action chat group that included phrases such as "should we just blow up Leeds?", the court heard.
The jury was told he was arrested by counter-terrorism police after a member of the public reported a series of Snapchat messages sent by the defendant, including an image of a "viable" homemade pipe bomb.
The device was later found in a drawer at the boy's home, prosecutors said.
In one message the boy was said to have written "Incendiary explosive and home-made black powder. More to come" over a photo of the device, and an emoji of a figure in a turban with a gun pointing to his head and an image of Bradford.
Mr Jameson said had the bomb been exploded it "could have the capacity to cause shock and injury and damage to property in the immediate vicinity".
The jury heard the defendant accepted making the device and sending the Snapchat messages, but said it was a "bad joke gone wrong" and that he did not intend to carry out a terrorist act.
Mr Jameson said: "In this case there is no evidence of a specific terrorist attack - nor does the Crown need to prove one.
"This is a case that relates to terrorism generally."
He said the alleged activity was the "opening stage" in the defendant's "all out race war and that is why the Crown leads its case with an allegation under the terrorism legislation."
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A knife was believed to have been used in the incident at Spar in St Modans Place at about 05:55.
No-one was injured, and the man escaped with a three-figure sum of money and other items.
Police Scotland said the suspect was white, between 5ft 10in and 6ft tall, and was wearing safety glasses and had tape on his face. He was wearing a light grey jacket and dark trousers.
Det Sgt Martyn Thomson said: "Thankfully no-one was hurt during the incident, however the staff member who was in the shop at the time was understandably shaken.
"A full investigation, including speaking to witnesses and reviewing CCTV, is under way and I am appealing for anyone who was in the area around the time in question and saw anything suspicious to contact police.
"Likewise anyone who saw a person matching the description provided either before the time of the robbery or after should come forward. You may have vital information which could assist our investigation."
It described the estimate of more than three billion barrels of oil untapped underneath the UK continental shelf as a "very significant opportunity".
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It warned, however, that new technologies may be required.
OGA head of technology Carlo Procaccini said: "We recognise the challenges operators are facing to develop these marginal oil and gas accumulations. Small pools represent a very significant opportunity to maximise economic recovery from the UK continental shelf.
"Technology has an important role to play to reduce the cost of development wells, design optimised subsea infrastructure to existing host facilities and develop efficient standalone concepts.
"We are committed to working together with the industry, the Technology Leadership Board and the new Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) which has dedicated one of their Solution Centres to unlock the small pools potential."
The new publication from the OGA follows a series of events it held last year focussing on "small pool" reserves of oil.
These were led by the National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI).
NSRI project director Dr Gordon Drummond said: "Small pools have a national importance in terms of maximising economic recovery and they must be considered as an industry asset if they are to be capitalised upon.
"Following an extensive mapping exercise, we now know exactly where these small pools are located and what is required to unlock their potential.
"If the subsea industry can rise to the challenge of economically tapping into these pools, the North Sea could have a whole new lease of life."
Dr Drummond added: "Technology is only part of the solution, the industry must be much more receptive to innovation - there must be a willingness to work more collaboratively on multi-field applications and on access to infrastructure."
Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans as the House passed the measure 289-137, in a rebuke to the White House.
President Barack Obama has said he will veto the legislation.
The bill follows the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, claiming to the be the work of Islamic State.
Seven of the perpetrators died in the attacks, and one of them is thought to have been a Syrian who entered Europe via Greece with migrants.
It still needs to pass the Senate before hitting Mr Obama's desk.
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The bill would require the head of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence to sign off on each refugee as being "not a threat to the security of the United States," following an FBI background check.
Calling the Paris attacks "a game changer", Rep Brad Ashford, a Democrat from Nebraska, said: "I cannot sit back and ignore the concerns of my constituents and the American public."
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he supported the bill because "it is against the values of our nation and the values of a free society to give terrorists the opening they are looking for".
Others urged compassion for those fleeing the war-torn regions.
"Defeating terrorism should not mean slamming the door in the faces of those fleeing the terrorists," said Rep Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York. "We might as well take down the Statue of Liberty".
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Republicans do not have the votes to override Mr Obama's veto, but say that their affirmative vote is symbolic.
Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky who is currently running for president, has highlighted a 2011 case in his home state of two Iraqi refugees who schemed to send rifles, missiles and money to al-Qaeda against US troops in Iraqi. They are now imprisoned.
The White House has said that 2,174 Syrians have been admitted to the US since the attacks in September 2001, and noted that none of them has been arrested or deported for terror offences.
Millions of Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries and to Europe since the Syrian conflict began about four years ago.
The Obama administration announced in September that it wanted to resettle about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US by the same time next year.
The 21-year-old joined the Rams in July 2014, when his contract at Newcastle United expired.
His only first-team appearance for the Rams so far came in January's FA Cup third-round win at Hartlepool.
"We think Jonathan is one of the best young goalkeepers around," said Luton boss Nathan Jones.
Mitchell is eligible to make his Luton debut against Leyton Orient on Saturday.
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Former Barnardo's chief executive, Sir Martin Narey, will lead the review, David Cameron told MPs.
The move follows Mr Cameron's Conservative party conference commitment to improve the system.
"The most important thing we can do is to speed up the adoption system so that more children get adopted," said Mr Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions.
"But for those who can't be adopted we need to make sure that our residential care homes are doing the best possible job they can," he said, in answer to a question from Tory MP Michelle Donelan.
"That's why today I can announce that I have asked the former chief executive of Barnardo's, Sir Martin Narey, who's an excellent public servant, who I worked with when he was at the Home Office, to conduct an independent review of children's residential care, reporting to the Education Secretary and myself so that we can take every possible step to give these children the best start in life."
A Downing Street spokesman said the review would start straight away and full details would be announced shortly.
Sir Martin is expected to look at why children end up in care, how they are treated and how the state could support them better.
At the moment children in care often have very poor outcomes and the Prime Minister believes it is very important to tackle that, said the spokesman.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said she was "crystal clear that only the very best should be acceptable for children and young people in care.
"I want to shine a spotlight on what works, identify barriers to success and end those practices that are holding these children back from a life full of opportunity.
"It is our moral duty to create a care system where all children have access to high quality care that meets their specific needs. I am confident that Sir Martin's review will help make this ambition a reality."
Sir Martin, who currently advises the government on children's social care and was also formerly head of Prison and Probation Services for England said he was delighted to accept the commission.
"Some of the best social work I've seen has taken place in residential homes, carried out by some outstanding staff, and yet there are doubts about whether we use residential care for the right children and frequent disquiet about children's transitions to adulthood.
"I am anxious to hear from staff, children, care leavers and those with experience of this sector."
Prince William, the president of the FA, made his comments during a speech before the cup final at Wembley.
He urged sponsors and other backers to use their influence with Fifa to support reform.
It comes after Fifa's president Sepp Blatter was re-elected, following the arrests of seven people linked to Fifa.
The seven, arrested in Zurich earlier this week, are among 14 indicted on charges of bribery, racketeering and money-laundering, involving tens of millions of dollars since 1991.
Meanwhile, Swiss authorities have launched a separate criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar.
In his speech the prince compared the crisis engulfing Fifa to the 2002 Salt Lake City corruption scandal which prompted the International Olympic Committee to reform.
He said: "There seems to be a huge disconnect between the sense of fair play that guides those playing and supporting the game, and the allegations of corruption that have long lingered around the management of the sport internationally.
"The events in Zurich this week represent Fifa's Salt Lake City moment, when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) went through a similar period of serious allegations.
"Fifa, like the IOC, must now show that it can represent the interests of fair play and put the sport first.
"Those backing Fifa, such as sponsors and the regional confederations, must do their bit to press these reforms - we are doing football and its fans no favours if we do not.
"I have no doubt that when Fifa reforms, its mission to spread the benefits of the game to more people, especially those in developing countries, can only be enhanced."
He also used his speech before match - which saw Arsenal beat Aston Villa 4-0 - to back a decision by former Manchester United chief executive and newly-elected Fifa vice-president David Gill to quit the position almost immediately in protest at Mr Blatter's re-election.
Mr Blatter is not named in the indictment, and denies having anything to do with an alleged $10m (£6.5m) bribe.
Prince William said: "I know I join with all of you in commending David Gill for his decision to stand down from the ExCo [executive committee], and to lead by example by doing so."
And he said that the Football Association, the sport's governing body in England, had been "taking a critical look at itself under Greg Dyke's leadership" and could become the "gold standard of sporting governance".
The duke added: "We must ensure that the quality and the richness of the game at the highest levels is shared more generously at the grassroots; we must ensure that home-grown talent is better nurtured; and we must continue to kick out racism for good from our game.
"I feel we need to ensure that we become the gold standard of sporting governance. A modern, transparent and inclusive organisation - representative of the broad and diverse society who play and love our game.
"Over the next few years, if we want credibly to influence the debate on reform in Fifa, we must continue to strive for excellence in our own organisation.
"It's not easy to do so, but it is worth it - and, to that end, I commend the process you are on, and I'll be watching it closely."
Meanwhile, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has said that England would back a European boycott of the 2018 World Cup.
A boycott will be considered by European football's governing body Uefa when it meets next week in Berlin.
Mr Dyke said: "There's no point boycotting on our own, but if the rest of Europe decided to boycott we would join them."
He also said England would not bid to host the World Cup under Blatter.
The pair will be taking over the job from Sarah-Jane Crawford, who only hosted the show for one series.
This year's X Factor will see big changes, with judges Louis Walsh, Mel B and presenter Dermot O'Leary leaving.
Simon Cowell and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini are the only faces returning.
Olly Murs and Caroline Flack have already been named as The X Factor's new presenters.
The judging panel will be completed by newcomers Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora, who was poached from BBC One's The Voice.
Rochelle's new co-host Melvin Odoom is best known for presenting Kiss FM's breakfast show in London since 2007.
The Xtra Factor is a spin-off show to the main weekend programme, and follows the backstage action, as well as chatting with judges and contestants.
Humes said: "I have watched The Xtra Factor for years so I am beyond excited about joining such a brilliant team and getting to work with my old friend Melvin makes it even better.
"I also can't wait to meet the contestants and be a part of their X Factor experience."
Rhys Thomas, 20, of Holywell, Flintshire, was left disabled after gum became lodged in his windpipe in 2007.
Since then he has been in various hospitals and homes while his family have been trying to get him home.
Health officials have apologised, saying lessons have been learned.
Graham Thomas has described his frustration at the way the family were sent "from pillar to post " as they tried to make arrangements for his son to be looked after at home.
A £100,000 extension at the family home, paid for with community support as well as a £35,000 grant, is now being used to house Rhys along with specialist carers.
"The system works in a way that it wants you to fail, if you fall at the first hurdle: That's one less person for them to be worried about, and concerned about," says Mr Thomas.
"To anybody who's listening you've got to be determined and not accept 'no' from anybody, and pursue them even if it takes year and years.
"It's not a case of winning or losing, but you can achieve what you set out to achieve."
Mr Thomas says the move was delayed several times and he hopes lessons have been learnt to avoid another family going through a similar ordeal.
In a statement, the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, which is funding Rhys's care, has apologised.
The statement said: "The health board is very sorry that despite significant efforts made by Rhys' family, health board staff and other agencies, that it took so long for Rhys to return home.
"Planning Rhys' discharge and home care has been a very lengthy process due to the complexity of his care needs.
"We have also learnt valuable lessons about how to speed up the process in such unique circumstances."
Rhys was 15 when he had been chewing gum before he went to bed.
It became lodged in his windpipe and he suffered a heart attack, thought to have been caused by lack of oxygen.
Mr Thomas said the family were initially told they could bring Rhys home for 24-hour care by November, but delays were caused by the need to recruit and then train specialist staff.
The brothers were being looked after by their grandmother at her home in Korbach in central Germany.
When she went to find a nappy, the younger boy Rudolf went into the garden and fell face down in the water.
The toddler, who had stopped breathing, was pulled from the pool by his brother Markus and his grandmother.
Markus then called paramedics because his grandmother has poor German and primarily speaks Russian.
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The elder brother was told over the phone how to provide first aid, giving heart massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Rudolf began breathing again before paramedics arrived and airlifted him to hospital in Marburg, north of Frankfurt.
The paramedic who helped him praised the boy's actions saying Markus followed instructions exactly, despite his initial panic.
Michael Seebold described how he had told the boy to put his brother in the recovery position, hold his nose and start mouth-to-mouth.
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It blamed increasing urbanisation and unhealthy lifestyles for the rise in cases.
The global average for the number of people suffering from the condition was about 40%, the WHO said.
High blood pressure was often detected too late and was a silent killer, it added.
If lifestyles do not change, more people in Africa could die from chronic illnesses, including diabetes and cancer, than infectious disease by 2030, the WHO said.
The report's author, Abdikamal Alisalad, said the level of unhealthy habits in many African nations had come as a shock.
"We were surprised because we thought we would not see this kind of situation currently. We were expecting it maybe 30 or 40 years from now," he told AFP news agency.
He attributed the rise in non-communicable diseases to changes in developing societies.
"People are moving from the rural areas, going to urban, metropolitan areas. The middle-income group is growing, life expectancy is also growing."
Of the 34 African countries surveyed, Ghana, Nigeria, Seychelles, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe had the highest prevalence rate of high blood pressure.
Treating non-communicable diseases is costly, so it is in the economic interest of every country to support prevention campaigns, says BBC Africa health reporter Anne Soy.
Experts recommend eating at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a day, quitting smoking, drinking in moderation, reducing salt intake and exercising often.
The 8cm space rock is said to be chemically distinct from any of the 50,000 other such objects held in collections.
Called Österplana 65, it was found in a limestone quarry in Thorsberg, Sweden, that produces floor tiles.
Dating suggests the meteorite's parent body was involved in a huge collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter some 470 million years ago.
This would have been the same smash-up that produced a large class of other rocks known as L chondrites, Birger Schmitz and colleagues tell the journal Nature Communications.
The L chondrites are picked up in significant quantities in the Thorsberg sediments of Ordovician age - a period in Earth history when the Northern Hemisphere was largely under water and marine lifeforms such as the trilobites were flourishing.
Dr Schmitz' team has recovered more than a hundred of these "fossil" objects in the quarry. But the new meteorite stands out because geochemically its oxygen and chromium signatures are distinct.
"We've been hunting these Ordovician meteorites for 25 years. We found 50, then 60, then 70 - and it was getting boring," he told BBC News.
"Then in 2011, we found one meteorite that was entirely different. For a long time we called it 'the mysterious object' because it didn't resemble anything. For five years, we have done all types of analysis and now we're certain of what it is."
The hypothesis is that Öst 65 comes from the "second asteroid" in the collision.
The scientists can make this claim because of the results of so-called cosmogenic dating.
This is a technique that will reveal how long the fresh surface of a broken object has been exposed to space radiation.
Impacts from high energy particles generate particular types, or isotopes, of atoms in the rock - in this case, it is forms of helium and neon.
The more of these isotopes that are present, the greater the time since the fragmentation event.
When this dating is done for the L chondrites and Öst 65, the exposure times line up.
"We show that Öst 65 was liberated from its parent body at the same time as the L chondrites were released from their parent body, and that's very strong empirical evidence that this new meteorite comes from the same impact," said Dr Schmitz.
The discovery reinforces the idea that different types of meteorite have fallen to Earth through geological time; that the space rocks we find on the surface of our planet today reflect a somewhat different Solar System to the one that existed 500 million years ago.
Dr Schmitz refers to Öst 65 as an "extinct meteorite". Just as the trilobites eventually died out, so other members of the Öst 65 family are likely only to be found in fossil sediments like those at Thorsberg.
Dr Schmitz' meteorite hunt in the quarry is certainly more interesting now: "It used to be that they threw away the floor tiles that had ugly black dots in them. One of my co-authors on the paper, Mario Tassinari, contacted the quarry owners to ask them not to do that. The very first fossil meteorite we found was in one of their dumps."
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Deulofeu originally went on loan to Everton in 2013-14 then signed in a £4.3m permanent deal in 2015.
The 23-year-old made 13 appearances for Everton last season before joining AC Milan on loan in January.
The Spaniard, who came through the youth academy at the Nou Camp, has signed a two-year deal.
After a good first season on Merseyside, Deulofeu fell out of favour and manager Ronald Koeman allowed him to spend the second half of the last campaign in Italy.
He started 36 games for Everton, with a further 39 from the bench, scoring eight goals. His contract had been due to run until June 2018.
Deulofeu said: "I am very happy to have returned home and cannot wait to start this project. I have always wanted to be here.
"I have had to work away from Barca, because it is not easy to get into the first team, but I have come here with a lot of desire.
"I have changed a lot, I have had different experiences and I think I have improved as a person and a player. I am a different player and I am going to try and help the team.
"I know that competition is high, but I will work hard every day and I am going to try and learn from the best to help the team to win titles."
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer
Deulofeu's departure from Everton is no surprise as he was clearly not part of Ronald Koeman's plans. The only thing that might seem surprising is that he returns to Barcelona.
He had been sent out on loan by Barcelona to Everton and Sevilla with mixed results before he made a permanent move to Goodison Park in June 2015.
Deulofeu was regarded as talented but wildly inconsistent, a status he has done little to alter in recent times, including during a loan spell at AC Milan last season.
Barcelona, however, clearly believe the raw materials are there - which they undoubtedly are - and that new coach Ernesto Valverde can fashion the finished product.
However Deulofeu faces a challenge to secure regular game time - given Barcelona's attacking riches include Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar - at what is the crucial phase of his career.
He is a player who can excite and exasperate in equal measure. Deulofeu must now alter that balance in his and Barcelona's favour.
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Jeremy Hunt said patient safety was behind the decision to close Deer Park Medical Centre in Witney, Oxfordshire, on 24 March.
Witney MP Robert Courts had said the "vital community asset" needed to stay.
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group said it had been unable to reach a deal with a GP service provider.
It described it as an "unsuccessful procurement process" in which the "contract value was offered at a significantly higher price than that paid to other practices in Oxfordshire".
The decision to shut the practice has been referred to an independent referral panel, but it is not due to report back until 11 April, after the date of the closure.
OCCG said it was told it should go ahead with the closure by Mr Hunt "as continuing the existing service is not now a safe or practical option".
It added: "The Secretary of State has advised that in the interest of safety and continued access to care, patients should now reregister with one of the alternative local practices (a patient will need to live within the practice boundary) with space available on their lists.
"Patients who do not register with a new practice risk being unable to easily access medical care from a GP.
"All the alternative practices are happy to help make the process of changing surgeries as swift and as simple as possible."
The Cumbrians have played pre-season matches against Queen of the South, Kendal, Workington and Warrington so far, with four more games scheduled.
United have made eight new signings during the summer in a bid to improve on last season's 10th place finish.
Curle told BBC Radio Cumbria: "The starting XI is nowhere near selected."
"We've come though unscathed injury wise and the attitude of the players has been exceptional.
"There's been lots to look at and much food for thought."
Mr Armstrong, who turned 82 on Sunday, had surgery to relieve four blocked coronary arteries.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Mr Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon on 20 July 1969.
In a statement, Nasa administrator Charles Bolden wished the "true American hero" a quick recovery.
"Neil's pioneering spirit will surely serve him well in this challenging time," Mr Bolden said.
Fellow Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, tweeted that he was "sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery- we agreed to make it the 50th Apollo Anniv in 2019".
Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, told NBC News that the 82-year-old's wife, Carol Armstrong, said her husband was in high spirits.
Mr Armstrong failed a stress test on Monday, leading to the surgery.
He has largely kept out of the spotlight after his famous moonwalk, but testified in front of Congress in September 2011 on Nasa's future, along with Mr Cernan.
Mr Armstrong, along with three other astronauts, received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest US civilian award, in November.
Jack Price is back in contention but Nouha Dicko's hamstring means he is unavailable, as is Joe Mason.
Chelsea defender David Luiz is rested as he continues to struggle with a knee problem, meaning Kurt Zouma or John Terry could deputise.
Asmir Begovic is set to start, but Marcos Alonso drops out with Nathan Ake a possible replacement.
Steve Wilson: "I'm not sure if Antonio Conte has been versed in just how special the double of league and FA Cup is in England - but this season is a wonderful opportunity for Chelsea to join Manchester United and Arsenal as the only clubs to have achieved it more than once.
"Not being in Europe and having such a cushion at the top of the Premier League offers Conte the opportunity to select a team designed to minimise the risk of an upset.
"Wolves have already done spectacularly well to win at Stoke and Liverpool on their way to this, their first fifth-round tie since 2008.
"They deserve a full house and a cracking Molineux atmosphere to celebrate those achievements, but celebrating another Premier League scalp looks less likely."
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Wolves manager Paul Lambert: "We will need to punch above our weight and stay in the game as long as we can.
"We will have to do what we are good at and not get drawn into playing Chelsea's way. We will have to find a way of taking them out of their comfort zone, as we did at Liverpool.
"I'm not going to play the same way that Burnley did. That's taking nothing away from Burnley because they got a brilliant result but when you sit and wait for a team to come at you you've got to hope they have an off-day and don't fire at all levels."
Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte on Diego Costa's future: "I don't know about this situation. I think now it's very important to be focused on the present and not to look so far forward. At the end of the season we will see the situation.
"Yes, I'm confident (he will stay). I repeat: now it's important to keep the great concentration for the present. The present is tomorrow's game against Wolverhampton. We must go in the next round."
Chelsea looked very good for the first 20 minutes of their draw against Burnley. They may not be involved in any other competitions, but manager Antonio Conte won't want the bother of a replay.
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In the 2012-13 financial year, county councils spent nearly £440m in total on IT services, including staffing costs, but just £385,000 of that through the government's "G-Cloud" framework.
The G-Cloud initiative, launched in 2012, aims to shave £120m a year off the public sector IT bill by encouraging all public sector bodies to buy IT products and services through the government's CloudStore digital marketplace.
Cloud services are "quicker, cheaper and more competitive", according to Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, with some tech companies estimating that they can be 25% to 60% cheaper than traditional long-term IT contracts.
Despite this, G-Cloud is largely being ignored by county councils,
For example, Kent County Council, the biggest IT spender, committed £38.5m to IT services in 2012-13, but just £94,750 of that went through G-Cloud.
Similarly, Hampshire County Council spent £38m, but nothing through G-Cloud.
The findings have emerged after IT services company Bull Information Systems carried out Freedom of Information requests on all 27 UK county councils - 26 responded.
"We think these findings are hugely disappointing and quite shocking," Andrew Carr, Bull's UK and Ireland chief executive, told the BBC.
"By sharing infrastructure costs and moving to the cloud, county councils could take 20% to 25% out of total IT costs - they're wasting millions not doing this."
Switching from long-term contacts with IT providers selling hardware and software to "pay as you go" virtual services with a variety of providers is a "no-brainer", according to Phil Dawson, chief executive of Skyscape Cloud Services, a G-Cloud accredited provider.
"My one plea to government would be that they shout louder and more frequently about the case studies demonstrating the cost savings that can be achieved through the cloud.
"But while the infrastructure cost savings are plain to see, cloud also delivers the agility and responsiveness we need to provide services fit for the 21st Century," he argues.
Since launch, G-Cloud has seen £175.5m of sales made through the platform up to the end of March 2014, with 60% of those going to small and medium-sized (SMEs) businesses.
CloudStore - soon to be called the Digital Marketplace - now lists 1,518 suppliers offering about 17,000 services, says the Cabinet Office.
While the government is keen to trumpet these figures as signs of progress - particularly for SME IT providers - the fact remains that 80% of those sales were made by central, not local, government.
And the figure seems tiny when compared with a total central government IT spend of about £7bn.
County councils remain apparently unimpressed by - or unaware of - G-Cloud's advantages.
Councillor Mark Hawthorne is the vice-chairman of the County Councils Network, which is part of the Local Government Association.
He told the BBC: "While the G-Cloud offers a number of contract solutions, for some councils the framework is unable to deliver best value due to the existing nature of their IT contracts where IT management is already outsourced and would have to be recreated at significant cost to make the G-Cloud the right solution for them.
"It would be wrong to assume that non take-up of G-Cloud services represents a missed saving opportunity."
But IT service providers - and the government - disagree.
"It makes so much more sense for councils to rent and share virtual services rather than buy hardware, only 15% of which is ever used on average," says Bull's Mr Carr.
"The blame for lack of adoption lies primarily with the councils themselves," he says. "There's an unwillingness to change. People continue to do what is simplest and easiest."
Skyscape's Mr Dawson believes another barrier to the quicker adoption of cloud services by local authorities could be concern that efficiencies and automation may lead to job losses.
"There's no doubt locally run data centres would close," he says. "But there's also an opportunity to create jobs in the app development sector to compensate."
The Cabinet Office, which is responsible for the G-Cloud project, admits that the benefits of cloud services need to be spelled out more.
"Today, more councils than ever before are using cloud services because of the benefits they bring," a spokesman told the BBC. "However, we know more needs to be done to raise awareness of its potential and encourage use.
"Only then can organisations benefit from access to the most innovative, cost-effective solutions by a wide range of suppliers and pass these savings on to the taxpayer."
And it is these potential tax savings that exercise bodies like the Taxpayers' Alliance.
Campaign manager Andy Sylvester says: "Cloud technology has been saving plenty of small businesses an awful lot of money, and councils should be no different.
"At a time when councils are finding long-overdue savings across their operations, it beggars belief that they are not taking advantage of these new, money-saving technologies.
"Taxpayers expect their council tax to be spent on essential front-line services, not unnecessarily expensive IT."
From April 2014, all new or redesigned government digital services must meet the "digital by default" service standard, a key plank of the Government Digital Strategy, published in December 2013.
Achieving this standard could save the government up to £1.8bn a year, it believes, based on the fact that digital transactions are 20 times cheaper than by phone, 30 times cheaper than postal and as much as 50 times cheaper than face-to-face.
Delivering these digital services needs expertise and often a lot of upgrading from old, so-called legacy, computer systems.
This is where G-Cloud is supposed to come in.
But county councils would appear to need more persuading of its benefits - and perhaps a visit or two from the National Audit Office to ensure they are getting best value from their IT contracts.
In a speech, he said the siege and bombardment of Aleppo's rebel-held east were among the "crimes of historic proportions" being committed in Syria.
Almost 500 people have been killed and 2,000 injured since government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, launched an assault on the east a month ago.
Syria's government has said civilians are suffering because of "terrorists".
Meanwhile, the UN said a lack of security guarantees had forced it to delay plans to carry out medical evacuations from Aleppo on Friday during the second 11-hour "humanitarian pause" declared unilaterally by the government and its ally, Russia.
Russia has said it will also suspend air strikes between 08:00 and 19:00 local time (05:00-16:00 GMT) on Saturday to allow civilians and rebels to leave the city via safe corridors.
However, very few people have reportedly taken advantage of the offer, with rebel factions asserting that it would amount to forced displacement and surrender.
Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and the country's commercial and industrial hub, has been devastated by fighting since 2012. It has been left divided roughly in two, with President Bashar al-Assad's forces controlling the west and rebels the east.
At the start of September, troops and Iranian-backed militiamen severed the rebels' last route into the east and placed its 275,000 residents under siege.
Two weeks later, following the collapse of a nationwide truce brokered by the US and Russia, the government launched a ground offensive to take full control of the city, accompanied by an aerial bombardment of unprecedented scale and intensity.
At an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday, Mr Zeid warned that "crimes of historic proportions" were being committed in eastern Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria.
"The ancient city of Aleppo, a place of millennial civility and beauty, is today a slaughterhouse - a gruesome locus of pain and fear, where the lifeless bodies of small children are trapped under streets of rubble and pregnant women deliberately bombed," he said.
Mr Zeid added that his staff had "documented violations of international humanitarian law by all parties in Aleppo".
"Armed opposition groups continue to fire mortars and other projectiles into civilian neighbourhoods of western Aleppo, but indiscriminate air strikes across the eastern part of the city by government forces and their allies are responsible for the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties.
"These violations constitute war crimes. And if knowingly committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against civilians, they constitute crimes against humanity."
The commissioner said the failure of the international community - particularly the UN Security Council - to protect civilians and halt the bloodshed "should haunt everyone of us".
Syria's permanent representative to the UN, Hussam al-Din Ala, made a visibly angry statement afterwards, insisting that the Syrian government was waging a battle against terrorism.
Later, the charity Save the Children warned that aid workers and medical professionals in eastern Aleppo were reporting the widespread use of cluster bombs, which are banned under international law.
It cited the Violations Documentation Centre, an activist-run site, as recording 137 cluster-bomb attacks in Aleppo between 10 September and 10 October - a 791% increase on the average of the previous eight months.
Tal Landsman, 26, denied the offence of failing to report the discovery, at LL Camps in Hertfordshire, to the authorities.
The jury at St Albans Crown Court heard the defendant had planned to report the matter and cleared him.
His colleague, Ben Lewis, previously admitted possessing indecent images.
Lewis, 25, of Lullington Gardens, Borehamwood, was a co-owner of the camp in Bushey.
Witness Sandra Vicente told the court "I felt my brain was polluted" after she found images of naked three and four-year-old girls on Lewis's phone.
She told the court she reported it to Mr Landsman, of Admiral Drive, Stevenage, on 1 August and he said he would sort it out and she should not tell anyone.
Ms Vicente said Lewis, who carried on working at the camp, came to her three days later with a three-year-old girl who he said he had found in the toilets and had wet herself.
At that point she reported Lewis to the police who arrested him on 5 August. LL Camps was closed by Ofsted on 6 August.
Ann Evans, for the prosecution, said the charge was brought against Mr Landsman because he "exposed children to the unnecessary risk that they would suffer harm at the hands of his co-director".
"It was his obligation for the safety of the children in his care to report Mr Lewis, to remove him from the premises, or shut the operations," she said.
In his defence Phillip Evans QC, argued Mr Landsman had met with his brother Adam Landsman and fellow director Dan Risner on 4 August to agree to report the matter to police and there was only a short period of time between the discovery on the phone and Lewis' arrest.
Lewis admitted four counts of making or taking indecent images and will be sentenced at a later date.
Hackney Borough councillors Sophie Conway and Carole Williams attended the event at City Hall and said they were challenged by a white security guard.
"We were quite stunned at the time," Ms Conway said.
Greater London Authority said it did not tolerate discrimination and was investigating the matter.
A spokesman said the Greater London Authority took complaints of this nature extremely seriously and would take action if it was found to be appropriate.
The event was held on 10 March, two days after International Women's Day, which celebrates how far women have come in society and aims to raise awareness of sources of inequality.
It was organised partly as a networking event and was attended by businesswomen, campaigners, charity workers and women from a range of backgrounds.
Ms Conway, Labour councillor for Hackney Central, said: "When we arrived at City Hall we were met by two security guards who asked us what we were there for.
"When we explained what event we were there to attend, we were asked if we were there to clean it. We were quite stunned at the time so we sort of stood there in disbelief."
Ms Williams, Labour councillor for Hoxton West, who is also a part-time doctoral researcher, said: "There was an instant recognition on his face as soon as the words came out of his mouth, so he knew what he had said was inappropriate, but by that point it was too late to take it back."
After he made the comment, the councillors said they ignored him and spoke to another security guard instead.
They said they did not want the security guard to lose his job.
Ms Conway added: "Although we've made so many strides in so many senses, it reminds you that there's still so much further to go.
"The assumptions that that security guard had made in that instant - we need to ensure that there's better representation of black and minority ethnic people, and women specifically, in those roles of power and influence in the UK."
Rounding off a social media post on the topic, Ms Conway said, "The struggle continues sisters."
Jon Walters headed home at his near post, highlighting the home team's vulnerability in defence, to give Stoke an early lead.
But Liverpool responded positively after a disjointed start, with Adam Lallana and Roberto Firmino scoring before the break as the hosts took the lead.
Jurgen Klopp's men made sure of the win, which moves them one point ahead of third-placed Manchester City - whom they play on New Year's Eve - when Giannelli Imbula directed Divock Origi's cross into his own net.
Adding gloss to the scoreline was Daniel Sturridge, who scored his first league goal of the season - and Liverpool's 100th under manager Klopp.
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There was a period in the first half when Liverpool looked exposed. Simon Mignolet, again preferred in goal to Loris Karius as Klopp stuck to the team which started the derby win against Everton, should have saved Walters' close-range header.
It was a mistake which will once again open up the debate over who should be the manager's first-choice goalkeeper. But, in attack, the Reds were as quick, incisive and destructive as they have been throughout the season.
Liverpool have now scored 86 league goals in 2016 - their most in a calendar year since 1985 - and they ended the match having made a total of 20 shots, six of which were on target.
Once the impressive Lallana equalised, sweeping home from an acute angle after Glen Johnson failed to clear the danger inside his six-yard box, Liverpool were completely dominant.
And there was a sense of inevitability when Firmino, allowed to turn unchallenged in the box, scored - his low shot bouncing in off the far and then near post.
As has been the case for the majority of this season, Sadio Mane and James Milner were key cogs, with the latter's tireless runs down the left flank giving Stoke an extra worry.
Stoke, now winless in four league games, caused Liverpool's defence a number of problems in the first half, with former players Peter Crouch and Joe Allen instrumental for the Potters.
Crouch, starting for the first time since August, held the ball up well while the tigerish Allen played like a man eager to prove a point to the club that sold him to Stoke for £13m in the summer. Indeed, the Welshman could have doubled the visiting team's advantage but instead forced a fine save from Mignolet.
Stoke sought to contain their opponents by attacking them and it was a ploy which worked until Liverpool levelled and Mark Hughes' men suddenly found themselves penned inside their own half as the hosts confidently sprayed the ball around.
Defensive errors contributed to Stoke's downfall. The visitors ceded possession too easily in their own half for Liverpool's third and Ryan Shawcross' clumsy pass back to goalkeeper Lee Grant allowed Sturridge a clear run through for a goal the striker described as a "gift".
Having recovered from a terrible start to the season, Stoke now find themselves in another sticky run, though there is a seven-point cushion between them and the relegation zone.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "It was a very difficult game. The result doesn't show it, but it was difficult because it was the third or fourth time we have played Stoke with Crouch on the pitch and that is a sign of how they want to play.
"It is difficult to defend. Maybe we could do better when we had the ball but we did not have enough patience in our own possession and the long balls are really difficult to defend. When he is 45 maybe they will still bring him in.
"We then scored a wonderful goal and then the second one. We regrouped again and told the players that the movement was not as good as it could be and we controlled the game.
"It was pretty clear Stoke cannot play the same half again. It was intense for them, they pressed high and were aggressive. We did better with the ball and deserved this result."
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Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "We are disappointed. We came here with a positive game plan. In the first half we caused Liverpool real problems and didn't allow them to play their game.
"We created great chances and scored a great goal. We could have made it 2-0 but then we made mistakes and find ourselves 2-1 down and I think that was harsh on us.
"You come here and chase the game and the danger is getting picked off but we made mistakes and that is the disappointment."
In a busy festive period, Liverpool host Manchester City on New Year's Eve (17:30 GMT) before kicking off at Sunderland only 46 hours later. Stoke travel to Stamford Bridge on New Year's Eve (15:00 GMT) to take on league leaders Chelsea and then host Watford on 3 January (20:00 GMT).
Match ends, Liverpool 4, Stoke City 1.
Second Half ends, Liverpool 4, Stoke City 1.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Ibrahim Afellay.
Foul by Emre Can (Liverpool).
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Glen Johnson (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Wilfried Bony replaces Peter Crouch.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Glen Johnson.
Attempt blocked. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge.
Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané.
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City).
Substitution, Liverpool. Alberto Moreno replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt missed. Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Peter Crouch.
Substitution, Stoke City. Ibrahim Afellay replaces Mame Biram Diouf.
Hand ball by Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Glen Johnson.
Goal! Liverpool 4, Stoke City 1. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left to the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Liverpool. Daniel Sturridge replaces Divock Origi.
Substitution, Liverpool. Emre Can replaces Adam Lallana.
Foul by Divock Origi (Liverpool).
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Glen Johnson (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Glenn Whelan.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (Liverpool).
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Own Goal by Giannelli Imbula, Stoke City. Liverpool 3, Stoke City 1.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by James Milner.
Foul by James Milner (Liverpool).
Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sadio Mané.
Foul by Jordan Henderson (Liverpool).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Liverpool 2, Stoke City 1.
They are included on a list of 46 Welsh figures deemed to have made a contribution to the nation, language and culture.
Also receiving the honour are BT's director in Wales, Ann Beynon, judge Nic Parry, rugby and judo star Non Evans and journalist Lyn Ebenezer.
The Eisteddfod will begin on 30 July.
Clarke has been the national poet of Wales since 2008 and became the second Welsh winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry earlier this year.
The Cardiff-born poet, who lives in Talgarreg, Ceredigion, said she was "stunned" to be chosen to become an honorary druid in a ceremony on the Eisteddfod Maes on Friday 5 August.
She told BBC Wales the date was particularly poignant as it marked 100 years to the day since her mother Ceinwen Evans was born at Nant Mill in Coedpoeth near Wrexham.
"She was one of 10 children and they were a Welsh speaking family - it's strange it is happening on the same day.
"I laughed in shock when I heard I was being honoured. I can speak Welsh but not to the level I thought was needed. I'm amazed."
Nigel Owens, from Mynyddcerrig, Carmarthenshire, has officiated in games throughout the world and is also a familiar face on S4C.
He said he was "very humbled" to be included.
He said: "In Wales, especially if you are a Welsh speaker, it's pretty much the Welsh honours list.
"It's a great honour. I've been doing various workshops at the eisteddfod for the last six years but I've never really watched the ceremony, so I don't know what to expect.
"I'll have to think of a name for myself for the ceremony, if anybody's got any suggestions, please let me know!"
Judge and football commentator Nic Parry and naturalist Twm Elias will also be honoured by the Gorsedd of Bards at this year's event.
Mr Parry said he was so shocked that he checked on the internet to see whether he had received the honour.
"I checked to see that it was the white robe I had been privileged to receive... it was that unexpected," he said.
He added it would be a special honour to receive his honour when the Eisteddfod visits his "square mile" in Wrexham.
The Gorsedd of Bards was created in 1792 by scholar Iolo Morganwg. The head of the Gorsedd of Bards is the Archdruid, who is elected for a term of three years, and is responsible for conducting the Gorsedd ceremonies during eisteddfod week.
By tradition Gorsedd members, who dress in blue, green or white robes, choose a bardic name at their induction.
A full list and details of those honoured by the Gorsedd this year is available on the Eisteddfod website
The Wrexham and District National Eisteddfod is held on Lower Berse Farm, off Ruthin Road, Wrexham, from 30 July - 6 August.
A US official told the BBC two 900kg bombs had hit the building on Monday.
He estimated that millions of dollars earned by IS through oil sales, looting and extortion had been destroyed.
Video posted online by IS showed damage to a building. The coalition has increased strikes against facilities that fund IS activities including oil fields it controls.
The coalition has hit "one or two" buildings that store IS money in the past, the US official told the BBC, but Monday's strike is likely to be the biggest to date.
CNN reported that the strike was carried out in a civilian area and that US commanders were prepared to consider up to 50 civilian casualties "due to the importance of the target".
Strikes on Monday also destroyed two IS command and control nodes, a tactical vehicle and 20 IS fighting positions, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
IS generates around $80m a month, mainly from oil revenues, according to findings focusing on late 2015 from UK defence consultancy IHS.
In October 2015, the US-led coalition launched Tidal Wave 2, a military campaign aimed at intensifying air strikes on IS oil fields, refineries and tankers.
Nasheed was due to leave for the UK for back surgery on Sunday after the government agreed to his request.
But it has now insisted that he nominate a family member to stay in the capital, Male, to guarantee his return, said lawyer Hassan Latheef.
The government said this was standard for convicts travelling abroad.
Nasheed was given a 13-year sentence under anti-terror laws last year.
The government had only agreed to the travel on Saturday following international pressure, saying he must return to the Maldives to serve the remainder of the sentence.
Mr Latheef told Reuters: "The government reneged on the agreed deal at the last minute, demanding a close family member of Nasheed remain in Male, effectively as a hostage, until he returns from the UK."
"If Nasheed does anything that breach[es] the terms of the government, the family member could then be criminally prosecuted. This kind of blackmail is illegal, unheard of in international affairs, and totally outrageous."
Hamid Abdul Ghafoor, a spokesman for Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party, told AFP that the family member could face prosecution if he did not return after 30 days.
"It is an ethical issue. That is why president Nasheed has not agreed to the demand of a guarantor," he said.
The former leader has since cancelled his travel plans.
Local media quoted justice department officials as saying Nasheed could travel as soon as he signed the relevant documents nominating a family member.
A former human rights campaigner, Nasheed became the nation's first democratically elected leader in 2008, ending three decades of rule by former strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
In 2012, he was detained after being accused of ordering the arrest of a judge.
He resigned months later amid an army mutiny and public protests over the judge's fate.
Nasheed alleged that he had been removed by a coup, but this was denied by his vice-president, who replaced him.
The current President Abdulla Yameen was elected in controversial polls in 2013 and is the half-brother of Mr Gayoom.
It is due to happen in May at the sites at Blacks Road, Sprucefield, Dundonald and Cairnshill.
Regional Development minister Danny Kennedy said he had to make the decision due to major cuts to funding.
And the reduction in the department's budget also means only the worst potholes on Northern Ireland's roads will now be repaired, it has confirmed.
The DRD minister said his department is facing a cut of £60m in its budget in the financial year 2015/16.
"I have had no other option but to make savings wherever I can find them," he said.
"Unfortunately this includes suspending the security and guarding arrangements at four park and ride sites."
The BBC understands that during the four years the Cairnshill park-and-ride facility has been running, no cars have been stolen from the site.
A heated and covered waiting area for customers using the service at Cairnshill is also set to close in May.
The DRD confirmed that funding cuts have also left TransportNI unable to provide a full road maintenance service.
Pothole repair will be now be carried out on a reduced scale, and no budget exists for salting roads next winter.
Workers have been told that each depot's budget for materials will be cut to £50 per day, according to one union.
Unite, which represents TransportNI employees, claims this threatens the safety of road users.
The minister told the DRD committee last week that only £13m was available for TransportNI to cover the cost of street lighting, patching materials and salt, external contractors, fleet maintenance and fuel.
The cost of all those services, he added, is normally over £40 million.
TransportNI - previously named Roads Service - has said maintenance staff will be used on tasks that do not require the purchase of materials.
The DRD confirmed that while there was no current budget for salting roads, it was "still planning to provide a winter service."
Unite say the department is relying on a reallocation from a future monitoring round for this funding.
Gareth Scott, Unite's regional officer with responsibility for TransportNI employees, said the situation was "intolerable".
"The impact of these cuts could cost lives throughout Northern Ireland.
"TransportNI workers will be impacted through likely reductions in staff, work and pay."
A joint district and county council group is asking the company to help fund a bypass on the A12 and dual the local railway line.
The government will make the decision on whether the power station is built.
EDF said public consultation on its initial plans would begin later this year.
Councillor Guy McGregor, chairman of the Suffolk County Council and Suffolk Coastal District Council Joint Local Authorities Group (JLAG), said: "The actual cost of the power station is £2bn, so £100m out of £2bn is almost petty cash.
"There's no way you can build that power station using road access without building a dual carriageway - the whole of east Suffolk would come to a standstill.
"Local communities can rest assured that we are already working together to mitigate the environmental impact of any future development at Sizewell while maximising the economic and social benefits created for our communities."
The councils would like an A12 bypass between Wickham Market and the Aldeburgh junction which would take the road around the villages of Little Glemham, Marlesford, Stratford St Andrew and Farnham.
JLAG estimates it would cost about £30m and said its other priorities would be for the dualling of the East Suffolk single line railway, the reopening of the track to Leiston and Aldeburgh and support for schools and colleges with training opportunities.
A spokesperson for EDF, which wants to build Sizewell C by 2025, said: "In preparation, we are currently working on a number of investigative studies into all the environmental, transport, infrastructure and socio-economic elements which will inform our plans.
"The project is at a very early stage and we plan to launch our first stage of public consultation on our initial proposals later this year.
"We look forward to hearing the views of local communities."
The energy firm said no figure had been revealed for the total cost of building Sizewell C yet.
"Vengeance can wipe out an entire generation," he said, in an address to the nation on Sunday, urging calm.
A presidential spokesman told the BBC it was too early to blame anyone for the killing of Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana in a rocket and gun attack on his car.
Mr Nkurunziza won a third term last month, amid deadly protests over his decision to run for office again.
Opponents argued this contravened the constitution and there was a failed coup attempt in May.
"Adolphe Nshimirimana was the regime's number two, not officially, but unofficially. This assassination is a very serious blow to Burundi's government," International Crisis Group analyst Thierry Vircoulon told BBC Afrique.
The attackers reportedly targeted the general's car with machine guns and rocket launchers in the Kamenge district of the capital Bujumbura.
Presidential spokesperson Gerve Abehayo rejected suggestions that the attack could have been carried out by elements within Burundi's own security apparatus, after witnesses reported four men in military uniform spraying the general's car with bullets.
"The government is not losing support... the army remains strong and united... one general was killed, but this does not mean the whole military has been wiped out of this country," he told the BBC's Newsday programme.
President Nkurunziza has called for an investigation into the general's killing to be concluded within a week.
The African Union, European Union and the US have all condemned the attack, with AU chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma describing it as a "barbaric act that is likely to further destabilise the country".
Prominent Burundian journalist Esdras Ndikumana, who works for AFP news agency and Radio France Internationale (RFI), says he was detained by intelligence officers and badly beaten after trying to take photos at the scene of the attack.
More than 70 people have been killed since the unrest began in April, and 180,000 have fled the country, according to the UN refugee agency.
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London-based Farfetch has come up with the service in a bid to defend itself amid the upheaval in the retail sector.
Farfetch said it had developed technology aimed at collecting better data on in-person shoppers.
The site has also unveiled a design-your-own shoe tool for one of its brands.
The internet and other technologies are making near-instant delivery, customised products and laser-focused marketing increasingly common.
Farfetch, which has forged a reputation as an online platform for high-end boutiques, was founded in London in 2008 by Jose Neves, a Portuguese entrepreneur who began his career in software and shoe design.
He expects further melding of the online and physical shopping experience, even as traditional brick-and-mortar shops survive.
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A 1-0 defeat by Fulham condemned the Millers to the drop into League One.
It was the 30th defeat of the season for a side that has spent more than six months at the bottom of the table.
"If I was truly honest, prior to the game I knew we were down. I never let that out to the lads, but they're not stupid," Warne said.
For Rotherham to have any remote hope of prolonging their Championship stay only a victory over Fulham was enough, having started the game 24 points adrift of safety with 24 points still available to them.
"We won very few games this season in a very tough league," Warne told BBC Radio Sheffield. "For us to win win eight on the spin was as likely as my hair growing back.
"The lads are licking their wounds. They know they are relegated now, so it is a sad day for the players, staff and everyone at the club."
Warne oversaw relegation after taking charge of the club in November after Kenny Jackett - who succeeded Alan Stubbs - resigned after just 39 days at the helm.
In total, the Millers have spent just 26 days of the 239 this season outside the relegation places.
However, former midfielder Warne, who made 292 appearances for the club as a player, apologised to fans for a "season of poor results".
He continued: "Everyone who works at the club, loves the club, breathes the club.
"I'm the manager that takes them down, it is not exactly great for my ego or self-esteem."
Rotherham are set to name their new manager on Wednesday, and Warne is hopeful they can give fans "something to cheer" in the remaining seven games.
"I would like to think that with seven games we can go gung ho, give young lads a chance," he said.
"I'm also aware of the fact that we don't want to go crazy and get 5-0 and 6-0 drubbings.
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Mugford, a summer signing from Nottingham, was called up for his first start at fly-half because AJ MacGinty pulled out with a hamstring injury.
His three penalties gave the Sharks a 9-7 lead at half-time, with Chris Robshaw's try keeping Quins in touch.
David Seymour's score secured victory, before Mat Luamanu saw red late on for a no-arms tackle on Josh Beaumont.
Despite some late pressure, Quins were unable to grab a losing bonus point from a bruising encounter and fell to their first defeat of the campaign.
Three other players were shown yellow cards - Sale's Jonathan Mills and Harlequins' front-row pair of Owen Jones and Kyle Sinckler - with Seymour crossing for Sale's only try of the match while Jones was off the field.
The game was held up for several minutes in the early stages while Sharks back-row TJ Ioane was treated for a head injury and eventually carried off on a stretcher, while Beaumont was also forced off in the aftermath of the dreadful Luamanu tackle which left visitors Quins a player short for the final nine minutes.
Quins and England prop Joe Marler was another injury casualty, lasting less than 20 minutes.
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"I thought Dan Mugford had an outstanding game, moving up a level. Young Paolo Odogwu on the wing also showed some flashes of potential.
"We managed to get the win and deny them the bonus point. We learned last year how important that was if you want to get in the top four.
"Dan played really well last week if I'm honest. He missed a kick under great pressure to win us the game, but we've encouraged him all week.
"He didn't lose us the game, but that kick cost us the game. But today it was five from five, and his distribution was good."
Harlequins director of rugby John Kingston:
"We managed, in a 10 or 15-minute period, to lose all the momentum we had built at the end of the first half by allowing them three successive penalties which led to them scoring from a maul and getting 16-7 ahead.
"That becomes very problematic, and what made it worse was we had a player in the bin as well.
"From that moment on, we barely had a period of time with 15 players on the park. We effectively played the last 32 minutes with a man down, and that's pretty difficult."
Sale: McGuigan; Addison, James, Leota, Odogwu; Mugford, Phillips; Lewis-Roberts, Briggs, Aulika, Evans, Mills, Ioane, Seymour, Beaumont (capt).
Replacements: Neild, Harrison, Longbottom, Ostrikov, Pearce, Mitchell, Bedlow, Edwards.
Harlequins: R Chisholm; Yarde, Marchant, Roberts, Visser; Evans, Care (capt); Marler, Buchanan, Sinckler, Twomey, Horwill, Robshaw, Wallace, Clifford.
Replacements: Ward, Evans, Collier, J Chisholm, Luamanu, Dickson, Jackson, Stanley. | Dan Mugford kicked 14 points for Sale as they beat 14-man Harlequins for their first Premiership win of 2016-17. | 37,290,103 | 747 | 32 | false |
The R&B singer's album Blonde has had combined sales of 32,000, including 26,000 downloads, since being released via iTunes and Apple Music on Saturday.
That put it ahead of Dolly Parton's 43rd studio album Pure & Simple.
And David Brent's Life On The Road, the soundtrack for Gervais's new film of the same name, is at number three.
Canadian rapper Drake is at number four with Views, followed by Bob Marley, whose compilation Legend is a non-mover at number five.
ELO, Christine and the Queens, Adele, Justin Bieber and Coldplay have all shuffled down the top 10 to make space for the three new entries at the top of this week's chart.
But after two weeks at number one, Stockport pop band Blossoms have plummeted to number 13.
Meanwhile, Justin Bieber has kept his stranglehold on the top two places in the singles chart.
Cold Water, his collaboration with Major Lazer, has remained at number one for a fifth week, while Let Me Love You, with DJ Snake, has stayed in second place for a third straight week.
There are two new entries this week - Ellie Goulding's Still Falling For You, from the Bridget Jones's Baby soundtrack, at 25, and Ain't Giving Up by Craig David and Sigala at number 29.
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Zaman Iqbal has filmed the bird's antics at his 24-hour newsagents in Aberdeen's Crown Street.
In 2007, an Aberdeen seagull found fame when it turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps.
The bird - nicknamed Sam - would walk into the newsagents when the door was open and make off with cheese Doritos.
The 79-year-old pedestrian was struck by the vehicle in Highdown Drive, Littlehampton at about 10:15 GMT on Wednesday.
Sussex Police said the woman, who lived locally, was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton but died from her injuries.
The force has appealed for witnesses to contact officers.
The van driver, a 49-year-old man from Worthing, was unhurt in the crash.
Clarke, 33, was a free agent after leaving Coventry City at the end of last season.
The former Huddersfield man is linking up with Mariners boss Russell Slade for a third time, after playing for him at Leyton Orient and the Sky Blues.
"I've obviously worked with Russell before and we get on really well, so him being at the club was a big thing for me," Clarke told the club website.
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Are we equipping our children with the skills and knowledge they need for the 21st Century?
They are questions which schools in Wales have had to consider this year.
After several reviews into different subjects from the arts to IT reported back to the Welsh government last year, in March, the education minister decided to look at the whole lot.
Prof Graham Donaldson was tasked with carrying out a root and branch review of our curriculum and will publish his report in February
While details are sketchy right now, we've been told to expect big things.
When Prof Donaldson was in Cardiff recently he told a conference of head teachers: "What I design will challenge you. You will need to decide if you're up for that."
No pressure then.
The other challenge on the minds of many of our head teachers this year was the Welsh government's new flagship policy: Schools Challenge Cymru.
As well as a share of the £20m budget, the 40 schools included in the scheme have been given an expert advisor who has drawn up an improvement plan with the school leaders and will then bring in extra support to raise standards.
The extra support is in the form of experts or teachers from successful schools willing to share their staff.
Those involved with Schools Challenge Cymru expect to see an improvement in GCSE exam results within the first year, so we'll see whether it's been a success or not in August.
If there have been improvements in next year's GCSE results it will build on the relative success of this year; once again, pupils in Wales narrowed the gap with their counterparts in England.
There are certain subjects where Wales outperforms other parts of the UK now, such as chemistry. But while that was a cause for celebration, maths continues to be a cause for concern.
Last year 52.8% of pupils in Wales achieved an A*-C grade in maths, but by this year the figure had dropped to 50.6%.
But in England the figure went up.
It means that, last year, in those getting good grades, Wales was around five per cent behind England.
But by this year, that figure shot up to over 12%.
This time last year those involved with education were still reeling from yet another set of Pisa results.
It seemed pretty much impossible that Wales would succeed in reaching its target of being in the top 20 Pisa countries after next year's tests.
In October the target changed. Now the aim is to achieve a score of 500 by the tests in 2021.
So where would a score of 500 have left Wales in last year's ranking?
However, it's also quite close to where other parts of the UK were in last year's tests. The question was asked: is the new target ambitious enough?
Welsh government officials are really starting to feel that the reforms to schools are really starting to deliver, and that next year, we'll see bigger improvements.
Education Minister Huw Lewis went so far as to say Wales might even overtake England next year in the proportion of pupils gaining five A*-C grades in core subjects.
That's a bold claim, but one which wouldn't have been made over the past few years.
The feeling is that 2015 could just be the year the tide really turns.
"Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency" and "build a massive military complex?" he asked. "I don't think so!"
China said both sides should "stick to basic principles" of the relationship.
Last week Mr Trump risked a diplomatic rift with China by speaking directly with Taiwan's president.
The highly unusual move saw China lodge a complaint with the US.
In response to the latest tweets, without directly referring to them, the Chinese foreign ministry said the US and China have long had "highly mutually beneficial" relations.
A spokesperson declined to comment on "he and his team's method and what's the thinking behind it", referring to Mr Trump.
The US has previously criticised China's yuan devaluation, saying it unfairly favours Chinese exporters.
It has also told Beijing to stop reclaiming land around islands and reefs which are claimed by multiple countries in the South China Sea, and has sent US Navy ships to the area. Both sides have accused each other of "militarising" the region.
The US currently imposes tariffs on some Chinese imports, such as steel and tyres. Mr Trump has previously threatened to impose a 45% tariff on Chinese goods.
Donald Trump's Twitter outburst along with his telephone call with the Taiwanese president has sent an emphatic signal to Beijing that the new US administration's Asia policy may not be business as usual.
We don't know if the tweets will continue when Mr Trump enters the White House. But if they do, they threaten not just to ruffle feathers abroad but also to sow uncertainty within his own administration.
The president may be the ultimate arbiter but once in office he cannot risk publicly second-guessing his key cabinet appointments. But there's another problem too. The tweet, as a medium, is by definition short and off-the-cuff.
Policymaking, by contrast, requires coolness, deliberation and a weighing up of options. The danger is that Twitter diplomacy, for all its honesty, could exacerbate crisis instead of resolving it.
Mr Trump's phone call with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen was thought to be the first time a US leader or leader-in waiting has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979, the year formal ties were severed.
The White House has said the phone call did not signal a shift in its decades-long "One China" policy stance, which does not recognise Taiwan as an independent sovereign state but also does not recognise Beijing's claim over Taiwan.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence has tried to downplay the call, saying it was a "tempest in a teapot" and "a moment of courtesy".
Beijing lodged a "solemn representation" with Washington, where it urged the US to "cautiously and properly handle" the issue of Taiwan, according to Chinese state media.
Beijing sees Taiwan as a province and aims to deny it any of the trappings of an independent state. It has threatened to use force if Taiwan formally declares independence.
Robert Bennett said Justine Damond was in her pyjamas when she approached them and "was not a threat to anyone".
Ms Damond was shot after approaching two officers in their car on Saturday after reporting a suspected rape.
Mr Bennett has acted in similar cases, including the high-profile police shooting of Philando Castile in 2016.
Fred Bruno, the lawyer for Matthew Harrity, whose partner killed Ms Damond, 40, had said: "It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush."
But Mr Bennett told CBS News: "I think that's ludicrous. It's disinformation. It doesn't have any basis in fact."
He added: "She obviously wasn't armed, was not a threat to anyone, and nor could she have reasonably been perceived to be."
Officer Mohamed Noor, who shot Ms Damond in the abdomen in an upmarket neighbourhood of the city, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.
Officer Harrity has spoken to investigators with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is leading the investigation.
On Thursday, a statement from Ms Damond's family said: "All we want to do is bring Justine home to Australia to farewell her in her hometown among family and friends.
"We are still trying to come to terms with this tragedy and we are struggling to understand how and why this could happen."
On Wednesday, police released the transcript of two separate 911 calls Ms Damond made after hearing screams nearby.
"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped," she told the police operator, before giving her address.
"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while," she continued.
Ms Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.
Body cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.
Officers Harrity and Noor, who between them have spent three years on the police force, have been placed on paid administrative leave.
Mr Bennett represented Philando Castile's family in pursuing compensation against the police.
Castile was shot by officer Jeronimo Yanez after his car was stopped, in an incident live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend.
Mr Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter and firearm charges but the family won $3m (£2.4m) in compensation.
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Davis, 22, defeated Korea's Paris Grand Slam winner Jan-Di Kim, scoring a yuko and waza-ari with two attacks for the win.
It was revenge for Davis after she had been beaten by her rival in last year's Jeju Grand Prix final.
"Nekoda has had a brilliant day and has proved that she belongs at this level," said head performance coach Kate Howey.
In 1910, women chainmakers in Cradley Heath, West Midlands, went on a strike which lasted for 10 weeks, and ended on 22 October.
The action has been credited with changing the lives of thousands of workers earning poor wages.
The anniversary is being marked with events including a procession through the town to unveil a memorial plaque.
The plaque, in honour of strike leader Mary Macarthur, will be unveiled at the Mary Macarthur Memorial Gardens.
Stephen Mullan, his partner Miriam Ramsey and his children, Ben, 12, Leah, 10, and Rhys, 9, were caught up in the fire at Seacoast Road, Magilligan, at 16:00 GMT.
Mr Mullan said a spark from the hearth fire caught his youngest son, Rhys' clothing.
The boy suffered third degree burns.
"Rhys' arm caught fire and we tried to get it out but when I looked around, I noticed the house was on fire. I said to my oldest son, Ben, 'Get Rhys out and I'll deal with this fire'," Mr Mullan told BBC Radio Foyle.
"But it was too far gone and it just happened in seconds. The chair in the sitting room caught.
"Ben rolled Rhys on the chair and got the fire out on his arm. Miriam got Leah up the stairs into the back bedroom. Ben was very calm. I just saw flames. It was a matter of minutes, the whole house was completely covered in smoke.
"In panic, I kept trying the front door knowing it was locked. Ben said we needed to get upstairs."
"Me and the two boys ran up the stairs, Miriam and Leah were already in the back room. I got the fire escape window opened and the whole lot of us got onto a flat roof at the back. We contacted the emergency services then."
Mr Mullan and the three children were able to clamber off the roof, while firefighters brought his partner to safety.
The family were treated for smoke inhalation at the scene. They were then taken to hospital.
"Ben was amazing. He kept so calm," Mr Mullan said. "He stayed with Rhys the whole time... He never panicked, he just went straight, calm head, dealt with the situation brilliantly. He was unbelievable."
Rhys suffered third degree burns to his face and body. He is now out of intensive care but remains in hospital.
Three fire appliances were called to the scene of what the five service called a "severe" blaze, believed to have started in the living room of the house.
Dermot Rooney, Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, said the telephone operator was able to keep them calm.
"They were stuck for 20 minutes," he said. "Our operators are highly skilled in terms of gleaning information from distressed callers."
He said that in the case of a fire, people should ensure doors are closed and put themselves somewhere where they can be rescued easily.
He reminded the public of the Fire Service acronym STOP.
S for smoke alarm, T for testing the alarm at least once a week, O for being aware of obvious dangers like candles, cooking appliances and Christmas decorations and P for having an escape plan and ensuring everyone in the house knows it.
Notts County chief executive Jason Turner will now also fill the role at the Women's Super League One side.
"Although it hasn't always been easy, it's been a very rewarding role," Alexander told the club website.
"I would like to thank all the players and the staff for their hard work in what has been a tough season, with lots of challenges for everyone involved."
Notts County Ladies are sixth in WSL1 ahead of Sunday's home game against Chelsea.
The 24-year-old, whose real name is Zoe Sugg, will drag down the average age of the competitors, who also include Jonathan Ross, Lulu, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife Sarah.
"I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part," she said.
The series begins on 11 February.
Taking place over four weeks, it will see 16 celebrities compete to be named star baker by show stalwarts Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
The line-up features former Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles, fashionista Alexa Chung, comedian David Mitchell and TV presenter Gok Wan.
They are joined by DJ Jameela Jamil, comediennes Victoria Wood and Jennifer Saunders, Strictly champion Abbey Clancy and Kayvan Novak, from Channel 4's Fonejacker series.
Mary Berry said it had been "great fun" filming the series.
"Although there were some baking catastrophes, some surprising hidden skills were revealed," she added.
"One thing for certain is that anyone can have a go at baking and it's a great way to raise money for Comic Relief - and you are guaranteed to have a lot of fun!"
Regular presenters Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc will be joined by Jo Brand and Ed Byrne for the series, while an episode of spin-off show An Extra Slice will be broadcast on Red Nose Day itself, Friday, 13 March.
The bakery show has proved a great success, spawning a US spin-off and recently winning a National Television Award for "best skills-based reality series".
But Perkins recently revealed she had twice turned down the opportunity to work on the show.
"I have no ability to work out what is a good thing to do or not," she told Jonathan Ross on his ITV chat show. "I said no because [it] sounded ludicrous".
She added that the series had often turned contestants into divas.
"Sometimes television changes people," she said.
"It's amazing how quickly they turn," added her co-host, Giedroyc.
"Week one, they're all lovely. Week three, 'oh darling, this bowl isn't big enough.'"
NME said the singer was an "obvious" choice as "she's individual, she's iconic and she perfectly embodies the spirit of the new NME."
Weekly sales of NME, founded in 1952, had dropped to 15,000, but the free version's initial print run is 300,000.
Editor Mike Williams told the BBC the move to free was a "no brainer".
The first edition, which is being handed out at train and tube stations, and is available in universities and shops, features several changes - including positioning itself as a "Music/Film/Style" magazine and putting Rihanna on the cover instead of a traditional guitar band.
Readers have been posting their reactions online.
"Most non-old NME thing about #freeNME is not its cover star, but that it's promising music, film and, er, "style"," tweeted Fat Roland.
Electronic music group Mint Royale tweeted: "So Rihanna is the first cover star of the new NME and that is a new direction I can really get behind."
Writing on his media blog, commentator David Hepworth said: "I don't think there's any coming back from this. It either works or that's the end."
Hepworth continued: "For what it's worth, they've made a very good start with Rihanna for the cover of their re-launch issue.
"But they will know that it's not about one issue. They have to find a way to deal with the full range of contemporary pop while still being identifiably the NME. Week in, week out. It's a tough task."
NME announced in July that it would follow the lead of publications like London newspaper the Evening Standard and culture magazine Time Out by going free in print, alongside its website and online app.
As well as music interviews with artists like Rihanna and Chvrches, the new issue features a new columnist, comedian Katherine Ryan, and articles on TV shows including Doctor Who, This is England '90 and The Big Bang Theory.
Tim Boddy tweeted: "The best thing about working from home is that I don't run the risk of a free NME being thrust in my hands."
Jack Rattenbury tweeted: "Picked up the first ever #FreeNME only to find out that Rihanna's new album is still not ready. Gurl."
Adrian Read wrote: "Bit concerned the #freeNME hashtag makes it sound like someone has imprisoned a music/film/style magazine in a cage at leeds festival."
During its heyday in the 1970s, NME sold more than 250,000 copies a week, but is one of many print publications to suffer a sharp decline in sales as online grows.
Editor Williams told the BBC that NME was still an "incredibly powerful" and "pivotal and influential music brand".
"People know NME, people love NME - being able to distribute this many copies, we can reach a lot more people now," said Williams.
According to Music Week, the first free issue contains "the biggest advertising revenue in 15 years and features five times the volume of advertising, compared with the corresponding issue last year."
But Williams said the magazine would not be sacrificing its editorial independence in the interests of advertisers.
"The most important thing about NME is it's individuality, it's uniqueness and its point of view. Shifting our business model doesn't mean we're going to lose our identity," said Williams.
"Don't expect NME to suddenly be an opinion-less, bland magazine, because we're still going to definitely have some punch and definitely have some bite."
But not earlier this month, when train drivers walked out for the longest strike in the history of Deutsche Bahn; the company that owns the German railway.
It is not the first time they have done so; for months they have been in an increasingly aggressive dispute with their employer.
The union which represents them, GDL, is demanding a 5% pay rise on their behalf and the two sides are deadlocked - despite intervention from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The six-day industrial action is estimated to have cost German business €500m (£360m; $570m).
As that strike ended, another began. Kindergarten staff walked out in a dispute over pay.
Postal workers are threatening industrial action too.
And it is just a few weeks since pilots at the national carrier, Lufthansa, staged the latest in a series of strikes.
So what's going on?
"The tradition in Germany has been for unified trade unions, which try to organise all employees in one branch," says Jens Schubert, a lawyer for Verdi, one of the country's largest trade unions.
"The new tendency is we find more and more so-called craft unions - unions which represent only one part of a company or branch, like doctors or pilots."
In the case of the railway workers for example, the strikes have been called by the GDL union, which represents around 19,000 train drivers at Deutsche Bahn.
But far more of its employees are represented by another, more general transport union - EVG.
Nevertheless, GDL - like many other craft unions - has become a powerful voice, able to cripple Germany's rail network, despite not representing the vast majority.
It is tempting to wonder whether this spate of strikes represents a change in attitude among German workers.
But the number of days lost to strike action is actually decreasing. And workers here are far less militant than those in the UK and France.
Some six million people belong to trade unions in Germany in 2014, similar to the 6.5 million trade union members in the UK.
But they go on strike far less frequently than their European counterparts.
Nevertheless, the type of representation they are choosing has changed.
And, as Karl Brenke from the German Economics Institute points out, that is having an effect.
"In the last decade, Germany's large trade unions were accused of being too modest and not fighting hard enough for higher salaries. So, as a result, wages didn't match inflation or productivity.
"Now, the smaller unions do that and there is a knock-on effect on the bigger unions - they will have to be more aggressive to remain attractive."
Something may stop them.
The German parliament is due to consider legislation which would - many argue - limit the power of the unions.
The law is expected to be finalised this summer and it will restrict union representation in a company; just one union will be allowed to represent a group of employees.
Because it would have to represent the majority of workers, it would likely squeeze out smaller unions.
So, in the case of the train drivers, GDL would most likely be replaced by the larger, more generalised union.
You would think, in its position as one of Germany's trade unions, Verdi would approve.
Instead, Jens Schubert explains: "We fear that if we have an act like this, it's clear there'll be something written down about the system to go on strike.
"We have to avoid legal actions that could minimise the right to go on strike."
Meanwhile the trains are running again.
But there is no deal in sight between GDL and Deutsche Bahn.
And now EVG is demanding higher pay too.
Neither will rule out future strike action.
The UK's aviation regulator said some show organisers had opposed the changes introduced after the Shoreham air disaster that killed 11 people in 2015.
New measures include enhanced risk assessments and tougher checks and training requirements for pilots and display directors.
The CAA said "a number of air shows" would not happen unless they complied.
Chief executive Andrew Haines said the CAA, which carried out "an extensive review of air show safety" after the Shoreham air crash, would "not compromise on safety".
"Enhancing the safety of air shows is essential and events that do not comply with the safety measures we are introducing simply won't be able to go ahead," he said.
The CAA says charges will be increased for air show organisers to fund the new safety measures, due to come into force from 1 April.
Larger shows with 31 or more displays face a possible increase from £2,695 to more than £20,000, including a new flying display post-event charge of up to £15,000.
Samantha Jones, organiser of the Throckmorton Air Show and member of the Keep Airshows Airborne group, said her air show would have to be cancelled if the regulations and charges went ahead.
Ms Jones told the BBC: "We simply haven't budgeted the extra money the CAA are asking us to pay.
"We completely appreciate the CAA are there for safety and safety is everybody's priority... we need to comply with the regulations, but the fact is that these charges were dropped on our toes only four weeks ago."
The new regulations "significantly influenced" the decision to cancel the Llandudno Air Show, its organisers have said.
This year's Manchester Airshow has also been cancelled, with organisers blaming the timing of the CAA review, but they said the charges were "not a factor" in their decision.
A vintage Hawker Hunter jet that had been performing aerobatics crashed on to the A27 on 22 August last year, during the annual Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex.
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report published in December found the jet had expired ejector seat parts and an out-of-date technical manual. The AAIB is yet to make its final report.
The CAA's air display review work is continuing and a final report is expected to be published "in the coming weeks".
It has been nearly three months since infections struck organisations worldwide, including the NHS, which faced days of disruption as a result.
The bitcoin activity was noticed by a Twitter bot set up by Quartz journalist Keith Collins.
The balance of all wallets known to be associated with WannaCry is now zero.
The ransomware hit many businesses hard, quickly infecting multiple computers on corporate networks and encrypting them so they became useless.
Victims were asked to pay between $300 and $600 to get their systems back.
Back in May, many cyber-security experts and law enforcement agencies advised victims that paying the ransom would probably only encourage other cyber-criminals and not result in restored access to computers.
However, many clearly decided to take a chance.
According to bitcoin-monitoring company Elliptic, an initial portion of the WannaCry funds were moved in late July.
And at about 04:10 BST on Thursday, the vast majority were finally withdrawn in entirety.
Many watchers expect that the WannaCry bitcoins will be put through a "mixer" - in which the currency is transferred and mixed into a larger series of payments that make it much harder to track where it ends up.
But the incident has left some cyber-security experts confused.
"I have no idea why they would move that money to be honest," said Andy Patel at F-Secure.
"I wouldn't imagine that they are going to try and turn those bitcoins into real money. If they do, it's going to give someone a way to track them to an actual person."
Instead, Mr Patel told the BBC the funds could be used to pay for dark web services that might leave less of a digital paper trail.
In July, bitcoins paid as ransom following a separate attack - NotPetya - were moved from their online wallets.
Many people assume Bitcoin is anonymous: the online equivalent of cash. However, every transaction is completely visible to anyone who cares to look.
There are even online sites that allow you to view what is happening in the blockchain - the distributed ledger that records all bitcoin movements.
The blockchain is more like a Swiss bank account: you know the account number and which account transfers money to which other accounts, but you don't necessarily know who stands behind that account number.
A technique called "cluster analysis" looks across all of these bitcoin addresses and attempts to find addresses that are being used by the same people.
Then, some of the other transactions in that cluster, which were not intended to be anonymous, can provide evidence of who owns those addresses.
Law enforcement agencies often use this classic approach to track criminals - the idea, of course, is: "Follow the money."
Alan Woodward is professor of cyber-security at the University of Surrey.
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The 21-year-old Italian was sent off for two bookable offences only 18 minutes after coming on as substitute.
"I do not agree with this [second] yellow," said Mancini. "The referee didn't want to get a yellow card out.
"I think the referee gave a free-kick but didn't want to give a yellow until all the Liverpool players complained."
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Balotelli's first yellow card at Anfield, for pulling back Glen Johnson, was not disputed by his manager - but Mancini was adamant the second, for catching Martin Skrtel with an arm, was unjustified.
It was the third time Balotelli has been dismissed in his eventful City career, during which he has thrown a dart at a youth team player, been substituted after an allergy to the pitch in Kiev and escaped after a firework was let off in his bathroom.
Mancini added: "I watched the replay and, for me, it is nothing. This situation in the Premier League - there are a lot [of yellow cards] in every game. I don't think all [the fouls] are yellow cards. Mario should pay attention because he knows many players provoke him and this is not correct."
There were also reports that the forward damaged a door in the City dressing room after he had to be told by Mancini to head down the tunnel following his dismissal.
November 2010 at West Brom
March 2011 v Dynamo Kiev
"I don't know this. If he damaged the door he pays - like his house," said the City boss, in reference to Balotelli's firework incident last month.
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish had no sympathy for the Italian, however. He said: "I think Balotelli got himself sent off. His actions spoke louder than anybody else's didn't they? Sometimes, if you look in the mirror, you get the answer.
"Sometimes he doesn't help himself, other times he doesn't get as much leeway as anyone else gets.
"But, if you help yourself, you don't get in that situation in the first place."
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It was found in Toulouse two years ago and passed to art expert Eric Turquin, who says it is a version of the 1599 work, Judith Beheading Holofernes.
He said it was discovered by the owners when they investigated a roof leak.
The French government has placed a bar on the work leaving the country for 30 months while tests are carried out.
The work, which depicts the Biblical heroine Judith beheading an Assyrian general, is thought to have gone missing about 100 years after it was painted.
Another version of it, which was also thought to be lost before its rediscovery in 1950, hangs in Rome's National Gallery of Ancient Art.
Experts at Paris' Louvre Museum are examining the work to try to establish its creator, though Turquin said there would "never be a consensus" on who painted it.
If it proves to be genuine, the French Government will be given the first chance to purchase the work.
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They said the suspects were spotted outside a state prison in Cumberland on Saturday, with a drone, handgun and contraband found inside their vehicle.
A separate search on an inmate of the jail turned up contraband, they added.
While it is the first case of its kind in Maryland, there have been similar attempts in Ohio and South Carolina.
Synthetic marijuana and pornographic DVDs were among the items the suspects intended to fly into the maximum-security prison using a Yuneec Typhone drone, officials said.
"You couldn't make this stuff up," Maryland's Secretary of Public Safety Stephen Moyer told reporters.
Both men are being held; one on a $250,000 (£159,000) bail, the other without bail. The inmate who was found with smuggled items in his cell has also been charged.
Police said they had been under surveillance for some time.
Drones - also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - have been used before to smuggle drugs, cigarettes and mobile phones into prisons in the US.
Earlier this month, a brawl erupted at a prison in Ohio after a drone dropped a package containing small amounts of tobacco, marijuana and heroin into the prison yard.
Nine prisoners who were involved in the fight were placed in solitary confinement.
He said they were "disgraceful scenes" and players may have suffered an injury as a result.
His comments come after a sports surgeon called for a review on the rate of injuries, saying it cannot continue.
Former Osprey Mr Gough, 38, said there is a moral responsibility to consider a player's welfare.
Speaking on the Jason Mohammad programme on BBC Radio Wales, he said: "I've seen team doctors bullied by coaches at times, absolutely bullied."
He said all team officials from coaches to physiotherapists and team doctors have a moral responsibility, not just to do what is right for "that win and for the next week's game".
"You're dealing with people's lives," added the 64-times capped second row.
"I think from age grade, everything from under eights up, coaches and parents should be taking that moral stand.
"It's just a game, much as we love this game, it's a game and people's lives are much more important."
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 188 points, or 1.1%, to 16,431 points.
The S&P 500 lost 1.3%, or 24.2 points, to 1,921.29 points, while the Nasdaq composite fell 1.5% to 4,503.1 points.
Oil prices fell again, with US crude down 4.6% to $31.87 a barrel and Brent crude dropped to $33.27.
Shares in Dow Jones member JP Morgan fell 4.3% after the bank said it would set aside an extra $500m to cover losses from loans to oil and gas companies.
Bank of America slid 3%, while Citigroup dropped 3.4%.
Energy shares were also hit. Chevron fell 4.4%, while Halliburton and Baker Hughes both slipped more than 2%.
Traders said investors remained cautious, with trading volumes far lighter on days the market has risen and heavier on days it has fallen.
That suggested that there was more interest among investors in selling shares rather than buying them.
Ryan Larson, head of US equity trading at RBC Global Asset Management, said: "We aren't seeing the buying interest that you would usually see in a major upward swing in the markets. Although we have come off the bottom, it's still quite volatile out there."
The animal charity the PDSA is running a six month diet and exercise plan to help pets slim down and teach their owners about feeding them well and keeping them active.
A third of all dogs and a quarter of cats are now classed as overweight or obese.
Pets are getting fatter than ever because they're being fed too many treats and leftover takeaways, according to the charity.
Early goals from Nile Ranger and Ryan Leonard handed the visitors a first win in four games.
Shrimpers boss Phil Brown read the riot act to his squad following last weekend's defeat to Bristol Rovers, and they wasted little time in making amends at the Ricoh Arena as Ranger poked the ball past Coventry goalkeeper Lee Burge from six yards with just two minutes on the clock.
Southend doubled their lead in the 23rd minute courtesy of a deflected 30-yard free-kick from Leonard.
Coventry's main attacking threat came down the left from wing-back Ryan Haynes, who hit a shot over the bar in the 25th minute in the home side's first meaningful attack.
It took 49 minutes for the Sky Blues to register their first shot on target through Callum Reilly but it was not enough to trouble Southend goalkeeper Ted Smith.
The result left Coventry rooted to the bottom of the table after a fourth defeat in five, while Southend remain in seventh place.
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Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead announced the plan following talks with animal welfare charity OneKind.
It will examine how imported, and native, species can be better protected and consider the impact tighter legislation could have.
It comes amid concerns over the sale of non-domesticated animals like monkeys, meerkats and snakes on the internet.
There have been several recent cases of exotic animals being abandoned, such as a monitor lizard found in a supermarket toilet in Edinburgh and a snake which slithered into a legal office in Clydebank.
Mr Lochhead said: "There is an increasing desire across Europe, including in Scotland, to keep exotic pets.
"There are potential threats to animal health and welfare, human health and our native species that accompany this trend and merit serious investigation.
"Current legislation in Scotland already provides protection for the welfare of exotic animals kept as pets, forbids the release of non-native animals and also has the power to ban the sale or keeping of certain invasive species.
"However, I feel that perhaps more can be done to protect not only the exotic animals that are being brought into the country, but our own native animals and environment."
The environment secretary said he would seek views and advice from animal welfare groups, veterinary organisations and biologists across the country.
The review will consider the possibility of introducing a "positive list" approach which gives a single list of animals that may be kept as pets.
Under current legislation there is a "negative list" where access to certain specific species is prohibited or subject to a requirement for licence due to concerns surrounding invasive potential or public safety.
More than 1,000 species of mammals, birds, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, and hundreds of fish species, are sold in the pet trade.
Libby Anderson, OneKind policy director, said: "We are delighted that the cabinet secretary has taken our concerns about the animal welfare and conservation issues surrounding exotic, non-domesticated pets so seriously.
"OneKind believes that the most effective means of solving these problems is to limit the quest for evermore unusual specimens as so-called pets.
"We recommend the introduction of a positive list system to identify those animals that are suitable for private keeping, and prohibit or stringently license the keeping of all other types. Obviously, exceptions can be made for certain specialist purposes."
The Scottish government is planning to conduct a wider review of pet welfare, including the breeding and sale of animals for the pet trade, and it is likely that the review of the exotic pet trade will be addressed as part of this project.
Issues around the sale of various animals online will also be looked at as part of the review of pet welfare.
He told Bishop Gerhard Mueller, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith - the Vatican watchdog that deals with sex abuse cases - to ensure that perpetrators were punished.
It was the Argentine Pope's first public statement on clerical sex abuse.
A leading sex abuse survivors' group has responded with scepticism, saying "actions speak louder than words".
The new Pope was elected last month, replacing Pope Benedict, who became the first pope in 600 years to resign.
When first elected, Benedict XVI promised to rid his Church of the "filth" of clerical sex abuse, but critics accused him of covering up abuse in the past and failing to protect children from paedophile priests.
Victims of sex abuse by clergy had called for a strong response from the new pontiff to the crisis that has rocked the Church.
By David WilleyBBC News, Rome
Pope Francis has inherited a major scandal which demands continuing decisive action. Archbishop Mueller, the German cleric in charge of the Vatican department which investigates cases of sexual abuse - and decides whether paedophile priests are to be defrocked - has had several meetings with Pope Francis since his recent election.
Only last month one American diocese - Green Bay, Wisconsin - paid $700,000 (£460,000) to two brothers who had been sexually abused by a Catholic priest decades ago. Several American Catholic dioceses have been forced to declare bankruptcy as a result of making huge payouts to victims.
Dr Rebecca Rist, a papal historian at Reading University, said: "The papacy has always taken a strong line on the importance of the purity of life of its clergy. In the 11th Century, the medieval papacy took stringent measures against the abuses of 'simony' - the buying and selling of ecclesiastical office - and 'nicolaism' - clerical concubinage.
"Pope Francis is signalling that he regards clerical sexual abuse as the modern day scourge of the Church."
In his remarks on Friday, Pope Francis said combating the crisis - which has mired the Church in scandal from the US, Ireland and Europe to Australia - was important for the credibility of the Church.
A Vatican statement said the Pope had urged Bishop Mueller to "act decisively as far as cases of sexual abuse are concerned, promoting, above all, measures to protect minors, help for those who have suffered such violence in the past (and) the necessary procedures against those who are guilty".
In 2011, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith called on bishops' conferences around the world to submit guidelines for helping victims; protecting children; selecting and training priests and other Church workers; dealing with accused priests; and collaborating with local authorities.
Three-quarters of the 112 bishops' conferences have sent in such guidelines, with most of those yet to respond coming from Africa, the Vatican says.
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) responded to the statement by calling for actions rather than words.
"We can't confuse words with actions," SNAP Outreach Director Barbara Dorris told the BBC. "When we do, we hurt kids.
"We must insist on new tangible action that helps vulnerable children protect their bodies, not old vague pledges that help a widely-discredited institution protect its reputation."
The scheme would be based on the first-time buyer ISAs announced by George Osborne which sees the government top up money people save towards a deposit to buy their first house.
Labour says it would invest the money in new housing developments.
The Conservatives said the scheme was "ill thought-through".
Mr Miliband set out further details of his housing policy at a rally with party activists in Warrington.
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Housing is a key election issue, and the parties have made pledges to boost the supply of homes across the country and make home ownership more achievable.
The Conservatives have pledged 200,000 homes will be made available to first-time buyers in England by 2020 if they win the election. The Lib Dems have pledged to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder through a "rent-to-own homes" scheme.
But Mr Miliband attacked the government's record on house building, which he said had fallen to its lowest level in almost 100 years and made it harder for people to own homes.
"A Labour government will get Britain building again," he said.
This election issue includes house building, home ownership and social housing.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
In his last Budget, Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the first-time buyers' ISA which is designed to help people get a foot on the housing ladder.
It allows the government to top up by £50 every £200 a first-time buyer saves for a deposit.
Labour supports the policy but says further action is needed to address the "under supply" of homes.
Under its plan, any bank or building society that offered such an ISA would be required to invest the money in housing.
This would unlock £5bn to invest in a Future Homes Investment Fund to build 125,000 new homes between 2015 and 2020, according to Mr Miliband, and a Labour government would underwrite the investment.
The party has already committed to building 200,000 new homes every year by the end of the next Parliament but this scheme is aimed at getting the policy moving.
Developers would have to give priority to first-time buyers and anyone saving under the ISA scheme when the new homes are completed.
Chancellor George Osborne sounded a warning about Labour's plan.
"The Help to Buy ISA will support over a million first-time buyers achieve their dream of earning their own home - and with one badly thought-through policy, Ed Miliband would put all that at risk. It would undermine home ownership and harm savers," he said.
And Culture Secretary Sajid Javid told the BBC News Channel: "Remember when Labour were last in office, housing starts fell to their lowest levels since the 1920's so they really don't have a track record here."
Stephen Williams, Liberal Democrat housing spokesman and communities minister, said: "Both Ed Miliband and Ed Balls admitted to failing on housing in government and no one should believe anything has changed now.
"The Liberal Democrats will build 300,000 homes a year needed to tackle the housing crisis while also helping people who want to get on the housing ladder now, through our Rent To Own scheme."
Eight teams in total will do battle for both the trophy and for places in South Korea for the youth World Cup in May.
All four semi-finalists are assured of qualification for the World Cup.
Only two of the teams taking part have won the top prize before, with four-time winners Egypt among the favourites.
Cameroon, who have won this title once before, will be hoping the winning spirit from their senior team rubs off the junior Indomitable Lions.
Zambia is banking on home ground advantage to run away with the trophy but they will have to combat formidable opposition in the form of Egypt, Guinea and Mali.
Having not played in qualifiers as hosting granted them automatic qualification, the junior Chipolopolo may not know how prepared they are for competitive action.
However, they did play some friendly matches in Spain - against B sides for Tenerife, FC Basel and Barcelona - winning the first two matches 1-0 with the final one ending in a 3-1 defeat.
The host nation wound up its practice matches with a 2-1 win over regional rivals South Africa.
Zambia may take a leaf from Senegal who made the final after hosting the tournament in 2015 falling only to eventual winners Nigeria.
The junior Teranga Lions will be coming to Lusaka on a mission to amend that final loss at home.
While few would expect Senegal to have trouble beating Sudan in Group B, Sudan could prove to be the surprise package given they swept aside the traditionally strong Nigerians to qualify for Zambia 2017.
Senegal and Mali will be coming back to do battle after both made it to the U-20 World Cup in 2015 where they competed against each other in the third match play-off. which Mali won.
The Malian government has staked an additional incentive for their team to reach the top three by offering them an extra US$1,600 bonus which counts for much given the restrictions about rewards for junior teams.
South Africa will be flying the flag for Southern African teams alongside Zambia and anyone can only discount them at their own peril.
Group A will be based in Lusaka with the hosts Zambia, Mali, Egypt and Guinea.
Group B has Senegal, Sudan, Cameroon and South Africa, with their group games being played in Ndola.
The tournament runs from February 26 to March 12.
Natural Resources Wales said rivers across the country had been affected, with up to 80mm (3in) expected to fall over the next 48 hours.
Areas worst hit by flooding include Gwynedd, Denbighshire, Conwy and Powys, and about 200 homes are without power.
River levels in some areas have reached almost record highs.
The River Vyrnwy at Meifod has risen to 12.3ft (3.75m), just 1.6in (4cm) below the 12.4ft (3.79m) recorded in February 2011.
Firefighters across the country have made a number of rescues, including:
Crews are also delivering sandbags to Penrhiwfer Road, Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, after homes flooded.
Many rivers have burst their banks, and the worst affected include the Severn at Dolwen; rivers Vyrnwy, Mawddach and Wnion. The A458 from Llanfair Caereinion to Llanerfyl, in Powys, was closed because the River Banwy has burst its banks.
Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service has said it has been called out to 50 different incidents, all weather-related.
Pentyrch Primary School, Cardiff, has been closed due to "extensive water damage".
Arriva Trains Wales has cancelled some services.
Meanwhile, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service reported two terraced homes in St Julians, Newport, had sections of their roofs blown off in high winds.
Much of the country was battered by gusts of up to 70mph at the weekend.
The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" warning for rain.
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Eight years ago, one of Europe's best-known orchestras moved their rehearsal rooms to a secondary school on this housing estate and pupils from Tenever found themselves sharing their corridors and lunch tables with professional musicians.
Since then the school's results have improved, its drop-out rates have fallen to less than 1% and the atmosphere in the wider neighbourhood has been "transformed", according to Joachim Barloschky, a local official who oversaw a programme of renovation and regeneration in the area.
Next month, the pupils who started at the school at the same time as the orchestra will sit their final exams. There is optimism because the number of pupils leaving school with the lowest qualifications has plummeted and the number staying on to take the Abitur exam at the end of secondary school has risen sharply.
This might sound like the plot of a feelgood film. But for the pupils of Bremen East comprehensive school (known in German as GSO), the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen have become part of their daily lives.
The unusual arrangement happened by accident. The orchestra was looking for a new rehearsal space at the same time that the school was being renovated.
The city authorities made the connection, the builders made sure the rooms had excellent acoustics, and the orchestra moved in shortly afterwards.
At first, the arrangement was not popular on either side.
"We had thought we would move to an iconic building in the centre of the city," says Stephan Schrader, a cellist in the orchestra.
"The teachers thought the kids already did not have enough time for learning without having to skip another maths or English lesson to talk to musicians," says Annette Rueggeberg, co-head teacher.
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The school and the orchestra devised a series of projects to bring musicians and students together. Musicians would visit classes to talk to pupils and once a year the musicians would help pupils and residents of Tenever to write and perform an opera.
But what makes the partnership unique is the sheer volume of interactions between musicians and pupils. Whenever they are not playing, the musicians are based in the school.
They sit with pupils over lunch and talk to them about their lives. Pupils are allowed to watch the orchestra rehearse, sitting between the musicians rather than in front of them as an audience.
Ms Rueggeberg says: "Normally you only see an orchestra dressed up for a concert, but the kids mostly see them running around in jeans and find them very approachable. It has broken down the barriers."
The improving results and the presence of the orchestra have changed people's opinions.
"For a very poor area where so many students come to us with German as a second language, this is really quite something," says Ms Rueggeberg.
"The whole atmosphere of the school has improved and we no longer have such problems with fighting or aggression or graffiti."
Students from all over Bremen now want to join the school.
"In the past you could not imagine pupils travelling from well-off parts of Bremen to a very poor area but now we have to turn them away because we do not have enough space. We have become the most popular school in the city."
The orchestra has helped to remove the stigma attached to the neighbourhood surrounding the school, says the former district manager Joachim Barloschky.
"People used to say about Tenever, 'Don't go there, they are poor, they are from different countries, many of them are criminals,'" says Mr Barloschky.
"Now we are known as the district that has the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and everyone has more self-confidence."
"After one community opera, a child ran up to me and asked: 'Did you see the people coming all the way from Hamburg to see us in a very big Maserati?' They are no longer ashamed of where they come from but proud of their school and their district."
Is there something special about music that has led to these improvements?
Research has suggested links between music education and improved reading comprehension, language development, IQ scores and creative skills.
"While other activities can be beneficial, music seems to have a wider range of benefits," says Professor Susan Hallam at UCL Institute of Education.
The pupils also benefit from encountering people from the unfamiliar background of classical music.
Max Haimendorf, head of secondary at King Solomon Academy in central London, says his school has improved since it became compulsory for every pupil to play in an orchestra.
"By performing at places like the Barbican and working with people from a classical instrument background, the knock-on conversations, opportunities and experiences our pupils get has really broadened their perspectives," he says.
But the orchestra in Bremen plays down the role of music.
There are many music education schemes that teach pupils for a week or invite them to a special concert, says Lea Fink, who runs the education programme for the orchestra.
"But the value of our project lies in the long and persistent groundwork and the feeling of trust that has developed between the children and the musicians."
"We do not try to be music teachers, but we let them see that we are normal people," says Mr Schrader. "I ask students about their families and tell them about mine.
"When they have a problem, I know about it. I am not the one who will find the solution, but I am one more adult person they have contact with."
So should other top orchestras, cultural organisations or even sports teams consider moving into a school?
Mr Schrader thinks so. "The experience has actually improved us as an orchestra," he says.
"When the children sit between us at rehearsals, our concentration is better. We can actually see their eyes grow wide with excitement when we play certain chords or play quickly.
"It reminds us of the reason we make music, which is sometimes easy to forget."
The victims were killed in the town of Waverly, Virginia, which was hit with winds up to more than 60mph (97kph).
The same system, which spawned several tornadoes, destroyed hundreds of homes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida on Tuesday, killing three others.
Forecasters said more than 80 million people were in the path of the storm.
Tornado warnings were issued for the densely populated region between Washington and Philadelphia.
Police said they exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, after cornering him in Watertown, near Boston.
He had escaped on foot early on Friday, apparently wounded, after a police shootout that claimed the life of his elder brother, an alleged accomplice.
Three people died and more than 170 were wounded in Monday's bombings.
By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News
We may know the names of the suspects in the Boston marathon attacks and also much about their lives, but the question of why they did it remains elusive. Recollections of friends and family, as well as the digital data trail people now leave on social media, means we can get a picture of a young brother who seemed to be a well-adjusted student.
The elder brother comes across less well-adjusted, not quite fitting into American life or making friends. Seven years older, some wonder if he drew his younger sibling into his own world in which he seemed to be exploring radical Islamist ideology.
But was this simply about two brothers, a tight-knit bond with no outside support? An organised conspiracy would worry Americans who hoped that era had passed, but in some ways the era of small self-starting groups is just as worrying since they can be much harder to spot.
As news emerged that the teenaged suspect was being treated in hospital, US President Barack Obama promised to seek answers on what had motivated the bombers and whether they had help.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found after a day of lockdown on Boston's streets and a night of bloodshed that had claimed the life of a police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Sean Collier, 26, was fatally shot in Cambridge late on Thursday. Then, after a car was hijacked, a gun battle began further west, in Watertown.
A transport police officer was seriously hurt and one of the brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was fatally injured.
He had died of bullet wounds and injuries from explosives strapped to his body, a hospital doctor said.
As thousands of Swat team officers scoured the streets for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston and its suburbs were brought to a standstill, with residents told to stay indoors.
Despite house-to-house searches in the Watertown area, nothing was found and the trail appeared to have gone cold.
Profile: The Tsarnaev brothers
Q&A: Suspects' Chechen links
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Timeline of manhunt
It was not until 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT), an hour after the city-wide lockdown order was lifted and the transport system had reopened, that the breakthrough came.
A resident of Franklin Street, Watertown, emerged from his home and noticed blood near a boat in his backyard,
Upon opening the tarpaulin covering the boat, he found a man covered in blood in the stern and called police.
Bomb-squad vans and ambulances surrounded the house, while helicopters buzzed overhead.
"The hostage rescue team did try to talk him out but from what I understand, he was not communicative," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters.
Officers tossed flash-bang grenades into the boat to disorient the fugitive.
Police said they exchanged gunfire with the suspect for about an hour before moving in and seizing him. Images show the teenager climbing out of the boat and then lying on his back as he is searched by police.
A crowd near the scene cheered as he was taken into custody.
Boston Police Department tweeted: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken to a Massachusetts hospital, bleeding and seriously injured with gunshot wounds to the neck and leg, police told reporters.
Little more than an hour later, President Obama praised the "character of our country" after what he said had been a tough week in which the world had seen Americans refusing to be terrorised.
"If anyone wants to know who we are; what America is; how we respond to evil and terror - that's it. Selflessly. Compassionately. And unafraid."
The Boston manhunt had begun with two explosions at the finish line of Monday's marathon.
The twin blasts killed Martin Richard, aged eight, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lu Lingzi, 23, a postgraduate student from China.
The climax to the search for their suspected killers began hours after the FBI released images of the bombing suspects.
Law enforcement officials and family members identified the Tsarnaev brothers as ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade.
The FBI had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed. But agents closed the case after finding no cause for concern.
Chechnya (pair were ethnic Chechens): Southern Russian republic, rich in oil. Infrastructure hit by years of war between separatists and Russian forces, banditry and organised crime. Improved security situation has led to increased investment in reconstruction projects. But sporadic attacks by separatists continue.
Dagestan (pair lived here for several years): Southern Russian republic, translating as "land of the mountains", famed for ethnic and linguistic diversity. A long-running militant Islamist insurgency is a thorn in the authorities' side. Dagestan has oil reserves and a strong manufacturing sector, but rampant corruption and organised crime .
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It is not known which country made the request, but the BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says it is likely to have come from the Russians.
In an interview on Russian television, the mother of the two suspects said the FBI had been in contact with her son for several years.
The Kremlin said on Saturday that President Vladimir Putin had agreed with President Obama during a telephone conversation to increase co-operation in the wake of the Boston attacks.
Our correspondent says now that the manhunt in Boston is over, the extent of the FBI's prior knowledge of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's activities is likely to be examined.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's father said on Friday that his son was a second-year medical student in the US and was hoping to be a brain surgeon.
Anzor Tsarnaev, speaking from Dagestan, told the BBC he believed the secret services had framed his sons.
"It was a terrorist attack carefully organised by secret services - I don't know which ones. My son used to go to a mosque, so they once paid us a visit to ask why he is doing that.
"Yes, there was such an episode. So they put all the blame on him and shot him. That's it."
But Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the suspects who lives in Maryland, said he was "ashamed" at his nephews' alleged role in the bombings.
Asked what the bombers' motives may have been, he replied: "Being losers, hating everyone around them."
Also on Friday, investigators removed a computer and other evidence from the New Jersey home of the Tsarnaev brothers' sister, police said.
Ailina Tsarnaeva, who lives in the town of West New York, is said to have told FBI agents she had had no contact with her brothers for some time.
Officers were called to the Union Street area near to Huntly Street at about 06:45 following a call about a woman who was found unconscious.
The 43-year-old was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where she was being treated.
Following extensive inquiries, it is now understood the woman may have been assaulted.
Det Insp Norman Stevenson said: "We are appealing to anyone who saw anything or anyone in the area around 4am to contact us on 101.
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The group will enter the Breakthrough Message contest, which offers a $1m prize for creating a digital missive that represents human civilisation.
That prize accompanies a new effort to accelerate the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti).
Experts have argued for decades about the wisdom of broadcasting into space.
Listening out for aliens is one thing, but trying to contact them raises myriad concerns about what happens when civilisations collide.
The diversity of views was obvious at a conference of the UK Seti Research Network (UKSRN) in Leeds, where the group's 20 members were split down the middle in an informal vote.
"We did a show of hands and we were perfectly evenly split," said Dr Anders Sandberg, speaking to journalists at the British Science Festival in Bradford.
Dr Sandberg, a philosopher from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, found himself voting twice.
"I'm a typical philosophy department guy. I raised my hand in both cases and they were all laughing at me."
But the group settled firmly in favour of composing a message, even if it might never leave the planet.
"What we could agree on was that it was worthwhile and important to try to devise that message, so that we can reach the best possible version," Dr Sandberg said.
He and three other UKSRN members have formed a working group to "thrash out the basics" of how their message might be composed and what it might contain.
For example, they might draft two suggestions: one using pictures, and one using more abstract content such as language or mathematics.
Other than its $1m (£0.65m) spoils, the details of the Breakthrough Message prize, funded by tech billionaire Yuri Milner, are yet to be announced. But the competition is open to anyone.
"There's a fair chance that we'll get beaten by a schoolgirl somewhere, and in that case more power to her!" Dr Sandberg said.
If the British team's bid is successful, Dr Sandberg said they would plough the prize money back into Seti research, which has historically struggled for funding and credibility in the UK.
"We would use it to build up a slightly bigger Seti research community in the UK, because this has never really been funded. The giggle factor is pretty high."
Whoever wins the prize, Breakthrough Initiatives have pledged not to transmit the message until a "wide-ranging debate" about the risks and rewards has taken place.
"It seems a bit silly in a sense, this prize for a message that they promise not to send," Dr Sandberg said. "But on the other hand, from a scientific perspective, it's a really interesting question: how do you construct a message that an alien intelligence could receive?"
Dr Jill Stuart, who studies space law and policy at the London School of Economics, is not a member of the UKSRN but welcomed the group's decision to draft an interstellar introduction. She strongly supports the notion of announcing humanity's presence in the cosmos.
"I'm very explicitly in favour," Dr Stuart said, "not only because I think it's worth trying to contact them, but because of what I think it makes us do - reflecting back on ourselves, building a potential regime for how we could communicate, and so on."
But many researchers are much more wary about hitting "send", for various reasons - and these are arguments Dr Sandberg has heard many times.
"The most naive one would be that aliens will come and eat us or invade us," he said. "That is probably not very likely. But a more sophisticated version is that we have seen what happens when more advanced civilisations encounter less advanced ones."
On the other hand, we might learn something important.
"We have a lot of these uncertainties, but we also know that our own civilisation is in a fair bit of trouble. We face some pretty big threats.
"That means it might be a good idea to gamble, and hope there is someone slightly older and wiser out there. If aliens told us something about how to handle our climate, or artificial intelligence, we might want to listen."
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The data was sold to several companies, including one warned over misleading advertising and another facing an investigation into a lottery it ran.
Pharmacy2U had made a "serious error of judgement" in selling the data, the information commissioner said.
The pharmacy said the sales had been a "regrettable incident", for which it apologised.
The names and addresses of more than 20,000 Pharmacy2U customers had been sold via a marketing company, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said in a statement.
Pharmacy2U, the UK's largest NHS-approved online pharmacy, had advertised - at £130 per 1,000 customers - its database of 100,000 patients with many different medical conditions including asthma, erectile dysfunction and Parkinson's disease, sorted by age and gender.
ICO deputy commissioner David Smith said it was likely some customers had suffered financially - one buyer of the data deliberately targeted elderly and vulnerable people.
And Pharmacy2U had breached data protection rules by not seeking the customers' consent.
Mr Smith said: "Patient confidentiality is drummed into pharmacists.
"It is inconceivable that a business in this sector could believe these actions were acceptable.
"Once people's personal information has been sold on once in this way, we often see it then gets sold on again and again."
In a statement, Pharmacy2U issued a "sincere apology" and said it would no longer sell information about its customers.
It said it had taken steps to find out if the organisations buying the data had been reputable and, at the time of the sale, there had been no reason to believe any of them had been "suspected of any wrongdoing".
It said it had "learned from this incident" and would "continue to do all we can to ensure that their data is protected to the highest level".
They seemed friendly, they were keen to make conversation, and they could do a few quite clever things.
But I came away from the Innorobo exhibition in Paris with few fears about the prospect of an imminent robot takeover.
Perhaps that is because, as we discuss in today's edition of Tech Tent, the robotics industry is now anxious to improve the image of its products.
All the talk in Paris was of cobots, or collaborative robots. Until now, industrial robots have been expensive single-purpose machines, locked behind cages, designed to replace humans doing a repetitive task like welding in a car factory.
But cobots are cheaper multi-purpose devices that work on a production line alongside humans, who will teach them many different tasks. I was shown how to program one of these cobots, Sawyer, to move a bottle from one place to another - nothing complex but a demonstration of how flexibly a small business could use a robot like this. This kind of cobot, the argument goes, will be an ally, not an enemy, of manufacturing workers.
Outside factories, however, robots are poised to do lots of jobs in service industries, from providing information in supermarkets to leading elderly people through exercise routines.
Pepper, the French-made companion robot now owned by Japan's SoftBank, is preparing its assault on Europe, with a clutch of firms showing off applications. Among them was a Pepper estate agent, an application from the UK's Emotion Robotics.
The robot did a perfectly good job of taking me through the process of selecting a few houses to view, before calling up a real life estate agent - at which point I made my excuses and left.
There is something rather charming about this particular humanoid robot - but I was not convinced that it provides a more efficient service than simply tapping on a phone or tablet.
And there was evidence this week that the threat of mass unemployment as the robots take over may have been exaggerated. An Oxford University study predicting that over a third of jobs in the UK were under threat from automation over the next two decades has been the source of much of the anxiety.
But economists at the OECD have taken another look at that research and reached a much less worrying conclusion. Whereas the Oxford study examines entire professions - and effectively wipes them out as the robots advance - the OECD researchers say only specific tasks within them may be at risk.
"Occupations labelled as high-risk occupations often still contain a substantial share of tasks that are hard to automate." That leads them to conclude that just 9% of jobs across OECD countries might be subject to automation.
That is a point also made by Tom Davenport, author of a book called Only Humans Need Apply. He tells Tech Tent that, while the advance of robots may lead to increased inequality as low-skill jobs disappear, their impact may arrive more slowly than predicted. He points out that despite the arrival in banking of ATMs and other innovations, there are the same number of bank tellers in the US as in 1980.
Anyway, all these new robots will need skilled technicians, just as in the first industrial revolution - back then, "if you knew how a spinning jenny worked you could easily get a job in a textile factory." In other words, stop worrying about the Terminator, relax and learn to love and care for a robot.
Hear more about all this in our latest episode of Tech Tent, our weekly radio show on the BBC World Service.
The 46ft-long (14m) sperm whale died on Thursday after it was washed up alive on the shore near Hunstanton, Norfolk, hours earlier.
A cordon has been put around the animal and King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council said people should not touch it or let dogs near it.
It is "unlikely" the carcass will be removed over the weekend.
The council has also warned people not to collect and eat shellfish from the area and that water sports enthusiasts should be aware the sea quality could be affected.
It had consulted with Public Health England over the advice after another sperm whale was stranded last month.
Visitors urged to stay away from whale
In 2011 at the resort, a beached sperm whale - which is a protected species - had its teeth and jaw removed and put up for sale on Facebook.
"Anyone removing, or attempting to remove, parts of the whale could be committing a criminal offence," the council said in a statement.
The huge mammal is lying on land owned by the Le Strange family estate.
Estate representative Jonathan Fryer reiterated the council's advice and said he would ask people to "consider what they are coming to look at - it's a very sad event".
He said it was "unlikely" the bull's body would be removed over the weekend.
It is not yet known how the whale will be removed and where it will go as various organisations need to be consulted, he added.
A post-mortem examination was carried out on Friday, but Rob Deaville, from the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, said it could takes months to "work out why these whales have come into the North Sea".
It is the 30th sperm whale to have died this year after becoming stranded on beaches in northern Europe and England.
Cameron Logan was killed in the blaze in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, on New Year's Day morning.
His girlfriend Rebecca Williams remains in a serious condition in hospital.
Detectives had urged for dog walkers and joggers to come forward. They also want to trace a man in Army combat clothing seen nearby.
Officers have issued various witness appeals.
On Friday, they said a number of people had come forward with information, but they were still keen to speak to others.
A police spokeswoman said there had been a "positive response" to their most recent witness appeal.
Officers were also keen to trace a man in Army combat clothing reported to have been walking on the West Highland Way on the morning of the fire.
It is believed he routinely walks from Maryhill to the West Highland Way at Craigton Road, often passing through the Milngavie area, and officers believe he may have information which could help the ongoing investigation.
Police are treating the case as murder and attempted murder.
The fire also resulted in Mr Logan's parents being treated for smoke inhalation and caused the death of the family dog.
Ms Williams, a broadcast journalist with Global Radio, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, initially in a critical condition.
A spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow said on Friday: "Rebecca's condition remains serious but stable."
Ms Williams' father has said she was "fighting hard" in hospital.
Phillip Williams thanked well-wishers for their support in a response on Facebook.
He said: "Thanks for all the thoughts and wishes. No real change yet but I will try to put up news when I can. She's fighting hard."
Ms Williams, 24, and Mr Logan, 23, had been celebrating Hogmanay and walked home in the early hours of the morning.
Detectives said the fire had been set deliberately, resulting in the death of psychology student Mr Logan.
Since then, officers have also been carrying out door-to-door inquires, checking CCTV footage and interviewing people from the party the couple attended.
Officers were seen searching woodland and waterways near the semi-detached property on Friday.
Det Ch Insp Paul Livingstone, of the major investigation teams at Govan, thanked those who have already come forward with information.
He said: "We continue to seek information on the dark-coloured car that reportedly had its engine running at the layby on Craigton Road and we would continue to ask anyone with information to come forward."
Mr Livingstone said police were doing all they could to trace those responsible for the "despicable" crime.
He added: "A number of local residents have now come forward with the belief that they may have been the dog walkers previously described.
"We do know that there were a number of individuals walking dogs around the time of the incident, so please continue to contact us if you believe you have information which may help our inquiry."
A group of men attacked two houses and threatened residents at Mountcollyer Avenue in the Tiger's Bay area.
Windows in two of the houses were smashed on Monday night and one man was reported to have been carrying a pick axe.
There was a second incident at one of the houses on Tuesday.
A Polish woman living in one of the houses said did feel safe there.
Tuesday's 1-0 home defeat to Morton leaves the Kirkcaldy side eighth in the Championship, four points above the relegation play-off place.
Locke, 41, took over at Stark's Park last May following Ray MacKinnon's departure to Dundee United.
The former Hearts manager resigned as Kilmarnock boss in January 2016 after less than a year in the post.
Rovers started their league campaign with three consecutive victories but have only won three more games in the Championship since, their last success coming in late October.
Jackson, 50, had been on the coaching staff at Dundee United, leaving in September 2015, along with manager Jackie McNamara.
Capped 28 times for Scotland, he joined Rovers immediately after Locke's appointment.
Locke's dismissal drew sympathy from Morton manager Jim Duffy, whose side moved back up to third in the Championship with victory at Stark's Park.
"You always feel for every manager; we all know how difficult a job it is, how hard every manager works - it is a 24/7 job," Duffy told BBC Scotland.
"It totally takes over you and consumes you. Gary is a terrific boy and I absolutely feel for him. It is very difficult if it is ultimately your team [Morton] that tips the balance against him.
"For any manager time is the key element, and if you get a bit of time, there is a chance you can turn things around.
"But patience is generally not a virtue in football. Normally if it is not going your way, the inevitability is you are going to lose your job."
It was one of four William Burges pieces and was at risk of being sold to an overseas buyer unless someone could match the asking price of £225,000.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey has placed the temporary bar on the vase, designed in 1874 and the last one still in private ownership.
The export licence application has been deferred until 16 September.
This could be extended to 16 February 2017 if a serious intention to raise funds to buy it for £225,000 is made.
The four vases were designed for the summer smoking room in the castle's clock tower.
One is in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, another at the Higgins Gallery and Museum, Bedford, while the third vase was subject to an export bar last year and was subsequently saved by the National Museum of Wales.
William Burges was commissioned by John Patrick-Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, to rebuild Cardiff Castle.
The vases were designed to reflect the interior of the summer smoking room.
Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), Sir Hayden Phillips, said: "Apart from this vase's intrinsic quality, the opportunity is now there for us to retain the original quartet which would be a noble purpose, in the public interest and of great historical significance."
Among the reasons for the RCEWA's recommendation were that the vase is of outstanding aesthetic importance and of outstanding significance for the study of the development of Burges's designs.
Ms Wood said she was "seriously considering" the move after a General Election was called for 8 June.
But on Sunday, she Tweeted: "After much consideration, I'm not standing as MP for the Rhondda. Confident that @Plaid_Cymru will have very strong candidate."
The seat is currently held by Labour's Chris Bryant.
Ms Wood took the Rhondda seat from Labour in the 2016 assembly election, beating former minister Leighton Andrews.
Speculation had been mounting she would throw her hat into the ring for the Westminster seat.
However, Ms Wood, who has been Plaid leader since 2012, distanced herself from the move while speaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme earlier on Sunday.
"On balance, I'm coming down against, as we've got other people who I believe can win in the Rhondda," she said.
"Going to Westminster, for me, would mean I couldn't be the leader of the party," she added.
"The National Assembly is an important institution to us a party. It is vital that the leader is in that institution."
Plaid currently has three MPs in Westminster and are targeting at least two more seats in the General Election.
Of Wales' 40 MPs, 25 are Labour but Ms Wood says they are in "no fit state" to provide an opposition to the Conservatives.
"There is a good opportunity for us in this election," she said.
"Labour are divided and seem unable, therefore, to protect people in Wales. We know that the Tories are a threat to our nation and a threat to our economy.
"There is an opportunity for Plaid Cymru to make sure Wales has a strong voice to defend Wales and the only way we can do that is to ensure we have a strong team of Plaid Cymru MPs in Westminster.
"This is our chance."
British artists accounted for 11.7% of all albums sold in the US in 2011, the BPI said, up from 9.8% in 2010.
Adele's second album 21 led the pack, selling 5.8 million copies, followed by Mumford and Sons' Sigh No More, which sold 1.4 million.
A total of 30 albums by UK acts sold more than 100,000 copies in the US.
The Brits' share was the highest since comparable figures were first compiled in 2000, and could be the highest since the 1980s, the BPI said.
The other best-selling British albums in 2011 included Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto, Susan Boyle's Someone to Watch Over Me and the two albums by Florence and the Machine.
Adele's debut 19 sold more than 900,000 copies last year, while Liverpool-born R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius was also among the year's biggest British sellers with her debut solo album Late Nights and Early Mornings.
Meanwhile, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Coldplay, Taio Cruz and The Beatles were among the UK acts who joined Adele in selling more than a million single tracks in the US last year.
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said boybands like One Direction and The Wanted, who are both enjoying chart success across the Atlantic, looked set to continue the trend.
"These results prove that the risks UK labels take investing in British talent... help British artists break internationally and generate important exports that boost the UK economy," he said.
The teams included former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and ex-England spinner Ashley Giles.
The game was played at a height of 5,730m (18,799 ft) in a flat crater just below the summit.
They played 10 overs each of a Twenty20 game before clouds stopped play.
"This is absolutely incredible! We are playing cricket on the summit of Africa!" Giles tweeted on Friday morning.
The current record for the world's highest game is 5,165m, played in the Himalayas at Everest base camp in Nepal in 2009.
The "Gorillas" team, led by England women's vice-captain Heather Knight, scored 82-5 to beat Giles' "Rhinos" team, who managed 64-9, the AFP news agency reports.
The daily wildlife drama surrounding the Norwich Cathedral peregrine falcon family has become addictive viewing for millions of people watching online around the world and for thousands of visitors to the cathedral's watch point.
For one man, observing the chicks' progress has become a labour of love as he spends hours in his "den" recording them via a live web stream to tell their story.
"I really try not to get paternal - but I probably do," said Dave Gittens, a volunteer with the Hawk and Owl Trust (HOT) who is responsible for the live nest-cams.
"I try really hard to be objective, they are wild animals, they are doing things we might find distasteful or difficult to watch - and when they die naturally, to watch a chick go through its last moments of life is terrible."
Mr Gittens said he spends what "feels like 90 days" watching the breeding season - but quickly adds "it's not an arduous task, it's a real privilege to be in a position where you can see these birds."
The peregrine falcons, nesting on a special platform on the cathedral spire 246ft (75m) above the ground, have been breeding in Norwich since 2011 as part of an urban peregrine breeding programme managed by the Hawk and Owl Trust.
This year's chicks, among the first in the city for more than 200 years after the pair's first successful clutch in 2012, hatched at the end of April.
Mr Gittens said the moment was exhilarating.
"The excitement of seeing the first chick hatch, watching with trepidation as they walk up and down the nest ledge.
"Your knees go weak, you get bouts of vertigo for them, you can almost hear the people screaming on Facebook - at this stage they are right on the cusp of being flight ready - but they're only just ready.
"Until you see them flying around and all the rest of it - it's heart-stopping," he said.
Mr Gittens describes himself as "a cog in the wheel" with more than 100 volunteers working on the urban peregrine project.
While he watches the birds in their nest from the comfort of his den, others tackle the elements to take a more "hands-on" approach to capturing images of them.
"I quickly became addicted to these superb and charismatic birds," said Norwich-based photographer Andy Thompson, who can spend more than 270 hours taking pictures of the adults and their chicks during the breeding season.
"It can be quite cold and bleak... but any activity gets the adrenaline going as you follow them around the skies."
"Fledging time is often the most exciting period... but it can also be quite an upsetting time as unfortunately the birds do have accidents and may get killed," said Mr Thompson.
"This is a natural thing that happens in urban and rural nesting areas, but it is still somewhat a blow when a bird you have watched for many weeks is suddenly no more."
The birds are the fastest thing on earth with an ability to fly at more than 200mph (322km/h) when diving for prey, making them faster than a cheetah and on-par with a Formula 1 car.
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham, who returns to RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk for the new season of Springwatch on 25 May, is a big fan of the peregrine and the urban projects.
"They are the fastest things on earth... which struck me as almost unbelievable when I was 10 and still does now," he said.
"They look pure muscle assassin, brutal, totally hard, it's the eye and the moustacial stripe and the massive feet - their weapons.
"If I was re-incarnated as another species of animal there is only one I'd be... and it isn't a pigeon."
The wildlife expert and conservationist is also a keen supporter of the urban peregrine scheme. There are a number of nesting projects on buildings across the country including Bath, Derby and Nottingham.
"If you own a tall building... you should be putting up nest boxes," he said.
The hours Mr Gittens spends watching the peregrines needs an "understanding" from his wife Caroline. She says she is "very proud" of the work as it brings "so much pleasure to millions of people".
"I totally support him... it's something we both enjoy and get a kick out of," she said.
"They are just such a fantastic bird - it's great we have the technology to be able to see them 24/7 - to see the body language and the things they get up to - it's a privilege."
Peregrine falcon numbers declined during the 19th and 20th centuries due to illegal shooting and use of certain pesticides on farms.
The species became almost extinct in the 1960s but became protected in 1981.
There are about 1,500 breeding pairs in the UK, according to the RSPB. The Norfolk-based British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is currently collating data from a peregrine survey recorded last summer with the results expected later in the year.
Early analysis shows "more peregrines are now breeding in lowland England than during the last survey in 2002, especially in the urban environment," said Dawn Balmer from the trust.
Despite the long hours and heart-stopping moments, Dave Gittens said he would never change his hours of watching.
"It's rewarding - it makes you feel you've provided a service to people to bring them closer back to nature."
The Buddies, who parted with boss Alex Rae last week, led through John Sutton but Nicky Clark levelled.
A second from Sutton put the visitors ahead again until Andy Webster's own goal restored parity.
Clark put the Pars in front only for Ryan Hardie to equalise but El Alagui struck from close range to settle the match.
Just over 20 years since they last played together for Hearts, Allan Johnston and Allan McManus came head to head in a managerial capacity for the first time as St Mirren's Head of Youth Development took charge of St Mirren for the first time.
Dunfermline opened the brighter of the two sides and Joe Cardle spurned an early chance to open the scoring after the ball appeared to catch between his feet as he failed to convert Nicky Clark's cross.
Sutton had a first half to remember by taking both chances that came his way. The first came when Lewis Morgan was allowed two chances at delivering his cross and Sutton guided the low ball into the corner of the net, his shot just evading the diving Sean Murdoch.
Dunfermline quickly responded and were deservedly level nine minutes later when Clark netted with a low diving header perfectly meeting Jason Talbot's cross.
But Sutton was to have the last word in the first half. The striker gathered a simple ball forward into his feet at the edge of the box and he held off Callum Fordyce to unleash a quick shot with perfect placement to restore Saints lead.
Ryan Williamson replaced Fordyce at half-time and immediately the home side searched for an equaliser which almost came when Cardle shot wide.
Sutton headed wide, missing his opportunity for a hat-trick.
Scott Gallagher pulled off a great save from Clark but St Mirren could not clear and Cardle reacted after the ball rebounded off to score with a deflection off Webster.
Clark scored his second of the game with fourteen minutes to play when he read Michael Paton's cross and nipped in to steer the ball beyond Scott Gallagher.
Saints were behind for only five minutes when Hardie found the top corner from the right side of the box as the game continued to thrill with its attacking intent.
The game was settled by a defensive lapse nine minutes was timer when Rocco Quinn attempted a passback into the box but he didn't anticipate the threat posed by El Alagui who clipped the ball beyond the onrushing Gallagher to secure the points and their first league win since opening day for Dunfermline.
Dunfermline's Allan Johnston: "It's good to finally get the result we deserve. We are looking to push up in the table and challenge in the top four, we believe we have the players capable of doing that and I think we showed that today.
"I couldn't see how we were behind at half-time, I thought we were the much more dominant team and it was a really good team performance in the second half. Nicky Clark was unplayable, he was everywhere with great finishes for the goals. There were some special goals.
"The players have shown a lot of confidence in the last four games and we've not been far away but it was good to get that result."
St Mirren's Allan McManus: "We were very unlucky, I thought we deserved at least a point from the game. We created numerous opportunities and another day it could have been different.
"Where we are at the moment is fine lines with the goals and there was a mistake at the end. I can't ask for more from the players, they played some really good stuff at times. I've told the players that there is no point in sitting with their heads down they just have to come back in on Monday and work hard and keep working hard and playing like that and it will turn round.
"I have no idea if I will be in charge for the Falkirk game, I will keep doing what I am doing until a new management team is in place. I am more than happy with my job which is to develop players for the first team but this is a great experience for me."
Match ends, Dunfermline Athletic 4, St. Mirren 3.
Second Half ends, Dunfermline Athletic 4, St. Mirren 3.
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren).
Foul by Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Lewis Martin.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 4, St. Mirren 3. Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from more than 35 yards to the top left corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Scott Gallacher.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 3, St. Mirren 3. Ryan Hardie (St. Mirren) left footed shot from long range on the right to the top left corner. Assisted by Stephen Mallan.
Foul by Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic).
Andy Webster (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Paul McMullan replaces Joe Cardle.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 3, St. Mirren 2. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from long range on the right to the top left corner. Assisted by Michael Paton.
Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic).
Andy Webster (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Farid El Alagui replaces Gavin Reilly.
Attempt missed. Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic).
Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Foul by Ryan Williamson (Dunfermline Athletic).
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Tom Walsh replaces Lewis Morgan.
Foul by Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jason Naismith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Andy Webster.
Own Goal by Andy Webster, St. Mirren. Dunfermline Athletic 2, St. Mirren 2.
Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren).
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jason Naismith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
Attempt missed. John Sutton (St. Mirren) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
They died in the eastern Kailahun district, which borders southern Guinea where the outbreak started in March and has killed more than 145 people.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola - one of the world's deadliest viruses.
But people have a better chance of surviving if it is identified early and they get supportive medical care.
Ebola can kill up to 90% of those infected and is passed on through contact with the fluids of infected people or animals, such as urine, sweat and blood.
Dr Amara Jambai, the director of disease prevention and control at Sierra Leone's health ministry, said a health worker was among the four people who had died of Ebola.
The deaths had occurred over the last three to four days, he said.
People who developed a fever should immediately report a medical facility and an emergency medical team has been deployed to the remote area, Dr Jambai said.
Why Ebola is so dangerous
The UN World Health Organization said it has been informed about the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and would help deploy essential supplies.
It said it had received information from the field that there had been six deaths - one of which had been laboratory confirmed as Ebola.
Freetown-based journalist Alpha Kamara told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that many people in Kailahun district were staying indoors for fear of catching the virus.
A local chief in the area told him that there had been 11 suspicious deaths between Thursday and Sunday.
In Guinea, there have been a total of 258 suspect and confirmed cases of Ebola, including 174 deaths - 146 of which have been laboratory-confirmed positive.
In Liberia there have been 12 suspected cases, with nine deaths.
The 31-year-old opener, who has appeared in nine Test matches, left Taunton by mutual agreement last month in order to relocate to London.
Compton, who previously played for Middlesex between 2001 and 2009, has signed a three-year deal at Lord's.
"The time feels right to return home. Hopefully I can come back and reproduce my best cricket here," he said.
South Africa-born Compton made his England debut in November 2012 after scoring 1,494 first-class runs for Somerset that summer, but he has not featured for the national team since being dropped for the home Ashes series against Australia in 2013.
Following five years at Taunton, he described his return to Middlesex as an "exciting challenge" and has targeted a return to the England set-up.
"Leaving Lord's to play for Somerset was, at the time, a step in my development I felt I needed to make," he said.
"Whilst at Somerset I grew as a player and a person. I also fulfilled the dream of representing England, which is something I am determined to do again."
The grandson of England great Denis Compton, he has scored 9,163 first-class runs at an average of 43.84 since making his debut in 2004, including 22 centuries.
Middlesex managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said the right-hander had "a lot to offer" the club on and off the pitch.
"Players of Nick's ability do not become available very often and when we were made aware of his desire to move back to London we immediately moved," he added.
"With Chris Rogers hopefully playing for Australia next summer we needed to find a high quality top order batsman and in Nick we have secured the services of one.
"It will be great to see him once again wearing a Middlesex cap and sweater."
A study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) gathered data from 8.6m people across London's 32 boroughs.
Scientists found deaths were 4% more common in adults and the elderly where the daytime traffic noise was more than 60dB compared to less than 55dB.
Experts said the study did not imply a causal link.
Researchers looked at data for people living in London between 2003 and 2010.
They analysed road traffic noise levels during the day, between 07:00 and 23:00 and at night, between 23:00 and 07:00.
More than 1.6 million people in the city are exposed to road traffic noise levels during the day above 55dB, the level defined by the World Health Organisation as causing health problems.
The increase in the number of deaths was most likely to be linked to heart or blood vessel disease, possibly due to increased blood pressure, sleep problems and stress from the noise, they said.
Jaana Halonen from LSHTM said: "Our findings contribute to the body of evidence suggesting reductions in traffic noise could be beneficial to our health."
Prof Francesco Cappuccio at the University of Warwick said the study was a "welcome addition" to the body of evidence about the role the environment plays in health.
"Public health policies must pay more attention to this emerging evidence," he said.
He warned the study did not imply a direct cause between noise pollution and early deaths and strokes, but added to evidence suggesting there was a link between the two.
Some 56% of the 1,200 delegates at the NUS conference in Brighton backed Shakira Martin, 28, as president.
Previously vice-president, she ousted Malia Bouattia who was elected in 2016.
Ms Bouattia ran into controversy when an article she co-wrote in 2011, describing Birmingham university as a "Zionist outpost", came to light.
Ms Martin, a former student at Lewisham and Southwark College, highlighted the fact that she is "black single mother from a working-class family" during her campaign.
Ms Martin told the BBC News website: "This is where I am coming from. It's the only thing I know.
"I came into this campaign with nothing but overcoming adversity and challenges and barriers.
"I was born into barriers and the struggle is real."
She said things began to change for her when she returned to college after the birth of her first daughter six years ago.
Ms Martin saw an advert for the role of women's officer at her college student union and went for it.
"Here the people didn't look like me or talk like me, but they had a heart like me.
"The rest is history," she added.
The former student has promised a union which is "united and fighting for free education for everyone".
She said: "I am honoured and humbled to have been elected as NUS national president.
"I take this as a vote of trust that our members believe I can lead our national movement to be the fighting and campaigning organisation we need it to be, representing the breadth of our diverse membership.
"Further education made me who I am today and I look forward to sharing stories of just how powerful all forms of education can be when we're all given access to it.
"During my term in office I want to spend my time listening, learning and leading."
The post of NUS president has long been a coveted position for those seeking political office.
Former NUS presidents include Jack Straw, Charles Clarke, Liam Burns and Trevor Phillips.
The new president pushed the standing president into second place winning by 402 votes to 272.
The NUS paid tribute to Ms Bouattia's efforts to make the student movement "more diverse" and representative.
In her speech seeking re-election, she spoke of the death threats and harassment she had faced during her presidency.
She was the first black Muslim to hold the post of NUS president, repeatedly denied accusations of anti-Semitism and also apologised for her past comments about Birmingham University.
A string of disaffiliation votes by student unions around the country during the summer followed the controversy.
However, most of these had actually been set in train before the issue flared up.
Three of the 26 who held referendums, Loughborough, Hull, and Newcastle universities, disaffiliated.
Then a group of student leaders wrote an open letter saying Jewish students had not felt safe "participating in our national movement".
The third candidate, Tom Harwood, who won just 35 votes, stood on a platform of "re-legitimising" the student movement and speaking "for all students".
"We should be fighting credible battles, and offering constructive solutions. Only then can we deliver.
"We must shout louder about living costs, fight for realistic improvements to tuition fees, and be flexible and innovative in our response to government policy."
Not just applause - that is standard. But multi-party approbation. Leaders and their colleagues all applauding each other, commending the comments of their rivals.
It was a display of solidarity, of unity, of determination to defy terror in the face of the tragic scenes from Westminster. A small thing, perhaps, the collective hubbub of colliding palms. But, in its way, significant.
It is an animal instinct, a social imperative, to huddle together when under attack. But this was also about a declaration of shared values; of democracy and freedom of expression.
Each of the leaders performed their role well, deftly choreographing their condemnation and commonality of purpose.
The first minister talked of the "heinous attack" witnessed at Westminster. Like other leaders, she praised the police, the security officers and others who had tendered assistance. Those who ran towards chaos, to help, rather than understandably fleeing the scene.
Terrorists, she said, seek to undermine, to divide. "They will not succeed", she declared. It was a conscious echo of statements made by others, including the prime minister. It was a deliberate act of consolidation.
Ruth Davidson spoke of a cowardly attack, Kezia Dugdale described Westminster as a beacon of democracy, Patrick Harvie urged a programme of education to ease division.
Willie Rennie told movingly of how he used to walk across Westminster Bridge on his way to work as an MP, no doubt quietly reciting Wordsworth's lines, "a sight so touching in its majesty". Many years earlier, I pursued the same route daily, from Waterloo.
Mr Rennie reflected that the splendour he had once witnessed was now associated with brutality and death. One can but hope that Wordsworth's majesty will return.
All the leaders, all the leaders, emphasised that terror must not be allowed to divide communities in Scotland. In particular, that there must be no backlash against Muslims.
Then it was over - and, in further questions, MSPs returned to discussing hospitals, care of the elderly and the like. There was even room for a little muted humour.
Mundane? Of course. Deliberately so. A conscious return to parliament's duty.
Vote Leave has published an "illustrative" dossier of 50 criminals the UK has been unable to deport.
Mr Raab said British families were being put at risk - and argued leaving the EU would make the UK "safer".
Immigration minister James Brokenshire, who backs Remain, said the UK had deported 6,500 EU criminals since 2010.
And he said Prime Minister David Cameron's EU renegotiation gave the UK greater control over deportation - but Mr Raab said the EU had "refused any change" to the rules.
The row comes with just over two weeks to go until the UK votes on whether to stay in or leave the EU, in a referendum on 23 June.
Meanwhile, in other EU referendum campaign developments:
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab said the 50 cases in Vote Leave's dossier were an "illustrative set of examples of the kinds of people" the UK cannot remove from the country because of EU rules on freedom of movement.
He was unable to say how many of the criminals were currently in prison, but said they had been convicted for a year or more for offences ranging from murders to "mid-ranking crimes" such as drug offences and fraud.
"We've tried to deport them and can't which means all of them will be released or have been released into the community," Mr Raab told Today.
He added: "It is putting the British public at risk because it effectively means we import criminal risk into the country and then the EU rules tie our hands in dealing with it."
He said Vote Leave was not saying "you can't remove anyone" but argued that the deportation threshold was higher for EU nationals than non-EU nationals, saying eight times as many offenders from countries outside the EU were removed in 2015.
"That shows you the difference in operational bite between the rules in relation to EU nationals and non EU nationals," he added.
Cross-border policing and security collaboration but also freedom of movement.
Arguing in favour of an EU exit, he said the UK would be able to "regain" control of its borders and deport more foreign criminals from the EU, which, he said, would make the country "safer".
He also insisted extradition relations would continue with the EU if the UK voted to leave on 23 June, saying there would be "no public protection lost from being outside" the bloc.
"If you look from Passenger Name Records, to co-operation with Europol, to extradition - these are all things you can have whether you're in or out of the EU but the one thing you don't get unless you're out of the EU is control of your borders."
Responding to Vote Leave's claims, Mr Brokenshire said: "The UK sought greater control over the deportation of foreign criminals in its EU renegotiation - and that's precisely what the prime minister's deal delivered."
He said the UK's ability to deport foreign criminals had been "strengthened", allowing the UK to take into account "the full background of a criminal in a decision over whether to deport".
The minister added: "The bigger picture is that our access to the European Arrest Warrant has allowed us to deport 6,500 European criminals since 2010. That's 130 times the number of criminals Vote Leave have identified.
"If we left the EU, we could no longer use the European Arrest Warrant. That's just one of the reasons we are safer inside the EU, where we can co-operate to deal far more effectively with crime and security."
A report by the Home Affairs Committee said last week that failure to deport 13,000 foreign criminals - equivalent to a "small town" - would lead people to "question the point" of the UK remaining in the EU.
The MPs said it was "deeply concerning" that 5,789 overseas criminals were free in the UK, more than anytime since 2012 - but the Home Office said it deported record numbers of EU criminals last year.
Vote Leave also picked up on a ruling by the European Court of Justice, saying it could put the UK's security at risk.
The ECJ said non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU state in the passport-free Schengen zone should not face detention on those grounds - and should instead be returned to the country they came from under a directive giving them up to 30 days to go voluntarily.
The ruling does not apply to the UK or Ireland, which are not within the Schengen zone.
But Mr Raab said the ruling increased the risk of illegal immigrants entering the UK, "because it weakens the ability of other EU governments to put in place proper checks".
Labour MP and Remain campaigner Emma Reynolds said Vote Leave was "misleading people yet again", adding: "They know perfectly well that this court ruling does not apply to the UK because we are exempt from this directive."
The note said: "Dear chief secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck! Liam."
His successor, Lib Dem David Laws, broke with tradition and made the note public, accusing Mr Byrne of flippancy.
Mr Byrne said he had been following a tradition dating back to Churchill.
And he had never expected his attempt to be humorous would become a "centrepiece" of the Conservative Party's victorious 2015 general election campaign.
The Birmingham MP, 46, told a Cheltenham Literature Festival "business breakfast" audience a combination of his father's death from alcoholism and the furore over the note had left him feeling "completely" ashamed.
And although he had never seriously contemplated suicide, he had sought solace with his uncle in Dorset.
"I had not been able to save my dad from drinking, and I had written this note that was now being used to hammer the Labour Party," he said.
"So I, in my desperation, in a real moment of anguish, took myself to my uncle, who is the wisest man I know.
"He walked me up to the cliff at the back of his house in Dorset, and I was kind of ready to throw myself off.
"I said, 'What am I supposed to do?'
"And he gave me a brilliant line from Samuel Beckett: 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'"
In 2010, Mr Byrne admitted it had been "a foolish letter to write."
A team of scientists from Switzerland, America and the UK teamed up to research the eating habits of certain species of spider.
They discovered that spiders from 10 different families were eating nectar, sap, honeydew, leaves, pollen and seeds from things like weeds, shrubs, trees, grasses, ferns and orchids.
The spiders who ate the most plants were the 'Salticidae', or the jumping spider family.
The lead scientist Martin Nyffeler from the University of Basel thinks that the reason why the spiders eat plants might be to help them to avoid going hungry when there aren't as many insects around and to give them have a balance of different nutrients from the food.
The case concerned whether the publication of pixelated CCTV footage meant a criminal offence had been committed.
But the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ruled there was "nothing sufficiently distinctive" likely to identify her.
Evans and his supporters are trying to get his conviction overturned.
The disgraced Wales football international was jailed for five years in 2012 after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman at a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
The 26-year-old was released last year after serving half of his sentence.
In January, the CPS was asked by the Attorney General to consider whether there was a case to answer.
CPS Wales chief crown prosecutor Ed Beltrami said it was "deemed unlikely that a member of the public could identify the victim and for that reason it was decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "we were way over-optimistic" about Libya's future, adding that the elections of 2014 "made things worse".
His comments came after a two-day visit to Libya, where he urged rival parties to compromise and unite the country.
Mr Johnson pledged £9m to help tackle people trafficking and terrorism.
In a landmark meeting, Mr Johnson became the first senior Western politician to visit the Libyan military commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on the ground at his home base near Benghazi.
He said Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who controls eastern Libya, has pledged to give up military rule if he becomes the country's president.
Mr Johnson said he pushed the point of political compromise to Libyan politicians.
He said: "I think the politicians need as it were to suppress their own selfish interests, compromise for the good of the country and get behind the UN plan."
But he said he told Libyan politicians to learn from UK Prime Minister Theresa May's mistake - and not to hold an election before they were ready.
Oliver Miles, the UK's former ambassador to Libya and deputy chairman of the Libyan British Business Council, said that Mr Johnson's visit was a "useful and good follow-up" to the French president's meeting during which Field Marshal Haftar and his rival, the UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, agreed to a ceasefire.
But he told the Today programme it was "misleading" to think of Libya as divided into two parties, adding that it is much more divided than that.
Though it is six years since the removal of Col Gaddafi, he said: "There's been a complete breakdown of government authority - Libya is not in a state of civil war - it would be more accurate to describe it as in a state of anarchy.
"There is no government authority who runs the country and there are large parts of it where there is no government at all".
Shortly after Col Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011, thousands of Libyans turned out to cheer former Prime Minister David Cameron and then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Benghazi - hailing the pair as heroes for their support.
Field Marshal Haftar's forces control much of eastern Libya and he is seen as a key player if Libya is ever to be united, something the UN-backed government of national accord has failed to achieve.
While there have been questions about whether Field Marshal Haftar would ever allow his forces to be subject to civilian control, the foreign secretary said he had been given at least one assurance.
Mr Johnson told the BBC earlier: "We are very clear, and so is Ghassan Salame, the UN special representative, that there has got to be civilian leadership in this country."
Adding that while that does not mean there cannot be a role for Field Marshal Haftar, Mr Johnson said he accepted that were he to stand and be successful, "then he could not continue in his military role".
After visiting the many different sides of this deeply divided country, Mr Johnson said he was encouraged and that there was a chance of a political deal.
But he said other countries with different ideas about Libya's future should unite behind a new UN plan expected to be announced next month.
"A secure and stable Libya, better able to deal with the threat from terrorism and the challenge of migration, is firmly in the UK interests," Mr Johnson said.
"The Libyan people need a stable state that can meet their fundamental economic and security needs.
Adding that all sides needed to "compromise and work together", Mr Johnson said only a united Libya could "defeat the terrorists and smuggling networks who are exploiting the instability".
Though Mr Johnson did not say which countries should unite behind the UN, Mr Miles told Today: "I hope he had in mind the fact that the United Arab Emirates and, to some extent, Egypt have been supplying arms - contrary to the UN embargo to Hafta and his forces.
"And [there are] allegations that Qatar and Turkey have also been supplying arms to the other sides. I think that we and the other 'big boys' in the UN, the Security Council, should be stamping this out because I don't think it's helping a solution."
The BBC's James Landale, who is travelling with the foreign secretary, said the visit highlighted just how insecure Libya remains.
By BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale in Benghazi
In the naval port in Tripoli, one is reminded of the different roles Britain has played in Libya in recent years.
In one dock lies the wreck of a frigate sunk by the RAF in 2011. It rests on its side, a rusting symbol of David Cameron's decision to use military force against Colonel Gaddafi's regime.
In another dock is a handful of coastguard vessels whose crews were partially trained by British Marines to help tackle the trafficking of migrants.
As Boris Johnson visited the port, it was clear both the scale of the problem Libya faces and the lack of resources it has to deal with it.
Read James' full analysis
On Wednesday, 11 of Field Marshal Haftar's soldiers were beheaded by the so-called Islamic State group in the south of the country.
And in Benghazi, Mr Johnson was only able to hold his meetings within the safety of Field Marshal Haftar's compound or the well-defended airport.
During Wednesday's meeting with Libya's unity government prime minister Fayez Sarraj in Tripoli, the foreign secretary said the UK would give the country more than £9m to bolster efforts to combat "terrorists, gun-runners and people traffickers".
Mr Johnson said Libya was the front line in Europe's struggle against illegal migration and terrorism.
The aid package includes £4m to support the removal of mines and improvised explosive devices, particularly in the city of Sirte, a former IS stronghold from which the militants were removed by Libya's military earlier this year.
Former journalist, Ian Bailey, 53, is wanted by authorities in Paris over the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, who was beaten to death in west Cork in 1996.
Mr Bailey was arrested twice by gardai in connection with the murder investigation but he was never charged.
He denies any involvement in her death.
Ms Toscan du Plantier was found dead outside her holiday home at Toormore, near Schull, two days before Christmas 1996.
Under French law, authorities can investigate the suspicious death of a citizen abroad but cannot compel witnesses to go to Paris for questioning.
Investigating magistrate Patrick Gachon was appointed by officials in Paris to conduct an inquiry into Ms Toscan du Plantier's violent death after the Director of Public Prosecutions in Ireland announced nobody would be charged.
A European arrest warrant was issued for Bailey.
During a two-day hearing in December 2010 barrister Martin Giblin, senior counsel for Mr Bailey, argued there has been no new evidence against him to support an extradition.
He also maintained the application was an insult to the Irish state and the DPP, who has repeatedly directed that no prosecution be taken.
Mr Justice Michael Peart will deliver his judgment on Friday morning.
Manchester-born Mr Bailey, a recent law graduate, lives in Schull with his partner Jules Thomas.
He worked as a journalist in Gloucester and Cheltenham before moving to Ireland in 1991.
Mr Clegg said the house arrest-style system would be reformed but refused to be drawn on its replacement.
In a speech on civil liberties, he pledged to reform libel for the internet age and to protect everyone from academics to "humble bloggers".
He said the current libel system had turned the UK into a "laughing-stock".
The government's massive review of counter-terrorism laws is expected to be published within weeks.
That review has been overseen by Lord Macdonald QC, a Liberal Democrat peer and former director of public prosecutions.
But its publication has been delayed amid tense discussions in government over the future of control orders. The home secretary can impose the house arrest-style measures on people suspected of involvement in terrorism who cannot be charged because they have not yet committed a crime.
In each case, controlees face restrictions on their liberties including home curfews, electronic tagging and a ban on who they are allowed to contact and where they can go.
The Liberal Democrats made a manifesto pledge to scrap the scheme, But supporters of control orders say there is no alternative for a small number of potentially dangerous people.
In his speech to the Institute of Government think tank, Mr Clegg said: "This is not a straightforward trade-off between liberty or security, as if one must come at the expense of the other. It is about how we balance the two.
"The Government has not been consumed by some sort of almighty row between peaceniks on the one hand and securocrats on the other.
"While the full details of the review are still to be decided, there will be significant reform.
"Control orders cannot continue in their current form. They must be replaced.
"And we will introduce a system that is more proportionate, in line with our long-held commitment to due process and civil liberties; that seeks to disrupt and impede would-be terrorists from carrying out their heinous crimes; and that continues to focus on bringing terrorists to justice."
Responding to the speech, Lord Reid, the former Labour home secretary, said Mr Clegg appeared to have "backed off" on control orders.
"I very much welcome the fact that Nick Clegg seems to have backed off from plans to abolish the central thrust of control orders," he said. "Obviously we must await full details but it now appears to be recognised that these measures remain essential in a small number of cases to protect the public."
Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Clegg said the coalition government would restore civil liberties with the same systematic ruthlessness with which the former government took them away.
And he said he wanted to reform libel and turn the law from "an international laughing-stock to an international blueprint."
He said a forthcoming draft libel bill would propose a statutory defence for those speaking out in the public interest, "whether they be big broadcasters or the humble blogger".
That move, which was being considered by the former Labour government when it ran out of time, comes after a string of cases in which scientific writers have been sued over legitimate academic research or studies.
Mr Clegg said libel should also be reformed to better reflect "the realities of the internet" and also to end "libel tourism" under which foreign claimants sue foreign publications or writers in the British courts.
"We want public-spirited academics and journalists to be fearless in publishing legitimate research. Not least when it relates to medical care or public safety," he said.
"It is a farce - and an international embarrassment - that the American Government has felt it necessary to legislate to protect their citizens from our libel laws."
Well, they've all been chosen as 50 of the films children should watch before they turn 11.
Film industry experts picked the movies which most benefit a child's development and creativity.
The list, put together by education charity Into Film, also allows for the nostalgia factor when choosing which films families want to watch together.
The Must See Movies Before You Grow Up campaign - run in conjunction with the UK video industry - is split into five categories: Classics, thrills and chills, heroes and villains, kids rule and adventure.
Old favourites like Mary Poppins and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory are included alongside popular recent films like The Lego Movie and Kubo and the Two Strings.
Roald Dahl is well represented on the list, with films of his books The Witches, The BFG and Fantastic Mr Fox also among those picked.
The oldest film chosen is Disney's 1941 animation Dumbo, with a handful selected from last year including Trolls and The Secret Life of Pets.
Others selected include Night at the Museum, Shrek, Free Willy, Star Wars: A New Hope and Babe.
Into Film's chief executive Paul Reeve said he hoped that watching the films would help foster "a love of movies that can last a lifetime".
He added: "Film entertains, educates and inspires. The Must See Movies list of the 50 films every child should see before they reach the age of 11 has been selected by our panel to do all of those things."
All 50 films - the full list of which can be seen on the Into Film website - are being distributed by retailers this summer.
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Okinoshima is home to the Okitsu shrine, built in the 17th century to pray for the safety of sailors.
Before stepping foot on the island, men must take off their clothes and undergo a cleansing ritual.
When they leave they are not allowed to take away any souvenirs, or disclose details of their visit.
Long before the shrine was built, Okinoshima was used for rituals involving prayers for oceangoing ships and trade ties with Korean and Chinese people, the Japan Times reports.
Thousands of artefacts brought as gifts from overseas have been found on the island, including gold rings from the Korean Peninsula, it says.
The island now welcomes visitors on a single day every year, 27 May, and ancient rules are still observed.
The number of visitors is restricted to 200. They must perform ablution rites in the sea, and - most controversially - be male.
The Blues made the early running as Evan Horwood found Tom Shaw with a cute pass and the midfielder struck the post.
Most of the first-half efforts were restricted to long range, and Shaw also tested the grip on Magnus Norman's gloves.
It looked like stalemate was setting in as the second half progressed, but Chester goalkeeper Alex Lynch picked out Horwood with a long kick and the defender lobbed Norman brilliantly to put the visitors ahead.
The Sandgrounders roared back strongly, but were desperately unlucky as Liam Hynes and Jim Stevenson both struck the woodwork.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southport 0, Chester FC 1.
Second Half ends, Southport 0, Chester FC 1.
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Lindon Meikle.
Substitution, Chester FC. Craig Mahon replaces Evan Horwood.
Liam Hynes (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Southport. Ben McKenna replaces Liam Nolan.
Substitution, Southport. Louis Almond replaces Andrai Jones.
Goal! Southport 0, Chester FC 1. Evan Horwood (Chester FC).
Substitution, Chester FC. Elliott Durrell replaces Tom Shaw.
Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Chester FC. Theo Vassell replaces Luke George.
Second Half begins Southport 0, Chester FC 0.
First Half ends, Southport 0, Chester FC 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The boat was spotted at about 05:40 BST, the Home Office said.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) sent a search and rescue helicopter and a boat.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Six men were recovered from the boat and are due to be interviewed by Border Force officers."
The migrants were discovered at the Varne sandbank about seven miles off Dover.
This is the eighth rescue of migrants in small boats made by Border Force officers off the Kent and Sussex coast since March.
Earlier this year, the National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed migrants trying to reach the UK were paying smuggling gangs up to £13,500 for their journey.
Some were quoted five-figure sums to make the trip by air.
Others were thought to have spent as much as £12,000 to travel from France in inflatable boats.
Investigators also said that criminals may be using less busy ports in the UK, including Tilbury, Purfleet, Hull, Immingham and Newhaven, as well as the main Channel crossing between Calais and Dover.
The nine-year-old tabby cat has lived at 10 Downing Street, the official home of the British prime minister, since 2011.
And the "chief mouser" will stay when Theresa May replaces Mr Cameron as the UK government's new leader.
He was adopted from Battersea Dogs and Cats home to help scare mice and rats away from Downing Street.
However, he seems to prefer sleeping and lounging around to catching mice!
He is well loved by lots of people, including US President Barack Obama, and he even has his own social media page.
8 April 2016 Last updated at 20:53 BST
Prosecutors say two other men were arrested in the same raid in a Brussels suburb. A fourth was also detained.
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Police investigating a deliberate house fire which left a man dead and a woman injured say they have had a "positive response" to their latest appeal.
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A 20-year-old man has been arrested in north Belfast after what police described as a racially motivated hate crime.
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Raith Rovers have sacked manager Gary Locke and assistant Darren Jackson after a run of 14 games without a win.
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A rare vase, designed for Cardiff Castle, has had an export ban placed on it so the full set can stay in the UK.
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Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has said she will not stand to become an MP in the Rhondda.
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Adele has helped British musicians take their highest share of US album sales for more than a decade, according to UK record industry body the BPI.
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A group of international cricketers has set a new world record for the highest-ever match by playing at the top of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in Tanzania.
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A grey blur with flashes of yellow streaks across the sky at speeds of 200mph - a "pure muscle assassin" chasing down its prey one minute, a doting parent feeding three chicks at the top of a wind-buffeted cathedral spire the next.
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Farid El Alagui's late goal gave Dunfermline Athletic victory over manager-less St Mirren.
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Four people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, the first confirmed cases in the country following an outbreak in Guinea, the health ministry has said.
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Middlesex have re-signed England Test batsman Nick Compton following his departure from Somerset.
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EU free movement rules weaken the UK's ability to remove foreign criminals from the country, justice minister and Leave campaigner Dominic Raab has said.
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He has been in the military for ten years and says he is looking forward to a "new chapter" in his life.
During that time he was sent to Afghanistan twice, most recently in 2012 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner.
In a statement the prince said he was at a "crossroads" and quitting the Army had been a "really tough decision".
He said: "I consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the chance to do some very challenging jobs and have met many fantastic people in the process."
When he leaves the Army in June, Prince Harry will do voluntary work with a conservation project in Africa and with disabled veterans back in the UK.
General Sir Nicholas Carter, the professional head of the Army, paid tribute to the prince.
He said: "Captain Harry Wales, as he is known affectionately in the Army, has achieved much in his 10 years as a soldier."
"He has been at the forefront throughout his service. He has insisted on being treated the same as his peers."
Ian Paterson, 59, allegedly told Frances Perks to undergo a double mastectomy or risk "full-blown cancer", despite tests showing no sign of malignancy.
Ms Perks also underwent 27 unnecessary biopsies, prosecutors said.
Mr Paterson, of Altrincham, denies 20 counts of wounding with intent.
Ms Perks is one of ten people said to have undergone "extensive, life-changing operations for no medically justifiable reason" at the hands of the surgeon.
Nottingham Crown Court heard Ms Perks, whose mother and sister had died from cancer, was referred to Mr Paterson in 1994 after finding a lump in her breast at the age of 35.
Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC said she was kept under close surveillance due to her family history, and Mr Paterson had removed several lumps - which were found to be benign - from both breasts over the course of the following 10 years.
A decade after her first visit, jurors heard, Ms Perks found another lump, which was examined and found not to be cancerous.
Despite this, jurors were told, Mr Paterson told Ms Perks "it was time to be thinking of having a mastectomy and that, if she did not, she would end up with full-blown cancer".
"He said that if it were him, he would have a double mastectomy," he said.
"He wrote to her insurers, stating that she had recently been diagnosed with multi focal LCIS in her left breast and that she had a very high statistical probability of having disease in the other breast. (This is) quite wrong."
Mr Christopher previously told jurors Mr Paterson's motives for the operations were "obscure", and possibly financially motivated.
The procedures occurred at the Heart of England NHS Trust and privately run Spire Healthcare hospitals in the West Midlands between 1997 and 2011.
Mr Paterson, of Castle Mill Lane, Ashley, was interviewed by arrangement in January 2013, when he read a prepared statement saying all surgical procedures he had undertaken were "appropriate and necessary".
"He denied any allegations of inappropriate or unnecessary surgery or bad faith for the purposes of financial gain or for any other purpose, and he said that he found any suggestion that he would propose unnecessary procedures for financial gain as abhorrent," Mr Christopher said.
He was interviewed again in September 2014 but refused to answer questions. Mr Christopher told jurors other victims included:
Mr Perez Molina resigned on 2 September over allegations of graft. He was arrested a day later.
He is already under investigation over a bribery scheme at Guatemala's customs services but has denied any wrongdoing.
The latest investigation focuses on allegations he received $37.9m (£28.8m) in return for construction contracts.
Investigators allege that the former president was also given a helicopter, a plane and a luxury car.
He has previously been accused by an anti-corruption commission of taking bribes from a Spanish port company.
Guatemala ministers arrested over helicopter 'gift'
Guatemala ex-president 'took bribes'
Judge Miguel Angel Galvez said that the latest alleged kickback scheme to come under investigation involved more than 50 public officials, bankers and businesspeople.
Mr Perez Molina's former Vice President, Roxana Baldetti, is among those who are also under investigation.
Ms Baldetti was forced to resign in May 2015 when allegations of corruption against her first emerged.
The news prompted mass anti-corruption protests which eventually led to the resignation of Mr Perez Molina.
Both he and Ms Baldetti are already in custody.
Investigators will now have three months to gather evidence against the suspects before a judge decides whether to take the case to trial.
Mae llai o ddisgyblion wedi bod yn dewis astudio Cymraeg fel un o'u pynciau Lefel A ac mae hynny'n "drueni", meddai'r Athro Sioned Davies wrth raglen Newyddion 9.
"Mewn ffordd, efallai bod hynny yn adlewyrchu pa mor gryf mae pobl yn teimlo ynglŷn â'u Cymraeg, hynny yw dydyn nhw ddim yn gorfod astudio'r Gymraeg fel pwnc," meddai.
"Maen nhw yn gallu astudio pethau eraill trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg."
Dywedodd hefyd bod pryderon o fewn adrannau Cymraeg ynglŷn â thoriadau ym maes addysg uwch ac effaith Brexit ond dyw hi ddim yn credu y bydd y pwnc yn stopio cael ei ddysgu ym mhrifysgolion Cymru.
Cyfnod 'cyffrous'
"Pan mae niferoedd myfyrwyr yn mynd ar i lawr yna wrth gwrs mae pobl yn edrych ar faint o staff sydd ym mhob adran," meddai.
"'Da ni i gyd yn cefnogi ein gilydd ac yn sicr 'dw i ddim yn rhagweld y bydd unrhyw brifysgol yn cael gwared ar y Gymraeg."
Cydnabod bod denu pobl i astudio'r pwnc yn her mae Dr Dylan Foster Evans, fydd yn olynu Sioned Davies.
Ond mae'n dweud bod nawr yn gyfnod cyffrous i astudio'r pwnc am fod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gosod targed i gael miliwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg erbyn 2050.
"Ar un lefel mae'n edrych yn uchelgeisiol tu hwnt," meddai.
"Ond os ydych chi yn meddwl bod poblogaeth Cymru yn mynd i dyfu, 'dy o 'mond yn cynyddu ryw 5% falle, i ryw chwarter poblogaeth o bumed ran.
"Felly dydy hi ddim yn gynnydd enfawr yn y ffordd yna.
"Ond wrth gwrs mi fyddai'n chwyldroadol oherwydd mae'r siaradwyr newydd yna 'da ni am eu creu yn mynd i ddod o gefndiroedd gwahanol i'r siaradwyr presennol.
"Felly dyma'r amser mewn gwirionedd i gael myfyrwyr i mewn sydd yn gallu bod yn rhan o hynny, gwthio hynny, siapio hynny a hefyd dadansoddi hynny."
HighWire Press is a digital publishing platform with its headquarters in Silicon Valley.
It said the jobs will have average salaries of £34,000 and the positions include software developers and support engineers.
Grants of almost £1m are being provided to the company, with most of the money coming from Invest NI.
The firm's chief executive, Dan Filby, said the office was a "dedicated technology centre".
"We are very excited about our investment in Belfast. As well as providing us with a dedicated technology development centre, it will also provide us with a focal point on which to build our continued presence in Europe," he said.
"An outstanding, abundant talent pool was our highest priority when evaluating potential expansion locations."
Welcoming the jobs, First Minister Arlene Foster said: "The total investment as a result of this project, supported by Invest Northern Ireland, equates to nearly £6m and is a great boost to Belfast's reputation as number one in Europe for new software development projects."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "HighWire choosing to locate in the north of Ireland signals the potential of our existing and future IT professionals."
HighWire was founded in 1995, as a spin-out business by Stanford University, and is now owned by a private equity firm.
Its services are used by the British Medical Journal, among others.
The jobs announcement coincides with a trip to the United States by Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers.
Transplantation and IVF are two examples. The first gave the chance of prolonged life to patients with failing organs. The second the chance of parenthood to couples with fertility problems.
Mitochondrial replacement might seem obscure by comparison. Unlike transplantation and fertility treatment, it would benefit very few couples. Those it could help would be able to have healthy children free of a potentially fatal genetic disease. Future generations of those families would also be free of the genetic fault.
But it also has huge potential significance for society because for the first time children would be born with DNA from three people - what has frequently been dubbed 'three-parent IVF'.
Crucially that genetic alteration to what's known as the germ line, would be permanent, handed down from generation to generation.
That's why a consultation begun today by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is so important.
My colleague James Gallagher has written about the techniques involved in mitochondrial replacement.
I will give just a brief explanation.
About one in 200 children is born with a fault in their mitochondria - these are the power packs outside the nucleus of each cell.
Most have mild or no symptoms but a minority suffer devastating effects which can include muscle weakness, neurological, visual and hearing disorders and heart disease. These can be progressive and fatal.
What's more that genetic fault is passed on down the generations, via the maternal line from mother to child.
Two years ago scientists in Newcastle reported that they could fix the problem through IVF technology.
The key was to replace the faulty mitochondrial DNA which they did by using the healthy mitochondrial DNA from a donated egg.
The resulting embryo contains all the genes from the nucleus of the parents (more than 20,000) plus a few dozen genes from the donated mitochondrial DNA.
The team, led by Prof Doug Turnbull, created 80 embryos but none was transplanted into a woman.
A scientific review last year concluded that there were no safety concerns which should prevent the technique from being used to help couples. But it recommended further research to explore the issues, which is currently under way in Newcastle.
Sharon Bernardi's son Edward died last year aged 21. He had Leigh's disease, a rare progressive mitochondrial disorder that affects the central nervous system. He needed constant care through his life. All her other children died within days of birth as a result of the inherited condition.
Sharon, from Sunderland, said: "Losing one child is bad enough but I lost six babies to mitochondrial disease. Edward suffered a lot towards the end of his life and was in terrible pain. I hope other couples will be allowed to have this new treatment and be spared what my husband and I went through."
Which leaves the ethical concerns. The technique raises many issues: what is the legal status of the woman who donates her DNA? How might any child that is born feel about having DNA from three people? When should they be told?
But this is not just an issue for the couples involved. For the first time it will mean that scientists are altering human genetic inheritance.
The addition of a tiny amount of DNA from a third person will be passed down the germ line - through the eggs - to subsequent generations.
Prof Lisa Jardine, the Chair of the HFEA said she expected some strongly-held views on the subject.
"This is an area that generates extreme opinions like almost no other issue except assisted dying. That is not a surprise since they are about taking and creating life."
Prof Jardine said that it would ultimately be up to the health secretary to rule on whether the technique should proceed to the clinic. This would not require an Act of Parliament but there would need to be a debate in both Houses of Parliament.
The consultation runs until 7 December and details can be found on the HFEA website.
Berwick's Greg Rutherford fired the opener in the League Two fixture.
Riordan headed his side level and Dougie Gair netted from close range to put City ahead but Steven Thomson's strike ensured a draw at Meadowbank.
On Tuesday, bottom team Cowdenbeath moved to within four points of Clyde after drawing 1-1 with Elgin City.
The seven-time Tour de France winner, who retired from professional cycling last year, clocked three hours, 50 minutes and 55 seconds.
I like to suffer a bit and today was a little over the top, but it's great to be back
The triathlon in Panama City comprised a 1.9km swim, 90km cycle and 21km run. Armstrong wants to qualify for October's world championships.
"I need a challenge in my life," he said. "I need some stuff to do."
The 40-year-old American, who has battled against testicular, brain and lung cancer, was leading the event going into the final leg.
He eventually finished 32 seconds behind New Zealander Bevan Docherty, who won triathlon gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
"I like to suffer a bit and today was a little over the top, but it's great to be back," said Armstrong, who plans to compete in June's Ironman France
Written in the local Hausa language by women for women, Kano city's equivalent of the Mills and Boons industry, known as "Litattafan Soyayya", is a booming business.
"I read these novels to know how to handle complex life issues, like courtship and what life is in the matrimonial home," says 23-year-old Hadiza Ibrahim Kabuga.
One of the bestsellers, A Daren Farko, meaning "On the First Night", is especially popular with girls and young women about to be married - detailing what they can expect on their first night in the marriage bed.
The novels are a way for women to talk about issues not openly discussed in northern Nigeria.
I give more attention to women's issues, like marriage, polygamy and education
Girls are often treated differently from boys, with some parents believing they do not need an education as their early years are just a preparation for marriage.
"In my writing I give more attention to women's issues, like marriage, polygamy and education," says Fauziyyah B Suleiman, who has written 32 novels and makes enough money to live by her writing.
Three of them have proved so successful that they have been turned into locally produced movies.
One called Rumaysah deals with polygamy and the complications that come with it.
Rumaysah is a woman driven by jealousy who is determined to stop her husband from taking a second wife and ends up murdering him.
The trickery and subterfuge of life in a polygamous family is also raised by many of the novels.
Others will, for example, chronicle the rise of an illiterate child bride who rebels against her family to get an education - ending with her becoming aware of her rights within and outside the family.
"Such novels bring to the fore the much-needed change in the way women are treated in Hausa society," says literary critic Murtala Abdullahi.
It allows women not only to express themselves but be viewed in a different light, he adds.
"Hausa romance novels often present the image of women not only as housewives and mothers, but also as breadwinners or political activists or professionals."
43% of girls are married off before their 18th birthday
17% get married before they turn 15
The novels sell for about 300 naira ($1.50, £1) each and can be bought at book stalls in all markets.
"Every week at least five new novels come on to the market - some selling in their thousands," says Ali Mai Litattafai, who runs a bookshop in old Kano city.
"In the past people had the wrong impression of issues such novels raise, but now people have realised that they are for the good of the society."
At one of the shops I met a boy who came to pick up the latest novels for his mother - some women here stay at home as they are not allowed to mix with men in public.
Most of Mr Litattafai's customers are married women, some of whom buy in bulk and then loan out copies of the romances in their neighbourhoods for a small fee.
It is usually about $0.70 to borrow three books for a week.
The novels are also serialised on the radio.
When Express FM in Kano airs its romance novel slot at 09:00 every weekday morning, many homes comes to a standstill for the next 30 minutes.
It can also be heard outside the city in rural areas, where literacy is lower. Kano State as a whole has female literacy rates of between 35% and 50% - in much of the rest of northern Nigeria it is lower than 35%.
Some teachers have complained that the books interfere with girls' concentration at school.
"I used to have to frequently confiscate the romances when I caught students secretly reading them on their laps," says Naziru Mikailu, a BBC journalist who used to teach at a school in Kano.
Some Islamic scholars have had more of an issue with what they consider the vulgar and erotic content of the novels.
The Kano governor in 2007 led a widely publicised burning of thousands of the novels.
A censorship board was then set up, requiring writers to present their works for scrutiny before publication.
This has now been relaxed after some writers won a civil court case which upheld their freedom of expression.
But the Hisbah religious police - who are tasked with upholding Islamic law - are still touchy about them.
In February, they stopped a popular narrator of the novels, Isa Ahmed Koko, from visiting Kano to meet his adoring fans.
This was in response to a Facebook campaign set up by men upset by the prospect.
"Many married women will abandon their homes and tell their husbands they are maybe going to the hospital only to end up at the meeting," one of them posted.
The authors often put their mobile numbers on the cover of their novels, allowing direct feedback from readers who sometimes get in touch to offer them gifts.
But some have received threatening messages, urging them to stop writing.
Maryam Salisu Maidala, a teacher who has written two romance bestsellers, says she has never been on the receiving end of a threatening call, except from fans urging her to hurry up with a sequel to her popular book Kainuwa.
"I reflect reality to the extent that sometimes readers call my mobile to ask me if my novels were based on real life stories that had happened."
She writes her novels by long hand, because of Nigeria's erratic electricity supply, and says that the serialisation of her books on the radio has helped boost sales.
Social media, on the other hand, is posing a problem for the writers as groups have been formed on Facebook or WhatsApp where whole novels are uploaded.
"Social media is gradually eroding readership of Hausa novels because people can now share electronic copies of a novel. This affects our sales," says Ms Suleiman.
But it is not an ideal reading experience, so for the moment Kano's literature of romance looks secure.
"After school I read such novels in my free time. We girls don't get out of our homes much - so it's my way of relaxing," says 18-year-old Sadiya Hussaini, who like the other romance fans did not want her photo taken.
"Many of the stories teach you how to handle boys - and I learn how complicated life is.
"The suspense also keeps me excited, gives me something to look forward to."
Young played for Hearts from 1955-1960 and his goals helped the Edinburgh club win the Scottish league title in 1958.
He won a move to Everton, where he made 273 appearances, scoring 87 goals and winning the First Division title as well as the FA Cup.
Loanhead-born Young also made eight appearances for his country, scoring five goals.
While with Everton, his elegant touch earned him the nickname of "The Golden Vision", a title coined by Northern Ireland defender Danny Blanchflower.
Young was the inspiration for a 1968 play called The Golden Vision, directed by Ken Loach, which explored Evertonians' affection for the Scot.
Everton's 2001 testimonial for Young was attended by more than 20,000 fans at Goodison Park.
In the latter stages of his playing career, he played for Northern Irish club Glentoran - who he went on to manage - and Stockport County.
At the end of his football career, he ran his family's upholstery business in Edinburgh before retiring.
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Worried about the dangers of inadvertently training Irish republicans, the authorities opted to place it under the command of the B Specials.
They might have been viewed by Churchill as the only properly armed and disciplined force left to defend UK from a backdoor German invasion, but Catholics were deeply suspicious of the Ulster outfit and did not join up.
A new BBC Radio Ulster documentary, Not Dad's Army - Northern Ireland's Home Guard, tells the story of the controversial Ulster Home Guard.
This clip from "The Story of the Ulster Home Guard" in 1945 shows local volunteers training and preparing in the eventuality of a German invasion.
Used with permission from the Public Records Office Northern Ireland.
Not Dad's Army - Northern Ireland's Home Guard will be broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster at 12:30 GMT on Sunday 1 March 2015. It will then be available on BBC IPlayer radio.
The laptop-sized Voltera V-One uses different inks to turn circuit board designs into working prototypes.
It won the prize because of its great potential for speeding up the hardware design process.
The global competition aims to reward engineering students who create devices that solve real world problems.
Jesus Zozaya, Alroy Ameida, James Pickard and Katarina Ilic, from the University of Waterloo, in Canada, win £30,000 cash to help them finish making the Voltera V-One.
They have also raised more than $500,000 (£331,000) on crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
James Dyson said they were "impressive" and looked set to make prototyping "easier and more accessible".
Mr Almeida said: "When we first started the company, we spoke to many experts who told us we were too ambitious and that it was impossible to create a tool that could effectively prototype circuits."
The Voltera works by laying down different types of inks - one conducting and one insulating - to form a two-layer circuit board.
It can also dispense solder on to the board so individual components can be added to quickly make working hardware.
Runners-up include:
More than 260,000 people had signed a petition against the plan, with opponents saying the money would be better spent on hospitals and schools.
Los Angeles and Paris are the other bidding cities after Hamburg pulled out in 2015 followed by Rome a year later.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will elect the winner at a vote in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.
Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told Reuters a decision to drop the bid was made after a meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos and the Hungarian Olympic Committee.
The decision to drop the bid will be formally voted on by the Budapest City Assembly.
Fidesz, the governing party, said the decision was made to avoid "a loss of international prestige" as the bid had a very small chance of success.
Hungary is the only one of the 10 most successful medal-winning countries at the summer Olympics never to have hosted the event.
James Paul, 26, from Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent had been working in a suspended ceiling space of Cwmcarn High School in Caerphilly county on 19 July.
Workers had been removing asbestos from the 900-pupil school which had been forced to close over safety fears.
Gwent Coroner David Bowen adjourned the investigation until 3 October.
The hearing was told Mr Paul was found unresponsive after paramedics attended the school at about 15:15 BST and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mr Paul had suffered a cardiac arrest whilst working in suspended ceiling space, Mr Bowen heard.
An investigation by Gwent Police and the Health and Safety Executive is continuing.
Mr Paul's body has been released to his family.
A spokesman for Caswell Environmental Ltd, the asbestos contractor working at the school, said: "We're assisting Gwent police and the health and safety executive in every way we can.
"Our greatest sympathies go out to Mr Paul's family.
"The site has been released by the police but we are still conducting our own investigations with the relevant authorities to find out exactly what happened before work will continue."
Cwmcarn High School had been closed in October 2012 after a council-commissioned report found that asbestos posed a potential health risk.
But a subsequent report from the HSE said asbestos was present, as it was in other public buildings, but it did not present a risk.
Following the closure of the school, its 900 pupils have been taught 12 miles (19km) away at Coleg Gwent's Ebbw Vale campus, prompting parents' protests.
Caerphilly council has paid £1m to deal with the asbestos, with pupils expected back for the autumn term in September.
Over 50cm (19in) of water flooded Portsmouth's Pyramids in February, causing extensive damage to the swimming pool's plant room.
The water also severely damaged the building's fabric and mains power was lost.
BH Live, which runs the centre, said repair costs were covered by insurance.
The company said planned improvement works at the centre had also been brought forward during the closure to "limit further disruption in the future".
The leisure centre, owned by Portsmouth City Council, was taken over by the company last year after it came under threat of demolition by the authority amid spending cuts.
The shower was due to peak in the UK on Saturday night, in a display also visible in other parts of the world.
Stargazers took to social media to say they had seen the display, in which 100 meteors had been expected an hour.
The Perseid meteor shower occurs every July and August as the Earth passes debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet.
Former England cricketer Paul Collingwood was among those who attempted to spot the meteors.
He tweeted that the shower had been "impressive".
The UK's Team Dignitas has two pro League of Legends teams on its books but tournament rules for the game state that they can only oversee one.
Bids for one of their teams have gone far beyond $500,000 (£323,000), a Dignitas spokesman told the BBC.
The final details of the sale and the team's new owner will be revealed by the end of the month.
The massively popular League of Legends game has an associated World Championships that pits the tops teams against each other for large cash prizes.
The five players who were world champions in 2014 shared $1m (£650,000) in prize money.
The teams meet in a virtual arena and are tasked with destroying the heart of their rivals' base while defending their own.
Michael O'Dell, manager of Team Dignitas, said one of its teams had been part of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) for some time. This year, he said, Dignitas's second or "challenger" team has also qualified for the LCS.
"The rules state that you can only manage one, so we are in the process of selling one of the teams at the moment," he told the BBC.
Mr O'Dell confirmed they had found a buyer but would not be drawn on which team would be sold or who had bought them.
The last few weeks had seen a series of bids for the team come in from many pro-game management firms, individuals and other organisations.
"E-sports is growing so fast at the moment," he said. "There are millionaires and billionaires coming in buying teams and there are sports stars looking to buy teams.
"It's really strange dealing with billionaires over this," he said.
Pro-players could also cash in later in October at the start of the 2015 transfer season, which often sees top players garner large fees to change teams.
Tim Edwards, an editor at the PC Games N website, said the size of the deal over the LoL team reflected the growing interest in e-sports by traditional media firms, brand managers and advertisers.
"It would be hard for them to reach that gaming audience any other way," he said.
The quarter-finals of the League of Legends World Championships are being streamed on BBC Three over three days.
Watch here on Friday, here on Saturday and here on Sunday.
The World Championships concludes on 31 October in Berlin.
HIF, a health-insurance fund based in Perth, will allow its customers to list their gender as "other" on forms.
The not-for-profit fund will also offer the honorific "Mx" on its forms as well as traditional titles.
Australian citizens can legally identify their gender on their passports as M, F or X.
This year's national census was also the first to offer a third gender category.
Grame Gibson, HIF managing director, said the decision to change the forms was made following feedback from the LGBTI community.
"HIF members may select the 'other' gender option if they choose to identify as neither male nor female, including (but not limited to) those who are agender, androgyne, bi-gender, gender fluid, intersex, neutrois, non-binary, pangender or transgender," he said in a statement.
The "Mx" honorific - pronounced "mux" or "mix" - is used to avoid specifying gender or marital status.
It already appears on some government forms in Britain and is used by many banks.
The 27-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist's parents, Alison and Robert Inglis, said their daughter had opened her eyes and said "Hi".
Her mother said the latest step in their daughter's recovery was "absolutely phenomenal".
The judo star arrived at Edinburgh Airport in an air ambulance on Monday.
Stephanie was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital where she has been receiving care in a specialist unit.
She was flown from Thailand where she was treated in a Bangkok hospital for a serious head injury and also infections, including pneumonia.
Doctors in Vietnam had given her a 1% chance of surviving her injuries.
Alison Inglis said: "She opened her eyes and she looked and she mouthed 'Hi', and that was absolutely phenomenal.
"She's very determined, she's got a good determination. She is very disciplined, obviously with the sport that she did.
"Even when she started to waken up she opened her eye partly, then she started moving her hand and then when she started to become aware.
"We were trying to explain to her, you have fallen off a bike, you have to rehab and she is constantly moving her arms and legs.
"So I think the strength, disciple and her body strength is really what is bringing her through."
On the official SaveSteph Facebook page it said: "The first thing we learned was that Stephanie is now breathing without any assistance, however she still has the Tracheotomy in place and although she now has a speaking attachment in place this is causing her significant distress, and we will be relieved when this can be removed.
"Stephanie has now been cleared of all her infections and the hospital believes that she has fought and come through all of these, they are really happy with Stephanie and as soon as they can make her more comfortable they will.
"We met Robert and Alison in the visitors lounge and Alison told me Stephanie has been sleeping most of the day due to some pain killers she is on to help with her discomfort so not to expect much, as they made her drowsy.
"When we got to the room Stephanie was asleep, Alison gently awakened her and said Steph look who's here to see you, Steph partially opened her eye looked and when she saw me smiled and for the first time looked straight at me and said Hi, we were speechless I was over whelmed with the moment."
Stephanie, who grew up in the Highlands but has been living in Dunfermline, had been transferred to Bangkok from a hospital in Vietnam where the accident happened on 10 May.
Her parents, who live in Daviot, near Inverness, flew to south-east Asia to be with their daughter.
Stephanie, who won her Commonwealth Games medal at Glasgow 2014, had been in Vietnam for about four months, teaching underprivileged children, when she suffered serious head injuries in the motorcycle accident.
Her skirt is believed to have become unravelled and caught in the wheel.
Friends and family set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her medical costs after it emerged her travel insurance was not valid because she had been in the country more than 31 days.
David Lisnard said they are a "symbol of Islamic extremism" and might spark scuffles, as France is the target of Islamist attacks.
France is on high alert following a series of incidents including July's truck attack in nearby Nice.
Anyone caught flouting the new rule could face a fine of €38 (£33).
They will first be asked to change into another swimming costume or leave the beach.
Nobody has been apprehended for wearing a burkini in Cannes since the edict came into force at the end of July.
What do Muslim women think of the ban?
This is not the first time that women's clothing has been restricted in France. In 2011 it became the first country in Europe to ban the full-face Islamic veil, known as the burka, as well as the partial face covering, the niqab.
Earlier this week a private waterpark near Marseille cancelled a burkini-only day after being subjected to criticism.
"Access to beaches and for swimming is banned to any person wearing improper clothes that are not respectful of good morals and secularism.
"Beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation, when France and places of worship are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is liable to create risks of disrupting public order."
The French media has questioned the legality of the ban. Le Monde points out that no French law bans the wearing of full-body swimsuits. "The law on the full-face veil only bans covering the face in public... The burkini, which covers the body but does not hide the face, is thus a totally legal garment."
France TV Info's legal blog, Judge Marie, says the risk of disturbing public order, invoked by the Cannes mayor, seems rather tenuous. "The basic freedom to come and go dressed as you please seems to me to be infringed in a way that is disproportionate to this risk," the blog says.
Meanwhile, a commentary in left-of-centre paper Liberation accuses the Cannes mayor of trying to score a political point: "David Lisnard… is not responding to a specific issue, but is sending a radical message to his constituents, to his electorate."
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Mr Lisnard confirmed to local media that other religious symbols such as the kippah (Jewish skullcap) and the cross would still be permitted, and the ban would not apply to the veil that some Muslim women wear over their hair.
He said: "I simply forbid a uniform that is the symbol of Islamic extremism.
"We live in a common public space, there are rules to follow. "
The League of Human Rights (LDH) said it would challenge the ban in court.
"It is time for politicians in this region to calm their discriminatory ardour and defend the spirit of the Republic," local LDH leader Herve Lavisse said.
The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) is also expected to mount a legal challenge against the decision. Its lawyer Sefen Guez Guez called the ban "illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional".
Channel 4 have confirmed Andrew, Carolyne, Louis and Alex, from Brighton, will no longer appear on the show.
The family have been on the programme since it began in March 2013.
"Mr Michael has confirmed his proposed candidacy as a UKIP MP," Channel 4 told Newsbeat.
"Sadly any Gogglebox cast member who becomes a candidate for a political party will have to step down from their involvement in Gogglebox.
"It's with great regret that the Michaels are no longer in the show.
"They have been excellent contributors to Gogglebox, and we are very grateful for all they have given to the show."
Speaking to Newsbeat, Alex Michael said: "We sat down as a family and we discussed it at length, either we stay on Gogglebox and my Dad doesn't accept his position or he accepts the position and we can no longer be on the show."
Alex said she is gutted to be leaving the show and would have liked to have stayed on until the end of this series.
She said she fully supports her dad: "It was a hobby for him to begin with and it turns out that he was good at what he was doing and people really liked him.
"I'm proud of my dad to have got to where he is and we will be fully supporting him in his political endeavours from now on".
Mum Carolyne tweeted: "We've loved every min of our involvement. It's the best show on TV & I want to thank everyone for their wonderful support - we'll miss u."
Andrew will stand for the UKIP and contest the East Sussex seat of Hastings and Rye.
That seat is held by a Conservative MP.
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Construction at the Pascua-Lama mine, on the border with Argentina, has been suspended until a system to contain contaminated water is put in place.
The news led to share trading in the Canadian-owned company being halted in New York and Toronto after a sell-off.
But activists complained that the fine was only 0.1% of the total operation.
"The resolution is convenient to the offender, a derisive fine for a company such as Barrick Gold," Greenpeace said on a statement.
Despite criticism, the government said the fine was the highest possible under Chilean law.
The environmental authorities said the mining company committed four "serious" and one "very serious" offences.
The latter was a commitment made by Barrick Gold to put in place water treatment systems to contain contaminated waste water and to prevent rainwater contamination.
The company itself reported its shortcomings to the environmental authorities, which led to an investigation.
Barrick Gold Corp acknowledged the failures and promised to work on solutions.
The fines are related to building and regulatory shortcomings, a company executive said.
"We have not been charged with any environmental damage," the president of Barrick South America, Eduardo Flores Zelaya, told Chilean news website La Tercera.
But the investigation found further problems.
"We found that the acts described weren't correct, truthful or provable. And there were other failures of Pascua-Lama's environmental licence as well," Juan Carlos Monckeberg, Chile's Environment superintendent, told AP news agency.
Among the violations, there was an "unjustified discharge coming from the acid treatment plant to the Estecho river", according to the authorities.
Until all of the government requirements have been fulfilled, the mine will not be allowed to operate, they say.
Barrick's shares have reportedly lost more than half their value in the last year, mostly because of Pascua-Lama's problems.
Its new owners have hired professional treasure hunters to comb through the rubble in the hope of finding items belonging to the former leader of the Medellin cartel.
The pink mansion in Miami beach was seized by the US government in 1987.
Escobar, who was one of the world's richest men at the time of his death, was killed by Colombian police in 1993.
Christian de Berdouare and his wife Jennifer Valoppi said they were unaware of its history when they bought the four-bedroom mansion from a private owner in 2014.
Escobar bought the mansion in 1980 and had it for seven years before it was seized by the US authorities.
The new owners said Escobar never lived there but had visited the property on occasion.
They have hired a team to search for stashes of drugs, money or jewellery, which they suspect may have been hidden inside the mansion or its garden, as was the custom of members of the Medellin cartel.
Ms Valoppi said the workers had found a buried safe but that it was stolen before they could open it.
"It was in the ground under some marble and was discovered by some of our workers, but before we even had a chance to remove it, it was stolen, so we've been working with police on that," she said.
Mr de Berdouare, who paid just under $10m (£7m) for the mansion, said he was "very excited to see the house of the devil disappearing right before our eyes".
"This was the biggest criminal in the history of the world. I would like to be associated with something more uplifting, but nevertheless it's part of the city," he added.
He said that he believed Escobar bought the mansion in a residential neighbourhood in order "to conduct illicit trade". He plans to build a new mansion on the site.
Miami was a key entry point for drugs flooding in from South America in the 1980s and many drug lords had mansions and luxury apartments in the city.
The Miami mansion was built in 1948 and has direct access to Biscayne Bay and views of the Miami skyline.
The Iraqi interior ministry said "all 26" were in Baghdad and would be handed over to a Qatari envoy.
The hunters were abducted by gunmen in a desert area of Iraq near the Saudi border in December 2015.
A large-scale search was launched but very little information was known about the group's whereabouts or condition.
On Friday, the group was flown back to Qatar's capital, Doha, Iraqi officials said.
Their release was part of a far-reaching regional deal involving the evacuation of civilians in neighbouring Syria, AFP news agency reports, citing sources close to the negotiations.
"The interior ministry has received the Qatari hunters, all 26 of them," an Iraqi interior ministry official told AFP, adding: "They will be handed over to the Qatari envoy."
Footage later released by the ministry showed some of the former hostages dressed in white gowns and red headscarves as they were greeted by officials in the high security Green Zone in Iraq's capital, Baghdad.
They were then seen in the video boarding a Qatar Airways plane at Baghdad airport. State media later confirmed that they had landed in Doha.
The group was seized in December 2015 while on a licensed hunting trip near the border with Saudi Arabia.
The hostages were abducted when gunmen swept into their camp at dawn in four-by-four vehicles.
The hunting party is widely believed to include one or several more prominent members of the Qatari royal family, although they have not been identified.
They were hunting the Asian houbara bustard, akin to a small turkey, using falcons trained to home in on their quarry.
Their release is said to be connected to a complex deal in Syria involving the evacuation of four besieged towns, which was announced earlier this week.
However, the interior ministry has not provided details confirming this.
The Guardian newspaper has reported that an Iraqi militia with strong ties to Iran, a key backer of the Syrian government and its ally Hezbollah, was holding the Qatari hunters.
It says the deal involves the Syrian Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, Iran, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Qatar.
A Qatari royal and a Pakistani man were freed earlier this month.
Also on Friday, a spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham told Reuters that the Syrian government was going to release 500 prisoners into rebel-held territory, as part of a swap deal.
It is an agreement to end the sieges of four towns - two surrounded by pro-government forces, two by rebel and Islamist fighters - in eastern Syria.
Foah and Kefraya are mainly Shia Muslim, government-held towns, close to the border with Lebanon, which have been besieged since March 2015.
Madaya and Zabadani are rebel-held towns in the north-east, which have been besieged since June 2015 by the Syrian army and fighters from Lebanon's Shia Muslim Hezbollah movement.
Conditions have been desperate, especially in Madaya and Zabadani, with severe shortages of food, medicine and fuel. International aid deliveries have been infrequent and required careful negotiation. Government air drops have eased the situation in Foah and Kefraya somewhat.
Under the exchange deal, residents of Foah and Kefraya are being bussed to government-held Aleppo, while people in Madaya and Zabadani are being taken to rebel-held areas.
The evacuations began last week, but were held up after a bomb attack hit the convoy of buses from the two government-held towns, killing at least 126 people including 68 children.
Thousands of evacuees from Foah and Kefraya have also been held up at a staging point for 48 hours, but a rebel involved in the operation told AFP that the buses had left after the news of the release of government-held prisoners.
According to AFP, the current phase of evacuations involves 8,000 people from Foah and Kafraya, and 2,500 civilians and rebels from Madaya and Zabadani.
A second phase is to begin in June.
Clot retrieval can restore blood flow to the brain, preventing some lasting damage, but currently only 600 patients a year get this therapy, they estimate.
A national stroke audit reveals part of the problem is a lack of skilled staff to do the procedure.
NHS England says stroke patients are receiving high quality care.
During a stroke, the blood supplying vital parts of the brain is interrupted.
The most common reason is a clot blocking a major blood vessel in the head, although some strokes are caused by a bleed.
The longer a part of the brain is starved of blood, the more likely lasting damage - such as paralysis and speech problems - will occur.
While many people with a stroke caused by a clot currently get drugs to help dissolve the blockage, this does not always work completely.
Thrombectomy - or clot retrieval - is another method, which aims to remove the clot mechanically.
It is a highly skilled operation, and stroke services need to be set up to be able to deliver the treatment.
A thin metal wire housing a mesh is inserted into a major artery in the leg and, under X-ray guidance, it is directed to the site of the problem in the brain.
The mesh is then expanded, like a miniature fishing net, to trap and remove the clot.
Alice Felix-Donyai used to be a catwalk model. She had a stroke aged 38.
She remembers putting her baby daughter to sleep and chatting to her husband.
He noticed her face was dropping and her speech was slurred. And then she couldn't walk and collapsed.
She says: "He [my husband] placed me on top of the bed and that's the first time I realised that there must be something really wrong with me, because he's so stressed out."
Alice had a thrombectomy at Charing Cross Hospital just hours after her stroke. She was part of a trial of the procedure.
She now has trouble moving her left arm and leg, but says it could have been much worse.
"Once the clot was out, the damage stopped," she says.
"There are a lot of limitations. I can't run, I can't clap my hands. If I want to pick my daughter up, I have to tell her to put her arms around my neck and then I grab her with my right side.
"It is very sad not to be able to pick up my daughter.
"I do as best as I can."
Researchers from Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Oxford Academic Health Science Network and the National Institute for Health Research looked at thrombectomy data and stroke statistics in the UK to work out how many patients might benefit from the procedure.
In a presentation given to the UK Stroke Forum national conference, they estimated one in 10 people admitted to a hospital with a stroke could be eligible for thrombectomy.
Investigator Dr Martin James, at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, said: "Delivering the procedure to the 9,000 people who need it will require major changes to the configuration and skill sets of existing acute stroke services.
"We must work quickly to establish what needs to be done so that more people in the UK can benefit from a treatment which can dramatically reduce disability after a stroke as well as cutting associated costs to the NHS and social care."
Thrombectomy has already been deemed safe and effective by the health watchdog the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence.
NICE says the treatment should be carried out only in places that have trained specialists and the necessary support staff and equipment.
The Royal College of Physicians said: "There is a major shortage of appropriately trained staff to undertake thrombectomy, particularly outside of London, and it will take time to train up enough doctors to undertake this skilled procedure."
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland says staffing levels across stroke care in general are a "concern".
"Current nurse staffing levels are insufficient to provide good care for everyone who needs it, and as we implement guidelines, more skilled nurses will be required rather than less," it said in a statement.
There were also problems with recruiting consultants, with 40% of stroke services having an unfilled stroke consultant post - up from 26% in 2014.
Prof Tony Rudd, national clinical director for stroke at NHS England, said: "NHS stroke care and stroke survival are now at record levels.
"We recognise the potential effectiveness mechanical thrombectomy could have for about 5% of stroke patients and are currently drawing up a policy for its possible use across the NHS."
Councillors decided against an increase, which could have been up to 3%. However, householders who live in properties in Band E to H will still face a rise after MSPs agreed changes.
It means a Band H property will go up by £553.68.
Council leader Jenny Laing said not increasing council tax was vital in a time of economic challenge. Aberdeen is the largest council not to raise bills.
Aberdeen City Council is ruled by a Labour-led coalition.
The SNP and Lib Dems also proposed no council tax increase.
BBC Scotland had revealed last week that Aberdeen was unlikely to have an across-the-board council tax rise.
The Surbiton defender struck her first GB goal in the first half to cancel out Georgia Nanscawen's opener.
She grabbed her second 10 minutes from time, finding a gap between Ashlee Wells' pads via a slight deflection.
But Emily Smith equalised late on to leave the series tied at 1-1 with two matches to play.
"We were very fortunate to get a draw," said GB coach Danny Kerry. "Many aspects of our game were not where they needed to be.
"Having said that we have needed to and have shown plenty of grit and I'm pleased for Giselle scoring her corners."
The third match also ended in a draw, with GB winning game two.
Zafar Ansari's hand injury meant Patel was drafted in for England's forthcoming three-Test series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.
"I was not expecting a Test call," Patel, 30, told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"I thought the door was closed on Test cricket. It's unfortunate for Zafar but I have to make the most of it."
The Nottinghamshire man played five Tests, all in Asia in 2012 against Sri Lanka and India, and featured in 36 one-day internationals and 18 Twenty20 internationals between 2008 and February 2013.
As a left-arm spinner, Patel is a like-for-like replacement for Surrey's Ansari, but accepts he will likely start the tour as third-choice spinner after the incumbent Moeen Ali and Yorkshire's Adil Rashid, who is uncapped at Test level but was in England's squads throughout the summer.
"I think I will be behind Moeen and Rash to play, but I am just happy to get on the trip," he added. "I was planning to go on holiday to Dubai next week, so this is a pleasant surprise.
"When I didn't get picked against Sri Lanka, I wondered whether this day would ever come again. I would like to get more of a role with the bat but I will bat anywhere."
England arrive in the UAE on 30 September, with the first Test starting in Abu Dhabi on 13 October.
Davidson said he plans to "set the record straight" with 40 Years On - which will tour the UK from October.
The show will cover the entertainer's life from his breakthrough on talent show New Faces in 1976 to winning Celebrity Big Brother in 2014.
"This is an honest and raw reflection of my life, both in the spotlight and personally," Davidson said.
The comedian, who has written the show himself, has promised never-before-heard stories about the "highs, lows and controversies of a unique life spent in the public eye".
Davidson, who has been married five times, is well known for presenting TV shows including The Generation Game and Big Break.
He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for his services to charity and founded the British Forces Foundation and Care After Combat - both of which help British service veterans and their families.
But in recent years he has been criticised for controversial jokes about women, rape, homosexuality and disability.
A year before his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, Davidson was arrested at Heathrow airport by officers working for Operation Yewtree on accusations of historic sex abuse, but he did not face charges.
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After England's narrow defeat by New Zealand in their Four Nations opener last weekend, Wayne Bennett's side take on Scotland on Saturday. Great Britain legend Jonathan Davies explains where England went wrong against the Kiwis and how they can turn their campaign around.
The Four Nations game was there to be won for Wayne Bennett's men, particularly in the first 20 minutes when they squandered a couple of excellent opportunities.
But they failed to get the right people in position at the crucial play-the-balls.
New Zealand had [halfback] Shaun Johnson. He has haunted England before, scoring a last-gasp match-winning try in the 2013 World Cup semi-final and controlling things in the Kiwis' Four Nations victory a year later and, once more, he proved crucial.
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He scored the decisive drop-goal, but more than that, he controlled the kicking game and brought a composure to New Zealand's play on the last tackle.
England need half-backs Gareth Widdop [St George Illawarra Dragons] and Luke Gale [Castleford] to do the same. They do it for their clubs, but at international level things are just a little quicker.
England lacked that X-factor to break down the New Zealand defence and convert the chances they had into points.
Neither Wigan stand-off George Williams nor Warrington full-back Stefan Ratchford were involved against the Kiwis, but they have that quality in spades.
St Helens centre Mark Percival is going well as well; he has loads of pace.
I think that Bennett has to look at those three against Scotland because England were in the game against New Zealand, but just lacked that bit of killer punch to get over the line.
Saturday was a big day for Sam Burgess.
He was back into international rugby league, almost a year after he was playing in union's World Cup, and he was captain of the team for the first time.
But he was trying a little too hard at times.
He wanted to lead from the front and towards the end of the game, when the half-backs should have been controlling things, he was trying to take things into his own hands. He lost the ball on a couple of occasions doing so and, in a game of fine margins, that might have been costly.
The England coach was frosty in the interview with Tanya Arnold before kick-off, offering up only one-sentence answers to some of her questions.
He is regarded as a 'supercoach' and some people like the approach.
But I think you need to show a little more respect though when fronting up to the media.
Bennett does not come across as a shouter, but he will be trying to work out why England missed out on the chances that they did.
He said afterwards that they need to "learn" how to win.
Top-level sport is all about momentum and when you have it, you have to capitalise and build on it by scoring points.
That is the difference between Australia and New Zealand on one hand and England on the other at the moment.
England have to not only beat Scotland, but also put on as many points as they can because qualification might come down to that.
They will also want to focus on the areas that will be key against Australia and it can be difficult to balance those two things.
If England are a long way up they may just go for points, rather than practise the elements that they need.
Jonathan Davies was speaking to BBC Sport's Mike Henson.
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It's a repeat of last year's semi-final in the competition, when Dundalk prevailed 2-1 in a replay.
The Oriel Park encounter is the pick of the the first-round ties, while holders Cork begin their defence away against Bray Wanderers.
The 16 matches will be played on the weekend of 11-13 August.
In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is an only child, the Xinhua news agency said.
The proposal follows this week's meeting of a key decision-making body of the governing Communist Party.
Other reforms include the abolition of "re-education through labour" camps and moves to boost the role of the private sector in the economy.
By Celia HattonBBC News, Beijing
Though the scale of the Chinese leadership's new social and economic reforms are vast, affecting millions across China, none of these changes should come as a shock. Many of these changes have been discussed in the Chinese state media in the past, and many have been test-driven on a smaller scale in different parts of the country.
For example, in some Chinese cities for the past few years, couples who are both single children have been allowed the option of having a second child. The latest change will give couples the option of having two children if just one of the parents is an only child.
Similarly, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to abolish the much-hated "re-education through labour" system when he first came to power. Quietly, officials have been winding down the system over the past few months.
The Communist government is not prone to making rash decisions. In order to gain the consensus it needs to carry out its plans at the local level, officials need to announce them well ahead of time. Surprises aren't popular in China, it seems.
The BBC's Celia Hatton, in Beijing, says most of the changes have already been tested in parts of the country.
Officials announce their plans well in advance to gain the consensus they need, she adds.
The latest announcements are contained in a 22,000-word document released three days after the Third Plenum meeting of the Communist leadership in Beijing.
Traditionally reforms are expected from the Third Plenum, because new leaders are seen as having had time to consolidate power. President Xi Jinping took office last year.
The one-child policy would be "adjusted and improved step by step to promote 'long-term balanced development of the population in China'", Xinhua said.
China introduced its one-child policy at the end of the 1970s to curb rapid population growth.
But correspondents say the policy has become increasingly unpopular and that leaders fear the country's ageing population will both reduce the labour pool and exacerbate elderly care issues.
By 2050, more than a quarter of the population will be over 65.
The one-child policy has on the whole been strictly enforced, though some exceptions already exist, including for ethnic minorities.
In some cities, both parents must be only children in order to be allowed to have a second child.
Chinese netizens hail one-child-policy move
In the countryside, families are allowed to have two children if the first is a girl.
Couples who flout the rules can face heavy fines, or possibly lose their property or their jobs.
Rights groups say the law has meant some women being coerced into abortions, which Beijing denies.
The traditional preference for boys has also created a gender imbalance as some couples opt for sex-selective abortions.
By the end of the decade, demographers say China will have 24 million "leftover men" who, because of China's gender imbalance, will not be able to find a wife.
Most of the elderly in China are still cared for by relatives, and only children from single-child parents face what is known as the 4-2-1 phenomenon.
When the child reaches working age, he or she could have to care for two parents and four grandparents in retirement.
On Tuesday, when the Third Plenum ended, China's leaders also promised that the free market would play a bigger role, and farmers would have greater property rights over their land.
By 2050 more than a quarter of China's population will be over 65 years old and younger generations face an unprecedented burden of care.
Ageing China: Changes and challenges
State firms will be required to pay larger dividends to the government, while private firms will be given a greater role in the economy.
There will be greater liberalisation in both interest rates and the free convertibility of the yuan. More overseas investment will be allowed.
There will also be an increase in the number of smaller banks and financial institutions funded by private capital.
Xinhua said the decision to do away with the "re-education through labour" camps was "part of efforts to improve human rights and judicial practices".
China's leaders had previously said they wanted to reform the system.
The network of camps created half a century ago holds tens of thousands of inmates.
Police panels have the power to sentence offenders to years in camps without trial.
Other reforms announced on Friday include a reduction in the number of crimes subject to the death penalty.
The government has declared three days of mourning after the huge blast, which injured 225 others.
A lorry packed with explosives was detonated in the Karrada district while families were shopping for the holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
It is believed to be the deadliest single bomb attack in Iraq since 2007.
Rescuers said whole families had been killed. Many people were badly burned.
So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it carried out the suicide attack.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was greeted by angry crowds when he visited the mainly Shia Muslim area in the hours after the bombing.
His office said Mr Abadi understood the reaction of residents and would increase security by banning "magic wand" fake bomb detectors and improving vehicle inspections at roads into the city.
The fake bomb detectors, some based on cheap devices for finding golf balls, were sold in large numbers to Iraq by fraudsters.
One British businessman, who was jailed for 10 years, sold more than 6,000 devices to Iraq for up to $40,000 (£30,000) each.
The UK banned their export to Iraq in 2010 and several other fraudsters received prison sentences. Despite warnings that the devices were useless, the Iraqi security forces continued to use them.
In a statement on the Karrada attack, the Iraqi justice ministry said (in Arabic) that a group of prisoners convicted of terrorist crimes would be put to death in the immediate future.
The bombing at around midnight on Saturday came a week after Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Falluja from IS.
Reports said a refrigerator van had been packed with explosives and left near the popular Hadi Center.
Footage from the minutes just after the blast showed the whole area engulfed in flames.
"We need a number of days to be able to recover the bodies of victims. It is a difficult task," a member of the civil defence forces quoted by AFP news agency said.
"The lists of victims I saw included whole families - the father and his sons, the mother and her daughters - whole families were wiped out by this explosion."
A second bomb exploded shortly afterwards in another predominantly Shia area north of the capital, killing another five people.
IS, which follows its own extreme version of Sunni Islam, said in an online statement that the attack in Karrada was carried out by an Iraqi as part of "ongoing security operations".
The US said on Sunday that the attack strengthened its resolve to support Iraqi forces in their fight against IS.
UN Iraq envoy Jan Kubis said IS militants who had "suffered defeats at the battlefront are seeking to avenge their losses by targeting vulnerable civilians".
9 June 2016: At least 30 people killed in and around Baghdad in two suicide attacks claimed by IS
17 May 2016: Four bomb blasts kill 69 people in Baghdad; three of the targets were Shia areas
11 May 2016: Car bombs in Baghdad kill 93 people, including 64 in market in Shia district of Sadr City
1 May 2016: Two car bombs kill at least 33 people in southern city of Samawa
26 March 2016: Suicide attack targets football match in central city of Iskandariya, killing at least 32
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The 25-year-old British number one overpowered her Danish opponent - a former world number one - 6-4 6-3.
Konta, who in June 2015 was the world number 146, will climb to seventh from 11th in the rankings - her highest yet.
She also takes home £940,000 in prize money in claiming what was her third WTA Tour success from a fourth final.
Konta won her first WTA title in July 2016 at the Bank of the West Classic, was defeated in the China Open final in October 2016 and in January triumphed at the Sydney International without dropping a set.
But this was her first success at a higher level - the top 'Premier Mandatory' rung of the WTA Tour.
Having beaten Wozniacki, 26, in their only previous meeting - in straight sets at the third round of this year's Australian Open - Konta was pre-match favourite.
And she held her nerve with a strong all-round performance to edge her opponent in a tight match.
"Thank you so much to the crowd," Konta said.
"You guys were incredible through the whole week. Miami is such an energetic city and you guys really bring that to the court.
"My whole team - thank you so much, we're having a great time working hard and I'm looking forward to continuing to do so."
Wozniacki reached her career high ranking of world number one in October 2010, and victory in Miami would have been her first at this level since Indian Wells in 2011.
But instead she suffered a third final defeat of 2017 - following losses to Elina Svitolina in the Dubai Championships and to Karolina Pliskova in the Qatar Open.
"Jo, you played really well today," Wozniacki said.
"You were the better player and deserved to win. I'm hoping third time lucky [against Konta]. We'll play another time and I'll try my best to win. I was hoping it would be third final lucky this year, but I'll have to go for a fourth."
BBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Only one other player has gathered more ranking points in 2017 than Johanna Konta, but more importantly the new world number seven has now successfully negotiated the perfect dress rehearsal for a Grand Slam.
Six victories over 10 days against the very best in the world in one of the WTA's Big Four tournaments is the perfect stepping stone to Grand Slam success.
Wimbledon should provide Konta with as good an opportunity as the Australian and US Opens - where she has already had so much joy - but now it is time for the clay: a surface on which Konta is still to prove herself.
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BBC Sport's Piers Newbery: Konta continues to amaze. Last year was the first time she was ranked high enough to even play in Miami. And not at her best this week.
BBC tennis commentator David Law: Hope Konta can crack it at Wimbledon where she would fully enter the general public's consciousness. Can be a powerful positive role-model.
Far Ings Nature Reserve, in Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, was badly hit in the overnight storm on 5 December 2013.
Its education and visitor centre has remain closed for the past eight months.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said its insurers had paid for the repairs.
Llorente, 31, scored twice in the 3-0 win over Sunderland as Swansea briefly moved out of the drop zone.
The Spaniard has scored four goals in his last three games.
"We've always been lucky at Swansea having strikers who score 15-plus goals and that is how to stay in the league. Hopefully Fernando can be that man," he said.
"He's someone with fantastic experience and he's starting to settle down now."
Swansea dropped back into the relegation zone on Sunday when West Ham secured a 2-2 draw at Liverpool.
The Swans signed the Spain striker and 2010 World Cup winner from Sevilla for an undisclosed fee in August.
The former Athletic Bilbao and Juventus striker admitted to having struggled on his return from a knee injury during the early part of the season and found the language barrier a difficulty.
He scored his first Swansea goal in a 3-1 defeat at home to Manchester City in September but did not score again until November when came off the bench to score twice in stoppage time and earn a dramatic 5-4 win against Crystal Palace.
"If you give him chances, then he'll finish them," Britton added.
"His first goal was a fantastic finish, it was difficult one, with a lot of bodies in the way but he's made contact.
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"Also, if you can put a cross in the box for him, he's a powerful guy who's good with his head. He's a good finisher and his hold-up play is so important to the way we play."
Swansea were bottom of the table before beating fellow strugglers Sunderland at the Liberty Stadium.
Manager Bob Bradley has warned his side they still have "plenty of work to do" and Britton acknowledged the need to build on the win over Sunderland.
"The games coming up are winnable and we need to make sure we turn those games into points.
"We need to perform like we did [against Sunderland] and if we do, over the next period, then I'm sure we'll pick up enough points to get us up the table."
Sinking Water, which takes its name from a cockler's emergency call on 5 February 2004, would "humanise" what happened, writer Daniel York said.
The idea for the work won a £12,000 Musical Theatre Writing Award on the 12th anniversary of the disaster.
Former Det Supt Mick Gradwell, who investigated the deaths, said he hoped it would raise awareness.
Twelve years ago, a group of Chinese cocklers working in the dark found themselves caught by the incoming tide.
A night-time rescue operation was launched after one cockler, Guo Bing Long, called 999 and said: "Sinking water, many many, sinking water... Sinking water, sinking water."
York, who created the piece with Craig Adams, said that as a person of Chinese descent, the story "resonated with me, [as] most of the people who drowned were from where my lineage comes from".
"If my ancestors had taken a different path, I could have been on that beach."
He said the story would encompass "the fullness of the human experience, which includes comedy and love".
"Our standard image of a musical is jolly entertainment, but if you look at Les Misérables, it's about poverty, desperation and people being murdered by the state, and West Side Story is about racially-motivated gang warfare.
"Our intentions are to create something that humanises the whole thing and makes us think 'that could be any one of us in a situation like that, given different circumstances'."
Mr Gradwell, who led the investigation into the disaster, said when he first heard about the musical, he thought he "was being wound up".
But "having thought about it, it's quite a good idea", he said as it raises the profile of the disaster.
"People expect me to be outraged, but I'm not. Done in the right way, it could add some meaning to what happened."
However, he said he would "probably not" go and see the show.
"When I think of Morecambe Bay, I think of that tape [of Guo Bing Long's call] and going and seeing the bodies in the mortuary.
"But I wish [the musical] well and I hope it is done in the right taste."
The writing duo were chosen as winners of the Perfect Pitch and Theatre Royal Stratford East award. They will create a full draft for the show with the theatre over the next 12 months.
Perfect Pitch executive director Andy Barnes said it was "something completely original" and a "gem of an idea".
Artistic director Kerry Michael said Sinking Water was "a stirring and emotive piece of theatre which asks bigger questions of the British psyche, our attitude to cheap labour, migrants and foreign deaths".
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Basketball had its funding withdrawn in 2014, because it was unlikely to win medals at the Rio Games or Tokyo 2020.
But GB and Glasgow Rocks forward Kieron Achara, 33, says more investment could transform British basketball.
"It's not going to happen overnight, but we are making steps forward and I'm excited about the future," he said.
We're looking at other sports, like cycling, which did a lot on their own, and trying to find private investors
Grant-making body UK Sport awards £100m annually to sports that are expected to win medals, but a new strategy means participation rates will also be taken into account.
This could help basketball retrieve some funding as more than 150,000 people aged 16 and over play the sport at least once a week, according to Sport England participation figures.
In 2014, Achara said the loss of funding meant he and his team-mates were living on £15 a day as they attempted to reach the European Championships, adding that some players had to sleep in beds that were not big enough for them.
Neither Team GB's men's or women's basketball teams - ranked 22nd and 21st respectively - qualified for the Rio Olympic Games.
GB Basketball's hopes of receiving funding have been boosted by UK Sport's new funding model, and Achara told BBC World Service Sport that basketball was already making steps to improve.
"We have to think about the reasons why the funding was cut and prove how we deserve that funding in the future," said Achara, who represented Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games.
"We're looking at other sports, like cycling, which did a lot on their own, and trying to find private investors, so it's attractive for British players to come back and play in the national league rather than overseas - so we can develop our own style, nurture our own players, and improve our strength and conditioning.
"We are trying to assemble the best team we can, and qualify for EuroBasket and then the Worlds."
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Achara also wants more experienced coaches with top-level pedigree to be used by GB as he thinks this could make playing for the national side more appealing to British players in the NBA.
"Many of our coaches have only worked in the UK. We're not a basketball culture so they need people with overseas experience to mentor them," Achara said.
"If we had the best British players in the NBA playing regularly for us, I promise you we would have a great team and be at the top level at the Olympics."
Guard Ben Gordon - who played in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls - agrees.
"It has to do with getting the best talent on the same team - getting the players back from overseas so we have our best representation," he said.
GB's men have six EuroBasket qualifiers starting from 31 August, with home and away games against Hungary, Macedonia and Luxembourg.
If they win their group they will qualify for EuroBasket 2017 - which is to be held in four different nations next August and September - with the knockout stages played in Istanbul, Turkey.
Their first home qualifier is against Macedonia on 3 September at the Copper Box at the Olympic Park.
On Friday and Saturday they play the Netherlands in warm-up matches in Manchester.
Britain's women have two EuroBasket 2017 qualifiers remaining, away to Italy on 19 November and away to Albania on 23 November.
They are currently third in their group and are likely to require victory in both of their remaining games to qualify automatically, although they could also progress to the final tournament in the Czech Republic as one of the six best placed runners-up.
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Chris McGimpsey made his remarks after the zoo was criticised by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (Eaza).
Eaza found many of the enclosures were too small and it listed seven minor concerns about the welfare of animals.
Belfast City Council, which owns the zoo, has said work is already under way to rectify the issues Eaza has raised.
The European body's findings were revealed earlier this week by the Belfast Telegraph.
Mr McGimpsey, an Ulster Unionist councillor in the city, is an animal rights activist and a long-time critic of zoos.
Speaking on the BBC's Nolan Show on Wednesday night, he said: "I think people should stay away until we're confident that the animals are being kept in proper husbandry conditions."
He said the council had sought accreditation from Eaza but it had responded with a long list of "very severe concerns" about the operation of Belfast Zoo.
"They talk about the sea lions being kept in fresh water instead of salt water; they talk about sea lions being kept in water that is unclean and they talk about them being kept in a compound that is not deep enough."
Mr McGimpsey, added: "Elephants, in their natural environment, maraud in their lives over 1,000 sq km; [247,100 acres]. Elephants in Belfast Zoo have two thirds of an acre."
Eaza's letter to the council also said the buildings where lemurs are kept are far too small and that rabbits and reptiles are not housed in acceptable conditions.
It raised concerns about the "unacceptable" level of aggression between Andean bears and the "questionable welfare" of the male.
Mr McGimpsey claimed the facility was "not up to standard" and was "not something that Belfast City Council can be proud of".
However, he added that he hoped the improvement works would be completed by April next year.
It is not the first time the UUP councillor has publicly criticised Belfast Zoo.
In September, he joined calls for the "Victorian peep show" to be shut down.
He said it should be replaced with a conservation area for priority species that are native to Northern Ireland.
Belfast Zoo's website says that it plays a "vital role in conservation work by taking part in breeding programmes that aim to boost the numbers of endangered animals".
It is currently taking part in more than 90 breeding programmes.
His daughter, Ursula, confirmed the singer's death to The Washington Post.
He died in a New York hospital earlier this week from complications following a stroke.
Covay gave Aretha Franklin one of her biggest hits with Chain of Fools in 1968, a song he had written 15 years earlier.
His singing style also influenced Mick Jagger, as seen in the Rolling Stones cover of his song Mercy Mercy.
Covay started out in music in a gospel group with his siblings at school, before joining doo-wop group Rainbows.
While trying to make it as a solo artist and singer-songwriter he spent time as Little Richard's chauffeur and warm-up act.
His first chart hit came in 1961 with Pony Time. The track, however, became an even bigger hit when Chubby Checker recorded his own version a year later in 1962, topping the pop and R&B charts.
This pattern continued with his song Mercy Mercy, which he recorded in 1964 with a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix on guitar, which went into the top 40.
A year later the Rolling Stones recorded their own version for their album Out of Our Heads, causing many to point out the similarity in singing styles between Jagger and Covay.
While working as a songwriter at the Brill Building in New York, Covay wrote for artists including Gladys Knight and the Pips, Wilson Pickett and Solomon Burke.
He was also part of the short-lived group the Soul Clan which featured Burke, Joe Tex, Ben E King and Arthur Conley.
His work has been covered by a wide variety of artists including Gene Vincent, Connie Francis, Steppenwolf, Bobby Womack and the Small Faces.
Covay suffered a stroke in 1992 and a year later stars including Ronnie Wood, Iggy Pop and Todd Rundgren produced a tribute album entitled Back to the Streets: Celebrating the Music of Don Covay.
After a gap of 23 years Covay released his last album Ad Lib in 2000, which featured Rolling Stones guitarists Ronnie Woods and Keith Richards, Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers, Wilson Pickett, Syl Johnson and Huey Lewis.
Ceredigion was the best-performing authority with a 68% recycling rate and Blaenau Gwent was the worst with 49%.
The target for 2015-16 was 58%, rising to 64% by 2020 and 70% by 2025.
In previous years, fines for councils which did not hit targets were waived but ministers will decide on issuing penalties once final figures are published in October.
The overall recycling rate in the 12 months to March 2015 was 56% as Welsh councils strive to meet the Welsh Government's zero landfill waste target by 2050.
Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths, said: "This is the first year recycling targets have increased beyond the ambitious level of 58%, up from the previous year's target of 52%. The fact these figures not only achieve the target but, in fact, exceed it is highly encouraging, showing we are continually improving our recycling rate."
"It's clear that local authorities and householders are working hard to recycle and we are well on the way to achieving our 70% recycling target set for 2025. I am proud that we lead the rest of the UK in our recycling rate but I want us to do even better and become Europe's best recycling nation."
Of Wales' 22 councils, only Newport, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen failed to hit this 58% target in these provisional figures.
Neighbouring councils Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent were the only authorities which recorded a drop in recycling rates when compared to their 2014-15 figures.
Monmouthshire fell from 63% to 62% and Blaenau Gwent dropped from 50% to 49%.
However, Monmouthshire recorded a 1% increase when compared to its last 12-month figures, the year to December, whereas Blaenau Gwent remained static in this period.
Protests were held in Blaenau Gwent last year when the council changed bin collections and gave people large plastic boxes for their recycling instead of bags.
The council has defended its position, saying it is still in transition from the old system to the new one.
The Welsh Government said a decision on whether to issue fines to failing councils would be taken in October once final validated figures were available.
Conservative environment spokesman David Melding AM said the overall picture was promising, but added: "There are pockets of Wales and in particular the south east, where recycling rates remain stubbornly low and that requires investigation from the Welsh Government."
Caerphilly council, one of the local authorities which struggled to meet the 56% recycling target previously, saw its rates hit 62%, up from 59% in the 2015 calendar year.
In a bid to tackle the problem, the authority is visiting every home in the county to encourage uptake.
It is halfway through the visiting process and said so far, most people were responding positively to the advice.
Colette Price is one of the Caerphilly team visiting the council's 74,000 homes.
She will hand out free replacement food waste bins if people do not have one already, give advice and leaflets about what can be recycled and when it is collected and ask if they have any issues.
She said: "I like to go down the route of trying to encourage, not boss them and say 'you've got to do this, you've got to do that'.
"I think it's important that the residents know that we are there to inform them and if they've got any issues there is a telephone number on the leaflet, and they can contact us."
The Old Tweed Bridge was opened by Sir Walter Scott in 1832 and it was the main link between Selkirk and Galashiels for 140 years.
However it fell into a state of disrepair following the opening of the nearby A7 crossing of the river.
Transport Scotland has submitted plans to Scottish Borders Council to carry out extensive repairs to the bridge.
In its proposal to the local authority, the roads agency claimed the bridge, was "structurally unsound".
It once carried the old A7 but now only pedestrians and cyclists can use the bridge.
Transport Scotland wants to remove the spandrel walls to build a new concrete saddle over the arches before rebuilding the structure.
Eddie Jones' team face Ireland on Saturday seeking a second Grand Slam in a row - a feat last achieved by England during the Five Nations 25 years ago.
Carling, who captained England in both 1991 and 1992, said it would be an "exceptional" achievement.
"We are just left in the wake," he told BBC 5 live's Six Nations preview show.
"They went to Australia and won 3-0, never achieved before by England.
"They've then put together back-to-back Grand Slams and a world-record run. It would be a massive achievement."
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England thrashed Scotland 61-21 on Sunday to retain their Six Nations title and equal New Zealand's world record of 18 consecutive Test wins.
Victory in Dublin would mean they become the first team to secure back-to-back Grand Slams in the Six Nations era.
Only three England sides have won consecutive Grand Slams, and all occurred before the introduction of Italy in 2000. France were the last side to accomplish the feat in 1998.
Carling, who won 72 caps - 59 as captain - is surprised it has taken England so long to stand on the cusp of making history.
"I think I'm disappointed in how few Grand Slams England have won in the past 10-15 years," he said.
"Look at the resources England have, the number of players and the financial clout. England should do better.
"Don't expect us to do it on an annual basis but we should be doing it a few times a decade."
The 51-year-old does believe, however, that Jones' team are capable of surpassing the 2003 World Cup winners as England's best.
"It's all out there in front of them and there are not many teams that have the chance to better Martin Johnson's," he said.
"They could. It's about delivering."
But now numbers are falling in many parts of the UK, with loss of woodlands thought partly to blame.
The People's Trust for Endangered Species wants the public to record encounters with Britain's biggest beetle to find out how many are left.
Amid concern that modern children have become disconnected from nature, I took my own kids on a stag beetle hunt.
And, as it turned out, we didn't have to go too far.
At the park, watching our sons playing Saturday football, a friend mentioned he had found some of the beetles in his garden the previous year.
They had set up home in a pile of logs from an old apple tree.
Only an hour or so later he called to say he'd seen a stag beetle crawling down a wooded track not far away.
"It was moving slowly," he said, "If you get there quickly it might still be there."
After a short time wrestling electronic devices away from my children, we jumped on our bikes and cycled a few streets away to where the beetle had been spotted.
It was much bigger than the beetles I remember from my childhood - with a distinctive shiny chestnut-brown back and antler-like jaws.
"Is it still alive?" my daughter asked.
We weren't sure. Marooned at the side of the path, it was frozen either in death or in fear.
We tickled it gently with a frond of grass to check its vital signs. It turned out to be alive, but dozy.
So we photographed it to send to the charity, then left it to get on with its own business.
Keen to find out if our fortuitous find was a one-off, I called Laura Bower, conservation officer of the Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.
There have been massive declines in the UK, she said, but in some parts of England the insect is hanging on.
Stag beetles are relatively widespread in southern England, and are also found in the Severn valley and coastal areas of the south west.
Elsewhere in Britain, they are rare or extinct.
"It's stable in England as far as we can tell - the range hasn't changed but it is hard to give accurate numbers," she said. "This is a really important key population which is why we want to find out as much as possible about it."
Loss of habitat is one factor in the beetle's decline as well as the trend to have pristine gardens.
Clearing up dead wood and digging up stumps is bad news for stag beetles, as their larvae spend years living in rotting wood before emerging for a few brief weeks of life in the outside world.
"People want tidy, low maintenance gardens so there aren't those wild areas you used to have," said Bower.
"We really want the public to record sightings so we can keep an eye on them. If they can leave dead wood or put a log pile in, that would be good too."
So have my children rekindled their fascination with nature?
The tablets still hold sway, but my son has a new impression to add to his repertoire.
He holds both hands to his head, like antlers, and shouts: "I'm a stag beetle!"
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Stam extended his contract with the Royals until summer 2019 on Tuesday after leading them to the Championship play-off final in his first season.
"The club is very happy with me, I'm very happy with the club and the people we work with," he told BBC Sport.
"The new owners have certain plans as well to hopefully give us that extra push towards promotion next season."
Former Manchester United and Netherlands defender Stam, 44, had a year left on his previous deal before agreeing a new two-year contract.
Following Reading's third-place finish and subsequent defeat on penalties by Huddersfield at Wembley last season, he had been linked with a number of vacancies in the Premier League and in Europe.
"People didn't need to convince me (to stay)," he told BBC Radio Berkshire. "We had a great season last year.
"We started a project over here that hopefully within a couple of seasons, we can have a go at the Premier League. We'd like to continue that.
"If you look at the bigger picture, everything seems right and we started it last season. I've loved my time here, working with the players and improving everything within the club."
The 3,000-year-old artefact was found at a site dubbed "Britain's Pompeii", at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire.
Archaeologists have described the find - made close to the country's "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings" - as "unprecedented".
Still containing its hub, the 3ft-diameter (one metre) wooden wheel dates from about 1,100 to 800 BC.
The wheel was found close to the largest of one of the roundhouses found at the settlement last month.
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Its discovery "demonstrates the inhabitants of this watery landscape's links to the dry land beyond the river", David Gibson from Cambridge Archaeological Unit, which is leading the excavation, said.
Historic England, which is jointly funding the £1.1m excavation with landowner Forterra, described the find as "unprecedented in terms of size and completeness".
"This remarkable but fragile wooden wheel is the earliest complete example ever found in Britain," chief executive Duncan Wilson said.
"The existence of this wheel expands our understanding of Late Bronze Age technology, and the level of sophistication of the lives of people living on the edge of the Fens 3,000 years ago."
The dig site, at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire has been described as "unique" by Mr Gibson.
It has proved to be a treasure trove for archaeologists who earlier this year uncovered two or possibly three roundhouses dating from about 1,000-800 BC.
The timbers had been preserved in silt after falling into a river during a fire.
Kasia Gdaniec, senior archaeologist at the county council, said the "fabulous artefacts" found at the site continued to "amaze and astonish".
"This wheel poses a challenge to our understanding of both Late Bronze Age technological skill and - together with the eight boats recovered from the same river in 2011 - transportation," she said.
The spine of what is thought to be a horse, found in early January, could suggest the wheel belonged to a horse-drawn cart, however, it is too early to know how the wheel was used, archaeologist Chris Wakefield said.
While the Must Farm wheel is the most complete, it is not the oldest to be discovered in the area.
An excavation at a Bronze Age site at Flag Fen near Peterborough uncovered a smaller, partial wheel dating to about 1,300 BC.
The wheel was thought to have been part of a cart that could have carried up to two people.
The Must Farm quarry site has given up a number of its hidden treasures over the years including a dagger found in 1969 and bowls still containing remnants of food, found in 2006.
More recently the roundhouses, built on stilts, were discovered.
A fire destroyed the posts, causing the houses to fall into a river where silt helped preserve the timbers and contents.
"We're here in the middle of the Fens, a very wet environment, so the biggest question we've got to answer at the moment is 'Why on earth is there a wheel in the middle of this really wet river channel?'," says archaeologist Chris Wakefield.
"The houses are built over a river and within those deposits is sitting a wheel - which is pretty much the archetype of what you'd expect to have on dry land - so it's very, very unusual."
An articulated animal spine found nearby - at first thought to be from a cow - is now believed to be that of a horse.
"[This] has pretty strong ties if they were using something like a cart.
"In the Bronze Age horses are quite uncommon. It's not until the later period of the Middle Iron Age that they become more widespread, so aside from this very exciting discovery of the wheel, we've also got potentially other related aspects that are giving us even more questions.
"This site is giving us lots of answers but at the same time it's throwing up questions we never thought we'd have to consider."
Analysing the data from samples found at Must Farm could take the team several years, he added.
Other artefacts found inside the roundhouses themselves - including a small wooden box, platter, an intact "fineware" pot and clusters of animal and fish bones that could have been kitchen waste - have been described as "amazing" by archaeologists.
The team is just over halfway through the eight-month dig to uncover the secrets of the site and the people who lived there.
The tests in science, maths, and reading were taken by 500,000 15-year-olds in 68 countries.
In Wales, there were lower results on average in the three subjects than in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Scotland leads the way in the UK in maths and reading, while England is ahead in science.
The figures, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), show that for maths, 15-year-olds in Wales scored 468 points on average, compared with 498 in Scotland, 495 in England and 487 in Northern Ireland.
By Arwyn JonesBBC Wales education correspondent
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In reading, Wales scored 480, but Scotland scored 506 points on average, England scored 500 and Northern Ireland 498.
In science, Wales scored 491, compared with England's average score of 516, Scotland's 513, and 507 in Northern Ireland.
The OECD report concluded, for each of the three subjects, "performance in Wales was lower than the rest of the United Kingdom".
It is the third time Pisa has conducted such tests.
Since 2007, Wales has slipped down the Pisa rankings. As more countries have joined, it has slumped from 22nd in science to joint 36th, dropped 10 places in maths and fallen from 29th in reading to 41st.
Speaking about this year's results, Education Minister Huw Lewis said the results were disappointing and showed Wales had a long way to go.
But he insisted the news reinforced the Welsh government's case for the ambitious reforms it has already developed.
The build-up to the release of this set of Pisa rankings has felt a bit like waiting for examination results, when you know you've answered the questions incorrectly.
You spend months softening up relatives, warning them a star pupil is not about to emerge anytime soon.
And so the Welsh government has been telling anyone who will listen not to expect good news from Pisa.
We've started the groundwork, it says, but it is too early for that to come out in the tests.
Not a great message, as Wales slips further behind both the rest of the world and elsewhere in the UK in the these tests.
Welsh ministers will have their work cut out convincing people their aim of putting Wales amongst the top 20 Pisa nations in the next round of tests in 2015 is realistic.
They'll have to strike a balance between making reassuring noises, that things are set to improve, and not sounding complacent.
Opposition parties can legitimately point out that Labour, in one form or another, has been in charge of education in Wales for sixteen years.
With ministers dealing with difficult changes in the NHS, they must now be ready for another battle, on the state of our children's education, right up to the 2016 assembly election.
"Everybody working in and around the Welsh education sector needs to take a long hard look in the mirror this week," he said.
"The Pisa results are stark and the message is very clear, we must improve educational attainment and standards right across the board."
Mr Lewis said new reading and numeracy tests, secondary school banding, extra funding for new schools would take time to have a "significant impact" in Wales.
"There are no quick fixes," he said.
"I expect to see the impact of our reforms reflected in the next set of results. They're ambitious and I believe they will have a lasting, sustainable and positive effect on education in Wales."
Welsh Secretary David Jones urged Welsh ministers to "address these serious educational deficiencies and give the young aspirational people of Wales the skills they need to succeed".
Angela Burns, Conservative shadow education minister in the assembly, said: "These truly appalling figures show Wales' educational performance has at best stagnated, and at worst declined, and that in educational terms, Labour ministers have wasted the past three years."
Welsh Liberal Democrats leader Kirsty Williams tweeted: "Really sad and angry that 14 years of Welsh Labour Education Policy has led us to these #PISA results."
Plaid Cymru's education spokesman Simon Thomas said the results were not good enough.
"Wales cannot progress unless we get the basics right and that means meeting the challenge of improved numeracy, literacy and skills for all," he said.
All the UK nations were beaten in all three subject areas by the Republic of Ireland, and by Finland, a country which many education experts in Wales have sought to learn from.
Meanwhile the business group CBI Wales said the results gave cause for concern.
Emma Watkins, CBI Wales director, said: "It's not acceptable for Wales to have slipped so far behind, and this should be a wake-up call to those who care about the future of the Welsh education system."
But Chris Keates, general secretary of teaching union the NASUWT, said Pisa was not the be all and end all.
"Pisa is not and must not be seen as the final word on education in Wales," he said.
"It is critical the Welsh government puts the Pisa 2012 study into proportion, uses it to guide and not drive education policy and takes forward its work in a way that reflects the genuine progress and achievements of the education system."
But the first minister did not give any details on what form it would take or how it would be paid for.
Fresh amendments to the Scotland Bill mean Holyrood will have the power to fully counter any changes to tax credits made by the UK government.
Labour has already promised to ensure no families in Scotland lose out.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale told the party's conference at the weekend that this would be paid for using income tax cash from higher earners and by not cutting air passenger duty, as the SNP plans to do.
But speaking during first minister's questions, Ms Sturgeon criticised Labour's "back of a fag packet" proposals and said her government would act to counter the changes to tax credits if they are pushed through by Chancellor George Osborne.
She said if the cuts were not reversed in full for all families, then "what we will do as a responsible government is bring forward credible, deliverable and affordable plans to protect low-income households, just as we did on the bedroom tax.
"I think that, frankly, is a far better plan and it is far fairer for people who are affected by these cuts than back-of-a-fag-packet proposals from a party that knows it has little chance of ever being in a position to implement them."
Ms Sturgeon added: "Over these next three weeks we intend to keep up the pressure on George Osborne to drop his plans for tax credit cuts.
"Unlike Labour - who remember initially abstained in the House of Commons on this issue - the SNP have consistently opposed these cuts."
Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil told Holyrood on Wednesday that the Scottish government would "establish the most effective way to administer any top-ups to tax credits".
He added that the proposals would be properly costed before being unveiled, and that it would be made clear where any additional funding would come from.
Challenging the first minister on the issue, Ms Dugdale said: "Yesterday in the House of Commons the prime minister told working families they would just have to wait and see what happened next. Today in the this chamber, the first minister is saying exactly the same thing.
"I have listened to Nicola Sturgeon very carefully, I have listened to Alex Neil very carefully on the TV last night.
"Both have said that they will ensure that the income of those in receipt of tax credits won't fall. But that sounds a little like the Tory argument that higher wages will automatically make up the difference.
"So can I ask the first minister again - under the Scottish government's proposal, will every single family receive the same entitlement from the government as they do now?"
Ms Sturgeon responded: "I am not quite sure what it is that is difficult to understand - I don't yet accept that these cuts will take place because there is pressure building on George Osborne to reverse them.
"So I think right now that is where we should be, united, in making sure the pressure stays on the Tories. And if George Osborne does the wrong thing, then we will come forward with credible proposals to protect low income families."
Conservative MSP Annabel Goldie said Ms Sturgeon and her government should "move on, stop caterwauling at Westminster and start telling us how her government will actually use these extensive new powers".
The first minister awarded Ms Goldie "ten out of ten for sheer brass neck" after the Tory peer voted to try to stop the House of Lords from blocking tax credit cuts.
Jo Rand, 47, from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, died from her injuries on Wednesday.
Family friend Owen Livett has set up an online fundraising page to help Ms Rand's two children who also lost their sister five years ago.
Mr Livett was involved in a car accident which killed Ms Rand's eldest daughter Charlotte, who was 19.
Thames Valley Police has launched a murder inquiry in connection with Ms Rand's death.
An 18-year-old man from London has been arrested.
Police believe Ms Rand was sprayed with an alkaline substance after a fight broke out between a group of men, close to where Ms Rand was sitting on a bench.
Mr Livett said he wants to help Ms Rand's 21-year-old son Ryan and 17-year-old daughter Katie raise £5,000 towards her funeral.
The 25-year-old from Marlow was the driver of a car which was hit by another vehicle which was being driven the wrong way down a dual carriageway by an undiagnosed dementia sufferer.
He said: "Jo was such a bubbly, lovely person, very caring, a great mother and a great friend.
"When the time is right, I want the money to be there so the children can afford to send their mum off in an appropriate way.
"They've already lost their big sister and now they've lost their mum, it's just so sad."
Almost half of the fundraising target has already been raised.
Donations have come from friends, family and colleagues of care worker Ms Rand plus a number of anonymous pledges.
Mr Livett said the "outpouring has been amazing".
Eskom made the announcement after deliberating with Zola Tsotsi on a motion of no-confidence.
Mr Tsotsi recently made headlines when he suspended four senior executives over ongoing problems at the company.
South Africa has been plagued by power outages in recent months, leading to widespread criticism of Eskom.
An inquiry is underway at Eskom into the reasons behind poor generation capacity and cash-flow issues.
A decision on the suspended bosses will only be taken once the investigation has been completed, the power utility has said.
Economists warn that if the energy problems are not resolved in Africa's most developed economy, it could further stunt the country's growth prospects.
OAS head Luis Almagro wants members to evaluate whether Venezuela has suffered an "unconstitutional alteration of the constitutional regime that seriously impairs the democratic order".
Venezuelan opposition politicians had urged the OAS to call the meeting.
The move could lead to Venezuela being suspended from the OAS.
"The secretary general considers that the institutional crisis in Venezuela demands immediate changes to the Executive power," a statement by Mr Almagro read.
Read: What has gone wrong in Venezuela?
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro reacted angrily, accusing the OAS of "foreign intervention" and ordering it to leave Venezuela and the Americas.
He also said he would bring charges against the leaders of Congress who had requested the OAS to intervene, saying they had betrayed the nation.
The government of President Nicolas Maduro has been coming under increasing pressure to work with the opposition-controlled National Assembly to ease the political and economic tension in the South American country.
The two sides have been engaged in a stand-off ever since the MUD opposition coalition won control of the National Assembly in parliamentary elections in December.
MUD politicians say their every move is thwarted by the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Council, bodies they allege have been stacked with supporters of President Maduro.
They say there is no separation of powers and that under the leadership of President Maduro and his predecessor in office, the late Hugo Chavez, the judiciary has become a willing enforcer of the executive branch.
They point to the fact that the Supreme Court blocked key legislation, such as an amnesty law which would have freed jailed opposition politicians, as evidence of what they say is a misuse of power by President Maduro.
Opposition politicians also accuse the president of trying to block a recall referendum which could see Venezuelans vote on whether they want Mr Maduro to serve out his term or be removed from office.
A National Assembly delegation met Mr Almagro in recent weeks to ask him to invoke the Inter-American democratic charter.
Under the charter, the OAS secretary-general can call a meeting of the OAS Permanent Council to address situations where he or she considers that a member state's democratic order is at risk.
If two thirds of OAS members consider that Venezuela's government has undermined democracy, the country will be suspended from the OAS.
The meeting is expected to be held sometime between the 10 and 20 of June and is expected to coincide with the meeting of the OAS General Assembly in the Dominican Republic between 13 and 15 June.
Relations between the OAS and Venezuela have been tense for years but worsened in recent months as Mr Almagro and Mr Maduro traded insults.
Mr Maduro accused the OAS head of being a CIA agent, while Mr Almagro said that not letting the recall referendum go ahead made Mr Maduro "another petty dictator".
The Venezuelan government has called its supporters to take to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the OAS' "vulgar and brutal interference".
Barrie Jones, 52, from Swansea, began a transatlantic hunt after finding the metal identity disc in his garden.
It belonged to Thurmond Carethers, one of thousands of GIs camped in the area as they prepared to invade Europe.
Carethers's daughter Maurine said: "He did what he had to do. He was trying to get back home to marry my mother."
The decades-long tale of loss was unearthed when Mr Jones was building a wall in the garden of his home.
After scraping away the soil from the dog tag, he saw the name T. Carethers, from Detroit, Michigan.
He said: "It was just sticking out of the top of the earth and I could see straight away what it was.
"I was amazed that such an item was lying here all these years - so I set about trying to find out more to reunite it with him or his family."
Using military records and by contacting a local newspaper in Detroit, Mr Jones found Thurmond Carethers' daughter, Maurine Carethers-Tate, 57.
She revealed that her father never knew where he had lost his dog tags, only that they had gone missing during his training to storm the beaches of Normandy.
She said: "I asked him a long time ago. I said: 'Daddy, where your dog tags?' and he said: 'I don't know'."
Military records show Carethers was just 20 when he signed up days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941.
Thousands of American soldiers were camped around Swansea and the Gower during World War Two as they prepared to invade occupied Europe in 1944.
American GIs lived in the area for months as they trained for the D-Day landings, which marked their 70th anniversary last week.
Ms Carethers-Tate, one of Mr Carethers three surviving daughters, said her father revealed very little about his traumatic war experience to his family.
But she said as he got older he described D-Day and his wartime experiences as a "point in his life he really wanted to forget".
After the war, Mr Carethers returned to Michigan and married his sweetheart Blanche Maurine.
Ms Carethers-Tate said she will pass the tag on to her son Terreance Tate, 25.
She said: "My son has never seen his grandfather. All he knows is the picture. He looks just like him."
Carwyn Jones will meet Theresa May in London on Monday as part of talks between the leaders of each part of the United Kingdom.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales Sunday Politics programme the re-introduction of tariffs was a red line to any deal.
The UK government department in charge of Brexit said it wanted the "best deal for Britain".
A Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) spokeswoman said this would include allowing UK companies to trade with the single market in goods and services.
The prime minister has previously said she wants the Welsh Government to be fully engaged in talks.
Ahead of Monday's meeting Mr Jones told BBC Wales companies based in Wales should not have any financial barriers to dealing with the European market.
He said Theresa May's negotiating position with EU leaders would be more difficult if she didn't have the support of every part of the UK.
He previously warned of the "real dangers" Welsh firms could face tariff barriers post-Brexit and raised the issue with Mrs May during her visit to Cardiff Bay in July.
Mr Jones also reiterated that there needed to be changes to the free movement of people from the EU after the June vote.
He said doctors, nurses and company directors must not be prevented from coming to work in Wales, and did not rule out a work permit system.
A DExEU spokeswoman said: "The government is determined that the interests of all parts of the United Kingdom will be taken into account as we negotiate our exit from the European Union.
"We will continue to work closely with the devolved administrations ahead of the negotiations."
The 4,000-year-old Sekhemka was sold at auction by Northampton Borough Council for £15.76m to fund an extension to the town's museum and art gallery.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey will retain the bar until 29 March 2016 after hearing of a serious bid to raise funds to save the statue for the UK.
A campaign group wants the statue to be loaned to a museum and go on display.
Northampton Borough Council collected £8m by selling Sekhemka, the statue of an Egyptian court official.
But the statue's sale to an overseas buyer led to an export bar being imposed by the UK government.
Gunilla Loe is leading a campaign to keep the statue in the UK at a museum where the public would have access but said her group would not bid or fundraise.
She said the UK Action Group met with a senior team at the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) on 1 September to see if there was a way forward.
The group wanted the DCMS to begin negotiations with the anonymous buyer to arrange a loan to a major British museum to stop the need for an export licence.
"We even suggested the planned museum complex in London's Olympic Park could be a suitable venue," she said.
The DCMS said: "The purpose of the export deferral period is to allow a buyer the opportunity to save the Sekhemka statue for the UK, and ensure there will be public access."
Spencer Compton, the second Marquis of Northampton, acquired Sekhemka during a trip to Egypt in 1850. It was presented to Northampton Museum by his son some years later.
Some transactions were affected for two 30-minute periods, leading to queues.
The Post Office apologised, saying that the service had now been restored across the UK network of 11,800 branches.
The problem came as Royal Mail's website continued to suffer from a computer glitch.
"We are very sorry for the inconvenience this problem has caused customers. We know how important the Post Office is to our customers at all times, but especially at Christmas," said Kevin Gilliland, the Post Office's network and sales director.
This is the second computer problem at the network in six months. In July, a shutdown blocked access for 3.3 million customers with Post Office card accounts.
Some pensioners have their benefits paid into a Post Office card account.
A Post Office spokesman said the glitch affected most services offered by the branches which were hit.
Andy Burrows, from the government-backed watchdog Consumer Focus, said the problems would have caused "major disruption".
"People rely upon the Post Office not just for mail services but also to access cash and much-needed pensions and benefits. We will be taking up our concerns with Post Office Limited as a priority," he said.
Post offices were expected to be particularly busy, because Royal Mail was predicting its busiest day of the year.
They were expecting 131 million items to be posted, double the usual number. They had taken on thousands of extra staff to cope with the Christmas rush, caused in part by the popularity of online shopping.
Last week, Royal Mail admitted that it had charged some customers twice for postal services as problems continue to hit its website.
Some 600 customers had cards debited twice, at an average of £50 each time, after repeating a purchase in the SmartStamp section which the system told them had initially failed. Various online postage applications - such as Price Finder - have also been down since 21 November.
A Post Office spokesman said the issues affecting Royal Mail were unrelated to the problems at the Post Office network on Monday.
The final deadline of Christmas post for sending overseas was Monday, and for standard packages is 14 December.
The Christmas deadline for second-class post is 17 December and is three days later for first-class deliveries.
Talks between representatives of the two sides to end the deadlock in the Senedd have now ended.
A joint statement from Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru said the nomination of a first minister could take place on Wednesday.
The previous attempt ended in stalemate last week.
Labour's Carwyn Jones and Plaid's Leanne Wood were tied 29-29 in a Senedd vote on who should be first minister.
It came after Labour fell short of a majority at the 5 May election. It needs opposition support to govern.
Little detail from the talks between the parties or what the deal may constitute has been released to the media.
The discussions have been led by senior party figures Jane Hutt, from Labour, and Simon Thomas, from Plaid.
Separate group meetings for the parties' AMs will be held on Tuesday.
A joint statement from Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru said the negotiations had ended and "good progress has been made".
"The leadership of both parties will now present the proposed way forward to members of their respective assembly groups tomorrow morning," it read.
"It is anticipated that plenary can then be recalled on Wednesday for the nomination of first minister."
Labour and Plaid Cymru previously said they were "confident" of breaking the deadlock over the election of a first minister after the first day of talks last Friday.
Sleet and snow showers affected many parts on Saturday and there are several reports of lying snow, particularly inland.
Warnings for snow and strong winds were in place on Saturday.
The police said driving conditions are hazardous on many roads across Northern Ireland.
In west Belfast, a motorcyclist was taken to hospital after being involved in a crash on the Falls Road.
It happened at about 3.15 GMT. The man's injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Conditions are particularly poor on the M1 between Lurgan, County Armagh, and the end of the motorway.
Drivers have been advised to exercise extreme caution in the area.
At Mourneview Park in Lurgan, County Armagh, a match between Glenavon and Glentoran football clubs was postponed because of the snow.
Saturday night will bring further snow showers, along with icy stretches on untreated surfaces.
On Sunday there will be a gradual transition to milder air and rain.
The warping of space-time was sensed on Christmas Day in the US at the Advanced LIGO laboratories - the same facilities that made the historic first detection in September last year.
Back then, the waves came from two huge coalescing black holes.
This new set of waves, likewise, is ascribed to a black hole merger - but a smaller one.
Reporting the event in the journal Physical Review Letters, the international collaboration that operates LIGO says the two objects involved had masses that were 14 and eight times that of our Sun.
The data indicates the union produced a single black hole of 21 solar masses, meaning they radiated pure energy to space equivalent to the mass of one star of Sun size.
It is this energy, in the form of gravitational waves, that was sensed in the laser interferometers of the LIGO labs in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington State, at 22:38 Eastern Standard Time on 25 December (03:38 GMT, 26 Dec; Boxing Day in Europe).
Ripples in the fabric of space-time
According to UK collaboration member Prof Bernard Schutz of Cardiff University, making a second detection proves the first was not just an isolated event, and that Advanced LIGO really does have the capability to open up a new cosmic realm to investigation.
"It shows the first event wasn't just a fluke. It shows that the Universe is filled with black holes spiralling in together and merging and giving off these huge bursts of gravitational waves quite regularly. It's a violent Universe," he told BBC News.
It has been one big celebration since scientists fulfilled their decades-long quest in September by detecting the warping of space generated from the merger of black holes 29 and 36 times our Sun's mass.
Key LIGO pioneers have been lauded with prizes, and there are very short odds now on the achievement being crowned with a Nobel in October.
But the researchers involved say the effort was never about just the one detection; the dream has always been to use the routine observation of gravitational waves to learn new things about the cosmos. And that is apparent in the latest result.
Because of their lighter mass, the Christmas Day black holes spent more time - about a second - in the sensitive band of the LIGO instruments. The data captures the last 27 revolutions the black holes make around each other.
This has allowed scientists to glean insights about the objects not possible in September, including the realisation that at least one of the progenitor holes was spinning
Theorists have always said black holes should spin, but this is very strong observational evidence for the phenomenon.
"One of the black holes was spinning with the dimensionless number of 0.2," Prof Gabriela González from Louisiana State University, US, told reporters.
"We measure between zero (not spinning) and one (maximally spinning). We can also measure the spin of the final black hole but we expect that black hole to have a spin (because of the merger); we don't know about the original black holes and that's astrophysical information that informs the scenarios for how black holes form."
Significantly for this detection, the new waves had an amplitude that was below the LIGO instruments' noise level, meaning sophisticated algorithms were required to pull out the signal.
As with September's event, the Christmas Day merger occurred approximately 1.4 billion years ago, but little can be said about where exactly on the sky it happened.
The LIGO detectors measured the waves 1.1 milliseconds apart, and comparing these arrival times provides some directional information. However, it is only when the labs start working with the Italian laser interferometer, Virgo, due to start operations later this year, to provide a third point of reference, that better triangulation will be achieved.
The Autumn run of data-taking should also see improvements in sensitivity of 15-25%.
"That may not sound like much but what's important to remember here is that sensitivity is a direct measurement of how far we can see a particular gravitational wave event," explained LIGO executive director, Prof David Reitze.
"And since we increase the distance by which we see an event, we increase the volume by the cube of that number. So, even a modest improvement of 25% in sensitivity gives us a factor of two in event rate."
Given that this initial search immediately threw up two black hole mergers, scientists will be confident of making even more detections in 2016 - and not just of inspiralling black holes.
"There are other discovery targets out there that have always been on our list," said Prof Sheila Rowan from Glasgow University, uk.
"Supernovae - seeing the gravitational signal of a supernova core collapse. It's got fabulous science embedded in there that will tell us about the mechanism - the actual mass collapsing at the centre of a star.
"Pulsars - neutron stars rapidly spinning with a bump on their crust, tracing out a dent in space as they do so. That could carry information about the material from which neutron stars are made. We can't replicate that kind of matter here on Earth."
The collaboration has a "candidate" event on 12 October, but there is insufficient confidence in the data to claim this as an unambiguous detection, says Prof Fulvio Ricci from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
"We don't flag it as a gravitational wave signal; we call it 'LVT', which means LIGO-Virgo Trigger. It's relatively significant. If we were to interpret it as an astrophysical signal, it is the signal coming from the merger of two stellar black holes."
Wednesday's announcement comes a week after the European Space Agency said it was now feasible to fly a gravitational wave observatory in orbit.
Its Lisa Pathfinder mission has been trialling technologies for laser measurement techniques that would work far from Earth. And the performances achieved in the demonstration have easily outstripped the expected requirements.
Having an observatory in space would enable the detection of gravitational waves of different frequencies to those sensed on the ground, including the warping generated by mergers of truly gargantuan black holes - ones that are many millions, even billions, of times the mass of our Sun.
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The trekkers from the Holt School in Wokingham were on a three-week expedition in Ladakh, northern India, organised by Adventure Lifesigns.
They were trapped after five days of rain and rescued by Indian Air Force helicopters on Friday.
Philip Collins, whose child is on the trip, said they "never felt at risk".
He said he had been told his daughter Emily and her fellow trekkers would fly back on Tuesday - two days before she is due to collect her A level results.
"There was no real concern, they were in a safe place and had plenty of supplies.
"We were able to speak to her, they were all fine.
"I think it's been an adventure, they never felt at risk."
A spokesman for Adventure Lifesigns said the group was made up of 20 pupils, three staff and five local guides.
Suzanne Richards, headteacher at the Holt School, said the company running the expedition had been "excellent".
The Indian Ministry of Defence said: "All major rivers in Ladakh region were flowing beyond their danger mark.
"The road and telephone communication was cut-off along most major roads.
"Thankfully, the trekkers had made a temporary 'SOS' sign, this distress signal on ground was instrumental in correctly identifying the location."
The UK Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance and was in contact with local authorities.
Ray Lewis told an ITV documentary that a typed version of his statement referred to fans as being "pissed" when he had originally written "mixed".
He said he feels it was placed there to "give support" to "police actions".
An inquests jury found 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed in the 1989 disaster and fans were not to blame.
In the documentary, Mr Lewis tells journalist Peter Marshall: "When I received the typed-up version it said these spectators were pissed. So they changed the word 'mixed' to 'pissed'.
"The handwriting, I must admit from the police superintendent, isn't particularly good but I'm sure that anyone who would actually look at that would identify the word is definitely not 'pissed'.
"So I just feel it's been placed in there to give support possibly to police actions."
The programme will also reveal that former Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards included allegations of bad behaviour of fans in his statement.
In his statement, Sir Dave described fans shouting lewd comments about a female casualty whose blouse had become unbuttoned. The allegations were also reported in The Sun newspaper.
Programme-makers, who say Sir Dave's description of the apparently dead woman does not match any of the seven women killed in the tragedy, said when they wrote to ask him about his statement their letters were returned unopened.
Two criminal investigations into the disaster, Operation Resolve and the Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry, are due to hand files to the Crown Prosecution Service at the turn of the year.
Hillsborough: Smears, Survivors and the Search for Truth goes out on ITV1 at 22:40 BST on Monday.
Wright, 36, played for Norwich during a loan spell in 2005 and has served Colchester as a player, caretaker manager and coach.
"We would like to thank David for all that he has done," Colchester director of football Tony Humes told the League Two club's website.
"He has helped us set things up within the academy and we wish him well."
Wright, whose playing career also included spells at Ipswich, Crystal Palace, Wigan and Crewe, replaces Graeme Murty, who left Norwich in August for a coaching role at Rangers.
Colchester have placed Liam Bailey in charge of their Under-18 side following Wright's departure.
Curtis Bateson came close for North Ferriby early on, hitting wide when the ball broke to him in the area.
Danny Emerton also had a shot cleared off the line, but Braintree had half-chances of their own in a tight first half.
Steve Housham's visitors carved out further opportunities after the break, and Sam Topliss struck the crossbar with a fierce effort.
Braintree boss Hakan Hayrettin then made an inspirational substitution, bringing on Reece Hall-Johnson on the hour and 18 minutes later, the midfielder netted the winner for the hosts.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Braintree Town 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Goal! Braintree Town 1, North Ferriby United 0. Reece Hall-Johnson (Braintree Town).
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Kendall replaces Curtis Bateson.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Sam Corne replaces Kyron Farrell.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Reece Hall-Johnson replaces Kristopher Twardek.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Matt Dixon replaces Ross Armstrong.
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, North Ferriby United 0.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, North Ferriby United 0.
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After a less experienced GB line-up lost 90-62 behind closed doors on Saturday, coach Joe Prunty restored his frontline players for Sunday's game.
The resulting 78-69 defeat, with Andrew Lawrence top-scoring with 15 points, gave a better indication of GB's improvement this summer.
Their next game comes against Greece at the Copper Box in London on Saturday.
Kavell Bigby-Williams, one of the finds of the summer programme, had 16 points and took 11 rebounds on Saturday as the newer members of squad struggled to match their more experienced hosts.
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On Sunday, the return of starting centre Dan Clark, scoring guard Lawrence and forward Gabe Olaseni had GB in front for most of the first half.
Israel took command of the game with an 18-6 run in the third quarter and although GB closed to 73-66 down with three and a half minutes remaining in the game, a series of missed shots prevented them taking advantage of the opportunity.
"We're improving every week," said GB assistant coach Nate Reinking. "We're coming to London and hopefully we get a great week of practice and we keep doing that, because the goal has to be to peak at the end of August."
Once again, the qualifying system has been tweaked, as captain Thomas Bjorn seeks a line-up to win back the trophy from what seems certain to be an extraordinarily strong American side.
The qualifying period, which stretches from this week's Czech Masters until next year's Made in Denmark tournament, will yield eight players to be supplemented by four captain's wildcard selections.
Of those automatic qualifiers, the first four will come from the European Tour's money list, and the next quartet will be the continent's top accumulators of world ranking points in the qualifying period.
The system is designed to accommodate those who loyally commit to the Tour and elite Europeans such as Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia and Henrik Stenson, who follow a more global schedule based around the PGA Tour in the United States.
With four majors, four World Golf Championships and seven big-money Rolex Series tournaments all counting, this process should reliably yield Europe's top eight players, with the rest coming at Bjorn's discretion.
"I am so close to a lot of the players, many of them are great friends of mine, and I am trying to balance the captaincy with those friendships," said the 46-year-old Dane.
"So many of those relationships extend beyond the Ryder Cup, and I've got to realise that I have got to be a captain of these players and some will be there and some will not.
"I have spoken to a couple of past captains already. I'll try to speak to most of them along the way and gather as much information as I can from them."
The biggest lesson Bjorn can learn from his predecessors is to avoid being swayed by past Ryder Cup reputations.
He is the first European skipper to have four selections, and the onus is on him to assemble the best dozen players to represent their continent.
This should mean taking account of results in the qualifying period more than the conventional wisdom of allowing past heroics in these biennial jousts to sway selection.
Two years ago, few people argued with Darren Clarke picking Lee Westwood, and in 2014 no-one queried Paul McGinley's decision to choose Ian Poulter.
Both had served Europe with distinction.
Poulter (as a relatively in-form wildcard) inspired the 'miracle at Medinah' in 2012, when Europe came from 10-4 down to achieve one their most famous wins. But two years later he won just a single point.
Westwood, meanwhile, went to Hazeltine last year two points short of Sir Nick Faldo's record of 25.
But he failed to add to his tally, losing all three of his matches.
For both, it was a Ryder Cup too far, and the brutal truth is neither were among Europe's top 12 players at the time of their selection.
Russell Knox was 20th in the world when he was overlooked by Clarke. Prior to that, Paul Casey was overlooked in 2010, despite the Englishman being in the world's top 10. Colin Montgomerie went with the experience of Padraig Harrington, who claimed two out of four points at Celtic Manor.
Casey will need to rejoin the European Tour to be eligible for the match at Paris National next year.
The 40-year-old insists he is prioritising his family by sticking with the PGA Tour, and with the birth of his second child imminent there is little to suggest a change in this stance is likely.
Currently ranked 14th in the world, there are only five Europeans ahead of Casey. A brilliant matchplayer, Bjorn would do well to persuade him to rejoin.
Casey, like Knox in 2016, would be behind in the qualifying process because he cannot earn points until he joins the Tour. But this is the sort of scenario for which captain's picks should be used.
Likewise if a leading star has been unable to automatically qualify because of injury, as might have been the case for McIlroy had this been a Ryder Cup year.
Sensibly, there will be a greater weighting for points earned in tournaments in the latter stages of the qualification process to reflect those players in form nearer the time of the match.
Points earned in these tournaments will be multiplied by 1.5 for the two qualification lists, starting in May at BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Bjorn knows he faces the toughest of tasks coming up with a team to maintain Europe's unbroken winning run in home matches, which began 20 years ago at Valderrama.
They are likely to face an American team that contains major-winning talent such as Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Brooks Koepka, as well as the pugnacious Patrick Reed and seemingly permanent top-10 finisher Rickie Fowler.
"I am not worried because I see so much great talent out there and there are still those guys who have lots of experience too," Bjorn said.
"The way it looks today it is going to be a well-balanced team, I would like to think."
But who can we expect to represent Europe in France next year?
The four most likely automatic qualifiers from the world rankings are McIlroy, Spanish sensation Jon Rahm, Masters champion Garcia and last year's Open winner Henrik Stenson.
This would leave an almighty scramble for the four spots from the Order of Merit - Justin Rose, Alex Noren, Tommy Fleetwood, Francesco Molinari, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Thomas Pieters, a resurgent Poulter, Martin Kaymer, Matt Fitzpatrick, Chris Wood, Danny Willett, Knox, Ross Fisher, Jordan Smith and Alexander Levy could all be in the mix.
It is clear Bjorn will have plenty of options from when it comes to his wildcard selections. It could be an onerous and controversial process, depending on the form of the leading lights over the next 12 months.
But, for what it's worth, this is how I see Europe lining up in Paris: McIlroy, Rahm, Garcia, Stenson, Rose, Noren, Fleetwood, Cabrera Bello, Pieters, Fitzpatrick, Levy and Smith.
Five rookies, I know, but if they are the men in form, go with them.
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The only way he could generate power was by using a kerosene-powered generator. This was dirty, smelly and dangerous.
But now things are different.
Mr Kibet, a farmer with 15 acres of commercial land on the outskirts of Kitale, has switched to solar-generated electricity which he pays for using his mobile phone.
"I saw it can save you a lot of money," he told the BBC. "It's improved my life, for now I don't use kerosene anymore - I have my own light. And it's bright."
This combination of solar technology and mobile micro-payments is being rolled out across Kenya by a company called M-Kopa Solar.
More than 70,000 households have signed up so far, with 1,000 more joining every week, the company says. And take-up is spreading into neighbouring Uganda.
M-Kopa hopes to be in a million homes by 2018.
"Kerosene is a terrible thing to have to burn in your home - expensive, dirty, unhealthy and ultimately not very bright," explains M-Kopa co-founder Jesse Moore.
"I've never met a customer who likes kerosene, which makes for a great starting point for building our business."
A typical domestic set-up includes a 4W or 5W solar photovoltaic panel, lights, a mobile phone charging point, and an optional rechargeable radio.
Now Mr Kibet only uses kerosene for lighting cooking fires. "M-Kopa is cheaper," he says.
Households buy the system through the M-Pesa mobile payment platform set up by mobile operators Vodafone and Safaricom.
After putting down a deposit of 2,999 Kenyan shillings (Ksh) - about ??20 - householders then pay 50Ksh a day for a year until they own the kit outright.
This compares with the 17,000Ksh a year off-grid households spend on kerosene, says Safaricom boss Bob Collymore.
The solar panels contain embedded SIM cards that can communicate with M-Kopa's control centre.
"Each and every customer's solar energy system is connected to M-Kopanet allowing us to monitor its performance, troubleshoot issues, as well as control its operational state," says co-founder Nick Hughes, who also led the Vodafone team behind M-Pesa.
"We can disable systems remotely if payments are missed, or reactivate them when customers catch up," he adds.
But the default rate on payments is just 5%, the company says.
Through the M-Pesa system - "pesa" means money in Swahili - people can pay bills simply by sending a text message to the recipient stating the amount that needs to be paid. The recipient can then redeem the money at an M-Pesa agent.
"M-Pesa is a stand-out example of how technology can solve problems - in this case how to move cash over distances quickly, securely and in an affordable way," Mr Hughes told the BBC.
"Today, M-Pesa is seven years old, and does hundreds of transactions a second. It has changed the way money moves in Kenya."
About 25% of Kenya's gross domestic product is thought to flow through the platform.
Mr Kibet is one of a growing number of people in developing economies who have leap-frogged traditional computing technologies and gone straight to mobile for accessing the internet.
According to mobile industry body GSMA, the number of mobile phone subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa - currently more than 250 million - is forecast to rise to nearly 350 million by 2017.
Access to fixed-line phones at home is less than 5% in the region, but almost all households have access to a basic mobile.
And now smartphones are growing fast in popularity, too. They accounted for 67% of mobile sales in Kenya between 2013 and 2014, says Safaricom, and more than 100,000 are being bought each month.
This mobile revolution is presenting a blank canvas for new technologies, says Mr Hughes.
"Perhaps the biggest difference in Africa that I find hugely exciting is the opportunity to build innovative services without tackling the inertia of legacy systems," he says.
Mobile is also helping provide better, more sustainable water supplies for Africa.
For example, Mobile Water for Development, a project based at the University of Oxford, undertakes a number of studies to try to improve rural access to water through mobile technology.
Projects have included a one-year study into "smart handpumps" - water pumps that can transmit their operational status via embedded mobile technology.
According to some estimates, a third of handpumps in Africa don't work at any one time.
Data collected from these smart pumps reveal usage patterns that then alert water companies when it looks like a pump isn't working.
They can then send out engineers quickly to fix the pumps before villagers are forced to resort to dirtier sources of water.
In another example, a water company in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, teamed up with telecoms firms Vodacom and Zain - later Airtel Money - in 2009 to introduce mobile payment services for water.
Since then, mobile payment services have blossomed in sub-Saharan Africa, with water companies using payments services including M-Pesa, Airtel Money, and MTN Mobile Money.
Ineffective billing and payment collection has been costing the African water industry $500m (??300m) a year, according to the World Bank.
But studies have shown that making payments easier helps reduce corruption and improve revenue and data collection per customer, thereby enabling water companies to invest more in their services and operate them more efficiently.
This is crucial in a continent where reliable supplies of clean drinking water are often hard to come by.
Mobile is helping to spread sustainable technologies throughout Africa, and changing lives for the better.
The Clarets ensured an instant Premier League return by beating QPR 1-0 on Monday and match-winner Sam Vokes tapped in the opener after a fine move.
Goals by George Boyd and Andre Gray wrapped up the win after the break.
But irate Addicks fans were more concerned with their continued protests against owner Roland Duchatelet.
Head coach Riga's resignation, just five months into an 18-month contract, came within 30 minutes of their 24th Championship defeat of a miserable season on and off the pitch.
Charlton campaign group Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet said they were fighting for the "very soul" of the club and organised protests before and during the game, with numerous banners being unfurled and objects thrown on to the pitch.
Fans prevented cars getting into the car park before the match and - although the club put up netting - beach balls, toilet rolls and various other items were hurled on to the pitch in the early stages.
In the second half, with their side 3-0 behind, the anti-Duchatelet chanting increased and a couple of flares disrupted play.
But the atmosphere among the home fans was in stark contrast to the travelling supporters, who were able to celebrate a 26th league win of the season.
Middlesbrough's 1-1 draw against Brighton meant Burnley would have been assured of the title even with a defeat at The Valley.
Despite riding their luck in the first period as goalkeeper Tom Heaton made excellent low saves to deny Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Callum Harriott, the Clarets ended up convincing winners.
Stephen Ward had helped set them on their way before the interval, teeing up a simple 15th goal of the season for Vokes after a fine one-two with Scott Arfield.
And Ward was also involved in the second goal, when his run and centre found Boyd who smashed the ball home from eight yards four minutes after the break.
Gray added a third - his 25th of the season - when he made the most of his own poor control to race away and finish with a low strike across goal.
Burnley's players were deprived of the chance to lift the Championship trophy at the end of the match because of concerns over crowd control at The Valley.
But they celebrated with an inflatable replica on the pitch and will get their hands on the prize itself when it is presented at a civic reception at Burnley Town Hall on Monday, 9 May.
The players will then carry the trophy on the open-top bus parade through the town at 19:00 BST.
Boss Sean Dyche said the decision was "disappointing". He added: "But the main thing is we know. We don't need the medals. The medal is my brain. I know it is there.
"This squad is ready to attempt to stay in the Premier league because it's a massive challenge."
Charlton head coach Jose Riga, who resigned after the match:
"It's not necessarily about going down to League One - and I am not a liar. I have taken this decision a few days ago. Even before that it was down to what I saw and could feel.
"Everybody can recognise my investment in Charlton the first time I was here and this time.
"It's not that I think I'm better than League One. You succeed in a season before the season when you have the right choices. But it's more than just about players - it's the club structure."
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Match ends, Charlton Athletic 0, Burnley 3.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 0, Burnley 3.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Joey Barton.
Attempt blocked. El-Hadji Ba (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ademola Lookman.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Tom Heaton.
Attempt saved. Morgan Fox (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Yun Suk-Young.
Attempt saved. Lloyd Dyer (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dean Marney.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. El-Hadji Ba replaces Ahmed Kashi.
Offside, Burnley. Ben Mee tries a through ball, but Andre Gray is caught offside.
Substitution, Burnley. Michael Duff replaces Michael Keane.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Morgan Fox.
Jordan Cousins (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dean Marney (Burnley).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Yun Suk-Young replaces Callum Harriott because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Charlton Athletic).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Callum Harriott (Charlton Athletic).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Charlton Athletic).
Igor Vetokele (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joey Barton (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. Lloyd Dyer replaces Scott Arfield.
Callum Harriott (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Callum Harriott (Charlton Athletic).
Joey Barton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Ben Mee.
Attempt blocked. Callum Harriott (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ademola Lookman.
Ahmed Kashi (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joey Barton (Burnley).
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Johnnie Jackson replaces Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Burnley. Ashley Barnes replaces Sam Vokes.
Attempt missed. Igor Vetokele (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Cousins with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Igor Vetokele (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Morgan Fox with a cross.
Alou Diarra (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andre Gray (Burnley).
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Morgan Fox.
The group arrived on Saturday on a ship from Belgium and were said by police to be victims of "people trafficking".
One man was found dead and the others were taken to hospital to be treated for severe dehydration and hypothermia.
The 30 people released to police include nine men and eight women aged between 18 and 72.
They have been brought to a makeshift reception centre set up inside the terminal buildings at Tilbury Docks.
Police said they are "being spoken to about their ordeal" before they are passed on to the UK Border Force.
The other four people discovered in the container remain at Southend Hospital.
Essex Police said the stowaways are to be interviewed to find out how they came to be inside the container.
Police launched a homicide investigation following the death of the man, who is thought to be in his 40s.
A post-mortem examination was carried out on Sunday but police say further tests need to be undertaken to establish the cause of death.
The container is being forensically examined, they added.
Officers are working with Interpol and other international authorities to try to establish what happened.
Supt Trevor Roe of Essex Police said: "The welfare and health of the people is our priority at this stage.
"Now they are well enough, our officers and colleagues from the Border Force will be speaking to them via interpreters so we can piece together what happened and how they came to be in the container.
"We now understand that they are from Afghanistan and are of the Sikh faith.
"We have had a good deal of help from partners within the local Sikh community in the Tilbury area to ensure that these poor people, who would have been through a horrific ordeal, are supported in terms of their religious and clothing needs."
The Red Cross provided food and welfare for the group overnight.
Immigration lawyer Harjap Singh Bhangal told the BBC that the Sikh community in Afghanistan had long complained of harassment.
He said the number of Sikh families had been "dwindling" and they faced verbal and physical abuse.
He said: "As a result Sikhs are leaving Afghanistan, and they feel persecuted, and they're leaving for other countries in Europe such as Germany, France and the UK."
The history of Sikhs in Afghanistan goes back about two centuries. In the 1970s they are thought to have numbered about 200,000, with most living side-by-side with other communities in cities like Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar and involved in the fabrics and clothing business.
But the population is now thought to number less than 5,000. After the Soviet invasion in 1980, a great number migrated to India. A second phase of migration took place after the fall of communist government in 1992. And during the civil war that followed, Sikh business and homes were occupied. They were forced to leave the country with other minorities, including Hindus.
During the Taliban era, Sikhs gained some independence. However, they were forced to wear yellow patches in order to be "recognised or differentiated" from other Afghans.
After the US invasion in 2001, Sikhs were given more freedom by Hamid Karzai's new government. But even now they are in dispute with the government over their custom of holding outdoor cremations.
Until recently, Sikhs did not have any representation in the Afghan Parliament. However, last year President Karzai allocated a seat for them, which will be shared with a Hindu representative.
The discovery was made after the container arrived from the Belgian village of Zeebrugge at about 06:00 BST on Saturday when "screaming and banging" were heard coming from inside.
All the remaining containers on the ship have been searched and no-one else has been found.
Essex Police said there were initial concerns more people could be inside a container that arrived at Purfleet but that this turned out not to be the case.
Belgian police said they believed the lorry which delivered the container in Zeebrugge had been identified through CCTV footage.
Chief Inspector Peter De Waele said it was likely the people were already inside the container when it was dropped at Zeebrugge as it appeared "impossible" the group could have entered it during the hour it was at the port.
It is not known where the container, one of 64 aboard the P&O commercial vessel Norstream, originated, nor where the people inside it were heading.
Former head of the UK Border Force Tony Smith said those inside the container were victims of international organised criminals.
He told the BBC: "They're being exploited because the prize is a passage to the West - that's what they want, they want to migrate to the UK or to Europe but they're being exploited by criminal gangs who are probably taking their entire life savings away on the promise of a passage to the West.
"We really need to get a message out to migrants that if they want to come to this country there are legal routes that they need to explore and they need to apply for visas and permits."
Anthony Steen, chairman of the Human Trafficking Foundation, said: "It shows how desperate people are to improve their economic situation - how desperate they are to leave their own homes, and own countries, and hope to arrive in somewhere that's more accommodating, more kind, and offering them a better quality of life. Usually, they're sadly wrong."
Police have set up a "casualty bureau" hotline for anyone concerned about relatives. The numbers are 0800 056 0944 or 0207 158 0010 if dialling from outside the UK.
After hearing of the attack, beautician Katie Cutler set up an online donation page with the aim of raising just £500 - but the cause went viral.
Mr Barnes is not the only person whose story has spurred on the UK general public to spontaneously donate. Here are some other examples:
The cause? Marathon-runner Claire Squires set out to raise £500 for the charity Samaritans by taking part in the London Marathon in 2012. Sadly, she collapsed and died on the final stretch of the race. The 30-year-old hairdresser from North Kilworth, Leicestershire, had decided to donate to Samaritans because her mother Cilla Squires had volunteered there for 24 years.
How it caught on? Miss Squires' story appeared in the national press and news of her online donation page went viral on social media networks Facebook and Twitter. Within days of her death, donations to Samaritans on her JustGiving page had exceeded £600,000.
What happened next? Her death led to a grand total of more than £1m being given to the charity. More than 600 people attended her funeral.
The cause? Before his death in May 2014, 19-year-old Stephen Sutton, who had cancer, launched an appeal to raise £10,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
How it caught on? Stephen's campaign attracted global attention after a photo of the teenager went viral online. At one stage it accrued £60,000 in just over two hours as people retweeted and posted his story on Facebook and Twitter.
What happened next? Stephen's campaign received about 340,000 donations and the eventual total raised for the trust reached almost £5m. Stephen was awarded a posthumous MBE.
The cause? Malaysian accountancy student Ashraf Rossli had been in the UK for just a month when he was attacked during the riots in London in 2012 - and then robbed by people pretending to help him.
How it caught on? Footage of the incident, which left him with a broken jaw, was recorded on a mobile phone and posted on YouTube. It caused widespread anger, and an online donation page was set to up and raised £22,000 for Mr Rossli.
What happened next? Mr Rossli said he would give half the money to causes that helped victims of violence. Two men were initially jailed for robbing him, but their convictions were subsequently overturned by a Court of Appeal judge.
The cause? Robert Berry, 42, died while taking part in the London Marathon in 2014. He had initially set out to raise £1,700 for the National Osteoporosis Society, because his mother was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 52.
How it caught on? Within hours of his name being confirmed by race sponsors, Mr Berry's own online donation page started to accrue thousands of donations, as links to it were shared on Twitter and Facebook. In total more than £77,000 was raised for the cause - almost 45 times the original target.
The cause? More than £2m was raised for Manchester Dogs' Home after it was destroyed by a fire on 11 September 2014. More than 150 dogs were rescued from the blaze, but some 60 animals died.
How it caught on? People took to Twitter to post photos of themselves with their dogs - using the hashtag #dogselfie among others - to raise awareness of the fire. Hundreds of animal lovers also arrived at the scene to bring blankets, dog food and other supplies. An official online JustGiving page raised £500,000 for the home in under 17 hours.
What happened next? The money was used to rebuild the kennels at the home, which was established in 1893 and cares for more than 7,000 dogs each year. Two boys aged 15 and 17 were arrested on suspicion of arson, but were later released without charge.
The cause? Susan Taylor died aged 34 after trying to swim across the English Channel in July 2013. She initially set out to raise money for both Diabetes UK and Rainbows Hospice in Loughborough.
How it caught on? Ms Taylor's campaign was picked up on social media and interest in it spread as her death was widely reported in the national press. Her story compelled thousands of people to leave a donation and, to date, more than £100,000 has been given to the charities.
What happened next? Ms Taylor's family and the charities thanked the public for their generosity. However the family also said they had been left "disappointed and upset" after a £300,000 donation left in her memory proved to be a hoax.
The cause? Alan, 67, broke his collarbone when he was pushed to the ground and mugged outside his Tyneside home on 25 January. Following the incident, Katie Cutler set up a donation page on the website gofundme.com, with the aim of raising £500 for the pensioner.
How it caught on? As news of Alan's attack spread and was reported in the press, Ms Cutler's target was quickly surpassed. By 19:00 GMT on 31 January, it had reached £165,644. By midday on Monday 2 February, it stood at almost £300,000 - with more than 22,500 people donating.
What's next? Alan has vowed to put the money "to good use" and is receiving financial advice.
The body of 36-year-old Andrew Bow was found at a house in the city last Wednesday.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) will examine how officers responded to initial concerns about the property's occupant.
In 2013, police in Edinburgh were criticised three times for the way they dealt with cases of vulnerable men.
The commissioner recommended additional training for officers.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner has been instructed by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to carry out an independent investigation after the body of Andrew Bow, 36, was discovered at a residential address in Edinburgh on 23 March 2016.
"The investigation will focus on the initial police response leading up to the incident, which included a report of concern about the welfare of the occupant of the property.
"A report on the commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course."
Two fire crews were called to the house in Mynyddislwyn Close, Pontllanfraith, near Blackwood, at 04:50 BST on Friday and the blaze was extinguished.
The ground floor of the property was set alight deliberately, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.
Fire investigators were due to return to the scene on Friday morning.
Porthcawl Harbourside said work should begin in mid 2017, with the building expected to open by 2018 or 2019.
It will house water sport and exercise facilities, a coastal science centre, a cafe and an outdoor theatre.
The project was awarded a £1.1m Big Lottery grant in October.
The money will go towards developing the land, which is owned by Bridgend council.
Porthcawl Harbourside was formed by a collaboration between the Welsh Surfing Federation and Porthcawl Sea Cadets with involvement from two of the now-directors, town councillor and former mayor Mike Clarke and Stuart Bentley, a resident with a background in architecture.
Mr Clarke said the Cosy Corner site where the centre would be built - named after the former Cosy Cinema which stood on the area along with a skating rink - will reflect its history as a "bustling centre of activity and a magnet for tourists".
Operations director Mark Bryant told BBC Wales the group expected to get to the procurement stage "this side of Christmas" when an invitation to tender would go out to find a contractor to build the centre.
According to Mr Bryant, support from the local community has been "incredible".
"We couldn't have done it without them. They've been instrumental in getting it off the ground," he said.
"We're working with the Chamber of Commerce to the Civic Trust to the YMCA. They've all been really supportive.
"The whole town has really come together behind it."
He said a key philosophy behind the project, which is run on a not-for-profit basis, was social benefits for the whole community. The centre is aiming to offer 50 full-time equivalent jobs.
The site will offer a coastal maritime science and discovery centre, including environmental, culture, local history and community learning in partnership with Swansea University, and a public viewing gallery nicknamed the crow's nest with a camera obscura - which allows people to look out to sea - and facilities for lifeguards and emergency services.
The National Governing Body of Surfing in Wales and the Sea Cadets will be based there, along with a Welsh surf museum, a gym, training pool, water sport facilities with toilets and shower facilities and conference space for up to 100 people.
There will also be an indoor gallery and an outdoor amphitheatre, along with office space, accommodation and a cafe/bistro open into the evening, which Mr Bryant said would be a training cafe offering opportunities for catering students.
The harbour area of the town is one of the places where work has progressed in recent years, while other schemes to regenerate the town centre have stalled.
In a separate development, work began in September on restoring the Grade II-listed Jennings building which has overlooked the harbour for more than 180 years.
The developers, ABA Holdings, are converting it into commercial units, with a theatre-style restaurant and bar and 13 home studios with bedrooms which will allow people to live and work on site.
Those units are already rented, according to the council.
Responses from the local community have been positive in the main, although there have been some concerns raised about a lack of parking associated with the project.
Jo Richards, whose family has run Walters Shoes in Porthcawl for 140 years, said the project was a "great thing" for the town.
"I think it will be great for footfall in the town, which a small town like Porthcawl always needs," she said.
"There hasn't been any major non-commercial development for a long time. Almost everyone has welcomed it."
Sophie Evans, who works at the Marine Hotel on the seafront, said: "I think it's a good idea because it will bring more people to Porthcawl. Particularly if it brings more people in the winter months, because that's when we need people.
"It will will be good to have something there because when my parents were younger it was busy. It doesn't seem like it's used much."
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Set 322 for victory after Shikhar Dhawan's century, Danushka Gunathilaka (76) and Kusal Mendis (89) shared a stand of 159 before both were run out.
Kusal Perera's 47 off 44 balls put Sri Lanka on top until he retired injured.
But Angelo Matthews (52 not out) and Asela Gunaratne (34 not out) saw their side home with eight balls to spare.
It is Sri Lanka's joint-highest successful run chase in one-day internationals, having also surpassed 322 to beat England at Headingley in 2006.
Every side in Group B can still qualify for the semi-finals, with each team having taken one win and one defeat from their first two games.
India face South Africa at The Oval on Sunday, and Sri Lanka take on Pakistan in Cardiff the following day.
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Having posted more than 300 for the second straight game, India were firm favourites at the halfway point against an inexperienced Sri Lanka batting line-up who subsided to a 96-run defeat by South Africa in their opening game.
Opener Niroshan Dickwella did little to dispel that notion as his jittery innings was quickly ended for seven, top-edging Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Ravindra Jadeja to leave Sri Lanka on 11-1.
Having consolidated to reach 44-1 off 10 overs, Gunathilaka counter-attacked, slugging Hardik Pandya for six to bring up a 47-ball fifty before Mendis followed suit, targeting Jadeja to also bring up his half-century by clearing the ropes.
The chase threatened to stutter when Gunathilaka failed to make his ground attempting an ill-advised second run, before Kumar reacted superbly off his own bowling to throw down the stumps with a hesitant Mendis stranded.
Kusal Perera ensured Sri Lanka stayed up with the required run rate, bravely labouring on after pulling his hamstring before he was finally forced from the field at the end of the 43rd over, with 51 needed off 42 balls.
Captain Mathews, playing his first ODI since August 2016 following a recent calf strain, calmly took up the charge though and Gunaratne's entertaining late cameo ensured Sri Lanka eased to an upset victory that perhaps reinvigorated the tournament after several rain-affected matches.
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Dhawan displayed a shrewd balance of attack and defence in reaching his 10th ODI century, accumulating sensibly and using the pull and cut shots to pounce on anything wayward from an underwhelming Sri Lanka attack.
He shared an opening stand of 138 with Rohit Sharma (78) before his partner steered Lasith Malinga straight to Thisara Perera and Nuwan Pradeep removed Virat Kohli for a rare duck shortly after. Dhawan responded with five boundaries in quick succession.
Although Sri Lanka then stifled India for a spell, Dhawan brought up his century with a trademark late cut off Pradeep in the 40th over before finally holing out for 125 as MS Dhoni (63) and Kemar Jadhav (25) then combined to pass 300.
Despite having drifted in and out of the India side during his career, Dhawan, 31, is now the third-fastest batsman to reach 10 one-day centuries, taking 77 innings, behind South Africa pair Quinton de Kock (55) and Hashim Amla (57).
He is also the epitome of consistency in the Champions Trophy, becoming only the fourth player in the history of the tournament to hit three centuries, after Chris Gayle, Herschelle Gibbs and Sourav Ganguly, and also averages 79 in one-day games in England.
It seems counter-intuitive to question the batting power of a side that set a target of more than 300, but this result perhaps highlights flaws in India's batting approach.
While their bowling was poor - Jadeja in particular was expensive as Kohli even resorted to bringing himself on - and Sri Lanka's skilled chase was a surprise, the reigning champions ultimately did not compile enough runs on a good pitch.
They followed a familiar plan of not losing a wicket in the first 10 overs before accelerating towards the end. But though they scored 103 in the final 10 overs, they had failed to push on at key times against Sri Lanka's part-time bowlers Gunathilaka and Gunaratne.
"India should have got 350 today - it's what the situation, the pitch, the Sri Lankan bowling, and the short boundary dictated," said Test Match Special analyst Simon Hughes.
"They are still very orthodox in the way they bat. They have got exhilarating players but not many of them play unusual shots.
"In recent years they have often scored over 300 but a lot of those scores have only been just over 300. Their run rate is 5.78 over the last two years and England's for example is 6.28.
"The team that wins this tournament will need to be more creative and get well over six an over - England are a bit more adventurous with the bat and that may be the factor that decides the tournament."
In 46 matches since the 2015 World Cup, England have scored over 350 on 14 occasions - including two innings over 400 - while India have cleared 350 twice in 29 matches, although both those instances came against England in January.
Sri Lanka batsman Dinesh Gunathilaka speaking to TMS: "India are a big team and we're really happy to beat them. Before the match, we spoke about working hard and we did that really well today. We have a good chance to qualify now so we look forward to the Pakistan game."
India batsman Shikhar Dhawan, speaking to TMS: "Sri Lanka played really good cricket. They knew the target and attacked us. We could have bowled better. Once I got out, I thought maybe we scored too slowly. We lost quick wickets and our run-rate went down.
"One bad match can happen anytime. If we need to change the first XI, that's the captain's job but we don't have to panic. We've been playing some good, consistent cricket.
"It's a big game against South Africa - do or die - so we're going to come back fresh and in a positive frame of mind."
He said he had listened to critics of the planned cuts and was "able to help" because the economy is stronger.
Economists claim low paid families will still be out of pocket due to other changes announced on Wednesday.
Labour's John McDonnell has meanwhile lashed out at "hypocrites" who mocked him for brandishing Chairman Mao's Little Red Book in the Commons.
The shadow chancellor insisted he was being "ironic" and the stunt, during his response to Mr Osborne's Spending Review, had raised an important issue about the sale of UK assets to China in a "flamboyant and jocular" way.
However, he did apologise to a former prisoner in a Maoist labour camp who said she found his use of the communist dictator's words "chilling".
Mr Osborne is touring the media studios to defend his Spending Review and Autumn Statement, which included a total of £21.5bn cuts to a string of Whitehall departments and £12bn in welfare cuts.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Osborne denied the government was being pushed around by its opponents.
He insisted that his central judgement - to save £12bn in welfare spending by 2020 - was the right one but that "people raised concerns and I listened to them".
Improved public finances and a stronger economy have enabled him to "smooth the transition" to a lower welfare, higher wage economy, he added.
But the Spending Review was "not an end to difficult decisions" and he said that government departments still faced difficult choices.
The chancellor was forced to rethink plans to cut £4.4bn from tax credits from April after they were rejected by the House of Lords.
Both the SNP and Labour claim scrapping tax credit cuts was a victory for their parties, who had called for them to be reversed, but they said a fresh squeeze on housing benefits announced on Wednesday and the move to Universal Credit will hit low paid families.
The Resolution Foundation think tank has calculated that once the welfare cuts work their way through, working households on Universal Credit, the replacement for tax credits will lose an average of £1,200 in 2020, rising to £1,300 for those with children. For some families, they say, the loss will be as much as £3,000.
The think tank has also worked out that families at the bottom half will lose on average, £650 from all of the changes made in the Summer Budget and the Autumn Statement.
Overall police spending will be protected in real terms, amounting to an increase of £900m in cash terms by 2019/20, although this also depends on income from local precepts - money raised through council tax by individual forces.
Local councils will also be allowed to levy and extra 2% on council tax to pay for social care.
Analysis by the Office for Budget Responsibility suggests householders are set to pay £2.7bn more in council tax by 2020/2, despite a Conservative manifesto promise to help keep council taxes low.
Other revenue-raising measures included a new 3% surcharge on stamp duty for the purchase of second homes and buy-to-let rental properties.
Other Spending Review announcements include:
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But food lovers in Cardiff will have to do just that if they want to dine at a planned new restaurant - it will be in a prison and will be run by offenders.
If given the go-ahead by planners, HMP Cardiff fine-dining eaterie will be set up by the Clink Charity to help prisoners gain qualifications.
Diners will be searched before being cooked for and served by the inmates.
They will also have to submit an inquiry form when booking a table, which is then vetted by security, and have to bring photographic identification and hand over their mobile phones when arriving at the restaurant.
The aim of the Clink Charity, which was started by professional chef Alberto Crisci, is to reduce re-offending rates of ex-offenders by training and placing graduates upon their release into the hospitality industry.
It already runs a Clink restaurant in Sutton, Surrey and is looking for sites for new prison restaurants.
Cardiff council's planning committee has received an application to turn the jail's former visitor centre - a detached building within the prison boundary - into a restaurant.
Prisoners would work in the restaurant as cooks, waiters and cleaners, gaining City and Guilds, NVQ's and BIC's qualifications.
They will serve three course meals of fresh Welsh produce grown at an organic farm at HMP Prescoed in Usk, Monmouthshire.
Tables, chairs and other items of furniture used in the dining room will be manufactured by prisoners and they will also contribute poetry and art for the walls.
The only real difference compared to more normal restaurants is that alcohol will be off the menu and the cutlery will be plastic.
The planning application said that the plan "aims to provide a genuine opportunity for re training and life changing skill sets to offenders".
"The Clink offers prisoners the chance to gain food preparation, front of house service and cleaning qualifications," it added.
"Also, it provides first hand valuable experience within an exciting, dynamic business environment."
It said that the reoffending rate in the first year of release from prison is estimated to be around 50%.
But Clink has reduced this reoffending rate amongst its graduates to 20%.
The first Clink restaurant in Sutton three years ago within the walls of HMP High Down has so far trained 85 prisoners.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "Prisons should be places of hard work that address the root causes of offending behaviour and where prisoners pay their debt to society.
"Skills learned through schemes like this increase the likelihood of prisoners getting a job on release - which reduces the chances of them reoffending - and allows deductions from their wages to be used for victims' services."
Cardiff Prison is a category B local / training prison - for those who do not require maximum security, but for whom escape needs to be made very difficult - and has a capacity for over 780 male adult prisoners.
According to the Ministry of Justice website, the number of life-sentenced prisoners has increased to 96.
There were about 20 cancellations on the Liverpool Street to Stansted rail line after a tree fell on to overhead power lines near Bishop's Stortford.
Storm winds brought a tree down on to overhead wires which caught fire between Harpenden and St Albans.
This has led to disruption between Bedford and London St Pancras.
Thameslink, which runs this service, said disruption was likely to continue until midday.
Abellio Greater Anglia said its services to Stansted Airport and Cambridge had been hit by the storm.
The company added that a train fault had also led to a number of trains on the Liverpool Street to Norwich route in the morning being cancelled.
Abellio Greater Anglia currently runs the Greater Anglia franchise and runs services to Stansted Airport, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Suffolk.
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But negative attitudes towards disabled people, at least in the corporate world, are slowly beginning to change.
We hear from three employees with disabilities at India's Lemon Tree Hotels.
The group has hired people with speech and hearing impairments, physical disabilities and Down's syndrome in all 27 of its hotels across India.
It has also made sign language compulsory for all its employees.
Filmed/edited by Prem Boominathan, produced by Shilpa Kannan
And chancellor George Osborne said it was "another major step forward" for the UK as the western hub of Chinese finance.
But what does it actually mean? And what will change as a result of the deal? We answer five key questions.
It's how financial instruments such as shares, bonds and currencies are often traded. A clearing house essentially acts as the middleman between two different parties.
It makes it easier for the trades to take place by removing much of the risk. If one of the parties goes bust mid-transaction then the clearing house steps in to complete it.
To ensure it can do this, the clearing house takes assets from the parties seeking to trade which it uses as collateral for such an event.
"Because it makes sense," says Steven Barrow, head of G10 strategy at Standard Bank.
He points out that London is already the world's biggest market for global foreign exchange, which in total sees some $5 trillion exchanged every day.
London also already accounts for two thirds of all renminbi payments outside of China and Hong Kong, according to George Osborne,
Having a London-based clearing bank means European firms will be able to both make and receive renminbi payments in the western time zone, making such transactions easier, quicker and cheaper.
And choosing London as the base for the first clearing bank outside Asia for the Chinese currency, puts it in pole position to become the leading Western centre for offshore renminbi trading, and ahead of potential rivals such as New York, Paris and Frankfurt.
Initially not a lot. As Mr Barrow says this deal is "evolutionary not revolutionary".
"Imagine going to Spain and not being able to buy euros directly, but instead having to buy dollars and then convert those into euros," says Mr Barrow. "Trading directly will make things a lot easier."
It will also lower transaction costs between the two countries, and Simon Derrick, head of currency research at Bank of New York Mellon, says it should also lead to more deals.
"It will allow Chinese investors to invest elsewhere and mean UK investors can invest more freely in China," he says.
It will also enable the UK to benefit from China's rapidly expanding economic growth. It currently has an 11.5% share of the global export market. Standard Chartered expects this to double in size by 2020, meaning the importance of the renminbi will grow.
Ultimately, this,as Mr Osborne says, should create new jobs and further investment in the UK. "We need to make sure China's currency, as it emerges onto the world stage, is used and traded here as that will not only be good for China, but good for UK jobs and investment too," he says.
The new generation of leaders, who took the reins at the end of 2012, have made it clear that they want to reform China's financial system, and as part of this want to make it easier for China to invest abroad and for China to receive foreign investment.
"This announcement is symbolic of their new intentions. China's government is making it clear that it's open for business," says Mr Derrick.
Enabling direct foreign-exchange market deals between the renminbi and the British pound should increase bilateral trade.
This says Mr Derrick will allow Chinese markets to become more balanced, potentially ironing out local bubbles which exist in parts of China's property market.
Beng-Hong Lee, head of markets, China for Deutsche Bank, says being able to directly trade sterling and renminbi will improve transparency, and "help lay the foundation for the use of the renminbi as a new global currency".
And having a global currency will make it easier for China to both export and import, with more countries willing to accept renminbi-denominated deals.
Mr Derrick suggests a further underlying reason is to remove the exchange risk with the US dollar, saying China could be concerned that the Federal Reserve's printing of money to stimulate growth could devalue the dollar.
"It wants people in China to feel comfortable their currency won't be devalued," he says.
Actually, both names are perfectly good, but in slightly different ways.
"Renminbi" is the official name of the currency introduced by the Communist People's Republic of China at the time of its foundation in 1949. It means "the people's currency".
"Yuan" is the name of a unit of the renminbi currency. Something may cost one yuan or 10 yuan. It would not be correct to say that it cost 10 renminbi.
An analogy can be drawn with "pound sterling" (the official name of the British currency) and "pound" - a denomination of the pound sterling. Something may cost £1 or £10. It would not be correct to say that it cost 10 sterling.
The Brooklyn Zoo event at Lakota, in Stokes Croft, Bristol, invited people to pay homage to their favourite rapper with "murky face paint" and toy guns.
The club apologised saying it took "immediate steps" after its Twitter feed became "full of complaints".
The promoter has yet to respond but on its Facebook page has requested outfits are kept "appropriate".
The Dead Rappers Halloween Party was promoted by Brooklyn Zoo as a chance to "pay homage to your favourite rapper that ain't with us no more".
Clubbers were invited to "get involved" with "fake blud, hella bling, murky face paint 'n a toy gun".
Bristol University student Juliette Motamed said: "The 'murky paint' - are they implying black face or are they just explicitly saying it but trying not to get caught out?
"And who thinks "Dead Rappers" is an appropriate genre."
Chante Joseph tweeted Bristol City Council asking it to investigate the "racist Halloween event" and said she hoped "students dressed in black face" would not be allowed in.
While Damilola Odelola tweeted that "even if they're not [in black face], this is extremely racist".
But Lakota said it had not agreed the theme or the way it was promoted and apologised for "any offence that has been caused".
"It wasn't until we started receiving complaints that I took a look at the advertising and immediately got on the phone with the promoter," said Marti Burgess, Lakota's owner.
"The whole concept of people dressing up and painting their faces - we've been through that as a country and as a society - it's not appropriate."
The event is still due to go ahead as a Halloween Hip Hop Night and promoter Brooklyn Zoo has said on its Facebook page that "any outfit that's deemed offensive, racist or inappropriate in any way will not be granted entry at all".
He said he voluntarily went to a police station to accept the caution as "it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months".
Scotland Yard earlier confirmed that a 70-year-old man "accepted a caution for assault" on Monday afternoon.
Celebrity chef Ms Lawson has not commented.
According to London's Evening Standard, Mr Saatchi said: "Although Nigella made no complaint, I volunteered to go to Charing Cross station and take a police caution after a discussion with my lawyer because I thought it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months."
Mr Saatchi had reportedly said on Monday that the photos in the Sunday People showed "a playful tiff".
Announcing the caution late on Monday night, Scotland Yard said "officers from the community safety unit at Westminster were aware of the Sunday People article which was published on Sunday 16 June and carried out an investigation".
The photos were taken about a week ago in London, at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair.
Source: Gov.uk
The restaurant issued a statement, saying: "The staff and management at Scott's are aware of the reports in the media and would like to make it clear that they did not see the alleged incident nor were they alerted to it at the time."
In Monday's Evening Standard, Mr Saatchi said: "About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella's neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point.
"There was no grip, it was a playful tiff.
"Nigella's tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.
"We had made up by the time we were home. The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled."
Mr Saatchi, a former advertising executive, and Ms Lawson have been married since 2003.
She has two children, Cosima and Bruno, from her marriage to journalist John Diamond, who died in 2001.
Ms Lawson's spokesman confirmed on Monday that she had left the family home on Sunday with her children, but did not say whether it was a permanent or temporary move.
The daughter of former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, Ms Lawson first began a restaurant column in The Spectator in 1985 and by the following year had become deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times.
She then went on to write the book How to Eat, followed by the award-winning book, How to be a Domestic Goddess.
Her television cookery programmes - including Nigella Bites and Nigella's Christmas Kitchen - have brought her international fame.
Clubs throughout the region have posted photos on Twitter to show the extent of the damage after the flooding which hit the county on Boxing Day.
Many pitches are completely underwater, with a major repair job required before teams can host games again.
Yorkshire, in conjunction with the England and Wales Cricket Board, say clubs who need help can apply for aid.
In a statement on its website, Yorkshire asks clubs to send information about what is insured, which damage is repairable, long-term issues and an estimate of the bill to fix them.
The ECB, which also provides advice and support for clubs affected, will help with the clean-up operation.
Many cricket clubs throughout Lancashire have also been hard-hit, after more than 200 flood warnings and alerts were issued in the aftermath of the heavy rain which hit northern England over Christmas.
Live flood updates from BBC News.
Abdulemam, known as the "Bahraini Blogger", had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges that he was part of a terrorist organisation.
He spent two years in hiding after a royal pardon was revoked.
Abdulemam escaped in a secret compartment of a car up a causeway that joins Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
According to Atlantic Magazine, from there he was smuggled along the Gulf in a fisherman's boat to Kuwait.
He crossed into Iraq and took a regularly scheduled flight to London, where the magazine says he was granted asylum.
A source close to Abdulemam's family confirmed to the BBC that he had arrived in London.
Critical blogs
Abdulemam's troubles began when he started to write articles critical of the ruling Al Khalifa family.
The Al Khalifas are Sunni Muslim in a country with a Shia Muslim majority. Shia have long complained of discrimination.
Abdulemam worked as an IT specialist for the Bahraini airline Gulf Air. In his spare time he blogged.
But he was sacked from the airline after he was arrested in September 2010 and accused of being part of a terrorist organisation.
He was charged with spreading false information and linked to Bahraini opposition figures who had been arrested in August of that year.
Like Mr Abdulemam, all of the arrested men were Shia. Academics, a dentist, a geologist, and several clerics were among those held.
They all protested their innocence and were in fact pardoned by King Hamad and released in February 2011.
But following the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in March 2011, orders went out to re-arrest the men.
Ali Abdulemam went into hiding in Bahrain and managed to escape capture.
In an interview with the BBC in December 2010, his wife Jenan al-Oraibi told the BBC:
"Ali does not belong to any political party. He just writes his opinion. He has a free pen. That is exactly his crime. He has a free pen".
Mr Abdulemam's flight from the kingdom will cause the government there some embarrassment.
Along with other GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, Bahrain has cracked down hard on internet activism.
Now one of its critics, a hero among online activists, has slipped out of their grasp.
The lorry overturned between junctions 12 and 11 of the London-bound M4 near Reading on Wednesday. The 49-year-old driver, from Essex, died at the scene.
Repair work was carried out through the night on the road and central reservation that had been damaged.
The closure meant some drivers were stuck in their cars in tailbacks for up to seven hours.
Anyone who witnessed the crash has been urged to contact police.
The 20-year-old will link up with the Republic of Ireland Under-21 squad for qualifiers against Italy and Slovenia.
It comes after an eye-catching brace for the U's against Barnet on Saturday.
"It's the third time I've gone away after scoring," he told BBC Radio Oxford. "But I'll be fully buzzing when I come back for the run-in."
Oxford-born O'Dowda was named runner-up for the Republic Under-21 player of the year award on Sunday behind Preston midfielder Alan Browne.
And he believes international experience has aided his development as a player.
"I spoke to the manager (Michael Appleton) when I last went and he said it's only going to benefit my game," O'Dowda said.
"Being with a different manager and a different team broadens your experience.
"There's a lot more one-touch passing involved in international football and there's a real structure of play in terms approaching the game."
Recent hacked emails are "consistent with the methods and motivation of Russia-directed efforts", the Department of Homeland Security said.
Data revealing discussions within the Democratic Party was hacked earlier this year.
Some states reported "probing" attempts made on "election-related" systems.
However, officials said those attempts could not be directly linked to the Russian government.
Russian officials told Interfax news agency the claims it was involved in the cyber attacks were "nonsense".
But a joint statement from the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security said high-ranking officials at the Kremlin were almost certainly involved in the successful attacks.
"We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities," they said.
However, altering any actual ballots or election results would be "extremely difficult", they added, because of a decentralised system and multiple checks and balances.
A number of embarrassing emails have come to light during the 2016 election campaign.
In July, a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the release of documents from the Democratic Party.
Gigabytes of files including emails and other documents that revealed the inner workings of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were taken.
At an early stage, many US officials linked the breach to Russia. At the time, Moscow denied any involvement and denounced the "poisonous anti-Russian" rhetoric from Washington.
The leaked emails appeared to show that Democratic Party officials were biased against Bernie Sanders in his primary race against Mrs Clinton.
The hack led to the resignation of the party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and sparked protests at the national convention in Philadelphia.
Adam Schiff, a senior member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said he applauded the decision to publicly name Russia as the culprit.
"All of us should be gravely concerned when a foreign power like Russia seeks to undermine our democratic institutions," he said.
He called for co-operation with "our European allies" to develop a response.
Lee Parsons, 44, has also been charged with burglary after the attack on the 73-year-old guard at Stokes Forgings in Vine Street, Brierley Hill, on Sunday.
Mr Parsons, of Highgate Road, Holly Hall, Dudley, was remanded in custody at Dudley Magistrates' Court.
He is due at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 April.
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Redfearn, 50, joined Rotherham on a two-and-a-half-year deal in October after three years at Leeds United.
The Millers won only five of 21 games under Redfearn, losing 14, leaving them 22nd in the Championship table.
"As we all know football is a results driven business and our aim has to be to retain our Championship status," said chairman Tony Stewart.
"Our focus now is 100% behind appointing a first team manager as soon as possible."
Redfearn replaced current Leeds manager Steve Evans at Rotherham after he resigned from his role as academy boss at Elland Road.
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Figures obtained by Action on Hearing Loss Cymru showed Welsh councils have cut their spending by 15% on average - or £40,000.
The charity said the cuts were "worrying" and called on local authorities to reconsider.
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) blamed council budget cuts.
The money is spent on equipment including specially-adapted telephones, front door bells that flash when used and listening devices for people with hearing loss.
The charity told BBC's Newyddion 9 programme that this equipment allows people to live more independently and reduces isolation and loneliness.
More than 575,000 deaf people live in Wales but just £210,000 is spent annually on specialist equipment each year.
One of those who is worried about the situation is Chris Williams, from Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, who has been severely deaf from childhood.
"Without hearing aids I can't hear a thing. This equipment is essential," he said.
"I have a special doorbell that lights up, and it works with a phone too. I have a fire alarm that works through bluetooth - which vibrates under my pillow. And with a fire alarm it is a matter of life and death.
"Some people have to buy this sort of equipment on their own. But they cannot afford it even with full-time work."
Richard Williams, the charity's director, said: "More than 70% of people over 70 years old have hearing loss and with an increasing number of people living longer, local authorities are at risk of neglecting those most at risk of isolation and mental health issues."
The charity's research also found there was a postcode lottery on the equipment people with hearing loss can expect to receive.
While some councils having increased spending to meet the rising demand, other authorities have cut expenditure dramatically. Flintshire, Cardiff and Pembrokeshire come bottom of the list.
In response, a WLGA spokesman pointed out that local government funding has been reduced by 18% in real terms since 2009-10.
Council have "had to reduce or stop delivering some local services altogether in order to manage their budgets", the spokesman added.
"Whilst the Welsh Government has committed an extra £25m funding for social services for 2017-18, it will cover just over a quarter of the expected increases in costs and demands facing social services."
Mary Homer helped make the retailer into a global brand that constantly managed to lead fashion on the High Street.
Other key staff have left the Green empire at Burton, Miss Selfridge and Topshop/Topman in recent months.
Sir Philip has found himself in the headlines over the collapse of BHS.
Earlier this year, he agreed with the Pensions Regulator to pay £363m to help cover the deficit in the BHS pension's scheme.
Mary Homer joined Topshop over thirty years ago and has been its managing director for 11 years.
Under her leadership, the retailer now operates 620 shops and franchises in more than 40 countries.
The White Company said no start date had been set yet.
Ms Homer is reported to have said her departure was "amicable".
GlobalData retail analyst Sofie Willmott said: "Her quick reactions to trading in and out of product trends and procuring an agile supply base has ensured the retailer has remained one of the key players in the increasingly competitive young fashion market.
"[Ms] Homer's fashion instincts have paid off, supported by strong buying and merchandising teams who are passionate about the product they are selling."
Ms Willmott said her departure would have "an impact" on Topshop, but she said the remaining senior management were "experienced and well established" and should use this as an opportunity to bring in new ideas, such as a greater emphasis on e-commerce.
She said: "[Ms] Homer will bring to The White Company strong trading experience, which will allow for quicker reactions to fast-selling products and may grow the focus on clothing.
"In addition to this, with international growth being a priority for The White Company, with US stores opening this summer, [Ms] Homer will bring knowledge of international expansion, both via stores and third party retailers online which has been a key focus for Topshop in recent years."
Jamila Henry, 21, was detained at a bus station in Ankara by Turkish police who suspected she was trying to get to Syria, the BBC understands.
She was deported and arrested by Metropolitan Police officers as she stepped off her flight from Istanbul.
Police said she was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
Ms Henry, who grew up in Streatham, south London, is being held in police custody, Scotland Yard said.
She is believed to have travelled to Turkey using the passport of her twin sister Jalila.
Justices reversed a judge's order barring the use of vecuronium bromide, one of the three drugs used in the state's death penalty.
The ruling clears the path for the execution of Ledell Lee on Thursday evening, the state's first in 12 years.
Instead of a last meal, he asked to receive communion, said an official.
The state had planned to carry out eight executions in 11 days, before its supply of the lethal injection drug, midazolam, expired on 30 April.
The first three executions were cancelled due to various court rulings.
Lee will be executed at the Cummins Unit in south-east Arkansas, after his third request to stay the execution was denied.
He told the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in a recent interview that he was innocent of the murder of Debra Reese, and death row was like a "living nightmare".
The other inmate due to die on Thursday has been given a stay to make time for advanced DNA testing that his lawyers say could prove his innocence.
Stacey Johnson was convicted of the murder of Carol Heath, who was beaten and had her throat slit in her flat in 1993.
The ruling on Thursday paves the way for the series of executions the state had planned this month.
Like many US states, Arkansas has struggled to find the drugs it needs to carry out executions. Its last was in 2005.
The frenetic filing of lawsuits and appeals in Arkansas has a profound impact on those awaiting execution, on their families and on the relatives of their victims.
The widower of one victim told me that if he had been told from the beginning that his wife's killer would be in prison for life without parole, he might have been able to move on.
But, he said, to have the prospect of the man's execution arise and disappear over the years means reliving the hurt of the murder itself, and that every stay of execution now feels like an insult to his wife.
What this highlights is how hard it has become for states to kill by lethal injection, with botched executions and drug companies saying they do not want their products associated with the practice.
Bruce Ward - Strangled teenage shop clerk Rebecca Doss
Don Davis - Condemned for the execution-style killing of Jane Daniel as he burgled her home
Stacey Johnson - Murdered Carol Heath, who was beaten, strangled and had her throat slit
Ledell Lee - Bludgeoned Debra Reese to death with a tyre iron her husband had given her for protection
Jack Jones - Condemned for the rape and murder of accounts clerk Mary Phillips, and the nearly fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter
Marcel Williams - Raped and murdered Stacey Erickson, after kidnapping her from a convenience store
Kenneth Williams - Murdered farmer Cecil Boren during an escape from prison where Williams had been incarcerated for murdering cheerleader Dominique Hurd
The 45-year-old will be only the fourth man from outside the British Isles to lead the team, after Spanish duo Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal, and Germany's Bernhard Langer.
Bjorn, who has been vice-captain four times, was chosen ahead of 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie.
As a player, he was a Ryder Cup winner in 1997, 2002 and 2014, and has won 15 European tour titles.
"I have lived and breathed the European Tour for so long, and now I will do the same with the Ryder Cup for the next two years," said Bjorn.
"I studied a lot of captains as a player and as a vice-captain and always wondered what that feeling would be like to be the one leading out a team of 12 great players.
"Now it's my turn to do just that and it is an exciting moment for me."
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Bjorn succeeds Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke as Europe's non-playing captain.
USA won the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008 with a 17-11 victory at Hazeltine in October.
Masters champion Danny Willett, part of the beaten Europe team, told BBC Radio 5 live: "Thomas is a well-respected man in our game and on the European Tour.
"From what I saw from him as vice-captain, he will make a fantastic captain."
The 2018 Ryder Cup will take place at the Paris National from 28-30 September.
BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter
To his peers, Bjorn is regarded as 'Mr European Tour'. A player of distinction, he has been an influential chairman of the Tournament Committee since 2007. This appointment is due reward for his service to the Tour.
His experience from playing on three winning Ryder Cup teams will be invaluable, and having been an assistant to the likes of Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie, Jose Maria Olazabal and Darren Clarke he will have gained a wealth of knowledge to take to Paris in 2018.
On the flip side, Bjorn led a strong Continental Europe side to a heavy defeat to GB & Ireland in the 2009 Seve Trophy.
He is a fiery character, as he showed with a furious response to being left out of the 2006 Ryder Cup team by Ian Woosnam. But there is no more passionate advocate of European golf than Bjorn and he was always the most likely choice for the 2018 captaincy.
The banner read: "Annihilate British dogs, extinguish HK independence poison", and was unveiled during Guangzhou's 6-0 Asian Champions League win over Hong Kong champions Eastern.
Hong Kong is a former British colony.
The charges relate to breaches of the ethics code and spectator misconduct.
Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, under a promise that it would enjoy a high degree of autonomy.
In November, the Chinese government issued a rare ruling on Hong Kong's law, disqualifying two pro-independence lawmakers from parliament, leading to demonstrations from both sides.
At Tuesday's game at Mong Kok Stadium in Hong Kong, one Eastern supporter displayed the territory's colonial-era flag, which features Britain's Union Jack.
The AFC's ethics code says clubs could be forced to play at least two games behind closed doors over any offensive "words or actions" by their fans, while individual supporters found guilty could be banned from stadiums for a minimum of two years.
Eastern manager Chan Yuen-ting, the first woman to lead a professional men's football team to a top-flight title, said she did not see the banner.
"I was focused on the game, I didn't see what happened in the stands," added Evergrande and former Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Martin Yip, BBC Chinese, in Hong Kong:
Both Hong Kong and Guangzhou fans had been trading curses before kick-off, and not long after Evergrande's fifth goal, the banner showed up.
More cursing between the two sides followed, and then came the spark - a few Evergrande fans rushed down the stand in anger, apparently intending to run across the corridor to the local fans' stand. Security officers were already at the scene negotiating the taking down of the banner, and stopped the young men.
As Eastern left the pitch in great humiliation after a 6-0 loss, no further troubles were reported outside.
And residents around the area might feel relieved.
Mong Kok saw some of the most fierce clashes during the 2014 Umbrella Movement sit-in protests, and just over a year ago, a policeman fired warning shots when protests in support of an illegal snack bazaar turned violent.
But the old colonial Hong Kong flag went largely unnoticed. Not even the main pro-Beijing newspapers in town have reported it so far. But China's social media is buzzing in anger.
Back in 2015, Hong Kong was fined by Fifa after fans booed the Chinese national anthem during a World Cup qualifier match.
Hong Kong is allowed to compete under the name "Hong Kong, China" under the Basic Law - the city's mini-constitution. It shares the same national anthem with mainland China as a result.
The bridge, made entirely from Meccano, has been built with the help of local school children across Belfast's Clarendon Dock.
It was unveiled to the public on Saturday.
The project is part of a Queens University Belfast programme to encourage kids to think more about careers in science, mathematics and technology and engineering when they're older.
Around 11,000 pieces of Meccano were used to build the bridge, which weighs 600 kilograms.
"If you count all the nuts and bolts and washers, there's approximately 70,000," said Dr Danny McPolin, in charge of the project.
"In terms of the longer pieces, if they're all laid out end-to-end I think it would be about 3.8 kilometres long. So it's a lot of Meccano".
"We see this event not only as an opportunity to celebrate the students' and staff's incredible work over the past year, but also a chance to give local children an insight into the exciting courses on offer".
Joey Hutchinson, 34, severed his spinal cord after falling into the pool while on holiday in Spain in June.
His family said the father-of-two is now in a wheelchair with "life-changing injuries".
The football club is holding a benefit match for the player on 6 May.
Mr Hutchinson's family has set up a fundraising page for the player, aimed at getting stem cell treatment to aid his recovery.
His brother-in-law Lee Savage said the consequences of Mr Hutchinson's injuries had been "devastating", leaving him paralysed from the chest down and needing round-the-clock care.
"He is continuing the long, hard process of further rehabilitation,... adapting to life in a wheelchair," he wrote.
He added Mr Hutchinson hoped a suitable programme of spinal cord treatments might eventually help him walk again.
Mr Hutchinson's sister Leann added he had suffered "life-changing injuries".
"He is a fighter and I know he will fight as hard as he can to get through this," she wrote.
Middlesbrough-born Mr Hutchinson was a centre half and was part of the Blues squad that won promotion to the Premier League in 2002.
Later he had spells at Darlington and York City before working as a senior welding inspector.
A club spokesman said: "His former team mates are rallying round to support Joey and his family.
"The team that triumphed in the play-offs and others from Joey's era, 2000 - 2003, are to reform and take on a Joey Hutchinson Select at St. Andrew's."
Trevor Francis, the manager who gave Mr Hutchinson his debut, will return alongside names like David Holdsworth and Dele Adebola and some celebrity guests.
Money raised from the game will go towards helping with Mr Hutchinson's care.
Douglas Costa scored the only goal for the holders when his shot was deflected in by Luiz Gustavo.
Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer made two good saves to deny Yunus Malli in the closing stages.
There were also cup wins for Hamburg, who beat Cologne 2-0, Borussia Monchengladbach, who dismissed Greuther Furth 2-0, and second division Arminia Bielefeld on Tuesday.
Arminia needed penalties to get past Astoria Walldorf of the fourth tier.
Borussia Dortmund host Hertha Berlin in the pick of Wednesday's last-16 ties.
The affiliate, which calls itself Sinai Province, said it had acted in retaliation for what it says is Israeli support for the Egyptian army.
Israel said two rockets landed in the south of the country, causing no casualties or material damage.
At least 17 Egyptian soldiers and 100 IS militants have died in fighting in northern Sinai since Wednesday.
The clashes were triggered by a co-ordinated mass assault of IS militants on the town of Sheikh Zuweid.
Sinai Province claimed the rocket attack on social media on Friday.
The group said it had fired Grad rockets towards "occupied Palestine".
The Israeli military later said that two missiles landed in open areas in Israel's Negev region, causing no damage.
Sirens were heard in communities in Israel's Eshkol regional council, near the Gaza border.
"I trust the army and am certain that it will take all necessary measures to protect communities in the South," council leader Eshkol Gadi Yarkoni was quoted as saying the Haaretz newspaper.
Israel accuses Hamas, who run Gaza, of providing support for Sinai Province - a claim the Palestinian group denies.
Israel has a 240km (150 miles) border with the Sinai peninsula.
On Wednesday morning, militants launched near-simultaneous attacks against at least five military checkpoints and a police station in and around Sheikh Zuweid.
The attack was one of the largest co-ordinated assaults so far by the jihadists in Sinai.
Eyewitness reported seeing militants roaming the streets of the northern town, clashing with armed forces.
An Egyptian military spokesman, Brig-Gen Mohammed Samir, later told state TV that the situation was "100% under control".
Jihadists based in the restive region stepped up their attacks after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
At least 600 police and armed forces personnel have since been killed.
The six-year-old jumped well throughout and a bold leap at the final fence before the home turn opened a gap.
Stable companion Valseur Lido gave chase in the straight, but Ruby Walsh's mount won commandingly by 12 lengths.
Meanwhile, Al Ferof, a candidate for the King George on Boxing Day, won at Huntingdon by two-and-a-half lengths.
It was a successful debut for Nick Skelton in the Peterborough Chase at the Cambridgeshire track.
Last year's winner Wishfull Thinking set off at a rapid pace under Richard Johnson and put in some spectacular leaps, but Al Ferof and Ptit Zig cruised past the leader, whose run had come to an end with three furlongs to run.
When Ptit Zig took a tired fall at the last, Al Ferof was well on top and the 9-4 chance came home a long way clear of Pepite Rose.
Willie Mullins-trained Djakadam was the 7-4 favourite at Punchestown and, after briefly tracking 2012 winner Flemenstar, he was soon in control.
"Henrietta Knight said he will win the Gold Cup, so I'll quote her," Mullins said.
"I wasn't happy with him during the week and was nearly not going to run, but to run like that after the way he was, I'm absolutely delighted with him."
Prime Minister David Cameron has said there is "growing" parliamentary support for air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets, adding it is "the right thing to do" and in the national interest.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is granting his MPs a free vote on the matter.
Dorset MP Robert Syms told the Daily Echo: "The threat from Isis has reached unprecedented levels and it is in our national interest for action to be taken to stop them."
On social media, voices opposing any extension of air strikes appear to be louder.
The hashtag #DontBombSyria has been tweeted more than 270,000 times in the past week and triggered related hashtags, including "Syria airstrikes" and "Syria Vote."
This intriguing interpretation of the hashtag was posted on Instagram by @lmjr86
Lisa Nandy MP told the Wigan Observer she planned to oppose UK air strikes in Syria. In contrast, Nottingham MP Chris Leslie is backing the government.
However, some people are tweeting their MPs to ask them to vote for military action in Syria.
Some are pointing out that the UK is already bombing IS (or ISIS) in Iraq.
While others are saying there must be some reaction after the recent Paris attacks.
Defoe, 32, played alongside Gus Poyet during the first of his two spells at Tottenham, and was then coached by the Sunderland manager at White Hart Lane.
Poyet said: "His exceptional goal-scoring record speaks for itself."
United States international Jozy Altidore, 25, moves back to the MLS with Toronto as part of the deal.
Defoe could make his debut against Spurs at White Hart Lane if international clearance is - as expected - received by 13.45 GMT on Saturday.
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"It is a great club and I've always enjoyed coming up here and playing against Sunderland because of the stadium and the supporters," the striker said.
"It is a great place to play and I'm really looking forward to it."
Defoe, capped 55 times by England, is 14th on the list of all-time Premier League goalscorers, with 124 from his time with Spurs, West Ham and Portsmouth.
He scored 11 times in 16 games in his first season with Toronto and had been training with Tottenham during the MLS close season.
Sunderland currently lie 16th in the Premier League, with only Aston Villa having scored fewer than their 18 goals.
Altidore departs having failed to score in 13 appearances this term.
The American striker netted just once in 42 games for Sunderland after arriving in a £6.5m deal from AZ Alkmaar in July 2013.
The high-end V10 phone has not one but two front-facing cameras allowing the device to take 120-degree shots.
It also has two screens - one as an inset display above the main one, which can show information such as the date, weather or battery life at all times.
An Android smartwatch, the first to feature 4G connectivity, has also been announced.
The V10's dual cameras on its front each has a five megapixel sensor.
They are capable of capturing 80-degree selfies or wide-angle ones, of 120 degrees, with one shot. For this, the phone actually takes two pictures at once which are then stitched together by an algorithm.
"The ability to take group selfies without a selfie-stick has never been easier," LG said in a statement.
The smaller of the two screens on the V10 has a 2.1 inch (5.3 cm) display designed to show useful information such as battery life or the current time even when the main screen is turned off.
The V10's rear camera boasts 16 megapixels and users will also be able to make use of the video app's manual controls for tweaking shutter speed, frame rate and white balance among other settings.
In a first for Android Wear smartwatches, the new Urbane 2nd Edition watch will be able to connect to 4G, 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth.
A previous Urbane watch also featured similar connectivity but ran a different operating system.
The watch includes a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, four gigabytes of RAM, a 570mAh battery and a 480 x 480 P-OLED screen.
Android wearables still have a way to go in attracting buyers, according to the latest figures from analysts IDC, however.
Research suggests that Fitbit and Apple watches accounted for nearly half of the market in the second quarter of 2015.
When it comes to smartphones, LG has seen a decline in market share in recent months. The firm is likely pinning its hopes on the potential for the high-end V10 to regenerate interest in its products.
Indeed, the latest products indicate a hardware company keen to stand out from the crowd, said Ben Wood, a consumer electronics analyst at CCS Insight.
"LG certainly appear to have stepped up and look very keen to try and secure a good space in the market," he said.
However, Mr Wood added that the challenge of pinching any market share from Apple's iPhones remained formidable.
"LG clearly with the second screen has something that will catch people's attention - that doesn't make it any easier to sell than the iPhone," he commented.
He also suggested that mobile connectivity on smartwatches might be seen as "a solution looking for a problem", but they would be likely to appeal to mobile operators keen to sell more devices alongside a data contract.
The building society said prices continued to rise in January, but the risks are skewed towards a "modest" acceleration in that trend.
Prices were up 0.3% compared with December - sharply slower than the December increase of 0.8%
However, annual growth remained stable at 4.4% compared with the figure of 4.5% the previous month.
The average price of a property is now £196,829, slightly down on December.
But Nationwide warned the demand for homes was likely to strengthen in the coming months, as a result of a strong labour market, combined with wages going up at a "healthy pace" and the prospect of interest rates remaining at 0.5% for longer than previously expected.
"The concern remains that construction activity will lag behind strengthening demand," said Nationwide's chief economist, Robert Gardner, "putting upward pressure on house prices and eventually reducing affordability."
He also highlighted the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report that the number of properties on estate agents' books is close to its lowest level.
The figures come as the boss of one of the UK's largest insurers, and one of the biggest investors in infrastructure in the UK, said the country was "obsessed" with rising house prices.
Nigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal and General, told BBC Radio 5 live: "We are obsessed with owning homes, we are obsessed with house price inflation which is socially exclusive, which isn't good for society and is very poor for young people finding it increasingly difficult to get on the housing ladder."
Separate figures show that mortgage lending by the major High Street banks picked up pace at the end of last year.
The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said that gross mortgage borrowing of £12.4bn in December was 24% higher than the same month a year earlier.
Overall, new borrowing in 2015 was 6% higher than the previous year.
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, said: "Cheap mortgage rates have certainly helped fuel the growth in lending in the market seen throughout 2015. However, we have probably seen the back of the very cheapest deals.
"The biggest issue for many is actually qualifying for one of these great mortgage deals."
A report said that two new residential units and a health care facility have improved safety at the County Londonderry jail.
It added that care for those at risk of self-harm was good.
But it warned that poor industrial relations with prison officers was a barrier to further progress.
'Reasonably good'
The report, published on Monday, was compiled by Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP).
After their last visit in 2006, inspectors called for a complete rebuild at the prison site.
However, following the latest inspection this Spring, the quality of education, skills and work opportunities available for prisoners was welcomed.
Overall, in each of four categories tested, standards were judged to be "reasonably good" - the second highest rating.
However, inspectors warned that strike action by the Northern Ireland Prisoner Officers' Association (POA) was "seriously limiting" prisoners' time out of their cells.
They found that because of staff restrictions, only 119 education places out of a potential 158 were being used.
The original house blocks were also judged to be "unfit for purpose" with an unsatisfactory night sanitation system.
Cancellation
The wide range of accomodation "spread out over a large, badly planned site meant that it was difficult to get around, especially in bad weather, which could lead to the cancellation of work and classes", the report added.
Dr Michael Maguire, Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, welcomed the improvements that had been made at the prison.
In a joint statement with Nigel Newcomen, Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons in England and Wales, he said that the Northern Ireland Prison Service should be commended for the work carried out.
The statement added that it hoped support would be provided to "deal with the seemingly intractable problem of poor industrial relations."
Acting Governor of Magilligan, Gavin Clendinning, paid tribute to staff following the publication of the report.
He made special reference to recently retired governor Tom Woods, who was in charge of the prison at the time of the inspection.
Professor John Underhill from Heriot-Watt University said the UK's potential shale deposits were likely to have been disrupted by shifts in the earth 55 million years ago.
He said the government would be wise to formulate a Plan B to fracking for future gas supplies.
But the fracking firm Cuadrilla said it would determine how much gas was present from its test drilling.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale, a sedimentary rock found worldwide.
The amount of shale gas available in the UK is acknowledged to be a great unknown.
Cuadrilla said estimates from the British Geological Survey (BGS) indicated a large potential gas reserve.
But Prof Underhill said his research on the influence of tectonic plates on the UK suggested that the shale formations have been lifted, warped and cooled by tectonic action.
These factors make shale gas production much less likely.
"The complexity of the shale gas basins hasn't been fully appreciated so the opportunity has been hyped," he told the BBC.
This is very different from the US, where big deposits of shale gas were created in the continental heart of America, far from the movement of tectonic plates.
Prof Underhill's comments are based on an unpublished paper on tectonics. He said he deduced the impact on shale formations by chance.
He said: "I'm neutral about fracking, so long as it doesn't cause environmental damage. But the debate is between those who think fracking is dangerous and those who think it will help the economy - and no-one's paying enough attention to the geology.
Prof Underhill said: "For fracking to work, the shale should be thick enough, sufficiently porous, and have the right mineralogy. The organic matter must have been buried to a sufficient depth and heated to the degree that it produces substantial amounts of gas or oil."
Professor Underhill said the UK had been tilted strongly by tectonic movement caused by an upward surge of magma under Iceland.
This subsequently led the shale gas basins to buckle and lift, so areas that were once buried deep with high temperatures which generated oil and gas, were then lifted to levels where they were no longer likely to generate either.
The basins were also broken into compartments by folds which created pathways that have allowed some of the oil and gas to escape, he said.
A spokesman for the BGS said it could not comment formally on Prof Underhill's comments as it had not done the research.
Cuadrilla's technical director Mark Lappin told the BBC: "We have noted the BGS estimates for gas-in-place and consider that volume to be indicative of a very large potential reserve.
"It's the purpose of our current drilling operations to better understand the reserve, reduce speculation from all sides and decide if and how to develop it.
"I expect Professor Underhill would be supportive of the effort to understand the resource including geological variation."
The government's opinion tracker showed public support for fracking has fallen to 16%, with opposition at 33%. But it also reported a lack of knowledge of the technology, with 48% of people neither supporting nor opposing it.
Professor Richard Davies, from Newcastle University, told BBC News: "It's correct to say geology could yet surprise the companies who are investing. But the bottle neck, I think, is how many wells one can drill economically in a small space in the UK.
"Shale gas wells in the USA produce very small volumes of gas (2-6 billion cubic feet of gas each), and therefore thousands would be needed to impact on our reliance on imports.
"The BGS estimated resources in Northern England of 1,327 trillion cubic feet (2012). I estimated it would require c. 52,000 wells to produce 10% of this."
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The Bengoa Report was commissioned by NI ministers seeking advice on how to improve services, cut waiting lists and care for an ageing population.
Written by experts, led by Prof Rafael Bengoa, it is expected to recommend widespread change and tough decisions.
It follows three previous major reviews that each recommended closing several hospital emergency departments.
Harsh medicine, but the earlier reports argued that resources and expertise were too thinly spread across too many locations.
However, closing hospitals is highly emotive and unpopular and so far, the pill has been too bitter for politicians to swallow.
Like the rest of the UK, people in Northern Ireland are now generally living longer than was the case in previous generations.
When the UK's National Health Service was set up in 1948, the average life expectancy in Northern Ireland was 65 for men and 70 for women.
In 2016, the average life expectancy of a man in Northern Ireland has risen to 78, while for a woman it is now 82 years.
The change is due, in part, to improved treatments for life-threatening conditions like cancer and heart disease.
Higher life-expectancy is a positive development, but it also means that there are more elderly people to look after, relative to the size of the working population.
As we live longer into old age, more patients are coping with chronic and complex medical conditions which can require years of treatment and support.
There are also lifestyle factors to consider which affect all age groups - eating too much, drinking too much alcohol and smoking are all putting pressure on health services.
So living longer does not necessarily mean we are living healthier lives.
The Bengoa Report is not the first prescription politicians have sought for the ailments facing Northern Ireland's health care services.
Since the turn of the century, three major reviews have been published and each suggested cutting the number of acute hospitals - those providing A&E services and emergency surgery.
Sir Liam's report recommended setting up an international panel of experts to redesign some health and social care facilities.
In January 2016, Stormont's then health minister Simon Hamilton agreed and appointed a panel of six, chaired by Prof Rafael Bengoa.
The Spaniard is an internationally renowned expert on health reform who has advised the European Union and the Obama administration in the US.
He worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) for more than 15 years.
He is also a former minister of health in the Basque region.
This time last year, a senior health expert said heads would roll in England if hospital waiting lists were as long as those in Northern Ireland.
In an interview with the BBC in October 2015, Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, described the figures as "serious" and called for immediate action.
Between 2014 and 2015, there was almost a 50% rise in waiting lists.
The numbers jumped from 155,558 patients in September 2014 to 230, 625 in September 2015.
According to the most recently published data from August 2016, more than 225,000 men and women were on a waiting list to see a health consultant.
More than 70,000 were waiting for in-patient and day patient appointments.
More than 95,000 were in a queue for a diagnostic service.
Northern Ireland has nine acute hospitals that are open round the clock. Two others have reduced opening hours for their emergency departments.
The challenges posed by an ageing population are likely to be exacerbated in the coming years, unless the problems are addressed.
By the year 2024, Northern Ireland's 1.8m population is expected to rise by more than 5% to just under 2m.
The number of people aged over 65 is due to rise by almost 26%, while the working age population is set to rise by just 1%.
The wide-ranging demands placed on the health service are also increasingly costly and complex.
Last year, more than 6,000 people turned up at emergency departments across Northern Ireland having self-harmed - most were aged between 15 and 24.
Over-indulgence on food is leading to increased levels of diabetes and weight-related disorders, while the abuse of alcohol and drugs are putting a strain on emergency departments.
When he published his report into Northern Ireland's health care system last year, England's former chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said acute hospitals were being "kept in place because of public and political pressure".
Since then, Stormont ministers have been making noises that suggest they are preparing to take some unpopular decisions.
This month, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill called the current waiting list figures "shocking" and "unacceptable".
Her predecessor Simon Hamilton talked about the need for consensus and taking the "politics out of healthcare".
Whether ministers will follow doctors' advice this time remains to be seen.
One of the organisers, Kholofelo Masha, said men had to take collective responsibility for the increase in beatings, sex attacks and killings.
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
Police figures showed that 64,000 cases were reported last year.
A series of grisly murders of women and children has hit the headlines this year and President Jacob Zuma has described the situation as a crisis.
The protesters on Saturday marched behind a woman symbolically dressed from head to toe in white. Some carried placards bearing the names of women killed by their partners.
"The time to take collective responsibility for our shameful action is now," said Mr Masha, who described himself as "a loving dad, brother and uncle."
He said South African men had been quiet on the issue for too long.
"You hear a lady screaming next door, you decide to sleep when you know there is a problem. No man should beat a woman or rape a woman while you're watching".
On Thursday, President Zuma visited the parents of a three-year-old girl who was raped and killed.
Courtney Pieters went missing from her home in Cape Town on 4 May and her body was found more than a week later in a shallow grave.
"We, as the citizens of this country, must say enough is enough," Mr Zuma said at the time. "This is one of the saddest incidents I've come across. It's a crisis in the country, the manner in which women and children are being killed."
The governing African National Congress party has branded the wave of violence "senseless and barbaric", while the opposition Democratic Alliance has called for a nationwide debate on the issue.
Until now, checks have only been applied to nurses outside the EU.
It means any nurse who is unable to show they have sufficient language skills will need to have an English language assessment.
The move by the Nursing and Midwifery Council brings the profession in line with doctors, who are already vetted in this way for patient safety.
The risk of a doctor not being fluent in English was highlighted by a lethal mistake made by Dr Daniel Ubani, a German doctor doing an out-of-hours shift who gave a lethal dose of a painkiller to patient David Gray in 2008.
As a German citizen he was able to register to work in the UK without passing a language test.
NMC Chief Executive Jackie Smith said: "From now on all nurses and midwives applying to join the register from outside the UK, including the EU, will have to demonstrate they can communicate effectively to a high standard of English.
"The ability to communicate effectively with patients is fundamental to patient safety and a principle that is central to our code."
Tests will check listening, reading, writing and speaking fluency.
And if an allegation is made that a nurse or midwife already working in the UK does not meet the necessary English language skills, they could be investigated under fitness to practise rules.
The NMC has more than 690,000 nurses and midwives on its register. Around 66,000 of these come from non-EU countries and 33,000 from the EU.
The UK is looking to recruit more foreign nurses.
In October, the government temporarily lifted restrictions on recruiting nurses from overseas by adding the profession to its Shortage Occupation List.
This means nurses from outside the European Economic Area now have their applications prioritised.
The Department of Health said the move was designed to ease pressure on the NHS without having to reply on expensive agency staff.
Katherine Murphy of The Patients Association said: "Nurses from other countries make an extremely important contribution to healthcare in the UK. However, we hear from patients on our National Helpline that there can be real issues with some overseas health professionals; including problems with communication and a lack of understanding of processes and procedures.
"The Patients Association calls on all Trusts to ensure that their staff meet these new requirements, and that all overseas nurses have the necessary support and training to be able to offer patients safe and effective care."
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is two-time Super Bowl winner Osi Umenyiora, an analyst on the BBC's NFL Show.
Umenyiora says he does not support a Premier League team - instead he follows his favourite player, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
"Anywhere Zlatan goes, that is who I follow," he explained. "Last year I was a fan of Paris St-Germain, but now I am a fan of United - because of Zlatan.
"He is the kind of footballer who could make the transition to play in the NFL, partly because of his attitude and also because he has the physicality to dominate games."
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As well as predicting the outcome of the weekend's Premier League games, Umenyiora has picked a winner of Super Bowl LI on Sunday - he thinks the Atlanta Falcons will beat the New England Patriots 31-27 in Houston.
Super Bowl LI, with Umenyiora, Mark Chapman, Mike Carlson and Jason Bell is live on BBC One and BBC Radio 5 live from 23:20 GMT on Sunday.
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.
From the midweek Premier League games, Lawro got three correct results, including two perfect scores, from the 10 games for a total of 90 points.
He beat England spinner Moeen Ali, who got two correct results, with no perfect scores for a tally of 20 points that leaves him joint bottom of the guest leaderboard.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Chelsea v Arsenal (12:30 GMT)
In their surprise defeat by Watford on Tuesday, Arsenal did what we know Arsenal are prone to do - which is not turn up for a period of a game that they are expected to win easily.
I would love to know why that keeps happening - and so would Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, I'm sure.
Chelsea, meanwhile, just keep rolling along at the top of the table.
They have had a good week because they have extended their lead at the top of the table despite being held at Liverpool, because they would have expected Arsenal and Tottenham to have both won their midweek games.
The Blues have the best home record in the Premier League and concede very few goals at Stamford Bridge.
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There is a part of me which thinks Arsenal could go there and be brilliant but, even if they are, Chelsea will be hard to break down.
I also think Antonio Conte's side will be thinking they have something to prove against Arsenal after losing heavily at the Emirates Stadium in September.
This is a very different Chelsea side now, not just in formation since their switch to three at the back later that month, but also in mentality - the title is in their sights now.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Osi's prediction: This is a huge game. Chelsea are not just top of the league, I think they are the most in-form team too - and I think they are going to be able to pull it off against Arsenal.
Mesut Ozil is going to score for Arsenal - for Chelsea it is going to be Eden Hazard with a brace. 2-1
Match preview
Crystal Palace v Sunderland
Crystal Palace had a good win over Bournemouth in midweek to give Sam Allardyce his first league win as Eagles manager, and now he is up against his old team.
It is the same for Patrick van Aanholt, who joined Palace from Sunderland this week, and I think they will both be on the winning side on Saturday as they look to climb out of the bottom three.
The Black Cats got a good point against Tottenham on Tuesday but they are back at the bottom of the table now after Hull's draw with Manchester United on Wednesday.
Sunderland are now at the stage where they need to start winning games whoever they are up against, not just their relegation rivals - but I don't see them getting anything this weekend. This game has got a win for Big Sam written all over it.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Osi's prediction: I like Palace - well, actually I like their striker Christian Benteke, I think he is a fantastic player. Sunderland? Not so much. I am going to pick Palace - Benteke to score. 1-0
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Everton v Bournemouth
Everton had to scrap a bit to get a point at Stoke but that goes down as a good result no matter how you get it.
Bournemouth, meanwhile, lost at home to Palace and it is becoming very difficult to predict their results.
After getting a draw against Arsenal at the start of January, they have taken a total of one point from three games against other teams in the bottom half - Hull, an out-of-form Watford and then the Eagles.
I don't see the Cherries getting anything at Goodison Park, where Everton have only lost once in 11 league games this season, but I am usually wrong about them.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Osi's prediction: I used to be a big fan of Everton, and really enjoy the way they played. I am not so much a fan right now but I like Everton in this particular game - Romelu Lukaku is a great player and I think he is going to score a couple of goals. 3-1
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Hull City v Liverpool
Hull got a great point at Old Trafford in midweek but this is another very tough game for them.
After their run of poor form, Liverpool were much improved in their draw against Chelsea and, if Hull open up a bit against them, then they will punish them.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Osi's prediction: This is a tough game for Hull. Liverpool are an outstanding football team even if they are just coming off a loss or two recently. They are going to be hungry - I like Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho - so I am going to go with them. 1-2
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Southampton v West Ham
Just as they did in the FA Cup a few weeks ago, West Ham made it easy for Manchester City on Wednesday - and paid the price.
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Southampton also come into this game on the back of a poor result, losing to struggling Swansea on Tuesday, but I think they will be much improved here.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Osi's prediction: Southampton just beat Liverpool in the EFL Cup, right? But I like West Ham, I met their keeper - Adrian - he is a good guy and a really good keeper. I am going to go with the Hammers. There is a guy Michail Antonio who is scoring a lot of goals for West Ham and I think he is going to get a couple in this game. 0-3
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Watford v Burnley
Watford's win over Arsenal has taken the pressure off them a bit after seven league games without a victory and should steady the ship a little bit.
Burnley have been pretty useless on the road, taking only one point from 10 away league games, but their home form means they are getting closer to safety.
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A draw would be a good result for the Clarets and I just wonder if they will take a few more risks to try to get it.
The more men they get forward, the more chances they will create - something that they have struggled to do away from Turf Moor.
If you are losing games anyway, when you are trying to keep things tight then why not go out and try to win them?
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Osi's prediction: Watford striker Troy Deeney is one of my favourite players - he gets it done. 2-1
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West Brom v Stoke
It will be interesting to see Saido Berahino back at The Hawthorns so soon after leaving West Brom for Stoke, but I'd expect him to be on the bench for the Potters.
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Both these teams are in the top half and in decent form, but I am backing Baggies boss Tony Pulis to edge it against his old club.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
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Osi's prediction: Believe it or not, I like Stoke.
That guy Peter Crouch, he gets it done and, with Marko Arnautovic and Xherdan Shaqiri too, they have a tremendous amount of talent on their team. They should be doing better than they are. 0-3
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Tottenham v Middlesbrough (17:30 GMT)
Tottenham struggled to create chances at Sunderland and will consider that draw to be two points dropped.
Middlesbrough will also try to shut them out but Spurs have been in great form at home and I do not see it happening.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Osi's prediction: Tottenham are a really good team. Dele Alli to score a couple of goals and maybe my man Harry Kane to come through and do something too. 4-0
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Man City v Swansea (13:30 GMT)
Swansea have seen an upturn in results since Paul Clement took charge but Manchester City have also improved dramatically of late.
It seems as if that 4-0 defeat at Everton on 15 January was as low as they could go. They have regrouped and look a different team now.
A big part of that is the fact all of City's attacking players are in really good form and I don't think Swansea can keep them out.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Osi's prediction: City all day. They are hungry. Sergio Aguero with the hat-trick. 3-0
Leicester v Man Utd (16:00 GMT)
Manchester United dropped points again against Hull on Wednesday and they have now drawn six league games at home this season.
That's not because everyone has come to Old Trafford and been brilliant, it's because United have struggled to score - and Jose Mourinho's frustration about that was clear after the game.
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United have actually picked up more points per game away from home this season. I think they will add to that tally at Leicester, although it might be one point rather than three.
The Foxes are in a bit of a mess now, with their title challenge turning into a relegation fight.
Their away form is so poor and that means the pressure is on them to earn enough points at the King Power Stadium. Getting something out of this game would be a start.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Osi's prediction: I am not going to pick against United, of course they are going to win. I am picking Zlatan to have a hat-trick and Man Utd to win 4-1.
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
Pearson has been hit by falling enrolments in education in the US and changes to education policy in the UK.
The firm employs about 5,000 people in the UK and about 10% of those jobs are expected to be affected by the cuts.
The majority of the cuts are expected to be completed by the middle of this year. Pearson also warned that profits would be lower next year.
Pearson said it expected underlying operating profits for 2015 of about £720m, but warned its profits in 2016 were expected to drop to between £580m and £620m, before the costs of the restructuring are taken into account.
"The cyclical and policy related challenges in our biggest markets have been more pronounced and persisted for longer than anticipated," says chief executive John Fallon.
"In combination, these factors have reduced Pearson's operating profit by approximately £230m from its peak. We over-estimated how quickly those markets would return to sustainable levels of revenues and profits from their peak".
Pearson said the restructuring is expected to cost it £320m. However, it said the shake-up of its business, combined with new product launches and the easing of pressure in the key US and UK markets, meant profits should be at or above £800m by 2018.
The restructuring will include merging all Pearson's businesses producing courseware material for teachers. Its assessment businesses in North America will also be integrated.
Its further education establishments in South Africa and the UK will shift focus to online rather than direct delivery, and there will be savings in areas such as technology, finance and HR.
Pearson got out of financial news and information last year when it sold the Financial Times Group and its stake in the Economist Group. It has also merged publisher Penguin with Random House.
Following the latest announcement, shares in Pearson rose by nearly 9%.
It was deemed that the surface at the Priestfield Stadium was unsafe during an inspection at 15:00 GMT on Monday.
The postponement means that Ady Pennock must wait until Saturday's visit of Shrewsbury Town to take charge of his first home match as Gillingham boss.
The Gills are 17th in League One, six points and six places behind Neal Ardley's Wimbledon.
James McMahon, 37, from Cambuslang was on board the EasyJet flight to Alicante on Hogmanay.
At Paisley Sheriff Court he denied the two charges against him and was released on bail.
Mr McMahon had spent two nights in police custody following his arrest on 31 December.
He denies being drunk on the flight, in beach of Sections 60 and 61 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and Articles 242(1) and 265(7) of The Air Navigation Order 2016.
He also denies "interfering with the performance by a member of the crew of the aircraft" by repeatedly shouting and swearing and refusing "to desist or moderate [his] behaviour... whereby said aircraft required to return to Glasgow airport".
Mr McMahon is expected to go on trial in April.
Pauline Cafferkey, 40, was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital under police escort on Thursday morning after becoming unwell.
She is in a stable condition and medics say there is no danger to the public.
This is the fourth time Ms Cafferkey has been in hospital since returning to the UK from Sierra Leone two years ago.
On Thursday, NHS Greater Glasgow said: "Pauline Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital this morning under the care of the Infectious Diseases Unit.
"Due to Ms Cafferkey's past medical history, appropriate precautionary measures were taken whilst further investigations were carried out.
"We are pleased to report that tests for the Ebola virus are negative. She remains in a stable condition in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. We want to repeat our previous reassurance that there is no risk to the public."
On Friday, the health board said it did not plan to issue any further updates on Ms Cafferkey's condition as she did not have Ebola, there was no public risk and they must respect her confidentiality as a patient.
Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working as part of a UK team at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.
She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free hospital in London at the beginning of 2015 after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK.
Ms Cafferkey was later discharged after apparently making a full recovery, and in March 2015 returned to work as a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire.
But it was later discovered that the virus was still present in her body, and she was readmitted to the same London hospital in October 2015.
She again recovered, before being treated at the Royal Free for a third time in February of this year due to a further complication related to her initial Ebola infection.
More recently, the nurse faced a number of misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
These were for allegedly allowing a wrong temperature to be recorded during the screening process at Heathrow on her arrival back in the UK from Sierra Leone in 2014.
The NMC's conduct and competence panel dismissed all charges at a hearing in Edinburgh last month after being told that Ms Cafferkey's judgement had been impaired by illness.
12 January 2017 Last updated at 06:53 GMT
On 23 June 2016, the UK made a historic decision. It voted to leave the European Union (EU).
The UK has been a member of the EU for more than 40 years, so this was an extremely important moment.
More than 33 million adults voted. Around 52% of them chose to leave the group of 28 countries, while 48% wanted to stay in it.
The majority of people in Blackpool voted to leave the EU, while the majority of people in Brighton voted to stay.
More than six months have passed since the initial vote, so we went to see how kids in these two towns feel now about Brexit...
Arthur Collins, 25, was wanted for questioning by police and had been urged to hand himself in by The Only Way is Essex star.
A 21-year-old man has also been charged over the alleged attack at the Mangle E8 club in Hackney on 17 April.
Andre Phoenix faces seven counts of grievous bodily harm.
Twenty people were hurt - including two people each blinded in one eye - after being doused with a substance at the club.
The Metropolitan Police said a man and a 22-year-old woman both lost their sight in one eye.
Other people were treated for severe burns following the alleged attack.
The substance has not yet been confirmed but samples retrieved from the scene have been sent for analysis.
The man blinded in one eye and another victim, a 29-year-old man, were transferred to a specialist burns hospital in Essex and have since been discharged.
Mr Collins was arrested at an address in Rushden, Northamptonshire, on Saturday.
Mr Phoenix will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Monday.
A 24-year-old old man arrested in north London over the attack on Friday has since been released, police said.
Officials have already issued warnings about jellyfish in Mediterranean coastal waters for France and Italy.
But local marine biologists said this year's increase was "no different" from other years and that the blooms consisted of non-stinging species.
They added that they were monitoring the situation very closely.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman told BBC News: "We have been alerted to large numbers of jellyfish in the Mediterranean this summer, especially in a number of key holiday destinations for UK tourists.
"We have updated our travel advice for a number of Mediterranean countries to reflect this issue."
She added that the Foreign Office aimed to keep its advice "as informative and useful for visitors as possible".
Global problem
However, Stefano Piraino - project co-ordinator of the Mediterranean JellyRisk programme - said there was no need for tourists to be unduly concerned.
"Of course, as in any other ocean or sea in the world, there might be some problems," he said.
"In the Mediterranean, we are lucky and do not have deadly [jellyfish]."
But he did acknowledge: "We are experiencing, as in many other places around the world, an increase in jellyfish."
Prof Piraino, a marine biologist at the University of Salento in southern Italy, said the JellyRisk programme - also involving researchers from Spain, Tunisia and Malta - was set up because there was growing concern about the impact of increasing number of jellyfish on human activities in the region, such as fishing as well as tourism.
He told BBC News that the programme's main focus was on a citizen science campaign.
"This is a very important tool," Prof Piraino observed.
"We have, since 2009, used this approach where we are asking tourists, sailors, fishermen, divers - all the people that are in the sea - to send information about the presence of jellyfish."
The team have developed a smartphone application that not only allows people to send information, but also receive details about the abundance of jellyfish in their area.
The app also provides scientifically sound information about how to treat stings because the venom of jellyfish varies according to the species that inflicted the injury.
"We have collated scientific evidence and results from clinical trials, which we have reviewed so we can now, through the app and printed material, offer advice on the treatment of stings," he explained.
The team will also install anti-jellyfish nets at a number of popular beaches in order to assess their effectiveness.
Prof Piraino said it was difficult to pinpoint a single cause for the increase in the abundance of jellyfish.
"This is a result of many different causes. These can be different from site to site," he said.
"Generally, there is evidence that there is an increased abundance because of an increase in sea surface temperature.
"This is coupled with other things, such as the fact that we are changing the coastal marine environment."
One example he cited was the construction of artificial reefs for flood defences, which used a material favoured by jellyfish.
He added that this has been observed more often in other European bodies of water, such as the North Sea.
"This places a hard substrate in the sea, which is the preferred substrate for the larvae stage of jellyfish.
'Vicious cycle'
Overfishing was another contributing factor, he added.
"We are overfishing the oceans, which means we are catching all the big fish so the fish population is being reduced and we eliminate competitors and leave more food for the jellyfish."
A recent report published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concluded that the increasing number of jellyfish was creating a "vicious cycle" because the jellyfish were also feeding on the eggs and larvae of commercially important fish species.
In June, marine researchers gathered in Japan for the fourth International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium to share research on the global problem.
According to the FAO report, some experts have warned that, if the trend continued unabated, jellyfish could supplant fish in the world's oceans, triggering a "global regime shift from a fish to a jellyfish ocean".
Prof Piraino offered a solution, saying that people had to "learn to love jellyfish".
"The Chinese have been eating jellyfish for millennia," he said.
"Now there is documented evidence that non-stinging jellyfish in the Mediterranean can be eaten - they are full of antioxidants and they provide molecules that can be used in the pharmaceutical or cosmetic industries.
"Therefore the creatures should be viewed as a resource rather than a pest."
Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets will form a fourth group to play a round-robin qualifier at Cardiff Arms Park on 26 July.
The top two regions will qualify for the Series Final at the Twickenham Stoop on 8 August.
"The regions have never played each other in a Sevens tournament before," said Mark Davies, the acting chief executive of Regional Rugby Wales.
We know for sure that Anglo-Welsh rugby contests ignite plenty of excitement and passion
"So there is a lot of pride at stake, as well as the opportunity of a place in the Series Final and the chance to be part of... the World Club Sevens at Twickenham in August."
The winner of the Premiership Rugby Sevens Series will go on to play in the World Club Sevens on 16 and 17 August at Twickenham.
The other three pools contain the 12 Aviva Premiership clubs, split along geographical lines.
Kingsholm hosts Gloucester, Bath, Exeter Chiefs, and London Irish in Group B, which takes place on 31 July.
Twenty four hours later Group C features Northampton Saints, Harlequins, London Wasps and Saracens at Franklin's Gardens.
Completing the group stages on 2 August at Kingston Park, Newcastle, Leicester Tigers, Sale Sharks and Worcester Warriors will battle it out in Group D.
Davies added: "Having announced our exciting three-year sponsorship agreement with BT Sport this week as well, it shows we have a positive partnership that will go forward between BT Sport and our four Welsh regions.
"We know for sure that Anglo-Welsh rugby contests ignite plenty of excitement and passion amongst our supporters and we hope our involvement will add a real edge to the event."
Gloucester are the defending champions, having won the Premiership Rugby Sevens by beating Leicester in the 2013 final.
Collins thundered home his spot-kick with 16 minutes remaining to ensure the spoils were shared after Lewis Alessandra's first goal for the club put Pools ahead.
Hartlepool did not look like a side with such a poor home record in the opening exchanges, taking the lead in the 12th minute.
Having been hauled over by Andre Blackman, Nathan Thomas failed to make it seven goals in as many games from the spot - yet Alessandra was on hand to head home the rebound.
Crawley were unfortunate not to level immediately as Enzio Boldewijn and Jimmy Smith rattled the woodwork in quick succession.
The Red Devils took control thereafter and equalised in the 74th minute, Collins netting having been pushed to the floor by Jake Carroll.
And Crawley were only denied a last-ditch winner by some brilliance from Hartlepool defender Scott Harrison, who somehow stopped Collins from tapping into an empty net after Billy Clifford's curler hit the crossbar.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Hartlepool United 1, Crawley Town 1.
Second Half ends, Hartlepool United 1, Crawley Town 1.
Scott Harrison (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe McNerney (Crawley Town).
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Jake Carroll.
Foul by Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United).
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Scott Harrison.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Tom Heardman replaces Padraig Amond.
Billy Clifford (Crawley Town) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Foul by Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United).
Mark Connolly (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Aristote Nsiala (Hartlepool United) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Foul by Billy Paynter (Hartlepool United).
Kaby (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Jake Carroll.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Billy Paynter replaces Kieran Green.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Scott Harrison.
Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town).
Attempt missed. Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Billy Clifford (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kieran Green (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Clifford (Crawley Town).
Lewis Hawkins (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe McNerney (Crawley Town).
Goal! Hartlepool United 1, Crawley Town 1. James Collins (Crawley Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Scott Harrison (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card.
Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Jake Carroll (Hartlepool United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Crawley Town. James Collins draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Lewis Young.
Padraig Amond (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bobson Bawling (Crawley Town).
Foul by Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United).
Chris Arthur (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Young (Crawley Town).
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The filmmaker got word that Gil - also a famous musician - was hosting a prestigious viewing session of Padilha's first feature film "Elite Squad" at his house.
Padilha was furious, as his movie had just been released in cinemas. But a copy of the film leaked during post-production, and hit file sharing websites four months before its official release.
It became a piracy "super-hit" in Brazil. Some analysts estimated that more than a million people watched illegal copies of "Elite Squad" before the movie ever hit the big screens.
When Padilha heard that the culture minister was about to be part of that statistic, with an illegal copy of his movie, he evaded security and knocked on Gil's door demanding the pirate DVD be handed to him - which was promptly done by an embarrassed servant.
Brazil has long been a haven for movie piracy.
A government study found that 41% of Brazilian internet users have downloaded content illegally from the internet.
Piracy is also prevalent on the streets - with DVDs being openly sold in most commercial places and roads, and even outside movie theatres.
So Brazil is an unlikely place for movie subscription service Netflix to be successful.
Yet, since it was launched in Brazil in 2011, Netflix subscriptions have soared in the country.
The company does not release country-specific numbers, but two independent studies suggest Brazil has over the years become the fourth-largest market for Netflix - after US, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company has 69 million users worldwide.
Netflix's chief executive Reed Hastings - who usually refrains from commenting on countries - says Brazil is a "rocket ship" for its company.
When Netflix's Brazil and Latin Americas service started in September 2011 it was the firm's first venture outside of North America.
The region was chosen for three primary reasons - broadband penetration was considered big enough as a market, incomes at the time were rising rapidly, and there was an appetite for Hollywood content.
Netflix's chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland says there was another important reason that facilitated their entry.
"In Europe you have to buy individual content licences for every movie or TV show in each country, such as France, Germany or Spain," he says.
"In Latin America, you only need to two licenses - one for all Spanish-speaking countries and another one for Brazil."
Netflix's strategy against piracy was put to the test in Brazil, a country where users and sellers are rarely brought to justice for that crime.
The company decided to beat piracy by being competitive.
"If you offer good content at low prices and rapidly - releasing series in the same moment in Brazil as people are getting them in the US - that makes piracy less enticing," says Mr Friedland.
One of the key elements in its strategy is pricing. Netflix subscriptions in Brazil vary from 19.90 to 29.90 reais ($5 to $7.50; £3 to £4.60) a month. One movie ticket alone in Sao Paulo costs 30 reais ($7.50).
For that same amount of money you can buy about 10 illegal DVDs in the streets, but the quality is not always reliable.
And while many Brazilians illegally download films and TV shows, others are either not technologically savvy enough to do so, or are too concerned about computer viruses and malware.
For commentator Sergio Branco, director at the academic think tank Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, Netflix's low prices is a key factor behind its success, making it more attractive to users than online piracy.
He also praises the firm's subscription-based model, which is mirrored at music streaming service Spotify, and online book provider Oyster Books.
Mr Branco says: "Instead of charging for a movie or a song or a book, these services charge a monthly fee for people to have access to a vast archive of cultural services."
Mr Friedland adds that when Netflix enters a country, the rates of internet file sharing drop.
"Most people don't want to steal," he says. "They don't want viruses in their computers, they don't want the hassle of it."
In addition to getting its pricing right, Netflix also had to work hard to adapt to local consumer habits, such as issuing pre-paid cards, and getting partnerships with local banks to allow payment for users who do not have credit cards.
Brazil's often low-quality internet connections also tested the company's adaptive streaming technology - that adjusts the quality of video transmission according to available bandwidth.
According to Netflix, Brazil's current economic woes is not hampering business there, as its product is seen by consumers as a cheaper alternative to going out.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said earlier this month, in a presentation of the firm's latest results, that its base in Brazil is still growing, despite the economic contraction.
He said: "In Brazil, a value-based product that is very inexpensive is appreciated. Even though there are tight economic times currently, that has not held back our growth."
But what does hit Netflix is currency fluctuation. This year's appreciation of the dollar has made some international markets less profitable for shareholders in dollar-terms - particularly in Brazil, where the currency has lost 30% in value.
According to Mr Friedland, Netflix is still in "rocket ship" mode in Brazil, and now attracting content producers in the country.
Four years ago the company was approached by Jose Padilha - the same piracy-aggrieved movie director - who proposed a series about the history of cocaine in Latin America.
The Netflix original "Narcos" - based on the life of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar - premiered in August and was an international success.
In Brazil, it went down particularly well, with national star Wagner Moura in the main role, and music by popular singer Rodrigo Amarante.
Now Netflix wants to draw content out of countries like Brazil and launch it globally.
The company recently had a contest for young Brazilian filmmakers and gave global distribution to the winner's production. Next year it will launch "3%", a science-fiction series set and produced in Brazil and spoken in Portuguese.
Alexander Vershbow said Russia's involvement was becoming more unpopular with the Russian public as a result.
Russian officials dismissed on Thursday a US claim that Moscow had sent "thousands and thousands" of troops to fight alongside separatists.
A foreign ministry spokesman said the figures were "plucked out of the air".
Ukraine and the West have long accused Russia of helping the rebels with weapons and soldiers,
Independent experts echo that accusation but Moscow denies it, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are "volunteers".
Alexander Vershbow, Nato's deputy secretary general, told a conference in Latvia: "Russian leaders are less and less able to conceal the fact that Russian soldiers are fighting - and dying - in large numbers in eastern Ukraine."
There was "mounting evidence that the Russian incursion into Ukraine is becoming much less popular among the Russian public", he added.
Earlier this week, Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an interview with a wounded tank gunner, who said that he was a regular Russian army soldier and had been fighting alongside rebels.
He said he had received thorough training in Russia before being sent to Ukraine.
Earlier, Ukraine's parliament passed a new law to increase the size of the country's armed forces to counter the threat from pro-Russian separatists in the east.
The bill calls for a force of 250,000 personnel, including 204,000 active troops - up from 184,000. It will now go to President Petro Poroshenko, who proposed the measure, to be signed into law.
Meanwhile the government said its army had begun the second stage of pulling back heavy weapons on Thursday in line with the ceasefire agreed in Minsk last month.
A lull in fighting has led to hopes that the truce may broadly be holding.
Ukrainian military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said on Thursday one soldier had been killed on the frontline in the past day.
Rebels battled government troops in the village of Shyrokyne, east of Mariupol, in the early hours, Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Zoryan Shkiryak said. But he added that there had been no other serious fighting in the area.
Both Ukraine and the rebels say they are withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line, one of the requirements of the ceasefire deal made in the Belarusian capital.
Monitors from the OSCE security group have reported weapons movements on both sides but say it is too early to confirm a full withdrawal.
In other developments:
The UN says the conflict has claimed at least 6,000 lives since it started in April, although it says that the real number of fatalities could be considerably higher.
On Tuesday, the US army's Europe commander, Ben Hodges, said the US believed around 12,000 Russian soldiers were supporting the separatists.
But US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Wednesday told a congressional foreign affairs committee that Russia had deployed "thousands and thousands" of troops, without giving a precise number.
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich rejected the figures on Thursday, saying they were "plucked out of the air".
Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said it had started military exercises involving some 2,000 troops in southern Russia, the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia from Ukraine last year.
Protests have been held in recent days over the suspension of a referendum process seeking to remove President Nicolas Maduro.
The surprise move came after Mr Maduro met Pope Francis in an unannounced visit.
The Vatican and regional bloc Unasur will mediate in the talks.
Pope Francis "urged [the parties] to show courage in pursuing the path of sincere and constructive dialogue", the Vatican said in a statement.
After meeting representatives from both sides, the Vatican's envoy to Argentina, Emil Paul Tscherrig, said "a national dialogue" had already started.
He said they had agreed to formal talks on Sunday on Margarita island in the Caribbean.
Mr Maduro said "at last" dialogue could begin.
The head of the opposition coalition, Jesus Torrealba, who met Mr Tscherrig, said while talks were important "it can't continue to be a strategy for the government to win time".
Another top opposition figure, Henrique Capriles, dismissed the announcement as a diversionary ploy. "No dialogue has begun in Venezuela," he said.
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.
The opposition is trying to hold a recall referendum that would allow Mr Maduro to be removed from office but electoral authorities suspended the process last week.
The official reason was allegations of fraud during the gathering of signatures for the first petition required to enable the referendum.
However, opposition lawmakers have long accused the National Electoral Council of being under the government's control.
The suspension of the process to remove President Maduro appears to have been a turning point in Venezuela's political crisis. Since last week's announcement things have got more and more tense.
Both sides accuse the other of mounting a coup. Sunday saw dozens of government supporters burst into the National Assembly.
Amid this backdrop both parties have agreed to start negotiations with the mediation of the Vatican.
The first Latin American pope seems to be very engaged with Venezuela's crisis. The Vatican is respected by both sides and Pope Francis has proven a successful mediator before, helping restart diplomatic relations between Cuba and USA.
But the question remains: can these talks be successful? We don't know anything yet about the issues that will be on the table, and the differences appear huge.
The red line for the opposition is the recall referendum. The government says that the main topic should be the economy. Right now an agreement seems to be a miracle. But the Vatican is working on it.
In an emergency session of the National Assembly on Sunday, they approved a resolution accusing Mr Maduro's Socialist government of engaging in "an ongoing coup d'etat".
The Organization of American States also said it was "profoundly worried" by the electoral authorities' decision.
Hundreds of students protested on Monday in San Cristobal, a city near the Colombian border. Nationwide protests are planned for Wednesday.
Mr Maduro 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".
"I looked down at the ground and there was the shadow of the helicopter and I thought I was in Apocalypse Now."
So far, so movie-like.
"But then I turned around and Lacey (Turner) said, 'My seatbelt's come off' so I quickly started to hope that we weren't going to lose our leading actress."
Helicopter hiccups aside, the danger was avoided and the cast got through filming for the second series of the military drama.
It began last week on BBC One, continuing the story of Lacey Turner's army medic Molly Dawes as she heads to Afghanistan.
Rheon has returned as Smurf ("It's not a sexy name"), an ex-flame of Turner's character.
"She's such a fantastic actress," he said. "She knows what she's doing. She doesn't mess around.
"The way she's learnt her trade in a soap opera (She was Stacey Slater in Eastenders). She makes her decisions on how to deliver lines at home. She gets on."
Rheon did his time in soap too, working for two years on Welsh language series Pobol y Cwm.
"There's no time to be an actor when you do soap," he said. "There's incredible productivity in soap opera. It's so difficult. Maybe that's why me and Lacey get on."
As filming in Afghanistan was impossible, South Africa acted as an Afghan substitute.
"It was incredible experience, a beautiful place," he said.
"But working in the helicopter was hard because the scenes are so intense, you're about to land and you go, 'Look at that giraffe over there'."
If you weren't a soap fan living in Wales, Rheon's also recognisable from his time as Sean in Misfits.
Saying that, you might know him as Sir Ian McKellen's co-star in sitcom Vicious.
More likely, you'll detest or love him as The Bastard of Bolton in Game Of Thrones.
"I guess I don't really mind playing detestable," he said. "The fact that people find him detestable means I'm doing well I suppose."
He confirms he's filming the new series but discussing any plot points in THAT show is out of bounds. Plus we didn't want any spoilers anyway.
Considering the level of success Game Of Thrones has had, plus the obsession of its fans, it's surprising that Rheon doesn't run into more trouble when he's off set.
"I've never been abused in the street but I know that when people see me and (co-star) Alfie Allen out at the bar after filming, they say 'I don't know how you are friends'.
"I say to them, 'Well, do you believe in dragons too?'"
He and Alfie Allen are mates off-screen but to be honest, the way things are right now, it's not clear how long that will last.
"I'm absolutely destroying him at pool at the moment. I'm winning 6-1 but he keeps coming back for more."
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The Japanese company has apologised and withdrawn the virtual stickers which it said were "culturally sensitive".
Thailand's strict lese majeste law bans criticism of the king, queen and his successor, but has been broadly applied to references to the monarchy. It carries a maximum 15-year jail term.
Critics say the law has been used to silence discussion about the royals.
Line is one of the most popular messaging apps in Asia.
Suppaset Chokechai, commander of the police technology crime suppression division, confirmed the investigation with the BBC but declined to give any more information on the case.
The stickers depicted various members of the family, including the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his children, and appeared to reference rumours about them.
But some stickers also feature known facts about them, such as the king's fondness for the saxophone and Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn's deceased pet dog.
The set appeared to have been submitted to a section of Line's online shop where users can sell stickers to others. Line reviews submissions before they are put on sale.
Line issued a statement on Thursday saying it had withdrawn the stickers, saying they "may have caused discomfort among our users in Thailand".
It added that it would continue to improve its processes and "consider cultural aspects of each country".
Thailand has seen an increased spate of arrests under lese majeste in recent years, some under broad interpretations of the law.
Since its coup in 2014, the military government has used the law to arrest a string of suspects accused of claiming or using connections to the monarchy for personal benefit.
Visits to university websites also spiked in the weeks following the election.
Some attribute this rise to fears over Donald Trump's looming presidency.
But others say it has more to do with recruitment strategies and the growth of international education, than any political development.
While many celebrities had threatened to flee the US if Trump were to be elected, the biggest export may be students.
"If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press.
Ms Godoff is applying to a number of Canadian universities, and she's not alone.
The University of Toronto saw a 70% increase in applications from the US this autumn, compared with the same period last year.
At McGill University in Montreal it was an increase of 22%.
US applications to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver increased by 44% compared with the same period in 2015.
McGill University registrar Kathleen Massey says it's too soon to be certain whether this phenomenon is because of the election.
"It is possible that the change in the American political landscape may be contributing to the increase in applicant numbers from the USA," Ms Massey said, but she couldn't confirm such a trend, "because we have not surveyed the applicants to ask them directly".
International applications, including those from the US, were up at many schools in Canada.
Ms Massey said there was also an increase in US applications last year, although not as pronounced.
Ted Sargent, vice-president international at the University of Toronto, attributes the "thousands" of applications coming from the US to both timing and strategy.
"We've been engaging in a kind of crescendo over the past couple of years," he told the BBC, but "evolution of the political landscape could be a factor as well".
Rhonda Lenton, vice-president academic and provost of York University in Toronto, also thinks international recruitment efforts have especially paid off this year.
Website traffic from the US to York's main recruitment webpage has grown 134%.
But, she says, the impact of the US election is difficult to ignore.
"On the one hand I can't necessarily attribute this increase to any particular political situation that might be happening in the US," Ms Lenton said.
"But this is a noticeable increase."
However, Graeme Menzies, director of recruitment for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, says such numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt.
International recruitment at his school, like others, has been growing for years.
Reports of increased applications this cycle include those submitted before the election, and it's not clear whether the growth was spurred by Trump's win.
"That said, world events like the US election, Brexit, the global economy, regional conflict, currency fluctuations, and natural disasters are among the factors that consistently impact our recruitment plans and activities," Mr Menzies wrote in an email.
He said website traffic also increased in the days before the election, and subsided after it.
But beyond the geographic origin of the web visitor, Mr Menzies said, it's not known if those visitors were prospective students, parents or US citizens,
The Daily Telegraph, which released the story, alleges that eight current or former Premier League managers have broken rules by taking bribes for buying or selling players.
Sam Allardyce left his job as England manager on Tuesday, after claims he gave advice to undercover reporters on how to get around certain transfer rules.
Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has said football is "rife" with corruption and called for a full investigation to uncover any wrongdoing.
The Football Association said it's taking the allegations seriously and is investigating.
Corruption is when a person in an important position of power makes a dishonest decision or tries to influence others for a personal reward.
In cases like this, football managers are being accused of taking money, known as "bungs". This is when they receive a secret payment that has not been agreed to by their club, in return for a favour.
There are different things that football managers have been accused of doing, in return for bungs.
It's suspected that some managers are telling their clubs to buy players, because they have secretly been promised, or given, money by an agent if they sign the player.
Football agents work for the players and are the people who help organise transfers. They will also negotiate how much players are paid.
Agents have a huge influence in football - especially when it comes to money.
It's been suggested that managers have also been offering players higher wages in return for receiving some of that money themselves.
Or they have offered players an appearance bonus, which is when a player gets extra money every time they play in a match. A corrupt manager can then ask for some of that appearance fee in return for picking the player.
It's also been claimed that managers have deliberately sold players in order to receive a slice of the transfer fee when the player moves club.
There is now more money to be made in football than ever before.
In the 2014-15 season alone, Premier League clubs earned more than £3.3 billion and spent over £950 million signing players. Because there is so much money in football, there are a lot more agents working in the game and their influence on football has grown a lot.
Bungs are bad because they influence people for the wrong reasons.
Rather than picking a player for their ability or performance, a manager who takes a bung is making decisions to make money for themselves.
Making money for yourself by convincing clubs to spend money on certain players is illegal.
If these claims are true then it is bad for football fans who spend their money on a club, only to see it line the pockets of greedy managers.
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Victory over Belgium in November's final saw Britain win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936.
Captain Leon Smith guided Britain from the third tier to glory in five years.
British number one Andy Murray played a key role, alongside his brother Jamie, Kyle Edmund, James Ward, Dom Inglot and Dan Evans.
Andy Murray, 28, won 11 of 12 points during Britain's successful campaign.
The award was presented by former pentathlete and 1972 Sports Personality of the Year winner Dame Mary Peters, and Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill.
Captain Leon Smith said: "It is hugely humbling, it is very prestigious. It has been 79 years since we last won the Davis Cup, let's hope it doesn't take another 79 years.
"I hope what it has achieved is we get a lasting legacy for tennis."
Murray joins American John McEnroe and Swede Mats Wilander as the only men to have an 8-0 singles record in a Davis Cup year. In the doubles he is only the fourth man to win 11 rubbers in a single year.
Although the county council rejected the firm's main fracking application, it did approve an "array"' of seismic monitoring equipment.
High Court Judge Mrs Justice Lang said it was arguable the council had erred in law in granting planning permission.
A Cuadrilla spokeswoman said it was surprised at the judge's decision.
Mrs Justice Lang overturned an earlier rejection, at the High Court in London, of the Judicial Review application.
The equipment comprises 80 buried seismic monitoring stations, eight surface seismic monitoring stations and three boreholes, in a 4km radius of the proposed Roseacre Wood shale gas exploration site.
Estelle Dehon, lawyer for the Roseacre Awareness Group, said the group argues it was wrong to give permission for monitoring meant to "mitigate" a main fracking proposal, which was refused in July.
A Cuadrilla spokeswoman said: "We are surprised, particularly, as a previous written application was refused."
In many ways, that game at the Stade de France set the tone for much of what was to follow in the championship - some admirable stuff mixed with some self-defeating errors and all adding up to a defeat, albeit one that contained encouraging nuances.
Jonny Gray was a colossus that day. The second-row made 19 tackles and stole two French line-outs to mark himself out as a world class player in the making. Stuart Hogg typified the pockets of elan in Scotland's play, running for 88 metres, the second-highest total of the day.
Scotland played with ambition before the French juggernauts trundled in and won the match, 15-8. In what was to become a recurring theme of the season, Cotter's team failed to score in the second half.
There was a feel-good about the way that Scotland played, though. So many line-breaks, so much positivity in a backline that was once bereft of ideas.
The feeling before round two, at home to Wales, was that a win was possible. They came within three points. Scant consolation.
Again, we drew out the upside. Hogg was magnificent once more, the game's most lethal attacker, the full-back adding another 144 metres, and a try. After a poor 2014, Hogg's devil had been restored and he was delightful to watch.
The points famine returned, a 25-minute block in the second half where Scotland went pointless.
There was controversy, too. Glen Jackson, the referee, dished out penalties and inconsistencies like confetti at a wedding. Cotter felt aggrieved and expressed his disquiet in his own inimitable way. The less the Scotland coach says the more chilling he becomes. Stern Vern has no need for a hair-dryer.
Two games, two honourable losses and now Italy to come. This was the day that Cotter's championship would achieve lift-off. That was the plan, but not the reality.
It was a cataclysm. Discipline went out the window. Thirteen penalties made it 38 conceded in three games. Too many. In that fateful second half, Scotland spent 62% of the game in Italy's half and scored the sum total of three points.
The flair of the opening matches evaporated. Still, the win looked likely until Peter Horne, playing nicely up to that point, missed a kick to touch and Italy grew as a consequence. The great Sergio Parisse took control. Scotland lacked that kind of leader.
The endgame was horrific. Two yellow cards in quick succession for Scotland. Confusion. Panic. Then a late try that gave victory to the visitors. This is the ultimate one-that-got-away.
And it was sore. Where there was hope, now there was despair and the dread of a whitewash.
Scotland went to Twickenham, got their noses in front at half-time then sank. Another 40 minutes without a score. There were good things in there, some big performances, some suggestion that there can be a brighter tomorrow, but the bottom line - four losses from four - came as a kick in the gut.
The Wooden Spoon was served up on a dramatic last day where Scotland's only role in the championship-defining drama was as Ireland's whipping boy. Once more, 40 minutes went by without Cotter's men troubling the scoreboard. As the home team came to terms with their failure, the Irish took over Murrayfield. Champions again.
In the midst of this despond, Glasgow emerged. Thank goodness. They were like a beacon in the dark. Their Pro12 semi-final win over Ulster at a heaving Scotstoun and their conquering of Munster in the final in Belfast summed up what Gregor Townsend has created.
Both of those wins were seismic, but in different ways.
Against Ulster, it was a grind, a test of endurance, will and nerve - and Glasgow passed it right at the death. The final was an exhibition of their ambition and their execution. They were a riot of clever and accurate rugby, a joy to behold.
What quickened the pulse wasn't just the fact that Glasgow won the Pro12 for the first time, it was the way they won it. No sense of anxiety in the final, just an embracing of the occasion and a belief that they were good enough to set it alight.
Edinburgh had a major journey in the European Challenge Cup. They made a final, too, but didn't have the confidence that Glasgow had and a great chance was lost against Gloucester. Their Pro 12 was poor.
If Glasgow's next challenge is proving their worth in the Champions Cup then Edinburgh's is to make the top four of the Pro 12. It's time they delivered.
Summer saw the countdown to the World Cup. John Hardie was parachuted in from New Zealand and straight into Cotter's squad. WP Nel and Josh Strauss made it, too, on the residency rule.
Every game that Scotland played had a fascination. The eyes of the rugby world were on their opener against Japan, who had just caused international tremors by beating the Springboks.
Scotland scored five second half tries to win by 35 points. Hardie scored the game-turning try - and made 21 tackles to boot. The protest against his sudden arrival on the scene quietened somewhat in the wake of a wonderful performance.
The USA were seen off with another five-try romp, a further illustration that Scotland now possess an ability to score that hasn't been as strong for 15 years.
There was an unbreachable gulf in power against the Springboks in the third game. Even still, Scotland's capacity to conjure a try out of nothing served them well and kept within seven points until the hour-mark. They had no right to be that close. In the end, it was 34-16 to South Africa. That was about right.
The must-win game was won, but only just. Scotland weren't so much in a hole against Samoa as a crater. Defensively they were a shambles, conceding three tries and 20 points in the opening 21 minutes.
In previous years, Scotland might have folded altogether after that start, but they didn't. They fought against their own deficiencies, stayed calm, drew level with a converted Hardie try and saw it out in the second half.
It was heart-stopping, but it was enough. They were in the quarter-finals. And now it got serious.
The Wallabies had been supreme in their pool of death with England and Wales. They had a wondrous attack and a defence that the Welsh couldn't score against when the Wallabies had two men in the bin.
Scotland scored three tries against Australia. The problem was that Australia scored five. Well, it was one of the problems. The other was a referee who made a bad call under pressure and then ran away.
Everybody looked at Craig Joubert, but the bigger truth could be found by looking in the mirror. Scotland played clinically and heroically in attack and had earned their lead going into the closing minutes.
They had a line-out and had they secured it they would almost certainly have made the semi-final.
The line-out was a mess and the controversy happened as a result. It was a missed opportunity that will live with this team forever.
Going into 2016, what do we expect of Scotland? It's impossible to know. The World Cup would indicate that Nel has made a big difference to the scrum and that Hardie has a made a huge impact in the back row. The Gray brothers can be immense in-between. As a pack of forwards, they're very encouraging.
There is a menace about the Scottish backline that excites, but also a vulnerability that's worrying. Scotland can score, but can they stop the big guns scoring? They conceded three tries against South Africa, four against Samoa and five against the Wallabies.
Three wins from their 10 most important Tests in 2015 is a meagre return, but there are signs of life and hope. Scotland have the talent to turn those numbers around, but they need to get mean in 2016.
Analysis firm Springboard had predicted a 6.5% increase in footfall at shopping centres, retail parks and high streets.
Springboard's Diane Wehrle said she was surprised by the decline, which could not be blamed solely on bad weather.
Bank holidays were becoming more focused on leisure activities such as eating out, she said.
The August bank holiday is taken in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not in Scotland.
Ms Wehrle said there had been a shift from daytime shopping to evening trips.
Footfall at shopping centres rose by 7.3% between 5pm and 8pm on Saturday, compared with the same day last year, and soared 17.4% for the four hours until midnight.
The post-8pm increase for shopping centres reflected a rise in the number of food and beverage outlets in shopping centres compared with last year, Ms Wehrle explained.
On the High Street, there were 8% more shoppers between 5pm and 8pm and a 10.8% increase between 8pm and midnight.
However, when both Saturday and Sunday were combined, footfall at shopping centres was down by 7%, shopping centres recorded a 3.3% decline and the total for out-of-town retail parks was 2.4% lower.
Tom Nathan, general manager at Brent Cross shopping centre in north London, said he was not concerned as trading in July and August had been quite resilient.
"Some of the schools are going back a bit later this year, which could have been partly responsible, so I anticipate a busy week ahead as people shop for back to school items," he told the BBC. "It certainly looked very busy yesterday - the restaurants were rammed."
Mr Nathan also said that fluctuations in shopping patterns might depend on the weather.
Data released earlier this month from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggested warmer weather and the weaker pound had helped boost retail sales in July.
Retail sales rose by 5.9% compared with the same month last year, the ONS said.
Seventy-five years ago, a large structure ran aground in a storm on a shore of the Western Isles.
The cargo ship SS Politician was headed for Jamaica with 28,000 cases of whisky when it got into difficulty and eventually sank off Eriskay in 1941.
Islanders recovered hundreds of cases of whisky from the wreck and some of the bottles were buried to keep them hidden from customs officers.
The grounding, and hoarding of the spirits, inspired Scottish author Compton Mackenzie to write his 1947 novel Whisky Galore.
The story was adapted for the cinema in a 1949 Ealing comedy starring Basil Radford.
Since 1949, Whisky Galore has been turned into a musical and a remake of the classic film has been made.
In the 1950s, there was the comedy Rockets Galore which was inspired by establishment of a massive military missile test range on the Uists in the Western Isles.
And then, 36 years ago, there was another large arrival on the Western Isles that got creative juices flowing.
Tame grizzly bear Hercules had been brought to Benbecula for the filming of an advert in the summer of 1980. He escaped and was on the loose for 24 days before he was safely captured.
Author Bella Pollen was a teenager on a family holiday on Benbecula when the bear went on the run.
The incident inspired Pollen to later write a fictional story, Summer of the Bear.
Lewis-based artist Alex Boyd believes the grounded hulk of Transocean Winner could have a similar effect on the arts.
"From my home in the village of Bragar, only a few miles from where the Transocean Winner unceremoniously crashed ashore, I can see the towering derrick of the rig looming over the horizon like a particularly bad piece of public sculpture," he says.
"The rig joins the ever growing wreckage of industry which litters the peripheries of Hebridean villages, from farm machinery to broken down buses on an island that the writer Jonathan Meades once re-christened 'Rust'.
"Less than a day after her arrival, several artists from our village had already walked along the headland to see the new arrival, documenting the unwelcome addition to one of our most loved beaches and sharing the images on social media."
Boyd, who is an arts officer at An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway, Lewis, has also been inspired to explore the potential of the rig's grounding. He, along with another artist, were able to get close to the site of the grounding before an exclusion zone was put in place.
"I let curiosity get the better of me and, along with artist Jon Macleod, we made our way along the cliff path to view the rig, a walk of several miles due to the closing of access routes to the beach by police and the coastguard," says Boyd.
"Following the coast south, we watched as the rig grew larger on the horizon, and the smell of diesel oil grew stronger.
"On a cliff top overlooking the scene below, we watched the gentle sway of the rig on the waves, and worried about the possible effects that a spill would have on the fragile local environment.
"As artists, however, we also got to work, documenting the scene before us, I loading film after film into my camera, while Jon hid his solargraph cameras in the landscape for an upcoming exhibition Deiseal (Sunwise) at An Lanntair.
"Over the course of several months his camera will silently record the scene, picking up the movement of the rig, its hopeful removal, and the rise and fall of the sun.
"It's probably one of the first artworks to be made of the event."
Boyd plans to document the salvage of the rig using a Victorian field camera.
He adds: "Since the first days of the incident many artists from here and abroad have been out to record and document the rig, countless images have been made, and I'm sure at the next open art exhibition, Grinneas nan Eilean, at the An Lanntair there will be wall to wall paintings and photographs of oilrigs. I hope so anyway.
"In the longer term, I hope that the incident will be recorded in other ways. Lewis and Harris are fantastically creative places, and the community will reflect that in the way that they record the event."
Meanwhile, Scottish filmmaker David Hutchison believes the grounding could influence screenwriters.
He says: "The image of the oil rig on the rocks is certainly cinematic and did make me think how I could write that into a film.
"I like to use real events if possible.
"When I wrote the script for my film Baobhan Sith I knew that the Cockenzie Power Station towers were going to be demolished so their destruction was woven into the script and filming was delayed a year until they were captured."
Hutchison adds: "So yes real event can trigger inspiration. It still needs to be mixed with a character story."
Earlier in March, The Times suggested trials would take place on a "quiet stretch" of the M6 motorway in Cumbria in 2016.
The government has now confirmed "lorry platooning" trials, in which vehicles form a convoy headed by a driver in the leading lorry, will go ahead.
It also announced that driverless cars will be trialled on UK roads by 2017.
In the Budget, published on Wednesday, the government said it wanted the UK to be "a global centre for excellence in connected and autonomous vehicles".
Companies such as Ford and Google have been testing autonomous cars for months, but trials typically take place in California.
Edmund King, president of roadside recovery firm AA, has questioned the feasibility of a lorry platooning scheme in the UK.
"The problem with the UK motorway network is that we have more entrances and exits of our motorways than any other motorways in Europe or indeed the world," he said earlier in March.
"Therefore it's very difficult to have a 44 tonne 10-lorry platoon, because other vehicles need to get past the platoon to enter or exit the road."
Other technology-related points in the Budget included:
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In 2006, he was awarded £200,000 in compensation to be paid by the News of the World's publishers News International.
The now-defunct tabloid printed allegations about the politician's private life which included claims he visited a swingers club.
The former Scottish Socialist party leader has always denied these claims.
The hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh has been brought by News International in the hope of having the verdict against them "struck down".
Three judges - Lady Paton, Lord Drummond Young and Lord McGhie - will hear legal submissions over three days.
Mr Sheridan, who was a Glasgow regional list MSP for eight years from 1999, was awarded compensation after winning the defamation trial in 2006.
However, in 2010 he was found guilty of perjury while giving evidence during the defamation case.
He was freed from prison after serving just over a year of his three-year sentence.
In submissions to the latest hearing, Alastair Duncan QC, representing the newspaper group, said that because Mr Sheridan was convicted of perjury, the decision of the defamation jury should be set aside.
He told the court that evidence had emerged which would have made it impossible for the original jury to say that the politician was the victim of defamation.
He added: "The verdict is unsafe because of the conviction. It is essential to the cause of justice for it to be set aside.
"We say that the verdict be set aside because its basis is contrary to the evidence which is before the court."
Mr Sheridan, who is representing himself, was also expected to address the court.
The role is widely regarded as the biggest job in British theatre, and Norris called it "a great honour".
"I am thrilled at the challenge of leading this exceptional organisation, where it has been a privilege to work under the inspirational leadership of Nick Hytner," he said.
Sir Nicholas announced last April he would step down in March 2015.
Norris first came to prominence in 2001 with his production of Afore Night Come at the Young Vic, for which he won the Evening Standard award for most promising newcomer.
Having initially trained at Rada as an actor, the 48-year-old has since directed theatre in the West End and on Broadway, as well as having experience with opera and film.
In 2012 his film Broken premiered at the Cannes Film Festival before winning best British independent film at the British Independent Film Awards.
He recently directed The Amen Corner at the National and also created Dr Dee: An English Opera with Blur frontman Damon Albarn for the Manchester International Festival in 2011.
Earlier this year he also launched the National's temporary Shed venue on London's Southbank with Table, by his playwright wife Tanya Ronder.
"The National is an extraordinary place full of extraordinary people and I look forward with relish to the task ahead," Norris said.
"That being to fill our theatres with the most exciting, accessible and ground-breaking work our unique and broad community of artists has to offer."
Sir Nicholas will have spent 12 years as the National Theatre's director when he hands over to Norris in 2015.
He has overseen worldwide hits such as The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as NT Live which screens theatre productions in cinemas.
He said his successor would be "welcomed with great excitement both within the National and in the theatre at large".
He added: "His work as a director is always searching, deeply considered and adventurous and I have no doubt he will bring these qualities to the running of the National."
Sir Nicholas said Norris received a standing ovation from the National Theatre company when he had introduced him earlier, accompanied by a huge roar "even louder than when old Alfie falls down the stairs in One Man, Two Guvnors".
Norris said his new role was "a great privilege and I will attack that with gusto", adding he would like to "cast the net wider" in terms of who would perform at the theatre.
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"He fits the bill. There are certain echoes between him and Hytner which no doubt appealed to the board.
"The main thing is that neither of them, upon being appointed, had run buildings before. They both enjoyed stellar careers as freelance directors which, firstly, indicates the board wants to have an artist at the head rather than a career artistic director and, secondly, they want someone with new ideas.
"He's had a fascinating career. Festen at the Almeida (2004) was a stellar production and proved that work fostered in a subsidised theatre could transfer to the commercial West End.
"The key with him is that he can direct at the Olivier (The Amen Corner, London Road, Death and the King's Horseman) and on a smaller scale at The Shed (Table).
"He's proved he has the ability to direct across the board."
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"The theatre's in a different place from when Nick [Hytner] took over - a position of strength."
Norris revealed he was directing a movie version of London Road in 2014, but said he would be "100% committed to this building" from the moment Sir Nicholas leaves.
"I'm not going to kid myself. I will be chained to this place," he added.
Norris, who has been an associate director at the National Theatre since 2011, will take up his new position from April 2015.
He is the first former actor as well as non-Oxbridge graduate to be appointed since Sir Laurence Olivier, who was the National's first artistic director in 1963.
"There have been many times in my life when I've regretted that I played in bands and was a painter decorator for four years when I could have been at university, but I seem to be here - it worked out," Norris said.
"The simple fact is, lots of people who go to Oxford and Cambridge are very, very clever. That doesn't mean they're the only clever people."
The National Theatre's chairman John Makinson said: "The Board looked for an individual with a creative reputation that would command the respect and support of British theatre, and with the generosity of spirit that has characterised Nick Hytner's period as director.
"Rufus Norris has both those qualities in abundance. He is an exciting choice, someone who will build on the National Theatre's present reputation as one of the most admired and innovative performing arts organisations in the world.
"We are fortunate that he has chosen to join us."
The National Theatre's first director from 1963-73 was Sir Laurence Olivier, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of all time.
When asked by the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz whether he thought his acting past would also bring a different flavour to the institution, Norris laughed: "It's an interesting question and one I had not anticipated at all, because to compare me as an actor with Laurence Olivier is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time."
He continued: "I'm sure that what I bring to it will be nothing like the amount of skill and expertise that his acting career allowed him to bring to the table.
"But I think, yeah, training as an actor and having that experience for a while gives you an insight into a certain aspect of the process which is very, very useful."
Sir Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Daldry, Danny Boyle and ex-Donmar Warehouse bosses Michael Grandage and Sam Mendes had all been in the frame for the job, although Mendes had ruled himself out of the race.
Nick Starr, the theatre's executive director since 2002, also announced he would be leaving the NT during 2014, leading to a phased handover of the top jobs.
Last year, the commission's board apologised for its handling of a dispute with crofters over the management of common grazing land.
Board members also asked Mr Kennedy to resign as convener. He refused to do so.
The count for the commission elections was held in Stornoway on Lewis.
Mr Kennedy lost out to Billy Neilson in being elected as a commissioner for the constituency of South West Highlands.
The former convener told BBC Alba that he did not believe the row had an impact on the election as he only lost by two votes.
This is only the second time crofters have had an opportunity to elect commissioners, who serve five-year terms.
The first elections to the board of crofting's regulatory body were held in 2012.
The election involves six constituencies covering crofting in Argyll, Highlands and Western and Northern isles.
The six newly elected commissioners are:
Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - held the count.
The local authority posted results on Twitter and live streamed declarations of the results on Periscope.
Controversy has overshadowed the activities of the commission over the past year.
Last month, Scottish ministers demanded "urgent action" after a report highlighted "worrying failures" at the Crofting Commission.
A review ordered by the government found "personality clashes" amid issues with management at the group.
There has also been a long-running row at the commission over its leadership and the management of common grazing land.
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said it was "essential" that governance was improved "immediately".
The review followed a protracted internal dispute in the commission, which grew from a row over the running of land shared by crofters to raise livestock.
Following the elections, Mr Ewing said: "Crofting is an integral part of Scottish rural life and it is essential that it has dedicated people to represent and reflect the interests and diversity of our crofting communities.
"The elected crofting commissioners will give crofters a stronger say in how they are regulated, bringing valuable local knowledge and experience to the role and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the six newly elected commissioners on their election and wish them every success."
He added: "This group, together with the appointed commissioners, will play an essential role in the effective governance and operation of the Crofting Commission, ensuring that it has the policies in place to deliver fair, reasonable and transparent decisions on matters affecting crofters and rural communities."
Crofting Commission chief executive Bill Barron said: "I would like to congratulate those who have been elected and I look forward to meeting and welcoming them to the commission."
That's the debate raging in South Korea at the moment.
Because the government has ruled that people under 19 who buy a smartphone must install an app that monitors their web activity.
Parents will be able to to see what their kids are up to online and block access to "undesirable" sites.
Failure to install such an app means the phone won't work.
Is it a triumph of good sense or a paternalistic government going too far, especially when you consider that many of these youngsters are old enough to vote in other countries or serve in the military?
The government has developed its own monitoring app called Smart Sheriff, but there more than a dozen alternatives on the market.
Phone stores now have posters at the entrance saying: "Young smartphone users, you must install apps that block harmful content."
There is no opt-out.
But there are loopholes, including the fact that the Communications Commission assumes that in the land of Samsung everybody prefers Android to Apple, so, according to the critics, those with iPhones can get round the rule.
The government argument is simple but powerful: there is a pit of nastiness on the web and young people should be protected from it.
The opponents' argument is also simple and powerful: it's about personal freedom.
Children have to be allowed to roam in cyberspace - just like in physical space - to learn how to cope with life's difficulties, as well as enjoy life's pleasures.
And even if parts of the internet should be closed off to children, it's for parents to decide where the barriers should be, not the government.
Blocking access to a list of forbidden sites through a smartphone app is a step too far, they argue.
Some of the apps monitor particular words and phrases, then alert parents when these triggers are put into search engines.
Examples include "threat", "run away from home", "pregnancy", and "crazy". There are many, many more.
Kim Kha Yeun, a lawyer at the Open Net Korea organisation, which is trying to get the compulsory instalment of the app blocked, said: "It is the same as installing a surveillance camera on teenagers' smartphones."
Open Net Korea also fears that the list of banned sites could expand at the behest of politicians for political reasons.
There is a tradition of paternalism in Korea.
South Korea was industrialised at the direction of the president, so it may be that what is tolerated in hi-tech Korea, where 8-out-of-10 teenagers own a smartphone, would not be tolerated elsewhere.
There have already been attempts to control the way citizens use technology.
For example, a default shutter-click sound has been introduced to smartphone cameras to discourage perverts from taking surreptitious, voyeuristic photos of people on trains, in changing rooms, or other public places.
But the small number of convictions for such an offence would indicate that the truly determined are managing to switch off this sound effect anyway.
South Korea is a vibrant democracy.
It's had free and fair elections since 1987. But paternalism doesn't have the bad name it might have in some other democracies.
That is partly because the track record of strong government is good, in the eyes of many Koreans.
The country was modernised rapidly under the firm leadership of a paternalistic president.
Major-General Park Chung-hee took power in a coup in 1961.
He was a strongman who utilised brutal methods - but he also dictated that industries be created.
Under his direction, the South Korean economic phenomenon was born.
Koreans know that.
And the current president knows that. She should do - Park Geun-hye is the dictator's daughter.
When the BBC talked to teenagers aged 18 and under, they resented being made to install Smart Sheriff or its alternatives.
At Seoul Global High School, Won June-Lee, Yerim Jin and Minjun Kim were studying 1984 - the George Orwell novel in which Big Brother first appears - when the BBC visited.
Their opinions all followed the same line: parents are right to have fears about what children are doing on the internet, but the kids are also entitled to challenge and negotiate what they are allowed to see.
And learning to control what kinds of media are encountered on the net is now a part of growing up, they argued.
Modern South Korea is struggling to come to terms with its past.
It is a country seemingly addicted to technology, but also accepting of paternalistic government; a vibrant democracy built on economic foundations laid by a despot.
Big Brother may have been tolerated in the past, but now he has to argue his case.
Mr Hampshire died earlier this month, aged 76, after a long illness.
He was part of the Yorkshire team that won three successive County Championships between 1966 and 1968. He retired as a player in 1984.
As well as playing for the county and captaining it, he went on to appear for England before becoming a renowned international umpire.
The service took place a the Minster Church of All Saints and was attended by a number of past and present Yorkshire cricketers.
Ray Illingworth, who played alongside him in the championship team of the late 60s, described Mr Hampshire as a "Yorkshire great".
"A good man as well, he was a 100% team man," he said.
"He was a joy to be with. He enjoyed life did John, liked a pint afterwards."
The pieces include Picasso's Child With A Dove worth £50m which is now thought to be in Qatar.
Wealthy buyers are using "exploitable loopholes" and "gentlemen's agreements" to avoid export restrictions on national treasures, say experts.
However, the Arts Council said 32 such items had stayed in Britain because of the rules since 2011-12.
Important cultural objects bought by overseas collectors often have a temporary export ban put on them.
This gives British dealers or museums a chance to match the price.
But a total of 41 national treasures worth £278m were granted export licences between 2011 and 2016.
These include:
The Art Fund - which campaigns to save art for the nation - said the rules should be tightened.
Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said: "Applying for an export licence you have to promise if a museum raises a matching sum you will sell it to them.
"We [the Art Fund] want to see some proper legal muscle to a system currently based on gentlemen's agreements.
"The civil servants running it need to listen to people who have new ideas for change."
But leading art historian and dealer Bendor Grosvenor said the UK's export system was probably the best in the world because it balanced the interest of both the public and private collectors.
"Art is a global business," he said. "Is it in the public interest for the state to effectively seize someone's private assets?"
Artefacts are considered to be a "national treasure" if their loss would be felt through historical importance, appearance and scholarship.
A Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesman said: "The UK's cultural export controls helps to keep national treasures, such as TE Lawrence's dagger and Jane Austen's ring, in the country.
"While it's not possible to save every object, the system is designed to strike the right balance between protecting our national cultural heritage and individual property rights."
The decision on whether an artwork is a national treasure is made by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest.
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But it was not a rare Ferrari that he had bought. It was a number plate.
The registration plate "25 O" is the most expensive ever bought at a Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) auction.
Even so, Mr Collins, who owns classic Ferrari dealer Talacrest, says he would have bid more at the auction for the plate which matches the 250 model.
"It was a question of holding one's nerve until the very end," he says, glancing at the plate on the vehicle which itself has an estimated value of millions of pounds.
"I'm glad it stopped where it stopped - £520,000. You could buy a couple of nice cars with that.
"I hate to say it but it could have been the first £1m number plate. I'm glad it wasn't, but I hope one day it will be."
He is not the only motor enthusiast buying a personalised plate as an investment, according to brokers. Despite sometimes being seen as a tacky accessory for the rich and famous, the popularity and value of some plates have been rising.
"25 O" - £518,000 in November 2014
"1 D" - £352,000 in March 2009
"51 NGH" - £254,000 in April 2006
"1 RH" - £247,000 in November 2008
"K1 NGS" - £231,000 in December 1993
Mr Collins bought his record-breaking number plate at a DVLA auction. The Agency hosts five physical auctions and four online auctions each year, but there are also 30 million registrations available to buy on its website.
Prices start from £250. Some 4.2 million have been sold since the DVLA began selling them in 1989, with more than £2bn raised for the Treasury in that time.
Jody Davies, auction manager at DVLA Personalised Registrations, says that the typical price for those that go under the hammer at auction is about £2,000.
Their popularity, she says has "never really waned" but the reasons for purchases are many and varied, as are the prices paid.
Some drivers buy them as a gift for a loved one, others use them to promote their business, and some are keen to cover up the age of their vehicle with a personalised plate.
But they are unlikely to get their hands on a rude registration. The DVLA has a steering group that assesses potential plates for propriety. That assessment may change as new collections of letters can take on new meanings, such as in text message language.
There are, of course, new editions to regular registration plates released twice a year. The new series, carrying the number "15" to designate the year, have been on the roads since the start of March.
When the DVLA issues these plates, it holds some back that could be considered as personalised and sold. None of the personalised plates it sells have been on any vehicle before.
It does not trade in existing plates. That is done in a parallel market, primarily by brokers such as Regtransfers, based in Bedfordshire.
Stock purchase manager John Doherty says that buyers - certainly among their celebrity clients - are most likely to search for their initials, but they can come in at a high price.
The cost falls by adding in extra letters, and numbers, and hoping that such a combination is available.
Ultimately, he argues, it is an investment that allows motorists some enjoyment along the way.
"It is something they can use every single day of the week, and it does not depreciate in value, unlike a car," he says.
"Hopefully when it comes to selling it, you should get a good return."
The cost of getting a personalised number plate does not necessarily end at an auction or with a broker.
There is the cost of getting the number plate made up. Drivers doing so will probably have to take a certificate of entitlement - a V750 - to prove that the number can be used.
This certificate needs to be renewed for a charge of £25 but, from Monday, this only needs to be done every 10 years.
There may also be a charge to assign the registration number to the vehicle of their choice. All the rules are outlined on the government's website.
Insurers should also be informed of any change of registration. Matt Oliver, of price comparison website GoCompare, says that a personalised number plate should not add to the cost of a premium.
However, should something happen to the vehicle, there could be implications for the number plate.
Mr Oliver suggests that owners get a letter of non-interest from an insurer in order to keep the entitlement to the number if the vehicle is scrapped. If it is stolen, then an owner should tell their insurer they want to keep their entitlement as soon as possible.
The deal values Premier Farnell shares at 165p each. The shares soared 50% to 164p after the takeover was announced.
Daetwyler distributes more than 500,000 electronics products under brands such as Nedis.
Premier Farnell has been trying to put its business on a firmer footing in recent months.
It has cut dividend payouts to shareholders, and sold its industrial products business, Akron Brass, for $224.2m.
Eben Upton, the pioneer of the Raspberry Pi, was made a CBE in the Queen's latest Birthday Honours list.
The Pi has proved hugely popular with electronics hobbyists and many children use the devices to get a taste of computer coding.
In April 2016, the Pi became the most popular British computer ever made.
More than eight million have been sold since it was launched in early 2012.
Sahar Al Faifi said she "lost count" of incidents of physical abuse she received before the attacks happened.
Islamic State (IS) militants have claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris with 129 people dead.
The first minister said the level of potential threat "remains high".
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, Ms Al Faifi said IS wanted to create a perception of "us and them", adding: "Welsh Muslims are living in immense fear of backlashes."
Despite two Cardiff men, Reyaad Khan and Nasser Muthana travelling to Syria and appearing in a video urging people to join IS, Ms Faifi said they represent a tiny proportion of Welsh Muslims.
"The Muslim population of Britain is 4.8% or two million people and 700 have joined IS. Are they really representative of the Muslim community and faith?" she added.
"Two boys from Cardiff were not radicalised in mosques but through social media."
Ms Al Faifi also said she "lost count" of the incidents of physical abuse against her before the Paris attacks, saying: "If I reported all of them, I'd be living half of my life in the police station."
Her fears were echoed by former Neath MP and cabinet minister Peter Hain, who said: "We have to make sure we do not allow any Islam phobic targeting of Muslims in any part of Wales where Muslims form an important and valued part of the community."
As a show of solidarity, public buildings around Wales are being illuminated by the colours of the tricolour this weekend.
They include:
Speaking on the same programme, First Minister Carwyn Jones called on people in Wales to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity.
He said security in the country has been the same for the past few months and the level of potential threat to Wales remained high and had not increased following the Paris attacks.
With one of the incidents taking place near Paris' Stade de France as a football match took place, he said people in Wales should be "aware of the implications of hosting big events" like the recent Rugby World Cup matches that took place in Cardiff.
"In the past, these terrorists have wanted to attack big cities, to kill the most people and get the most publicity, but the threat is not only in big cities."
Despite the attacks, he said Welsh football fans should not be concerned about travelling to France for next summer's European Championships, adding: "It will go ahead. It would be a great victory for them (the terrorists) if it doesn't.
The panic, fear and paranoia felt in Paris during the attacks was described by the manager of Merthyr Tydfil band Pretty Vicious.
They were playing in front of 300 people in the city and completed their 45-minute set, despite half the audience leaving when news started filtering through that two people had been shot.
Bryn Phillips said information was confused and they were unaware of the full extent of what was happening.
He accompanied the four band members, aged between 16 and 18, to their hotel 300 yards away from the venue, saying: "Before the gig, there were parties and a carnival atmosphere, but after, there was about a tenth of the people on the streets and it was a totally different feeling, a bit nerve wracking.
"There were sirens going off everywhere and paranoia creeps in, I was worried about people on the streets having guns."
The hotel was "locked down" with them safely inside and despite announcements that France's borders had been closed, they were able to drive through the Channel Tunnel back to the UK on Saturday morning.
After returning briefly to Merthyr Tydfil, they then travelled to Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, where they are currently recording.
"It seems surreal now watching it on television," added Mr Phillips
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The attack targeted worshippers during Friday prayers in a remote village in the Mohmand Agency, north of Peshawar.
More than 40 people were wounded, many of them children.
Reports say a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, carried out the attack which apparently targeted elders from a government-sponsored anti-Taliban militia.
Pakistan's tribal areas have been subjected to recent attacks by both the Pakistani Taliban and so-called Islamic State.
The Pakistani military began operations there in 2014 to reduce the strength of the Taliban but violence has continued.
About 200 people had congregated for Friday prayers in the village mosque in Ambar region when the explosion occurred, the BBC's Ilyas Khan reports.
A senior tribal administration official told AFP news agency: "The Friday prayer was in progress at the mosque when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the main room."
Some reports said the attacker had shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great).
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack in a statement released by his office.
"The cowardly attacks by terrorists cannot shatter the government's resolve to eliminate terrorism from the country," he said.
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The German sailing team said Heil, who was third at a recent test event held at the same Guanabara Bay venue, was told by a Berlin hospital that he had been infected by multi-resistant germs.
Recent water quality tests revealed drug-resistant bacteria in the bay.
"I have never in my life had infections on the legs," Heil said on a team blog.
"I assume I picked that up at the test regatta. The cause should be the Marina da Gloria where there is a constant flow of waste water from the city's hospitals."
Heil's claims come after South Korean windsurfer Wonwoo Cho was taken to hospital during the week-long test event, with his coach Danny Ok claiming the cause was "probably from the water" at Guanabara Bay.
It led to the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) threatening to move the sailing and windsurfing events to the Atlantic Ocean if the situation did not improve.
But in a statement following Heil's infection, it said: "While work remains to be done, ISAF, Rio 2016 and all relevant local authorities are confident that the venue will be ready to host 380 sailors during the Olympic Sailing Competition in one year's time."
Three of the courses earmarked for the Olympics are in Guanabara Bay and three are in the Atlantic, with up to 1,400 athletes set to compete in water sports at the Games.
Research has shown that "super-bacteria" found in the water is usually found in hospital waste and produce an enzyme, KPC, resistant to antibiotics.
Nearly 70% of sewage in Rio - a city of some 10 million people - is spilled raw into the waters of Guanabara Bay.
A US appeals court on Tuesday granted a new hearing for Kris Maharaj, 78, who has been jailed for more than 30 years for a 1986 double murder in Miami.
The ruling means that Maharaj's lawyers will be able to present new evidence which they say proves the two men were killed by members of a drug cartel.
His lawyer claims a Colombian hit man killed Derrick and Duane Moo Young.
Maharaj's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith from human-rights organisation Reprieve, applauded the decision, saying "it is a great day for Kris, and I hope now we will finally get him the justice he has long been denied".
But a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office, Ed Griffith, told BBC News: "We stand by the outcome of the very lengthy and fair evidentiary hearing that Maharaj received in the state court, where the judge found these witnesses and/or claims to not be credible or have any merit."
The defence team plans to present new evidence from six cartel associates to argue that the two men, who were business partners of Maharaj, were killed after members of Pablo Escobar's Medellin drugs cartel caught them embezzling laundered drug money.
The new ruling from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta says "new evidence" would demonstrate that Maharaj could not have been found guilty of the Moo Young murders "beyond a reasonable doubt".
The judgment adds that the statements by the witnesses, which include Escobar's preferred hit man John Jairo "Popeye" Velasque, "independently corroborate one another".
They will also present evidence that one hotel guest on the night of the murders, Jaime Vallejo Mejia, was a member of the drug cartel.
The former businessman, who has been in poor health, had been on death row for 15 years but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment in 2002.
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Alapati Leiua's try gave Samoa the lead but three Sam Davies penalties brought Wales within a point at the break.
Wing Evans' first international try put Wales ahead after 42 minutes, only for Manu Leiataua to restore Samoa's lead.
Wales rallied and Evans' second try eight minutes from the end clinched the victory on a slippery pitch in Apia.
It was Robin McBryde's team's second win on the two-Test tour, which saw them start without 12 players on British and Irish Lions duty in New Zealand and saw a further four called up by Warren Gatland before the Samoa game.
It was revealed afterwards that Wales won despite having 10 players taken ill before the match with a sickness bug.
Ospreys lock Rory Thornton was handed his Wales debut in a side which showed seven changes from the one which had started in the previous week's 24-6 win over Tonga.
Samoa made six changes and a positional switch after a 78-0 defeat by New Zealand in Auckland.
The hosts made the perfect start when following a period of pressure Bath scrum-half Kahn Fotuali'i floated a pass to Leiua, who crossed in the corner with Tusi Pisi adding the conversion.
Samoa made life hard for Wales in difficult and wet conditions and a Pisi penalty extended their lead.
Two penalties from fly-half Davies calmed the tourists' nerves as they clawed their way back into the game.
Despite trailing, Wales had a measure of control and Davies' third penalty brought them within a point of the hosts at the break as Pisi failed with a drop goal attempt.
Wales went ahead for the first time within a minute of the second half with a try created by back row forwards Aaron Shingler and Ellis Jenkins.
Shingler charged down Pisi's low kick and from Jenkins' kick and chase the ball was played out to the left wing, where Scarlets' Evans was on hand to cross.
Samoa restored their lead with hooker Leiataua capitalising on sloppy Welsh defensive play to slide over for his side's second try before Pisi added the extras.
But Wales secured victory in the last quarter of the game with Evans, last season's top try scorer in the Pro12, crossing in the corner for a second time.
Wales had lost four times to Samoa before this meeting, and they had to withstand a late onslaught before claiming a sixth win over the Pacific Islanders.
Wales coach Robin McBryde revealed a sickness bug swept the Wales camp, with ten players taken ill before the match.
"We've had a little bit of an illness in the camp and the players could have used that but they dug in so deep," McBryde revealed to BBC Wales Sport.
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"I'm just so pleased for the players. It's been such a difficult tour in such a short space of time.
"We put ourselves in a very difficult position. We were 10-0 down early on and Samoa didn't disappoint," he continued.
"We knew they would be physical and get stronger and they did that.
"We didn't help ourselves and hurt ourselves on a couple of occasions but the way the boys dug in and got through the arm wrestle was fantastic really."
Wales: Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues); Cory Allen (Ospreys), Tyler Morgan (Dragons), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins, capt), Steffan Evans (Scarlets); Sam Davies (Ospreys), Aled Davies (Scarlets); Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Ryan Elias (Scarlets), Dillon Lewis (Blues), Seb Davies (Blues), Rory Thornton (Ospreys), Aaron Shingler (Scarlets), Ellis Jenkins (Blues), Josh Navidi (Blues).
Replacements: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Wyn Jones (Scarlets), Rhodri Jones (Ospreys), Adam Beard (Ospreys), Thomas Young (Wasps), Tomos Williams (Blues), Owen Williams (Gloucester), Scott Williams (Scarlets).
Samoa: D'Angelo Leuila; Alapati Leiua, Kieron Fonotia, Reynold Lee-Lo, David Lemi (capt); Tusi Pisi, Kahn Fotuali'i; Viliamu Afatia, Maatulimanu Leiataua, Paul Alo-Emile, Chris Vui, Faatiga Lemalu, Piula Faasalele, Galu Taufale, Fata Alafoti Faosiliva.
Replacements: Seilala Lam, Nephi Leatigaga, Bronson Fotualii-Tauakipulu, Faifili Levave, Vavae Tuilagi, Dwayne Polataivao, Henry Taefu, Tila Mealoi.
Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa).
Assistants: Mike Fraser (New Zealand), Rohan Hoffmann (Australia).
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The 23-year-old can play at right-back, centre-half or in a deep midfield role and had a year to run on his deal at the newly-promoted Championship club.
O'Connor made 24 Burton appearances last season, scoring once.
"His versatility made him very attractive to us," manager Derek McInnes told the club website.
"He has a good defensive edge to his game and he has good experience for someone so young.
"He has a good maturity about his game so I am very pleased we now have him on board. I think he is someone who will prove to be really important to us over a campaign.
"Anthony is good in both boxes and also good in the air. He is another in the squad with a bit of height and presence."
O'Connor began his career at Blackburn and had loan spells at Torquay and Plymouth before joining Burton last summer.
The Dons have not revealed the length of contract O'Connor has signed but he will be eligible to play in next week's Europa League qualifier with Fola Esch of Luxembourg.
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The competition goes on for 23 days, with nearly 200 cyclists from all over the world taking on the 2,000 mile challenge.
Here are the Brits to look out for...
Chris Froome is not only top of the Brits, he's the Tour's reigning champion and favourite to win again this year.
He has won the race three times already: in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Now he's hoping to add 2017 to his list.
He's not had the best run-up to this year's event though - he finished fourth in the traditional warm-up race, the Criterium du Dauphine, so he'll be hoping to pull it out of the bag for the real thing.
Mark Cavendish is most famous for his daring sprint finishes, which have brought him lots of success in previous years of the Tour.
It's not just the overall winner who matters in the Tour de France - each stage of the race has a winner as well, and that's where Cavendish does best.
He's had an incredible 30 stage wins, which is just four fewer than the all-time record holder - Eddy Merckx.
The flat roads on this year's tour will suit Cavendish's style, but he's also suffered from illness this year which might have affected how well prepared he is for the 23-day challenge.
2017 is Geraint Thomas's seventh Tour de France, and he rides in support of Chris Froome - helping to push him to victory.
Thomas wasn't actually planning to ride in the Tour this year. He was concentrating on another competition, called the Giro D'Italia instead.
But he had to withdraw from that race after a collision with a parked motorbike, so he's changed his focus to the Tour de France instead.
Simon Yates is just 24 years old, and his twin brother won the White Jersey for being the best young rider on last year's Tour.
Yates specialises in climbing, so the steep mountain roads in the Tour de France suit him well and he'll be hoping to have similar success to his brother!
Steve Cummings has raced in the Tour de France four times before, and has had two stage wins.
It wasn't clear if he would be part of the 2017 Tour, after he got injured in a crash earlier this year.
But after a great week at the British National Road Championships, he was finally confirmed to take part.
2017 is Dan McLay's second tour.
He's a sprinter, and won an impressive four top-ten finishes during his first Tour de France in 2016.
He came 170th overall in 2016, but being a fast sprinter, like Mark Cavendish, could put him in with a chance of a stage win.
Luke Rowe is a 'domestique' rider, which means that he works for the benefit of the team, rather than trying to win the race himself.
He's best known for helping teammate Chris Froome who he's supported on both of his last two Tour victories.
Ben Swift is another sprinter appearing for his second Tour de France in 2017.
As well as having speed, he's also known for getting over lumps and bumps on the road better than most sprinters, which is a useful skill on the Tour!
2017 is Scott Thwaites' first appearance at the Tour de France.
As well as getting through the race himself, he's hoping to help Mark Cavendish in the battle for stage wins.
Vilson Meshi, 30, was found dead inside an Audi A4 on Pincey Mead near Pitsea Road, Basildon, on Saturday.
Two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old, all from the town, were arrested on Wednesday night.
They are still being questioned over the death, police said. A post-mortem examination found he died from smoke inhalation.
Mr Meshi's friend, Anthony Chooah, has described the victim as a "cuddly bear".
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Mr Chooah said he was at a loss to understand why anyone would kill him and was struggling to come to terms with the attack.
"He was probably one of the nicest people you could ever meet," he said.
Mr Chooah added: "I've been spending a lot of the last four to five days in constant tears, having anxiety attacks.
"He was a big cuddly bear... but someone has taken his life."
But there's one group of people with whom President Donald Trump is still hugely popular.
After his first weeks in office, his approval rate among Republicans of 86% is second only to that of George W Bush among all of the party's presidents elected in the last 65 years.
So what are the things that they like so much?
Despite being a Republican, property developer John Delia says he was "too embarrassed" to vote for Mr Trump in November's election because of the controversy about his candidacy.
But he says he was "relieved" to see the New York billionaire win the race - and what has happened since has pleased him even more.
Mr Trump's platform of new jobs, American business and economic renewal has sent the US stock market to record highs. It is investors like Mr Delia who are feeling richer as a result.
"I invest in the stock market and I have succeeded in the short term," says the 26-year-old, based in Columbus, Ohio.
"Investors are definitely feeling more confident. They think Donald Trump is going to bring more jobs and infrastructure, and help us move forward."
From a business perspective, he says he is not fazed about allegations of improper ties to Russia, legal challenges to Mr Trump's travel ban, or complaints about racist rhetoric from the administration.
"Yes, he's a bigot but at least you are aware," says Mr Delia of the US president. "He speaks honestly.
"No matter what happens, most investors just want to make money. We are not going to pay attention to the drama. We're just trying to stay ahead of the curve."
And it is especially Mr Trump's promise to "clean up" America's inner cities that makes Mr Delia, who started his own property portfolio at 20, feel positive about the future. He hopes investment will pour into his own urban development projects.
"I think I'm going to make a lot of money," he says.
The next interviewee asked to remain anonymous, because he says the polarised political climate in the US has left him feeling "a bit paranoid".
"I often feel the country is being torn about and being a white/Christian/conservative makes you a hater and a racist," he says.
But in a social media conversation spanning several days, the 36-year-old coal miner from Indiana explained how Mr Trump's presidency was having a direct impact on his life.
Before the election, the father-of-four says he expected to lose his job in coal within five years, but with Mr Trump in office "it could be as many as 15".
He puts this down to the president's cancelling of an Obama-era environmental regulation known as the "stream protection rule". The bill put restrictions on coal companies wanting to expand and tried to stop them dumping mining waste into streams and waterways.
While environmentalists point out that the rise of cheap natural gas has contributed largely to decline in the US coal industry, the Indiana coal miner we spoke to says the policy put a "stranglehold on coal companies".
"During 2016 our company was in the process of getting permits to strip some land that would add life to the mine," he says.
"The permitting process was put on hold concerning a impact study on the land. Management told the miners that if we didn't get any new permits and most of them were on hold indefinitely, we would be out of work in a few years."
Now Mr Trump has lifted the rule, he feels "hopeful" that he will be able to continue the work done by his great-grandfathers for years to come.
"Some people really dislike the coal industry... but it's the best paying job around and I'm blessed to be able to work and support my family."
Marilyn De Reggi was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer just a month before her late husband, Aime, had his first stroke.
The 76-year-old says her experience of having to "fight hard" for him - while being unwell herself - left her with a low estimation of government-subsidised healthcare.
She welcomes Mr Trump's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as "extremely important". And while she also supports Mr Trump's tough immigration policies, she sees his push of an alternative system as one of the best things he's done so far.
The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, helped 20m previously uninsured Americans get health insurance by making it a legal requirement.
However, increases in insurance premiums - which were also a problem before the health law - have irked many Americans. Critics have also decried it as an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals.
Mrs De Reggi, a retired musician and teacher who lives just outside Washington DC in Maryland, says the cost of President Obama's signature healthcare plan has left younger members of her family struggling.
And although medical costs for her and her late husband were covered by Medicare (a different government-run programme available to elderly patients), this made her "very aware" of the problems with federal involvement.
"I encountered the worst of care with my husband and the limitations of government making decisions for you," she says.
The couple went through "a lot of savings" after Aime was denied access to certain sorts of care under Medicare because of his age and condition, she says. Instead they had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure the treatment they wanted.
She is now against "the government making medical choices". "I'm interested in a programme gives people a choice and where there aren't committees that decide what happens to you at a certain age," she adds.
"I think the thing that [Mr Trump] has done so far that will have the greatest long term impact on the law is the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court," says David Rogers, a housing lawyer from Texas.
"I think he brings predictability in the law. The law is not going to change dramatically and that is good."
The Supreme Court has the final legal word on many of the most sensitive US issues. Conservatives celebrated the selection of Judge Gorsuch to fill an empty seat on the bench because of his views on issues such as birth control and euthanasia.
But it is his approach to gun rights that particularly pleases Mr Rogers.
The 52-year-old says he expects the judge to protect the Second Amendment - which guarantees the rights of people to keep and bear arms - because he is known to maintain a strict interpretation of the US Constitution.
"I believe in guns," says Mr Rogers. "Going to the gun range is something I do at the weekend with my children... With Gorsuch, I feel like I don't need to worry that's going to be taken away."
Judge Gorsuch's appointment still needs to be confirmed by the Senate. But if it goes ahead, "Washington isn't going to actively make my life harder", says Mr Rogers.
"Gun rights feel safer under Trump."
The letter was sent by the Nantwich Education Partnership group to parents from 16 schools in the county.
The heads claim games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty contain unsuitable levels of violence.
They warn parents they could be reported for neglect in some cases.
The heads state that playing such games or accessing certain social media sites can increase early sexualised behaviour in youngsters and leave them vulnerable to grooming for sexual exploitation.
Mary Hennessy Jones, the head who drafted the letter, said: "We are trying to help parents to keep their children as safe as possible in this digital era.
"It is so easy for children to end up in the wrong place and parents find it helpful to have some very clear guidelines."
Prime Minister David Cameron announced this month that adults in positions of responsibility could face prison sentences of up to five years if they failed to report allegations of the neglect or abuse of children.
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Police notes read out revealed a social worker had confirmed the pair were at least known to each other - a few days after she went missing in August 1994.
Arlene, 15 from Castlederg went missing after a night out at a disco in County Donegal in 1994.
Her body has never been found.
Det Con Gareth Jenkins told the inquest in Belfast that the Omagh-based social worker had confirmed that a "relationship existed".
He added: "What sort of relationship that was, without having anything written down, it would be unfair to comment further."
She was last seen with convicted child killer Robert Howard, who died in prison last year.
Howard was acquitted of Arlene's murder by a jury unaware of his long record of sex crimes, including the murder of a south London schoolgirl. He always remained the police's prime suspect in Arlene's death.
Howard, 71, had been due to give evidence before the inquest. He died at HMP Frankland in County Durham last October.
The court also heard that social services found Arlene had a poor attendance at school, was a smoker and drinker who did not go anywhere without make-up or money and who "looked about 19 years old".
There was also a brief mention of a "relationship" with a second older man.
At the time she was living with her brother, Martin Arkinson, in Castlederg and had, on occasion, gone missing, staying with her father or another relative. However, she had always made contact within 48 hours.
After two days family members told social services that Arlene was missing, but it took two more days before police were informed, the court heard.
The initial missing person investigation had two main lines of inquiry - that Arlene had travelled to Birmingham to obtain an abortion or that Howard was involved.
Although he was aware Howard had been on bail for serious sexual offences, Mr Jenkins said he was unsure whether he was still signing bail when the schoolgirl vanished.
"It was not a criminal investigation at this stage where I had taken my initial answers," he said. "It was not solely focused on Robert Howard. It also focused on the possible travel to England."
The police investigation was heavily scrutinised during Howard's trial.
Mr Jenkins said he had done everything possible but, as a junior officer, could not decide the course of an investigation.
"I had raised my concerns about irregularities in the accounts that the three or four people had given," he said.
Meanwhile, the court has heard harrowing details about an alleged sex attack carried out by Howard.
"I was terrified," said the victim in a statement read out to the court.
In another development, the coroner has requested further clarification on the public interest immunity application request by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to withhold a number of confidential documents.
Another behind-closed-doors hearing may take place on Friday to discuss the matter but this has not been confirmed.
The inquest has been adjourned until next week.
Police were made aware of alleged racial abuse at around 07:40 BST on a tram travelling towards the city centre after a video was posted online.
Two men, aged 20 and 18 and a 16-year-old boy, were detained on suspicion of affray, Greater Manchester Police said.
The video shows a man on a tram at Shudehill being called "an immigrant" and told "get back to Africa".
Footage indicates that the man targeted then retorted with: "How old are you? Are you 18, 19? You are extremely ignorant and not very intelligent. Do you know that?"
One of the men continued to shout "get off the tram now", as he spoke.
One of the group, who were holding beer bottles, then apparently approaches the man and flicks alcohol at him, as a passenger shouted: "There's a baby there - there's absolutely no need for that".
As the youths got off, the victim said to himself: "Seven years in the military," as other commuters told the three, "You are an absolute disgrace. A disgrace to England".
Police said the suspects were being held in custody for questioning.
The Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority (TWITA) says it wants bus firms to run services on particular routes and be paid a set amount.
The authority say the Quality Contracts scheme would "simplify" bus fares and make them "more affordable".
But bus operators say the idea is "flawed" and want to try and block it.
Under the new scheme, the five councils that make up the transport authority will keep the fares collected, but they will then have to make up any shortfall between this money and the cash paid out to bus companies.
The authority also claims the idea would enable some loss making routes to be kept open.
In recent months bus companies in the North East have made cuts and changes to services that have angered many passengers.
The North East Bus Operator's Association (NEBOA) says the Quality Contracts idea is "flawed".
Chairman Kevin Carr said: "The quality contracts are going to be very very expensive.
"They do rely on passenger growth and if passenger growth is not there then it could be very very expensive and the ratepayer will have to subsidise the difference."
He added that legal action could be a possibility if the two sides cannot agree.
"At the end of the day the business would be at risk and we just couldn't afford to lose a business within the north-east of England and therefore we'd have to do everything in our power to ensure we maintain our operation," said Mr Carr.
Houghton and Sunderland South Labour MP Bridget Phillipson has set up a petition to drum up support for the Quality Contracts idea, collecting hundreds of signatures.
She says councils in the region are already putting tens of millions of pounds into financing bus travel and wants them to have more control.
She said: "What this system would deliver is greater transparency about how that money's being spent but also it would give local people more of a voice because they are frustrated that there isn't one simple ticketing system, that they don't have a say when routes are cut."
However, not all politicians are convinced that the Quality Contracts idea, which is already operating in London, is the best way forward.
The Integrated Transport Authority is also considering another idea - a new partnership between bus firms and councils.
Some think adopting this idea could be a middle way and end any danger of legal action.
Newcastle Lib Dem Councillor Greg Stone is a member of TWITA.
He said: "What could be achieved by a voluntary partnership arrangement between the public and private sectors would lead to better results for both sides on this.
"I think the way we're going is going to lead to a war between the transport authorities and the bus companies.
"That will only end up hurting the passenger in terms of the cost to the taxpayer and the cost of a legal battle which I think is looming large on the horizon now, and with the way the Quality Contracts proponents want to go I can't see the bus companies taking this lightly."
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A 0-0 draw against Slovakia and a 3-0 win for Wales over Russia means Hodgson's side will face the runners-up in Group F - potentially Portugal.
England drew 1-1 with Russia before beating Wales 2-1, but failed to score with their 30 shots against Slovakia.
"Soon we will make someone pay, we will score goals one day," said Hodgson, 68.
"You just don't know, the way we are playing I am not frightened of anybody."
Hodgson made six changes for the final group game - including resting captain Wayne Rooney - but did not believe that his rotation cost his side against a stubborn Slovakia.
Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge both started after scoring as substitutes against Wales on Thursday, while Jordan Henderson, Jack Wilshere, Nathaniel Clyne and Ryan Bertrand also came into the starting XI.
Rooney replaced a lacklustre Wilshere 10 minutes into the second half but Hodgson defended his selection of the Arsenal midfielder.
"If people are going to pick on one player that's a pity - Jack Wilshere did fine," said the 68-year-old.
"People were trying to tell me after the Russia game that I should have changed Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane. It was actually four changes from the side which finished the Wales game. You can't have it all ways.
"When did England last come to a tournament and have three such dominant games in a row? We have taken the game to the opposition, we have controlled the play."
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The pundits on BBC Sport were not so kind, however - with John Hartson accusing Hodgson of taking Slovakia lightly.
"England totally underestimated Slovakia," the former Wales striker said.
"Six changes was far too many. Wales needed to win against Russia and they made one change."
"Roy Hodgson got it wrong," said Robbie Savage.
"There are too many excuses from the England point of view. You have got to score to win games and they haven't done it.
"They played Slovakia and they can't break Slovakia down - too many excuses."
Former England duo Chris Waddle and Danny Mills were frustrated at the team's failure to break down a side with a packed defence.
England had 65 shots on goal in their three Group B games - but scored just three goals.
"England have got no width. James Milner would give you width, he can do a trick and put a cross in," said Waddle.
"It's easy to say now, but they knew in all three games that people were going to sit deep and frustrate England."
"Why change the two full-backs when Kyle Walker was playing well, Danny Rose was playing well," added Mills.
"Those players will now have 10 or 11 days between games, that's too much."
Former England captain Alan Shearer felt Hodgson missed the chance to build on their last-minute win over Wales.
"I didn't agree with Hodgson making that many changes as I think it is vital to get momentum," said Shearer.
"In Euro '96 we beat Scotland and our confidence was sky high, and then we beat the Dutch 4-1. It was a great opportunity for Roy and this team to do that."
But former England midfielder Danny Murphy defended the display.
"We have played better than a lot of people expected us to and overall I think we are moving forward," he said.
"Finishing second shouldn't harm us that much, there are so many positives to look at from this England side at the moment."
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The tournament runs on a four-year cycle but has been brought forward a year to avoid clashing with the Sevens World Cup and Commonwealth Games in 2018.
The pool stages in Dublin are already sold out, debutants Hong Kong provide a compelling underdog story plus England and New Zealand are packed with talent - so what else do you need to know about the 2017 tournament?
As reigning world champions and the number one side in the world rankings, everyone wants to knock England off their perch.
But the Red Roses are in confident mood heading into the tournament, having beaten perennial rivals New Zealand away from home in June, and will be the only team in Ireland who have trained full-time since January.
Despite recent confirmation that full-time contracts for XVs are ending, the team have known since April and say they won't let anything disrupt their defence of the title.
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The 26-year-old flyer has petrified players on the sevens field for years, with her stunning side-step and raw speed seeing her score numerous tries, and the Olympic silver medallist and former World Sevens Player of the Year has now switched her focus back to XVs.
The daughter and niece of former All Blacks, her rugby pedigree runs deep and whether on the wing or in the centres, she will be one of the most potent threats over the next two and a half weeks.
There are two tough pools in this World Cup and Wales, ranked 10th in the world, have arguably found themselves in the toughest.
Pool A sees them line up alongside four-time champions New Zealand and 2014 runners-up Canada, the sides ranked number two and three in the world.
The fourth team are debutants Hong Kong, who are ranked 23rd, and although Wales will hope to beat them, can they upset the other two sides?
The Wallaroos won the first ever Olympic sevens gold medal in Rio but XVs has never been their strong point, and with their focus on the shorter form of the game they have only played a handful of Tests in XVs since the last World Cup.
Captain Shannon Parry, who tasted success in Rio, says they're underdogs but thinks it makes them more dangerous as the pressure is off.
The pool stages in Dublin are already sold out and fans are trying to get hold of tickets by any means. A party atmosphere is being predicted, and those lucky enough to have tickets will be able to enjoy a fan zone as well as the rugby.
After just two weekends of the Six Nations in February, 2.2 million fans had tuned in to watch the women's Championship.
But at the last World Cup in Paris, 2.5 million viewers watched the France v Canada semi-final on TV and it is no mistake that Les Bleus' kick-offs are all prime-time back home. Can they deliver this time for their supporters?
It's a first for Hong Kong - no team of either sex has ever qualified for a World Cup previously. Don't expect the team to be all smiles though - they've been drawn in Pool A with Canada, New Zealand and Wales. Gulp.
The Italians are back at the World Cup for the first time since 2002. Now ranked ninth in the world, it is also the first time they have qualified by right, as previously they were invited to take part. Much credit goes to the patient pair of Veronica Schiavon and Sylvia Gaudino, who played back in 2002 and have been selected again for 2017.
Most teams get good luck messages before heading overseas for big tournaments - the Black Ferns had one from two-time World Cup-winning All Blacks captain Richie McCaw. But surely one from Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau tops the lot. We can't see British Prime Minister Theresa May encouraging players to "stick a tackle"!
In 2014, Ireland's women became the first Irish side to make a Rugby World Cup semi-final and they are aiming to make at least the last four once again.
Hopes are that home advantage in 2017 will propel them even further, but they need a change in fortune after losing captain Niamh Briggs to injury less than a fortnight before the start of the tournament.
If they are to lift the trophy in Belfast on 26 August, they will have to do so without their inspirational full-back and leader.
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The move is part of a proposed shake-up of stroke services across the five health trusts.
Every year, there are almost 3,000 hospital admissions and more than 1,000 stroke deaths in Northern Ireland.
According to independent health reports, Northern Ireland's stroke services fall below national standards.
Currently, services are spread across 11 hospital sites. However, specialists would argue that expertise is being spread too thinly and that it is denying some people access to the best of care.
A stroke victim's experience
Gary, 45, had a headache that did not respond to over-the-counter painkillers. He went to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital later the same day.
"They spotted whatever the signs were, they thought initially it was either a migraine or a stroke," he said.
"It came as a complete shock to me, particularly because of my age.
"I thought stroke was something that, maybe, older people got and I think maybe the statistics bear that out, but people of all age groups get strokes.
"It is important, the time element, because the quicker you get seen and get the clot-busting drugs... the better the outcomes are for you."
Dr Brid Farrell, a consultant in Public Health Medicine from the Public Health Agency, said the current system does not provide the very best of care to patients.
"Stroke service here is provided by skilled, dedicated and hardworking staff, but the current organisation of services sometimes makes it difficult for staff to consistently provide the very best care to patients."
Two recent independent reports have highlighted the need for change including the regulator, the RQIA, raising that there was not a clear regional model for delivery of stroke care and that there seemed to be an unsustainable number of hospitals providing stroke care.
Without a doubt, the move will result in fewer acute stroke units across Northern Ireland.
If the specialism is to be confined to about four hospitals it would mean other hospitals would provide a clot busting treatment for the patient before they are transferred, if required, by ambulance to a specialist unit.
There are a total of seven proposals which, if agreed, would mean a major overhaul of the service.
The proposals include providing an appropriate number of hyper-acute stroke units in order to deliver specialist early inpatient care to the most seriously-ill patient.
Other services will include seven-day assessments to those men and women experiencing a suspected mini-stroke (TIA) or clot busting treatment "thrombolysis" at fewer hospital sites.
The location of the most critical units will be controversial. In fact, BBC News NI understands that for those hospitals that lose their specialist stroke unit there could be huge implications for their status as an acute hospital in the future.
The move would be the first significant test of health reform as proposed by the Bengoa Health Review.
In a highly unusual move, civil servants have said it is necessary to have a "conversation" about reform before the actual consultation begins - indicating just how sensitive this is.
Both stages will last about 12 weeks.
While some might see that as constructive, others might describe it as time wasting.
Nowell has impressed for Exeter since returning from injury in December.
"I hope he can maintain this form and drive himself into the England side," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"Then show form in a very good England set of performances in the Six Nations and he gives himself a fantastic opportunity to go on a Lions tour."
Nowell, 23, has won 18 England caps and was part of the side which whitewashed Australia on tour in the summer of 2016.
But, having missed the start of the season because of thumb surgery, he managed just one replacement appearance against Northampton in September before being injured in England's training camp in Brighton in October and spending two more months on the sidelines.
"He's playing extremely well. He's worked extremely hard, he's had a frustrating injury period and he's worked hard through that," added Baxter.
"He's reaping the rewards for the hard work that he's put in. You're also seeing him reaping the rewards for the team getting him on the front foot as well.
Nowell says playing for the Lions is an ambition of his, telling BBC Radio Cornwall: "I performed at Exeter and that got me my chance with England.
"The next step, if I do get a chance to play for England, is perform well and then the Lions does come next."
Winston Rea was one of dozens of former paramilitaries who provided testimonies to Boston College's Belfast Project.
A judge was told the police needed tapes of Mr Rea's interviews in order to meet a legal duty to probe serious crimes spanning three decades.
Mr Rea had issued proceedings to try to stop the PSNI obtaining the material.
However, on Monday a judge said the police were entitled to seek the tapes as part of an extensive investigation into terrorism.
Mr Rea's legal team is considering taking the case to the Court of Appeal.
The Boston College interviews were given on the understanding that tapes would not be made public until after the deaths of the interviewees.
However, in 2013 detectives investigating the 1972 abduction and murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville secured transcripts of former IRA woman Dolours Price's account.
That material was handed over following court battles on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mr Rea, a former loyalist prisoner, had sought to judicially review the Public Prosecution Service's (PPS) attempts to obtain his interviews.
Kane scored two late goals for Spurs as they came from behind twice to beat West Ham on Saturday and maintain their unbeaten start to the league season.
The 23-year-old, who missed seven weeks of this season through injury, has five goals in seven club games in 2016-17.
"Harry Kane is always very important, he is our main striker," said Pochettino.
"You miss that type of player when he does not play for 10 or 11 games.
"He is one of the best strikers in the world."
Kane's brace provided a dramatic finish to Saturday's match at White Hart Lane.
West Ham had led twice, through a Michael Antonio header and Manuel Lanzini penalty, either side of Harry Winks' goal for the home side on his Premier League debut.
But, in the final minute, Kane was on hand to finish Son Heung-Min's low cross before scoring the winner from the penalty spot after Son had been tripped by Winston Reid.
It leaves Spurs fifth in the table, three points behind joint leaders Liverpool and Manchester City.
"The table looks much better, we are three points off the top and 12 unbeaten from the beginning," added Pochettino.
England international Kane said: "What a win, it looked like it would be a disappointing afternoon. I thought we had played well and we left it late, what a night, what a performance.
"We wanted to win and give the fans something to cheer about and a lot of them will go home happy."
Tottenham's next game is in the Champions League at Monaco on Tuesday. The London club are currently third in Group D, four points behind the French side and two points and a place behind Bayer Leverkusen with two to play.
"It is an important week and we didn't want to go into that game having lost the first one," added Kane. "It is a must-win game, we're excited, we'll train tomorrow and travel on Monday."
The verdict follows an unannounced inspection by Ofsted inspectors.
Social services was told to review its child protection plans immediately including cases that have been closed in the last three months.
The council described the report as "deeply disappointing" and pledged to make extra funds available for investment in the department.
Chief executive Sheila Wheeler, said: "We now have the right people in the right place doing the right things.
"Ofsted has recognised our investment in the service and our appointment of a nationally recognised interim director of children's services, Peter Lewis, to steer us through the changes we need to make.
"We do acknowledge that our speed of change has not been fast enough."
By Ruth BradleyPolitical reporter, BBC Somerset
The 17-page report lists a range of failings: vague child protection plans, different social workers visiting children each time and children taken off plans too soon.
But a strand running through seems to be ineffectual managers.
"Management decisions often lack a clear rationale," Ofsted says. "Management oversight of cases is not robust;" and "cases are being held by team managers…delaying assessing children's needs."
While there was good work it was down to the individual social workers rather than effective management.
An interim director of children's services, Peter Lewis, was brought in this April. Presumably the council is hoping he will lead from the top.
She added £1.4m had been invested in children's services for the current year and some improvements had been made already.
Peter Lewis was appointed by the government to oversee changes in the London borough of Haringey in the aftermath of the Baby P scandal.
Currently, there are 300 children and young people subject to child protection plans.
Inspectors found these plans were being closed too soon in some cases.
On the shortcomings in such plans, the report stated: "Very few child protection plans are sufficiently specific.
"They do not give clear indications of what needs to change and by when, and so do not support the monitoring and review of progress by core groups and review child protection conferences.
"As a result, decision-making about reduced risk is not always sound, and some child protection plans have ended too soon."
Senior managers at the Conservative-run council have been told they must all sample the child-in-need work across the county to check risk indicators had not been missed.
Risk indicators can include domestic abuse, or drug and alcohol misuse by the child's parents. It could mean some children will be put back on plans.
Peter Lewis, interim director of children's services, said: "We would hope the evidence is there to support those decisions but our first duty is to the child and to make sure the child is as safe as we can possibly make them."
A number of areas of improvements must be completed within timescales of three and six months following the visits by Ofsted in June and July.
This includes improving the quality of assessments and reducing delays for children and young people who need access to mental health services.
The pair entered a house in Dorothy Road, Leicester, at about 10:30 BST on Wednesday, and attacked the man who lived there.
They stole a safe containing cash, watches and other items before leaving in a van.
Leicestershire Police said they did not believe the raid was racially or religiously-motivated.
A video filmed by a neighbour and posted on Facebook appears to show the pair arriving at the house.
Det Con Nev Walker said: "We are keen to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw the men entering the house, loitering in the area or making off in the van.
"Do you know where the silver van went next? Have you seen any abandoned clothing? Have you heard any rumours about who may be involved?
"Small details will help us piece together information and could prove vital in bringing those responsible for this incident to justice."
The Australia Twenty20 captain picked up the foot injury during the T20 Blast victory over Durham on Friday.
The 28-year-old, who has scored 76 runs in six T20 Blast matches this year, underwent hamstring surgery in April.
"In a worst-case scenario, it could be the end of the season for him," director of cricket Martyn Moxon told the club website.
"He set off to run for a ball in the field on Friday and he felt a little crack in his foot.
"He's had a scan and, from an initial reading, it looks as though there's some kind of a stress reaction."
Moxon confirmed that fellow Australia batsman Glenn Maxwell would cover for Finch if he were ruled out for the remainder of the season.
Defending champions Yorkshire have had several issues with their overseas players this campaign, with Pakistan batsman Younus Khan pulling out of a short-term deal with the club.
Khan was replaced by India's Cheteshwar Pujara, who played in the first half of the season.
New Zealand's Kane Williamson will join the club for the final three games of the Championship campaign.
On a summer night in January, Sofia's family took her to a restaurant in Iraja, a suburb of Rio, where she could use the play area outdoors. It had a big, colourful slide, where children could climb up some stairs and come out through a tunnel to the ground.
From inside the restaurant, Sofia's parents watched their two-year-old daughter. The play area was protected from the street by a gate so, in a city with shocking levels of crime, families felt the children were relatively safe there.
Being safe in Rio is always a top concern. Iraja, a busy middle and lower middle-class neighbourhood of around 100,000 people in northern Rio, is surrounded by some of the city's most violent areas, and criminals are quite active there.
Like on that Saturday night. Police were sent to the streets next to the restaurant to investigate a car robbery, something frequent in that area: an average of four cars a day were robbed there in 2016.
Police officers had set up a barricade after identifying a suspect, but the man did not obey calls to stop and, according to reports, tried to escape.
A chase began.
Sofia's father, Felipe Amaral Fernandes, said she was especially happy on that night. "She had told my wife: 'Mummy, I'm very happy today'. She didn't even want to eat."
Herica, the mother, was proud of her daughter, who could already count from one to 10 in English. Sofia also enjoyed dancing to music clips in front of the television, and was in love with the pink, purple and blue scooter "Papai Noel", or Santa Claus, had given her last Christmas.
"She was smart, intense. Sometimes she didn't even want to sleep because she only wanted to enjoy herself," Ms Fernandes said. One time, she said, Sofia was asked about what she loved the most in her life. Sofia replied: "Enjoy myself".
Sofia was playing on the slide when the police chase neared the restaurant. At around 22:00, a shooting started.
The sound of gunfire was loud and close, and the families who were in the restaurant went to the play area to pick up their children. Sofia's parents, now also outside, waited for her to come through the slide. "I screamed 'Sofia, Sofia!'," Ms Fernandes said. But her daughter did not answer.
Sofia's father looked inside the tunnel, but she was not there. He went to the other side of the slide, and climbed it. "That's when I saw my daughter up there, motionless, bloodied. I broke into the toy, took her from there and ran."
Sofia had been shot in the face.
"I got desperate seeing my little daughter there. I felt impotent," said Mr Fernandes, a police officer. "I'm used to violence around me but I never thought this was going to happen to my daughter. When it happened I thought: 'My goodness, not with me'."
He carried Sofia in his arms. People in the restaurant stopped a police car that was passing nearby, and it took father and daughter to the hospital. The crowd watched in disbelief.
Shootouts are part of life in Rio.
Despite Brazil's tight gun laws, rights groups say millions of weapons are in the hands of criminals. Tougher regulations were approved in 2004, banning the carrying of guns in public and controlling illegal ownership. But activists say they are incapable of curbing illegal gun trade and that bandits have been largely unaffected.
The reasons for shootouts vary. Some are the result of clashes between rival criminals; others, of armed robberies, like the one in Iraja. But rights advocates say they mainly occur during police operations against heavily armed drug gangs in impoverished neighbourhoods, where some groups are the de-facto rulers.
And civilians often find themselves in the crossfire. "These police operations are badly planned. In many times they happen at daylight, in densely populated areas, with war weaponry being used," said Antonio Carlos Costa, president of Rio de Paz, or Rio of peace, a local human rights group.
Last year, researcher Cecilia Oliveira, who works with rights group Amnesty International, was looking for reliable data about shootouts in Rio. But numbers were hard to come by as there were no official statistics.
So last July, she helped create Fogo Cruzado, Portuguese for "crossfire", an app for people to report gunfire in their neighbourhoods. Between its launch and January this year, according to Amnesty, 50,000 people downloaded it.
The numbers gave a sense of the fear that millions of people live in: there were 2,517 notifications, an average of almost 14 a day. The reports included 539 deaths and 570 injured.
I was shocked by the numbers
Most alerts came from poor neighbourhoods and shantytowns, or favelas, places notorious for their violence. "I was shocked by the numbers. This level of violence is alarming for a city that is not in a war zone. And civilians are the most affected, their freedom and human rights are systematically violated," Ms Oliveira said.
She too blamed poor police operations against criminals for most of the shootouts. Interestingly, the data showed that the hardest-hit areas shared a common profile, she said. "It's very clear that the people being affected by this violence are young and black. You don't see this type of police operation in neighbourhoods that are not favelas."
Rio's military police rejected the criticism towards its operations, saying they are all "meticulously planned" to avoid casualties among civilians.
"In order to prevent criminal actions, systematic operations are needed in places where the criminal wave is more recurrent. And shootings against policemen when they enter these areas, in many cases, result in victims on both sides," they said in a statement to the BBC.
Lives are often put on hold, as basic services such as electricity, water and transport are frequently interrupted by shootings.
Rio's train operator said last year it was planning to stop services on one line indefinitely because of gun violence next to the tracks.
Shops and hospitals are also forced to shut. In 2011, a suspected drug trafficker who was exchanging fire with police stormed a public health clinic in an attempt to hide himself, terrifying patients inside - he was later arrested and nobody was hurt. The clinic then temporarily suspended works due to insecurity.
Schools and universities in dangerous neighbourhoods have often cancelled classes, sometimes for days, affecting thousands of students. In some areas, teachers and children were being taught at school how to look for cover in the case of gun fights.
Two years ago, shootings around some schools in Mare, one of Rio's most violent areas, were so frequent that teachers decided to cut the classes short: they would start later, at 08:00, and finish one hour earlier, at 15:30. That, they said, was because shootouts often occurred at 07:00, when police officers changed shifts.
"Civilians in Rio's favelas end up in the crossfire, being victims in their own houses. They are forced to live under these circumstances, which is absurd," said Ivan Marques, executive director of human rights group Instituto Sou da Paz.
"The anti-drug policy in Brazil chose this wrong option, of militarising the issue. You have an enemy, not a criminal. And this is the collateral effect of this war between police and the organised crime."
And then there are the stray bullets.
In 2003, Luciana Novaes was in the canteen at her university in a neighbourhood in northern Rio next to a favela, when a shootout erupted between drug traffickers and police. Shops nearby had closed because of the violence, but the university had not.
It was around 09:00. Ms Novaes, who was 19 at the time, was in a break between exams when a stray bullet hit her in the jaw. She said she could not miss the exam because of the scholarship she had from the university.
The bullet went on to injure her vertebrae, leaving her quadriplegic. "It's a very difficult situation. There is no day, no time, no place. I was inside the university when it happened. People usually avoid getting out at night, but it's risky at anytime," Ms Novaes said.
She spent a year and a half in the intensive care unit of a hospital, where doctors had put her chance of recovery at 1%. If Ms Novaes managed to survive, they said, she would be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.
That did not quite happen. She slowly recovered her speech and the ability to eat. She is still dependent on mechanical ventilation and on two nurses, day and night. She also undergoes two physiotherapy sessions every day and two speech therapies a week - the university was forced by the Brazilian justice system to pay for her treatment.
And last year, at 33, she was elected the first ever paraplegic councilwoman for Rio - it was such a novelty that the historic building had to be adapted to her needs.
"What we're living in is calamity," Ms Novaes said. "People are crying out for help."
Hers is a remarkable case of overcoming the odds, but it is an exception. Brazil was the country with the largest number of deaths by stray bullets in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2014 and 2015, according to a United Nations report.
The study, which looked into online media reports, said there were 197 incidents, 98 dead and 115 injured - someone is considered a victim when they had no involvement or influence in the shooting.
Nothing new to the people of Rio. In the 1990s, incidents with stray bullets were so frequent that then-Mayor Cezar Maia famously said in a newspaper interview that the city had become a "tropical Bosnia".
We live in an environment of fear
Rio's geography, as Ms Novaes' case shows, is an unexpected contributing factor. Numerous favelas have been built on the hills that overlook the city, meaning that the violence up there, where many of the shootings take place, is felt by those sometimes in neighbourhoods metres away.
The most recent official statistics about stray bullets publicly available are from 2011, when five people died and 41 others were injured. But Rio de Paz, the NGO, has documented incidents involving children: in the past ten years, 31 died in the city, 18 of them between 2015 and 2017 alone.
"The shootings have a devastating impact. This is a generation that lives under threat, under fear of seeing themselves in the crossfire," Mr Costa, from Rio de Paz, said.
"And this tragedy has colour and a social component: it often affects the poorest. The society ignores it because it happens, by and large, away from the richest regions."
Sofia arrived at the hospital already dead.
The senselessness of her death caused an outcry even in Rio, where residents have become so used to crime that they rarely react to violence.
"But this is not an isolated case," said Mr Costa. "We live in an environment of fear. Families live in constant mourning, looking at the picture of the victim hanging on the wall, with the face of a child that will never be seen again."
His group organised a demonstration remembering the victims of stray bullets, and signs with the names of the 31 children killed were put on Copacabana beach in January.
The car being chased by police that night in Iraja stopped only when it flipped on the street. The suspect was arrested and officials seized a gun.
Police said they were investigating how the shootout unfolded and, almost two months on, it was still unclear where the shot that killed Sofia came from.
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But activists say many cases end up unsolved, with those responsible for the deaths rarely identified or punished.
Sofia's parents are now trying to resume their lives. "We live surrounded by violence. We see it in newspapers, on television. It's a calamity," her father said.
"We don't want this to happen with anyone else, a child or an adult."
"But we're sure that our daughter is in a place better than ours. She was too good to be in this world."
The Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) took the decision after a study found residues of potassium bromate in 84% of bakery product samples collected in Delhi.
The study said the chemical "can cause cancer".
The FSSAI said a notification announcing the ban has been issued.
"FSSAI has banned potassium bromate," PTI news agency quoted the watchdog chief Pawan Kumar Agarwal as saying.
Delhi-based environmental think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which conducted the study, has said it was expecting the government to also ban potassium iodate, another toxic chemical, in bakery products.
"As far as potassium iodate is concerned, it has been referred to a scientific panel," Mr Agarwal said on Monday.
Both the chemicals are banned in many countries, but India continues to allow their use in bakeries.
The CSE had collected 38 bread and other baked food samples from retail stores, bakeries and fast-food shops in Delhi for its study.
"More than 84% of samples tested were found to contain potassium bromate and/or iodate," the study said.
The Paralympic-style Invictus Games will see servicemen and women take part in sports like wheelchair basketball, indoor rowing and sitting volleyball.
The prince said the competition would recognise the sacrifice made by those who fought for their country.
He has been working to bring the event to the UK after seeing something similar in the US - the Warrior Games.
"I have witnessed first hand how the power of sport can positively impact the lives of wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women in their journey of recovery," Prince Harry said.
"The Invictus Games will focus on what they can achieve post-injury and celebrate their fighting spirit through an inclusive sporting competition that recognises the sacrifice they have made."
The prince said he believed the competition would have a "long-lasting impact" on the well-being of those who have "served their nations so bravely".
Harry officially launched the Invictus Games at the former Olympic Park's Cooper Box arena - where events including handball, modern pentathlon and fencing took place during the 2012 Games - in Stratford, east London. | German sailor Erik Heil claims he has contracted an infection after competing in polluted waters which will host sailing at next year's Rio Olympics.
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The dismantling process is taking place far from public view. Workers spent two days erecting screens around the aircraft.
Small sections can be still glimpsed above the barriers, but that won't be the case for long. Private salvage companies started work breaking up the first of the planes, and already wings and parts of the fuselages have been ripped apart.
Campaigners fighting an 11th-hour campaign to save the jets describe the programme to cut up them up as an act of vandalism on an industrial scale.
The speed of the dismantling programme is in stark contrast to the long and convoluted programme to build the planes in the first place. The contract was originally signed more than 10 years ago.
Campaigners agree there were repeated delays and cost-overruns. But they argue that the MRA4 is now a world-class jet. They say getting rid of them in such an irreversible way doesn't make financial sense.
That scrappage programme will cost £200m. That's also what it would have cost to get all nine aircraft to a point where they could have been handed over to the MoD.
But it's the future operating costs which have driven the government's decision to cancel the planes. They say taking the Nimrod out of service will save £2bn over 10 years.
Dai Douglas built up 5,000 flying hours flying on Nimrods. He argues the sums being used by the government "just don't add up", and he says he and many of his former Royal Air Force colleagues feel betrayed.
Mr Douglas and many others I spoke to, including a former Nimrod captain with many years experience, worry that the military assets being used in place of the Nimrod are not as capable.
He believes that search and rescue operations could be compromised by the lack of Nimrod capability and claims that "it will only be a matter of time before lives are lost".
Workers and union officials at the site in Cheshire where the latest version of the plane was being built are also angry.
One union official said to me that they were trying to save jobs and trying to save the UK aircraft industry. It had also, he said, become a "crusade because we know what the planes can do. We know how the decision to scrap them will impact on the security of the country".
Campaigners trying to reverse the decision are calling on David Cameron to pause the dismantling programme, perhaps even mothball the planes for three or four years until the government can really prove the decision makes financial and strategic sense.
They point out the planes are nearly finished and have been paid for and they suspect the MoD will ventually end up buying US planes to take on the many and varied roles the Nimrod has historically performed.
Government ministers say they have sought to mitigate the gap in capability through the use of assets such as Type 23 Frigates, Merlin helicopers and Hercules C-130 aircraft.
They also say they are now developing longer-term plans to mitigate the impact of cancellation on continuing military tasks and capabiliies.
They also make clear that although the decision to cancel the Nimrod MRA4 was difficult, it will not be reversed.
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Kelvin Muriuki was top of his class in 2016, but poverty forced him to go and work in a quarry, his family said.
The Kenya Air Force Veteran Officers Association then stepped in to pay his school fees and to give him a helicopter ride to his new school.
Kelvin's dreams are now back on track - he says he wants to become a pilot.
Many children regularly drop out of school in Kenya because of poverty.
The association said it would pay Kelvin's annual school fee of $530 (£430) until he completes his secondary education in 2020.
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He said the increase would take place over the four years from 2016, and this year's budget would be ring-fenced.
A deployment of 7,000 soldiers to protect sensitive sites across France will become permanent, he said.
France has been on high alert since the attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said only last week that French police had managed to foil a further five planned terror attacks since then.
"France is facing threats at home and overseas," Mr Hollande told reporters. "Security, protection, independence are principles that are not negotiable."
He said the 2015 defence budget will remain at €31.4bn ($35bn; £22bn), and would increase by an extra €3.8bn between 2016 and 2019.
The move will save 18,500 of the 34,000 job cuts that were planned for the military over the next five years, unnamed presidential officials said.
As well as boosting France's internal security, the additional funding would also protect French forces engaged in operations abroad, in places such as Iraq and the Sahel region of Africa.
"We have the duty to support people who may come under threat, but we also defend our own security," Mr Hollande said.
Sgt Robert McDonald tried to get Sir Harry Djanogly, 77, out of his Jaguar XJF after pulling him over for speeding on the A40 near Acton, west London.
Sir Harry, from central London, denies dangerous driving and assaulting a police officer on 27 December 2014.
He was taking his wife to hospital when driving at 70mph in a 50mph zone.
The philanthropist, who does not deny speeding, told Isleworth Crown Court that his wife of 52 years, Lady Carol Djanogly, suffers from health problems, including emphysema, and at the time he "honestly believed that her life was in danger" and was trying to get to St John and St Elizabeth private hospital.
Sir Harry said when officers pulled up alongside him in a police van, he told them he needed to get his wife to hospital and asked them to follow him.
But when his car stopped at a red light moments later, Sgt McDonald approached the driver side window.
Sir Harry said: "He said 'get out', I said 'officer, I have explained to you before, I'm taking my wife to hospital and once I'm there...
"He said 'get out', I said 'no I'm going' and he jumped in through the window.
"I was shocked at the way he just threw himself - it is all happening in seconds."
He claimed his foot then slipped off the foot brake as the officer leant in, causing the car to move as the officer clung on.
"I know if I revved that car we would not see that man for dust - he would have, God forbid, have died," the textile manufacturer added.
Sir Harry said: "I'm regret it, I'm sorry. I'm terribly sorry this happened at all."
The millionaire, said to have assets worth £300m, has previously been disqualified from driving for collecting too many penalty points for speeding, the court heard.
Lady Carol told the jury she had felt unwell with "a bug" after returning to their home in Buckinghamshire from Bournemouth, and wanted to go to hospital.
Shortly before the trip she had been in intensive care for a week.
Describing Sgt McDonald's actions she said: "He put his whole body in through the window right up to his waist - it was very aggressive and a bit scary really."
The trial continues.
She criticised the Welsh Government's response to the referendum result, suggesting there was no sense of urgency.
Ms Wood said the option of Welsh independence should be considered if Scotland leaves the UK.
The Welsh Government said it was doing everything it could to strengthen the economy after the EU poll.
Wales voted 52.5% to 47.5% to Leave the European Union at the June poll.
"The Welsh Government should develop and prepare an official Welsh negotiating position for EU withdrawal," Ms Wood said.
"That position should be scrutinised and agreed by the National Assembly, so that it is in place in time for an incoming UK prime minister."
"As soon as that prime minister sits down at the desk in 10 Downing Street, the Welsh position should be in her or his in-tray."
In a speech in Cardiff, Ms Wood offered to work with the Labour-led Welsh Government, saying she was "more than willing to pool Plaid Cymru's talent, ambition and energy".
She called for a national mitigation plan, and said a Welsh negotiating position should be in place by the time a successor to David Cameron arrived at 10 Downing Street.
The Welsh Government had failed to come up with a contingency plan for a Leave vote, she said.
"Where is the sense of urgency? Where is the sense of emergency? Where are the delegations to Brussels and other European capitals?" she said.
Ms Wood added: "The new situation would necessitate people here deciding whether we wanted to be part of an England and Wales entity, or whether we want to do something different."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Following the result of the referendum, we are doing everything within our power to protect Welsh interests, strengthen the economy, and unify the nation.
"The first minister has made very clear to the prime minister that Wales should be fully involved in negotiating the UK's exit from the EU, and will ensure the interests of Wales and its people are taken fully into account so that we achieve the best possible deal."
The letter, signed by WWF, Greenpeace and others, says action is needed to halt ongoing environmental decline.
The UK government previously said it would leave the environment in a better state for future generations.
But the letter expresses concern that Brexit could force ministers to backtrack on this promise.
Newspaper reports based on leaked documents have suggested that trade and growth would be prioritised at the expense of efforts to tackle global warming and the illegal trade in wildlife.
A government spokesperson said the UK's commitment to the environment was as strong as ever.
The spokesperson said the documents referenced in the media were old "unclassified notes" based on a conference from several months ago.
The letter from campaigners says: "We are alarmed by recent media reports suggesting that the UK's commitments to tackling climate change and ending the illegal wildlife trade could be watered down to secure post-Brexit trade deals."
It added: "To be a great, global trading nation, the UK must deliver on its promises for the environment and the climate and honour our international commitments.
"In doing so we will help build a greener, better and more prosperous future for everyone, rather than driving an environmental race to the bottom."
Campaign groups that have signed the letter include WWF, the Born Free Foundation, Cafod, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Oxfam.
A number of high-profile individuals are also signatories: they include Andy Murray, Anna Friel, Will Young, Lord Stuart Rose and environmentalist Sir Crispin Tickell.
"A majority of environmental protections derive from the EU - we've probably got the world's leading environmental framework. So as the UK leaves the EU, the risk is that some of those protections don't get brought over into UK law," Trevor Hutchings, director of advocacy at WWF-UK, told BBC News.
These protections include a package of legislation to ensure the EU meets climate and energy targets for 2020. He said the EU institutions also provided a strict system of accountability, so that fines could be invoked if member states did not deliver on their obligations to the environment.
"We, on the one hand, welcome the government's commitment to nature and to bringing these laws over through the Great Repeal Bill... but in recent weeks a number of things have happened that question that commitment," Mr Hutchings explained.
He said this included not only the leaked memo, but also the delayed release of the government's 25-year plan for nature in England and the Clean Growth Plan on reducing carbon emissions, which Mr Hutchings said was expected before March this year.
"Things like access to environmental information, the 'precautionary principle', the 'polluter pays' principle are all established in EU treaties. The sense is that those might not come across [into UK law]," he explained.
A government spokesperson said: "The UK is a global leader in tackling the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) and a key part of worldwide efforts on climate change, including implementing the commitments made under the Paris Agreement. Our commitment to both issues is as strong as ever.
"The Government also has a clear ambition to be the first generation to leave the natural environment in a better state than we found it while securing the best deal for the country as we leave the EU."
Some observers within the environmental community have expressed concerns that green issues could become bargaining chips in the effort to secure trade deals.
"Environmental regulations and standards do make up so-called non-tariff trade barriers - as some people might perceive them," said Mr Hutchings.
"It probably doesn't come as a surprise that some of these non-tariff barriers could become a central negotiating point for trade deals with countries that have lower standards. That's the fear, though we don't have any clear evidence of that."
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Sergio Bucher, who has been vice president for Amazon Fashion Europe since 2013, will take up his role in October. He has previously worked at Puma, Nike and Zara owner Inditex.
Mr Bucher replaces Debenhams' current chief executive, Michael Sharp.
Online retailer Amazon, once famous for its books, has become one of the largest fashion retailers in Europe.
Announcing the appointment, Debenhams chairman Sir Ian Cheshire said: "Sergio's wealth of e-commerce expertise, international experience and clear leadership qualities stood out."
Debenhams own online sales have been growing strongly.
Mr Sharp said last year that he would be standing down. There had been reports that investors were unhappy with the company's performance under his tenure, but Mr Sharp said he had always been clear he would stay five years in the role and then move on.
During his time, he cut back on promotions, strengthened online ordering and delivery options, and added concessions in under-used store space to increase shopper numbers.
He also strengthened the firm's international presence.
Jan Tipper and Barb Burden were married at the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) on Sunday.
Gay marriage became legal in England and Wales last month but the move was not supported by the Church of England.
Reverend Dwayne Morgan, who officiated, said the church had "taken pride in celebrating diversity".
While many same-sex couples have married since the law changed on 29 March, he said this was the first ceremony to be conducted in a religious building.
The couple said it was "very significant" to them to be married in the church they had attended for 15 years.
Ms Burden said: "Even though we've been together for almost 19 years, it didn't feel right for us to have just a blessing or even a civil partnership.
"We've hoped for years for the opportunity to legally marry and, once it became possible, we knew it was time for us to tie the knot and to do it before God in our church with our friends and family."
MCC was established in Bournemouth in 1979 and is associated with the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, which has churches in over 40 countries.
Mr Morgan said the government had "finally caught up with us" as the church had been blessing gay couples for more than three decades.
He said: "Through years of homophobia and oppressive laws against gay people, MCC has taken pride in celebrating diversity and striving to include everyone. We do our best to get the word out that while many of Jesus's followers discriminate, Jesus himself does not."
On Tuesday, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said it would double the size of the plant at its headquarters in Whitley while a day later London Taxi Company (LTC) announced 1,000 new jobs at a £250m new factory outside the city.
But JLR and LTC, now both foreign-owned, are among few survivors in a city that once boasted hundreds of car manufacturers.
"Coventry was the centre of the British motoring industry from the very beginning," says Stephen Laing, curator of the Heritage Motor Centre.
"It was essentially like America's Detroit."
As Henry Ford was setting himself up in the USA, Coventry became the birthplace of the British motor industry.
In 1896, Harry Lawson, who had made his money making bicycles, bought a former textile mill and produced the first Coventry Daimler there.
The company was one of several to set up in the city, inspired by the recent German invention of the motor car.
According to the National Transport Museum, 1896 was also the date of the first speeding fine, issued to Walter Arnold, from Kent, who was pulled over by a policeman on a bike for travelling at an estimated 8mph.
Within 30 years, Daimler had been joined by hundreds of other car manufacturers in the city, Chris Van Schaardenburgh, curator at the Coventry Transport Museum said.
The area around Coventry would ultimately attract names such as Jaguar, Armstrong Siddeley, Alvis, Hillman, Chrysler, Triumph, Singer, Humber, Lanchester and Rover, among many others.
"In many cases it started with the cycle industry in Coventry," Mr Van Schaardenburgh said. "A lot of the manufacturers started to experiment with motor vehicles that had come over from Germany.
"You could take it back even further to the watch industry in Coventry. As the industry started to decline a lot of them started to switch to the cycle industry. A lot of the skills were the same.
"In those days there was less moving around, so you had to look at the skills in the area and what was available in the supply chain."
Mr Laing said the early motorbikes and cars shared very similar technology to that used in the manufacture of bicycles.
He said existing manufacturers in Coventry were joined by others keen to make the most of the "pool of expertise".
After World War Two, however, many of the firms struggled to survive and either went out of business, or were absorbed within larger companies.
A number of them were brought under the British Leyland umbrella, which at its height was responsible for more than a third of all cars produced in the UK.
Mr Van Schaardenburgh said it was the 1970s that marked the real decline for automotive manufacturing in Coventry.
In the early part of the decade, volume car manufacturing peaked in the UK.
But then issues over quality, bad management, union and labour disputes combined to signal the end of the good times, he said.
At the same time, the sector also saw increased competition from European and Japanese manufacturers.
In the 1980s, Coventry, like may other cities, was hit by recession.
Even so, a number of manufacturers survived and the industry is still "crucial" to Coventry and the West Midlands to this day, including household names such as Jaguar and Aston Martin.
"It's never stopped being a city with a motoring tradition and with the recent news of expansion its expanding that tradition once again," Mr Laing said.
Last year, the British automotive sector turned over almost £60bn and employed more than 730,000 people, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Ian Stewart denies murdering Helen Bailey and making up a story she was abducted by men called Joe and Nick.
The prosecution brought Nick Cook, Mr Stewart's neighbour, and Joe Cippullo, into St Albans Crown Court.
It is alleged the descriptions the accused gave to police matched the men, who he knew from his former home in Bassingbourn.
Prosecutor Stuart Trimmer told the jury that the descriptions bore a striking resemblance to Mr Stewart's acquaintances.
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Asked if he knew Mr Cippullo, Mr Stewart replied: "Yes, he's a bowler."
Asked about Mr Cook, his reply was: "Yes, he's my next-door neighbour."
Mr Trimmer asked Mr Stewart if "when you look back and consider descriptions you gave... do you think of them?"
Mr Stewart replied "no" and "they don't compare at all".
Mr Trimmer then said: "They are both here so you can have a plain look at them."
Asked if he recognised the pair, Mr Stewart replied: "Yes, it's Nick and Joe."
The Electra Brown writer Ms Bailey's body was found last July in a cesspit at the home she shared with Mr Stewart in Royston, Hertfordshire.
He is accused of drugging her before suffocating her and throwing her in the pit.
Mr Stewart told the court Ms Bailey had been snatched on 11 April by two men who blackmailed him and subjected him to a series of demands. He reported her missing on 15 April.
Under cross-examination, Mr Stewart was also accused of carrying out a "charade" following her disappearance by sending her bogus texts.
Mr Trimmer asked why he sent messages urging her to contact the police if she had been taken.
"You might not believe this but my mind was totally messed," Mr Stewart said.
Mr Trimmer suggested the texts were sent to "expand the lie" and give the impression he was concerned about his fiancee.
"If she was never found, if she remained in the bottom of that cesspit for years, all we know is that she had gone away and you had tried your best," he said.
Mr Stewart, 56, of Baldock Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, denies murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud, and three counts of perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
The FCA had planned to look at whether pay, promotion or other incentives had contributed to scandals involving banks in the UK and abroad.
The shadow chancellor said it was a "huge blow to customers and taxpayers".
The Treasury denies involvement in the decision - which some commentators have suggested was politically motivated.
The FCA said it had decided a "traditional thematic review" would not help it achieve its "desired outcomes", promising instead to encourage the "delivery of cultural change".
Mark Garnier MP, a Conservative member of the Treasury Select Committee said he was "disappointed" by the decision.
Banks around the world have faced huge fines from regulators for their involvement in numerous scandals.
In May the news agency Reuters calculated that 20 global banks had paid £152bn in fines and compensation to customers since the 2008 financial crisis.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme the decision by the FCA was "shocking" and could prove a "dangerous and costly mistake".
He said: "This will be a huge blow to customers and taxpayers who are all still paying the price for the failed culture in the banking sector that's been widely attributed to be among the main causes of the crash and the scandals over Libor and price-fixing."
Mr McDonnell added it was "worrying" that the FCA was replacing the review and replacing it with a "potentially watered-down version", when there could potentially still be "cultural mispractice" in banking.
He said Chancellor George Osborne could not "stay silent on this issue" and called for him to use his influence to keep the review going.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said any hope of change had been "dashed".
The decision to drop the inquiry comes six months after FCA boss Martin Wheatley - who was originally hired because of his reputation as a tough regulator - was effectively sacked by Mr Osborne following two tumultuous years in the role.
Many in the City had found Mr Wheatley's approach too combative and raised concerns about some of the language he used in reference to the banking industry.
Percival Stanion, head of multi-asset strategies at Pictet Asset Management, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there was "definitely a shift in tone towards the banks".
He suggested that it was "no coincidence" that the investigation was being dropped at a time when HSBC was reviewing whether to keep its headquarters in London.
HSBC has been a vocal critic of the bank levy, which Mr Osborne reduced in his summer budget following the general election.
Mr Wheatley was succeeded by his deputy, Tracey McDermott, in September on an interim basis. The chancellor has reportedly struggled to attract a permanent replacement, with at least one leading financial regulator said to have turned the job down.
This will be seen by many as further evidence that regulators and the government have decided to take a softer line with the banks and bring the "banker bashing" era to a close.
The government is keen the UK, and London in particular, doesn't lose its appeal as a place for global banks to do business and employ highly paid (and taxable) people.
There have been a series of moves perceived as bank friendly in the last year. Martin Wheatley, the former chief executive of the FCA and a fierce critic of the banks was eased out of his position earlier this year and is yet to be replaced.
A time limit is being proposed on compensation claims for those mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) - a scandal that has seen the banks haemorrhage £25bn to date and the bank levy, a charge on UK banks worldwide assets was replaced with a less onerous charge on domestic profits.
The FCA also said the Treasury had not been involved in the decision to drop the inquiry.
It added that a focus on the culture in financial services firms remained a priority, saying: "We have decided that the best way to support these efforts is to engage individually with firms to encourage their delivery of cultural change as well as supporting the other initiatives outside the FCA."
Christopher Alphonsos Robinson appeared at Belfast's High Court for a hearing on Wednesday.
Mr Ismay, who was a father-of-three, died from his injuries eleven days after a bomb exploded under his van in east Belfast in March.
Dissident republicans claimed responsibility for the attack.
On Wednesday, the court was told that Mr Robinson, of Aspen Park in Dunmurry, told the police he knew Mr Ismay.
The court heard they had a "good working relationship" as volunteers for St John's Ambulance.
The judge said while "one has a natural revulsion" to the crime, there was also a "presumption of innocence".
Mr Robinson was granted bail with strict conditions imposed, including electronic tagging and an exclusion order for an area of east Belfast.
The defence told the court there was "no way" that Mr Robinson would jeopardise a trial if released on bail.
John Mark Macro, of Church Road, Colby, spent two weeks chatting online to his victim before meeting at her home, Norfolk Police said.
The police investigation found he had also sexually assaulted another woman he had met online, at her home in January.
Macro, 52, was found guilty of rape and sexual assault at Norwich Crown Court.
Police found two mobile phones when he was arrested in January - one of which officers were able to link back to the two women.
Det Insp Richard Ellis said Macro, who had fabricated his online profile, "was clearly using the dating website to seek out women with whom he could fulfil his own sexual gratifications".
"Both victims have been left extremely traumatised by the attacks which happened in their own homes, which are meant to be a place of safety," he said.
He commended both for the "bravery" shown in giving evidence in court.
They have only lost once but Waringstown and CIYMS, who also won on Saturday, are only four points in arrears.
The champions Instonians are in the penultimate position along with Muckamore, Carrickfergus and CSNI with two successes while bottom team Lisburn have won once.
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Carrickfergus v Waringstown
Carrickfergus 247 J Holmes 68, A Haggen 53
Waringstown 248-3 J Hall 111, L Nelson 50 no
Waringstown won by seven wickets
Lisburn v CIYMS
Lisburn 64 M McGillivray 5-5
CIYMS 65-1
CIYMS won by nine wickets
Muckamore v CSNI
CSNI 181 G McCarter 53
Muckamore 144 K Rapulana 56
CSNI won by 37 runs
North Down v Instonians
Instonians 208-9 J Shannon 87, N Smith 58 no
North Down 209-4 A Shields 98 no
North Down won by six wickets
After five games Coleraine and Donemana are still undefeated while the other teams are well out of the title chase at the moment.
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Drummond v Donemana
Drummond 192 C Moore 71
Donemana 193-6 A Riddles 58
Donemana won by four wickets
Ardmore v Eglinton
Ardmore 262-6 R Alam 150 no
Eglinton 233 S Thompson 107
Ardmore recorded their second win with a 29-run victory
Fox Lodge v Coleraine
Fox Lodge 228-5 B Allen 102, D Mehaffey 76 no
Coleraine 232-4 G Hume 99 no, G Cooke 80 no
Coleraine won by six wickets
Bready v Brigade
Bready 246-7 A Austin 90
Brigade 247-4 D Barr 74
Brigade's third win in the competition was by six wickets
Firefighters were called to Cardiff Road, Glyntaff, near Pontypridd, just after 09:00 BST.
The fire service said the man and woman had been marooned on the riverbank after recovering the cat.
Specialist line rescue teams were called in and the pair were hauled to safety.
The men's team finished sixth in India, while the women were seventh in their event, which was won by Argentina.
The hosts defeated New Zealand 5-1 on Sunday, with Germany beating China 6-2 for bronze.
"Unless people go through these experiences we won't actually be fully prepared for Rio," Danny Kerry, coach of Britain's women, told BBC Sport.
Kerry coached the GB women to Olympic bronze at London 2012 and then moved into the performance director role - overlooking both squads - before returning to the women's set-up in 2014.
Both teams have since secured places at next year's Rio Olympics, while England's women won a historic European gold medal in August.
"We can't lose sight of the big picture which is Rio, so it's probably a blessing in disguise having gone undefeated throughout the summer," said Kerry.
"Both squads are actually in really good shape so there's a lot of cause for optimism despite the results at the end of the year."
Helen Richardson-Walsh finished as the women's tournament's top scorer with four goals, and also made her 100th appearance for Britain.
She believes the team will learn from mistakes in Rosario as they attempt to become GB's first Olympic hockey champions since Seoul 1988.
"No team becomes a bad one overnight," she told BBC Sport.
"Yes, there are some critical things we need to look at and do better with, but this is an amazing squad and the European success shows what we can accomplish when we get it right."
Crista Cullen was the leading goalscorer at London 2012 and was widely regarded as one of the best players in the world when she retired after the Games.
After three years working in animal conservation in Kenya, where she grew up, Cullen returned to the sport this year.
The 30-year-old missed GB's first two matches in Rosario with a calf injury but performed well against Australia and New Zealand.
The Olympic bronze medallist struggled to create breakthroughs with her trademark penalty-corner routines, but insists improvements will come.
"I'm still coming back and there are a lot of things I need to work on with my game," Cullen told BBC Sport.
"It's important not to get frustrated because things will come together as they did for London.
"We could have won this tournament and learnt fewer lessons, but because this hurts so much we will learn a lot from it."
After a short Christmas break, the team will regroup for a month of strength and conditioning training in January before a series of matches in Australia in February.
Their final major event before the Rio Olympics will be the Champions Trophy in London in June.
Ian Hamilton, 30, pointed it at Neil McIntyre, 31, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, in July 2016.
Hamilton, from Kilwinning, said "you're getting robbed" as he tried to force Mr McIntyre to hand over his takings.
He was jailed for 26 months after earlier pleading guilty to assault with intent to rob.
Hamilton, approached Mr McIntyre's ice cream van as it was parked in the Pennyburn area of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, at 15:30 on 3 July last year.
He asked for "20 fags" while holding his hand behind his back, then pulled the gun out.
Despite having the gun pointed in his face, Mr McIntyre grabbed the weapon but Hamilton managed to keep hold of it.
Mr McIntyre drove away from the scene and called police.
An investigation was launched but it was not clear who was responsible as McIntyre only recognised Hamilton as someone local to the area and did not know him personally or know his name.
Later that day, Hamilton was found by his girlfriend asleep face-down on top of his bed, with the gun next to him.
Never having seen the weapon before, she put it in the kitchen cupboard.
He had stolen the weapon, which was a ball-bearing gun, from his friend that morning during a drinking session.
Hamilton contacted Mr McIntyre via Facebook the following morning to apologise - revealing his identity and admitting what he had done.
His message, which he sent to Mr McIntyre's business page Neil's Ices, read: "Alright bud. Just wanted to say soz for pointing that gun at you, it was only a toy.
"It's a bit daft, I know, but I had a bevvy in me and I thought it was funny.
"I know it's not, though.
"I've got rid of it now so it doesn't cause any problems."
At Dumbarton Sheriff Court, defence solicitor Fraser Alexander said: "His position is that this was a joke.
"He was extremely under the influence of alcohol.
"The position is that he was drinking, the night before, heavily, woke the following morning and continued to drink, which resulted in him being extremely intoxicated. "
Mr Alexander added: "He does not seek to use it as an excuse for his conduct - he recognises his consumption of alcohol is his problem.
"This is not the behaviour one would expect from a man that comes from the background Mr Hamilton comes from."
He added that Hamilton had lost his job as a result of his crime.
The Environment Agency said it found "abnormally high levels of pollution" in a stream leading to Broadsands Beach in Devon.
Signs have been put up warning people that the sewage had entered the stream and was affecting bathing water.
The agency and South West Water are investigating where the pollution has come from.
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An Environment Agency spokeswoman said: "Torbay Council were made aware of a pollution incident affecting the quality of bathing water at Broadsands.
"As a result they erected signage to warn and inform the public. Signage will remain until water quality has been restored."
A spokesman from South West Water said a team was sent to investigate the cause of the problem, which they believe was "a misconnection between the sewer and the surface water networks".
"We are assisting the EA with its investigations and we hope the beach will be re-opened this evening," the spokesman added.
They have received millions from the EU for research and new buildings.
The representative body Universities Wales says this funding ultimately has huge benefits for the Welsh economy.
But the Leave campaign say that universities and science would continue to get at least the same level of investment after Brexit.
The Remain camp say that is impossible to guarantee.
Some who want to leave also argue that the broader economic and democratic case for leaving, outweighs concerns about future funding for universities.
Earlier this month, Universities Wales published an open letter in which it outlined what it sees as the benefits of EU membership.
The letter, signed by the chair of the body, Cardiff University Vice Chancellor Colin Riordan, said the free movement of students and staff "enriches the student experience" but also made a contribution to the Welsh economy "worth hundreds of millions of pounds".
It talked about partnerships with other EU researchers driving economic growth and innovation in areas such as healthcare.
It also points to the economic impact of EU students themselves, claiming it was worth more than £70m a year off campus in Wales.
Swansea University's Bay campus received £35m from the European Regional Development Fund and £60m from the European Investment Bank.
Swansea University's Vice Chancellor has warned the university may have to downsize in the event of a vote to leave, potentially leading to job losses.
But a Cardiff University academic making the case to leave the EU argues that the money invested in Welsh universities is a diversion of the funds the British taxpayer contributes.
Kent Matthews, a professor of banking and finance at Cardiff University, says that outside the EU, universities like other institutions, would have to argue their case for the funding.
And he says "academic excellence is what generates funding".
The quality of UK universities is also the key to attracting collaborators in other EU countries and across the world he said, rather than political structures.
Those who want to remain, point to the EU's Horizon 2020 - a multi billion pound research and innovation programme - and say Welsh researchers are set to draw down over £218m from the fund by 2020.
But Prof Matthews argues that funding is open to bids from academics outside the EU too.
In a referendum debate organised by Cardiff University, former EU Commissioner Lord Kinnock clashed with UKIP AM Neil Hamilton over the role of the EU in medical research.
Leave campaigners claim EU rules on clinical trials has created unnecessary bureaucracy which has restricted innovation.
But Remain campaigner Lord Kinnock said the EU has listened to concerns and is introducing a new system which he says has been widely praised by scientists.
During the debate he said being outside the system would be "putting lives in danger".
"The ability to advance the attack on cancer, on diabetes, on a variety of other major killers is inhibited if we are not getting the proper framework for conducting that research with the essential funding.
"As the universities testify themselves - indeed every single one of them in Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom - the association with the European Union is vital because of the flow of talent, the movement of students, the exchange and joint projects in research including in the vital area of medicine."
Leave campaigner Neil Hamilton said: "About 3% of university budgets come from EU funding but it's British taxpayers' money being spent even though the EU is deciding the priorities on how it is spent.
"It all depends ultimately on economic conditions.
"Europe is stagnant economically - it's the only continent in the world that hasn't grown since 2000 in economic terms and we are shackled to a corpse in effect."
Officers from the newly formed anti-slavery squad swooped on three addresses in Melton Mowbray, Loughborough and Bagworth.
Two men, aged 37 and 63, and two women, aged 36 and 64, were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of holding a person in slavery or servitude.
All four have been released on police bail while officers investigate.
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The 34-year-old spinner sought medical advice to cope with feelings of anxiety and paranoia that stemmed from a loss of confidence and self-esteem.
He was prescribed medication but now admits his reluctance to take it contributed to his problem.
"I didn't believe in medication," said Luton-born Panesar. "I've been brought up to say it isn't good for you."
Panesar said the medication "took away the symptoms of being paranoid" but revealed he had always been warned about potential side-effects.
Released by Essex at the end of the 2015 season after off-field "issues", Panesar later admitted to mental health issues.
Now at Northamptonshire, he is targeting an England recall after two-and-half years out of the Test side, his last appearance coming in Melbourne during the Ashes at the end of 2013.
Panesar said: "The people who were helping me did see a change. They said to me it would it take three to six months to get back to where I need to be.
"You have got to take one step at a time and be patient with the whole process and eventually have the faith that things will get better."
Panesar, who has taken 167 wickets at an average of 34.71 in 50 Tests, is now trying to use his experiences to work as a mental health ambassador for the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA).
"The signs that you can spot in other people in a dressing room is if they are very isolated and don't engage with the whole team," he told BBC Sport.
"On away trips, if you are going for team meals, are they just going back to their room and ordering room service?
"It's really important when you feel down that you engage with other human beings and you speak to other people about it.
"Once a cricketer gets isolated, they are signs that you really should look after that person. As sportspeople, you pride yourself on being mentally strong and ruthless, all the attributes that lead to competitive performance.
"But when you have a weakness in you, you don't really want to open up to it. You always want to show that you are strong.
"The quicker you open up the quicker you will get the support and the help."
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The PCA believes more cricketers are taking issues of personal welfare and development seriously.
It says there has been a vast increase over the past decade in the number of players using the programme it offers, but issues are especially apparent when cricketers retire.
According to a new survey, nearly all cricketers say they struggle when their careers finish, with 16% experiencing feelings of depression and despair in the first year after retiring.
The survey also found that almost a third of past players said they did not feel in control of their lives two years after playing.
The PCA would like to see more cricket welfare managers in the country to deal with these kinds of issues.
PCA assistant chief executive Jason Ratcliffe said: "We have a duty to create more resilient and confident people, something which should also ensure better performing cricketers.
"In turn, this should lead to a better product to sell to broadcasters and spectators, ultimately creating more income for the game. Better people equals better cricketers."
Sharp, 55, was Yorkshire batting coach after five seasons in Minor Counties cricket for Shropshire following the end of his first-class career in 1990.
He takes on a similar batting coach role at Worcester, and will also coach the second team and academy players.
Shropshire are interviewing and hope to appoint a replacement this week.
"We have one or two irons in the fire, " chairman Toby Shaw told BBC Radio Shropshire.
Worcestershire have had a succession of other success stories from Yorkshire.
The most notable are long-serving wicketkeeper Roy Booth, Duncan Fearnley, who later became county chairman during the glory years of the late 1980s/early 1990s and England slow left-arm spinner Richard Illingworth.
"We're trying to give an opportunity to a younger coach and have already identified a couple of candidates who might fit that role well.
"We're obviously sorry to see Kevin go, but it's a fantastic opportunity for him to get back into the first-class game.
"There's a tinge of sadness because he was fantastic for us last season. But we should be very proud as a county that we managed to secure someone of Kevin's qualities.
"He's helped the players collectively and individually," added Shaw.
"Whilst we had one of our best seasons last year, maybe his real value was all the one-to one sessions with the players he's had this winter, which we hope will come to fruition this summer."
Leeds-born Sharp's arrival at New Road maintains Worcestershire's long-standing association with Yorkshire cricket.
Chief executive David Leatherdale is from the same area of Bradford as director of cricket Steve Rhodes, who played alongside Sharp when they were both on the Yorkshire staff at Headingley in the early 1980s.
Sharp, who made 8,426 first-class runs in 195 matches in his 15 seasons at Yorkshire, made his county debut in the same Tykes side as Bill Athey, who later became Worcestershire coach.
And Shropshire's professional for the 2014 season will be Gurman Randhawa, following the 21-year-old Huddersfield-born slow left-arm spinner's release by his native Yorkshire.
An academic who advised on films like The Mummy is among speakers to attend.
The aim is for scholars to share their research findings into "demons" featured in ancient Egyptian artefacts.
The Demon Things Conference 2016, which is open to the public, is hosted by the Egypt Centre and the Department of History and Classics.
Among the speakers is Wael Sherbiny, who rediscovered a 4,000-year-old artefact containing spells and depictions of gods in a leather manuscript from ancient Egypt, and Stuart Tyson Smith, a consultant for the Stargate, The Mummy and The Mummy Returns films.
A university spokesman said: "Scholars are being encouraged to present their findings in the hopes that the conference will provide a creative venue for spotting links and patterns.
"By converging different areas of research a fuller picture of these multi-faceted entities may emerge."
Harvey Proctor, Conservative MP for Billericay until 1987, was interviewed under caution but was not arrested.
Police are investigating claims that a group of prominent men in public life sexually and physically abused children in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Mr Proctor, who has denied any part in abuse, said the interview on Thursday took place at his request.
He also challenged police to speed up their investigation.
Mr Proctor told the BBC he offered himself for interview when his home was raided in March, and said Scotland Yard had cancelled planned meetings twice.
"I have not been arrested, I am not on police bail, I was free to go at any time during the six hours of the interview," he said.
"My solicitors had warned the police of the dire consequences for the police if they did not go through with this interview."
Mr Proctor was interviewed at a police station in the Grantham area by detectives working on the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland.
The investigation began after a man in his 40s made a series of allegations last year.
The alleged victim has told the BBC he was abused by senior political, military and "law enforcement" figures, and has also said children were abused at Army facilities in southern England.
It is claimed that three children were murdered at different London locations.
In March, Mr Proctor denied any involvement in child abuse - some of which is alleged to have taken place at the Dolphin Square apartment complex in Pimlico, London.
He said: "I have never attended sex parties at Dolphin Square or anywhere else.
"I have not been part of any rent boy ring with cabinet ministers, other members of Parliament or generals or the military.
"I conducted my private life in a discreet manner."
Harvey Proctor was born in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, and served as a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1987, representing the Essex constituencies of Basildon and then Billericay.
In 1987, he was fined after pleading guilty to gross indecency over sexual activity with men under the age of 21 - then the legal age of consent for gay men.
He said he believed the men were above the age of consent. The men were above the current age of consent, which is 16.
The following year he opened two shops selling luxury shirts, with financial support from some former colleagues.
In 2000, Mr Proctor's stores were forced into liquidation after legal action by Customs and Excise over an unpaid VAT bill.
From 2003 until March 2015, he was private secretary to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, a 16,000-acre site of farmland and woodland in Leicestershire.
It was very important that Russia should show the attacks were not on moderate opponents of President Assad, he told the UN Security Council.
Russian defence officials say their aircraft targeted IS.
But an unnamed US official told Reuters that so far they did not seem to be targeting IS-held territory.
Russia's strikes reportedly hit rebel-controlled areas of Homs and Hama provinces, causing casualties.
Mr Hammond told the UN Security Council that it was "very important" that Russia was able to confirm that the strikes were directed at IS - also referred to as ISIL -and al-Qaeda affiliated targets only and not at moderate opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.
He said: "Actions in support of the [Syrian] regime are incompatible with the effective prosecution of the war against ISIL in Syria."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron said if Russia's action was in defence of President Bashar al-Assad then that would be a "retrograde step".
Speaking on a visit to Jamaica he said: "We'll need to look very carefully at the reports and exactly what has happened.
"I have a clear view, which is that if this is part of international action against ISIL and that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good."
Earlier, Mr Hammond said the UK would continue to bomb the extremist group Islamic State for "as long as it takes".
He told the UN General Assembly the people of Syria were facing the "twin evils" of IS and President Assad's "murderous regime".
He also spoke about the need to offer sanctuary to Syrian refugees.
Two years ago the House of Commons voted against UK military action in Syria, but last September it approved British participation in air strikes against IS targets in Iraq only.
Earlier this the month, Prime Minister David Cameron revealed the UK had carried out its first RAF drone attack against one of its own citizens, when it killed Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan, 21, in Syria.
Delivering the UK's national speech to the General Assembly, Mr Hammond described Iraq and Syria as the "crucible of human civilisation" where current events meant "our collective values and our will to act are being most immediately challenged".
He told world leaders at the gathering in New York that they must work together to "crush" IS - which took control of large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
"We share a responsibility to act to end the bloody civil war and create an inclusive political process, and to work together to crush IS and banish its ideology from the face of the earth," he said.
"The UK will continue to be a leading member of the international coalition against Isil, including carrying out more air strikes in Iraq than any other country except the US, for as long as it takes to prevail in what will ultimately be a generational struggle against the Islamist extremist ideology that drives it."
Mr Hammond went on to praise the "extraordinary generosity" of Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan for their humanitarian efforts taking in Syrian refugees.
"It is incumbent upon all of us to support them as they bear that burden; to ensure that the UN appeals for Syria are fully funded.
"And I am proud that the UK is making the second largest contribution of any country to the humanitarian mission in the region."
The UK has pledged to take in 20,000 refugees from camps bordering Syria by 2020.
The blaze broke out in the intensive care and maternity departments of the Jazan General Hospital, the Civil Defence Agency tweeted.
The fire is now over and those injured have been transferred to other hospitals in the area, it added.
An investigation is under way to find out the cause of the blaze.
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Fire sweeps Saudi residential block
One witness told Saudi television an electrical fault appeared to be to blame, and that the fire had swept through the building in minutes.
"We could hear the women screaming," the man said.
The blaze badly damaged the interior, charring walls and leaving wreckage dangling from the ceiling.
Twenty-one civil defence teams helped extinguish the fire, according to the agency.
Some Saudis took to social media to complain of what they said was inadequate infrastructure in the area.
Saudi authorities also faced heavy criticism earlier this year after a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage killed hundreds.
Jazan is near the border with Yemen, which has seen months of fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed forces.
Earlier this week a rocket fired from Yemen towards Jazan was intercepted by Saudi Arabia, reports say, although there is no indication Thursday's fire is related to the conflict.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has repeatedly rejected criticism of his government's actions during the campaign which defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.
Mr Rajapaksa is due to chair the Commonwealth for the next two years.
The leaders of India, Mauritius and Canada have boycotted the summit.
Prince Charles formally opened the summit, for the first time representing his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as head of the Commonwealth.
By Charles HavilandBBC News, Colombo
In the midst of the human rights controversies, the Sri Lankan government has done its best to keep the focus of attention on the Commonwealth and the summit's agenda of debt sustainability, business ties and technological development.
But when rights are raised, the response has been a bullish defence of the government's position. On two successive days President Rajapaksa has sought to turn what Mr Cameron calls the "spotlight" on to the Tamil Tigers' atrocities, asserting that "we asserted the greatest human right - the right to life".
His outspoken brother, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has said the UK is acting as if Sri Lanka is still a British colony by trying to raise war crimes allegations, adding that his country cannot act on accusations of atrocities if the accusers do not publicly identify themselves.
Pro-government nationalists also assail Britain's own conduct. Rajpal Abenayake, editor of government paper the Daily News, told the BBC World Service the UK was guilty of "odious double standards", accusing it of committing massacres in Sri Lanka during colonial rule and suggesting former PM Tony Blair was guilty of war crimes in Iraq.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is attending, saying engagement is a more effective tool than boycott.
Correspondents say the government had hoped the three-day event would showcase Sri Lanka's post-war revival, but instead it is turning into a PR disaster.
Dancers in dazzling colour greeted heads of state and officials from the 49 countries in attendance as they arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Colombo.
In his remarks at the opening ceremony, Mr Rajapaksa again defended his government's record.
"We in Sri Lanka are stepping into a new era of peace, stability and premium economic opportunities," he said.
"In ending terrorism in 2009, we asserted the greatest human right: the right to live."
He said the Commonwealth must not be allowed to "turn into a punitive or judgemental body".
"Following the adage that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, Mr Cameron does have the right to raise questions," says an editorial in the Daily Mirror.
"By the same token he too can be questioned in return. British counter-terrorism legislation and handbooks on interrogation techniques provide ample material for counter-question."
By calling for a war-crimes investigation, Mr Cameron is "obviously singing for votes back at home," says The Island.
"Shouldn't he, before taking up allegations of war crimes against this country, put his own house in order by holding former British PM Tony Blair accountable for killing nearly one million Iraqis in an illegal war?"
"The heads of states have arrived, and Chogm is ready for bigger things than the petty bickering over imagined issues that deal with the host country," opines the Daily News.
Mr Rajapaksa on Thursday angrily asserted that killings took place in Sri Lanka not only in 2009, as his government crushed the rebels, but for 30 years up until then, with the victims including children and pregnant women.
The UK has defended its presence in Sri Lanka, with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague saying it is calling for an "independent, thorough, credible investigation" into alleged abuses.
In an interview with the BBC's Today programme, he said it was "also important to be able work with people in this country of all persuasions and backgrounds", and he would meet people from all sides, including the Tamil National Alliance.
"They welcome that, even if they're critics of the government."
Mr Cameron has pledged to raise "tough questions" on human rights and allegations of war crimes.
By George AlagiahBBC News, Colombo
Sri Lanka's retreat into language of conspiracy
On Friday, he is visiting northern areas of Sri Lanka which saw the worst of the fighting between soldiers and ethnic Tamils.
In May 2009 Sri Lanka's army defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers after almost 30 years of brutal and bloody civil war. But the spotlight has focused on the final phase of that war as civilians were hemmed into a thin strip of land on the north-eastern coast - both sides are accused of atrocities here.
However, one UN report estimates that as many as 40,000 civilians were killed in that final phase, mostly by government shelling.
Sri Lanka faces continued allegations over the rape and torture of detainees, enforced disappearances of activists and the intimidation of journalists.
The government has vehemently denied all such accusations.
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But as Colombo began welcoming delegates to the city on Wednesday, a group of Tamils whose family members disappeared during or after the civil war were prevented from travelling to Colombo.
Pro-government protesters also disrupted some journalists' attempts to travel north that day.
On Thursday, a human rights festival being hosted at the main opposition headquarters in Colombo was attacked by protesters before police ordered it to be shut down.
Human rights activist Brito Fernando told the BBC the government was not letting "people practise human rights, the right to dissent, or the freedom of speech and discussion".
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper are staying away from the summit, as is Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam.
The poll by WIN/Gallup International indicates that Roman Catholics and Jews have the most favourable opinion of the Pope.
More than half of the world's protestants and even the majority of atheists and agnostics view him favourably.
About 1,000 people were questioned in 64 countries.
BBC religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt says that, three years into his papacy, Francis has enjoyed enormous goodwill and won the hearts and minds not just of Roman Catholics but also of people from other religions and the non-religious.
Those taking part in the poll were asked: "Irrespective of your own religion, do you have a very favourable, somewhat favourable, somewhat unfavourable or very unfavourable opinion of Pope Francis?"
The Pope was most popular with Roman Catholics, of whom 85% said they had a favourable opinion of him, and among Jews questioned the figure was 65%.
Among the 64 countries polled, Portugal and the Philippines were most enthusiastic, with 94% and 93% thinking favourably of the Pope respectively.
Pope Francis's lowest ratings came in Tunisia, Turkey and Algeria, while most people in Azerbaijan said they did not know much about him.
WIN/Gallup said that the Pope heads the rankings when compared to the global popularity of political world leaders.
It gave him a net score - the difference between favourable and unfavourable opinions - of +41 ahead of US President Barack Obama on +30; German Chancellor Angela Merkel on +13; UK Prime Minister David Cameron on +10 and French President Francois Hollande on +6.
WIN/Gallup International President Jean-Marc Leger said: "Pope Francis is a leader who transcends his own religion. Our study shows that an ample majority of citizens of the world, of different religious affiliations and across regions, have a favourable image of the Pope."
The other semi-final sees Lancashire Lightning and Hampshire meet in a repeat of last year's Finals Day.
Both matches will be played on Saturday, 29 August before the final the same evening.
Northants and Birmingham will play first from 11:00 BST before Hampshire and Lancashire play from 14:30, with the final from 18:45.
Hampshire have reached Finals Day for a sixth consecutive year while Birmingham will look to be the first county to successfully defend the title.
It means hundreds of thousands of youngsters in school and college will have to carry on with the subjects until the age of 18.
Employers have warned that young people need to improve these skills.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the subjects were the ones "employers demand before all others".
Head teachers said they supported the principle of the change but there was "genuine confusion" about how it would be implemented.
The Association of Colleges says it will require 1,100 extra maths teachers and 1,000 more English teachers.
Up until now, pupils have been able to drop the subjects at the age of 16 without having gained a qualification in them.
Many would never study these subjects again, prompting concerns from employers' organisations that too many young people lack literacy and numeracy skills necessary for work.
Last year, there were more than a quarter of a million 19-year-olds without a C grade in English and maths.
Teenagers who missed C grades will either re-take GCSEs in maths and English, or else there will be an option to take other types of maths and English lessons. But they will be required to continue studying the subjects.
In a separate measure also being introduced, the participation age for education and training is being increased to the age of 17. It will mean young people will be expected to remain in some kind of education or workplace training, although there will be no sanctions as it is phased in.
Skills minister Matthew Hancock said the requirement to keep studying English and maths was not about re-sitting exams but about continuing to develop these essential skills.
"For those who fail to get a C at GCSE, it's a huge impairment to their future life, their ability to participate not just in work but also as a citizen," he said.
Mr Hancock said that most of those who did not attain a grade C at the age of 16 continued to a further education college and the there was a programme to increase the number of English and maths teachers at those institutions.
Joy Mercer, director of policy at the Association of Colleges, said further education colleges would need an extra 2,100 experienced teachers.
"Young people, who have often tried to succeed at maths and English more than once, need the most experienced teachers to motivate them, not those who have just left a university course," she said.
Brian Lightman, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the "aim is right, but there are many questions the government needs to address urgently about how it will fund and implement its plan".
The head teachers' leader said there needed to be clarification about funding for extra classes and teachers.
"There is still genuine confusion about the announcement today and what the new policy means, on the day that schools and colleges are supposed to start implementing it," said Mr Lightman.
The importance of developing English and maths beyond the age of 16 had been put forward by Prof Alison Wolf in her report on improving vocational education for 14 to 19-year-olds.
She found that too many vocational qualifications lacked value for employers and too many youngsters were entering adult life without adequate skills in literacy and numeracy.
"Good English and maths grades are fundamental to young people's employment and education prospects," she said.
"Individuals with very low literacy and numeracy are severely disadvantaged in the labour market."
Prof Wolf, professor of public sector management at King's College London, welcomed the implementation of her proposals.
“Every other country in the developed world concentrates on improving the language and maths skills of its post-16 students, and so should England. Recognising the central place of English and maths skills in society is long overdue," she said.
These changes apply to young people in England. The Welsh government says that it already has plans that will require learners to continue English and maths beyond the age of 16 from 2015.
"Learners who do not achieve these GCSEs at A*-C in Key Stage 4 will be required to continue to pursue them in post-16 learning. Learners who do achieve these GCSEs in Key Stage 4 will continue to develop their skills by following Essential Skills qualifications," said a spokeswoman for the Welsh government.
But Labour’s shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, said more urgent action was needed.
"In 2012 Labour set out ambitious plans for all children to study English and maths to 18.
“A whole wasted year later and the government have only got half way there. This isn't good enough. David Cameron needs to listen to employers - they want all young people to continue building these key skills to 18."
The Institute of Directors said that so many young people not achieving good qualifications in English and maths was "socially damaging and economically unsustainable".
The CBI backed the changes but also called for "high-quality vocational routes as well as academic ones".
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "It's critical the government works with schools and colleges to make sure that what is on offer for those young people is not marching them in and out of the exam room, but actually making sure they are developing by having an appropriate curriculum."
The Treasury has admitted that the savings of more than £80bn could cost nearly half a million jobs.
The Welsh Assembly Government said the Spending Review meant it would lose £1.8bn from its budget over the next four years.
Rallies have also been taking place in other cities across the UK.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan has said the review was fair, and the assembly government was facing "smaller cuts than most UK government departments".
The public sector employs around a quarter of the workforce in Wales.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has about 22,000 members in Wales.
Chair Katrine Williams said: "Our demonstration is intended to show that workers in Wales will not sit idly by and allow our public services to be decimated and the Welsh economy to be wrecked by these vicious cuts.
"Public sector workers face thousands of job losses across Wales, and a huge increase in workloads plus attacks on wages and pensions.
"The jobs of private sector workers will also be hit as the economy shrinks. And we all face the destruction of vital public services.
"Now is the time to stand up and take action against these threats."
The assembly government has said the cuts were at the lower end of predictions, but the budget was the "worst since devolution".
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has said Wales could see up to 25,000 public sector job losses over four years with the same number in the private sector.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan has called the review a "fair funding settlement for Wales".
She has said: "The Welsh Assembly Government is facing smaller cuts than most UK government departments but, like everywhere else, tough decisions will have to be faced in Cardiff Bay."
Shane Bryant, 30, from Birmingham, died in hospital on Saturday after being taken ill during a supermarket raid in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
North Leicestershire's coroner was told further tests were being carried out to establish the cause of death.
Mr Bryant's inquest has been opened and adjourned until 10 October.
The armed raid at a Co-operative store took place on 13 July.
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A 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has been released from custody pending further inquiries.
Witnesses claimed the arrested man was among a group of bystanders who intervened as two offenders, armed with a bat and a golf club, tried to flee the scene of the raid.
Coroner Trevor Kirkman said: "I have a statement from Stephen Belcher, of Derbyshire Constabulary, who confirms that on 15 July he examined a number of fingerprints and was able to establish from corresponding prints that the deceased was Shane Bryant."
Detectives are appealing for mobile phone footage of the robbery and its aftermath.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has started an investigation into the death.
Not bad for a bit of fun, according to Tinchy Stryder, who recorded the track with the Chuckle Brothers.
"I bumped into them at Celebrity Juice...we just got along," the rapper said.
But the charity behind the track told Newsbeat they want people to remember it's not just about the laughs.
Ronke Okay from the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) said: "It's a great cause and Tinchy is a fantastic ambassador.
"It's good to see that two generations, Tinchy's age and the Chuckle Brothers, can collaborate on something that is so important and bring awareness to it."
The organisation has been looking to increase the number of ethnic minorities who are on the bone marrow transplant register.
They claim a black person waiting for a transplant faces a one in 100,000 chance of finding a donor.
For a white patient it's one in four.
When the ACLT was founded in 1996, 500 names were on the register. There are now 50,000.
Ronke says they hope with Tinchy's help that number will rise.
"We're completely grateful to him, we know that it's a cause that's close to his heart."
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One of the strands was 900 million times more likely to have come from Nicola Payne than someone she was not related to, a jury was told.
Prosecutors allege the 18-year-old was abducted as she crossed wasteland to her parents' house in Coventry.
Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law, Thomas O'Reilly, deny murder.
Three hairs from Miss Payne - as well as a single hair asserted to be from Mr O'Reilly - were identified during forensic tests conducted last year on a tent found near a river five days after her disappearance, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Opening the case against the Coventry defendants, Andrew Smith QC said instructions for the tent were found inside Barwell's Ford Capri in December 1991.
He said the teenager's journey across the patch of land, known as the Black Pad, should have taken a few minutes.
"The prosecution case is that Nicola Payne was abducted as she walked across the waste ground," he said.
"At some point thereafter she was was murdered and her body disposed of."
The court heard Mr Barwell, of Copperas Street, and Mr O'Reilly, of Ribble Road, are now aged 51 but were both 27 at the time of her disappearance, on 14 December.
They were first arrested three days after Ms Payne, who had a seven-month-old son, Owen, with her boyfriend Jason Cook, disappeared.
Mr Smith told the jury that Mr Barwell had "tried it on" with Ms Payne in a pub two months before she vanished.
The court heard that on 14 December 1991 a dog walker on Black Pad heard a woman scream and later on another witness described seeing the defendants parked near a river with what appeared to be a black bin bag.
Mr Barwell owned a distinctive blue 1980 Ford Capri at the time of Ms Payne's disappearance.
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"The prosecution suggest that Miss Sambrook was in fact observing the ground sheet of a tent that contained the body of Nicola Payne."
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Paramjeet Singh Saini spent eight weeks in a Portuguese jail, but returned home to the West Midlands over the weekend.
He has been fighting extradition to India over his alleged involvement in the murder of a Sikh politician in 2009 and bomb attacks in India in 2010.
His detention was a "consequence of the Indian state" against him, he said.
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His family has always maintained the arrest and detention was politically motivated and a breach of his human rights.
The father-of-four came to the UK about 13 years ago and was granted refugee status to stay in the UK until 2023, along with his family.
Indian authorities have alleged he was a leading member of Babbar Khalsa International, a Sikh separatist group banned in the UK under anti-terror laws, and suspect he was involved in the fatal shooting of politician Rulda Singh.
Mr Saini, from Smethwick, was arrested in 2010 by West Midlands Police, as part of a joint investigation with Indian police, and later released without charge.
Warley Labour MP John Spellar said Mr Saini's lawyer had told him the Portuguese government had rejected the case.
Mr Saini told BBC News he was stressed in jail and his release was a "big relief".
Now back home, he said he wanted to carry on with his life after celebrating with friends and his family.
"In India we are - the Sikh nation - going through very bad times. So many people are being detained in India for no reason as political prisoners.
"We are working for them. I'm an activist. I will carry on with my life as an activist in the UK... but in a legal way."
In October, Sikh Jagmeet Singh interrupted the presenter of BBC One's Sunday Morning Live programme to complain at a lack of media coverage over the deaths of two Sikh protesters in the Punjab.
Their deaths came as Sikhs protested because a torn-up copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib - Sikhism's holy book - was found in a village in Faridkot district.
That sparked further protests in the state and 52 people being arrested over the desecration.
Last June, 82-year-old Bappu Surat Singh Khalsa went on a hunger strike for more than 150 days to campaign for the release of Sikh prisoners in the Punjab who have completed their terms for political crimes but remain in jail.
The Swans have fought off competition from Newcastle and Brighton for the 19-year-old, who scored 23 goals in 40 appearances on loan at Championship side Bristol City in 2016-17.
Abraham worked with Paul Clement when the Swans manager was a coach at Stamford Bridge.
The move could raise doubts on the future of record signing Borja Baston.
However, club chairman Huw Jenkins has said they will fight to keep Gylfi Sigurdsson, Alfie Mawson and Fernando Llorente at the Liberty Stadium.
Jenkins says Swansea are determined to keep hold of their star players, despite Everton being linked with a £40m move for Sigurdsson and England Under-21 defender Mawson apparently attracting Tottenham Hotspur.
Spanish striker Llorente has also been mooted for a move with the Swans reported to be ready to offer him a new contract.
"Keeping your top players is always a difficult one," Jenkins said.
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"It is a slow market as the players have been away on international duty. We want to keep our best players and to that end Gylfi Sigurdsson and Fernando Llorente had good seasons with us last year.
"Naturally that causes interest and there is plenty of media coverage, but our aim is to keep our best players and try to add to that.
"We aren't putting figures on our players. We see the figures bandied around in the Premier League and they are crazy, but we are part of that.
"We will do our best to add to the team, not take away from it.
"We've had no direct contact from any club, it is pure speculation and we hope it remains so."
On apparent Spurs target Mawson, who only joined last summer from Barnsley, Jenkins added: "There has been no firm interest, but his profile is being raised, we understand that.
"But we think he's got a few years left with us to develop his career."
Jenkins says Swansea are looking for additions in central midfield and attack, but France striker Bafetimbi Gomis is unlikely to be under consideration for a return after a loan season with Marseille.
"Gomis (moving) to Galatasaray is possible, we have been talking," Jenkins confirmed.
"Paul has a fair bit of money to consider and there are one or two players we are looking to get signed.
"The main positions we are looking for (with the way that we play) is a central midfielder and a second striker.
"Those are our main focuses, but there may be one or two other areas if some fringe players leave the club, as some last year didn't get enough game time.
"We need to make sure we freshen the squad up and the American investment has provided the club with financial stability, we are paying out for contracts bigger than ever before."
Rovers, relegated from the Football League last year, needed to win to have any chance of extending their season.
And although Steven Jennings slotted in from six yards to give them victory, Braintree's victory over Altrincham ended their hopes.
Grimsby's defeat means they finish fourth and will play Braintree in the play-offs.
The first leg will be played at Blundell Park on Thursday evening, with the return in Essex on the afternoon of Sunday, 8 May.
They're the same because nothing changes, not in terms of Scotland's bottom line at any rate.
Everybody wants a twist in their Six Nations story - a win, remember those?
You're more likely to find a hen's tooth in the car park at Murrayfield than a Scotland player on the training ground beyond who is rich with stories of success - even moderate success - in this unforgiving championship.
Thursday was another treadmill day. Running to stand still. One change to the team - Duncan Taylor, the admirable Saracen, in for the injured Matt Scott in the midfield - but zero difference in the questioning.
What else is there to say? Eight straight losses in the Six Nations. Eight straight losses to Wales, too.
Put another way: one win in 12 against Saturday's opponents. Or another: one win against the Welsh since Jonny Gray learned how to tie his own shoelaces.
We fetch-up at Scotland press conference carrying rugby's equivalent of ticking bombs in our bags, a volume of statistics so damning of Scotland's all-round hopelessness going back so many years that we dare not detonate them in ear-shot of a player or a coach.
It's uncomfortable enough as it is without dropping S-bombs. Stats, they say, are there to be twisted and turned, rewritten and broken. But with Scotland, there's no room for interpretation and ambiguity.
They're as straightforward and as damning as can be.
Cotter sees positives - and fair enough. They're there, for sure, but they haven't come together in sufficient number to add up to a win on his watch in the championship.
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The team he inherited gave away too many penalties, coughed up too many lineout balls and got beaten in too many scrums. Scotland have advanced in all of those departments - and others.
You wouldn't know from watching Saturday's 15-9 loss to England, but when the stars are aligned, Scotland's attack is better than it was. Its defence doesn't look to have the gaping holes it has had for the longest time.
None of this has brought a win, though. They're steps forward, but baby steps.
"It's just maintaining the vigilance and concentration that you need to put away games," said Cotter. "For long periods of the game last weekend we were in it, we dominated. We didn't score off two critical situations and if we had, perhaps, the result could have been different."
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"It's just a matter of believing in what we're doing," Cotter continued. "Six points away from England. A try away from a win. There's a positive feel within the team but we're not happy because we're not winning.
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"We're getting ourselves into situations where we can win and that's exciting and hopefully we'll get ourselves into the same situation this week and put in place the things we worked on during the week.
"Hopefully they'll get the opportunity to nail a big game and when we do that maybe things will become much easier."
Wales drew with Ireland in Dublin. As a Test match, it was well ahead of anything we saw at Murrayfield 24 hours earlier. It was more intense, more accurate, more brutal. It was no oil painting in its beauty, but even Cotter admitted that Wales and Ireland showed that they were "ahead of everyone else."
The Welsh are a bit of an optical illusion. Scan their starting line-up and they're a side with pace, power, wit and game-breaking threat. In reality, they've got the power covered, but the wit and the creativity goes missing.
They're not quite one-dimensional, but much of what they do is based on brute force. Hence, the massive physical toll it takes on them. They play hard, direct, largely risk-free rugby.
They bang away at an opposing defence waiting for it to crack under the bombardment rather than using their skill and pace to unlock it.
Against Ireland they made zero line breaks and just two offloads. Warrenball is attritional and not always easy on the eye, but it has served them well in the Six Nations.
A depleted Ireland - shorn of so many front-liners - still matched Wales' physicality and got a result many thought was beyond them in their weakened state. Ireland's powers of concentration and discipline and line speed in defence were huge.
They had inexperienced Test players stepping up to the plate, carrying ball prodigious amounts of ball, making a vast number of tackles, constantly troubling Wales with their intensity.
Now it's Scotland's turn. Cotter spoke of the need to be clinical. They weren't against England. In truth, taking their chances when they arise is a trait that has been beyond Scotland for a dozen years and more.
"To put everything into perspective, we lost by six points to England and we're not happy about that because we had opportunity to win it," said Cotter. "I'd rather be in a situation where we can win rather than be 20 points behind and have no chance whatsoever.
"We've spent another week together and the weather has been nicer to us. We've been able to train without that horizontal rain and sleet."
They've had enough storm clouds to last them a lifetime. The roof will be closed in Cardiff, but if a minor miracle happens and Scotland get the win they so desperately crave they'll still be able to see the sun through all that steel.
The council's loans of £3.74m to the club have been converted into shares.
Durham were relegated from County Championship Division One by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on 3 October, amid debts of £7.5m.
They accepted a £3.8m aid package approved by the ECB and will start next season with a 48-point deduction.
The agreement with the council means Durham's debt to the local authority will not be written off.
Instead, the council will have shares in a "community interest company" (CIC) that will run the club.
"The financial situation Durham faces is untenable and the club is effectively insolvent and not viable in its current state," read the council report.
"The council's role and participation in the new board is still to be determined."
A Durham statement read: "The club is pleased that this has been achieved without the need for significant public debt write-off, as has been the case elsewhere in cricket."
Durham also face a four-point penalty in the 2017 T20 Blast and a two-point deduction in the One-Day Cup, and have lost the right to stage Test cricket at their Riverside ground.
The CIC, which will be run by a new chairman and involve a new board of directors and management structure, can pay up to 35% of profits to shareholders each year.
Although the council's statement of accounts reveals an overall underspend for 2015-16, the local authority has needed to make budget cuts to a total of £153.2m, to which an estimated £104.8m must also be added over the next four years.
The document reveals Durham is the most deprived authority in the north east in terms of "the scale of income deprivation".
Independent councillor John Shuttleworth described the rescue package with Durham as "ill thought out".
He told BBC Newcastle: "We're writing off almost £4m in effect.
"Recently we've closed care homes and leisure centres and restricted services to vulnerable people - old and young - and shut schools.
"I don't think Joe Public out there is going to be very happy about it."
Hundreds of police officers stood in front of the coffins of commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner Jessica Schneider, who died on Monday.
Mr Hollande said further measures would be taken to protect police officers.
But when the president filed past the front row, one policeman refused to shake his hand.
Hundreds of uniformed police officers and firefighters took part in the ceremony in the prefecture of Versailles, the region where the couple lived and worked.
In an emotional speech, Mr Hollande said Mr Salvaing and Ms Schneider were "everyday heroes" who were killed because they made the "perilous choice" to defend their country.
The pair were posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour.
Mr Hollande promised to take measures to guarantee the anonymity of officers and he said police would be allowed permanently to carry their guns when off duty.
They have been allowed to do so on a temporary basis, since the Paris attacks in November, in which 130 people were killed.
"Police and gendarmes must be given the means to defend themselves when they are not on duty," he said, adding: "We must also avoid police and gendarmes being identified and targeted by criminals they have jailed, or their accomplices."
Investigators are looking into whether the couple's attacker, 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, knew his victims.
At the ceremony, the president and prime minister moved along the front row, shaking hands with officers but one policeman kept his hand down.
The man looked straight ahead without shaking the president's or prime minister's hands.
Mr Hollande moved on, but Prime Minister Manuel Valls was seen engaging the man in brief conversation after his handshake was rejected.
Interviewed on French television channel TF1 afterwards, the police officer, who was not named, said: "There are too many problems in the police. We've had enough."
He said in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris, police had only three vehicles for 40 staff.
Analysts say France's police force has been overstretched because of the security situation after the Paris attacks.
It has also had to deal with months of violent anti-government protests in which dozens of officers have suffered injuries.
Paris police chief Michel Cadot recently wrote to the interior minister, complaining that officers were "exhausted" even before the Euro 2016 football tournament started.
In the past week, forces around France have also had to deal with a minority of violent and heavy-drinking fans, who have fought police and each other.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said 1,425 will come from the Army, 70 from the RAF and 10 from the Royal Navy.
Mr Hammond told the Commons the decisions were "painful" but Britain's security would not be put at risk.
Personnel currently serving or about to serve in Afghanistan will be exempt, while the Ghurkas face cuts.
Shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said the government was "taking risks with Britain's safety and security" by pressing ahead with latest job cuts.
The Army is cutting the number of regulars from 102,000 in 2010 to 82,000 by 2017, but seeking to increase the number of reservists.
The plans also involve cutting the Royal Navy from 35,500 regulars in 2010 to 30,000 in 2020 and the RAF from 40,130 regulars in 2010 to 35,000 in 2020.
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It has clearly been a difficult few years for the Army. They have suitably called it "life in the tranches".
Their misery: one tranche, or round, of redundancies after another as the Army undergoes the very painful process of downsizing itself.
But there is now light at the end of the tunnel, or as the head of the Army Gen Sir Peter Wall says, an end to "the forced exodus of people from the Army".
He can now focus on its transformation.
Reservists will play a much bigger role in the Army. It needs thousands more part-time soldiers but also a constant flow of those wishing to join full-time.
So far, that has not been going according to plan.
And with the war in Afghanistan coming to an end and unemployment rates falling it's not going to get any easier.
The Gurkhas will be cut because they currently have too many personnel, the defence secretary said.
Mr Hammond told the Commons that the completion of the cuts marked a turning point, meaning the remaining personnel could "enjoy peace of mind" that a period of restructuring was over.
He said: "Our personnel will have certainty about the future size and shape of our armed forces, and confidence that they will have the kit, equipment and platforms they need.
"Just as important, the country can have confidence that its armed forces will not only be affordable and sustainable, but among the most battle-hardened, best-equipped and best-trained forces in the world, able to ensure that Britain remains safe and secure in the world."
He said to ease the transition to civilian life, the armed forces help-to-buy scheme would be extended to personnel taking redundancy who did not have their own home.
Mr Coaker said: "Labour is clear about the need to reconfigure our armed forces after withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of a presence in Germany. But we would never do anything that would leave Britain's security under threat."
"The government is letting down our armed forces and their families, and taking risks with our nation's safety."
The previous round of redundancies in June, totalling nearly 4,500, was the largest number of job cuts since the government began the process following the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
Of those that were made redundant, 84% applied.
The head of the British army, Gen Sir Peter Wall said this final round of redundancies would end a period of significant uncertainty with the "forced exodus of people from the Army", and it could now focus on recruiting for the future.
Mr Hammond recently described army recruitment as a "big challenge", as a £3m campaign to boost regular and reserve forces was launched.
As the number of regular soldiers decreases, the government wants to boost the number of reservists from 19,000 to 30,000 - but it has so far failed to meet its targets.
Falklands veteran Simon Weston said he would not have joined the armed forces in its current form.
"I look at it now and think, 'Is it worth going in?' The way the guys were given their redundancies on the front line last year, that's some thank you for the job you have taken on, dedicated your life to, risked your life for, as many have done. I don't think I would," he said.
The government's plans to reduce armed forces personnel were criticised in recent weeks by former US defence secretary Robert Gates, who told the BBC that cuts would limit the UK's military standing.
That warning, though, was rejected by Prime Minister David Cameron, who said Britain had the world's fourth largest defence budget and was a "first-class player in terms of defence".
Cyber Iconic Man by the Chapman brothers, two of Britain's more hard-hitting contemporary artists, is in the cathedral's Chapel of the Holy Spirit.
Works by Maurizio Cattelan and Turner Prize winners Douglas Gordon and Susan Philipsz are also in the cathedral.
It is one of five venues showing works loaned by leading European collectors.
The Church of England cathedral has joined museums and galleries in staging Going Public, a collaboration between the city's venues and private art collectors from the UK, Italy, Germany and France.
The works in the cathedral have been loaned by the Turin-based Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection.
They include a large tapestry showing drowning African migrants, the Twin Towers and the G20 leaders, by former Turner Prize nominee Goshka Macuga, which is hanging in the nave.
The Chapman brothers' work dates from 1996 and shows a figure turned upside down, with blood-like liquid running from his scars.
The Very Reverend Peter Bradley, dean of Sheffield Cathedral, said: "A lot of classic religious art shows images of really rather frightening violence, [such as] the crucifixion. But we don't notice that because we don't actually see it as violence. We see it purely as an illustration of a story.
"Some of these artworks invite us to reflect on violence, and violence in a religious context, in a new way, and that's strong, certainly."
The cathedral is showing 10 artworks in total. Dean Bradley said he had asked for pieces that "have quite a punch", so they were not "overwhelmed by the building".
He said he had already had some "very interesting discussions" about the artworks with members of the congregation.
He said: "Some people think they're fabulous. Some people don't like them. Some people have an open mind.
"There are people who complain about our Christmas tree every year, so there will be people who don't like it. Some of that will be a reasoned dislike, which is well worth investigating and we take very seriously.
"Some of it will be [saying], 'The cathedral shouldn't engage with this.' What we won't take seriously is not engaging with contemporary culture, because that's what we're there for.
"We're not here as a historic artefact. We're here as a contemporary Christian community engaging with the reality of contemporary British society."
Going Public is also taking place at the Graves Gallery, which is showing a collection of Marcel Duchamp works and archives, as well as Site Gallery, the Millennium Gallery and Sheffield Hallam's University's Institute of the Arts.
The aim of the project is to forge relationships with private collectors and philanthropists at a time when public arts funding is under threat, according to Museums Sheffield chief executive Kim Streets.
"I hope we can develop a longer term relationship from this particular group [of collectors] and that will enable us to bring other work to the city in the future," she said.
"And putting philanthropy in the spotlight will, we hope, make other introductions and begin a slightly wider conversation.
"We need to look closer to home to begin a conversation about philanthropy in the UK and in the North."
The Labour leader said he would allow a second vote "if the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people want it".
But he insisted he would urge Holyrood "very strongly" to wait until UK talks with the EU had been completed.
Nicola Sturgeon has said that a vote should be held "not now, but when the final terms of the deal are known".
Mr Corbyn said: "What I've said is that if the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people want a referendum, they have the right to do that.
"That was the whole point of the devolution agreement of the 1990s.
"I think the referendum should take place, if there is to be one, after the Brexit negotiations are concluded because this is the most important thing."
Nicola Sturgeon has previously called for a second vote on Scotland's constitutional future between autumn 2018 and spring 2019.
Launching the SNP's general election manifesto in Perth, Ms Sturgeon said opposition to an independence referendum would be "democratically unsustainable" if the SNP wins a majority of Scottish seats.
The manifesto includes a call for a vote on independence to be held "at the end of the Brexit process".
This has been rejected by Theresa May, who insists "now is not the time" despite a majority in the Scottish Parliament favouring a referendum in principle.
Speaking during a visit to a nursery in Westminster, Mr Corbyn said he would call on the SNP to "think again" and that he would "appeal to the Scottish people to think again on this".
He said: "Let's deal with the Brexit negotiations first, it's absolutely key that we get tariff-free trade access to the European market, our manufacturing industry relies on that.
"It's also important we have good agreements with Europe in the future in respect of management of the sea and all the other conditions that we've gained out of European membership."
Asked again if he would block a referendum if Holyrood passed a motion for it before Brexit is complete, Mr Corbyn replied: "We would discuss it with them and urge them very strongly to put it back until after the Brexit talks have been concluded.
"I think there would be a reasonable agreement around that because, after all, in Scotland the issues are actually poverty, actually on investment, actually on the housing needs of the people of Scotland.
"A Labour government would do a great deal to assist all the people of Scotland on those."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have described Mr Corbyn's position on independence as "confused and chaotic".
South Westminster Drug and Alcohol Service said an increasing number of young male clients were seeking support for anabolic steroid use.
Home Office figures show 60,000 people used steroids in the UK in 2014.
But the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said it was the "tip of the iceberg" and advised gyms to supply sharps bins for needles.
Roy Jones, from the South Westminster service, said: "Our numbers are increasing on a regular basis.
"I've been working with steroid users for 16 years and when I first started, the guys taking them were body builders in their 30s.
"Now the average age I see is 23."
According to Professor Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), there is a worrying trend of young professionals turning to the drugs.
She said: "It's fair to say it is becoming a much more normal thing to do among some groups of young men who are concerned about the way they look...injecting steroids has become a solution."
Although government figures suggest 60,000 people used steroids in 2014, professional bodies believe the figure is much higher, as only those ending up in police custody are recorded in the statistics.
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Professor Leng said: "I think it is inevitable that the number is a lot higher.
"From the epidemiology (the data) we have about the kind of people who use steroids - it's a group that's not all going to appear in custody so that figure is bound to be the tip of the iceberg - it might be three times that number."
A 25-year-old, who works in the City of London and asked to remain anonymous, told BBC London he had taken steroids for two years.
He said he bought them from a dealer at his local gym and he knows many others who do the same.
"I started taking them because I felt I couldn't get any bigger training naturally," he said. "It was the next step for me."
"There's immense pressure to look good - it's part of the culture we live in, we all want that big figure."
Easygym have installed sharps bins in all their gyms, while Fitness First, Virgin Active and David Lloyd said some of their clubs also have them.
All the gyms said they had a zero tolerance approach to steroids and the bins were a health and safety measure for diabetic members and the disposal of razors.
The Department of Health said it had "given local areas the power and the funding to tackle public health issues like this".
Despite the increased awareness, Matthew Dear, 17, from Southend, died after an adverse reaction to steroids.
His mother Tina, who runs the Matthew Dear Foundation, which was set up to warn people about the dangers of steroid use, said: "When we lost Matthew six years ago, people thought it was a problem that wasn't going to boil over.
"We are now at that point where it is boiling over and somebody needs to take ownership."
Rolandas Malinauskas, from east London, is a natural bodybuilder - which means strictly no steroids.
The former British Champion said many young men did not consider the dangers of the drugs.
"In the long term, you do not win with steroids - they create a mirage," he said. "You can build muscle naturally but it takes time and dedication. Its all about precision, training and diet."
From 284-4 overnight, England lost Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali, who departed for 146, to slip to 321-7.
But Dawson and Rashid added 108, an England best for the eighth wicket in India, to see the tourists to 477.
India, who have won the series 3-0, moved to 60-0, 417 adrift, with KL Rahul on 30 and Parthiv Patel 28.
The home side's serene progress on a placid surface served to highlight how difficult it will be for England to force a consolation victory.
Indeed, with a spin attack that has been outbowled by India's throughout the series, their score may prove to be little more than par, especially with an innings defeat after making 400 in the fourth Test still fresh in the mind.
"It will be hard work for England's spinners as Rahul and Parthiv have gathered their runs rather easily," said former England spinner Vic Marks on Test Match Special.
"It looks a good batting surface and it's difficult to see how you'd get 10 wickets out there, let alone 20."
Dawson, 26, was only added to the England squad after the third Test as a replacement for the injured Zafar Ansari.
Primarily called up for his left-arm spin, the right-hander usually bats in the middle order for Hampshire and has eight first-class centuries.
After a nervy start that saw him struck on the helmet by Ishant Sharma and offer a leading edge just out of reach of Ravichandran Ashwin, Dawson showed composure, solid defence and sound judgement, as well as taking opportunities to score through the off side.
His only blemish was a mix-up that resulted in the run-out of Stuart Broad, but a six off Ashwin that was carried to the mid-wicket rope by sub fielder Axar Patel took him past the 59 made by David Bairstow against India at The Oval in 1979 to the highest score made by an England number eight on his debut.
"Liam Dawson can bat as well as any of England's late-order all-rounders," said former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on TMS.
"He plays close to his pad, the bat is close to the body and I can only give him credit for the way he batted. He got hit on the head, but carried on, and he and Rashid played splendidly."
Like Dawson, Rashid has a first-class batting record that compares to the majority of his England team-mates, but he had made only one previous Test half-century and contributed just 51 runs in seven innings in this series.
He arrived when England had lost three wickets for 34 runs - Stokes was tempted to edge Ashwin in the first over of the day, Buttler played across Ishant to be lbw and Moeen, who added 26 to his overnight 120, loosely fell into Umesh Yadav's short-ball trap.
Initially supportive of Dawson - he scored only 13 from his first 77 balls - Rashid gradually took over the role of aggressor, wristily playing beautiful whips through mid-wicket and inside-out drives through the covers.
It was the intent to score that proved his downfall, a flat-footed waft at Umesh resulting in an edge behind.
After taking early wickets, India may have hoped to be batting by about lunchtime, only to complete more than five sessions in the field by the time England were bowled out after tea.
Fatigue, scoreboard pressure and the loss of opener Murali Vijay to a shoulder injury was a potential recipe for late casualties, yet Rahul and emergency partner Parthiv were untroubled for 20 overs.
England's bowling was tidy, but the pace bowlers were offered no assistance and the spinners - including Dawson's first over in Test cricket - were only afforded sluggish, unthreatening turn.
With India captain Virat Kohli and his 640 series runs still to come, the likelihood is the visitors face a long day in the field on Sunday.
England all-rounder Liam Dawson, who made 66 not out: "The first 20 balls were probably the most nervous I've ever been but thankfully I came through it. I've watched a lot of international cricket and knew the bouncer was going to be a factor but it was a good start.
"Becoming a genuine all-rounder is my goal. Batting is my priority but I was hoping I'd get at least an over to bowl this evening so that was great."
England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who made 146: "It's going to be very hard and a big challenge. We have three days but they play spin very well. We're going to have to do very well to bowl them out twice.
"Batting this year has gone quite well, but it's tough when you haven't got a consistent number. However, wherever I'm needed in the team, I'll bat. I was batting at five at the start of the tour but now I'm batting at four. It's a good place to bat but I'd rather bat five."
"Since that famous telephone call you made, you have changed the course of Nigeria's political history," Muhammadu Buhari said.
He was referring to the moment President Jonathan conceded victory and put paid to the daunting prospect of a disputed and probably violent aftermath to the election.
It was the first time ever in Nigeria's history that an opposition politician had won an election and both men were ready for the historic transition.
Many Nigerians have huge expectations of their next head of state, but one man who has worked for three different presidents including the former military ruler Sani Abacha says Muhammadu Buhari needs to be aware that it is easy to get cut off from reality once ensconced in "The Villa".
"As cocooned as Abacha was, I remember he was very fond of talking to the gardener. He would ask him 'Danzaria, what is happening in town?'" former minister Dr Aliyu Modibbo Umar told the BBC.
"'Today there are a lot of queues at the fuel stations', Danzaria would say or 'We have not been paid our salary'," said Dr Modibbo recalling the early 1990s when he was a special advisor in the presidency.
"If you are taciturn like some of the heads of state it is very easy to be in a cocoon and to only listen to a few people," Dr Modibbo said, adding that another President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was one of the few former heads of state to have kept his finger on the pulse of the country.
He put this down to his exuberant and outgoing nature.
As well as working as a minister under President Obasanjo, Dr Modibbo was also in Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government. He believes that like Mr Yar'Adua, Goodluck Jonathan had also allowed himself to become isolated with just a few officials around him.
"How could you come out and not believe the Chibok girls had been kidnapped if you were not cocooned?" he said, referring to the fact that the president and his ministers were at first reluctant to admit that more than 200 schoolgirls had been seized by jihadists in April 2014. The 219 girls are still missing.
Some analysts suggest Goodluck Jonathan may be slightly relieved to be handing over, given the challenges facing the country.
The fact that Muhammadu Buhari has been head of state before may alert him to some of the dangers he is likely to face but he will be in no doubt as to how difficult it will be to deliver the changes so many Nigerians are craving.
Even on his way to the inauguration he is likely to see the fuel queues snaking for kilometres across Abuja - the latest sign that oil production and fuel importation are in need of a major overhaul.
As well as tackling jihadist extremism and helping create jobs, fighting corruption is the loudest call on the streets.
But will the new administration go after corrupt individuals in the outgoing government? This is a key factor which could affect Nigeria's stability after the handover.
At a newspaper stand in Abuja the headlines have prompted some fierce debate with arguments over whether all former governments should be investigated, or just Mr Jonathan's, or none at all.
"Jonathan urges Buhari not to be selective with probes," says This Day newspaper.
"Don't probe me alone - Jonathan tells Buhari," is the front page of the Daily Trust.
"It is good if he investigates the previous government because any money that he recovers from them he can use on the infrastructure like roads, electricity and so on," says one reader, James Isaac, as he scans the headlines.
But others are not so sure.
"If we say he should start investigating all the previous leaders, his whole tenure will finish before he settles down to work on Nigeria's issues," says another man joining the debate.
Muhammadu Buhari profile
Others like newspaper buyer Engineer Paul argue that the corruption of today did not start from President Jonathan's time in office.
"Every past democratic government has done something terrible to the citizens of Nigeria," he said.
"They have managed this country as if it is their family business," said Mr Paul, who feels all former governments should be made to account.
He also argues that Mr Buhari came to power with help from some corrupt politicians and that could have consequences.
"If a thief should crown you he will still steal the crown from your head," he reflects, adding that the new president may be in for a rough ride if he falls out with some of his allies in the coalition.
His to-do list may be long and daunting but the way Muhammadu Buhari stays in touch with reality outside State House and the way he handles the politicians who are supposedly close to him are two vital tests he faces.
Rigg joined the Craven Cottage side at the start of 2015 following a two-year spell with the Football Association.
He previously worked at Manchester City and QPR as a technical director.
Rigg worked closely with Fulham's scouting team, but the Whites said his departure would not affect their plans for the January transfer window.
"Mike made many solid contributions to our club and I know he will be up to the next challenge in his career," chairman Shahid Khan said.
Companies that publish, share or edit news will need a government licence, and senior editors must be approved by the authorities.
Other staff will be required to undergo government training and assessment, and receive official accreditation.
The legislation will bring online news providers into line with traditional news media operating in the country.
From 1 June, when the rules come into force, they will be expected to follow "information security protocols", including "emergency response" measures such as increased vetting following disasters, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
In a statement published online, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the new rules would "strengthen management of information" and "promote the healthy and orderly development of internet news, in accordance to law".
The list of providers and platforms covered includes "websites, applications, forums, blogs, microblogs, public accounts, instant messaging tools and internet broadcasts".
Organisations that do not have a licence will not be allowed to post news or commentary about the government, economy, military, foreign affairs, or "other areas of public interest".
Editorial and business operations must be kept separate.
Only publicly funded organisations will be able to carry out their own reporting.
This most recent regulation from the Chinese state will make it more difficult for business media in the mainland to stay competitive.
Many outlets are independent and operate online.
It has already been problematic for staff from such organisations to obtain press cards to events - but financial websites such as Caijing and Caixin Online have traditionally been able to secure strong followings online because of their credible investigative journalism, and their articles are often shared through popular news portals.
But in recent months, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has made increased efforts to tighten online media regulation - particularly as live streaming and video blogging becomes a popular means of telling news.
In July 2016, it fined and disciplined a number of news portals for sharing independent news stories.
The following month, the CAC introduced rules for users of live streaming platforms to be monitored full-time, and in December of the same year, the CAC announced that all live streaming users needed a permit.
Chinese outlets will not be allowed to enter joint ventures with foreign partners, or accept foreign funding, until they have a passed a security assessment carried out by the government's State Council Information Office.
Companies that fail to comply will have their licences withdrawn and face fines of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,350: £3,370).
Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and many foreign news websites are banned in China.
The singer, who achieved 11 number one singles and nine top albums as a solo artist and with Wham!, is back posthumously at number eight with greatest hits album Ladies & Gentlemen.
Little Mix's album Glory Days ends the year as the number one album.
Clean Bandit's Rockabye remains at number one in the singles charts for an eighth week.
Michael died aged 53 at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire and police have said that a post-mortem examination into the cause of his death was "inconclusive".
His retrospective album, which topped the chart for eight weeks upon its release in 1998, sees a 5625% surge on sales and streams from last week.
It was already one of the 60 best-selling UK albums of all time and now re-enters the album chart top 10 for the first time in 17 years.
Michael's last album with Wham!, The Final, is at 40, while Twenty Five, Faith, Symphonica and Older have all returned to the top 100.
Four of his singles, including 1987's Faith also return to the top 100 singles chart.
Last Christmas has returned to the top 10 for the first time in 31 years and is the second most-streamed track of the week with 3.6m streams.
Official Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said: "The sudden and terribly sad death of George Michael has naturally prompted his fans to re-explore his rich catalogue again, paying tribute to his incredible talent, both as a solo artist and founder of Wham!.
"Quite appropriately, given the season, it is Last Christmas which makes the biggest impact."
Little Mix's Glory Days, which includes the hit single Shout Out To My Ex, reaches number one for a third time.
Last month it became the fastest-selling album by a British girl group since The Spice Girls' Spiceworld in 1997.
Clean Bandit's Rockabye is the biggest selling single of the week in the UK, with 44,000 downloads and 3.4 million streams. It is also the second-longest running number one of the year behind Drake's One Dance, which claimed the top spot for 15 weeks.
Swedish pop sensation Zara Larsson claims her biggest hit yet as I Would Like rises to number two, beating her previous best effort Lush Life, which reached number three.
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The deficiencies of Mark Warburton's team were laid bare in their 5-1 defeat at Celtic Park on Saturday and the Rangers manager must be in a small minority to deny there's a gulf in quality between the Old Firm pair.
Maybe 30-plus midfielders Joey Barton and Niko Kranjcar can be deployed together against lesser opposition, but the pairing was woefully inadequate against Celtic.
I can understand why another over-30, newly signed Philippe Senderos, was pitched into another problem area, but the gamble at stabilising their central defence failed.
The performance of Josh Windass was one positive for Rangers, but it was a weekend that offered precious few crumbs of comfort for the Ibrox club.
Stuart Armstrong is the latest glaring example of how Celtic have been reinvented during this Brendan Rodgers revolution.
It's less than four months since the former Swansea City and Liverpool manager stepped into Scottish football, but his impact at Celtic Park has been spectacular.
Rodgers' first three signings, Moussa Dembele, Scott Sinclair and Kolo Toure, have all made an eye-catching impression and existing players like Scott Brown, Tom Rogic and James Forrest have been encouraged to reproduce their best form.
Armstrong is another who, under Ronny Deila's management, was going backwards, but his 40-minute cameo appearance off the bench during the routing of Rangers, which included the fifth Celtic goal, reminded us all how good he can be.
The watching Scotland head coach, Gordon Strachan, was almost purring at the impressive return of Armstrong, who can once again be knocking on the door of the national team.
There was confirmation for me at the weekend that Steven MacLean doesn't just have a top surname. The St Johnstone striker is also the owner of a great football brain.
Saints' number nine slammed in a spectacular goal at Firhill to seal the points against Partick Thistle on Saturday to secure a return to the Premiership top six.
But it's his game intelligence that consistently makes him a pleasure to watch.
When Stevie May was causing a sensation at St Johnstone, and scoring goals for fun, MacLean played a massive part in making that partnership so successful. And he continues to have a big influence on the players around him.
It's simple stuff really. MacLean gets the ball up front, keeps it, brings other attackers into the game and pretty much runs the show for the Perth team.
At the age of 34, he continues to be pivotal to St Johnstone's style of play.
The Aberdeen fans know how much they miss Jonny Hayes when the wee winger's not around. That's only been emphasised during his recent six-match absence.
He was back at the weekend against his old team, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, and, not surprisingly, needed the game to get anywhere near match sharpness.
While Hayes has been missing, Aberdeen have been knocked out of Europe and embarked on an underwhelming, by their standards, start to the domestic season.
They've won only two of the six games in which they've been without the Irishman and those were against Ayr United in the League Cup and early season Premiership strugglers Partick Thistle.
Don't be surprised if the return of Hayes coincides with a kick-start to Aberdeen's campaign.
Hearts have pleasantly surprised me with their impressive opening to the Premiership season.
I commentated on their two home games in the Europa League qualifiers and wondered whether, on the back of a couple of highly successful seasons, they had enough depth to their squad this time around.
We're only a month or so into the campaign, but Robbie Neilson's team are off to a very encouraging start.
Hearts have drawn at Pittodrie and beaten Hamilton Academical, Inverness Caley Thistle and Partick Thistle. Their only defeat was against champions Celtic.
I wasn't sure how they could possibly improve on their third-place finish last season.
Maybe, all things considered, they're in with a chance.
The plan is part of a multimillion-pound regeneration project including rebranding St Austell as "Clay Town" in tribute to it as the centre of Cornwall's china clay industry.
It's hoped the town could become a centre for the ceramic arts.
A partnership with Stoke-on-Trent - famous for pottery - is also planned.
James Staughton, chairman of the St Austell Bay Economic Forum and chief executive of St Austell Brewery, said it was a "huge opportunity" for the town.
Cornishware was first produced in Derbyshire in 1924 and was so named because the blue and white stripes reminded an employee of Cornwall's blue skies and white-crested waves.
"China Clay is unique to us and it's something we should really celebrate from the rooftops," Mr Staughton told BBC News.
"By putting together a programme of events as a cultural destination, I think we can encourage people in who will spend their time and hopefully their well-earned money."
Adam Daniels, who runs a restaurant in the town, said: "I've lived in St Austell pretty much all my life and it's got worse - not so many jobs, not so many shops.
"This would be a good thing because St Austell needs something and at the minute there's not a lot happening."
However, Ally Watkins, who runs a spice shop, said she was sceptical as previous attempts had failed because businesses and residents were not listened to.
"The first thing that comes to mind is Baldrick and 'another cunning plan'," she said.
"I don't mean to be dismissive... but so many have already been tried and tested and they've not really amounted to much."
In the early 20th Century, Cornwall dominated the world's market, producing one million tonnes of china clay every year - 75% of which was exported - and employed more than 7,000 local workers.
The china clay was used to make the finest porcelain and pottery, including Wedgwood, Spode and Minton.
Known as "white gold", china clay powered the local economy then and it is hoped the Clay Town project could do so again.
The photographs were taken last week between the Albert Bridge and McConnell's Weir while the river was at low levels.
The public bicycle hire scheme was launched in 2015.
On Wednesday the PSNI confirmed that more than a third of the bikes were out of action because of theft or vandalism.
Belfast City Council said this is costing ratepayers about £20,000 a year and there are now concerns about the future expansion of the scheme.
Since its launch, the Belfast Bikes scheme has almost 5,000 annual members and more than 5,000 casual users.
However, 210 of the 576 bikes in the fleet have been taken out of service.
Over the Easter weekend, 19 bikes were stolen and a further eight were vandalised.
PSNI's Sgt Pete Cunningham appealed for witnesses to "instances of theft or vandalism to report it to the police immediately."
Dublin Bikes launched in 2009 and the city's council said it does not gather statistics about theft or vandalism to the bikes because '"they are not a feature of the scheme in Dublin".
They conclude that the forged fossils were made by one man: the prime suspect and "discoverer" Charles Dawson.
The human-like skull fragments and an ape-like jaw, complete with two teeth, shook the scientific world in 1912 but were exposed as a hoax in 1953.
New tests show the bones came from two or three humans and one orangutan.
The research, published in Royal Society Open Science, was a multi-disciplinary collaboration including palaeobiologists, historians, dental experts and ancient DNA specialists.
Comparing the methods used on multiple forged specimens dug up near the Sussex village of Piltdown from 1912 to 1916, the team found what they describe as a highly consistent modus operandi:
Such a fixed strategy for fooling the scientific establishment points to a single person conducting the operation, said Isabelle De Groote from Liverpool John Moores University.
Critically, it also links two separate locations: "Piltdown I" where the original jawbone and skull fragments were planted and excavated in 1912, and "Piltdown II" 3km away where Dawson claimed to find a matching tooth and skull pieces in 1915.
"What we've been able to demonstrate is a signature, a fingerprint throughout all of these specimens, even including the second molar from the second Piltdown site," said Dr De Groote, first author of the study.
"Dawson is the only one who ever said there was a Piltdown II site; he's the only one who was ever associated with it and we can clearly link that molar to the original specimens."
That case is clinched by detailed analysis of the various teeth.
The exact shape of molars from the two sites, as well as traces of DNA found in teeth at both Piltdown I and Piltdown II, suggest they all came from the jawbone of a single orangutan - probably belonging to a rare subspecies from Borneo.
Remarkably, Dawson appears to have removed the teeth, breaking the jaw in the process, then ground them down to make them appear more human and stuck two molars back in the jaw with putty and gravel.
But planting a third tooth at Piltdown II, a century before ancient DNA analysis became possible, was his undoing.
"That has to be Dawson, there's no doubt about that. He's the only person uniquely linked with both those sites," said co-author Chris Stringer from London's Natural History Museum.
It is still possible that someone else supplied the specimens for Dawson to "discover", Prof Stringer added. But the amateur collector, anxious for scientific acclaim, was certainly "the central figure".
As a consequence, several other suspects are now off the hook, Dr De Groote said, including the French priest Teilhard de Chardin who excavated an isolated canine tooth at the Piltdown I site in 1913.
The new findings place that tooth firmly in the same orangutan jaw as the molars, which are now tied to Dawson.
"It exonerates a number of people who have been accused," Dr De Groote told BBC News.
She and her colleagues' fresh insights into the forger's methods - such as the precisely matching gravel embedded in the bones - also point to Dawson.
"It was very carefully done," she said. "That's another thing that exonerates some others - for example, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the suspects.
"Obviously he could write a good story, but he probably would never have had the skill or the scientific knowledge to prepare a forgery like this one."
Dawson, on the other hand, had a long-standing interest in antiquity and fossil collecting. He knew that scientists were expecting the earliest human ancestor to have a big brain but an ape-like jaw.
"He listened very carefully," said Dr De Groote, adding that he even tailored subsequent forgeries to the reaction of the scientific community.
"When a jaw and the skull bones were announced, there was a big discussion at the Geological Society about what the canine in such an animal would look like. And, ta-da - six or seven months later, a canine shows up and it looks exactly like what they had predicted."
She says her sleuthing on the Piltdown saga has made her think no evidence should be taken for granted, and scientists must beware their preconceptions.
"If something fits a hypothesis maybe too well, question it again."
The scandal also makes a clear argument for not locking up fossils, Dr De Groote said; for decades after the discovery, scientists were only rarely given access to the Piltdown specimens themselves.
She said even today, her PhD students often face difficulties getting hold of samples.
"The field of palaeoanthropology is still very much a field of fossil hoarding."
By contrast, the recent example of the Homo naledi skeletons being quickly made available as printable 3D files is extremely positive.
"In the last four or five years, this has started to change," Dr De Groote said.
"Open access should include making fossils accessible to people. Now they can be scanned and shared very easily - it would just make for better science."
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If accepted, it would mean government-proposed rules, allowing those living in remote areas to demand broadband, were unnecessary.
BT says it would invest up to £600m and coverage would be universal by 2022.
About 1.4 million households currently cannot get speeds above 10Mbps, according to Ofcom.
This figure is disputed by a group of MPs who say there are a further 5.3 million who have not chosen to take up faster broadband services, some of whom may also not be able to get 10Mbps speeds.
In a recently published report, they called on regulator Ofcom to more clearly distinguish between the take-up and actual availability of fast broadband.
The government has proposed a universal service obligation (USO), designed to help remote households get fast broadband more quickly, by granting them the right to request broadband speeds of at least 10Mbps - speeds which the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport says would "meet the typical needs of a family". That proposal is currently under consultation.
BT's alternative proposal would see the company rolling out the necessary infrastructure "proactively" rather than waiting for a request. The investment would be recouped through customers' bills.
The government will now consider whether to abandon the USO in light of BT's offer.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it would consult on BT's proposal, adding that, if the offer was accepted, it would be legally binding.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said: "We warmly welcome BT's offer and now will look at whether this or a regulatory approach works better for homes and businesses.
"Whichever of the two approaches we go with in the end, the driving force behind our decision-making will be making sure we get the best deal for consumers."
But Labour's shadow culture secretary Tom Watson said that the 10Mbps target was low and warned that customers must not be forced to pay more.
He said: "Families and businesses in areas without the minimum speed may see some hope in this announcement, but they will be rightly wary that they will be forced to pay the price in extra or hidden charges. That would not be acceptable and the government must take that into account.
"Businesses will also be concerned that the 10 Mbps minimum broadband speed will be outdated and inadequate before it is even fully delivered. Rather than choose an ambitious broadband speed the government went with the cheapest, which will leave us running to catch up with digital developments for years to come."
The telecoms firm claimed that by using a range of technologies, including fibre and fixed wireless, broadband can reach 99% of the UK by 2020. By 2022 BT suggests less than 1% of customers would receive broadband via satellite, rather than built infrastructure.
It added that it was already well on the way to offering fast services around the country, with 95% of premises able to access speeds of 24Mbps or faster by the end of 2017.
It estimated that the rollout would cost between £450m and £600m and would largely be delivered by BT's spun-off network firm Openreach.
"Our latest initiative aims to ensure that all UK premises can get faster broadband, even in the hardest to reach parts of the UK," said BT chief executive Gavin Patterson.
There have been criticisms that the UK was falling behind other nations in both the availability and speed of broadband services.
The universal service obligation (USO) - which the government planned to roll out in 2020 - would have meant that everyone, regardless of where they live, would have the right to request a broadband connection, and BT would have to provide the infrastructure.
It was seen as a way to speed up broadband rollout to remote areas which for years have languished on slower net speeds because providers such as BT and Virgin Media saw no profit in offering services to areas with small populations.
BT's announcement comes after figures were released by the British Infrastructure Group of MPs showing the worst areas in the UK for broadband.
Telecoms regulator Ofcom forced BT to legally separate its broadband infrastructure division Openreach in March.
The move was intended to shake up UK broadband, with the view that an independent Openreach would deliver better customer service and investment in broadband.
Since the split, Openreach has pledged to offer super-fast fibre broadband to 10 million homes by 2025, using technology known as fibre to the premises (FTTP) which it had previously said was too expensive for wide rollout.
Percentage of connections below 10 Mb/s
It is the first time researchers have had instruments in place to monitor so large a flow of sediment as it careered down-slope.
The event occurred in Monterey Canyon off the coast of California in January.
The mass of sand and rock kept moving for more than 50km, as it slipped from a point less than 300m below the sea surface to a depth of over 1,800m.
Speeds during the descent reached over 8m per second.
An international team running the Coordinated Canyon Experiment (CCE) is now sitting on a wealth of data.
"These flows, called turbidity currents, are some of the most powerful flows on Earth," said Dan Parsons, a professor of process sedimentology, at the University of Hull, UK.
"Rivers are the only other mechanism that transports comparable volumes of sediment across the globe. However, although we have hundreds of thousands of measurements from rivers, we only have a small handful of measurements from turbidity currents – often for short periods of time and at only one position within a system."
Sited on the California coastline where the canyon falls away into the Pacific is the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
MBARI has been the launch pad for scientists these past few years to go out and place an array of sensors in the underwater gorge.
Some of these instruments, which are lowered to the seafloor from boats, look like Mars landers.
One recent innovation is the Benthic Event Detector (BED). "Think 'smart boulder'," said MBARI’s Prof Charlie Paull, who gave details of the 15 January event here at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
"The BED is a 44cm sphere. It has an electronic package entombed within in it; it measures pressure and orientation, and will record how it moves down the canyon floor. And we use the BEDs to see the progression of the turbidity current as it rolls over one BED after another," he told BBC News.
The force of these colossal flows of sediment has been known to sever the underwater cables that carry telecommunications around the globe.
It was no surprise therefore to hear that the CCE’s instruments had an extremely rough ride on 15 January.
Some sensors with anchors weighing more than a tonne were dragged 7km down the canyon. But what they recorded will be invaluable to the scientists as they seek to learn more about how turbidity currents are triggered, and how they actually work; how the material - what amounts to a kind of slurry - moves along the seafloor.
Researchers are rapidly recognising the huge role they play in all manner of Earth processes.
On the grand scale, they are the end stage in a cycle that starts with tectonics and the pushing up of mountains, and which is then followed by erosion and the transport of sediments down rivers to the coasts.
It is turbidity currents that ultimately return a lot of this material to the deep ocean.
More than 400,000 cubic metres of sediment is thought to be travelling down Monterey Canyon each year on this final leg of the cycle.
"The flows are responsible for flushing sediments, nutrients and organic carbon into the deep ocean, which can sustain life on the abyssal plain," explained Prof Parsons.
"These novel measurements in the Monterey Canyon, utilising state-of-the art robotics and sensors, are allowing us to make a step change in our understanding of turbidity currents."
And Prof Paull added: “The existence of these flows was something that was first described and inferred from rock deposits on land that had been pushed up. A lot of great work.
"They have been heavily modelled mathematically since, there have been a lot of flume studies, and remote-sensing surveys have looked at the deposits associated with them. But you notice what I left out from that list was actually making direct, physical measurements.
"There've been precious few made before this event and a good portion of those measurements were made in Monterey Canyon in anticipation for the CCE project."
MBARI's Prof Paull leads the CCE project in collaboration with researchers from the United States Geological Survey, the Ocean University of China, the UK’s National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, the University of Durham, and the University of Hull.
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The world's largest military airshow featured Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Messerschmitt - and a final flight for the show by the last airworthy Vulcan bomber, which will be grounded after the 2015 airshow season.
The RAF aerobatic team - better known as the Red Arrows - also thrilled crowds at the event, which featured 232 aircraft from 22 countries.
Organisers say nearly 150,000 people attended.
Officers from Dyfed-Powys Police attended Talgarth livestock market to ask farmers to check as they continue the search.
Mountain rescue teams have searched the countryside for the 51-year-old who was last seen on Tuesday morning.
Mr Skeen has a slim build and is 5ft 8in (1.73m) tall with short brown hair.
It is believed he was wearing an orange gilet, black running trousers, pale trainers and blue hat when he was last seen leaving his home in Talgarth.
Mr Skeen had recently moved to Talgarth from Bristol and local police are speaking with former colleagues and family members living in the area.
That was Mike Ashley's response to the suggestion that he runs the retailer Sports Direct with absolute power.
He may not be a Jedi master - in fact he described himself as "fat as a barrel" - and the retail empire he runs may not be a planet destroying machine but he is no ordinary businessman and Sports Direct is no ordinary company.
Mike Ashley is often mentioned in the same breath as Sir Philip Green. The now defunct BHS was part of Green's family-owned company Arcadia.
But unlike Arcadia, Sports Direct is a public company. That means that you or I could buy shares in it. But it's not one shareholder, one vote. Mike Ashley owns nearly 70% of all the shares which means he ultimately calls the shots.
He often buys them as well. According to the complainant in this unusual case, at a previous meeting he punctuated 12 pints of lager with vodka chasers in a drinking competition that saw his challenger admit defeat before the victor vomited into a fireplace.
The case itself is this. Jeffrey Blue - a former investment banker at Merrill Lynch who in 2007 helped sell a chunk of Sports Direct to outside investors - believes he was promised a payout of £15m if he helped double the share price of the company from £4 to £8.
Mike Ashley says that whatever was said on that boozy night, it was nothing more than bar room banter. He also maintains that the fact Sports Direct shares did double in just over a year was 99% down to the financial performance of the company - not from Jeffrey Blue's efforts to make investors less nervous about investing in a company which had a controversial reputation.
One of Mr Ashley's best lines today was this: "If I had good sales numbers, I could have turned up nude to a party and the shares still would have gone up. If I had bad sales numbers I could have turned up at a monastery and they still would have gone down."
Behind the ribaldry and the nearly suppressed giggles in the courtroom was a serious point about company stewardship and culture. A subject that has become highly politicised in recent months.
Sports Direct has been heavily criticised for its record on employee working conditions at its HQ in Shirebrook.
Mr Ashley also freely admits that it was common practice to have monthly management meetings at pubs (during which Mr Ashley himself admitted today he would have four to six pints of lager).
He says that he made important decisions about the future of Sports Direct every minute of every day - in the bath, in the car, on the loo. Were some of them in the pub? Probably.
For my money - one of his most interesting comments was this: "Did we have booze-fuelled nights at Merrill Lynch while we were trying to sell shares to the City - oh yes. Splish splash bosh."
He may not get his Star Wars or Jamie Oliver quotes quite right but he raises an interesting point about the potential for double standards in the corridors of financial power. When things are going well and the force is with you it seems you can turn up naked, or drunk.
The firm plans to introduce a new fleet of 52 driver-only-operated (DOO) trains from 2020.
None of the permanent guards or guard managers would be forced to quit their employment, the company said.
RMT union said it was in formal dispute with Merseyrail and its 220 members would be balloted for strike action.
John Tilley, of RMT, said Merseyrail had failed to give cast iron assurances on the future of 220 guards and managers at a meeting on Wednesday, and he "fully expected" members to vote heavily for industrial action.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "We will not agree to any extensions of DOO and will fight to retain the safety critical role of the guard and to keep a guard on the train."
He said the train operator had "snubbed" a final chance to avoid the ballot.
He added it was "entirely preventable if the company had listened to the union's deep-seated safety concerns... and had put passenger safety before profit".
Merseyrail said it had "made it clear" that it will look after guards and management whose roles would no longer exist once the new fleet is introduced and there would be no compulsory redundancies.
The train operator said the RMT had demanded there should be a guard on every new train but the new fleet had been designed to operate without guards, and as such, it was not in a position to guarantee this.
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